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Unintended Cultivator V9: Chapter 1 – Completion

Sen sat with his legs crossed and eyes closed. The sun would rise soon, but it wasn’t up yet. It was a quiet time, when the night creatures had retreated to their lairs and nests, yet before the day creatures had roused themselves to go about their sunlit activities. He let that gentle hush wash over him and through him. It was an indulgence in serenity that he rarely allowed himself, but given what was about to come, he felt he’d earned this indulgence. He was aware of the pill in his ha...

Isekai Terry TOD: Chapter 15 – Shoo! I Said Shoo!

It took a few more wrong turns, but Terry managed to find his way to the southern gate out of town. He’d started to get the uncomfortable feeling that he was being watched about halfway there. In his old, sane, boring life, he would have dismissed that as rampant paranoia. In Chinese Period Drama Hell, he just took that intuition as a gospel truth. The problem was that he couldn’t, despite putting some real effort into it, figure out who was watching him or from where. Something he realiz...

Isekai Terry TOD: Chapter 14 – Blackmail! Part 2

The woman didn’t say anything, but she didn’t need to. The nervous anger on her face said it all. Terry knew that he might well have overestimated the strength of his position, but she at least thought he might be right. It was also pretty clear that she didn’t like what that could mean for her.

“Well,” she finally said, “maybe I’ll just kill you, and deal with it that way.”

Terry had thought it might go down like this. Murder did seem to be the defau...

Isekai Terry TOD: Chapter 13 – Blackmail! Part 1

Terry opened his eyes. Yep, I’m still in Chinese Period Drama Hell. That’s a disappointment. He winced a little as he sat up. He’d been so emotionally fatigued the night before that he’d just passed out without bothering to take off any of the swords he had tied to his body. Now his back was letting him know that was a damned foolish thing to do. Pushing himself up off the bed, he tried to stretch some of the soreness out of his back as he walked over to the...

Unintended Cultivator V8: Bloopers

It was with those thoughts clouding his steps that Sen approached the gates of capital proper. He knew that cultivators would often barge to the front of the line and demand entry. It was almost expected. So, Sen took a kind of perverse satisfaction in just taking his place at the rear of the line. He glanced back at his… His mind finally produced the right word, and it dripped with disdain even when he said it in his head. He glanced back at his entourage. Shen Mingxia, Wu Gang, and Long J...

About Tier Options and Chapter Access

Okay, since there have been a lot of people who signed up after all these decisions were made, I'm going to do a quick review of the biggest difference between the Cultivator Only options and non-Cultivator Only options.

Way back when I first started this page, there were some growing pains. There were people who signed up that wanted to read whatever fiction I cared to post. There were also people who only wanted to read fresh Unintended Cultivator chapters. That's why there's at least...

Unintended Cultivator V8: Chapter 70 – Returning Home

“Lord Lu,” said Long Jia Wei in a strained voice.

“Yes?” asked Sen, his eyes never wavering from the horizon.

“You should go.”

“No, it’s fine. I’ll—” Sen started.

“Lord Lu,” Long Jia Wei said through clenched teeth. “I am begging you to go. You’re are literally vibrating with impatience. Frankly, I’m concerned the wagon will fall to pieces if this continues.”

Sen looked at Long Jia Wei and then down at himself. The ...

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Okay, so no one is surprised. I will be turning off comments on all new Unintended Cultivator chapters for a while.

Unintended Cultivator V8: Chapter 69 – What Do You Think Honor Is?

Sen was relieved that there were no more incidents with the children that demanded his personal intervention. In fact, for the most part, the children simply did as they were told. He supposed that the upheaval had probably sapped some of their will to be imperious. That didn’t mean he didn’t hear them crying at night, or the soft comforting words that the older children whispered to them. He also heard a few vows of vengeance being muttered among the boys. He could have not listened. He�...

Unintended Cultivator V8: Chapter 68 – Harsh Lessons While Camping

Once they clear of the congestion around the city gates, Sen had recalled a trick he’d used once long ago to speed up a cart. He used his qi in a modified qinggong technique on the wheels of the carts and wagons, as well as the hooves of the oxen pulling them, to reduce the overall load and increase their speed. It wasn’t until they’d gone a few miles that the stark contrast between his power now and his power all those years ago really struck him. Doing that for one cart and one ox had...

Unintended Cultivator V8: Chapter 67 – Caravan

Sen was truly regretting his decision to offer He Jietang a job. The man had looked, well, he’d looked mildly unwell, but for a core cultivator that was the mortal equivalent of looking like he was on death’s door. Sen couldn’t even understand how the man had gotten into the condition he was in. His brief, rude examination of the other man showed a level of damage that only a core cultivator could possible have lived with for more than a week. In its own, deeply sad way, it was sort of ...

Unintended Cultivator V8: Chapter 66 – Morning Stroll

He Jietang tried to glare at the sun, but mostly just managed to squint. He felt terrible, which was actually something of an accomplishment for a core cultivator. Their cultivation tended to make it very difficult to get drunk, let alone stay drunk, and hangovers were all but unheard of. But it could be done, if a man was willing to work hard enough at it. And He Jietang was no quitter. Actually, now that he thought about it, he was a quitter. Quitting was actually something of a pastime for...

Unintended Cultivator V8: Chapter 65 – Details

The next week was busy, but mostly quiet. Sen arranged for an auction and let a few hints slip about what manner of natural treasures and elixirs that were going to be up for grabs. While there was extensive complaining about the incredibly short notice that Sen mostly foisted off onto Long Jia Wei’s shoulders, he couldn’t really avoid the ones that Lai Dongmei half-heartedly made while they were in bed. He got the impression that she was mostly doing it because she felt like she ought to...

Unintended Cultivator V8: Chapter 64 – Keeping the Promise

Sen smiled at the little house with the barn-like structure out back. It was exactly as he remembered the place, which he realized wasn’t that big of a surprise. It hadn’t actually been ten years since he last visited the formation flag maker and his wife, it just felt like it. He walked up to the door and, much as he had the last time, summoned an expensive bottle of wine. He knocked on the door and waited. A few moments later a gray-haired woman opened the door. Her expression went from...

Unintended Cultivator V8: Chapter 63 – The Children

Sen regretted turning the decision over to Lo Meifeng almost immediately. The regret didn’t have anything to do with her. He’d just let his own weakness get the best of him. That he didn’t want to kill anyone else was a bad reason not to finish the job. Not that his other reasons had been wholly without merit, and he’d made the decision about that particular woman the last time the three of them had met. He also knew that Lo Meifeng’s default position would be to eliminate the threa...

Unintended Cultivator V8: Chapter 62 – Tell Me a Story

With the executions clearly over, the crowd started to disperse, although Sen could hear their hushed, fearful whispering. At least that part seemed to be going to plan. Lo Meifeng cast another disdainful look at Chan Dishi before she headed for the gate, obviously happy to have an excuse to leave. Grandmother Lu offered the man a shallow bow before she also went back to the manor. Chan Dishi wore that look of vague confusion again as he watched them leave, seemingly still uncertain when or w...

Isekai Terry TOD: Chapter 12 – Punishment

“Get up, for God’s sake,” said Terry. “I’m not going to kill her. But if I can’t get through to her, you are going to take her out of this town bound and gagged in the back of your cart first thing in the morning.”

Remdell looked like he was going to sag back to his knees in relief.

“Thank you. Thank you.”

“Now, where is she?”

Remdell took him to another room, hesitated, and then opened the door. Mira and Harena were sitting on a bed. Tovan was on...

Isekai Terry TOD: Chapter 11 – For Her Own Good

I realized I hadn't posted anything for this in a while, but I have been working on it here and there. ~Eric

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Grumbling and bitching under his breath, Terry got up from the bed and went over to the door. He thought about asking who it was. Of course, if it was someone who meant him harm, they’d probably just kick open the door. The guy who owned this place didn’t deserve that. And if it was someone who didn’t mean him harm, it’d just m...

Unintended Cultivator V8: Chapter 61 – Public Statement

Sen put up with the bowing and creepy chanting for a little while before he encouraged everyone to return to their homes or duties. He wasn’t expecting them to get much done the rest of the day. Catharsis might be good for the soul, but it tended to be a tiring thing in his experience. Plus, he wasn’t entirely done for the day. While he waited for the guards to drag out the rest of the prisoners, he turned to Grandmother Lu and Lo Meifeng.

“So, how do you think it went?”

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Unintended Cultivator V8: Chapter 60 – Lord Lu’s Justice

“You needn’t participate in this,” said Sen. “I almost think it might be better if you didn’t.”

“It’s kind of you to want to spare me,” said Grandmother Lu. “But I have to be there, and your people have to see me being there.

Sen offered a reluctant nod. She was likely right about that. He just didn’t like that he was making her a party to his revenge. It was like he was somehow making her less by associating her with something he expected was going to be gru...

Unintended Cultivator V8: Chapter 59 – The Alchemy of Pain

As someone who wielded lightning and even storms, Sen was accustomed to loud noises. It just went with the territory. That was without even considering things like the sounds that were produced when he hit something very hard. So, the sheer, overwhelming noise of the explosion was a bit of a shock to him. The great gaping hole in the ground and the pulpy remains of trees for twenty feet in every direction came a very close second in the surprise department. He'd sacrificed what little sleep h...

Unintended Cultivator V8: Chapter 58 – Bargaining for the Impossible

Of course, it wasn’t as simple as just saying he was sorry. If only mere words could truly undo misdeeds, thought Sen, the world would be a kinder place. The world was not one of kindness, though. A fact of which Sen was all too aware. Words were for the mind and, perhaps, the heart, but deeds were for the soul. After all, while much of Karma was shrouded in mystery, it did teach one immutable lesson. Debts must be repaid, in one life or another. Of course, that also requi...

Uninteded Cultivator V8: Chapter 57 – The Shadow of Things Long Past

Sen was still distracted when the woman came into the room, so it took him a little while to realize two things. One, he knew her. Two, something was wrong with her. She looked sick. She was pale but not the intentional paleness that many women seemed to strive for. This was the kind of paleness that he’d only seen in people who had been bedridden for a time. There was a sheen of sweat on her face. It even looked as though she’d chewed her lip bloody not too long before. Even if he’d ma...

Unintended Cultivator V8: Chapter 56 – A Kindness

Tiu Li-Mei stared up at the wall of the Lu Manor and tried to still the trembling in her hands that had started the moment the king had ordered her to come here. Years. It had been years, and the thing she feared most in the world was still Lu Sen. And to make matters worse, he hadn’t done anything to her. At least, he hadn’t done anything malicious. In her head, she knew that what he’d done had been meant as a kindness. Yet, barely a week passed without a nightmare where she s...

Unintended Cultivator V8: Chapter 55 – Two Vials

While Sen let Wu Chia-Hao think about those questions, he looked around the room. It was a surprisingly bare room, save for a few pictures that had been rendered in a style Sen didn’t recognize. Standing from his chair, he walked over to the one of the images and studied it. It was a simple enough image, a still pond with a lone tree spreading it’s branches over the water. What made it unique was that the entire image had been rendered entirely in what looked to be black ink. Sen had no i...

Unintended Cultivator V8: Chapter 54 – Human Shields

Sen swept his eyes across the rows of armored men standing between him and the gate of the Wu manor. They were terrified. As they rightly should be facing down a peak core cultivator, thought Sen. I’d question their sanity if they weren’t terrified. Sen let his gaze settle on man in more ornate armor than the rest. He had at least done his subordinates the courtesy of standing out in front.

“You are not welcome here,” said the man in the ornate armor.

“...

Isekai Terry TOD: Chapter 10 – Murderhobo?

In movies, manga, and comic books, someone yelling at a main character that way always resulted in them stopping to turn around and have a confrontation. This was especially true if there was a damsel in distress or child in distress. Terry didn’t know if there was an official name for that, but he had dubbed it the Idiot Pause. He knew as soon as he heard the creepy asshat screaming that there was going to be violence. But he was two steps away from getting Harena out of the alley, where s...

Unintended Cultivator V8: Chapter 53 – Mutual Benefit

“I’m leaving,” announced Sen. “When I’m done making examples and fixing the problem with the defenses, I’m leaving.”

He was standing at the window and staring down at the damaged spot in the courtyard. It was something he’d found himself doing more and more often. He found it was a good reminder to himself never to be too confident that he’d thought of everything. He’d assumed that he’d made them safe here. That assumption had cost people their lives, and that was ...

Unintended Cultivator V8: Chapter 52 – A Bad Week to Be a Bad Guy

Guo Wuhao, captain of the city guard, was not having a good day. He hadn’t had a good day yesterday or the day before either. In fact, he hadn’t had a good day in almost a week. These were the kind of weeks that had killed his predecessor. Powers far beyond him were moving in the city. There had been rumors of some kind of an attack at the new Lord Lu’s manor. It was hard to credit those rumors. What kind of insanity would drive someone to attack a cultivator that powerful...

Isekai Terry TOD: Chapter 9 – Because, Of Course

Finding the market wasn’t that hard. It took up an entire small square that seemed to have built for that express purpose. The simple part of the day ended there. Unlike most of the people who were wandering around, Terry had no idea where he should be looking to buy what. In the halcyon days of Before Chinese Period Drama Hell, comparison shopping had been stupidly easy for him. He either did it all online, or he didn’t do it at all. For things like groceries, he didn’t do it at all. H...