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You are the once in a dozen generations phenomena Huānliúxuè (欢流血, Happy Bloodshed/ Happy to Shed Blood), The heir to the throne of primordial beastdom, the sole wild princess (野生 格格, Yěshēng Gége) upon earth, the founder and sect head of the outcast sect the Palace of Natural Laws (宫殿的野生彝宪, Gōngdiàndīyěshēngyíxiàn), and one of two practitioners of the heretical Ruler of the Great Wheel's Law(统治者的这重大轮回法律, Tǒngzhìzhědīzhèzhòngdàlúnhuífǎlǜ), the other being your disciple, the oft brooding reformed assassin Qiang! Having decide that the best way for your closest student and first heir of your law to practice and train her mastery over the vital breath of ghosts and the spiritual energy of grudges, you lead her into the underworld itself, where the always loan shark haunted Pig spirit, Yi Zhu was all too happy to introduce the two of you to his latest employer and patron.
The king of the Crow Demon clan, Baoli-Wuyawang (暴力-乌鸦王, Violent Crow King), who seemed to be something of a fan of yours and showed a creepy amount of knowledge about you, your cultivation method and life. Though he was ignorant enough to be unable to comprehend why you were not demonic in nature, despite your tragic bloodstained pasts and the forbidden arts you gleefully practiced while testing your and Qiang's mettle against a menagerie of opponents that the crow king foolishly believed to be a challenge to you or your disciple.
Having set against you first the pet of his predecessor, A well fed sinner bone centipede, and then the maddened ghost of a Carmine mystic from the defunct Peerless Sanguine Jade Shrine Sect who threw the match after being humbled and awed by your innate mastery over both Ghostly Yin Qi and Untainted blood Qi.
However the third opponent you faced, has proven more trickier to overcome than your previous fights and far more dangerous.
The ghost of a cultivator that was torn to pieces, and forced to hold its flesh and bones together with chunks of ice and frost. Initially the phantom appeared hopelessly addled, crying the name of its killer, Jingsomething, however, as you attempted to the end the fight with a single sequence of spells, the dead cultivator's personality and memories reawakened and you found yourself thrown against the arena's wall and riddled with needles of ice.
Infuriated, and coated in your own alchemically altered boiling blood, you prowled around the ghost as it prattled on, the heat of your cloak of tampered blood only barely keeping away the deathly cold it created just by existing. Rage bubbled within you as your blood boiled over the cuts you made in your wrists, surrounding your in a thick cloud of steam as the animalistic fury within you tried to lead you astray and make you make a potentially lethal mistake of leaping back into battle without a proper, well thought out plan.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sun 05 Jun 2022 12:30:12 No. 5294579 Report >>5294578 this contemptible ghost has already tossed you threw the air and drawn your blood, and while he is rambling about how abhorrent and evil you are as a "Demonic beast" who "Dared" to offend the heavens by seeking and cultivating Qi in the pursuit of longevity and power, you are suppressing the urge to leap upon him and rake what flesh he has left with your claws before crushing his neck between your fangs.
But, that would be rushing in without any kind of a plan. This deluded spirit may be a fool, but it is the most dangerous opponent Baoli-Wuyawang has thus far brought to the Arena.
You need to center and calm yourself, and fight cleverly. You're a once in several generations prodigy after all, and a genius when it comes to...well most things, but particularly cultivation and improvising techniques!
In your mind's eye, you test your approach, running through a handful of ways to kick this bastard's ethereal ass, and find one that is is likely to achieve that goal but also as flashy and stylish as it is effective.
The first part of the plan, begins with you taking in a deep breath, and filling the whole of the sunken ring with the miasmic energy of grudges, to weaken and slow the Mad blizzard ghost. And then, to close the distance before the cold freezes even the burning blood you've covered yourself, in, you quickly activate and deactivate your specter lightness skill [幽灵-轻工, Yōulíng-Qīnggōng], performing the Phantom Cat Step [幽灵猫步, Yōulíngmāobù], to suddenly blink forward beneath its defenses and past its guard and hopefully avoid the deadly cold it has surrounded itself or the dangerous spells it hit you with during the beginning of this bout.
Then, when it panics and tries to distant itself from you or unleash a flurry of blows or rapid fire spells, you'll be able to see if your new idea actually works.
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Rolled 74 (1d100) >>5294579 Anonymous
Rolled 46 (1d100) >>5294579 Anonymous
Rolled 12 (1d100) time to crit fail
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Rolled 73 (1d100) >>5294579 Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sun 05 Jun 2022 13:59:24 No. 5294635 Report Quoted By:
>>5294594 Success. 20 over DC.
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>>5294594 >>5294598 >>5294631 >>5294634 Looks like we are starting this thread well
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sun 05 Jun 2022 14:48:05 No. 5294678 Report All it takes is a moment hesitation. A reaction to slowing reaction, to an unseen weight pulling down on the limbs, a rigidity of muscles and weakness of limb. You could've used blood Qi to render the frozen spirit comatose with energy sapping sorrow and apathy or break its mind further with a rage so deep it drowns out the screams of its conscious mind. You could've embodied the universal hatred of Xiongji, and using the grudge clouds and blood Qi, breathed scarlet flames on this irritating specter. But, that would reveal to the audience more of your techniques, which you would very much prefer to keep hidden lest they spread the secrets of your law to the living. Surprise and confusion are after your most deadly weapons, and you certainly don't trust demons not to reveal your tricks if you show even a fraction of them to them. Besides, where's the fun in going all out? Cackling as you watch the ghost flounder and stare at its arms, losing its composure for just a moment as it tries to understand why its strength and stamina have chosen now of all times to fail and flee from it.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sun 05 Jun 2022 14:49:06 No. 5294679 Report >>5294678 Breathing out, you enter a partial state of meditation, a trance like dying, and force yourself up onto your hind legs as you lift your paws. Balancing carefully, you count the fractions of seconds until the howling wind and the ghost it carries comes close enough for you to parry its blows.
Then, right before its claws can reach out and pull through your fur and drag across your skin, you stretch your ears and move your whiskers, and create two protection spells on the end of your claws.
Combining your soft, ethereal martial arts with the supreme offensive defense of the Dying grudge shield!(垂死怨怼㕹,Chuísǐyuànduìfá), you begin to bat away and smack your paws into every strike and Qi blast the bellowing spirit throws at you in its blind desperation. Each claw that grazes the black smoking edges of the plate side barriers covering your powers, every chunk of ice that slams into them, every push and thrust of his wrists, elbows and knees, every form of attack within his reckless assault is caught by the screens as black as a winter's night. And the Yin energy and resentment within your shield begins to multiply all the damage you have blocked, even as the reduced barriers begin to crack and flake and nearly break apart.
But, your opponent is perceptive enough or at least has enough of a fighter's instinct to sense the danger approaching him, as his fear and anger begins to subside. His assault was so rapid, that neither of the Dying Grudge shields had yet been able to actually reflect all of the attacks you absorbed with them. And he can sense it, you now he can, he's trying to move away, self preservation winning out over "Righteous" Fury. Of course, running now won't help him. He only knows he's in danger, that you're about to attack.
He doesn't know how you are. He's left himself open, and as a soft style, your feline martial arts is specialized for taking advantage of such mistakes. Flowing like smoke, like the final breath before dying, you lunch forward as he tries to disengage with a leap back, throwing up a cloud of ice needles that your cloak of boiling blood easily melts through. He puts up his own barrier, a bright blue shield of light bent like a turtle's shell and made up of round plates. And that is another, deadly mistake.
He thinks you'll charge him, and unleashing the force he senses gathering at the end of your paws directly. But that is far too brutish of an approach.
No, instead, you blink to his side, and lift yourself up atop your hind legs once more, and hold your paws and the dying grudge shields levitating just above them to either side of him. Moving swiftly enough so you position them opposite of one another, the moment they release all of the damage they had stored inside of themselves.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sun 05 Jun 2022 14:50:11 No. 5294681 Report >>5294679 All it takes is a single cycle of absorbing, storing and strengthening the combined power of the ghost's rabid assault to completely shatter both of the barrier spells and too create a small explosion of Raw Yin Energy. The crowd roars in approval, as a cloud of shaved ice and black smoke obscures your vision.
Standing in a crater, you twist your body completely around as a disembodied hand shoots from the gloom and nearly clips your unnotched ear! Catching yourself, you elegantly land on the edge of the crater you've made and grimace as you see what's left of the ghost, now that the ice holding him together has been blown into powder snow.
The stubborn fool is still clinging to "Life", even though he's in pieces, held together by strips of flesh and veins. His ragged meat twitches and spasms as he gnashes his teeth and snarls, struggling to control his now separated limbs. He has enough resolve to still be a danger, as both of his ice clawed hands are flying and shooting past you, like territorial birds or living arrows. But that's just a distraction, he's trying to buy himself time to piece his mangled form back together.
By controlling his butchered body with thin strings of Qi, icicles woven into threads. The black glow of water Qi surrounds you.
What do you do now, Huanliuxue?
>Dodge his flying claws and tear his head off with your jaws (Agility trial. DC 60) >Bury Ghost Empress Melody's ethereal strings into his limbs and fight to control them, so you can kill him with his own hands (Magic Trial. DC 80) >"You really don't know when to quit, do you?" Embody Xiongji's grudge and burn him away with an ignited cloud of blood soaked grudges (Magic trial DC 55) >Remain calm, and deflect his claws and spears of ice and destroy them with Destruction infused claw swipes, leaving him utterly defenseless (Martial Trial DC 62) >Write in Anonymous
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>>5294681 >Remain calm, and deflect his claws and spears of ice and destroy them with Destruction infused claw swipes, leaving him utterly defenseless (Martial Trial DC 62) 2 extra in the DC couldn't possibly screw us over, right?
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>>5294681 >Dodge or parry his attacks, and with Yin aspected claws, disrupt his threads. Literally declare him
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>>5294681 >Bury Ghost Empress Melody's ethereal strings into his limbs and fight to control them, so you can kill him with his own hands (Magic Trial. DC 80) Anonymous
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>>5294681 >Bury Ghost Empress Melody's ethereal strings into his limbs and fight to control them, so you can kill him with his own hands (Magic Trial. DC 80) Anonymous
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>>5294681 >Remain calm, and deflect his claws and spears of ice and destroy them with Destruction infused claw swipes, leaving him utterly defenseless (Martial Trial DC 62) Anonymous
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>>5294681 >Remain calm, and deflect his claws and spears of ice and destroy them with Destruction infused claw swipes, leaving him utterly defenseless (Martial Trial DC 62) Anonymous
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>>5294681 >Bury Ghost Empress Melody's ethereal strings into his limbs and fight to control them, so you can kill him with his own hands (Magic Trial. DC 80) It's cool
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>>5294681 >Bury Ghost Empress Melody's ethereal strings into his limbs and fight to control them, so you can kill him with his own hands (Magic Trial. DC 80) Anonymous
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>>5294681 >Remain calm, and deflect his claws and spears of ice and destroy them with Destruction infused claw swipes, leaving him utterly defenseless (Martial Trial DC 62) Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Tue 07 Jun 2022 03:38:13 No. 5296519 Report Rolled 2 (1d2) Ending the vote now. Tallying the result.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Tue 07 Jun 2022 03:41:19 No. 5296520 Report Quoted By:
>>5296519 So you will play a jaunty, merry tune with ghost empress Melody, to send ethereal strings into the floating limbs of the Ice ghost, and attempt to wrestle control over them so you can use them against their owner.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Tue 07 Jun 2022 04:05:37 No. 5296542 Report Now, the smart thing to do here, would be to simply destroy his severed and flying limbs as well as the spears of spiraling ice that have began to thrust through the air around his clawed hands and feet. Deflecting them as they shoot towards you and breaking them apart as they carry on past you. That'd be the cautious and safe option, methodically breaking his weapons so he is rendered defenseless and helpless before your claws. However, your pride has been wounded, this ghost called you a demon and before that countered your spells with an idle ease while tormented by the memories of death and pain of his butchered body. Though you had surprised your indignant rage at being tossed through the air and stabbed by dozens of slivers of ice like you were a robe in need of stitch, you could not push it away and bury it completely. Your sense of dignity demands recompense after being so insulted. And your high pedigree, that lurks in the same blood boiling on your back, also demands its honor to be upheld and the foe who trod upon your pride as both prodigy and heir to the throne of the primordial legacy of wild and bestial royalty to be thoroughly crushed and humilated.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Tue 07 Jun 2022 04:06:38 No. 5296543 Report >>5296542 First, you strike a sudden, violent cord that ends as soon as you start playing it, creating a rotating sphere of cutting wind to create a zone of protection around yourself from all angles. And then, having interrupted your ghostly enemy's ferocious assault, you begin to play a happy working tune with Ghost Empress Melody. Ethereal copies of its strings rise and writhe like skeletal hands reaching out of their graves. Running your claws down the length of the strings and allowing them to vibrate freely the ethereal strings hone in on the flying limbs of the frigid phantom, plucking the strings rapidly, they strike and bury themselves into the frozen flesh of the levitating gore.
Now, comes the difficult part, wresting control over these deadly limbs before the ethereal strings snap. You play feverishly, summon a swarm of more phantom strings to try and reinforce those already hooked into the hands, feet and miscellaneous chunks of meat the ghost has been trying to bludgeon you with.
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Rolled 29 (1d100) >>5296543 Fucking ice ghosts. Making us look goofy.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Tue 07 Jun 2022 06:54:40 No. 5296659 Report Quoted By:
>>5296615 8 under DC. Close Failure, writing now
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Tue 07 Jun 2022 07:30:53 No. 5296671 Report The arena grounds becomes a light show, strings of Qi filling the air like the threads of a spider webs. You devout all of your energy and being to playing Ghost Empress Melody, pouring your spiritual energy into its strings while expending your physical and internal energy just to match the pace set by your opponent. The music becomes chaotic, like a drunkards song, rambling and drawn out, with more care for the tempo of the music than the pieces actually sound. It is a song of battle, but not of war or an honorable duel between two masters of martial arts and swordsmanship. It is a dirty bare knuckled brawl in the mud of a pigsty, the air filled with potent wine vapors and jeering rather than calming incense smoke and solemn shows of approval. At first, the puppeteering strings of ghost empress melody work wonderful, but that is only because this ability of your treasured instrument caught the ice ghost by surprise.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Tue 07 Jun 2022 07:31:53 No. 5296672 Report >>5296671 But, it isn't exhaustion or the other rigors of playing music as quickly as you're forced to that prove to be your downfall.
No
The ghost of the cultivator waits, wasting its own energy in the struggle over controlling its own limbs without breaking the strings until you become so engrossed and focused on playing your Guqin and trying to keep one step ahead of him in trying to win total control over his body parts, that you leave yourself open.
A puppet made of Ice charge forward from the snow covering the ring, rising up as the deadly winds carve calligraphy upon its surface that you instantly recognize. For you've drawn them before
It's a sealing spell. Similar to the ones you used to imprison the hungry ghosts of the court you usurped that were too loyal or stubborn to defect from the forgotten king's service to your own. But its purpose is different. It isn't meant to trap souls in a vessel, this seal is of the sort that can seal the mystical abilities of magical treasures and artifacts, and even prevent spells from being cast properly.
Oh.
OH!
He isn't trying to hurt you, he's trying to neutralize the weapon you brought into the fight! Trying to render Ghost Empress Melody temporarily useless for anything but playing mundane music! The ethereal strings snap, and the Ghost takes back full control over his body.
He's backed you into a troublesome position. Either you give up the advantage your magical Instrument brings, or you leave yourself open to a new barrage of falling icicles and slicing claws.
Clever. And infuriating! So much so it makes the blood you've soaked yourself in boil even more fiercely!
What do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Allow Ghost Empress Melody to be sealed, and dodge his attacks, waiting for another opening to strike (Agility trial. DC 56) >Endure the attack, destroying the ice puppet and unleashing a rain of slicing and chopping wind with Ghost empress melody (Fortitude trial. DC 70) >Locking away its mystical powers may render your Guqin worthless as a magical weapon, but it is still hefty enough to be used as a club! BREAK HIS SKULL WITH IT (Martial Trial. DC 60) >Sigh, and walk your soul out of your body, taking Ghost Empress Melody away from the touch of his Spell Sealing Servant, and using it to control your own body from a distance (Magic Trial. DC 75) >Write in Anonymous
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>>5296672 >Locking away its mystical powers may render your Guqin worthless as a magical weapon, but it is still hefty enough to be used as a club! BREAK HIS SKULL WITH IT (Martial Trial. DC 60) Anonymous
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>>5296672 >Locking away its mystical powers may render your Guqin worthless as a magical weapon, but it is still hefty enough to be used as a club! BREAK HIS SKULL WITH IT (Martial Trial. DC 60) Anonymous
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>>5296672 >Locking away its mystical powers may render your Guqin worthless as a magical weapon, but it is still hefty enough to be used as a club! BREAK HIS SKULL WITH IT (Martial Trial. DC 60) Anonymous
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>>5296672 >Locking away its mystical powers may render your Guqin worthless as a magical weapon, but it is still hefty enough to be used as a club! BREAK HIS SKULL WITH IT (Martial Trial. DC 60) Oh yeah? Outsmart THIS you frozen bastard!
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>>5296672 >Endure the attack, destroying the ice puppet and unleashing a rain of slicing and chopping wind with Ghost empress melody (Fortitude trial. DC 70) Anonymous
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>>5296672 >Allow Ghost Empress Melody to be sealed, and dodge his attacks, waiting for another opening to strike (Agility trial. DC 56) Puppet 2: puppet harder
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>>5296672 >Locking away its mystical powers may render your Guqin worthless as a magical weapon, but it is still hefty enough to be used as a club! BREAK HIS SKULL WITH IT (Martial Trial. DC 60) Anonymous
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>>5296672 >Locking away its mystical powers may render your Guqin worthless as a magical weapon, but it is still hefty enough to be used as a club! BREAK HIS SKULL WITH IT (Martial Trial. DC 60) Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Thu 09 Jun 2022 20:53:32 No. 5299481 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying the result. Meant to call it sooner.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Thu 09 Jun 2022 21:14:22 No. 5299510 Report However, that rage that boils your blood brings a strange clarity to your mind, that provides you with a most brutish insight that'll allow you to take third option and escape the corner your opponent has backed you into. Guqins are rather hefty instruments, those sized for demonic cats especially so. Usually play over the knees or on a table, due to their length and size. Most would never think of lifting one up like a club, let alone wielding one like one to hold it like a bludgeon. But you've broken bones and jaws with Ghost Empress Melody before, even used it to block blades. It may be a magic instrument, but it is a battle artifact first and foremost. Monu made sure of that. The enchanted, blood and gravesoil soaked wood its made of is as tough as steel and even without its magical properties, you can still swing it through the air by pulling its strings with your claws. Clumsily sure, but when you're hitting something over the head with a large piece of wood, grace and elegance don't really play a factor in how much it hurts when it smacks against their skull.
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Rolled 69 (1d100) >>5299510 EASY
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Rolled 70 (1d100) >>5299510 Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Thu 09 Jun 2022 22:00:56 No. 5299558 Report Quoted By:
>>5299526 Nice
>>5299555 Success. 10 over DC precisely.
Update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Thu 09 Jun 2022 22:55:07 No. 5299643 Report Of course, this stubborn thorn in your side is far to annoying to just act his station and respectfully allow you to end his life. Really he should be honored you're going to kill him, and grateful he was called out to fight you to begin with. You almost feel disapointed that you're only fighting his ghost, and not battling against him at his peak of life and ability. The pain of his cruel death has clearly addled him. Which is why you can't help but admire how composed he has become and rational he is fighting! Most hungry ghosts are barely able to speak, especially when they're "young", some even go completely feral and most begin to forget their lives even if they hadn't met a violent or unhappy enough end or were simply evil hearted enough to become a true Hungry ghosts. This cultivator clearly died in a way more terrible than even the most macabre mind could imagine, and yet he's still sane and cognizant enough to shrewdly concoct and carry out well thought out and cunning plans of attack! Its incredible! Well beyond the imagination of those minds like your own, but you don't count since your Path and Cultivation revolves around death and frightful grudges held by "terrifying" ghosts.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Thu 09 Jun 2022 22:56:24 No. 5299644 Report >>5299643 Your Specter lightness skill does the same, but your partially insubstantial body can not float atop water and drift through the air, but it can also allow you to stand atop droplets of rain as if they were solid ground. Something the standard lightness Skill couldn't possibly achieve. While others would sink if they stopped running, you'd remain steady as if the water beneath your paws was as dense as stone.
So, a path of rain has been made, leading you directly to your target. and with the area of altered time created by the Yōulíng-Qīnggōng, your natural feline speed combined with the Blood Torrent Rush (衁急流奔,Huāngjíliúbēn) pushing your body's already towering limits even further beyond, you reach the dead man before he can bring his floating hands in front of himself in a last ditch effort to guard against the blow he knows is coming.
A blow that is made all the more mighty by the sheer amount of speed you picked up and maintained in your flight towards him, and your jumping between the water droplets that showered around you.
He winces the moment before you bring the weight of your Guqin down atop his brow. His forehead splits, as a loud, popping crack echoes around you as you make yourself fully material and fall down as you swing your instrument against his head.
Like a falling star, you and the ice wraith's head slam into the ground, your full weight pressing against it and smashing it between Ghost Empress Melody's unyielding wood, and the marble flooring beneath the sand of the arena.
It might not have been flashy, elegant or seemly for a lady of your standing. But it was as effective as it was brutish, cause the ghost's head is staring at you from two places, for it has been split cleanly in two.
A groan escapes its lips, and as grudge miasma flows from it and rises into the air to darken and coalesce.
"Cursing me even as you die? I can admire such potent resentment" You sneer, as the ghost blinks and snarls, snapping its jaws as it begins to return to the great wheel of reincarnation
Your instincts warn you, and you leap back, narrowly avoid a gust of wind so cold it could even freeze your boiling blood.
"Not...dead...yet" The two halves of his head snarl in unison "I'll...get you...Jingyu"
Wait, that name sounds familiar... have you heard it somewhere before? Well, despite that last outburst, there's really no way for this spirit to defend himself anymore. Having his brains spilled out has made it so he can barely control his severed limbs, let alone attack with anything approaching finesse or deftness. The freezing winds are an issue, but his essence is flickering like a candle in a storm and it'll soon be snuffed out as his stay in hell comes to an end.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Thu 09 Jun 2022 22:57:25 No. 5299646 Report >>5299644 What do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Brave the cold and try to get an answer from the head about this Jingyu, You're sure you've heard that name before... (Fortitude trial. DC 70) >Just focus all of your energy on keeping your protective layer of blood boiling, and wait until his soul passes on. No need to take any risks just to satiate your curiosity. Rest before your next fight, to speak with Qiang and Yujijiao's ghost. >Smugly leave the arena, assured of your victory. Why should you bother to see this ghosts last moment. Watch Qiang fight her last real opponent, and then fight your >This simply won't do! This was your fourth fight, and four is death! This is too anticlimatic! Use ghost empress melody to empower your opponent, so you can continue this fight until you're satisfied! (martial trial. DC 65) >Write in Anonymous
>>5299646 >Brave the cold Can we get a lowered DC by pointing out a logical train of thought?
Because I cant remember exactly where we heard it but this guy is obviously from Monu's sect, so we have the rough area of where we should focus our memory.
Then narrow down any rumours we have heard about troubles in the area or relating to the cultivator.
And finally we can SEE what his spirit looks like, ie how his body looked after he died, so we can further refine our recollection by assessing what manner of damage had to be inflicted and how ti make him this way.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Thu 09 Jun 2022 23:05:26 No. 5299651 Report Anonymous
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>>5299651 Sweet, that's my train of through.
The rest of you guys got anything?
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>>5299646 >Brave the cold >write-in Well I remember Jingyu is Monu's name from before she got badonked by her sect for raising a fluffy kid, since Ping mentioned it briefly when we first met. Monu herself told us this guy (her partner) cursed himself with icification as the prime example of warning us how bad failing a bottleneck can go, it was her very first example and warning two-lessons-in-one thing she likes doing.
So let's ask him what he knows about mum.
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>>5299654 >first met *first debated on orthodoxy.
to be specific.
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>>5299651 Am I confusing two similar cultivators? Because if so, whoops. Anonymous
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>>5299654 >>5299651 Nevermind, Ping did mentioned Jingyu, but only in the context of a punished cultivator. Name confusion with Monu's previous name is what got me there since they were mentioned so closely.
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>>5299646 >This simply won't do! This was your fourth fight, and four is death! This is too anticlimatic! Use ghost empress melody to empower your opponent, so you can continue this fight until you're satisfied! (martial trial. DC 65) Anonymous
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>>5299646 >Brave the cold Jingyu's the guy who Xuebai possessed and is going around Frankensteining himself. So this is probably one of the dudes he killed along the way. Though this is all meta knowledge our exemplary cat wouldn't know so Ping's mentions of him is all we can run off of.
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>>5299646 >Brave the cold We should question details. Ask him where Jingyu is, or where he made him like this.
After that, drill him by asking what he knows about the foul Toad Princess/Poison Fairy. If he knows anything truly useful that might also trigger him.
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>>5299646 >Brave the cold and try to get an answer from the head about this Jingyu, You're sure you've heard that name before... (Fortitude trial. DC 70) Fine, I will vote to take one risky action.
But only because of the other anons good questions.
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>>5299646 >Brave the cold and try to get an answer from the head about this Jingyu, You're sure you've heard that name before... (Fortitude trial. DC 70) Anonymous
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>>Brave the cold and try to get an answer from the head about this Jingyu, You're sure you've heard that name before... (Fortitude trial. DC 70)
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Ending the vote, tallying the result.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sat 11 Jun 2022 00:15:48 No. 5300752 Report Looking through the white and blue veil of vein and bone freezing winds whipping around the defeated ghost's sever head, you feel your curiosity climb higher and higher, easily pushing aside the sensible caution and hesitation you feel for even remaining as close as you currently are from the icy vortex of sudden, cold death. It is in your nature as a cat, to be curious, but normally you wouldn't be so driven to risk your life just to satisfy the instinctual urge to learn and see. However, this curiosity isn't just born of whimsy like most of the sudden drives to investigate something or experiment that suddenly take hold over your heart and mind. This curiosity has a reason beyond "I want to do this". Because you're certain you've heard the name this insane spirit keeps muttering, snarling, spitting and shouting. He's clearly a member of the Winter Blossoming Wisdom Sect. The sect that both Monu and Ping once belonged to. Yes! It was Ping who said the name before! Jingyu! In the cave! During the storm! Just before you learned Lei had been captured by that tribe enslaved by that pig demon that had somehow crawled out of hell into the mortal realms! You had brought up the torture and wrongful punishment your mother had suffered for just trying to raise a child born with a fur and tail, to have her be the heir of her legacy. A brand upon her forehead, a mangling of her dominant hand and the removal of one of her eyes, alongside the crippling of her meridians, spiritual roots and cultivation.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sat 11 Jun 2022 00:16:49 No. 5300754 Report >>5300752 Or someone? That'd explain why they were so desperate, if they were searching for a renegade cultivator, or a heretical traitor. And Jingyu, if he was the one to kill this smug and blind daoist, may be more of a heretic than yourself. From a glance, you can tell several key organs, important to both the physical and spiritual aspects of cultivation, primarily Internal alchemy, have been ripped out from his body, and several muscle groups have been completely stripped away. Those aren't the result of predation. Even if he was eaten by a demonic beast. The wrong organs are missing. You know which parts of the human body are rich in spiritual energy, especially in a cultivator. They've been left behind, entirely untouched.
Chunks of ice begin to freeze on the surface of your bloody coat, as you at last piece together your line of questioning. Hopefully the ghost still has enough of a sense of self to answer you quickly, otherwise you might become a block of red hued ice!
"T..t..tell me! Oh spirit of my fellow daoist, lost disciple of the winter blossoming wisdom sect, wrongfully murdered sage. Hear me and answer me! I command you as the rightful queen of the dead and living!" You bark as you stomp forward "Who is Jingyu? He killed you, right? So"
You shudder, and snap your jaws.
Focus. Focus. Need to Focus. The head heard you, and because of the authorize, commanding tone you used, way you referred to him and the way you asked, it has regained some of its sense and has forgotten you're a "Repugnant affront to the Dao" as he so harshly put it during his long rant against what you were.
"Ah" he gasps "Jingyu...Jingyu! He killed me, he...he"
Dammit, you need to endure a little longer
"Listen to me, fallen friend" You shout "Tell me who Jingyu is! Tell me how he killed you and why he would betray his sect! Tell me, before you return to the wheel of transmigration! So I may carry out justice on your behalf"
Urrrgh, acting like a dog of the heavenly laws makes you feel sick! You'll need to wash yourself after this is done! Gross! Gross!
<span class="mu-s"> roll 1d100. DC 44. Best out of three </span>
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Rolled 26 (1d100) >>5300754 Rollan.
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Rolled 14 (1d100) >>5300754 Anonymous
Rolled 75 (1d100) >>5300754 Slow night today
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sat 11 Jun 2022 01:17:43 No. 5300804 Report >>5300792 Great success. 30 over DC. Update will arrive shortly
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>>5300804 How many fights do we still have? I know that Qiang's grudge match is going to be her fifth, she fought twice during our talk with the mystic, and went first, so it should be next one, but is crown man going to extend things?
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sat 11 Jun 2022 02:02:07 No. 5300834 Report >>5300828 One more. And he wouldn't unless you asked him to
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sat 11 Jun 2022 02:22:21 No. 5300851 Report "Jingyu, is a pathetic excuse for a daoist. A sinful monk whose lustful ways lead him not only down the path of damnation but drove him to abandon every virtue and ideal he held as a man, abandoning his humanity to spite those who tried to correct his mistakes and preserve the karma he acquired this life!" The ghost says, its eyes blinking rapidly as a look of true disgust and hatred appears over its features, making it seem more demon like than yourself and even some of the crowd "He was a fool, who should've never been granted the privilege of being allowed to join our most noble and saintly school! He was a wretch, I knew it from the day I first met him, Elder sister. He was weak, he was talentless"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sat 11 Jun 2022 02:23:22 No. 5300854 Report >>5300851 Good. You say nothing, and just blink as you listen to the now furious ghost rant. That is truly a gruesome way to gain power, unseemly, grotesque and not in a beautiful way. Despite yourself, you find yourself agreeing with the fallen ice wraith, as you cannot find a word that better fits such a method besides "Deeply evil". Well, besides disturbing and disgusting.
"Please, whoever you are, kindly hunter, save our grandmaster, you shall be greatly rewarded" The ghost sighs "Our higher tier members are busy defending against the uncalled for aggressions of our neighbor clans and nearby peers, they cannot be called upon to exterminate the devil that was Jingyu. Hear my plea, though I cannot see you, tell my sect Xiaosi has given you his recommendation and trust, and they shall lend you any aid you ask on your quest"
'honestly, I might just help Jingyu. You bastards deserve everything that is happening to you now for what you did to my mother" You think, furrowing your brow angrily
"I cannot undertake this quest, if I do not know where this organ thief lurks" You say as kindly as you're able to when speaking to a member of that sect that killed your sister and betrayed Monu "It would be unbecoming if I were to demand assistance when I do not know where the monster I seek makes its lair, where did he kill you? Where did you do battle"
"As far as we know, Jingyu lurks in the primordial forest of the tragic lovers. Surely, one as well traveled and knowledgeable as yourself have heard of it. It is one of the pride of the winter blossoming wisdom sect, and one of our wealthiest properties. A natural garden for spiritual herbs and fruit, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is very dense and rich there" He explain somberly "Which is why it is troublesome that Jingyu remains within it, slaughtering and butchering any creature with even a drop of Qi in their meridians like they were common beasts. Despicable. Surely, that is how he remains alive despite melding his body with dead flesh and lifeless bones. Like a toad, he sits upon his prize, gathering power and biding his time, and there is nothing we can do to stop him. Because"
You're now sitting directly in front of the rambling head, eyes narrowed as you wait for your answer
"He doesn't stay in one place, and has become remarkably adept at hiding from our perceptions, even the sharpest spiritual senses amongst our school cannot find him, and divination shows us nothing" He grumbles "Forgive me, oh selfless maiden as majestic as the stars, But I do not know where he is. But, I Know he is moving nearer to the edge of woods, as if in search of something. I myself was killed on the outskirts. Find what remains of my corpse, and I am sure you'll have proof enough to lead a pursuit for Jingyu"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sat 11 Jun 2022 02:24:23 No. 5300855 Report >>5300854 "There is no need to apologize, you've already given me a wealth of leads and information more valuable than even jade fallen from the sea of stars" You sneer leaning down to look him in his apparently blind eyes "But, endure a few moments longer, cling to your fading will and memories. I have one final question for you"
"What is it? I'll be happy to answer any questions given to me, by she who shall avenge me and bring that monster to justice?" He says stoically
"Have you ever heard of someone called the Poison Fairy? Or perhaps you have heard stories told about the toad princess?" You ask, barely able to keep the bitterness of you disdain from reaching your voice, poisoning the sweet voice you're speaking with "Have you ever hard the legend of the Serpent whose venom could slay a dragon?"
He closes his eyes and clenches his jaws
"How do you know of our great shame? I know her. I know her well. She is a cautionary tale, to suspect even those closest to you, your dearest friends and most stalwart comrades of impiety and ill virtue, to seek heretics wherever you go, to constantly be on the look out for apostates and traitors" He hisses, trying to shake his split head "Jingyu is proof we have become lax in our guard, but he is far less terrible than the unforgiveable traitor. The Sect head dealt with her and killed her, two or three generations ago. He had been closer to her than words could describe, and she abused his trust, esteem and affection to commit apostasy most foul beneath the elders' noses. She performed a heresy that not even the gods could forgive while indulging herself in all the comforts and wealth of the school. The heartless bitch raised demonic beasts, threatening all of humanity and..."
You crush his head beneath your paws without a thought in your head or moment hesitation. Furious, you turn and leave the smear on the ground, your legs shaking now not from the cold but rather sheer rage the departed ghost's words woke within you.
Qiang passes you by, and knows better than to say anything to you when you're so deeply upset.
Baoli-Wuywang on the other hand...
"Isn't it marvelous how many exotic fighters I've been able to procure and hire? Each one is more exciting than the last, and is able to incite more of reaction from you, breaking that proud and regal façade of yours. It is most amusing, but I can tell, Huanliuxue, you do not find the humor in it" The crow king sneers as the Arena is prepared for Qiang's last real fight and the frozen corpses of the first, second and half of the third row of the audience are broken from the floor and carted away. You try to ignore your hosts prodding and passive aggressive heckling as you undo the adaptations your forced on your body to simply survive that last fight.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sat 11 Jun 2022 02:25:24 No. 5300857 Report >>5300855 "What's the matter? Cat got your tongue? I thought you'd at appreciate the effort I, your peer in title and station, went to to provide you with interesting and stimulating opponents, it wasn't easy, you know finding them" He continues to ramble on, hands interlocked, one leg kicked over the other as he talks at you "But, I needed to repay you for the entertainment and for the finical advise of betting on you and your adorable little student. You could at least smile, your own bets have made you wealth, and you've been able to crush a pretender to your inheritance, a would be usurper and even a scion of the clan that wronged your family. Why are you looking so glum? What is that has gotten you so upset and gloomy! This is a party, smile, celebrate. You may not be a demon, but surely you can have some fun in hell! There's just one last hurdle, before you receive a prize greater than even the bounty won from betting, so come on, show some courtly refinement and at least act pleased by my hospitality"
What do you say to the crow king as Qiang's fight begins, Huanliuxue?
>"Shut up, I have no patience left for a creature as evil as you" >Nothing >"Your affable demeanor won't fool me, crow king. You want to corrupt me and make me a real demonic beast. This is just training for me and Qiang, nothing more" >"Peer? Equal? Fellow nobility!? Insolent dog! I am the only royalty here or anywhere beneath the heavens! You might think you're strong enough to mock me without consequence, but I am the heir to the primordial wilds and if you don't show me respect I'll make you kneel and kowtow before me, swine!" >Write Anonymous
>>5300857 >"Face is part of the rules of men, not of the wild. A wounded cat hides from view, a hurt dog shows it to their packmates, but neither fakes health. As princess of the wilds, I do not recognise wearing a false mask as royal ettiquette, but a predator's cunning." >"I do enjoy a good fight and challenge, but when fighting these tortured souls, I can only see that both heaven and hell seek only to pluck away and hinder those who would grow strong" >"I welcome your attempts hospitality however. If you seek to corrupt me, than it's simply because of your nature as a true demon. If you merely want an ally against the heavens or to display your power agaibst a potential rival, it is a sensible plan. But if intent to make a friend out of me? You would need a very different approach" Anonymous
>>5300857 >Write in. Focus, and get our temper under control. We feed on powerful grudges-- and what is a grudge, if not anger let fester and grow more potent? Throwing a tantrum because of the words of an insulting young cultivator (who knew nothing of our mother than the lies his superiors told him) is beneath us. Likewise, picking a fight with Baoli Wuyawang does no good right now, and neither does directly antagonizing him any further in his own domain. Many an arrogant young master has been humbled by challenging an opponent whose strengths they didn't understand, and the crow king has had us on the back foot since we arrived. I can only interpret the line
>you've been able to crush a pretender to your inheritance, a would be usurper and even a scion of the clan that wronged your family. as him having known about Monu, our blood qi, and our collecting other magical beasts from the beginning, and setting up at least a couple of these fights specifically to fuck with us. He's setting a trap; there's no reason we should be stupid enough to take the bait, no matter how righteous our anger. Let this experience harden into a fresh grudge against the truly wicked-- and in the meantime, air a few of our grievances in a composed way, sort of like
>>5300886 .
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>>5300896 I can support taking advantage of the seething to empower us.
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>>5300896 +1.
He knows more about us on a personal level than some of our disciples do.
And yea, he's been going in fairly gated circle of
>hey your blood qi is great babe, you'd be better off if you were more demonic tho just sayain babe Then trying to get us to submit to our own weaknesses in pride and anger by alternating between dredging up the past and things related to us while prying for info on our abilities and relationships. I think he's trying to activate some conditions that edge souls towards becoming more like demons in an attempt to get info on us or just directly obtain our blood qi. Simple espionage for a cultivating cat or moral corruption doesn't seem a deep enough stratagem for someone who's been attempting to play down the effort they've put into trying to divine our inner workings and relationships.
It reeks of a spell. >>5300857 >write-in It wouldn't really be subtle, but hey, he's not actually being subtle.
We can respond to his prickling by asking him what the true nature of demon hospitality is, and thank him for hosting us before he can answer. He should be smart enough to get it.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sat 11 Jun 2022 15:03:02 No. 5301390 Report >>5300886 >>5300896 >>5301081 Just wanted to say, I really like these write ins. They're clever and well written. Anyways, vote is still on going. Just felt the need to say how much I enjoyed your write ins when I woke up.
Hope to see some more. Write ins are always fun.
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>>5300886 +1
I really enjoy the comment about face
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 13 Jun 2022 01:05:36 No. 5302886 Report No update today. Slipped while walking up some stairs with loose carpeting, and I'm in too much pain to write rn. Nothing serious thankfully.
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>>5301390 Thanks, QM. I only really learned of the quest in the thread's 4th iteration, but I've had a lot of fun with our weirdly moral murder-cat. This is the first real quest I've played, and you've done a great job keeping it going this long; thanks for all the work you've put in so far.
>>5301081 Yeah, it could be be a spell of some kind. If I had to hazard a guess, it's definitely on-brand for
our host's idea of a 'grand prize' to be getting forcibly turned into a demon, or trying to steal/corrupt our pure blood qi. >>5302886 Holy shit, dude. I'm sorry to hear that. Hoping you feel better soon.
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>>5302886 Ah shit my dude, I hope you get better.
>>5302956 Or our next "hurdle" being fighting him.
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>>5302886 Jeesus. Carpeted stairs? Truly inauspicious.
Also don't underestimate hidden injuries. If the pain becomes semi-chronic then it's somethin serious.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 13 Jun 2022 21:55:44 No. 5303641 Report Ending the vote now.
"Face is part of the rules of men...": 4
Focus, and get our temper under control.:4
asking him what the true nature of demon hospitality is, and thank him for hosting us before he can answer: 1
So I'm counting this
>>5301081 and the votes for it (except for
>>5301081 , as it supplied its own reply) to be in support of
>>5300886 as well due to this part "in the meantime, air a few of our grievances in a composed way, sort of like
>>5300886 ." and because it is a vote for an action, focusing and getting your temper under control and turning it into a new grudge against the wicked.
Figured I should explain my reasoning, for counting the votes as I did.
So You'll focus and regain control over your temper/ anger and cage it so it may ferment into a true, and potent grudge against the truly wicked
Before airing your grievances with all the composure and calm of a untroubled grave.
Update will arrive shortly
>>5303077 >>5302956 >>5302968 Thanks for your concern. But I'm fine, bruised and aching but fine.
And yeah, hardwood stairs with carpet barely attached to it. Hurt like hell falling down it. Really, I'm lucky the glass I was carrying didn't shatter, and that I avoided landing on the fork and knife to. Wouldn't have walked away as easily if it did.
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>>5303641 That sounds like a close one, thankfully everything ended relativaly well.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 13 Jun 2022 23:30:38 No. 5303730 Report Quoted By:
Big update incoming
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 13 Jun 2022 23:31:38 No. 5303734 Report Like a break in a storm, your stewing rage and building fury relent and wane. Lessons and warning tales spoken by your mother and common since fill your mind like the quite stillness following the retreat of the heaven's wrath manifest in sleets of rain, rolling thunder and falling lightning and shrieking winds.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 13 Jun 2022 23:32:39 No. 5303737 Report >>5303734 And his choice of opponents were too suspicious to be mere happenstance. He was trying to irritate you, to push you to lash out in anger or fear by putting you against enemies he somehow knew were someway connected to your ambitions and fears. Except the bone centipede, but that might've been just to torment his wife by killing her childhood pet or showing one last disrespect to his predecessor, who he ate.
Whatever means the crow king was using, which you were certain went beyond mere spying or guess work, he was clearly trying to make you submit to your own pride or righteous anger and indignation. All the while trying to gather as much information as he could about your abilities, relationships, beliefs and goals. You knew there was a trap, but was it sorcerous in nature? You'd need to study demonic magic when you returned to the realm of the living. But for now
You would take a deep breath, fill your lungs with fresh air and allow your mind to clear, cleansing it of the lingering anger and bottling it up deeper within yourself. As you breath out, you push it all together, pressing and shape it as you would a medicinal pill, refining it as you reflect on what exactly you hate about your host and his kind, the disgust and fury you have felt for their wicked, unnatural ways. And so, the mote of anger you have kept, begins to form into a new grudge. Potent and fierce, this resentment was directed towards the truly wicked. Those who the fools who named themselves true daoists would believe to be your allies. The evil you found at your back, as you stood against the injustices and hubris of the heavens who thought they were above the natural order of things.
And, as you carefully pruned, shaped and empowered this newly born grudge, you turned to Baoli-Wuyawang, facing his gleefully sadistic grin, and feathered face as his illusion of humanity began to slip as his own emotions rouse and rouse. He was expecting you to shame yourself with anger, to give him reason to strike you, to spit in the face of his so called hospitality and laugh at the poisoned niceties he drowned you with.
Instead, you met his smile with a cool sense of calm and dignity.
"Face is part of the rules of men, not of the wilds" You said well manneredly, like a scholar explaining to a king why he could not pluck the stars from the heavens to set as jewels in his crown. You turned away as the Crow King's smile faded, usurped by confusion
" A wounded cat hides from view, a hurt dog shows it to their packmates, but neither fakes health" You continue, sharply and proudly as you watch Qiang step into the ring, still wearing her boar shaped masked to smother her warm breath
"As princess of the wilds, I do not recognize wearing a false mask as royal etiquette, but a predator's cunning."
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 13 Jun 2022 23:34:08 No. 5303742 Report >>5303737 "Are you truly a predator, when you lie with prey and take them as your students?" He asks just as sharply, swirling a goblet of steaming blood around as his wife winced and gnawed at her claws. His Mother in law watched silently, wearing a smile like she was watching two children arguing who would play the hero and who would play the demon king
You ignore him. Which will wound him greater than any words you could shout at him. Qiang's opponent enters, you jaw clenches, as you see that in place of a hungry ghost or lost soul captured and chained, is a great, dragon scaled brute of a demon with an axe in each of its four hands.
Qiang takes a step back, expression hidden by her mask, but wariness clear in her movement. Your heart pounds
"I do enjoy a good fight and challenge, but when fighting these tortured souls" You say soberly, frowning as You could hear the Crow King seethe as he drew his black claws over the arms of his throne, peeling away wood and metal alike "I can only see that both heaven and hell seek only to pluck away and hinder those who would grow strong"
"Oh, so that is the benevolence of beasts? The virtue of the wild? I am pleased to hear you do in fact appreciate the quality of fighters I've set against you, perhaps you have some aristocratic bearing and noble refinement, to be able to compliment the slightest showing of my hospitality. As alien as your world view is! Still, I wonder, if in your feline eyes the weak are prey to the strong"
You allow yourself to smirk. He still doesn't understand your philosophy in the slightest. Or, at least, pretends not to. The fight is underway. The Four armed brute causes the tower to shake every time one of his four axes meets the ground, cutting deeply into it as Qiang narrowly avoids bisection as the scaled monster becomes a whirlwind of violent motion and roars. You remain composed, as you breathlessly watch Qiang sidestep and duck beneath the stone hewing strikes of her monstrous opponent. The cheers of the crowd are deafening.
"I welcome your attempts hospitality however" You answer cooly, tail flicking as Qiang's mask is cut in two and falls from her face. Her robes have been cut, warm living blood seeps from the deep cut on her shoulder. She has been hit. The aroma of her living flesh rises into the air, like the scent of a wounded animal, the raw meat of wounded kill. Baoli-Wuyawang grins. Qiang stumbles, but catches herself with a defiant stomp. You can see her eyes now, and see that they are free of fear or panic. A familiar coldness fills them, as sharp as the edge of her sword. She adjusts her girp, and holds it with both her hands as her red hair flows freely.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 13 Jun 2022 23:35:12 No. 5303743 Report >>5303742 "Hmm. Fu could swing harder than that. If it was my older brother holding that axe" Qiang boasts emotionlessly as she swings her injured arm and rolls its shoulder "I would've lost the arm. For all your bluster and size, you're quite the weakling aren't you? You don't play with your food in a fight, especially not when it can bite back"
Blood flies from her hand as she flicks it, and charges forward.
"If you seek to corrupt me, than it's simply because of your nature as a true demon" You tell Baoli-Wuyawang simply, turning his attention back to you, as he looks amused by your lack of concern for your disciple. But why would you worry for Qiang? She's already won. You can see her path to victory clearly now. The blood she flicked, was aimed for the scaled demon's blazing eyes. She distracted it by insulting it, rousing its ire and rage so it wouldn't notice what she was actually trying to accomplish
"True nature" The crow King echoes, his eyes opening with realization as he taps a claw on his chin, drool flowing from his mouth as his features become more and more animalistic and avian.
You flash a viciously triumphant grin as Qiang catches an axe blow on the edge of her blade, sparks flying as the massive weapon glided down the length of her sword, until she deflected it at the end of its head, throwing its massive weight of her head with an expertly timed parry. Another axe flew, and another, both swinging to catch her like a pincer. She stepped back, and held up her sword, catching them by the notch the first strike had made in it. Her legs vanish into the sand, as her larger and more powerful opponent throws all of his weight and might to try and break her guard and throw her off her feet or otherwise snap them like twigs.
The blood she had thrown moments before hit his eye then. The moment of shock is all it took for the assassin to find her opening.
"If you merely want an ally against the heavens or to display your power agaibst a potential rival, it is a sensible plan" You boredly droll on as Qiang purposefully snaps her sword in two, slipping past the axes as they swing past one another as their wielder stumbles and reflexively reaches to clear his eyes with one of his upper two hands. She steps atop his knee, and launches herself upwards, broken blade held at her side, eyes fiercely flashing with a predator's focus.
The Crow Queen gasps, and covers her mouth, eyes flaring with delight and pleasure as she watches your student leap towards the throat of her husbands champion. Drool flows past her dainty, pale hands as the King rises from his thrown in disbelief. A cackle escapes your throat, as your victorious grin becomes a very Monu-like Sneer.
The towering demon stumbles back, having grasped for Qiang the moment she kicked off his leg.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 13 Jun 2022 23:36:43 No. 5303747 Report >>5303743 But he's too slow, and his massively clawed hand can only paw at the empty air she left behind, as Qiang buries her blade past its guard and up to her wrist in his unscaled throat and wraps her legs around it to keep from being pulled off it. Like a tick.
You can see clearly now, how many times she had been cut by the brute's axes, and how deeply she had been. This fight was more of a challenge to her, than the crow demon was.
Baoli-Wuyawang's jaw drops, and he nearly collapses into his thrown. You half expect him to be coughing blood as you finish speaking your grievances to him.
"But if intent to make a friend out of me? You would need a very different approach" You state calmly and affably as he glances to you, eyes briefly oozing with contempt before his fake kindliness returns in full force
"You've raised an Impressive student, a most impressive student" He mutters, expertly hiding the ruefulness of the statement behind sweet words and false joy so sweet it feels as though it will rot your teeth "Humans can rarely support such ferocity without their heart turning into that of a demon. No surprise, considering her prior employment. But I must admit, I underestimated little Qiang. Gravely underestimated her. I though her victory against my fellow Crow Demon was a fluke, now I see how wrong I was. No fear of death...no surprise, considering who taught her"
The scaled behemoth finally gives up trying to pry Qiang from his throat, and collapses backwards, a great pool of blood surrounding him as he continued to weakly claw at your disciple, still locked firmly to his neck and now truly bathed in his blood as she twists her broken sword around and finally rips it free.
The audience is silent. How will they react? They'd have to be nose blind to not smell the life in her blood, to not feel the warmth radiating from her wounds.
"A human girl was able to cut down two demons, with such ease!?"
"Hah! The Happy bloodshed could even raise a human to be demon! Incredible"
"I knew there was a reason the Princess of the graves took her own as her disciple! That is a rare breed of woman"
"Never knew meat could fight back so fiercely, well fought, girly"
"It takes courage for a young lady to walk so freely in a den of devils!"
"I think I'm in love! For a fierce spirit to fight with such skill, is one thing. but for a living woman to do the same?"
"She'd make a perfect bride for my son! If only he had half of her savagery!"
"Humans haven't been so fun since the reign of the Supreme Devil Mind herself!"
"Huanliuxue is truly bold, to parade a living human in front of us! Truly bold indeed! But her confidence is not without merit! She killed two demons I'd be afraid to fight myself! Like they were grubs!"
You and Baoli-Wuyawang sit in awkward silence as his wife squirms and pants in grisly delight at seeing the brutal end of another demon. You exchange glance with the crow king
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 13 Jun 2022 23:37:45 No. 5303749 Report >>5303747 "I will be entirely honest, against my nature as a demon. I was not expecting the crowd to react in such an...accepting manner" He says nearly bashfully
"Neither did I, with how many humans were being served as meat for your guests" You say so quietly as to nearly whisper "I suppose, then, I should ready myself for my last fight. Since it doesn't seem that my disciple will need my protection from ravenous devils"
"Yes...yes" Baoli-Wuyawang said idly, blinking rapidly as he tried to recover from the shock of demons applauding a living woman, instead of trying to eat her "I suppose we should get ready for our bout"
"Yes I" You say, pausing mid sentence with your mouth slightly open as you whip your head to face Baoli-Wuyawang, who is now stuffing his mouthful of eyeballs and cheek meat, seemingly to distract himself from the friendly welcome Qiang was receiving from his guests
"Wait, our bout?" You asks bluntly, a chill running down your spine as you grinded your teeth together "We should get ready. Baoli-Wuyawang, were you planning on fighting me? Was that your scheme? To toy with me throughout this entire sham of a tournament, testing what kinds of techniques me and my disciple possess, measuring the height of our skill and ability while dredging up opponents that somehow relate to me, my past and my grand ambitions, just to take the place as my hurdle before I could claim my true prize?"
There is a long, telling silence. Broken only by the old crow woman laughing uproariously, soon joined by her daughter, who takes her once chance to mock her husband as he slouches in his chair and pinches his brow in indignation
"Forgive me for spoiling the surprise" he hissed as his mother in law slapped his back
"Oh don't be so dour! It's a youthful mistake made in excitement! At least it wasn't made in the bedroom, my son" She cackles "Oh, you were so proud of the plan to! Its such a shame, you went to such lengths to ensure it would go smoothly, you even had another fighter prepared in case she asked to fight her last two at once, when she was first getting annoyed, didn't you"
The crow king says nothing, stewing in his shame.
"He did! He did! He was going to fly down and give a speech if she demanded it" His wife howls, before he stands up, and causes both the harpies to go deathly silent and retreat from him, shielding themselves with their feathered arms and squawking in terror
"So, shall we begin?" He asked calmly, glancing down at you with his arms crossed
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 13 Jun 2022 23:38:48 No. 5303754 Report >>5303749 What do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Admit that, despite your disgust of his manner and personality, you would've been impressed by his entrance had he pulled it off. And you respect his cunning, even if you don't respect him >Laugh, and explain you were worried he had prepared a spell to subvert your mind and corrupt you. Knowing you have to fight him is a real relief...wait! You have to fight him! >"That was surprisingly adorable, crow king" >The key to winning against a stronger opponent, is to strike first and strike hard! Use the Red Death Scythe and strike him while his guard is down! (Martial/ Magic Trial. DC 75) >Bravely run away! You're not foolhardy enough to fight HIM! >Write in Anonymous
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>Laugh, and explain you were worried he had prepared a spell to subvert your mind and corrupt you. Knowing you have to fight him is a real relief...wait! You have to fight him!
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>>5303754 >Allow me to help you down >The key to winning is striking first. Use Red Death Scythe and barrel him down into the stadium. DC 75 Lets enter in style. With an explosion and one of us falling into the sand.
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>>5303754 >"That was surprisingly adorable, crow king" the sass train has no brakes
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Wait, given Baoli's and the crowd's comments does everyone here think she's our daughter? Again??
>>5303754 >"That was surprisingly adorable, crow king" >write-in "I had half a mind to think you were attempting a seduction spell." Sass first. The way to beat a demon like him is by upsetting them first. Because if the DC is 75 for a surprise attack...
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>>5303754 >Laugh, and explain you were worried he had prepared a spell to subvert your mind and corrupt you. Knowing you have to fight him is a real relief...wait! You have to fight him! >"Let us dance Crow King. Perhaps this is how we will truly learn eachother worldview" I can't believe I actually called it
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>>5303754 >>Laugh, and explain you were worried he had prepared a spell to subvert your mind and corrupt you. Knowing you have to fight him is a real relief...wait! You have to fight him! >>"That was surprisingly adorable, crow king" What are the odds he's actually a switch and a lady talking down to him gets his rocks off? It'd be kinda weird to fight a bird with a boner. This whole time he just wanted to fight someone who had the guts to actually stand up to him and wasn't just a jackass with more ego than talent. Poor crow. He's still an ass, though.
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>>5303754 >Admit that, despite your disgust of his manner and personality, you would've been impressed by his entrance had he pulled it off. And you respect his cunning, even if you don't respect him Anonymous
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>>5303754 >Laugh, and explain you were worried he had prepared a spell to subvert your mind and corrupt you. Knowing you have to fight him is a real relief...wait! You have to fight him! >"That was surprisingly adorable, crow king" Anonymous
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>>5303754 >"That was surprisingly adorable, crow king" >Laugh, and explain you were worried he had prepared a spell to subvert your mind and corrupt you. Knowing you have to fight him is a real relief...wait! You have to fight him! "Could this whole tournament just be a way for him to see our techniques so he can have an advantage when he fights us himself?"
"Nah, too simple. Its gotta be something else"
Imagine my dumb ass when this update dropped. I was near certain it would be Ling Meng or something.
Kinda wanted the status to show up. Would have been one hell of a finale Anonymous
>>5303754 >>Admit that, despite your disgust of his manner and personality, you would've been impressed by his entrance had he pulled it off. And you respect his cunning, even if you don't respect him We should use Qi Powers of Mass Destruction (Blood Rain, Chaos Mist) so that the arena is filled with grudges for our cultivation. Maybe it even nudges Baoli-Wuyawang into fighting in an overly aggressive (and thereby predictable) way.
Therefore, we should insist on letting Qiang take her prices and be brought home before the fight starts. She is already injured and we dont want to threaten her with our techniques. Also, we have to ensure that we get a reasonable price if we kill Baoli-Wuyawang. He cannot hand it out while being stuck in the next phase of the Great Wheel: rebirth (if that is even possible for him)!
What are the cultivation materials we have on us, which we can consume before the fight? Do they have reasonable durations? Do we have the pearl created by our last usage of Blood Rain, Chaos Mist with us?
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>>5303754 >Laugh, and explain you were worried he had prepared a spell to subvert your mind and corrupt you. Knowing you have to fight him is a real relief...wait! You have to fight him! >"That was surprisingly adorable, crow king" Anonymous
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>>5304152 This sounds like a reasonable precaution. Get the one person we care about out, so we can go to town with the big guns like blood rain.
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Ending the vote, tallying the result.
Laugh, and explain you were worried he had prepared a spell to subvert your mind and corrupt you. Knowing you have to fight him is a real relief...wait! You have to fight him!:6
The key to winning against a stronger opponent, is to strike first and strike hard! Use the Red Death Scythe and strike him while his guard is down!: 1
-Allow me to help you down:1
"That was surprisingly adorable, crow king":6
-"I had half a mind to think you were attempting a seduction spell.":1
"Let us dance Crow King. Perhaps this is how we will truly learn eachother worldview": 1
Admit that, despite your disgust of his manner and personality, you would've been impressed by his entrance had he pulled it off. And you respect his cunning, even if you don't respect him: 2
insist on letting Qiang take her prices and be brought home before the fight starts: 2
So You'll tell the Crow King That was surprisingly adorable, crow king" while laughing, and before explaining you were worried he had something more nefarious planned before realizing you have to fight him!
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>>5304152 You do have the blood rain, chaos mist pearl. You do not however, have on you some of the other treasures/ weapons/ materials
Like the block of star Jade,, The ghost taming seal, fly whisk, for example. Most of the body part treasures are still at the sect grounds. IE the phoenix feathers, flood dragon scale...etc. You also have three types of spirit fruits (Metal, water, earth aligned), Huanliuxue also tends to carry a supply of poisons and medicines on her at all times, as well as unrefined spirit herbs and grasses *a number of which have yet to be identified* (including specifically, besides her standard affair and divine blood honey pills, 2 miraculous healing pills, 1 blood cleansing drug, and 2 fire body stabilizers), the spirit stones are left behind, but I do imagine Huanliuxue would keep the Crown of trapped sands and caged winds, and the Amber and pearl prayer beads (Nine in total, which, if you recall can each seal and hold within themselves one creature, living or dead)
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Wed 15 Jun 2022 01:42:19 No. 5305119 Report You cannot resist the temptation to be sassy and tease the Crow King, even though your survival instincts are screaming at you not to upset him any more than his family already has, and thus risk drawing his ire before your properly prepared and settled in the ring, ready to fight him. Besides, how often is one able to mock and make fun of a ruler of hell? Underworld nobility! Devilish royalty! Its just too tempting to pass up, even if it is courting death, the rarity of this opportunity and timing of its arrival are just too perfect to let slip by you! Time to pay back Baoli-Wuyawang for making jest of you and Qiang, and for toying and playing with you like you were some kind of doll! Let the Crow King's shame burn his wings and bleach his feathers! Let him know what it is like to be humiliated and made light of!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Wed 15 Jun 2022 01:43:20 No. 5305121 Report >>5305119 "I know it appears to all the world I am laughing at you, oh noble and rightful ruler of Corvids, illustrious master of this awe inspiring tower" You say, much more measuredly and collectedly, though your still quiver with the tail end of your now strongly repressed laughter "But truly, I am laughing more at myself and my own foolishness! You blundered, that is true, but that is not what has amused me to such an extent I made myself so ill with laughter I feared my lungs would pop and burst! See, I was laughing at myself"
"Pardon?" He asks, completely taken aback, perhaps wondering if you're telling the truth or making the boldest excuse ever spoken in the depths of hell
"Yes! I was laughing at myself! For what is more amusing than realizing one's own trepidation and vigilance was wholly unnecessary!" You say merrily as you hop off the cushioned chair you had been lounging in "I was terribly worried you had a scheme in place I could no comprehend! Perhaps some spell prepared to subvert my mind, corrupt me into the demon I am oft called! I was honestly terrified, oh Cunning feathered master, that you had met held tightly in your hand since the moment I walked into your manor. That I only have to fight you, is huge relief! My shoulders rise as the weight of my fear and misplaced paranoia is lifted like..."
You pause, mouth frozen open as you realize
"Oh I still have to fight you!" You say, somehow still sounding as Cheerful as Feiqing was when he was offered numerous wives from the barbaric tribes of the primordial wilderness
"A fight I am very much going to enjoy, surely, bloodying you will bring me more pleasure than bedding my wife while still covered in her fool of a father's blood, his meat and flesh still clinging beneath my talons" Baoli_Wuyawang "And then, Win or Lose, I think I'll behead the old crone who laughed with you, for even if you were laughing at yourself, she wasn't. Oh, retribution is sweeter than even the flesh of an innocent child"
You feel your expression shift suddenly from happy and gleeful to furious and murderous
"Oh that's gotten you mad, I expected it would. Don't worry, I don't have a taste for children. Virgins, yes, but not children. Too little meat for how many bones they have" He sneers, stabbing a talon at you "And do not fear, your student shall not be harmed by my hands or any who serve me, you will be, but we're about to have a friendly match, aren't we?"
His smile is more disturbing that it has ever been, fury and kindness so closely mingled they have become one singular madness
"Come on, lets get started! I've been waiting to test my claws against yours since Yi Zhu first spoke of your prowess, and the odd abilities" He says, walking to the edge of his family's personal box, wings emerging from his back "I'll allow you to prepare however you see fit, do not keep my waiting for long. Just waiting to kill the old bat here is really trying my patience, Happy to Bleed, I mean to Shed blood"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Wed 15 Jun 2022 01:46:10 No. 5305129 Report >>5305121 And with that, he steps off and descends into the arena
"Damn, seems I pushed him too far! Girly! Kill him so I don't die" The old crow demon cackles "Though, dying would be a worthy price to pay to see just how red his face had gotten"
"Hmm, the specter of death is comforting when its shadow falls over my own" You sneer boastfully "I don't even know your name, old bat, but I've become found of your audacity"
"Thank you" The old crow woman says, bowing her head "It takes some back bone to be able admit when you're outmatched, and so blithely!"
What do you do before the fight, Huanliuxue?
>Take as many spirit medicines as your body can endure, and send Qiang back to the living world to fetch you as many as she can carry from your temple's medicine stores (Fortitude trial. Higher roll = better results) >Tell Qiang to get to safe distance, and show the crow king your one true demonic art, Blood Rain, Chaos mist. Hopefully, it can infect even demons...(Magic Trial. DC 60) >Don't prepare at all and leap into the Arena. >Spend a portion of your winnings in the night markets and black markets in search of something to give you an edge (Luck trial. Higher roll = better result) >Write in Also, just figured I should remind you all. But you still have that +35 to cultivate/ train
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Lets burn that bonus now by trying to have a Dao epiphany the eve before battle. We did just watch a shit ton of fights and learn some interesting info. I vote we try to grasp a basic samsara technique where some grudges are capable of enduring reincarnation and physical/spirit death.
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>>5305129 Geeze this is gonna be tough,
>Tell Qiang to get to safe distance, and show the crow king your one true demonic art, Blood Rain, Chaos mist. Hopefully, it can infect even demons...(Magic Trial. DC 60) Demons have bodies, and blood, so it should work. The challenge then will be having a strategy to deal with an angry Baoli-Wuyawang.
>+write-in Let's use this contained environment.
I assume he'll be fighting with speed and flight with tricks and so, I think we can try something that will get a good hit in. We can't do it with just using one or two techniques he's already seen, obviously. The chaos mist is the opener.
We can then use the crown of trapped sands and caged winds to sustain a tornado the arena, after he's taken flight. It should also mix the chaos winds the winds of the crown. If we make the wind simple but strong circling winds, rather than overpowering it he'll probably try to use it to go faster, and he's the type that would want to use our attack against us. Pretending to "lose control" of it to sell the idea. Even if he's not fooled, the combined chaos wind will be extremely useful.
The second stage of the trick is to get him into thinking we're going to attempt what Qiang did with her crow opponent, by pinching a wing off while the demon was blitzing around. But instead what we'll actually do is Blood Red Lightning Cat Step ourselves towards him with a Dying Grudge Shield to slam into his attack with his powerful speed.
If it works well, we shouldn't even need to see him, we just need to run against our own wind after pretending we're going to try what Qiang did. Of course, using the Lightning Step as opposed to Blood Torrent because that will be better if he tries to counter after being thrown by our combined horrific force.
Uh, how many rolls would that be?
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>>5305129 >>5305183 Probably worth mentioning that the Blood Red Cat Step is very cool, and utilizes a great deal of Qi. So it's a good primer for following up with some real damage like Whispering Death Claw.
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>>5305129 >Write in I think we may be missing an obvious solution, here, guys. The old crow crone would probably be willing to tell us about Baoli Wuyawang's fighting style and secrets, due to a vested interest in not being murdered. If him killing her once he's done fighting us is already a foregone conclusion, it makes no sense for her to withhold that information. It probably wouldn't even take that long, and could maybe be taken with other actions, depending on QM's feelings on the matter.
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>>5305294 Excellent. We can turn his murderous nature against him like that. +1
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>>5305129 >Take as many spirit medicines as your body can endure, and send Qiang back to the living world to fetch you as many as she can carry from your temple's medicine stores (Fortitude trial. Higher roll = better results) >Ask Qiang to warn Monu and Ping, so they may help her pick the best ones for alchemy and exorcism. A part of hell going berserk would probably have greater consequences, and I don't fell like gambling with the fetus merchants.
>>5305294 Also supporting this guy, the crow crone has no reason to screw us over.
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>>5305129 >Take as many spirit medicines as your body can endure, and send Qiang back to the living world to fetch you as many as she can carry from your temple's medicine stores (Fortitude trial. Higher roll = better results) Anonymous
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>>5305294 supporting. I was actually about to suggest that but you were quicker.
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>>5305294 An excellent idea. ask for his tricks and secrets first.
>>5305183 We do really want to lock down his ability to fly. So giving the air control and sand storm, that's a really good idea.
Now if we regard the Demon King's personality and temperment, I think we can agree he is an amazingly Yang oriented individual, with his personality at the very least aspected towards fire. So we'll want to use a lot of water aspected shit, unless the crone reveals his personality and powers are out of sync, in which case we need to reorganise.
But if he is fire, Blood makes for an easy water substitute, one wherein he can be heavily countered.
At the very least, we should run our luck
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>>5305177 . Meditate on the experiences we've just had to achieve a level up. Flashback to our training optional.
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>>5305621 Is hell genuinely the best place to meditate on the Dao of Ghosts and Grudges?
It might be, but it could be aligned all wrong.
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>>5305621 Considering our breakthroughs tend to cost several months of cultivation, I don't think we have time for this. Also probably unsafe as
>>5305666 mentions
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>>5305666 >>5305709 I don't mean a cultivation breakthrough, but a fighting skill breakthrough. We can compose new techniques without sitting in a cave for a year.
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>>5305713 This is true. What kinds of technique? I have some ideas myself for Grudge Shield & Guqin slashes, which would be very situational and likely hilarious to turn a battlefield into a bounce house, and Blood Qi based attacks channeled with our Guqin as well. Though with blood the idea would be using its more specific aspects, like using its body weakening aspects as a sound based attack. Both of these would excel at ranged anti-air, but even these basic brews seem difficult. Not too much for a prodigy, but a lot to come up with on the spot. Particularly how to solidify a shield onto a slash without thinning it into uselessness, and diverging the natural tendencies of water/metal Blood into lesser sound while retaining its strength. The latter perhaps by limiting its range, though it would be pointless while the whole strength of the Guqin is range, but again its a bit of a complex effect we haven't attempted in detail on a smaller scale.
We do have a grudge against hell and its inhabitants to utilize as we see fit in any technique we already have, or to help us expand into something new.
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>>5305713 There's also a possibility of a Blood Qi Lightning Strike, or perhaps better as a close ranged reflex strike, as close and/or ranged paralysis. It might need a diagram for it to become ranged, but it would involve bolstering our metal with destructive yin, and using blood qi's ability to "target search" for veins to an extent, to nullify the speed difference.
It'd be a great back up attack in this fight in particular, because of Bao sees us drawing a diagram and conjuring lightning like we did in a previous fight he may mistake it as the same attack and think he can just go fast. In counter argument, it can be stopped with any type sufficient barrier, and although he's certainly going to be yang heavy Bao knows about our penchant for lightning and birds tend to be wary of storms.
Might we... bottle a grudge into lightning? There ought to be more than enough yin, after all.
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>>5305772 To clarify, a reflex strike would require us getting hit or grappled to trigger the blood lightning into surging through the veins of our attacker. I don't really want to get hit by Baoli-Wuyawang.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Fri 17 Jun 2022 06:30:07 No. 5307478 Report "Well" You say cordially, feeling rather pleased by the old woman's compliment of your attitude "it is only natural for a follower of the Dao of Ghosts and grudges to recognize when death lies in their way, and I in turn praise your glib dignity and fearlessness in fact of that very same death, you courageous old crone. If you were not the kin of Baoli-Wuyawang, I'd be honored to call you my grandmother"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Fri 17 Jun 2022 06:31:35 No. 5307480 Report >>5307478 "No, I suppose we are not, kitten" The old woman snorts, smiling smugly as her traitorous child grimaces as her remorse overcomes her
"So then, tell me how your son in law fights" You hiss "What techniques does he know? What kind of style does he employ? Hard or soft? Aggressive or reactive? What tricks and Secrets does he keep in his sleeves? Does he practice any magic? Demonic Sorcery? Qi abilities? What abilities does he possess? What unnatural gifts is he blessed with? Is he skilled with any particular weapon? What about bad habits? Martial or supernatural weaknesses? Failings of his character or practices?"
"My my, you sure can speak a mouthful quickly!" The old crow crone laughs, shaking her head as she grins widely "And, I know well how Baoli-Wuyawang fights. His fighting style is incredibly aggressive and violent, relying on brutal strikes and crippling blows. He combines Ferocity, Speed and raw Power to overwhelm his opponents quickly. It is a style as hard as his head! And you'd become as old as I am, if I were to list every technique, trained strike, or martial maneuver he knows, but I can tell you of his favorite moves"
"Go on" You say in a lull of her explanation, nodding your head as she taps her sagging chin
"Well, there's the Eye Stealing Grasp, which he tends to lead with, Blinding his opponent to rob them of much of their ability to fight. If that misses, he'll fight more cautiously' She explains, scratching at a scab beneath her wrist as she mulls and considers what information she can share that could lead to your victory "For a few moments, to lure his opponent into going on the offensive, before he'll unleash a relentless barrages of kicks, stomps and slashes, But you should look out for his "Earth burning Comet Kick" if he begins such a combination, it is strong enough to shatter a stone pillar and the fire that coats his leg is intense enough to melt through even iron strengthened in the forges of hell!"
"Any other attacks I should worry about?" You ask, after the old woman explains the movements of the techniques, and the motions that announce them
" "Descending Hell Wing Inferno", "The Black Star's decent" and the "Whirlwind of Razor wings" " She says simply, as her wings lift behind her back " As you can tell, the Brat likes to attune his strikes with fire, since he has a natural affinity for it and has achieved mastery over even the cold, black fires of the underworld. So if his moves are not constructed around the destructive power of fire itself, they're inspired by them. Fighting him is like battling a wild fire, he fights quickly, aggressively and without pause or discernment. He is a wild and dangerous opponent, though he is cunning and blessed with a tactician's acumen despite his berserk tendencies, and has less honor than most thugs in the gutters! He'll take every advantage he can, and use every opportunity that presents itself no matter how disgraceful they are"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Fri 17 Jun 2022 06:32:36 No. 5307481 Report >>5307480 "Hmm, So he's a talented brawler, a trained and relentless warrior and a deceitful, treacherous fighter. Like a thug whose risen to stand amongst martial masters, but without any of their refinement or warrior's etiquette. A brute who has so mastered his brutality, and so trained the clumsy, instinctual style known by any drunken lout it has managed to rise to equal the more elegant kinds of fighters...That's terrifying, I must admit? Does he wield his Qi and Fire magic like a brute?"
"You'd be surprised to learn he's just as much of a sorcerer as he is a brawler. Somehow, despite his obsession with violence and addiction to combat and murder, he's actually something of a reputed scholar. Before he seduced my daughter, he was even vying for the position of court sage in the Count of the Eleven Resplendent Furnaces' court, and High Astronomer in the employ of the Shrieking Black Nightingale. He has countless spells memorized and mastered, his mind is a repository that would make most mortal sects green with envy or pale with fear. However, he specializes in destructive spells, summoning conflagrations and unquenchable fires. He could burn the countryside to cinders if he so chose to, but again, to believe that to be a sign he is nothing more than a brute without refinement or higher finesse beyond pure force, is too court death. He is also well versed in the ways of hexing and cursing, and knows quiet archaic spells you should be aware of, if you're to have any hope of victory"
"It seems he only has strengths" You mutter nervously "That kind of opponent is more troublesome than a thorn in my paw, dare I ask if he has any weakness?"
"Why, weren't you listening? I already told you" The old crone says coyly. You furrow your brow, before a sudden revelation strikes you like a cold shock a moment later, and you understand that she has revealed to you the crow king's weakness already! And what a blatant weakness it is! His own murderous nature, his bloodthirsty and volatile character. The same fury that empowers his strikes and blows, that strengthens his fire magic, is his weakness. Rage is always more of a weakness than it is a strength, no matter how many blows it allows one to shrug off or what strength it may impart to them. He is a fire that burns out all of its fuel and then sputters out. Clearly Yang oriented, and with a fiery personality to match his affinity to it. An angry opponent, is an opponent easily controlled and tricked and a foe who fights with wild abandon and without caution, is one easily overcome!
"Thank you, grandmother" You say reverently, as you bow to the old woman "You have enlightened me with your words and lead me to find new insight, and given me the key to defeating the crow king"
"He's promised to kill me, there's no need to thank me, this is just a mutually beneficial partnership, nothing more" She says with a wink and joyful smile
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Fri 17 Jun 2022 06:33:37 No. 5307482 Report >>5307481 "Besides, though unlikely, it'd be a once in a lifetime privilege to see one so high and mighty, and powerful as he be defeated by one so far beneath him" She says, before taking several deep gulps of her black hued wine, spilling it all over her face and chest, soiling her fine silk hanfu "Even a demon can cheer, when a lower stage cultivator manages to knock over a higher state opponent, I'll be rooting for you, Proud Kitten"
"Wait, Master. Are you going to fight that Monster?" Qiang asks in shock, her usually dull and partially monotonous voice risen and filled with concern and surprise, and her dour expression replaced with one of worry and near panic "Should we retreat from here? There's no shame in running away to live another day, but I'm sure one as wise as you does not need to be told that. I'll think no less of you if do take flight, I was an assassin once, and as such am well of the prudence of withdrawing away from unnecessary peril"
"Tch, junior! Master is going to kick that monster's ass!" You boast, huffing as you puff out your chest and lift your head proudly
Do you prepare any further, Huanliuxue?
>No. With knowledge of your opponents fighting style, strength and weaknesses, you're now ready to challenge him even though he's stronger than you are >Check your winnings first, before fighting. Who knows, maybe some gambler forfeited a treasure or material that could help give you an advantage. (Luck trial. Higher DC= better result) >Ask Baoli-Wuyawang if there's any rules to this fight, and if it will be to the death or not. And try to trick him into placing a handicap on himself (Deception Trial. DC 80) >Wear the Crown of Trapped sands and caged winds, and swallow your most refined Divine blood honey Medicines (Ox's strength drug, Hare's fleetness drug, Tireless stamina drug, Flickering Wind pellet), deciding that your current situation necessitates the use of such high grade materials! (Can be taken with other options) >Meditate on the fear you're feeling, in the hope of achieving further insight and force an epiphany (Mental training. DC 90. Total Bonus +35. Please note the amount of the bonus you wish to use ) >write in Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Fri 17 Jun 2022 06:38:56 No. 5307489 Report Before I forget, if any of you haven't already checked it out, give Jade Sworn Quest a look. The QM's previous Quest was great, and so is this one. Also, even better, its Wuxia/ Xianxia. Figured it'd only be just to give a Shout out to our fellow Daoists
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>>5307482 >Check your winnings first, before fighting. Who knows, maybe some gambler forfeited a treasure or material that could help give you an advantage. (Luck trial. Higher DC= better result) >>5307489 When I saw that quest was run by Kismet I started following it immediately
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>>5307482 >Check your winnings first, before fighting. Who knows, maybe some gambler forfeited a treasure or material that could help give you an advantage. (Luck trial. Higher DC= better result) first
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>Wear the Crown of Trapped sands and caged winds, and swallow your most refined Divine blood honey Medicines (Ox's strength drug, Hare's fleetness drug, Tireless stamina drug, Flickering Wind pellet), deciding that your current situation necessitates the use of such high grade materials! (Can be taken with other options) As for the tactics we use later making him mad seems like the surest thing. Strategic tricks aside, this is pretty scary. We'll have to fight a battle of countermeasures and deception with our soft style. Given his cunning, he'll realize the crone spilled the beans within the first few moves before adjusting.
Also, my previous idea of facing him as a grudge shield comet is too risky knowing he has at least three "rain down" styles of attack. He might just use two in conjunction, or use grabs while on fire, either of which will grant us a wound even if the shield triggers. And he likes to never stops attacking? This is gonna be fun.
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>>5307482 >Wear the Crown of Trapped sands and caged winds, and swallow your most refined Divine blood honey Medicines (Ox's strength drug, Hare's fleetness drug, Tireless stamina drug, Flickering Wind pellet), deciding that your current situation necessitates the use of such high grade materials! (Can be taken with other options) >Meditate on the fear you're feeling, in the hope of achieving further insight and force an epiphany (Mental training. DC 90. Total Bonus +35. Please note the amount of the bonus you wish to use ) +35 Anonymous
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>>5307482 >Wear the Crown of Trapped sands and caged winds, and swallow your most refined Divine blood honey Medicines (Ox's strength drug, Hare's fleetness drug, Tireless stamina drug, Flickering Wind pellet), deciding that your current situation necessitates the use of such high grade materials! (Can be taken with other options) >>Meditate on the fear you're feeling, in the hope of achieving further insight and force an epiphany (Mental training. DC 90. Total Bonus +35. Please note the amount of the bonus you wish to use ) Use up all the bonus. Anonymous
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>>5307500 I support this option.
We should focus on our blood as a counter to his fire.
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>>5307482 >Ask Baoli-Wuyawang if there's any rules to this fight, and if it will be to the death or not. And try to trick him into placing a handicap on himself (Deception Trial. DC 80) even if we fail the deception this should give us useful info.
>Wear the Crown of Trapped sands and caged winds, and swallow your most refined Divine blood honey Medicines (Ox's strength drug, Hare's fleetness drug, Tireless stamina drug, Flickering Wind pellet), deciding that your current situation necessitates the use of such high grade materials! (Can be taken with other options) Anonymous
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>>5307482 >Check your winnings first, before fighting. Who knows, maybe some gambler forfeited a treasure or material that could help give you an advantage. (Luck trial. Higher DC= better result) >Wear the Crown of Trapped sands and caged winds, and swallow your most refined Divine blood honey Medicines (Ox's strength drug, Hare's fleetness drug, Tireless stamina drug, Flickering Wind pellet), deciding that your current situation necessitates the use of such high grade materials! (Can be taken with other options) With these high DCs we are going to need every trick in the book.
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>>5307482 >>Wear the Crown of Trapped sands and caged winds, and swallow your most refined Divine blood honey Medicines (Ox's strength drug, Hare's fleetness drug, Tireless stamina drug, Flickering Wind pellet), deciding that your current situation necessitates the use of such high grade materials! (Can be taken with other options) We can likely reproduce the medicine some time. Also, the more experience we gain, the less helpful those consumables are on relative terms.
>Check your winnings first, before fighting. Who knows, maybe some gambler forfeited a treasure or material that could help give you an advantage. (Luck trial. Higher DC= better result) Anonymous
>>5307482 >Check your winnings first, before fighting. Who knows, maybe some gambler forfeited a treasure or material that could help give you an advantage. (Luck trial. Higher DC= better result) >Wear the Crown of Trapped sands and caged winds, and swallow your most refined Divine blood honey Medicines (Ox's strength drug, Hare's fleetness drug, Tireless stamina drug, Flickering Wind pellet), deciding that your current situation necessitates the use of such high grade materials! (Can be taken with other options) At a glance, we have two options tactically speaking. We can try to run circles around him, exploiting his aggression and tricking him to make him leap at shadows and waste his strength until he tires himself out. This is the obvious approach, but he is pretty cunning himself and knows a lot of spells, so he can probably pull plenty of shit out of his sleeves too. This would devolve into us trying to out-mental gymnastics each other, and I'm not sure how long we would last with that.
The other option is to just be more aggressive than him. Usually fighters who rely on ruthlessly beating down opponents are significantly less good at taking beating themselves. He has seen a lot of our techniques and has a good idea of how fast we are, but he has no seen everything. A quick Blood Red Lightning Cat Step into a Red Death Scythe should catch him off guard, and if it lands, bleed him out as the fight progresses. Of course this is assuming that he isn't able to just dodge it outright anyway, or exploit our own aggressiveness against us.
I suppose one approach would be to just combine the above two, either by opening aggressively and landing a draining claw attack then deflect until he bleeds out, or wait until patiently until an opportunity comes where he wouldn't expect a direct attack, and strike. Either way, we are in for it now.
Maybe tell Qiang to be careful she doesn't fall victim of any "Aim my big beam attack conveniently towards the audience" bullshit. If he is as scummy as Grandma Crow claims, he would totally pull this shit on us if he was loosing.
A list of our abilities would be pretty nice for this type of planning. Anonymous
>>5307482 >>5307649 >tell Qiang to be careful she doesn't fall victim of any "Aim my big beam attack conveniently towards the audience" bullshit. Solid +1.
And yea it's hard to remember, I'll have some notes for abilities later. But for this fight..
For the sources we draw on our Deathly Yin Qi can produce ice on our fur and materialize it in our veins, though we haven't formalized it into a technique. We were able to freeze the Yang heavy tiger in place, but of course Baoli-Wuyawang uses hell fire, so there's not a great deal to compare to other than type.
Balancing the chilling water aspects of our Deathly Yin with water-heavy Blood Qi may produce a better external and internal defense against both the raw fire qi and heat, and we know we can do that without any extra training given what we did against ice block monk. That should be strong enough for preventing indirect damage.
An advantage of fire is that it can use wind to gain strength, which is why I felt he can be led with it. It can also burn away mists, fogs, and breath. In his case being stronger than us means our breath based grudge attacks might not reach him if he just puts a fire foot forward to fumble our fetid flatus.
Going on a bit of tangent, theoretically, a prodigy like us could go even further beyond if we drew on our metal to feed blood qi as well and make a sort of directed self-supporting cycle, with the colder aspects of deathly yin(chilling, ice generation) and metal(yin leaning), together twin enhancing water focused Blood Qi for whole body and internal fire negation.
The mystery is if Blood Qi can be tempered with our natural metal in this way, which given our existing blood-lightning techniques could seem an odd ask, but instead of pushing metal qi's strength outwards we would be focusing our metal qi as an enhancer entirely inwards(which is when metal qi is at its absolute strongest, extremely close to its source). And to do so while we're cycling it with the iciest of our Deathly Yin while not grossly disrupting the Yang lifeforce power of our Blood Qi.
And whether or not using metal to internally enhance Blood Qi that we've already steered into being aspected towards water will too-deprive it of its own natural metal(and therefore lose its beneficial functions) by property of imbalance.
There's the potential to also just completely self destruct into ten thousand sparky red catsicles if we screwed it up. And if that's successful it should, theoretically, create a nigh impregnable suppression effect that continuously diverts fire, heat, and any Yang Qi away from our body excepting that which already exists inside us, and deprive us of more than half of our abilities by focusing the greatest majority of our strengths inwards. So, a theoretical desperation move at best. I'm not entirely sure we can survive being successful at that kind of technique at our current level, but the easier one we can do.
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>>5307649 >>5307880 Forgot to mention it, but yang fire should solidly overcome yin metal in direct confrontations, however more important indirect effects should take effect if they're "together" with our deathly yin or yang blood qi.
So for example I'd expect him to tank or barrier through any of our lightning very easily, but any deathly yin enhanced lightning or blood lightning techniques should have some of their effects manifest properly, if for example he begins by setting the entire arena on fire to hamper any of our ranged lightning spells as a smart flying enemy should, but any techniques themselves should retain effect even if most of their actual damage is negated. Thankfully, most of our truly combat effective Deathly Yin techniques for are defensive/countering methods (well, no duh ofc), but I feel it can't be overstated how we shouldn't spend too much Qi on any metal based assaults.
In that vein, things like Red Death Scythe and Whispering Death Claw will kind of have to be our reliable bread and butter here. Anything else would be insufficient, or best used as a distraction. This also means closing any range between us and surviving close combat.
So yeah actually, we should entirely blitz him with that aggressive strategy when we get in the arena even if we can't pull off anything tricky. We know he's going to go for the eyes first, which ought to place either of his feet or hands right in front/above us as a perfect target.
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>>5307482 >Ask Baoli-Wuyawang if there's any rules to this fight, and if it will be to the death or not. And try to trick him into placing a handicap on himself (Deception Trial. DC 80) Anonymous
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>>5307880 Took a bit to remember, but the easiest antifire we have would be incarnating Monu's grudge like we'd considered in a previous non-arena battle.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 20 Jun 2022 03:20:06 No. 5310077 Report Ending the vote now, tallying the result. Apologizes for taking awhile, father's day caught me unaware, so to preserve my filial piety I had to scramble to find a gift in time. Hope the holiday has treated you all well.
Check your winnings first, before fighting. Who knows, maybe some gambler forfeited a treasure or material that could help give you an advantage.:6
Wear the Crown of Trapped sands and caged winds, and swallow your most refined Divine blood honey Medicines (Ox's strength drug, Hare's fleetness drug, Tireless stamina drug, Flickering Wind pellet), deciding that your current situation necessitates the use of such high grade materials!:8
Meditate on the fear you're feeling, in the hope of achieving further insight and force an epiphany:2
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Ask Baoli-Wuyawang if there's any rules to this fight, and if it will be to the death or not. And try to trick him into placing a handicap on himself: 2
tell Qiang to be careful she doesn't fall victim of any "Aim my big beam attack conveniently towards the audience" bullshit: 2
So You'll place the magic treasure, The crown of trapped sands and caged winds, atop your head, and take the most refined and highest quality pills/ elixirs of four particular spirit medicines/ drugs (Strength buff, speed buff, Stamina/ energy boost, EXTREME speed buff)
Before checking your winnings right before fighting, on the off chance some senseless gambler bet a powerful treasure or material you could use to your advantage.
Update will arrive shortly
>>5307649 I still need to get around to making one. Thankfully, reading so many cultivation novels has given me a great memory when it comes to techniques/ powers, lol
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 20 Jun 2022 04:17:07 No. 5310115 Report "But first, I must prepare and ready myself for this deadly fight that awaits me just a step ahead" You say, not allowing your cheerful tone to be marred by trepidation or fear as you maintain your dignified air and proud smirk without so much as allowing your composure to slip enough for your worry to be seen in your eyes or even in your tail "Qiang, open the satchel tied around my neck, and take out the small, sandalwood box inside of it. There will be several vials of pills. Ignore them and instead take from the box the four bundles of black silk, wrapped with red string"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 20 Jun 2022 04:18:08 No. 5310116 Report >>5310115 You're already the size of an Ox, and having such a body already makes you stronger than most men and beasts, but when facing a foe that has long surpassed the natural limits that the mundane world follows, and was probably born far above them, every bit of boost of strength and might is worth while.
You wince as you swallow down the drug, it is neither bitter or otherwise acrid.. Apparently, according to Feiqing, it is incredibly, teeth numbingly sweet, but you can't taste sweet things.
"Gah" You gag, feeling the uncomfortable sensation of the pill slowly crawling to the cauldron of your stomach "Yi Zhu! Get up and be useful! Gather mine and Qiang's winnings! I wish to look over all that I have won so far, before fighting the host of this grandly pointless tournament"
"A...at once lady Huanliuxue!" The bruised and bloodied Pig spirit squeals, rising from his hiding place underneath the table set with bottles of wine brewed from blood, and choice cuts of organ meat, huffing and puffing as he limps away. You can practically smell his relief at being given a golden excuse to get away from the Royal family of the Crow Demons, before he ends up as lunch or a convenient target upon which to vent their rage.
Qiang tosses a second pill into the air with an unamused look on her face. This one is almost blindingly white. You open your mouth and nearly choke as it falls directly down your throat. Hare's fleetness drug. Another of the basic divine blood honey medicines. Hare and rabbit are about as fast as cats, and so the lower quality examples of this medicine would do little to increase your already great natural agility and deftness, but, when it has been refined and raised to a higher quality, the improvement will be much more noticeable.
But, to be able to use the extra strength and speed granted by these two pills, you need deeper reserves of energy. Luckily, one of the other divine blood honey medicines can grant just that! The tireless stamina drug! Bright blue, like the color of a cloudless day, you catch the pill between your teeth. Hopefully the increased potency of its higher state of refinement would counteract the exhaustive effects of the first two pills.
Qiang gasped, and nearly dropped the last pill as she held it.
"Is this a poison?" She asked, wincing as she catch it between two of her fingers "The Yin energy radiating from it would be enough to freeze the blood in my veins"
"No, or well, not entirely. It is An unfortunate side effect of refining that most miraculous pill" You sighed shaking your head "That the poison I introduced into it, to prevent the users heart from exploding after taking it, would be strengthened alongside the medicine itself"
Qiang frowned, clearly concerned for your well being.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 20 Jun 2022 04:19:08 No. 5310120 Report >>5310116 "I'll be fine! That is the last Flickering Wind Pellet (闪烁风 丹, Shǎnshuòfēng Dān) in my possession" You say confidently, hoping to ease her worries "One of the most potent of the drugs I know how to make, and one of the four truly remarkable pills. It is a combination of the second pill you gave me, another, and a drop of ogre blood. The poison you sense, is meant to petrify the heart . In this medicine, that otherwise deadly effect is weakened enough to force the beating of the heart to slow and adopt a more reasonable pace. If it wasn't included, that Flickering Wind Pellet would be lethal to its imbiber!"
"Truly a witch's daughter" The crown Queen muttered, looking almost fearful. Perhaps due to simply how confident you were concerning your skill as an alchemist! For truly, it was intimidating to see someone who had enough faith in their ability to trust their lives into it.
"Seems like quite the effort to make a single pill, and quite the risk if its creation was flawed" Qiang mused, pursing her lips as she rolls the pill between her fingers "Its effect must be truly powerful to devout so many resources to make it and risk so much in taking it"
"It truly is, the effect of that drug, is as I said, truly remarkable! It is a miraculous medicine!" You say brashly as you catch the pill on your outstretched tongue "It allows its user to move so swiftly, precisely and gracefully, they become as the wind! Enough for them to match the speed of the Phantom Cat Step with using the technique itself! And when combined with a certain other technique! It'd allow them to outrun even divine retribution!"
Qiang blinked, and the crow queen and her mother gasped, as to their eyes, you became a blur of red motion, before vanishing entirely from sight. Oh this did not feel good! Your heart was pounding, beating like it was being played like a drum by a mad musician! You could feel your blood coursing through your veins so rapidly, if they had not been so refined and strengthened you are certain they'd burst. The combination of those four potent drugs was a truly powerful force. The sensation alone was staggering, and felt alien. Your subconscious knew that the strength and the God like speed you had unlocked within yourself should be not only exhausting but destroying your body! So there was a great sense of instinctual dread rippling through you just behind the power!
You could feel your muscles twitch and tense, a thousand times per every breath you took. With your perceptions quickened and heightened the world had become even more detailed and refined than even your sharpened, Qi enhanced senses would notice. You were twitchy! On edge! So filled with energy you though you might shatter! It was an amazing high! You felt so powerful and full of vigor! Truly Radiating with flourishing life and burning spirit!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 20 Jun 2022 04:20:09 No. 5310122 Report >>5310120 You raced through the tower, dodging between the crowds and servants, and ended up at the vault where Yi Zhu was arguing with the guards outside of it, crow demons with bags under their tired eyes
All three were bowelled over as you came to sudden, and complete stop, a great wind sweeping in front of you as your jittered and hopped on your feet, trying to keep from being overwhelmed completely by the seemingly endless storm of energy now coursing through you
"Whatstakingyousolong?wherearemywinnings?Wherearemyprizes?!showmethematonce!ShowmeshowmeshowmeSHOWME!" You shouted, as you shivered, and began hoping and running about, flickering and "blinking" as if you were using the specter lightness skill, but the haste of which you moved was not born from altered perceptions or slowed time! It was entirely real and truly exhilirating to experience
"Incredibleincredibleincredible!Thereisnothingthatcanmatchthisfeeling!" You shouted, as you stopped again, and found your hand created a whirlwind from running around "Nowgimmemywinningsalready!stopbeingsoslow!"
<span class="mu-s"> roll 1d100. Best out of three. Higher number = better result </span>
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>>5310077 >Hope the holiday has treated you all well. It was a good day.
>I still need to get around to making one I can help. Here are the named ones in order of acquisition. Let me know if there are any mistakes or inaccuracies.
>>5310122 Also, I'm betting Qiang is worrying we'll become a drug addled cat like our mother. Hopefully showing the demon crow nobility here how great an alchemist won't create a rumor that nets us devil petitioners begging our aid to their ills. Wouldn't be the worst business.
I'm almost tempted to try coming up with a name for taking all these medicines at once, as if it were a technique itself more than a back up plan, their clearly compounded effects are already superb.
We need to finish the fight before the come down.
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>>5310126 Good news, we won more than a humble rock.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 20 Jun 2022 05:22:49 No. 5310178 Report >>5310126 72. A highly valuable, high quality treasure, that would be the envy of Young masters anywhere! Not priceless or so great to be a Divine artifact, this prize is powerful and useful and worth more than jade!
Update will arrive shortly
>>5310136 Thank you a thousand times and a thousand times more. You're a saint!
The list is incredibly accurate and better put together than anything I could've made. Abd there are no mistakes! Truly it is a manual worthy of the heavens
Though I should mention "Anti Healing" comes from Ghost/ Dead Yin Qi. Huanliuxue usually coats her claws in Yin Qi to imbue her strikes with it...and because the destructive aspect of Yin gives an extra OOMPH to her blows.
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>>5310178 Excellent! I'll edit that for clarity. Here are some cliff notes for our Guqin's basics, since it does so much.
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>>5310247 As the Dice Gods looked upon the thread, they spoke with whispered venom, "We will remind them."
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 20 Jun 2022 06:26:34 No. 5310272 Report >>5310251 One of the Crow Demon guards manages to pull himself off of the ground, lifting himself from his back and into a sprawled, half sitting position as he holds onto his spear with shaking hands and trembling legs. His face reminds you of a rat, a particurarly skinny won that's survived and learned how to escape and fight even the most veteran and successful of mousers. He for some reasons winces and looks away as you lean closer, skittish like a mouse as he tries to find his tongue and answer your rapid fire demand to see the winnings of your bets. Sweat rolls from his brown, flowing past his eyes and dripping down his chin like tears as he gasps and struggles to find the resolve to speak in the presence of an existence as high and majestic as your own. Blinking rapidly and staring deep into his shrunken, rodent like eyes he manages to find his composure in the face of your peerless beauty and imperial aura and stands
"You want to see the winnings of the bets you placed on yourself and your, uh, mortal student, Lady bloodshed?" The devil squeaks as he leans back to stand, and you step forward, keeping your eyes locked with his "We've been keeping a detailed tally of all your and our lords earnings, to ensure nothing was skimmed off the top or stolen by the greedy or opportunistic"
He glares as Yi Zhu, before being forced to look into your wide, manic eyes as you step closer to him again and grinned, showing your fangs as your tail swished and whipped behind you as grudges poured over your lips, filling the room with their shadowy mist and cold miasma.
"YesareyoudeathIhaverequestedassuchseveraltimeswhyareyouwastingmytimewretch?Doyouwishtobetreatedliketheratyouresemble?OpenthevaultandleadmetomyearningsbeforeIlosemypaitenceandtoleranceforyourrudeandslothfulbehavioristhatclearenoughofademandormustIusemyclawsaswellasmywords?!" You angrily and annoyedly ask, growling as you lean even closer and cover the cowering devil in your shadow "hurryhurryhurryhurryhurry!Idon'twanttobekeptwaiting!Myvaluabletimeisbeingwastedlikewisdomonadrunk!Hurryhurryhurry!Doyouwannadieorsomething!?"
"Yes right away! Forgive this fool for taking time to breath! He had forgotten his duty!" The guard cries out, almost stopping to kowtow and bang his head on the ground before he sees the glare of the mistress of death, ghosts and graves bearing down on him with the full ferocity and weight of your indignation
"hurryhurryhurryhurry" You hiss and mutter under your breath, trembling even though your standing still, your body desiring motion so greatly you begin to vibrate and shiver to become a blur of irritated and restless motion despite not moving so much as an inch from where you sit
"That is a terrifying sight!" Yi Zhu cries out, as the guard fumbles with the key ring hung around his belt, nearly dropping it as you move behind you and continue muttering your mantra of "hurry hurry hurry".
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 20 Jun 2022 06:27:35 No. 5310273 Report >>5310272 He begins to cry and whine like a dog as you impatiently stamp a paw behind him and sigh through your nose.
You hear the lock of the door click, and push past him to sprint towards the wealth you've aquired from this tournament as he rushes after you, wheezing and panting as he struggles with a jade slip secured by his wrist.
"Wait! I have the ledger right here! You're not allowed to go in there! Wait please! My Lady!" he cries out as you've already found your winnings from the sent of Yi Zhu that clings to them like mud to a shoe. And of course, the Qi radiating from one or several items amongst your prizes!
Flapping his wings, the crow devil guard rushes to catch up to you, and tries your paitence further by choosing to, now of all times, read off the exact measure of wealth you've earned through your betting! You can barely hear him, with how slow he is too catching up and how far behind he is already, but you're able to make out what he's trying to tell you.
Before he can even see that you've turned down the corridor, you've walked through the door blocking your way to the treasures you've won.
And immediately you are awed by a vast pile of spirit stones, of various sizes and quality, carefully and neatly stacked one atop the other, and small lanterns and bird cages that all too clearly hold human souls. The gloomy, cold light cast by the caged orbs of ethereal fire, casts the whole of the room in an eerie, pale blue glow.
Except for in the center of the room. There is a bright red and orange cushion, that itself would be a worthy treasure, from the amount of fire Qi that oozes from it and is as far as your drug empowered eyes can tell, is filled with phoenix feathers whose heat has somehow been subdued to a pleasant level of warmth like morning sunshine rather than sheer blistering heat that is often used to light forges or power alchemical furnaces in the world of cultivation. But upon that cushion is your prize! A bangle of Enchanted Copper and Demonic Iron, hammered together to form a solid ring in the vague shape of bat wings sits, levitating in the air. Blood Red and Pitch black, in glows with an inner light that casts the space around it in a deep, dark crimson shadow.
Hanging from it, from a length of chain connected by what seems a rope spun from fiery red hair that almost seems to be actually aflame, sits a black knuckle bone and a curious carving of jade, the waxy colors of it mingled between brown, black and red, to form a swirl of color that has been carven into a pendant shaped like a fearsome, horned devil surrounded by flame.
The Qi flowing from it is incredibly dense, refined and pure. And, to eyes unassisted by medicinal elixirs and a untrained spiritual sense, the spiritual energy flowing and surround it would be appear to be solely and purely Fire Qi. But you can sense the Metal energy that hides within it.
And you recognize the demon depicted from the charm hanging alongside the soot blackened bone.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 20 Jun 2022 06:30:14 No. 5310276 Report >>5310273 That is the Forge Devil! One of the favored servants of the Demon Lord Zhìzūn-Móxīn (至尊-魔心, Supreme Devil Mind). A favorite boogeyman for legends and children's stories in the Chuan region, whose accursed earthly lair still radiates with evil and malevolence. A place Monu warned you from venturing anywhere near! The Forge devil, depending on the story told, was either slain by the Five Colors Celestial Emperor or some other folk hero, or sealed away with the burning Calderas of his former domain.
That enchanted bangle either once belonged to the Forge Devil, or one of his servants. And you do not have to study it to know what magic it holds. Magic that will allow its wearer to resist heat that could melt metal, and work a lit and heated forge as if it there wasn't any heat at all.
A Supreme token of fire resistance! You don't know how such treasures are measured and ranked, but you're sure this one would draw envious stares and fetch a fortune at an auction! If it wasn't not the former property of at least two devils.
But, that doesn't seem to be all the bangle is capable of. Clearly, it is hiding a deeper power or more complicated ability behind the appearance of "merely" just a fire resistance charm powerful enough to allow its user to walk into a furnace unscathed. What, you aren't certain. But as a cat, you're naturally attuned to what is dangerous and what isn't. And you don't sense any threat coming from the bangle, so you're confident wearing it won't curse you!
<span class="mu-s"> Bangle of the Great Forge Devil Acquired. Three thousand spirit stones acquired (total 4268). A hundred and eight sinners' souls, forty four trapped souls, and a single pious soul also acquired </span>
What do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Put the bangle on your tail, and enter the arena to fight Baoli-Wuyawang, and have a brief chat with the crow king before the battle begins. >Plot with the ghost of Yujijiao, and release her to catch Baoli-Wuyawang by surprise so you can land a decisive blow against him (martial/ trickery trial. DC 44.DC vastly lowered by buffs) >Hide one of the two Miraculous healing pills you own in your mouth, and focus on avoiding Baoli-Wuyawang's first, testing strike. The Bangle may allow one to resist the heat of flames, but every protection has its limits... (Agility trial. DC 22. DC vastly lowered by buffs) >Have Qiang guard your winnings. You do not trust Yi Zhu and you especially do not trust him around money >Write in >>5310251 lol
>>5310219 Excellent work again. Chuckled at the "Heavy. Able to communicate blunt damage" bit.
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>>5310276 >Wear the bangle on your tail and have Qiang guard your winnings. You do not trust Yi Zhu and you especially do not trust him around money. These seem neutral. I have less fear with Qiang at least this far away from the arena.
>Hide one of the two Miraculous healing pills you own in your mouth, and focus on countering Baoli-Wuyawang's first, testing strike with multiple of your own by activating Blood Red Lightning Cat Step first and utilizing Red Death Scythe in compliment. Blitz. With DCs massively lowered by the medicines, let's not waste this chance for a real aggressive surprise attack and use our draining abilities to their utmost before our medicines start to fade. My reasoning is it would be pointless to only begin by dodging and seeing his strength when we're at our best, only for that benefit to fade as the fight progresses and after he's seen our speed.
So strike him with speed he hasn't seen us possess, with techniques he cannot even guess we have, cross counter!
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>>5310276 >>5310293 >Write-in+ FORGOT. But since we're wearing the crown it should be possible to add its wind to our Blood Red Lightning Cat Step, since it does not siphon great Qi from us, which ought make our strikes utterly ridiculous.
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>>5310276 >Wear the bangle on your tail and have Qiang guard your winnings. You do not trust Yi Zhu and you especially do not trust him around money. >Hide one of the two Miraculous healing pills you own in your mouth, and focus on countering Baoli-Wuyawang's first, testing strike with multiple of your own by activating Blood Red Lightning Cat Step first and utilizing Red Death Scythe in compliment. >Give the pig demon a few of the spirit stones as a reward for his work getting us invited to this tournament Anonymous
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>>5310276 >Have Qiang guard your winnings. You do not trust Yi Zhu and you especially do not trust him around money >Put the bangle on your tail, and enter the arena to fight Baoli-Wuyawang, and have a brief chat with the crow king before the battle begins. I think we're as ready as we'll ever be.
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>>5310276 >Put the bangle on your tail, and enter the arena to fight Baoli-Wuyawang, and have a brief chat with the crow king before the battle begins. >Have Qiang guard your winnings. You do not trust Yi Zhu and you especially do not trust him around money >Hide one of the two Miraculous healing pills you own in your mouth, and focus on avoiding Baoli-Wuyawang's first, testing strike. The Bangle may allow one to resist the heat of flames, but every protection has its limits... (Agility trial. DC 22. DC vastly lowered by buffs) I had an idea to release Yujijiao before, but I'm afraid to risk her unlife against Baoli.
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>>5310276 >Focus on avoiding his first attack >Then counter attack with whispering death claw. Anonymous
>>5310276 >Have Qiang guard your winnings. You do not trust Yi Zhu and you especially do not trust him around money >Hide one of the two Miraculous healing pills you own in your mouth, and focus on avoiding Baoli-Wuyawang's first, testing strike. The Bangle may allow one to resist the heat of flames, but every protection has its limits... (Agility trial. DC 22. DC vastly lowered by buffs) >>5310251 Did I miss something? That post is deleted
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>>5310494 Just checked archive.moe, it was a 1, thankfully outside of the bo3.
Maybe this post will help any suptg readers in the future.
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>>5310498 Yeah the fact it was out of the BO3 is why I deleted it
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Anyone else wondering if defeating Baoli would create a good grudge for our cultivation? A unique one, at least.
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>>5310837 I don't know how defeating him could create a new grudge, it seems more like something that could settle one instead.
But we are probably getting a boost in some way, last time we won one of this tournaments Huan evolved.
Perhaps we will finally get thumbs.
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>>5310849 Oh, I mean defeating him may create a grudge within him against us, within the context of however we've defeated him. We've been driving him mad since we got here, and laughing at him helped, but since he's an angry demon I thought nothing of it.
But rereading how grudges can be formed made it seem like defeating him might create, within him, an extremely powerful grudge. It just depends on how he's beaten, and if.
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>>5310854 Shit I hope we kill this mofo good. Definitely don't want him as a nemesis.
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>>5310858 Yeah, he needs to die.
He has proven to be way too resourceful and knowledgeble about us to let him go around with a grudge againat us.
Also it could rurn the crow women an ally on hell, if they manage to stay nobility.
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>>5310862 Poor Crowboy. Too competent to live. Personally I don't -want- him to die but I do understand how dangerous he is and that it is probably the right call to drop him. If only the dead weren't so chatty.
As far as actual demons go he's slightly less shit than I'd expect.
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>>5310858 >>5310862 Precisely. So if he does form one as he's injured or dying, we ought to steal it! And then mush his body and soul into motes of spent ashy qi.
Aside from the humiliation of being defeated by someone he wanted to show himself off against, I suppose destroying his meridians would establish a deep resentment. I feel kind of giddy imagining we could steal the form of his strength just by cultivating a grudge he'd have against us. What a powerful mask he could be. Heck, we can even tell him we're listening to his "advice", on sowing and cultivating enmity, for the short moments he'd have left existing. I bet he'd love that.
Geeze that'd be kinda mean, huh? Well, I think he's earned worse.
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>>5310866 If he wasn't a powerful demon king, we could spare him and try to just get him in a way he would no longer be a threat, but he is too competent, and hasn't show much reason to keep him alive other than not being a complete super asshole.
Unless somehow he doesn't get a grudge, and instead gets happier that we beat him and gave him a good fight. He has surprised us non-stop, so I wouldn't out past him.
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>>5310866 Yeah he is by far the coolest demon we know. I absolutely love his character, he put so much effort into trying to get us to reveal everything, with his knowledge of us second only to Monu and ourselves. It's like he's our biggest fan that also just happens to want to beat the shit out of us.
It's somewhat unfortunate, but the nature of hell, or just what we've experienced, is a place where only strength and the fear it can create can maintain any semblance of peace in mock civility.
There is a cost to winning by killing him. And that will be stories and rumors amongst demons of all kinds and the nobility in hell telling of how Baoli-Wuyawang was killed by Huānliúxuè. A straightforward upgrade of our reputations in hell, which will eventually filter into the middle realm. Cue human demon worshipers going to our Chuan shrines and squinting to level insight. And cue demon cultivators trying to find us in the real world because a beast less than two decades old and less than half of that in cultivation time defeated a demon king, and our showing of Pure Blood Qi here will aid that mightily.
The cost of losing though? I believe he'll try corrupting our Pure Blood Qi in some fashion, he doesn't strike me as a cat is fine too kind of demon, so he'd go for maiming/burning and showboating as our "true reward'.
The cost of winning but making the mistake of letting him run away? Unknown, uncapped.
Oh no, what if he actually surrenders when he thinks we might defeat him and has some actual back-up reward for us? That would be the worst. We can't eat his power if he gives up!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Wed 22 Jun 2022 07:38:31 No. 5312615 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote now, tallying the result.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Wed 22 Jun 2022 08:50:09 No. 5312653 Report So you decide to put it on. You're going to be fighting what amounts to a thinking, furious and violent natured inferno. Any extra protection you can find for yourself against being burned to pile of ash or exhausted by the sheer, blazing heat that will surely fill the arena should be taken if it is found and worn with pride! You're certain there are many who'd look down at you over their noses or scoff for you taking so many precautions and weighing the match as far you have in your favor already by taking a great quantity of spirit drugs and abusing the generosity of your opponents patient to shore up your defense and strengthen yourself, even though said opponent is stronger and more experience than you. And those fools would be lucky to leave behind charred bones if they turned away from the chance to wear such a miraculous piece of jewelry! Simply because it was previously owned and often worn by a devil! It'd be like refusing to wear armor as you marched into battle or purposefully dulling your claws and pulling out your fangs before a hunt! You'd be an utter fool to leave behind the bangle, when it will offer at least some measure of defense and resitance against the fire storm commanded by the malovlent and sadistic devil who demands you meet him in bloody combat!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Wed 22 Jun 2022 08:51:09 No. 5312656 Report >>5312653 Quickly and briefly, you become distracted by the hellish, yet subdued beauty of the magical jewelry you now wore, flicking your tail as you watch the metal and jade shine with an oily glisten as it caught the lights of the caged and trapped souls and expressed its own gloomy glow, which marvelously accented and deepened the shade of red of your fur. A purr rumbled in your throat, and you narrowed your eyes in delight as you admired the bangle fastened to your tail. You knew nothing of fashion, but when combined with the crown you wore atop your head, this underworld forged bracelet must make you look like the pinnacle of refinement. Smugly, you puffed out your chest and lifted your chin, and left the treasure chamber at a leisurely trot
Though no one who saw you leave would describe it as such. Knocking a recovering Yi Zhu back over, you left the pig spirit, the rat faced Crow devil and his fellow guard behind to cower after being so blessed to stand in the presence of one as high and might as yourself.
However, despite your anticipating to throw yourself into battle against your host, even beneath the haze drawn over your mind by the boundless, wild energy you have infected yourself with, imparted by the primordial beast essence and massive burst of energy of both the spiritual and mundane variety imparted by consuming such rich divine blood honey, you do not rush to the arena. Rather, moving as swiftly as lighting flashing across the skies, you return to the crow king's private viewing platform. Your entrance blows down the curtains and screens blocking out the curious glances and envious stares of the audience, and fills the box with the same, cool light that fills the rest of the tower.
The old Crow Crone is napping, and her daughter has gnawed her nails down to nubs and has began to chew on the skin and flesh of her finger tips, leaving smears of blood to color her otherwise jade-like and corpse pale face. Qiang, however, is entirely at east, calm as a corpse soon to be interred. Your disciple, sitting upon the ground with her arms crossed and a sullen, grim expresion writ over her pretty face, glances up to you, her vividly red hair fluttering from the winds whipped up by your sudden return to the regal deck.
"Qianghurrydowntothevaultsbeneaththetowerwherethewagersandstakesofthistournamentarekept" You swiftly command, as Qiang closes her eyes to focus all of her senses on her ears, so she can understand what exactly you are asking of her "andkeepYiZhufromourwinnings. IdonnottrusthatpigaslongasIcansmellhimnearESPECIALLYaroundmoney!"
"As you command, teacher, I shall not yet you down" Qiang says dully, yawning as she stood up and walked past you "Oh and uh...don't die or anything. I don't think I could find my way back home if you dead"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Wed 22 Jun 2022 08:52:10 No. 5312659 Report >>5312656 You cackle, and swift as falling thunder, grab another pill from your collection and hide it in your mouth. Just in case you get brutalized and mauled quicker than you anticipated. For, while your new jewelry allows one to resist the heat of flames, all protections, no matter what against have their limits. And it isn't like Baoli-Wuyawang is going to be fighting with fire alone. The moment you laid your eyes upon him, you sensed he possess a truly monster level of strength. So it will pay to take every precaution you can.
Leaping out of the private box of the crow devil nobility, you run down a pillar of blackened iron, hopping to avoid the curling spikes and burs jutting from it like thorns of a rose, and in moments reach the sunken arena. Sand flies around you as you gracefully land atop it, at your side of the arena.
Baoli-Wuyawang has tossed away all of his finery, and royally regalia... well what little he actually wore, considering he barely wore any clothes to begin with. The two necklaces of hanging, silver skulls, sit at his feet and his loose fitting red pants have been pulled up and bundled to expose his legs. He is stomping the sand, as he cracks his fingers.
"So!" He shouts, pounding together his knuckles as he begins to weave and sway as if avoiding phantom limbs "My dearest guest, the darling of this tournament and heir to the primordial legacy of beasts my kind stole away and tarnished, is there anything you wish to say to your adoring audience before we begin this blood bath?! Surely a woman as proud and haughty as yourself has some wisdom to impart or boast to make! Do it! Brag, mock me if you must! Revel in your power and give the people a show before I give that silky fur of yours a fresh coating of dye, drawn from your own noble veins! HUAN! LIU! XUE!"
You blink, having started to lick the back of your paw to begin cleaning off the dust and sand that has already settled atop your fur, having grown bored with the crow kings needlessly long and wordy greeting to you. With your tongue still partially sticking out, you look up to your opponent and host. His scarlet eyes sparkle with murderous glee and barely restrained and very much violent impulses. You've seen eyes like that before. They're the same as those mad murderers you killed, filled with a selfish apathy for all but their desire to do harm and spread misery. The eyes of a true devil, the look of capriciously savage brute.
"Nope!" You cheerfully and cutely explain, lifting your paw and turning your head so your notched ear is pointed towards the ground, as you struggle to suppress the ongoing rush of bottomless energy and nervous speed assaulting your body and mind. "no reason to waste any more time !Lets go!Lets go!Lets go!"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Wed 22 Jun 2022 08:53:21 No. 5312661 Report >>5312659 "HONORED MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE! FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY! RETREAT AWAY FROM THE PIT!" The black skinned, pot bellied devil shrieks from somewhere above "We'll evacuate the tower according to the guidelines put in place in case of our young master going on a rampage! For you own safety, keep away from the fighters, were ever they end up!"
Eh?
"Haha! Excellent, Excellent! As you wish my lady of dusty bones and grieving ghouls!" He manically crows, throwing his head back as he catches his fist with his hand and extends his wings to their full, and admittedly impressive span before suddenly stomping the ground.
And a ripple runs through the stone as a fracture crawls towards you and ends right before where you stand.
There is no ring anymore. And barely any arena. The ground has been broken apart, great chunks and peaks of stone rising up from the once solid ground. But a cleared path remains between you and the crow king, and though great clouds of sand and the remains of previous fighters shower down all around you like a wonderfully macabre rain falling from a broken open tomb, you can clearly see your shirtless opponent and the stance he is using.
One leg forward, one back. A formidable built, and clearly sturdy defensive stance, with the center of his mass repositioned from his middle down below his legs, below even the soles of his feet to be buried in the ground! He has one arm pulled back, fist tightly clenched, one arm held forward, raised like a shield were strapped to it or he was throwing it towards the heaven. Every muscle you can see is tightly compressed and toughened. You'd have an easier time slicing through artisanal forged steel than you would his chest! The stance he is taken, is also an aggressive, offensive stance! He has both boundless defense and boundless offense! How scary! How Scary~! That is a stance that could break through the gates of the underworld, that could topple even the mightiest of mountains!
A wickedly excited grin plasters itself to your face as you tilt your head and use your chin to beckon him forward as the effort of keeping your excess speed and overflowing vitality suppressed and hidden begins to slip away from you as you begin to twitch, shiver and all but vibrate like a struck gong as Baoli-Wuyawang's expression becomes fiercely serious as onyx feathers sprout along his arms and chest
"DIE!" He roars, vanishing as he kicks from the ground. A flap of great wings, he rushes towards you through the air, in flight. He's flying at such great speeds it make a falling star seem like a tortoise pulling itself up a hill.
But, you can see him clearly and he is not moving so quickly you are unable to study his form enough to anticipate his next move. The arm held in front of him is a shield and distraction. He'll swing it, break the stone slabs around him and creating a blinding wave of dust and shards of rock.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Wed 22 Jun 2022 08:59:31 No. 5312664 Report >>5312661 And then he'll slam the fist held at his side up against the bottom of your jaw, driving it upwards. An powerful uppercut that'll have enough strength behind it to punch through a solid iron gate ten feet thick. The strike is meant to both to disorient you with head trauma and inflict a crippling injury on not only your jaw, but your neck. Fighting with a concussion and nearly, or completely broken neck or jaw is not something most creatures could do. And you doubt even you, a prodigy and natural figther, could pull it off
So you'll just dodge it. He's put all his weight and gathered and stored power behind that blow. Missing it will leave him open, landing it will make you helpless before the relentless barrage of claw strikes, kicks and stomps that will surely follow.
"Letusseethencrowking. Ifdeathisfasterthanthedevil!" You boast as you jittery and begin to shake violently in place, becoming as a crimson hued wind
"Hnuh?" Baol-Wuyawang manages to grunt as he stomps down in front of you, his fist already rising towards where your head had been positioned a moment ago
<span class="mu-s"> Roll 1d100. DC 22. Best out of three </span>
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Rolled 91 (1d100) >>5312664 We can't possibly mess up a DC that low, right?
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Wed 22 Jun 2022 10:06:22 No. 5312705 Report Need one more roll. Oh, and cause I got curious. What, if any, cultivation/ xianxia stories do you/ have you read?
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>>5312705 I have read none.
I had heard of them before but was never interested enough to actually read any.
Nearly all my knowledge of the genre and it's tropes comes from this quest, funnily enough.
I was mildly familiar with Wuxing, but that was it.
Should I roll again, or...? Anonymous
Rolled 60 (1d100) >>5312664 >>5312705 I read a Condor Heroes manhua back as a wee youth, and a series called the Celestial Zone by the same author. Was good stuff.
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>>5312705 King of Gods, tripe but I managed it.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Wed 22 Jun 2022 10:54:23 No. 5312726 Report Quoted By:
>>5312666 Incredible success. 60 over DC and 1 under 70 over. Update will arrive shortly
>>5312712 >Nearly all my knowledge of the genre and it's tropes comes from this quest, funnily enough. That's pretty cool, actually
>>5312714 Jim Yong is one of the greats, and Condor heroes is a classic. I'd call it a Wuxia, though myself.
>>5312719 Oof.
My first exposure was Grandmaster of demonic cultivation/ The untamed.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Wed 22 Jun 2022 11:48:05 No. 5312751 Report For a moment, it seems as though you had involuntary, or through reflex activated the Specter lightness skill in anticipation for the arrival of your enemy's blow. He moves so slow, so slow, so ponderously slow, like he was nothing more than an actor playing out a scene in one of those incredibly melodramatic and pointless plays Monu likes and has talked your ear off describing her favourite performances of. Like Baoli-Wuyawang, rather than truly attempt to shatter your skull and end your life in the most gory and painful manage he was capable of with his martial arts, was instead demonstrating his techniques, like a friendly peer or kindly master would. Now you were confident this wasn't the case, since you had spent more than a breath in the crow king's company and because the look in his fire filled eyes. Surprise, confusion and the emotion any warrior delights in witnessing appear in the faces and posture of their foes. PANIC!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Wed 22 Jun 2022 11:50:26 No. 5312754 Report >>5312751 You begin bouncing and hopping around Baoli-Wuyawang, as you had escaped his field of awareness the moment you zipped under his leg and landed five paces behind his back. You aren't ready to risk going on the offensive, as he has yet to perform the Eye Stealing Grasp, and because, even though he cannot follow or keep up with your movements, through simple instinct and training as a warrior and a killer, The Crow King stays one step behind catching you, slamming his fists and stomping his feet through the stone and earth beneath, trying to grab hold or crush and pin your tail beneath your heel.
This tiresome but not physically exhausting, and you have your own experience that soon lets you extend the distance between the two of you far into the horizon! And that is your expertise at avoiding being caught! The village children may have loved and nurtured you, but some of them were little brats who liked to grab you by your tail and make it pop or chase you with sticks and bowls of water, and even the nine children you loved and cherished the most of all would be at times smothering with their love.
As such, you became adept at escaping grasping hands and unaware feet. You may be several magnitudes larger than you were before you became Huanliuxue and awoke your intellect, but the basic and foundational principles of not being caught remained the same not matter what size you were!
So, you alluded the Crow King's instinct driven strikes and attempts to grab hold of you, slipping beneath his legs and even jumping over him and kicking off his back to then run circles around him in the Arena. You could barely hear a thing through the sound of stone breaking as he punched and forced his way through it, as he began to miss you by much more distance than before and even strike at places in the air where you had never so much as passed by or ran through.
Frustration is clear on his face as you race around him and circle him, and dodge under the gouts and puffs of fire he sends out of his fist and breaths out of his mouth. He is rampaging about now, realizing he is unable to catch you with with precise strikes and blows, and is instead trying to surround you in a sea of flames. But still, you do not approach to strike him.
He's holding back. Trying to make you overconfident and sure of the superiority of your reflexes and speed. He's moving and attacking slower than the height of his ability. He's trying to trick you. How quickly he recovered from the shock of you escaping his slowest strike. Now he's testing the limits of your speed, and trying to find exactly how much you can handle while simultaneously preparing for your inevitable counter attack when you become fully confident in your ability to evade anything he throws at you.
However, this plan has a vital weakness he has completely failed to address.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Wed 22 Jun 2022 11:52:29 No. 5312756 Report >>5312754 You're a cat. Cat's are ambush predators. Patience before striking is part of their innate wisdom. And while his rage has yet to turn against him, it soon shall when he realizes you've seen the trap he's made for you and have lead him to fall for it himself.
So, you play along, out running a tide of fire he extends to fill the whole of the arena by twisting himself around after dusting every feather of his vast black wings with Fire Qi. You out one the oncoming wave of burning death, running around the edge of the scorched arena that has now become a field of broken rocks covered in sand. By running just behind the tail of the field of flame, you are able to avoid its mouth. Baoli-Wuyawang, having spun his legs around as he sent out his great current of flame, stands half crouched on the ground.
He looks for you, first idly, then panicked and then at last furiously, his wings spread and lifted as his hands become black talons as he sees, in the once more flattened pit, you have vanished completely. There's no burning mass of fur and screams, or even charred bones resting atop the gravel and scattered stones.
The time before he looks up and spots you clinging to a wall, which you had clambered up it and held on to avoid the unexpected wave of superheated air when he finished his whirlwind sweep kick and the vortex of fire you had just escaped, can be measured in moments. You were already greatly appreciating the magical protection of the bangle around your tail. But, you had not time or mind to reflect on that, as, in the moment of confusion before he realized you had fled higher up to escape the area of fiery, burning death he had created, Baoli-Wuyawang had left himself entirely open.
You had to strike and strike now, or you'd lose your chance to land the first and hopefully decisive blow of this lethal match! And it had to count, since it was all but certain he'd start fighting more seriously after that display! His pride won't allow him to hold back as much as he has been.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Wed 22 Jun 2022 11:55:25 No. 5312759 Report >>5312756 How do you attack Baoli-Wuyawang, Huanliuxue?
>Activate the vein hunting eye risk your health, and perform the Blood Torrent rush and then the Blood Red Lightning cat step.. The Crow King must've calculated the limits of your speed by now. So you have to go EVEN FURTHER BEYOND. Extend your claws, and aim for a wing (Martial Trial. DC 70) >Like falling lightning, Pounce on him, and try to bite onto the back of his neck (Martial trial. DC 100) >Distract him with a large Destructive Yin Sphere, and then slice him with the Vein Draining Fang (Magic/ trickery. DC 120) >Cloak yourself in as much metal Qi as you can, and charge him, slamming into him as you use control off the Qi, trying to knock him off his feet before he can dodge the Massive bolt of lightning you've just thrown at him mid charge (Strength Trial. DC 130)\ >Don'. What is more humiliating than your opponent choosing not to hit you when you're unable to defend yourself? Instead, mock and tease him and try to piss him off, as you return to avoid and dodging his attacks (Agility trial. DC 44. Not an attack roll. DC Greatly lowered by buffs) >write in And yes, if the roll had been 92 or higher, you would've gotten a +70 bonus to the attack.
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>>5312756 >Distract him with a Destructive Yin sphere and slice him with vein draining fang, use this new blood drawn to Blind him further. I want to remove a wing, but this will do.
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>>5312759 >Distract him with a large Destructive Yin Sphere, and then slice him with the Vein Draining Fang (Magic/ trickery. DC 120) If we get him to bleed, then he will have a timer above his head, as the longer the fight goes, the more he will bleed out.
This will mean we can focus on dodging without worry too much about dealing damage.
Getting a wing would be great too, but I don't want to reveal the Blood Rush Torrent this early, especially if it damages us. It's best to keep that as a finishing move.
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>>5312759 >Don'. What is more humiliating than your opponent choosing not to hit you when you're unable to defend yourself? Instead, mock and tease him and try to piss him off, as you return to avoid and dodging his attacks (Agility trial. DC 44. Not an attack roll. DC Greatly lowered by buffs) >>5312705 I can hardly remember, the names are always so weird that I keep mixing them up.
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>>5312794 Actually, changing to
>Activate the vein hunting eye risk your health, and perform the Blood Torrent rush and then the Blood Red Lightning cat step.. The Crow King must've calculated the limits of your speed by now. So you have to go EVEN FURTHER BEYOND. Extend your claws, and aim for a wing (Martial Trial. DC 70) This no time for hubris, and crippling his ability to fly means we can keep being the more agile.
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>>5312759 I'm worrying that this is a trap and Baoli is expecting an attack, so let's at least distract him.
>Distract him with a large Destructive Yin Sphere, and then slice him with the Vein Draining Fang (Magic/ trickery. DC 120) Anonymous
>>5312759 >Distract him with a large Destructive Yin Sphere, and then slice him with the Vein Draining Fang (Magic/ trickery. DC 120) >Write-in (modification) Aim for his eyes. From what the crone said, Baoli *loves* to cripple his opponents and then toy with them once they're relatively helpless. What better way to enact poetic justice than by turning his own strategy against him, and showing him, firsthand, that payback is a bitch? It's not like he'll be able to fly very well if we succeed and he's blinded--- and he'll still probably bleed a fuckton anyway.
>>5312840 >This no time for hubris We're already pushing our body to its physical limits, hopped up on enough magic drugs to kill a lesser being. The problem of GOING EVEN FURTHER BEYOND (from shonen, and such) is that it's a desperate all-or-nothing, and the blowback is usually so harsh that it typically wrecks the person involved for a good while. QM was nice enough to tell us that using that option will put our health at significant risk, and Hell doesn't strike me as a safe place to lick our wounds, especially in the power vacuum brought on by Baoli's death.
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>>5312759 >Distract him with a large Destructive Yin Sphere, and then slice him with the Vein Draining Fang (Magic/ trickery. DC 120) Anonymous
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>>5312759 >Distract him with a large Destructive Yin Sphere, and then slice him with the Vein Draining Fang (Magic/ trickery. DC 120) We'll need to get a Red Death Scythe in at some point to negate him reigniting his vigor, but this'll impair him if it hits. Something tells me his inner healing will be greatly strengthened by his ire. Hopefully he doesn't have any rampage healing types of techniques.
At least he's adding a lot of new sand.
>>5312773 >>5312907 +1 to blinding him/aiming for his eyes.
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>>5312840 We actually want him to keep flying. Since we haven't shown off what the crown can do yet. Set him up for a wombo combo.
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>>5313069 Too right. He's also setting up a couple earth spells for restricting our movement by making and freeing up boulders everywhere with his stomps and kicks. A tactic which can be effective no matter how obvious it is.
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>>5313069 That's a good point actually.
Anyway, since the other option is winning, there is no need for me to change my vote for a third time.
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>>5312759 >Distract him with a large Destructive Yin Sphere, and then slice him with the Vein Draining Fang (Magic/ trickery. DC 120) I kinda want to bite his neck but I guess it won't be so easy.
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>>5312907 I also support trying for his eyes.
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>>5312759 >>Don'. What is more humiliating than your opponent choosing not to hit you when you're unable to defend yourself? Instead, mock and tease him and try to piss him off, as you return to avoid and dodging his attacks (Agility trial. DC 44. Not an attack roll. DC Greatly lowered by buffs) The angrier he is the easier it will be to herd him
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>>5313853 To be honest if we get the opportunity we should taunt him whenever we attack or dodge. The stuff he'd hate most, etc.
There's a lot we could say. Just have to write-in it as Huanliuxue appropriate.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Fri 24 Jun 2022 21:34:24 No. 5315720 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote now. Tallying the result. It is too fucking hot outside.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Fri 24 Jun 2022 22:05:53 No. 5315773 Report A blind bird cannot fly. You realize. And eyes are easily tricked with a little slight of hand. Or slight of claw and tail in your case. Lifting up your tail, still clinging tightly to the stone walls of the arena, you gather as much destructive yin Qi as you're capable of safely controlling at the end of your tail, channeling and moving it down the your tail before condensing it as tightly and heavily as is possible with your level of Qi Control and mastery. A black dart of Qi, formed from shadow appears at the very tip of your tail and begins to bulge outwards rapidly as it swells with more and more destructive spiritual energy. The power within the dart shapes and forms it into a dense sphere of highly refined and pure Yin Qi, dyed blacker and darker than a winter night without the light of the moon or stars to light one's way through it. And then that sphere grows and grows, expanding as you contain the spiraling vortex of the raw forces of destruction. The pure yin Qi grows ever darker as it rotates around itself, feeding upon itself cannibalistically as the sheer destructive potential of the simple Qi burst spell, refined and heightened past its natural level of spell craft into a potent and deadly expression of the yin aspect of destruction. For any lesser cultivator, and even many of your level, to create a Qi blast of such size and sheer power would be courting death. A single failed rotation, even bungling the addition of freshly refined Qi into the core of the spell, would cause it to prematurely fire and explode directly in their open palm. You'd never make such a novice mistake, of losing control or being overpowered by your own Qi, but the threat of causing at least your tail to explode as the ball of destruction upon it is still present none the less, no matter how miniscule and unlikely of a possibility it may be.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Fri 24 Jun 2022 22:06:54 No. 5315776 Report >>5315773 Which, brings him level to your claws, as you leap from the walls and float atop the wild winds churned up by the spell you just threw at him. Brilliantly Carmine light coats your claws like fresh blood, as you cast the spell that will be your first true attack. The feint of the destructive sphere, has kept Baoli-Wuyawang distracted from the true angle of your strike. His gaze and attention are still focused down, down towards the cloud of dust, sand and shards of stone thrown up by the explosion of blackness that had struck the ground where he had stood not even a fraction of a second ago.
Swinging your paws down, you send out ten cutting sickles of blood Qi. Nine of the red, curved blades of light, are distractions. Though they'll cut all the same, they are meant to draw the crow king's attention away from the real threat. For, the tenth of the sickles, smaller than the rest and aimed horizontally rather than diagonally, is no mere blade of Qi. It is in fact, the Vein Draining Fang! (血管 倾浆 獠牙, Xuèguǎnqīngjiāngliáoyá), hidden amongst the lesser blades. And it is aimed directly for his eyes!
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Rolled 88 (1d100) >>5315776 65 or above, c'mon...
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Rolled 60 + 60 (1d100 + 60) Not a 1.
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Rolled 15 + 60 (1d100 + 60) >>5315776 HUZZOHHHHHHHHHHA
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Fri 24 Jun 2022 22:30:19 No. 5315805 Report Quoted By:
>>5315780 20 over DC. Nice success.
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>>5315807 Meant to reply to this
>>5315780 But a double 60 is a nice number, even if it wouldn't pass the DC
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sat 25 Jun 2022 00:10:08 No. 5315891 Report Baoli-Wuyawang moves like a flash of lightning cracking the sky. His movements are so swift, that you barely realize he has moved at all, even with your heightened and enhanced senses pushing your perceptions far beyond the limits your already inhumanely close and keen sight. Black streaks of movement, that even with seeing and knowing all you do seem so fast and quick you can barely comprehend them as being possible to achieve. Beyond swift, beyond hasty, beyond rapid, the Crow King's talons flash through the air like a hallucination or dream of death. Your breath is stolen out of your mouth, as you struggle to measure exactly how fast his hands raked through the air. He clicked his talons with such great speed, you can see their path they tore through the still air more than you could follow their actual motion through it. To any eyes less trained than yours, the nine blades of carmine light simply dispersed as Baoli-Wuyawang turned a disdainful glare in their direction, the Qi forming them scattering like so many butterflies flying around him. Crimson and scarlet sparks of energy, flutter and fall around him as his wings spread wide, and moving so naturally, as if he has given control of his body completely over to his killing instinct, Baoli-Wuyawang shifts in the air and readies his next, charging attack.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sat 25 Jun 2022 00:11:09 No. 5315894 Report >>5315891 More blood than can be contained in his body, more blood that could be contained in a body twice the size of his own. It flows. It flows. and it keeps flowing, spilling from his face like a geyser. Finally, he places his hand in front of his eyes, stemming the tide long enough for you to appreciate the damage you dealt. A single cut, a gouge, slashed perfectly over his the center of his eyes and cutting the bridge of his nose before wrapping around the side of his head. You can see bone, as steam and smoke rises from his split flesh.
Both of his eyes have been completely destroyed. His hand covers them, growing larger and more feathered, but still, more and more blood spills out, over the sides of his hand and between its fingers. He slouches, leaning forward as if he's about to collapse as wrinkles begin to appear around the skin of his eyes. Is he drying out? Was the blow fatal? Has your Vein Draining Fang brought about his sudden demise
Your triumphant, wicked grin falls slightly, as you realize he isn't shuddering as he attempts to resist being drained of every drop of blood in his body. No. No. Much more terrifying.
Baoli-Wuyawang is laughing. His eyes have been taken. and he is laughing like you just told him a bawdy and lewd joke. He's laughing himself sick, laughing his voice hoarse and weak, as more and more of his blood pours out of him, drains out of him like he were a broken pot!
"How scary" you whisper, more amused and transfixed by the Crow King's strangeness than actually frightened by him. He just keeps laughing, as time slowly crawls back to its natural pace. His great wings drooping as his red streaked face twists into a truly maddened grin, his fangs flashing as he laughs louder and more crazily.
Tongues of fire slip through the fingers of the hand pressed tightly over the empty spaces where his eyes used to be. His wings lift and spread behind him.
"Oh~" He purrs, causing your fur to stand on end as his grin turns into a oily smile "I was beginning to think I'd end up disapointed. Huan~. Liu~. Xuuuue~"
A dry cackle rips out of his throat, as you pull his demonic blood around you, forming a sphere as a sort of secondary defense, wary of the devil king as he remains still, laughing despite being blinded.
"I thought....I was worried, I'd have to go easy on you. That'd I'd get bored and just snap your neck when you spent everything you had~" He giggles, like a little boy being caught doing something naughty.
You realize he's still looking at you. You realize, as his feathers span out, and his body shifts towards more bestial, feathers covering it as it expands up and outward, slowly pushing him to the form you first met him in. But his head remains...mostly human, that he can still sense you
"Oooooh Huanliuxue <3!" He cries out pulling his hand away from his face, and you half expected to see his eyes regrown, but they remain hollow, blood filled pits of raw and torn flesh.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sat 25 Jun 2022 00:13:19 No. 5315896 Report >>5315894 He throws his arms out as his wings lift completely upright
"I haven't had a challenge since I killed my wife's father! He put up one hell of a fight! I was worried, you'd be like all the others!" He cries, as the blood that should be draining out of him in great torrents now drips like tears down his reddened cheeks. He's resisting your spell, somehow, but he's already lost a lot of blood. and should be blinded. Should be. But you can't help but feel.
"Lets dance! in a festival of blood and screams! lets tear eachother apart, without restraint! Let us become drunk on eachother's pain and misery!" He screams, and you realize why you still feel his attentions. There are eyes, growing on his feathers
"So that's why you eat eyes, not for sustenance or sick pleasure" You hiss as he laughs, staring at you from a dozen blinking eyes
"That is the secret of my eye stealing technique! And what a deadly trick! Is that the same move you used to end the Sinner's bone centipede? I underestimated its power!" He shouts back "Oh I might just have to kill my wife as well! You're much more fun than that meek bitch!"
"Urrrgh" You groan, shivering as he dances in the air "Can you just shut up and fight"
"Oh, I can't deny a lady's request! Lets see how much blood YOU have in you, Bloodshed" He snarls viciously "See how you like having your eyes plucked from your skull? I wonder, how lovely of a scream will you make for me then? Are you willful enough to endure the agonizing loss of sight! COME! PRINCESS OF THE DEAD! LET US MAKE MERRY"
"AND DANCE TO OUR HEART'S CONTENT!" He roars, vanishing from your sight. He's rushing you again.
"WHIRLWIND OF RAZOR WINGS! GET TORN TO SHREDS AND SHRIEK IN AGONY! BLEED! BLEEED!" He screams, as he appears in front of you before you can react. His arms are wrapped around his legs, gripping the feathers there. He pulls out a handful and flexes his wings. You can see the air being split and sliced to pieces, as hundreds of razor sharp feathers are launched from every direction around Baoli-Wuyawang, as he throws the ones he pulled from his legs directly at you, like a dozen darts and knives.
You can see eyes on some of them, blinking and watching you.
What do you do to try and avoid the attack, Huanliuxue?
>Crash the blood you stole from him against his attack! (Magic trial. DC 76) >Create a Dying grudge shield! ! Quickly! (Reaction/ Magic trial. DC 65) >DODGE! You took all those cultivation drugs for a reason! (agility trial. DC 60 DC vastly lowered) >Counter! With the red death scythe! Spill more of his blood and steal his lifeforce (Martial Trial. DC 92 OR DC 45 if you use the Blood Torrent rush) >Don't try to. Just clench your jaw, and bite down on your miraculous healing pill. >write in Anonymous
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>Crash the blood you stole from him against his attack! (Magic trial. DC 76)
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>>5315896 >Dodge bitch. What absolute insanity.
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>>5315896 >Crash the blood you stole from him against his attack! (Magic trial. DC 76) I think destroying the feathers should be a priority, the more eyes are left around the arena the better he'll be able to see us from multiple angles.
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>>5315896 >DODGE! You took all those cultivation drugs for a reason! (agility trial. DC 60 DC vastly lowered) Anonymous
>>5315896 A point black ranged enclosure attack from all angles with tracking, and fire. Flaming feathers with eyes. That's cool.
YOU ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD We have a great deal of his blood available to us. His feather attacks have eyes, and while we can dodge them I don't believe dodging is the best solution. We need to ensure they've been expended as he closes in physically, otherwise we'll be fighting off his feathers and fists at the same time.
He knows we can handle at least one of those, but not both, so I believe he's using this as a chance to set us on the backfoot and force away any momentum we can build. His eyes are everywhere now, so that means any he doesn't use to attack will be giving him extra angles of vision and permitting him to fill the arena with them will make many attacks harder to pull off. Well, also, the crone said his fighting style is aggressive/chase down. I think we've figured out that running away will just let him build too much offense.
Which means he's actually the perfect opponent to our soft style. >write-in We should activate our Scarlet Healing Armor empowered with HIS blood, and hit him with Red Death Scythe while he's attacking.
Because his yang heavy fire aligned blood should both strengthen the basic properties of its healing, but more importantly its barrier abilities will be elevated with his alignments and strength- which are tremendous.
Maintaining it for multiple turns of combat like we did against Xiaosi (ice block monk) will provide us the opportunity to keep using drain attacks.
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>>5315935 There's a possibility to use the Crown to great effectiveness against his eye feathers, but I don't know if we're capable of splitting our attentions that much while focusing on a barrier and dealing damage, which is why I didn't include it here. But if we do good it might be a great followup.
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>>5315935 Do you think there's a danger of his blood having some property that would make using Scarlet Healing Armor a move that could be more beneficial to him than us? By the description it increases the bodies natural healing, and if it's made out of his blood rather than our own, could it help him heal?
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>>5315944 I wouldn't believe so. As the healing effect is partitioned within a clinging barrier and refining blood into techniques (so far) has given us total control of all effects via Pure Blood Qi.
For example if we just coated ourselves in his blood itself, no extra Qi or barrier, that would likely have a suppressive effect on us given our nature, and no effect on him.
Simplifying the relationship, he would have to gain control of our Blood Qi itself, and then the Barrier technique to translate a beneficial effect from it. I thought of this initially, but If he could control his own blood to the degree that our Blood Qi within it is usable by him then the attack we just used should not have worked to the extent that he needed to cauterize the wound to stop the flow.
As the Barrier's healing encouragement is such a limited aura, I would also think If he is to gain any healing from it by coercive property he would need to grapple first and then stay grappled. That he's decided to stick to ranged and strikes makes that hard to see. He would also have to notice we're using his power to heal us, and it's not just another property or greater Blood Qi technique, and then act on that.
The Qi/Blood Qi/Blood relationship appears highly restrictive to intent, so even if he can, we can nuke the barrier's benefit by wrapping it around him and make it an enervating effect much like most of our other Blood Qi attacks. In which case our usage of it for defense here would only be the first stage of a deathly feint.
The closest potential benefits to Baoli I see are the simpler ones; the strength of his blood will not hurt him greatly itself, which is why I didn't suggest imbuing the attack itself with his blood or hitting him with it.
tl; the Healing Aura is conducive to Blood Qi Control restricted by healing intent whenever we've used it in action. If he has an ability to change that, he would need to adopt a different fighting style.
BUT he is a crafty old bastard, so we can be cautious by remaining out of grappling range as we have been so far.
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>>5315896 >>5315921 Then I'll switch over my vote to your write-in
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>>5315978 I'll add a caveat that I'd only considered thanks to looking back at the ice monk fight.
With the essential factor that our Blood Qi is primarily Yang aligned for its lifeforce aspects, using a material perfectly suited to strengthening the Qi itself [Baoli's Fire/Yang Blood] is more like consuming a cultivation item to enhance an ability's basic properties temporarily. It'll run out. Yang alignments and therefore the extended energy of Fire is not alien to us, we have it in the form of Blood Qi's lifeforce, but we're inexperienced with wielding it in full techniques, which is always a very real risk to any technique being bolstered with an item.
Since the ultimate simplification is we're expending his blood to buff our shield, we still need to have the ability to control a much stronger shield.
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>>5315980 After our show with the pure Yin energy orb, I'm confident in our ability to control spell constructs that are much stronger than normal, even if using the energy to bolster our techniques to such a level isn't something we've built a familiarity with.
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>>5315983 We'd better! Once these pills wear off we'll need to switch to such a different strategy that most of the blood techniques we're using now likely won't aid at all, and because he'll be expecting them.
I mean geeze these DCs basically mean this was going to be an unwinnable fight if we hadn't pill scummed AND gotten above average luck. We have to kill him in the most seriously thorough ways we can imagine and execute.
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>>5315896 Two ideas:
>Those are flying feathers. We have wind power. Trap the blades in a tornado using the crown of trapped winds and sands and throw it back at him. Also try to kick up some sand to throw it in his 1000 eyes to further irritate him. or
>each of these feathers has an eye plucked from a foe, who died in agony and with a powerful grudge. Summon the vengeful spirits of his victims through their eyes and allow them to take control of their respective feathers. Anonymous
>>5315896 >Create a Dying grudge shield! ! Quickly! (Reaction/ Magic trial. DC 65) My first reflex is to just dodge, but it seems to me that that is exactly what he want.
Consider that we hit him it was because we attacked him out of his blind spot, striking him while he couldn't see us, and otherwise dodged. A great way to counter such an approach would be to scatter literal eyes everywhere, like he is now, so that he can keep track of us no matter where we are. There is no way he actually expects this to hit us, he is spinning his web to ensnare us with, and its probably best to keep up the pressure so he doesn't have the time to abuse his extended field of vision.
He might be able to control his feathers after having thrown them too, so we will have to keep track of them. Wouldn't be much of a stretch if he can place eyes on them.
Too early for the Blood Rush Torrent though, so Grudge shield should at least keep him on his toes.
>>5316275 >each of these feathers has an eye plucked from a foe, who died in agony and with a powerful grudge. Summon the vengeful spirits of his victims through their eyes and allow them to take control of their respective feathers. I like this idea. I have no idea if its possible, but I like it.
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>>5316286 it just feels like an enemy that has killed and tortured so many should be especially vulnerable to ghost/grudge fuckery. Maybe we can somehow channel his father-in-law, lol.
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>>5315935 We've trained him to expect a dodge, now tank and counter!
And then
>each of these feathers has an eye plucked from a foe, who died in agony and with a powerful grudge. Summon the vengeful spirits of his victims through their eyes and allow them to take control of their respective feathers. >>5316302 Remember that he defeated his father in law. Channeling him might be unwise.
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>>5316352 Also we have to meet the person and know about a lot about them before channeling.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 27 Jun 2022 14:29:36 No. 5319236 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote now, tallying the result. Hope everyone had a pleasant weekend. Mine kept me away from my PC.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 27 Jun 2022 15:06:13 No. 5319264 Report Your medically quickened and improved reaction and perception of time allow you to, in the very short span of time between Baoli-Wuyawang appearing in front of you and filling the air with his razor edged, hard as steel feathers in a churning, cutting vortex of slicing and dicing death, formulate a plan against his area clearing, army slaying technique he calls the Whirlwind of razor wings. Clearly, it is not the kind of attack one would normally use against a single opponent, but rather one that is meant to wound or tear apart multiple, lesser opponents simultaneously. Expending a little more Qi and energy to wipe the board clean of pawns. An instant kill technique against several enemies or even a whole troop of soldiers. The kind of ability that would be beloved by Warhawks and Generals. You suppose you should, at least in someway, feel honored that the Crow King has come to consider you troublesome enough to attack you with a technique meant to cut through armies, even if his boundless bloodlust and flippant manner and demeaning mockery make him gross and unseemly by your standards. That, and his ever more apparent admiration and weird fascination with you and your life is...rather disturbing and makes it rather hard to feel as pleased as you usually are when shown such well earned respect. He is a fan you'd rather not keep around.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 27 Jun 2022 15:07:13 No. 5319266 Report >>5319264 You're certain, the ordinary form of the scarlet healing armor, would break after a few strikes of the whirlwinds thousands of blades. But, when your own Blood Qi is supplemented by Baoli-Wuyawang's incredibly potent demonic blood, it might just be strong enough to last until the whirlwind stops. Even if Baoli-Wuyawang showers you blows and punches that could split boulders!
So, in the moment it takes you to devise this plan and decide to armor yourself, you draw most of the crow devil's blood that fills the air, and surround yourself with it. Its enough to fill a large pond! You push and press it together, compressing and shrinking it down so you can more easily use it as a power source for your barrier spell. His blood is strongly aligned to Fire and Yang, so the scarlet healing armor's passive healing ability will be heightened alongside its effectiveness as a barrier, all strengthened by the Crow King's own power embodied within his stolen blood. How ironic, that one who takes the strength of his victims through eating their flesh, has had his own strength turned against him as a towering shield!
It wraps around you and becomes a screen of blazing scarlet light, its great power transferring into the carmine scales of light appearing over your body, locking together and forming the most complete form of the barrier spell that has even been seen! it shapes itself to appear as form fitting armor as impenetrable as the gates to King Yan's own palace. You flex your claws, preparing to lash out at Baoli-Wuyawang with the deadly Red Death Scythe, having anticipated that he will resume his furious assault and unleash a flurry of bone breaking strikes to accompany his storm of feathers!
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Rolled 88 (1d100) >>5319266 Anonymous
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>>5319282 Thirty over DC. Amazing success.
Also kind of weird that its 88 again. Anyways, update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 27 Jun 2022 16:39:46 No. 5319355 Report The world becomes dyed red, like blood has soaked into your eyes, as the scarlet healing armor covers you head completely. Keening creaks and grinding sounds assault your sensitive ears as your nose is drowned in blood, as the dagger like feather's Baoli-Wuywang threw your way strike edge first against your barrier spell, carving deep into the scales. Some find their way through gaps or chinks in the armor as it forms or otherwise make them as they drag across the surface. Brief flashes of stabbing and cutting pain pan across your back and sides as feathers begin to spin and rotate through the air, surround your opponent like a vortex of agonizing death. Your blood drips through the damaged scales of your carmine armor, and begins to flow down your fur before your natural healing, kicked into overdrive begins to mend the scratches and cuts you endured from just the opening movements of The Whirlwind of Razor Wing. Flesh knits back together, and skin heals, faster than even the most trained of healers could accomplish with internal energy or Qi! This amount of healing is equal to what you would receive from swallowing the miraculous elixir you still have hidden behind your fangs in your mouth! Incredible! And the excess of lifeforce surging through you gives you an extra skip to your step and a secondary boost of energy and stamina to go along with your drug fueled excitement and haste!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 27 Jun 2022 16:40:51 No. 5319356 Report >>5319355 You should've saved some of his blood for refinement and medicine making, you could've made healing pills that could've bought you heaven itself! It truly is a strange feeling, feeling muscles tear and then repair, lungs deflate and then stitch themselves such. But not unpleasant, when you don't feel the pain.
And in his frustration to make you cry out in pain and break your armor that he must have realized is boosting your body's rate of healing far beyond its natural limit to an unimaginably extreme height, he focus everything he has on shattering the armor empowered by his own blood. He throws great winds against you, buffeting you with dozens of razor edged feathers, and begins to set his claws and feet on fire as he hastens the rhythm and sets a blistering pace with his strikes.
And so, leaves himself entirely defenseless as he shouts a mantra of "Die" as he throws and tosses you through the air like a ball. Slamming a knee into your jaw, the "helmet" of the scarlet healing armor cracks down the center. The Crow King grins with a devilish grin, more wicked than any you have seen, triumphant in finally piercing the defense his own blood made nigh unbreakable
"ENOUGH TRICKS! I'M TIRED OF ALL YOUR UNIQUE ABILITIES AND HIDDEN TECHNIQUES AND BIZZARE POWERS! KNOW YOUR PLACE AND JUST DIE!" He roars, lifting both of his arms above his head, gripping his taloned hands together into a tight ball as your head rockets upwards. He's going to throw all of his strength to hammer your head back into his knee. Your skull will break, and your neck will be severed internally. However, he never has a chance to swing
Cause he's left his belly exposed and was so generous as to stretch himself out. After enduring a barrage that could probably knock down his tower, you flick your claws, and release the Red Death Scythe in one smooth motion. The five daggers your were born with, slice through his cut as the Blood and Death Qi tipping them pierce through his's skins frankly ridiculous natural durability. The knives become swords, as scythes of Night Black and Blood Red Spiritual energy tear into his flesh and lifeforce.
Black smoke and hunks of red gore cling to your claws as you draw them through his stomach, as both his blood and vital essence pour out of him like a burst dam. The air, suddenly chills, as Baoli-Wuyawang's killing intent suddenly steeply sharpens and grows so intense you nearly are knocked out as it pours out of him and fills the tower. The eyes still stuck to his wings glare at you in disbelief, unable to comprehend that you have wounded him a second time, that you have two techniques that could harm him. And that dared to even try to.
Yet, he does not wilt away, destroyed by the shock of losing so much more blood and having the essence of his life directly attacked.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 27 Jun 2022 16:43:06 No. 5319357 Report >>5319356 He slouches, as a tide of blood falls from his open belly, guts hanging from it like vines as it begins to resemble a crimson water fall, as the wound over his eyes opens back up and blood once more flows from the holes where his first two eyes used to be.
But, instead of fading away, his life and spirit rallies. And he becomes surrounded by an aura of dark flames. He seems like he'll say something, but instead is deathly silent, all mirth and playfulness wiped away. His flippant and dismissive attitude is gone, he is no longer pretending to be affable or genial. All emotion has drained from his expression, save for one. Before you, stands an avatar of rage. The true face of Baoli-Wuyawang.
Sensing danger, you try to retreat, so you can wait for your next opening to deal devastating damage against this opponent you really have no business fighting let alone doing as well as you have been against. But, you're caught, the crow king wraps his arm around you, and kicking off the air, carries you further up the tower at a unreal speed.
He stops just before the roof, before turning himself around by leaning backwards and allowing himself to plummet Deathly cold surrounds you, and you realize he has set both of you ablaze with the black and freezing fires of the underworld
He's performing the black star's decent! Razor edged feathers twirl around the two of you and began to once more strike against your armor as the black flames grow and grow, the cold biting into you becoming more and more intense as you rocket down, down towards the earth, held tightly in the crow king's talons.
What do you do to try to escape, Huanliuxue?
>Bite down as hard as you can on his wrist and try to tear yourself free (Strength trial. DC 90) >Create a dying grudge shield right before the two of you impact on thee ground (Reaction/ magic trial. DC 75) >Take a deep breath, and take on the power of Xiongji's grudge, and try to wrestle and kick your way out of Baoli's arms (Martial Trial. DC 70) >Use the crown of trapped sands and caged winds to throw the falling star off course, so you can escape (Magic trial. DC 65.) >Put as much Qi as you can into your armor and prepare to use the miraculous healing pill to endure his attack and recover from it as quickly as possible (Fortitude trial. DC 44. DC vastly lowered) >Write in Anonymous
>>5319357 Can we use our soft style, grudge shield and crown to spin him at the last moment so he impacts the ground with his body instead of ours? Our armor should be able to stave off the second hand effects of such a gigantic impact traveling through him into us. With his guts hanging out like that it would probably be like stepping on a torn bag with our huge body acting like the boot. Like the bodyslam form of a cross counter.
If not I'll just go with
>Use the crown of trapped sands and caged winds to throw the falling star off course, so you can escape (Magic trial. DC 65.) Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 27 Jun 2022 17:08:16 No. 5319381 Report Quoted By:
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>>5319357 I second the motion here.
>>5319372 >Use our soft style and crown in conjunction to manouver his body to take the full brunt of the hit, and multiply his pain with the dying grudge shield. It's probably going to be some DC, but whoooo boy is he gonna feel it.
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>>5319357 Ah, grappling with a nutcracker tactic. The idyllic combination of a seagull breaking a crab and a pro wrestling finisher.
>>5319372 >>5319357 +1.
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>write-in We might not have much time, but this is the first time he's put himself in range of our Breath attacks. We can infuse our already potent weakening grudge breath with Blood Qi's energy sapping sorrow and he won't be able to avoid the hit.
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>>5319372 I'll second this. We are probably going to feel this one, but by god so will he.
Not gonna lie I didn't expect our counter attack to wreck him that bad. I mean he probably still has a dangerous amount of fight left in him, but still, damn.
>"ENOUGH TRICKS! I'M TIRED OF ALL YOUR UNIQUE ABILITIES AND HIDDEN TECHNIQUES AND BIZZARE POWERS!" I get the feeling we are going to get that a lot.
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>>5319357 >>5319372 I'll second this. We are probably going to feel this one, but by god so will he.
Not gonna lie I didn't expect our counter attack to wreck him that bad. I mean he probably still has a dangerous amount of fight left in him, but still, damn.
>"ENOUGH TRICKS! I'M TIRED OF ALL YOUR UNIQUE ABILITIES AND HIDDEN TECHNIQUES AND BIZZARE POWERS!" I get the feeling we are going to get that a lot.
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>>5319398 >Invited a prodigy of an unorthadox law to fight. >The prodigy is really good at fighting with their unorthadox law, and the unorthadox law is unorthadox in nature. Crow king: No, this isn't how you are meant to play the game.
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>>5319405 It's beautiful.
To think, all of this because a Pig told a Crow about a Cat who boasts.
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>>5319357 >Put as much Qi as you can into your armor and prepare to use the miraculous healing pill to endure his attack and recover from it as quickly as possible (Fortitude trial. DC 44. DC vastly lowered) We have rolled too well so far, so I'm preparing for when luck fail us.
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>>5319372 Supporting the write-in
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 27 Jun 2022 20:56:51 No. 5319583 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote now, tallying the result.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 27 Jun 2022 21:19:50 No. 5319610 Report You're plumetting, and indeed moving faster than you ever have before! The air around you is shrieking and screaming in your ears, making them hurt and ache terribly! And the velocity of your forced decent is enough to make you sick and reopen the wounds still healing from the swarm of razor sharp feather's latest pass over and through your Qi armor! Your jaws are forcibly parted, you can feel your stomach bruising from the air rushing against it, as it also blinds your eyes by forcing them closed. You can't tell what pains are coming from the fierce winds, cutting feathers, freezing flames or just the sheer force of being dragged down through the air in the iron grip of a crow devil! But, you wouldn't be a once in several generations prodigy if you couldn't think on your toebeans and overcome obstacles as deadly as shooting down towards solid earth faster than lighting strikes the earth. Your mind is in shambles, you can barely think straight and your stream of consciousness is completely broken, but your instincts, both animal and fighting, rally from beneath the scattered thoughts filling your motion and pain addled mind. And so you're able to plan. Not carefully certainly, hastily definitely, desperately arguably, but you are still able to plan. Plan in the same way any other martial artist plans their next move as they perform it, or any other cat alters the trajectory of their pounce as they carry it out.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 27 Jun 2022 21:21:10 No. 5319613 Report >>5319610 It'll come down to the last few inches. If you can't force Baoli-Wuyawang to turn, if you can't redirect the force of his fall, if the sands and winds are strong enough, if the dying grudge shield doesn't activate quickly enough, you'll fail. You need to turn him over, you need to spin him around, you don't give up, and put all of your trust in the instincts that lead you to attempt such a risky maneuver!
HOW TERRIBLY EXCITING! YOU'D LAUGH WITH JOY IF YOU COULD BREATH OUT!
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Rolled 48 (1d100) >>5319613 Anonymous
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Rolled 31 (1d100) >>5319613 Anonymous
Rolled 98 (1d100) >>5319613 Please
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>>5319625 THANK FUCK
Jesus, I was getting seriously worried.
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>>5319625 One crow pancake coming right up.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 27 Jun 2022 21:41:39 No. 5319638 Report >>5319625 20 over DC. Just under 30 over. Great Success.
>>5319627 Based Majima-san
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>>5319638 I guess he forgot that cats always land on their feet.
And he is right under our heel
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 27 Jun 2022 22:26:12 No. 5319693 Report Through the rush of the wind, over the roar of a crowd of devils thirsting for blood to be spilt and a mantra of your name shouted loud enough to resound not only in the court and juryroom of every Yama king who judges the dead in yellow springs of Diyu, but also reach even the highest pillars of heaven, you can hear Baoli-Wuyawang shift before you can feel it. The rustling of his wings, the grinding of his hardened feathers of steel brushing up against one another, the sound of air twisting and whipping around in a tight vortex, the crackle of fire nearly blown out by a sudden gale. Then, you feel it, your paws sinking into his stone hard flesh, the ripples of power sent back into his strong body through the dying grudge shield's loud and unignorable rebuttal of raw force, the grit of sand thrown against your face and rubbed down your belly, the whip like touch of the winds who you have usurped and taken full control of! The sky is no longer his domain! You have taken it from him! Just as you have overpowered him with his own strength and momentum, and taken full control over the seemingly unbreakable grappled HE foolishly initiated! Even the dullest of village brats know to never pick up a cat when they're fangs and claws are bared.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 27 Jun 2022 22:27:13 No. 5319695 Report >>5319693 And it seems a devil's neck is no different. And then comes the force of hitting the ground. You fall flat against the Crow King's still chest, as the force of his fall creates a massive crater in the floor and cause the tower above you to shake and tremble, its pillars shifting and foundations cracking as portions of its walls and roof cave in. Rocks and pebbles shower down, as you try to gather your senses and stand. It hurts to breath, your lungs feel like they have been crushed and all four of your legs hurt, your back aches. But, you can already feel your body beginning to heal and fix the damage and pain you sustained from the sudden stop of your free fall.
You sigh, standing atop Baoli-Wuyawang's motionless form, paw still pressed against his temple. His head is completely red and buried in the soil out of view, and his wings are twisted and bent, looking broken and as pathetic as a chicken ready to be butchered. One of his legs is splayed out, the other is pressed against your chest. One of his arms is almost torn in two, the bone inside of it sticking it out of its meat and almost piercing through the wrist of its hand. The other is still clenched tightly in a fist above your head. His neck, well you've seen hanged men with necks less broken than his. The cut on his stomach has completely spilled open, leaving his steaming bowels to flow past his sides and over his legs.
It occurs to you, you're snarling at him. Huffing disdainfully, you lift your paw from his head, and try to find your balance and bearings so you can emerge from the crater gracefully and in elegance. Baoli-Wuyawang's outstretched fist falls, nearly making you jump out of your skin. But, you keep walking, he can't get up from that, nothing can survive being slammed into the ground with such force and from such height. He's dead! Deader than dead!
"THE BLACK STAR HAS BEEN SHATTERED! THE TOWER CRUMBLES! THE CROW KING HAS BROKEN HIS WINGS" The announcer cries out breathlessly as your name once more fills the now slightly damaged tower
The ground under your paws shift as the walls of the crater begin to collasp and fall. Your heart freezes, and you stop, motionless as you feel killing intent from the body that should by all means by a mangled corpse. You turn around, and see something that disgusts and terrifies even you, who lives among corpses, keeps court with mad, lunatic spirits, and stores the more virulent grudges on earth in her gullet.
Baoli-Wuyawang is moving, he is rising. His flesh bursts at the seams, exposing raw muscle as his broken body grows and expands. Horns sprout from the cracks in his skull, his head hanging limply against his shoulder. You can't help but think he looks like a duck or goose whose neck has been broken after they've been caught. The grey cinders clinging to his wings, grow into black, cold flames once more and burn away all the feathers on his wings, reducing them to nothing more than scorched bones.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 27 Jun 2022 22:28:31 No. 5319699 Report >>5319695 "Huanliuxue! The boogeyman of the Ling! The heretic of the boundless wilds! The Heiress of the Primordial kings! The Empress of graves and blood has defeated Baoli-Wuyawang" The announcer cries out as you blood becomes ice.
Baoli-Wuyawang hates being mocked, hates being laughed at and looked down upon.
'Shut up shut up shut up shut up! By buddha close your mouth and be quiet!!' is the only thought you can hold onto as the crow king's body transforms into a truly monsterous, towering shape, barely humanoid, only scarcely recognizable as a crow. His head is crowned by a twisted bramble of black goat horns and antlers, the empty sockets of his eyes emit shadow as what remains of his skin is stretched as tattered leather over his bulging, unnatural frame of muscle scorched by heatless flame. His upper body looks like a gorilla's with trunk size arms hanging down past his knees, crowned by long talons curved like sickles. A fang filled beak creaks open over the skinned remains of his face as he stands atop his
His still normal and human shaped legs, covered by the pants he has been wearing since you met him. The sight of such small legs being attached to such a massive, goliath of a devil would be hilarious if said gorilla goliath wasn't glaring up at you, radiating such power murderous intent it could cause swords, axes and spears to split apart and melt before they had a chance to graze him.
"Kkkkch" he groans as he grabs hold of his head and holds it back up with a wet, squelching noise "Kill...you...all"
And that is not an empty threat, that is a promise.
<span class="mu-s"> Baoli-Wuyawang, grievously injured, has entered a berserk rage </span>
"I'LL KILL EVERYONE THAT LAUGHS AT ME" He roars, slamming his fists into the ground, causing the ground to turn molten as pillars of soot hued flame shoot up into the sky, before he spots you and begins to charge and amble his way up towards you, roaring like a rabid bear, blood flowing down his face and stomach like crimson waterfalls.
What do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Dodge his barreling charge, and try to get around behind him as he sprints into the stands, blinded by fury and pain...and his lack of eyes (Agility trial. DC 50) >Try to hold down the brute that Baoli-Wuyawang has become with all the strings of ghost empress melody (Magic trial. DC 88) >His split open stomach is a weak point, rush to meat him and bite into his entrails as you run past him and drag them out behind you (Martial trial. DC 75) >Attempt to bury him with sand as you backpedal as fast as you can away from him (Magic Trial. DC 70) >Write in Anonymous
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>>5319699 >Dodge his barreling charge, and try to get around behind him as he sprints into the stands, blinded by fury and pain...and his lack of eyes (Agility trial. DC 50) Time to set up for a backstab, it's a garanteed kill.
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>>5319699 >Dodge his barreling charge, and try to get around behind him as he sprints into the stands, blinded by fury and pain...and his lack of eyes (Agility trial. DC 50) Ahh the moment we've been aiming for.
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>>5319699 Holy shit man, what sort of monster are you?!
I know we are punching WELL above our weight class with this fight, but this is ridiculous!
>dodge his charge. At least he still has blood to give us.
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>>5319708 Yeah I want all of his body. Just imagine the cultivation materials we can make from it.
Thankfully we have a bunch of sealing pearls to transport a corpse with ease... and just in case this is only one of two second wind abilities he has.
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>>5319699 >Dodge his barreling charge, and try to get around behind him as he sprints into the stands, blinded by fury and pain...and his lack of eyes (Agility trial. DC 50) This fucker is a textbook example of "refusing to die". I'm really glad we have not failed a roll during this fight because I'm pretty sure we would be the one with our guts on the floor otherwise.
And here I though this match would stay civil enough that we would both stay alive by the end of it. I feel silly.
Great writing for this whole fight, I am at the edge of my seat Anonymous
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I just had a thought, Baoli has show that you can interview, what if someone else snatches his to learn the absurd amount of knowledge he has on us? Maybe we shouls try to capture his soul on one of our jars when we kill him, if they are even capable of holding such a powerful one.
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>>5319699 >Dodge his barreling charge, and try to get around behind him as he sprints into the stands, blinded by fury and pain...and his lack of eyes (Agility trial. DC 50) Anonymous
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>>5319699 >Dodge his barreling charge, and try to get around behind him as he sprints into the stands, blinded by fury and pain...and his lack of eyes (Agility trial. DC 50) Anonymous
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>>5319699 >>Dodge his barreling charge, and try to get around behind him as he sprints into the stands, blinded by fury and pain...and his lack of eyes (Agility trial. DC 50) Local bird literally too humiliated to die. Maybe we should like, compliment his tenacity or something. Maybe if his ego is soothed he won't be so assmad he is unable to perish. What an absolute fucking lad this crow is though damn.
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>>5319699 >Dodge his barreling charge, and try to get around behind him as he sprints into the stands, blinded by fury and pain...and his lack of eyes (Agility trial. DC 50) Anonymous
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>>5319699 >>His split open stomach is a weak point, rush to meat him and bite into his entrails as you run past him and drag them out behind you (Martial trial. DC 75) Anonymous
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>>5319699 >Dodge his barreling charge, and try to get around behind him as he sprints into the stands, blinded by fury and pain...and his lack of eyes (Agility trial. DC 50) let him go on his rampage and finish him when his fuel runs out
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>>5319699 >Use Ghost Empress Melody to imitate laugh coming from a different direction and redirect his charge this way. Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
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Ending the vote now, tallying the results
Dodge his barreling charge, and try to get around behind him as he sprints into the stands, blinded by fury and pain...and his lack of eyes: 9
His split open stomach is a weak point, rush to meat him and bite into his entrails as you run past him and drag them out behind you:1
Use Ghost Empress Melody to imitate laugh coming from a different direction and redirect his charge this way.: 1
So You'll Dodge The Crow King's charge and try to maneuver behind him as he rushes the stands
Update will arrive shortly
>>5319716 Thanks! Really put some wind under my wings.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Wed 29 Jun 2022 02:42:11 No. 5321247 Report There's really only one thing you can do when you're staring down a massive, near skinless gorilla that is growing larger and more muscular with every step it takes, cracking the ground with its monstrous and completely unrestrained strength as it charges towards you like a furious ox looking to gore you upon its horns, of which this towering mass of murderous rage and blind fury has many, more than a garden has flowers, especially when said berserk incarnation of bloody and vengeful brutality is surrounded by the very fires of purgatory itself and is looking to rip your head from your shoulders and scream at it loud enough for all of the skin and flesh of your skull to be peeled and torn away by the volume of its bellowing roars alone. Even a prodigy such as yourself only has this one choice to take, despite all of your cunning, skill and talent that has allowed you to reduce the once regal crow king into a snarling, rabid and still nigh unfathomably dangerous animal.
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Rolled 78 (1d100) >>5321247 If you can dodge a rampaging devil you can dodge a ball.
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Rolled 51 (1d100) >>5321247 Anonymous
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Rolled 71 (1d100) >>5321247 Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
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>>5321260 Success. 20 over DC, nearly 30
update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Wed 29 Jun 2022 04:56:09 No. 5321415 Report Without thinking, relying completely on your instincts and muscle memory honed over days over harsh training, you perform a series of motions that you have practiced so many times the marrow of your bones have memorized them. With your agility and speed still greatly heightened by the medicines you took to prepare for this battle, your limbs move with rehearsed ease as you go from standing as still as a corpse or statue to moving as suddenly and swiftly as a bolt of lightning racing across the heavens. Just the effects of the Hare's fleetness divine blood honey medicine and the Miraculous Flickering Wind pellet, would be enough for you to match Baoli-Wuyawang's current speed, as he drags his broken body forward faster than could be seen with an unassisted eye, and even to your eyes appears more like a flickering image of a bloody corpse than an easily trackable target. However, you have a trick up your sleeve, the first technique you innovated and one of your most reliable! The Phantom Cat step. Your opponent is presently not in a state of mind to do anything by rake his claws at the nearest object or run over it like a living landslide, so he won't be able to counter or catch you when you "Blink" around and behind him. He's too focused on destroying and killing EVERYTHING to pay much attention to destroying or killing you! His rage has taken full control of him and turned him into little more than a slobbering, drooling moron with tunnel vision towards rending apart and mauling whatever or whoever is unlucky enough to be in his way. His pride has been wounded, and he is lashing out wildly.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Wed 29 Jun 2022 04:57:14 No. 5321416 Report >>5321415 He swings one of his arms to the side, scattering the sand clone you made as you circle around his back as he slams into the arena wall, causing it completely collapse as he just walks up and through it, grabbing an incredibly stupid devil who remained over the edge of the arena, crushing it between his palm and the floor before lashing his talons out at a crowd of guards, severing arms and legs as he rears up and bellows. A stream of coal black fire shoots from his mouth as he pulls himself out of the pit, throwing the splattered corpse of the senseless devil up a level as he spreads his wings and bathes the lowest level of his tower in the flames of the yellow springs, incinerating any devil too foolhardy to retreat to a higher tier of the palace or too slow to reach the stairs.
He slams his fists into the ground and continues kicking and punching at the ground and the pillars holding up the higher levels of his palace, throwing a tantrum against...well, everything as he exposes his back completely to you, having forgotten you were the one he wanted to brutalize first, at least for the moment.
This is an opportunity you shouldn't let slip by.
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How do you attack the rampaging Baoli-Wuyawang, Huanliuxue?
>Blast him with a volley of destructive Yin spheres! Try to collapse the next few floor higher up ontop of him (Magic trial. DC 70) >Put everything you have into trying to end the fight in one more blow, activate the blood torrent rush, and perform the Blood Red Lightning Cat step to rush around Baoli-Wuyawang, clawing the tendons of his feet and harassing him until he exposes his neck (Martial Trial. DC 62) >Overload him with rage, by surrounding him with a grudge cloud and then imbuing it with Blood Qi. His physique may be monstrous, but no matter what a heart belongs to, it can only endure so much abuse (Magic Trial. DC 65) >Use ghost empress melody to hold him in place, before cutting him to ribbons, he has to be running out of blood...(Magic trial. DC 82) >Write in Anonymous
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>>5321416 >Overload him with rage, by surrounding him with a grudge cloud and then imbuing it with Blood Qi. His physique may be monstrous, but no matter what a heart belongs to, it can only endure so much abuse (Magic Trial. DC 65) With the intention of creating a grudge so potent we can cultivate it from his dying soul. Anonymous
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>>5321416 >>Overload him with rage, by surrounding him with a grudge cloud and then imbuing it with Blood Qi. His physique may be monstrous, but no matter what a heart belongs to, it can only endure so much abuse (Magic Trial. DC 65) Kind of poetic. The devil who has so much ridiculous strength from his anger will have it turned against him. I wonder, will he enter cardiac arrest or will his heart literally explode? Only one way to find out. Though I do hope it remains intact enough to harvest. Not too big of a loss otherwise, though. He's got tons of other bits we may be able to abscond with.
Oh wait yeah didn't he say or imply he corrupted the other sources of blood qi throughout the ages? Kinda neat how it comes back pure as crystal to fuck him to death. Truly karmic.
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>>5321416 >Overload him with rage, by surrounding him with a grudge cloud and then imbuing it with Blood Qi. His physique may be monstrous, but no matter what a heart belongs to, it can only endure so much abuse (Magic Trial. DC 65) Anonymous
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>>5321416 >Overload him with rage, by surrounding him with a grudge cloud and then imbuing it with Blood Qi. His physique may be monstrous, but no matter what a heart belongs to, it can only endure so much abuse (Magic Trial. DC 65) Anonymous
>>5321416 >Overload him with rage, by surrounding him with a grudge cloud and then imbuing it with Blood Qi. His physique may be monstrous, but no matter what a heart belongs to, it can only endure so much abuse (Magic Trial. DC 65) This seems like it would be rather poetic way to end it. You know, if it works.
Bodily integrity seems like more of a suggestion than a necessity to this motherfucker right now.
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>>5321533 What's the worst that could happen? It's not like raging is his cultivation method and getting ganked by hard opponents is his breakthrough practice.
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>>5321416 >Overload him with rage, by surrounding him with a grudge cloud and then imbuing it with Blood Qi. His physique may be monstrous, but no matter what a heart belongs to, it can only endure so much abuse (Magic Trial. DC 65) Anonymous
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>>5321416 >Overload him with rage, by surrounding him with a grudge cloud and then imbuing it with Blood Qi. His physique may be monstrous, but no matter what a heart belongs to, it can only endure so much abuse (Magic Trial. DC 65) Anonymous
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>>5321416 >Overload him with rage I want more of his blood for our usage,
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>>5321416 >Overload him with rage, by surrounding him with a grudge cloud and then imbuing it with Blood Qi. His physique may be monstrous, but no matter what a heart belongs to, it can only endure so much abuse (Magic Trial. DC 65) Anonymous
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>>5321416 >Put everything you have into trying to end the fight in one more blow, activate the blood torrent rush, and perform the Blood Red Lightning Cat step to rush around Baoli-Wuyawang, clawing the tendons of his feet and harassing him until he exposes his neck (Martial Trial. DC 62) We got to finish this already
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>>5321416 >Overload him with rage, by surrounding him with a grudge cloud and then imbuing it with Blood Qi. His physique may be monstrous, but no matter what a heart belongs to, it can only endure so much abuse (Magic Trial. DC 65) Anonymous
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>>5325362 The stairs have completed their revenge. Sad day.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:VHOzMosJ Sat 02 Jul 2022 20:34:48 No. 5325769 Report >>5325741 >>5325741 I am so sorry. I was battling heart Demons, and just didn't have the energy to pull myself out of bed. No idea why I.
got hit by a wave of depression, but I was. And it's mostly passed now.
I'm running some errands that built up while I was undergoing the tribulation of being a sad-sack, and posting from my phone.
When I get back home, I'll end the vote and write the update. I feel terrible to make you all wait for so long, but I just wasn't in any state to write or do much else besides sleep
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>>5325769 Don't worry about it, it happens to the best of us. I glad you didn't get run over or something.
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>>5325769 Take care of yourself first and foremost QM. If you need a break, take it.
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>>5325769 I'm being dramatic, no worries bro. You take care of yourself.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sun 03 Jul 2022 02:21:08 No. 5326221 Report Quoted By:
Yeah don't think I'll be able to write that update. Have a skull splitting migraine that's making it next to impossible to focus.
>>5325776 >>5325787 >>5325834 >>5325785 Thanks a billion. I really do appreciate the support and understanding. Sorry I couldn't pull through today. But it legit feels like I have an ice pick rammed in my head
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sun 03 Jul 2022 06:00:24 No. 5326532 Report Quoted By:
Well this is a bit awkward. The migraine that had been hounding me all day cleared right up a bit ago, for no discernable reason. So, now that I am certain it won't come back, the update is coming after all. And I'd like to once again offer my thanks
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sun 03 Jul 2022 06:41:23 No. 5326569 Report It is in the air where you find your answers how to strike the hopefully final blow of this treacherous battle against a beast your cunning and intellect alone have allowed you to bring so low. Like a kitten making a lion strong and grown lame and crippled through trickery and quick thinking. Like a swallow outflying and outwitting a phoenix aged a thousand years! Like a toad devouring a dragon. For, in the air around you, all of the air that fills the tower and flows as the brute Crow King swings his arms, his fists and the talons that cap them around with wild and raging vigor, is his rage. Rage more potent than any you have encountered before, save the indignant wrath of the old god upon the mountain unleashed upon the world, bringing about countless cataclysms and disasters as he raged against the heavens he had abandoned, the heavens and younger gods who had lost their ways and forgotten the face of righteousness and justice.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sun 03 Jul 2022 06:42:34 No. 5326570 Report >>5326569 Devils are truly terrifying!
However, even the heart of a devil can be stopped. And rage is the poison you have soaked into your claws. Taking in a deep breath, you devour all the infantile grudges born from Baol-Wuyawang's rampage through his staff and guest list, and breath in as much of his own ever growing grudge as you can stomach without burning through your throat or gullet! And then, the black miasma, darker than any night, blacker than any black, is dyed a vivid red as you breath out and enrich it with Blood Qi Uncorrupted by the Malice of the underworld. It languidly drifts through the air, raining a shower of blood down as it slowly, ponderously wraps itself around his engorged body and overgrown arms, entwining and seeping into his explosed flesh.
The deathless rage you carry from the catacombs you rule, to the grudges of the living across the lands of the living, to the breath of hatred spread throughout the waters of the yellow springs. All of it races to infect Baoli-Wuyawang's heart with a rage beyond his own!
<span class="mu-s"> Roll 1d100+20. DC 65. Best out of three </span>
And so I rise from the ashes! Against the will of the nine heavens!
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Rolled 88 + 20 (1d100 + 20) >>5326570 Anonymous
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Rolled 21 (1d100) >>5326570 oh god anything but 1 Anonymous
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Rolled 72 (1d100) >>5326570 Glad you're feeling somewhat better, QM.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sun 03 Jul 2022 09:38:38 No. 5326661 Report >>5326571 A most auspicious success! exactly 108! And 40 over DC.
Special condition met.
Update will arrive shortly
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>>5326661 >Special condition met. f-for us right?
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>>5326661 >Special condition met. in
in which way
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sun 03 Jul 2022 10:56:26 No. 5326683 Report Like the tendrils of a parasitic vine clinging and rooting themselves to the trunk of their host tree, or the hungering tentacles of a great octopus, the Blood imbued, rage infected cloud of grudges tightens and constricts Baoli-Wuyawang as he continues to thrash around, killing any unfortunate devil or spirit that comes close enough for him to reach with his talons, take into his jaws or bath in the freezing cold fires bursting from his mouth whenever he isn't roaring curses loud enough for the gods to hear from this pit of hell. the clouds pierce and bury themselves into his raw, exposed muscle, rippling and twisting around as they wrap closely to each fiber of his meat, constricting tighter and tighter without holding him down. A deadly net has wrapped around him, but it does not hold him. Like reverse roots, each tendril of the great blood red cloud begins to pump every miniscule molecule of The crow king's body with the condensed essence of rage, the universal emotional poison that afflicts all things at least once in your life. The very energy of hatred, of which you are very well acquainted with. After all, you breath and eat grudge, and cultivate them carefully in your belly and lungs. You know hatred, you understand it. It is a key component to enmity and the formation and maintenances of grudges. Like water for plants. If one does not hate the target of their spite for some reason or in someway, the delicious grudge they hold will wither and the bitterness will fade. Like wounds healing. However, some anger is simply too strong to die. Like a stubborn weed in need of pruning or burning, it will continue to cling to existence and sap the life of the soil its buried in until it can blossom or it is plucked from the ground root, stem and all.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sun 03 Jul 2022 10:57:28 No. 5326684 Report >>5326683 The blood in his veins are ripping him apart, even as it drains out of him faster and faster, leaving a great pool of crimson to gather at his feet and ripple with every labored breath he takes. As his heart shudders and spasms, bulging further and shrinking deeper onto itself with every beat. His eyes bulge, and he is blinded to his death.
Yet, you are not focusing on your opponent nor the destruction he sows For, an insight has been revealed to you of the dao, as you look upon the whisps of rage and plumes of anger rising from the thick cloud of grudges hiding the crow king, the hatred boiling from the blood that falls from those clouds and that dyes them. It isn't just emotion. It is a memory. A remnant. A memorial to the those whose blood powers that grudge. The rage you see, you use, is much greater than you first imagined, far vaster than you understood. Like a voice echoes, so can emotion. It can stain the living world, even long after the voice who spat the curses and shouted their contempt fades from memory and history. Even when the soul who harbored the resentment, the grudge that was born from their anger, hate and rage, is reborn, the resonance of their emotions persists and changes the hue of the world. Whether through action, or lingering damage or wounds. Rage remains. Far past death, far past reincarnation, far past rebirth. Like ripples in a lake.
Anger expands outwards, growing and growing without end, until it reaches the end of its pond. And this, revelation, makes you, the master of grudges, realize the true scope of animosity. From a single action, whether it is a clenched fist, an insult hurled in the heat of a moment, a slap to the cheek or a murder committed whimsically, even the smallest, pettiest showing of anger has affected the whole of the universe, all of reality in someway or another. Rage is endless, because it is self perpetuating. Being yelled at, makes you angry. Being hit, pisses you off. Dying, forms a grudge. And even the most loathsome, have friends or family who will feel angered on their behalf.
Constantly, rage plants its own seeds anew, spreads new roots and shoots out new vines and leaves, to ensure its survival in the world, to spread and flourish in the hearts of men, beasts, gods, and devils.
And in that lineage of anger that spans from the beginning of time to its end, memorialized within that universal poison of the heart, small fragments of everything that has existed, remain, even if they have been erased from this world or reincarnated a thousand a thousand times.
Like a spark struck from a stone, your sudden insight completes itself as you subconscious and bestial mind whisper to you, rousing itself just to speak so as to encapsulate what you have realized, from watching steam rise from the meat of partially butchered crow.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sun 03 Jul 2022 10:58:48 No. 5326685 Report >>5326684 And that is "When ghosts are reincarnated, the rage they felt remains, spread out across the world. And within these orphan emotions, the final memorial of all things rests, when all other signs of their existence has faded. Blood embodies life, it carries both passion and sorrow. Rage is a kind passion. Within each drop of blood, there then slumbers, ghosts of ghost. Thus within life, there lingers death. Ghosts within blood. A legacy of spite, passed down and inherited eternally. Life and Death, intertwined, Yin and Yang, in harmony"
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https://youtu.be/xclh_676KwE> ;
[Special Condition Met: Roll 108 against a devil/ demon of any kind]
And so, for the briefest of moments, the great wheel of reincarnation is revealed to you in its full majesty, set against a cosmic field of stars and nebulas, where you float, egoless and bodiless, until you are dragged back into your flesh and return to your living.
"I understand" You whisper, closing your eyes
[Secret Art unlocked: Cat's Court: Spiteful Blood Legacy (猫 法院: 刻毒血遗产, Māofǎyuàn: Kèdúxuèyíchǎn. A technique that forcefully awakens the last lingering dregs of personality within the rage left behind and inherited within a single drop of blood. Can be used to enhance one's self through the rage of their ancestors, create grudge miasma within a target to "poison" them, or as an attack by briefly giving the long sleeping anger a physical form. Very versatile. A mixture of "Pure" Carmine Mysticism and Necromancy, and an evolution of Blood Refinement]
Baol-Wuyawang has drank the blood of countless victims, and he has spilled a sea of it. His heart may be stubbornly refusing to stop or explode by the sheer amount of rage you are pouring into him, but he has spilt plenty of blood that can be reminded of the rage and fury of its original owners.
And so, he is chained, by the blood pouring out of his open belly, gouged out eyes, and broken neck and limbs. They form into hundreds of hands, attached to ghoulish figures like corpses left to be picked at by crows, all missing their eyes. They grab ahold of his hanging, swinging arms, and pin them to the ground, they pull open the cut along his stomach, and wrap around his legs as they begin to melt back into blood, cursing the name of Baoli-Wuyawang, as they are forcefully consumed by the most potent grudge that he unwittingly took into himself through his consumption of his fallen enemies and rivals.
Another crow demons, stands from the blood, formed by it, and growl. The familiarity of the dreg's voice is enough to bring Baol-Wuyawang to his senses, as the memory plunges a hand into his chest, all the way out his back. Missing his heart by an inch.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sun 03 Jul 2022 11:00:02 No. 5326686 Report >>5326685 But the fear and outrage at seeing the face before him, causes the powerful heart of the Crow King to, as all hearts inevitably due, stop from the shock of emotions, pushed along by the rage still being pumped into his veins, as grudges pour out of him in a similar quantity to the blood he is still shedding.
The Crow King, already injured beyond what his body could normally withstand, suffers a disastrous heart attack upon witnessing the ghosts of his past crawl from the pools of his own blood, clawing and biting at him in a blind rage. For that, is all that was left of them.
He stumbles back towards the edge of the pit, shrinking with every reeling step he takes, arms hanging limply at his sides as he doesn't so much as cough up blood as he vomits. A stream of crimson erupts from his mouth, carrying bits of red, glistening tissue down his chin and over his chest. He withers and grows smaller, returning to his normal proportions before drying out further, wrinkles appearing on his face as his crow feather black hair begins to grey and even whiten in places as he takes on the appearance of an old man. An Old man with a slit belly, broken neck and a massive gaping hole in his chest. He stumbles backwards, closer to the pit before he stops, catch the end of his heel at the lip of it as he looks up and collapses down on one knee. He's straddling the line between life and death, and barely keeping from plummeting directly from one of your domains to the other. Placing his hands on his knees, his skeletal wings pitifully twitch as his aged face twists into an agonized expression.
You stalk behind him, unsheathe your claws, lower yourself to the ground and wiggle your butt, ready to pounce before the bastard can recover enough to throw another bone shattering punch or kick, or perform a technique that could instantly kill you or...!
"HUANLIUXUE! I FORFEIT THE MATCH!" He screams, as you sense him beginning to start the arduous process of repairing his broken body "YOU HAVE BESTED ME! I AM DEFEATED! I SUBMIT! I SURRENDER! VICTORY IS YOURS! I BEG OF YOU, SPARE MY LIFE"
You blink and pause.
'In spite of how much he cherished his pride and fiercely upheld his dignity, his survival instinct was strong enough for him to forsake his face, cast it aside without a second thought' you think in amazement as you look upon the withered, wrinkled back of your opponent, as it rises and falls as he puts what little Spiritual and Internal energy he has left to keep himself from bleeding out, and prevent any of the four grievous wounds he bears from becoming crippling 'to beg for his life and forfeit his dignity and reputation. Wait does that mean I've won against an opponent above my stage?"
You face splits with a grin smugger and more triumphant than any you have ever smiled before!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Sun 03 Jul 2022 11:01:18 No. 5326687 Report >>5326686 <span class="mu-s"> You have succeeded against incalculable odds, succeeding against a greater, more powerful foe without so much as a scratch. This is a victory...this is growth heavier than Mount Tai itself! There may be heavens beyond the heavens, but for the great Huanliuxue there is no obstacle too great to be overcome! The Serpent has devoured the Dragon! Truly you are unrivaled beneath the heavens! +100 to Your next cultivation or Training roll. Total bonus +135 </span>
What do you do, upon hearing Baoli-Wuyawang's request, Huanliuxue?
>Boast that, even though you are weaker than he is , you have proven to be far greater than he'll ever be. A brute loses to a Sage, every time! Then saunter off to claim your ultimate prize >Kill him! What does he think you are stupid! YOU GOT INCREDIBLY LUCKY! Only through quick thinking and grit were you able to use his own ridiculous strength and fury to beat him! Kill him while he can't fight back, when he's weak, AND THEN claim your winnings! >Force him to forge a pact with you. In exchange for his life, Baoli-Wuyawang will become the loyal servant and supporter of Huanliuxue! [Bad Karma] >"I bested you? No, you bested yourself! I just turned all of that ridiculous power of yours against you! Strength is worthless without the intelligence to use it! Reflect on your failings, and fill that empty head of yours with wisdom and cunning! Maybe then, in a thousand years, you'll have enough smarts to understand how a cat can defeat a lion!" >write in Anonymous
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> Form a contract where his dao will be destroyed if broken. In exchange for complete non aggression, information, treasures, and techniques we will spare his life and provide stabilization healing. He is too valuable to kill.
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>>5326687 >"I bested you? No, you bested yourself! I just turned all of that ridiculous power of yours against you! Strength is worthless without the intelligence to use it! Reflect on your failings, and fill that empty head of yours with wisdom and cunning! Maybe then, in a thousand years, you'll have enough smarts to understand how a cat can defeat a lion!" Well that was one way to end this match. We are going to be quite (in)famous in hell after this I imagine.
>+135 Christ. Forget leaps and bounds, we have a fucking jet-pack at this point.
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>>5326687 Are you MAD?!
>Kill him. We would need some means of ensuring that he doesnt retaliate against us, offers us his mother in laws life and perhaps his own wits and accumulated wisdom.
I dont believe we can do that, because it's bad Karma, which I would like to avoid.
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I just want us to go train and upgrade our status from chosen of the heavens to supreme cat queen of the universe.
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>>5326733 We ARE supreme cat queen of the universe, and soon everyone will know it.
Anonymous
>>5326684 >>5326685 So Rage in the Dao of Grudges is almost in kind to the nature of Wood of the Wuxing elements and phases? Primarily as its phase in being building and expansive, self perpetuating and alive, and fuel to greater strengths. But, it isn't only a beginning/ascent phase, and retains an awareness that exists relative to life and souls.
Activation is a matter of comprehending that ones blood is to the emotions of their life and lineage as a soul was to the life and world it left behind. This should operate, too, with joy and other positive forces upon the soul and world which encompass blood, though I'd shy to think of the joy attack version.
Because, you know, blood and sensuality. Man we've stumbled onto some realm soul chaos and reincarnation constants, that's some nascent shit right there.
I get what the Carmine Mystic said, now. To the degree where it's so obvious only a prodigy could miss it; Blood is the Dao of all Complex Life. The regulator of lineage and living, connecting life-now to life-was, the balancing force of maintaining the strongest emotional and physical states a body endures from its soul, and itself growing or weakening in capability with any life that has it.
We questioned what he'd meant by Blood is Power, and I'd thought about the question in reverse based on what we can do with its Qi. It's wide, deep, and maybe even misnamed.
Blood is Power because it could never be anything else. Every tangible aspect of physical life (for bodies like ours), is supplied power by blood, regulated with blood, with the experiences of souls themselves etched into the blood. Manipulating lifeforce and blood alone didn't explain precisely all we did.
Because Pure Blood Qi is most accurately the Qi of Continuous Life. Or succinctly The Dao of Living, which encompasses its esoteric aspects; it commands all the deepest strengths that exist within the cycle of living, putting even mastery of reincarnation in its purview. It's not that it's "strong", it's that it is power because it has no limits within what it governs.
Yes. There are actually no limits. With enough refined blood of specific animals mystical or otherwise we could steal natural abilities of living beings and take them in, no matter the type or how alien in nature, so long as our skill with the Qi can regulate its bodily effects.
Bringing the strengths within ones heritage to the fore is just as wide in function. If we ever find the need to permanently "upgrade" a disciple or ourselves we now have the comprehension to make an attempt. The rest is resources.
The techniques we can attempt based on stronger aspects concerning heritage, transformation & mutation, and bloods emotive archive, are now many.
We're one extremely expensive Blood Qi cultivation chamber away from insight suplexing oblivion by looking deeply into the joys and sorrows of our own lineage, and understanding our full potential through the Qi which elucidates it best.
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>>5326687 >"I bested you? No, you bested yourself! I just turned all of that ridiculous power of yours against you! Strength is worthless without the intelligence to use it! Reflect on your failings, and fill that empty head of yours with wisdom and cunning! Maybe then, in a thousand years, you'll have enough smarts to understand how a cat can defeat a lion!" Anonymous
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>>5326766 So, say we ever want to put a ghost into a living body, I'd thought we could connect its spiritual strings to it in a reverse of our severing technique. But that would probably be insufficient, unless that spirit could also be tied with kin natures of blood, and something of a deeper esoteric aspect of Blood Qi to actually make the body alive and not simply possessed.
Just saying because we have a ghost snake.
>>5326687 Holy shit I typed that up before reading our next cultivation bonus. Oh my god we can choose any of the most beneficially difficult breakthroughs we can imagine. We could do dragon blood incorporation, an empress transformation,
achieve human form , perhaps turn enmity incarnation into a True Formation(become the cast instead of just one actor), or run around and try to nab some super rare other specialized Qi to pour into our roots that will wholly accent our law and cultivation.
>>5326687 >Kill him! >Put everything we can take from his body into one of our sealing pearls, so nothing can be wasted. Anonymous
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>>5326687 We've already seen that Baoli handles humiliation extremely poorly. If we let him live he'll come after us with all he has as soon as he gets better.recovers.
>Kill him! Anonymous
For what it's worth, I think killing him would be an overreaction.
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>>5326805 You have much more mercy than I do. I want his mats. And I don't want him to be able to learn from this experience.
I do want deeper connections to hell, perhaps even a degree of formal trade once our sect is stronger and it doesn't have to be us operating a portal in our catacombs. But I would think killing him can achieve some of that so long as we reach out to other nobility with the respect we've gained from his demise.
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>>5326805 I honestly need an assurance that he wont kill us.
So what assurance can you offer.
>>5326766 I think focusing on the legacy aspect of blood is the way forwards. Ensuring that our mind and skills will survive our demise through rebirth through the blood is amazing. Looking back through our blood to learn the skills of our past lives. . That would also be potent.
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>>5326805 This, I understand, but to expand on it in more practical terms-- killing him could also have negative repercussions for us. The choice of killing him or letting him live, in context, is basically one that, as I understand it, will shape the way this little chunk of Hell functions. Demons believe the strongest should rule, after all, and we've proven ourselves stronger than him-- so the throne would default to us, or whomever we pick as our representative, regardless of whether we decide to keep him around or off him. He does have a lot to teach us, as a cultivator and a sorcerer, and so on-- in addition to probably having a lot of resources at his disposal, as a ruler of Hell. The kind of power-vacuum we would cause by unseating him would have a bulls-eye painted on our back for any other young up-and-comer looking to make a name for themselves-- or, more accurately, whomever we pick to be in charge. Likewise, keeping tabs on goings-on in Hell while also running our sect, training disciples, and tending to things in the mortal plane, like the geges, the village, and so on, would divide our attention pretty hard. Ask yourselves, instead of 'should we kill or spare Baoli': 'if we kill him, who will replace him', and 'if we spare him, how do we make sure he doesn't turn against us'. Being a shadow-ruler in Hell, with either Baoli or one of the female crows as a figurehead ruling on our behalf would probably be where I'd go with this-- enforced with a demonic pact, just in case. Let's hash this out. I'll come up with a few write-in conditions for our pact that would make such a pact less outright [Bad Karma] than just enslaving him to our will, if people are interested in where I'm going with this.
Anonymous
>>5326687 >If only you had understood the way of the wilds, with all the hints I have given you, instead of remaining in your corruption, I could spare you. Perhaps in your next life you will learn how to happily shed blood, instead of wasting your talents in pointless bloodthrist! >Kill him! What does he think you are stupid! YOU GOT INCREDIBLY LUCKY! Only through quick thinking and grit were you able to use his own ridiculous strength and fury to beat him! Kill him while he can't fight back, when he's weak, AND THEN claim your winnings! Even if we break his cultivation, he still has the means to ruin us through subterfuge, and he has show that he is a sore loser.
What a waste of a prodigy.
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>>5326805 It's exactly because he is cunning and connected tgat keeping him alive is dangerous.
Now that he lost to a newcomer, all the other residents of hell will keep reminding him, and he is not a simple brute, but was an advisor. Can we keep tabs on any plot he makes on hell, while living on the normal world, managing our sect, cultivating, exploring the tomb, avoiding the orthodox and dealing with other less illuminated heretics?
I think putting the crow women as the regent would be better, atleast they don't have a reason to betray us other than demonic nature.
Anonymous
>>5326884 On this point, he was genuinely the greatest foe we have ever faced.
>>5326729 Add to this vote
>Praise his strength and skill, they were truly awe inspiring. Anonymous
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>>5326687 >Kill him! What does he think you are stupid! YOU GOT INCREDIBLY LUCKY! Only through quick thinking and grit were you able to use his own ridiculous strength and fury to beat him! Kill him while he can't fight back, when he's weak, AND THEN claim your winnings! He wouldnt let our new pupil escape alive, why should he be given the chance? Also, he tolerates child eating in his kingdom and arguably has tasted child meat himself at least once. Even though he doesnt like it and most probably just ate a tiny bit - eating children is VERY BAD! He doesn't handle humiliations well and is still technically stronger than us.
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>>5326900 Yes, and by what all the achievements we been told he made, it seems he has actual talent instead of just relying on others.
I think it's the kind of think Huan would apreciate, even on a true demon and defeated enemy.
Anonymous
Turning an enemy to an ally is defeating them utterly. Also, if we try to kill him he will go all out and remember he is way stronger than us. We won by luck rolls.
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What a truly awesome foe this Baoli-Wuyawang was.
Anonymous
>We spare Crow Demon >His mother-in-law kills him instead
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>>5326948 I would say we should just take her with us but I'm pretty sure someone would smell the devil getting out of hell and come down like a divine thunderbolt on our ass the moment we got home.
That'd let us eat our cake and have it, too so to speak.
Anonymous
>>5326911 Our medicines are still active and we haven't used the backup healing pill in our mouth. A last ditch spell or spiteful attack is what I hope he attempts, we're prepared for it, here.
But why should we care care about defeating him utterly? If we wanted that we'd pick him up by the wings or like a decrepit kitten and showboat him to the crowd while humiliating him with something like
"Oh my, oh dear, oh no! I must repent, I must apologize! My pathetic techniques are but ash, my cultivation naught more than a hummingbirds buzz! I am now Rènliúxuè, frog in a boiling well! I must surrender before this supreme hotheaded sage of Hell! The adorable murder bird Baoli-Wuyuyang who flushes red at the snickering of ladies, incontestably chief among my greatest fans, the devil who stalks the pasts of their opponents asthough a resentful lover, whom goads them as such an excitably childish admirer would! Possessing a temper with strength surely surpassing all but the most godlike of tantrums in all three realms! See how no rock is left unturned, unburned! Taste the scorching rage of his aura and know it to be true- be certain he would bring to shame any.. martial artist! Oh, and what a shame it is! I must repent!, for I have sinned to believe in teaching an eager admirer so harsh a lesson!"
Then ruin his meridians. And then kill him. Hoping he forms a harvestable grudge for enmity incarnation, etc.
But we're kinder than that, though we've no reason to be here given what we know of him.
And in that vein, some of the best cultivation materials we can get at our level are in front of us, and other powerful demons in hell will not take the opportunity to make themselves as vulnerable as this.
We won because every strategy we used was a soft style measure, with backup ideas in case any rolls did go sour, using all the items and abilities we have, including his powerful blood. It was more than luck.
Baoli betrayed the one he served for centuries, and by waiting, given what we currently know, most of that time for one moment of his ruler's vulnerability. Which was provided by his now broken wife. I don't want to worry about Baoli even ten years from now, this is exactly what Monu warned us about in our capricious nature.
We believe in mercy. We have shown him that throughout this tournament. That's the real reason why he's trying to use it against us, I don't buy it at all. The way he reacted when he talked about "true nature" tells me we should believe what he's shown, and his history. Nobody who has survived humiliating him has lived to talk about it to this day, and if they have they're strong enough that we don't compare. This defeat is public and will be talked about almost mythically.
Look into the soul of my post and tell me you believe he's not already turning the gears on how to ruin our sect with the knowledge he acquired of us.
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>>5326911 >Implying he'll be our ally Anonymous
>>5326956 We'll surpass him soon enough and become unreachable to him. I'm concerned if we kill him that his soul will undergo an interrogation and someone will learn all he knows about us.
Anonymous
>>5327130 I'm concerned he's smart enough to know that and act accordingly.
As for souls, we do have sealing pearls that can contain souls.
Anonymous
>>5327132 Unless I'm misremembering, every time we've killed something it immediately gets sucked away into the cycle of reincarnation, and if that happens here, I doubt we'd be able to fight such a force in a meaningful way.
Anonymous
>>5327142 So why not yoink his soul before he dies. He's kinda just sitting there right now. He's about two minutes from keeling over already, how hard could it be to coax it out in such a state?
Anonymous
>>5327142 Would that not mean he'll get karma vacuumed before any interrogation can occur? Or do you mean something that waits in the ether realms of the cycle, which we already be something that has greater means than Baoli to learn of us? I mean, who would be doing it, if they're not a Devil here to snatch him up for the sake of an old spite.
>>5327150 You know, yeah. That's a much more reliable idea.
Anonymous
>>5327150 Yeah that's not such a bad idea.
>>5327156 I've been considering whether there would be some sort of heavenly enforcer watching over the reincarnation cycle to ensure their edicts aren't being egregiously offended, and if we keep sending stronger foes up to them in such a rapid succession, then I think even though they're lazy as hell, they'd consider taking action against us.
Anonymous
>>5327164 That makes sense. And gave me a nightmarish vision of statuesque heavenly busybodies, opponents we could neither best in combat or debate. That gives me a bad idea. We should steal/cultivate the Qi of Reincarnation.
Anonymous
>>5327171 How would we even begin to cultivate that? Watching souls get pulled away from their corpses at the moment of death?
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>>5326687 >Kill him! What does he think you are stupid! YOU GOT INCREDIBLY LUCKY! Only through quick thinking and grit were you able to use his own ridiculous strength and fury to beat him! Kill him while he can't fight back, when he's weak, AND THEN claim your winnings! man what an epic fight. Best in this quest so far and one of the best in any quest I ever read.
Anonymous
>>5327177 By dying. I mean, right?
Observing souls first, definitely. But with our spiritual arts it may be possible to bring ourselves closer to the cycle if we sever ourselves from our body and attempt to study souls moving towards reincarnation. Given that it appears, so far, no strong soul can truly resist reincarnation unless they undergo specific contextual conditions that we are replete with experiencing and understanding. To follow those souls, and see where they go and 'how it works', we'd need to mimic the loss of attachments or the weaknesses of lesser souls, I imagine. And that's where the obvious problem comes... is that we have yet to read anything that indicates a cultivator ever stopping the process of reincarnation after it has begun, and if it's a cycle that only makes sense. You can't stop a river by just standing in it, or resist it, since the soul is following its "natural process" in a realm of souls, and is no longer the actual matter or even accessible Qi.
You would have to arrive to it, and leave it, and somehow bring the type of Qi that exists there out. Or perilously stand in the river attempting to cultivate as only a soul, which I'm almost entirely sure isn't possible in our current stage, we need our body. The Qi of Reincarnation exists in a realm that will either deny bodies, or damage them. To keep our soul there and from being subsumed would require balancing a sort of tether of the kinds of attachments which birth ghosts, grudges, etc, without being outright kicked back to the mortal realm as an "unready" soul.
Blood Qi, as well, seemed to give us a momentary vision of it. Our soul severing art may act as a road with Blood Qi as a rope to our body, under ideal circumstance.
Entertaining the danger of being subsumed, the ideal form of cultivation I can barely imagine working would be;
Severing our soul from our body.
Tying our soul to our body with Blood Qi's soul/blood memory.
Following a dying soul on its path to reincarnation and mimicking it.
Arriving there, and utilizing the attachments of grudges to prevent "continuing" rebirth.
?Cultivating?
Activate the Blood Qi tie in our soul to reconnect with our body.
Congrats, you got an ounce of the Qi of Reincarnation. Maybe. There's definitely other Qis involved in the cycle, we don't have a clue really.
And any failure results in death.
But, that doesn't do anything about the possibility of the cycle of reincarnation shattering a soul that resists it. We know too little, but it's a fun idea to think about if we want to use our Daos to leapfrog to one of the most fundamental powers that rules to an extent even the heavens themselves.
That and it's a different fundamental realm and we don't know if any of the kinds of abilities we have would hold any sway or gravity there. We know they should given what we just learned about Rage and Lifeforce, but using it usefully in another realm, well we just don't know.
Be a funny way to die tho.
Anonymous
>>5327241 This is like BBEG 101 right here.
>"Look Grandmaster, the demon beast attempting to usurp the very flow of souls! We need to get the gods to wake up and get down here to throw hands with it!" The cat that devours the wheel.
I mean yeah it sounds cool but that would have to be something we do way way way way down the line. Fun food for thought but let's leave it there for now. Anonymous
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>>5327246 Absolutely. If memory serves, Nascent Soul would be the minimum as our soul will have become ROBUST. With Origin Spirit or an equivalent making cultivating as just a soul basically free real estate. And with ideally some spells permitting soul stealth. We can learn about reincarnation safely through Blood Qi for the moment, so nothing ridiculous like reaching into a soul judgement vortex that doubles as a crucible of creation is needed.
Anonymous
So would it be possible to look through our own blood, our own reincarnation and genetic lineage, cherry pick the most powerful traits and aspects, distill them, and incorporate them into our cultivation as a reflection of a sort of Dao of Primal Memory?
Anonymous
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>>5327349 That's what I intended. To do so.
Anonymous
>>5327349 >tfw force evolve opposable thumbs >ultimate power gained Anonymous
>>5327379 Imagine Huan having thumbs and her tail at the same time.
Thousands of spells being cast in seconds.
Anonymous
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>>5327419 I imagine someone ambidextrous with enough skill and practice could gesture two separate spells simultaneously. Throw a tail into the mix just as capable and you got some wacky bullshit levels of multi-casting going on.
Remember to always practice with both hands, people. You may not be born with it but you can absolutely train yourself to be ambidextrous.
Anonymous
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>>5326687 >Kill him! What does he think you are stupid! YOU GOT INCREDIBLY LUCKY! Only through quick thinking and grit were you able to use his own ridiculous strength and fury to beat him! Kill him while he can't fight back, when he's weak, AND THEN claim your winnings! >Seal everything that can be sealed. Anonymous
>>5326884 Adding to my vote
>Try to seal/capture his soul, so no-one else can do to what he did to our other enemies. Anonymous
Anonymous
>>5327349 yeah I was thinking the whole "draw power from our ancestors" thing would be much more useful for a human, as the best we can hope for is some grumpy old mouser. Unless there were awakened beasts in our lineage as well?
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>>5327667 We're a descendant of a primordial beast aren't we? I'm pretty sure that's how we came to call ourselves the rightful princess of the wilds, as we're a descendant of that legacy.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 04 Jul 2022 09:50:08 No. 5327762 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote now, Tallying the result. Happy 4th of july.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 04 Jul 2022 11:00:48 No. 5327782 Report The Crow King's desperate pleas immediately bring you back down from the higher state you had attainted, severing your tie to enlightenment and the dao from how insulted his begging makes you. Not out of contempt for cowardice, its just common sense to know when your only chance of escape is turning tail and running or offering your neck in the hopes for mercy. Some creatures even freeze up and just allow themselves to die when they're cornered. No, anyone who would look down on someone or even go so far as to be angered by them possessing simple survival instincts, is held up too highly by lofty and simply unrealistic and nonsensical ideals! Its that he thinks you're stupid enough to trust the words of a cunning, conveying devil like himself. That's the oldest trick in the book, attacking when your opponent thinks you're no longer a threat. Its almost as instinctual as playing dead, and while there is a lot unnatural and just plain "wrong" about devils, they share at least one instinct with beasts like yourself. They're born opportunists. Even if he doesn't strike at you while your back is turned or ambush you as you relish and gloat in the satisfaction of not only taking a treasure from a king of hell but also humilating and defeating him despite the wide gap between your cultivated power and his natural brute strength, even if he lets you leave cordially and swears you'll suffer no repercussions for dragging his name and pride through the mud, Baoli-Wuyawang is precisely the kind of person who would plot your demise and the soiling of all your works mighty and small out of simple spite! He is fueled by hatred and enmity and his life span is much larger than yours, so he has plenty of time to lick his wounds, stew n his spite and plot your total destruction. And worse, he's not only powerful through brawn or Qi or skill or innate talent at killing, he's powerful through his connections, wealth and just plain stubbornness. The crow king ignored having his neck broken into a fine powder, simply to avenge an imagined slight. There's no telling what he'd be capable of to bring ruin to someone who forced him to grovel and kowtow and bang his head on the ground and publicly humiliate himself after being laughed at by his own family.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 04 Jul 2022 11:01:48 No. 5327785 Report >>5327782 It'd have been like one of the five assassins you faced managing to bring you down, such things are simply so rare, it is either a sign of great fortune, divine favor or such supreme skill and talent that one can ignore the disparity between power, experience, and technique to fight on equal footing against foes who by every means should have reduced them to a red smear on the ground and rapidly fading memory with a single roll of their wrist.
But to kill the same opponent, not only defeat them, is even greater. Such a deed would be an accolade worthy of your name, and help build your reputation amongst the denizens of the underworld and show them you are deserving of the respect you demand. That you are not some haughty child playing at being a princess, but true royalty and a true cultivator and the rightful heir to the legacy of the primordial wilds.
Your disgust grimace turns into a smirk, as you come to a decision, and decided to kill the Crow King. He may have invited you here as a guest, but he is too dangerous to leave alive even if he hadn't just tried to brutally murder you to mend his bruised ego. So, with a flick of your wrist, swish of your tail and a single pounce, you pin the withered, aged and most importantly weakened demon king to the floor. And then bite down on his spine, piercing your fangs through his neck, tearing it apart as he lets out a defeated sigh, and then begins to chuckle as he gurgles on his blood, smiling almost in admiration as you shake him and try to sever his head from his shoulders.
"A sensible choice, lady Huanliuxue" He says drearily "If only my prior rivals and former masters were so shrewd as to realize the danger I present, simply by drawing breath. If our positions were reversed, you the powerful devil, and I the weak beast, I would've done the exact same. Honestly, if I must give my last breath and final words to speak anything, anything at all"
He turns his head, to stare at you eyelessly.
"I admire your wariness and suspicion, and adore your brutality and Pragmatism. Your willingness to kill" He yammers on, wearily and woozily "All worthy of a devil. Haaah"
His neck begins to tear, as you fur is soaked with his blood and his muscles rip at the seams as you struggle to pull his head off and bite through what's left of his neck.
"I may have lost, but I had a lot of fun. Hope to see you again, that's a promise, okay <3?" Are the last gurgled words that leave his lips before you rip his spine in half with a great effort and toss his head away. You shudder, feeling gross and dirtied as you watch his head bounce down into the pit, eyes twinkling with a sick delight as his smile seems to contort to laugh one last time before his flesh turns into a stinking, grey green muck.
"Bleh" You snort, shacking your head as you walk away.
Silence reigns, and you can feel the eyes of hundreds of demons who you saved from their host and master's rampage focused on you.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 04 Jul 2022 11:02:49 No. 5327789 Report >>5327785 "A perfectly performed execution, master!" Qiang shouts, breaking the silence and ushering in a deafening storm of cheers as the crowd begins to shout and chant your name, and a title that was shouted by some nasally voice mole devil you walked by, he clapped his hands and bowed as you walked past and is now being roared by every servant and guest of the deceased King.
Wuyashashou, Crow Killer (乌鸦杀手)
And you have to admit, it has a nice ring to it. Smirking smugly, and lifting your chest proudly, you swagger up the tower to meet back up with your disciple, and the old devil you befriended, but you meet both halfway up, and the recently widowed queen who to your surprise is crying, truly crying and not merely pretending to, for her lost husband. The old crone crow sneers as Qiang cups her fists and bows
"That was an incredible showing of skill, Lady Huanliuxue, I have never seen such masterful redirection and countering. Truly I am privileged to be you student, and even more honored to be your direct disciple in cultivation and first inheritor of your law" She says, more energetically and excitedly than you have ever heard her be, her eyes filled with stars as she beholds you with awe and unspoken devotion "Any assassin, any martial artist, no matter how blinded they are by the lies of the gods, would be humbled if they had witnessed your fight and victory against that monster"
She snorts and once more, her beautiful face becomes sullen and gloomy.
"Tch, I couldn't stand being in his company, his presence alone made it feel like I was being impaled by a dozen swords. He had way too much bloodlust, it was overwhelming, crushing!" She complained snappily, leaning her head against her shoulder as she walked past you
"I was just escorting this youngster to her prize, I may be old, but the guards should now well enough to obey me when I ask them to bring a lamb for this wolf to slaughter" The old woman cackles, rubbing her hands together as she glances between you and your disciple deliriously, clearly intoxicated by her continued survival and the death of her bastard of a son in law, ignoring her daughter completely "Do you need something to wash the taste of filth out of your mouth, kitty?"
"I wouldn't trust any drink offered to me by a demon, nor would I drink any water from the yellow springs" You answer with a smile, politely declining the offer "Now, were is my prize?"
The former crow queen glares at you in disbelief
"I'd call that greed, but you earned the right to boast. I think even your mother would've had trouble against that brat" The crow crone snickers, slipping her arms into the sleeves of her dress "And you will find it in Baoli's personal chest, take you pick of his treasures, I'm sure whoever has taken the position of treasurer or key jockey in the chaos of his death will be all too happy to allow you first choosing in the looting to follow"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 04 Jul 2022 11:05:52 No. 5327792 Report >>5327789 "Hmph, how typical of devils" Qiang says with a roll of her eyes "No lasting loyalty or respect, wonder who will take that gruesome necklace of his"
"You're welcome to it" The Crow crone cackles, as she walks past you, pulling her daughter along by the ear so harshly it reddens from its pointed tip to its bottom "Hell, if you had the mind to, you and your master could take everything here, including that brat's old position if you had the desire to. It'll be sometime before any other lord of the underworld would even attempt to oust you from this seat. Well, you could take anything that doesn't go "Missing" Kwahaahahaha. But come child, let us find the prize your teacher demanded you be given, the king may be dead, but his promise remains and I am ALL too happy to fulfill it"
"Uh, where can I find the treasurer or key jockey? You didn't exactly tell me where they are, old bat!" You shout angrily at the old crow, annoyed that after saving her life and not only surviving, and not only winning a fight against an opponent at least a stage above you, but winning it with barely a scratch on you, that you wouldn't be lead to your well earned winning's on a golden palanquin with uncomfortable jade cushions!
"Kwaha! Follow the sound of jangly keys, the scent of fresh spilled blood and desperation, a predator like you should be able to track down whoever has the keys now before they can pocket too many of Baoli's treasures" The crow crone laughs
"If they have, I'll kill them" Qiang says bluntly, eyes half lidded and extremely bored as you lose sight of her and the crow woman in the crowd. You growl in irritation, stomping a paw and snarling as you sniff the air, and begin the hunt for whoever has the keys to the treasury.
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What Prize do you take, Huanliuxue?
>A massive pearl of Crystalized Primordial Beast! enough for you to undergo further evolution as a Demonic Beast! Or share with your beastly disciples, so they all may evolve. >A Relic of the Old Era! A manual penned by Niu Bingwen, detailing the method an awakened beast may obtain a human form! Kept by the devils who ended his noble life >A Second Sanguine Divine Spirit Peach! Ripe and uncorrupted, preserved in liquor! >A black horned skull that radiates with enough Yin Qi to curse and haunt an entire region of the mortal realm simply by being within it! >Baoli-Wuyawang's corpse [can be taken with other options] >write in Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Mon 04 Jul 2022 11:08:15 No. 5327795 Report Quoted By:
>>5327792 *Crystallized Primordial Beast essence
Anonymous
>A Second Sanguine Divine Spirit Peach! Ripe and uncorrupted, preserved in liquor.
Anonymous
>>5327792 >A Second Sanguine Divine Spirit Peach! Ripe and uncorrupted, preserved in liquor! Very tough choice.
We can probably find a way to take human form and evolve further another way though. Similarly we have a pretty good source of Ghostly Qi in the catacombs, while we have no reliable way to cultivate more pure blood Qi so far. I'll go with that.
Anonymous
>>5327792 >Crow kings corpse Oh I am having an immense difficulty deciding. We should really be looking towards our next breakthrough, but I also want something to enrich our temple. . Oh hell.
>A second Sanguine Divine spirit peach We can use this to create a pure Blood Qi fountain to meditate in, deep below the temple.
Anonymous
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>>5327813 >>5327804 Do you guys not what the crow kings body, with all of his delectable Qi rich blood?
Anonymous
We don't want him coming back. Give him a proper burial and maybe take one or two of his choice bits.
Anonymous
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>>5327792 >A Second Sanguine Divine Spirit Peach! Ripe and uncorrupted, preserved in liquor! >Baoli-Wuyawang's corpse [can be taken with other options] Anonymous
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>>5327792 >Baoli-Wuyawang's corpse [can be taken with other options] >A Second Sanguine Divine Spirit Peach! Ripe and uncorrupted, preserved in liquor! We can evolve or get human form on our own, but getting more pure blood qi is hard.
I wonder if we can plant the peach/get seeds so we can have a tree.
Anonymous
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>>5327792 >>A massive pearl of Crystalized Primordial Beast! enough for you to undergo further evolution as a Demonic Beast! Or share with your beastly disciples, so they all may evolve. >>Baoli-Wuyawang's corpse [can be taken with other options] Both would probably synergize well with our newest blood qi options.
Anonymous
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>>5327792 >A Second Sanguine Divine Spirit Peach! Ripe and uncorrupted, preserved in liquor! >Baoli-Wuyawang's corpse [can be taken with other options] Anonymous
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>>5327792 >A Second Sanguine Divine Spirit Peach! Ripe and uncorrupted, preserved in liquor! >Baoli-Wuyawang's corpse [can be taken with other options] I can imagine what we'd write-in for equivalent treasures, but if we want our sect able to cultivate Blood Qi without going through hoops and battlefields this will be needed.
Anonymous
>>5327792 >Crow Crone explicitly says "If you had a mind to... you could take everything here" >Thinking.gif >Write-in I know it sounds weird, but... we might not actually have to choose. The former guards are currently trying to loot as much treasure as they can carry after their master's death, and we've been given express permission to take everything we want, up to and including Baoli's mantle. We don't have to plunder *everything*, but limiting ourselves to two treasures, when the whole palace is up on offer just seems... silly. All in favor of ... negotiating? Double or even triple-dipping? That shadow-government/non-aggression pact is still available, if we want to formally establish a base for ourselves in Hell...
>>5327823 The only thing that gives me pause about taking Baoli's corpse is pissing off his widow, who seems to be genuinely upset that he died. Even if she's not as strong as he was, having an upper rank demon noble pissed off at us is dangerous. We could always trade his corpse back to his family, if we perceive it has a lesser value than the other treasures.
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>>5327931 You know what, I felt these were exclusive as in a "what is actually there that we want" terms, but our victory is absolute and our greed is royal.
Also the prompt doesn't even specify a limit! Clever Grandfather.
>>5327792 TAKE IT ALL
>A massive pearl of Crystalized Primordial Beast! enough for you to undergo further evolution as a Demonic Beast! Or share with your beastly disciples, so they all may evolve. >A Relic of the Old Era! A manual penned by Niu Bingwen, detailing the method an awakened beast may obtain a human form! Kept by the devils who ended his noble life >A black horned skull that radiates with enough Yin Qi to curse and haunt an entire region of the mortal realm simply by being within it! >A Second Sanguine Divine Spirit Peach! Ripe and uncorrupted, preserved in liquor! >Baoli-Wuyawang's corpse [can be taken with other options] Anonymous
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>>5327792 >A Relic of the Old Era! A manual penned by Niu Bingwen, detailing the method an awakened beast may obtain a human form! Kept by the devils who ended his noble lifethis may help us a lot in the future
Anonymous
>>5327931 I mean, if this is possible it has my support.
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>>5328063 It stands to reason.
Defeating a king is akin to defeating a sect leader. For the moment, the treasury belongs to none. I hope Qiang picks up that necklace.
Anonymous
>>5327931 I mean. . yeah, if it's possible I'll also support it.
my vote is
>>5327819 the only issue may be trying to move it all, but we have bags of storage for that shit.
LETS DO IT!
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>>5327792 >>5327931 Support.
Our royal greed must be satisfied.
Anonymous
>>5328116 and by support it, I mean take it all.
I'm just hoping this wasn't a "what's actually there" vote.
Because if it isn't WHAT THE FUCK MAN, how does he have so much?!
Anonymous
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>>5328125 He's lived a long time and robbed a lot of people.
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>>5327792 >If we can, take it all Otherwise
>Baoli-Wuyawang's corpse >A Second Sanguine Divine Spirit Peach! Ripe and uncorrupted, preserved in liquor! Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Wed 06 Jul 2022 13:25:50 No. 5330045 Report Ending the vote now. Tallying the result.
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>>5330045 Honestly, with the remaining treasures, priority should go
Manual of Niu Bingwen
Pearl of Essence
Black horned skull
Knowledge is more important than anything save our cultivation base. it's what we pass onto our sect.
The beast core is tantalising and rare while the skull gives a massive amount of Yin Qi. . . which we already have at home.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Wed 06 Jul 2022 15:12:51 No. 5330126 Report It doesn't take you long to find your quarry, his stench is all too familiar to your nose and the poor, greedy miser has already been beaten so badly as to limp and stop to wince as his bruises and raw wounds rub against the now ruined fabric of the fine silk tunic and trouser he had bought for himself with money he didn't have. Yi Zhu, the pig spirit who can't learn his lesson and keep away from loansharks and suspicious lending agencies, you aren't surprised he'd risk his hide and life trying to enrich himself of the misfortune of his recently deceased patron, especially considering how poorly Baoli-Wuyawang treated him and how badly he abused him. Though, to be fair to the late crow king's memory, from what you've seen of the Greedy pig's lifestyle, his last benefactor treated him no better. Really, its more surprising he hasn't been butchered and served as dinner by one of the no doubt numerous hungry ghosts, devils, or earthbound spirits he has indepted himself to do, than it is that he has summoned up enough courage to end another life. Even if his brief valor was born of greed and self interest alone, rather than anything that'd be considered "Noble". Really, you respect him for being decisive and pouncing on the opportunity when it arose, it must've taken the coward a great effort to overcome his fear of death with his desire to fill his coinpurse.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Wed 06 Jul 2022 15:13:51 No. 5330128 Report >>5330126 "FOOL!" You snarl, smacking a paw against the back of his head, smashing his snout into the hard stone floor "Everything I see and desire is mine! Everything I want is MINE even if I don't own it yet! You may be a gluttonous Pig, Yi Zhu, but even your greed pales in comparison to the avarice of ROYALTY! A cat knows everything belongs to them by right of their birth, and I am the greatest cat to ever be born into the universe. You were trying to steal from me, by taking what I want! What I earned by deigning to fight in this sham of a tournament, to risk my life battling that lunatic you sold yourself to like a common whore, pig! I pity you, I truly do, Yi Zhu, but you bring all of your life's troubles and hardships upon yourself! If you would simply learn not to take more than you can hold, not to give your service to cruel masters or borrow money you can't pay back, you'd be much better off. But, here you are, making the same mistake of over-reaching, greedily snatching for more than you can hold, and where has it lead you, Yi Zhu?"
You snap your jaws loudly next to his ears, making him squeal loudly and star shivering. Shaking your head, you lift your paws from his head and neck.
"You're lucky I'm merciful, and pity you enough to hope you'll learn your lesson and prove to be more than just a greedy pig" You say quietly "I remember what you've done for me, so I'll forgive this transgression, be grateful, for I wouldn't give such compassion if you hadn't already proven your worth to me by leading me to the opportunity that allowed me to become a Wild Princess. Now get up, dust off your clothes and wipe the tears from your eyes, You're going to lead me to my new possessions and if you're lucky I might even let you take a coin or two. Am I not a generous girl? Giving a gift so freely to a thief whose hand I just found in my purse"
"Of course my princess, you generosity is greater than the buddah's and your judgement wiser than King Yan's" He sniffles, eyes glistening with tears "This stupid pig forgot you rule over not only every grave upon earth, but what lies beneath them and what lies above them as well. This Foolish, idiotic pig will not make the same mistake twice"
"I would hope not, because even though my heart has softened and I've become somewhat virtuous, I only have so much pity and mercy to give" You say sweetly, brushing up against Yi Zhu as he tries to steady himself "Now, don't waste the life you took to get those keys for me, and lead me to the late king's vault. I'll be very cross if its broken into before I can see the treasures kept in it, let alone take my choice of them back to the world of the living"
He stands slowly, back crooked from pain as he sniffles and nods, shuffling forward as you walk beside him with fierce eyes but a smile on your lips and a purr in your throat and belly.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Wed 06 Jul 2022 15:14:52 No. 5330130 Report >>5330128 It doesn't take you long for you to reach the treasury of Baoli-Wuyawang. There's a massive, golden gate blocking you from claiming your newest possession. It is a work of art in of itself, depicting numerous scenes of the day to day like of hell. It would be called horrific by most, but you find a certain charm in the reliefs of gruesome reliefs upon its surface. Of Crow Devil's feasting upon the eyes of the those poor unfortunate souls condemned to the Yellow Springs to atone for the sin's of their lives, with tiny pearls used to represent their eyes, which the carvings of the crow devils are feasting upon or are in the process of plucking out of their sockets. There are other monsters on the door, most of them kneeling before a titanic Baoli-Wuyawang in his true form, sat upon a throne of bones, mostly made out of spines and femurs with skulls at the end of its armrests, which are made of intertwined arm bones.
Yi Zhu plods up to it, flicking through the keys and pushing aside the wings of the crow demon's carved on the door, reveal keyhole after keyhole as you stand alert, wary of any would be thief or brigand trailing you.
"What's going on? Are we leaving yet?" Yujijiao hisses, her spectral head peeking out of your dimensonal gourd. Yi Zhu freezes as he sees her, beady eyes wide as dinner plates as she looks him over curiously
"Can I eat him?" She asks, drooling already "Its been so long since I've had even a morsel of meat, and being a ghost has only made me all the hungrier"
"No. For some reason I feel sorry for him" You sigh, looking to Yi Zhu with a reassuring smile "Like how you feel sorry for a dim witted dog, who keeps running into a window thinking there's nothing there"
"Ah" Yujijiao says, noddingly knowingly as Yi Zhu hurries himself in opening the gates, going through more and more complex steps to reveal the last dozen or so Keyholes, moving around figures that were once lovingly embracing so one is ripping the throat of the other, taking pearls from the hands of Crow Devils to place them back in the heads they once belonged to, and lifting the carven Baoli-Wuyawang's wings so they are fully spread and open.
And at last the lock clicks and the gates begin to slowly open themselves.
"Yujijiao, be a dear and make yourself useful. I need you fetch a corpse for me" You say casually as you wait for the golden gates to open completely "Make sure it isn't mutilated or cut into pieces, and don't keep it in your mouth, what venom you still have and the decay of your flesh will spoil it and drastically lower its quality. This will be your first duty as my disciple. I'll be certain to reward you with fresh meat when we get back to the mortal world, okay?"
"Of course, my elder" Yujijiao says, slithering compeltely out of your gourd to levitate back down the hallway you took to reach the vault of the late crow king.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Wed 06 Jul 2022 15:15:53 No. 5330131 Report >>5330130 "Yi Zhu" You say as the gates open enough for you to slip inside "Stand guard and do whatever you have to keep out any curious passersby, no matter what their intentions are, I'll be only a moment"
Taking a single step forward, you enter into a palace of silver, gold, and jade. It is like a heavenly palace, stolen into hell. Great statues of beautiful women, monstrous beasts and chimeric creatures grace the chamber, whose ceiling you cannot even see, that is so high up clouds have formed. Streams of steaming blood run down through the path paved with black jade and bones gilded with gold wires pressed into the shape of curses, obscenities and blasphemies against the heavens and mankind. Great piles of well organized bar of every valuable metal and slabs of gemstone were arrayed like towers, reaching high into the clouds of the chamber, some even had walls extending from the towers to wrap around them, with gaudy ceremonial armor made of rings of the same metal or gem. There were paintings and tapestries that moved, playing back scenes of torture, murder, execution, cannibalism, rape and crimes so dreadful they did not have names. Skulls, cast in gold, hung from the ceiling with black candles burning in the sockets of their eyes. Black feathered wings, bull horns, and scaled hides were hung from the walls like hunting trophies, with plaques reading the names of the devils they once belonged to beneath them. A vast spider web, with a skeletal hybrid between man and arachnid was strung out over the pathway, its empty eyes staring down at you as you looked up to it, noting the claw marks around all eight of its eyes. And beneath its shadow, underneath the canopy of its web, sat the true treasures of Baoli-Wuyawang, the priceless objects that he valued above all others. There were but a handful of pedestals, surrounded by spell arrays carved into the very floor.
A black, horned skull that radiated such pure and dense Ghostly Yin Qi, it could curse and haunt an entire region of the human lands by its presence alone.
A massive pearl of refined Primordial Beast essence, for it to be that large the essence would have to have been extracted from dozens of beast cores before it was refined into a ball a little smaller than your paw.
A Manual who you know is priceless in heaven or earth just by the name of its author, Niu Bingwen, the heroic and Selfless awakened ox who you admire greatly. It is a terrible insult to the memory of one so noble and good that his work, whatever it may be, has been displayed as a trophy by those who took his life centuries ago.
Your immediately forget to be angry for the slight against your people's illustrious history, as you see the forth item displayed. It is a glass bottle, secured with talismans and corpse wax. And inside of it, beneath the red sea of liquor. Sits a familiar fruit. A Sanguine divine spirit peach.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Wed 06 Jul 2022 15:17:14 No. 5330133 Report >>5330131 A treasure that takes a thousand years to grow a single fruit. And the only known source of Pure blood Qi that naturally occurs in any world. And this one...this is pure. Baoli-Wuyawang's ego truly was without peer, for him to keep such a cruel memento. There may have been more treasures deeper inside of the chamber, but upon seeing the peach, you couldn't stop yourself from taking it.
By passing the magical traps and spells surrounding it by simply floating above them, but as you grabbed a hold of its neck, you glanced at the other treasures. First the Manual written by a hero your idolize, then the pearl made of the beast essence stolen from the cores of who knows how many of yours kinsfolk, and last the skull radiating enough Yin Qi to bring about a parade of a thousand hungry ghosts.
You wanted it all. And you had killed the owner, so you could take it all. It wasn't even a crime, any cultivator would do the same if they were in your position! It was just common sense. Sure you gave a speech to Yi Zhu about royal avarice, but you just wanted to scare the pig, to make sure he wouldn't think about double crossing you or pocketing anything you decided you deserved to own! Even a priest would know better than to leave such treasures for others to take, even if they had no desire to use them and intended to destroy or seal them away.
Wanting to take all of these treasures, couldn't be called an act of greed, it was just a sign of a sane and logical mind to take such powerful artifacts as one's own property.
So you did that, with a clear conscience and no hesitation. This is just by the laws of the wild, man and heaven, though you don't care at all about the latter two. The victor takes the spoils! The weak are prey to the strong, and today you stand as the strongest
But then there's a squeal, and Yi Zhu bolts into the chamber, keys held tightly in his hand, and a new cut above his brow. He limps past you, huffing and puffing, before there's a thunderous bang and a cloud of black smoke rises from the entrance of the chamber
"Huanliuxue! Save me!" He cries, clinging to your fur
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"ALL RIGHT BOYS! TIME TO TAKE WHAT WE'RE OWED!" A thuggish voice bellows as a broad shouldered figure steps into view, and you see a ox devil swagger into the chamber, dressed in the armor of Baoli-Wuyawang's guards, minus the crow feather black cape they all tend to wear "Centuries of being kicked around and mistreated, without anything to show for it besides scars and regrets. He didn't pay us! He didn't respect us! We were worth less than dog shit in his eyes! So lets leave him nothing to be buried with or to be remembered by, take all he had earned off of our backs and make our own destiny from the ashes of his!"
You growl. The pills you took have been losing their effectiveness for sometime now, and you don't think your body could stand another boost like that so quickly after the first.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Wed 06 Jul 2022 15:18:15 No. 5330136 Report >>5330133 And now there's a band...or rather a gang of loutish and wild demons stomping towards you, driven by a singular grudge against their employer who you just killed, and judging from how their leader slurs their words, drunker than that goddess who made that massive lake near your temple. They're all armored and armed and there are a lot of them.
They begin looting the more mundane wealth of the crow king. Yi Zhu Cowers behind you, trying to hide behind your body as you sit calmly, watching the ruffians steal anything they can and vandalize anything they can't, laughing and cursing Baoli-Wuyawang's name. Some of them get rather creative in the desecration of the crow king's memory, in a brutish sort of way, like how a bear will defecate on its prey to keep anything else from wanting to eat it.
You narrow your eyes as you try to figure out how to deal with these idiots without fighting, since you haven't recovered from your fight with Baoli-Wuyawang and were feeling the strain you had put upon your body. And there was certainly a lot of strain.
How do you deal with the hoodlum demons, Huanliuxue?
>Their leader seems less intoxicated than the rest. Maybe he'll be reasonable and realize its a bad idea to try and steal from someone who just killed their boss, or at least be willing to bargain. >You do not have the time nor patience to deal with a bunch of drunk morons and shameless buffoons. Kill them all to save yourself the trouble (Martial Trial. DC 80) >Grab your treasures, and try to sneak out of the vault (Stealth trial. DC 30. OR DC 70 and [good karma], if you don't leave Yi Zhu behind) >Why should you fight or run from a bunch of common bandits in the making? You're Huanliuxue dammit! Attempt to browbeat and intimidate them into becoming your underlings! >Write in Anonymous
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>>5330136 >Their leader seems less intoxicated than the rest. Maybe he'll be reasonable and realize its a bad idea to try and steal from someone who just killed their boss, or at least be willing to bargain. If it goes bad, we can play for time until Yujijiao returns. She does have real combat ability, and she isn't exhausted
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>>5330136 >Their leader seems less intoxicated than the rest. Maybe he'll be reasonable and realize its a bad idea to try and steal from someone who just killed their boss, or at least be willing to bargain. >Why should you fight or run from a bunch of common bandits in the making? You're Huanliuxue dammit! Attempt to browbeat and intimidate them into becoming your underlings! Big stick diplomacy in action.
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>>5330171 I support the intimidation, but I dont want them as underlings.
Fuck off demons.
>Their leader seems less drunk than the others. Maybe he wants to bargain or threatened to leave us alone. Anonymous
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>>5330136 Seconding
>>5330179 . As someone who just killed a demon king, we should have our pick of the litter when it comes to potential minions. The only real value these guys might have to us is for more intel on the crows and their inner workings-- or else as spies, depending on what they plan to do in the future. Either way, we don't need to recruit them right now, if at all.
>Their leader seems less intoxicated than the rest. Maybe he'll be reasonable and realize its a bad idea to try and steal from someone who just killed their boss, or at least be willing to bargain. Also, we still have that miraculous healing pill in our mouth, right? Can we pop that now, just in case it *does* come out in a fight?
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>>5330179 I agree, I was just too lazy to delete the last line.
I also think we don't need to bargain with the leader, unless all he ask is any treasure thavt is not one of those 4. Try to open with diplomacy. If he doesn't agree than go for intimidation and show of strength.
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>>5330133 It's interesting to note that Baoli as a ruler was mostly a hoarder. Thankfully our character knows better the meaning of wealth to a ruler.
>>5330136 >Their leader seems less intoxicated than the rest. Maybe he'll be reasonable and realize its a bad idea to try and steal from someone who just killed their boss, or at least be willing to bargain. I would honestly rather kill them, but they had a shit ruler and rather than relying on fear of us we can say we're here to take what we're owed, too. Which is true. We can commiserate that it's nice to see the hoard of a Thief King get what is deserved.
As I see it all we would be asking for is that they not kill our pig while we're doing that, as enjoyable as it would be. We understand, truly.
Further, we're exerted but we're healed. We can act like we're ready to fight, because technically we are, but also to show that the fight hasn't spent us. If he thinks that's a bluff we can "negotiate" by telling him demons do dumb things when they sense supposed weakness when what is being shown is in reality a well practiced feint, a natural and truly simple deception. And a demon who can't believe the differences might try fighting them in their own arena to show off, for example.
A pile or two of precious metals and one of the good tapestries for a memento would be nice to add to our shopping list now that we're here, if they haven't pissed on them or worse.
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>>5330136 >>5330242 Somehow I forget to say we should be negotiating they take a large pension, or die. Because that's fair. And because if they want to make something of themselves in hell with what they're "earning" here they'll need to live. We're very logical, indeed. The fairest.
Obviously they're not here just for money, but to wreak a little bit of revenge on items, statues, and hanging carpets. It's kind of incredibly pathetic and a waste, but given their service to Baoli I doubt they're in a listening mood for criticism. So... commiserate in spite, but don't back down from what's ours, which includes Zhu.
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Frankly I don't care if they take the wealth so long as we make sure we get the actual treasures. Gems and gold hold no value above how decorated they can make our property. We can get all of our necessities without it.
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>>5330136 >Why should you fight or run from a bunch of common bandits in the making? You're Huanliuxue dammit! Attempt to browbeat and intimidate them into becoming your underlings! The only choice
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>>5330136 >Write in >Just take the four treasures in our gourd, then walk out. We have no business with them, and they should have none with us. I do not care for the riches in here, or the statues and other baubles. I'm fairly certain these four artefacts are more valuable then everything else in here, if we can get them then we can walk away happy. Meanwhile these demons want reparations for their bad treatment? Let them take it. What business of ours is it? If they have a problem with that then a little intimidation should make them think twice.
Make sure Yi Zhu walk out of here intact too, if possible.
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Since we know what us and our sect are gonna do with the Manual of Niu Bingwen & Peach, and I presume we're going to use the Pearl of Essence on ourselves , what are we going to do with the Black Skull? Just set it up in our catacomb cultivation chamber?
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>>5330984 Also, I've belatedly realized we haven't named the Foundation Establishment Rank 3 we acquired when we incorporated Pure Blood Qi, and it seems like we should've because its allowed such an explosion of techniques using our Law's first Qi. So it feels to be worthy of a name.
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>>5330984 Too bad the peach has been preserved. Probably killed any seeds in it. Can't even replant it. Very unfortunate.
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>>5330136 >Their leader seems less intoxicated than the rest. Maybe he'll be reasonable and realize its a bad idea to try and steal from someone who just killed their boss, or at least be willing to bargain. Anonymous
>>5330984 I could be wrong about this, but I was under the impression that we were sort of running low of good sources of Yin Qi. The main reason we went deeper into the mountain and fought the ghostly noble, IIRC, is that the upper level was no longer satisfying our needs. Even if it's nowhere near as rare as something like pure Blood Qi, having a powerful source of it will still help our cultivation. That said, I can think of a few necromancy options that might be interesting-- once we figure out what the skull is from, so we don't accidentally unleash an ancient evil.
>>5331093 Maybe, maybe not. This is a magic fruit that's still good to eat after a thousand years, so all bets are off how viable the seeds are; unless QM explicitly confirms it won't work, growing a pure Blood peach tree is still on the table.
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>>5331330 I wonder if we can use the liquor to make pills, surely it must be infused with some of the peach's power after so long
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>>5331330 We arent running low on good sources. We are at level 3 of 9 in the tomb of the forgotten king. We can still go further and further down, feed on more and more powerful ghosts. The skull is simply a very potent source of Yin Qi.
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>>5331340 But the skull would allow us to be more powerful to take on those levels than we would be otherwise.
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the obvious place for this skull is at the head of our throne in our nether court/cultivation chamber
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>>5331466 >not an oversized necklace Bonus points if we ever take on a human form so then people will be meeting empty eye sockets judging the shit out of them if they stare at our tits.
Nah the real place is in a meditation chamber so any of the students we have in the future can acquaint themselves with big yin energy before crypt diving. Don't need dumb kids stopping their hearts trying to fuck with ghosts unprepared.
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>>5331806 But anon, the throne room is the cultivation chamber.
Let other cultivator of lesser laws sit in their cushions, a Ruler of the Great Wheel should meditate on something more fitting of their station.
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>>5331806 I don't think Huanliuxue, if she ever did bother with a human form for a while, would have large boobs. Cats don't have them, after all, and they'd get in the way a lot
I also think, uh, the skull is way more yin qi than a novice could handle. It says it could curse a whole region, after all
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>>5331834 Throne rooms are for hearing official pleas and ceremonies, they serve no other function than looking important and expensive. Also thrones are not ergonomic and therefore not suited for long periods of seated posture, ironically enough. This makes them bad for long meditation. Last thing you need is to make a breakthrough and come back to back pain. Yeesh.
>>5331838 >implying that people can't enjoy staring at small tits And it's not like we'd be having the students step up and slurp some of that dank qi from the skull, just walk in, stand around for a bit and go get a warm tea so they don't die. The actual meditation is for us or the advanced students. Or just for half-dead homies to hang out in. Who knows. I don't.
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>>5331857 Well, that explains why cinema seats always hurt like hell and the end of the movie.
Anyway, our cultivation room (not the one for everyone else) is already a throne room, sincr we took it over from the last ghost lord of the level, and we do ceremonies and pleas in it, with the ghost coming to bow and get their worries sucked away, and our servants standing by our sides.
Maybe we could do a bit of redecorating when we get back, we should have enough treasures for it. Would putting a source o blood qi help because we are attuned to it, or mess it up because it's yang and death is qi? Maybe if we set up the death qi like bones and the blood qi like blood vessels, and position the treasures in some places to mimic the meridians, we can make it become harmonious like our dual nature.
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>>5331838 Cats do have teats. But I think that would manifest with small to medium teats due to accumulated point. But yeah, probably small to ensure that they dont get in the way of our usual acrobatics.
I'm not going to go into the logistics and benefits of big tits for our human form. It's a rabbit hole I don't want to go down.
Still, the skull makes for a something we cant wear without killing people via radius.
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Ending the vote now, tallying the result.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Fri 08 Jul 2022 20:21:03 No. 5332525 Report And that isn't mentioning how much your head is swimming from the wine fumes on these hooligan's breathe, its just awful and they're filling the whole treasury with that horrid stench. How humans can drink alcohol, you'll never know, just smelling it burns your nose and makes your eyes water. However, while they're all clearly well and truly drunk after whatever kinds of wine they make in hell, not all of them are stumbling over themselves as steal, ransack, and vandalize all their hands can reach. Their eyes aren't so clouded and distance, and they walk with as much poise and grace as lowborn crooks are capable of as they belch and stumble their way deeper and deeper into the vault, smearing the filth and grim off their callused hands on fine silk tapestries and robes with one hand as they pluck gems from the ground and raise them to their squinting eyes with the other. A few stumble in the streams of blood, some collapse upon the miniature forts and walls made from the late crow king's truly massive wealth. But those with not so much booze in them to completely drown and kill their senses, reach for the weapons kept in storage here, arming themselves with much higher quality steel.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Fri 08 Jul 2022 20:22:03 No. 5332527 Report >>5332525 Maybe he's still sober enough to be reasonable or at least not notice how exhausted and worn out you are after the truly titanic effort it took to beat his former boss and turn him to a corpse, and hopefully not so ambitious as to risk his life in pursuit of the power he seeks amongst the relics or stupid enough to not recognize the true treasures kept in the vault. Which you are carrying with you as you approach him confidently and arrogantly, with Yi Zhu clinging to your back, whining as you get closer to the brute of a bull devil.
He lifts up his gourd filled with wine to take a long draw from it, and pauses as it reaches his lips, as while his plastered underlings form a rough protective wall against them, stumbling into place to form a unsteady bulwark, some holding ceremonial scepters, wands and staffs instead of weapons and all of them wearing at least one piece of gaudy jewelry. The Head of this drunken pack narrows his eyes as you strut towards him, taking a long and deep gulp of his wine and sighing as you stop four paces in front of his defenders, who raise their weapons threateningly towards you or where their blurred vision places one of the three of you they can see.
"Haaah" The bull demon breathes out, wiping his mouth and face with his wine drinking hand, while his other reaches for the Dao still sheathed at his hip "Well, this is unexpected, isn't it boys. Didn't think a princess would debase herself performing peasant work? Don't you have servants to command? Surely one of them would be happy to fetch whatever you're looking for down here in my treasury on silk cushion atop a silver platter. And, now I think about it, isn't it unfair that you get to win the glory and the wealth? Surely even royalty such as yourself would be satisfied with the renown you've earned yourself today, eh lil Wuyashashou? Do you really want to pick a fight over a bunch of baubles? You must be wealthy already, let the poor take their piece instead of hogging it all to yourself. Unless you really are as much of a battle maniac as the old king, step aside and let me and my men take what is ours"
So that's the angle he's going for? Inspiring his men by presenting you as greedy woman out to steal the little cash they can earn? You doubt morale would keep if a fight did break out, but it would be enough to get them to fight to begin with, with their fears drenched in wine and being already so emboldened by it and all of the wealth before them just waiting to be taken.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:Ru4k8oGK Fri 08 Jul 2022 20:23:37 No. 5332529 Report >>5332527 What do you say to the Bull Devil Leader, Huanliuxue?
>You can have all that's here, I've already taken the prize I was promised, so step out of my way and let me leave without further issue or else draw my ire and earn my claws, scum. I have no quarrel with you, unless you want to pick a fight and join your master in death. In fact, I can even help ensure you KEEP what you take from here, rather than lose it and your lives the moment you leave... >Are you really stupid enough to think these drunks would be able to stop me if I chose to kill you? Are you willing to stake everything on one throw, and try to threaten the Great Huanliuxue and audaciously demand I step aside and forfeit my possessions? I'd say you're courting death, but I'd do much worse than kill you if you so much as raised a hand towards me >Lets chop nails and sever iron. Hows about we make a trade? I give you one of these treasures, and you remove yourself from my sight immediately. I am tired and lacking patience, so it'll be best if we part amicably so I can leave this pit you call a home and you can make the power grab you're planning, deal? >I'll ignore your tone, and give you some friendly advise. You aren't going to find anything that will make you as strong as Baoli-Wuyawang was here, nor will you find anything that can give you a talent to match my own. Is there something here that'll make you stronger? Yes, but nothing that could make you stand as tall as he did. You've got bravado, but you should focus on training, rather than picking fights you can't win. >write in Anonymous
>>5332529 >I'm in a good mood after defeating Baoli without even a scratch, so I'll let ignore your attempt at bravado. I have already picked the treasures worthy of my station, so you can feel free to loot this place, so merely step aside and let me and my servants pass. >Let me give you an advice: Artifacts, talismans and pills are to be aids in cultivation, not a crutch for power. And try to not challenge those that are stronger than you, fortune does not always favor the bold. Anonymous
>>5332529 I support
>>5332536 but I will add this before we give him the advice.
>Your men are drunk and care nothing for you, who stand behind them. If I have punched above my stage and faced a true master of sorcery and the martial way, then what use are these fools that see three of me rather than one. One Huanliuxue is enough to topple the Crow king, what damage can three do? Are so many of you willing to die so that your allies can enjoy the spoils? Just really underscore the threat. The wise man has his minions worthlessness restated, the minions are told that they can't spend money if they are dead.
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>>5332527 >down here in my treasury Ah, corpses and their jokes. A match made in soil.
What I'm getting as the bigger risk is if we stall or fight too long then multiple stronger devils will arrive for the looting. Any genuine contemporaries of Baoli would be strong, and that's not counting any outside of his "kingdom" and what'll happen when they get here. So, a fast resolution is probably best.
>>5332529 How about a bit of using his own words against him, eh? Putting a shred of doubt into his drunkards.
>write in >How right you are! It would be truly unfair for me to take the statues and carpets and weapons and ingots and coins and ceiling lanterns and trophies and jewels, and I would not even think of it. Why, some of it no doubt came directly from your own pockets! And I cannot stain my victory with the ingraciousness of a greedy ruler. You and your men should have this as the Violent Crow King's final comeuppance! The four treasures are what was promised to me upon the condition of winning that sham of a tournament, only Baoli had not intended to lose his life- and he begged for it. To me. So I will have my promised reward. The vast amount of wealth, of this quality and nature, belongs in hell. Unless another, today, will discover that the desires of a devil can utterly exceed their ability. which we can slide into addressing the bull demon directly
>I'll ignore your tone, and give you some friendly advise. You aren't going to find anything that will make you as strong as Baoli-Wuyawang was here, nor will you find anything that can give you a talent to match my own. Is there something here that'll make you stronger? Yes, but nothing that could make you stand as tall as he did. You've got bravado, but you should focus on training, rather than picking fights you can't win. So an implicit agreement with bit of a bluff and a truthy lie and a real threat, given that the demons here weren't around for our private conversations. This should put a rift between the desires of their commander and the men, even a drunk devil can figure out that getting everything they wanted without a fight is better than starting a fight they can lose.
Strategically however if most of the physical wealth stays here and we don't stuff it into our gourd the devils will be fighting over it for a good bit, and my instincts tell me we want them to have something to fight over.
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>>5332558 By "four treasures" I means the manual, pearl, skull, and peach. but phrasing it this way is for the bull demon to comprehend that we're not giving them up. Anonymous
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>>5332536 >>5332557 Y'know what, +1 for that unanimity.
May the cycle grant us golden karma.
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Ending the vote now, tallying the result. Going to be starting a new thread. Gonna try to update more regularly
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>>5334502 New thread, migrate over
