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Unintended Cultivator #7
Unintended Cultivator: Volume 7
What does a warrior do, when there’s nothing to fight…For years, Sen battled his way across the kingdom, fighting spirit beasts, scheming sects, and demonic cabals. He’s ended wars, battled a devil, and even retrieved a priceless spiritual treasure for a dubiously grateful nine-tail fox.
With his wandering days temporarily on hold, Sen returns to fulfill a long-standing promise to the eccentric and possibly unhinged Fu Ruolan. Alongside him? A child he never expected to raise.
Now, instead of hunting enemies, Sen’s facing the daily trials of raising a child—teaching core formations and sword forms alongside table manners and bedtime routines. Between guiding spiritual growth, setting boundaries stronger than any formation array, and explaining why you don’t spar with spirit beasts, Sen is discovering that raising a young cultivator may be more daunting than any battle he’s ever fought.
But when old debts come due and hidden threats stir, Sen may find that even a quiet life demands a warrior’s resolve.
With his wandering days temporarily on hold, Sen returns to fulfill a long-standing promise to the eccentric and possibly unhinged Fu Ruolan. Alongside him? A child he never expected to raise.
Now, instead of hunting enemies, Sen’s facing the daily trials of raising a child—teaching core formations and sword forms alongside table manners and bedtime routines. Between guiding spiritual growth, setting boundaries stronger than any formation array, and explaining why you don’t spar with spirit beasts, Sen is discovering that raising a young cultivator may be more daunting than any battle he’s ever fought.
But when old debts come due and hidden threats stir, Sen may find that even a quiet life demands a warrior’s resolve.
- GenresFantasy
454 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 11, 2025
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Eric Dontigney
26 books180 followersRaised in Western New York, Eric Dontigney has lived in New Mexico, Florida, Wisconsin, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. He currently resides near Dayton, OH. He is a fan of photo-realism paintings, coffee and well-made food. He has a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy.
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December 18, 2025
Unintended Cultivator 7 might be the best book in the series since book 1. This is despite, and to some extent because of, the fact that the book more or less eschews traditional narrative structures. Instead, it presents a full book of mostly “slice-of-life” content.
The strange structure of the book makes the ending highly jarring. The summons from the king arrives, preparations are made, and Sen takes off on his journey together with a few side characters. This is what we would expect to be the end of act 1 in a traditional 3 act story, but instead, the book simply cuts off here, leaving the story with no real climax or even meaningful tension. The book is short as well, so the cut-off comes across as rather arbitrary.
This strange decision does however help to alleviate the biggest issue of Unintended Cultivator, which has been plaguing the series since book 2: Sen as the main character is extremely capricious, obtusely stubborn, swinging arbitrarily between charitable, murderous and coldly indifferent to the people around him, while the book contorts itself unnaturally to make it seem like those behaviours are justified or reasonable.
The series has tried to develop a coherent philosophy for Sen since book 2. An effort, which is repeatedly stymied by Sen’s own random cruelty to his own allies, his incoherent sense of justice and his utter inability to internalize and act according to the lessons he keeps supposedly learning.
The fact that book 7 lacks a conflict in the traditional sense means that we get to see a gentler side of Sen. At the end of book 6, Sen took in the orphan girl Liu Ai, and a lot of time is dedicated to developing the relationship between Sen and Ai, as well as the new companion Glimmer of Night, and Sen’s current mentor Fu Ruolan.
The book isn’t exactly a meditation on the nature of fatherhood. Ai is written as the perfect child: adorable and good natured, forever hugging people’s legs and grabbing them by the hand, charming everyone around her. The relationship is well written, though, and the heartwarming scenes are a welcome counterpoint to the series’ otherwise dour, sometimes misanthropic outlook.
The book does unfortunately spend quite a lot of time tediously impressing upon the reader just how much violence various powerful cultivators are ready to inflict on anyone who would hurt Ai. It invokes the worst possible kind of parent - the kind that substitutes theoretical heroism (I would kill for my children!) for actual, meaningful parenting. And it’s not even necessary! The book communicates the various characters’ love for Ai just fine through scenes of them playing with and caring for her.
The reason for Book 7 being a more mellow, pleasant read than the preceding 5 books seems to be largely due to the fact that Sen mostly spends time with characters he respects, as well as Ai. Uncle Ko, Auntie Caihong and Shen Mingxia (all the way from book 2) return, the taciturn mortal Li Hua is introduced, Glimmer of Night plays a larger role, Fu Ruolan is developed as a character, and the mortal townsfolk become relevant characters.
That’s not to say that the book completely sidesteps the series’ issue. Sen continues to get mysteriously mad for no good reason at various times. The book kicks off with Sen leaving Falling Leaf with Laughing River the nine-tailed fox, as well as Laughing River’s granddaughter Misty Peak, hoping that they can help Falling Leaf transform back into her original form at will. The three spirit beasts leave the inn they were meeting at to go work on the issue somewhere else, and nobody thinks to leave Sen a note about where they went. This makes Sen go into such a rage that his mentor Fu Ruolan has to step in and suppress his killing intent, so that he won’t inadvertently kill Ai.
Falling Leaf later addresses this, angry that Sen doesn’t respect her combat prowess enough to know that she can take care of herself. But it’s never addressed that regardless of Falling Leaf’s ability to protect herself, Sen’s reaction is completely ridiculous, stomping around the forest like a big angry manbaby because nobody left him a note to tell where they were going.
Later in the book, three sect cultivators show up to Sen’s weapons training academy to do reconnaissance. One of them has been freshly scorned by one of the students in Sen’s academy, and in his emotional state, he speaks rudely to Sen. Sen responds by murdering him a few moments later, as he considers it necessary to not “show weakness”.
The morality that Sen holds to, is that it is wrong for cultivators to use their superior power to push around mortals and demand obeisance from them. However, Sen never extends the underlying logic - the strong shouldn’t dominate the weak - to his own interactions with other cultivators, many of whom are as far below Sen in power level as a mortal is below them. This contradiction makes Sen come across as a dumb hypocrite.
But the worst of Sen’s behaviour in the book is his treatment of Wu Meng Yao, and he’s shitty to her in a way that’s unfortunately emblematic of all of the series’ problems. Wu Meng Yao is a returning character from book 2, who shows up together with Shen Mingxia. She feels like she owes Sen a debt, as his actions in book 2 set her on a course of prestige and rapid cultivation development. For this reason, she seeks out Sen to offer him assistance in whatever way she can so as to pay off said debt.
Sen treats her like dirt on his shoe. He’s condescending, he ignores her, treats her extremely coldly and contrives to send her on a fake quest to get rid of her. So what is the crime she committed, apart from being too eager to pay back a debt in a way that Sen considers an imposition? In Book 2, years earlier, she told Sen she was scared of him. After he killed dozens of cultivators and piled their bodies in the streets.6
Holding a grudge over this is so preposterous that it almost beggars belief. But nobody comments on it, even Wu Meng Yao seems to be apologetic, rather than the much more reasonable mix of incomprehension and outrage that any reasonable person would feel in this situation.
It’s so absurd that it becomes hard not to attribute this weird behaviour to a wider quirk of the series: the fact it’s apparently a universal rule that there must always be an attractive woman mooning after Sen, whom he treats very badly.
Lo Meifeng, Chan Yu Ming, Li Yi Nuo, Misty Peak and now Wu Meng Yao. All of them (Misty Peak slightly less so than the others) share the dynamic that they are attracted to Sen, want his approval and/or help, and that he is indifferent to their feelings, and generally doesn’t give a shit about them or their problems.
Unintended Cultivator is unabashed wish fulfillment. It’s part of why I think the books don’t work well as progression fantasy - they’re too concerned with Sen’s aura farming and power fantasy to ever present Sen with any challenge. The fact that Sen always easily wins every fight he gets into makes the progression feel completely meaningless.
But what does it say about a book series if one of the most reliable elements of the wish fulfillment is being shitty and mean to attractive women who long for your approval? It’s not generally a line of criticism I like to go into, because it tends to short circuit any kind of constructive conversation, but it’s hard not to conclude that there is a deep misogyny at the heart of Unintended Cultivator.
The strange structure of the book makes the ending highly jarring. The summons from the king arrives, preparations are made, and Sen takes off on his journey together with a few side characters. This is what we would expect to be the end of act 1 in a traditional 3 act story, but instead, the book simply cuts off here, leaving the story with no real climax or even meaningful tension. The book is short as well, so the cut-off comes across as rather arbitrary.
This strange decision does however help to alleviate the biggest issue of Unintended Cultivator, which has been plaguing the series since book 2: Sen as the main character is extremely capricious, obtusely stubborn, swinging arbitrarily between charitable, murderous and coldly indifferent to the people around him, while the book contorts itself unnaturally to make it seem like those behaviours are justified or reasonable.
The series has tried to develop a coherent philosophy for Sen since book 2. An effort, which is repeatedly stymied by Sen’s own random cruelty to his own allies, his incoherent sense of justice and his utter inability to internalize and act according to the lessons he keeps supposedly learning.
The fact that book 7 lacks a conflict in the traditional sense means that we get to see a gentler side of Sen. At the end of book 6, Sen took in the orphan girl Liu Ai, and a lot of time is dedicated to developing the relationship between Sen and Ai, as well as the new companion Glimmer of Night, and Sen’s current mentor Fu Ruolan.
The book isn’t exactly a meditation on the nature of fatherhood. Ai is written as the perfect child: adorable and good natured, forever hugging people’s legs and grabbing them by the hand, charming everyone around her. The relationship is well written, though, and the heartwarming scenes are a welcome counterpoint to the series’ otherwise dour, sometimes misanthropic outlook.
The book does unfortunately spend quite a lot of time tediously impressing upon the reader just how much violence various powerful cultivators are ready to inflict on anyone who would hurt Ai. It invokes the worst possible kind of parent - the kind that substitutes theoretical heroism (I would kill for my children!) for actual, meaningful parenting. And it’s not even necessary! The book communicates the various characters’ love for Ai just fine through scenes of them playing with and caring for her.
The reason for Book 7 being a more mellow, pleasant read than the preceding 5 books seems to be largely due to the fact that Sen mostly spends time with characters he respects, as well as Ai. Uncle Ko, Auntie Caihong and Shen Mingxia (all the way from book 2) return, the taciturn mortal Li Hua is introduced, Glimmer of Night plays a larger role, Fu Ruolan is developed as a character, and the mortal townsfolk become relevant characters.
That’s not to say that the book completely sidesteps the series’ issue. Sen continues to get mysteriously mad for no good reason at various times. The book kicks off with Sen leaving Falling Leaf with Laughing River the nine-tailed fox, as well as Laughing River’s granddaughter Misty Peak, hoping that they can help Falling Leaf transform back into her original form at will. The three spirit beasts leave the inn they were meeting at to go work on the issue somewhere else, and nobody thinks to leave Sen a note about where they went. This makes Sen go into such a rage that his mentor Fu Ruolan has to step in and suppress his killing intent, so that he won’t inadvertently kill Ai.
Falling Leaf later addresses this, angry that Sen doesn’t respect her combat prowess enough to know that she can take care of herself. But it’s never addressed that regardless of Falling Leaf’s ability to protect herself, Sen’s reaction is completely ridiculous, stomping around the forest like a big angry manbaby because nobody left him a note to tell where they were going.
Later in the book, three sect cultivators show up to Sen’s weapons training academy to do reconnaissance. One of them has been freshly scorned by one of the students in Sen’s academy, and in his emotional state, he speaks rudely to Sen. Sen responds by murdering him a few moments later, as he considers it necessary to not “show weakness”.
The morality that Sen holds to, is that it is wrong for cultivators to use their superior power to push around mortals and demand obeisance from them. However, Sen never extends the underlying logic - the strong shouldn’t dominate the weak - to his own interactions with other cultivators, many of whom are as far below Sen in power level as a mortal is below them. This contradiction makes Sen come across as a dumb hypocrite.
But the worst of Sen’s behaviour in the book is his treatment of Wu Meng Yao, and he’s shitty to her in a way that’s unfortunately emblematic of all of the series’ problems. Wu Meng Yao is a returning character from book 2, who shows up together with Shen Mingxia. She feels like she owes Sen a debt, as his actions in book 2 set her on a course of prestige and rapid cultivation development. For this reason, she seeks out Sen to offer him assistance in whatever way she can so as to pay off said debt.
Sen treats her like dirt on his shoe. He’s condescending, he ignores her, treats her extremely coldly and contrives to send her on a fake quest to get rid of her. So what is the crime she committed, apart from being too eager to pay back a debt in a way that Sen considers an imposition? In Book 2, years earlier, she told Sen she was scared of him. After he killed dozens of cultivators and piled their bodies in the streets.6
Holding a grudge over this is so preposterous that it almost beggars belief. But nobody comments on it, even Wu Meng Yao seems to be apologetic, rather than the much more reasonable mix of incomprehension and outrage that any reasonable person would feel in this situation.
It’s so absurd that it becomes hard not to attribute this weird behaviour to a wider quirk of the series: the fact it’s apparently a universal rule that there must always be an attractive woman mooning after Sen, whom he treats very badly.
Lo Meifeng, Chan Yu Ming, Li Yi Nuo, Misty Peak and now Wu Meng Yao. All of them (Misty Peak slightly less so than the others) share the dynamic that they are attracted to Sen, want his approval and/or help, and that he is indifferent to their feelings, and generally doesn’t give a shit about them or their problems.
Unintended Cultivator is unabashed wish fulfillment. It’s part of why I think the books don’t work well as progression fantasy - they’re too concerned with Sen’s aura farming and power fantasy to ever present Sen with any challenge. The fact that Sen always easily wins every fight he gets into makes the progression feel completely meaningless.
But what does it say about a book series if one of the most reliable elements of the wish fulfillment is being shitty and mean to attractive women who long for your approval? It’s not generally a line of criticism I like to go into, because it tends to short circuit any kind of constructive conversation, but it’s hard not to conclude that there is a deep misogyny at the heart of Unintended Cultivator.
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December 8, 2025
Kinda on the boring side. Definitely not the same level of engagement that books 5 and 6 brought.
Let's see where the story goes from here, but series is on the bubble.
Let's see where the story goes from here, but series is on the bubble.
December 27, 2025
Is this a slice of life series now?
This series central problem has now been illuminated to me by Book 7. That is that it has no identity. The author clearly doesn’t know what he’s doing, and he clearly has no plan for this series.
The first book of this series was basically one long training montage and setup for a wandering-cultivator-themed series. Though that first book fell short on excitement and character development of the MC, it being totally boring training stuff with a character we don’t know or like yet, it did lay the framework of a potentially interesting world.
The second book was far from perfect, as the author’s exhausting tendency to inner monologue and thus sap the pace out of his story and fights was made manifest, but it did a good job using the wandering aspect of the themes to create a keel of an idealistic MC navigating a morally ambiguous world. Book 2 felt like the beginnings of a good series with a solid identity, if a bit sloppy and amateurish in its execution. So imagine a series set on a steady course and bearing.
However, Books 3 & 4 were like a gradual drift from the course set by the first to books to being sharply 45° off-course by the end. The author fell into all of the common writer traps in this genre. He over-idealized his MC, turning the MC into more of a fantastical version of the author than his own character and vicariously playing out his own insecure power fantasies. This lead to the next set of traps, being the MC is always right and drips with righteousness on a Taylor-Sheridan-scale of soap-opera cheesiness. And the next trap, even if what MC does seems psychopathic and the author’s attempt at logical explanations don’t hold for these actions, well the author can just write it that the MC is right anyways and problem solved. Then there’s the plot armor of his masters looming over everything as a get-out-of-a-plot-jam card. The MC becomes wildly overpowered and never really challenged and never really has any non-OP fights. This all culminates in an MC who’s murdering a king, killing a millennia-old highest tier cultivator with some formations and poisons, going on literal genocidal rampages with righteousness to boot. It’s full-blown murder hobo, no it’s Holocaust Hobo. Oh and he’s seducing the most beautiful woman on the planet with a handful of junior high level pickup lines…
Then there’s Book 5, where the MC is dying now I guess, so this book is one quest to address that. Mind you, we’re still doing the constant page-stuffing, inner-monologue filler throughout these books. Not the worst book in the series, but again it’s a shift in direction of this series back to training in one place like Book 1. Once again the series doesn’t seem to know what it is.
That continues in Book 6, which is entirely a side-quest of a side-quest arc. I don’t hate lateral books (books that don’t advance a main plot and are basically episodic) in a series. I actually think that’s a great way to write an open-ended series without getting bogged down in the predictable tropes and traps of this genre (DBZ Effect). But once again, it’s a shift in the course of this series. What is this series?
And now Book 7, which is basically a slice of life book. As a slice of book, it’s actually fairly well done. But this is the biggest narrative change in direction of the entire series thus far. It’s not 180° because that wouldn’t even been a progression series anymore, but it’s basically 170°. This book contradicts everything developed so far. This change in course undermines the wandering keel of this series. It undermines the established traits and beliefs of its main character.
This series shows the author doesn’t really comprehend the tropes or the niches of sub-genres in this genre. He lacks the context of basic storytelling elements and how to carry those through for a whole series. It’s like he’s reading books from an assortment of sub-genres in progression, and then imitating them with his next book in the series. I’m sure he’ll argue that this winding series identity is meant to represent his character’s development arc. But that’s post facto reasoning and a lie. I think he’s simply been acknowledging some of the issues he created in earlier books and then trying to patch them up while simultaneously making whole new mistakes he’s once again ignorant of in the moment.
In the end, we are left with a disjointed, inconsistent, rudderless series that is frankly an amateurish mess.
This series central problem has now been illuminated to me by Book 7. That is that it has no identity. The author clearly doesn’t know what he’s doing, and he clearly has no plan for this series.
The first book of this series was basically one long training montage and setup for a wandering-cultivator-themed series. Though that first book fell short on excitement and character development of the MC, it being totally boring training stuff with a character we don’t know or like yet, it did lay the framework of a potentially interesting world.
The second book was far from perfect, as the author’s exhausting tendency to inner monologue and thus sap the pace out of his story and fights was made manifest, but it did a good job using the wandering aspect of the themes to create a keel of an idealistic MC navigating a morally ambiguous world. Book 2 felt like the beginnings of a good series with a solid identity, if a bit sloppy and amateurish in its execution. So imagine a series set on a steady course and bearing.
However, Books 3 & 4 were like a gradual drift from the course set by the first to books to being sharply 45° off-course by the end. The author fell into all of the common writer traps in this genre. He over-idealized his MC, turning the MC into more of a fantastical version of the author than his own character and vicariously playing out his own insecure power fantasies. This lead to the next set of traps, being the MC is always right and drips with righteousness on a Taylor-Sheridan-scale of soap-opera cheesiness. And the next trap, even if what MC does seems psychopathic and the author’s attempt at logical explanations don’t hold for these actions, well the author can just write it that the MC is right anyways and problem solved. Then there’s the plot armor of his masters looming over everything as a get-out-of-a-plot-jam card. The MC becomes wildly overpowered and never really challenged and never really has any non-OP fights. This all culminates in an MC who’s murdering a king, killing a millennia-old highest tier cultivator with some formations and poisons, going on literal genocidal rampages with righteousness to boot. It’s full-blown murder hobo, no it’s Holocaust Hobo. Oh and he’s seducing the most beautiful woman on the planet with a handful of junior high level pickup lines…
Then there’s Book 5, where the MC is dying now I guess, so this book is one quest to address that. Mind you, we’re still doing the constant page-stuffing, inner-monologue filler throughout these books. Not the worst book in the series, but again it’s a shift in direction of this series back to training in one place like Book 1. Once again the series doesn’t seem to know what it is.
That continues in Book 6, which is entirely a side-quest of a side-quest arc. I don’t hate lateral books (books that don’t advance a main plot and are basically episodic) in a series. I actually think that’s a great way to write an open-ended series without getting bogged down in the predictable tropes and traps of this genre (DBZ Effect). But once again, it’s a shift in the course of this series. What is this series?
And now Book 7, which is basically a slice of life book. As a slice of book, it’s actually fairly well done. But this is the biggest narrative change in direction of the entire series thus far. It’s not 180° because that wouldn’t even been a progression series anymore, but it’s basically 170°. This book contradicts everything developed so far. This change in course undermines the wandering keel of this series. It undermines the established traits and beliefs of its main character.
This series shows the author doesn’t really comprehend the tropes or the niches of sub-genres in this genre. He lacks the context of basic storytelling elements and how to carry those through for a whole series. It’s like he’s reading books from an assortment of sub-genres in progression, and then imitating them with his next book in the series. I’m sure he’ll argue that this winding series identity is meant to represent his character’s development arc. But that’s post facto reasoning and a lie. I think he’s simply been acknowledging some of the issues he created in earlier books and then trying to patch them up while simultaneously making whole new mistakes he’s once again ignorant of in the moment.
In the end, we are left with a disjointed, inconsistent, rudderless series that is frankly an amateurish mess.
November 18, 2025
I love Sen the wandering cultivator who started life as a penniless and often starving orphan in a city, but who became the fastest growing cultivator ever, now known as Judgement's Gale. However what I love best in Sen is that though he is ruthless with the undeserving, the arrogant and the tricksters, he has never forgotten his beginnings and in this book this is most obvious. He feels a closeness to humans, mortals, and hates it when he is put on a pedestal. He goes out of his way to show kindness to them, use his healing techniques to save lives, and even starts an academy to train these humans in defence of their town and families. However this draws many cultivators to what they believe to be a new sect, something Sen is adamant will never happen. He hates sects, their rules and their hierarchies. Also in this wondrous book we see a different side to Sen as he adopts an orphan young girl called Ai, and she becomes everything to him. He sets out to provide her with everything he didn't have a chance to experience in his own childhood, and his highlight is when she calls him Papa. In this book we also get to see a visit from his own mentors who had to hurry over once they heard of the child. Auntie Caihong and Uncle Kho are head over heels, totally enamoured by her. I love that Falling Leaf is her protector, and really enjoyed Glimmer of Night who is so full of surprises and who is beloved by AI, surprisingly Ai has even managed to soften up Fu Ruolan the crazy cultivator who is in turn mentoring Sen. This series is amazing, but this book for me has been the cherry on the cake and after the ending we got I am dying to read book 8 as I am sure the adventures continue.
November 22, 2025
An in between book necessary for the character
Most in between books are horribly boring and seem a waste of the reader's time and money; while only barely setting up the plot push leading into the next book.
This book is NOT that. While it may at first glance seem an in between book, it is one that is necessary for the character's sanity and peace of mind. It all pushes us toward the end of the book which where we learn the beginnings of the plotline for the next book. But this book helped to finalize a few loose ends from previous books, and even remind our main character who he really is as a person and what that means in the cultivation world.
We get a special treat of Uncle Khou and Auntie Caihong coming back for an extended stay to see their new niece Ai.
Have fun!!
Most in between books are horribly boring and seem a waste of the reader's time and money; while only barely setting up the plot push leading into the next book.
This book is NOT that. While it may at first glance seem an in between book, it is one that is necessary for the character's sanity and peace of mind. It all pushes us toward the end of the book which where we learn the beginnings of the plotline for the next book. But this book helped to finalize a few loose ends from previous books, and even remind our main character who he really is as a person and what that means in the cultivation world.
We get a special treat of Uncle Khou and Auntie Caihong coming back for an extended stay to see their new niece Ai.
Have fun!!
November 15, 2025
Very slow and somewhat boring
It’s a very slow story that was quite a bit boring. Very much a filler novel. Not sure what happened to this series, but the first few books was outstanding and quickly made it to the top of my list of favorites. The series started as an excellent cultivation series, but slowly lost it steam and now in this book it lost all of his momentum. The main character managed to learn just one technique and the rest of the book was all just drugged out filler content, just maybe setting the stage for something in the future. For readers who are looking for an exciting cultivation novel with the action and adventure this is not the book!
It’s a very slow story that was quite a bit boring. Very much a filler novel. Not sure what happened to this series, but the first few books was outstanding and quickly made it to the top of my list of favorites. The series started as an excellent cultivation series, but slowly lost it steam and now in this book it lost all of his momentum. The main character managed to learn just one technique and the rest of the book was all just drugged out filler content, just maybe setting the stage for something in the future. For readers who are looking for an exciting cultivation novel with the action and adventure this is not the book!
November 19, 2025
Slice of boring
I genuinely wonder if the author just had a daughter or something because this whole book was basically about Sen and his new adopted daughter. This speeding train of a cultivation series just derailed straight into slice of life and exploded.
I would say that roughly 97% of this book is just daily life of Sen around the town. This was by far the most boring book in this series by a massive margin, oh and to top it off we still have whiny/angsty Sen to deal with… 7 books in.
I actually think this may be the end for me, I just don’t really care about the story anymore because it isn’t going anywhere.
I genuinely wonder if the author just had a daughter or something because this whole book was basically about Sen and his new adopted daughter. This speeding train of a cultivation series just derailed straight into slice of life and exploded.
I would say that roughly 97% of this book is just daily life of Sen around the town. This was by far the most boring book in this series by a massive margin, oh and to top it off we still have whiny/angsty Sen to deal with… 7 books in.
I actually think this may be the end for me, I just don’t really care about the story anymore because it isn’t going anywhere.
November 12, 2025
Title: Fantastic - as expected
Content Ratings: Language – PG13; Violence – PG13; Other – R
There's really not much to say. I continually expect much from this series, and each new book delivers. Read my reviews on the other books and apply the love here as well. Perhaps one thing I haven't mentioned before is the fun interplay between the wide variety of characters. I definitely laughed out loud a few times during the book. As usual, I'm eagerly awaiting the next installment.
Content Ratings: Language – PG13; Violence – PG13; Other – R
There's really not much to say. I continually expect much from this series, and each new book delivers. Read my reviews on the other books and apply the love here as well. Perhaps one thing I haven't mentioned before is the fun interplay between the wide variety of characters. I definitely laughed out loud a few times during the book. As usual, I'm eagerly awaiting the next installment.
November 13, 2025
almost skippable
Not a lot really happens. But also some important things happen.
Sen founds an academy, deals with cultivators, and gets a visit from Auntie Caihong and Uncle Kho (somewhat disguised). Fu Ruolan teaches Sen a new trick and is furious how ‘easily’ he learned it.
But nothing happened on the scale of last book. Next book is kingdom politics, so it should be ‘fun’.
Not a lot really happens. But also some important things happen.
Sen founds an academy, deals with cultivators, and gets a visit from Auntie Caihong and Uncle Kho (somewhat disguised). Fu Ruolan teaches Sen a new trick and is furious how ‘easily’ he learned it.
But nothing happened on the scale of last book. Next book is kingdom politics, so it should be ‘fun’.
November 14, 2025
Very fun
This book takes the opportunity to slow down and give us deeper insight into all of the characters. The handling of the slower plot is well done. It's interesting and naturally fits in the character's moments and thoughts. The characterization itself is nice as well, with many interesting people and relationships. World building is mostly put aside, but we do get insight into how (some) normal people see things.
Overall, it's nice to get a chance to slow down.
This book takes the opportunity to slow down and give us deeper insight into all of the characters. The handling of the slower plot is well done. It's interesting and naturally fits in the character's moments and thoughts. The characterization itself is nice as well, with many interesting people and relationships. World building is mostly put aside, but we do get insight into how (some) normal people see things.
Overall, it's nice to get a chance to slow down.
November 12, 2025
Cultivation fun
Every book in the series gets better and this one is no exception. No grand battles this time and only a few new cultivation skills but a story virtually impossible to stop reading. The interplay between cultivators, mortals and other beings is entertaining from the beginning to the end.
Every book in the series gets better and this one is no exception. No grand battles this time and only a few new cultivation skills but a story virtually impossible to stop reading. The interplay between cultivators, mortals and other beings is entertaining from the beginning to the end.
November 15, 2025
A solid, if low-key affair. I enjoyed the storytelling and the advancements in this book a lot, and thought it was really nice to see Sen's relationship with Ai develop. The previous stint in the Capital was my least favourite book of the series, but I'm hopeful that this upcoming visit won't let me down.
November 21, 2025
A boring side quest
DNF at 76%
I found the book quite dull. I got a bit tired of both the MC'S autistic behaviour and infantile temper tantrums, and couldn't make myself care about writing lessons, militia training and emancipation in ancient china.. Some moments with the little girl are cute but can't change the fact that nothing interesting happened in this book!
I think I am done with this series..
DNF at 76%
I found the book quite dull. I got a bit tired of both the MC'S autistic behaviour and infantile temper tantrums, and couldn't make myself care about writing lessons, militia training and emancipation in ancient china.. Some moments with the little girl are cute but can't change the fact that nothing interesting happened in this book!
I think I am done with this series..
November 27, 2025
Awesome Stuff
This story of an orphan boy being trained by three of the most powerful people in the world was a fascinating fantastic read. In this chapter he’s adopted a town and is starting a martial academy for mortals and cultivators. This ends as he’s on his way to the Capital to help his friend the mortal king.
This story of an orphan boy being trained by three of the most powerful people in the world was a fascinating fantastic read. In this chapter he’s adopted a town and is starting a martial academy for mortals and cultivators. This ends as he’s on his way to the Capital to help his friend the mortal king.
December 4, 2025
Unintended cultivator book 7
This book had a lot of twist and turns from the nine tail foxes to the spirits. It really surprised me when he did something he said he didn't want to do. When he finally did something that surprised everybody even two to three people that taught him how to fight you'll enjoy this book I'm not going to ruin it for you just read it.
This book had a lot of twist and turns from the nine tail foxes to the spirits. It really surprised me when he did something he said he didn't want to do. When he finally did something that surprised everybody even two to three people that taught him how to fight you'll enjoy this book I'm not going to ruin it for you just read it.
November 13, 2025
I love this series.
This is a great series that has the overpowered main character. I love that he is oblivious to so many things while being a prodigy. I can't wait for the next book!
This is a great series that has the overpowered main character. I love that he is oblivious to so many things while being a prodigy. I can't wait for the next book!
November 19, 2025
consistently excellent
The thing about these books is that even after a gap of months, you just slip back into the rhythm of the prose and the gleefully drawn characters. These books are a joy that you shouldn’t deny yourself.
The thing about these books is that even after a gap of months, you just slip back into the rhythm of the prose and the gleefully drawn characters. These books are a joy that you shouldn’t deny yourself.
November 26, 2025
Great addition
This has been a good series ups and downs through the books but this particular entry really raised my opinion loved the entry and would love to see more series of this type shift in this direction.
This has been a good series ups and downs through the books but this particular entry really raised my opinion loved the entry and would love to see more series of this type shift in this direction.
December 4, 2025
These characters…
The main characters continue to act in the way expected while still showing more of themselves. The series to this point has been very good but I especially enjoyed this volume.
The main characters continue to act in the way expected while still showing more of themselves. The series to this point has been very good but I especially enjoyed this volume.
December 9, 2025
Sen sen sensational
This cultivation series is a favourite of mine as the characters are brought to live very realistically and with quite a few humorous moments. The story had developed very well and the workd had come to life each book that Eric publishes.
This cultivation series is a favourite of mine as the characters are brought to live very realistically and with quite a few humorous moments. The story had developed very well and the workd had come to life each book that Eric publishes.
December 15, 2025
most enjoyable release with good humor and lots of warmth
Enjoyed the character growth and relationship building in this volume of the series. There was also simple and pleasant humor in the interactions
Enjoyed the character growth and relationship building in this volume of the series. There was also simple and pleasant humor in the interactions
November 11, 2025
The continuing adventures of Sen who never bores me and always makes me smile. I love the series so much
November 12, 2025
Fanfreakingtastic!
What an amazing book! I absolutely loved this book and such wonderful characters! I can not wait for the next book to come out!
What an amazing book! I absolutely loved this book and such wonderful characters! I can not wait for the next book to come out!
November 13, 2025
I love this series
I have had fun reading all of these books and have read them again can't wait for the next.one to come.out.
I have had fun reading all of these books and have read them again can't wait for the next.one to come.out.
November 13, 2025
not long enough
I read this in two days while I work 12 hour days, great book as they all are though. Also wouldn’t mind a recap at the start of each book if possible.
I read this in two days while I work 12 hour days, great book as they all are though. Also wouldn’t mind a recap at the start of each book if possible.
November 13, 2025
Very good read
I enjoyed reading the book Very much and I recommend this book to anyone who likes LitRPG and progression types of books with lots of action.
I enjoyed reading the book Very much and I recommend this book to anyone who likes LitRPG and progression types of books with lots of action.
November 13, 2025
Fun book, wish it had been Lunt hopefully that means the next one will come soon
November 16, 2025
Another solid book
Less blood and guts and constant fight for survival but every bit as fun of a story. This series is always fun to read.
Less blood and guts and constant fight for survival but every bit as fun of a story. This series is always fun to read.
November 17, 2025
Well, this one took a sweet turn. 50% less violence and 100% more adorable little girls.
November 17, 2025
Highly Recommend
It is not often that I find a book that forces me to laugh out loud! This one does in places. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.
It is not often that I find a book that forces me to laugh out loud! This one does in places. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.
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