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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 48 – Healers and Legends

Completely flummoxed by the outpouring of what Sen assumed was respect, he blurted the first thing that came to his mind.

“Why are you all kowtowing to me?”

The kneeling cultivators...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 47 – The Universe of Alchemy

Having never participated in a large-scale battle before, Sen had no appreciation for just how much work or how much time it would take even for the basic task of gathering the wounded. With core f...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 46 – Judgment’s Storm

Sen’s first instinct was to run away. Being the focal point of that much attention was like having one of his nightmares come to life. He could see the looks on their faces and wanted no part of ...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 45 – Honor on the Battlefield

Sen consciously kept his pace to something that the foundation formation cultivators could maintain. They covered the first hundred feet or so without challenge. Then, a pack of four water cultivat...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 44 – Inferno’s Vale, Part 3

Once Sen started paying attention to the conversation again, he learned that the fire cultivators had been out on patrol when the real fight started. They’d been trying to make their way back to ...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 43 - Inferno’s Vale, Part 2

Sen knew that going into the valley was a bad idea. He also knew that Lo Meifeng was going to go down there and throw herself into the fight anyway. She had at least listened to his advice to appro...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 42 – Inferno’s Vale, Part 1

Sen was crouched down, carefully removing the roots of a medical plant from the ground, when Lo Meifeng wandered over to him. He glanced up at her, but she looked to just be curious about what he w...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 41 – An Old Face

With the threat of the demonic cultivators if not entirely gone then largely neutralized, Sen and Lo Meifeng’s journey became a more relaxed affair. They still kept up a fast pace, but it wasn’...

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Rinn's Run: Chapter 40 - Taking the Antiosh

Kalan was surprised to find his path utterly clear on the way to the bridge. He’d expected to meet resistance and traps. It seemed incomprehensible to him that the crew wouldn’t try to take adv...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 40 – Threats?

Sen and Lo Meifeng found a back way out of the building and took off for the western wall as fast as they reasonably could in the confines of the alley. After the second time they had to chastise s...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 39 – Contact

After weeks spent running around in the wilds, it wasn’t difficult for Sen and Lo Meifeng to pass themselves off as weary travelers looking for an inn at the gates of Lin Wen’s Redoubt. The gua...

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Rinn's Run: Chapter 39 - Breach

Kalan considered his next move as he dropped the thruster pack to the deck and stripped out of the EVA skin. It had taken Kala baby-stepping him through the process to deactivate the distress beaco...

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Rinn's Run: Chapter 38 - Distraction

“Open a comm channel,” said Temera, as she did her best to assume an air of casual indifference.

“Yes,” Em paused, “Ma’am. Channel open.”

Temera made up a name for herself...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 38 – Autonomy

While Sen made sure that they stayed well clear of civilization, he also made sure that they kept moving away from the Temple of Eternity’s Edge. While it seemed less and less likely that Lan Zi ...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 37 – Shared Experiences

Once Sen and Lo Meifeng were out of sight of the temple, they abandoned their casual saunter in favor of qi techniques. With core qi finally available to him, the pair made incredibly fast time as ...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 36 – The Choices of Others

The argument had lasted for nearly half an hour and Sen hadn’t gotten anywhere with Lifen. She’d dug in her heels about staying and the worst part was that Sen couldn’t refute most of what sh...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 35 – Defiance and Compliance

After spending what felt like years in a place where his will and imagination made almost anything possible, waking up into the real world again was a bit of a disappointment for Sen. He immediatel...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 34 – The Burden of Time

As relentless as Sen had been during his years training on the mountain, there had been also quiet moments. Moments of reflection, on his part, and on the part of his teachers. Master Feng, Auntie ...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 33 – Fear Itself

Hong Fu had spent most of his long life in positions of relative power and safety. He’d spent his childhood protected by his noble status, which had partially carried over into the sect that he...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 32 – Dilemma

Sen kept up his kicking at the door until he eventually grew so bored with it that he was feeling tired. By then, it was late into the night, so he ignored the tray of food and settled onto the pal...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 31 – Prisoners

Lo Meifeng turned to Sen and said, “We can’t let him take us in there. Better by far to die out here.”

Lifen looked appalled by Lo Meifeng’s words. The old man looked sad and a little...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 30 – The Temple of Eternity’s Edge

While their brief moment of playfulness had helped lift everyone’s spirits, they all grew warier and warier as they traveled even deeper into the wilds. Every noise caught Sen’s attention. He r...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 29 – Injuries and Close Encounters

Even with all of their advantages, traveling through the wilds was slow going. They had moved beyond the semi-tame portions into the true wilds. By Sen’s estimation, they were spending the same a...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 28 – Questions and Answers

There was very little talking as the three of them left the site of the battle behind and for the rest of the day. While Sen’s elixir had done a lot to restore Lifen’s and Lo Meifeng’s energy...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 27 – Elixirs and Cores

Sen and a weary Lo Meifeng made their way back toward Lifen. Most of the spirit beasts seemed to have decided that the fighting and destruction wasn’t worth whatever had brought them there in the...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 26 – Creative Solutions

Sen wasn’t given very much time to think about what he was going to do about the flying demonic cultivator before he was forced to worry about his own survival. While there were fewer sp...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 25 – Rude Awakening

Under normal conditions, waking up was something Sen let himself do slowly. It was a gentle rise from the wild fantasies of dreaming into the less fantastical demands of reality. He found that gent...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 24 – Core

While Sen hadn’t expected to reach core formation as fast as he did, he had done a little preparation. He’d quizzed Lo Meifeng about her experience with it. While she had added a ton of disclai...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 23 – Fighting the Inevitable

Sen briefly wondered, is the universe trying to get me killed? Then, he had other things to worry about. That amount of any kind of qi, let alone heavenly qi, was enough to obliterate the ...

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Unintended Cultivator V3: Chapter 22 – Restraint

With the decision made, they didn’t waste any time. Sen spent longer than he probably should have picking the spot where they would leave the road. Then, he used every trick he’d picked up sinc...

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