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Unintended Cultivator V8: Chapter 4 – Challenge

Much as Sen hoped it wouldn’t turn out that way, the pace of their travel slowed considerably over the next week. The three that he had let go had not been shy about discussing their experience w...

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Unintended Cultivator V8: Chapter 3 – Glimmer, in the Dark

Long Jia Wei just kept staring, and it made Sen decidedly uncomfortable. It might not have been so bad if the man had spoken but that didn’t happen. He just sat there, silent, and stared. To make...

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Unintended Cultivator V8: Chapter 2 – Cataclysmic Stupidity

Sen waited with growing impatience as the half-dozen cultivators who had been slowly creeping up on them froze in place. They all blazed like torches in his spiritual sense, which made him wonder w...

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Unintended Cultivator V8: Chapter 1 – Back into the Jianghu

Shen Mingxia had learned a few things over the last week or so. One of the things she’d learned was about herself. Specifically, she’d learned about her terrifying ignorance of what it meant to...

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General Update

Okay. So a few updates on various and sundry items of interest and non-interest.

First up, Volume 2 did well during it's first two weeks up on Amazon. Like exceedingly well. Which i...

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Unintended Cultivator V7: Bloopers

“Falling Leaf, this is Laughing River and Misty Peak,” said Sen, gesturing at the foxes.

Falling Leaf inclined her head to Laughing River in a gesture of muted respect. She eyed Misty Pea...

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Normal Boring Adulting

Ever wonder what exciting, jet-setting things I, a mildly internet-famous author, do on my rare days off? Today, I’m sitting in a Firestone. Why? I’m getting the brakes done on my car, and prob...

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Unintended Cultivator V7: Chapter 64 – Do It Again

For all that he had does his best to prepare her for it, and that he had made similar trips in the past, Ai seemed no more settled with the idea of him leaving than any of the other times he’d go...

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Unintended Cultivator V7: Chapter 63 – Oh, By the Thousand Hells

“And then the blue bird ate the bug!” exclaimed Ai as she mimicked a beak snapping shut with her hand.

Sen smiled as he listened and made sure to gasp loudly at her pantomime.

“Oh...

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Unintended Cultivator V7: Chapter 62 – Observation

Sen stood motionless inside the shadow he’d wrapped around himself and watched as Wu Meng Yao conducted a class. Part of him hated to admit it, but he was pretty sure she was a better teacher. It...

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How to Lose Patrons and Alienate People (non-fiction)

Update 3/23/2024: It wasn't my intention to set off a flame war or turn the comments section into a referendum on the author in question. I normally take a hands-off approach with the comments sect...

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Quick Update

Okay. So there's a decent chance that I'm going to be wrapping up Volume 7 either today or tomorrow. That means that, as per usual, once I finish, I'll be taking a few days off. New subscribers, th...

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Unintended Cultivator V7: Chapter 61 – Elsewhere

Li Yi Nuo had always thought of her sect as being rural. That was until she’d gone off to meet Sen’s nigh-mythological spear teacher. It had been a long journey. Longer than it needed to be. Sh...

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Unintended Cultivator V7: Chapter 60 – Training Plans

The trees rushed by beneath him as Sen kept his qi platform moving at a steady pace. He didn’t try to go at full speed because he was relatively certain Sua Xing Xing couldn’t have kept up. Of ...

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Unintended Cultivator V7: Chapter 59 – Pressure

Based on the look that Wu Meng Yao was giving him, she clearly felt less confident about the plan than he did. He gave her a lopsided smile.

“What? I sense doubt. Do you question the wisdom...

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Unintended Cultivator V7: Chapter 58 – Spear Talk

Uncle Kho wore a decidedly grumpy expression when he came out to the courtyard where Sen was waiting for him.

“Uncle Kho,” said Sen cautiously, nodding at the elder cultivator.

“Y...

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Unintended Cultivator V7: Chapter 57 – Your Word Is Law

“It’s a protection amulet,” said Auntie Caihong, eying the small object critically. “It’s actually quite a good one. This would probably stop an attack from someone in the early nascent s...

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Unintended Cultivator V7: Chapter 56 – Stars

“They looked at me like a stranger,” said Sen, trying to keep the hurt out of his voice.

Falling Leaf turned her head to peer at him for a moment before she went back to looking at the sk...

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Unintended Cultivator V7: Chapter 55 – Just a Visitor

Almost the second they were out of sight, Sen dismissed the two cultivator he’d let go. They might become a problem down the road, but the dead thing on the ground in front of him was much more l...

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Unintended Cultivator V7: Chapter 54 – The Truth

Lim Haitao bent every last bit of his self-control on maintaining a calm expression, yet, the question rang in his ears like a death knell. And just what was your task? The man called Judg...

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Unintended Cultivator V7: Chapter 53 – Thunderous Sky

Sen was in the middle of jian training with Sua Xing Xing when he felt the approach of several cultivators. Cultivators that he didn’t recognize by feel. Cultivators that even he might feel incli...

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Unintended Cultivator V7: Chapter 52 – Shadow Walking, Part 2

Sen realized that there was absolutely nothing he could say to make things better. All he could do was make things worse. So, he said nothing. Better by far to just let her get whatever it was out ...

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Unintended Cultivator V7: Chapter 51 – Shadow Walking

Sen pushed, and pushed, and pushed to suffuse his body with shadow qi. After months of effort, he finally felt like he was teetering on the very edge of success, like all he needed was one last inf...

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Unintended Cultivator V7: Chapter 50 – Shield

The messenger was ushered into the room, and the immediately look of fear on the man’s face told Sen that Shen Mingxia was right. The room was too stark and foreboding to be somewhere that good t...

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Unintended Cultivator V7: Chapter 49 – Consultation

Sen led Shen Mingxia over to the building where he kept most of the people who dealt with problems he didn’t want cluttering up his day. It seemed like there were more of them in there every day,...

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Unintended Cultivator V7: Chapter 48 – Academy, Part 6

I guess it’s for real now, thought Sen. All along, he’d thought of the academy as something of a safer middle ground and a half-baked idea that he could abandon at a moment’s notice ...

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Unintended Cultivator Volume 2 Is Live

Okay, at least on Amazon US, Unintended Cultivator is live. If you've been waiting to grab a copy on Kindle Unlimited to see what, if anything, changed, you can find it 2024-03-12 04:35:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Unintended Cultivator V7: Chapter 47 – Academy, Part 5

Soon Zi Rui’s heart still thundered in his chest as he fled from the training hall. Never before in his life had he been so casually suppressed by another person. It had been an astonishing displ...

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Unintended Cultivator V7: Chapter 46 – Academy, Part 4

Sen had been making excuses to avoid this task. He knew he’d been making excuses to avoid it. Of course, it helped that his excuses were, by and large, to do things like go train with Fu Ruolan, ...

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Unintended Cultivator V7: Chapter 45 – Academy, Part 3

Sen shook his head as he silently observed Wu Meng Yao trying to observe the galehouse. He’d been standing about three feet behind her for five minutes. He’d also been hiding. He reali...

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