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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 69 – Mirror

There was chaos in the throne room after the prince’s rather decisive to, in effect, claim the throne. Guards and servants were summoned. The guards took the queen away in chains, cursing her unf...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 68 – Hello, Your Majesty

Sen lounged on the throne, feeling both bored and uncomfortable. While security around the royal palace was probably very tight for any malicious mortal trying to find a way in, it had been stupidl...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 67 – Courtyard Chat

Sen stood outside in the small courtyard of the house that was theoretically his. He mostly thought of it as Lo Meifeng’s house. It wasn’t a home he’d have chosen. It was just a place to slee...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 66 - Choi Zhi Peng

A murderous headache was pounding in time with the increasing pace of Choi Zhi Peng’s heart rate. He did his best to maintain a calm façade, but the headache had been a constant companion ever s...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 65 – There’s Always a Next Step

“You should be able to move freely in the city again,” said Sen, “Although, I recommend being a little cautious. There are a few Shadow Eagle Talon Syndicate members floating around. If they...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 64 – Ruminations

This chapter wasn't part of the original game plan. I'd intended to leave a lot of this in the background, but I get the impression that people think I came out of left field in the last chapte...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 63 – Conversing with the Dead

The first few moments of screaming were so loud that Sen suspected that anything made of glass or fine pottery in the immediate area probably broke. Even at a bit of distance, the sound hurt Sen’...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 62 – The Trap

For all that Tong Guanting was doing to keep that one building out of mind for everyone, Sen didn’t believe for a moment that it wouldn’t be defended. In fact, he expected heavy resistance. Tha...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 61 – Back to Business

“I’m just saying that you could have sent a message,” said Lo Meifeng.

Sen held his tongue for three seconds, making sure he wasn’t about to make things worse, before he answered. “...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 60 – Actions and Consequences

Sen made sure that he kept a neutral expression as he walked through the Golden Phoenix sect compound. He didn’t imagine for one minute that anyone in the place was ignorant of how he’...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 59 – What Makes You Think I’m Playing

It took every last bit of Sen’s considerable self-control not to burst into laughter at what followed those words. Every last one of the cultivators who had originally approached Sen were staring...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 58 – Necessary, Difficult Things

“Did you do something?” demanded the prince.

Sen squinted at the man. The prince was agitated, frightened, and gesturing wildly. Sen had never the man like that before. What he couldn’t...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 57 – Nothing But Bad Choices

Tong Guanting hadn’t felt this kind of rage of centuries. It was one thing to, however unwillingly, accept that demands put on him by other nascent soul cultivators. That was a matter of mutual s...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 56 – Keeping Promises

Sen considered the wreckage of what had once been a gambling den run by the Shadow Eagle Talon Syndicate. In the wake of his interrogation of, Sen thought back, he hadn’t bothered to get her name...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 55 – What Honor?

Two days, several healing elixirs, and a lot of sleep later, Sen felt more like himself again. Shi Ping seemed horrified at even the possibility that a nascent soul cultivator might attack them, wh...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 54 – Problems and Solutions

“You not going to pass out again, are you?” asked Lo Meifeng in an extra-dry tone.

Sen gave her a death glare from where he lay sprawled out on the floor. “Just give me a minute. That w...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 53 – Hiding from the Man

Sen was vaguely aware that this situation would have sent him into a panic not so long ago. Before Emperor’s Bay and before the beast tide he’d faced in that abandoned town, the idea of careeni...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 52 – Waiting for a Stupid Mistake

“You don’t have to do this,” said Sen.

Lo Meifeng shook her head. “I realize that, by and large, you’ve done most of your fighting alone. That’s probably skewed your perspective a...

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Rinn's Run TIG: Chapter 4 – Underworld

The instructions that Monsell had given them to find the forger took them deep into the bowels of the station and well away from the publicly accessible areas. Not that it proved much of a challeng...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 51 – Relative Positions

For all that Sen was braced for near-immediate retaliation from the Shadow Eagle Talon Syndicate, it didn’t happen. In fact, as near as he could tell, every cultivator in the city that he didn’...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 50 – Dirty Tricks

“So,” said Sen, “how do you feel about helping me burn a criminal organization to the ground?”

Lo Meifeng gave him a narrow-eyed look. “What did you do?”

“I told the Foggy...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 49 – The Need of the Moment

Sen resisted the urge to roll his eyes, and darted into a narrow space between buildings. It wasn’t even really wide enough to qualify as an alley, but it was big enough for him to fit and wrap h...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 48 – Genius

“So, let me get this straight. He just went to the park, sat on a rock, and, since he wasn’t busy or anything, decided to advance his cultivation. Just like that. Oh, and, incidentally, he also...

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Rinn's Run TIG: Chapter 3 – Troublesome

Kalan made his way back to the cutter and did his best to put his many frustrations under wraps. For all his suspicions about Cera’s possible status as some kind of spy or agent, she had actually...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 47 – Investigative Endeavors

Sen made an unhappy noise as he jumped down off the rock. It seemed like he was always surrounded by corpses of one kind or another. He knew that cultivators lived violent lives, but he couldn’t ...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 46 – Heavenly Shadow

The other thing that Sen spent his time on was something that he’d been neglecting at least partially on purpose. He’d return to the park each afternoon and sit on large rock by small pond. Sen...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 45 – Legend

For the next few weeks, Sen found that his life took on a disquietingly calm quality. He wasn’t attacked or even accosted by anyone. However, the pile of scrolls and letters he’d been ignoring ...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 44 – The Concerns of Cultivators

“You did what?” asked the horrified prince.

Sen didn’t think that the prince was actually asking him, since Lo Meifeng had reacted in exactly the same way the evening before. O...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 43 – Making a Deal

Sen and Falling Leaf descended the stairs into the common area. While it wasn’t quite as empty as it had been when the prince had been there and the employees weren’t kowtowing, the common area...

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Unintended Cultivator V4: Chapter 42 – I’d Do It Gladly

The prince summoned a servant to lead back out to the gate. Sen was pretty sure he could have found his own way, but he supposed that the prince and his guards weren’t comfortable having a strang...

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