Treating the Matriarch’s condition would not be easy. For anyone else, Sen thought it might be all but impossible. If for no other reason, it required a certain level of mastery in both formation...
2025-05-28 20:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Sen would have preferred to get started immediately, it seemed that nothing in his life was immediate any more. First, he had to contact the generals and explain he would be away for a...
2025-05-27 20:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the guards pulled aside the canvas to let Sen enter the hut. He didn’t recognize the cultivator who stood by the makeshift bed. It wasn’t clear if the man was watching over the Ma...
2025-05-26 20:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Who is she?” asked Falling Leaf, peering curiously at Chou Dai Lu.
“This one is Disciple Chou Dai Lu, Lady Fa,” answered the girl with a bow.
“I caused her some proble...
2025-05-22 19:55:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe last few days had been quieter since Sen gave the order that the training was on hold for a week. At least, it had been in some senses. He still went out and turned huge tracts of the wi...
2025-05-22 04:57:06 +0000 UTC View PostKelima had been in a state of complete bewilderment since the night before. First, she’d had to face up to the fact that, somehow, Terry had recognized that this village was evil on sight 2025-05-21 10:33:58 +0000 UTC View Post
That began a period of grinding routine for Sen and the army at large. They got up, stowed the camp, marched for part of the day, set up camp, and trained. Then, they did it again. And again. And a...
2025-05-21 05:36:34 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Chan Yu Ming left, Sen was finally able to turn his attention to what the cultivators and soldiers were doing. The results were interesting, if not entirely successful. When dealing wi...
2025-05-20 02:47:54 +0000 UTC View PostPeople seemed to want more of this, so here's a fresh chapter. I'm going to title this thing any day now. Enjoy! ~Eric
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Jason was both surprised an...
2025-05-19 08:14:40 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a lot of controlled chaos below as cultivators and mortals got into position. Sen had decided that this slow slog through the countryside wasn’t just an opportunity for th...
2025-05-17 09:56:08 +0000 UTC View PostTerry was so surprised to see the innkeeper standing over him with an enormous knife that he froze. It wasn’t until the other man brought the knife down that Terry managed to react. He glared at ...
2025-05-16 08:53:58 +0000 UTC View PostSen noticed Falling Leaf glaring over her shoulder again.
“I know they’re still following us,” he told her.
He’d been more or less escorting the new cultivator recruits b...
2025-05-16 06:21:44 +0000 UTC View PostSen walked away while Chan Yu Ming fruitlessly tried to get his attention. Her efforts to also avoid drawing too much attention to herself fatally undermined that cause. Sen shook his head a...
2025-05-15 11:50:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe deeper Terry got into the village, the more unsettled he felt. Mostly because the place just looked so innocuous. Nothing looked too new, but most of the places looked cared for. There were adu...
2025-05-14 10:22:57 +0000 UTC View PostSen glanced around at what was left of the Clear Spring Sect. The compound was a place he’d never intended to return to. He’d been attacked there, and the patriarch had allowed the man r...
2025-05-14 05:57:38 +0000 UTC View Post“Do you think we should help them?” asked Kho Jaw-Long as he watched the battle below with idle interest.
Feng Ming glanced at his old friend before returning to his own evaluation...
2025-05-13 06:46:50 +0000 UTC View PostA little preface. I hadn't planned on writing anything like this. But someone at my publisher planted the notion of a sci-fi/cultivator crossover story in my head and it got lodged. So, I decid...
2025-05-12 01:04:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few weeks turned in a grueling routine for Sen, if not the army as a whole. He supposed this was all pretty normal for them. They’d break camp early in the day, eke out ten or fif...
2025-05-09 18:03:15 +0000 UTC View PostSen stood up from the table where all the generals and other senior officers sat. He’d endured their transparent attempts to ingratiate themselves to him for at least…He was pretty sure ...
2025-05-09 04:02:47 +0000 UTC View PostSen refrained from looking at the cultivator that Falling Leaf still held. He was half-convinced that she’d forgotten she was holding him, but then she’d tighten her grip any time the ma...
2025-05-08 02:58:39 +0000 UTC View Post“I know,” said Sen.
“This is boring,” said Falling Leaf with quiet menace.
“Didn’t I just say that I know,” said Sen.
He hazarded a glance at Falling Leaf to ...
2025-05-07 06:13:33 +0000 UTC View Post“I’d be a lot more comfortable with this if I was going with you,” said General Mo.
Sen glanced at the man before returning his gaze to the army. The final preparations to...
2025-05-06 05:11:10 +0000 UTC View PostYeah, I still haven't even given this thing an interim name, but i did write a couple more chapters. This also brings the total word count u
Yeah, I still haven't even given this thing an...
2025-05-04 08:41:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe next several days were much busier than Sen would have liked. Much of the preparation that the army had initially done for their march had to be redone. Partly to shore up stores of fresh food ...
2025-05-03 00:40:55 +0000 UTC View PostSorry everybody. No new chapters of anything today. I got slammed with another migraine this morning. It took two of my prescription pills and sprawling motionlessly in a dark quiet room all day to...
2025-05-02 00:39:21 +0000 UTC View PostSen stared at the group of cultivators that he had dim memories of trying to teach his new qinggong technique. He’d largely allowed himself to forget about them because they all seemed so ...
2025-05-01 03:20:24 +0000 UTC View PostI’m just saying that I’m in your mind, complained other-Terry. The universe shouldn’t be trope-stomping me for things that are only said in your mind.
Oh, my fucki...
2025-04-30 03:06:21 +0000 UTC View Post“What do you mean to do with it?” asked Lo Meifeng as she looked around.
The sect compound that had oh so recently housed the Lunar Tiger Sect now stood empty. Sen had swept throug...
2025-04-29 23:34:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe death of an elder had a noticeably chilling effect on the rest of the sect, which had been Sen’s intent from the start. He loathed the waste involved with killing powerful cultivators ...
2025-04-28 22:06:03 +0000 UTC View Post“James, this is Strix,” said Sig.
The mage had cheered up considerably since they’d left the alchemist shop, returning to his laconic tendencies rather brooding silence. Strix, on the o...
2025-04-28 04:55:15 +0000 UTC View Post