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You are Huanliuxue (欢流血, Happy Bloodshed/ Happy to Shed Blood), Founder, grandmaster and Secthead of the heretical sect the Palace of Natural Laws (宫殿的野生彝宪, Gōngdiàndīyěshēngyíxiàn) and creator and foremost practitioner of the Apostate cultivation method, the Ruler of the Great Wheel's Law(统治者的这重大轮回法律, Tǒngzhìzhědīzhèzhòngdàlúnhuífǎlǜ). But, beyond even those supreme and honorable titles and seats you hold with regal pride and bearing, and the deeds you have performed to possess and hold them them to begin with and the accomplishments and victories you have achieved and won despite being an outcast of the world of cultivation, abhorred by the heavens, beyond even your slaying of the king of the Crow Demons, Baoli-Wuyawang (暴力-乌鸦王, Violent Crow King) or your quest through the primordial wilderness feared even by the gods and your sojourn into the ancient past of the world or your ongoing conquests of the Catacombs of the forgotten king and the bloodless warm, you have performed a deed so great and grand it will surely shake the earth and nine heavens alike and spread the name of Huanliuxue far and wide, both in the mortal realms and beyond even the Celestial!
For you, the Wild Princess of Graves and Blood, Fated inheritor of the forgotten, forbidden and sealed legacy of Primordial beasts, and future empress of the whole world have performed a feat so impressive, so magnificent, that if word got out of your success it would surely cause both heaven and earth to turn upside down and immortalize your name into legend as a genius without peer, a talent without equal, a prodigy of prodigies! And what was this great, earthshaking deed you had done? What great victory had you won. Why only just rebuking the rule of the nine heavens themselves and going so far against their will to be struck by hundreds of bolts of heavenly wrath and face a storm unlike any other, all conjured up by the petty rage and pique of the so called, unequalled gods in the heavens!
Yes! That's right! You obtained human form, despite being a "Mere Beast" and have thus broken one of the laws put in place ten generations ago and with a single roar, brought a massive swell of Primordial Beast Essence to flood the earth as the heavens gnashed their teeth and wept in shame at their failure to strike you down!
And what's more, you've been blessed with a supreme Yin Physique in both your forms and all the unearthly and bountiful beauty that comes with such a potent increase of your bodies Yin energies. Power, Beauty and Infamy! All given to you by this one, once inconceivable victory against the unjust gods in the heavens! It would almost be enough to make you weep, if you were not busy flaunting your prizes and reveling in the results.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 19 Dec 2022 00:32:16 No. 5501770 Report >>5501769 Or, you were, before you decided to do a good deed without compensation and repair the damages to the temple you faced the Heavenly tribulation in free of charge and without being asked. The temple which had once been the site of your hometown, where you had been born a simple and mindless white furred cat and where you had been born again as a demonic beast and where you have been reborn a third time as a Jade like beauty, able to shift between beast and human!
And while you were being so kind as to labor and work despite being royalty and nearly finished fixing the mess the gods have left on the earth, an unfamiliar daoist, a lightning struck cultivator approached you. Right as you were nearly finished and prepared to head home and show off the fruits of your success.
Of course, upon seeing such a beauty as yourself, he was immediately struck and began to praise and compliment you. But you are suspicious, for many reasons, some you cannot exactly name or put into words or explain, even if you were also very much pleased to be showered in such earnest and high praises so readily and freely. And certainly you didn't recognize his sect by the color of his uniform. You were uncertain if you could let your guard down around this boy, but he seemed honestly and innocently curious about you and the temple as well. Well, mostly innocently, at least concerning yourself. You might be young but you recognized that look in his eyes when he mustered the courage to look upon your radiant body directly and for longer than the span of a breath.
So, you saw no harm in explaining to him the history of your town. its not like he'd be able to connect your story to the truth and realize you were Huanliuxue, as distracted and enamored as he was by your talent and beauty. Admittedly more so the latter.
"I suppose you could call her a local spirit" You mused, pursing your lips and pouting as you turned around the stone head of your idol and looked into its fierce eyes as you held it by the ears "Even though she is in truth a demonic beast, she is not demonic in nature, at least if the stories told about her are true"
"Wouldn't be the first wayward sect or cult to worship a beast or devil" The boy said, hands tucked to his sides as he looked around "Certainly, this temple has an unpleasantness in the air. But, I do not think a girl as beautiful as you would worship a wretched beast. So they must not be as dangerous as most of their ilk, if they are deserving of your respect, at least"
Resisting the urge to throw the stone head at him and defend your good name by shouting at and scolding him, you accept that, in his own way, he was complimenting you rather than insulting you.
"She is. Very much so. Most beasts are less dangerous than we imagine, only against mankind for the sake of their own survival" You sigh sadly, as the boy with the lightning scars turned away in shame.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 19 Dec 2022 00:33:17 No. 5501772 Report >>5501770 Or you hoped he did, you were pressing up your chest quiet a bit with how you were leaning against the neck of your own idol
"And the cat whom this shrine was built to honor, was never against mankind to begin with, though she is hunted all the same as if she was one of the ones whom continuously prey upon humanity and only subsists on human flesh" You continue on, standing up just in case the boy was looking away bashfully rather than out of regret for his thoughtless words
"What's her name? You seem rather knowledgeable about this deified beast" The boy said, quickly turning completely around after he saw your legs and hops, unhidden by the neck of the statue. You grinded your teeth, somewhat irritated now
"Huanliuxue" You say forlornly, deciding to look towards the horizon like he now was
"What a scary name" The lighting touched cultivator remarked "Sounds barbaric, bloodthirsty even. You sure she doesn't eat people"
"Well, she ate a few, and that is why she is worshipped" You say, rolling the stone head of your statue between your hands "This temple used to be a town on the Ling-Chuan border"
"Wait...is she that guardian spirit the local nobility claim as their protector?!" The boy shouts, turning around as he smacks his fist into his open palm and manages to look into your eyes for a moment before they drift down lower
"Yes! And it is because she hunted the Ling invaders and devoured them. Not out of hunger, but for vengeance sake. People claim this burnt village had been her home, before she became a demonic beast, and it was here she first awoke as a demon" You say quietly "I do not know if its true, but, the story goes she was a kitten, once pampered and loved, drenched in the blood of innocent children shed by the cruel ambitions of Ling Meng"
"The graves behind her statue" He whispered sadly, managing to tear his eyes off of you to look upon them with sorrow and regret in his eyes "They belong to those children"
"Presumably. Before this temple was established, they were the only ones buried here. Some say she did it herself, others, early followers who traced her back to her origins. Whatever the truth is, the enmity and hatred she felt to those soldiers who cut down her caretakers, was potent enough to form a grudge" You explain, hugging your idol's stone head as you look up to the clear sky and sigh
"And that is enough to turn even a kitten into a demon' The boy said sagely, nodding his head and crossing his arms over his own chest "Still, rather grim to worship a man eater just because they ate your enemies"
"The difference between an Avenging Hero and a Vengeful villain is only who exactly is telling you about them" You bluntly remarked, rolling your eyes "And, as far as anyone knows, she only ate Ling and his Men...and maybe a few tax collectors"
"Ah, that'd explain it! Peasants abhor tax collectors more than any devil or curse" The boy laughed, throwing back his head "Where is this Huanliuxue now"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 19 Dec 2022 00:34:18 No. 5501773 Report >>5501772 "No one knows, Lord Chuan claims she follows him, some official were met with her and challenged to answer riddles by her, and some have reported seeing her stalking the city of Suiqi [雟栖, Sparrow's rest]" You say, trying not to smirk or giggle as the cultivator in green robes listened intently "and if I knew where she wandered, I'd not tell it to another cultivator"
"Most of our fellows would hunt her down to claim her core, I'd just like to ask her the truth" He said simply and humbly "I'm certainly not aggressive enough to want skin a cat, no matter how monstrous they've become. And she certainly, from your account, seems to be an oddity amongst demonic beasts. Most of them grow addicted to human flesh, as you well know"
Not really. Most who do only eat humans cause they're richer in Qi or because they were already making a habit of eating them before they become Magical Beasts. Most Intelligent Animals don't even change their diet.
"It's a testament to her good nature and righteous character" You say through your teeth
"Tell me more about Huanliuxue" The boy said cheerfully "She sounds fascinating, and I'd love to hear more of your lovely voice. So why not tell me all you know, so we can get better acquainted with one another"
Was he trying to lure you into a trap or trick you into a date? You didn't trust him one bit. He was either in rut or plotting something!
"Most of what I know is second hand at best, and at worst taken from plays, as nice as it'd be to listen to when its me saying it, you'd learn nothing more of Huanliuxue from me, besides children's stories and fictional adventures" You say cheerfully as you fit the head back on the statue and hold it in place as the glue and metal binds it to the body with your foot "Though I'm sure you'd enjoy spending time in my company, even if I was just gossiping about and insulting other girls, hmm"
"Yes" he brazenly admitted, returning your smile "I did say I wanted to hear more of your voice, did I not, sister? Perhaps, you could tell me of the monks who built this temple. They must be dear to you if you'd work on their behalf. Do they serve under your school?"
"You really are persistent. Kind of pushy to! If you want to flirt, be less aggressive. You'll scare more girls than you charm" You titter, wagging a finger
"You don't sound scared" He shoots back, lifting an eye brow
"I think its more cute than charming or frightening for that matter" You giggle, looking down at him past your nose "And at least you have the good graces to do more than flirt"
"I'm as curious of this temple and its idol as I am of you" He said with a shrug of his shoulders "and you seem to enjoy talking about what you know of it"
"Well, you'll be disappointed then" You say, hopping off the statue "The priests will know more about the temple itself, since it was also new to me"
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>>5501773 "Then, all that remains is to tell me about yourself. How about we start with hobbies! I enjoy gardening and..." He said, trying to sound roguish, framing his chin between his thumb and finger as you skipped past him, ignoring his attempts to look alluring entirely. Which made him nearly collapse.
"Now if you excuse me, I must return to my sect, for I have been gone for far too long and wish to see the progress my wonderful juniors have achieved in the meanwhile" You said cheerfully, smirking as you saw the devastated and desperate look on his face as you continued to walk away, backwards as you turned around to look at him with your hands behind your back.
"Wait. Wait. at least tell me which sect you belong to! I'd like to meet you again" He said pleadingly, clapping his hands together "And show you I can do more than just uh, embarrass myself in front of a pretty lady"
"If fate favors you, you may. But stating your loyalties openly is presently a rather dangerous thing to do" You snicker, hiding your mouth behind the back of your hand "I'm sure a persistent boy like you could find me anyways, if you looked hard enough"
"You're right, even though it hurts me" He sighed, shaking his head "I'll tell the monks a beauty fixed their temple up for them, I'm sure they'll be pleased, whether they know you or not. Stay safe on the road, Sister"
And with that, he walked towards your statue, turning his back to you as he stared up at it. You watched him from the entrance of the temple for awhile. Seeing him walk past the statue, and sit down to pray in front of the nine graves behind it. You shook your head and continued down the road.
'I'll take a roundabout way back home, incase he tries to follow or spy on me' You think, as you enjoy the Primordial Beast essence filling the air in your lungs, and soaking into the earth below your bare feet. The sun was high in the sky and shining bright.
'He was pretty suspicious. And even if he was genuinely just trying to court me, I don't want a simpering pup following me around. It'd only cause trouble' You thought 'I'd have to kill him, if he found out what I really was. And that'd be a chore. Despite his somewhat airheaded behavior, he felt strong. At least Foundation Establishment Stage. And his kindness felt genuine and real'
"Bah!" You shout, as your thoughts get all messed up and tangled.
How'd a doofus like that get past Qi Condensation? You pause to consider that, scrunching your face for a moment before grumbling and continuing down the road you've chosen. You might need to head to Suiqi or one of its two sister cities and then boat down back to Fu's village. The hustle and bustle of the city would make it difficult for... whoever that was to follow you.
"Wait I forgot to ask her her name!!!" You hear him shout, even though you've made put a bit of distance between yourself and the temple
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 19 Dec 2022 00:37:49 No. 5501776 Report >>5501773 "Then, all that remains is for you to tell me about yourself. How about we start with hobbies! I enjoy gardening and..." He said, trying to sound roguish, framing his chin between his thumb and finger as you skipped past him, ignoring his attempts to look alluring entirely. Which made him nearly collapse.
"Now if you excuse me, I must return to my sect, for I have been gone for far too long and wish to see the progress my wonderful juniors have achieved in the meanwhile" You said cheerfully, smirking as you saw the devastated and desperate look on his face as you continued to walk away, backwards as you turned around to look at him with your hands behind your back.
"Wait. Wait. at least tell me which sect you belong to! I'd like to meet you again" He said pleadingly, clapping his hands together "And show you I can do more than just uh, embarrass myself in front of a pretty lady"
"If fate favors you, you may. But stating your loyalties openly is presently a rather dangerous thing to do" You snicker, hiding your mouth behind the back of your hand "I'm sure a persistent boy like you could find me anyways, if you looked hard enough"
"You're right, even though it hurts me" He sighed, shaking his head "I'll tell the monks a beauty fixed their temple up for them, I'm sure they'll be pleased, whether they know you or not. Stay safe on the road, Sister"
And with that, he walked towards your statue, turning his back to you as he stared up at it. You watched him from the entrance of the temple for awhile. Seeing him walk past the statue, and sit down to pray in front of the nine graves behind it. You shook your head and continued down the road.
'I'll take a roundabout way back home, incase he tries to follow or spy on me' You think, as you enjoy the Primordial Beast essence filling the air in your lungs, and soaking into the earth below your bare feet. The sun was high in the sky and shining bright.
'He was pretty suspicious. And even if he was genuinely just trying to court me, I don't want a simpering pup following me around. It'd only cause trouble' You thought 'I'd have to kill him, if he found out what I really was. And that'd be a chore. Despite his somewhat airheaded behavior, he felt strong. At least Foundation Establishment Stage. And his kindness felt genuine and real'
"Bah!" You shout, as your thoughts get all messed up and tangled.
How'd a doofus like that get past Qi Condensation? You pause to consider that, scrunching your face for a moment before grumbling and continuing down the road you've chosen. You might need to head to Suiqi or one of its two sister cities and then boat down back to Fu's village. The hustle and bustle of the city would make it difficult for... whoever that was to follow you.
"Wait I forgot to ask her her name!!!" You hear him shout, even though you've put quite a bit of distance between yourself and the temple
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 19 Dec 2022 00:38:50 No. 5501777 Report >>5501776 You decided then, just to be safe and sure the easygoing boy doesn't follow your tracks or scent, to take a slightly longer route to Suiqi.
Unfortunately, while your trip to it was uneventful, besides a few local men begging you to become their wives and a few boys weeping as you ignored their advances when you stopped in a village to reorient yourself and make sure you weren't being trailed, it seems every time you step foot in Suiqi, you're fated to shed blood there!
You were enjoying a free meal given to you at one of the finer restaurants in the city, that you and Siwang had cleaned up marvelously! Why, you barely recognized it with how much it had changed for the better since you and that clever little owl went on a bit of a killing spree of the local filth and villainy! And so, happily, you slurped at the noodles and sweet broth you were given, enjoying the foreign flavors your human tongue could experience, while the owner of the restaurant was being scolded by his wife, he was threatening him with a pan full of oil as you were surrounded by admirers, some who had followed you from their village in the countryside to plead their case and beg you to reconsider taking them as servants if you wouldn't have them as husbands or lovers.
You didn't pay attention to them, besides when they ordered you more food, which the angry daughters working in the kitchen were all to happy to bring you as their brothers stared at you dumbly and the other patrons gossiped about your or joined the growing throng of admirers you had picked up the moment you sat down at your table. It was very enjoyable, being given tons of free food, compliments, praise and wistful affection.
Though the food was spicier than the menu would have you think, you were happy nonetheless. Until some idiots started a fight in the street. You'd thought it was one of the local boys, trying to fight tow in your approval. Until the wall of the restaurant was blasted away, and wood dust and splinters fell into your bowl of sweet broth and noodles.
That's when you realize they were cultivators. Low level Cultivators. Utter weaklings, probably only just managing to begin their cultivation this year and thus having rather big heads. And coming from rival sects, considering how fiercely they were fighting just outside of a lovely little restaurant.
You felt a vein bulge on your brow, as you looked at your ruined food and felt anger boiling up inside. Did your previous, murderous jaunts in this city condemn you to have to spill blood in it whenever you visited it? Cause you were ready to beat some sense into those two idiots for wasting the gifts you were given!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 19 Dec 2022 00:39:55 No. 5501779 Report >>5501777 What do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Apologize to the owner for the mess, grab the chair you were sitting at, and hurl it at the nearest of the two fighters' head (Accuracy/ Strength Trial. DC 40) >Sigh and stand up and hurriedly leave. Knowing that beating some worthless trash will only draw attention. Which you don't want. >Get angrier that the two idiots are endangering innocents and command them to leave to kill each other somewhere else. And tell them if they refuse, you'll teach them a lesson (Good karma) (Martial Trial. DC 20) >Demand a replacement dish, and stubbornly try to keep eating as the two morons fight it out. >Write in Anonymous
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>>5501779 >Get angrier that they are endagering people Do you utter fools have no concept of the lives of others? Is honour and morality absent from both of your educations! GET!
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>>5501779 Damn, I really don't wanna waste time with this trash...but we can't not do anything.
Apologize to the owner for the mess, grab the chair you were sitting at, and hurl it at the nearest of the two fighters' head (Accuracy/ Strength Trial. DC 40)
I don't even want the Karma. I just wanna put an end to their fighting and move on. We got more important things to do.
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>>5501779 >Apologize to the owner for the mess, grab the chair you were sitting at, and hurl it at the nearest of the two fighters' head (Accuracy/ Strength Trial. DC 40) Anonymous
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>>5501779 >Get angrier that the two idiots are endangering innocents and command them to leave to kill each other somewhere else. And tell them if they refuse, you'll teach them a lesson (Good karma) (Martial Trial. DC 20) Stupid young masters
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>>5501779 >Get angrier that the two idiots are endangering innocents and command them to leave to kill each other somewhere else. And tell them if they refuse, you'll teach them a lesson (Good karma) (Martial Trial. DC 20) If brats need taming...
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>>5501779 >Get angrier that the two idiots are endangering innocents and command them to leave to kill each other somewhere else. And tell them if they refuse, you'll teach them a lesson (Good karma) (Martial Trial. DC 20) Hotheaded boys would truly despair at being scolded by a beautiful big sister.
That said if one of them has the audacity of being a ling then he gets the harshest verbal whipping of all times, i want to see him cry so badly a chair to the face would have been a mercy.
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>>5501779 >Apologize to the owner for the mess, grab the chair you were sitting at, and hurl it at the nearest of the two fighters' head (Accuracy/ Strength Trial. DC 40) One day we will get into a serious fight with an actually skilled cultivator, but for now I will settle for feeding these two idiots a knuckle sandwich.
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>>5501779 Pretty sure we still don’t have clothes. Hopefully none of them tear at our shadow.
But they disrupted our meal over their petty sect differences. I have zero chill over that.
>Get angrier that the two idiots are endangering innocents and command them to leave to kill each other somewhere else. And tell them if they refuse, you'll teach them a lesson (Good karma) (Martial Trial. DC 20) >”Perhaps you don’t know how violent this city was. Being able to sit in a restaurant without care of someone trying to assault me brought joy to my heart. A joy you’ve ruined by blowing apart said restaurant. So let me be clear, continue this display and you’ll find support in each other after I rip your jaws off and you need help to drink soup. Now, start cleaning up.” Zero chill.
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>>5501779 Apologize to the owner for the mess, grab the chair you were sitting at, and hurl it at the nearest of the two fighters' head (Accuracy/ Strength Trial. DC 40)
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>>5501779 >Apologize to the owner for the mess, grab the chair you were sitting at, and hurl it at the nearest of the two fighters' head (Accuracy/ Strength Trial. DC 40) Anonymous
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>>5501779 >Apologize to the owner for the mess, grab the chair you were sitting at, and hurl it at the nearest of the two fighters' head (Accuracy/ Strength Trial. DC 40) Anonymous
6 and 6, a dead split.
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>>5502182 No one knows who we are and we're gonna split after this. Chair to the face just feels more satisfying than some grand speech, it gets the message across nice and simple.
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>>5501779 >Get angrier that the two idiots are endangering innocents and command them to leave to kill each other somewhere else. And tell them if they refuse, you'll teach them a lesson (Good karma) (Martial Trial. DC 20) Anonymous
>>5502229 See, I want a good old-fashioned beatdown in defense of sanity. Speech is admittedly optional for me, and we could even have it after we beat them if we’d like.
The real question I suppose I should ask is whether we’d want to consider naming our sect here if we do fight. Build a rep as defenders with the locals. Think I’d vote no unless someone comes up with more compelling reasons.
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>>5501779 >Apologize to the owner for the mess, grab the chair you were sitting at, and hurl it at the nearest of the two fighters' head (Accuracy/ Strength Trial. DC 40) Anonymous
>>5502256 Talking about the whole debate about fighting or not, I don't think it's something we should do because this new "persona" of Huan Human form people will know she's a cultivator, martial artist or a really ballsy woman.
Whatever it is, people are going to know and spread word. I say it's safer if we just scold these two idiots and go Home with some praises for being a mature woman putting two dumb novice cultivators on line
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>>5502281 lol you think there won't be a fight with any option involved? We're dealing with two young masters pumped on testosterone here.
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>>5502293 Yeah, and surely after being scolded and insulted by the same girl they like will make them choose to go and directly attack her or even attack the innocents around the place, anon
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>>5502293 If there is indeed a fight anyway, why not reap the rewards of a lower DC plus a point of Karma.
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>>5502281 That’s fair. And thinking over it, if a tongue lashing is enough to get them to stop and make amends to the local businesses and homes they’ve trashed, I’d accept that without a fight.
Depending on how much lip they give or if they refuse to back down at all (or only one does while the other doesn’t), I’ll probably still vote to fight. But we can cross that bridge when we come to it.
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If the "stern talk" option wins, I vote we at least let some of our graveyard aura shine through. Maybe the icy breath of the restless dead will cool their hot heads.
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There will be a fight as well in the command option anons, it has a martial DC, and the second part says we will teach them a lesson.
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>>5502349 I’ll back this. Go ahead and link this option alone to the vote, I guess. Easier to track this way.
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>Allow the chill of your Yin Qi to seep through if they push back during your speech so they understand you are not to be trifled with. to my vote.
Any votes linked to this are only for this option. It is not a vote to discuss with them, merely a flavor vote if it does win. Even people who voted an option that doesn’t win should be able to contribute to fun write-ins.
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votes>Get angry - 7 >Throw chair - 7 >Speech >Yin qi Which is just the get angry option
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>>5502353 Why are you trying to give out our dao. Which is heretical?
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>>5502361 This
I won't continue with it because I already gave my opinion on the matter of what's happening and Huan human form in
>>5502281 Also, something that I noted is that in the scolding option it's a martial check which makes me question if: The option it's still a diplomatic option that could end up without a fight, or just the fact that we threat those cultivators with an ass wooping is a way of using a "martial check" because we have the knowledge of it and it doesn't mean we won't end up fighting
Like idk, it makes me think that maybe we should make a write-in stating that we don't want to fight to make it a "diplomatic check"
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>>5501779 >Get angrier that the two idiots are endangering innocents and command them to leave to kill each other somewhere else. And tell them if they refuse, you'll teach them a lesson (Good karma) (Martial Trial. DC 20) Anonymous
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>>5501779 >>Demand a replacement dish, and stubbornly try to keep eating as the two morons fight it out. Anonymous
>>5502351 Huan is not very analytical and neither should we.
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The way I see it we are now building our "brand", our reputation as people Huan which is unconnected to our usual rep, so we have the chance to build a second public persona. A red-haired beauty clad in shadows with an aura of death about her is just rad to me. Sure it's heretical and will draw attention, but:
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If anyone wants to make a connection, it will be with the legendary red-headed assassin Qiang who is rumored to have an aura of death about her. So this mysterious, powerful woman could be her teacher, or bigger sister. Or - dare I say it - mother?
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>>5502497 What? I'm really confused by what you are trying to imply
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>>5502524 I'm saying "this has lower DC plus we get good karma for same effect" should not really be the basis for our reasoning because it is not the way our cat thinks.
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>>5502524 Wait, is the Huan not being "analytical" means that she doesn't think before acting, and therefore picking a worse option would be more in character? Because she is definitely not some berserker that rushes in, given that she is built around agility and magic instead of pure strength, and in the fights she is always commenting and analyzing her enemies' moves and weakness (although this might be because it's just a xianxia writing staple)
Huan picking the riskier options exactly because anons vote for it, not because of her personality, I doubt Grandfather would put something that is entirely different from her character as a default choice. So it's some kind of self fulfilling prophesy at best, instead of what makes more sense for the character.
But if you really want to try choose the options based on what's "more in character", then I would say that getting angrier with them and telling them they are idiots is more than throwing the chair, given how we cleaned up this city plenty of times, and her distaste for orthodox cultivators being assholes not caring about the mortal world (which was caused by our previous options, but if it counted for the chair throw, then it counts for the telling them off as well), so rubbing it in their faces is something she would like to do. Specially given her internal monologue with the lighting struck about how beast aren't demons.
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>>5502351 Because I don’t especially care for karma. If we get some in the process of doing good then it’s all good, but I’m more interested in beating the tar out of these idiots who ruined our food more than I am in teaching a lesson.
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>>5502531 Well, I just gave you an explainaiton.
It was not the reason, it was a bonus. It the best choice for both the mechanics and character for Huan.
I still heavily disagrees with "Huan is not very analytical". A person doesn't need to be amoral to be analytical, they just need to know which option is the most valuable one, and choose to the the right one anyway.
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>>5502532 I wanna throw a chair in this kids smug face, and I can imagine Huan feeling the same. If you have a different read on her character, of course it is perfectly OK to vote for what you feel to be more appropriate. I just dislike the meta gaming reasoning. It's certainly not the way I make decisions in quests. In the end it's an interactive story, and I will vote for what I find appropriate or what might lead to interesting results.
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>>5502538 That's atleast understandable
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>>5502541 The atleast wasn't meant to be there, I forgot to delete while I was rewriting the post Anonymous
>>5501779 Personally, I feel like both options are inadequate. The first because it says nothing and the third because they face no punishemnt. So... I'd like to
>Excuse yourself, grab the chair you were sitting at, and hurl it at the nearest of the two fighters' head then gut punch the other. After that, tell them that they should be more mindful of others so they must both pay for the damage they've caused and go kill each other elsewhere lest someone else do it for them. Dunno if this suggestion will matter but I feel like it's a good middle ground.
Anonymous
>>5502531 Sounds more like metagaming than "being analytical".
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>>5502563 I tried to make the option I liked look more tempting and ended up making it look worse.
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>>5502582 Don't stress yourself anon, I doubt this is a very important vote.
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>>5502582 I was just criticizing the way he put it.
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I kind of want to do something like> Get between both cultivators and block/deflect/neutralize all of their attacks until they're exhausted and ashamed, then go get some soup
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>>5502727 I don't think they're as worthy of consideration as the insect princesses since they're both adult humans and not young demonic beasts so they should know better and they're having their fight affect and endanger uninvolved people. That's why I argue in favor of my compromise
>>5502561 Anonymous
>>5502729 Oh, the intent is very different here. I want to grind them into dust and shame for endangering the lives of people around them and interrupting our soup. Rendering them completely impotent seems like the most fun way to do it.
Like a cat playing with a pair of mice even.
Anonymous
>>5502729 For whatever it's worth, I like your compromise, it's similar to what I suggested in the tally, only in the reverse order
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>>5502736 I see, damaging their ego is all good but I'd prefer it if they got physically damaged until they gave up as well. There's a good chance that, after they recover from the initial blow, one of them will try to take a swipe in retaliation so Huan could do what you're suggesting whilst doing some more physical mockery like pulling their ear and nose, poking their eyes, tripping them, putting them in holds etc.
Am I thinking too hard about this? Probably. Do I enjoy imagining it? Yes I do.
>>5502740 Thank you. The order of the actions is because I found it to be funnier that way. Just imagine that you're this hot shot cultivator fighting some asshole when suddenly the both of you get your shit pushed in by this bombshell of a woman that then tells you to pay up and then fuck off.
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>>5502749 I'd rather not damage any more property. Even if it is payed for, every broken chair or shattered bowl is one less customer they can serve until it is replaced. To say nothing of the giant fucking hole in the wall. These little shits.
Anonymous
>>5502754 That makes think of another opportunity for a gag! I just imagine Huan asking the restaurant owner "Excuse me sir, can I use this?" while holding her chair like a stick only for the owner to agree in confusion of the whole situation.
In regard to the property thing, Im sure they won't mind losing one chair when they will both get monetary recompense and fame from being the location that this incredibly beuatiful lady cultivator completely bodied two other cultivators single handedly.
Anonymous
>>5502767 It's the principle that matters. We shouldn't be putting craters with these goobers' faces into the floor or splintering tables with their torsos if we're trying to tell them to stop being little assholes for doing that very same thing.
Anonymous
>>5502776 But they're not in the restaurant, they just blew a hole into it.
>>5501777 > Until some idiots started a fight in the street. > considering how fiercely they were fighting just outside of a lovely little restaurant. Anonymous
>>5502782 That's even worse then. Then they'd be on a much more important infrastructure, being a road or street.
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>>5502811 But how is that relevant to what Im suggesting anyway? Huan won't be breaking anything.
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>>5502811 >>5502825 Besides the chair that is.
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>>5502825 >using a chair as a projectile I've seen enough street fights to know the moment someone throws something, everyone else starts doing it too. We all know these morons are going to need to get slapped at least once each before they decide they should listen. It's how kids are.
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>>5502830 So you think that if we throw the chair then all the spectators will start throwing objects too? Even if that were the case, throwing the chair won't be the only thing we'll be doing. I think the onlookers will be a bit too occupied watching a ruby like beauty knock some sense into two retards to start throwing shit.
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>>5502832 No, only the people involved in the fight. I suppose "everyone" could have been more precise, I apologize. But that would mean shit like wagons and stalls would start getting thrown about. Because cultivators strong.
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>>5502833 But the point is to give them stunning injuries so they won't be able to do that, maybe mock them more if they try to attack Huan specifically like I said in
>>5502749 . As Huan herself said, they're utter weaklings who've gotten big heads. There won't be a problem in stopping them without any collateral damage. Again, besides the chair.
Anonymous
>>5502845 Just tell them to fuck off and if they don't, immediately knock them out. So much nonsense.
Anonymous
Hold on a moment, if Huanliuxue hasn’t gotten an actual outfit yet, doesn’t that mean that she was out and about bumming meals while wearing nothing but her shadow?
Anonymous
>>5502858 And give them the chance to walk off with no repercussions? No fixing to the damage they've caused? If you want to argue, say something substance not out of hand dismissals.
>>5502863 Yes. Though they won't find out if they can't touch her.
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>>5502871 If it were up to me we'd kill them outright, man. You don't fuck with people's food full stop. People can strip whatever valuables they have from their bodies when they're unconscious. Even common stuff a cultivator may carry is expensive as hell for normal folks.
Money was never the issue, it was wasting the time of these working joes that is annoying. Shit dude we could come back and pay for the damages ourselves, I wouldn't mind. I just want these clowns gone.
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>Get angrier that the two idiots are endangering innocents and command them to leave to kill each other somewhere else. And tell them if they refuse, you'll teach them a lesson (Good karma) (Martial Trial. DC 20)
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 21 Dec 2022 01:01:12 No. 5503968 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote now, tallying the result.
Get angrier that the two idiots are endangering innocents and command them to leave to kill each other somewhere else. And tell them if they refuse, you'll teach them a lesson:9
Apologize to the owner for the mess, grab the chair you were sitting at, and hurl it at the nearest of the two fighters' head:7
”Perhaps you don’t know how violent this city was. Being able to sit in a restaurant without care of someone trying to assault me brought joy to my heart...":1
Allow the chill of your Yin Qi to seep through if they push back during your speech so they understand you are not to be trifled with.:2
Demand a replacement dish, and stubbornly try to keep eating as the two morons fight it out.:1
Excuse yourself, grab the chair you were sitting at, and hurl it at the nearest of the two fighters' head then gut punch the other. After that, tell them that they should be more mindful of others so they must both pay for the damage they've caused and go kill each other elsewhere lest someone else do it for them.:1
Get between both cultivators and block/deflect/neutralize all of their attacks until they're exhausted and ashamed, then go get some soup:1
So, furious that these simpletons would endanger innocent lives with such a petty squabble, you'll command them to leave and find somewhere else to kill eachother, telling them you'll teach them a lesson if they refuse.
Namely that they are merely frogs in a well, looking up at the sky.
Update will arrive shortly
>>5502356 Thank you, Junior, for your assistance. Your Filial piety is praiseworthy
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 21 Dec 2022 02:03:21 No. 5504014 Report Sighing heavily, looking down at your ruined bowl of noodles and the dirtied table it now sits atop, the other dishes ordered for you spilt all over it and dribbling to the floor. All around you, there is screaming, and those unfortunate enough to be sitting close to the demolished wall have been tossed to the floor or slammed against the opposite wall from the force of the foolish novice's attack. They're battered, bruised and bleeding. None of them are dead, but one of the serving girls is unconscious, seriously injured judging from how her chest flutters as it rises and how slowly and infrequently it does. A deep cut on her brow will scar. Enough to prevent her from finding a husband. An older gentleman sits on the ground, his leg impaled by a chunk of wood separated from the wall when it was blown to pieces.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 21 Dec 2022 02:04:22 No. 5504017 Report >>5504014 Some of them are already crying, excepting to see you become a beautiful corpse in the span of a single breath.
"What a load of horse manure! The weak are prey to strong? A mantra repeated by the Bloodthirsty and cruel" You say outloud, crossing your arms over...er under your chest as you march into the hole in the restaurants wall as the dust fully clears from the air "The simple and the brainless. Might makes right, this is true, but the mighty receive responsibility alongside the right to rule"
The two idiots were not pay attention to you, or your short speech as they were exchanging blows in the air, shaving off parts of the store front and sending wayward spells and Qi blasts careening through the street and up into the sky. Both of them wielded Swords, overly decorated Swords more concerned with looking pretty and elegant than being properly balanced or well honed. They were also, shouting their various techniques for all to here. Very basic, novice techniques that any cultivator and even a few martial artists would recognize from seeing their beginning motions. Rolling your eyes, you shook your head, getting angrier with each passing second.
A light cloud of grudge energy, a little tongue of black smoke, curled out of your mouth and lifted into the air
"And that duty is to be a proper, benevolent ruler. That is the purpose of strength you absolute simpletons. To Defend even the worms of the world, rather than trampling carelessly over them" You growl under your breath "Not to, as many mistake it to be, to be able and allowed to bully, abuse and take advantage of the whole world like it was your personal playground"
Still they ignored you, locking their blades as they met mid air, kept aloft by the force of their strikes.
"OY! Listen to me you! You brats with the big heads!" You shout, loosing your temper and composure at last "Can't you see destruction the two of you are causing in your clashes? Don't you realize you're both hurting people who have nothing to do with your squabble? You've shed much more innocent blood than you've spilled from your enemy! Neither of you are acting like proper Daoists! If you're so set on killing one another, go somewhere else to die. There are better gravesites than the storefront littered with the bodies of the wrongfully slain!"
Your authoritative and commanding tone, shouted loud enough to be heard over the clashing of blades and declaration of techniques and maneuvers, is enough to give pause to the two delinquent daoists who daintily, like feathers, fall back to the ground, twisting around as they go. With robes still fluttering from their spinning decent, they raise their blades to you, expecting a fight, only for the right one, dressed in pink and red robes to begin chuckling as they see who exactly is scolding them.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 21 Dec 2022 02:05:23 No. 5504020 Report >>5504017 "The battlefield is no place for a woman. Remove yourself before you are hurt" The one of the left, dressed in amber orange robes says, flicking his wrist at you "You have no place to intrude in a contest between men"
"Unless you're proposing to be the prize" Pink robes says in a rackish tone, waggling his eye brow even as you disdainfully glare at him like the walking pile of garbage he is "Fights get messy, where is the harm in that! If they didn't want to get hurt, they'd have had the sense to run away! They know the risks of watching a streetbrawl, this is Suiqi afterall!"
That would've made sense, if Suiqi hadn't been cleaned up by the hunts of two demonic beasts and most of the criminal and corrupted elements in its administration, rule and underbelly had been dragged out into the street and butchered as they deserved. Now it was actually a pleasant, peaceful place to live, not just looking pretty and fair as it once had while hiding its various diseases under its dress. But, of course, the world of cultivation is slow to notice changes in the mortal realm.
"It is regrettable, but collateral damage can't be avoided in a bout between demi gods" Amber robes laughed boldly "Now begone, before this beast in heat drags you into our disagreement. If you are wise, you'd tell the ones cowering behind you to flee as well"
"You could've just let me have your sister, I would be a caring husband" Pink robes said flippantly, pointing his finger at his opponent
"Demi gods? You little worms?" you laugh outloud, throwing your arms out "Why should these people flee, when you're the ones making a mess out of their home! They were enjoying their dinner before you two came along and wrecked the place! I'd say you have eyes but can't see mount tai, but I'm not certain you can see at all if you're this willfully ignorant of your place in the world and so proud as to scorn those with no quarrel over you!"
"What did you just call me?!" Both of them shout, their fragile pride crushed by the beauty before them laughing at them and making light of their "Serious" battle
"Little worms? Blind fools? Egotistical brats? Mere frogs in a well? Mewling Kits who think themselves tigers?" You say cutely, tapping your lips as you pout and hang your head, eyes narrowed and filled with the venom of spite "is that not what you are? Novices who think they stand atop the world and above the heavens themselves. I'll give you once chance to break up this fight, leave this street...no, Leave Suiqi, and find somewhere else to kill each other, or else I'll have to teach you two a lesson you won't soon forget"
"Please! MY beloved! See reason and come back inside where its Saaafe!" The owner of the noodle shop cries out, before a loud, ringing thud sounds, as his wife strikes him with the pan in her hands
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 21 Dec 2022 02:06:23 No. 5504023 Report >>5504020 "Please spare her masters!"
"You would not be so cruel as to steal away her beauty"
"Yeah get out of here you bastards! Don't you know there's a shrine to the happy bloodshed just down the street!"
"Don't you dare lay a hand on her you brutes, she is speaking what we're all thinking, you bullies"
"Do you think our red rose is able to back up that sharp tongue of hers?"
"You're right, the air around her has changed and become deathly cold"
"I want her to look at me like that, like I was living garbage"
"What a fierce look in her eyes!"
"Surely disciples of two proud sects wouldn't beat a young woman just for telling them off"
"Will you now?" Amber orange says with a smirk "I welcome you to try, now get out of here before I get angry with you, girl"
"Huh?! Seems I have to slap some sense into the little princess here" Pink robes declared, striding ridiculously told you, mocking you with his whole demeanor and all his bearing as he lifted back his arm and raised his hand "Maybe even give you a spanking, huh?"
You shoot him a withering glare, looking down at him even though he is slightly taller than you are. His head is a queer sort of yellow, like dried summer grass. And his face reminds you of a dog's, dull and witless, handsome but less so than he imagines it to be.
"As if you'll be even able to touch a hair upon my head!" You boast, sneering as you step forward to meet the fool, while his enemy stays back, observing from behind his hanging black locks of hair with sharp, villainous looking eyes
<span class="mu-s"> roll 1d100. DC 20. Best out of four </span>
Huanliuxue now has performed a total of 9 good karma actions...
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Rolled 100 (1d100) >>5504023 Anonymous
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>>5504025 Well, they are getting absolutely demolished
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Rolled 11 (1d100) >>5504023 dice~
>>5504023 >best out of four >100 on 1 BOI
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>>5504029 >>5504033 And at last, our ancestors are backing us
Anonymous
>>5504037 Come on anon, we got that 100 but we still have one more roll to go.
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Rolled 46 (1d100) >>5504023 LET'S GOOOO!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 21 Dec 2022 02:34:19 No. 5504047 Report Quoted By:
>>5504025 IMMENSE SUCCESS! 80 over DC and Five times DC! You achieve victory as easily as turning over your hand, utterly humiliating your opponents! Teaching them they were frogs lusting over a swan's flesh and a hundred years to early to challenge you!
Update will arrive shortly
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>>5504040 Sorry anon, I couldn't carry the guilt in case I rolled a 1
It happened before irl so I knew it might happen again
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>>5504052 That's understandable, but now you put the idea of a 1 happening on the fourth roll in my head
But I doubt that Grandfather would do that to us, after we got the bo4 as a bonus/upgrade. Right?
Anonymous
Kind of a shame that the karma option won. There’s good reasons for doing so, but I also can’t help but think back to HMQ where people would vote for options just because they gave Karma and didn’t bother with the in-character reasoning.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 21 Dec 2022 03:14:02 No. 5504087 Report You do not even need to use any of your techniques, expend any of your spiritual or internal energy or cast even the simplest of spells. You simple slip to his side as he swings his arm to slap you on the cheek, crouching under the rush of air it creates that moves through the already wrecked noodle shop like a whirlwind or twister. Standing back up, unbending your legs in one smooth motion, you grab a hold of his arm at its elbow as he leans forward, stumbling from putting so much strength and force behind his slap only to strike empty air. There's a loud snapping sound, like a cracking whip, produced from the speed of his slap causing a bubble of emptiness to form in the air and then to collapse in on itself as the air rushes back to fill it. You had grabbed hold of him so fast, the sound of his open palm strike was heard after you had gripped onto both his upper and lower arms. He stares, dumbfounded, feeling your hands on his arm but unable to understand how you vanished. Maybe he thinks he reduced you to dust and regrets his murder? Or maybe he realized, in the brief moment before you start pulling at his limb and bending the bones inside of it, that he had made a grave error judgement in thinking you were just a pretty face and not at all worthy of his respect, that you were just a sassy girl to be slapped and taught a lesson.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 21 Dec 2022 03:15:03 No. 5504088 Report Quoted By:
>>5504087 By striking while your back was turned. Unfortunately for him, cats have a good spatial awareness. Though that doesn't really matter, cause the idiot was screaming as he tried to sneak up on you. It might be cowardly, but it at least showed he had enough sense to know a frontal attack would only end in his humiliation. Unfortunately, the prideful fool failed to realize that attacking your back would result in the same. His only winning move was to prostrate himself and grovel at your feet, or to simply run away. And even then, you might get into the mood to pounce on the fleeing mouse. Your blood was boiling and you had become rather excited already.
Catching the tip of his sword between your fingers, stopping it above your shoulder, you twist around on your heel and lift up his sword. He stares at you, lip and arms trembling as you offer him an innocent smile and then slam a knee into his crotch. He gasps, eyes rolling back as his legs give out from underneath him and he slumps against you. You lead him around, stepping to his side and holding him up as tears fill his eyes and he tries to fumble for a spell talisman hanging from his belt. You smile sweetly, pat his cheat, let go of him and hop back, allowing him to stumble forward.
His face meets the ground after you stomp his head down to it as he begins to fall, knocking him unconscious like his rival.
Silence fills the street, as the patrons of the noodle shop look at you with awe and amazement, and those who hid behind their stalls or in the other stores peek their heads out, looking in disbelief as two young masters from the storied and mythical schools of daoist immortals lay on the streets, having been beaten by a fairy. They remain like that, frozen, staring at you as you flick your crimson hair back and stand atop the amber robed cultivator, arms crossed and chest lifted proudly.
"That should teach you to make a mess in someone else's house!" You declare loudly, sneering and cackling as the silent storefront erupts into cheers and the cowed and terrified shoppers, patrons and storeowners form a crowd, some of them jeering and kicking the pink robed blondie and others surrounding you to cheer you and thank you, falling to their knees, bowing and telling you just how amazing you were to beat the two menaces so easily. All the praise and gratitude is enough to make you blush and feel lightheaded with delight
So you bask in the adoration of the masses, as the guards arrive late and stare dumbfounded, and hear several exaggerated stories of how the red haired beauty made short work of the two troublemakers and prevented further harm from befalling the city or the locals by their hands. Their faces pale under their helmets, as they realize the two ruffians are cultivators by the daoist robes they wear.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 21 Dec 2022 03:16:30 No. 5504090 Report >>5504087 By striking while your back was turned. Unfortunately for him, cats have a good spatial awareness. Though that doesn't really matter, cause the idiot was screaming as he tried to sneak up on you. It might be cowardly, but it at least showed he had enough sense to know a frontal attack would only end in his humiliation. Unfortunately, the prideful fool failed to realize that attacking your back would result in the same. His only winning move was to prostrate himself and grovel at your feet, or to simply run away. And even then, you might get into the mood to pounce on the fleeing mouse. Your blood was boiling and you had become rather excited already.
Catching the tip of his sword between your fingers, stopping it above your shoulder, you twist around on your heel and lift up his sword. He stares at you, lip and arms trembling as you offer him an innocent smile and then slam a knee into his crotch. He gasps, eyes rolling back as his legs give out from underneath him and he slumps against you. You lead him around, stepping to his side and holding him up as tears fill his eyes and he tries to fumble for a spell talisman hanging from his belt. You smile sweetly, pat his cheat, let go of him and hop back, allowing him to stumble forward.
His face meets the ground after you stomp his head down to it as he begins to fall, knocking him unconscious like his rival.
Silence fills the street, as the patrons of the noodle shop look at you with awe and amazement, and those who hid behind their stalls or in the other stores peek their heads out, looking in disbelief as two young masters from the storied and mythical schools of daoist immortals lay on the streets, having been beaten by a fairy. They remain like that, frozen, staring at you as you flick your crimson hair back and stand atop the amber robed cultivator, arms crossed and chest lifted proudly.
"That should teach you two to not make a mess in someone else's house!" You declare loudly, sneering and cackling as the silent storefront erupts into cheers and the cowed and terrified shoppers, patrons and storeowners form a crowd, some of them jeering and kicking the pink robed blondie and others surrounding you to cheer you and thank you, falling to their knees, bowing and telling you just how amazing you were to beat the two menaces so easily. All the praise and gratitude is enough to make you blush and feel lightheaded with delight
So you bask in the adoration of the masses, as the guards arrive late and stare dumbfounded, and hear several exaggerated stories of how the red haired beauty made short work of the two troublemakers and prevented further harm from befalling the city or the locals by their hands. Their faces pale under their helmets, as they realize the two ruffians are cultivators by the daoist robes they wear.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 21 Dec 2022 03:17:32 No. 5504092 Report >>5504090 They're terrified of angering them, even though one's bare ass is exposed for all to see and red like a baby's and the other is crying in the ground under your foot, holding his cracked eggs.
And they're more terrified of offending you, realizing, as anyone with any common sense would, that you are no ordinary girl if you beat them so handily. The ten or so armed men speak in hushed whispers, trying to decide if they're allowed to take cultivators into custody, if they should punish any party out of fear of reprisal, or if they should just keep their hands clean of the matter. You know this, cause you can hear their discussion as clearly as the cheers and humble gratitudes and awed exclamations uttered by the crowd that has filled the street.
Eventually, the most veteran amongst them, a man with a grey flecked beard, shuffles toward you, head bowed and eyes locked on the ground.
"We...thank you for intervening on Suiqi's behalf" He says meekly, wringing his hands "We trust you have scolded your juniors, and there will be no more trouble from them after this scolding they've received"
They don't realize all three of you belong to different sects, they just see Cultivators and violent sages.
"if it would not be troublesome, could you escort these young men back to the mountain grotos they came down from?" He asks pitifully, shivering as you smile sweetly, grinding your heel into the back of one of the "Wise sages" as he whimpers and pleads to you for forgiveness
What do you decide to do, Huanliuxue?
>Force the two idiots to compensate the noddle shop for the damages they caused, and apologize for their brutish behavior >Laugh, and tell them their masters can pick them up after they've been properly punished, and then browbeat the local law to put them in stocks and have them pelted with rotten fruit and other filth. Maybe then they'll learn to be humble >Wait for the two to wake up, and tell them to tell you who they are, why they were fighting, and which sects they belong to, so you can throw them in front of their gates in shame. >Enjoy the adoration of those you've saved, then leave Suiqi and go back home to Fu's village before the two cultivators can wake up >Act like you are their elder martial sister, then take them to the countryside and decide what to do with them there >write in Anonymous
>>5504084 What is HMG?
Anyway, I believed that this option was in-character Huan, and we have skipped good karma options before, atleast two if I remember: not giving things to the pig demon for no reason, and healing the emperor while planning on killing him instead of doing for the goodness of our heart.
I guess there could be an argument that anons chose to meditate instead of healing the brothers last thread because while it was a good option, it didn't give karma, but considering those two examples above, there is plenty of room for doubt.
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>>5504092 >Force the two idiots to compensate the noddle shop for the damages they caused, and apologize for their brutish behavior >Wait for the two to wake up, and tell them to tell you who they are, why they were fighting, and which sects they belong to, so you can throw them in front of their gates in shame. Anonymous
>>5504092 >Wait for the two to wake up and tell them to reveal who they are, why they were fighting, and which sects they belong to, so you can throw them in front of their gates in shame after they compensate the noodle shop for the damages they caused and apologize for their brutish behaviour. Is this too much? It might be too much.
>>5504101 Homeless Mutant Quest. If I remember correctly, karma points could be used to reroll nat 1s and, since the QM used a d20, there were a lot of nat 1s
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>>5504110 Thanks for the reminder, it's been quite a while since I read it. I do remember the rolling like a crack bitch memes now.
RIP Crusty Anonymous
>>5504110 I think it makes sense that they're combinable, it's basically interrogate+punish.
+1 cuz I don't think we should be ignorant of the sects and what they're about.
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>>5504092 >Force the two idiots to compensate the noddle shop for the damages they caused, and apologize for their brutish behavior >Wait for the two to wake up, and tell them to tell you who they are, why they were fighting, and which sects they belong to, so you can throw them in front of their gates in shame. So long as we don’t stick around for their elders to question us, I’m fine with dumping them.
>>5504101 Homeless Mutant Quest, an oldie that used to run back before /qst/ existed. It had a karma system like this quest does, except instead of unlocking new options each point of karma was a reroll. Now, players tended to roll like shit, so those rerolls turned out to be one of the most important resources in the quest and players went out of their way to get it whenever possible. That wasn’t really a problem early game where things like the characterization was mostly blank, but as the quest marched on karma choices tended to conflict with more options and players also got more insistent on getting those sweet sweet rerolls.
Just read the quest, you’ll see what I’m talking about once you get about mid way through.
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>>5504092 >Force the two idiots to compensate the noddle shop for the damages they caused, and apologize for their brutish behavior >Wait for the two to wake up, and tell them to tell you who they are, why they were fighting, and which sects they belong to, so you can throw them in front of their gates in shame. Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 21 Dec 2022 05:25:59 No. 5504231 Report Did one of you archive this thread? Not complaining if you did. But I noticed it has been archived on suptg, sometime yesterday. Thankfully, with the proper tags, title and thread. If one of you did archive it, to keep it from being misarchived, thanks. Know a few quests did suffer from that a few days back.
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>>5504092 >Force the two idiots to compensate the noddle shop for the damages they caused, and apologize for their brutish behavior. >Wait for the two to wake up, and tell them to tell you who they are, why they were fighting, and which sects they belong to. >Request writing materials, and write letters explaining what happened, why you intervened, and what you will do to any daoists that seek to disrupt the peace that Suiqi has found in explicit detail. Hand these letters to the juniors after telling them you will stop by their sects later and quiz their leaders over its contents using the spare letters you’ve written for your own reference before heading off on your way. We gave them a chance to stand down. They didn’t take it, we crit them into submission. Mission accomplished, the good karma is just a nice bonus for what I’d already have voted for.
I don’t want to eat up time traveling to their sects and getting involved in their politics. That could turn into a whole adventure in itself and I’d prefer to get real clothes first.
Send them with a letter, and threaten them with a checkup. Whether we actually do that is immaterial, they should be scared shitless of us now.
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>>5504231 >Fashion! What sort of outfits/ style do you want Huanliuxue to wear in her human form! Fingerless gloves. Nothing else.
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>>5504231 >Fashion! What sort of outfits/ style do you want Huanliuxue to wear in her human form! Honestly, I think some plain(er) robes would work. I don't think Huan would be one for ostentatious fancy outfits, instead wearing more normal clothes to better accentuate her natural beauty.
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>>5504092 >Help the injured in the noodle shop >Act like you are their elder martial sister, then take them to the countryside and decide what to do with them there Anonymous
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>>5504149 >>5504404 Voting for these two combined
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>>5504092 >Act like you are their elder martial sister, then take them to the countryside and decide what to do with them there while I do want to punish those fools further, I also really wanna get back home to our snug cave and avoid wasting too much time on this distraction.
>Fashion! What sort of outfits/ style do you want Huanliuxue to wear in her human form! unlike other anons I actually picture her dressing quite flamboyantly, with long flowing bands of silk in different shades of red, and a rather excessive amount of jewelry. Maybe she would also incorporate some trophies from her conquests, like feathers from the crow king and such.
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>>5504404 I also support tending to the wounded!
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>>5504231 I like the Qipao. Just make it the pink that our sect is using
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>>5504110 Supporting
>>5504231 Oh I can explain this, recently there’s been an odd trend of someone intentionally mislabeling threads on suptg and this thread got hit (originally the title and description was for Elin Veteran). I’m assuming the site admin fixed it which is why the description is just the title of the thread. The things people do in their free time I swear.
As for fashion, Huan has already shown to like dressing elegantly in the times we’ve possessed Yuyi as well as a slight interest in imitating Monu’s flashy style, so I’d say on the flamboyant side
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>>5504092 >Force the two idiots to compensate the noddle shop for the damages they caused, and apologize for their brutish behavior Anonymous
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>>5504092 >Heal the Injured >Force them to compensate the noodle shop Anonymous
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>>5504092 >>5504237 Adding
>Tend to the wounded to my vote. We need to do something while the one guy wakes up, and I’m certainly not trusting them to heal the wounded as part of their punishment either.
Although…
>Leave those with only minor wounds until the pair of frogs wake up, then have them observe basic first aid while you lecture and quiz them on what you are doing so they may assist others while they apologize. My anger has abated, but I still feel the urge to lecture. If their sect masters are of such poor quality that they can’t even fathom how to go helping people they’ve hurt at a basic level, I do feel the need to address that shortcoming while berating them.
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>>5504092 >>5504130 I would also like to add
>Tend to the wounded to my vote. It feel more natural to heal wounded->interrogate->punish anyways.
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>>5504106 Initial roundup - Phoneposting always sucks edition
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>Wait for them to wake up, lecture, toss them at the gates of their sects - 9 (8?) Ps8duRWO
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>Act as elder sister - 4 (3?) N80gEXH4
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I put my write-ins in both their own section and under the main votes since they’re just slight reflavorings of the original ones.
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>>5504754 Nice, I got a free (You)
Normally I also put the total votes as well because of the one less then half rule, but good work junior
>>5504106 I'll add
>Help the injured in the noodle shop TO my vote, this way we can heal while waiting, make them pay for the damages and explain themselves, and them kick them out
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Notice that one of these miscreants brazenly wears the colors we chose for our sect. Even if he didn't know, that is unforgivable.
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>>5504901 Huan after raiding Monu's wardrobe
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>>5504766 Ah. I’ll blame working and phoneposting for the sloppiness, even though I should have known better anyway.
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what's even the point of being a female cultivator if you don't get completely ridiculous with your wardrobe?
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>>5504231 >Fashion! What sort of outfits/ style do you want Huanliuxue to wear in her human form! I don't see Huanliuxue wearing the coomer outfits, for one thing. she might find human desire useful but she doesn't need to show anything to use it
I can easily imagine her wearing a wide range of outfits though, with some sportier and more masculine options like magua/Tang suit, or kun trousers, simple traditional ruqun robes, and also some more elaborate flashy brocaded things like picrel, though probably sticking to animal themes of herself and her students, and sect colors more heavily emphasized (though she shouldn't be one-tone!). she might also wear stuff like black guipao, which were reserved for 'unclean' people like butchers
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>>5505557 I don't know chinese fashion, but I'd honestly be fine with a large, mostly concealing one piece dress, Like Lo-Pan from big trouble in little China.
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What earrings should we wear, if any?
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>>5505667 Honestly I don't think she'd wear earrings. The idea of stabbing something into her ears probably very much doesn't appeal to her ever since she got a piece of one taken off as a kitten.
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>>5505785 Oh excellent point, do we still have our notch? We took it from kitten form to demonic beast form to princess of the wild form so it would stand to reason we still have it in human form?
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>>5505804 I think the Yin physique might have removed it, because while a notched ear on a cat is kind of cute, on a human it would be weird.
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>>5505807 Grampa gave us slightly pointy ears so he's already taking some liberties there. I wouldn't mind a small notch, it's part of our brand by now like the red fur.
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>>5505785 That's fair. Mostly I'm wondering what else complementary jewelry we can use as hidden or not so hidden artifacts. Rings, amulets, the works. Although they'd have to be special. I can't imagine anyone's made multi-form transforming artifacts for ten generations, a distant project for Feiqing perhaps, after the important stuff.
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>>5505807 Yeah huan had become a puddle during the transmutation and then got the yin physique.
I'm not even sure when we transform back her feline form will be the same, probably regenerated completely at the least so the notched ear may actually be gone...
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 23 Dec 2022 08:11:28 No. 5506554 Report Ending the vote, tallying the results now.
Force the two idiots to compensate the noddle shop for the damages they caused, and apologize for their brutish behavior:10
Wait for the two to wake up, and tell them to tell you who they are, why they were fighting, and which sects they belong to, so you can throw them in front of their gates in shame.:9
Request writing materials, and write letters explaining what happened, why you intervened, and what you will do to any daoists that seek to disrupt the peace that Suiqi has found in explicit detail. Hand these letters to the juniors after telling them you will stop by their sects later and quiz their leaders over its contents using the spare letters you’ve written for your own reference before heading off on your way.:1
Help the injured in the noodle shop:8
-Leave those with only minor wounds until the pair of frogs wake up, then have them observe basic first aid while you lecture and quiz them on what you are doing so they may assist others while they apologize.: 1
Act like you are their elder martial sister, then take them to the countryside and decide what to do with them there:4
So at 14 votes, You'll Heal and tend to those injured in the two idiot novices' scuffle, who'll you'll force to compensate the noodle shop and apologize for their behavior in a suitable humiliating manner, before dragging them off to tell them who they are, why they were fighting and which sects they belong to so you can throw them in front of their gates in shame.
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>>5504754 Once more, I must applaud the virtues of the Juniors aiding me in the effort to tally up the vote!
>>5504548 Ah, that explains it. Thanks!
>>5505804 >>5505807 >>5506147 The notch remains. It adds to Huanliuxue's scuffed charm. And is, as noted, iconic.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 23 Dec 2022 09:42:19 No. 5506593 Report "Hhmph" You huff, glancing down at the trembling, old guard whose legs buckle the moment he meets your gaze "When they wake up certainly, but there's more pressing matters I must attend to besides scolding my juniors for their ill-bred and loutish behavior"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 23 Dec 2022 09:43:20 No. 5506594 Report >>5506593 But, with a pat on the cheek and that creation of a patch of the Scarlet healing armor on her split open brow, the grisly scar on her forehead shrinks to be nearly imperceptible. Moments later, her eyelids lift and she looks around woozily. Smiling down at her, you pat her on the head and peak over the counter to see if her father is still alive after her mother walloped him with a pan. He's snoring peacefully on the ground, with a red mark over the whole of his face and a tooth or two missing from his smile. But besides a cloudy head, you deem he'll be perfectly fine when he wakes back up.
Quickly, you move through the rest of the shop, checking in on the patrons and rolling your eyes when your admires act more injured than they are in the hopes they'll feel your gentle touch. The worst the rest of them have suffered are bruises or minor dazing, so you take a few bowls of water and freeze them to ice with a simple Cooling Spell. Then, you trick a few of the lovestruck boys following you around to break the ice into chunks, to then be wrapped in cloth and held against their bruises and concussed heads.
Its around the time you've finished instructing them, that Amber robes begins to recover and wake from having his head stomped into the dirt, and pathetically tires to sneak away, crawling in the dirt to do so. Forgetting that cat's prefer struggling prey, you appear in front of him in a flash, and grab hold of his overly long bangs to look into his frightened eyes.
"I'm not through with you yet, brat!" You bark, as you drag him on his back into the noodle shop, where the owner's daughters have set about tying up and binding the Pink robe, who is still unconscious.
"You don't know who you're messing with!" Amber robe blusters, before being silenced with a glare as icy cold as death's own grip, shutting him up and making him behave as you find a bowl half filled with ice to pout onto Pink robes back, to wake him.
He looks up, and shrieks upon seeing you, prostrating immediately and blubbering as he smacks his head black, blue and bloody on the ground.
Looking down at him in Disgust, you shake your head, disappointed even though you expected their pride to be as fleeting as it turned out to be.
"Stand up, and kneel before the owner of this shop. Its them you should be begging for forgiveness, and pleading for absolution for your truly brutish behavior! I've met wild animals with more decorum than you two! And greater tact as well!" You spit, snarling at them and smacking their heads together as they sit side by side one another, they do not fight back our raise their voices
"It'd be a greater dishonor to our clan and our school to beg like dogs before mere mortals" Amber robes hissed under his breath
"Its beneath us to beg at all, let alone for forgiveness from some mere peasants, especially ones as ugly as the girls here" Pink robe grumbled
You pressed your heel into Pink robes crotch and shoved two fingers up amber robes nose
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 23 Dec 2022 09:44:21 No. 5506595 Report >>5506594 "Do I need to kick you two around some more until your robes are soiled red and brown?" You asked sweetly with pouty lips and fluttering eyes "Or will you swallow the pride you have no earned, be smart, and lower your head before you make your better truly upset? I can be a lot harsher if you'd prefer me to hold your heads down as you bow and hold your cheeks to force you to say your apologizes"
"You..you have no idea who our teachers are" Amber robe growled. So you slapped him, hard, knocking him out and one of his teeth out as well
"Hmm, don't care. But if they have any sense at all, they'll scold you just as harshly as I am, junior" You say as you force him awake with a freezing touch to his chest "Now, get up, walk up to the lovely madam running this shop, throw yourselves to the ground, and apologize"
"I think we should listen. Live to fight another day, and repay this slight against us and loss of face another day" Pink shrilly shrieked as, without thinking, you had applied more weight and pressure to his groin
"You'll rue this, red hair" Amber whimpered, his cheek now puffy and bloated
"Goood booooys" You praised, squeezing both their cheeks before grabbing them by their collars and dragging them before the owner's fat wife, who was presently plucking hairs from the largest of the warts on her nose "Now, remember your manners and etiquette lessons, and apologize to this well aged beauty, hmm? Or shall I start breaking eggs again"
Both the boys reflexively guard their crotches with their legs
"That's what I thought" You cackled sadistically as the two of them shuffled forward. Pink robe merely feel to his knees and pressed his forehead to the ground, while Amber and orange robes threw his arm over his chest while flicking the sleeve of his other hand, fell to his knees and slammed his head to the ground dramatically
"I didn't mean any harm, I was blind, ignorant and a fool. I regret my actions, please, find it in your magnanimous heart to forgive this foolish child" Pink robed said tearfully, putting on a good show of acting guilty and ashamed of himself
"It was unbecoming of one of my stature to act in such a manner, to do harm to those who have not harmed me. Vainglory clouded these eyes of mine, and I deserve no pardon for the damage I have done" Amber robes said quietly, never raising his head, unlike pink who was now clinging on the matron of the noodle shops dress, crying into it and tearing at his hair
"Words are wind" The iron maiden herself spat "My girl might be alright, and my customer might still be breathing, but what am I going to do about that wall"
"The heavens bless those who live righteous lives?" Pink robes laughed
"It could serve as an attraction, to commemorate the great battle that took place here today!" Amber robes audaciously declared
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 23 Dec 2022 09:45:22 No. 5506596 Report >>5506595 "Great battle? I spanked one of you and kicked the other in his balls. you're full of yourselves and completely deluded if you think that is a great battle! Dumbasses!" You laugh outloud, causing both of them to click their tongues and turn away from you scornfully "No! You'll pay for the damages to both the shop and those inside of it"
"But you healed..." Pink robes said, his face twisting like he sucked on something sour before he saw your merciless glare and thought better of saying anything more. He turned to Amber robe, who nodded, and somberly, the two took out their wallets and offered enough for the noodle shop to not only repair their wall, but open up several new shops and keep them all stocked with imported ingredients. You and the old woman exchanged glances, sharing a look that only women who've found a good bargain in the market can make, before she milked them for all they were worth, sensing the same opportunity you had.
"That might be enough to hire the cheapest cleaners in Suiqi" She claimed boldly
The two idiots put out more taels of gold. The old woman, displaying remarkable composure, did not flinch and kept that disdainful, unsatisfied glare in her eyes, as her eldest daughters dragged their younger sisters away to keep them from spoiling her scheme and ruining her gamble
"Oh, I might be able to patch the wall with that, if I wanted to use salvaged and rotting wood" She scornfully huffed, crossing her arms
More gold, more silver, your eyes began to glitter and you felt an urge to bat the sparkly things around but held back, awed by the old woman's fortitude and self control. She must've been murder in games of dice!
"Hmm, I might be able to get the wall fixed properly, and remortared if the builders I found were more generous than buddha himself" She said, gripping the counter to keep her hand from trembling
'How far will you go grandmother?' You found yourself thinking in awe 'How bold can you be! This is marvelous!'
Spirit stones were tossed onto the pile on the ground.
Her composure and vitality failed her, and she fell backwards and fainted on the spot.
Pink reached his hands to grab a few of the stones back, but you stopped his thieving with a sustained, deathly stern glare that could freeze flame if you looked at it long enough.
"There, we've settled our debt to the mortals here, are you happy now?" Amber robes huffed, so you cuffed him on the ear and wordless pulled him and his rival out of the shop by their collars. Pink robes, had already turned to prayer, expecting you were about to kill him as you dragged them out into the street, past the jeering and taunting crowd and the very much relieved guard force and into a more remote alleyway, similar to the one where you had killed Pan Da, the mad alchemist.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 23 Dec 2022 09:46:23 No. 5506597 Report >>5506596 Tossing them on the ground, you crossed you arms and stood above them
"Who the hell do you think you are!?" Amber robes roared. You just tilted your head and grinded your heel on the cobbles, shutting him up
"You must be mad, if you think you can push the two of us around" Pink declared, with a trembling voice. You narrowed your eyes, and he covered his head and looked away, sputtering "He told me to say that"
"Worm" his rival hissed through his tightly clenched teeth
"Who the hell am I? Who the hell are you to strut around with your heads held so high?" You shout back, lifting your chin imperiously as you disdainfully look down at them
"Xia Xiaosi!" Pink robed declared "Foremost son of the Xia clan and son of its great patriarch!"
"Bastard adopted when he showed up in their latest round of recruits" The other sneered "Heard his wife made him a eunuch after that farce"
"Hah!" Xiaosi snorted, full of himself "at least I have connections, and my father remains complete. A man of his valor and renown deserves a concubine or two"
"But a Butcher's widow?" Amber robed said mockingly, shaking his head "I am Liu, of the Shīdì Clan!"
"Wetland Willow? what a terrible name" You muttered under your breath "Never heard of either of you"
Both of them deflated and seemed to shrink somewhat when you said those words, not even attempt to make you recognize them by name or deed, hanging their heads in utter defeat.
"So why were the two of you unknown novices fighting to begin with" You sigh indifferent and haughtily, tapping your egg crushing foot on the ground loudly, to emphasize the threat it still poses to their manhoods
"Oh various reasons" Xiaosi said with a smirk
"This beast pursued my sister, my blood sister" Shithead Liu said furiously "Incessantly stalking her, bothering her and offending her ears with his vile flirting and lewd propositions"
"And that is enough to kill over?" You said, somewhat amused
"Oh, we've hated eachother for years! Our sects are rivals, and this nitwit lost me the tournament that would've made me an inner disciple years ago! I'd have been two stages above him if it wasn't for that spiteful trick!" Pink robes declared
"You're still farting about that fantasy of yours? It was a fair bout, and a fair Tie!" Droopy bangs defended, seeming offended he had been accused in such a manner "It was mostly him trying to bed my sister"
"Oh You're always trying to steal my spotlight, swamp boy' Blondie huffed
"Enough of that, your voices are grating my ears and pushing me towards violence" You sweetly said, commanding them to be silence "So you're rivals, because your schools are rivals, and Xia won't leave well enough alone. Which sects do you belong to"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 23 Dec 2022 09:47:53 No. 5506598 Report >>5506597 "Oh? Starting to feel worried and regret your brazen actions against us two rising sta..." Shitty Lui tries to mock you, but you silence him with a solid stomp between his legs. He slumps over, drooling, eyes rolled back into his head and empty of anything but agony. That makes the golden haired lecher behave!
"I belong to the Heroic and loving Summer Sea Dawn Sect (夏季海黎明, Xiàjìhǎilímíng), and this haughty dog drooling like a simpleton, whose line has been assuredly ended by your righteous foot, belongs to the villainous and heartless Dusk Marsh Wolves Sect (薄暮沼泽狼, Zhǎozébómùláng), whom I'm sure my father would be happy to protect you from if you promise to stop assaulting my family jewels and mighty rod"
"No" You state plainly, making the Xia boy wheep and try to cross his legs to protect himself "Guessing that means your sect is by the coat and his is in marshlands. Certainly narrows down where the two of you came from, since I can't see either of you traveling for leagues just to kill one another in Suiqi of all places, no matter how stupid you are"
He nodded rapidly, still guarding his groin as if his life depended on it
"Good! So I know where to throw you two walking piles of trash for a proper scolding! So your sects can both no how shamelessly and shamefully you've been acting, hiding under the protection of there names" You say, which is enough to make Xia Xiaosi look as if you had just declared his execution and Shidi Lui to sit up straight, with desperation burning in his eyes
They begin begging ,pleading, falling on their legs and actually crying, as they try and make you reconsider.
You hadn't actually been planning on dragging them back to their sects after interrogating them. Since you were just after information. But with how much they were begging you not to do it, a certain cruel urge, a wisp of sadism, rouse up inside you, and you began to actually think about doing so.
Oh what to do, what to do, what to do! You certainly enjoyed watching these two worms squirm and they did deserve to be punished further, especially since they were being sassy and trying to threaten you.
You tapped your chin, relishing in their fear and desperation. Ah! It was as sweet as the smell of decay!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 23 Dec 2022 09:49:08 No. 5506599 Report >>5506598 What do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Actually drag them both back to their sects and dump them outside the gates wearing signs that read their crimes to whoever comes out to pick them up >Fuck with them. Pretending to be ready to ruin their reputations and dirty their name with lies, slander and exaggeration, since you have dozens of witnesses who'll back up whatever you say. >Just tell them to go back home, and if you learn they do not better themselves or try to hide their wrongdoings from their sects, you will know and you will come back for them. Then go back to your temple, certain the two idiots are fearful enough to not be an issue, at least for now. >Promise not to tattle on them if they can open up a spot in the tournament both of their sects participate in for your sect. And no, you won't tell them the name of your sect. It'll be a surprise! >Write in Anonymous
>>5506599 >Actually drag them both back to their sects and dump them outside the gates wearing signs that read their crimes to whoever comes out to pick them up Fuck em. They deserve it, fighting like that in a populous city.
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>>5506620 Support.
Fuck Them!
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>>5506599 >Just tell them to go back home, and if you learn they do not better themselves or try to hide their wrongdoings from their sects, you will know and you will come back for them. Then go back to your temple, certain the two idiots are fearful enough to not be an issue, at least for now. Let's go home it has been too long
>>5506554 >the notch remains based
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>>5506599 >Promise not to tattle on them if they can open up a spot in the tournament both of their sects participate in for your sect. And no, you won't tell them the name of your sect. It'll be a surprise! Anonymous
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>>5506599 >Just tell them to go back home, and if you learn they do not better themselves or try to hide their wrongdoings from their sects, you will know and you will come back for them. Then go back to your temple, certain the two idiots are fearful enough to not be an issue, at least for now. Anonymous
>>5506599 >Actually drag them both back to their sects and dump them outside the gates wearing signs that read their crimes to whoever comes out to pick them up Young master humiliation is a Xianxia tradition
Anonymous
>>5506599 What an absolutely based shopkeeper.
>Actually drag them both back to their sects and dump them outside the gates wearing signs that read their crimes to whoever comes out to pick them up Anonymous
>>5506599 >Make letters explaining their deeds and punishments for them to deliver. >Also explain you’ll have the villagers delivering variations on their letters for the next several months to ensure they don’t dispose of theirs. Those letters will mention the other ones, and lying to their sect masters isn’t wise. >Tell them any replies can be sent to the village of Fu and Qiang. They’re both well-known enough that some couriers will know the location, and they’ll know who you are by description. They’re also good kids who won’t mind playing messenger for you, unlike these frogs. >Idly muse that if you don’t get a reply, you could ask Fu and Qiang to share these frog’s names and humiliations with every sect, traveller, and beggar they come across for a while. Fu would find it amusing, at least, though Qiang may see it as a waste of time… Let’s see how they react to us name-dropping Fu and Qiang as though we’re acquainted with them. Have them guess at our relationship and (eventually) have someone conclude we must be Qiang’s mother because I want this misunderstanding to start early so it can be entrenched before Huan realizes her oversight.
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>>5506599 >Actually drag them both back to their sects and dump them outside the gates wearing signs that read their crimes to whoever comes out to pick them up God I want to do a tournament, but we have a bunch of other stuff to settle with our disciples first. We've learned of two of the participating sects, so at the very least that should be enough to learn how to get in if we want a shot at whatever the current sects call legitimacy.
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>>5506599 I'm gonna change
>>5506636 to support
>>5506701 Either they take the punishment like champs and learn there's a fate worse than Death of we spread their misconduct outside their sect and the Suiqi noodle shop.
And maybe the misunderstanding of Qiang and Huan will start spreading.
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Can we use our grudge fuckery to curse them until they have done penance?
Anonymous
>>5506763 Too Heretic and too obvious for that.
From what we know we invented that, which means our Grudge Dao is illegal. We already used an Heretic cultivation technique by healing the people with the scarlet shield, but straight up using it in these cultivators, even if they are scared and novice, it's still means we're showing them we're heretic and words will spread
I think it's better if we keep things a secret for a while now. Eventually some asshole it's going to crash Fu's village again and any of our disciples will need to use their techniques, better if we hold on until then and reveal our sect to the world
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>>5506803 Yeah I get that. I thought something along the lines of "you're free to go, but the grudges of those you wronged will haunt you in your sleep until you do penance!" But if that's too obvious it might be smarter scolding them in a more analog way for now...
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>>5506845 For sure. If these two bozos have been given as much gold and spiritstones as their pridefulness warrants, each of their sects must have a strong foothold and support system in their regions.
Based on their reactions to us tattling on them, both the Dusk Marsh Wolves and the Summer Sea Dawn sect have a standard of decorum these two chose not to match in their personal matters. I feel it's a given they have Gold Cores in their ranks and they're both sects on the "righteous" side, even if they're not allies. We probably don't want to meet them directly until we have clothes and a further leg up on our own cultivation. Their sects clearly acquired enough wealth to waste handfuls of it on these two, they'll have smarter cultivators with greater senses among them.
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>>5506599 >>Just tell them to go back home, and if you learn they do not better themselves or try to hide their wrongdoings from their sects, you will know and you will come back for them. Then go back to your temple, certain the two idiots are fearful enough to not be an issue, at least for now. Huan has a pretty good track record for making lower level cultivators straighten up, looking at the one sect.
>>5506736 >God I want to do a tournament A tourney would be sick but these sects sound kind of small potatoes. As Huan said, they wouldn't travel for leagues just to kill each other in Suiqi, so they're not far from here.
Huan should definitely sneak into a tourney or other official sect setting though. She's spent a lot of time reckoning with most of the rest of the world by now, just hiding from the sects. But now with a human(ish) form of her own suuuuurely she can get away with some more mischief
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>>5506599 >Just tell them to go back home, and if you learn they do not better themselves or try to hide their wrongdoings from their sects, you will know and you will come back for them. Then go back to your temple, certain the two idiots are fearful enough to not be an issue, at least for now. They are lucky that Huan has her own sect she must return to.
>>5506701 I would maybe back this if the replies were sent to the owner of the shop in Suiqi to be held until collection later. Fu and Qiang already bring enough attention to the town, bringing more is unwise in my opinion. Though the value in such an active effort seems unnecessary compared to just keeping an ear to the ground, waiting to see if they fulfilled their responsibilities.
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>>5507097 I could back this alternative for the letters. I’m mostly trying to think of ways to get them to actually tell the truth about what happened here if we don’t drag their asses to their sects. The one sect we intervened with was a longer effort than we’ve given these chuckleheads, so I doubt they’ll stick to it.
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>>5506688 Changing to
>Just tell them to go back home, and if you learn they do not better themselves or try to hide their wrongdoings from their sects, you will know and you will come back for them. Then go back to your temple, certain the two idiots are fearful enough to not be an issue, at least for now. Remembered that we are wearing shadows, and someone that isn't a frog in a well could notice it.
And that would be hard to explain
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>>5507104 Oh, that’s easy to explain. We had a bit of a disagreement with some powerful people, and our clothes were a casuality. We WERE on the way back home to get replacements since our standards are high, but we got distracted by a pair of assholes fueding and threatening to kill bystanders without deigning to even notice.
But I do agree, probably not good to keep going around wearing a shadow.
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>>5506599 >Fuck with them. Pretending to be ready to ruin their reputations and dirty their name with lies, slander and exaggeration, since you have dozens of witnesses who'll back up whatever you say. >Also ask the old lady for a bit of money so you can buy clothes. (Since we need some clothes
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>>5506599 >Promise not to tattle on them if they can open up a spot in the tournament both of their sects participate in for your sect. And no, you won't tell them the name of your sect. It'll be a surprise! I don't trust these vipers off our leash just yet, they'll not learn any lessons if we release them immediately.
I see blackmail as the only good thing and it's what they can understand in their petty little minds.
No matter if or when we come to collect, they need a sword over their heads to behave.
>>5506969 Like this sage says, direct confrontation isn't a good idea, if they really have shameless seniors they'll turn the blame on us before admitting faults and strolling like a pinijata onto their front lawn is just asking for trouble.
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>>5506599 >Actually drag them both back to their sects and dump them outside the gates wearing signs that read their crimes to whoever comes out to pick them up Anonymous
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>>5506701 Supporting, but also throw in
>>5507481 mention of getting money for clothes.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 26 Dec 2022 09:10:21 No. 5508783 Report Rolled 1 (1d2) Ending the vote, tallying the result now. Sorry for the three day wait. Got caught up in the festivities of the holidays. My clan members have given me a number of priceless treasures, Mostly booze. I hope your Christmas was as merry and fruitful as mine was.
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>>5508783 Couldn't you have done a final destination vote?
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 26 Dec 2022 09:12:24 No. 5508786 Report Quoted By:
>>5508783 Alright. So you'll continue the humiliation of the young masters Xia Xiaosi and Shidi Lui and drag them back home by their ears to shame them and make sure their betters are aware of their misconduct.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 26 Dec 2022 09:13:25 No. 5508788 Report >>5508785 Didn't want to make you guys wait lo
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>>5508788 Wait where's the 5 votes for dragging them to their sects? By my count there's 3.
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>>5506620 >>5506639 >>5506693 >>5506736 >>5507521 Wait no, here they are. Let me see the other ones.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 26 Dec 2022 09:17:03 No. 5508791 Report >>5508785 I could've. But I didn't want to make you guys wait longer for the update. I'll kowtow and offer face if you'd like, Ties are a rare happening in this quest, so I'm not exactly adept in handling them.
>>5508789 There's five.
>>5506620 >>5506639 >>5506693 >>5506736 >>5507521 There were seven, but two of them switched their votes
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 26 Dec 2022 09:18:31 No. 5508793 Report Quoted By:
posting cause my last post isn't showing up
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>>5508790 Goddammit, your count is right. Reminds me of how first past the post can suck so hard.
>>5508791 I'd rather wait longer than have the clearly most unpopular vote win. Hell I'd voted for the write in if I had known it would come to this.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 26 Dec 2022 09:25:53 No. 5508801 Report >>5508798 If it was the most unpopular, the vote wouldn't have been tied. Anyways, focusing on writing the update now.
Also. just pointing out, if you had voted for the write in, the "Drag them to their sect" Would've won without a tie breaker because then both the write in and telling them to go home would be at 4 votes.
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>>5508801 That's not how it works but im too tired to argue. Fair point on the latter half though, sleep deprived brain just thought anything but spending any more time on two bozos even if it didn't make sense.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 26 Dec 2022 10:57:21 No. 5508846 Report For a moment, you thought of unhooking your claw from them. Letting them off the hook to swim away with their pride tattered, telling them to crawl home by their own power with a warning to not and try to cover up their wrongdoings, lest you track them back down and punish them even more severely than you did today. But. Buuut, while you know you need to go back home, show off your human form to your students and Mother, and find some proper clothes amongst many other things, seeing these two proud men throw themselves at your feet, begging for mercy and wetting their cheeks with fresh tears of desperation and fear. Well it awakened your sadism, sure you've been in general much kinder and gentler to those who live beneath the heavens with you and share the world that is rightfully yours, but the cruelty of your first days still existed in your heart. It was just more focused and sharpened once you had quieted the grudge that had stoked its flames into an inferno of hatred and murderous fury. After all, it was in a cat's nature to be cruel and to play with their prey. Even if you had become far more benevolent than you'd care to admit out loud, there would always be a primal glee in crushing those who oppose you without mercy or regret. Like pulling the limbs off of a shrieking mouse, or pulling the wings off a song bird as it sang or demoralizing and terrifying some up jumped beast who dared to hunt children before relishing in their, needlessly, extended demise.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 26 Dec 2022 10:58:22 No. 5508847 Report >>5508846 And like that, all the cruel pleasure and sweet delight you felt at watching them squirmed turned to bitter ash on your tongue. Sure, it'd be nicer to let them off with a warning, but they'd just turn around and slap you on the back of your head the moment you looked away. Unless. Unless you made good on your first threat to drag them back to their homes, shaming them and revealing their crimes and thuggery before they could concoct some outrageous lie, that some red haired fairy attacked them for no reason while they were performing some heroic deed or another and how the beauty shamed them viciously after beating their innocent faces around until they were all bruised and bleeding.
Luckily, since you didn't have to keep hidden out of fear of drawing the attention of greedy and ambitious cultivators after your beast core now that you could appear as human as any of them, it wouldn't take you long to get them back to their sects, drag them to the gates and present them in all their indignity, make them suffer the ignominy of being scolded publicly in front of their whole sect by the same old timers whose robes they were so willing to hide under.
Except. Except. You began gnawing on the nail of your thumb, as your sense of caution joined the argument against your sense of reason and instinct of self preservation as well as the cheering sadism you had roused and woke up by enjoying their crying perhaps a little too much.
Except, their grandfathers would be strong and wise, even if these imbeciles were anything but. Just because their students were lackwits and egotistical rubes, didn't mean their teachers were the same sort of trash. With how proud they were of their sects and clans, their patrons in both must've reached a venerable position in each and while certainly Nepotism was as common as weeds in the world of cultivation, one wouldn't have survived the state of open warfare between the Sects of the Ling lands and the Sects of the Chuan lands if they were useless and dull. They must've been cunning and skilled, and if they sects had a traditional rivalry, that meant they were old or at least heir and inheritor to the powerful sort of legacy. Even if they were minor sects in the grand scheme of things, those grandfathers they threatened to sic on you couldn't be the sort of weaklings you could trample over as easily as dried leaves.
Sure, you beat the Crow King, and he was stronger than you before you killed him and gave his corpse to Monu to be refined into materials, but these teachers of theirs would have the backings of their sects, so if they decided to, on a whim or outrage upon seeing their disciples being humiliated by a stranger, to fight you, well, you wouldn't walk out unscathed.
Lifting your upper lip and turning your eyes to the sky, you imagined the debate you were having with yourself as numerous, cartoonish versions of you shouting at each other across from a table.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 26 Dec 2022 10:59:23 No. 5508848 Report >>5508847 And as you daydreamed, hoping that maybe a looser, more relaxed mind would find an answer to satisfy your urge to rub these loser's face in the dirt and tarnish their good reputation, taking all of their face away so you could revel in their despair and shame as well as your desire to remain safe and not court unnecessary danger by marching straight up to the elders of the Sea and Marsh sects and declaring their disciples to be trash and unworthy of even the slightest of respect or regard.
And all the while, the two boys kept bowing and smacking their heads on the ground, their eyes red with tears and their faces sullied with dirt and filth. Glancing back down, the looks on their faces reminded you of puppies or kittens who had done wrong. Or criminals being marched through the streets, with their crimes written on boards they have slung over their chest.
"Inspiration" You whisper, grinning ear to ear as you lift you arms up and above your head, leaning over them as your face is cast in shadowed, leaving only a terrifying silhouette of your sadistic grin and gleeful eyes showing beneath your silken scarlet hair.
"Heeeh!" Xia Xiaosi shrieks, trying to flee before you grab a hold of his ear, Shidi Lui simply keeps his head pressed to the ground, sweating and trembling all over "Please! If you must kill me, spare my face! I want to be a beautiful corpse
What an Admirable Ambition. Fortunately for them, you had know intentions of killing either of them, since it'd be a foolish thing to do even if you had an actual quarrel or grudge with them beyond them ruining your meal and shedding innocent blood without causing any lasting harm.
"Oh don't fret, boy" You say with mocking concern, as you lift Shidi up by his collar "I'm just going to make sure the two of you go home without fighting and them drop you off at the gates of your school"
"Oh so you do have kindness in your heart, after all" Shidi Lui sighs, his shoulders falling and slacking in relief
"With boards detailing exactly how you fucked up and all the wrongs you've committed, I'm sure that'll get the message across to your sectmates, without" You say, smiling as you thought 'Endangering my beautiful self on a whimsical sadistic desire' but said "Causing unnecessary strife between sects, there's a war going on already, no need to light any additional fires while I'm at it. After that, well I'll leave your elders to decided how to punish you to brutes who'd hurt old men and young girls alike"
"Oh...so you're even crueler than I thought. Your beauty hides a demon in your heart" Lui grumbles, wincing away as you glare at him and resist the urge to smack him upside the head
"Shit. Shit. Please just kill us" His rival whimpers "My old man will do far worse. Please, have humanity, be merciful, do not condemn me to such a fate!"
"Oh stop being so dramatic" You bellow, smacking their heads together as you drop them to the ground "And get up"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 26 Dec 2022 11:00:24 No. 5508849 Report >>5508848 "He really will!" Xiaosi cries out
"I'll be back to cleaning the outhouse" Lui sighs, hanging his head, as if now of all times you'll be merciful "But, the weak are prey to the strong, so I'll walk to my humiliation, as you so desire, crimson fairy"
"My father is going to string me up!" Blondie whines, shaking his head "This is terrible! Just terrible"
It is also entirely your fault.
"Now, which of your sect is closest?" You ask cutely, tilting your head and clapping your hands together
"Mine" Shidi says trembling "Unfortunately"
"At least I can see my rival get scolded" Xia cackled, as the two of them followed after you. Normally you'd be worried about being attacked from behind, but these two idiots have had the lesson of how bad of an idea it was to try and sneak up on you by the beating you had given them.
Smiling, you wave goodbye to the owner of the noodle shop, his incredible wife and loyal daughters, and the old fellow whom you had saved. And then have to tell your admirers to go away, as they volunteer to assist you in escorting the two crude immortals to whatever temple or mountain retreat they'll be punished at. Really, they just want an excuse to keep following closely behind you, and are just blustering when they offer to detain the two brutes, you can smell their fear as clearly as you see the love written on their faces.
So, leaving Suiqi, trailed by a practical parade of men of all ages and a few women who've come to bid you goodbye, you leave to travel to the southern swamps to dump Shidi at the steps of his temple in the murk and grime of the Dusk Marshes.
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The Dusk Marshes. The poorest part of the lands ruled by the Chuan Clan, at least in the mortal realm. Dangerous and untamed, inhabited only by the outcast, desperate and poor, its story is quite different in the world of cultivation. Hell, even among martial artists, it is considered wealthy for the numerous poisonous creatures and schools hidden beside muddy hovels and constricting vines. However, judging from the number of empty and abandoned villages you pass by, it has become even dangerous as of late.
"Do you think their are demons lurking about, Big sister" Xia Xiaosi asked meekly, as you peeked your head through the window of a house in the latest abandoned village
"Probably, that or bandits" You say carefreely "Or rogue cultivators running from the war. Could be anything really, a plague, a swarm of ghosts, a stampede of monsters..."
"The wolves would've kept any apostates or devils at bay" Shidi Lui says confidently "This is my brother and sisters territory, they wouldn't allow a demonic beast or heretical cult to carry out such slaughters"
He was right about the former. While the place was thick with Primordial beast essence, and also unbearably humid, there were no sign that a beast had been the destruction of the five or so villages you had passed by
"Hmm, so you say" You mutter, turning back to see both the men glowering "What?"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 26 Dec 2022 11:01:25 No. 5508851 Report >>5508849 "Do we really need to wear these signs, the whole trip?" Blondie asks "I mean, its a great honor being seen at your side, sister, but uh...well I don't like the way I've been looked at"
"Like anyone would mistake you for her partner" His rival sneered " But, it is rather humiliating"
"That's the point. Search the village for survivors" You say, rolling your eyes as you walked forward, feeling beneath the heat of the swamp air, even as it clung and stuck to your shadow covered body.
There was a lot of Yin Qi here. Demonic beasts hadn't come through here. They were avoiding it, if you had to venture a guess. You had sensed a few kids running around the outskirts of the dusk marshes, but here? If there were any of them at all, they were hiding.
A hungry ghost perhaps? No. There'd be corpses left behind. Or purifying salt. But there wasn't. The towns were empty of life. Even livestock were gone. Except for a few, stringy cats that hid away as you approached, even the mice and insects had left these places.
It felt like the underworld. The soil was cold and lifeless, and the air still and heavy.
Something crunched under your feet. Sounding like a bundle of dried bones and stiff leather. Lifting your foot up, you found a curious little thing. A shriveled, mummified corpse, that fit in the palm of your hand.
You turned it over, frowning and furrowing your brow deeply.
Whatever happened here, was the work of a demon, a real demon. Or a demonic cultivator. Either way, you needed to get out of this swamp before they found you, or their crimes were mistaken for your own.
"Here" You say, tossing the shriveled corpse to one of the swamp cats, glancing back into the towering plantlife seeking to consume the village and feeling as if you were being watched.
Neither Xiaosi or Lui found any trace of any survivors, though you knew where they had gone. The swamp had taken them.
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"Now, walk the rest of the way up the path and kneel before the gates of your sect and say nothing unless spoken to" You command Shidi Lui, who had become reserved and frightened as the three of you passed by more and more abandoned villages. Though he didn't see any of the shriveled corpses you had found and studied to pass the time. There were traces of Wood Qi of a type in them, but you weren't familiar with the exact type, only that it was aligned to that element. And you had to admit, the mystery was beginning to unnerve even you, who found the little corpses rather cute in their own gruesome way.
"Yeah, and kiss their asses to, while you're at it, swamp boy" Xia Xiaosi says, sticking out his tongue and pulling down his eyelid as his rival marched solemnly to his punishment
"We could kill you for intruding on our turf, ya know!" He snarled back, but blondie just laughed
"Guess its just you and me now, huh" He said, wiggling an eyebrow. You stopped his flirting with a solid stomp on his foot.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 26 Dec 2022 11:02:29 No. 5508852 Report >>5508851 As you left the swamp, the abandoned cats followed you, escorting you away from the strange, plant choked villages you passed through again. And it was only then you realized you had never seen plants like the ones strangling those swamp huts. With vicious spikes and sticky leaves. They almost felt predatory. Which was a thought you stubbornly decided not to dwell upon, since the implications of it upset and distressed you greatly.
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Luckily, the trip to reach Blondie's sect wasn't long, and it was just a hop and a skip away from their rivals haunt in the marshes. And it was thankfully much more uneventful, and you knew the river than fed through both the marshes and the Coast of the Chuan lands, would lead you directly back to the heartlands of the lands of a thousand rivers and lakes.
Unfortunately, Xia Xiaosi had become so intolerable, you had half a mind to just murder him and ditch his body in the nearest body of water, since he had become bolder and more flirty now that his rival was away, and no matter how much you slapped, kneed or kicked him around, he'd bounce back up again to try his luck almost as soon as you had shoved his face into the dirt or threatened him with castration. It was almost like the freak enjoyed the abuse. And that made you want to wash your hands of him all the sooner.
"You really should visit our island! it is beautiful this time of summer, all the flowers are in bloom and the fruit of orchard dances in the slightest breeze! Oh, surely one as well traveled as yourself would know of our pride and joy, the singing reefs!" He excitedly chattered as you pushed him onto a boat with your foot, grimacing as he fell on his back and cushioned his head with his arms "And there is no better sunset than one seen from its beaches, though your red locks would certainly challenge its beauty"
"I'll pay you extra if you leave immediately and get this lustful cretin out of my hair" You whispered to the boatman, who looked at your pityingly and nodded
"For you, its for free" He said with a tip of his hat
"Oh come on, we've had some fun together, haven't we? Big sis?" He said teasingly, sneering as the boat left the dock and you glared at him as he and it vanished on the horizon
"Should've just killed him" You grumble to yourself as you stomp away "Stupid masochist"
'I need to get home, before I run into any more idiots who need correction' You thought with a huff as you walked by a stall
"Miss? Would you like to sample some of our fine fried fish? Free of charge for a beauty such as yourself"
'I'll go home after lunch' You correct yourself, as the canny fisherman lifts the lid of the wok and lifted up to waft the aroma of fresh fish slathered in spices and fruit juices. Wiping drool from your mouth, you sit down at the stall and plan your next move as the chef tries to impress you by throwing the fish high in the air from the pan and then catching it, while keeping one eye on you at all times
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 26 Dec 2022 11:06:47 No. 5508853 Report >>5508852 What do you do, now that you've dragged the two morons back home to be harshly punished, Huanliuxue?
>Just head home. Even if its obvious you succeeded, Monu tends to worry and you need to see if Ping and Feiqing have come back yet >Investigate the Dusk marshes, and search for the culprit behind the dozen vanished villages. >Search the dusk marshes for the newly awakened Demonic beasts you sense, deciding their safety is more important than finding the monster devouring villages >Feeling a sense of familiarity with the costal landscape, check the map of the region you found in the dimensional gourd when you first opened it (reveals several hidden locales) >Plan how to get Huili his spine back and get Chuandapo to be at least somewhat less lazy (Can be taken with other options) >write in Anonymous
>>5508853 Fuck, I want to go home. I want to go home. I want to go home. BUUUUUUUT
>Get the new kids and bring them back to our sect. >Plan how to get Huili his spine back and Chuandapo to be less lazy Okay. No more after this. Get the kids, go home. Show off.
No more. Get kids. Go home. Show off.
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>>5508855 +1
And for the problem in the Marshes, I say it's the best opportunity yo send some of our students there. Which one? Idk, but they need to be somewhat powerful because I don't like how things looked in that place. Maybe even send them to just scout and investigate
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>>5508855 I Support this choice
>>5508868 Also this is a good suggestion, we can send some students of the advanced class to investigate since it's an overgrown swamp.
Hopefully they will not clash with the swamp sect on it's doorstep otherwise we will have to castrate somebody for real.
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>>5508853 >Search the dusk marshes for the newly awakened Demonic beasts you sense, deciding their safety is more important than finding the monster devouring villages >Investigate the Dusk marshes, and search for the culprit behind the dozen vanished villages. Dammit, I want to go home, but the monster destroying villages is should also be killing kids, and the newly awakened are also like children.
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>>5508868 Actually, that's a good point, sending our hero students to solve this would be good, since they already have the reputation.
>>5508899 Changing to
>Search the dusk marshes for the newly awakened Demonic beasts you sense, deciding their safety is more important than finding the monster devouring villages >Return home and send Fu and his group to investigate the swamp. Anonymous
>>5508853 >>5508868 +1>Plan how to get Huili his spine back and get Chuandapo to be at least somewhat less lazy (Can be taken with other options) Lets have those two deal with the swamp
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>>5508853 >Search the dusk marshes for the newly awakened Demonic beasts you sense, deciding their safety is more important than finding the monster devouring villages >Plan how to get Huili his spine back and get Chuandapo to be at least somewhat less lazy (Can be taken with other options) Fuuuuck. There’s so much to do! Let’s get the kid and leave the beast to the Sect in the area.
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>>5508868 Yeah, sidequest time. Give them a "oh fuck, it's a demon" talismen direct to Monu and send. . .
Hmm, Huli, Chenpdao, Swiang, and Hong to deal with it.
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>>5508869 >>5508901 >>5508903 >>5508911 Actually, I've been thinking in sending some of our Human students that aren't Qiang, Fu, Ping or Feiqing over there.
You know, the chubby blind guy, Lafen and her "guard" that's skinny. But seeing how low level they are, I say maybe sending some of our Star students to watch their backs.
They need to get some field experience, and from our beastly childs only baby Chuandapao could have problem with that (unless she get's some kind of training in some Dao that let's her move easily without depending on the water).
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>>5508928 Well, if we send the entirety of Fu's group (except the non-cultivators, it would be too dangerous for them), it would give them a big mix of skills.
One way or the other, i rally oppose the idea of sending send our beasts students to investigate in the backyard of a orthodox sect. Seems they aren't dealing with the problem, but you never know when they can decide to do their job and patrol the lands.
I wonder if the attacks where done by the crow queen and princess, since they used our tribulation to sneak into the mortal world, or just another demon taking the same opportunity Anonymous
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>>5508853 >Search the dusk marshes for the newly awakened Demonic beasts you sense, deciding their safety is more important than finding the monster devouring villages > send our pupils here later to find the culprit Anonymous
>>5508936 >Spoilers I mean, it would be possible, but because I don't know if there's a difference between the Cultivation of Men is different to the Cultivation of Demons, it might be possible
I mean, between the mummified corpses and the Alien strange plants, it might be a Demon with weird rituals, or two Heretic Cultivators that one is a weird sadistic botanic Dao and other a Necromancer with a mummified focused Dao
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>>5508948 Well, I thought of it because of this>Whatever happened here, was the work of a demon, a real demon. Or a demonic cultivator. Anonymous
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>>5508853 >Investigate the Dusk marshes, and search for the culprit behind the dozen vanished villages. We'll wander home eventually, honest!
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>>5508928 We could send the heroic human students as a face and siwang for support/scouting and the recruiting of non-human hopefuls.
With his special eyes, flight and sense of justice we can trust on him for this role.
And in the meantime we give remedial lessons for our more lacking students.
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>>5508995 Hey, I like that line up
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>>5508995 That also works.
>>5508853 Changing my vote
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>>5508995 +1
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>>5508853 >Search the dusk marshes for the newly awakened Demonic beasts you sense, deciding their safety is more important than finding the monster devouring villages >Plan how to get Huili his spine back and get Chuandapo to be at least somewhat less lazy (Can be taken with other options) Anonymous
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>>5508995 I will also support this, low level xianxia hero troupe with big daddy owl as a backup
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>>5508995 And if we really want to twist the knife or if the swamp sect drags their feet or raises their voices they could say that their senior sister with red hair saw there was demonic influence and sent them to help.
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>>5508853 Backing
>Sending the heroic students + Siwang to investigate the swamp per >>5508995 We can have the students check the map when they come here. The demon could be hiding in one of the hidden locales the map would reveal anyway.
>Plan how to get Huili his spine back and get Chuandapo to be at least somewhat less lazy (Can be taken with other options) Chuandapo may no longer eat fish as she needs. Instead, she must work with Huili to drive land animals towards her first as food, then she may eat fish for the rest of the meal. Monu can help us devise an appropriate amount for it to be considered a “pass”. Training continues intermittently for several months, eventually ramping up to whatever the local wildlife will support. All meals preferably, for at least two months.
It’s a very tall order for a wolf and a turtle, so they’ll have to be creative. Chuandapo will learn how to plan since she won’t eat if they fail, while Huili will will eventually learn to push back or Chuandapao will have him do all the work, while still working with her because having her starve will eventually incur our wrath. Should be a painful (if enlightening) experience for both.
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By the way guys, if we can all gather the descriptions of the Techniques we have access too from the archives, I'll put them in a paste bin.
Anonymous
>>5509103 If we are going to archive dive, it might be good to have a list with our students and treasures as well.
And maybe important locations, characters and factions too.
Anonymous
>>5509109 Honestly not going to bother with the locations outside of our lair and it's upgrades.
This is a doc for Huan, not the quest in general.
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>>5508853 >Search the dusk marshes for the newly awakened Demonic beasts you sense, deciding their safety is more important than finding the monster devouring villages >Plan how to get Huili his spine back and get Chuandapo to be at least somewhat less lazy (Can be taken with other options) Anonymous
>>5509103 More convenient than putting it in an image. Here's what I got.
Huānliúxuè (欢流血, Happy to shed blood)
Spiritual Roots: Death/Ghostly Qi, Metal Qi, Pure Blood Qi.
--Qinggong variation, "Specter Lightness skill" [幽灵-轻工, Yōulíng-Qīnggōng]
Makes one less corporeal and substantial, as if one is turning ghostly while remaining flesh and blood. You can move as agilely in the air as you do on the ground.
Allows running across and jumping off water, blood, and standing with lightness on even droplets of rain.
--"Phantom Cat Step" [幽灵猫步, Yōulíngmāobù]
Utilizes the field-based illusion of slowed time perception created by focusing Yōulíng-Qīnggōng's esoteric aspects for a fraction of a second to evade, dodge or strike beneath openings in one's opponent's defenses while momentum is preserved between "Blinks". Allows one to sprint without expending stamina, and go faster than their natural limits while still maintaining control over their movements.
--"Severing of the Eternal soul and Mortal vessel" [刌 永恒魂会死㿾, Cǔn-Yǒnghénghún-Huìsǐzhù]
Separate soul and flesh and walk as a true ghost. Walk unseen, traverse great distances and enter the hidden world of the dead. With soul separated from body one obtains all the abilities of ghosts, and also shares their weaknesses.
--"Dying Grudge Shield" (垂死怨怼㕹,Chuísǐyuànduìfá)
Offense and Defense combined. Qi aligned to the destructive aspect of Yin and the nature of grudges permits creating a black, smoky barrier wreathed in the miasma of resentment. The Yin of its tiles catches the force of any attack that doesn't drive through and shatter it, storing the force within where it is bathed in the essences of destruction and spite and effectively multiplied before being released upon its attacker.
--"Enmity Incarnation, Devil of Grudges" (敌意具人形, 魔鬼的恩怨, Díyì jù rénxíng, Móguǐdeēnyuàn)
By playing the part of the previous hosts of your strongest grudges you can embody them, becoming an incarnation of their enmity. Mimicking their powers, abilities and attributes.
Enmity Incarnation Grudges:
==Xiongji the Rampaging Rooster General; Extremely vocal ferocity with a tireless madness and a fiery rage against all things. A Mask of fire, berserk strength, heightened durability, and bottomless stamina.
==Monu, Mother; Not yet attempted.
-(unf)
Other Grudges:
==Grudge against Ling Meng and the Ling.
==Heaven Aimed Grudge:
A grudge against the heaven's for basically everything.
==Hell Grudge; A grudge against hell and its inhabitants formed from the disgust and fury you have felt for their wicked ways.
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.
-(unf)
Anonymous
>>5509103 --"Blood Torrent Rush" (衁急流奔,Huāngjíliúbēn)
A body reinforcing art achieved by sheathing the muscles and wrapping your heart and lungs with Blood Qi, significantly increasing speed and agility with a side effect of causing the users veins to bulge.
--"Blood Red Lightning Cat Step" (血紅色列缺猫步, Xuè hóngsèlièquēmāobù)
The Blood Torrent Rush art combined with the Phantom Cat step. The slowing effect of the Specter Lightness Skill allows you to maintain the nearly self destructive pace for longer through lightening the body and performing the Phantom Cat Step while so hastened causes its performer to move so quickly that the air around them whips into a shrieking wind.
--Ability Extension: Saturating a cloud of grudge energy with Blood Qi allows it to infect targets with furious rage or energy sapping sorrow in addition to the already present weakening effect of the resentment. Turns the black clouds crimson and condensing them enough to "weep" and turn liquid.
-->While embodying Xiongji's grudge, this interaction of Blood Qi and Grudges allows you to breath brilliant scarlet fire.
--"The Scarlet Healing Armor" (鲜红瘉铠, Xiānhóngyùkǎi)
A barrier skill of both protection and healing. A barrier accented with Blood Qi that creates scales of carmine light that can either connect together to form a linked wall or form around and cling to surfaces. The ambient presence of Blood Qi encourages the body's natural healing to the point it can match inner energy healing.
-->When enhanced with a powerful blood related cultivation item, this ability has taken the form of a superior suit of strengthened plates of armor.
--"Vein Hunting Eye" (血管猎-眼睛, Xuèguǎnliè-yǎnjing)
While active, Vein Hunting Eye dyes the world red in your sight, and you gain the ability to see the veins of living creatures, which can reveal to you alterations of their flesh and bones.
--"Blood Refinement" (血精炼, Xuèjīngliàn)
The ability to refine blood. In combination with basic principles of alchemy, it has permitted you to learn how to alter and transform blood while it is still inside of living veins. Creating poisonous deer, and turning flocks of swallows into birds of prey by activating ancestral genes within their bodies.
--"Vein Draining Fang" (血管 倾浆 獠牙, Xuèguǎnqīngjiāngliáoyá)
Can be performed with a bite or can be used as a ranged spell to drain its victims dry by forming a cutting burst of blood Qi to create an open wound. A wonderful tool for collecting blood for refinement or quickly bleeding an opponent dry while refining them.
--"Vein Draining Fang" (血管 倾浆 獠牙, Xuèguǎnqīngjiāngliáoyá)
Can be performed with a bite or can be used as a ranged spell to drain its victims dry by forming a cutting burst of blood Qi to create an open wound. A wonderful tool for collecting blood for refinement or quickly bleeding an opponent dry while refining them.
Anonymous
>>5509247 >>5509103 Looks like there was a repeater there, whoops.
--"Red Death Scythe" (红色死亡 镰, Hóngsèsǐwánglián)
A combination of the Deathly Yin of ghosts and the Yang Blood Qi sheathed onto your claws impedes healing while aggravating and worsening wounds with each strike. Possesses an "Anti Healing" property via its destruction focused Yin. Causes sudden and severe blood loss to its victim as their life essence grows so fragile from being spilled both physically and magically.
--"Whispering Death Claw" (呢喃死亡爪子, Nínánsǐwáng zhuǎzi)
A combination of Deathly Yin and Yang Blood Qi. Allows the separation and the "Draining" of lifeforce with Yin energy alone to creates a subtle technique which tears away the life of its victims but leaves behind naught but scratches.
--"Blood Rain, Chaos Mist" (血液雨, 乱象雾, Xuèyèyǔ, Luànxiàngwù)
Demonic Art combining a grudge cloud of fury and resentment with Blood Qi. Evokes a berserk, feral rage that drives its victims mad with bloodlust. The cloud appears to almost have a will of its own in seeking targets. Showed that Blood Qi can be used to create curses that lurk in the blood itself, Hexes of a wholly physical nature. Blood carries both the passion, sorrow, and rage of life.
--"Cat's Court: Spiteful Blood Legacy" (猫 法院: 刻毒血遗产, Māofǎyuàn: Kèdúxuèyíchǎn) Secret Art unlocked by rolling 108 and remaining uninjured against Baoli-Wuyawang.
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.
Anonymous
>>5509245 >>5509247 >>5509248 Now that there's a good list of Huan's techniques, now's the perfect time to ask which ones have been most useful and which ones haven't had much time to shine.
Personally, Dying Grudge Shield has been our VIP since the time we got it and Blood Rain, Chaos Mist has been kind of forgotten since it's arguably our most situational technique.
Anonymous
>>5509109 I don't think I have everything, but if there's anything noteworthy missing hopefully a kind anon will point it out.
MATERIAL
Pool of Refined Sinner Bone Centipede Ichor. Obtained from Arena fight in Hell.
Cultivation/etc material.
Blood rain, chaos mist pearl. Obtained from experiments with Pure Blood Qi and accidentally sowing and condensing Blood Qi "Hexed" Grudges.
Cultivation/etc material.
Divine Blood Honey Longevity Potion: Fermenting for 3+ years. Created in the Divine Blood Honey alchemy experiments in the Primordial Wilds.
Potion/Alchemy material.
Baoli's Body: Mat's project for Monu.
Seven undamaged/ whole thousand year old ginseng plants.
One uncarved block of Star Jade (Rare/ High quality cultivation Material, fell out of the rifts torn in the sky)
Two abnormally large snake fangs taken from a similarly gigantic skull.
One Flood Dragon scale.
One set of Qilin antlers.
One polished dragon turtle shell.
Five Phoenix feathers. (1 in use)
One Red Agate Idol of Huanliuxue.
White Fur Awakened Bear hide. (Water aligned, pleasantly cool)
various mundane Gemstones and Crystals.
Ghost taming seal, fly whisk.
A hundred and eight sinners' souls, forty four trapped souls, and a single pious soul.
Five herbs from the primordial wilds:
Orange Yellow Sunburst Poppies: A kind of magical opium that greatly raises the body's resistance to heat as well as heating it up to the point they'll boil water if dropped into it.
Black Orchid: Creates a powder that puts someone in a sleep so deep it resembles death, which can be cured by applying a second dose of the eternal sleep poison.
Humming Vine: Can raise ones voice drastically to the point it might as well be an attack, and if turned into a salve will cause anything its applied to to vibrate.
Silver Berries: When dried and brewed into tea, raise mental acuity and focus.
Red Thorned Nettle: Thins blood to the point it is sweated out, which is very useful for giving your blood to control and use.
4268 spirit stones. (Currency in the cultivation world, contain spiritual energy. Can be consumed to cultivate, forge magical items or power spell formations.)
MANUALS/laws/other
Diary of A Gluttonous Devourer of Souls. The Journal of one of the last heretics that practiced the reviled art of "Soul Stealing" (魂偷垒, Húntōulěi), Who was so wicked a being the Forgotten King and A Sect Elder were forced to join forces to end the threat he posed to all life. [we have currently hidden this manual from others]
Collected Accounts of Ascended Beasts, their histories and legacies left behind. A Manual that contains the secret of the creation/ awakening of Magical and demonic beasts and the methods of cultivation they followed and the lives they lead.
Anonymous
>>5509109 Occult Treasures of the fields of the underworld, and the Alchemy of the dead. A record of Alchemical knowledge pertaining to medicines and elixirs that can only be made from herbs, minerals, and other reagents gathered from the land of the restless dead or made from the by products of corpses as well as numerous charms that can be made with the same materials.
Pine Tree Warden Record. Wood aligned Law and Hard Martial art. Combat/longevity focused. (青松舍监档案, Qīngsōngshèjiāndàng'àn)
The Night Lantern Sutra. Fire aligned Law spell/exorcism focused. (夜灯笼真经, Yèdēnglóngzhēnjīng)
The Mountain Shattering Hammer. Earth aligned law and Hard martial art. Strength/Endurance focused. (㟑震裂榔头, Bózhènlièlángtou)
The Lightning Messenger Technique. Metal aligned Law and soft martial art, Combat redirection/ counter spell focused. (列缺 信差技术, Lièquēxìnchāijìshù)
The Spring Fairy Blossom Art. Female only water aligned law, Healing/ sealing/ support spell focus. (泉天仙 花技艺, Quántiānxiān huājìyì)
A History of Imperial Tea Ceremony.
TREASURES
Bangle of the Great Forge Devil, One of the favored servants of the Demon Lord Zhìzūn-Móxīn (至尊-魔心, Supreme Devil Mind), A Supreme token of Fire Resistance.
A bangle of Enchanted Copper and Demonic Iron, hammered together to form a solid ring in the vague shape of bat wings. 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.
Possesses magic that will allow its wearer to resist heat that could melt metal, and work a lit forge as if it there wasn't any heat at all.
Appears surrounded primarily by Fire Qi, but holds Metal Qi within.
Noted to clearly be hiding a deeper power or more complicated ability behind the appearance of "merely" fire resistance.
Amber and Pearl Prayer Beads. (Nine in total, can each seal and hold within themselves one creature, living or dead)
Crown of Trapped Sands and Caged Winds. Allows command of wind and earth when worn, able to remold the earth, conjure tornados, and create gusts of great force.
Black Horned Skull. Radiates with enough Yin Qi to curse and haunt an entire region of the mortal realm simply by being within it!
Preserved Sanguine Divine Spirit Peach. In a glass bottle, secured with talismans and corpse waxm is the Jade Sanguine Shrine's magnum opus of cultivated Pure Blood Qi. Ripe and uncorrupted, preserved in liquor.
Massive Pearl of Crystalized Primordial Beast Essence. Permits evolution of Demonic Beasts.
Anonymous
>>5509109 ==Ghost Empress Melody (鬼皇后旋律, Guǐhuánghòuxuánlǜ)
Artifact Guqin. Created by Monu from Hei Suanzhi Rosewood, pearls, strips of rolled silver, and a bowl of bandit blood.
Its wood is as brilliantly red as your fur, its sour sent covered by the aroma of an unearthed grave's soil. Streaks of white and black pearl race along it sides, like billowing clouds and mists. Its strings are made of tarnished silver, yet shine with a strange crimson light. The instrument is gently curled, almost like a cat's tail, and one of its ends is notched like your ear.
It can;
--Levitate and become Ethereal when you perform your specter lightness skill.
--Manifest as a cutting, slicing wind that can travel some distance, and take different forms depending on the tempo of the music played.
--Soothe, summon and rouse the dead, weakening or strengthening their hold on the mortal realm as you desire.
--Create an illusionary field of scenes drawn from your thoughts, memories and dreams. A vision that radiates cold and if you will it, mortal terror!
If the scenes continue for long enough, they begin to sap and drain the warmth and life of those enchanted by them if you allow them to.
--Send out ethereal strings that can puppet corpses and bones and make them dance or perform any movement you desire. It also works on living victims, but the strings are fragile and more of them are required to control a struggling puppet.
--Heavy. Able to communicate blunt damage.
--->Create a rotating sphere of cutting wind to raise a zone of protection around yourself from all angles.
Anonymous
>>5509109 Unfortunately all my character info is out of date, only some of the following are still accurate.
Huānliúxuè: The Ruler of The Great Wheel's Law: Daos of Ghosts and Grudges, Dao of Blood, Foundation Establishment Stage 3 (Focuses: Ghosts, Grudges, Lifeforce, Royalty)
Death/Ghostly Qi, Metal Qi, Pure Blood Qi.
Monu: Grand Art of Nasty Drinks, Spring Fairy Blossom Art, Core Formation Rank 2 (Focuses: Poisons, Spells, Curses)
Spiritual Roots: aligned to Water and Pure Yin. The Poison Fairy (毒药-天仙, Dúyào- tiānxiān) The Toad Princess (蟾蜍 格格, Chánchúgége), The Serpent Whose Venom Could Slay A Dragon.
Disciples:
Wusheng Siwang: Self taught law following the Dao of Wind and the Dao of justice, at Qi Condensation Rank 3.
Huili: Night Lantern Sutra[Fire Aligned Excorcism Law], at Qi Condensation Rank 3 (Focus: Speed and spells)
Chuandap: Spring Fairy Blossom Art, Sacred Winter Breath Accord, at Qi Condensation rank 3 (Focus: Spells)
Fu: Self taught law following The Dao of Grudges within vengeance and retribution, at Qi Condensation rank 4. (Focus Martial: Ferocity)
Feiqing: Ancient Deity Furnace, Lightning Messenger Technique, bottleneck at Rank 6 Qi. (Focus: Make Block)
-Has made an artifact out of Old Crooked Fang's core.
Ping: Night Lantern Sutra, self taught heresy exorcist law, at Rank 6 of the Qi Condensation stage. (Focus: Exorcism)
-Possesses the Beast core of the toad king.
Qiang: Daos of Ghosts and Grudges, entered the stage of "Entering the Ghost Courtyard" at Qi Condensation Rank Rank 6 and is half a step to Rank 7. (Focus: Stealth/Assassination/)
Hong: Mountain Shattering Hammer, nears Qi Condensation Rank 4 (Focus: Perception and Endurance)
Lanfen: The Spring Fairy Blossom Art, at Qi Condensation Rank 2 (Focus: Healing)
Liu: Pine Warden Records, nears Qi Condensation Rank 3 (Focus Longevity)
Lei: Lei
Tiexingege has achieved Qi Condensation stage, Rank 1 (Focus Martial)
Jionghuagege has achieved Qi Condensation stage, Rank 1 (Focus Spells)
Anonymous
>>5509263 Yeah the Dying Grudge Shield is basically the best general purpose technique of our Dao, besides healing. Also one of the kinds of abilities that could obtain some of the most broken potential evolution's. We've yet to combine it with cultivation aids, or directly accent it with other abilities. For example, using Spiteful Blood Legacy on our own refined blood (either prep[ed in pearl form, or refined from bleeding during battle) and infusing that into the Dying Grudge Shield's initial formation. It would be quite interesting to see how more deeply the grudges can root and revolt within the shield when given ample and fitting fuel.
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>>5509272 You forgot to put (Lei) as Lei's focus
I really want to solve his demon problem, and find out about his ancestor in hell someday Anyway, good job with the bookeeping anon!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Tue 27 Dec 2022 04:07:27 No. 5509340 Report >>5509272 Huanliuxue is rank 4
Fu is Rank 6
Siwang is rank 4
Lanfen is rank 4
Chuandapo is rank 5
Feiqing has broken his bottle neck (as has Ping)
Also Hong has an earth aligned spirit fruit he is "Saving for later"
Besides that, this is accurate
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>>5509267 Found one more for Manuals/laws
Sacred Winter Breath Accord, A water aligned (神圣 冬季 气息 协定, Shénshèngdōngjìqìxīxiédìng) A Water aspected law focused on Defensive Spells and Purifying spells.
>>5509340 Not as far off as I thought! Thank you much Grandfather.
Anonymous
>>5509274 I wonder if we can combine the dying grudge shield with Scarlet healing armor to create a healing armor that sends attacks back stronger
Anonymous
>>5509274 >tfw the boss your fighting gets stronger the more you damage it and starts changing attack patterns with modified techniques because of copious amounts of blood Anonymous
Okay, as I said, I've ignored putting our disciples and characters in there, but this is my best attempt for the early morning.
Let me know if I missed anything.
https://pastebin.com/x5rCdZpq >>5509269 >>5509268 >>5509267 >>5509248 >>5509247 >>5509245 I thank fellow disciple for assisting me in this matter, for the good of the Sect.
Anonymous
>>5509621 Excellent work! The tidying up is much appreciated too.
And one more item found; The Soul of Emperor Long Tiantunri.
>>5509423 >>5509431 Both would be such great bullshit to pull on a haughty Golden Core. Then there may be more dangerous versions of the technique... such as condensing and swallowing the Dying Grudge Shield after it receives an attack, to imbue it with the deepest mire of spite within us before Godzilla'ing whoever fed it the attack.
Since it's a formed shield, there should be potential to apply it more wholesale as a continuous martial technique(however long we can hold it back to take in multiple attacks), or with multiple layers, or even as a subsisting trap to lie in wait.
Anonymous
>>5509431 With stuff like Enmity Incarnation, Spiteful Blood Legacy, and the potential of using Blood Refinement on ourselves, we’re an incredibly irritating fighter to try and counter or predict.
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>>5509995 There's also the flexible qi roots, and our currently balanced qi.
Can't exactly counter our elements
Anonymous
>>5509761 The next thing for Dying Grudge Shield, setting aside any attempts to create a new technique with other sources of Qi, would be to fashion it into armor for our hands and feet so we can strike with it if an opponent won’t take the bait. A practical and straightforward step in our martial development.
If we can still cast our own destructive spells through a gauntlet, have it blow back on us, then reflect onto the opponent *again* because of DGS, even better!
Anonymous
>>5510028 You mean make it bounce back and forth to become stronger like so?
Anonymous
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>>5510028 >>5510059 Guess it's time to make a magic railgun
Anonymous
>>5510079 Becoming human has turned Huan into a SCIENTIST
Anonymous
>>5510083 >Huan already possesses a deep understanding of medicine making Is it time for Breaking Cat?
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>>5510059 I had envisioned only one or two bounces as I expected any backblast from our techniques to only occur on the initial strike and not on the DGS reflection since that’s a focused attack.
But magic railguns or layering a weaker form of DGS on an opponent before striking to really get the exponential growth is obviously better!
Anonymous
>>5510162 I have portents of us opening ourselves, in degrees, to the world of cultivation as the various wars and clan conflicts continue. And being able to provide medicine, even through a secretive surrogate, that nobody else can produce will truly elevate our wealth. There is plenty to buy after all, a strong sect can never have too many good cultivation items.
Anonymous
>>5510201 The fact that we can -casually- go to hell for rare supplies is pretty busted in medicine making. Sure all of our stuff will turn your insides into outsides if the mixture is wrong or you're a gigantic wimp but it works like nobody's business.
On the other hand, very wary or attentive cultivators could probably smell the demonic tinge of any of that kind of medicine. That might make it hard to convince them to take it. But the purely natural stuff we can whip up is super rad, too.
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>>5510395 With hell and the primordial beast lands we actually have 2 treasure troves of rare shit at our disposal.
BTW I've been thinking about how we can connect our sect better with the insect kingdoms. You guys think the ants can build a supply tunnel connecting Tie's nest with our retreat?
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 28 Dec 2022 12:09:25 No. 5510667 Report Quoted By:
Loving all the discussion and planning. Anyways, ending vote, tallying the result.
Search the dusk marshes for the newly awakened Demonic beasts you sense, deciding their safety is more important than finding the monster devouring villages:8
Plan how to get Huili his spine back and get Chuandapo to be at least somewhat less lazy :7
-Send them to deal with the swamp: 0
-Hunting/ training: 1
Investigate the Dusk marshes, and search for the culprit behind the dozen vanished villages.:2
Send the heroic students+ Siwang to investigate the swap/ Recruit the non human hopefuls:8 (Counting 59nfkyjn as supporting it, though since it would still be over half the total votes if I didn't, it would've gotten into the update anyways, since it and the Huili/ Chuandapo planning can be easily combined with searching for the swamp babies. Good plan btw!)
So You'll quickly collect the beastly children that you've sensed, to protect them from whatever the hell is happening in the dusk marshes
Return with them back to your sect, plan how to give Huili his spine back and make Chuandapo less indolent
And send your heroic human students+ Siwang into the dusk marshes to investigate the swamp and find what's behind the vanishing villages and palm sized mummies, AS WELL as recruiting any other Magical beast you missed/ were unable to find/ draw out of hiding.
Which will be the first time I can use a mechanic I've been planning for sending your disciples on missions!
How exciting.
Anyways, update will arrive shortly
>>5509621 a divine tier relic! Created before this old man's eyes! Based.
>>5509431 Fighting Huanliuxue is not a good time, unless you're a freaky crow demon
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 28 Dec 2022 16:03:22 No. 5510747 Report Nearly finished with the update. Its probably the largest one thus far in the quest. Loved writing the Newly born Magical beasts a bit too much, And Monu's reaction to Human Huan to!
Anonymous
>>5510747 No lions, tigers, bears? Oh my.
Anonymous
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>>5510749 We're in a swamp
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>>5510764 One of the most dense tiger habitats in the world is swamp/marshland.
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>>5510747 >cat oh boy
>bat wee
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 28 Dec 2022 16:44:48 No. 5510772 Report Quoted By:
Alright. Finally done. I have spat up blood from the exertion of writing this update, which made my blood flow in reverse
Final word count =9104
Final character count= 49, 700 EXACTLY
Total post count: 18! That's two nines!
Here is some music I feel fits Huanliuxe to tide you over as I begin posting this heaven's defyingly massive update!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 28 Dec 2022 16:45:49 No. 5510775 Report You had planned on heading straight up the river, back to Fu's village and your mountain nearby, so you could at last reveal your human form to your adoring students and mother and bask in their vast adoration of you, their honored teacher and daughter. And you had been idly day dreaming of all the compliments and praise they'd shower you in, as you stood atop the curled bow of the boat that was transporting you back home free of charge, after its owner watched you having to suffer Xia Xiaosi torturous presence and upon seeing your unenviable plight, had commanded his eldest son to give you a ride on his ship free of charge while he took the annoyance off of your hands, similarly without pay. You made a mental note the repay the upstanding boater back for his kindness and generosity, but couldn't yet figure out how to without risking running into the trash you dumped into his arms a day or two prior. Which you truly wished to avoid, and would prefer having your claws pulled out with pliers, you other near cut down to your scalp and your tail plucked clean off before you'd willingly share that dolt's company again.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 28 Dec 2022 16:46:49 No. 5510778 Report >>5510775 Feeling your face contorting into an ugly sort of grimace, you bowed you head, immediately realizing your duty as ruler of all beasts to rescue those lost youths from the unfortunate circumstances of their birth and the hidden danger lurking in the shadows around them. You could sense them still, even now when you stood miles away from those dreadful swamplands. The boat rocked as you hopped from it to the shore, causing the rower to gasp and push up his straw hat in awed disbelief, even as water splashed over the sides of the little rowing boat.
"Lady! Were you going! That way's dangerous! No sane man goes into the swamp without a party and guide!" He cried out, with misplaced worry for your wellbeing rattling his otherwise stern and strong voice "Even bandits avoid those swamps and their dwellers! Its a wicked, cursed place!"
"I am aware" You giggle, as you hop towards the swamps, bouncing from rock to rock, arms held out to the side as you plotted a course to the edge of the marshes, without having to dirty your feet overly too much. Though, they'd be much more soiled when you traveled through the swamp with all the mud, insects, slime and muck inside it. Just imagining getting all that filth caught in your silken coat was enough to for you to decide not to return to your natural form.
Sure you could float above all that grime with your specter lightness skill, but it could still splash up and dirty your fur. And the thought of having to lick that nastiness off of yourself, was enough to make your stomach twist on itself and sour. Scrubbing it off skin was a much more pleasant alternative than having to taste it
"Are you crazy? That place is rotten! Its bad down to its very soil! If the muck doesn't get you, and if the beasts don't, you'll end up dead by the sickness and plague in its waters! Miss! Please listen to me" He cries out to you, but you ignore him, humming a playful little song as you continue hopping between stones. Soon, the river and the boat on it vanished from view and those shouted warnings became naught but whispers on the wind.
Whispers soon drowned out by the incessant buzzing of mosquitos and flies that gathered in clouds around the boundary of the marshlands. Easily the most unpleasant sort of welcoming party. But, you scared away the vermin before they could harry you, bite you or suck your blood by flashing your Imperial Graveyard aura. The pulse of Ghostly Yin Qi, the energy of the dead and dying, was enough to scare the vermin away or else kill them all immediately. You truly did not care for such small lives, after all. Even if you had two younger sisters who were insects themselves. They weren't vermin, after all!
Smiling happily, you continued to skip from one stone to the other, then up onto corded and curled roots that rose from the mire below, then up onto the hanging branches above, trying to keep from stepping into the muck and mud for as long as possible.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 28 Dec 2022 16:48:24 No. 5510780 Report >>5510778 Dirty feet might be preferable to soiled fur, but it was still unpleasant enough you'd avoid it for as long as was possible!
'Luckily, I've been through this fenceless pigsty once before' You thought as you bounded between branches nearly as wide as your natural from from shoulder to shoulder 'So I know my way, at least by landmarks. It's a good thing I was smart enough to make notes of wherever I sensed my fellow beasts, or I'd be wandering in this maze of mangroves and willows for ages!"
You shuddered, gritting your teeth and clenching your jaw as you imagined how terrible that would've been. You'd be bitten all over by bugs, hunted by leeches and certainly be so ragged, worn and covered in filth you'd seem like more like a diseased alley cat than the princess you were! Shivering all over, you shook that nightmarish vision from your thoughts, forcefully, until you got a bit dizzy to make sure it wouldn't come crawling back out of the grave you shoved it in.
And once you mind was serene and clean of unsettling sights such as a ragged, pitiful Huanliuxue, you headed immediately towards the nearest presence of Primordial Beast essence.
Which lead you to a still pond of clear water, surrounded by what seemed to your eyes to be a council of little, brightly colored frogs, singing and croaking the night away around the limpid waters. Blinking, you sat crouched on a branch of one of the trees surrounding the clearing that contained the village of frogs, and tilted your head curiously.
Closing your eyes, you returned to your true form, and hopped down onto the pale, green white grass swaying around the pound and stalked around it.
"Hmm. Hmm. You certainly have much to learn junior, if you chosen a hiding place as conspicuous as this" You criticized as you sat yourself down on the edge of the pond "Even a blind man could tell this was the lair of a demonic beast"
The water rippled, and two gem like eyes peeked out of its surface, colored like amethyst and tiger's eye, crackled and spotted, the flesh surrounding them was mottled, Turquoise and Black on the back and beneath the waters you could see their legs were bright orange, with pink webbing between their toes.
"There are other creatures that can speak?" The poison dart frog, the size of a medium sized pig croaked, sounding more amazed than cautious. What a naïve little creature he was. He spoke in an endearingly simple countryside dialect, and with rumbling, croaking accent "I tried training the others, but all they've learned how to do is sing. Ribbit, Ribbit"
"That in itself is quite the accomplishment. The only beast I know who commands his kind has only taught them to heel" You giggle, poking your nose to just above the water "Making an orchestra of frogs, is quite the talent, little brother"
"It is? Ribbit ribbit" He said, literally inflating with pride, which made you giggle again.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 28 Dec 2022 16:49:25 No. 5510782 Report >>5510780 "It is it is!" You said cheerfully, nodding your head slowly as you praised the young lad, whose eyes were now sparkling "I take it you also purified this stagnant swamp water"
"I did? I did!" He shouted, crawling out of the water and looking up at you, completely unafraid. Your heart sank. This boy was entirely unaware of the danger you could've posed or what he risked by making his home so close to a sect of cultivators. Then again, he never had to worry about being eaten when he was just a frog, so you guessed it made sense for him to be somewhat uh...well, oblivious is the nicest way to put it
"An incredible talent. You've must've taken the toxins into your own skin. Remarkable!" You continued to praise him, hoping to ingratiate him and make him trust you. Which, you had gotten with just a few sweet words and cooing compliments. He was staring up at you like you were the brightest star in the sky.
"Unfortunately, it isn't safe here" You say, lowering your ears "We magical beasts are hunted for our cores. By those who scorn us for being blessed to awaken and ascend past the station of our birth"
"Out of jealousy, cause they can't do the same? Ribbit rib" The youngster said, showing a flash of deeper wisdom
"No, becomes they were tricked into think we were monsters. When we once stood as their equals and brothers" You sighed, shaking your head "But that may be part of the reason why they started treating us like livestock. Cause we can evolve, and they cannot"
"And these ones are nearby? Are they beasts as well, who cannot think and open their eyes. Ribbit" He asked, sounding frightened now
"No. They're humans. You've probably never seen them. Two legged monkeys without any fur or tails. Actually!" You say, smirking as a wonderful idea struck you "Let me show you what they look like! Big sister has learned how to disguise herself as one. Observe"
Closing your eyes, a flare of red light filled your vision, and when you opened your eyes, you were standing on two legs and were without fur.
"That looked painful! I thought you had disintegrated!" The frog croaked in distress "And I've seen those before! I just thought they were sick monkeys!"
"Eh, there isn't much difference between them and monkeys, or any beast really. They were just born smarter than the rest of us, and sapient" You cackle, wagging a finger "Like you and I have become! They consider that we have to be an unforgiveable crime"
"Why?!" He cried out as you sat down and dipped your feet into his pond, kicking your legs daintily in its waters "Shouldn't we tell them they were tricked"
"Hah! They wouldn't listen if we did" You huff, crossing your arms over your chest "It'd take more work than that to set the world right. But don't trouble yourself with such a great undertaking, I've already taken that responsibility onto my shoulders. You should just be concerned about getting stronger, and staying safe"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 28 Dec 2022 16:50:26 No. 5510784 Report >>5510782 "How? Rib ribbit?" he asked as bravely as he could, after taking a moment to gather his resolve
"I could teach you. I've made a sanctuary for outcasts like you and me, and others hated by the heavens" You say with a wink and a pat on his slick head "Just follow me, and I'll lead you to some place safer than directly under the nose of our enemies. Say little one, what's your name?"
"Name? What is a name?" they asked innocently. You sighed and decided you'd just call them frog until you came up with something better to call them.
So, with frog following closely behind you, you left his sanctuary and headed towards the next presence you had felt and found yourself at the entrance to a monastery overtaken by the swamp and long abandoned, covered in bats. Luckily, that meant there no insects for a good mile or two around it. So, you walked boldly through the space that once held the temple's gates and meandered over the weed strewn paths, finding bones scattered here and there of the monks who once lived here. They must've died to the countless diseases in the air of the marshes. Pitiful, really.
Walking up to the temple proper, you saw rows of skeletal and mummified monks sitting at their shrine, having chosen to die in prayer and meditation.
"Are these the ones you told me to worry about, teacher Huanliuxue?' Frog croaked in worry as you walked amongst the dead, as he stayed outside of the shrine looking in
"No, no. They may be daoists or the might be buddhists, hard to tell with how degraded their clothes have become, but they certainly weren't cultivators" You explained casually as you trace the source of the beast essence radiating from the temple, walking towards it while making a show of inspecting the long dead holy men "And you, up there in the rafters, should stop spying on your guests. I might look human for the moment, but I assure you, I'm a greater predator than you will ever be, bat"
There was a great beating of wings, as the little one in this temple, upon being found out, tried to flee, so you followed them, with the specter lightness skill, switching to your feline form as you chased them up into their den, which was in one of the higher towers of the fallen temple.
"Oi! Oi!" She shrieked, throwing up her arms defensively, her fur revealed to be a rusty shade of red in the moonlight falling through the hole in the ceiling that she fell through, though it shimmed like polished bronze. "I wasn't planning on eating you or nuthin! I was just watching you! Ya hear! I wasn't trying to pick a fight or nuthin!"
"A vampire bat?" You ask curiously, as you, to deescalate and calm the girls worries you were intending to eat her yourself, flopped onto your side and yawned "Didn't know your kind lived around here"
"So what if I am! You looking down on me" The girl huffed defensively, before remembering she wasn't trying to pick a fight "Why you here anyways? You trying to muscle in on my turf?"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 28 Dec 2022 16:51:27 No. 5510786 Report >>5510784 "Your turf?" You asked softly, licking your paw "No, but I did come to warn you this territory isn't yours. And that the ones whose Turf it actually is, would be displeased to find you squatting here. Why, they'd kill you just for the offense"
"Yeah? So what! They're all stiffs! Stone cold dead!" She huffs, skittering around "If they wanted to raise a complaint, they could stand up and talk to me themselves"
"Not the monks" You say sternly, narrowing your eyes "The men who call themselves wolves"
"I've killed men before, they can come and feed my colony if they want, after I spit out their dirt tasting blood" She sneered, cackling as she realizing you weren't going to chase her, crawled up and hung from the ceiling, glaring down at you
"These aren't ordinary men, bloodsucker" You warn, standing up "Just as you and I are not ordinary bat or cat. They could, with a flick of their sleeve, blast you to pieces or burn you to cinder. And if they hear you live here, they'll come running to cut you up and turn you into medicine"
"Is that a threat, you gonna tattle?' The bat hissed
"Why would I? They'd do the same to me. I'm just smart enough to keep out of their hair while I cultivate, so I can fight them off if they come calling" You say, talking thuggishly now to match the little girl's own rough demeanor. It was kind of cute how she was trying to act like some kind of gangster or triad.
"Cultivate what? They scared of flowers?" She barked back
"Qi! The spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the vital breath of all things" You shout loudly, so frog can hear and at least begin to understand what he signed up to learn "By absorbing it into yourself, refining, purifying and condensing it within, you can achieve strength and power far beyond your natural limits and even attain immortality, if you have enough natural talent for it"
"Oh, I like the sound of that, sister" The bat said, grinning as much as their face allowed them to and talking much more kindly now "Tell me more about this Qi stuff"
"I will if you follow me to my refuge and help me bring the other youngsters like yourself in this swamp away from the bastards who think they own it" You say, throwing up your chin suddenly as the bat crawls back down and cautiously approaches you
"Hey, hey I've got a good thing going here" She mutters under her breath. Is she trying to bargain with you?
"This shithole? My temple would make it look like a garbage dump" You boast, throwing and rocking your head around in the way young thugs do "Not to mention, its soil and air are much richer in Qi than this cruddy swamp ever will be! Besides that, its in a deep cavern, a place you can feel at home at and become as comfortable as corpse in a grave"
"Wow, wow, freaking me out there a little, hehe" She says back, speaking in a much fainter, dainty voice, which is her actual voice when she isn't putting on air of being tough and dangerous "With the talk of corpses and graves"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 28 Dec 2022 16:52:36 No. 5510787 Report >>5510786 "That is my dao, or at least, half of it" You cackle, leaning over her "And its one of the reasons the rest of the cultivators would hunt me down, that, and I'm a talking animal with intellect to match, heh, surpass their own if I'm being honest"
"And I'm one to, aren't I?" She said, trying to sound like a brash thug again
"Exactly, and they'd hate to find you claiming a piece of their backyard as your own little kingdom" You say with a nod "Come with me kid, and you'll go far and reach heights you couldn't even dream of glimpsing if you stay on your own! Why, you've already gotten a bit of extra Qi in you from eating a few people, but...that is an ineffective and gross means of cultivation. Unbefitting a proper Awakened Beast"
"I have a name ya know" She grumbles
"Then tell me it" You say with a smirk "And as I was saying, only idiots who want to keep living like simple, mindless beasts refine themselves by eating others"
"Will you teach me the right way then" She said with an annoyed roll of her eyes "And you can call me Hǒumóguǐ (吼魔鬼, Shrieking Devil), Least, that's what the men who tried to chase me from my roost here shouted when I chased them off"
"Hmm, knew those bones near the gates were fresh" You say with a proud smile, as you bowed your head to the little ruffian "Well, I'm Huanliuxue"
"Happy to shed blood? What a wicked name! That's one that'd inspire fear! No wonder these Cult ah gators leave you alone!" She snickers, as you follow her back down into the temple and introduce her to frog, who begins sulking
"Why does she have a name, and I don't, ribbit ribbit" He pouts as the three of you head further into the swamps, though still remaining on the outskirts of the Dusk marshes, away from the areas where the plants have been...corrupted by something vile and unclean. You know there are newly awakened beast still living in those parts, but you'd endanger the little ones already following after you if you take them that deep into the unknown danger's territory. Perhaps you could send your senior disciples to pick them up and investigate whatever is eating whole villages out here. Without drawing the attention of the orthodox world of cultivation as a red haired beauty or blood furred cat demon poking around followed by a gaggle of other demons would.
"Because no one has named you yet, and I don't know you well enough to give you a proper name" You say soothingly, comforting the poor kid
"I could give you a good name!" Houmogui offers excitedly
"You will not. He will be given a proper name when we get back to my temple, that's a promise" You say, nodding as you lead the two kids in search of another student to recruit "When both of you begin your training, I'd start you on breathing exercises, but we don't have time to waste now
"Haahn?" She grunts back
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 28 Dec 2022 16:53:37 No. 5510790 Report >>5510787 "Teacher did say we were in danger. I don't think she's taking us from here just because of the local sect" Frog wisely surmises "Master seems...skittish for some reason, and"
"yeah she could kick any human around like a ball" She also, wisely surmises "I noticed there weren't any people traveling down the rivers and streams, as of late, that what got you on a short schedule, Bloodshed?"
"There is something dangerous here, beyond the cultivators who'd hunt us for our beast cores" You admit "But my other, elder students will deal with it. I'd do it myself, but getting you kids out safely is of greater concern to me. You who knew to flee from its area of influence, rather than dig holes in the ground and hide, hoping it would go away
"Kid! I ain't a kid!" Houmogui shouts, childishly. You smirk, but do not laugh at her. Both Hou and Frog keep silent as you travel to the third youngster who you sensed on the outskirts of the swamp.
They, had made themselves a burrow in the ground, surrounded by brambles. You could tell, from the smell in the air, they were a pig. A domesticated pig who broke free. Which meant they might now be a boar or turning into one. But, knowing that pigs were more scared of tigers than they were of men, you once more turned into a human, and walked up to the mouth of the muddy hole in the ground they had dug for themselves.
Hopefully, they'd be less skittish around you while you were a girl rather than a monstrous cat. Crouching down at the edge of the pit, you whistled sharply, rousing the swine you saw curled at the bottom of it.
They lifted up their head, snorting in annoyance. They had a spiral horn on their brow, and fur hanging like a bear from their jowls. Besides that, they were an ordinary, hair pig, with slightly large tusks and a tail that was tufted like a lions and swinging rather than stout and curled
"Oh, are you here to take me back to my pen?" He grumbled, shaking the mud from his back "I must say, It has been a most unpleasant few weeks, since those unfortunate events transpired back at our magnificent villa amongst the mud and reeds."
"Oh, what a pleasant surprise! you're well mannered and tutored in proper etiquette already!" You exclaim happily "Finally, another beast who knows their proper place their world, and remembers our regal bearing of the past. How wonderful! how wonderful! You and I are gonna be great friends. Such dignity is a rare treasure, and politeness a valued commodity"
"Beast? You seem to be one of the servants who tended to me and my kin" He said slowly, kneeling and bowing his head "Oh, forgive me, I have spoken unkindly and demeaningly. I did not mean to imply you were of lower breeding and of the caste of servants and slaves"
"Ah! you have a health sense of haughtiness! Good!" You laugh, putting your hands on your hips "I can appreciate natural imperiousness, I myself possess it as the princess, Queen and Empress of all beasts"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 28 Dec 2022 16:54:49 No. 5510792 Report >>5510790 "I did not know I was being visited by an imperial scion!" The pig chortled, but politely, truly believing your claim the moment you spoke it "Hmmm, Yes, I see it now. Your fur atop your head. Such a rare shade. How could I have mistaken you for the base born creatures who serve my family. Oh how blind I am. I hope I have not insulted you, my princess"
"My true face would terrify you, despite your noble upbringing and pedigree" You explain, lifting up your chin arrogantly "Though I do not mean to imply cowardice on your part, I just fear you would mistake me for a tiger. When in truth, I am a housecat. the finest of all housecats, the greatest of my kind yet to be born"
"My my! Such a renowned figure has come to my mudpit! A cat that can appear as a human thing! Oh I really should've cleaned up. But I wasn't expecting guests!" He bellows, sounding earnestly ashamed as he shuffles up the side of his pit "But, may I ask, if my servants are out searching for me? I've spent a terrible few fortnights out here, alone, in the wilderness"
"Oh, they're dead. Devoured by an unknowable something I am avoid. I am collecting you recently awakened beasts, to bring to the comfort of my palace" You say, taking a step back to take a deep, cordial bow "I've come to deliver such an invitation to you..."
"Ah, we have not introduced ourselves. but such a breech of proper protocol can be forgiven, yes?' he said meekly, snuffling around and rooting at the ground at your feet "And, I feared they had met such an unpleasant end. I was scared so witless, I gained new wits, and became what you see today. But before I was transformed, I was called by my servants, Zhurou of the noble family Meiwei! You may call me Meiwei Zhurou!"
Zhurou? Meiwei? He was called Delicious Pork?(美味 猪肉) That'd explain his well bred behavior and dignified, proper attitude, and his haughtiness. He was a spoiled pig before he ascended and awakened to high intelligence. The kind that is raised with care, pampered and fed. It is little wonder he mistook them for servants and staff. It probably would not be wise to tell him that his name wasn't a name, and he had been raised and fattened for slaughter all his life.
"And I am Huanliuxue. You may have heard of me" You say with a grin, to keep from blurting out the unpleasant truth to your latest recruit, that he was in fact a delicacy rather than a lord, and that it was even in his name
"Oh? I do remember something of the sort being spoken before" He says "Ah yes, how bull headed of me! Of course! I know you! All us pigs speak your name with the deepest respect and admiration! How could I be so blind as to not recognize you at a mere glance. Oh, forgive me! Oh course, tells of your beneficence and generosity have reached even our ears down here the marsh estates"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 28 Dec 2022 16:55:49 No. 5510794 Report >>5510792 You smile, struggling not to laugh at his clumsy attempts to act like he is aware of you. But he did fool frog, who was now hopping forward, asking him to tell him about the glorious and storied deeds of his teacher.
You looked up at Houmogui, who was burying her face in a bushel of leaves to muffle her own shrill laughter. You allowed Frog to introduce himself and Houmogui to do so after Zhurou had spent a few minutes telling him vague and undescriptive "Accounts" of your good nature and incredible deeds, and speaking Broad and sweeping praise of you, trying to seem cultured and well informed.
Then, you set forth and last of the magical beasts you had sensed. If there were any more lurking in the swamps, they were hiding their presences, either instinctively or through learning how to conceal their natural Qi and beastly auras. You just hoped, unlike last time you went recruiting, that you wouldn't have to bring back the forth from hell as a bodiless and headless ghost!
What you did not expect. Was for them to find you themselves! While you are relieved to see them alive, and pleased to meet another ascended house cat, you are caught off guard when they, after you begin heading towards where you had first sensed them, to step out and meet you on the deer trail you had been walking down.
"My...princess" He whispered quietly, and with extreme reverence, bowing low to the ground "I knew I sensed you, days ago. I would humbly offer myself to your service. It would be any cats honor to serve their empress"
"Eh? you know this shortie?" Houmogui asked as you looked over the svelte, short furred boy. His was marsh, green brown, molted with lighter, creamier greens, like the spots of a cheetah. From his build and coat, you could tell he was a different breed than yourself. His fur was nearly oiled looking and did not grow as fluffy as your own. His ears were larger and his body as a whole thinner than your own, and his face was sharper and taller than your own. definitely a different breed.
"No, this is the first time we've met. It is only natural for subjects to recognize their princess" You say smugly, shifting your tail as you sit on your haunches
"Of course, he'd have to be a hermit among cats to not recognize the great Huanliuxue" Zhurou mutters, his jowls flapping as he speaks
"When my mind grew and my world expanded, your name was on my lips, Princess. I knew, instinctively, that you were ruler of all us felines, and the cause of my own awakening to the world" He said softly, head still pressed on the ground "it would be a great honor, if you would accept my oath of fealty and allow me to serve you in all ways. As Shadow and Student, Huanliuxue"
"You were one of the cats abandoned when the troubles here began" You ask
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 28 Dec 2022 16:56:53 No. 5510795 Report >>5510794 "Yes. My first thoughts, before even your name, was a deep regret. I ran. When my family was taken by the vines. I dishonored myself, as guardian and watcher" He said sadly "I thought to starve myself in an act of penance, but, I realized I could reclaim my honor by living for your benefit, as a loyal servant to the Ruler of all Cats. If you would accept me. I swear, I shall never again be so cowardly"
"Hmm. I awoke when my first family was killed" You ponder outloud "Maybe us housecats only awaken from tragedy"
"Perhaps" He said, with tears in his eyes and a tremble on his back "If you would turn me away, I shall join my people as bones in the muck"
"There is no need for suicide, boy" you say simply, consoling the younger, wolf sized cat "Self preservation is a natural instinct. You couldn't have done anything to save them, even if you had the awareness you do now. You ran, and felt shame and guilt. And that made you, who you are. I will take you on as my student, along with Frog, Houmogui, and the honorable Meiwei Zhurou. Tell me your name, oh student, so I may know you as you know me"
"Those I failed, called me Yinying ( 阴影, Shadow). It will suffice, until I am receive or earn a new name" He said simply, raising up "I owe you my life twice over, princess. I entrust it to you completely. I will die at your command, wish or whim"
"Then, oath between master and servant, teacher and student, have been made. Let us retreat from this land of sorrows, Yinying" You say solemnly, patting him on the head to complete the ceremony. And with that, having collected all four of the beasts you had sensed in the swamps, you returned home to your temple under the mountain and above the catacombs.
Where it seemed, you had somehow gained a new member of your sect. A dog of the ling who broke with his old sect, following after Ping, whom he called Rejungui (忍俊鬼, Smiling Ghost). Monu dragged him out down the mountain by his ear, as you traveled through the forest with the four children, to keep from causing a ruckus in both the mortal realm and world of cultivation. It also meant you avoided stopping in in Fu's village which was just coincidence and not because you were trying to put off seeing Yuyi again out of fear of her reaction to the burst of primordial beast essence and her reaction to that reaction.
"Don't worry. He can talk" Monu said, as he stared at you, wide eyed and with hanging jaw as you emerged from the undergrowth, dressed in shadows in human form. Monu blinked, slowly pulling the pipe from her lips as she stared at you and turned her head to the side, tapping her chin and looking you over, up and down. Furrowing her brow. She stepped closer, and leaned in, looking even closer as she inspected you from toes to brow.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 28 Dec 2022 16:57:54 No. 5510796 Report >>5510795 "Oh! Seems you take after your mother" She said proudly, rubbing her chin as her eyes slanted to a leer "What a beauty you are! A fairy like me! Oh that is just delightful! I knew you were gorgeous, even as cat, but I never imagined you'd become my rival in looks as a girl. Guess I can't call myself a peerless beauty anymore, huh, Huanliuxue?"
She grabbed your face, squeezing it softly as she turned your head
"Such lovely hair! Such lovely skin. So clear and soft, white as mutton fat jade! Eyes like Limpid Autumn Water, and such adorable eyebrows" She swooned and cooed, as she lifted up your voluminous, fluffy hair "And I see that little notch of yours remains, charming as ever"
She smiled and looked you in your eyes, sighing lovingly as she stepped back and crossed her arms, sticking her pipe back in her mouth as her own, long black hair danced lightly in the breeze
"I see I've been keeping you well fed to" She says, pinching your cheek teasingly "But you aren't a delicate bloom. I can see how tightly corded your muscles are, even if others would think your body soft and weak at a glance. Guess you'll always be a cat, no matter how you look"
"Don't you know her? Why are you admiring her like its the first time you met her? She's your daughter yes?' The man at herside, the former Ling toady asks, blushing as he looks away from you "Or are you just trying to get a rise out of me"
"If I wanted to, you'd already be stiff down there" Monu bawdily boasts, wagging her head to and fro "And, its the first time I've..."
Monu turns back to you and stares, her eyes widening and her cheeks blushing slightly
"Oh my how bold! Why did I never think of that" She gasps, covering her mouth as she realizes your nude "Anyways, this isn't her ordinary self. She has surpassed the heavens, and taken a human form despite their ruling against such a feat. My darling daughter is usually an ox sized, scarlet furred cat. You might've..."
"Oh" The new recruit says stepping back, his face paling "I've..I've heard of you! You killed and devoured Ling meng! You're Huanliuxue! My...well my former sect has been turning over the land searching for you! For years! They've traveled far and wide in search of you, you know! You've been here all along? I thought the Chuan family was just taking advantage of your name to increase their power over their subjects! Were we truly so incompetent?!"
"Yes" You answer plainly, nodding as he smacks his palm against his head, and you bounce from your toes to your heel "Mother, who is this man. You said he came from the Guardians of the Celestial Sunlight, and that Ping dragged him back here, where he, upon meeting Feiqing, forsook his loyalty to align to our sect instead. But who the hell is he"
"A stubborn little boy who only responds to the fake name he gave to Disciple Ping" Monu said with a roll of her eyes and sassy swing of her hip " Just like he only calls him the name Ping gave to him"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 28 Dec 2022 16:58:54 No. 5510799 Report >>5510796 "I left that name behind when I forsook the guardians" He said simply, cupping his fist "You may now me as Qinxin (昑心, Bright Heart) and I met Rejungui when he was traveling on the road in pursuit of a demonic cultivator"
"A former member of the Winter blossoming wisdom sect" Your mother hissed with a dark delight in her eyes "For all their self righteous hypocrisy, they've produced a worse heretic than you or I!"
"Er...yes, the flesh thief" Qinxin said awkwardly, scratching the back of his head as he glanced around "But! I swore that day! If a heretic is more benevolent than my brothers and sisters, I should cut ties with my sect, and follow in their footsteps! For he was the only one to care to pursue the monster and try to hunt it down"
"Did you succeed?" You asked bluntly
"No" Qinxin said as he got a suspicious look on his face "Are you...that Qipao is not made out of..."
"Ogle at my daughter, and I'll castrate you <3" Monu threatened sweetly. Qinxin stared at her with a shocked, frightened gaze, as if he was silently shouting that she was leering at you more than he ever had
"You're on thin ice already, as a former enemy of our sect. But" You say shrugging dramatically as you strode past him "If Ping trusts you, I'll give you a chance to join our ranks. But you'd do well to remember the fate of Ling Meng, welp"
"Hmph, I have no love for the ling clan, or the ogress whom I have been told has assaulted some of your students. I'd apologize on her behalf, but I'd prefer to see her punished for her actions" He said sternly, showing just how gutsy he was by taking your threat like a slap to the face without flinching.
Smirking, you looked back at him over your shoulder and whistled sharply
"AH! Little babies!" Monu shrieked as your four new disciples emerged from their hiding place, and her instincts as a mother took over, and she began to immediately coddle and adore them. Smirking you marched forward up the hidden path to your temple
"Come on, Qinxin! My mother will take awhile, getting acquainted to your newest martial brothers and sisters" You cackled as Qinxin looked to be on the verge of fainting on seeing four more demonic beasts "Pick your jaw up and come on"
"If you mean to test my resolve to follow my sworn brother down into hell as a heretic, Huanliuxue, it will take more than that" He said confidently "I have made up my mind, that your kind are more righteous than the common cultivator"
"So you have a brain after all" You titter, swaying your hips side to side as he walks at your side, stubbornly looking ahead, remembering Monu's threat for moments ago vividly "Doesn't it upset you, that you're serving under a man eater"
"I know you haven't eaten a human in years" He says with a smug smirk you'd like to claw off his face "Rejungui told me about you, as I sat at his bedside with the mute, caring for him"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 28 Dec 2022 16:59:55 No. 5510801 Report >>5510799 "What happened to ping" You growl, placing what you only realize is a clawless finger under his chin as you walk down the cliffside path with him
"He was gravely injured by the abomination that was once a man" he said just as furious as you felt "Used a technique, I understand to be your invention, to explode the beast with its own attack"
Oh the dying grudge shield! And he learned it all himself. Oh you'd have to praise him for that.
"And you said you didn't kill the fucker?" You ask pointedly as you continue down the path
"No. He fled despite being grievously injured. Ping knows more than I do, as he became consious first. But, your mother, <span class="mu-s"> Sect head </span> has forbade him from telling anyone but you or herself the details" Qixin whispered as you approached the gate leading into the catacombs and saw Hong and Fu
"Heavens!" Fu gasped, covering his mouth and swooning "Oh brother Hong. I pity you now more than ever! Greetings, Lady Huanliuxue"
"Brother. I can sense her body through the vibrations of her steps" Hong said giddily "What a knock out...er, I mean! You look very nice grandmaster"
"Put your tongue back in your mouth before I tear it out" You sarcastically threatened, wagging a finger in the blind mans face "Greetings to you to, Juniors Fu and Hong. Granny Monu is receiving the introductions of the newest members of the Palace of the natural laws sect"
"Surprised you didn't tear out this ones throat" Fu said, stabbing a finger at Qinxin "Dog, take my post, I wish to meet my juniors as well"
Qinxin bowed his head and obeyed
"Do I have to share watch with him" Hong grumbled "I'd much rather escort our sect head into the temple"
"Hong, remember her true form" Fu warned, even as what parts of his face were visible turned bright red "And her nature. You'd have less of a risk flirting with her mother"
"Her true form is just as lovely" Hong said with a smirk, messing with Fu
"Yes it is" He replied confidently, expertly parrying his martial brothers attempt to make it look like he was insulting you "I find it more impressive, in truth"
"You're blushing! I can feel the warmth on your face!" Hong bellows, laughing as you step past him and Fu as they argue, leaving Qinxin up top. Walking down the now smoothed passage to the open stairway leading down into your retreat proper, you run in Qiang half way down the stairs
"Heard you'd come back. Master" She says dully, bowing "We knew you succeeded the moment the skies cleared, but none of us knew just how magnificently you did. Guessing your mother tried to dress you up like a doll, and you're fleeing underground?"
"Close. Picked up more orphans and distracted her with them before she could start. Fu and Hong are fighting. Also, why do we have a ling dog in our sect now? I know he and Ping are friends, but" You say conspiratorially with her, before pausing, mouth slightly open as you notice just how much she resembles you.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 28 Dec 2022 17:00:56 No. 5510802 Report >>5510801 You didn't notice it when looking at your own reflection before, but now that she's standing in front of you, it couldn't be more obvious
"He's loyal to Ping, and has seen the unjustness of the orthodoxy and heavens. Fu is harsh to him, but, privately, he's confided he respects him for having eyes that can see mount tai" Qiang said with a roll of her shoulders as she walked past you "And yeah, people are gonna think your my mother even more now"
"Oh, certainly. Oh! Tell Fu and Hong I have a mission for all your humans and Siwang!" You shout as you skip past Qiang
"Even Lei?" She asked simply
"Does he count as Human?" You joked, turning around mid hop to skip backwards down the steps
"Don't know" She bluntly replied as she dragged her feet up the stairs and out of view.
Stepping into the lantern light of your sect proper, you were met by Huili, who raised his head and growled, fur raised on his back, before you smiled and he recognized you. Curling his tail between his legs, he groveled in front of you
"Oh honored teacher, forgive this fool for not recognizing you by scent alone" He whimpered, as you frowned. How pitiful. The sooner her got his backbone and nerve back the better "I was guarding the entrance to the sanctum! Without being ordered to! Alert to any intruders"
Your frown of disgust deepened as you saw Siwang tapping his talons on Chuandapo's shell, as she napped near one of the streams running through your temple like veins
"Wake up! Wake up! Your Five minutes are up! You need to wake up for today's studying!" Siwang angrily scolded, lifting his head as you walked by, Huili clinging to your legs and continuing to try and ingratiate himself to you, thinking he had left your good graces for bearing his teeth at you "Ah! Lady Huanliuxue! I'm glad you've returned safely! Of course you word. Your will against the injustice of the heavens? They never stood a chance! If you wish. I shall present to you a detailed report of all of our progress since you've been away"
"Eh, leave Chuandapo alone for now, and I'll ask Monu to tell me how much you've all have progressed since I've been gone. I have a mission for you and your elders, Wusheng Siwang" You state authoritatively as you walk past him "Go onto the surface and gather with them. I'll send Lanfen and Liu up there to"
"What about Lei?" Siwang asks "And what about this indolent girl avoiding her responsibility"
"If you wish, I shall join them!" Huili barked, as his dumb brothers and sisters gathered behind him, following you as well "Say the word, master, and I shall carry out your will, for it is justice"
"You know nothing of Justice, corpse eater" Siwang chirped, pecking at his ears. You could feel your face droop and expression fall, seeing the once proud wolf not even snap in retaliation
"I shall deal with Chuandapo, and Huili" You sternly snarled, snapping your fingers "Do not trouble yourself with them Siwang"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 28 Dec 2022 17:02:52 No. 5510806 Report >>5510802 "Oh good. I hope I have not gone beyond my responsibilities as their elder" He said humbly "But I cannot tolerate idleness! It is an insult to your kindness and protection to not train diligently and work hard"
And with that said, the owl flew off. Leaving you with a crawling Huili and a still sleeping Chuandapo. Sighing, you walked around the temple, Huili thankfully getting the message to leave you alone and wait by his turtle sister as you sought at your other disciples
and found Lei.
"Hello Lei" you told the mute, as he brazenly stared as your breast "Monu has already threatened castration for that, you know"
He shrugged and pulled his Huanliuxue mask down further to hide his eyes, solving the issue in his mysterious mind
"You're still afflicted, aren't you?" You sigh, having hoped that'd be solved by time you got back "Where are Lanfen and Liu, and Feiqing and Ping?"
He pantomimed and you pretended to understand
"Thank you" You say, leaving him to...whatever it is he was doing. Maybe brooming the temple? It was hard to say, he seemed busy. Maybe he was going to dig a new tunnel or repair a collapse. That'd explain the hammer and chisel. Walking down the tunnel that lead to the housing and dormitories of the sect, you ran into Feiqing, who fell backwards when he saw you
"Well. Now our sect has two great beauties" He said respectfully as he picked himself up and cupped his hand "I am proud to report my success in break my bottleneck, Lady Huanliuxue. I am greatly relieved to see you return home safely, Master"
"The feeling is mutual. I am proud of you, my student" You say, returning the gesture "But I heard Ping was injured in his attempt, and saw he brought home a stray dog"
"Yes. He is resting now. His body was gravely wounded" he answered, greatly sorrowful and distressed "But he should recover. I'd ask you not to disturb. Its the first restful sleep he's gotten and...Wait, you didn't know some of the guards and maids following Yuyi around joined our honorable Sect, master?"
"I was not! They had the potential to cultivate?!" You shout in surprise
"Some. Most are good for labor and extra security, though, though most of the maids went to stay with Yuyi" He said happily, with a miserly wringing of his hands "And I'm guessing you haven't...seen her yet"
"No. So it is as I feared?" You ask
"Yes" Feiqing said somberly "She's lost more of her humanity. Her boyfriend didn't seem to mind though, last I saw them in town. Even if she hid her...changes behind a hood and cloak"
'Hmmph, I knew he would' You think smugly "Well, I'll have to apologize to her, and congratulate her on getting closer to perfection"
"You might want to take a body guard or two with you. Qiang and Fu says a black grudge surrounds her" Feiqing warned as he walked past you
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 28 Dec 2022 17:04:26 No. 5510808 Report >>5510806 "Well, I might need you to go on a mission, but I might have you stay here" You mused out loud as He walked by "Just stay in the courtyard, and I'll tell you if I will. Also, have you seen Lanfen and Liu anywhere?"
"They were cleaning the armory, last I heard. And I will await your orders" Feiqing said. And so, taking another passage, you headed towards the armory, to seek out Lanfen and Liu.
'Actually, I might only send Lanfen, Liu and Hong. Though, there'd be less chance of one of them dying if I did send Fu, Qiang and Feiqing as I first planned. I'd have sent Ping, but he's injured' You pondered as you walked to the armory 'Also, Qiang and Fu's reputation would certainly keep the wolves from becoming suspicious of their intentions. Not sure if Lanfen, Hong or liu are as respected as those to...'
You frowned, pausing outside the chamber, as your thoughts ran freely for awhile. Peeking inside the armory, you saw Lanfen, sharpening a sword, sweating heavily as Liu polished a shield, trying to get a mirror finish from the look of it
"Be in awe!" You commanded, stepping inside with a regal stride. Liu dropped his shield and Lanfen paused mid stroke on the whetstone to pout miserably
"That's not faaaair!" She cried out "as if I had enough competition around here. I'm happy for you, Lady Huanliuxue. But now I have another obstacle to surmount in chasing my beloved!"
"You see everything in terms of romance, don't you, my lady" Liu side "Do you require our service, Secthead?"
"Yes. I need you two to meet with your fellow students. You're going out on a mission for the sect. And Lanfen" You say, snapping your fingers to draw the girl out of her self pity to listen up "Give me some of your robes. I think you're the closest one to matching my frame and size"
"It isn't fair! You have me beat!" Lanfen wailed, placing her hands on both sides of her head "I feel worthless as a woman looking at you! And...with some adjustment they should. Just don't rub it in my face like that, please"
And so Lanfen gloomily departed, as Liu nodded and set down his shield to join up with the rest of your students. You waited, one leg crossed over the other, until Lanfen returned with her robes. She sat in the corner, biting her thumb and bitterly sulking as you tried them on
"They do need a little loosening" You remarked "Seems you were right"
"I said not to rub it in!" Lanfen cried, pulling at her hair as you smiled mischievously behind the sleeve of your borrow robe
"I'll return them after I buy or make my own" You say simply "Now, wipe away your tears, and go join the others"
"Yes, master" She groaned like a walking corpse, leaving you alone in the armory.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Wed 28 Dec 2022 17:08:43 No. 5510815 Report >>5510808 <span class="mu-s"> Triple vote </span>
How do you plan on beating Huili and Chuandapo into shape (Total Cultivation/ training bonus left, +92)
>Put them through a grueling training regimen and explain their faults and failings clearly and openly to them (Training trial. DC 70) >Give them duties and tasks that go against their slight flaws, and gently push them to better themselves (Training trial. DC 52) >Just take them both to hell. Nothing like a little demon fighting to improve one's self! >ask Monu for advice on the matter >write in and who do you have lead the mission into the dusk marsh, Huanliuxue (of which, every human disciple except Lei is taking part in. Safety in numbers and reputation)
>Fu >Feiqing >Qiang >Siwang >Write in And
Would you like to control the leader of the mission
>No *outcome will be determined by the Leader's personality/ skill, and the abilities of the group as a whole will determine their success or failure as modifiers to the roll made upon the completion of their task* >Yes *Switch control to the leader of the mission, and control the outcome/ result personally, while Huanliuxue whips Huili and Chuandapo into being proper cultivators* How exhausting this was to post
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>>5510815 >Put them through a grueling training regimen and explain their faults and failings clearly and openly to them (Training trial. DC 70) Their training is complete when we learn something from them. It gives them a clear endpoint to struggle for, while being a feat not easily achieved.
It should be better for Huili since it implies he’s been tasked to rise above us, if only briefly. Not as sure about how to motivate Chuandapao beyond withholding food though.
Perhaps that could generally be the training method, dinner is withheld and she must figure out how to steal it from wherever we place it. Train her to outthink us rather than outcompete us. We’d still train Qi, physical abilities etc. to give her more tools to work with, but she’d need to be inventive on her own or with Huili’s support. Which… would mean she’d join in training Huili to have a backbone since he’d indirectly be going up against us in helping Chuandapao even if we don’t forbid it. That works.
For the party
>Fu >Siwang with Siwang as leader to get him experience in commanding a small group. Fu would be the default leader during interactions with humans, of course.
There is very much a justice issue to resolve in the swamp, and I’m curious how he approaches it. He does need to understand his limits though, and know that he can turn to the others for assistance. I don’t think he’s ever pursued justice cooperatively before beyond the vague stuff he’s doing here at our temple. Hopefully he knows to lean on Fu, who has worked in small squads before.
Sending Fu along for rep, and because the idea of daos of justice and grudges fighting alongside each other amuses me.
Keeping Feiqing here on the assumption we’ll have work for him in upgrading our temple, and keeping Qiang back for… really just so Fu and Qiant can train separately for a bit since they travel together a lot. Maybe we can entrust her with scouting out the lower levels of the tomb for our inevitable conquest.
For POV switch,
>No because I’d like to see how they do on their own. Success and failure are both excellent teachers.
Oh, and before I forget, we do need to discuss with Monu about the blood garden idea one anon had a while ago. That can be a long-term project she may be able to progress while we cultivate as it promises unique reagents for her alchemy.
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>>5510815 >Put them through a grueling training regimen and explain their faults and failings clearly and openly to them (Training trial. DC 70) >Fu >Siwang Yes *Switch control to the leader of the mission, and control the outcome/ result personally, while Huanliuxue whips Huili and Chuandapo into being proper cultivators*
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You know it might be a good idea to send our more experienced disciples not going on a mission/recovering or receiving special training into the library of the city of the dead. The golems should provide a decent challenge plus the more books and knowledge our sext has the better
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>>5510815 +1 to
>>5510848 I really liked the plan. I say withholding food from Chuan is the perfect plan. We alongside Monu should think in challenges for her, physical and mental challenges so she get's her food (and mental ones so she gains a little more Wit and have a sharper mind, because if I remember correctly, she was just dumbly dropping ships because she wanted food and was robbing it from fishermen, and she simply didn't noticed)
And for Huili, I say we should grind his gears. I say we should also give him challenges for food, so him and Chuan work together, but with other nature: annoying challenges. Hell, I say we should tell Lei that when Huili and him have a break from their activities, Lei should try and annoy Huili, some kind of rough love, like for example throwing pebbles when Huili is resting/meditating, make him tiny pranks to annoy him and make Huili see of he can finally at least bark or snap back at Lei. Our objective will be for Huili to help Chuan in their challenges UNLESS we say otherwise, surely Chuan will have a great deal with how lazy she is, but Huili not so, and when Huili is a little exhausted we send Lei to make him lose patience. And aside from that, give Huili mental challenges that are simply some steps further than what he can do, or sometimes just give him mentally exhausting and frustrating challenges that he can't complete.
Also yeah, talk to Monu with the Blood Qi garden project
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>>5510882 I’ll back most of the Huili training here (annoying him is mean, but probably necessary), but I would prefer if we pointedly made no mention of whether Huili is allowed to help Chuandapao if he asks. Just smile, laugh, or walk away. If Chuandapao asks instead, we can say she’s allowed to ask for help from anyone, even us! We’ll say no if she asks us, of course. She’d need to offer us something worth more than her growth as a student, and something that valuable would only come to her if she grew as a student anyway.
For Huili, it’s to get him more comfortable with the idea of helping others in ways that he’s not sure we’d approve of. Sure, he was guarding someone injured without us asking, but that’s a no-brainer safe decision. For Chuandapao, she’ll need to figure out how to convince others to assist her. Everyone else has their own things to do, so she’ll need to think about what she can offer to bring people to help her, or how to tailor her requests so people don’t see it as a huge effort. Instead of “bring me food” for example, a request to Feiqing could be “can you fashion a claw I could wear” so she can dig a route to food we’ve sealed off. Forging her own tools is difficult without hands, so he’d be more likely to honor such a request.
Huili, of course, should be one of the main ones she requests as a fellow junior and out of a sense of companionship due to being trained at the same time. So it gets her more directly involved in having him grow a spine as well.
Oh, and to cap it all off, when he finally snaps at Lei, we’ll need to hear it out as a dispute between disciples. Have someone else share Lei’s side of the story, then have Huili argue to us why he is in the right. If he argues well enough, we punish Lei by telling him to desist immediately and revoking his speaking privileges for a month. A technical punishment to show that Huili will do a bad thing sometimes and need to explain it to us and that doesn’t mean he’ll be punished necessarily, but with no teeth as we asked Lei to do it.
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I wonder what we should name Frog. The easy route is just earnest conductor because of his attitude and achievement in making his fellow frogs sing. But we could be cheeky and call him something like vibrant jumper. Maybe something that includes "bright" as a play on not only his coloration as a giant dart frog but also his amenable attitude and cavalier approach to learning.
>>5510815 >Put them through a grueling training regimen and explain their faults and failings clearly and openly to them (Training trial. DC 70) The best way for Huili to get at least some of his guts back is to get him to be a little more independent. His overemphasization of pack mentality is not only incorrect but also limiting his growth. He should know that every member of the tribe needs to contribute and while that does mean working together it does not mean simpering around for orders. If he could be made to be more comfortable having personal agency again his attitude should pretty quickly change to him reestablishing boundaries and being bolder.
>Fu The only reason being that Fu has the broadest experience. Though his bold and brash nature might cause problems, I'm sure having the others around can help hold the worst of his impetus in check.
>No *outcome will be determined by the Leader's personality/ skill, and the abilities of the group as a whole will determine their success or failure as modifiers to the roll made upon the completion of their task* Anonymous
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>>5510848 I will support this basically whole heartedly.
The outcome of others should be dependent on those others.
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>>5510815 >Give them duties and tasks that go against their slight flaws, and gently push them to better themselves (Training trial. DC 52) >Siwang >No *outcome will be determined by the Leader's personality/ skill, and the abilities of the group as a whole will determine their success or failure as modifiers to the roll made upon the completion of their task* Anonymous
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>>5510815 >>5510848 Supporting this.
DC 70 on Bo4 is actually a pretty surmountable challenge.
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>>5510848 Supporting
regarding the blood Qi, could the 5 springs be used to mask its signature? It seems like something that could draw some very unwanted attention once its known to exist.
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>>5510815 >ask Monu for advice on the matter She does have more experience than us in training juniors.
>Qiang I feel like her skillset is the best for tracking a monster, though it's still not optimal. And she will be careful.
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>>5510848 >>5510897 Full support!
>>5510905 Something along the lines of Bright Springs (cuz frog) or Bright Waters/Shining Pond? He gave me the impression of a bubbly river spirit, I wonder if we can use that too.
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>>5510973 We came to the conclusion it needs to be in a high Mountain that's cold and using several artifacts/materials with different Qi to make rich soil and the crops don't ruin.
I say we could use the Winter Blossoming Sect mountains, but some anon was against it. From what we know, the Sect got a huge ammount of losses with our sister Xuebai and her "bf", so they're low on Sect members, and I say the majority were cultivators, considerating that the other protag stealed the ability to cultivate from the bodyparts of other cultivators.
So yeah, right know they are really low in Sect members and surely going in a recluitment spree just to keep up with the War against the Ling Sect, which in turn the Ling Sect also suffered losses from the Ling Protag with her careless and suicide missions without thinking in the other cultivators + the possible Death of one of the Ling Sect Elders and any other cultivator the Ling Protag wanted to kill once she betrayed her Sect when we go for our tribulation.
From how I see it, we should do the Winter Blossoming Sect secondary mission with the problem of Xuebai, use our Human form, and try to seize the HQ of the Winter Blossoming Sect some way to use it
And also maybe do something that the other anons we're interested on: participate in a cultivators tournament.
Right now unless Grandfather says something, from how I see it any Cultivator with enough power, followers and a terrain could make their own Sect, there's no kind of weird bureocracy about registering our Sect in some kind of Goverment Cultivation building.
If y'all feel safe to show our sect into the world, we can sneak into one of the tournaments, maybe investigate the prizes and all that and then see if it's worth it
Also Grandfather, where's our girl Yuyujao? Or whatever it's written, I wanna see if Snake daughter it's ok and if She's not that depressed
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>>5510815 Also, don't wanna be a KA but feel the need to say the update is incredible. Maintaining a proper flow and reasonable transition pacing with big updates is a challenge for a lot of QMs, and for this it goes through immersion steps with consistent characterization. It is good.
With draft output like this you could probably write cultivation litrpg stuff on amazon kindle. Anonymous
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>>5510987 You are correct about sects Anon.
A sect is a group of cultivators, who cultivate together. The strongest ones teach and provide for the younger ones, and in turn can command them to wield greater political power.
Like a country, the only thing that really matters is "power" when it relates to others. We don't say "please let us do this" we say "we are doing this, try and stop us if you dare".
The key component on that, then, is being strong enough to enforce our demands. If the winter blossoming sect is too weak to stop us, we destroy them and take their shit. It's then a matter of if anyone else will try and punish us for it.
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>>5510815 >Just take them both to hell. Nothing like a little demon sightseeing to improve one's self! I say drag them with us and give them a good look at the worst place ever to shake them up and listen.
Chuan will be too scared to laze and we can show the pig demon as an example not to follow for the doormat wolf.
They need to see why they must be strong, bonus point for bringing the ghost serpent to lash at them verbally since she has to work thrice as hard without a body.
>Fu He is the leader of the heroes, has experience and isn't too full of himself not to listen to advice. quiang won't be as natural or efficient, not even interested in leadership i guess.
And for feiquing he has to get around the idea of being part of the heroes and getting the same respect.
Having him lead the group will put too much on his loner shoulders.
>Siwang as vice-leader He has his own duties to attend to and he does best within a narrow focus.
To have him take care of a large group will only frustrate everyone, as the righteous type he tends to micromanage. and they need to see we trust him enough to send him on his own sidestuff to build respect.
That said they must cooperate and keep tabs on each other.
This trip is a proving ground for cooperation not yet a merging of human and beast disciples.
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>>5510987 The only downside I can see about entering tournaments is that the cultivator world hasn't devolved fully into abandoning the old laws of heaven yet.
Considering the old emperor is dead, that should be a couple decades off while the mortal world gets the full on 5 kingdoms like affair underway.
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>>5510987 iirc, it was only a matter of distance. The closer to our sect the more readily we/disciples can construct it, use it, or solve its problems. If we don't have any snowy mountains nearby, we can totally just steal theirs. There might be a security issue with creating a garden away from us in a place that will need protection or guarding, but if what we need best is an icy peak Monu will be able to bounce us in the best direction.
Though their Sect Head is dying from the ruined breakthrough, I think it's safe to assume the higher tier members of the Winter Blossoming Sect are quite strong. Monu was one of them after all. Xuebai hasn't pressed Jingyu into an attack on their elders, and based on those things we don't currently have the power to bring their sect down wholesale.
If they have only three core formation staged cultivators below their Sect Head, it will still be a hard fight even with the majority of our students and Monu.
And Xuebai/Jingyu, presumably. When we get back to her for the important convo let's just ask mother about the Winter Blossoming Sect's elders and ranks.
We still have that infopull from Xiaosi, where if we mention his name we'll be allowed in their sect. Now that we have human form there is some crafty stuff we could get up to with that.
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>>5510815 >Put them through a grueling training regimen and explain their faults and failings clearly and openly to them (Training trial. DC 70) >I want to strengthen Huili's Dao Heart. He's gone too far meek and will effect his dao heart. I say that Huanliuxue should debate with him his demeanor. Why did we make the bet with him before? To show him there are stronger foes. To be smart about how to fight. Act strong when you are weak and weak when you are strong. An example is how the sect is hiding while gathering strength. To Travel the Dao Requires a strong heart to go against the current heavens for beasts. Like how metal is forged and tempered for battle. Ask him what is his Dao supposed to be? What will he strive for?
To protect his family he must be strong.
To protect the sect he must be strong.
To protect himself he must be strong.
Basically, give him mental puzzles and questions and move him to be wiser and get his fear under control.
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>>5510987 I think we wanted it to be more secret, or perhaps we estimated subjugating another sect, even one in disarray, as too open a play.
I’d be amenable to it if no other candidates exist that we know of though. If others do, I’ll weigh the options with everyone else.
>>5511003 It would be incredibly amusing to show up at a tourney, kick ass, and carefully explain that while we’re considered the sect leader our “real” leader is Huan with the example she sets in protecting the weak and shedding the blood of those who oppress.
I’d expect others to take it as a popularity stunt, claiming the mantle of a respected current figure in the ongoing war as a means of recruitment. I imagine since she’s only a “spiritual” leader it wouldn’t be heresy, just distasteful in the eyes of the orthodoxy. Our crew would know the truth, of course.
>>5511010 Speaking of people to visit, who was the sect leader that indirectly gave us many of our traditional texts? It might be nice to officially speak with him on how his students are faring now that we helped whip them into shape. Perhaps we could even organize our own tournament with his help?
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>>5511017 Grandmaster Su, of the Five Colors and Five Purities Sect. We really do owe him a pleasant visit.
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>>5510815 >Give them duties and tasks that go against their slight flaws, and gently push them to better themselves (Training trial. DC 52) >Siwang >Yes *Switch control to the leader of the mission, and control the outcome/ result personally, while Huanliuxue whips Huili and Chuandapo into being proper cultivators* I wouldn't mind playing owl boy. BTW great work with the polite pig Meiwei Zhurou, might just become my new favorite disciple!
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>>5510815 >Give them duties and tasks that go against their slight flaws, and gently push them to better themselves (Training trial. DC 52) >Fu He is the eldest and has experience leading
>Yes *Switch control to the leader of the mission, and control the outcome/ result personally, while Huanliuxue whips Huili and Chuandapo into being proper cultivators* The children are adorable, I'm very concerned for Yuyi and happy that the Qiang's mother meme can continue.
Ping isn't going to awaken if we change the POV, right? I don't want to miss the older sister ghost reveal.
Also, I think we could teach bat some of that blood qi.
Anonymous
>>5511093 Speaking of Hǒumógui out of all our disciples she would probably benefit the most form our humming vines given her sonar
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>>5511093 >Also, I think we could teach bat some of that blood qi. I'm not sure about it, not until we secure the Blood Qi garden, but surely she might be good with it.
In the moment I say we should just show her some other Dao, maybe one fire-aligned, but I say we should visit Sect Master Su with some spirit stones and see if he's willing to sell us some of the fire-aligned textbooks and any other interesting one for our new disciples (and maybe try and help Yuyi with them, even see if we can show her some of the luck-draining Dao that we we're offered at the start for being a cat.)
Also, with the condition on which we found Frog, I image we can maybe search to see if there's some Purification Dao or something like that, or if not lead him to develop one
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>>5511093 I'm switching to
>No *outcome will be determined by the Leader's personality/ skill, and the abilities of the group as a whole will determine their success or failure as modifiers to the roll made upon the completion of their task* As much as I'm concerned about our students safety and curious avout what's going on, other anon is right that this is a good learning experience for them.
Also I dislike playable PoV switches in slower paced quests or of they take linger than three updates. Anonymous
>>5511125 Well, it's because she is a vampire bat, so she might have a natural affinity.
Why fire? Because of her attitude?
>>5511118 This anon has a good idea, maybe she could use something like sonar too.
I think these new students could have some very varied opportunities of daos.
Frog is obviously poison aligned, but choosing between purification, something more offensive is a good opportunity. Either way, Monu could really help teaching him.
Shadow is interesting, by the name he could manipulate shadows, but his guardia attitude could fit a more defensive dao as well.
For Prince Pig, I have no idea.
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>>5511125 >>5511137 I’d lean air-aligned for Batgirl as a start if we don’t want to toss her into Blood Qi yet. Given some of the stuff we’ve done with it and the lack of texts to define a proper path, keeping that off the table seems prudent.
If the fire-aligned is due to her personality, it does bear mentioning that the attitude she has was mentioned as an inflection. She seems to feel the need to act like that, but put her in a comfortable situation and she may turn out to be different.
I say that knowing we don’t HAVE a wind-aligned art. Another reason to visit Grandmaster Su I suppose.
>Prince Pig >Dao of nobility I kid though, we can’t expect all our members to follow their own daos. An earth-focused one seems best for him. Pigs are bulky, earth is bulky, good enough as a start unless he feels something more specific. It also contrasts well since I normally wouldn’t associate earth with someone whose speech is that refined.
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>>5511160 Water and Earth Daos for our pig, since water+earth=mud, which pigs like.
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>>5511118 >Speaking of Hǒumógui out of all our disciples she would probably benefit the most form our humming vines given her sonar Hey, I don't remember anything from those humming vines you mention (or at least what they do), can you refresh my mind about it?
>>5511160 >>5511137 >Why fire? Because of her attitude? Honestly no. I understand that she was acting rowdy because she wanted to act tough, but with her Nature as a Vampire Bat she's more aligned or propense to Blood Qi, but until we gain some way to gather the pure Qi with our project, I say the Best we can do is to get her into a Yang-aligned element, so when we have our Pure Blood Qi source available the change isn't that dramatic. My first thought on her first Dao was something with Metal Qi because of her description of having rust red fur, but I wasn't sure. Maybe a Yin Qi element isn't that bad btw, because if her first reaction of us was to act in a different way, means that maybe her usual MO is through deception, something that if i'm correct is a Yin type of thing
And for the Pig
>>5511165 I guess it's a nice approach. Hell, he dug a pit for himself, maybe in the future he can develop a technique for building structure or stone molding, surely something useful for when we need to do some construction work
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>>5510979 >Bright Springs (cuz frog) or Bright Waters/Shining Pond? I like them. I'd vote for them.
>>5511160 Pigs are also surprisingly adept diggers. Always seem to know what is under the ground.
As for the bat, I think the idea is that she has a natural affinity for blood, being that she is a vampire bat. They can see in infrared by the way, which is really cool. And since blood is yang aligned, and fire is quintessential YANG there should be some overlap. Of course natural affinities do not an inherent proclivity make. Teaching her what suits her best will come down to what she takes to in the end. And given she's actually pretty level headed and cautious I don't think a very aggressive style suits her. But I hardly know the kid so hey.
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>>5511180 >>5511191 Noble pig would make a good companion then for Feiqing. Ores tend to be buried in the earth, so an adept digger would make things much easier for him.
The Man Mistaken As Monster and Noble Pig. The legend is practically writing itself at this point. It’ll sell almost as well as the tales of “Twin Axe and the Assassin Whose Heart He Stole” and “The Tragedy of the Beautiful Firestorm and the Shadow She Birthed”.
Know what, give me some other combinations to write outrageous book titles about. I could use a bit of levity.
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>>5511160 >>5511165 >>5511180 >>5511191 Earth sounds good for pig. Call the Dao of Truffles.
Also the emotion that awakened him was fear wasn't it? Could make sense of he became a more defensive fighter.
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>>5510848 supporting
>>5510905 >>5510979 I'm cool with Bright Spring (光明泉, Guāngmíng quán) for the bright word play or Bubble Chorus (泡泡合唱, Pào pào héchàng) for the song connection. Also had the idea of Murky Gem (暗宝石, Àn bǎoshí) to connect his origin and the description of his eyes.
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>>5511229 Lanfen and Liu
Lei and Monu
Ping and Qinxin
Yuyi and being dragged into adventures against her will
Suwang and being best son (with Frog now being a strong contender)
The two Geges
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>>5511236 >To Labor in the Shadow of Giants >The Deranged Beautiful Alchemist and Her Doomed Quest to Create the Perfect Man >Bright Heart, Dead Heart: How Love Redeemed A Heretic Debate on who would be miscasted as the girl in this book at your own leisure.
>Yuyi and the Case of the Knight of Justice >Yuyi and the Case of the Demon Emperor >Yuyi and the Case of the No-Good, Worthless, Terrible, Stinky, Ugly Housecat Yuyi’s adventures would be an anthology series, I’m sure.
>Justice on Wings, Poison in Claws >Paradox in Sky and Earth: The Insect Monarchs Anonymous
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>>5510815 >Put them through a grueling training regimen and explain their faults and failings clearly and openly to them (Training trial. DC 70) > Fu > No Anonymous
>>5511180 They are mentioned in this post
>>5509267 Anonymous
I'm also quite interested in YinYing's statement about our name on his lips.
Anonymous
>>5511833 From what I remember, the way people that we fight or know us is because of our presence and Aura, an Aura of mass grave, the chill of a grave, the still air. But also the smell of Blood, tho I can't really remember other ways that Grandfather described our Pure Blood Qi aura
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>>5511837 No, no.
The wild princess thing, which the cat talked about.
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>>5511584 Oh and thanks btw, and you're right those vines would be awesome, maybe we can have more of a reason to show or push her into an Air Qi Dao so she has an incredible control of her voice and get the maximum potential of her natural abilities
Btw, know that we have our Bat Daughter she could surely do a amazing team with Dong, which in turn Dong could be an amazing spy for our sect, he just need to learn or show us he has the ability yo defend himself with his chosen Dao (and also learn how to block part of his senses , because if he's going to puke because of the smell of stinky fish or Blood because his high senses, that's going to be a problem)
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>>5511838 Oh right.
Well, how I see it it's something instinctual in the Cats, from housecat to middle and maybe high felines. Do you know about that fear people have with those robots/androids? When someone feels like uncomfortable or weird, for me that's what happens with felines.
Because of our evolution, know they have something almost primal inside that makes them say "hey, she's like our mom but something more high, more magestic, we should follow and serve her"
Anonymous
>>5511849 My question is what is the extent of it. We should ask, because if it reaches a certain point then we can make commands and edicts through this line.
Anonymous
>>5511863 I mean... For what we know, we're the only Divine Beast that have grown this powerful, and not only that but evolved into the Primordial Beast Lineage (or something like that) in Ages.
And if course, even if they aren't awakaned they can communicate, tho to a more primitive or basic level. So if animals hear humans talk enough about Huan, maybe they will think "Gigant cat with red fur is strong and everyone knows about it"
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>>5511866 Yes, it's just trying to find the point we can exploit.
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>>5511868 I think the mechanism was the primordial essence wave we sent out. It bore our imprint, and all cats that thought “hey I can think now” also got the tag “this power brought to you by Huan the happy bloodshed, please drink blood responsibly” as a rider.
Not something easily exploited for long-distance since it took a tribulation to send this message, but maybe there’s better ways. Every awakened beast likely bears our imprint on its essence, so anything that tunes into that should work. It’d probably be too weak to use as a means of reliably sending messages or finding recruits, but cats clearly bear a deeper imprint so maybe there’s enough to it.
>We invent radar >It detects cats >More powerful cat - bigger ping >We can’t use it because we break every device we’re near Anonymous
>>5511872 Array boosted divination rituals keyed to concentrated forms of beast essence should work. We only have a tangential awareness of that sphere of spellwork in character though. Usually for individual divinations you need part of of what you're looking for already, or part of something aligned to the Qi you're searching out. In which case we are well equipped to search out concentrations of primordial/beast essence in respects to the beast types of our current disciples.
It's dangerous though, in a knowledge sense. With fine tuning things like talismans that can track specific people if you have their blood and know their Qi, and other fun stuff, become rudimentary even if resource and time costly.
That deep library in our undead kingdom should have some respectable literature regarding such things.
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>>5511872 There might be the possibility to send summons throught a cat network of sorts like in the 101 dalmatians but it's probably unreliable.
But it may be worth it to let the felines know when we pass by an area that we are searching for "noble" cats or other animals and see what we get.
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>>5511889 solid +1 to that. sooner we do likely the better.
Anonymous
>>5511888 That is a worrysome consideration, if the primordial energy could be used for pinpointing or divining our location then making some antidivination talismans is probably of the utmost priority.
On the opposite if we were to make some tokens of our students then we could keep tabs on them, or at least their last known location.
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>>5511889 Ah, that’s a clever idea. No magic behind it, just an old-fashioned informant network. Made of cats, of course.
It’d be nice to feed a location through them like the village or the Buddhists so they can be pre-screened, but that’s probably too complex. Might be enough to chain “hey, I heard about this from a cat over in that direction” or “we saw Huan and she came from that way going in this other way” and they can work their way back to us via a nationwide game of telephone. Or if we’re in the area, they can obviously point us to them instead.
>>5511888 >>5511931 Does our home shield us from this effect due to its own abundance of Yin Qi? No benefit if we’re traveling and maybe not enough of one if we grow in power or our sect gets larger, but it’d buy us time to find those texts without rushing.
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>>5511931 >>5511965 It depends on how deeply the world of cultivation has stagnated. Searching for Yin Qi around our area should give almost nothing in return, and searching beyond the Tomb Gates should be effectively impossible given the nature of its god enforced sealing. If we're outside, it's a maybe.
So far what we've seen is most current sects respond to magical beasts after they've acted, and don't send out high ranking individuals to end them. When we acquired our students, we did not receive any followup of the other sects continuing to look for them. After the problems "went away" I believe it's fair to say they stopped caring to refocus on preparing for sect conflicts, or they have no desire to expend resources on these kinds of things, or they're just dumb and apathetic.
Which may change when one of them commits the crime of digging into the earth beneath our home village, though that's only my paranoia.
Finding Huan based on concentrations of yin qi and beast essence should never give a full location. Finding our sect based on concentrations of beast essence isn't something I'd worry about now that we've flooded the world with it, they'd need to be more specific. Once we get bigger it will of course cease to matter, unless we find ways to give our whole sect protection, as most sects do.
If someone obtains our blood, or learns of our usage of blood qi, and has the resources and skills to do so, they could. They don't have to be powerful either; just learned, diligent, and having access to spirit stones for their needs. But I'm having some doubts about whether the knowledge still exists accessibly to most sects, or if they're all so secretive they'll use these things as backup plans without making any moves that indicate they have that knowledge; ie the way Yaonan spilled to us her sects' capabilities.
I recall that Yaonan reached Yuji before us, and she was sent to the mock capital to search out something her sect believed would be hiding there.
It may not be only that we didn't get there in time, even if that's a large part of it, it could be the Guardians of Celestial Sunlight have accurate beast/"evil" finding geomancy, or a sage versed in those kinds of rituals. The other sects thus far appear more reactive than the Ling sect, or perhaps the Ling cultivators are enjoying the benefits of a set of heretical techniques, and are just too brash overall.
There are means of locating things that don't rely so much on basic Qi's, however.
Though we've barely stepped into it, in theory mastering the universal fabric of enmity we caught a peak of would allow one to divine the beginnings and ends of all forms of grudges and those who hold them. Effectively bypassing the need to create a deep ritual. There are many forces behind and beneath environmentally pronounced Qi, and mastery of any one of them may provide a cultivator forms of information that make divining (geomantic or otherwise) appear crude.
So, it depends!
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>>5512251 >give almost nothing in return *in terms of accuracy, due to the abundance.
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>>5512251 That is a good explanation
As for the sect i expect monu to have it fortified and up to par with the other sects, i am more worried about huan going out and getting jumped because somebody followed the link between the primordial scream and it's origin.
But i think it may be too much of a leap to find somebody who can do it and the eneegy probably expanded too much to be reliable.
But if there is and it is a celestial with a grudge then it may be troublesome.
Anonymous
Ya know we got alot of spirit stones we should go shopping and use them. Find a loose cultivator shop or auction. Also selling some pills for extra spending money. So we can build cultivation chambers and resources for our sect.
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>>5512327 We've got to sell the emperor's soul first.
Imagine what rare goodies we can get for it!
Anonymous
>>5512618 I don't want to sell it. It's a great trophy and very significant for us personally.
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>>5512682 Languishing in a forgotten jar is a karmic fate for someone who thought so high of themselves.
But as long as it sits in storage he's not getting the hellish treatment he deserves.
Besides huan doesn't take trophies from disgusting people, like that frog whose gem was donated to ping.
Which was hastily given because now we have a frog student who may need it for himself.
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>>5512712 >he's not getting the hellish treatment he deserves We should hand him off to pigsy in hell. An emperor's soul should be enough to clear some of his debt, and get him further indebted to us.
Anonymous
>>5512712 That kinda sounds fucked up, "Here Frog, the core of your same species who I brutally murdered and ate early in my journey!"
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>>5512720 More like
>”Here Frog, observe your former elder. See the dark lines tracing through it? That’s because he was an asshole.” >”Selfishness, greed, evil find ways of being punished. In this case, by me. Take his base, purify and elevate it. Become that which all frogs recognize as their prince, much as I am recognized by cats as their Princess.” Anonymous
>>5512712 She absolutely does take trophies from digusting people. It's just most of those trophies have uses.
The soul does too, it's quite valuable.
But I do not wish to expend it, because of the sheer amount of Huanliuxue that was spawned from this wretched and worthless waste of life.
He is the fulcrum upon which the entire world turned upon it's head, with our birth and our rise, and all that comes of it, including driving Fequing into the woods to be found by us.
Only the Ling head who started his war, could possibly in any way be more of a "direct nexus" of choices and actions which led to us.
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>>5512776 I cannot support this reasoning.
Spend him on something good. It will be the only time his life was of any use.
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>>5512776 I'm sentimental, sue me.
That being said, if we wish for his soul to retain value, he needs to go ASAP.
There is a prime market now when most of the dead souls remember his dickishness and he is "virgin ground" for torture.
So for the action I do not support, spending him, we should do it swiftly or not at all unless approached by an interested party who's willing to splash cash and techniques.
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>>5512718 I could really only support this if we had a handler to make sure he doesn’t skim too much for himself. Those debts didn’t suddenly happen to a good and upstanding pig demon, after all. He’ll bilk us as much as he bilked others because he’s apparently too greedy to make sensible decisions.
Our dead snake would technically be the best candidate, but she won’t meet living souls down there so it limits her potential growth. Maybe Qiang can do it after she learns to sever her soul since she already has rep in hell anyway.
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>>5512776 I also don't want to too soonly sell his soul. We have a lot of caged souls, but the things about souls and what they are is unique.
They can be used as material in many things, the likely reason why Baoli had 108 & 44 of their specific kinds before we took them. Using souls to upgrade the ghostly abilities of our artifact Guqin, for example, has potential. And the potential the Emperors soul may provide to grudge oriented cultivation, artifact creation, or upgrading due to it being the essential divine nexus component to the fate that made us and many others. Its karmic connections alone are more valuable than any torture he may receive. Even with the grudges are released, the souls history and influence to the Fabric of Enmity is eternal.
The divinity part in particular is of deep interest to me, we have no other materials that have that. The closest would be the sacredness inherent to the Qilin antlers, but that's inexact to the same quality or substance.
Researching it fully before expending it feels like the common sense thing to do.
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>>5512830 You’ve put in mind the idea of stitching the Fabric of Enmity to divinity as a concept using divine materials with our dao, meaning that gods would suffer when grudges grow in strength.
It’s be a terrible idea since I’m sure it’d also empower them further and encourage stagnation, but it’s a nice idle fantasy.
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I want to give him to Suwang to see if he can judge souls.
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>>5512836 Given how immense it is I can only think the soul of a god and at least two ranks above our current would suffice. Well I'm probably getting ahead of myself here since we've only seen it once and barely touched it. We don't even know if it begets its own specialized Qi beyond the ones we have, which if it does I'd suggest dying our roots with it to further our dao.
But what terrible, horrific potential. And perhaps not just an idle fantasy.
Logically, taking limited command of the fabric should permit redirecting enmity/grudge energy by twisting it to concentrate towards our own power, or maliciously towards another individual.
Though the risk would be quite high. Perhaps "safest" as a bottleneck breakthrough method in our dao. Enmity as it is imbued into the fabric appears to be the component legacy, active effects, and spirit of their grudges. Which in essence means we'd be refining the legacies themselves of powerful grudges. Serving our land's hatred on a dantian platter to a karmically elevated being might transform the world itself. Or turn us into an out of control monster should we be unable to bear the weight, who knows.
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>>5512848 Know what, if the hunt in the forest goes well then I’d back this as a reward. Using it as a cultivation resource is the best use I can envision for it, and divine injustices are the highest-quality ones I can think of.
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>>5512850 I would support not selling his soul only if there is an use for our dao.
Using souls to craft things will regardless of the use and souls quality be considered a karmic negative.
And i don't believe siwang would appreciate it's value, unless you all want him to become a jaded, bitter soul that has seen too much shit.
He's all about justice ans justice would see that soul in hell asap.
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Dunno you guys, but I say maybe that the soul won't help Siwang that much like
>>5512932 said, UNLESS we can focus in something specific
Tell me anons, do you want Owl Boy to be able to "see" or "Feel" the Karma of each individual like the Old God and the Father of this Emperor got to measure our Karma? I guess that's something useful, and surely we can use the Souls of the enemies that we have in the massive tomb and say to Siwang "I want you to study these souls and try to find a pattern or something in there"
Another guide or task to give him, more apart from the more mystical one above, it's to tell him "This Emperor is a scumbag, there's no doubt in it. Your duty is to try study these scripts that talk from his crimes and I need you to analize them using these Law book and think in the laws he break while alive"
Honestly I don't think the second one is going to help a lot, but maybe it could help him into learn the laws in depth and help him more in the future when he tries to get his human form.
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>>5512932 >>5512939 I assume the soul could be examined to view the Emperor’s life and thoughts? correct? If so, the main uses for Siwang in using it would be (in order)
>To judge the Emperor for his good and his evil >In the (unlikely) event he believes he did justice for the people at any point, to understand why he felt that way and (since it’s probably wrong) to figure out how to make the Emperor understand that he was wrong in his understanding of his action. >In the event that the Emperor did an injustice, to see how it could have been pointed out to him in a way he or the people around him would understand. >If an injustice could not have been prevented because no one would step forward, what system could have been put in place prior that would have limited or prevented the injustice? >For people such as the Emperor, whose actions can affect millions that he has never met and in ways those millions may never know, what is the appropriate way to measure the (in)justice caused by his actions and mete out punishment? How would you determine who was or wasn’t impacted by a decree? What does justice look like when the victims don’t know they’ve been wronged? >If an injustice is perpetuated by people who do not know their actions are done on behalf of a broader injustice, what is their crime? If they do know that there is an injustice, but disobeying would cause injustices against them and their family, to what level of guilt do they hold for their actions? Siwang had a very simple way of measuring justice out in his city. The crimes were in front of him, the victims clear. But at the level of administrators, the scope of their actions make things more difficult to determine. Is raising taxes an evil if someone knows some will starve to meet the quotas, but they don’t have enough information to make tailored rates for each region? If someone takes your wife, but punishing said injustice requires dragging much of the realm to war, is that justice? What of the soldiers who are following orders. Was an injustice done to them, for many will die? Does the fact they signed up for it truly absolve those above them for their deaths? What of the civilians who raise food for the war? Are they perpetuating an injustice against others by providing for the war? Is that injustice worth punishing when such concerns are far above them?
Human civilization is full of contradictions, even well-meaning ones. The life of the Emperor, while vile, is an opportunity to understand the not just the people that perpetuate injustice, but the systems that can minimize or amplify those individual impacts. Figuring out what justice means at an individual, a familial, a societal, a natural, a divine level, that’s the dao he’s pursuing. He certainly has his work cut out for him, and our dear friend the Emperor would be good for opening his eyes to that.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 30 Dec 2022 21:07:31 No. 5513008 Report Ending the vote now, tallying the result. Huge amounts of discussion always brings a smile to this old man's face.
Put them through a grueling training regimen and explain their faults and failings clearly and openly to them:11
- Give Huili mental puzzles: 1
Give them duties and tasks that go against their slight flaws, and gently push them to better themselves:3
ask Monu for advice on the matter:1
Just take them both to hell. Nothing like a little demon fighting to improve one's self!:1
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Fu+ Siwang (Keeping Feiqing and Qiang at the temple):9
Fu:4
Siwang:2
Qiang:1
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No:12
Yes:1
So, Fu and Siwang will lead the mission into the Dusk marshes, with Siwang leading directly and Fu leading during interactions with humans, Feiqing and Qiang will be kept in the temple
And you will put Chuandapo and Huili's noses to the grindstone and put them through a hellish training regimen to get them to shape up
Update will arrive shortly
>>5511229 Can't for the life of me figure out who the second tale is referring
>>5511276 I'd read all of these
>>5510987 Oh She's chilling in the upper levels of the catacombs proper
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>>5513008 “Firestorm” is us and Qiang. Named because of our hair and Qiang’s occupation.
I wouldn’t call us a firestorm since we’re not that violent, but never let the truth get in the way of a good story. That goes for most of what I wrote, honestly.
I also misread the prompt for Sisang and did it as Siwang + Frog instead of just Siwang.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 30 Dec 2022 21:54:58 No. 5513046 Report Meeting your disciples gathered outside the cliffside entrance to your shared subterranean den, you explain to them the details of the mission.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 30 Dec 2022 21:55:58 No. 5513047 Report >>5513046 "Follow Fu's lead. Fu! Only resort to violence against your fellow daoists if it is to preserve your own or your fellow students lives! Otherwise, use your reputation as a wandering Xia to convince them of your good intentions. Maybe you'll be able to convince them to assist you in protecting their own domain" You command, flicking your tail as you speak "A bit of subterfuge never hurt a heretic after all. Heh-Heh-Heh! OH! and before I forget. Besides dealing with whatever has made the dusk marshes its personal buffet, this mission is also a recruitment drive. I fear there are still recently awakened beasts living beneath the shadow cast by uh, whatever it is that is eating a bunch of people. If you can find them, retrieve them and bring them back to our school. Before I send you out, know that besides mutating plants, your quarry has been mummifying and shrinking the corpses of its victims. But beyond that, we know nothing about it. Even my sagacious self knows nothing!"
"We do not need to know something to kill it" Fu remarks with a cocksure smirk
"Knowing and recognizing it would make it easier to know where its vitals lay and what weaknesses it may have and what it is strong against" Siwang puffs "But, if it is unknown to the wise you, then it is a mystery to us all. And we'll have to figure out its strengths and frailities in battle"
"If we must battle" Liu says "It might be friendly to us...er, besides offending our sect head, of course"
"It has killed entire villages" Fu, Siwang and Qiang snarl in response
Smiling, content that your sect's first proper mission is in good hands, you turn to leave and plod back down into your temple to find Huili and Chuandapo to begin whipping them into shape and removing their obvious character flaws and failings, for their own good of course, you do want all of your disciples to succeed.
As you get halfway down the stairs, Monu comes sprinting behind you, carrying Frog in her arms, cradling him with a goofy smile on her face, while Houmogui clings to her back, and Meiwei Zhurou and Yinying chase behind her
"Oh, these children are so adorable, Huan!" She cheers, almost sounding drunk with delight "I'm so glad you were able to save them from an unpleasant fate. We shall raise them into proper demonic beasts, together! Why! with how many children we're adopting, we may as well start a clan, after all, you and I are already family, no?"
"I love seeing you in such high spirits mother" You purr, rubbing your cheek against her leg "Your joy is my joy, as my beloved and Greatly honored mother. I am ecstatic you've taken such a shine to these lost children"
"I've always been closer to beasts" She says with a wink "Anyways, you seem troubled, my daughter"
"Hmm, yes, I worry for Huili and Chuandapo's development as cultivators and well, people in general" You sigh heavily, shaking your head
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 30 Dec 2022 21:59:32 No. 5513049 Report >>5513047 "Well, if you wish to focus on beating that layabout girl and that meek boy into shape, I'd be happy to handle these fours' beginner lessons" She cackled "Heh-Heh-heh. I do so love introducing others to the world of cultivaton"
"Hmm? What's that? ribbit ribbit " Frog croaks
"Obviously the new world we stepped into, by accepting teacher's offer to become her students" Houmogui chatters
"Oh I know everything about the world of cultivation, I have friends and relatives who belong to it" Zhurou chortles "Well regarded names and figures all, of course. The kind of acquaintances that just knowing alone makes oneself more famous and well regarded, of course, of course"
"It is the world of immortals and gods, spirits and devils" Yinying says darkly "A world opposed to us all, for we walk a heretical path"
"Oh thank you so very much, Mom, I am in your debt" You cheerfully chirp as you briskly hop down the stairwell "You four should be honored! There is no better teacher beneath the heavens than my admirable mother! Why, she taught the great prodigy, Huanliuxue! After all!"
Now, to find Huili and Chuandapo and begin work the work to wrought them into the shape of proper daoist cultivators, by removing their great flaws of submissiveness and meekness on Huili's part , and just plain indolent lackadaisicalness of Chuandapo's! You already had a hellish, torturous training regimen planned for the two. Heh-Heh-Heh.
<span class="mu-s"> Roll 1d100. DC 70. Best out of four! May apply bonus if you desire </span>
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Rolled 52 (1d100) >>5513049 Lets not apply bonus. Even if it fails.
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Rolled 78 (1d100) >>5513049 Aww. I was hoping the plan would modify the DC.
No help for it. Rolling!
>>5513050 I’d be willing to apply bonus to get it up to 88 again.
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Rolled 98 (1d100) >>5513049 big money big money
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>>5513047 >recruitment drive I hope you know what you're doing, honored grandfather. We already have a ton of named sect members and you will have to write about them all.
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>>5513053 Oh, I decided to make it alter the outcome of success or failure, rather than the DC or roll!
>>5513053 Great success! 20 over DC and very nearly 30 over!
Update will arrive shortly
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>>5513053 OOOOOOOOH! Nice!
>>5513052 I maintain it would be better for us to get the stuff to 144 on cultivation.
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>>5513049 78, 98, and [0]8. If only the other one could have been an x8 as well. Then we’d have 4 eights, which we’ve established is lucky for our dao.
>>5513059 Agreed on that, but it was dependent on the rolls. I wouldn’t have minded 1 or 2 points.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 30 Dec 2022 23:40:00 No. 5513146 Report "Chuandapo, Huili. I've been far too lax as your teacher. It is my own folly to believe you two would improve and rectify the crippling flaws in your lifestyle and personalities on your own. It is a failure on my part to not have intervened on your behalf sooner and guide you to refine yourselves and remove the flaws and imperfections that are holding you back as disciples of the Palace of Natural laws!" You say coldly and sternly, looking down at both your students as they cower before you, Huili trembling all over and whimpering and Chuandapo crying quietly, having failed to appease to your mercy and general attitude towards children to be granted further leniency for the laziness she approaches all faucets of life with and the negligence towards her own cultivation. Huili, doesn't dare raise his voice to speak in disapproval or argue against your harsh criticism of the both of them.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 30 Dec 2022 23:41:00 No. 5513149 Report >>5513146 "And ambitionless cultivators are trampled by those who relentlessly and tirelessly chase their dreams! I will not see you serve as a stepping stone. Taking away your privilege to slack and gorge yourself, will suffice. You will not be given food at any meal, denied the basic charity and care given to students of our sect" You say in a pitiless tone, voice as harsh as the rumbling of crashing thunder "Instead, you will have to find it yourself. And this is in addition to your adjusted schedules for Physical training, study and meditation, which Huili will also follow, which will be far less moderate than the day plans I've allowed you both to cling to. You will wake, and train until you sweat blood or collapse, you will read and hone your minds with advance mathmatics and scholarly tests. You will meditate and cultivate in harsher regions than the comfort of our home. You will be disallowed from the resources of our sect, from our gardens, to our springs, excepting our manuals for study and your newly spartan quarters, and if you are found stealing food, pills, or anything else denied to you...well you will find out what you punishment will be swiftly, as I will find out!!
"I will prove you wrong" Huili growled, his eyes lit with something resembling the fire that gave him his name and made him the terror of farmers and warriors alike
"I'm going to die! You're going to force me to starve! I'm gonna die!" Chuandapo sniffles and weeps. You shoot her a condescending glare
"This grueling training will end, when I learn something from both of you. Failure will not be tolerated. There will be no reprieve from your exercises or sympathy from any member of this sect, until you have completed your training. Complaints and pleas will be ignored. And know, that you forced my hand on this matter, both of you have" You say with a final, shake of your head as you turn to walk away "Your training begins in five minutes, if either of you are late for it, both of you shall be punished for it. That is all. Please, live up to my standards and expectations, and show me that I was right to put my confidence in both of you, that you do truly posses the potential of greatness I saw when we first met"
And with that, their hell begins.
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<span class="mu-s"> Summer has passed, Early Autumn has arrived </span>
The weeks that follow are trying, not just for Huili and Chuandapo, but for yourself as well. You hate hearing children cry, and Chuandapo does plenty of it in the intial days, spending what little free time she has pleading to you to relent and lessen her and Huili's punishing regimens and your edict to deprive them of any of the benefits or comforts of your sect. Huili does not speak, instead focusing the fury he felt upon being so harshly and earnestly insulted to work himself near to death. Monu does not intervene, and neither does Lei, Qiang , Feiqing or Ping, the only members of the sect with enough seniority to risk going against your orders.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 30 Dec 2022 23:42:01 No. 5513150 Report >>5513149 Chuandapo becomes listless when she isn't training, crawling and begging for food from her juniors, whom ignore her before she must drag her body back to training alongside Huili, who avoids you outside of the lessons you give both of them, that extend from morning to nightfall. By the end of the second weak, it seems as if Chuandapo may fail, as, once it became apparent to her there'd be no easy way to be fed, she become morose and torpid, doing nothing but dutifully sticking to the harsh schedule you've given to her. You, of course, weren't planning of letting her starve, but intended to remove her inner disciple status if she was unable to outwit you.
But, one day, she met you in the practice yard, energetic and revitalized, having gained back some of the weight she lost. You had Lei and Qiang search the food stores immediatly after but...nothing seemed to be missing. She had either found one of the meals you had hidden in the grounds of the sect, hunted for herself or... Or she and huili were working together. You had said both would be punished if one was late or faltered in their training. Was the wolf assisting his martial sister out of pragmatism or a sense of comaderie?
You did not know. but you increased the difficulty of their practice and lessons, and commanded the outer and junior inner disciples to impede their meditation and exercise however possible. if it took only half a month for them to surmount the inital hurdle you place for them, then you'd just have to up the pressure.
Now, they spared with you twice a day, one bout for each of your forms. You did not hold back or go easy on them, ensuring both went to sleep battered and bruised. Having figured out how Chuandapo was getting food, by using a spell to muffle the sounds of her dragging shell to sneak past the guards you sent to patrol the streams and stationed at the mountaintop gardens, as well as Huili using his speed to steal from plates and scraps from the refuse dump to share with her, you waited until these methods became habitual and part of their daily routines before making it impossible for them to carry out.
They only fell for the trap you sent once, and were beaten and strung up for half a day as a result. Then, they figured out another method, within three days! to your pride and amazement. It took you longer to sus out how they were feeding each other, as you added more tortuous trials and tests to their schedules, which you switched daily to keep them on their toes and force them to work bother harder and cleverer, removing practices and exercise when it became second nature for them, and changing lessons the moment they could recite them by heart.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 30 Dec 2022 23:43:02 No. 5513152 Report >>5513150 They were improving rapidly, now that Chuandapo was deprived even the most basic comfort and Huili was forced to help her keep his pace, fueled by his now fully reawakened pride that you had stoked with daily insults and public mockery every time you best him or he faltered for even a moment in his daily practices. Chuandapo had lost most of her blubber and had become much more dexterous and swift both in and out of the water, raising her endurance greatly and increasing her stamina two fold, while Huili. Well, without realizing it, in trying to return to his old self, he had far surpassed it.
You eventually found out they were hunting together in the woods, slipping out at night and traveling miles to avoid detection, filling their bellies at the cost of reducing their already short allowance of hours to sleep undisturbed to a half its intended size. That...that impressed you. They had maintained this grueling, near sleepless routine for days longer than you'd have ever expected, which spoke of just how much they have improved their willpower and discipline. and how quickly!
It isn't long after that discovery, that they succeed and complete their test, three and half weeks sense most of your students left on the first formal quest of your sect. You had increased security around every exit from the underground temple, even those too small for either of them to slip through, Putting every outer disciple on a rigorous set of patrols with no gap or opening to exploit in the changing of the guard and had Yujijiao chase away any prey animal they could possibly sustain themselves on while still being able return to the sect in time to resume their training. .
Chuandapo, under the continuous, near month long duress of near starvation and duress, Achieves an advance meditation technique, being able to put herself into a trance, reducing her body's energy consumption and need for calories greatly, and be able to maintain this trance, slowing her body's functions greatly, while still moving about and carrying out the latest task she put her mind to! A purely mental ability! A form of self hypnosis born from her survival instinct and refusal to crack under the extreme pressure you forced upon her
And Huili! Well. Huili surprises you in battle, but managing nearly managing to equal your Blood Red lightning cat step in speed! By a technique he innovated throughout the month of hell, dreaming it into existence to wipe the disdainful glare you reserved for him and Chuandapo. A technique that allowed him to move fast enough to overcome the illusion of slowed time cast by your Specter lightness skill, and keep pace with you for the duration of the spar. He accomplishes this by superheating his own muscles and Beast core, producing from the heat a great quantity of internal energy, aligned solely to fire.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 30 Dec 2022 23:44:03 No. 5513153 Report >>5513152 A kind of self destructive physical cultivation technique that shrouds him in clouds of smoke and ash, his own natural alignment to the elemental of Fire keeping him from burning down to blackened bones. A technique that impresses even you! He's still in the Qi condensation stages, and he created such a technique!
You decide to congratulate them in front of the whole sect, er, well all of the sect that is present, but having Monu drug them with a sleeping toxin and allowing them to rest for days to recover from your truly hellish training.
And, you are filled with pride as you, bowing, tell them in front of all their peers, juniors and seniors, they have passed their test and become truly worthy of being your students. In fact, you are so overwhelmed by the pride you feel for both of them that you are driven to tears and weep as you tell them just how pleased you are with their improvement and how openly praise their force of will and discipline
"Hmmph. I still haven't surpassed you. But, no longer will I act like a tamed dog before you. I've learned my lesson. We are not master and servant, but teacher and student. And one day, our roles will reverse" Huili states "Do not think to go easy on me from here on, my worthy teacher. I receive your commendation with open arms, no longer fearful of you. If you are lacking, I swear I shall be a better ruler"
"Ohoho! Cheeky little brat has gotten a big head cause he's rediscovered his pride" You say smugly, with a smile beaming with pride "Well, if ever forget my duties as the destined ruler of all things, I invite you to challenge me for my throne as queen of beasts. Glad to see you back to your old, properly dignified self, Ash gale"
He smiled and bowed his head
"Does this mean I can eat normally again" Chuandapo asked, sounding well and truly exhausted, her once blithe and carefree demeanor now much more rugged and Austere, her one droopy eyes filled with unyielding resolve. She spoke now with a certain grit. She had matured
"And you can nap" You say as soft as cloud and as sweet as a ripe peach "and swim whenever you want to"
"Oh that's such a relief!" She cried out, her old self resurfacing "I need to relax, my body and mind feel so thinly stretch I fear I might soon break and fall apart! But Uh, well I won't be loafing around! I promise, Big sister Huan! I've earned this peace! And...I really am sorry for saying, sometime ago, that I wished I was born without talent! It might've been painful, but working so hard with Huili it...it began to be fun! I've found how to appreciate the exertion and exhaustion that comes with working hard, and found it makes the results sweet than any spirit fruit or magic method to become stronger without trying at all!"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 30 Dec 2022 23:46:22 No. 5513157 Report >>5513153 Huili has reached Qi Condensation Rank 4 and Chuandapo has reached Qi Condensation Rank 6. Both have refined their personalities and character, and have improved in all ways! They shall surely ascend the steps of cultivation with much greater ease now, improving their skills and techniques at a faster rate, while also being easier to train! More of their potential as cultivators have been unlocked! [/b:lit]>Try and help Yujijiao figure out her unique difficulties in cultivating as a ghost, and go to hell with her in search of answers >Focus on your own improvement, training your feline martial arts in your human form, and experimenting to create new spells (Training trial Martial+ Magic. DC 82) >Help Monu refine and harvest Baoli Wuyawangs corpse of raw materials and resources *Finishes the project quicker* >Decide to check in on the five colors and five purities sect in your human form >Hearing an auction is beginning nearby, decide to spend some of your sects wealth attending it! >Check on Yuyi >Write in >>5510992 Anonymous
>>5513157 >Try and help Yujijiao figure out her unique difficulties in cultivating as a ghost, and go to hell with her in search of answers Might as well start working on this
But more importantly
>>>>>Check on Yuyi >>>>Check on Yuyi >>>Check on Yuyi >>Check on Yuyi >Check on Yuyi Check on Yuyi
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>>5513157 Ughhhhhhh too many options that I want.
Our crew has been out for a while, haven’t they? Or was the distance greater than I thought?
>Decide to check in on the five colors and five purities sect in your human form I’m voting this, but could be swayed to support Yujijao or checking on Yuyi in a close vote.
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>>5513157 >>5513170 Oh, missed the two options bit.
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>Try and help Yujijiao figure out her unique difficulties in cultivating as a ghost, and go to hell with her in search of answers as the other choice.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Sat 31 Dec 2022 00:00:38 No. 5513178 Report Quoted By:
>>5513170 Oh. it just Takes longer for a group to travel They'll be back soon.
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>>5513157 >Try and help Yujijiao figure out her unique difficulties in cultivating as a ghost, and go to hell with her in search of answers >Check on Yuyi Anonymous
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>>5513157 >Try and help Yujijiao figure out her unique difficulties in cultivating as a ghost, and go to hell with her in search of answers >Decide to check in on the five colors and five purities sect in your human form Ahh Grandmaster Su Zhe'xinglu will surely be surprised.
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>>5513157 >Help Yujijiao >Check on Yuyi And I don't think that this should take too much time, so I'll suggest it anyway.
>Instruct Fequing to turn the star metal into a worthy cultivation throne. That's a disciple action, rather than personal action, no?
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>>5513157 >>5513186 >Instruct Fequing to turn the star metal into a worthy cultivation throne. Also +1ing this. Delegate, delegate.
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>>5513157 >>Focus on your own improvement, training your feline martial arts in your human form, and experimenting to create new spells (Training trial Martial+ Magic. DC 82)>Check on Yuyi Anonymous
>>5513047 >"It has killed entire villages" Fu, Siwang and Qiang snarl in response Truly three justicars. Each of them have a different way of finding it but they all want the same justice. Excellent.
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>>5513170 >>5513174 Since you said we can try to convince you
Yuyi suffered extra changes, she didn't want those and she is developing a grudge so string even Fu and Qiang noticed it.
We need to talk with her before something bad happens, while we can visit the sect any time we want.
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>>5513157 >Try and help Yujijiao figure out her unique difficulties in cultivating as a ghost, and go to hell with her in search of answers >Check on Yuyi And
>Instruct Fequing to turn the star metal into a worthy cultivation throne. Anonymous
>>5513157 Honestly as a ex author on royal road. Imo Just refine and post this story there. It'll do great trust me. You got a healthy back log needed to post.
>Hearing an auction is beginning nearby, decide to spend some of your sect's wealth attending it! >Check on Yuyi Anonymous
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>>5513163 +1
Also anons, I say maybe don't vote for the Feiqing option yet, that's something we can ask at any time like the five spring sect, and surely when we end our affairs with Yuji and Yuyi, while we're out to visit the Geges by the time we're back the throne should be ready when we go and cultivate and dump all the exp into our next step in cultivation
Also, i'm thinking into making some activity to our other disciples so they have a stronger bond, maybe we can ask Monu how the friendship are in our disciples and we try to see what pair we make for improve their bonds and their abilities
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>>5512932 >Using souls to craft things will regardless of the use and souls quality be considered a karmic negative. Speculative and: who cares? It might even be a good thing to stop this quest from further derailing into just another generic white knight thread.
I hope Huanliuxue will create her own morale system in which badness is defined as doing bad things to good people.
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>>5513295 Not this argument again.
It's the third time, and it's always the same thing.
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>>5513301 Although the whole moralfags vs edgelords fights do take me back to old questing in /tg/, it felt like it died down after the migration for some reason.
It does gets tiring eventually, it's always the same points being repeated and neither side refuses to budge.
I think New Years is getting me nostalgic, I'm ranting like an old man before the arguing even starts. Anonymous
>>5513295 We're a good cat out of spite, but to expand my speculation: we already denied the possessed cultivation manual that wanted us to devour souls to cultivate and understood how slippery that slope is.
And karma in cultivation tales has a way to really fuck you up if you slip.
>>5513157 >Check on Yuyi This is just a quick fluff action.
There are students with far worse problems like lei and Yujijiao.
>Help Monu refine and harvest Baoli Wuyawangs corpse of raw materials and resources *Finishes the project quicker* This is important and we can have our students attend the process and learn something new, if anybody shows attitude or interest for it, it's a good skill to have.
The rest we can do at our leisure once we're sure that the group we sent out returned without trouble, if we set out and somebody died for it huan could never forgive herself.
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>>5513157 Oh, additional disciple action:
>Ask Qiang to begin investigating/drawing up plans for invading the lower levels of the tomb >If she’s too weak to go down there, then focus on cultivation. She follows our dao, so she knows how important going deeper in the tomb will be for both of us.
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>>5513186 > Support Might learn something interesting from Yuyi
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>>5512830 We could see if we can bind souls to us, and then more or less summon them to fight for us as our (mindless) servants
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>>5512830 We could see if we can bind souls to us, and then more or less summon them to fight for us as our (mindless) servants
>>5513008 Try and help Yujijiao figure out her unique difficulties in cultivating as a ghost, and go to hell with her in search of answers
>Hearing an auction is beginning nearby, decide to spend some of your sects wealth attending it! Anonymous
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>>5513186 Supporting. Also we should set some time aside to properly vet the new guy Qinxing.
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>>5513157 >>Help Monu refine and harvest Baoli Wuyawangs corpse of raw materials and resources *Finishes the project quicker* >>Check on Yuyi Maybe we could use our techniques to revert the cosmetic parts of some changes
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>>5513331 >Lei We keep forgetting about the poor kid. Should sit down with him, Monu and Ping soon to figure his shit out.
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>>5513304 This here isnt moralfags vs edgelords, it's orthodox thinking trying to sneak in here.
Denying usage of techniques because it might be distantly associated with demons/someone bad (the rarely used Blood Rain, eating souls, and the Mystic Encarmine) is counter-productive. If we found a demon engaged with pottery, will we abandon dishes? If we find one using plants, will we outlaw gardening? Its this type of transitive outlawing that got us magical beasts into trouble. It is a logical fallacy that can lead to drastic, negative outcomes.
>>5513331 The hivemind decided against this one special case of eating souls. It was a shady dude asking us to randomly kill our friends in his presence. Even I voted against this trivially bad choice. The slippery slope might or might not exist. I think it exists - in reverse direction - and will keep players from making meaningful choices soon.
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>>5513557 What are the implications of crafting with souls? I think it is considered evil not because of demonic association but because it destroys a soul and keeps it from reincarnation. Our technique is called "the Ruler of the Great Wheel's Law" and we are all about natural order and stuff so we should try not to go against the natural turning of the wheel so much. I already dislike what we did to Snek boy, should help him to pass over instead of clinging to this cursed existence.
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>>5513153 It's fine for the xianxia genre, but IRL this kind of behavior would lead to long-term mental issues for the kids. Don't do this at home!
>>5513157 >Try and help Yujijiao figure out her unique difficulties in cultivating as a ghost, and go to hell with her in search of answers >Check on Yuyi Anonymous
>>5513586 But I already told my kids they won't eat until they best me in combat! Don't you base all your life choices on obscure threads on
4chan.org/qst ?
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>>5513603 Only on coomquests.
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>>5513157 Huli I believe is the first person to overcome our Spectral Lightness technique, which makes me want to work on new mobility techniques. Also interesting that Chuandapo ended up reaching a higher rank than Huli, guess her calm waters held hidden depths.
>Check on Yuyi We’ve gotta try and reverse our influence on her, especially since our roar of primordial essence probably supercharged her change.
>Hearing an auction is beginning nearby, decide to spend some of your sects wealth attending it! Is it finally time for the genre obligated “once ever 10000 years” auction?
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>>5513557 Personality I think Blood Rain hasn’t been utilized much not because it’s evil (though our first usage would violate what you desire our morality to be, unwittingly or not), but because it provides a role we haven’t had much need for in our adventures yes: widespread AOE. If we had broken into the emperor’s place solo or if we ever try an assault on the Ling sect opening with it to cause chaos would be a smart move.
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>>5513557 Eating the souls was bad Karma. I don't want bad Karma, because good Karma serves a distinct function in making our progression through the realms easier.
This was not "because it's associated with demons" just like binding Baoli as a servant was bad karma was evil, despite being a pragmatic move otherwise. Bad karma is undesireable and doing something that incurs said karma needs to outweigh the benefits of good karma significantly to be worth doing.
Simple as.
Huans morals however, which I will uphold and continue to vote in support of, is "Defend children", "Upraise beasthood" and "Hate the heavens and Ling". Which and wherefore no amount of benefits will sway me.
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So why not train ours new form?
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>>5513557 Look anon, these arguments was already made last thread and in this one too, there is no need for a repeat of people saying of what's in character or not, what is orthodoxy and heresy, what is prragmatic or not, what is overdone or not. Both sides already explained their positions, and both have valid points. There were already proof that good karma options were passed over as well.
Like I said before, this is an argument that there won't be a conclusion because neither side will budge, because both have good point and bad points.
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>>5513687 I may have been to aggressive in this post, I'm not sure.
Been on a bad mood because of lack of sleep lately.
How about we try to talk about cool ideas for future techiniques to lighten the mood? I want to try and refine enmeity of grudges, so we can have more control of our actions without losing the benefits. While being able to switch fighting styles in the middle of combat is awesome, sometimes it does go against the techiniques and abilities we already have.
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>>5513699 I actually refuse, because I want to say that we've passed over a lot of really cool techniques already which we REALLY should go back and pick up, like we did with emnity incarnation.
The blood hex which opens up our enemies old wounds and prevents them closing is the GOAT of missed options.
Being more providing, Your concern over refining emnity of grudges is somewhat of a misplaced shot. You don't want to embody anothers grudge, as by doing so we cast away most of our own toolkit to use theirs. What you would like is fuel our own abilities with these grudges, beyond what we already do. And a method of that, I can see two ways forwards; One is working on quick change grudges.
Swap between cackling like monu for an ice spell before screaming like rooster boy to face tank the next hit.
The other is manifesting psudo-homonculi of these grudges to use their kit for us, while we are fighting.
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>>5513706 Something like the first option is what I was thinking of.
Bit yeah, the old wounds would be pretty useful now that we are moving to fight nore experience cultivators.
Maybe we should make a list of old choices of abilities and potential ideas as well, so we don't forget about them.
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>>5513717 Did a little digging (didn’t take long since we haven’t really learned a new technique outside Cat’s Court since thread 4 or so)
>Spectral Body Defense. Your variation of Qinggong makes you slightly ethereal. by using it when you are struck you are able to mitigate damage and pain, leaving your opponent caught unaware and open for a counter attack while you are left almost unharmed >Corpse March. Not a martial technique, but an improvement of the corpse puppet trick you've learned. By expending more Qi, you can make sturdier "puppets", or even make weak ghosts inhabit them. >Adoption of the Grave: A curious technique, that balances the practioner between life and death. The heart ceases beating and the user obtains the ability to heal by drinking blood or stealing the breath or Qi from living beings, replacing the ability of expending internal energy to mend injuries...or heal naturally. >Monarch of the Phantom Butterflies: The dead recognize the practioner as their rightful sovereign. Any ghosts weaker than yourself, or those who freely submit themselves to you, Can be bound and made loyal beyond death itself. Tied not to lingering earthly desires or grudges, but to your regal presence, they follow you always. However, Ghosts or spiritualists equal to or stronger than your power will be able to break the oath/ steal away your cour >Knowledge of how to steal breath, sapping away the energy of your victims and eventually stealing away their still leaving souls. Huntoulei itself! >A new use for grudge energy! Not only can the clouds of hatred your breath out weaken and slow those who are caught in it, but now they can also become a caustic, flesh melting blaze! Fire that burns cold! >A curse that will open the old wounds of whoever is unfortunate enough to be afflicted by it, and keep them from healing fresh injuries. A trick you learned from a ghost you caught in a jar Anonymous
>>5513764 Now right off the bat, Huntoulei is worthless to us, as it's an evil art.
Adoption of the grave is also pretty crap, given it makes us vampires, though if this is a technique rather than a persistent effect it has some benefit to it.
The BIG benefit is Monarch of the phantom butterflies and Spectral body defense.
Immediate subjegation of minor ghosts as well as the ability to play pokemon and bring more people down into the underground court. Or mobile meditation center and all that.
And I don't need to tell anyone here the benefit of "open up a counter attack while mitigating most of the damage." Which is fantastic.
Corpse march is neat. Niche but neat.
And burning grudge energy just seems like a cool ability. Nothing to overturn the heavens for, but pretty damn good.
best one is "open old wounds" which I've mentioned before, and the option itself was hotly considered at the time. Because the older a master is, the more wounds they will have taken.
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>>5513699 I also partially refuse, as there are already enough cool powers that we should be able to reproduce with small effort.
We have the theoretical knowledge of five non-heretical Daos burnt into our memory. Why havent we used that for our own cultivation yet? We even have five elements spring water, which would be a good cultivation material for this endeavour. Having some less exotic spells/skills would help blend in with human cultivators from more conventional sects. There should be a way for us to get access to at least some low level goodies somehow:
Create heretical mockeries of these Daos?
Merge them into each other, while cutting out redundancies to create an element-unified Dao (which would arguably still be more ponderous to learn than a "normal" Dao due to the multitude of techniques)?
Merge them into our own Dao? (I assume learning them old school one by one is not a real option).
One further thing that needs looking into: we had an extremely deep insight into the Mystic Encarmine. I understand the ME employs blood and grudges not in the conventional Qi- based way but more physically. Still: totally our turf! It sounded like we had a workaround to the negative side effects. When will we use that?
Im also always interested into Quingong/speed enhancements. The most obvious one would be the one we just observed from Huili.
Thematically cool would be benevolent blood rituals, e.g. an extreme version of blood siblingship where everyone involved can help the other over large distances.
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>>5513802 We've not really had much reason to use ME, but lets remind ourselves that it is ACTUALLY BODY SHAPING and we can do so much with it.
As for other daos? they don't fit ours so they're not really worth doing. But in the interests of adaption, I suggest we stick to ice spells and shit like Monu. [Who we still need to ask her real name at some point]
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>>5513801 I would rank it as:
>Pick it as soon as we can: Old wounds
Spectral body defense
>Very useful: Monarch
Grudge fire
>Nice to have Corpse march
>Trash, would need to heavily modify first to even consider Adoption
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>>5513802 >Merge them into each other, while cutting out redundancies to create an element-unified Dao Create a new version of the five emperor's technique? I bet the old god would be glad to see someone take up the torch.
Might only be useful for us or any of the potential player characters.
Taking a look at carmine and making it good would be nuce. We did promise the ghoul that we would teach him when he reincarnated.
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>>5513825 I'd agree with that assessment of old techniques utility
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>>5513825 The reason I put the grudge fire over corpse march, is because while both are just upgrades to things we already have, grudge fire lets us directly weaponize grudges, while corpse march just
Monarch is still better then either of them, it's just less directly overpowered when compared to an ability that become stronger the nore experienced our opponent is, and a defensive ability that is also offensive (since grudge shield is also one, and it has already proven how useful they are).
In fact, stacking grudge shield and specter body would be make fighting huan even worse. Imagine finally managing to do an attack strong ebough to break the shield, dodge the blowback, only for the cat to ignore the follow up hit and smack you, giving enough time for her to put up another shield.
The only people that would be able to win would be those that have a powerful arsenal that they can spam, which tend to be glass canons, or brutes that can take the hit back head on, which would bleed non-stop from the curse if we apply it as the first actions we take.
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>>5513801 >>5513825 Huntoulei should be higher as a method of assisting Yujijao (we’re asking her to basically do this as a cultivation technique, though not the most extreme form of it) or as an offensive weapon against strong opponents as we can bleed them dry with it. If we rip their soul out and let it go through the cycle of reincarnation, I don’t envision that as any more evil than killing them through our other techniques.
It could also have interesting uses in tracking or cursing targets later, as it sounds like we’re taking away pieces of our opponent. Use it against a target, escape, then feel free to curse them from afar. Against someone like the Oni, it’d give us the ability to cripple and then strike at her on our own terms instead of on hers or through happenstance.
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>>5513946 It is potentially useful like that, and still less then other options, it's why I said it's not trash if heavily modified, since you had to hold back fully using it, and think of alternative ways to apply it instead of just using as is presented.
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Happy new years cultivators!
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Happy hangover my dudes.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Tue 03 Jan 2023 06:30:18 No. 5516775 Report Ending the vote now, tallying the result. Sorry for the three day wait, I enjoyed the new year festivities a bit too much. And apologizes if the update is of lesser quality, still a bit sauced. Lots of lovely discussion this time around, again.
Try and help Yujijiao figure out her unique difficulties in cultivating as a ghost, and go to hell with her in search of answers:11
Check on Yuyi:13
Decide to check in on the five colors and five purities sect in your human form:2
Instruct Fequing to turn the star jade into a worthy cultivation throne: 5
Focus on your own improvement, training your feline martial arts in your human form, and experimenting to create new spells:1
Hearing an auction is beginning nearby, decide to spend some of your sect's wealth attending it!:3
Help Monu refine and harvest Baoli Wuyawangs corpse of raw materials and resources :2
Ask Qiang to begin investigating/drawing up plans for invading the lower levels of the tomb:1
So you'll try and help Yujijiao figure out how to cultivate as a ghost and go to hell with her to find answers, BUT before making the trip, check in on Yuyi quickly...
Update will arrive shortly
>>5513196 Their morals are as strong as their teacher
>>5513186 it would be, but unfortunately it did not get enough support to make the cut.
>>5513250 I might. have an idea for a few stories set in the same verse as well. Some older than any of the ones going on in this quest's backround.
OH! and there's a new cultivation? quest on the board. Ring Grandpa! Check it out if you have the time, it's just started.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Tue 03 Jan 2023 07:33:24 No. 5516829 Report >>5516775 Your kingdom past the demon faced gate is peaceable at the moment, as Xiongji is out waging war on some graveborn monstrosity or another down in the "wilderness" of the crypts or the enemy territories deeper below. You hear this from your more sane subjects, such as the nameless general, the aged scholar, the beetle generals, the warrioress and those hungry ghosts who retained some of the influence they held in the court of Yin Zhao by betraying him by accepting your mercy when it was offered. You also here, that old silver clawed simpleton remains stubbornly silent, despite the mockery and torments spat at him constantly by your loyal praetorians and subjects. You also learn, that Yujijiao has taken it upon herself to guard their many prisons, slithering between their containers and listening to them wail and weep their sorrowful song to the scholars and officers of your grave court. And alongside the old, nameless ghost and Xiongji himself, she has become second only to you in your kingdom of tombs and scattered bones, as the various noble and influential dead were quick to catch on that she was your student and thus a daughter of a kind.
Being treated so respectfully and kindly, has certainly raised the poor girls spirits, and you find her curled at the foot of your throne, resting her spectral head on the cushion threaded and sewn with bones and black hair. Her eyes open wide with joy as she spots you, having been listening to the current crowd of petitioners of bloodied shades and monstrous phantasms. The bustling court of corpses silences as you enter, swaggering up to your student as she slithers through the air to greet you.
"Huanliuxue!" She excitedly shouts, her voice hissing as she coils around you in the air, eyes filled with a liveliness and glee you had hoped would return to her "I hope you do not mind or take offense, but I've taken it upon myself to see to some of your administrative duties down here, along with the old men! That mad man has gone off screaming into the gloom again! I didn't dare to try and stop him, figuring my help in appeasing the needs of our subjects would please your more than being roughed up by that brute of a man!"
"Xiongji would never harm her" The old general said with a smirk "He sees her as a guest, and while his anger extends to all others in this crypt, he is rather defensive of visitors, as you well know, my queen"
Yujijiao grumbled, lowering herself to the ground
"Its hard work, being a noble" She admits "That cracked headed lunatic doesn't listen to a thing I say"
"He does only obey lady Huanliuxue, at his most docile" another of your advisors chuckles "He'll return soon, once he has calmed himself to the level of merely a raging storm"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Tue 03 Jan 2023 07:34:24 No. 5516831 Report >>5516829 "Eh, the rooster general is his own man, I'm not so vain as to imagine I'll ever hold the leash to his collar" You admitted spiritedly, as several desperate ghosts begged you to sooth their torment by drinking deep of their ghostly Qi "And I'll tend to you all, shortly, Jade horn and I have important matters to discuss, in private. So leave us be, see to your duties elsewhere in this palace, and take those wailing pots, chests, gourds and bottles with you, don't need them hearing what we discuss"
"as you wish!" Several of the more highly ranked officials shout, cupping their ethereal fists as they order the lower court officials and soldiers to follow your orders and hustle the peasantry back to their dwellings around the palace, none of them raising a complaint or hackling at being denied the bliss of your cultivation, knowing how easily you could deny the one relief they had in this god wrought hell from them
"Oh, what do you wish to discuss? Heard from sister Qiang you had achieved human form, which is a great accomplishment. Did you find a way to revive me to my proper self while you were doing it?' Yujijiao asked casually as you pulled yourself up atop your throne
"Unfortunately no. Though I've kept you in my thoughts, constantly devising a way for you to cultivate. I know ghosts can grow stronger off breath or life-force, and still we should try that before anything else" You explain, nodding your head and meeting her hopeful smile with a motherly one "Unfortunately, your uh, unique circumstances make it difficult to teach you, since the ordinary means of cultivation are sealed to you and, ya know, you're dead and bodiless"
"Hard to gather Qi without meridians" She sighs heavily "But, I appreciate you taking the effort to help me achieve my potential, even posthumorously"
"The living and dead aren't that different" You answer kindly, purring as you speak "And it'd be an utter waste to caste you aside just cause you lost your head to a maniac murderer. I believe, as ghosts become hungry ghosts, so to can you cultivate. Its just...well I want to be certain and not waste time that can be better spent, you understand"
"Oh I understand completely, we're both princesses, after all" She says happily "And I believe that would work, myself, I've spoken to your subjects and know they grow in power the less...well the more the embrace their death, I suppose"
"Hungry ghosts form through various ways. Some by abandoning their life, others through clinging to it, some by just being absolutely repugnant bastards" You offer sagely "We'll find whichever way works for you to become the first hungry snake ghost, and if you aren't a fit for them, or all the methods for them are beneath a noble girl such as yourself, I'll find another way"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Tue 03 Jan 2023 07:35:25 No. 5516833 Report >>5516831 Perhaps through manufacturing a new body. Monu has experience creating and commanding puppets. With materials of a rarely high quality and extreme details, couldn't a doll body be made that is nigh indistinguishable from a natural born one? You didn't know, but you were curious to see if such a thing was possible.
After all, piles of stupid stone manages to game a glimmer of personality down here once...
"Of course you will!' Yujijiao huffs "But, when shall we star exploring my options? Its so droll and bleak down here! I want to see the bright, colorful, living world above again! With living eyes! Unclouded by the misery of the dead!"
"Well, we'll go down into hell first. Any knowledge of ghost cultivators or the purposeful creation of hungry ghosts, if it exists, will exist in the possession of devils. For they delight in corrupting knowledge, speaking from experience" You say with a nod "And even if they aren't trying to turn those arts demonic, Some soul down there will be old enough or wise enough to remember if such things as ghost cultivators ever existed"
"I see I see...Wait, we'll enter hell! Isn't that a place ghosts like me should avoid!?" She said, panickily "I've heard we cannot escape once we enter"
"Bah! Such rules do not apply to those under the protection of the monarch of all crypts, my dear Yujijiao! Why, I ever dragged a living girl down there once and King Yama didn't come down from his throne or try and keep her there. Just ask Qiang of our trip down to the yellow springs next time you see her!" You boast proudly, puffing your chest and fluffing up your hair "I can come and go from the underworld whenever I please! And so long as you're with me, so can you!"
"O..okay" She says, not entirely convinced "Well, when do we set off on this expedition then, teacher?"
"Hmm, soon. I have some errands I need to do topside, but those will only take me a few hours at most. Once they're done, I'll come back, and we'll head out immediatly" You say excitedly, hopping from your throne to leave your kingdom "Just wait here, and tell the guards to prepare themselves to keep any of our subjects from fleeing into hell when I open the door to it!"
"I doubt any of your subjects would be foolish enough to leave your benevolent rule" Yujijiao lauds as you leave her alone in your graveside throne room.
You decided to meet Yuyi in your human form, mostly to show off and partially because you hope the surprise will cool her temper somewhat. The whole trip from your mountain to her home in Fu's village, your mind is filled with fantasies of what she might look like, ranging from very furry to not furry at all. You find her medicinal store and doctor's office, closed, with a sign explaining she is not well and a glum looking young man brushing the steps outside it. He pauses, eyes glittering as her admires your beauty as you approach, stunned into total silence
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Tue 03 Jan 2023 07:36:43 No. 5516834 Report >>5516833 "Oy! You're Yuyi's mate are you not!" You bark, poking a finger into his puny chest "Go tell her Huanliuxue has come to visit her! After hearing about how uh, suddenly her condition has progressed, as rabid as wildfire, I've heard, and that she wishes to repay her for all she has done by..."
"HUANLIUXUE!" Yuyi's voice shrieks from the darkened house, rattling its windows as her boy toy winces
"You shouldn't have come here, madam, especially looking so uh, human" He winges "My beloved morning cricket has blamed you for her sudden transformation, muttering curses in our bedroom, which she has kept herself locked inside in her angst, like some kind of deranged hermit witch. She was scary before! I dare not think of how she'll be now that you've come to her door"
With finger still raised and pressed into his willowy chest and mouth still parted, mid sentence, you lift your eyes past the weak boys shoulders and see the door to Yuyi's home fling open.
And there is Yuyi, Chestnut hair now bright red at the fringe and tips and longer and more curled than before with two cat ears, also gradient between plain brown and fantastic scarlet, sprouting from her scalp. Her little fangs, have also grown and lengthened, as have the rest of her teeth, which all have sharpened. A tail, puffed up and furious, rises straight behind her back, connected to her spine just above her rump. Her muddy eyes, already catlike before, have hued towards yellow. Her nails have sharpened and grown into claws, and on her finger tips and palm, you can see her skin subtly raised, like the pads of a cat's paws.
And in those clawed, paw like hands, she held a menacingly sharp cleaver
"Ah" You gasped calmly as her man hid behind you "I was worried this had happened...Whoops?"
"Huanliuxue!!" She shrieks, eyes narrows and burning with fury, as black clouds of enmity curl out of her mouth, making her seem rather demonic "I know you did this to me! I know you did! I'll have my pound of flesh!"
"I can fix this?" You offer, holding out a hand reassuringly
"Wasn't taking my parent's eyes from me enough for you!?" She cries, tears filling her eyes "You had to go further and make me a..a..monster! I'm hideous"
"I'd say its an improvement" You mouth says without your permission "Cats are beautiful creatures"
A silence more pure and utter than that of the grave falls between you, as all the world seems to pause to react to that statement. You blink, realizing it was a mistake the moment you said it, though it was the truth as Yuyi's eyes narrow into slits and her arm shivers
"I'm going to kill you" She hisses, as she sprints down the stairs, waving her cleaver wildly.
She is clearly irrational. Whipped up into a frenzy. So panicked and worried, she's been driven temporarily insane. You're sure she'll calm down eventually, since you're so loveable and she is your dear friend.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Tue 03 Jan 2023 07:37:59 No. 5516835 Report >>5516834 But at the moment, she is brandishing a recently sharpened cleaver and running at you, waving it around with a devil's bloodlust in her eyes and an ogre's grimace. And while that is kind of scary, she poses absolutely no threat to you. Even with her enhanced body. But still, that she's threatening you at all, does tick you off a bit. Even if...well, she has every reason to be murderously mad with you.
What do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Try to calm her down, while dodging her every wild strike, by promising to find a way to "Fix" her >Run away! obviously she is in no state of mind to listen to reason >Grab her arm and bend it backwards, and explain you didn't actually do this to her, but rather a freak burst of primordial Beast essence did! >Push her boyfriend at her and command him with a glare to try and seduce her to calm her the fuck down >Yuyi is a smart girl! Surely if you talk to her, she'll see that she's better this way! Cats are superior, after all! >Write in Anonymous
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>>5516835 >Try to calm her down, while dodging her every wild strike, by promising to find a way to "Fix" her though to be fair, if shes reacting to the primordial Qi then its possible her body's roots got changed to be capable of cultivation. She might have to join the ranks to learn to transform back.
Also studying her state might let Huanliuxuel figure out partial transformation if she ever wants to go cat girl. I presume thatd be useful to keep human form while gaining some of the strengths of her beast form.
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>>5516835 >Try to calm her down, while dodging her every wild strike, by promising to find a way to "Fix" her. >Observe her body and how much stronger it has become. "Calm down girl! We need to check your roots and see what has happened!"
>"Also your scaring your mate!" Anonymous
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>>5516835 >Praise her for having courage and confidence to attack the great Huanliuxue with a cleaver >Try to calm her down, while dodging her every wild strike, by promising to find a way to "Fix" her Anonymous
>>5516835 >Promise a way to fix. >Praise her crazy bitch courage. >Use mystic carmine sorcery to see about reversing some of the asthetic changes. Anonymous
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>>5516835 >Try to calm her down, while dodging her every wild strike, by promising to find a way to "Fix" her >praise her courage Oh boy, we broke the Kobeni-type. Also I cannot remember if being able to see her grudge is an us thing, or if she’s gotten so made combined with getting blasted with Primordial Beast Essence that she’s subconsciously imitating us.
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>>5516835 >>5516865 >>5516990 >>5517007 Backing every unique write-in among these, and I’ll toss in a moment of self-reflection.
>Perhaps you owe Yuyi a true apology. Cats may be a perfect creature, but it is one thing to choose to be made into one and another to be made one unwillingly and partially. A dragon may be majestic, but losing your whiskers and having their horns on your head instead would incense you! >You will fix her eyes first. Anonymous
>>5517037 Yeah, we need to really accept this self reflection.
She was a meek and gentle individual. And she has been stewing in rage for long enough to attack us with a clever.
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>>5516835 >Try to calm her down, while dodging her every wild strike, by promising to find a way to "Fix" her >"I did not know that possessing you would have this effect, and much less that primordial beast essence burst would amplify it. I appologize for it Yuyi, even if I did not intend for it to happen, dismissing your concerns was a mistake." >"We are doctors Yuyi, curing conditions is what we do. I promise that I'll find a way to reverse this. Or atleast make so you can control what form you can take." >"If you were affected by the essence, perhaps your spirituals roots were changed as well? This mean you could start cultivating! Even if you don't want to join my sect, the simplest forms of meditation and techniques could let you live longer and healthier, be able to cure others and create higher quality medicines." Anonymous
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>>5516833 >After all, piles of stupid stone manages to game a glimmer of personality down here once... Did we ever go back to the library and destroy the rest of the puppets when we got stronger? I think we did it but I can't remember.
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>>5516835 Initial roundup since we already have a lot of write-ins and it’s a shame when they get lost in the shuffle.
>Try to calm her down by promising to “fix” her. FRUnpbzA
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>Flavor write-in for fixing her jC5IXZtv
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>Use carmine sorcery to help reverse some of the changes I assume this one would be a freebie with promising to fix her since it makes sense as our best tool for body sculpting, but tbf there’s a big difference between saying you’ll do something and actually doing it.
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>Reflect on why she is upset at you and conclude you have erred in believing she should be okay with this, paving way for a true apology. dNK3Upb9
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>>5517059 , didn’t add this to the eyes write-in though)
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>”Join my sect, you clearly have potential and it could help!” jC5IXZtv
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>>5517190 Ugh, had an oversight.
>Observe her body for how much stronger it’s become ZfVVRgqv
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>>5517190 You could count me as an apology too, even if mine is less extreme.
The whole join sect was less about making her learn, since I doubt Yuyi want to be mixed into this world, and more that if she has potential, even the bare minimun would give her plenty of benefits for a more or less mundane life.
I guess it could be seen as making her some sort of outer disciple? Except one that we don't expect to work for the benefits of the rest, just is affiliated to the sect.
Oh, and also check if her spiritual roots changed, I guess.
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Thinking about it, us being in human form right now is proof that it's possible to change forms.
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>>5517201 Well, we had treated her as our avatar. The logical extensions are to have her as a herald, messenger, or representative since she has a much deeper understanding of how we think than anyone else. Of those, rep makes the most sense. We have quite the myth in the non-cultivator realm, so having a “commoner” representative with the authority to speak on our behalf makes sense.
Not sure if we should actually suggest that since a lot of people would want to speak with her (ruining her quiet life), it’s well outside her current job, and we’re giving power to someone who has more reasons to be upset at us than to like us. But I’m also willing to consider it for that last reason as I don’t want sycophants as our representatives. If anyone is going to be able to eventually say “Huan is a demonic beast but she is NOT your enemy” and be believed it’ll be the woman who has gotten away with trash-talking us for what would be years (decades?) at that point.
Whether she’d sign up for more Huan BS in exchange for speaking with our authority and making her headaches into ours as well is something she’d have to answer for herself, but I’d accept her decision either way. We can ask after we’ve actually fixed some things about her form though.
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>>5517235 Honestly now that we have a human body we no longer have a need for her. So after fixing our damage as good as possible we should leave her to do her own thing. Maybe she can become a friend.
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>>5517375 We don’t have a need for her, but the damage is probably done in terms of doing her own thing. Plenty of people have likely seen her transformation, and even if we succeed in fixing up her body I’m sure we won’t be able to purge the primordial essence from her. Her roots are probably adapted to it instead of “normal” human Qi since this is how she gained real cultivation potential. We’ll know more after examining more closely, of course.
Her very existence is heretical, much like the demonic beasts we took in. As much as she’ll hate it, we have to help her come to terms with that fact and accept some degree of protection.
Having her as a real friend would be nice. She’ll probably be the only person (and cat) we’re close to willing to sass or bitch at us.
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>>5516835 >>5517190 Oh… we really should add
>Realize you’ve made Yuyi into a heretic whose sole crime is existence to the options. Because even after typing up my previous response, it didn’t really click.
I was mostly fixated on the physical changes, but we can’t “fix” the crime of existence through Qi manipulation through a quick bit of Blood Qi manipulation.
The first option of fixing Yuyi is probably a lie guys. An unintentional one born from focusing on just one aspect of her change and not the entirety of it. I couldn’t see Mount Tai.
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>>5516833 >ranging from very furry to not furry at all kek
>>5517037 >>5516835 >>5517450 +1
We now have an greater duty to protect her. Not only as penance, but more because we chose this world. That is something we must acknowledge.
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>>5517450 It's not a lie, we can fix her looks which is her problem.
The protection thing we can't fix.
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>>5516835 >Push her boyfriend at her and command him with a glare to try and seduce her to calm her the fuck down Voting for this cause it's funny.
In all seriousness, poor Yuyi.
She's done nothing but be the best and this is what happens to the poor dear.
We gotta help her the best we can, it's our obligation.
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>>5517441 >Having her as a real friend would be nice. That's what I meant. It was only in typing this that I realized we don't really have a friend, just a mom and a bunch of students/subordinates.
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>>5518043 I’m tempted to add this as greentext, but we have enough write-ins that are going to be axed already.
Though thinking about it, the Buddhists aren’t part of our sect so Yongzheng at least counts as a non-family friend too!
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Ending the vote now, tallying the result.
Try to calm her down, while dodging her every wild strike, by promising to find a way to "Fix" her:11
-"I did not know that possessing you would have this effect...We are doctors Yuyi, curing conditions is what we do....If you were affected by the essence, perhaps your spirituals roots were changed as well?...etc:1
Observe her body and how much stronger it has become:6
"Also your scaring your mate!":6
Praise her for having courage and confidence to attack the great Huanliuxue with a cleaver: 8
Use mystic carmine sorcery to see about reversing some of the aesthetic changes.:6
Perhaps you owe Yuyi a true apology. Cats may be a perfect creature, but it is one thing to choose to be made into one and another to be made one unwillingly and partially. A dragon may be majestic, but losing your whiskers and having their horns on your head instead would incense you!:6
Realize you’ve made Yuyi into a heretic whose sole crime is existence:2
Push her boyfriend at her and command him with a glare to try and seduce her to calm her the fuck down: 1
So at 12 votes, You'll Try to calm her down, while dodging her cleaver and observing how much stronger her body has become, praising her for her courage to try and attack you to begin with, before promising to find a way to fix her to try and calm her down, also pointing out she's scaring her mate for the same reason, offering to use blood refinement to undo the outward changes somewhat and offering her a true and honest apology
Update will arrive shortly
>>5517190 Thank you junior, for your assistance.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Thu 05 Jan 2023 04:23:43 No. 5518985 Report You decide not to simply smack her for her arrogance, and instead choose to focus on the admiration you feel for her having the courage to even try to attack you to begin with! Even if it is crazed and borne of her fragile mental state and current hysteria due to the feline additions to her otherwise plain self. Besides, you'd feel like you'd just be bullying the poor girl and making it all the worse for her if you gave her a slap or two or introduced the bottom of your foot to the face. So, instead, tucking your hands behind your back and clasping them just above your bottom, you begin to deftly and elegantly dodge her every frenzied swing. And now that she's close enough to try and chop you up and hack you apart, you can see tears flying from her cat-like eyes, even as you dance around her every blow, avoiding her furious strikes and lunging swipes as she screams wordlessly, nearly wailing at this point as she pursues you from the door of her abode out into the street. The crowd wisely scatters, parting to avoid being caught between the mad doctor and her razor edged cleaver as you weave between her blows without so much as breaking a sweat or tensing.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Thu 05 Jan 2023 04:24:44 No. 5518987 Report >>5518985 "Grrr" She growls through her teeth, gripping her cleaver in both hands and holding it above her head. You sigh and shake your own, your blood red hair dancing around you as you spin on your heel and bend back, showing off your own flexibility by flipping backwards without touching your hands to the ground, curling completely around through the air to stand back on your feet, all to just avoid the falling knife as she swung it down through the air.
You do pity her, and feel a rare sense of actual guilt looking at her and seeing her driven to such a height hysteria and anger. You should apologizes, truly apologize. Sure, cats are perfect creatures, but it is one thing to be born as one or seek to emulate one, and something entirely else to be forced to become half of one unwillingly, and only partially at that. Yuyi is around a quarter cat, at absolute most, by your judgement. But while a dragon may be majestic, exchanging your whiskers for a dragon's and replacing your beautiful fur coat for their admittedly majestic scales, would incense you. So you can emphasize with the poor girl's plight, even if you think her new look is an all around improvement, and the only other person whose opinon should matter to her, her mate, doesn't seem to mind at all. And why would he? Cats are not only the pinnacle of existence, but beauty and grace incarnate!
But you won't proclaim your inherent superiority now, since it'd just piss Yuyi off, and you want her to return to her usual docile, gentle, meek and harmless self, and to stop swinging that cleaver around with such a frightening look on her face and in her eyes. You greatly prefer her company and companionship when she's like timid and tame self, and when she isn't try to butcher you like a pig or chicken.
"Yuyi, my dear, sweet Yuyi, my beloved and brave student. There's no reason to be upset" You coo soothingly as you rock your head side to side, each sway avoiding another swing, Yuyi has clenched her jaw too much to reply, but you can tell she is screaming in her head 'No reason!? No reason!? You call this now reason!?', so you frown and pout and sigh as you lunge bast her, almost sliding over the road as she grabs onto her knees for support and tries to catch her breath
"This is a temporary thing! A preventable thing! A fixable thing! A curable thing!" You mewl and chirp, as you hop from one side of her to the other, leaning close to her and then hopping back around her when she sluggishly swings at your, or weakly grabs at your robes to try and hold you still. Her ears droop and her tail is limp, she is panting and sticking her tongue out to try and cool herself instinctively as the rest of her begins to slump as she runs out of energy. But you know anger could provide a boost to her stamina, so you don't stop trying to dodge her or stand still even when she pauses to try to rally herself and recover her stamina from her superhuman effort. She's very sweaty now.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Thu 05 Jan 2023 04:25:45 No. 5518989 Report >>5518987 "It is an ailment I" You say, sliding on your stomach under her legs, and nearly tripping her as you stand up, twirl around and wrap your arms around her neck. She grits her teeth and seems angrier for some reason, when you press your chest against her back "can treat, and easily! I promise I can! For I am a great prodigy with a great mind and towering intellect! There is no riddle I can't solve and no poison I cannot cure...nor make for that matter. So please, calm down and put down the cleaver. Stop trying to attack me"
She bites your hand, and to your surprise draws blood as she begins flailing her around, trying to hit you arms or legs with her cleaver, while trying to wiggle herself free from your embrace. Sighing, you nip her on her on neck, causing her to yelp as you repay the favor with a mother's bite. The sort you give to kittens when they bite too hard or use their claws when they shouldn't. You don't draw blood, and the shock of being bitten, does manage to calm Yuyi down enough for her to actually listen
"I am sorry Yuyi! I know I am to blame for starting this change in you, and I can only assume the Primordial beast essence that blossomed forth into the world following my heavenly tribulation empowered that Beastial energy that was already within your body because of my, admittedly, overly long and too frequent possession of you, was also my fault though I don't know how it happened!" You shout, guiltily and sulkingly as you cling to her and press yourself closer to her, which makes her jump and freeze up "I am truly sorry! I admit I am in the wrong. I beg for your forgiveness, earnestly. I'm pleading with you, please Yuyi! come back to me, and return to your old self! So I can return you to your old self!"
She pauses, pouting and furrowing her brow as you rub you cheek on the back of her head, pouting to with watery eyes as she trembles
"Besides" You say, pressing your cheek against her own "You're scaring your mate, see how that poor boy shivers"
"I..I have a name" Her man squeaks as you gesture to him with an open hand "It is..."
"I do not care, truly. Just as I truly feel great regret and responsibility for adorable little Yuyi's plight. I'm so sorrowful with guilt I may flood this city with my tears" You blubber, swaying your hips side to side as you pull Yuyi closer to yourself with your arms, and resist the sudden and intense urge to scratch her between her ears and start stroking her head "Please, remember yourself, stop being angry with me! I'll help you!"
"What exactly are you calling little?" She asked venomously, eyes narrowed suspiciously, staring up at you as you hug her tightly, her head pressed between your bossom
"Your height?" You say, wondering what she could think you had meant as you look down at her and tilt your head, curious now
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Thu 05 Jan 2023 04:26:46 No. 5518990 Report >>5518989 "Okay, I was starting to think you were being so physical to rub a certain something in my face. Quite literally" She grumbled as you innocently smiled "Can you let me go now? people are staring!"
"No!" You answer happily, kneeling down to purr and rub your scent on her affectionately, knowing how odd it must look considering your current appearance, and not caring to make a show of just how deeply your care for the meek doctor
"Nraaah, you're doing this to punish me aren't you!?" She wails as her mate shuffles closer "Help me! She's trying to smother me! She's surprisingly strong like this! Please, I'll apologize for my unforgiveable behavior, just let me do it in the privacy and safety of my home"
"Oh! We can discuss your treatment there to" you say, lifting her up and holding her under her arm, her arms and legs hanging as you hoist her petite body up, as the crowd that had formed rushes back into the street now that there isn't a knife wielding maniac standing in it.
"You're doing this on purpose!" Yuyi cries out "I overreacted! But you admitted you deserved it"
"Oh, I'm not angry with you at all. I also was being honest when I praised your bravery to attack the fair and mighty me! It's just that you can barely stand" You cackle "And I don't wanna leave you laying in the street, that'd be mean, even if you did try to hack my head off"
"You're upset, I can hear it in your voice" She whines as you carry her back into her house and drop her on the ground there
"I am not. You'd know if I was mad. That little dance of ours wouldn't have lasted a moment" You explain, sitting down next to her and crossing your legs "Boy! Fetch us some tea or wine, something to drink, don't care what so long as it isn't gross"
"Hey! Don't order him around! Honey! Get us something to drink!" Yuyi barks from the ground as she crosses her arms and glares at you "So, you weren't lying when you said you didn't do this to me, purposefully at least. I was only so angry because I thought you had done something to me"
"I'm pretty sure I caused the swell in Primordial beast essence, which certainly did make you become more cat-like" You say with a shrug as the boy whose name you refuse to learn shuffles past you, soothing both of you a glance as you take up half of the hallway "And I started it, so I feel responsible for it, guilty to, as I mentioned"
"You did mention that" She mumbles "So, how can you fix me? I hate looking like this! I coughed up a hair ball the other day"
'then just have your mate brush you' you think but do not say, instead you say "I know a method, I'd simply alchemically alter your blood inside your veins, transforming and refining it, reinforcing your human blood and essence"
"That...that sounds like it'd hurt" She whines, sitting up and her eyes immediately falling on your chest as the grudge that had weakened and turned grey turns pitch black again and pours out so violently as to completely shroud her face
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Thu 05 Jan 2023 04:27:47 No. 5518991 Report >>5518990 "Nrr. I'm also guessing you weren't trying to piss me off, coming here looking like...that!" she growls
"I was hoping the surprise would be enough to shock you out of your outrage. But in hindsight, coming here, looking perfectly human wasn't the best plan" You laugh awkwardly as you realize why she was getting angry with you even after you addressed the source of her rage. She's jealous! Jealous of your peerless beauty. It is a true struggle to keep your smugness from appearing on your face in a smile.
"It isn't fair that a cat is more human than I am now, and it extra isn't fair you're so gorgeous and...blessed. But that...blood refining thingy, that can help? Will it hurt?" She asks meekly, shyly looking away and fiddling with her reddened curls
"It might. I've only used it on animals, who didn't complain, but I also didn't care if I was hurting them" You say with a shrug "So probably. Since, it'll be a sudden unnatural mutation, unlike the gradual change of your body which, since you never ached or pained, I must assume was as natural as growing hair"
"Surely the great huanliuxue could make it a painless process, yes?' She asked sweetly, pressing her hands together pleading "I really am not good with pain or...blood"
"You're a doctor" You state dully
"My own blood. I'm fine with stitching and the like, but I get queasy at the sight of my own and can't handle pain at all!" She whimpers "I have a very low pain tolerance, and I was squeamish, until you stuck my hands into a bunch of strangers guts and mouths"
"Ah!" You say, nodding and rubbing your chin "I did do that, didn't I"
"You did. You also took me from my home, and into danger" She mumbles "But, well, it was exciting, even if I was terrified. Really, this whole, ears and tail thing was just the last straw"
"Well, I'm sorry for all of that to" You say, patting her on her head "And I'll find some test subjects to make sure refining your blood in that way won't hurt"
"Willing test subjects?" She asks demandinly
"Fine, willing test subjects. I could also just give you a pill to numb your nerves and work my magic" You say rolling your eyes
"Well, I'll forgive you for now" She said warmly, ears perking up as you heard her love approach from behind, with a bottle of wine "Sorry again for...ya know..."
"Waving a knife at me?" You finish with a smirk
"Exactly" She says guiltily "it really was unlike me, but can you blame me for being outraged! There's barely any Yuyi left!"
"I'd be just as mad if I was in your shoes. And I'll make sure to get you the eyes your mama and papa gave to you" You say sweetly, hopping after her as she stands and takes the bottle from her lover's hands and walks behind the counter of her medicine shop
"You will? I was sure you'd leave somethings unchanged, as a gift, consider it is an "Improvement" She says weakly "Did you really come here to try and cure me?"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Thu 05 Jan 2023 04:28:48 No. 5518994 Report >>5518991 "Of course. I'm about to take a trip to the yellow springs, and heard you were angry with me and...well like this" You say, shaping your hands into cat ears atop your head "So I decided to see what I can do to help out and mend our relationship"
"Thank you" She said after a moment, sipping at her wine "I know it must've taken a lot for you to admit you were wrong, and to apologize at all. I know how proud you are, and for good reason, of course, but...to think you'd do something like that for me"
"You are my student after all, and friend" You said, noticing your voice trembling as you said the word friend"
"And you are mine. As much as I grouch about all the ways you use and endanger me, I'd still be living alone if it wasn't for you. I'd have no friends and no career if you hadn't barged into my house and possessed me. I just...wish you didn't make such a habit of it that I started becoming a little like you" Yuyi said with a sigh, collapsing against the counter and laying atop it "But at least its temporary right?"
"Right" You say, nodding furiously
"Wait" Yuyi said suddenly "I was just so overwhelmed that you cared so much about me, that I didn't realize you said you were going to hell"
"I do that from time to time. Wonderful place. Interesting culture. Delicious cuisine, lovely weather" You cackle with a sneer "One of my students, a ghost of a snake, needs to travel there, so I need to accompany her. Why do you ask? Do you wanna come? They love living humans down there! You'd be quite the comodity, Heh-heh-heh"
"Eh...eh..No, forgive me for refusing your initiation" She squeaked, hiding behind the wine bottle
"Want a souvenir? Last time I went I got several. Maybe a pickled devil's head? Or a soul of a great scholar?" You tease, poking her cheek playfully "There are several medicinal plants that can only be found in hell"
"And they won't curse me or make my house haunted?" She asked curiously
"Shouldn't do" You say confidently "But really, you should come along"
"So I can sprout horns and grow my fangs? No thank you" She joked "I..I once again must refuse. And I still need to settle my nerves, Do you now how deathly frightened I was! my heart felt like it'd burst every second of that uh...tantrum. I was certain I'd die"
"Why would I kill my friend?" You say happily, with a beamy, toothy smile "And even if you had the heart to brave hell, no demon would dare touch a hair on your head. They know I can kill them, so they respect me!"
"I...I don't want to know what you did. It'd give me nightmares for sure!" Yuyi says pleadingly, begging you not to amaze her with your battle against the crow-king "Just don't take too long! Or get lost! I really don't want to spend the rest of my life with a tail. Or scratch anyone...again"
"Is that why your boyfriend is so henpecked? Even as meek as you are?" you ask, scrunching your nose
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Thu 05 Jan 2023 04:31:03 No. 5518999 Report >>5518994 "No. and he isn't henpecked, he's just dutiful" Yuyi pouts and huffs as you shrug "And...I may have clawed him once or twice, when he was a little too smothering and clingy"
"Attagirl!" You praise, slapping her on the back a few times
"NO!" She shouts "Don't praise me for that of all things!"
What do you do now, Huanliuxue?
>Take Yujijiao into the underworld and begin searching for knowledge of how ghosts can cultivate/ grow in power >Well Yujijiao has an eternity to learn. Yuyi is clearly at her wits end, so find some people who'll be suitable practice for treating her >While Yuyi is caught off guard, grab hold of her and use blood refinement on her (Magic/ Alchemy trial. DC 72) >Decide that Qiang can show Yujijiao around hell and help her find the secrets of ghost cultivation , since talking about it has made you realize you don't feel like going and have better things to do than talking to devils. >Write in Anonymous
>>5518999 Ahahaha, that was a fun read. Let's make sure to leave the speed and strength in Yuyi, she needs to be able to keep up with Huan.
>Well Yujijiao has an eternity to learn. Yuyi is clearly at her wits end, so find some people who'll be suitable practice for treating her Trips to hell tend to get interesting, better take care of this first. I bet some of Fu's non-cultivators might jump at a chance for Huan to boost their muscle with blood alchemy.
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>>5518999 >Take Yujijiao into the underworld and begin searching for knowledge of how ghosts can cultivate/ grow in power Anonymous
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>>5518999 >Decide that Qiang can show Yujijiao around hell and help her find the secrets of ghost cultivation , since talking about it has made you realize you don't feel like going and have better things to do than talking to devils. >Well Yujijiao has an eternity to learn. Yuyi is clearly at her wits end, so find some people who'll be suitable practice for treating her Anonymous
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>>5518999 >Well Yujijiao has an eternity to learn. Yuyi is clearly at her wits end, so find some people who'll be suitable practice for treating her Like
>>5519009 , I think it's better we correct Yuyi's problem first, and then have fun in hell
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>>5518999 I know undoing a budding bloodline is wrong in my book, i miss the last votecause of things and i would of voted for her tocome join us in the sect and become a catgirl doctor
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>>5519166 A nyanurse, if you would
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>>5518999 >While Yuyi is caught off guard, grab hold of her and use blood refinement on her (Magic/ Alchemy trial. DC 72) >Ask why her boyfriend was so smothering. Did he like her ears? We can leave them on if she wants. Anonymous
Very off topic, but I really hope we get a map of the world one of these days. I know it's not the most importing thing in the world, but I'm a setting-autist and really want to know if we're in a fantasy version of irl china or are in a completely made up fantasy world.
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>>5519286 Oops, I missed and copied the wrong vote. The correct one should be
>Well Yujijiao has an eternity to learn. Yuyi is clearly at her wits end, so find some people who'll be suitable practice for treating her The write-in stays.
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>>5518999 >She has an eternity to learn Anonymous
>>5519319 Sounds to me like a very made up chinese world.
I don't think there ever was mention of other asian cultures other than not!chinese
>>5518999 >Take Yujijiao into the underworld and begin searching for knowledge of how ghosts can cultivate/ grow in power Yuyi can stay a month like this and chalk it up to a bad experience, yujijiao risks to slip into insanity however and we already dallied long enough on her problem..
Like we did with poor lei but in lei's case it rests more on ping growth as an exorcist, these two are on us to fix.
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>>5519436 There were the nomads that tried to invade, and then had a mountain dropped on them.
Thing is their ghosts seem to just act like the rest, so I don't know if they are the mongols stand-in or not.
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>>5518999 >Take Yujijiao into the underworld and begin searching for knowledge of how ghosts can cultivate/ grow in power >Ask Qiang to find some volunteers from the village. People who have deformities they’d like corrected and are willing to receive experimental therapies to that end. You can gather them once you have returned. >If she finishes early, she can work towards scouting the next layer of tomb. In fact, she can take that as a standing order if she’s ever with free time at the main base. >Give Yuyi some basic cat grooming and care tips in the meantime. Fur brushing from her mate is a good time to bond! >Mention discretely to her mate that scratching behind the ears and base of the tail is all well and good, but overstimulation triggers the claws. Cats can’t help it, so moderation is best. We’re going to hell because Yujijao needs to (re?)invent cultivation for ghosts. Offloading that to Qiang doesn’t seem fair.
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>>5518990 >hair ball For that Yuyi would have to lick her fur. I assume on the tail.
Why, I wonder.
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>>5519538 I’ve wondered the same thing, but haven’t felt to press the issue. Though if we gave grooming tips, it’s bound to come up…
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>>5519538 >>5519577 Her tail or...
(Or a very bushy bush) Anonymous
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>>5519720 We should leave her the flexibility Anonymous
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Sending Qiang is a horrible idea, she'd just be like "dunno boss I killed 38 demons but no one seemed to have any good ideas. Brought you their ears in a sack though, you can use this for potions right?"
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>>5518999 >Well Yujijiao has an eternity to learn. Yuyi is clearly at her wits end, so find some people who'll be suitable practice for treating her promises and priorities
>>5519817 oh yeah it'd be a mistake.
plus we don't know the full extent of the consequences to our actions from last time.
Even if their fights are over, whoever is replacing Baoli will likely show interest in our arrival, and the idea of forwarding two of our students to hell without us as part of their growth sidequest seems like a bit of misplaced pride. Just like before when we boasted in the arena about our supreme royalty, and while true, and that led to Baoli being interested in us in the first place.
Like, at its most basic, hell's dangers have required a cultivator like ourselves in order to make the smallish part of it we've explored even possible. Qiang is strong, and we're respected, but that hardly means hell is safe. We can only be sure smart and weak devils won't mess with them.
I do wonder if any of the demons who watched the tournament will react to Yuji not being destroyed. Not that it matters, really. But it should be a fun extension to our legend.
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>>5519906 >Yuji wasn’t destroyed >”How can death stop us from claiming a servant? Even the great wheel respects our dao.” We’d be full of shit, but the rumors that would spread from it.
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>>5518999 >Well Yujijiao has an eternity to learn. Yuyi is clearly at her wits end, so find some people who'll be suitable practice for treating her I do hate to leave Yujijiao waiting, but Yuyi really needs the help.
Hopefully this won't take too much time, and even if it does, time in the underworld moves different. We can spend a forever topside and only a little while would have passed for Yujijiao.
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>>5520543 But Yujijiao isn't in the underworld?
She's in the crypts with our ghostly court.
Besides yuyi isn't in any danger in our town, if anything they might see her as an exalted and throw a festival in her honor or something.
And if Yujijiao sees that we are shapeshifting people with blood magic instead of finding a way to give her a body her trust in us will break like an eight year old being told santa's not real.
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>>5520610 She knows she's dead, and we already told her we can make some technique so she cultivates as a Ghost IN CASE we can't give her a body. Surely she will understand that in the case of Yuyi, we are working with something that exist, a real living body. If we could use a chunk of meat and make her a new body from it, we could, but we're working with something that we can actually work and we know it works, instead of going blind and careless for a solution to give her a body.
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>>5520876 We didn't give a timetable to yuyi either, and we promised Yujijiao we would explore all options before committing.
Also we kind of already worked her up to go to hell soon, so a sudden delay that could take us up to a good while to fix yuyi is a bit of a downer.
Also i personally want to explore hell further..
But i can see reason in starting to work on fixing yuyi while we wait the group we sent to the swamp to return so we can set out to hell without worries.
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>>5520899 Techniques we acquire while handling Yuyi might be stepping stones for helping snek as well. Modifying a body is a step toward making one outright.
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>>5520945 The reverse is also true. Techniques acquired in hell could save us time in experimenting to find the proper way to body-sculpt someone else.
It really boils down to who we feel more guilty over. There are plenty of reasons for and against either path taking priority over the other.
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>>5518999 >>5519535 Supporting this. We can do more than one thing at a time, especially when our disciples are actually competent.
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>>5518999 You know, I've been convinced. I'll switch from prioritizing Yuyi to Yujijiao. We can snoop for information on helping Yuyi in hell, there's bound to be some mad scientist souls down there.
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I'm tallying>Huan finds patients - 7 >Huan goes to hell - 5 >Qiang goes to hell - 1 >Tease about boyfriend - 1 >Qiang find patients - 2 >Qiang explore tombs - 2 >Give grooming tips - 2 >Another way of teasing - 2
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Sun 08 Jan 2023 10:53:03 No. 5523437 Report Forgive me juniors, for the three day wait, it may continue a bit longer. Got food poisoned. Was hoping I'd be able to get that update out yesterday, but it wasn't in the cards. I'll see how I feel when I wake up, if I'm not feeling as if I am hovering between life and death, I shall end the vote once I crawl out of bed and write the update swiftly. Swift as wildfire.
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>>5523437 Take care grandpa. And watch out what you eat.
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>>5523437 This must be the work of an enemy cultivator.
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>>5523437 Mend well Grandfather. Great efforts require great preparedness and goodly rest.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 09 Jan 2023 10:18:48 No. 5524514 Report Quoted By:
I have revived, and purged the impurity from my body, by more or less sleeping all yesterday.
>>5520990 Thank you junior, once again, for tallying the vote in my stead.
So, knowing Yujijiao can wait , you'll find some practice patients to test the method of blood refinement you hope to use to treat Yuyi.
Update will arrive shortly.
>>5523527 >>5523679 >>5523958 And thank you for your well wishes.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 09 Jan 2023 10:52:00 No. 5524531 Report Walking out to the street, hands clasped behind your back and head turned to the clouds, you leave Yuyi to her tears and wine, having decided not to partake yourself and leave her to numb herself with it in the company of her man. You draw some eyes and stares as you waltz from the doctor's abode, curious and admiring of course. What else would they look at you with, besides of course awe and amazement? Some surely, are entranced by your beauty, others watch hoping you'll explain the cause for the earlier disturbance and the gentle doctor's wild, nigh feral behavior and some...well they look at you as if mulling a question in their mind, fermenting it as they ponder your vivid, scarlet hair and your ethereal grace. Do they recognize you as the demon cat who saved them from crooked fang? Or do they notice the resemblance between you and Qiang, and are rubbing their chins and plucking their mustaches to try and decide this mysterious maidens connection with that heroic, once wandering, xia.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 09 Jan 2023 10:53:19 No. 5524532 Report >>5524531 That makes this a much trickier task than you thought it'd be, when you promised to do it without thinking too hard about the details. But if you were so easily stopped by so petty of obstacles and so quickly discouraged by so meager of difficulties, you wouldn't have gotten as far as you have, why you might not even have killed Ling Meng! It is natural for a prodigy to overcome any challenge presented to them, with style and flair if not ease! And it is the duty of a monarch to deal with the problems of their subjects decisively! Before they can grow and worsen! And it'd be terrible to repay Yuyi for all her hardwork, loyalty and kindness by approaching her illness lazily or with anything besides a hundred percent effort and great care!
So, you'll just have to find those who suffer similar maladies, search out those who suffer exactly as she has, or make them yourself! Easy! This task that'd seem impossible to complete for other, less willful minds is all but finished all ready.
Now, all that needs to be done, is for you to find volunteers for this experimentation of blood alchemy! Where-ever it is in the world you may find them.
How do you search for subjects for the blood refinement trials, Huanliuxue? (DC will be the same, and will be revealed next update)
>Knowing the world is a wide place, follow rumors of "Beast-men". Since, if Yuyi was turned into a half beast by the shockwave of your roar, then surely others have been as well! >An antidote can be found by making the poison it treats, have your outer disciples gathered and see if any of them have the ambition or will to willingly subject themselves to your tests, offering to give them greater power by awakening their bestial blood >Whenever you need to test new techniques, the world is replete with villains and scum to practice them on! Find some bandits or similar Ne'er-do-well and use them > No need to be fancy. If it works on birds and deer, it can work on people. Find some lesser animals to practice with, and see if they experience any pain or disorientation through their mutation and curing. >write in Anonymous
>>5524532 >Gather the outer disciples May as well improve our sect. But we must make ourselves exceedingly clear on the risks.
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>>5524532 > No need to be fancy. If it works on birds and deer, it can work on people. Find some lesser animals to practice with, and see if they experience any pain or disorientation through their mutation and curing. >Warn Yujijiao though. I recall we were promising to take her into hell in an hour. Don't just leave her waiting. Anonymous
>>5524532 >>Knowing the world is a wide place, follow rumors of "Beast-men". Since, if Yuyi was turned into a half beast by the shockwave of your roar, then surely others have been as well! >Warn Yujijiao that the trip will be delayed for a bit. Hell is always an adventure and Cutivation can take a while. As a mortal, Yuyi doesn't have that much time to spare. Anonymous
>>5524597 I'll change my vote to
>An antidote can be found by making the poison it treats, have your outer disciples gathered and see if any of them have the ambition or will to willingly subject themselves to your tests, offering to give them greater power by awakening their bestial blood >Warn Yujijiao that the trip will be delayed for a bit. Hell is always an adventure and Cutivation can take a while. As a mortal, Yuyi doesn't have that much time to spare. Anonymous
>>5524532 >Search for those affected by deformities, crooked legs, conjoined fingers and the like. Maybe even old crones longing for their former beauty might volunteer for such an experimental treatment. Basically look for the target audience of plastic surgery IRL
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>>5524617 This is smart, I'll support this.
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>>5524617 Me too, i like it.
But i would look further if somebody saw yuyi and wanted to become a kemonomimi.
Time to unleash the catgirl menace on this world.
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>>5524532 >>Knowing the world is a wide place, follow rumors of "Beast-men". Since, if Yuyi was turned into a half beast by the shockwave of your roar, then surely others have been as well! Anonymous
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>>5524617 +1
Yuyi is suffering some physical mutation, and if the Beast Essence entered in her meridians and such, it means it's more of a physical ill, so searching for people with similar conditions of physical deterioration would be wise. Then we need to see HOW with the Blood Qi and the infussion/exposure of Qi into the meridians of patience affect the subject.
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>>5524617 +1
Though I'd also like to warn yuji. All original blood manipulation research will become greatly useful to our sect and any interesting breakthroughs we conjure.
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>>5524617 I dont think giving them animal essence is going to make them beautiful?
And even so, if it does, it still makes them targets of the orthadoxy
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>>5524913 We aren't going to give them beast essence. Yuyi's problem isn't with the essence, it's with her looks.
Anonymous
>>5524913 Why would we give anyone beast essence? That's the opposite of what we're trying to achieve here! We want to use blood qi for body sculpting.
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>>5524532 >>5524617 >>5524599 Backing these. The first one is what I voted for Qiang to do for us last time anyway. There may be peculiarities with Yuyi’s beastly qi, but you start with basics like this before working your way up to complicated stuff.
Also tossing in
>Ask Monu and Qiang to discuss the logistics of tracking down “beastmen”, where the largest groups likely are since this was a global wave, and where a village for them may be founded. They will be persecuted soon, if not already, as the panic sets in from the orthodoxy and heavens realizing beasts are on the rise. >>5524917 Giving people beast essence would allow is to experiment on someone closer to Yuyi’s current state for body sculpting. But it doesn’t seem particularly ethical to say “I won’t experiment on Huyi because she’s a friend but I will create others like her so I don’t feel guilty about experimenting on them” so I won’t be voting on it anyway.
Now, if people want to be cats and we’re willing to risk war with the orthodox sects early, we could give people who want beast essence ours and just… let them have it. But the world isn’t ready for that yet either.
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>>5525039 >>5524599 I'm adding this to my vote
>Ask Monu and Qiang to discuss the logistics of tracking down “beastmen”, where the largest groups likely are since this was a global wave, and where a village for them may be founded. They will be persecuted soon, if not already, as the panic sets in from the orthodoxy and heavens realizing beasts are on the rise. Anonymous
>>5524917 >>5524915 The essence is the thing causing the looks. You cannot operate on an infection by taking a healthy person and then fixing them up and expecting it to work.
We'd improve our capabilities with flesh sculpting, but not learn how beast essence interacts with the body and meridians, or if that would make the changes stick.
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>>5525047 I consider testing with beastmen to be second-wave. Experiment with bodysculpting ordinary people first to create a baseline, then experiment with someone like Yuyi so you can better see how they differ from said baseline. Then you can isolate specific factors that are causing differences.
Still better to not infect other people with our essence until we can be sure that it’s reversible with our knowledge. We can claim “experimental” in the waiver all we want, but if we’d offered Yuyi the chance at an immediate fix she’d probably accept. If we failed with her, we wouldn’t be condemning anyone else to be a hybrid or suffer the unknown effects of forcibly injecting our beastly essence into someone else (as Yuyi’s was a gradual dose followed by the wave).
Beastmen are the actual closest we can get to Yuyi’s condition since they likely had initial weak exposure followed by the wave.
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>>5525047 The main advantage in starting with cripples is that they are abundant and easily found. I would loathe to venture out again pursuing rumors and qi trails on the hunt for beastmen. We JUST got home. Our people can round up some cripples for us to start on, it will provide valuable insight and further boost our reputation (plus probably good karma for anons who care for such things).
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>>5525039 Big +1 to the monu write-in.
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>>5525129 I doubt we will get karma for such a self serving action.
But I accept the reasoning presented by you two and bend to it.
>>5524534 Changing this to support the write ins
This one too
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I just had a thought, mean as it is. Feiqing would be the best ambassador for bringing beastmen back. He already looks like one, after all.
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>>5525192 Poor Feiqing, people call him either an Ape or demon.
He even didn't get one vote in the first thread.
I would have if didn't join afterwards Anonymous
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>>5524532 >>An antidote can be found by making the poison it treats, have your outer disciples gathered and see if any of them have the ambition or will to willingly subject themselves to your tests, offering to give them greater power by awakening their bestial blood >Whenever you need to test new techniques, the world is replete with villains and scum to practice them on! Find some bandits or similar Ne'er-do-well and use them Anonymous
>>5524617 >>5525039 +1, hunting beastmen right after we went scouting for disciples doesn't feel right.
>>5525232 I'm waiting for the day he remolds his face.
hidden bit makes me curious how non-playable Huan would have turned out Anonymous
>>5524532 >An antidote can be found by making the poison it treats, have your outer disciples gathered and see if any of them have the ambition or will to willingly subject themselves to your tests, offering to give them greater power by awakening their bestial blood Anonymous
>>5525258 At a guess, no Monu. Without her, she’d likely take a harder stance at all humans while also limiting her initial growth, becoming a “demon” like the Oni. I’m just as curious how we’d interact with her if she was an enemy. Anonymous
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>>5524532 >>5524617 Supporting the write in. I’m not interested in going on another quest after just getting back home.
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>>5525820 I'm mostly intrigued about how Jingyu would've turned out as PC. Probably would have seen through Xuebais deception early on, and from there it's really uncharted territory!
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>>5525890 I can't see them not waifuing a fox ghost, I mean really that's free real estate, but maybe they would have tried turning "good" by discriminating who they harvest a little more carefully. It's hard to tell honestly. Clearly Xuebei has kept him in the forest because they're not yet satisfied, but now I'm curious to what extent their possession is in terms of control. A little meta, but having Jingyu as a character implies there would have been a back and forth somewhat. Perhaps that's still the case. Now he's turning into a fox demon doughnut steel OC, I kinda feel bad for our sister. An anon talked about it before when we were in Yuyi, how possession influences both parties, my headcanon will be that Snowy would have needed saving from MC Jingyu before she becomes
cringe. Anonymous
>>5526599 MC vote describes him more as a sad antihero who was manipulated and betrayed by a fox demon.
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>>5526919 It does, and while NPC Jingyu has leaned into a service state from what we know, I'm not sure the extent a theoretical MC Jingyu would. It's fun to wonder about tho. If we played the sad antihero straight, I can only imagine the contrast Xuebai's interactions would have. In general players don't abandon interesting characters, and in the deep hypothetical I think we would still stay close to Xuebai despite it all.
I dearly hope she's reasonable when we reach her. And by reasonable I mean she only ones to destroy Monu's former sect, because that's perfectly within reason.
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Time to count, Ha-ha!>Outer disciples - 2 (4?) >Animals - 0 (1?) >Beast-men - 1 >Sick people - 8 >Bandits - 1 >Warn Snek - 4 (6?) >Beast-men: Qiang and Monu edition - 5
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Thu 12 Jan 2023 15:32:45 No. 5528540 Report Ending the vote now, tallying the result. Sorry for vanishing for three days, again. I was too tired to write, and I do not know why.
An antidote can be found by making the poison it treats, have your outer disciples gathered and see if any of them have the ambition or will to willingly subject themselves to your tests, offering to give them greater power by awakening their bestial blood:4
No need to be fancy. If it works on birds and deer, it can work on people. Find some lesser animals to practice with, and see if they experience any pain or disorientation through their mutation and curing:1
Warn Yujijiao though. I recall we were promising to take her into hell in an hour. Don't just leave her waiting.: 6
Knowing the world is a wide place, follow rumors of "Beast-men". Since, if Yuyi was turned into a half beast by the shockwave of your roar, then surely others have been as well!:1
Search for those affected by deformities, crooked legs, conjoined fingers and the like. Maybe even old crones longing for their former beauty might volunteer for such an experimental treatment.:8
Ask Monu and Qiang to discuss the logistics of tracking down “beastmen”, where the largest groups likely are since this was a global wave, and where a village for them may be founded. They will be persecuted soon, if not already, as the panic sets in from the orthodoxy and heavens realizing beasts are on the rise.:5
Whenever you need to test new techniques, the world is replete with villains and scum to practice them on! Find some bandits or similar Ne'er-do-well and use them:
So you'll practice your body remolding techniques on the deformed and those who would, in vanity, be willing to risk being similarly experimented on. And you'll also wanr Yujijiao that the trip to hell will be delayed slightly, before beginning this work
Update will arrive shortly
>>5528495 Thanks for your assistance Junior.
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>>5528540 Wouldn't talking our mom and daughter about beast men also pass? Or did I miscount and there were 12 votes?
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Thu 12 Jan 2023 16:05:26 No. 5528569 Report >>5528559 You missed
>>5525632 . But I thought it'd be rude to mention that
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Thu 12 Jan 2023 16:16:28 No. 5528580 Report But before you begin practicing your blood refinement technique to purposefully remold the bodies of others who can complain about pain and experiment with just how fine of control you'll have over the end result of tampering their blood like they were a walking elixir, there is something else that you need to do first. Namely, warn Yujijiao that there's been a slight delay in your plans to go on a trip down the yellow springs in search of answers to solve her unique difficulty in being dead yet still wishing to cultivate and claim the destiny that was denied to her by a certain blood thirsty ogress plucking her head from her neck as if it were a ripe peach. So, returning to your natural form, you travel back to your school and come across Qinxin, cheerfully leading your outer disciples higher into the mountains to tend to the various gardens you've sown up there. The lowest of the palace of the natural laws greet you jovially, though they haven't much to say and dutifully see to their daily chores. You can still hear the working song Qinxin leads them in singing as you descend the cliff into the roots of the god-planted mountain. Qiang is gloomily guarding the entrance, but cups her fist as you approach.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Thu 12 Jan 2023 16:17:29 No. 5528581 Report >>5528580 You found Feiqing and Ping training their Junior disciples, and Lei was nearby, helping in his own fashion. You frowned, upset at seeing Ping so hurt that he required a cane to stand steady. He was recovering as quickly as he could, considering his injuries but still, seeing him in such a state was unpleasant to say the least. And judging from the smell wafting from deeper within the tunnels, Monu was working to hasten his healing. Certainly there were enough clouds and fumes rising out from the earth that smelled acrid and of bitter medicines. Deciding not to interrupt the lessons of your bestial students and not wanting to see Ping in so miserable a state, you slip past unseen and unheard into the kingdom of crypts and tombs.
Judging from the ruckus you can hear, Xiongji has returned from whatever mad quest he had undertaken, and was rampaging in the less populated, more remote parts of your fiefdom, hopefully taking his anger out on mindless ghosts and graveborn beasts rather than your intelligent and polite subjects and courtiers. You found Yujijiao, lounging besides some of those hungry ghosts who have proven their worth and loyalties to you. The barbarian warrioress and the old, nameless general specifically, though you can hear the mutterings of the two beetle generals and other familiar haunts nearby the quarters she has taken and decorated for herself.
"Ah. Teacher. Are we to depart to hell?" She yawns, with mock tiredness. And you know its fake, cause ghosts don't get tired, you know that from personal experience.
"Unfortunately no. I have business in the world of the living. Need to treat a friend and dear student of mines sudden case of "Turning into a cat"itus" You say, bowing your head and drooping your ears "it shouldn't take me long to do. But I did say I'd be quick when I left earlier, and didn't want you to wait in anticipation only for me to meet the deadline I set like some kind of dead beat"
"Oh. Well, I am grateful you came to tell me personally. I know you must be busy with royal duties, so I wouldn't have balked or complained even if you hadn't, but I appreciate that you would honor me in such a manner anyways. Even if you and I are peers by blood and birth" She says cheerfully "And you'll like to know Xiongji beat back a scouting party of the lower kingdoms, so there's no trouble rising up from beneath our feet, at least for now"
"Hmm. Guess they've noticed the silver claw fool hasn't been paying taxes. Took them long enough" You sneer "Guess he was as important as he believed himself to be after all. Well, I trust you and my advisors to keep order her. Well, except for the rooster general. Have our strongest and most monstrous begin patrols at our borders. If only because Xiongji's rampages don't always take him in that direction"
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>>5528569 It wouldn't be rude gramps, it's better to call out a mistake than to be confused at the results.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Thu 12 Jan 2023 16:18:30 No. 5528583 Report >>5528581 "I risked myself to divert his current fit away from our holdings. He is currently in the wilderness, in a blacker rage than usual" The old general huffed, shuffling to his feet "And I shall deliver these orders, so the young mistress need not rouse herself from her rest"
"Thank you" You say graciously, smiling as you turn around and flick your tail "I shall take my leave now. Shouldn't be long until I return here again"
And with that, you do as you say and leave.
Heading out in the world, in your human form, you decide the best way to gather subjects from the deformed and those who'd willingly risk sorcerous treatment to the maladies that effect only their vanity would be by seeking out a few of those unfortunates and allow them to spread the word of your miracle-working. Like when you did in Yuyi's skin at the Buddhist monastery. And then, willing volunteers will flock to you. You'd just have to take care not to draw too much attention too yourself. But just being quick with these tests should be enough to not draw undo scrutiny. All the world will know is a red haired mystic appeared and cured the callousness of the Celestial Court.
<span class="mu-s"> Roll 1d100. Best out of four. DC 75. Secrecy+ Magic/Alchemy trial </span>
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Thu 12 Jan 2023 16:19:44 No. 5528586 Report >>5528582 I'll keep that in mind! I counted 13 votes in total, to be clear.
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Rolled 73 (1d100) >>5528569 It wouldn't be rude gramps, it's better to call out a mistake than to be confused at the results.
I deleted my reply to not split the update >>5528586 So I missed? Understandable, I found this one to be hard to keep track
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Rolled 27 (1d100) >>5528583 Aww. I wanted to build a beastmen village. :( Next time, I guess.
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Rolled 87 (1d100) >>5528586 Anonymous
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>>5528601 Nice success. 10 over dc.
Update will arrive shortly
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>>5528601 SAFE!
>Captcha: SPYAY Huh... That's weird
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Thu 12 Jan 2023 17:56:22 No. 5528694 Report It doesn't take long at all to find enough unfortunates to practice on and use to train your art of Blood refinement, to refine your control of it and gain experience with the alchemical technique you innovated through it. Dressing yourself up as a witch rather than the daoist you are, in the classic sense and not in the Monu fashion of one, and traveling by night in search of those poor souls suffering in twisted and broken bodies, it is child's play to get the rumor of your work. The only issue you have is convincing the first few fortunate souls to serve as you test subjects, since, even if you approached them openly as a cultivator, which you decided was too risky to do as it'd draw more attention than a witch emerging from the dead of the night in isolated villages and performing mystical miracles, since if any cultivator grew suspicious and suspected devilry like blood refinement to be behind your treatment of the deformed and crippled, they'd search for you in places you won't be but an actual witch or demonic mystic might dwell. Though, in hindsight, the places they'd look for the red haired witch whose beauty is more enchanting than any spell would probably be the sort of places you'd be drawn to by aesthetics and atmosphere alone.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Thu 12 Jan 2023 17:57:23 No. 5528697 Report >>5528694 You learn that more extreme changes require time, and take place over some days, similar to Yuyi's own, gradual changes. Which proves to you that you can use this technique to fix her, beyond any doubt. And when you tell her of the mostly painless results of your practice with the unfortunates, her mind, relieved and cured of its fear, won't cause her enough stress or worry that it'll actually hurt her. Though, you still have concerns for her offspring and her bloodline, since there's a chance they'll inherit a measure of Primordial beast essence from her, but you can't be certain they will and you have no idea how to separate Primordial beast essence from flesh and marrow. Perhaps, if it does cause her children to be partially feline, you can just treat them the same way you treat her, or find a way to seal away the bloodline and put it to sleep, if one does form. Since you're pretty confident you can use Blood Alchemy to awaken bloodlines.
And you are because after you scrubbed away enough deformities, several vanity cases approached the "Bloody witch" seeking your expertise for petty reasons. Like making a baby's eyes the color of their father, proving their legitimacy, removing moles, or clearing skin. Its around then you decide, after being paid for your beautifying services of course, that you had enough practice to return to Yuyi and return her to how she looked normally, bringing back her natural state, starting with her eyes. Since she seemed most upset about that.
Since if the rich and wealthy were seeking you out, it means word had spread a little too far of your services and beyond the ranks of those born unfortunate. And that meant word would spread beyond the mortal realm and into the world of cultivation. So, you made up a story of traveling to Ling territory in search of a certain lily to bolster and recharge the magic that fueled your spells to the last vain idiot who came to you, asking for help losing his prodigious belly without working to lose the weight himself. Which should cover up your trail and keep any of your fellow daoist from connecting this charity work to the mysterious crimson haired beauty who beat up two young masters in Suiqi or Huanliuxue.
<span class="mu-s"> Practice is its own reward. +12 to your next cultivation or training roll. +132 total </span>
Now all that's left to do is fix Yuyi! Which you do not waste time doing, though it takes some convincing, and the presence of her mate to get her to lie down on a table long enough for you to alchemically treat and alter her blood. He holds her hand tightly, and even despite your assurances, she winces and tenses up as you begin her treatment. It takes four hours from the beginning of her transformation for it to end, all the while she is ecstatic with a nervous energy, questioning and pestering you endlessly if "Its going to start to hurt now" and "Is it normal to feel a tingling?"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Thu 12 Jan 2023 17:58:24 No. 5528701 Report >>5528697 "Thank you! Thank you! Thank yoooou!" She cries, clinging to your legs and wetting your fur with her tears as you watch her hair dull back to brown and her fangs shrink into the blunt teeth. All that's left of her cat ears and tail, is shed scarlet fur. She'll need to cut and shave down her nails, but they should grow back normally when they grow back. Fill with pride and relief that Yuyi won't have any reason to hate you and is back to her normal, harmlessly meek self, you turn to leave her to celebrate her healing with her boyfriend and figure out how to balance without a tail, and learn that she still has the stronger body your possession gave her, just minus the outward feline features, since she hadn't complained about that change and it'd be a headache to figure out how to undo it anyways.
But she refuses to let go of your paw, and continues showering your praise and compliments. And not wanting to throw her or knock her off, you end up having to lay and endure her seemingly endless affection and now very much towering admiration towards you until she wears herself out and falls asleep against you. Which takes hours and spoils your mood, since you had not known it was possible to be overly praised and adored before now, and before Yuyi decided to hug you for the better part of a day.
It was pleasing at first, but it got dull, repetitive and eventually irritating. But, with Yuyi now sleeping soundly, you tell her mate what to look out for in case anything goes wrong with her treatment and how to contact you if something unexpected and unexplainable begins to happen to her during or after the amount of time you tell him to keep a close eye on her. Which is about a week, since if anything is to go wrong, you don't think it will happen after a week. But nothing will go wrong, cause you were the one who treated her!
Fu, Siwang, Hong, Lanfen and Liu should be returning with in a day or two, apparently. And you're very much excited to hear how their adventure went, since it was the first job your sect has carried out and you intend to record it down to the finest detail so the later generations of the sect can learn from their elders and ancestors success. And besides the historical role they've played, you're also curious exactly what it was that they found in those marshes. You have your own theories and guesses, but you told them to Fu and Siwang and the rest. For it to take an "Unexpected form", despite what you told them you thought it may be, rouses your curiosity.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Thu 12 Jan 2023 17:59:41 No. 5528705 Report >>5528701 What do you do Huanliuxue?
>Test Yuyi to see if, from the lingering changes to her body, she is capable of cultivation and if the possession and Primordial energy rush has in fact created a bloodline within her >Travel to the underworld with Yujijiao, and find the answers you seek with her, before the group returns from their quest, delaying now further >Wait for Siwang's party to return, so you can directly meet them and hear their report of this subjugation of the village eater, and meet the magical beasts they have saved >Decide to train Frog, Houmogui, Meiwei Zhurou and Yinying, and help them find the cultivation method that fits them the best...and give frog a real name (Training trial. DC 80) >that auction you heard about should still be going on. Might as well pay it a visit! >write in Anonymous
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>>5528705 >Test Yuyi to see if, from the lingering changes to her body, she is capable of cultivation and if the possession and Primordial energy rush has in fact created a bloodline within her I don't think it'll take too much time.
Also I wanna know why Yuyi ate her hair. I wanna knooooow!
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>>5528705 >Test Yuyi to see if, from the lingering changes to her body, she is capable of cultivation and if the possession and Primordial energy rush has in fact created a bloodline within her Anonymous
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>>5528705 >Test Yuyi to see if, from the lingering changes to her body, she is capable of cultivation and if the possession and Primordial energy rush has in fact created a bloodline within her >Decide to train Frog, Houmogui, Meiwei Zhurou and Yinying, and help them find the cultivation method that fits them the best...and give frog a real name (Training trial. DC 80) Also
>Pay a visit to Feiqing and ask how his training is going, and maybe tell him our idea for him to smith some Axes using the Grudge Gem for Fu on a later date when he gets in the next step of his Cultivation. I can't remember if any of our Students were near of finishing the Qi Condensation Stage, but I guess Fu, Qiang and maybe Feiqing are the ones really close to that Goal. For the moment I say we should tell our favorite Gorilla Son the idea of the Axes, for when he needs to maybe make a Breakthroug or something, because I believe these types of materials like the grudge gem and such are going to make things complicated when smithing.
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>>5528705 >Test Yuyi to see if, from the lingering changes to her body, she is capable of cultivation and if the possession and Primordial energy rush has in fact created a bloodline within her >>Travel to the underworld with Yujijiao, and find the answers you seek with her, before the group returns from their quest, delaying now further The first option shouldn’t take a long time based on prior tests. Also, two things to maybe look into later: diving deeper into the crypts now that scouting parties are being sent and, whenever we stop and finally do some cultivating and self-training, look deeper into how our blood qi affects emotions for either buffs or some kind of fear curse.
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>>5528705 >Test her >Then Go to the underworld. The others can get back later. No fatalities means it can wait
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>>5528705 >Test Yuyi to see if, from the lingering changes to her body, she is capable of cultivation and if the possession and Primordial energy rush has in fact created a bloodline within her >that auction you heard about should still be going on. Might as well pay it a visit! Anonymous
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>>5528705 >No more catgirl herald. I’m sad, but this is also safer.
>Test Yuyi >Travel to underworld. I don’t want to spend a day testing Yuyi. If confirming the bloodline would take a while, I’d settle for checking her cultivation potential and getting a move on.
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>>5528705 >Test Yuyi >Fun underworld adventure with Yuji Nice to see the old theory of Blood Qi being able to regulate/enhance/potentially curse people with emotions related to it's domains of passion and sorrow. Fear in particular being a primal instinct heavily influenced by perception.
An inspiration: Blood Spray Curses. Using our own blood we channel "emotional alterations" (fear, despair, sadness) with charged Blood Qi that we fire at an enemy. The heaviest effects have occurred with continual Qi channeling, so soaking an enemy with our own cursed blood will have that permeate through them. Double quick if they have open wounds. With not too few other fun potentials.
Can never have too many debuffs. I imagine it would take concentrated training session, so something for when we're free.
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>>5528705 Oh, and I may as well start a repeating list while we’re in the area of our home base:
>Bring up blood garden idea >Bring up star metal throne idea >Bring up beastmen village idea Anonymous
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>>5529120 The second isnt an idea, it's a command
Like the axes.
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>>5529120 I think a previous update said that there isn't enough metal for a throne.
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>>5529165 Odd, I couldn't find anything, but I swear I remember something like that.
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>>5529120 I'll +1 giving the order to Feqing to get started on our star metal throne. Hopefully others will too. We'll want it done before we advance further into the unconquered levels of the crypts anywho.
>>5529165 >>5529171 The closest I can find is Grandfather stating it didn't get enough consensus last time.
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>>5528705 >Test Yuyi to see if, from the lingering changes to her body, she is capable of cultivation and if the possession and Primordial energy rush has in fact created a bloodline within her >Wait for Siwang's party to return, so you can directly meet them and hear their report of this subjugation of the village eater, and meet the magical beasts they have saved Let's finish up with yuyi then settle all the new recruits at once so we can go to hell without unsolved problems.
>>5529120 What does a cat need a star metal throne for?
Besides huan would probably sit on it for five seconds before finding it uncomfortable and go sit in an ox sized cardboard box.
(Jokes aside does it help with cultivation?)
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>>5529254 You fool. You moron. You utterly incomprehensible buffoon. You frog in the well. You fork in the blunt draw, you plank of wood in the bra store, you broken light bulb on a chandler!
A cat needs a throne to house the living cushion who's knees she shall rest on and scratch!
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>>5529254 >(Jokes aside does it help with cultivation?) Honestly, I get the idea of the throne... But at the same time, it seem redundant and kinda dumb?
We already have something similar to a throne in this tomb, in the first floor ir I remember there is like a platform shaped like a Lotus where the Yin Qi was focused and one we used in our first time going for the dao of Ghost and Grudges.
With the Star metal that was (maybe) venerated for years by Demon cultist surely that has some special energy or something on it, and that mixed with the weird skull capable of bring Ghost and stuff to a village we can surely make something more powerful with the platform I said before.
Plus, it's going to be a pain in the ass trying to get that throne inside the tomb Feiqing makes it outside, and maybe even worse if we make him get into the tumb and furge it there.
But whatever. An idea I DO have is that, in a future when we conquest al the levels in there, we could make a huge system on all the levels where we can absorb all the Grudges from all the ghosts, from the deepest level to the top ones, but that is something more akin to a mid-late game, and if we don't choose to break the Tomb seal, and grant all those souls the freedom to join again to the Wheel of reincarnation (just to spit into the gods eyes and if there's no cosmic backlash from doing so)
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>>5529254 In general, rare Qi heavy, or just Qi sensitive, materials that align with the cultivators base [ghostly yin/metal/blood] in our case, greatly empower the potential of the one using it while they are cultivating qi. Once they're skillfully forged into a tool that increases even further, it also looks cool.
To contrast, it's like the difference between sitting on a 1992 office chair vs. a modern Herman Millar that also gives you easier access to the vital energies of the universe. The usage of the valuable and rare star metal whose elements and feng shui largely speak for themselves, in this instance, reveals itself simply.
As well, it will be a great compliment to our Yin Skull when we get around to our next session.
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>>5529319 >it seem redundant Oh on contrary, the more an alignment can be boosted the better. The gamey way to put it is more bonuses, greater result. And with better materials comes better cultivation, if they are proficiently applied. It's quite fundamental. Whether that's pills, heavenly cushions of fire made of infinite-yang dragon whiskers, arrays charged for a decade for one singular breakthrough, or star metal from voids opened in the sky by an angry grandpa, they all apply.
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>>5528705 >>Travel to the underworld with Yujijiao, and find the answers you seek with her, before the group returns from their quest, delaying now further No more delay! They'll be here when we get back.
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>>5528705 >Travel to the underworld with Yujijiao, and find the answers you seek with her, before the group returns from their quest, delaying now further Anonymous
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>>5528705 >>Travel to the underworld with Yujijiao, and find the answers you seek with her, before the group returns from their quest, delaying now further Anonymous
The food poisoning didn’t strike again did it?
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I can tally too!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Sun 15 Jan 2023 16:00:58 No. 5533425 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying the result now. Was worried I'd have to make you guys wait over the weekend.
Test Yuyi to see if, from the lingering changes to her body, she is capable of cultivation and if the possession and Primordial energy rush has in fact created a bloodline within her:10
Decide to train Frog, Houmogui, Meiwei Zhurou and Yinying, and help them find the cultivation method that fits them the best...and give frog a real name:1
Pay a visit to Feiqing and ask how his training is going, and maybe tell him our idea for him to smith some Axes using the Grudge Gem for Fu on a later date when he gets in the next step of his Cultivation:1
Travel to the underworld with Yujijiao, and find the answers you seek with her, before the group returns from their quest, delaying now further:8
that auction you heard about should still be going on. Might as well pay it a visit!:1
Bring up the blood garden, star jade throne, and beastman village ideas to your sect::2
Wait for Siwang's party to return, so you can directly meet them and hear their report of this subjugation of the village eater, and meet the magical beasts they have saved:1
So You'll test Yuyi tosee if she's the start of a bloodline/ can cultivate, with the help of Monu And then go to the underworld with Yujijiao to learn how a ghost may cultivate.
Update will arrive shortly
>>5533294 Actually I spilled tea on my keyboard and fried it. But I remembered I had a spare tucked away, after moping for a day or two!
>>5533303 Thanks for the assistance, my austere junior!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Sun 15 Jan 2023 16:58:58 No. 5533450 Report However that curiosity is trampled and swiftly buried by another thought fills your head right about when you have finished curing Yuyi of her "curse". And that is, if the remaining changes to her body that you couldn't remove or she simply didn't think or want to ask you to remove them have changed anything about the marrow of her bones and her spiritual roots! After all, having a soul as brilliant and potent as yours inhabiting her might've done a little more than just cause her to sprout fur, ears and a tail. And that's before you add on the additional primordial beast essence that saturated her flesh and blood after your successful stand against the hypocrisy and injustice of the fools up in the heavens above! It will only take a few, somewhat intrusive tests to see if your wayward curiosity of 'Huh, I wonder if anything else about her has changed, in a way I couldn't see with just my eyes and could not sense with just by scent alone' would be proved right or if it was just a fantasy that you allowed to grow too much and Yuyi would be condemned to live the droll, boring and safe life she wishes oh so dearly to live.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Sun 15 Jan 2023 16:59:59 No. 5533451 Report >>5533450 While Yuyi might be grateful, you think she might get upset and throw a fit if you start poking her with acupuncture needles so soon after telling her she was cured of her affliction. The mousey girl might suspect you were lying or didn't cure her entirely. And that'd be a real pain to deal with and explain away. That, and she might think you were trying to mess with her body secretly under the guise of a check up, which would be even more of a pain to deal with!
And besides the risk of Yuyi panicking and bolting or thinking you were tricking her, it'd also take awhile to do. While all you need to do with this vial of her blood is a few test in a alchemical cauldron, most of which you can do just by subtly manipulating the Qi in the blood, testing her potential to cultivate, at least how you know how to do it, would take awhile. Several hours, actually. And you've promised Yujijiao you'd take her down to hell without delaying further. To make her wait longer pursuing a petty whim and wild curiosity like this would be shameful.
So that is why, still holding the blood in your mouth, you go to ask your mother to do the harder work for you instead! And deal with convincing Meek little Yuyi to consent to having a bunch of needles jabbed into her and samples taken from various parts of her to measure her ability to cultivate, if there's any there now to begin with. You hope there is. It'd be sad to watch Yuyi grow old, frail and grey. Like Monu used to be herself! Though you won't dare to think that around her, just in case she can divine your thoughts with some spell or another. Heh-Heh-Heh.
"My ten times honored mother and teacher, Monu! How happy I am to see you" You chirp happily as you find her scowling over a cauldron of horrifically acidic looking and smelling liquid, that bubbles and spits as it corrodes and rusts the very nice alchemical cauldron and furnace she is using to boiling it
"Oh? I'd stay eleven paces back, my peerlessly beloved and esteemed disciple and daughter" She says with a cackle, sweat pouring down her face and bare chest "I'm concocting a poison to use as a base for a vicious little Gu poison. Not many know this, but you can ensure a Gu will be strong by lining the pot you use to make it with a viscous venom, boiled and mixed with several poisonous plants, and a Gu survivors blood. All of which I have, well, haven't added the last ingredient yet"
"Won't ignore a warning given by the poison fairy herself" You say, paw trembling as a twitch of fear rattles your body "if you're busy, I won't speak my request or linger for any longer than is safe"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Sun 15 Jan 2023 17:01:00 No. 5533454 Report >>5533451 "Oh? You have something to ask of me, sweetie?" She asked sweetly, yelping as she cut her palm and drove her hand into the center of the fiercely frothing Gu starter "I'm always willing and ready to put time aside to help my precious daughter, though I'd take four more steps back, I fear, with the subpar ingredients I've been able to scrounge up, there may be an explosion of...well, flesh melting toxin, Heh-heh-heh-heh!"
You do as your mother suggests, and indeed, the whole of the alchemy foundry is filled with the thick, bubbling, deadly liquid. But, it stops before pouring out into the hallway you were standing on,forming itself into the image of slithering serpents as Monu groans and flicks her wrist from beneath the acidic goo she is buried beneath. It crawls off her, and she flicks her tongue over her lips, frowning
"Damn. Need better materials. This could barely kill an elephant" She hisses, as the muck obediently flows back into her cauldron "So, as you were saying, what need do you have of me?"
"Uh? Could you check if Yuyi has the potential to cultivate? I have an inkling she may, now. And may possess a bloodline, which I was going to test just now...in one of our cleaner workshops" You say wincing as you saw the fumes rising from the cauldron
"Hmm. Well, I suppose I can. Not like I'm busy now" She grumbles, crossing her arms and pouting "And that'd be wise, this room will be somewhat lethal for...a few days?, I'll seal it, don't worry about it. I'd hate to be the killer of one of your remarkable students, my Huanliuxue. I'll drop by to give her a house visit and give her a full testing, down to the marrow of her bones and roots of her hair. Heh. Oh! Make sure to tell me if she does have a bloodline, that is something worth...spreading, Heh-heh"
"Don't slip anything into her or her mates food" You say, already guessing what your mother is guessing
"Oh, spoil sport" She sneers, as she skips out of the room, clumsily pulling up her robes to cover herself.
And with that done, you test Yuyi's blood. Using a thin, clay bowl, you empty the vial into it, mixing in grave ash and living ginseng roots, pounding it all together before heating it. Then, since paws don't work well for stirring and would wick up more of the blood mixture than they mix, you turn into your human form, and mix it with a single finger, pulsing and pouring as much blood Qi as the humble vessel can hold without breaking.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Sun 15 Jan 2023 17:02:17 No. 5533456 Report >>5533454 Then, you have to discard half the mixture, boil it down half again in a silver bowl, reduce it by half again, discarding a quarter, mixing in crushed spirit stones (luckily Monu left some of her smoking mixture, which you separated from the narcotic drugs she mixed it with, so you didn't have to dig into your sects wealth, however slightly), which you had turned into a paste with some of your sect's prized five harmonious elements spring water, then boiling in a gold bowl, before adding to a new glass vial and boiling until it was dry and turned into a powder.
Which you'd wet until it resembled ink, and draw it on a paper talisman, also dusted with spirit stone powder. And, if you did everything correctly, it'd react to the blood ink, and reveal her bloodline or lack of it.
If there was none, the paper would remain unchanged. If there was one, the ink would change color and shift into a shape symbolizing the bloodline present within the blood.
Excitedly, you set down you ink brush and press your hands against your cheeks, squirming in your chair and kicking your legs impatiently as you waited for the talisman to change. Leaning closer, eyes big and wide and sparkling with anticipation, you looked down at the paper and squealed in delight as the rusty ink turned bright green and swirled into the image of a curled and sleeping cat. You were right! She's the start of a bestial bloodline!
Crying out, so overjoyed your cheeks flushed, you hoped up from your chair and grabbed the talisman, grinning ear to ear triumphantly as you held it to your chest and hopped up and down to wind down from the manic glee to a more calm and dignified state of mind. Still smirking and smugly at that, you stowed the talisman away in the hem of your robs and left to fetch Yujijiao and head down into hell to seek out a source of knowledges so she could begin her cultivation, even if it wasn't Qi she'll be cultivating.
Oh, and to drop of your robes so they weren't torn and ruined when you turned back into a Demon cat!. Nearly forgot to do that first!
Where do you look for this forbidden knowledge with Yujijiao first, Huanliuxue?
>Check the bazaar and market place, trading a few souls might be enough to find a manual detailing ghostly cultivation/ evolution >Find that greedy pig Yi zhu and tell him to use his list of contacts, including the current master he is indebted to, to find what you seek >Maybe the old crow crone will now something about it, why not visit there manor and ask? >Find the strongest hungry ghost you dare approach and ask them if they know anything of the matter. >Risk entering the territory of dangerous and powerful Demons and monsters >Somewhere and some other way (Write in) Anonymous
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>>5533456 > Check the bazaar and market place, trading a few souls might be enough to find a manual detailing ghostly cultivation/evolution Although it's tempting to just do the entire list.
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>>5533456 >Check the bazaar and market place, trading a few souls might be enough to find a manual detailing ghostly cultivation/ evolution >Maybe the old crow crone will now something about it, why not visit there manor and ask? After all, we know that the Crow Demons learn stuff by eating the eyes of the corpses, it's logical that there's some kind of Crow Demon living librarian that have that kind of work of collect and write important information from important people, hell, there might be a whole Caste or demon noble that do that.
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>>5533486 I support.
We can try the market first, see if we have any beneficial tomes or reagents.
But the old crone should know much more.
And hey, how did that pig get back into the underworld? I thought he was hiding in the catacombs.
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>>5533554 Oh he's in the catacombs, but who knows in which part he's in. Maybe he go into the lower levels and have a new master, or maybe it stayed in this one. Or maybe grandpa just forgot about it
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>>5533456 >Maybe the old crow crone will now something about it, why not visit there manor and ask? Anonymous
>>5533456 >>5533486 Support.
Though we know she won't be there via meta, let's try both. We'll get to see who took the family's place!
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>>5533486 I agree with this, you have my vote.
Also if he's nearby we can enlist the pig as a guide, i feel he might worm his way in the deepest levels of the catacombs otherwise.
First a stroll to get an idea of what is available and the prices of souls, then to try and get in more exclusive circles for a special thing.
>>5533882 We know the crows got out via meta, but maybe they didn't linger too much and returned already.
We'll see.
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>>5533456 >Check the bazaar and market place, trading a few souls might be enough to find a manual detailing ghostly cultivation/ evolution Anonymous
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>>5533456 >Find that greedy pig Yi zhu and tell him to use his list of contacts, including the current master he is indebted to, to find what you seek Piggy owes us big time
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Tue 17 Jan 2023 13:56:55 No. 5535602 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote now, tallying the result.
Check the bazaar and market place, trading a few souls might be enough to find a manual detailing ghostly cultivation/evolution: 6
Maybe the old crow crone will now something about it, why not visit there manor and ask?:5
Find that greedy pig Yi zhu and tell him to use his list of contacts, including the current master he is indebted to, to find what you seek:1
So You'll first visit the bazaar, hoping that you'll find the answer to Yujijiao's problem there, and if nothing catches your eye, you'll then proceed to visit the Old crow crone and her widowed daughter to continue your search.
Update will arrive shortly
>>5533554 >>5533620 He ran there from the riots caused by the crow king's death. He could and did return, out of greed and fear of Xiongji trying to eat him, though he spends most of his time in the catacombs, cause even with the rooster general its a lot safer than hell for a fat pig like himself
. He is a pig spirit, rather than a pig ghost, after all.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Tue 17 Jan 2023 14:58:37 No. 5535647 Report "I forgot how bitterly, unrelentingly cold it was down here, or perhaps I never noticed confused and maddened as I was by the grudge of dying so young and so pointlessly" Yujijiao says meekly, voice trembling and weak as she slithers as close to you as she is able to, taking great efforts to keep her eyes from the lifeless grey skies above. But that just means she gets to instead gaze upon the everyday horrors and macabre landscape of the countryside of hell. Shambling, grey skinned ghosts that looked like nothing else besides the walking and rotting dead. Ghouls with taught red skin and bloated bellies, mismatched fangs hanging from their black lips and hunger roaring in their pit like eyes. Black brambles wrapped around bones both great and small, all that remains of petty sinners and great demon lords. Wisps of ghost like, bobbing through the air as they marched obediently to be judged and sentenced for their deeds both good and foul. To the young ghost of a serpent, it was a hellish festival, one that she only half remembered in the form of nightmarish visions and flickering memories.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Tue 17 Jan 2023 14:59:37 No. 5535650 Report >>5535647 Those who failed in their bid to take what had been the crow king's.
Though that creep's family were not the only noble house who ruled in this city, the sudden removal of their head had shaken up the established order and social ladder of the city quite marvelously. It brought a grimly satisfied smirk to your face to see how many of those bloody bones still had black feathers clinging to them, fluttering on the wind and blowing free like autumn leaves.
"How disgusting" Yujijiao muttered, as she passed under the still dripping cages "Like an open air meat market"
"You'll see enough of those ahead. Some of which are too offensive to describe. Serving the flesh of the unborn and other despicable delicacies" You growled, as the more unpleasant memories of hell returned to you "Let us be swift and keep away from anything that might drive me into a frenzy, shall we?"
"No argument here!" She said chipperly, now marveling at the sights of the city beyond the great gate of red lacquered wood, titanic skulls staring lifelessly down at you as the massive bell swings as if struck by a phantom hammer, ringing a most pleasantly eerie tune that resonates so fiercely it causes the buildings of black stone to shake and quiver as if they were made of thatch and timber. But the inhabitants of the city seem used to the ringing, even as it penetrates and quakes the earth. Demons, spirits, monsters and ghosts of all kind go about their day as the ground beneath them trembles and shifts.
And, almost instinctively, they part to allow you passage through the streets. Streets that seem to be undergoing repairs, and graced with banners unlike those that had been flown in these outer districts. The symbol of whoever replaced the slain crow king? They must be!
"But may I ask, where we are going?" She asks as you follow the scent of greed so potent it would persist beyond death, leading you from the more well maintained and outwardly pleasant streets into places that still bore the scars of the recent riots and were filled with those who were wicked even in hell. In fact, entering these slums, you spotted a few souls you beat and drained of Yin Qi when you first met Yi Zhu, who quickly scurry away and hide, turning into spirit orbs to try and escape your sight
"Oh. There's a market place through this district. Hopefully its become something of a black...er, blacker market considering this place's present circumstances" You say cheerfully, grinning widely to flash your fangs to scare away the one eyed devils who were leering at Yujijiao's horns and scales and your beautifully, magnificent fur "We might be able to find our answer there, and if not, at least something worth trading a few long dead souls for"
"Is this really the place for two noble ladies to be?" She whined, wrapping the end of her tail around yours to feel safety amongst the thugs and monstrous phantoms
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Tue 17 Jan 2023 15:00:49 No. 5535652 Report >>5535650 "Huanliuxue walks were she pleases, trampling anyone who gets in her way" You say, both to comfort Yujijiao and threaten the blackguards who think they'd be able to sneak up on the monarch of all cats "Besides we're almost out of this pigsty already? Can't you already smell the air becoming thick with exotic spices and musty old dust?"
Yujijiao's eyes widened with a pure, child like wonder as she lifted her horned head and saw the colorful and lively street ahead, just beyond the ruins of the slums, seeming like some sort of a festival in the middle of an abandoned battleground. With dancers with mutilated legs replaced with golden spears, merchants wrapped in luxuriantly dyed silks with finger bones and teeth polished to resemble gemstones woven into their garments, and devils in human guise walking amongst the truly human beggars and entertainers. Musicians of both mortal and demonic natures play their songs, creating a chaotic mess of sounds. Sorrowful, cheerful, violent and soothing all at once.
Vendors hawked their wares, shouting and arguing to try and get each passerby's attention, while food stalls roasted limbs and organs, from the recognizably human to meats whose origin was unknown to you, pale blue and white and still twitching.
"Stay close to me, my disciple, this is the kingdom of swindlers and conmen" You warn, padding through the street, listening to grease bubble and pop almost as if in rhythm with the four armed drummer nearby
What do you buy, Huanliuxue? (108 sinner souls, 44 trapped souls, 1 pious soul and 1 emperor soul to trade)
>There's a dignified building of strange design, that judging from the wares outside of it, sells manuals, scriptures and scrolls. Oddly, there's a sign that says one only has to pay to enter the shop, then can take whatever they can carry...(Price, 16 sinners souls. Treasure hunting/ Luck roll. Higher number = better results) >Strange fruit shaped like pale white skulls that the vendor tells you can gather Life energy or the breath of the living and store it inside its seed (Price. 4 sinner souls per fruit) >A wardrobe filled with robes and dresses in current underworld fashion, all shades of red, white and pink and made with the finest corpseburrowing silkworm silk! (Price. 10 sinner souls) >A mummified heart that when held beats and delivers the secrets within to the holder, by altering the flow of their blood to "whisper" a message (Price. 2 souls. A manual of demonic cultivation) >A demon's egg/seed. You're told when it hatches/sprouts the demon reborn from it will be loyal to the first face it meets, even to the point of killing itself if ordered to (Price. 2, 4, 8 or 10 sinner souls. Paying more for higher quality) >Bah! This is all garbage! Waste no more time here and go to the crow crone's manor, she'll have what you seek, surely >Search longer, looking for something specific (Write in! Price determined by the quality, rarity and capabilities of the item.) Anonymous
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>>5535652 >There's a dignified building of strange design, that judging from the wares outside of it, sells manuals, scriptures and scrolls. Oddly, there's a sign that says one only has to pay to enter the shop, then can take whatever they can carry...(Price, 16 sinners souls. Treasure hunting/ Luck roll. Higher number = better results) >A wardrobe filled with robes and dresses in current underworld fashion, all shades of red, white and pink and made with the finest corpseburrowing silkworm silk! (Price. 10 sinner souls) Anonymous
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>>5535652 >There's a dignified building of strange design, that judging from the wares outside of it, sells manuals, scriptures and scrolls. Oddly, there's a sign that says one only has to pay to enter the shop, then can take whatever they can carry...(Price, 16 sinners souls. Treasure hunting/ Luck roll. Higher number = better results) Anonymous
Guys, I think that the Skull fruit might help our girl, but we need to exorcise the Soul Eating Dao book we have to at least read, and rewrite so they can benefit Yuji without making her a soul eating monster.
Anonymous
>>5535681 I'm against getting more followers.
Those we already have haven't yet even received proper characterization.
Anonymous
>>5535652 >There's a dignified building of strange design, that judging from the wares outside of it, sells manuals, scriptures and scrolls. Oddly, there's a sign that says one only has to pay to enter the shop, then can take whatever they can carry...(Price, 16 sinners souls. Treasure hunting/ Luck roll. Higher number = better results) >A wardrobe filled with robes and dresses in current underworld fashion, all shades of red, white and pink and made with the finest corpseburrowing silkworm silk! (Price. 10 sinner souls) >A demon's egg/seed. You're told when it hatches/sprouts the demon reborn from it will be loyal to the first face it meets, even to the point of killing itself if ordered to (Price. 10 sinner souls) Highest quality.
>Strange fruit shaped like pale white skulls that the vendor tells you can gather Life energy or the breath of the living and store it inside its seed (Price. 4 sinner souls per fruit) 2
The fruit and the demon is for research. Study a true demon's nature, their karma and qi roots. The process of rebirth of a soul into a demon could help if our dao of Life and Death. Also could be a good sparing partner for Ping.
And the fruit is because ghost can teal life energy and breath, so studying it could help.
Anonymous
>>5535689 I support this arrangement.
Always test our luck, because why not. I also want the demon seed for later. As either gift or ethereal helper.
Maybe a fickle whim, like teaching an evil creature to do good. Like a savage child into a nobleman.
Anonymous
>>5535652 >There's a dignified building of strange design, that judging from the wares outside of it, sells manuals, scriptures and scrolls. Oddly, there's a sign that says one only has to pay to enter the shop, then can take whatever they can carry...(Price, 16 sinners souls. Treasure hunting/ Luck roll. Higher number = better results) I do love a good mystery box
>A wardrobe filled with robes and dresses in current underworld fashion, all shades of red, white and pink and made with the finest corpseburrowing silkworm silk! (Price. 10 sinner souls) Gotta have style.
>Strange fruit shaped like pale white skulls that the vendor tells you can gather Life energy or the breath of the living and store it inside its seed (Price. 4 sinner souls per fruit) If we don't find anything promising inside let's pick up 2-3 of these as a research project.
Anonymous
>>5535681 A book like that would be nice. But I do really want something for our Dao.
Our actual dao if grudges and ghosts. Something for the break through and all that. I just struggle to think what.
Anonymous
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>>5535652 >There's a dignified building of strange design, that judging from the wares outside of it, sells manuals, scriptures and scrolls. Oddly, there's a sign that says one only has to pay to enter the shop, then can take whatever they can carry...(Price, 16 sinners souls. Treasure hunting/ Luck roll. Higher number = better results) >Strange fruit shaped like pale white skulls that the vendor tells you can gather Life energy or the breath of the living and store it inside its seed (Price. 4 sinner souls per fruit) 4.
>A wardrobe filled with robes and dresses in current underworld fashion, all shades of red, white and pink and made with the finest corpseburrowing silkworm silk! (Price. 10 sinner souls) Total price of this is 42 sinner souls, leaving 66, which is a good 'smooth' number in chinese. Make things easy.
Huanliuxue has better luck than most, and she's still borrowing clothes. The fruit is a good lead on cultivation aid for Yujijiao, though not exactly a full blown method like we want.
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>>5535652 >There's a dignified building of strange design, that judging from the wares outside of it, sells manuals, scriptures and scrolls. Oddly, there's a sign that says one only has to pay to enter the shop, then can take whatever they can carry... Mystery box.
>A mummified heart that when held beats and delivers the secrets within to the holder, by altering the flow of their blood to "whisper" a message (Price. 2 souls. A manual of demonic cultivation) We should be able to reverse-engineer this and learn how to transmit blood messages as well.
>Strange fruit shaped like pale white skulls that the vendor tells you can gather Life energy or the breath of the living and store it inside its seed (Price. 4 sinner souls per fruit) Any way we can test this before buying? Having one might be useful for researching the mechanism.
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>A compendium of demons and their attributes. Something to help us figure out what is in our disciple Lei.
>A trinket that Ping can train his exorcism skills with. Might be something like a sealing jar with multiple layers of defenses. Goal would be to exorcise the Qi contained within without destroying the jar. Since it’s for training, the various layers would need to be activated/deactivated as needed to make the task easier or harder. Not optimistic on this one.
>Anything on cultivating plants with Blood Qi. Not something to look hard for, but may as well.
>Exorcism manuals If it does exist, I imagine it’d be fairly cheap. Not like the techniques would work for most people here anymore. Might be that demons still collect them as a way of guarding against exorcists in the living realm though.
Anonymous
>>5535652 Oh, one more thought.
>Find the services of a seamstress. I don’t want to wear hell fashion, it gives the wrong impression. But I think we could sacrifice some of our fur to make something for our human form to wear. We just need someone who can weave it into a dress.
We can order more later when our fur has regrown and we’re certain of the quality.
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>>5535732 a vote for the
>Compendium of devils and demons Anonymous
>>5535689 Adding to my vote
>A compendium of demons and their attributes. >A trinket that Ping can train his exorcism skills with. This one in case getting the egg doesn't win
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>>5535652 >There's a dignified... ...pay to enter the shop, then can take whatever they can carry. (Price, 16 sinners souls. Treasure hunting/ Luck roll.) >Strange fruit shaped like pale white skulls. (Price 4 sinner souls per fruit.) At least two. Maybe three. These sound like a fun alchemy component for even our own dao. Many pills could be enhanced by a "filled" seed. The fruit itself as well would be fun to experiment with. Or perhaps even planted to grow in an appropriate place after nurturing.
>A mummified heart that when held beats and delivers the secrets. (Price. 2 souls. A manual of demonic cultivation) >A compendium of demons and their attributes. Especially good idea. I recall Huan wanting to know the exact differences between devils during the tournament.
>Anything on cultivating plants with Blood Qi. >A trinket that Ping can train his exorcism skills with. Superb or specialized knowledge will have its costs but hey we're the only true blood qi cultivator that we know of. If anyone can sniff out a book on it in hell it's us.
>>5535790 also big +1. A cultivator wearing hell fashion is suspicious as heck, we'd have to change every time we want to scheme or deceive, which isn't hard since we have the gourd but eh. A cultivating beauty wearing luxurious magical beast fur is much less that, and more speaks to the hunting capabilities/wealth and dignity of a cultivator not to be messed with.
Anonymous
>>5535684 I feel similarly to this.
Indeed as well, if we're to gain demonic servants for our sect or non-cultivating assistants that are more able and dynamic than Monu's puppets I think we should make them ourselves. I have some ideas for that but it depends on our research, Yujijao, blood qi details, and the particulars of binding techniques and our control of ghosts.
Functionally, any halfwit can make a zombie or lure an angry ghost into a corpse and they're effectively the same as a puppet, but they're kinda gross and need degrees of direct management to make them "safe" around people.
And now that we've expanded with more students it's our basic workforce that needs attention. I'm not sure getting a whole cadre of outer disciples as a basic workforce really suits us. Call it a need for independence, but I think we shouldn't rely on mother's puppets. And because if we can go further beyond, we'll make her proud too.
Because what we have is a whole kingdom of ghosts, and the lands outside our catacombs are replete with them wherever we've walked, they're already loyal and they're not demons. So long as we can make something that functions as a better body. (not necessarily made from human corpses, even some nightmarish combinations of mutated animals given thumbs or blood qi braced skeletons may permit it) Then we can bind our already loyal dead and gain as many intelligent low-maintenance assistants as we'll ever need, including the skills and experiences they had in living.
The gate of challenge to pass through is beyond "ghostly possession" and beyond "zombie", and the balancing act of passion aspects and grudges tying souls to life, even false life. For servants like that, we only need a physical vessel through which they can act without suffering needlessly.
It's not something suited to Yuji or reviving the dead; only an ideal stopgap for our loyal dead. Where, if we're successful, we'll have constructed approximate flesh vessels that can bind souls with their own spiritual attachments (grudges and otherwise), synchronized to the appropriate passions and sorrows imbued via blood qi into the body, bringing the act quite far from simple possession and away from the failings of the traditional madness that ghosts inevitably fall into.
The best mechanical metaphor I can think of is imagine a sealing jar, but instead it's a body, and the binding method involves that souls' specific sympathies instead of fighting against it.
I initially believed it should be possible with well treated skeletons, maybe even stone or base puppets, but Blood Qi permits the possible extensions of allowing a soul to feel through a fleshly body, and in that case the benefits to the ghost and its ability to function as a servant are plenty.
Anonymous
>>5535880 Theoretically, it should prevent a soul from gaining a deep hatred/hunger towards the living by consequence of possessing dead flesh, or being forcibly bound against their will into an object/plant/edifice that only tangentially relates to them thereby creating a monster. I do imagine there's quite a Qi cost to arranging such an alignment; the basic qualifier is an expert pure blood qi cultivator who understands grudges and can see into the deep qualities of souls.
Using either living or (let's be frank, we're not depopulating a village for experimentation) dead humans/mutated animals as the beginning ingredient to spiritually bypass the considerable defects associated with being a ghost requires that "made-from-scratch" precision reversal of our Severing of the Eternal soul and Mortal vessel technique, which is where the potential came from.
Since we understand how little difference there is between the living and dead, we can suitably balance a body to a ghost, preventing its fall into madness and creating incredibly effective servants. Hangups that could be dangerous for others in our sect based on loyalty or innate spiritual needs no longer being risks, too.
Although creating what will effectively be far higher tier undead is certainly an act of demonic cultivation, and spitting directly in the face of heaven by remolding those who should pass from the world into less tortuous unlife, I believe it would be excellent research and suit our sect and many of our future needs.
If you're on a phone I'm sorry, text walls etc. Anonymous
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>>5535880 >>5535882 I quite like the idea, but I want to break through before beginning to engage with the research. The stronger we are, the more likely we can get Monarch of Phantom Butterflies, which will make the ghosts loyal proper and permenantly, as they will never outstrip our strength.
Hence bindings of loyalty will no longer be required.
Anonymous
>>5535748 IVE ACTUALLY GOT AN IDEA.
it will sound like a shitpost, but a grudge oriented artifact, the equal to the Yin horned skull.
The book of Grudges, soaked and suffused with the grudges of the most PETTY lineage to ever breathe! Seething grudges against everything and anyone, sufficient to drive many a man insane from the seething anger or dizzy them with the amounts
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>>5535740 I'll gladly add a demon compendium to my vote, and switch to seeking out a personal tailor, no need to use someone else's style.
Anonymous
>>5535964 Was the lineage petty because they were very short?
Anonymous
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>>5536003 Very short in stature, but their lineage was long and broad as the roots of a mountain that peirce heavens and grounded earth.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>5535790 Wearing dress made from your own hair is a weirdo move. We shouldn't buy anything overly demonic as well though, maybe just some succubus gear or something...
Anonymous
>>5536121 >succubus gear ...for which form?
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>>5535652 >There's a dignified building of strange design, that judging from the wares outside of it, sells manuals, scriptures and scrolls. Oddly, there's a sign that says one only has to pay to enter the shop, then can take whatever they can carry...(Price, 16 sinners souls. Treasure hunting/ Luck roll. Higher number = better results) >Strange fruit shaped like pale white skulls that the vendor tells you can gather Life energy or the breath of the living and store it inside its seed (Price. 4 sinner souls per fruit) Anonymous
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>>5536404 Possessed catgirl yuyi
Time to make kittens with her boytoy.
That bestial lineage won't be making itself anytime soon otherwise
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anons, you're DUMB!!1!
It's obvious we aren't going to use our new hellish wardrobe while walking outside in the view of mortals and cultivators. The plan is to buy this Hell clothes, and buy much more clothes later!
I'm talking about dresses for each Season, jewlry, dresses for different occasions end events, and also dresses with different color schemes than the red/pink/white. I'm thinking on Black with a pattern for clouds in dark grey and silver, like the Akatsuki but the pattern going all the way around the dress.
But yeah.
>>5535652 +1 to
>>5535689 >>5535801 Anonymous
>>5536763 I've thought thoroughly about your argument and my final thought is yes. It's not like we don't have money, technically. We don't lack for opportunity to get more souls either.
Get all the clothes, fashion specific to every realm & occasion. Limits are for the lesser!
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>>5536763 >>5536901 You are correct, we are an empress, our wardrobe must be unparalleled.
So the only correct course of action is to both buy the hell clothes and find a seamstress.
Anonymous
And might as well count while I'm here>Votes - 12 >Shop - 12 >Wardrobe - 9 >Seamstress - 4 >Heart - 1 >Demon - 5 >Fruit - 10 >Compedium - 8 >Blood gardening - 3 >Exorcism Trinket - 5 >Exorcism manual - 1 >Grudge Book - 2
Anonymous
>>5536928 the ? is if an anon only talked about what they thought, not directly voted or supported, so I'm not sure if it's what they wanted or if it would count.
>>5535681 >>5535964 >>5536901 the * is because of me voting for more things right now
Had to separate into two posts because 4chan said it was too many lines
Anonymous
>>5536930 Oh, I already supported a vote, look
>>5536763 I linked Grandfather last post and below the post I supported. But know also add me into the votes for
>Seamstress >Exorcism Manual I doubt the exorcism manual goes through, but either way i'm gonna support it so we can help Ping to finally exorcise the demon out of our mask-wearing friend
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>>5536957 I just now noticed I counted you twice
Anonymous
Ok, after fixing things, it should look like this>Votes - 11 >Shop - 11 >Wardrobe - 8 >Seamstress - 5 >Heart - 1 >Demon - 4 >Fruit - 9 >Compedium - 7 >Blood gardening - 3 >Exorcism Trinket - 5 >Exorcism manual - 2 >Grudge Book - 2
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>>5535652 >>There's a dignified building of strange design, that judging from the wares outside of it, sells manuals, scriptures and scrolls. Oddly, there's a sign that says one only has to pay to enter the shop, then can take whatever they can carry...(Price, 16 sinners souls. Treasure hunting/ Luck roll. Higher number = better results) >Strange fruit shaped like pale white skulls that the vendor tells you can gather Life energy or the breath of the living and store it inside its seed (Price. 4 sinner souls per fruit) 2 or 3 work fine
>A mummified heart that when held beats and delivers the secrets within to the holder, by altering the flow of their blood to "whisper" a message (Price. 2 souls. A manual of demonic cultivation) Anonymous
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>>5535652 >There's a dignified building of strange design, that judging from the wares outside of it, sells manuals, scriptures and scrolls. Oddly, there's a sign that says one only has to pay to enter the shop, then can take whatever they can carry...(Price, 16 sinners souls. Treasure hunting/ Luck roll. Higher number = better results) >Strange fruit shaped like pale white skulls that the vendor tells you can gather Life energy or the breath of the living and store it inside its seed (Price. 4 sinner souls per fruit) >A wardrobe filled with robes and dresses in current underworld fashion, all shades of red, white and pink and made with the finest corpseburrowing silkworm silk! (Price. 10 sinner souls) Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 20 Jan 2023 18:27:14 No. 5539255 Report Ending the vote, tallying the result now. Was a little busy, sorry for the wait.
There's a dignified building of strange design, that judging from the wares outside of it, sells manuals, scriptures and scrolls. Oddly, there's a sign that says one only has to pay to enter the shop, then can take whatever they can carry.:13
A wardrobe filled with robes and dresses in current underworld fashion, all shades of red, white and pink and made with the finest corpseburrowing silkworm silk! :7
A demon's egg/seed. You're told when it hatches/sprouts the demon reborn from it will be loyal to the first face it meets, even to the point of killing itself if ordered to :4
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Highest quality::4
Strange fruit shaped like pale white skulls that the vendor tells you can gather Life energy or the breath of the living and store it inside its seed:11
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1:4
2:6
3:2
4:1
A mummified heart that when held beats and delivers the secrets within to the holder, by altering the flow of their blood to "whisper" a message:3
A compendium of demons and their attributes.:7
A trinket that Ping can train his exorcism skills with.:5
Anything on cultivating plants with Blood Qi.:2
Exorcism manuals:2
Find the services of a seamstress.: 5
The book of grudges: 2
So with 13 votes You'll...
Pay for the entrance fee to the manual shop (16 sinner souls)
buy two strange fruit (8 sinner souls)
Purchase a wardrobe of hellish robes and dress (10 sinner souls)
and snag a compendium of Demons and their attributes (Two trapped souls)
Leaving you with 42 trapped souls, and 74 Sinner's souls.
Update will arrive shortly
>>5536928 >>5536970 thank you once again for aiding me in my quest to tally votes, brave junior
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 20 Jan 2023 19:55:04 No. 5539324 Report >>5539255 You move through the market like a whirlwind, intoxicated by the aroma of unearthly spices and festival like atmosphere you move from stall carried by curiosity and whim, only staying long enough to see the vendors trying desperately to keep your attention and swindle or pry the souls you've won from you in exchange for baubles bright, services secretive and medicines mysterious. Yujijiao as you commanded, stays close to your side as you rush between stalls, pestering competitors of how exactly their fried viscera is better or schooling quack herbalists in the supposed benefits of their extractions, teas and poultices. Clearly, this pulls several of the mercantile devils and spirits to their wits end and the edge of outrage and fury, but they bite their tongue and swallow their pride, knowing at a glance that you're nobility of a kind and thus fabulously wealthy and worth the irritation to deal with. Which makes it all the sweet when you leave their store and hear them sigh and grind their teeth, drained of their energy and patience as another sight or sound catches your attention.
But some of the wares being offered manage to take hold of it longer than others. Long enough for you to listen and inspect what is being offered to and converse with the sellers who hold them out to you, weaving tales and sharing accounts of the lengths they went to come into possession of the treasure they're offering for sell, the extent of their uses that if written on a scroll would stretch all the way to the horizon and the supreme quality that would make you the envy of the highest rungs of hells nobility and draw jealous glances from even the gods in the nine heavens themselves!
"Oh yes, I see you have the intuition of a gardener, young lady. Such a rare hobby amongst the elite, especially amongst one of clearly imperial stock such as yourself" A eyeless creature says, voice buzzing with the sort of flattering flies give to corpses as they rub their blubbery four fingered hands together, smacking their pale purple lips and leaning closer to you "Those skull shaped fruit you've been inspecting oh so carefully and gently, are a most prized variety, known not only for their elegant blooms and the beautiful shape of their branches, but also the soothing aroma of moldering bones that rises from their ripe skin"
"I sense they are rich in Qi" You say with a curious excitement "Are they good for cultivating, like spirit fruit from the mortal realm"
"Pcch" The bloated thing sucks on its lips, in a dramatic show of disdain "Oh they'd be wasted as such a resource! These are the Deviant Breath Stealing Grave Plums! They absorb life energy around them, from the soil and grass, the air and water and can even steal away the breath of the living, then it is stored inside of its seed, and condenced and made rich with its pale syrup! Eating them before they've began to rot and fester with the energy of the lives they have taken is...pcch"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 20 Jan 2023 19:56:04 No. 5539325 Report >>5539324 "An utter waste!" The thing exclaims frantically, throwing up their arms as you watch in quiet fascination "I take it from the quickening of your breath, you are interested in purchasing it? To start an orchard of your own perhaps? Personally, I use the juices to make wine, with a truly exquisite aroma and hissing sound, that sounds of the wailing of the tortured dead!"
"Even without eyes you're a perceptive one. Yes! I'll take two!" You shouted quite happily, before giving the bag filled with the fruit to be carried by Yujijiao before leaving the fruit seller to preen and coo over the eight caged souls of villains you handed over in exchange for the miraculous fruits!
Still perky and bubbly with glee from your steal of a purchase, another merchant managed to be interesting enough to catch your eye and call you over.
"I can smell human in you, girly" The moth spirit says, fanning out its wings as you stride over, smirking and revealing your human side to them, and causing your student now small distress as she hurriedly wrapped around you to preserve your dignity "Ah! I knew it! Such a rare scent could only come from the gentry of the devils, the recently dead or the ones lucky enough to snag themselves a still squirming meal from the mortal realm! But you are neither, are you girly, you reek of beast and man in equal portions! Oh such a curious customer! I'd be honored to offer you the finest of my wares, fresh from the loom of my partner, the Lady Spider Demon herself!"
You tilt your head, saying nothing as the moth that walked like a man gave a gloomy look to you, its attenna and wings drooping
"Oh, you haven't heard of her" She whimpered, rubbing her chitinous hands together "She is one of the thousands of daughters of Queen Widow herself. She is quite the artisan, but also crippling shy and prone to solitude! I am the only one who she trusts to sell her art!"
"You can weave spider webs into silk?" You ask curiously as Yujijiao hisses and acts intimidating to scare away any prying or perverted eyes as you browse the moth's wardrobe and are immediately struck silent with awe, dazzled by the softness, flexibility and smoothness of the cloth inside
"Oh, no. Demon Web silk is better used for weaponry. These are all a hundred percent corpse burrowing silk worm silk, of the highest quality of course, fed on only the richest of hosts and hatched from a monk's skull!" The moth says excitedly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 20 Jan 2023 19:57:05 No. 5539326 Report >>5539325 "This season, she has dyed all of it in pigments derived from spirit blood, soul stealing cherry blossom petals and bone ash. All in the style of the latest fashion of the lowest courts of devilry. The demonic elite are clamoring for silk like this, girly! See how it shimmers in the gravelight of the passing ghost flames? Does it not enchant every sense! But there is no hex or magic within this cloth, girly, it is all natural beauty that captivates you! Why, with your own jade-like looks, you'd make even the flawless goddesses above seem as plain as village girls with ruddy, sun baked and freckled skin!"
"Pretty" you sigh, running your hand down a long sash of a dress, patterned with stitching in the shape of cobwebs and bleeding bones, before turning to look down the sleeve of daoist robe, nearly the same shade of scarlet as your own, peerlessly beautiful fur, with shimmering scenes of laughing and howling demons in the midst of a stampede or hunt upon it, but when it was turned, the scene became a depiction of a breathtakingly gorgeous landscape of a forest filled with hanged men and women. When the sleeve was turned rapidly, the two scenes were joined to create a macabre, moving picture that quite delighted and entertained you
"Yessss..yess. Very pretty!" The moth purred, leaning closer to grab the sleeve from you "But you can't touch without.."
"How much for the whole collection?" You ask with calm dignity, flicking a stray lock of hair from your eyes and crossing your arms under your chest as you lifted it and smirk "The wardrobe itself included?"
"Uh..uh" The moth gasped in panic "It is all very expensive, I wouldn't beggar a young maid such as yourself, it'd weigh on this bug's consciousness. But, if you won't be swayed, as I can tell by the fierce look in your eyes and that killing intent rising from me wasting time fretting about the weight of your wallet...ten souls of the most repugnant of men, sinners and..."
"Done" You chirp, grinning smugly as you reached for the dimensional gourd at your side "Which do you think I should wear first, Yujiiiii? Oh! should wait until I have them adjusted to my sizes!"
"I...I am a rich woman!" The moth muttered wearily as you handed over the soul cages, and they looked them over adoringly "I..I will give my letter of recommendation to Lady Spider Demon, personally! She will adore making the acquaintance of a young lady with such rarefied tastes as yourself"
"Hmm, the white, grey and pink one with butterfly patterning looks nice!" She says after a moment of consideration after you return followed the giddy moth to get your new clothes fitted to you and you present each of them to her
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 20 Jan 2023 19:58:06 No. 5539327 Report >>5539326 "A daring choice" The moth says and you have to agree, it is made to hang loosely over the chest and is short enough to expose most of your legs and some of your thighs, yet, the sleeves are long enough to conceal your hands and droop, which reminds you of the posture of a jiangshi's own stiff hands and arms "Would you like to wear the off white, grey or pink belt with it? And what about the sash?"
"Pink and white?" You say, frowning as you watch the spirit tie the sash into a bow behind your back, shaped like a butterfly's wings "I don't think this will be one of my favorites. But maybe it will grow on me"
"If it doesn't, you've bought more clothes than Sister Lanfen owns" Yujijiao says, sounding regretabbly impressed "I'd say you could go a year before you'd need to wash any of them, if only because you have enough dresses and robes to fill each day of that year without having to repeat once"
"That is...a bit of an exaggeration" The moth says meekly "And please, make sure to wash them regularly, dust will stain them"
"I am a cat, cleanliness is second nature to me. Tell that spider demon she makes fantastic clothing, and I can't wait to meet the master seamstress herself" You say both happily and proudly as you strut from the clothing shop into the street, ready to show of your new clothes to the undeserving masses. You could almost become drunk on the number of compliments you're given, just walking down the street, and you do get a bit distracted by the fawning of ghosts, spirits and devils, and the jealous glares as well. You wave off some young demon girls who come up to you, trying to make friends with you, and then nearly stumble as some one jostles past you, in quite a furious state.
Yujijiao nearly bites the ghosts head off, and you nearly take him by the throat before seeing he didn't dirty your fresh robes
"What's your problem, bastard!" You growl, grabbing him instead by the shoulder. He turns around, eyes filled with tears
"I've been conned, I wasted all my fortune and got this useless book!' he cries out, grinding his teeth and stomping his foot "That damned library took me for all I was worth, and all I got in return was a compendium of demon breeds and clans! Utterly useless! Such knowledge is useless to me! This won't bring me back to life, and how could I even use it against those monsters to begin with"
"Are you willing to part with it?" You ask sweetly, leaning closer and blinking slowly to try and charm the bitter man into selling the treasure he's mistaken for trash to you
"For no less than two souls, not those of sinners or villains!" He says after a moment of thought, with a weasel's shrewdness in his eyes "But those of ordinary folk, with pure hearts"
"We have a deal" You say and he nearly faints
"B..buh you aren't messing with me?" he asks dreamily
You nod, and show him the souls he asked for,
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 20 Jan 2023 19:59:07 No. 5539330 Report >>5539327 He takes them from your hands, holding them close to his chest and shoves the book into your chest. If you were the ghost of an ordinary girl, he would've pushed you off your feet. But you stand unmoved as he cackles manically and rushes off, cawing like a lunatic and leaving you with a heavy manual in your hands.
"Odd fellow" You say cheekily as Yujijiao drools venom and blood, clearly furious with his manner towards you
<span class="mu-s"> Tally of purchases. 2 Deviant Breath Stealing Grave Plums. A Wardrobe filled with robes and dresses in demonic/ underworld styles, made of the finest silk of the yellow springs. A compendium of demons and their attribute, the Record of Demonic Races [实录的天魔人种, Shílùdītiānmórénzhǒng], a Divine Relic Tier forbidden Manual </span>
"But he didn't tell me where the library he got it from was!" You shout angrily, stomping your foot in frustration after you had safely stowed the book away in your wardrobe filled with demon's clothing and stuffed that in your dimensional gourd
And almost as if it were summoned, a queer building stood before you now. In a strange, unusual style, with broad windows of glass, barred with iron rods and an oddly shaped roof of tiles of strange grey clay, and a door with a rounded ball of metal protruding from an bronze lock . Judging from the wares outside of it, it was the scripture or manual shop the ghost you had ran into had just left. And above the door hung a sign, stating the rules of the establishment
"For sixteen wicked souls, one may enter and take whatever they may carry out from this humble bookstore" You read outloud, turning to Yujijiao, before shrugging your shoulders and walking up to the door. It took you a minute to figure out you needed to turn the ball of metal to open the door. And the moment you did, a gnarled, ghastly white hand reached out and turned over, awaiting payment
Which you gave, before stepping inside, alone.
<span class="mu-s"> Roll 1d100. Best out of 4 </span>
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Rolled 48 (1d100) >>5539330 Anonymous
Rolled 96 (1d100) >>5539330 Anonymous
Rolled 50 (1d100) >>5539330 Anonymous
Rolled 70 (1d100) >>5539330 Book of cat ancestors when?
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>>5539339 >>5539340 >>5539344 >>5539346 The average roll between all of these was 66. A fortuitous(?) sign.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 20 Jan 2023 20:25:02 No. 5539354 Report >>5539340 A tremendous success!
96
Priceless treasure or treasures, Divine in Quality and worth more than its weight and jade. Something wars would be declared over! An artifact which would make its owners renowned just for possessing it.
Update will arrive shortly
>>5539348 Cats are lucky creatures....
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>>5539354 Nice
Hopefully we can teach ghost snek with it
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>>5539354 >Priceless treasure or treasures, Divine in Quality and worth more than its weight and jade. Something wars would be declared over! An artifact which would make its owners renowned just for possessing it. Awww shet, we made it boys.
And after this, idk the rest but I'm going to write-in a vote for us the get the Demon Seed. I still want our baby demon, plus, now that I think about it, once Ping tell us about his encounter with Xuebai and her boytoy, we might learn a thing or two if this Demon Egg/Seed are somewhat equal in nature. After all, I say it might give us something useful to understand this process and all that jazz.
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>>5539361 Seems anons don't want more characters
So RIP plan for getting the demon to be research material, sparring partner or Ping's pokemon
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>>5539368 I'm not really against it per se, so long as it isn't huan's responsibility to care for it.
I guess it would be ok and not character bloat if it became an ancillary of ping or another of our followers, perhaps Monu would like a personal servant?
>96 Is it perhaps the diary of the demonic cat spirit that served as the demon lord lieutenant?
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 20 Jan 2023 21:18:15 No. 5539403 Report And are surprised to not meet some gaunt, ghoulish corpse with a physique like a dead willow tree standing hunched inside the crampedness of an overstocked, unorganized library, but rather a forest, ancient and still. Or rather a fragment of one, stones dirt and all drifting through an astral void of stars and the stuff of space, glittering dust and nebulas of color that drift like great cosmic rivers through an void of black painted with distant planets and blazing suns. You cover your eyes, as a chill even you can't ignore bites through your skin, past your flesh to seep into your bones. When you yelp in discomfort, there is no noise. Only quiet. Your footsteps do not echo, as you take a hesitant step forward into the alien landscape that is completely disconnected from the world you were standing moments ago, save for the wooden door with the ball of metal attached to it by some kind of turning rod. Rocks drift up from the forested path leading deeper into the depths of the night sky and the abyss of the cosmos. The reveal spirit stones on their undersides, glittering and bright blue to light your way as mushroom's spore and flower pollen hang in the air and irritate your eyes and nose.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 20 Jan 2023 21:19:17 No. 5539404 Report >>5539403 You freeze, refusing to believe that you saw that ghastly pale arm that reached from the door beckoning your forward from the corner of your sight. You close your eyes, panic quieting all thoughts and questions and scouring your mind clean of any thought besides getting out of this secret realm as swiftly as you could.
You opened your eyes! Planning to run forward, pull the manuals free from their binding chains and then sprint as fast as your legs could carry you back to the door and leap through it before you saw anything else that filled you with such shameful fear but.
The moment you opened your eyes. You were back in the bazaar, freezing, trembling all over and covered in cold sweat. A hand touched your shoulder and you started, turned around.
And saw an empty alley way behind yourself. Struggling not to hyperventilate and to keep cool and calm, to not lose your composure in confusion and blind animal panic. You turned back around to see Yujijiao, looking concerned for you but saying nothing.
And for manuals in your hands, still covered with astral frost.
"What the fuck!" You shriek dropping them and pulling at your hair as a jolt of a prey's terror and adrenaline swam out of your heart and into your veins, feeling like a knife being thrust into your chest
<span class="mu-s"> Plunder from the Hidden Realm.
The Famine of Breath (Ghostly Cultivation Law, Manual. No elemental alignment. Unique. Evolution and Curse focused.) (饥饿的气, Jī'èdīqì)
Last Will of a Heaven's defying Smith (最后遗嘱的一个天 违拗工匠, Zuìhòuyízhǔdīyīgetiānwéi'àogōngjiàng) (A scripture detailing the last days and testament of an ancient artifact maker, a cultivator whom refused immortality. You do not recognize his name from any record of history, and the will is coded and protected by powerful spells. But the little you can read, resembles an old story you remember, of the creation of a man devouring sword with a mind of its own. This book would seem a variation of that old ghost story except...it appears to have a shopping list for the materials to create such an artifact. Unique)
Bloodstained letter, addressed to "The future Heiress". (Sealed by a wax infused with primordial beast energy. Feels as heavy as a large book, despite being the size of an ordinary letter. Contents are a mystery, but you feel a deeply bitter nostalgia looking upon the age yellowed envelope. Unique)
Huanliuxue's Scripture (欢流血佛书, Huanliuxuefóshū. A manual bound in red leather, with a cat paw shaped clasp with a ghost and a drop of blood on two of its paw pads. It seems to be a collection of your known and practicied techniques and spells as well as your history!?, and judging from how the ink is still wet on the last entry, and how red it is, it is somehow connected to you spiritually and updates itself. What...what is this?! Unique) </span>
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Fri 20 Jan 2023 21:20:18 No. 5539405 Report >>5539404 What do you do now, Huanliuxue? <span class="mu-s"> Two options can be taken </span>
>Thoroughly freaked out, return home and allow Yujijiao to practice to the Famine of Breath cultivation method after shifting through it to make sure it isn't a trap >Search for that shop, in something of a mania. >Decide that you must've imagined all that or hit your head on something, and go visit The Crow Crone to calm your nerves and see if she knows an alternative means of ghost cultivation >Open the letter >Visit the Lady Spider Demon, and see about commissioning more clothing from her >Test out the limits of Huanliuxue's scripture, to figure out the rules of the honestly unsettling book. >write in Anonymous
>>5539405 >Visit the Lady Spider Demon, and see about commissioning more clothing from her >Open the letter >Buy the highest quality demon egg We had time travel shenanigans, bloodline memories. Soul linked stuff and prophecies wouldn't be that weird, so no need to freak out.
I voted for three things because I don't expect the egg option to win.
Anyway, the smithing book goes to Feiqing. Just got to make sure the ting isn't cursed and would take over his mind or something.
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>>5539404 >Open the letter Clearly a message from a cat ancestor who foresaw what would happen to beasts and left a message for us. Possibly all the items!
>Visit the Lady Spider Demon, and see about commissioning more clothing from her. This is normal. This involves demons, not spooky ghost shit. It is well known that Huan, a practitioner of her own self-taught dao of ghosts and grudges, is much better at dealing with demons than with ghosts. One is clearly in her wheelhouse, while the other is not.
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>>5539405 >Open the letter >Visit the Lady Spider Demon, and see about commissioning more clothing from her >Buy the highest quality demon egg Anonymous
>>5539405 >Visit the Lady Spider Demon, and see about commissioning more clothing from her >Buy the highest quality demon egg I feel that the letter and the scriptures of Huan should be check out in our home, honestly. Tho the scriptures we need to read only our early lives, I don't want Huan to see something of the future and feel paranoia by some tragic event, unless it writes from our present and has nothing from the future.
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>>5539405 I am. . . So freaked out.
I will add the Manuel's to the pastebin, but I shall wait to see what the letter says before adding it.
I support
>>5539413 but make the stipulation to my fellow anons that this demon is to be a gift to either our mother or a favoured student.
Not ours.
Ping seems the most natural choice, but I think Wushing could be a genuinely good pick too.
Of another note, Fequing was trying to do this exact shit with the sword when he was plotting against the emperor. So he would probably be very happy with the knowledge, especially given his affinity for metal.
>>5539443 It's self updating and contains our CURRENT history and styles. It doesn't tell the future.
Anonymous
>>5539405 >Open the letter >Test out the limits of Huanliuxue's scripture, to figure out the rules of the honestly unsettling book. If anything, it could be used as a means of instant communication from us back to our sect.
>Do not buy any demon eggs lest we start forgetting the names of our sect members Anonymous
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>>5539405 >Visit the Lady Spider Demon, and see about commissioning more clothing from her This to calm our nerves with a courtesy visit to a creature too shy to probe our unsettlement.
And then:
>go visit The Crow Crone and see if she knows an alternative means of ghost cultivation, perhaps even subtly probe her on rumours about the library. Anonymous
>>5539405 >>Visit the Lady Spider Demon, and see about commissioning more clothing from her >Open the letter I don't think people should be able to recapitulate a past vote
Anonymous
>>5539711 actually don't count me for opening the letter. it feels deeply appropriate for Huanliuxue to feel scared of it and leave it off until later.
Anonymous
>>5539713 Then what's your second action?
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Unless you want to do one thing I guess.
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>>5539405 >Open the letter Maybe we'll get a plot throwback to the demon lord mentioned in thread 1.
>Visit the Lady Spider Demon, and see about commissioning more clothing from her Anonymous
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>>5539405 What the god damn fuck.
>Thoroughly freaked out, return home and allow Yujijiao to practice to the Famine of Breath cultivation method after shifting through it to make sure it isn't a trap > Open the letter Anonymous
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>we met god and saw some freaky stuff: neato >we met [REDACTED] and saw some freaky stuff:
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>>5539521 Then we find out the book is literally just this thread and Huanliuxue is left wondering what an anon is.
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>>5539405 >Open the letter >>5539405 >Test out the limits of Huanliuxue's scripture, to figure out the rules of the honestly unsettling book. Anonymous
>>5539405 >Visit the Lady Spider Demon >Open the letter Well that was horrifying, time to store that away in the same place we put that time we time paradoxed ourselves.
>>5539521 I’ll be honest, I can only half remember our lower tier human students
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>>5541712 The demon egg is already eating your memories, and we haven’t even bought it yet! It’s clearly too dangerous to purchase.
Anonymous
>>5541714 I kind want Grandfather to add memory eating demons on the compendium now. I feels like something that would exist in a cultivation world.
Anonymous
>>5541737 How else do so many forbidden and hidden treasure cultivation manuals wind in up hell? There's probably an entire industry formed around brain sucking demons with printing presses making mad bank on souls down here.
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>>5541875 I'd bet it's also an influence play combined with the natural circumstances. The heavens forbade an incredible amount of stuff. A combination of cultivators demonic, heretical, and otherwise wanting to secure their own knowledge with demons and devils knowing the basic economics of power means a lot of that stuff had to at some point either end up in hell, or get destroyed, and or sit inside a consecrated archive deep within the heaven's honored sects.
Increasing their value and giving various parts of hell even more reasons to hoard dangerous knowledge, as it's just the right kind of bait for any scheme or unwise young master.
...Perhaps even dishonorable cultivators in "righteous" sects are pilfering their own clans hidden libraries or vaults of treasurable knowledge and making premium trades with them.
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>>5539715 oh I didn't even realize it was pick two, I was just approval voting on habit. put me down for
>Search for that shop, in something of a mania. Anonymous
It's not three days yet, but I'm counting anyway>Votes - 12 >Spider - 9 >Letter - 9 >Crow - 1 >Home - 1 >Scripture - 2 >Shop - 1 >Egg - 4 >No Egg - 1
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>>5542014 >Warn me if I made any mistakes She would have said yes.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 23 Jan 2023 05:03:30 No. 5542227 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote now
>>5542014 Thank you junior for doing the tallying in my stead
So you'll visit Lady Spider Demon, and see about commissioning more clothing from her. And while you wait to be granted an audience with her, open up the mysterious letter addressed to the "Future Heiress"
Update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 23 Jan 2023 06:51:36 No. 5542286 Report It took sometime for calm to return to your heart and chase out the instinctual and blind panic rippling through every drop of blood in your veins. You accomplish this, by meditating of course amongst the ghosts who, entranced by your ethereal, otherwordly beauty, crowd around you and allow you to sup on the Yin Qi that radiates from and makes up their being. The comforting chill of the crypt and the bones within is an anchor sturdy enough for you to center your mine upon and thus command serenity out of the maelstrom of terror and dread born of the unexplainable experience you had just been "Fortunate" to experience first hand. Deciding that allowing yourself to be overwhelmed and cowed by something that sounds like it came straight from a bad ghost story and that the panic that was spurned by the mysterious shop and the realm in the stars behind it is beneath you, you compose yourself easily and return to your usual, confident and supremely dignified and elegant self.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 23 Jan 2023 06:52:37 No. 5542287 Report >>5542286 "Good girl" You cooed, patting her head "Lead the way, and don't dally or else I shall become cross with you and might even think you look down on us two princesses of wild royalty"
"of course! I know the quickest route to her lair! I'll waste no time taking you there!" The moth says, taking the sky, so you follow her, with your specter lightness skill and Yujijiao turning into her ghost light form of faint and flickering flame.
The spirit leads you to the outskirts of the city, to a ramshackle rundown manor covered in spider webs that hang and droop heavily with the yellowed bones of demons and rotting corpses feasted upon by lesser spider demons and crows, who pluck at their eyes and chew through their festering skin and sinew to feast on the venom and decay melted muscles and bone beneath.
"May I wait outside?" Yujijiao says with a tremble in both her voice and tail "I don't think I can muster the courage to walk into such a terrifying place. My instincts are screaming if I go even a little further, I'll be ensnared and devoured"
"Funny, mine are completely quiet, and all I can think is, this spider sure knows how to decorate their home" You titter, hiding your laughing mouth and smile behind the hanging sleeves of your robe, trying to ease your disciples worries with a carefree attitude
"Do not worry, she doesn't eat ghosts, only other demons" The moth said, catching on that you were trying to comfort your frightened student "Heizhizhu (黑蜘蛛, Dark Spider) Anjing-Yinshi (安靜-隐士, Quiet Hermit, will be much more scared of you than you could be of her"
"That sounds like an art name, is she too shy to share her given name?" You ask curiously, small talking the spirit to keep the mood from darkening more than it has for Yujijiao
"She is ashamed of it. Her mother isn't...the most creative when it comes to naming sense" She says meekly, pulling at her antenna "It should not take me longer than the time it takes to eat a meal to rouse her and prepare her for guests"
"Are we really going to wait under this forest of corpses and bones?" Yujijiao asked in revulsion "Its unpleasant"
You bit your tongue to keep from scolding and reminding her that she was just as ghastly looking as the decayed bodies hanging above your heads
"You can wander away if you feel safer away from this manor, but stay close" You sigh, shaking your head
"Oh thank you! Your kindness knows no bounds, elder sister!" Yujiao shouted as she turned into a ball of ghostly fire and zipped away from the macabre lauder you were content to sit under.
Now alone, and with nothing better to do, the harmless curiosity that remained after your unexplainable experience in the vanishing manual store returned. The letter addressed to the future heiress and stained with still warm blood, why, that had to be meant for you. And you really wanted to see why it weighed as much as a manual or scripture despite being as thin as any other brief letter.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 23 Jan 2023 06:53:38 No. 5542288 Report Quoted By:
>>5542287 So, glancing around to make sure none of the young spiders were getting nosey, you pulled the letter from your sleeve and spent awhile figuring out how to get it open.
The wax seal wouldn't tear and neither would the yellowed paper of the envelope, despite feeling frail and decayed. It wasn't until, by chance, you cut your finger on its soft edge and in pulling the injured digit away from the letter, jostled the first drop of blood shed from the scratch onto the wax seal, that the letter was unsealed. The wax melted away, disintegrating into light the hue of oily green jade, and a rush of Primordial Beast Essence flowed out from it and the now open letter, which pulled itself out of its envelope and hung by its own power in the air above you as the envelope turned to the dust it should've become ages before.
The writing on it glowed crimson, scarlet and carmine. after blinking once or twice to make sure your eyes weren't playing tricks on you, you read the clearly magical note while trying your best not to bask and revel in the rich bestial essence flowing from it like blood from a wound.
"To the future heiress of our sealed and buried legacy, whose visage greets me as I take my last breath, I greet you and wish you good fortune and health though centuries separate my death from your birth and offer you a boon to spite the ambitious curs whom have cut me down and shall soon genocide all of our kind and lock away our histories to create their own self serving myth of these final days of the reign of the Demon Empress Zhìzūn-Móxīn (至尊-魔心, Supreme Devil Mind). I know we ascendant beasts, who have been the greatest heroes and worst villains of the world of cultivation, shall be remembered as demons and devils, rejected from the world we were brought into and shielded with our lives like any daoist born of man, many of whom had fallen at our sides and wept at our deaths as we did theres"
You frowned, the grudge smoldering against the heavens and the orthodoxy of cultivation that you hosted within your self began to kindle and grow.
"Perhaps you already will know this, perhaps you are the sole magical beast to rise after their slaughter of our kind, leading a lonely and roaming life in a world tricked into despising you. Perhaps you are simply the first of a new generation. I know not. But as a spear stolen from the hands of a mourning man turned grieving god, I see your fierce feline eyes, and know one day I and all those who shall die after me, shall be avenged. And I am content in that, relieved even perhaps, but I cannot muster the anger to feel triumph or malice as the vision of your whiskered face and blood red fur fades from my eyes, and I see once more the sneering, hate filled eyes of my killers. In place of anger, I feel sorrow. Disappointment. When so many great heroes have died, born from all manner of beast and men, that greed and ambition would win out in the end"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 23 Jan 2023 06:55:11 No. 5542290 Report The letter grows, unfurling as it becomes longer and yet longer
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 23 Jan 2023 06:56:13 No. 5542292 Report >>5542290 Your eyes watered, as grudge clouds poured past your clenched teeth and burned your lips and eyes as they blanketed around you and surrounded your head, blinding you to all but the words on the letter
"And know, you aren't alone. Even if we are all dead, our legacy lives on through the essence in your beast core, the Qi you were born possessing and the noble blood in your veins!" The letter read once you were able to tear your eyes away from the Ling ancestor's revolting visage "You are our retribution, our avenger, our vengeance made manifest, our dying curses born into flesh! And know, I am proud of you, whoever you are, whether you are a villain or a hero. And that I shall support you, with the treasures I still possess and the insights I have gleamed in my long life, as many as I can preserve as my mind dies and my soul departs. I shall bind them to a will, an trust fate to guide you to it. May you be the inheritor to all our will and fury! May you carry on the Dream of Ling Wucai"
Your mind went blank, as this off hand mention of the Five colors emperor's true name brought to your mind quiet the revelation.
He was the true ancestor of all of the Ling. And he was married to a Demon, the most powerful and terrible one to ever crawl from hell. The Lings, then, were descendants of demons or at least half demons. A Ling was one of the five members of the conspiracy to kill off the Beast cultivators and seal away their history, after the war between the hordes of Moxin and the Righteous Sects had resulted in the cultivators of the old era being all but wiped out, and you wouldn't put it past five villains to kill their own kind if it meant those too young to remember when beasts became men and fought beside them would believe their bullshit completely.
A crooked smile spread upon your face, filled with malice and dark delight. The Ling Clan had a dark and terrible secret. You might not be able to prove to the world that they Five Sages were the true villains in history, or that Demonic beasts were not actually demons, or any of the other secret truths you know about the world of ten generations past. But you would be able to expose the Ling's Lineage.
Because you were the sole possessor of pure blood Qi, the only type of Qi that could reveal this dirty little secret, that had been made forbidden before Moxin herself came to wreck havoc and drown the world in blood!
"And make it reality. I don't know if you're my descendant, his or if you are indeed descended from any of the great beast heroes who have fallen and shall fall in the days to come. But, I know, with all of my being, you are the one who shall set things right. How ironic
That the first of the betrayed and the Heir of true history, were both once humble house-cats and pets. She whose fur has been died by the blood of the innocent and betrayed, I entrust to you my will and treasures. May your right this injustice"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Mon 23 Jan 2023 06:57:17 No. 5542295 Report >>5542292 The letter unraveled, becoming incomprehensible as its writer finally died and their scrambled stream of consciousness rambled on for hundreds of pages before abruptly ending as they died, their words becoming confused mewling as their mind, terrified of its end, sought shelter in its earliest memories. When they were but a spoiled kitten. A kitten who you see as their final thought paints a picture of them sitting on the lap of a horned woman, whose face was blurred, a casualty of fading memory.
And, out of the letter, fell a small jade chest. Half black and half white, just like the kitten itself. Carved with dragons and phoenixes, with a single paw pad seal on the front. You moved to open it, when you heard the Moth girl calling your name
"Huanliuxue! Huanliuxue! Anjing has agreed to meet you in her parlor!" She cried out joyously, as if she had just been given a stay of execution.
<span class="mu-s"> Double Vote </span>
What do you find in the small jade chest, the inheritance trusted to you
>A pill of Concentrated Primordial Beast Essence and Heavenly Qi! A medicine of beyond Divine or Heavenly Tier! A peerless cultivation Material! >A Manual containing the forgotten martial techniques of beasts and the magic of the wildborn! And the secrets of Beast Evolution! >A Sect Token and map to the gates of several hidden realms and treasure vaults that it can unlock! >An Ancient Weapon Artifact. A Jian, with a pattern in its steel of cat's paws and a black and white tassel of silk hanging from its pommel. Bloody hand prints stain the wood of its grip and its guard is ornate, depicting two cats chasing yarn. It is also possessed by an incredibly powerful grudge and can channel the energy of enmity like QI! And what do you commission from Lady Spider Demon, Huanliuxue? <span class="mu-s"> Can order multiples </span>
>Many sets of normal Daoists robes of the regular styles preferred by most Sects. Choose to make the colors of your sect Red and Pink, and get enough for all of your disciples to wear + sashes for your beast students. Yours will of course be made of finer materials (20 Sinner souls) >Dresses, jewelry and accessories of all kind combining imperial dress and the fur of beasts to create a proper wardrobe for a Wild princess such as yourself (5 Trapped souls) > See about getting a few Sect Banner made, so you can fly your symbol proudly throughout your territory (4 Sinner souls) >Sets of exotic and foreign garb, of the styles worn by the nomadic tribes of the desert, the mysterious dwellers of distant jungles and the queer sea farers. Could be useful for disguises! (15 sinner souls) >Get armor made of her own silk (20 Trapped souls) >write in Anonymous
>>5542295 >A Sect Token and map to the gates of several hidden realms and treasure vaults that it can unlock! Anonymous
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>>5542306 And I'm ambivalent about the second vote.
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>>5542295 >>A Manual containing the forgotten martial techniques of beasts and the magic of the wildborn! And the secrets of Beast Evolution! I am having trouble picking between this and the sect token. This is a guarantee of truly forgotten history and the other is a chance for much more and varied glories. But I'm sure most of those old places have been ransacked or sought out and destroyed. Those bastard gods have had a long time to ordain their destruction after all. So I'm picking the safe option.
> See about getting a few Sect Banner made, so you can fly your symbol proudly throughout your territory (4 Sinner souls) >Get armor made of her own silk (20 Trapped souls) I'm honestly not too into having actual uniforms for our sect. We should have a theme and colors of course but being as we are the embodiment of unorthodoxy it just feels wrong to me to ape orthodox sects and their often pointless adherence to conformity.
That's just me though. No shade to anyone who does want real uniforms. Uniforms can be pretty cool.
Anonymous
We've got 42 trapped souls, and 74 Sinner's souls.
>>5542295 >A Manual containing forgotten tehniques of beasts and magic of the wildborn. I don't think I will ever not pick a manual. This one even reveals evolution secrets.
>Many sets of daoist robes >Sect banner >Get armour made from her silk [Ideally it fits both forms, but if not then have it for our human form.] Anonymous
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>>5542295 >A Manual containing the forgotten martial techniques of beasts and the magic of the wildborn! And the secrets of Beast Evolution! Many sets of normal Daoists robes of the regular styles preferred by most Sects. Choose to make the colors of your sect Red and Pink, and get enough for all of your disciples to wear + sashes for your beast students. Yours will of course be made of finer materials (20 Sinner souls)
See about getting a few Sect Banner made, so you can fly your symbol proudly throughout your territory (4 Sinner souls)
Get armor made of her own silk (20 Trapped souls)
Anonymous
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>>5542295 Oh my. All this juicy Ling lore, as well as the prospect of one day killing the one who called themself a god.
>A Sect Token and map to the gates of several hidden realms and treasure vaults that it can unlock! multiples
Mystery box!
>Many sets of normal Daoists robes of the regular styles preferred by most Sects. Choose to make the colors of your sect Red and Pink, and get enough for all of your disciples to wear + sashes for your beast students. Yours will of course be made of finer materials (20 Sinner souls) > See about getting a few Sect Banner made, so you can fly your symbol proudly throughout your territory (4 Sinner souls) Anonymous
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>>5542295 >A Manual containing the forgotten martial techniques of beasts and the magic of the wildborn! And the secrets of Beast Evolution! >Many sets of normal Daoists robes of the regular styles preferred by most Sects. Choose to make the colors of your sect Red and Pink, and get enough for all of your disciples to wear + sashes for your beast students. Yours will of course be made of finer materials (20 Sinner souls) >Get armor made of her own silk (20 Trapped souls) Figured armore would be cool
Anonymous
>>5542295 >A Sect Token and map to the gates of several hidden realms and treasure vaults that it can unlock! I want the manual, but this probably has greater payoff.
For the spider,
>Many sets of normal Daoists robes of the regular styles preferred by most Sects. Choose to make the colors of your sect Red and Pink, and get enough for all of your disciples to wear + sashes for your beast students. Yours will of course be made of finer materials (20 Sinner souls) >Dresses, jewelry and accessories of all kind combining imperial dress and the fur of beasts to create a proper wardrobe for a Wild princess such as yourself (5 Trapped souls) > See about getting a few Sect Banner made, so you can fly your symbol proudly throughout your territory (4 Sinner souls) >Get armor made of her own silk (20 Trapped souls) >Ask her if there’s anything else she can think of for the mortal realm’s first bestial princess in centuries! Everything but the exotic ones. I want a (relatively) trustworthy partner here in hell because Pig ain’t trustworthy, and we have souls to spare.
Anonymous
>>5542313 To add here, I don't want the daoist robes to be our uniform. It's not compulsory to wear. As
>>5542312 says, our strength is in our none conformity.
So the sashes for the "uniform" is what I'd like, that or a cloak of some kind. You can wear it but you typically need to wear something to preserve modesty.
I just want the daoist robes to give as gifts to our students and sect. All the realms know that they have shit taste.
Anonymous
>>5542517 I’d back this caveat. Cheaper overall I’d imagine, but it serves a practical vision so skimping isn’t the main reason.
Anonymous
>>5542524 It's not gonna be cheaper, it should be roughly the same price given we would still be acquiring daoist robes.
Anonymous
>>5542544 Ah, I misread that you didn’t want the same volume of robes. I was think a smaller robe collection offset by sashes and cloaks. Like they would be allowed to wear/acquire their own “uniform” as long as they kept the sash/cloak instead.
Anonymous
>>5542576 Yes, the "wear what you want but have a sash on" is the idea I'm presenting. But I still want them to be gifted "proper" robes, because that way we know that they have something nice to wear. Because they all have terrible fashion taste, Fu wears bandages. BANDAGES!
I also want to spoil our children a bit, sue me. Anonymous
>>5542596 How about a mix of robes and more exotic attire? Let our spider friend express some creativity with the outfits.
We can outline the general demeanor and characteristics of each member of the sect and have her tailor a more personalized wardrobe for each one. They’ll will be a much smaller “catch-all” bucket for new members to use.
It implies we’d be back for more business, which spider lady should like.
Anonymous
>>5542616 Ooooh, that's nice. I also am fully in with allowing an artist to be an artist. You go to them because you like their flair, not to rigidly dictate your vision.
Anonymous
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>>5542619 Not to mention, What designer doesn't like a unique challenge?
Some artists only get different measures of the same dimensions, different tones of skin.
This spider gets to forge fashion for all the various bodies and metrics of the wildborn.
Anonymous
>>5542295 >A Manual containing the forgotten martial techniques of beasts and the magic of the wildborn! And the secrets of Beast Evolution! >Many sets of normal Daoists robes of the regular styles preferred by most Sects. Choose to make the colors of your sect Red and Pink, and get enough for all of your disciples to wear + sashes for your beast students. Yours will of course be made of finer materials (20 Sinner souls) >Dresses, jewelry and accessories of all kind combining imperial dress and the fur of beasts to create a proper wardrobe for a Wild princess such as yourself (5 Trapped souls) > See about getting a few Sect Banner made, so you can fly your symbol proudly throughout your territory (4 Sinner souls) Anonymous
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>>5542650 I think that the old god might not actually be the five color emperor, because Huan would noticed the trademarked Ling eyes. Unless it came from the mother sides.
Also, lmao at the ogress actually being an ogress. No wonder the Ling had acess to forbidden cultivation, they are descendant from the demon queen and one of the great betrayers. The ice sect is probably another of the big one isn't it?
So one of the first beasts was the demon empress' cat, and the other was the five color emperor's ox? Or am I remembering who ascended the ox wrong?
Anonymous
>>5542295 >A Manual containing the forgotten martial techniques of beasts and the magic of the wildborn! And the secrets of Beast Evolution! Knowledge made by and for beasts is going to be difficult to find elsewhere.
Anonymous
>>5542295 >>5542507 Updating my spider vote. Daoist robes are out, replaced by the following write-in:
>Many sets of sashes or cloaks with our sect’s colors, red and pink, along with a small number of daoist robes for new inductees. For our existing sect members, we will describe them to the spider seamstress and allow her to fashion the rest of their wardrobe per her own whims that she believes would suit our students. It should appeal to her inner (and outer) artist to be given free reign. The rough number of outfits should be similar to the original outfit choice.
Backing from
>>5542619 should mean that
>>5542313 gets a similar update to replace the general outfits with the write-in. The rest of their vote stands unaltered, of course.
Anonymous
>>5542295 >A Manual containing the forgotten martial techniques of beasts and the magic of the wildborn! And the secrets of Beast Evolution! I worry about how much fate is tipping in our favor, boss fountain style. Feels like we need to learn more stuff to meaningfully and powerfully stylize our already strong basic techniques before we get paid a visit by a not so young not so weak master.
This happens to be the choice that will help our entire sect and save us and our disciples time in creating and recreating arts which suit them, and the research into beast evolution we'd wanted to do so long ago.
>Sect Banners Cool shit nuff said.
>Silk Armor Keeping in mind armor made from demonic silks could be added to over time, provided we obtain suitable materials, and we don't manage to go up against an opponent who will ruin it. I don't know if we could have it transform with us, but hey, if it costs more souls to do that then spend spend spend.
for the
>>5542674 +1 this. I wanna see what a demon artist can accomplish when given that extra push towards creativity.
Anonymous
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>>5542702 Acktshully, with the silk armor...
Would anyone else be willing to use materials we already have to make it greater from the get-go?
The White Fur Awakened Bear hide feels like a good compliment to our human looks. Something else too if it might work, though we've been shy on using things.
Anonymous
>>5542295 Early count since I like to include write-ins early so people see they exist.
Votes: 9 treasure, 8 spider
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Treasure votes:
>Sect Token 3 2MZTDnfk
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>Manual 6 2MZTDnfk
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Spider votes:
>Daoist robes 4 td1CsGDb
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>Royal dresses for Huan 2 dNK3Upb9
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>Banner 7 0MQDKF2I
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>Armor 6 0MQDKF2I
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>Write-in: Customized wardrobe for disciples, sashes/cloaks in our colors, smaller number of daoist robes for future new disciples. 3 m43wNMK2
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Anonymous
>>5542737 >Choose to make the colors of your sect Red and Pink Didn't we encounter a cultivator who already was wearing these colors?
Should we maybe destroy his sect?
Anonymous
>>5542799 I was mirroring what Grandfather included. I remember pink as our color honestly, I don’t remember the red.
Anonymous
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>>5542817 Red and white goes well with pink anyway.
>>5542737 >>5542674 >>5542650 I can support your write-in of customized clothing plus spares
Anonymous
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>>5542295 Juicy indeed!
>A Sect Token and map to the gates of several hidden realms and treasure vaults that it can unlock! >Many sets of normal Daoists robes of the regular styles preferred by most Sects. Choose to make the colors of your sect Red and Pink, and get enough for all of your disciples to wear + sashes for your beast students. Yours will of course be made of finer materials (20 Sinner souls) >Dresses, jewelry and accessories of all kind combining imperial dress and the fur of beasts to create a proper wardrobe for a Wild princess such as yourself (5 Trapped souls) > See about getting a few Sect Banner made, so you can fly your symbol proudly throughout your territory (4 Sinner souls) Anonymous
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>>5542674 After more thorough reading I'll also switch to this write - in. And I'll add that the robes are gifts but not a uniform and we won't enforce any kind of dresscode unless for special events. We have our colors but if a student prefers sulky blue for everyday wearthat's completely fine.
Anonymous
Why do we have so few votes for royal dresses? Was this not the reason we came here in the first place? Plus it's just a 5er...
Anonymous
>>5542956 Banners and Armour is better.
Anonymous
>>5542958 It's not exclusive from eachother
Anonymous
>>5542970 It isn't, but by supporting it, you lower the chances of other preffered votes getting through.
Anonymous
>>5542972 It’s based on total voters, so adding to your own vote doesn’t hurt anything else you voted for. I don’t understand this counterpoint.
Anonymous
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>>5542295 >A Manual containing the forgotten martial techniques of beasts and the magic of the wildborn! And the secrets of Beast Evolution! knowing about the process of beast evolution would allow us to eventually elevate all our students in a safe manner. Those we have now and any future ones we pick up.
Anonymous
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>>5543043 Visibility of options.
One amongst a group is lost, concentrate to 2 or three, and people see it as they read. Even speed scrolling they see the majority pick an option and subconsiously agree that if so many are doing it, it must have value.
It's why first past the post tends to set the theme for the vote to follow. Anyway, let me math out my expenses.
[modified write in] should come to about the same cost, so 20 sinner souls.
Sect banner is 4 sinner souls,
armour is 20 trapped souls.
So remaining cost is 22 trapped souls and 50 sinners souls. Trapped souls seem to have greater value than sinners.
Eh fuck it. we can afford it, money is for spending.
>Add dresses and jewels to >>5542313 Anonymous
>>5542295 >A pill of Concentrated Primordial Beast Essence and Heavenly Qi! A medicine of beyond Divine or Heavenly Tier! A peerless cultivation Material! A lot of goodies here but while the manual would be good for the whole sect cultivation is king and huan needs to stand on par with the gods to contest them.
I just hope you guys are better than me with consumables because i never use them in games.
>buy everything As for what dresses to buy just splurge on everything, we can always conquer the deeper levels of the tomb for more souls and the emperor soul is worth a fortune on it's own.
Anonymous
>>5542956 Because sometimes baby mommas want to spoil their childrens, and it's nice to give ours a gift, in form of a sash or hood to give them an identity of our secret Sect
Anonymous
>>5543215 But buying the gifts does not impede buying the jewelry.
I can understand not buying it to save money or just not wanting the dress
I didn't vote for the armor simply because want Feiqinq to forge one for us instead, afterall , but the other options just don't makes sense as a reason when we can pick as many as we want in this vote.
Anonymous
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>>5543215 So just vote (almost) all of the above like I did!
Anonymous
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>>5543230 Oh, and I also didn't vote for the exotic clothes, completely forgot it was even an option.
Don't remember why I didn't, maybe I didn't think it would be that useful or like it would be too much
Anonymous
>>5542295 Oh, one more thing!
>Get Yuyi a couple dresses. Getting her a lot would be a waste as you’re fairly certain she will never bring herself to wear them. If you have any reason to possess her again though, it will allow you to maintain your peerless beauty. Write-in is Huan-level thinking, but she should get a small gift from us as well. Something on the level of quality (not quantity) of our disciples, at least.
Anonymous
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>>5543239 That's cute, I like it
Anonymous
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>>5543239 >>5542656 I'll add this to my vote, it's adorable.
Anonymous
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>>5543239 She's one of our students, though not of the sect. We can just give her some of the stuff we have made for the others.
Anonymous
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>>5543239 Gift apology ye. +1
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Tue 24 Jan 2023 21:32:08 No. 5543993 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote now, tallying the result.
A Sect Token and map to the gates of several hidden realms and treasure vaults that it can unlock!: 4
A Manual containing the forgotten martial techniques of beasts and the magic of the wildborn! And the secrets of Beast Evolution!:8
A pill of Concentrated Primordial Beast Essence and Heavenly Qi! A medicine of beyond Divine or Heavenly Tier! A peerless cultivation Material!:1
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See about getting a few Sect Banner made, so you can fly your symbol proudly throughout your territory:9
Get armor made of her own silk:7
Many sets of normal Daoists robes of the regular styles preferred by most Sects. Choose to make the colors of your sect Red and Pink, and get enough for all of your disciples to wear + sashes for your beast students. Yours will of course be made of finer materials:5
Dresses, jewelry and accessories of all kind combining imperial dress and the fur of beasts to create a proper wardrobe for a Wild princess such as yourself :5
Ask her if there’s anything else she can think of for the mortal realm’s first bestial princess in centuries!:1
Many sets of sashes or cloaks with our sect’s colors, red and pink, along with a small number of daoist robes for new inductees. For our existing sect members, we will describe them to the spider seamstress and allow her to fashion the rest of their wardrobe per her own whims that she believes would suit our students. It should appeal to her inner (and outer) artist to be given free reign.: 5
Get Yuyi a couple dresses. Getting her a lot would be a waste as you’re fairly certain she will never bring herself to wear them. If you have any reason to possess her again though, it will allow you to maintain your peerless beauty.:6
So the distance inheritance is an irreplaceable Manual containing forgotten techniques and spells+ the secrets of Beast evolution
And with eleven votes for the spider commission (And one just supporting buying everything so its really more like 10 votes , at least from my point of view, which is why I decided the ones with 5 votes got through)
You'll order Sect banners (4 sinner souls), Spider Demon Silk Armor (20 trapped souls)
Dresses for Yuyi (2 Sinner souls)
Sashes, Cloaks, Daoist robes + Custom clothing/ outfits based on descriptions of your disciples and the spider's artistic creativity (16 sinner souls, Price lowered by allowing Her free reign in design)
Wild Princess' dress, jewelry and accessories
( 5 trapped souls)
So the final total is 22 sinner souls and 25 trapped souls
Leaving you with 52 sinner souls and 17 trapped souls
New thread will arrive shortly
>>5542737 You have replete with filial piety, junior
>>5543119 And there are those hungry and monstrous ghosts you have trapped in pots and other random containers. Which could be used as underworld currency if you wanted
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GQw70RjP Tue 24 Jan 2023 23:17:38 No. 5544128 Report Quoted By:
