Cherry Mischievous: UNINTENDED CULTIVATOR: Volume 9

Sunday, 18 October 2026

UNINTENDED CULTIVATOR: Volume 9

Unintended Cultivator: Volume 9 by Eric Dontigney
Book 9 in the Unintended Cultivator series
Narrated by Adam Verner
Genre: fantasy
Format: ebook & audiobook

About Unintended Cultivator: Volume 9:

In the Jianghu, there is only the illusion of peace…

Sen has returned from the capital and reluctantly begun the work of building a sect. Yet the endless politics, rivalries, and logistical burdens of leadership weigh heavily on a man who once answered to no one. Every day pulls him deeper into a life he never truly wanted.

Only the looming war with the spirit beasts keeps him from abandoning it all.

Yet, not even distance can allow someone as famous as Judgment’s Gale to go undisturbed for long. Emissaries from sects begin to intrude on his small corner of the world. Some come with benign intentions, while others come to put the former wandering cultivator in his place.

Once, Sen could simply walk away. Now he has a sect to protect and a daughter whose safety he will defend at any cost. Sen may find that war of a different kind is unavoidable…

Source: Info in the "About Unintended Cultivator: Volume 9" was taken from amazon on 19/07/2026.

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Glimmer Of Night

My Thoughts:

Another middle chunk of a bigger book with cliffhanger ending. Not meant to be read on it's own.

It's been a while since I've read book 8 and I've read numerous LitRPG and/or similar books since then. So when I started with this book, it was a bit slow with me trying to remember the characters and events from previous books that were mentioned in here. Despite that, it didn't take me long to get engrossed into the story again!

I tried to stretch it out. I took breaks. I picked up other books. It still finished too soon for me! It felt a whole lot shorter than 12 hours and a half!

Falling Leaf
Happy to see Glimmer Of Night and Falling Leaf again! It's like meeting old friends again! What I wished though was that there was more of Ai! She was mentioned several times but only mostly in third person. Someone else was thinking of her. Or she was talked about by other people. Precious little of actually her and her birds!

This book is mostly about the sect war and the impending war with the Beast King. Which to me means that more books are coming our way! Can't wait for Book 10!

Quantitative Evaluation:

Story telling quality = 4.5
Character development = 5
Story itself = 3.5
Writing Style = 4
Ending = 3
World building = 5
Cover art = 4
Pace = (12 hours and 31 minutes listening time)
Plot = 2
Narration = 5

Overall Rating: 4 out of 5 cherries

Books In The Unintended Cultivator Series:

Meet The Author

About Eric Dontigney:

Raised 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 and impressionist paintings, coffee, and well-made food.

Not wishing to tarnish the good names of writers who have come before him, he refuses to name influences. He will admit to reading Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ayn Rand, Stephen J. Cannell, Jim Butcher, Kate Chopin, Edgar Allen Poe, Shakespeare, Camus, James Baldwin, Tim O'Brien, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, and Stephen King.

The Narrator

About Adam Verner:

Adam Verner is a full-time narrator and voice talent with over one hundred titles recorded. He is the recipient of AudioFile Earphones Awards for Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck and The Big It by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. Adam earned his MFA in acting from the Chicago College of the Fine Arts at Roosevelt University.