Tag: cultivation
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SAGA OF THE SWORDBREAKER 4: FIST OF HEAVEN AND EARTH is live!
Freed from contractual obligations, Li Ming and Cai Yan visit the town of Bingzhou. There they hope to train under Grandmaster An Long and learn the final secret of An Family Gongfu. But what begins as a martial pilgrimage escalates into a gang war. Two secret societies battle for control over Bingzhou—and the rest of…
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Fist of Heaven and Earth Chapter 3 Preview!
Technology. Culture. Relationships. Many Western works explore the tension between them, and how culture and relationships change in response to changing technology. With Saga of the Swordbreaker, I wanted to try something different. I wanted to write a civilization that has retained its traditions and culture, even over centuries and millennia. Its people prioritise strong,…
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Martialism, Movement, Meditation, Metaphysics
A punch is a punch. A stance is a stance. A pill is a pill. None of them meet. This is the mindset that gives rise to ordinary cultivation fiction. Each idea is discrete, compartmentatlised, separate from each other. This is how the modern person views the world. This is how Westerners see the world.…
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The Worldbuilding and Metaphysics of Saga of the Swordbreaker
Saga of the Swordbreaker is a science fantasy series. Guns and magic are abound. Yet we don’t see much discussion of them up to this point. Why? Because the technology is simply an extension of Chinese metaphysics. By understanding the metaphysics that underpin the universe, you immediately grasp how the higher technology works. A common…
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Invincible Under Heaven Week 3 Update and Preview!
It has been 3 weeks since the launch of SAGA OF THE SWORDBREAKER: INVINCIBLE UNDER HEAVEN. I’ve noticed that in previous campaigns, Weeks 2 and 3 are usually the slowest. Still, the campaign is only 46% funded. There is still a long way to go. INVINCIBLE UNDER HEAVEN is a cyberpunk cultivation saga written in…
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Why Pursue the Way of the Fist?
Everybody knows why cultivators in fiction cultivate: to become more powerful, so they can defeat more powerful cultivators. That’s lame. There’s only so much of such cultivation you can read before you get sick of the repetition. You already know how every conflict will end. The only question is how the characters get there—and the…