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You are the Wild Princess of beasts, the rightful ruler of the living and the dead and the future empress of all you behold, justified and dignified in all your doings, Huanliuxue (欢流血, Happy Bloodshed/ Happy to Shed Blood), one of the greatest demonic beasts to ever live and certainly the most splendid and magnificent to awaken from base beastdom in ten generations of cultivators. And amongst Daoists, you too are supreme beneath the heavens, having formed core of such superb quality that it broke beyond the system used to measure and rate them and established a new zenith that the rest of the blind world of cultivation doesn't even know exists yet! Thus proving that superiority of your self taught law the Ruler of the Great Wheel's Law(统治者的这重大轮回法律, Tǒngzhìzhědīzhèzhòngdàlúnhuífǎlǜ) and the Dao of Ghosts and Grudges. However, while you formed this prize beyond prizes, this treasure that would make some divinities green with envy, chaos erupted in the world outside of your secretive and purposefully hidden sect of heretics and outcasts, the Palace of Natural Laws (宫殿的野生彝宪, Gōngdiàndīyěshēngyíxiàn) Sect. Ghosts rampaging from the Yin Qi of your aura, a witch an an ogress turning battlefields into a slaughter house, an old fool turning to an ice statue freezing half of Chuan to spite you, Armies of the orthodox sect being humiliated by swarms of ants and bees and some jealous gods cracking the mountain above your beautiful temple.
And with the Ling bastards and the former sect of your mother Monu and your disciple Ping setting aside their rivalries to seek your head and all their fighting against your little sister's respective army and the enchanted blizzard they summoned just to draw lines in the sand to mark their controlled territory wrecking untold devastation on the innocent mortals of the Chuan region, you decided to put your paw down and do something about it.
Drawing the best of both sects into a fight by trashing their weaker members on the outskirts of your territory to measure the strength of your enemies , while commanding your students to perform acts of charity and relief for those stuck in the ice storm.
And you know at least one half of your plan has worked, because both the Guardians of the Celestial Sunlight and the Winter Blossoming Wisdom Sects had sent two rare and valuable Golden Cores to lead a hunting party that included valuable core formation experts, foundation establishment experts and a doomed gaggle of Qi Condensation novices to take your head and both of your cores!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Fri 11 Aug 2023 19:23:49 No. 5733573 Report >>5733571 And while you had been dominating the fight, starting by afflicting the weaklings with a curse of a murderous rage in their blood and then leading up with taking control of one of the golden cores hearts in an effort to reduce her into a Mutant blood sucking Jiangshi under your command, the last few moves of this fight hadn't been in your favor. Sure you've lethally wounded the three Core Formation experts that were capable of standing and the few foundation establishment cultivators who hadn't fallen to your spell and had been harassing you with spells as you battled the Drunk master sent by The winter blossoming fools, but that same drunkard had managed to grasp how to channel and summon Destructive Yin Qi and nearly split open your skull with a kick enshrouded with it. And worse, the man was proving too clever for your liking with his eerily accurate speculation.
However, he was still desperate to put you in the ground, so he might as well be dancing atop the pads of your paw. Having lured him into charging, breaking the stalemate between both of yours prescience and thus forcing him to commit to attacking you, you could safely heal your wounds with the Scarlet Healing Armor (鲜红瘉铠, Xiānhóngyùkǎi) and mend your skull and spine before the injuries to either proved your downfall.
Running circles around a drunk, even a towering and murderous one, is second nature to a cat after all.
With a wiggle of your tail, twitch of your whiskers and lifting of your ears, you're soon wearing a second layer of protection over your spider demon silk armor. The scales of carmine blood Qi cover you completely and begin to urge your skin, flesh and bones to heal back without leaving any ugly scars behind.
"Hnnr?" The drunkard grunts, seeming baffled by your decision as you leap away from his first attack, a sphere of spinning destructive Qi that he has wrapped around his fist.
The crater you were both standing in deepens as a hail of rocks flies up from the blow striking the earth. And the sensation of your skull pushing back to close the crack in it makes your tremble all over. It is a very unpleasant and gross feeling!
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Rolled 85, 65 = 150 (2d100) >>5733573 Anonymous
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Rolled 95, 39 = 134 (2d100) >>5733573 Anonymous
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Rolled 47, 68 = 115 (2d100) >>5733573 Anonymous
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Rolled 59, 54 = 113 (2d100) >>5733573 Burn
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Fri 11 Aug 2023 20:58:02 No. 5733620 Report >>5733584 Amazing success! Exactly 70 over DC. Update will arrive shortly
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>>5733620 The immortal cat indeed.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Fri 11 Aug 2023 21:56:30 No. 5733641 Report But it is not enough of a distraction for his next attack to be even a glancing blow. From out of his jacket, he pulls his other hand, revealing a blade carved from pure ice and his own blood from within, sheathing his open hand as he twists around, pivoting on his heel and slashing for your throat and neck as your leaping away from his lunging punch that might've just lowered the height of the surrounding forest by a couple of feet for a fair few leagues. Turning with your shoulders and hips, you roll around the blade, falling parallel with its edge, your specter lightness skill making you ethereal enough that your like a mote of dust floating gingerly upon the air currents it kicked up. But the moment your paws touch dirt, your under his legs, galloping beneath them and nearly making him trip before he steadies himself, purposefully stumbling back and lurching around as the sword encasing his hand becomes a pale blue gale of pure Qi, ice magic refined to the point of insanity. Stronger than any cold your honored mother could conjure. It could probably flash freeze someone if it struck them, turning their flesh to ice and turning them into a statue of colored ice where they stood. And even with your constitution and resistance to the cold, you're not certain you'd be able to endure that spell's frostiness. So instead you leap over it, jumping upwards and then bending back to roll over it and through the air, continuing to bowl up and over as he steps forward with a ground shaking stomp and whips the hand that had been stuck in the hole he made in the ground at you, sending a storm of blood icicles your way as a web of water Qi bounces between them like an ensnaring net. He must not know enough about cats because he the spaces in his net are more than big enough for you to fit your head through. Slipping past his net and flying over his head, your flash him a mocking smirk and delight in the expression of disbelief and outrage as his face reddens towards a deeper and more pleasant blood red hue. He launches himself skywards, covering his head with both of his arms as the wine coating the crater's flour is whisked up and begins to spiral and surge from above you. It pops and sizzles acidically , and you simply lift your upper body up, stretching out as far as you can before gracefully pressing a paw upon his crossed arms and launching yourself through the smaller, but still head sized hole in the vortex of flesh melting wine he's formed into a cage above you. The spirit crashes down on him, wetting him and making him reek of booze even more if such a thing was possible. He doesn't let up his impotent assault when your elegantly touch your forepaws down, deigning to step upon mud again. As the moment you land, a strip of icicles taller than you erupt from the ground faster than some bolts of lightning race across the sky. Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Fri 11 Aug 2023 21:57:30 No. 5733642 Report >>5733641 You sidestep it and run along its side, moving so swiftly naturally that the air around you begins to whistle and wail.
But something isn't right. The light reflecting off the pale blue ice is all wrong and the changes in air pressure you feel through your whiskers feels like something far larger and heftier than some pointy blocks of ice is rushing towards you. And just as fast as the row of frozen spikes burst out of the ground. Jumping again, a might fist and arm thrust out of the icy wall and try to clothesline you. If you hadn't leapt, your head might've been knocked off of your neck. The rest of the drunkard rises out, his other, skinless hand grasping for your tail as his first strike flounders miserably. Flicking your tail out of his reach, you land back behind him and judging from how there isn't any tingling atop your scalp and the twitching inside your head and moving your neck around no longer makes it click and hurt, your healing protection spell is already doing its job. And well!
But you have no time to stop, as not only are you still healing, but the Drunken master has just thrown all of his weight and strength behind a drop kick. While that is an eye opening surprise seeing a man so large and muscular move so acrobatically, the attack itself is easily dodge. Why all you do is bow your head and press yourself flat to the ground and let him fly over your head. Rising back up, your whiskers twitch again and you hop in place as a sheet of ice shoots across the ground and just from the chill rising over it, you know that it'd have frozen your legs solid. Unless of course your resistance to cold was strong enough that you could just shrug off being flash frozen. The exact limits of that is something you're in no hurry to test.
So you kick off the air, moving as easily as a moth through the stagnant air of a grave and land on a patch of dirt that can't possibly freeze any part of you solid. The Drunkard has already picked himself up and is flying towards you, but from how he's huffing and puffing, you aren't certain if the redness of his cheeks is from anger or exhaustion now. Flashing a murderous grin you extend your claws. He's running out of breath and stamina. Slicing his throat open will be easier than trampling dried and rotted grass!
<span class="mu-s"> The drunkard is out of breath, reducing The DC of offensive and Defenses actions against him </span>
But there's movement in the air, a familiar whistling. Danger!
You throw yourself to the side, avoiding a kick that explodes one edge of the crater, turning it into a deep gouge through the once well maintained road through the forest. And just as you anticipated, golden locks stupid ribbon sword coils through the air, its ludicrous length ripping across the crater chaotically. But you track each portion of it and where its edge is aligned as it uncoils and whips everywhere. The movement of it is entirely inelegant, lacking the refinement of her earlier attacks. Wild. Desperate.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Fri 11 Aug 2023 21:58:31 No. 5733643 Report >>5733642 And easily avoided. In fact, as your running under and hopping over it, you realize that with your Youling Qingong you could easily drift through the air so as to fall atop the flat of it, pinning the stupid weapon to the ground and humiliating the Ling bitch more than you already have. So you do just that, pinning the weapon beneath first with your forepaws before settling your hindlegs down on it and sitting on top of it.
The whole of the ribbon blade stiffens, ringing as it straightens out all at once and goes still. The sound isn't pleasant or musically, and tears at your ears, reverberating between them and giving you nearly as much of a headache as having your skull cracked did. But the presence in the air is different from before, and coldly triumphant sneer stretches across your face
The drunkard yelps in pain, clutching his shoulder, where he'd been cut by a part of the now unmoving blade. Golden locks, with her one arm tensed and twitching from the exertion of fighting back against a full body paralysis enacted by her own blood looks down at him. Her alchemically refined eyes have changed color to a dull pinkish red. Almost the same hue as the drool dripping down her chin, mixed with her own blood. She's biting into her lip with teeth that are more like fangs, and her skin is unhealthily pale now instead of the beautiful white it had been before you tore off her arm. Now it isn't like fine milky jade or snow, but rather the cold flesh of a corpse.
And her heart is no longer beating, you can feel that as easily as you feel the movement of your own tail. The blood in her veins is only moving by your will now. And the only thing keeping her from going berserk is what remains of her will and pride as a Daoist, slowly eroded by a growing, dark thirst. You could easily kick it down with a thought. And while the drunk gathers his breath, and you try to decide what to do with the Ling girl now that she is a Jiangshi, you realize you've completely healed from every injury you took in this fight as well as every bit of fatigue. While these two are on their last legs, you've return to the state you were in when you started this fight! Heh-Heh-Heh!
What do you do Huanliuxue?
>Make a show of popping Golden lock's hair and let her drop, deciding not to impose your will over her, to see if she can resist the curse of Carmine mysticism or if she goes berserk (Magic Trial. Auto success) >Try to break the ling bitch's crumbling will so you can have her fight the drunkard instead (Will/ Command trial. DC 95, DC lowered by the completion of her transformation) >Knowing better than to turn your back on a foe as troublesome as the drunk, go on the offensive and turn your claws and fangs on him again (Martial trial. DC 100) >Use the Weeping Scar curse on the drunkard. Seems that the newly minted Carmine Mystic likes the smell of blood and your curiosity cannot be contained! (Magic Trial. DC 110) >Write in Anonymous
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>>5733643 >>Knowing better than to turn your back on a foe as troublesome as the drunk, go on the offensive and turn your claws and fangs on him again (Martial trial. DC 100) Anonymous
>>5733643 >Break her crumbling will >Ask the Drunk his name. "You'll have this one chance to be remembered in the annals of history, as I crush you in the first deciding blow against your sects toppling. Your name, to be remembered, rather than the drunken lout who lusted after goldenlocks of his sects rival enemy." Anonymous
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>>5733643 >Command the Ling Bitch to go preserve the lives of her frenzied comrades while you engage the drunk. Option 3, but I’d like to see if we can remove the Ling as a threat without dominating her completely by giving her an order she may not be entirely opposed to. I’d like to know more about how well she manages the transformation later, and puppeting her fully won’t really give the picture I’d hope for.
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>>5733643 >Use the Weeping Scar curse on the drunkard. Seems that the newly minted Carmine Mystic likes the smell of blood and your curiosity cannot be contained! (Magic Trial. DC 110) Anonymous
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>>5733643 >Use the Weeping Scar curse on the drunkard. Seems that the newly minted Carmine Mystic likes the smell of blood and your curiosity cannot be contained! (Magic Trial. DC 110) Anonymous
>>5733643 >Knowing better than to turn your back on a foe as troublesome as the drunk, go on the offensive and turn your claws and fangs on him again (Martial trial. DC 100) Let no witness escape our grasp, their superiors will only know what we want them to know.
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>>5733672 I mean, once we kill him someone can probably track him down in hell or summon him and pump him for info. Killing people doesn’t put them beyond reach, unfortunately.
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>>5733678 You really think the orthodox cultivators would be capable of such a thing? Especially given our abilities over ghosts and grudges and quick access to hell? I don't, eliminating a ghost that has a grudge against us seems right up our wheelhouse.
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>>5733684 At this point, I don't put anything past the Ling leadership and their ilk. Who knows what secret demonic techniques they are keeping hidden or hypocritically claim are righteous.
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>>5733687 I don't doubt that but my point is that they won't be able to pull such tricks before it's too late. We're already here at the site and are specialized in fields that are useful in the clean up. In short, we got a huge head start.
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>>5733678 Absolutely. The Ling have soul-destroying arts and that’s some serious heretical shit. Or it would be if orthodox sects weren’t hypocrites. So I’d expect some sect to have some arts that let them “call on the ancestors for their wisdom and guidance” as reskinned undead summoning.
>>5733689 Do we have the tools to actually contain him here? Soul-destroying would work, but incurs a heavy karma cost per the last time it was offered.
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>>5733692 Meant to link
>>5733684 , not
>>5733678 .
I’ll also back
>Ask the Drunk’s name per
>>5733660 . I’m sticking with my action vote though.
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>>5733692 >Do we have the tools to actually contain him here? Soul-destroying would work, but incurs a heavy karma cost per the last time it was offered. Doesn't have to be here, though it would be best if it were, and doesn't have to be soul destruction because of the great wheel of reincarnation.
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>>5733692 We do have the soul jars.
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>>5733707 A drunk's soul trapped in a wine jar, now that's some irony!
>>5733643 #>Use the Weeping Scar curse on the drunkard. Seems that the newly minted Carmine Mystic likes the smell of blood and your curiosity cannot be contained! (Magic Trial. DC 110) Anonymous
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>>5733643 >Use the Weeping Scar curse on the drunkard. Seems that the newly minted Carmine Mystic likes the smell of blood and your curiosity cannot be contained! (Magic Trial. DC 110) Anonymous
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>>5733643 >>Knowing better than to turn your back on a foe as troublesome as the drunk, go on the offensive and turn your claws and fangs on him again (Martial trial. DC 100) Anonymous
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>>5733643 >Knowing better than to turn your back on a foe as troublesome as the drunk, go on the offensive and turn your claws and fangs on him again (Martial trial. DC 100) No survivors
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>>5733643 >Make a show of popping Golden lock's hair and let her drop, deciding not to impose your will over her, to see if she can resist the curse of Carmine mysticism or if she goes berserk (Magic Trial. Auto success) Anonymous
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>>5733643 >Knowing better than to turn your back on a foe as troublesome as the drunk, go on the offensive and turn your claws and fangs on him again (Martial trial. DC 100) >Ask the Drunk his name Anonymous
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>>5733643 >Knowing better than to turn your back on a foe as troublesome as the drunk, go on the offensive and turn your claws and fangs on him again (Martial trial. DC 100) Anonymous
Question for QM: for our sect, are the beasts more like beastmen, or straight up uplifted animals still walking on four legs? Just coming into this so I'm unversed on your rules or aesthetic.
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>>5734552 Uplifted animals with the option of learning how to take human form
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>>5734552 The second, although a bunch of beastmen (which we acidently created by unleashing a wave of primordial qi after we unlocked our human form) showed up as refugees during our breakthrough, but we haven't had time to meet them yet.
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>>5733643 >Use the Weeping Scar curse on the drunkard. Seems that the newly minted Carmine Mystic likes the smell of blood and your curiosity cannot be contained! (Magic Trial. DC 110) Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Sun 13 Aug 2023 16:26:32 No. 5735211 Report Ending the vote, tallying the result now
Knowing better than to turn your back on a foe as troublesome as the drunk, go on the offensive and turn your claws and fangs on him again:5
Try to break the ling bitch's crumbling will so you can have her fight the drunkard instead : 1
Ask the Drunk his name. "You'll have this one chance to be remembered in the annals of history, as I crush you in the first deciding blow against your sects toppling. Your name, to be remembered, rather than the drunken lout who lusted after goldenlocks of his sects rival enemy.": 3
Use the Weeping Scar curse on the drunkard. Seems that the newly minted Carmine Mystic likes the smell of blood and your curiosity cannot be contained!: 5
Command the Ling Bitch to go preserve the lives of her frenzied comrades while you engage the drunk.:1
Make a show of popping Golden lock's hair and let her drop, deciding not to impose your will over her, to see if she can resist the curse of Carmine mysticism or if she goes berserk : 1
And we have a tie! So I'll break it real quick
1: Use your claws and fangs
2: Use the weeping scar curse
>>5734552 The 2nd, though they are larger and oddly colored/ marked in comparison to ordinary animals. Like Siwang has blue eyes with white star pupils, Chuandapo has a violet shell, Zhurou has unicorn horn, Baifenchi has skulls on her wings and head...etc and of course Huan herself is blood red
>>5734585 Yep!
>>5734562 Currently only three can, Huan and the Geges.
Also, here's a fun little exercise, what do you think some of Huan's beastly students may look like if/when they attain a human form, juniors?
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Sun 13 Aug 2023 16:27:33 No. 5735212 Report Rolled 2 (1d2) >>5735211 I did not just forget to roll, you have seen nothing.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Sun 13 Aug 2023 16:28:36 No. 5735214 Report Quoted By:
>>5735212 All right, so you'll turn the weeping scar curse on the drunkard, satiating your curiosity!
Update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Sun 13 Aug 2023 17:14:46 No. 5735242 Report And now that there's little risk of being booted over the horizon, stomped to paste, sprayed with corrosive wine or slashed with that ridiculous sword pinned beneath your paws, your curiosity finds a few cracks in your focused, battle ready mind. The newly made Ling Jiangshi certainly seems to like the smell of blood. Carmine mystics did gorge themselves on it, it was how they cultivated lifeforce and power, how they kept their rotting husks moving and leaping around, how they made an afront to the natural order by refusing to evacuate their corpses, stubbornly clinging to a bleak imitation of true life. They were obsessed and driven by blood. Its one reason their crimes were so easily noticed and spread across the world of cultivation, why they were so abhorred. Why innocent blood sorcery and refinement and even Blood Qi itself was outlawed and branded demonic cultivation. But you never imagined they'd act like addicts around the stuff, you enjoy the aroma and color of blood but its never made you drool so grossly and shamelessly. Indeed, from what you recall of your meeting and conversation with the ghost of one of the true carmine mystics of that tragic sect, despite being starved and deprived of fresh blood and the life force within it, the fellow was polite and more courteous than a masterless, wild Jiangshi had any right being. He remained well spoken philosopher despite being an insane blood guzzling monster. Not to mention, he moved with a fluidity and grace that would be beyond any normal Jiangshi. 'The more I think about it, the Jiangshi born from Carmine mysticism are really bizarre~' Your thoughts meander 'They cultivate and steal away blood rather than Qi, like an ordinary Jiangshi does, and store it in their hearts, imperfectly straddling the line between life and death. At least until I perfected the art" Your eyes narrow as you focus intently on the bloodied drool shamelessly flowing out of the Ling Girl's now fanged mouth, wincing as the sound of creaking bones and tearing leather echo from somewhere within her body as the final changes of her transmutation take place, unseen and unknown. 'The old mystic mentioned the curse of Carmine mysticism, an endless thirst for life, an ever present chill of death and gnawing emptiness. But he was so well composed and affable to me, I thought he must've been exaggerating somewhat' You think with a pout, lifting up your paw to your chin and huffing as you ponder this mystery as your curiosity grows and grows "But now I see he didn't embellish his suffering in the slightest. Ah! That must be it. He had been so long deprived of the lifeblood that would keep him sane for so long, he found a kind of peace in insanity. But She hasn't. She is only now experiencing what only those who have died from thirst have felt and by sheer happenstance, a delectable drink is staggering right in front of her eyes. Like a cup of crystal clear water in the middle of a desert" Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Sun 13 Aug 2023 17:15:47 No. 5735243 Report >>5735242 And then the moment you realize and understand that cause for her gross behavior, a question presents itself, like it was written in bright gaudy ink just above your head. How strong is the endless thirst of Carmine Jiangshi? How powerful is the urge to glut oneself on the blood and lifeforce of the living? Is it stronger in the first moments after being turned? Will more blood spilt deepen their hunger pangs or dull them? Just how strong is this bitch's force of will? How long can she resist the maddening desire to sink her teeth into he who sacrificed his own flesh to protect her? Oh you just can't resist.
Flashing a mischievously cruel grin, you turn to face the drunkard who had closed the distance with heavy, half dragged steps, his eyes burning with a hateful resolve as he holds his bleeding fist to his side, a layer of ice covering both it and his skinned leg.
Narrowing your eyes, you remember the chant of the curse that brought Fu into the foundation establishment stage. The Weeping scar curse (哭泣疤痕魔咒 , Kūqìbāhénmózhòu). Your tongue curling to chant the mantra that will bring the spiteful wish of old wounds to bleed anew to reality
<span class="mu-s"> roll 2d100. Best out of five. DC 110 </span>
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Rolled 48, 32 = 80 (2d100) >>5735243 Anonymous
Rolled 74, 89 = 163 (2d100) >>5735243 I'll do one more but that's all I'll take responsibility for
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Rolled 30, 63 = 93 (2d100) >>5735243 Anonymous
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Rolled 17, 69 = 86 (2d100) >>5735243 >>5735248 yes well you'd better take responsibility for a roll that good.
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Rolled 16, 13 = 29 (2d100) >>5735243 Anonymous
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Rolled 44, 61 = 105 (2d100) >>5735243 Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Sun 13 Aug 2023 17:49:27 No. 5735268 Report Quoted By:
>>5735248 Fantastic success! 50 over DC
Update will arrive shortly.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Sun 13 Aug 2023 18:57:30 No. 5735332 Report And the moment you began to speak it, the words of the vengeful curse spill out as if they've chosen to be spoken themselves and have made their will clear by possessing your tongue and your breath. In a low, guttural voice, like the rasping of a dusty corpse, you speak the weeping scar curse, eyes darkening as your aura that had been blazing wildly around you condenses and darkens around you, your eyes alighting with a malevolent violet glow as you, despite being in the shape of a cat, strike the perfect image of a hermit hag, of a witch like your adoptive mother. With a gloomy look and half lidded eyes, you continue chanting, without stumbling over a single word, speaking so calmly and measuredly that it feels more like you're copying the dread mantra down on a scroll rather than speaking it. It oozes up from your lungs, clawing its why up your throat as a tingle like the lifeless breath of a hungry ghost upon your back. Purest malice and spite refined, the essence of a grudge condensed and cleansed of all emotion besides its guiding enmity. The will of old wounds, of scarred flesh to open and bleed fresh again. Curses on dying lips, spat as their killers blood dripped upon the cooling faces. The wrath of broken blades and shattered spears. You aren't even certain what you're speaking is Chinese anymore, for as familiar as it sounds it feels foreign and distant, like you're repeating the words of someone else and channeling their emotions. But you aren't possessed. It is simply the grudges within you whispering as you chant, muttering along with you as your hiss of vengeance and mumble quietly of bloody retribution. Black tendrils of smoke twist out of your mouth, hanging to your chin and crawling up your gangs like blood draining vines as your eyes flash violet and then burn with an ethereal, sickly carmine light. Your tongue dances in your mouth, sparks of Qi flying from it when it touches your fangs as a depressive gloom falls around you as you rock your head side to side and flick your tail off rhythm with it, chanting and chanting louder and louder, speaking over yourself as if there were four speaks crying out this curses. The mantra changes from what you know, as you speak grievances against the drunkard and wishes of his painful death that you hadn't known or thought up yourself. He stops, having been a pace and a half from what you recognize as the absolute edge of his striking range and his furious, ogreish expression turns into a stricken look of horror. He recognizes the words you speak, the dying curses and the oaths of vengeances and enmity without end. Imprecations spoken by men and women dead by his hand or actions. Words you shouldn't know, declarations of animosity that have never graced your ears with their harsh words and crude, unrefined vitriol. Yet you speak them anyways as if they were your own words, and that clearly terrifies the drunkard. cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Sun 13 Aug 2023 18:58:31 No. 5735334 Report >>5735332 His lips part, his spiritual and magical defenses dropping for but a moment as he instinctually moves to demand an answer of how you know of his past transgressions and regrets in his long life.
And that is all you need to speak a word that you know for a fact is yours and yours alone. Focusing on your own grudge against the heavens and the status quo they enforced upon the world of Daoism and cultivation as a whole, you muster all of your personal resentment and spit a single word that embodies your true and honest feelings against those bastards who'd see you dead for being born a cat and who have cut down so many promising beasts due to a lie told and repeated so often that it is held up as fact.
<span class="mu-r"> "Die" </span>
It rips out of your throat, making you wince in pain. You hadn't been expecting it to be so strong, and it was your own grudge you unleashed. It reverberates in the air, poisoning it as the whole of the crater fills with its Miasma that is darker than any black. And then as quickly as it came, it vanishes and fades away. Like a red string being snapped the tension in the air breaks. The drunkard's expression briefly flashes between confusion and concerned before he spite up blood and falls to one knee, wincing in agony as he begins to choke and hack up more and more blood, his back bleeding freshly as his veins begin to burst, his skin tearing all over his body as he clutches at his belly and wails as blood sprays out of him, as if it were held under great pressure just beneath his skin. He begins to shrink down, no longer able to maintain his technique now that literally every wound he's ever bore is torn open. The curse is ripping him apart from the inside and blood is shooting out of him almost like a festival of fireworks.
You're several steps away from him, and you're still drenched in his blood. It shot out of him so quickly, it felt like you were being pelted with rocks! Incredible!
But he doesn't take his eyes off of you, or allow himself to fall any further than one knee. There's determination burning in his dimming eyes.
There's an animalistic howl, and a blur of gold.
He smirks, and in the moment before the ravenous jiangshi falls upon him, he raises his hand up to his chest and sets it over his heart. The heart you can see thrashing and bulging, threatening to exploded from the sheer shock of being rent asunder by countless old scars. You don't like that smirk, that look in his eyes. Its mocking. Triumphant. Why does he look so convicted? So confident.
He grips his chest and when he breathes out, a white cloud of vapor comes out as frost covers his body. And his heart vanishes from view. The Vein Hunting Eye couldn't have failed, you invented it. He just
He just turned his heart into a solid block of a ice.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Sun 13 Aug 2023 18:59:32 No. 5735337 Report >>5735334 You step back, a pang of something like fear slamming into you hard as he stands up as more and more veins vanish from your sight as the frost on his skin turns to ice and his uncountable wounds burst with icicles.
A suicidal technique. That's what you're seeing. The idiot killed himself. That's obvious but he isn't done fighting. He hasn't dropped dead.
"Fuck" You hiss, realizing exactly what he's going to try to do.
He places a hand on the head of the crying Ling girl, whose fangs have broken the skin of his neck. Another fatal wound, but the blood there had already turned to ice by time she bit down.
"I forgive you, your actions are not your own" He says she lifts her lips from his neck, trembling "Know that I do this, not just to kill our enemy, but to remove the temptation of my blood from your sight. I refuse to allow a fellow daoist to turn into a mindless beast for the amusement of a rampaging demon. If I must die so you may retain your humanity, so be it. Wish we could've gotten to know each other better. Hope you can forgive me for handling a lady of your caliber so roughly. Goodbye"
Then he flings her from his body, launching her up to the sky as he gives a defiant yell.
"I am Xue Ming, Grandson of the illustrious Xue Laohue! Inheritor of the Intoxicating Lotus flower (醉人莲花 , Zuìrén Liánhuā) Law and the Swaying Palm ( 漂摇手板palm , Piāoyáo ) Style! And with my last breath, I shall drag you to the icy depths of hell demon! Let this body become a coffin of solid ice!"
Your eyes widen despite your best attempts to look unaffected by his bluster and crowing. Did this lunatic just weaponize the injury that is slowly turning his grandfather to an ugly ice statue? Detonating his heart and golden core to rapidly freeze his own body into a block of ice that'd make the waters of hell seem like hot tea? That's incredible. You'd be in awe if you weren't the target of this suicide attack, and even then you can't help but feel a little amazed by how determined the drunken lout has proven to be. Its a rare thing for a man to not just accept his death but to welcome it with a smile and boisterous laugh.
And despite biting your tongue, a single word of praise escapes your lips, betraying the feeling you tried to run away from and bury. That of respect.
"Magnificent" You purr with a subtle tilt of your head
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Sun 13 Aug 2023 19:01:12 No. 5735339 Report >>5735337 What do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Simply trust your body to be able to endure the cold that is colder than hell. You aren't the princess of ghosts for nothing after all and it'd be shameful to turn away from such a glorious attack! (Fortitude trial DC 160. DC lowered by resistances and Living source: Blood Qi ) >Step outside of your body, and possess him to steer his body away from yours. He's already mostly a corpse, so his resistance against it will be mostly gone as well (Will trial, DC 144) >Send him off with a bang and give him a glimpse of your true power. Turn human and lunge at him, and tear out his heart the moment before he explodes and cancel his suicidal spell by crushing it in your hands (Martial trial. DC 130) >Yeah no. Fuck that, get out of his range with the blood red lightning cat step. It might be cool, but you don't want to be turned into a catcicle (Magic/ Haste trial DC 75) >Write in Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Sun 13 Aug 2023 19:05:32 No. 5735343 Report Quoted By:
>>5735337 Swaying Palm would be Piaoyaoshouban, messed up the formatting and didn't catch it until I hit post, my bad
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>>5735339 >>Yeah no. Fuck that, get out of his range with the blood red lightning cat step. It might be cool, but you don't want to be turned into a catcicle (Magic/ Haste trial DC 75) Trying to catch a cat? What a fool he is. Also, he's already dead and we need to make sure goldielocks isn't currently chasing some poor idiot around who has nothing to do with this, wherever the hell she lands. And all the little goobers they brought with them.
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>>5735339 >Yeah no. Fuck that, get out of his range with the blood red lightning cat step. It might be cool, but you don't want to be turned into a catcicle (Magic/ Haste trial DC 75) Go to wherever he threw the Ling girl before she runs off by herself, it's time to tie up loose ends.
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>>5735339 If only there was material suffusing our environment which could be used to bolster yang techniques and grudge defenses to their maximum. If we're not going to incarnate Monu for her icy glares, I'd suggest activating our eclipsed yang physique to full effect and using the significant amount of blood on the battlefield to fuel an inferno as part of a targeted magic trial. Thankfully we are healed, and so we can use a portion of our own blood to offset the type difference in the cultivators.
So long as his target is us, and with his death vow as it was, I doubt he's going to remove himself from it so long as we are also inside. This is also an effort to prevent him from freezing the entire battlefield and controlling the blood already spilled via ice. We're effectively in a low pool, and vs. ruptured golden core ice that's foolish.
Dodging is easy, which makes me feel his objective may be more complex than a suicide pact. I don't want giving him a chance to circulate our techniques by, say, throwing/transporting an item he's written blood-ice on while we're occupied in gofast.
>write-in Burn him and the battlefield using blood as fuel with our eclipsed yang physique activated.
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>>5735339 Yeah, just dodging is suspiciously easy. I'll support
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>>5735368 You make a good point that running is suspiciously easy, I chalked it up to it being a desperate final attack but the Drunk has been dangerously quick witted. I'll switch from
>>5735364 to your write in if it's DC is lower than the other attack options. Can Grandfather confirm?
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>>5735339 >>5735368 I’ll back this. As a living source of Blood Qi we should be able to output a fair amount of power even if there isn’t sufficient blood on the battlefield.
Since he got his dramatic moment, we should get one too.
>As you prepare, announce your own name and titles. > Huanliuxue, awakened beast, guardian of Chuan and protector of children. Born of housecats and innocents caught in war. Our inheritance is the grudge of those stamped out by wickedness, and We refuse to die until this world rejects the idea that existence alone is a sin. I’m sure Grandfather can dress that statement up more.
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>>5735339 >Yeah no. Fuck that, get out of his range with the blood red lightning cat step. It might be cool, but you don't want to be turned into a catcicle (Magic/ Haste trial DC 75) I'm not going to gamble on a unknown DC for a write-in.
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>>5735339 >Send him off with a bang I want his core.
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>>5735339 >>Send him off with a bang and give him a glimpse of your true power. Turn human and lunge at him, and tear out his heart the moment before he explodes and cancel his suicidal spell by crushing it in your hands (Martial trial. DC 130) Anonymous
>>5735509 I think you can only harvest the core of magical beast and not of humans.
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>>5735339 >>5735368 I'll support this write in
>>5735409 And the taunt as well
Maybe even turn human to send him off properly with our full strenght.
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>>5735514 I see no reason to not try.
Besides, he's a golden core cultivator of respectable power and potential, his body itself will be a goldmine of Qi rich materials.
Even now, his ice flesh will be ice qi rich
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>>5735339 >>5735368 Support.
Blood fire vs blood ice? Sounds like fun!
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>>5735337 >Your a good man Xue Ming. A shame you die on a lie of the world. May you become my disciple in the next life. If he asks what lie tell him the truth. Anonymous
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>>5735339 >Yeah no. Fuck that, get out of his range with the blood red lightning cat step. It might be cool, but you don't want to be turned into a catcicle (Magic/ Haste trial DC 75) Anonymous
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>>5735368 Oh, to actually respond to the point this made about it being easy - if we run away, we can assume that we lose the Ling girl. It makes the most sense to ice her if he can’t target us.
He may still have other tricks to get word out on our abilities or help other disciples escape with their own knowledge. Someone like the aggressive girl, who had enough sense to fight us and even do it up close, would be a good witness if someone has techniques to help her think through the rage she was feeling at the time.
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>>5735368 Sure it might be a difficulty bump, but rule of cool requires me to back this, also supporting
>>5735409 addition of stating our own titles.
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>>5735409 you know what, I'll add the declairation to my vote here
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Tue 15 Aug 2023 19:37:00 No. 5736797 Report Ending and tallying the vote now. Meant to do it yesterday, But I had a terrible migraine.
Yeah no. Fuck that, get out of his range with the blood red lightning cat step. It might be cool, but you don't want to be turned into a catcicle:4
Burn him and the battlefield using blood as fuel with our eclipsed yang physique activated.:6
As you prepare, announce your own name and titles.:4
Send him off with a bang and give him a glimpse of your true power. Turn human and lunge at him, and tear out his heart the moment before he explodes and cancel his suicidal spell by crushing it in your hands:2
Your a good man Xue Ming. A shame you die on a lie of the world. May you become my disciple in the next life. If he asks what lie tell him the truth.: 1
So You'll burn him and the battlefield with blood as fuel, aided by your eclipsed yang physique and your status as a living source of blood QI
Dc will be revealed in the intermediary update, which will arrive shortly
>>5735409 I liked this btw
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Tue 15 Aug 2023 20:19:22 No. 5736830 Report You never expected to find a lion amongst the dogs. To find a pursuer of immortality so ready and willing to toss away all of their hardwork and its rewards for another's benefit, to use their own life as ammunition against an enemy not out of overfattened and grown pride but out of a simple desire to protect others even when they've been turned into blood crazed abominations. Magnificent! A suicidal attack fueled not by despair or hubris but hope and righteous conviction! What a truly rare show this drunkard has put on for your benefit, the sheer brilliance of this man in his final moments are almost enough to make your eyes water. He might've gotten to where he is now and only reached this level of cultivation and power through Nepotism and familial favoritism but he has more than earned the right to stand on the peak he's chosen as his gravesite through sheer guts and grit alone! Absolutely no fear of death as he charges into its maw open wide, not a tremble or a tear shed, just an audacious look in his eyes and a satisfied smile as both begin to turn to ice. Even through the cold in the air you can feel the heat of the fires of his raging spirit and drive, to shield the weak even if it costs him his life. Like Fu's father did, throwing himself upon a monsterous tiger's back to save his valiant son. The sacrifice of self, a ideal few could ever accomplish even if they praise it as a virtue of peerless grandeur. While your first instinct is to run away as fast as you can, not wishing to gamble your life on being able to endure the remorseless cold your opponent has summoned from his own heart and golden core, you throw that gutless self preservation away from yourself as far as it can be flung. This man might be your enemy, in battle and beliefs, but it'd be a grave insult to a man of his quality to let him die whiffing an attack, simply uncalled for even if he'd have shown you none of that respect if your positions in this fight were switched. He might be a blind fool and opposed to your kind's very existences, but for his absolute fearlessness in the face of death, the least you can do is tip your head in respect and respond in kind to his flashy final attack. With extravagant display of your own power. Even the air here is saturated with blood, so much of it has been spilled and your aura has infused itself into the atmosphere. It is humid, like bloody rain is falling in a torrent all around you and it is spread out in puddles. Qi rich blood of cultivators and daoists who have spent all their lives honing and refining their bodies with training, alchemy and spirituality. But it is still crude, unrefined, tarnished, and polluted. Not to mention the spiritual energy that lingers within it is all of different sorts and types. But there is a lot of it, enough to drown someone. And beneath the heavens, you have no equal in the art of blood refinement. And your body itself is a fine temple to cleanse this material within! cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Tue 15 Aug 2023 20:20:23 No. 5736833 Report >>5736830 You close your eyes and breath out the breath of the dead and when you breath back in it is brimming with the warmth and essence of life. The cruel and unforgiving life that all creatures struggle within. The Blood of Life. And with twitch of your jaw, you spill your own blood, adding it to the blood covering the rapidly freezing battlefield, using it as a vector to purifying and strengthen the rest of the material to make it worthy of your use and need of it.
Getting really fired up from the drunkard's magnificent display and acceptance of his own unavoidable end, the only thing that you can think to do is ignite everything with that same fire burning in your belly! Creating an inferno with blood as a source, by transmuting the rich blood Qi into The essence of fire itself! Creating a ritual on the spot to set ablaze this sea of blood and wine.
And the Eclipsed sun in your soul crawls out from behind the moon that hid it, glowing blindingly white and hot as you for the first time muster its strength and unleash the white flame lurking in the near total blackness of your cultivation, like a new born sun lightning in the dark of the astral realms!
The aura you haven't cared to repress since this fight started turns from the bleakness of a graveyard and desolation of a forsaken battlefield into a pale white cornea like a cloudless summer sky over a vicious clash between two armies from which none will escape alive! A different reflection of your grave presence! Different yet unmistakably familiar!
[Magic Trial. Roll 2d100. Best out of five. DC 88. DC vastly lowered by living source Blood Qi+ Eclipsed Yang physique+ Massive amounts of blood! [/b:lit]
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Rolled 51, 44 = 95 (2d100) >>5736833 Anonymous
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Rolled 11, 90 = 101 (2d100) >>5736833 hope is rewarded and it is crushed
what matters is who wears the boot!(claws!)
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Rolled 78, 74 = 152 (2d100) >>5736833 Anonymous
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Rolled 37, 26 = 63 (2d100) >>5736833 Fare well Xue Ming. You shall be remembered by the glorious we as a misguided lapdog, but a lion still.
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Rolled 75, 69 = 144 (2d100) >>5736833 Anonymous
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Rolled 18, 41 = 59 (2d100) >>5736833 Seeing red never looked so good.
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>>5736839 That’s a 60+ difference, RIP drunk
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Tue 15 Aug 2023 20:59:43 No. 5736863 Report >>5736839 Fabulous Success, 60 over DC. Update will arrive shortly
https://youtu.be/2vdPZkzLNcA Anonymous
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>>5736863 You got bops Gramps. But allow me to release, for the consideration of my juniors, something I've been waiting for a +60 win for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxj0yys420I&ab_channel=miracleofsound They are absolutely messing with the best.
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>>5736833 The gamble payed off, thank the dao.
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>>5736797 Shame the title speech didn’t get enough support, but I’ll accept getting 60 over DC as an acceptable consolation prize.
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>>5736900 Perhaps he'll add it in the update? It is dialogue and not an action after all.
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>>5736907 In Xianxia, talking IS a free action. Even if the monologue is a twelve hour spiel. It's only polite to let them finish.
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>>5736914 Twelve hours? More like twelve pages.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Tue 15 Aug 2023 22:00:06 No. 5736930 Report Of course, the valiant and dauntless Xue Ming will never know of the kindness you've performed for him by unleashing a fraction of your limitless potential against him. For he's already died. You watched as the last flicker of his life fled his frozen corpse and with it his immortal soul, towards whatever life he's earned for his deeds in this one. Yet he died standing, and his will continues to push his empty vessel forward containing the spell intended to entrap your life forever in ice at the cost of his own. Even dead he has not given up or turned away from his path. Magnificent, simply Magnificent. But this flashy finale is still for his benefit, so no observers or survivors of this slaughter may dare to claim he died pointlessly or without reason or worse was a fool who gambled everything and lost it on an unwinnable bet. He may share blood with the man who crippled your mother and killed your sister, he may have wished nothing more to see you and your kind wiped from the world, but he has earned your respect with his raw cunning and tenacity. And his funerary pyre is one you shall light yourself, turning the night to day with its blazing flames! Heh-Heh. All this excitement is starting to make you feel a little light headed, you might've gotten a little fired up but who cares! Grinning ear to ear, minature white suns form in your eyes as you call on more and more of the eclipsed Yang within your body and spiritual essence, channeling and calling up every bit of Yang aligned Qi within your meridians, cultivation base and two cores and outside of your body radiating in the airs, slumbering in the trees and boiling in the blood spilt in this festival of carnage! There is no spark and there is no smoke. One moment there is nothing and the next there is a heat so intense in the air that it could melt down ore without any flame. Every blade of grass dies, the trees wilt and shrivel as the intensity of your aura alights the night and makes it brighter than any sunny day. The Corpse of Xue Ming charges forward but you doubt he'd have turned away even if he was....wait a second. There's still light in his eyes?! How is he still alive! There's stubborn but this is just unbelievable! And you've traveled across time and into places that don't exist~ Just how determined is he to kill you! That's beyond sanity! That level of crazy resolve simply cannot exist! Incredible! Even with his last breaths he keeps you on your toes! Grinning just a bit more brightly, you complete the funerary fire you've been preparing for him, finishing the ritual carried out within the sea of blood you've gathered, super heated and reduced to kindling for... Well A Sun that was born beneath the sky, of course! Though in actuality, it is far less grand than that, being simply a super charged ball of fire more than anything else. Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Tue 15 Aug 2023 22:01:07 No. 5736931 Report >>5736930 But why undersell it? If any one asks about this new technique you've made up, you'll still call it a sun for it is a rival to its burning radiance!
All becomes and burns to white, your whole world consumed by flames without color or hue, purified in the crucible of your eclipsed sun and within your own beating heart. There is noise, a roar unlike anything you've ever heard. A scream. Is that the squalling of a newborn sun? Heat so intense that it makes a sound, an eerie cry that puts even the most nasty of hungry ghosts to shame? Your ears ring, and even with your body's resistant to heat, your nose begins to bleed as every drop of moisture in the air is turned to steam and cooked away in an instant.
Anything unlucky enough to be caught in the body of the white sun you created out of the pools of sage's blood, must've been instantly evaporated, leaving not even dust behind. In fact its kind of a surprise you haven't caught on fire. Usually your attacks are so expertly crafted that there's no risk of them injuring you by mistake, but this inferno you've birthed is so intense it has, in spite of all your skill and natural talent. So you're so powerful to be able to defeat yourself? As expected of the great Huan...
The thought dies, as you see a shadow trudging through the flames.
'No. no. no. How the hell is he still alive! How the hell is he in one piece! He should've been reduced to steam! How is he still coming for me!?' Is what replaces them as you begin to panic, wondering just how cold his ice has to be to resist the unmatched power of a sun! He comes closer, moving faster than before as the ice weighing him down melts away, letting the suicidal bomber approach you faster than you anticipated.
Acting quickly, you pour more blood and Qi into the conflagration, the pure white light once more obscuring Xue Ming's form, but he closes the distance and lunges at you.
There isn't much left of him. Half of his body and head have been burned away and as he reaches you his lower half is vaporized. His arm reaches out for you, evaporating skin first then flesh leaving behind bone that chars first black then turns to white ash. His face, stricken with agony you cannot imagine even in your most sadistic moments flashes with amazement. He cannot speak, any words that escape his lips would turn to more screaming light.
But you can tell as your eyes meet that in his last moments, he is earnestly amazed. Is it because you unleashed a Yang spell that'd put the Ling clan's techniques to shame, while he believed you to be a master of Yin Qi? Or is it simply that he failed in the end? Or is that simply the face someone makes when they find themselves in the heart of the sun? Who can say, you certainly don't know.
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>>5736931 And even if he can't hear you, you speak some parting words that only the two of you could hope to hear "I, Huanliuxue, Vengeful Empress born of unjust suffering and undying grudges , acknowledge you. Know that in your final moments, Xue Ming, you impressed royalty and earned this housecat's respect"
And while you'd like to think his is a look of respect, and that he's thinking "Magnificent" you wouldn't bet even a coin of copper cash on it. The dogs of the orthodox are all the same, in the end, no matter how magnificent that end might before.
Sighing, you close your eyes after the last of him is burned away, allowing the earthborn sun to rage for awhile longer before you snuff it out and quite the inferno. Though there's still a quite a few white hot fires raging around you, burning the parched soil or greedily devouring the trees that had been dried to nothing.
And the moment its roar is silenced and your eyes and ears begin to recover from the sheer intensity of that blaze, you hear another. A woman's. The Ling Bitch's. Filled with grief and rage. She didn't flutter away in search of prey? She was enemies with Ming until this night. Did his chivalry win her heart so easily? He was pretty cool, but that'd be just kinda...pathetic if that's all it takes to win her affection. Ar is she simply rushing towards the biggest source of blood Qi? No that can't be, her transformation should've made her subservient to your imperial majesty, right? Sure the exact nature of Carmine mystics eludes you, but you're pretty certain that's what should happen.
Well doesn't matter, cause she gave away her sneak attack with that scream. Even kittens should know to be as silent as a mouse when hunting one, and she's leapt towards a tiger. But cornered mice still have teeth, so better to be thorough.
"Oi, don't you know you're trampling over a brave man's grave?" You snarl, leaping up to meet her and catching her in the bubble of the Specter lightness skill. She's holding a sun of her own in her hand, the soul killing flame, the secret of the Ling Clan and the sect they lead. She turns, seeming astonished by the look of recognition on your face.
Thought that quickly passes when you see that ethereal light swirling in the palm of her hand is turning her to ash as well. Or at least that's what it looks like, she might've just been on the outermost edge of the white inferno you sparked just now.
Either way, that'd hurt if it hit. Luckily she's an idiot. When she thrusts he arm out, you simply duck beneath it, slipping past her side and biting into where her arm connects to her shoulder and bite down hard enough to crush bone. And tear it off, ripping it from its socket while tossing her to the ground? What, did she think a little fire would scare you off, after you harnessed the unparalleled power of the sun itself!?
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Tue 15 Aug 2023 22:03:58 No. 5736933 Report "Imbecile" You snarl as the screaming Jiangshi hits the ground, spitting and cursing as the color in her hair drains away, gold replaced with the color of dried grass as her cheeks become sunken and her eyes turn a deeper red Slowly falling to the ground, like a daffodil's seed, you approach her as she struggles to stand, wondering what to do with her now that she's subdued when An axe flies past your head and strikes her in the head. It doesn't kill her, just makes her ranting even more incomprehensible You glance back and to great astonishment see the axe girl standing, still alive. She soon falls over, passing out from heat exhaustion, but just seeing her there and having an axe launched at your head is enough to make your jaw drop and steal your breath away. She looked like she was about to say something before her eyes fluttered and she tipped backward unconscious "Hey hey! Just because Xue Ming impressed me with his defiant attack, doesn't mean the rest of you will earn my respect trying to replicate it!" You shout angrily, scolding them all and hopefully intimidating anyone else with the balls to try to attack you. Not that there's anyone still standing who could. "FUCK YOU!" Golden Lock's shrieks through tears "Don't you dare speak his name, animal, beast, abomination! You sully it! He is worth more than a thousand yous! How dare you make a mockery of him!" Funny between the two of you, you're certain she's more of an affront to nature AND the apathetic gods than you could ever hope to be. Well that battle seems to be yours unless Xue Ming comes back from literal evaporation. Most of the berserk rabble have been...well reduced to hot air, though there's still stragglers standing frozen in fear just beyond the bleached white soil. And maybe the other three core formation experts and foundation experts would've survived a bit longer if you didn't need their blood to fuel the massive inferno that reduced one of the rarest existences in the cultivation world to memories and light. Really the axe girl has to be blessed by a god of fortune if she managed to have crawled outside of the radius of the blaze just before you called it. Now that the battle is won, what do you do, Huanliuxue? <span class="mu-s"> two actions can be taken </span>>Having lost interest in the idea of a pet Jiangshi, kill the ling bitch for having the audacity to attack you right after Xue Ming. >Fully subjugate Golden Locks to your will and reduce her to your slave, and make her humiliate herself for your amusement [bad karma] >Congratulate the few survivors, and axe girl for her dumb luck and send them off back to their sects in defeat with a declaration of war >Turn human and crouch over the Ling girl and pettily mock and pester her, annoyed by her insistence that your honest respect for her better counterpart is empty and mocking >Grab Axe Girl, deciding to take her home with you. >Visit the monks who care for you old home and apologize for the mess you made >Write in
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>>5736933 >Congratulate the few survivors, and axe girl for her dumb luck and send them off back to their sects in defeat with a declaration of war >Visit the monks who care for you old home and apologize for the mess you made Anonymous
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>>5736933 >Turn human and crouch over the Ling girl and pettily mock and pester her, annoyed by her insistence that your honest respect for her better counterpart is empty and mocking and having lost interest in the idea of a pet Jiangshi, kill the ling bitch. Along with the other stragglers with the exception of the Axe Girl, having been intrigued by her mysterious tenacity and deciding to take her home with you. Tie up loose ends, do a (relative) clean up of the place and go home. We can do a more proper and thorough visit to the monks later.
Anonymous
>>5736933 >>Visit the monks who care for you old home and apologize for the mess you made >>Write in >Finish off the remainders, and make a simple graver marker for xue ming, just a humble thing to commemorate his awesome death Anonymous
>>5736933 >Kill the Jiangshi, Call her blind and a bitch, her corpse will be ours for mother to use. >Grab axe girl. You're being collected.
Anonymous
>>5736933 >Grab Axe Girl, deciding to take her home with you. Study material and because who else survives a localized supernova without being destined for some crazy shit.
>Turn human and crouch over the Ling girl and pettily mock and pester her, annoyed by her insistence that your honest respect for her better counterpart is empty and mocking Is our battle truly over if we don't tell the Ling to eat shit and die?
Anonymous
>>5736933 >Turn human and crouch over the Ling girl and pettily mock and pester her, annoyed by her insistence that your honest respect for her better counterpart is empty and mocking >Grab Axe Girl, deciding to take her home with you. Anonymous
>>5736962 >>5736964 >>5736966 We are killing the stragglers right anons?
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>>5736933 Write-in 1:
>Order the remaining cultivators to begin caring for each other if they’re healers, with the rest assisting in cleaning up for the monks while you apologize to them. Allow them the option of building graves for their own fallen if they wish. They’re our prisoners now, make them do some good while we apologize.
Write-in 2:
>Round up the survivors and depart for the Five Purities sect to turn them over, using it as an excuse to make the survivors provide aid to the weak and helpless as you have directed your own sect to do. Make them do good part 2. While traveling, we can take the opportunity to prod the survivors, see what they tell us about their sects (or they let slip when they think we can’t hear), and force them to confront their own evils.
I say Five Purities so we can try turning them over so they can get credit for negotiating the release of prisoners. We can get something small in exchange. We’ll be keeping the axe and jiangshi girls of course.
Anonymous
>>5736968 Hmm. Yes.
>>5736962 Specify here that Kill Ling bitch means Kill the other Ling.
Let the Winter guys live.
Anonymous
>>5736984 Why just the Ling? We have a grudge against the Winter sect as well.
Anonymous
>>5736989 they are qi condensing novices.
And frankly, the grudge against them is quite weak in comparison to the ling. I'm content to allow mercy
Anonymous
>>5736968 >>5736984 That seems like a waste. I’d be okay with something like
>Declare that as they have seen our techniques, we can’t allow them to return home. They are therefore undergoing a trial to prove they may live: travel with us and do good for the people of the land, and we will simply keep them prisoner for the duration of the war before being released. If they can’t do good for others, they die. Very simple. >Should they attempt to escape when we aren’t watching, explain that the blood curses we have in them will be detected by their elders eventually and they’ll be killed as spies. Such is the life of one seen as heretical. We could wander around while heading any other place as the trial period. Blood curses is a bluff, but they have no idea of what our rage spell means long-term. They saw enough in the fight to know it might NOT be a bluff.
We kept some of them alive throughout the fight. May as well put them to use while we deal with the two important fighters.
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>>5736933 >Having lost interest in the idea of a pet Jiangshi, kill the ling bitch for having the audacity to attack you right after Xue Ming. This axe girl is really too bold.
>Grab axe girl. >>5736968 I would like to. Their vanishing is more advantage than having witnesses. Two of our beast students are watching us right now, Siwang & Yinying, so if there is an example we want to lead by we could do number of things.
Anonymous
>>5736993 > And frankly, the grudge against them is quite weak in comparison to the ling. Fair enough.
> I'm content to allow mercy Just feels like a half measure to me.
>>5736995 Waste? What you suggest seems more like a chore, a chore at a time where we are at a total war against enemy sects.
If you're insistent on the idea then delegate it to Ping and his Ling friend. Way more appropriate for them to deal with their former sect mates rather than us.
Anonymous
>>5737007 It is a half measure.
but we've got better things to spend time on.
Anonymous
>>5737012 Time? We can kill all these twats in like 10 seconds, 20 tops.
Anonymous
>>5737018 I do not wish to kill the WBS's weakest members, they are beneath our notice and have survived stupidly dangerous situations.
The other option then is to capture them then, but we have better things to do.
So I choose to let them leave by their own power.
Anonymous
>>5737026 > I do not wish to kill the WBS's weakest members, they are beneath our notice and have survived stupidly dangerous situations. That's a different argument. An argument which under different circumstances I'd agree with. The problem comes when they inevitably go off to babble about what they've witnessed to people who aren't beneath our notice. People which I see no reason to allow this aid, however minor it may be.
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>>5737026 >I do not wish to kill the WBS's weakest members I do.
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>>5737028 fair point.
It's the same reason for me however.
I don't want to kill the weaklings. So any other option take time to deal with, which I do not wish to spend.
But that's me.
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>>5736933 >>Fully subjugate Golden Locks to your will and reduce her to your slave, and make her humiliate herself for your amusement [bad karma] >>Turn human and crouch over the Ling girl and pettily mock and pester her, annoyed by her insistence that your honest respect for her better counterpart is empty and mocking Anonymous
>>5737007 I see it as something we do on the way to something else we care about. The problem with the vote is that I don’t know where we’re going next. Back to base? Further digging into other sects? Stopping by hell to pick up something? Can’t take them somewhere that we can’t hand them off of course. So it’d a bit hard to rally people around that.
I figured the ones that manage to be inoffensive and/or impress us can live long enough to get turned over to disciples to manage, like axe girl already has.
On that note, I will switch my second vote to whatever as long as it allows the few people remaining to try and prove themselves worthy of sparing. We may end up with only two people left besides our pet projects, but it’s about the principle of the thing at this point.
Anonymous
>>5737053 So you don't want to kill them just because?
>>5737112 The principle of the thing? Bah! Those only apply to the uninvolved or to our associates. The fate of our enemies lies solely on our feline whimsy and the circumstances we find ourselves in during the decision. These orthodox whelps, axe girl excluded, are unworthy of our time at this point.
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>>5736933 >Grab Axe Girl, deciding to take her home with you. >Visit the monks who care for you old home and apologize for the mess you made Anonymous
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>>5737028 Could have them swear to the heavens or die to not say anything about us. Swearing to the heavens is a big deal as at best you will cripple your cultivation and worse have your soul torn apart.
>>5736933 Qm can you confirm this is the case for this story?
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>>5736933 >Congratulate the few survivors, and axe girl for her dumb luck and send them off back to their sects in defeat with a declaration of war >Visit the monks who care for you old home and apologize for the mess you made Anonymous
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>>5736968 A bit unsure at this point, some of these kids are surprisingly based so it's kind of a waste. On the other hand I really don't want too much information about our secret techniques getting out (especially now that we're turning human for shits and giggles after the battle). I prefer for the orthodoxy to just come upon this massacre and wonder what the fuck happened. Maybe we can even stage this in a way that it looks like a ling vs winter thing?
Anonymous
>>5736933 >Having lost interest in the idea of a pet Jiangshi, kill the ling bitch for having the audacity to attack you right after Xue Ming. >Grab Axe Girl, deciding to take her home with you. >Do NOT turn human Seriously, we've managed to keep this technique secret for the whole fight, and now you want to give it away?
Also that's too petty for us.
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>>5736933 >Having lost interest in the idea of a pet Jiangshi, kill the ling bitch for having the audacity to attack you right after Xue Ming. >Grab Axe Girl, deciding to take her home with you. Anonymous
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>>5736933 >Having lost interest in the idea of a pet Jiangshi, kill the ling bitch for having the audacity to attack you right after Xue Ming. >Grab Axe Girl, deciding to take her home with you and kill the others Anonymous
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>>5736933 >Grab Axe Girl, deciding to take her home with you. >Finish off the remainders. Anonymous
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>>5737499 Yeah for real, I'll throw in my lot with NOT showing our human form.
Like for what fucking purpose? We're gonna kill her anyway, why act like some cut-rate villain in some three yuan novella?
>>5736954 Anonymous
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>>5737137 >So you don't want to kill them just because Basically. I've a whimsy of mercy and I don't wish to bully the weak, given they have lasted this long.
We will fill our grudges with Ling blood and let the winter sect walk, if we follow my wish.
because I agree with the rest of your post, I only have a different whimsy.
>>5737499 Oh yeah, that's a thing. If we change form, we've got to leave no witnesses. Like what the hell?
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>>5737499 As well, +1 no human.
These are beaten enemies. They are not the individuals our superiority is best impressed upon.
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>>5736933 >Having lost interest in the idea of a pet Jiangshi, kill the ling bitch for having the audacity to attack you right after Xue Ming. Frankly, letting a golden core blood sucker loose on the world would be irresponsible of us.
>Grab Axe Girl, deciding to take her home with you. Come little berserker, let me show you the truth of the world, and then you will finally have an injustice worthy of your rage.
Anonymous
I don't want to spam or be too emotional but I have to say something about leaving anyone to speak about our fighting methods. It is very unwise, ego-driven arrogant foolery. Our fighting style has balanced itself into an interesting consistency, this means it can be defeated by preparation. And of course it could be, as preparation is the consistency among our great victories. We can't say different rules apply to our genius when these are the rules by which our genius has been enabled. In essence we have avoided the limitations of our various techniques by never relying on any one of them, this is probably the most important secret to keep presuming the sects are unkeen on begging demons for gossip, it is as well an important lesson to our students. Being able to hold many complete techniques of opposed natures is due to our special heritage and exceptional experiences, but its wisdom still bears gifting. Many of our students may well become capable of seeking out their ordinary opposites, Siwang foremost a great example. To him justice is like the wind, it's obvious why his beliefs share this origin in his cultivation. While to humans justice is like a pillar, a mountain, and he is currently choosing to see and hone it differently because of course an owl would, as those are in a word: earth. While an immortal's justice can like the wind, or a flame, or even a river of blood. He's already on the path where his best benefits may come from looking down, or back. An Owl won't have deep trouble with that. Returning to point, once the usability of our techniques is exhausted we are a big cat. Then, a cultivator our equal or a number lesser would not be courting death to stamp on our tail. This is not too different from any other genius with limits beyond the standard, and for this fight we weren't expecting as much as we got from these foes. There are some tactical measures that come to mind for 1v2 or even 1v3 against cultivation strength close to or equal to ours where there can still be victory due to our versatility. Yet the reality is, if that happened now? We would lose. That is what this fight has taught us. All of these inferior opponents, their experience well compensated the talent gap. Not enough to prevent us from attempting research mid-battle, but our victory follows the previously mentioned balance in extremely strict adherence; our talent met the statistical differences, our willingness to use the battlefield or material is what gained us strategic advantage, and victory was bought by persistent versatility in UNKNOWN techniques.
Anonymous
Opening with wide tactics, unfamiliar magic techniques to alleviate their numbers advantage (blood rain), severing their experience advantage by applying magic they have no individual or collective experience in addressing (forcing carmine mysticism upon goldy), while attempting to close the battle with our traditional fighting and standard methods, then ending the fight with raw cultivation ability (in trait form) gained by exceptional circumstances, rolls permitting. I didn't expect the Eclipsed Yang Physique to be so effective, making the DC 88 against what would've been a GC wine monks icecrowned suicide charge. At best I'd thought 100-115. Our gain of lesson two is then that activating EYP is a true trump card wherever our blood techniques can be employed. (meaning we could have used it earlier here in any of our carmine mysticism, and though that informs the opponents of our nature it would have permitted those rolls greater success) And so rather than entirely a trump card its best use may be large form strategic operations, though its use alongside something like the Blood Red Lightning Cat Step would probably turn us into a yowling fuzzy ICBM. Lesson three is the battlefield we set up provided incredible assistance; and this itself is a form of high strategy, leaning the battlefield into serving our techniques the longer it goes on. This is easily countered if any sufficiently strong opponents, in talent or number, are made aware of our carmine mysticism. Holding back so much for so long while our opponents pointed out our strengths before was fun, but it was only at this point in the battle the cultivators realized we are strong. I don't doubt for an instant that those having lost their will to fight will be thinking of ways to inform their masters of our great threat the moment they find their feet. Think about it this way; how would they have fought differently if our techniques were known to them? With simplicity, Goldy and would've made it a priority to remove. Still, fighting 1v2gc + 1v3cf + many lesser opponents while hiding our strongest abilities, strategic victory was achieved with nearly no high strategy. We, in holding back, offered them many more opportunities for success. This isn't terrible, we just did not fight with full force or backing from our students because we'd taken this as a test of our own Golden Core development. What have we ultimately learned from our test? Fighting this way against the elders of their sects will cause us extreme failure. They, who are overall holding back just as we were here, whom still now despite everything choose to avoid showing their hands against each other. After this fight, no matter how we end it, I can't predict their infighting to keep increasing if they know its result was a near perfect demonic victory alongside measures of our combat capability. As opposed to allowing them more pointless speculation. Knowing us gives them material to plan on and focus their efforts.
Anonymous
Freely slipping information, it turns this relatively disorganized sortie of vaporized fleshsmoke into the beacon that signals they set aside themselves against a true threat. Sometimes not giving an enemy details or confirmation is like giving the condemned man in his cell the rope holding his destiny. He can know everything about it, he can helplessly gnaw it until every tooth is broken, he can split his fingernails trying to claw it apart, this won't save him. And of course it wouldn't; it is rope, not a key. He could fuss over it so much he could never realize the door is unlocked. Now that we're awake and tested, that can be accomplished with strategy. At this juncture we can simply choose to leave them ropes. Abuse their doubts, curate their fears. The world of cultivation has been slumping like a drunkard, yet this drunkard's talent shined despite it. Their sect heads and elders are truly arrogant, but their hesitation is shifting and we cannot guarantee its stupidity. They are the ones hoarding this land's cultivation power and knowledge. Despite arguing pointlessly they still sent a joint force that would have done a measure of damage to our stretched sect if it weren't for us, these golden cores are not even their heaviest hitters. They're just politically compatible and convenient. We're not being taken seriously. Before this, I wasn't thinking too much of their leaders. Now, I know we can actually lose if we give them enough opportunities to think better. Just as it remains true even with T0GCR1, if we were to offend an evil dragon of comparable power to the kin we'd met, we could fight a delaying battle for perhaps two moves, and if they crave our death it would be inevitable. Even if we exceed them all in genius, we can cheaply buy defeat by forgetting secrecy is a slow growing seed, its fruit sweet. What we've planted up until now has shown its benefit in the entirety of how this has played out. Our enemies still remain largely unprepared, they should not be told about us in ways that let them change that with precision. What we need is time for additional development, not just for ourselves, which cannot be bought without thoughtful suppression. Time to further greater techniques and extensions of our currents with training we couldn't accomplish before. What is the form of this land truly conquered by us? In part, it is one of acknowledgement. One where we're in the light, as true royalty, seen as the protector we claim to be. Where we are the Empress and beasts are not just material. Knowing that, we cannot let them know our extent! Dumby?! We can be acknowledged the good ruler after our enemies are red mud. After we have made them realize their lives are cheap as grass. Then we can focus on bigger enemies, who will respond to the changed lands by our palaces' mandate...
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>>5737829 Strategically, there are numerous benefits to allying with the Five Springs Sect and potentially other sects too, but it all depends on leadership and acknowledged accomplishment. Nobody can ally to us openly, yet, simply put it costs too much. The paradigm we represent is a debate against the heavens. In this, it decidedly isn't a debate the greater and lesser sects will entertain if their leadership is not made suitable. By us.
Though I'm saying it can be direct, it can also be by providing them ample opportunities as the situation progresses. The alternative is boastfully showing our hand before we've even trained ourselves at the GC level or begun outlining a proper strategy for the path our victory demands.
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>>5737826 Hm! *
>Goldy and the drunk would've made it a priority to remove the blood and disrupt our buffs more consistently. Anonymous
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>>5736933 >Kill them all >>5737825 >I don't want to spam or be too emotional >Proceeds writing a four post long essay Anonymous
>>5737137 We spared Ping long enough to convert him, and he was certainly no friend either. Burying him so he couldn’t kill or turn our disciples against us would have been the safer thing to do.
My position boils down to being good and just doesn’t just mean picking good things only when a reward is involved (like good karma) or when it’s convenient. We also gave up the pretext of doing good things solely out of feline whimsy long ago so that’s no excuse either.
Give them a chance (and only a chance, not a guarantee) to prove worthy of long-term mercy because it’s the right thing to do, even if it does mean a risk of letting out some secrets earlier.
>>5737825 The above is also my main response to this chain too. It’s arguing the cost of giving up information, but if simply giving weak cultivators a chance is an unacceptable risk then we should admit that either we’re good only when it doesn’t cost us or that we’ll never bring justice to world because our thinking is based first on what could go wrong rather than what we’re trying to make right.
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>>5737937 I morally agree. But in my mind, writing that I was speculating worst case scenarios. It isn't us alone shouldering the costs of mismanaging a war, our intel, and the propaganda we aim to usurp by proving our spirit in action. You're not wrong it's rather purpose defeating if we must essentially cull the hateful helpless to maintain the persistence of our strength.
Worth noting, I didn't say they all must be killed, though like the idea in efficiency terms. More important is that letting them gab won't help our aims and in truth we don't actually have to murder every weakling here to accomplish that.
Prisoners, if well kept and monitored, have potential to meet both requirements of principled mercy and manage the intel risks. Then it's a matter of their maintenance. The specific beast students we have nearby watching us are actually the pair most well-equipped to assist with this.
Ensuring this battlefield is clueless or at least misdirecting with nobody informing the sects of our abilities in depth is the goal, not any special brutality.
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>>5737825 >>5737826 >>5737829 >>5737830 I thought that Grandfather had updated for a moment.
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>>5736933 >>Having lost interest in the idea of a pet Jiangshi, kill the ling bitch for having the audacity to attack you right after Xue Ming. >Visit the monks who care for you old home and apologize for the mess you made Anonymous
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Ok I've just read the last update of Grandfather but i'm here to say that I don't want to kill the survivors, less the axe girl. I say we kill the Ling (after telling her how our fight is more noble than the grudge the Ling and the Ming have with us because they couldn't kill us before), kill the core formation, and we take with us the little group of Qi Condensation and Foundation Stablishment or whatever it's called to cure and recruit them. They're the more weak of the bunch of there's still any of those alive aside for the axe girl surely the frenzy of Blood Rain, Chaos Cloud won't let them remember exactly the fight, and once they see our actual help on the villages near our town they might be more welcoming to being recluted. They're just innocent kittens, yet to be tainted and blinded by the Orthodox, they might see the light>Captcha: GGGMAH
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>>5736933 > kill them all. They are mass murderers (the blizzard has a high death toll, including children) or soul-killing Ling. The soul-killing seems to be endemic to their sect. > harvest cultivation materials from their bodies and make the rests unusable to the body part stealer I would also prefer enslaving the Ling female, but know it wouldnt gain a majority. Considering our very monontonous karma-associated behaviour, I would even see "bad karma" as more of a boon. We are becoming a boring character if we dont watch out. I would force her to search hell for damaged souls and to see to their repair/restauration. She arguably left behind quite a mess and should help clean it up.
Anonymous
>>5738277 > We are becoming a boring character if we dont watch out. Personally I think our good karma nature contrasts nicely with our powers being tied to the cosmic concepts of hatred, violence and revenge.
More generally I wouldn't mind a more nuanced approach to our ling vampire, possibly one where we dangle the carrot of a cure to get her to do some service, but the exact nature of that service is beyond my creativity.
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>>5738277 Your concept of "interesting character" is deeply flawed.
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>>5736933 >Having lost interest in the idea of a pet Jiangshi, kill the ling bitch for having the audacity to attack you right after Xue Ming. >Grab Axe Girl, deciding to take her home with you. Personally i don't see value in keeping goldilocks, it's just that more than being fearful of bad karma i would prefer not to weird out our allies and sect.
As for the survivors they passed most of the battle being maddened by the blood rain. they probably just snapped out of it only to see the sun we made, which we can't really cover up anyway and that it made tabula rasa of most of our tracks already.
Just get the promising youth and go.
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>>5736933 >Having lost interest in the idea of a pet Jiangshi, kill the ling bitch for having the audacity to attack you right after Xue Ming. >Kill the rest, they are unworthy to be slaves Anonymous
>Votes:20 baTtAzwB ONZFPf6v fxogNMoO C41va9D 9AJcS9/m WMlBOn8A 2kCLjb9Y kT9M/1W1 oQTJ3mM6 zcov/WdI UXkZK+ym v6erN4vP X3yV6Ini KxrPApeW yqw+upHL ara0nLCZ LjaqOuGu sqg2fuxo Fc5bZco oLU0nhR7>Kill Goldy Locks:8 C41va9D1 v6erN4vP kT9M/1W1 KxrPApeW ara0nLCZ LjaqOuGu Fc5bZcoi oLU0nhR7>Enslave Goldy locks:1 oQTJ3mM6>Congratulate and return the survivors:2 baTtAzwB UXkZK+ym>Turn Human and Mock Goldy Locks:3 9AJcS9/m WMlBOn8A oQTJ3mM6>Grab Axe Girl:9 C41va9D1 9AJcS9/m WMlBOn8A zcov/Wd v6erN4vP X3yV6Ini kT9M/1W1 KxrPApeW Fc5bZcoi>Visit the monks that care for your old home:5 baTtAzwB fxogNMoO zcov/Wd UXkZK+ym ara0nLCZ>Kill everyone BUT Axe girl:1 ONZFPf6v kT9M/1W1 X3yV6Ini>Kill the survivors and make a grave for Xue Ming:1 fxogNMoO>Take the survivors prisoners, letting them care for each other:1 2kCLjb9Y>Hand survivors to Five Purities sect:1 2kCLjb9Y>Kill just the GotCS survivors, spare WBW and Axe girl:1 C41va9D DO NOT turn human:4 v6erN4vP fxogNMoO C41va9D1 kT9M/1W1>Kill EVERYONE:3 yqw+upHL oLU0nhR7 sqg2fuxo>loot and desecrate the bodies:1 sqg2fuxo >Spare the weakest survivors:1 LjaqOuGu Sorry this is so messy, but holy moly the write-ins just kept coming.
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>>5738986 I salute you anon, I really didn't want to try and count this mess, but you stepped up to the challenge.
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>>5738986 It seems the disputes lie in deciding the fates of the stragglers. Everyone wants to kill the Ling girl and capture Axe girl but with the rest it's all over the place.
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>>5738986 >>5738992 Though killing them does seem to be in the lead.
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>>5736939 >>5738986 I'll join the group voting to take axe girl and all the other survivors back home.
We can decide whether to keep them prisoners, try to recruit them or hand off to another sect when we actually get there.
But I'm keeping my vote to see the monks.
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>>5736933 >>Grab Axe Girl, deciding to take her home with you. >>Visit the monks who care for you old home and apologize for the mess you made Anonymous
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>>5736933 >Grab Axe Girl, deciding to take her home with you. >Visit the monks who care for you old home and apologize for the mess you made Anonymous
>>5738321 I can try.
>Tell her we’re not morally inclined to keep her enslaved, but she’s too dangerous to let loose. We also acknowledge she hates us and won’t turn easily. So here’s a bargain - we know an exorcist. Work with him as an enforcer in Hell to extend our protection to good-natured demons and punishing the wicked. If she performs faithfully, we’ll see if we can reverse or refine the worst parts of her transformation so she may return to the orthodox world… after we win our war, of course. Keeps her out of our hair, puts her in a place where she can’t hurt us much, leverages her own talents, she doesn’t have to hurt her comrades, and she gets to kill things she wouldn’t complain about anyway.
We get to expand our Hell influence and leverage that for more souls/materials/relics etc.
If she can’t accept that deal by the time we drop off the other prisoners, then there’s no salvaging her.
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>>5739711 Oh, and one more thing to toss at her:
>Hell respects strength. As our name grows, so will hers. She can always use that reputation against us later, when she feels she’s gathered enough allies to beat us. We’re allowing it because it’s a waste to kill cultivators of her level, and we’re that confident she’ll accept we bring more good to this world than we take. I kinda want to see her get summoned from hell by her sect and kicked back as a demon because of her Jiangshi nature now.
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>>5739711 She won't cooperate, we just clawed out her face and turned her into an undead abomination.
Just have her march home and then kill her to gift the corpse to mother monu.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Sat 19 Aug 2023 00:21:50 No. 5739832 Report Ending the vote. Thank you for your patience.
>>5738986 Junior is a true dragon amongst men for undergoing this trial that would've made even I, your grandfather, cough up blood. You have my deepest gratitude, tally anon
And with the votes made after the tally was made
Kidnapping Axe Girl, and executing the Undead Ling Girl won out
Update will arrive shortly
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>>5739832 What about the stragglers? Will that be the next vote? Because it was really contentious.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Sat 19 Aug 2023 01:12:29 No. 5739851 Report 'Really what are the odds of that?' you think idly, watching the still form of the axe girl, her chest rising and falling with her ragged half choked breaths, puffs of smoke still rising from her lips 'Even for a cat, that kind of luck would be impressive' But the cursing of the arm beetle at your feet distracts you, drawing your eyes back to her pitiful bloody corpse. What a horrific mess you've made of her, she's in tatters, her guts spilled off and her skull is exposed where your claws raked across her face. The flaps of torn skin quiver as she continues assaulting your ears with libel and insults, not caring about anything much less maintaining composure and proper decorum. Perhaps she's hoping to urge you into killing her, and to be honest you were planning on it. The idea of a pet Jiangshi has lost much of its allure the more you reflected on just how disgusting the creatures born from improper carmine mysticism truly are. Disgusting and unnatural. And while her the accusations and insults she are hurling towards you certainly upset you and are prodding you towards a rage that would make Xiongji's state of never ending rampaging seem like a raised voice and smoldering glare in comparison, that isn't what has made you furious with her. Its that she had the audacity to attack you right after the incredible performance Xue Ming gave. Somehow that felt more insulting than any of the mud she was slinging towards you now. And not just towards your imperial self, but towards the fallen Xue Ming! The man gave everything he had in his last attack and despite the vast disparity between your power and his and your numerous advantages, the mad man still nearly landed that strike. And he charged through a miniature sun to do it, refusing to die until every piece of him was scoured from the world. And Golden Locks here had the audacity to attack moments after the light he became faded away. What's up with that? isn't that rude as hell? Any sensible person would've realized the fight was over with that, that to continue on was to steal the spotlight of a dead man! Silence should fall in respect for amazing men when they die. An up-jumped hungry ghost trapped in their bloodless corpses has no right to interrupt that silence with a cry, and she didn't just do that. She dishonorably struck at your turned back. Sure you wouldn't have hesitated if your positions were switched, but that isn't the point! In your own way, you were warning one of the few cultivators you had acknowledge as a fellow daoist, and she had the audacity to interrupt you and then further claimed you were making a mockery of him! All because you were a "Demon". Can a demon not be allowed to bow their head in reverence for a worthy opponent? It was that impudence, that arrogance that surpassed your own at its worst heights, that condemned the ling bitch to a true death. Sure she probably wants to die anyways, rather than existing as some bloodsucking monster but... Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Sat 19 Aug 2023 01:13:31 No. 5739854 Report >>5739851 If you leave her, abandon her, cast her to the winds like an unwanted pet she'll survive. Instincts are stronger than many realize. And from the fear in her blood red eyes, you know that is what she fears. That or she thinks you're still entertaining the idea of putting a collar around her cute neck and dragging her off into the dark to live as your personal corpse disposal...Heh-Heh.
"A corpse should be silent" You huff disdainfully, extending a claw and hooking it under her rib cage. Her pale body stiffens like a bamboo shoot, her eyes widening as her already sunken cheeks fall further in and blood pours out of her eyes and dribbles out of her mouth. Her heart is hardened, feeling almost like stone, but with your expert blood manipulation and natural strenght, you're able to impale it on your claw.
Her chest caves in as she gives a final, exhausted breath and the unnatural light in her eyes empties and she slumps down, eyes closing peacefully as a maiden's smile graces her bloodless lips. Ethereal flames, grey rather than sunlight gold, flicker on the edges of her wounds and rapidly begin to consume her, leaving behind naught but bones. You sit on your haunches for a moment, admiring the utterly blissful look of peace of her mangled face, watching her for movements or any other sign of life. Apparently Carmine Mysticism made Jiangshi are destroyed when their heart is pierced. A curious weakness, which is why you're making certain the old stories were true and not mere exagerations passed down to frighten children.
Oh well, at least this means you can take her bones even if the rest of her alchemically refined body is burnt away by spectral flames. You would've liked to give her eyes to Monu, but those nails in her arms are at least worth many times their weight in spirit stones.
A twig cracks and you turn, seeing Axe girl standing, holding herself up against a tree, having lost her axe in the skull of the now truly dead Jiangshi. Your eyes sparkle with delight, and whimsically, you pounce towards her. The few survivors of your final move cry out in fear, expecting further bloodshed.
But instead of biting down on her neck like they expect, you gently grab hold of the collar of her robes and lift her up like a kitten by its scruff. She's too weary to struggle much, but that doesn't stop her from kicking her legs and flailing her arms. And you're certain if she could turn around, she'd try biting to. Adorable.
Which is one reason of many you've decided to take her home with you. Her tenacious spirit and strong sense of will have endeared you to her. She just didn't quit, not even when her mind was polluted with potent grudges and burning rage. So bold and brave, she caught your eye easily and the more she tried to take your head with an axe, even though she kept failing, the more fond you became of her.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Sat 19 Aug 2023 01:14:31 No. 5739857 Report >>5739854 It'd be a waste not to take her home with you, even if her luck was a fluke and not some kind of hidden bloodline or something. Assuming of course you could convince her of the truth of the world and its history like you did with Ping.
Since with proper guidance and care, she could easily surpass her two fallen elders. She has the character and personality to flourish as a cultivator without any horizons forbidden to them, free from boundaries and stifling traditions and their restriction. Hers is the sort of pluck that deserves to be rewarded, assuming of course you can tame her once she calms down. If nothing else she'll be a pretty song bird to look like, if she doesn't turn over to your way of thinking after seeing all she knows and has been told is a lie.
"LET HER GO MONSTER!" Some snot nose punk with a meteor hammer splatter with blood and brains yells, tears in his eyes and snot dribbling down his chin
Your snarl and with a glance freeze him in place. He's overwhelmed by your aura and glare and drops, fainted...maybe. That might've just had killed him. He's probably in the later stages of Qi Condensation. His heart might've just stopped.
You pad over and press a paw atop him as Axe Girl continues shouting, still deep in a berserk haze. No, surprisingly, his heart is still beating. What a strong body he has! But now that the stragglers have gotten your attention, looking over them, you realize they're a problem that needs solving.
<span class="mu-s"> double vote </span>
What do you do with the stragglers?
>Kill them to keep knowledge of your techniques from spreading. >Take them as your prisoners, entrusting Siwang and Yinying with the boring job of watching them >Send them back to purposefully spread stories about you, hoping to cow their peers and elders. >Coyly offer them a chance to survive if they pledge their loyalty to you, it'd be a waste to kill of newbie cultivators after all. >Write in And where do you go with Axe girl, Huanliuxue?
>Suiqi, you'd sent most of your sect in that general direction to help people, and you're curious to see how effective their charity has been >Back to your temple. You're the best defense it has after all, even considering the armies your little sisters command >A secluded peak, away from your students and sects. She may be a weakling to you, but she's a real threat to everyone, even Monu, back home >Shoushan and Yongzheng's temple. The Buddhists there are your friends and most Daoist wouldn't think of stepping into one. >Write in Anonymous
>>5739857 >Take them as your prisoners, entrusting Siwang and Yinying with the boring job of watching them Or
>Coyly offer them a chance to survive if they pledge their loyalty to you, it'd be a waste to kill of newbie cultivators after all. Or both
>Back to your temple. You're the best defense it has after all, even considering the armies your little sisters command Anonymous
>>5739857 >Take them as your prisoners, entrusting Siwang and Yinying with the boring job of watching them >A secluded peak, away from your students and sects. She may be a weakling to you, but she's a real threat to everyone, even Monu, back home or
>Shoushan and Yongzheng's temple. The Buddhists there are your friends and most Daoist wouldn't think of stepping into one. Anonymous
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>>5739857 >Back to your temple. You're the best defense it has after all, even considering the armies your little sisters command I don't care about the stragglers.
Suiqi is interesting to let her see a side of ours that's completely opposite of what she saw until now..
But The sect must be protected and even if it's not under attack we brought our own entertainment to occupy our time.
>a real threat even to monu It still feels unreal how we shot past that whole tier of power in one sitting
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>>5739857 >Prisoners, put them under care of Swiang I'll go with a previous anons idea of selling them to the five purities sect for their reputation, but I honestly don't care.
>A secluded peak You dangerious girl
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>>5739857 >>Take them as your prisoners, entrusting Siwang and Yinying with the boring job of watching them Hostages or recruits both are interesting possibilities, but I wouldn't trust any that betray their sects immediately. Give them some time to calm down, and for us to evaluate them, and enlighten them with the true history.
>>A secluded peak, away from your students and sects. She may be a weakling to you, but she's a real threat to everyone, even Monu, back home Let's make sure someone knows where to find us though. I imagine we have a little time to engage axe girl though while the sects are reeling in disbelief at their defeat.
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>>5739857 >Coyly offer them a chance to survive if they pledge their loyalty to you, it'd be a waste to kill of newbie cultivators after all. >Suiqi, you'd sent most of your sect in that general direction to help people, and you're curious to see how effective their charity has been Risky, but maybe if she sees us doing good it will be easier to turn her
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>>5739994 I'll change from the lonely peak to
>Suiqi, you'd sent most of your sect in that general direction to help people, and you're curious to see how effective their charity has been Anonymous
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>>5739857 >Take them as your prisoners, entrusting Siwang and Yinying with the boring job of watching them >Suiqi, you'd sent most of your sect in that general direction to help people, and you're curious to see how effective their charity has been Anonymous
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>>5739857 >Kill them to keep knowledge of your techniques from spreading. >Suiqi, you'd sent most of your sect in that general direction to help people, and you're curious to see how effective their charity has been Anonymous
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>>5739857 >Kill them to keep knowledge of your techniques from spreading. >Back to your temple. You're the best defense it has after all, even considering the armies your little sisters command Anonymous
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>>5739857 >Take them as your prisoners, entrusting Siwang and Yinying with the boring job of watching them >Suiqi, you'd sent most of your sect in that general direction to help people, and you're curious to see how effective their charity has been Anonymous
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>>5739857 >>Kill them to keep knowledge of your techniques from spreading. >>Suiqi, you'd sent most of your sect in that general direction to help people, and you're curious to see how effective their charity has been Anonymous
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>>5739857 >Take them as your prisoners, entrusting Siwang and Yinying with the boring job of watching them >Back to your temple. You're the best defense it has after all, even considering the armies your little sisters command Since the owl and fellow housecat was mentioned, might as well take a little time thinking about the exercise proposed in
>>5735211 Anonymous
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>>5739857 >Kill them to keep knowledge of your techniques from spreading. >Back to your temple. You're the best defense it has after all, even considering the armies your little sisters command Anonymous
>>5739857 >Take them as your prisoners, entrusting Siwang and Yinying with the boring job of watching them And tell them to meet up with our sect members in Suiqi. After some thought, I'd like to extend the courtesy of allowing Ping and his Ling friend to attempt to redeem their former sectmates.
>A secluded peak, away from your students and sects. She may be a weakling to you, but she's a real threat to everyone, even Monu, back home Perhaps we could get to know each other over a board game.
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>>5739857 >>5739870 Supporting. I’d prefer the Buddhists in case the winter and an increased crackdown on “heretics” due to sects fighting us has negatively impacted them. They’re unlikely to see much support if not from us.
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>>5741905 +1
Tho I prefer if we tell Siwang to give the news to Ping and Ling instead of taking them to Suiqi, and also telling Yinying to use this opportunity to truly advance his sneaking skills: Let's tell him to keep watch on the disciples and making sure they don't scape, but he can't let them see him unless it's extremely important. He needs to use his wits and find means to achieve this goal
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Tue 22 Aug 2023 08:57:41 No. 5742960 Report Rolled 1 (1d2) Ending the vote and tallying the result now, sorry for vanishing over the weekend, juniors. Had a hiccup of writer's block. Take them as your prisoners, entrusting Siwang and Yinying with the boring job of watching them:11 Coyly offer them a chance to survive if they pledge their loyalty to you, it'd be a waste to kill of newbie cultivators after all.:3 Kill them to keep knowledge of your techniques from spreading.:4 _ Back to your temple. You're the best defense it has after all, even considering the armies your little sisters command:6 A secluded peak, away from your students and sects. She may be a weakling to you, but she's a real threat to everyone, even Monu, back home:5 Shoushan and Yongzheng's temple. The Buddhists there are your friends and most Daoist wouldn't think of stepping into one.:2 Suiqi, you'd sent most of your sect in that general direction to help people, and you're curious to see how effective their charity has been:6 So you'll take the survivors as your prisoner, and there's a tie between heading for your temple or Suiqi with the Axe girl So I'll flip a coin on that real quick 1 = temple 2 = Suiqi
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Tue 22 Aug 2023 08:58:56 No. 5742961 Report Quoted By:
>>5742960 Alright, you'll head to your homebase with your prisoners
Update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Tue 22 Aug 2023 11:40:12 No. 5743002 Report Quoted By:
This update is a big one
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Tue 22 Aug 2023 11:41:13 No. 5743003 Report While the easiest and most pragmatic choice would be to simply cut them down like dry grass, leaving behind only corpses isn't exactly going to win you the hearts and minds of the people and make the stories of you as a heartless maneater all the easier to believe. Sure, death would silence even the stubbornest of gossips and just the thought of losing the secrecy behind even one of your techniques makes your fur stand on end, the element of surprise is after all one of your best shields against your enemies and a favorite tool of yours as well. But it feels...needlessly cruel killing novices like this, even after you made them go through their own personal hells and fight like wild animals against their brothers and sisters and have their blood on their hands which is a crime the guilt of will surely haunt them for the rest of their lives. They just feel like scared children, with their wide eyes and frightful expressions and the moment that thought flashed inside your head, any violent intentions or callous pragmatism were drowned out by your natural, sometimes annoyingly strong, maternal and protective instincts towards youngsters. Sure they're all older than you, probably, since you still aren't clear exactly how long your magnificent transformation took your to achieve, but as cultivators they're children. Innocent and unaware of just how many shades of grey the world is truly composed of. Sure their elders, who you are certain were your elders by age as well, with their minds of stone and settled in the ways of their ancestors and their ancestors, could hardly be convinced that all they knew and were taught was a lie. But these newbies still have malleable minds and heart. It'd be easy convincing them of the true history of the world and of so called Demonic beasts. Well easier than their now dead elders and the still struggling girl you're holding by your mouth like a misbehaving kitten, but you've done it before with Ping, and Ping was able to somehow convince his friend whatshisname to also turn his coat and run away from the light of the self righteous sects, so making them believe will be as easy as licking the back of your paw. Besides, it'd be an utter waste of potential and talent to just kill them all. And what better way to show the orthodox sects their hypocrisy by a "Man eating devil" Sparing and adopting a host of the best and brightest of their latest generation of disciples? Of course, those excuses will certainly convinces others of the sensibility of your choice, but in reality you know in the depths of your heart you're sparring them because, compared to you, they're all a bunch of bumbling children despite their actual ages and you can't even bring yourself to harm a suckling pig. And by taking them as prisoners, as the just and strong ruler you are their well being and health is now your responsibility. Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Tue 22 Aug 2023 11:42:13 No. 5743004 Report >>5743003 You sigh, realizing the moment before you open your mouth that you can't address them with a mouthful of silk, so you drop Axe girl atop her courageous junior and swiftly pin her by smacking a paw down onto her back, knocking the wind out of her to calm her since she still hasn't given up despite how clear it has to be just how far above her you are!
"Monster?" You purr, tilting your head as you lift your eyes from the two cultivators beneath you and grace the trembling novices with your full attention and beautiful eyes like polished amber "My my, how impolite, how truly impolite. If I were of lesser birth or poorer upbringing, I might just have torn your tongue out of his throat for speaking so vile a lie about the beneficent and merciful Me!"
None of them say a word, not even a squeak, they're frozen stiff with terror like so many mice.
"Oh, just because I'm half drenched in your senior brothers and sisters' blood doesn't make me a monster, I'm sure they all killed their fair share of your beloved friends and the elders you respect and idolize, how exactly were they any more monstrous than me? How many of your generation due you think Xue Ming melted without a thought, or golden locks cut down without even blinking! To be a cultivator is to be a killer, and to be alive is to eat or be eaten" You say sweetly, lifting up your chin in a properly imperious manner, making clear your superiority if there were dullards amongst them who didn't see it after all of your feats in the fight you just won
One of them mumbles under their breath, too cowardly to raise their voice. There must've been a glint in your eyes when you step up to them, some of them shying away and looking for a means to escape or divine providence in the form of a bigger, meaner daoist than yourself.
"Speak up, boy~" You say with a rumble in your throat, threatening him with just a glance, knowing that actually glaring at him might make his soul flee his body, Heh-heh-heh "I couldn't hear you, though I would remind you it is impolite to speak poorly of your betters, especially when it is by their grace alone you're still drawing breath to whisper such filth"
He clenches his jaw and tightens his fists
"If you're going to kill us, just get it over with, there's no reason to play mind-games. Even a demon cannot be so cruel" He spits, astonishing you with both his courage and audacity, though the latter also makes you want to pop out at least one of his eyes or claw off an ear
"She's a cat" A girl with a freckled face and missing a few teeth from what looks like a blow from a hammer says meekly, drooling as the sharp tongue boy trembles, sweat streaking down his face as the truth of her words really soaks into him
"Oh gods, you're going to kill us all slowly aren't you, now that there's no one strong enough to stop you" He says quietly, nearly wheezing out the words as Axe girl groans.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Tue 22 Aug 2023 11:43:14 No. 5743006 Report >>5743004 Hope brightens their eyes, which you swiftly dash by pulling Ghost Empress Melody from out of the trees and smack her back unconscious with it, and leave it to rest atop her back.
"Tch, first off, there wasn't a soul present here tonight that was mighty enough to keep me from doing whatever the hell I wanted" You boast, doing your best to sound dignified and regal rather than a drawling delinquent or churlish thug "That's simply the truth, though Xue Ming challenged it a couple of times. Secondly, if I wanted to torture you, I wouldn't waste my breath speaking to you would I?"
It'd be hilarious to flick out a claw and slice it in the air above his belly, but if you did that they might just wet themselves with fear and having urine soak your fur is something you'd do anything to avoid.
"How am I to know what a demon thinks? Wouldn't our fear taste better salted with hope" He says, nearly sobbing as terrified tears fill his defiant eyes. You wouldn't know, you've never tasted fear, but you imagine it'd be blander than a well fermented grudge "Or worse, you want to keep us like songbirds, in cages of bone and"
And he's fainted. Fantastic. Rolling your eyes, you turn to the girl with the half smashed in face.
"You seem like you have more sense rattling in that pretty little head of yours" You say kindly, stepping closer to her and hiding your fangs even though the urge to smile is strong "Listen, I'm going to chop nails and sever iron, I'm taking you as my prisoner...well you and all the rest of you fortunate survivors standing before me and don't think I don't see you trying to sneak off, my eyes are sharp enough to pierce the darkness of tombs buried beneath mountains and see the bleakness of hell in as much color as yours see the mortal and mundane world"
The novice in a bandana slunk back in with the rest of the crowd of a dozen or so surviving Qi condensation and foundation establishment cultivators
"Oh you really are as much of a cat as a demon" Smashed face frets, shivering and crying rivers "You're going to lock us up in cages and starve us, until we'll even eat human flesh when its offered"
"Wow" You titter, raising a paw to your mouth "What a gloomy girl you are, and imaginative! How macabre!"
"Its worse than that isn't it, your intentions for us" She sniffles, weeping openly as her fellows gather together, thinking you can't hear their hushed talks of dying like men and on their feet instead of cattle.
"No" You say plainly, shaking your head "It'd reflect poorly on me and mine if I..."
"Grind us up into red dust! Feed us to your underlings! Hunt us for sport!" She wails, blood mixing with her tears beneath her smashed in nose. The sight of her splintered teeth makes you wince "Or...or worse! Use us as stock to breed monsters or..or transform us into cauldrons or"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Tue 22 Aug 2023 11:44:15 No. 5743008 Report >>5743006 "Shut up! Seriously what have you been reading to give form too such horrific thoughts! At least I have the excuse of keeping the company of deranged ghosts for my more macabre fantasies!" You snap, furious at being interrupt and though not at all disturbed by the girl's ravings "And the rest of you, I won't kill you even if you attack me all at once! You're my prisoners now! And as I was saying, it'd reflect poorly on me and ruin my reputation if I'd treat prisoners under my care poorly. Certainly, I'd lose face and be acting beneath my station if I do anything you think I'm planning on doing to you"
And suddenly you have over two dozen eyes staring at you like you've suddenly sprouted wings. You growl in your throat and narrow your eyes at the gaggle of weaklings.
"I am not a demon, I'm a Magical Beast, an Ascended house cat" You explain slowly and through your teeth "There is a vast difference between me and true demons. I am not two facedly scheming to pounce on the lot of you the moment you let your collective guards down, nor am I planning on fatting you up or reducing you to raw materials for some diabolic elixir or pill!"
"But..But" The girl in front of you starts
"Do you seriously think we're so dense! So stupid to listen to the words of a demon!" the man with the bandana shouts
"I don't know, is one here?" You giggle "And you talk as if you have a voice in the matter, you're my prisoners. If you believe me or not, means absolutely nothing to me."
"A...you're a" The girl rambles on, struggling to even wag her tongue to accuse you of treachery or having some sadistic death game in store for her and her peers
"I am Huanliuxue! Known here in Chuan as a guardian spirit, a cat eared goddess protecting its people and namesake family" You snicker, bapping her on the head, maybe that'll help get her thoughts in order "Do you truly care so little about the normal residence of the worlds to have no knowledge of their beliefs?"
"You..you ate people!" She manages to spit out
"And who told you that?" You ask innocently, even though that accusation is perhaps the only one she could make that actually holds some water, you did eat quite a few people when you were just starting out as a demonic beast "I've only been friendly with humanity, besides the worst examples of it. I might be a cat, but cats by nature aren't cruel creatures"
She studies you intently
"My gran's cat would break the legs of mice and watch them crawl for hours, didn't even eat them" Bandana snorts
"Are you a mouse?" You ask disdainfully "I never said I was a friend of mouse kind. Most people have little to fear of me, I do not eat people"
Regularly at least.
Someone raises a hand in the middle of the crowd of young cultivators.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Tue 22 Aug 2023 11:45:16 No. 5743010 Report >>5743008 "Nor do I make a habit of caging them like dogs and feeding them other people, or tossing them into furnaces to scatter their ashes over my gardens, nor do I sell them to other demons, which again I am not a demon" You say exasperatedly, rattling off every accusation you can think of to disprove them one after the other "I also do not string people like living puppets, nor enchant them to a dreamless sleep without end, Nor am I planning on taking any of you as my concubines or turning your into seedbeds to create new demons"
The raise hand slowly lowers
"I" You say, pausing for emphasis and looking over the group to make sure your words sink into their thick skulls "Am simply taking you as my prisoners because I can't think of any other way to deal with you besides of course killing you all. You should be honored to be granted mercy by one as influential and powerful as myself"
None of them seem too thrilled by the prospect of entrusting their lives to your tender mercy, and still surely believe you're going to toss them in a cooking pot or else eat them raw like some kind of savage ogre. Though maybe humans would taste better cooked? No, don't think that. It might slip out and frighten them all to death.
"And you shall be granted a further and even greater privilege of being allowed into my temple" You say merrily "Truly a storm of blessings has fallen into all of your laps. So try to smile and realize with my senses, both the ordinary and spiritual, are sharp enough to hear any plans you make or if any of you try to sneak off. Now please, gather those amongst your number who can't stand or who are knocked out, and follow me"
They're hesitant to obey the orders of a demon so you urge them on by shouting "NOW!"
And they all fall in line, shuffling off to reluctantly follow your orders and march in your footprints.
"Oh what ill luck! I knew the promise of immortality was too good to be true! I should've stayed a pig farmer"
"Please make it quick when its my turn, do what you want with my body but don't make me watch it"
"I'll never be a wife now, a demon's going to gobble me up! How is this fair! Gods please hear my prayer and smite this monster"
"Oh I shudder to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind those sparkling eyes. What dreams of chronic and sustained cruelty do you nurture, demon cat!"
"Demonic cultivation...Demonic cultivation, we might not even be free after death, the air around her feels stagnant like the air inside a grave, necromancy...oh we won't even rest in death"
"What if this is the kind of demon that also eats the souls of their victims?"
"Surely this devil is drunk off our fear by now. Any moment now, they'll turn around and begin spilling guts with wicked laughter"
"I'll do whatever you ask if you spare me, madame Huan!"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Tue 22 Aug 2023 11:46:17 No. 5743013 Report >>5743010 By time you reach Wusheng Siwang and Yinying, you're exhausted and tired of listening to the doomsaying and pitiful pleading of your prisoners and can feel your face wrinkling as you get grumpier and grouchier the longer you have to suffer their mewling!
"SIWANG! YINYING!" You bark angrily, causing two men carrying Axe girl, who you've learned is named Tian Mei, to faint and drop along with their senior to the ground
There is a cry, as Siwang soundlessly swoops down over the heads of your herd of prisoners and to their eyes appears suddenly atop a near by roadmarker, one wing lifted over his chest and half covering his face, leaving his bright blue, starry eyes gleaming in the dark
"My princess calls, and I answer" Yinying coolly proclaims, emerging from the gloom of night
"Your son?" Someone dumbly calls out, which oddly makes Yinying lose a bit of his composure and flash a murderous glare in their direction
"Her loyal servant" he snaps, seething for reasons unknown to you. Maybe he's just like Qiang and hates misunderstandings.
"Master Huanliuxue! As expected of one as sagacious and cunning as yourself! You've captured a host of prisoners, despite the fierceness and chaos of your battle! I am humbled by this showing of prowess, clearly I have much to learn until my talons can be as gentle as your own claws!" Siwang exclaims, hopping down and trotting up to the crowd, eyeing each cultivator carefully, judging each of them in turn as if he could measure up their sins and crimes with a glance. And he might just be able to. Siwang rarely brags about his progress unless he's made a great leap in it.
"Hah! I knew we were being lead to be devoured, just not into her own belly!" The girl with the missing teeth cries out, pulling on her hair
"Such an accusation! if it were not an excessive punishment for slander, I'd have your impudent tongue out, young miss!" Siwang scolds, thankfully doing so by summoning a gust of wind at her instead of nipping his beak in the air, like he usually does "I am a hero of justice, not some ravening beast, I'd protect you even if my master ordered your death unjustly"
"I wouldn't" Yinying admits plainly "The strong prey upon the weak, and the princess is the strongest feline beneath the heavens. Her will is law"
"Hah! you know little of law, brother" Siwang huffs irriatedly, hopping to Yinying
"Don't start arguing again. You two. Watch them" You say sternly, stepping between the two younger beasts to pick up Tian Mei again "I cannot be bothered to watch over them all, so I'll leave that responsibility to you"
"Hmm, saving your keen hearing and eye for the gravest threat. That one would give even the grand elder some trouble" Siwang sagely stated, pointing out the obvious "Though not you of course, Lady Huanliuxue"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Tue 22 Aug 2023 11:47:23 No. 5743014 Report >>5743013 "Why are there so many beasts in the world all of a sudden?!" One of the cultivators wails in frustration. Yinying flashed a knowing smile, before bowing deeply and purring
"Your will is my command, princess, I shall not let a single one of them out of my sight, nor forgive any transgressions against you" He says, threatening the host, before Siwang flutters over and pecks at his ears
"No killing or maiming our prisoners" He hoots in annoyance "We have a duty to see them safely back to our territory"
"Some crimes are unforgiveable, as we agreed in our discussion" Yinying snickers
"Insulting our master is not a crime that befits a death sentence!" Siwang rages, clearly exasperated. Seems the two of them have repeated the argument brewing between them several times in the short span it took you to eradicate most of the subjugation force sent after you
Luckily, Yinying and Siwang manage to keep control over the prisoners despite their on and off bickering about the nature of justice and to your endless gratitude, keep them quiet or at least keep their delusions focused on the two of them rather than yourself, allowing you to take Tian Mei and travel ahead of them to get some blessed silence away from your terrified prisoners.
Tian Mei, now that her rage has fled her, refuses to open her mouth and remains stubbornly silent no matter how much you prod and pester her. It doesn't take long at all to reach the boundary of your territory, since all of your prisoners are so cowed and terrified of displeasing any of the three "demons" that they don't ask for time to rest and hustle along to fulfill any order they're given, even if the only order they've been given has been to march forward or shut the hell up.
"So its true that the happy bloodshed had a connection to the brat at the head of the army of vermin was true" Tian Mei suddenly spoke up as the fortifications The Gege's made came into view "How depressing, seeing common folk marching along with insects, enslaved to the will of simple beasts. It is merciful the others died rather than see such tragedy with their own eyes"
"Oh no, not a tragedy" one of the farmers said happily "They might be scary at first, but they're obedient to their mother like good little children should be"
"How terrible! To think this is what is happening beyond the snow storm!"
"The heavens have forsaken us, forsaken us all"
"Wait, you mean the beasts are working together! What next, this damn cat is friends with the fucking ogress!"
"Ghosts! They must be forced into subservience"
"No that's my uncle, died of pneumonia last year"
"They're even enslaving the dead of these lands!"
The farmer looks at you, utterly baffled.
"Ah, Master owl" He huffs, wiping sweat from his brow "We've word from the village up the frozen river, that thief was pilfering the donations box has been caught"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Tue 22 Aug 2023 11:48:25 No. 5743015 Report >>5743014 And you've never seen Siwang have more murderous intent in his eyes before. Spooky~
"How shameless, to try and take what was freely given just as soon as my seniors have left. I am sure Lady Huanliuxue will not mind if I take my leave to judge this criminal?" Siwang asks
"I do not, and do not return immediately after you have" You say, deciding you're close enough to home that Yinying will be enough to keep your gaggle of prisoners from driving you mad with annoyance "Head to Suiqi and see if the others have reached the city yet, and how their efforts from there to here have been going. I'll be too busy here to check on them myself"
"I will be as swift as the wind" Siwang promises before taking flight.
"He might get distracted chasing cut purses" Yinying chuckles under his breath, now walking at your side as the two of you lead Tian Mei and her juniors past the defenses Jionghuagege grew, the towering trees, flowers and their thorns, and the trenches and tunnels Tiexingege's kids have carved across the landscape and the forts the two of them have built together out of wax, mud and living pillars.
And as you get closer to Fu's village
"RED FUR!" Tiexingege shouts from a trench that looks like many of the others you passed by, her sudden appearance making some of the cultivators behind you scatter. Seems her kids have left quite the impression on the rank and file of the orthodoxy, Heh-Heh-Heh
"Black iron" You return, bowing your head slightly "They're with us, prisoners of war"
"Understood" She says, antenna drooping as she crawls out of the dirt and marches alongside you "There have been no further assaults on our territory since the last charge was utterly broken"
"What happened to the survivors that were carried off by those terrible giant flies"
"BEES!" you and Tiexingege correct, and if you had to guess, Jionghuagege probably wanted to heal them, or save them from Tiexingege's army devouring them alive.
"I don't know, Jiong-Jiong hasn't told me" Tiexingege huffs, but you're guessing she's just wanted to play the role of the merciful princess and has been forcing them to play court with her or something "Hasn't impacted our supplies, so I haven't cared. They're casualties of war either way, Sis"
"Eh they're probably fine" You flippantly shrug "I'll look into it later, don't really care"
"But my brother was there!"
"He was a shit fighter then" Tiexingege bluntly drawled "Like all the rest, no grasp of tactics or teamwork. Worthless as soldiers! You should be ashamed to share his blood, Softie"
"So we're not alone in the den of evil..." Tian Mei mumbles, rubbing her chin in thought, before her face screws in frustration "YOU! Why aren't you appalled and terrified! You're surrounded by ghosts and demonic beasts"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Tue 22 Aug 2023 11:49:47 No. 5743016 Report >>5743015 "JU?!" You gasp, as you see Fu's younger sister, who you scarcely recognize with how much she's grown since you've last seen her. Which...actually you can't remember the last time you've seen her or visited Fu's house. Usually you skip by the village unless you want to bother Yuyi. Maybe when that Ogress beat Fu and the rest black and blue? You remember promising her and her mother that you'd protect Fu while he healed, then you spent three or so years cultivating, before you met Siwang and the others, then your search for human wisdom added on with however long you spent forming your golden core in one go. She certainly looks older than before, but younger than Fu was when you met him. Maybe?
Wait. Why is she here!? Serving in the trenches with Giant ants!
"Yes!" Ju shouts happily, marching up to you with a pot on her head and a pitchfork under her arm, saluting you in a very Tiexingege manner
"She's my apprentice!" Tiexingege snorts "Ima train her to be stronger than her brother"
"Why?" You ask, completely lost. This had to have happened recently, when Fu left to do charity, he'd never allow Ju to follow under the influence of Tiexingege with how protective he is of her
"Cause it'd be funny for him to be beaten by his little sister is why!"
"Ah. I see, I see" you grunt, nodding your head as little, innocent Ju continue saluting, covered in mud.
"I wanna surpass my brother! It's a pain living in the shadow of a legendary hero ya know!" Ju exclaims. Buddha, she even talks like Tie-Tie! Or Houmougui, now that you think about it.
<span class="mu-s"> Double vote </span>
Where to you put Tian Mei
>In one of the cells in the lower levels of your sect, after specially preparing it to make certain she won't escape. >In the catacombs, she's too dangerous too keep even in the dungeon the temple >Hah! Drag her to hell and call in some favors to imprison her there until you figure out what to do with her >A well appointed room with a pleasant view like the other prisoners, and the romance novels Anjing forced on you >write in And what is the first thing you do now that you're back home, Huanliuxue?
>Start working on converting your prisoners, asking Qinxin to help out since he's a turncoat and Ping is away, and showing them to truth of the world, as you know it. >Scold Tiexingege for taking Ju as her student and try to separate the two before Ju becomes just as much of a meathead as Tie-Tie >Take command over the Gege's armies and push back the borders of the winter blossoming wisdom sect, snatching up the first couple villages your disciples have passed through and putting them under your protection >Decide to drop the prisoners on Jionghuagege's lap, since she's already taken some of her own, and to see if she really did take them to have tea with like you suspect she did. >write in Anonymous
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>>5743016 >Hah! Drag her to hell and call in some favors to imprison her there until you figure out what to do with her >Scold Tiexingege for taking Ju as her student and try to separate the two before Ju becomes just as much of a meathead as Tie-Tie Anonymous
>>5743016 Can we all agree that Ju's smile must be protected?
>A well appointed room IN THE CATACOMBS with the romance novels Anjing forced on you >Decide to drop the prisoners on Jionghuagege's lap, since she's already taken some of her own, and to see if she really did take them to have tea with like you suspect she did. Anonymous
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>>5743016 >In the catacombs, she's too dangerous too keep even in the dungeon the temple >Start working on converting your prisoners, asking Qinxin to help out since he's a turncoat and Ping is away, and showing them to truth of the world, as you know it. Anonymous
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>>5743016 >A well appointed room in the catacombs with the romance novels. >Take command and snatch back the villages. I'm fine with the addition of Ju to our forces
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>>5743016 >A well appointed room with a pleasant view like the other prisoners, and the romance novels Anjing forced on you >Start working on converting your prisoners, asking Qinxin to help out since he's a turncoat and Ping is away, and showing them to truth of the world, as you know it. Anonymous
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>>5743013 >"Her loyal servant" he snaps, seething for reasons unknown to you. ah
..ranking servant higher than son there, eh yinny boi?
>>5743016 >A well appointed room with a pleasant view like the other prisoners, and the romance novels Anjing forced on you inb4 she takes one look at the novels and cries heresy
>Start working on converting your prisoners, asking Qinxin to help out since he's a turncoat and Ping is away, and showing them to truth of the world, as you know it. May as well put in the effort asap before their sects learn their defeat.
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>>5743016 > Tiexingege taking on Ju Hey, if Fu wants to protect her then he’ll need to be the better teacher. War is here, and she won’t be safe enough on the sidelines either.
Onto the vote:
>A well appointed room with a pleasant view like the other prisoners, and the romance novels Anjing forced on you If she’s confused by this, we can spell it out to her - she’s in our base. Even if she can justify leaving behind the rest of the prisoners to escape, which we don’t expect, there’s considerable information to be gleaned here before she tries to run away. Much of the same information will show that we are as well-intentioned as we claim, so why heavily restrict her?
Just be polite, don’t hurt anybody unless it’s during training, and she can be treated like anyone else.
>Take command over the Gege's armies and push back the borders of the winter blossoming wisdom sect, snatching up the first couple villages your disciples have passed through and putting them under your protection >Start working on converting your prisoners, asking Qinxin to help out since he's a turncoat and Ping is away, and showing them to truth of the world, as you know it. >Take Tian Mei alone to Jionghuagege to see how she has fared with her other prisoners before sending her back to her room. You’d rather not put everyone together so Tian Mei can foolishly try to stage a breakout with all your prisoners. For the above, we’d be leaving the converting to others. We’d just lay some groundwork before heading off.
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>>5743016 >In the catacombs, she's too dangerous too keep even in the dungeon the temple >Take command over the Gege's armies and push back the borders of the winter blossoming wisdom sect, snatching up the first couple villages your disciples have passed through and putting them under your protection Anonymous
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>>5743016 >A well appointed room IN THE CATACOMBS with the romance novels Anjing forced on you >Scold Tiexingege for taking Ju as her student and try to separate the two before Ju becomes just as much of a meathead as Tie-Tie Anonymous
>>5743016 >A well appointed room with a pleasant view like the other prisoners, and the romance novels Anjing forced on you >Take command over the Gege's armies and push back the borders of the winter blossoming wisdom sect, snatching up the first couple villages your disciples have passed through and putting them under your protection >>5743010 Don't think I didn't spot that reference to meet the pyro, Gramps Anonymous
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>>5743016 >A well appointed room with a pleasant view like the other prisoners, and the romance novels Anjing forced on you >Start working on converting your prisoners, asking Qinxin to help out since he's a turncoat and Ping is away, and showing them to truth of the world, as you know it. Tempted to let it drop that we have a human for to Tian Mei, to lure her into staying in hopes of seeing it and bringing back good intel.
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>>5743016 >>5743203 Damn, thought of one more thing for conversions.
>Head to the village and see if Yuyi would be willing to visit Tian Mei on the pretense of a doctor’s visit and speak with her. She may visit again whenever she’d like if they find things to talk about. I want to confirm Yuyi is doing okay, and she’s also one of our best advocates. She’s a normal person willing to trash talk us due to personal experience, and that makes anything good she says about us meaningful.
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>>5743016 Yo it would kinda be funny if the brother fell for the bee queen and watch as his brother freaks out.
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With the war I think now is the time to use a bunch of our treasures to bring our students to the next stage, after all the stronger every member of our sect is the better the odds we will al survive
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>>5744111 Good idea. And too, stronger students will get better results when we send them on missions for more treasures. Who should get what?
It would be a good opportunity to suggest more direct dao paths, or dao explorations, to those with unclear ideals.
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>>5744132 The powder of the black orchid might allow Quiang to break through
For Huli I am thinking either one of the fire body stabilizers or maybe some of the Orange Yellow Sunburst Poppies
The blood cleansing drug could be helpful for Canlan Yuanquan.
For Senlin Zheren plenty of bones coming from cultivators above Qi Condensation Stage Rank 5 might do the trick
For Houmogui maybe some Red Thorned Nettle.
For Fu I am thinking of having a discussion on the nature and usage of grudges and maybe teaching him Enmity incarnation, Devil of Grudges
The Jade Ghost taming Seal and Record of Wraiths and Phantoms should be helpful to anyone who follows the Night lantern sutra.
The Crown of Trapped Sands and Caged Winds' ability to control wind would be great for Swiang
As a turtle Chuandapo might benefit from the dragon turtle shell, and that is all I've got
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>>5744156 I wonder if we should give Qiang a ghost eye.
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>>5744169 I say we should discuss it with her. Hell, we could even look out for that cultivator that was following Huan's sister and ask him how he graft those body parts on himself before killing him.
A part of me says we should make a brand new eye from a pool of blood so we can test a way to bring best snake girl to life and also our Sister. Something like Shang Tsung clones, but we make sure there's no new soul getting in there before our girls.
Other part of me also likes the idea of the Ghost eye, but then she would be like Ping but to some more drastic way: It's not like her eye was still there on her and we shoot Yin Qi, and then the Yin Qi made symbiosis, it's literally taking a incorporeal eye and somehow stitching it in her head. That would either make her a Stand User like Fu, or worst she could actually die, or maybe even turn into some kind of zombie because of it. The ramifications of something like it are infinite, but we should bring that Idea to Qiang and send her to a quest to get the eye, and then she could do a ritual to stitch it to herself while we make sure nothing goes wrong
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>>5744197 I'm sure it was Xuebai who taught him to graft bodyparts in the first place.
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>>5743016 >A well appointed room with a pleasant view like the other prisoners, and the romance novels Anjing forced on you Finally we have someone we can make our novel discussion partner (willingly or not)
>Start working on converting your prisoners, asking Qinxin to help out since he's a turncoat and Ping is away, and showing them to truth of the world, as you know it. tough choice between this and pushing our borders, but I want to hold off from entering what is likely to be another big battle for a little bit.
>>5744132 Baifenchi might benefit from us giving some pointers with Carmine Mysticism and our recent experience with creating a Jiangshi, but the one's not listed by
>>5744156 would probably get more growth out of tutelage from our other senior disciples and maybe even the bugs to straighten out Jiangliehuo and to a lesser extent Youzaiwang.
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>>5743016 >A well appointed room with a pleasant view like the other prisoners, and the romance novels Anjing forced on you >Start working on converting your prisoners, asking Qinxin to help out since he's a turncoat and Ping is away, and showing them to truth of the world, as you know it. I want to get this squared away at least a little bit before we go off galivanting somewhere.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Thu 24 Aug 2023 06:11:21 No. 5744550 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote now, tallying the result. Nice to see some hearty discussion and planning!
Hah! Drag her to hell and call in some favors to imprison her there until you figure out what to do with her:1
In the catacombs: 6
-she's too dangerous too keep even in the dungeon the temple: 2
-A well appointed room IN THE CATACOMBS with the romance novels Anjing forced on you:4
A well appointed room with a pleasant view like the other prisoners, and the romance novels Anjing forced on you: 7
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Scold Tiexingege for taking Ju as her student and try to separate the two before Ju becomes just as much of a meathead as Tie-Tie:2
Decide to drop the prisoners on Jionghuagege's lap, since she's already taken some of her own, and to see if she really did take them to have tea with like you suspect she did.:2
Start working on converting your prisoners, asking Qinxin to help out since he's a turncoat and Ping is away, and showing them to truth of the world, as you know it.: 7
Take command over the Gege's armies and push back the borders of the winter blossoming wisdom sect, snatching up the first couple villages your disciples have passed through and putting them under your protection: 4
Take Tian Mei alone to Jionghuagege to see how she has fared with her other prisoners before sending her back to her room. You’d rather not put everyone together so Tian Mei can foolishly try to stage a breakout with all your prisoners.: 1
Head to the village and see if Yuyi would be willing to visit Tian Mei on the pretense of a doctor’s visit and speak with her. She may visit again whenever she’d like if they find things to talk about.:1
So Tian Mei will be given a well appointed room with a pleasant view like the other prisoners, and some of Anjing's romance novels.
And you'll start trying to convert your prisoners, alongside Qinxin since the man betrayed his previous sect on Ping's account, and try to show them the real history and truth of the heaven's hypocrisy
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>>5743240 I was hoping it'd be noticed
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>>5744247 Oh I'm sure there are plenty of options like the Carmine Mysticism pointers that I just didn't think off
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Thu 24 Aug 2023 08:44:48 No. 5744623 Report "My my, what's with that stricken look on your faces?" You giggle as a few of your prisoners look up at the cracked peak of the mountain atop your hidden home, a look of such intense dread that makes it obvious they recognize it by reputation and old wife tales if not looks, though their spiritual senses have probably pinged it as overflowing with types of Qi they've been taught to think of as "Demonic" or "Malevolent" without really knowing why "it looks like you've seen a rotting corpse swaying up in the tree branches, or a wandering ghost" "A fitting den for a wretch that is half a ghost like yourself" Tian Mei spoke sharply, barely trying to mask her disdain with a veneer of cordiality, she'd fit perfectly inside the politicking and intrigues of an imperial court "It is obvious in hindsight that an eater of the corpses of noble and valiant men would make their lair amongst the unmourned and sinful dead" "I will admit that the history of the place is one of the things that drew me to it, though it was its grave beauty that convinced me to settle" You snicker playfully, flicking your tail over the cocky girl's nose, nearly making her sneeze "Though I wouldn't call the particular corpses you're probably referring to with that smart remark qualify as noble or valiant" Tian Mei's face remains passive, but her eyes narrow into slits smoldering with contempt, but she keeps her composure and otherwise remains perfectly calm and obedient. "Do you mean to lead us to our graves?" "No, she's obviously going to feed us to the old spirits lurking their" "Haaah!? No wonder why there's so many wandering phantoms in Chuan of late, look! The mountain sealing that accursed tomb has been rent wide open!" "Do you think that is the Huanliuxue's doing as well? You saw how monstrously strong she is" "I..I'd prefer to be buried beneath the son, and not amongst those heathen barbarians bones" "Miss Tian, please stop tempting the Demonic beasts wroth! Our lives are on the line each time you pester them with that sharp tongue of yours!" "Oh you're acting like I'm leading you all into untamed wilderness" You cackle, prancing merrily ahead of your prisoners while Yinying trails behind them, austere and graceful in his silence "And again, it'd be unbecoming to allow my prisoners to come to any harm! I assure you, so long as you don't wander out of your appointed rooms, there is nothing to fear within the halls of my temple" Unless any of them have a phobia of snakes or ghosts. Yujijiao was one of the few members of your sect you didn't send out to aid the regions of Chuan caught in the lethal and mystical snow storm one of their so called protectors brought down on their heads without a twinge of guilt or hesitation. Yinying and Siwang had left that mission, refusing to leave you march to face the executionary force sent after your head alone, and from what they had told you, it seems the rest of them had reached Suiqi. Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Thu 24 Aug 2023 08:45:48 No. 5744625 Report >>5744623 But you hadn't asked them about the details of their journey since the excitement leading up to that one sided slaughter made you kind of forget to ask at all. Eh, if you lost your patience waiting for a messenger, you'd ask them about what happened directly.
Oh, and unless Monu had decided to run off to play, she was probably in the sect grounds as well and Xuebai to, unless she's ran off to guide her disgusting pet like a common hunting dog. Fearing those three would be sensible, for the average cultivator at least. But you decide not to mention that, since while it might be funny for a few seconds, your prisoners are already so terrified that they're jumping at the sight of their own shadows.
To your surprise, your mother isn't who greets you, neither is Yujijiao, or one of the talentless friends of Fu who don't have any potential to cultivate at all. No, it isn't Xuebai standing up on the incline leading to the secret path leading down the cliffside to the proper, hidden entrance of your sect.
Its Qinxin. The stray Ping adopted while hunting for your sister's flea ridden mutt.
"A Jiangshi with a familiar face" The girl with freckles and missing teeth mutters, which your unwanted house guest hears
"I am no hopping corpse, though I have cast aside the name you used to know me by, little sister" He says kindly, cupping his fist and bowing deeply towards, remembering the respect you demand him to show you "I go by Qinxin now, for personal reasons"
"You're the last person I'd expect to go traitor" Another one of the Ling survivors hisses furiously, his face wrinkled and contorted with rage and disgust "Let alone scrape and kowtow to a demon"
Qinxin stiffens, clearly offended with how his hackles have raised and the cold gleam in his eyes. Which is enough to make his accuser back down. You've never paid much attention to Ping's friend, and he tries his best to avoid you knowing your feelings towards his former sect and masters, but if you'd have to venture a guess he was either in the late stage or peak of Qi Condensation, like Ping was when they met. Stronger than the two who recognized him and started wagging their tongues. And from how many ghosts he carries on his back, despite being a weakling, he's killed his fair share of cultivators before forcing his way into your sect. The foundation establishment stage cultivators amongst them however continue glaring at him
"And to forsake the name you were gifted !" The coward shouts, hiding behind an amused Tian Mei, who also looks to recognize Qinxin, though not in the same way as the others have
"Sever your arms and slice your throat, simpleton" Qinxin coldly replied, hand reaching for his blade "Were it not for the fact I know you speak those accusations from a place of ignorance, I would've cut you down for those baseless insults. Yes, I have betrayed The Guardians of the Celestial Sunlight, but I did so righteously and without regret"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Thu 24 Aug 2023 08:46:49 No. 5744626 Report >>5744625 "To serve a demonic beast" One of the winter blossoming sect spits "After being the toady of that Ogre girl"
"I have no love for Yaonan! I simply opened my eyes. These Heretics I've joined are more righteous than all of the warring sects combined" He snapped back "And ascended beasts are not by nature evil or cruel, but if you do not know that then I must assume that you are not here willingly. Illustrious sect head, am I correct that these men and women are your prisoners"
"Of course they are" You say with a shifty smile as you realize that Qinxin might be useful for once, since from how his former martial brothers and sisters talked to him, he had a rather upstanding reputation in his old sect. A reputation that could prove useful in convincing them to do like he has, and pull their heads out of the sand of ignorance
"To be executed, ransomed or held or..." Qinxin asks suddenly before wincing and covering his mouth "Ah, forgive me, I spoke out of turn. If you wished them dead, they would be"
"You nearly said eaten, didn't you?" You bluntly press, stepping closer to him as he shakes his head
"If it were Huili escorting them, I would have suspicions what awaited them was a dinner plate. I merely forgot my place, I assure you, Huanliuxue" Qinxin hurriedly explains, trying to defend him
"So this is where the Ash gale vanished to...You've been collecting demonic beasts for sometime, then" Tian Mei suddenly speaks up, as Qinxin's face loses some of its color and a few drops of sweat bead on his forehead. Good, he's realized his fuck up, so you don't have to scold him for it.
"I shall take my leave, and alert the grand elder of you've returned " He whispers in quiet humiliation, cringing as he sprints down the treacherous path leading to the cave leading to your temple.
"I won't wait for her" You call out, bidding Tian Mei to lead the train of prisoners after Qinxin with a subtle lifting of your chin "And you lot, follow after that loose tongued idiot"
"This road is remarkably well maintained, and fortified" Tian Mei muses to herself, not even hiding that she is taking her sweet time walking said path to study its defenses and exact location within the mountains
To say she and the rest of your captives were stunned to find no hovel in the dirt and mud or a den carved out of pilfered graves, but rather a well maintained and luxurious underground temple, with Qi rich waters flowing through it and ornate decorations grace its floors and walls, would be a grave understatment.
And the way some of them look at the accommodations, facilities and creature comforts of your sect, with blatant envy and amazement, makes your heart flutter and spirit's soar with satisfaction and pride.
"Hah?" Monu grunts, lounging atop the golden lotus altar when you guide your convoy of prisoners down the lantern lit steps leading to the true gate of your sect "Mei?"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Thu 24 Aug 2023 08:47:50 No. 5744628 Report >>5744626 "Oh" Mei squeaks, for the first time losing her cool head and strict sense of composure at the Sight of Monu. Seems she's old enough for your mother to recognize her "Oh no. It all makes sense now! You made her! They should've taken your head off you witch! Do you even realize what kind of monster you've unleashed into the!
Monu's hand is around her throat in a moment, squeezing and crushing, a vein popped on her brow and her teeth crushing the the metal of her silver pipe.
"Mother" You say gently, locking eyes with her as her mask of murderous rage softens to her usual casual and self indulgent looking smirk
"How much you've grown" She says sheepishly, releasing her neck and stepping back to bow, gathering her loose hanging robes so they don't just fall of her "Last time I saw you, you were a little brat who couldn't even reach my knees. And while I am flattered you still think highly enough of little old me me to believe that I could create a magical beast of such high quality as my Beloved daughter, you will hold your tongue or I'll rip it out of your skull, you little bitch! My adorable Huan is no monster!"
Tian Mei just rubs her throat and shoots your mother a look of hatred so intense it cuts through he air like a blade.
"You act like you're strong enough to command me, how many virgins did you bleed dry to keep your beauty, hag!" Mei snaps as the other prisoners wisely step back and away from her. Qinxin is leaning by a stone lantern, calmly peeling an apple as he watches the cat fight
"How much of Xue Laohue's seed did you swallow to cultivate to your current level? A brainless brat like you couldn't have gotten so far by her own talent alone" You mother haughtily and bitchily mocks, placing a hand over her mouth as she cackles "Heh-Heh-Heh"
"Enough!" You command, stomping a paw down on the ground and releasing enough Qi to make a massive false ghost light shaped like a skull come screaming into the still air above your head "Don't pick a fight with my prisoner"
"Oh my oh my, such a fierce glare, you're making me light headed" Monu giggles cutely, patting you on the head as Tian Mei grinds her teeth, seemingly trying to glare her to death while she showers you with her usual amount of affection "I don't think my heart could stand such an angry look from your face again, forgive me, forgive me. You know I can't tolerate fools besmirching your good name, sweet daughter of mine"
You huff, thankful that no matter how embarrassed she is making you, any amount of blushing will be hidden by your fur.
"You are forgiven, I can't ask you not to be outraged on my behalf" You pout as you wiggle your head out from beneath her hands "But don't go causing trouble, mother, especially with that one"
Tian Mei's expression very much resembles the demon head carved above the gate into the catacombs proper.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Thu 24 Aug 2023 08:48:51 No. 5744631 Report >>5744628 "Why did you bring that bitch here? I don't question your wisdom of course, but that is a dangerous animal to keep around here" Monu says sweetly, capering and hopping around you as you lead your prisoners past the sect gate, and the "animal" she is talking about, hasn't moved an inch since their little scuffle, stubbornly refusing to follow to instead glare daggers at your poor mother's back "Hard to keep caged and with a vicious bite! Ah! I see! We're going to lock her away is that right? in the darkest, deepest tunnel of our sect! OH! better yet, we can drag her down into the kingdom of the dead and leave here there until her strength has been snapped and that willful nature and sharp tongue of hers have been blunted!"
"No, she's getting the same treatment as the rest of the prisoners" You say just as sweetly and happily as her, looking away as her pretty smiling face starts to look much more like a toad's as she winces and cringes at your words
"Ah..ah" She stammers, glancing back fretfully at the girl glaring murderously in her direction "Oh I see, all of them will be taken to the cells, of course, why wouldn't they be, they are prisoners of war, right, right? Huanliuxue?"
"No, well appointed rooms with pleasant and soothing views of the valley, in the upper reaches of the temple, near the gardens on the mountain top, with fresh air and sunlight" You state, which makes Monu pull at her hair and grimace, clenching her teeth and wincing again as she looks like she's about to throw a fit or throw up
"Whhhhhhy~" She croaks mournfully, falling to her knees and clinging to your neck
"A beaten dog is only obedient until it bites you hand" You sagely reply, feeling rather clever. But you soon have to avert your eyes and look towards the ceiling to avoid looking at the mother your respect so much fighting back tears of regret.
"Okay!' She chirps spiritedly, flashing a blithe grin as she pats you on the head again "I shall prepare their rooms. Do our..."Honored guests" require any special accommodations"
"Give Tian Mei some reading material, the books my tailor friend lent me" You mischievously snicker, hoping that will cheer her up and because the thought of forcing that proud girl to read trashy romance novels just tickles you pink "And do try to keep from pissing her off when I'm not around"
"I've lived too long of a life to have a death wish" Monu says quietly "I Probably should start training seriously again..."
And with that, she heads off to the prepare the rooms, followed by a small army of wooden and stone puppets. And then you turn your attention to Qinxin, who tries to avoid your stare as he goes about cutting up his apple, while the prisoners stay close together near the entrance of the temple, not daring to step closer or wander.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Thu 24 Aug 2023 08:49:52 No. 5744633 Report >>5744631 Except for Tian Mei, who thankfully isn't snooping around, but instead is standing before the entrance to the catacombs, inspecting the paper seals on it and even going so far as to place a hand upon it
"Am I too be punished for saying too much, sect head?" Qinxin asks, as you keep one eye on him and one on Tian Mei, to make sure she doesn't do anything stupid "Mentioning Huili was a mistake, I didn't expect to see a core formation expert amongst our prisoners"
"Eh, not everyone has an eye for cultivation levels like I do" You say in a casual way, to cut the tension in the air and reassure him you aren't punishing him, at least not yet "And if I'd slap anyone it'd be my mother for picking a fight, and so crudely as well"
"That is one of your greatest talents, sect head" Qinxin praises, wisely not saying anything about Monu he'll regret when you're no longer mad at her for losing her temper like that "But if you aren't going to scold me..."
"Why am I looking at you with such bright eyes! Why I've decided to give you some responsibility around here, and give you a job worthier than spreading shit across a field or picking grains of rice out of dirt" You exclaim jubilantly, grinning ear to ear as Qinxin falls to the ground in a show of gratitude
"Oh I am honored to be trusted with whatever duty you see fit to give me, I shall humbly and graciously take to it with vigor and pride!" He exclaims, very earnestly showing his thanks by smacking his head on the ground once or twice, and hard enough to draw blood as well. Seems he hasn't given up getting in your good graces, despite how poorly you've treated him since he's arrived here
"Tell me, what role am I to be give, Sect head?" He asks, rising up and reeling back, rubbing his aching head as you watch his antics bemusedly, struggling not to laugh and tease him
"Why you're going to be working with me, a great honor of course" You say, smiling as a snicker escapes out of your mouth "A privilege few have been awarded"
He has a full body shiver at hearing that
"How am I to assist you, I am of course humbled by this chance to aid you, but I must ask, what exactly I will be helping you do" He asks hurriedly, with a worried look about him as he wrings his hands fretfully
"I am glad you asked, you couldn't help me if you didn't know what we're doing" You say, a little drunk off his praises despite yourself "You're going to help me convert our prisoners"
"Forcefully?" He asks after a moment of silence and a grim expression on his face
"No, I'd ask Monu if I wanted brainwashed lackies" You snap, and he nods hurriedly, an awkward smile on his face "I just want to show them the truth of the world of cultivation and all the hypocrisies of the nine heavens, is all"
"Then why ask me instead of Rejungui or" he begins before you interrupt him
"Cause they know you? Or some of them do at least" You answer with a flippant wagging of your paw "And besides that, The students I'd trust more are"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Thu 24 Aug 2023 08:50:53 No. 5744636 Report >>5744633 "Look like heretics should?" Qinxin helpfully answers in the politest way possible
"Exactly!" You exclaim "Ping might be a better example of a turn coat, Fu might have a heroic reputation, Feiqing has a good heart, Qiang is smart but... well their looks and manner are all wrong for convincing people that we aren't, ya know, evil villains. "
"And Hong, Lanfen, Liu, Niu, Bo, Mao Yue, and Wang Wencheng?" He asks curiously
"Hong is too cheeky, Lanfen too vain, Liu too charmless, Niu too gloomy, Bo too stupid, Mao Yue too flighty and naive, Wang too cowardly" You answer rapid fire without pausing for breath "And though you didn't mention Lei, well I shouldn't have to explain why the only true demonic cultivator in our ranks is"
"LEI IS A DEMONIC CULTIVATOR?!"
"Ah, I've said too much, though Ping or Feiqing would've mentioned his history to you by now" You snicker, delighting in Qinxin's horrified expression "But even if he wasn't, it should be obvious why Lei would be a poor choice"
"Yes of course" Qinxin says, sounding rather shaken "I understand your wisdom in choosing me to be your par...assistant. But if I may be so impudent as to ask, how exactly we're going to convince a score of proud cultivators and true daoists to forsake their lives and reputations to serve a demonic beast who slaughtered their peers and betters before their eyes?"
"Good question, why are you?" You ask plainly, idly licking the back of your paw
"Its the right thing to do" He answers without blinking or pausing "And instead of my first encounter with you being a one sided slaughter, I saw for myself how a heretic could be righteous and the hypocrisy of those who call themselves as such. The only honorable thing to do was to join those who remember their duty, even if it meant betraying those who have forgotten it. I humbly advise that we show them the virtuous and benevolent side of you and your follower, sect head"
"Hmm" You hum, pondering what to do and if you should listen to Qinxin's suggestion
What do you decide to do, Huanliuxue?
>Listen to Qinxin, and provide irrefutable evidence of your benevolence and nobility before trying to convince them of the reality of demonic beasts >Just bribe them with good food, drink and comfort while slowly introducing them to the reality that's been hidden from them. Sure a few might think you're fattening them up, but it should endear most of them to you enough that they listen to your claims >Why overcomplicate things? You're gorgeous! Just turn and stay human. Your peerless beauty will make them lower their god and make them like clay in your hands! >Bah! Just tell them the true history of the last ten generations . It might not get through their thick skulls, but you can have Qinxin do the hard work of convincing them >Write in Anonymous
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>>5744636 >Listen to Qinxin, and provide irrefutable evidence of your benevolence and nobility before trying to convince them of the reality of demonic beasts Anonymous
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>>5744636 >Listen to Qinxin, and provide irrefutable evidence of your benevolence and nobility before trying to convince them of the reality of demonic beasts Roleplay that wisdom we supposedly possess.
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>>5744636 >Listen to Qinxin, and provide irrefutable evidence of your benevolence and nobility before trying to convince them of the reality of demonic beasts >Why overcomplicate things? You're gorgeous! Just turn and stay human. Your peerless beauty will make them lower their god and make them like clay in your hands! I feel these two aren't mutually exclusive.
Maybe a tour of the village so they also see huan goofing off with yuyi?
(She's had a child while we were cultivating didn't she?)
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I see we didn't brag to Monu of our double kill hunt, she probably thinks we only captured tian mei. Will be funny to mention as an offhand comment later and see her eyes boggle. I got an idea to further speed up the conversion of the prisoners, we could assign each to a separate magical beast to interact with and follow during the day while they are at the temple so they can see they are not as evil and demonic as they think.
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>>5744636 >Listen to Quixin >As an aside, break them down into groups of three to speak too. It makes them easier to handle Anonymous
>>5744701 Nope, they have to be in solitary confinement for conversion. Otherwise it'll be significantly more complicated.
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>>5744711 I know it'll be harder to convince them, due to self-reenforcing their prexisting belief systems and taking solidarity in being together.
But it'll be more expedient, and easier to move along, if we take them out in threes.
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>>5744636 >Listen to Qinxin, and provide irrefutable evidence of your benevolence and nobility before trying to convince them of the reality of demonic beasts >Bah! Just tell them the true history of the last ten generations . It might not get through their thick skulls, but you can have Qinxin do the hard work of convincing them Anonymous
>>5744636 >Listen to Qinxin, and provide irrefutable evidence of your benevolence and nobility before trying to convince them of the reality of demonic beasts We did ask for his advice.
>Arrange for them to assist in the village and train with your other demonic beasts Turning
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>>5744695 . I’d back small groups for this effort since we don’t have all our cultivators here, but Tian Mei should be separate and travel with us at all times. Huan can do the math to see if we really need groups though.
I also realize we’re giving away info with that, especially to Tian Mei, but my reply to her is
>We’re showing her this because we believe she can see the good in them with time. Also the bad, but such is the nature of people. For conversions, I’ll toss in a starter question to serve as an opener:
>How do you raise a child? How do you raise a child who can stand equal to a qi condensation cultivator? How about one who stands at foundation establishment? Once we begin converting in earnest, we can start our lessons by answering how orthodox sects would, re: butcher the children and harvest them for cultivation parts. Because awakened beasts are too simple to be called anything but a child before they’ve learned how to be part of the human world.
Give them the opportunity to prove what we’re doing is wrong by grasping our logic and finding fault in sheltering and training them to use their abilities responsibly. It’d be worth a good laugh.
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>>5744636 >Listen to Qinxin, and provide irrefutable evidence of your benevolence and nobility before trying to convince them of the reality of demonic beasts Anonymous
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>>5744729 I think you underestimate just how MUCH harder it will be to convince them.
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>>5744699 I'm gonna second this idea too.
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>>5744699 >>5744794 If this idea picks up traction, I'd say to exclude Jiangliehuo (too much of a thug), Canlan (too innocent and potentially susceptible to being tricked), and Baifenchi (Would probably freak everyone not named Tian Mei out with her obsession).Senlin, Chuandapo, and Siwang would probably see the best reception.
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>>5744636 >Listen to Qinxin, and provide irrefutable evidence of your benevolence and nobility before trying to convince them of the reality of demonic beasts Anonymous
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>>5744636 >>Listen to Qinxin, and provide irrefutable evidence of your benevolence and nobility before trying to convince them of the reality of demonic beasts >>5744777 Sect brother is skipping over a few steps. Benevolence FIRST, demonic beasts LATER. It's already said in the option.
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>>5745022 I refuse your slander, sect brother! I skipped no steps! First benevolence, then beasts and village as stated! To disregard the proper order of those steps would be folly!
I will accept slander suggesting I am voting on things that are better suited for a second vote, as many (including myself) were guilty of in the vote regarding prisoners. We’re all just impatient like a cat.
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>>5744626 Tian Mei really doing their courteous info-gathering best.
>>5744636 >Listen to Qinxin, and provide irrefutable evidence of your benevolence and nobility before trying to convince them of the reality of demonic beasts >>5744699 I like this. We can even frame it to our beast disciples as a lesson for them, too.
..It takes a lot of patience to escort thick headed cultivators.
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>>5744636 >>Why overcomplicate things? You're gorgeous! Just turn and stay human. Your peerless beauty will make them lower their god and make them like clay in your hands! Anonymous
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>>5744636 >Just bribe them with good food, drink and comfort while slowly introducing them to the reality that's been hidden from them. Sure a few might think you're fattening them up, but it should endear most of them to you enough that they listen to your claims Anonymous
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>>5744636 >Listen to Qinxin, and provide irrefutable evidence of your benevolence and nobility before trying to convince them of the reality of demonic beasts Anonymous
>Votes:13 zcov/WdI BPLz1PB5 Omyb07qX rJRgQ3rO zUAyXh6A 2kCLjb9Y 9AJcS9/m X3yV6In kgCT7cKy kT9M/1W1 yqw+upHL 0kdvEcba WMlBOn8A>Listen to Qinxin, and provide irrefutable evidence of your benevolence and nobility before trying to convince them of the reality of demonic beasts:10 zcov/WdI BPLz1PB5 Omyb07qX rJRgQ3rO zUAyXh6A 2kCLjb9Y 9AJcS9/m kgCT7cKy kT9M/1W WMlBOn8A>>As an aside, break them down into groups of three to speak too. It makes them easier to handle:1 rJRgQ3rO>Why overcomplicate things? You're gorgeous! Just turn and stay human. Your peerless beauty will make them lower their god and make them like clay in your hands!:2 Omyb07qX yqw+upHL>Bah! Just tell them the true history of the last ten generations . It might not get through their thick skulls, but you can have Qinxin do the hard work of convincing them:1 zUAyXh6A>Just bribe them with good food, drink and comfort while slowly introducing them to the reality that's been hidden from them. Sure a few might think you're fattening them up, but it should endear most of them to you enough that they listen to your claims:1 0kdvEcba>Arrange for them to assist in the village and train with your other demonic beasts:5? Omyb07qX(?) 2kCLjb9Y BPLz1PB5 X3yV6Ini kT9M/1W1(?) Question marks are for the former not putting it as an actual vote but more an idea, while the latter said they liked it but did not give a clear vote of support.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Mon 28 Aug 2023 03:46:51 No. 5748306 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote now. I'll offer some face for making my juniors wait over the weekend but, armored core is nearly as addicting as fire emblem
>>5746763 A thousand accolades for my illustrious junior Tally anon, a grand show of filial piety.
So you'll follow Qinxin's advice and provide irrefutable evidence Huanliuxue is a good girl at heart before trying to draw them into the conspiracy of the true nature of the heavens and the tragedy of ascended beasts, or introducing them to her more beastly disciples
Update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Mon 28 Aug 2023 07:04:58 No. 5748399 Report Quoted By:
Another large update.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Mon 28 Aug 2023 07:05:59 No. 5748402 Report And with all of your sagely wisdom, you see no reason you shouldn't. It isn't flashy, complicated or devious by any measure but its sound in its simplicity. There's no way any orthodox cultivator, experienced or not, would believe the stories and tales of a demonic beast that captured them after massacring their peers and squashing their seniors like insects. Sure some of them are novices and youngsters, but even those green horns have probably spent as many or more years as you have in the world of cultivation being fed lies that have been believed so long they're indistinguishable from fact. Lies that have even bled down into the myths and legends of the mundane world of mortals. That level of brainwashing won't be broken with a pretty smile or any amount of natural beauty, not that you'd degrade yourself by using your magnificent body in a similar manner to a hot meal offered to a road weary traveler. Your beauty is meant to be admired from a distance not sold or devalued for meager benefits, after all, thus is the nature of a proud beauty such as yourself. And while a hot meal made out of tasty and nutritious ingredients would be enough to break the will of a man forced to subsist on kongee that's mostly water or the dew that condenses on the wall of a prison cell, you aren't treating your prisoners so poorly as to make luxury goods enough to sway them into feeling fondness for you. Using your good looks would just make them see you as a wicked spirit trying to seduce the righteous from their benevolent and noble path, trying to bribe them with food like a starved animal would just make you seem like a different type of corrupter bidding them down the path of hedonism. And while you could probably convince a few of them that magical beasts are no more evil by nature than humans are, exposing your beastial disciples to scared and defiant prisoners is a recipe for disaster and tragedy. They might cower in the presence of a princess, but before her students? A cornered mouse will lash out with its fangs with the same ferocity of a lion when its cornered. Qinxin is simply right. You'd be a fool to think otherwise. Its common sense. You can't win hearts through lust or hunger alone, and trying to convince them of the true history of primordial beasts and the traitorous heavens without first showing them your integrity ,good nature, and inherent nobility would be like trying to hammer a nail through water, utterly pointless. And the headache and frustration would surely cause you to lash out if you were stubborn, stupid and vain enough to try to do it anyways. Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Mon 28 Aug 2023 07:06:59 No. 5748406 Report >>5748402 "You speak my thoughts, Qinxin" You austerely answer, modestly bowing your head in recognition of the merit of his simple yet wise advise, even though you had already come to a similar conclusion by time he gave he "I haven't gathered so many students by being the strongest or being smarter than anyone else, Everyone who swears loyalty to my name does so because of a kindness or mercy I've given unto them"
Qinxin gasps, surprised that you've spoken his name and in so respectful a manner, as usually you call him things like dog or Ping's lackey or friend, if you speak to him at all.
"Really, its just common sense. Anything I tell them, whether its true or not, will be considered a lie unless I can make them stop seeing me as an untrustworthy demon" You continue pacing around Qinxin, circling him as you think out loud "Of course, showing them my human form might make them more amicable towards me, due to the prejudices passed down from their elders, but it also might make them more wary. I'll need to approach each of them individually, and sus out the best means of showing them the sincerity of my virtues and reliability of my beneficent, I might live my life by values and laws more befitting a beast than a man, but even by the standards of mankind, I'm something of a saint even if I hold myself to the rules of nature and its morality more than anything else"
"The people in the village adore you" Qinxin says after a moment of silence, clearly basking in the sheer brilliance of your mind "Perhaps they can be of assistance"
"Perhaps for the more trusting and less guile some of our guests, maybe. They will more readily believe them bewitched or forced into compliance, like your old friends no doubt believe you to be, if they do not think you wholly corrupted into a demonic cultivator, Heh" You rigidly reply, shaking your head as you complete another circle around Qinxin, brow furrowed and eyes narrowed in thought "Which will only be worsened if they meet say, Fu or Qiang, before they're convinced of my noble character. Since if one compares their actions as martial heroes with their techniques and cultivation methods, it would appear as though I've lead them down a wicked path, no?"
"Senior brother Fu does carry ghosts upon his back and Senior sister Qiang is...well, there is a reason people think you're related, she reeks of blood no matter how long she bathes" Qinxin remarks off handedly, stowing away his hands in the sleeves of his pink and red robe "And just the sight of poor Feiqing would strengthen their biases against you and our sect, sect head"
"I already know that, again, you voice my thoughts" You snicker drly as you pause behind him and flop onto your side with a sigh
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Mon 28 Aug 2023 07:08:00 No. 5748407 Report >>5748406 Clicking your tongue, gathering your thoughts, you continue to ramble on "The cultivators know Tiexingege's human face, but unless Jionghuagege has been as audacious as her oath sister and not taken care to hide her human form, I think the princess of honeybees could prove as valuable an assets if not more so than you yourself in convincing these whelps to see the best side of me, so they may be shown then the true face of their ancestors and the rule they serve"
"Jionghuagege she's the one who cultivated the titanic plantlife that encircle our territory, yes?" Qinxin asks, kneeling down so as not to look down on you
"Correct, and she is a good girl, well mannered and sweet" You chirp happily "I don't doubt she's secreted away some prisoners of her own. She's gentle natured enough that I find it hard to believe she could stomach watching her fellow daoists be picked apart by Tiexingege's soldiers, even knowing they would not give her the same kindness if their positions were swapped"
"An act of supreme mercy and forgiveness that is to our benefit, Jionghuagege's purity will surely help to lower the defenses of your prisoners and make it easier for you to change their first impressions of you, even if it won't make them forgive you for killing their fellows in battle" He agrees, nodding his head
"Eh, I thrive off grudges. If they have any sense they'll realize its their fault they got killed. If they wanted to keep on living, they wouldn't have sought me out" You say, deciding not to voice your own prejudices against the Ling, as in all honesty you did kill Golden Locks not just to spare her of the sorry fate of being a bloodthristy monster, but also because she was a Ling herself and you still have a chip on your shoulder with that family and their followers "But time heals most wounds, and if Ping was convinced of my nobility just by traveling with me, I'm sure it won't be a great challenge for them to see me in the same light as he did a few years back"
"Still, some of them will be more set in their ways and convinced of the false history you stand against as well as the libel laid against all demonic beasts for the crimes of a few long dead" Qinxin muses out loud, rubbing his hairless chin "They'll be harder to deal with, and when their juniors come to see you in a new light and recognize the true and beneficent you, surely they will be driven further into self sophistry, and cling more stubbornly to their misguided beliefs"
"Tian Mei especially" You mutter as you stand back up "She's got a sharper wit and deeper intellect than the rest, has previous history with my mother instead of just knowing her as a boogeywoman or a cautionary tale, and actually remembers what happened while she was under the sway of my curse clearly, unlike the rest of them"
"A curse?" He asks warily, glancing at you from the corners of his eyes as you start pacing around him
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Mon 28 Aug 2023 07:09:00 No. 5748408 Report >>5748407 "My mother is a witch not just in name" You answer shamelessly "In the wild, there's no such thing as fighting dirty. You either eat or are eaten."
"The weak are prey to the strong" He says after a moment of hesitation, pressing a hand on the ground to steady himself as he stands, his eyes downcast
"Only if the strong are selfish bastards" You retort without missing a beat "It is the truth of the world, but the strong also have a responsibility to the weak. If they are truly strong that is. Seeking strength without reason besides one's own benefit is the height of foolishness and the way of the weak, in my eyes. Strength without direction is meaningless. A ruler is obligated to be strong, for the benefit of their subjects. A weak ruler brings nothing but turmoil to their land and one who is strong only for their own sake is nothing no matter how powerful they are"
"There is not much difference between beasts and men, though you are wiser than most of either" Qinxin says brightly, smiling after he spent a few moments digesting your wisdom "Few rulers realize they have a duty to rule, not a right. But I must admit, I had never thought that that old saying could have depth beyond being an excuse made by bullies and tyrannical villains"
You smile knowingly. That same realization is what lead you to break ten generations of heavens' enforced tradition and take on a human form when no other beast had in living memory
"If you were born with a hide of fur or covering of scales, you'd have an easier time walking on two legs" You coyly praise him, swishing your tail as you leave to begin planning how to show your good side to your prisoners without coming off as insincere or two faced "Now come along, Outer Disciple Qinxin, we have hearts and minds to win"
"At once, Seat of the primordial mountain!" Qinxin barks like a good dog, cupping his fist and bowing deeply before he races after you.
First you check to see if each of the prisoners is comfortable in their rooms. You checking some, while Qinxin checks on others making sure to tell them he's doing so by your orders and his own concerns. You leave the ones who know him to him, since even if they think he's a traitor to humanity and a demon worshiping heretic, they know him and his deeds. Monu offers to help, but you turn her down, for the same reasons you aren't relying over much on your human self's jade like refinement and eye catching beauty. You'll reveal that form of you when they're comfortable with you as a cat, since doing otherwise would seem incredibly suspicious...you think?
Progress is slower, much slower than you'd like, but there's still progress. At least with most of the prisoners. Some are stubborn and refuse to talk to you, like you're going to goad or coax them into revealing some lethal secret or hidden fault of their betters or their entire sects.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Mon 28 Aug 2023 07:10:01 No. 5748409 Report >>5748408 Fulfilling their requests, talking to them cordially and casually, making sure they're all comfortable with their arrangements and don't feel trapped even if they're restricted to their rooms and the dining hall can only do so much, but once they're all know longer shaking at the sight of you like any moment in your company may be their last, you spring the next step of the plan by actually giving them a chance to see the mostly well meaning and gracious side of you, to glimpse your nobility through deed and action rather than from hearsay and gossip.
You accomplish this through different ways with each of them, some are simple, like providing for Fu's village in one way or another, like using a trick you learned from Chuandapo to summon up shoals of fat fish or helping them with the more troublesome ghosts awoken by your mere presence. Others you sit down with those fortunate souls who've turned half beast from the roar you gave at your challenge to the gods or after when the primordial beast energy flowing from you affected them strangely, and show them that they're still human. And while you and Qinxin are escorting them through the village, you allow them opportunities to wanderer and converse and listen to the locals, who have nothing but good things to say about you. Luckily your students like to talk about your good deeds when they're in town, sometimes to get free food and drinks, others just because they were asked of their splendid teacher, Heh-Heh.
You also take the chance to visit Yuyi to make sure she hasn't turned catty again, and to see how she's been fairing from all the trouble your momentous breakthrough has caused. Also to play with her, since its been awhile since you've gotten into her hair and bothered her for fun, at least from her perspective. And while going up to a seemingly normal woman's house to loudly complain about a stupid twist in one of the garbage books Anjing lent you might make some of the captive cultivators more open to see you as something besides a scheming devil, its a private matter and you make certain none of them follow you when you go to visit your friend.
"Eh?" You gawk as you spot her mate , who you just realized you don't know the name of despite making something of a habit of dropping by their house for tea, sweets and toying with Yuyi. They're flecks of grey in his hair and his face is thinner than you remember, all of him is. But he can't be much older can he? Ju didn't look like she aged too much. So why does he look so worn and ragged. You blink, seeing a few of the maids you took from the trash emperor milling about the garden, as you look up and see her home/ apothecary has also expanded and changed you last visited. And the maids look just as worn out and exhausted as Yuyi's man does.
What's up with that, hm? What up with that!?
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Mon 28 Aug 2023 07:11:02 No. 5748413 Report >>5748409 AND WHAT'S UP WITH ALL THE OFFERINGS PLACED OUTSIDE OF THE WALLS? Why are there walls anyway? This is a nice city, there's no crime to speak of, since there isn't a criminal stupid enough to cause problems on your doorstep, but why is there a wall? And one with its white bricks painted all sorts of colors, like a child scrawled over it with a bunch of paint on their hands and fingers..
"OH!" You gasp, grinning ear to ear as you hear Ju smack one of the cultivators over the head from across the street. She must've had a good reason to wallop them with a pan, so you won't scold her for it. Yuyi's has kids, hasn't she! Or a kid. Humans usually don't have litters do they?
Of course you invite yourself in, and after dodging a cleaver and pinning Yuyi to the ground, find to your delight that she has had a litter of brats. Well, that's until you see why she's so angry with you again, as no less than four toddlers with cat ears and tails rush over to try and save their mother from the stranger whose sitting atop her and holding her arm behind her back. While you nearly faint from their cuteness as they bap you with their pudgy fists, you also immediately recognize the problem here. First, Poor Yuyi had all these adorable little girls at once, which you know must've been hell. And secondly, your worries that her kids would inherit the feline traits you removed from her have come true. Did you forget to warn her about that? Oops, explains why she came at your with a cleaver again. Actually did you ever tell her she was the progenitor of a bestial bloodline? You did tell her she could be a cultivator if she wanted to be...eh
Well better late than never.
With her kids trying to bite and claw you, as you find they have already grown fang like teeth, much earlier than most human kids do surely, you explain this to her as her scarlet haired and furred progeny clamber on you and try to save their mama, not know you're just rough housing with her.
Surprisingly she isn't as mad as you thought she'd be. Seems the offerings were left out because her children being Huanliuxue-like was seeing as most auspicious and a sign of heavenly favor on her part and despite initially being steaming mad about the whole, looking more like you than her, it seems her mate and maids put in a lot of effort to uh...blunt her anger long enough for her to recognize herself and her partner in their less feline features. Though you'd be lying if the girl whose tried to tackle you off of her mother at least five times now didn't have eyes that look unmistakably like your own. And more surprising is that she doesn't ask you to make them "Normal", once you've decided to get off of her, mostly due to her kids blubbering and crying, since Yuyi herself knew trying to appeal you to stop doing something is at the best of times a vain struggle.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Mon 28 Aug 2023 07:12:03 No. 5748414 Report >>5748413 In her own words "They've had such a blessed life looking like that, it'd be cruel to take that away from them when they're celebrated as children beloved by the gods...What do you mean you didn't like that part! The confession surrounded by flames right? How couldn't you be heartbroken by two star crossed lovers uniting in their last moments? Huh, you thought the series should've ended their, but their next life romance was even more bittersweet!"
And for the rest of your visit her four girls eye you warily and suspiciously, trying to intimidating you with glares even as the fur on their tail is fluffed up and they jump at your slightest movement and scurry away.
While its hard to tell their personalities at such a young age, the eldest with eyes like your own is called Yanyu and is the loudest and most boisterous , the second born, with hair growing over her eyes is called Huian, a fitting name with how meek and skittish she is, The third born with the longest hair and most mature attitude is Ya and seems to know more than she lets on behind her lazy eyes, and the forth and most clingy and needy of the litter is the teary eyed Jiao. And you adore all of them, though there's something familiar about Yanyu beyond her eyes that you can't put your finger on.
You decide to spend more time with Yuyi and her kids when you bring your prisoners down from the mountain to "Help" with the various good deeds and public projects you deign to do in town, like clearing the river of ice, helping Yuyi with medicine, reuiniting them with their sect mates that Jionghuagege did spirit away. Who seemingly never realized her human self and natural bee self were one and the same, and had grown fond of the lady sage who tended to their wounds and "Tamed" the wild beasts. Which is so amusing you decide not to burst their bubble of ignorance even after asking your little sister to help you out in convincing the prisoners you took of your good heart.
And soon, most of the prisoners stop calling you deep and speak your name with the respect it deserves, even if they remain warry around you and suspicious of your intentions, one even questioned you personally why you were treating them so well. Soon you'll be able to begin to lecture them on the real history of the world and the nature of ascended beasts such as yourself. Though Tian Mei was proving a tougher nut to crack, more so than even the surviving foundation establishment experts who needed to see you save a woodcutter from a bear, a priest from a horde of vengeful ghosts and a dozen other heroic deeds to even begin to ponder why a "demon" like you wasn't endangering the very lives she had saved. it was taking baby steps, but you were making progress, slow and irritating as it may be.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Mon 28 Aug 2023 07:13:12 No. 5748415 Report >>5748414 And not long after, Siwang returns with a message from Suiqi, seems every one of your students had made it to the city safely and had established a proper temple there, and were welcoming pilgrims from all over Chuan. And that they had met some disciples of the winter blossoming wisdom sect when they first arrived, and had to have fend off a few more attacks after.
Unfortunately, Siwang didn't linger there long enough to ask questions, and the writer of the letter, who you're guessing is Lei from the eccentric style and bombastic manner of the writing, didn't say if they killed or took prisoner these interlopers. Though it does mention some of your students were injured in the scuffles, but not severely enough to be a cause of concern for you. You read the letter once more, as Siwang flaps his wings to get them out of the reach of Yanyu, who seemed intent on plucking out his feathers even after she cut her fingers on her first attempt to snatch a handful of them
Shrugging, you set it down, already planning the next way you'll showcase your virtuous and beneficent self to your captives, to make certain they didn't just think you weren't a demon but that they also admired you for how upstanding you were, Heh-heh-heh! Surely they'd be showering you with praises and compliments any day now!
What do you do now that your prisoners are starting to see you in a better light, Huanliuxue?
>Take Tian Mei to Suiqi, to show her the good your sect has done. Even she can't deny your nobility if she sees all the good done in your name >Begin to spend more time as a human amongst your prisoners, revealing your form to each of them as a show of trust with them and begin to slowly approach the topic of the actual history of the last ten generations, testing the waters with their reactions >Push Jionghuagege to be more active in converting your captives, planning for her to reveal her natural form to them once you're certain their trust goes past skin deep, so you can reveal your human form at the same time! That should shatter their view of the world! >Decide to leave Qinxin and Jiong Jiong to tend to the prisoners for awhile, spending more time playing with Yuyi's kids, and offering to take her to meet your friend Anjing. Along with Tian Mei, cause it'd be stupid not to take her, even if the trip is short. >Write in Had a little too much fun writing this update.
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>>5748415 Introducing a catgirl lineage into the world is a deed that alone is able to place Huanliuxue among the saints and Buddhas.
Had a lot of fun reading this update >Establish a book club with ourselves, Yuyi and (forcibly) Tian Mei, gathering to discuss romance novels and play with the kids I think going to Hell to visit Anjing will be counterproductive to converting Tian Mei right now.
Meanwhile discussing human behavior in the novels would give Tian Mei a window into our virtuous and sagely thought process; and once she is irritated enough by our misunderstandings to try and educate us, that's when we get her. Rapport established.
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>>5748415 >>5748477 +1We also shouldn't forget to fix Fieqing's appearance asap
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>>5748415 >Take Tian Mei to Suiqi, to show her the good your sect has done. Even she can't deny your nobility if she sees all the good done in your name I get the feeling Yanyu is the unborn dragon we met in the primordial forest. >>5748522 Nah, I still believe he’s cooking up some way to change his own appearance with his cultivation and taking that from him wouldn’t be right. Now something like Fu’s scars I’d be more open to healing if he was on board.
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>Take Tian Mei to Suiqi, to show her the good your sect has done. Even she can't deny your nobility if she sees all the good done in your name Are we making Yuyi a cultivator? Should do that when stuff calms down. At least thanks to her changed bloodline she'll no doubt live quite a long time. Figured she would walk the dao of medicine or pill making and become an alchemist. Though now she has kids she'd probably put it off.
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>>5748415 >Decide to leave Qinxin and Jiong Jiong to tend to the prisoners for awhile, spending more time playing with Yuyi's kids, and offering to take her to meet your friend Anjing. Along with Tian Mei, cause it'd be stupid not to take her, even if the trip is short. I'm feeling whimsy today
Everybody buckle up, we're going to hell!
>>5748522 Feiquing should reforge himself into a golden statue.
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>>5748522 I kind of want Feiqing to fix it on his own.
I have a gut feeling that reforging his entire body is going to be part of his dao.
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>>5748415 >Begin to spend more time as a human amongst your prisoners, revealing your form to each of them as a show of trust with them and begin to slowly approach the topic of the actual history of the last ten generations, testing the waters with their reactions >>5748477 But also this.
Because it's funny
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>>5748415 >Take tian Mei to suiqi. >Make a book club, as >>5748477 BOOK CLUB
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>>5748415 >Decide to leave Qinxin and Jiong Jiong to tend to the prisoners for awhile, spending more time playing with Yuyi's kids, and offering to take her to meet your friend Anjing. Along with Tian Mei, cause it'd be stupid not to take her, even if the trip is short. I’d mix in the book club idea from
>>5748477 because we’d have all the real key players at that point. Anjing is the one who gave us the romance novels to start, and she’s likely to have an even larger collection to share.
I would see if we could meet nearer the portal though. Set up a picnic-like area so Yuyi and the kids don’t have to see most of hell, and we can kick them back quickly if anything dangerous comes along. Yuyi will have enough of a shock seeing Anjing, let alone a pinwheel spider.
Tian Mei will probably think she’s going to meet a demon who seems pleasant on the surface but is enabling some darker purpose. Let’s laugh at her when we show even hell can birth good-natured souls. The place and nature of her birth are not the ways she should be judged.
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>>5748665 I have some spare time for lunch, may as well have fun with the “talk” we’d need to have with Tian Mei first.
>”I know you normally let what I say pass through your head like wind in a valley, but I will be bringing you within striking distance of my greatest weaknesses. So it behooves you to listen this time.” >”It seems rare for cultivators to form bonds beyond other cultivators. Time passes differently for us, and our concerns are worlds apart. I myself only have a few such bonds, and you will join me so I may spend time with them with less worry of you doing something rash.” >”As they aren’t cultivators, you can kill them easily. To make sure you understand what this means, join us in the discussions. Take part in our playtime, coax the stories of when I have upset and helped them, see how we interact to know what their influence over me is. Weigh it against what I would be to the world without their influence, and if it means less bloodshed then strike knowing you die hurting me more deeply than you ever could in straight combat.” >”However monstrous you may see me or them, I expect you will stay your hand. They are good-natured women and children, and if I am to ever be content to no longer shed blood it will be when I am able to spend time with them knowing other good-natured souls won’t consider murdering them for associating with me.” >”A simple ask, in my humble opinion.” >”Now, I hope you’ve been reading the books I left in your room. Anjing gifted me them and I’m hoping she has a wider collection. I’m starting to find ‘lovers die and their next life is bittersweet’ trite, which is an opinion Yuyi doesn’t share but how long can you repeat the same plot like that! To say nothing of how I’m now noticing that some of the love interests are so vapid, relying on characterization from their prior lives to suggest a personality but that’s run over in their curr-“ Dialogue continues, rising in pitch and intensity, for as long as Huan cares to vent or until we meet up with Yuyi and her kids distract us.
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>>5748529 Gold is weak. Celestial steel is where it's at.
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>>5748780 Spider silk has a better strength-to-weight ratio than steel, so demonic spider silk ought to be better than celestial steel. He’ll need to up his game even further if he wants to claim he can forge stuff strictly better than what some make naturally.
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>>5748804 I trust Feiqing to forge something to surpass both heaven and hell!
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>>5748804 Well he is a metalsmith, not a weaver.
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>>5748814 Sure, but if we wear Anjing’s armor into battle instead of something he forged then he’ll know he has further to go.
I kinda want to see what they could make together now. Anjing may even be more comfortable around him than most humans given his looks. >>5748477 Also, we forgot Feiqing has also read all this stuff too. He should join the book club as well. We’ll have kittengirls from Yuyi running around, Feiqing won’t raise additional eyebrows.
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>>5748904 >tfw by hell standards feiqing is a pretty average looking dude and has a largely harmless and inoffensive personality >tfw feiqing easily brushes past the whole giant spider thing because she is a true artisan worthy of respect The best friendship they could ever have.
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>>5748904 >Also, we forgot Feiqing has also read all this stuff too Right, recruit him too!
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>>5748904 >feiquing Damn, that's true! better not exclude him
Adding to my vote:
>>5748529 Anonymous
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>>5748415 >>Begin to spend more time as a human amongst your prisoners, revealing your form to each of them as a show of trust with them and begin to slowly approach the topic of the actual history of the last ten generations, testing the waters with their reactions Anonymous
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>>5748543 I'll add my support to bringing Feiqing into the club.
We WILL have the funny
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>>5748415 >Begin to spend more time as a human amongst your prisoners, revealing your form to each of them as a show of trust with them and begin to slowly approach the topic of the actual history of the last ten generations, testing the waters with their reactions Anonymous
Is it bad that I still want to pretend that our human form isn’t us, it’s Qiang’s mom instead? As annoying as the misunderstandings could be, Qiang is the only person who follows our self-taught cultivation law and is an assassin so having her mother under us as Qiang+ (stronger, same law, actually not well-known since she’s better at hiding her tracks) seems like it’d be more believable than it being our human form. It’d give us an excuse to pal around as a human and engage people for conversions as a “friendlier” face.
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>>5749744 Not bad at all.
It's be a better idea, honestly. Better story too.
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Speaking of future planning, we still have a undyed spiritual root, so when we've settled the sect wars that's something to look into. The only thing I can think of at the moment would be Time as the connecting point of Life and Death (without external circumstances time is the killer that spills no blood and grudges can be heavily influenced by the lack of time, the "should of, would of, could of"s), but I have no clue where we would even find a sufficient quantity of time Qi.
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>>5749863 Time sounds pretty interesting to cultivate. Maybe time qi could be cultivated by realizing that time is apparently very permeable? Or maybe by trying to find a common energy in any/everything, since time effects all?
But didn't we also have an idea to try and cultivate using the qi from the cycle of reincarnation itself? That is an idea that does have a bit more of a direction to try and cultivate with than time at the moment.
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>>5749863 For more mundane Qi, I liked the idea of plant Qi to grow a blood/death gardens.
For exotic/connecting Qi, we could try finding the Great Wheel (reincarnation) that our law is named after and see what we can gather from that. We’d have enough pieces from bridging both life and death that we can experiment with finding Qi linked to both but isn’t either. But that sounds like a nascent soul project and we’ll likely have a fourth slot then.
Beyond that? We could try finding a Qi that only exists in hell. The Qi of demons, much as we have the Qi of the living and ghosts. We could join Zhurou in pursing Qi found only in nobility as we have the divine soul of an emperor still. We could follow our mother with Qi of poisons. We could dye our root in Primordial Qi and harness its chaotic energies more directly as we’re already a living source for it.
My vote would be for plants to make that one anon happy, and we wouldn’t need to wait long since Jiong Jiong can guide us on that path. There’s plenty of benefits with alchemy too and that worked out very well for us in the crow fight.
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>>5749863 I'm thinking of dying it in primordial qi
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>>5748527 It can't be it, wasn't the dragon going to be born to other dragons, it even had parents we could meet? It might be one of the kids that took care of us, or the jianshi that we promised we would teach in his next life. Anonymous
Also, here's a quick tally
>Votes - 10 1uhO3Db6
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>Book club - 6 (7?) 1uhO3Db6
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>Suiqi trip - 3 9AJcS9/m
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>Anjing visit - 2 Omyb07qX
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>Human form - 2 zUAyXh6A
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The ? is because
>>5749358 supported the addition of Feiqing but didn't support the original vote, so I'm unsure if he wants the book club or not
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>>5748415 >Establish a book club with ourselves, Yuyi and (forcibly) Tian Mei, gathering to discuss romance novels and play with the kids >Begin to spend more time as a human amongst your prisoners, revealing your form to each of them as a show of trust with them and begin to slowly approach the topic of the actual history of the last ten generations, testing the waters with their reactions Anonymous
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>>5749863 time confuses the fuck our of us. I instead posit that rebirth is a better dao
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>>5749895 actual spoilers:
Baoli set their soul to search out our essence while we were cultivating and missed his target by a mile. Anonymous
>>5750388 I wouldn't put past the crow-stalker to try and reincarnate as our friend's child. Anonymous
>>5750390 Also I'm now morbidly curious of what would happen if reincarnated Baoli drank a potion made using past Baoli's corpse as reagents. Anonymous
>>5750391 I was joking, but now I am scared. Anonymous
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>>5750397 I'm just channeling my inner heretic, don't worry about it. Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Thu 31 Aug 2023 09:49:47 No. 5750997 Report ending the vote now
>>5749901 Many thanks junior for tallying in my place.
So you'll start a book club and forcefully recruit Tian Mei to discuss romance novels and play with Yuyi's kids
update will arrive shortly
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>>5750997 Don't forget Feiqin please!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:CCMmmM9c Thu 31 Aug 2023 10:40:10 No. 5751012 Report Quoted By:
>>5751001 He's still in Suiqi, but yeah, he'll join the book club when he and the others return
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