He never intended to be a cultivator. The heavens have another plan…
Sen never dreamed of ascension. Such were the aspirations of the rich young nobles, not orphans like him, scraping together a meager living on the streets of Orchard’s Reach.
However, when destiny takes an unexpected turn, Sen finds himself thrust into the role of a cultivator’s disciple. Chosen over the nobles who once looked down on him, he is adopted into a makeshift family of three ancient cultivators, each with a lifetime of knowledge and insights. These old monsters will teach Sen everything they can, from the art of the jian and spear to the mysteries of arcane alchemy.
Yet, on the path to defying the heavens, Sen will have to make difficult choices. He needs to decide what kind of person he wants to be, and what mark he wants to leave on the world. Because when his training ends, he will have the power to shake the world. He will also have formidable enemies who will do anything to put him back in his place…
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He left to see the world, but the world is a cruel master…
Setting out to be a wandering cultivator, Sen has high ideals. Half-remembered stories of honorable cultivators and the kindness of his teachers shaped his expectations.
The world he finds is something else entirely. Thrust into deadly conflict, Sen finds himself fleeing the death of a sect
cultivator in fear of retribution. As his flight carries him across the kingdom, he finds his ideals challenged by bandits, cultivators, and demon beasts.
In the city of Emperor’s Bay he will face the true crucible of his character and skills, and discover the harsh truth that violence is necessary to survive.
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Time is a cultivator’s greatest ally, until it isn’t…
Emerging from the deep wilds, Sen is now aware of the dangers of his body cultivation method. A method he doesn’t know how to progress. With time running out until his body turns against him, Sen travels to one of the only places he might find the manual that could save him. A place he never wanted to go. The capital.
Of course, the heart of the kingdom holds dangers of its own. Sen is inexorably drawn into the convoluted web of power that controls the vast city. He must navigate court politics, ambitious sects, and the unwanted attention of a criminal cultivator organization.
As he races toward a lethal showdown with cultivator and mortal powers alike, dangerous secrets will be revealed, Sen’s resolve will be tested, and the name Judgment’s Gale will finally be earned.
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Survival rests in the hands of a madwoman…
Leaving behind the capital and all the changes he wrought there, Sen ventures back into the deep wilds in search of the mad, nascent soul cultivator, Fu Ruolan. It is a final, desperate bid to find the manual he needs to complete his body cultivation.
Of course, in the world of cultivation, things are rarely as straightforward as they seem. Madness takes many shapes, and Fu Ruolan is no exception to this truth. With everything on the line, though, Sen finds himself reluctantly agreeing to a deal that he may well live to regret.
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Never owe a fox a favor…
With his body cultivation at least temporarily under control, Sen sets out for his long-awaited reunion with the divine turtle, Elder Bo. It is a fraught meeting where Sen learns hard lessons and unwelcome truths, and despite his advancement, his old obligations still threaten to pull him back.
Years before, the nine-tail fox Laughing River did Sen a “favor.” The fox is finally ready to collect on that debt. Of course, if you give a fox an inch, they’ll try to take a mile.
The trifling matter that Laughing River wants Sen to accomplish is retrieving an old relic from some ruins. What could be simpler for a powerful core cultivator?
Yet, the demon is in the details, and Laughing River left out a few. Like the horde of devilish beasts, the potent wards, the fact that the ruins are the size of a city.
Sen will have to draw upon all his power, threatening the newfound balance in his body cultivation, to fulfill his obligation, or else risk the eternal enmity of a nine-tailed fox.
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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.
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When Politics and Cultivation Collide…
Summoned by the king, Sen reluctantly goes to the capital. However, the path there is anything but easy. Sen must battle his way to the city, revealing that not everyone is pleased by his imminent return.
When he finally reaches the city, he finds it changed. The web of politics has only grown more tangled in his absence, and now cultivator emissaries from beyond the Mountains of Sorrow have arrived to further cloud the waters. Much to his horror, Sen finds himself pressed into service as a distraction and deterrent to those very cultivators.
While the name Judgment’s Gale conjures fear in the capital, it may not prove enough as enemies old and new reveal themselves. While Sen tries to navigate around uncertain agendas and noble plots, he will be forced to take actions he would have once considered inconceivable. And the wandering cultivator’s life will never be the same…
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