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Unintended Cultivator
by Eric Dontigney
A solid native-English cultivation serial with xianxia structure, low prose friction, and a kinder protagonist than the genre often provides.
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A sheltered boy raised by reclusive experts enters a dangerous cultivation world with kindness, training, accidental influence, and a more earnest xianxia-inspired moral center.
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