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You are Huanliuxue (欢流血, Happy Bloodshed/ Happy to Shed Blood) , first amongst all housecats and demonic beasts, near peerless beauty, once in ten generations genius, head of the heretical sect of beasts and outcasts the Palace of natural laws (宫殿的野生彝宪, Gōngdiàndīyěshēngyíxiàn) and founder of the Ruler of the Great Wheel's Law(统治者的这重大轮回法律, Tǒngzhìzhědīzhèzhòngdàlúnhuífǎlǜ), and perhaps the most noteworthy and good natured heretic to grace the stagnant world of cultivation in history.
Having taken a chunk out of the Winter blossoming wisdom sect's territory simply by being kinder to the locals than they were and generously and benevolently lending them aid while their so called protectors who summoned an endless blizzard ontop of their heads, by sending your disciples to give them food, firewood and other necessities. And by personally smashing the massive spell formation that created the enchanted storm, after you easily survived an attempt on your life and converted the survivors of that "Hunting party" away from the "righteous" path of the orthodoxy. Now having greatly expanded your sect's holding and influences, even taking the flourishing city of Suiqi as your own and turning it into a place that mixed the ancient and wild pass with the civilized and tamed presence through hijacking the last piece of the winter blossoming wisdom sect's grand array, you needed to prepare in several ways. As not only had you reached out to the other sects of the Chuan region, besides the two who were practically drooling at the mouth to tear you limb from limb, but your killing of the remarkable drunkard Xue Ming had outraged his grandfather.
Who was not only the head of one of the two sects that could not exist beneath the same skies as you, but also the bastard who killed your older, foxy sister Xuebai and crippled your mother's cultivation decades before, the contemptible Xue Laohue. Who you really weren't certain how that old piece of shit was still alive, as he has been supposedly dying since before you were reborn as a magical beast and began cultivating. Talk about being stubborn. But even if you were the first and only holder of a tier 0 golden core, the ancient frosty fossil had many, many years of experience over you. And much of that experience was in killing beasts.
So you needed to prepare for his arrival, as the storm he brought could be seen on the horizon. Literally. He stood in the center of a second, magical blizzard! And you must also prepare for the arrival of your first prospective allies, the five colors and five purities sect.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Sat 23 Sep 2023 03:32:53 No. 5771374 Report >>5771373 Whom you had stolen from a couple of times in the past, and also whipped most of their worthless disciples into halfway respectable cultivators.
You'd focus on the more dangerous guest first. Even if they'd be little better than any other cannon fodder, it wouldn't hurt to have an army backing you up that you weren't afraid to have decimated. And with how wildly popular and beloved you are in the region of Chuan under your control, it wasn't hard to find volunteers and willing subjects to subject to the process that would transform them into that army. And it wasn't like you were sending them out to die to protect your students, you'd cut off your own tail if Laohue wasn't bringing with him enough chaff, trash and fodder to bury you like an avalanche. And with your blood refinement and alchemical knowledge, you could easily turn ordinary men and women, the mortals most cultivators look down on and sneer at as worthless than the dirt on their shoes, into soldiers that could potentially hold their own against the winter blossoming wisdom sect's own disposable mooks.
In fact, there are so many applicants hoping to receive this blessing, that you have to thin their numbers with a few rigorous physical exams and health check ups to weed out the ones who would be at risk of dying from the shock of the changes their blood will wrought on their body or the pain of them. Alchemically transforming blood while its still in its owner veins can be painless, but you just don't have time to waste being gentle, and anyone who would die at the starting line would be worthless to you as a fighter anyways.
But still, Suiqi is a big place and overpopulated even before your students led a massive train of pilgrims and refugees to it, and it becomes more crowded every day with newly awakened beasts and those who have gained a few beastly attributes themselves due to your heaven's defying roar or the curious primordial beast essence rich air that was stuck over and around Suiqi until you bid the spell that made it to end and the ancient weather to dissipate, so you in no way lacked in volunteers even after putting several series of hurdles in places to weed out the weaker and more pathetic hopefuls.
Funnily enough, you have exactly four thousand, four hundred and forty four volunteers who you are confident won't die from having their blood refined and their bodies changed into new and far superior forms. Most would balk at the number and shave off or add more bodies until it was four fours, a truly unlucky number. But four has always been a lucky number for you, and you've never shied or turned away from death, so you keep their numbers as they are and begin your work improving their physiques
While you could turn their blood acidic, or make them explode when they die or hide any number of nasty surprises in their bodies, you stick to the basics, and just improve their strength, durability, stamina and speed to start with which is done simply enough
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Sat 23 Sep 2023 03:33:54 No. 5771375 Report >>5771374 Then you move onto include a few basic attributes and features enjoyed by most physical cultivators into their bones, muscles and a few key organs, without even having to raise a finger or touch any of them. Some of them even remain standing, but most of them fall to the ground screaming, writhing in agony or clawing at their flesh as their veins bulge and glow an eerie crimson.
But while few of them faint for days, none of them drop dead, and sure a few are ill from the stressed induced onto their bodies, but that is no reason to stop or halt the procedure. Making not of the ones who endured the pain the longest, you heighten their vision, improve their reflexes by playing with their brain chemistry and nervous system and continue to build on the strength, durability and speed you'd already granted them, to try and make them at least stand a chance against Qi condensation level cultivators when they outnumber them, but even for a genius like yourself that is difficult. Their bodies simply can't match even the lowest of cultivators, without active meridians and with wilted spiritual roots and thus no Qi beyond what they were born with or you have put into their body, they can't ever hope to equal even the weakest trash of the cultivation world. But they don't have to, since they'll have numbers on their side. And you've already made them strong, durable and fast enough that to an ignorant or untrained eye or lacking spiritual or fighting sense, they'd look close close enough at a glance to be mistaken for talentless trash.
But doing anything more than that will kill them, you're already pushing their bodies to the limits of what they can handle and doing anything more will begin to rapidly decrease their lifespans or outright kill them as their muscles crush their bones or organs are put under too much stress and fail. They're probably stronger than the Dian brothers were when you fed them a bunch of pills, but only by a little. Still, in packs, they could give Qi cultivation tier cultivators some trouble, maybe even kill them, and from a distance make it seem like you have a lot more cultivators under your banner than you do. A trick that'll be quickly revealed, but it might make a few cowards on the enemies flee the field before the fighting starts. And if enough of them survive, they could conqueror the martial world easily! Heh-Heh
Well that's as far as most of them will go, but a few of them have stronger bodies and more pain tolerance, so you can push their boundaries a bit further, which pushes their limits a step or two more and give them a few hidden organs and internal weapons and make them the leaders of your blood refined warriors, and give them the positions of officers directly under your command. And they decide to wear masks designed after your beautiful feline face, like Lei does, and all of them paint their armor lurid shades of red and pink.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Sat 23 Sep 2023 03:34:55 No. 5771376 Report >>5771375 And while you're doing that, you also capture a few of the animals that have been transformed beneath the primeval sky you conjured, and turn them into true monsters. And since they're more disposable, you can have a little more fun with them. So you turn them into true monsters, that most cultivators would mistake for demonic beasts. But they're closer to the wildlife in the primordial basin, just being much larger than the rest of their kind and having a few mutations to make them more dangerous. Like acidic blood, sticky tongues, larger claws and more fangs, bladed tails, horns, venom sacs and the like, and with a couple of spirit stones implanted inside of the marrow of their bones, you can "Store" a couple of spells inside of them. And to make sure they don't become a problem, you make sure none of these traits will be inheritable. The changes on your human soldiers shouldn't pass down to their descendants either, but having someone be born who can naturally break rock with with fists is less dangerous than a rat the size of a large dog that can spit acid, has venomous fangs that secret a paralyzing and blinding poison, and also has a prehensile tail that can break a man's legs.
And after you have enough monsters, not under your control but trained enough to be pointed and unleashed on the enemy and You dispose of the failures of those experiments by way of Huili's packmates stomaches, since the humans living in Suiqi for some reason don't want to eat the meat of mutated beasts. Which you don't understand, it might be a little green or purple, but it tastes fine. A little tough and gamey, but its totally edible.
And since your guests from the five colors and five purities sects, their head Su Zhe'xínglǚ and their elders Fa jin and Fa Tang, haven't arrived yet, you decided to wile away the time you'd otherwise spend waiting doing a little more experimenting. But with a purpose rather than just to keep from being bored.
You start by trying something that, even for you, is ambitious. And that's trying to forcefully open the meridians of those who have no potential to absorb and cultivate Qi from the world. It doesn't work, it might be possible, but you don't have the knowledge, experience, or understanding to do it. You might be able to force enough Qi into someone's body to make an Artificial cultivator, but they'd be lucky not to explode and would rely on others to cultivate any further after that initial Injection, or maybe if they spend enough time in a place with plentiful and rich ambient Qi, that could happen, but you have no luck creating cultivators. Maybe Lei has some demonic technique or secret passed down by his family that could do it, since he can suck spiritual energy out of others and steal it from them, but you don't want to ask him right now, especially since after trying and failing everything you can think that could work.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Sat 23 Sep 2023 03:35:55 No. 5771377 Report >>5771376 Maybe taking what you know about demonic beast creation could work on humans, but you can't shake the image of a "Magical Human" out of your head, and are unwilling to give humanity even more of an advantage over the rest of the world's animals than thy already do. Even if its by accident.
And anyways, you lose interest in all of it quickly. Quick enough that your guests are no closer to reaching Suiqi when you've abandoned it entirely in the interest of doing something else. Something more interesting, exciting and entertaining. Namely in spreading Perfected Carmine Mysticism into the world. Not seriously of course, or with any real goal. You just want to see if you can make a few others inherit the improved version of it, and turn them into creatures like you. Well, creatures that also possess true carmine mysticism, and not the demonic trash that it was before you got your hands onto it and made it better in everyway.
Since those blood drinkers were cultivators of a kind, they just cultivated blood and lifeforce rather than Qi. And you know they could spread their accursed techniques to those who had no potential to cultivate the regular way. And that others could be "Infected" with your strain of Carmine mysticism, or the original kind if you so choose to, with a little of your blood and spiritual energy. But you didn't want a horde of blood hungry Jiangshi on your hands, even though it'd be hilarious to see the looks of horror on Laohue and his follower's face when they see the Peerless Sanguine Jade Shrine Sect reborn into the world, that would be...well an atrocity and affront against nature. More so than creating a dozen new breeds of monsters to mate and sire across Chuan, or making a blood sucking forest as you fancied for a moment or two before deciding that it'd do more harm than good, especially to your reputation and even more so the people living around and inside of Suiqi.
So you grab a few of the alchemists who flocked to Suiqi, hoping to be trained by a daoist master or be inducted to your sect as understudies, and offer them the chance to have their blood turned into a treasure and the secrets of Blood refinement (血精炼,Xuèjīngliàn) . Of course, you don't approach them without figuring out HOW to make a carmine mystic like yourself. Sure you turned that Ling bitch into one of the old kind. And you wouldn't want to waste the lives of these, your fellow alchemists and daoists with actual ambition, even if they are little more than peddlers of parlor tricks and magician's tricks. So you try on a few criminals condemned to death first.
How there's even any villains left in Suiqi after your and Siwang's hunt and the owl's constant vigilance, is a mystery that even alludes your mind as clear as unstirred waters. But there's enough that you find out it isn't difficult to not accidentally make a mutant Jiangshi while trying to make someone into an inheritor of the true carmine mysticism.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Sat 23 Sep 2023 03:36:57 No. 5771378 Report >>5771377 However, the results are not what you expected. It'd seem starting with a normal mortal makes...well something that isn't much different from one in terms of their physical abilities or mystical powers. Of course, you aren't much of a carmine mystic yourself, despite your name and have barely scratched the surface of the arts secrets, but it does prove that the legendary plague of Carmine mysticism was not some kind of exaggeration or tall tale told by the orthodoxy to excuse their massacre of its original practitioners or mixed up with the destruction of a sect of Jiangshi makers. From the one member you've met of the degenerated and demonic peerless sanguine jade shrine sect, the practitioners of the corrupt form would've not been anywhere near as discerning as you were spreading their "gift". Especially before its drawbacks made themselves known.
Just to be safe, even if your version of Carmine mysticism doesn't induce a thirst for blood or the other unpleasant side effects, you still cull your initial test subjects, Since criminals like them would abuse its power and become indulgent in their pursuit of it. And you have to kill one of the handful of alchemists you decided are worthy of becoming the first amongst the new generation of carmine mystics, leaving you with only two, since the would be forth got cold feet at the last second. And the one you had to kill, well, the moment he got a mote of Blood Qi and Ghostly Yin Qi in his system, to complete his transformation and turn his heart into a cauldron he decided to try and run off to abuse his new found "power", without understanding anything about cultivation or refining blood. And while having a Jiangshi that sucked blood and breath running around, who wasn't actually a corpse, wouldn't be that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things, he was your mess to clean up and you refused to allow the old kind of carmine mysticism to endure through the ignorance and greed of one selfish old bastard who thought he could take a gift from Huanliuxue and flee with it to make himself young on virgin blood. Such delinquency and villainy would reflect poorly on you and your ART.
Luckily, despite being a venerable alchemist, the traitor was an idiot. He accepted your blood into his veins, and thought he could escape you.
You have the other two watch as you pop him like an overfilled balloon with a glance, causing his blood to explode out of him before he can even claim his first victim, leaving no trace of him in the world besides a puddle of blood. And once he's been dealt with, you realize that just turning people into Carmine Mysticsisn't a shortcut to being able to turn anyone into a cultivator. Since just like how very, very few people are born with the ability cultivate Qi, there are very, very few people have the strength of character and self control to not go wild with the power it grants them, to be able to cheat the fate of the heavens and become immortal.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Sat 23 Sep 2023 03:37:58 No. 5771381 Report >>5771378 Maybe that is why the ability to cultivate is a blessing few receive.
Come to think of it, there were more cultivators in the past, before the heavens were usurped. At least, you assume there were, considering how many methods and techniques there were for the usurper sages to outlaw and forbid.
Fortunately, the two alchemists that remain and have been turned into pure carmine mystics like yourself, are worthy of the burden of being amongst the first of the school of mysticism's practitioners, unlike the man you popped like an egg.
One is a middled aged man, his hair greying and with the hawk like eyes, whose thin and frail body has become brawny from his initial change and nicely muscular. He calls himself Renshu of the river, and before you found him he was a traveling apothecary who made his way through chuan on a boat he turned into a shop. He has become a bit flamboyant and vain since the chance to increase his longevity fell onto his head like a meatpie, and wears his once wild and scraggly hair in a pony tail.
The other is a young woman, looking around your age when you're a human, an albino who was given over to a temple by her parents and raised by the daoist sages there along with her brother. She was going to be given to the Winter blossoming wisdom sect as a disciple, but was found to not have shared her brothers aptitude for cultivation and was thrown out to the forest. She's quiet and somber, but not like Qiang can be, more like a lost doll or orphan is. Her name is Ruolan.
And while you could make all of your students into stronger Carmine mystics than these two have become, you also, like them, know next to nothing of Perfected carmine mysticism. Even though you're it's creator. And they are the only two in the world who can help you expand and explore and further refine it. You should've had three assistants. Hell you should've have four. But the rice has been cooked, and the other two proved themselves undeserving of your art. Maybe you'll ask your disciples if they'd like to be able to heal by drinking blood or if they'd be willing to start practicing carmine mysticism to help you comprehend its mysteries quicker.
But you no longer have the time to ask them and start studying with them, since your guests arrive, the morning after you smear that arrogant fool on the streets, walls and rooftops of Suiqi.
You're tired from all your army building and experimentations with blood sorcery, so you have to take a cat nap and freshen up before you meet them. And also you need to wash your hair and change your clothes, since you still had bits of that shit-heel who tried to steal your carmine mysticism out of it in your hair and on your clothes. But once you've washed and gotten dressed, you march out the city gates, with Yinying at your side and a few other stray cats whom he has judged worthy of approaching within ten feet of your radiant presence.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Sat 23 Sep 2023 03:38:59 No. 5771383 Report >>5771381 Ping, Feiqing, Lie and Jionghuagege knelt down, Ping sweeping back his white hair and clapping his hands together as if in prayer, Feiqing cupping his hand and bowing deeply, Lei lifting his mask and waving happily, and Jionghuagege curtseying and lowering her head as they walked towards the gates while Yinying put himself in front of you and Fu, dressed in his full armor, emerged from your shadow where Qiang still lurked, her one eye watching the three elders from another sect warily.
Who were wearing white robes with the five colors of the wuxing somewhere on them. Su Zhe'xínglǚ lead them, stroking his long white beard and marveling at all the strange sights before his eyes, namely the ancient plant life and oddly colored birds singing on their branches, while Fa Tang glared at Yinying and the cats around you, grinding his teeth as he uneasily reaching for the blade sheathed at his hip. And his golden haired brother, Fa Jin, who had a very pretty face, wore a relaxed smile and swaggered beside his rougher, red haired twin.
"Hmm, more beasts here than there were in all of chuan a month ago" Fa Jin whistles, clapping his hands as if impressed
"This is a mistake" Fa Tang warned "We're risking our sect's future coming here. Can't you feel that pressure emanating from that girl, if she wanted to, slaughtering us would be as easy as turning over her hand"
"My fellow princess would not act so rashly or crudely, Sir Fa" Jionghuagege tried to assure him, but Tang clicked his tongue and turned away from her. You wanted to slap him for that
"My my" is all Su Zhe'xinglu said as he, ignoring Fu, Yinyin and Qiang, walked past the kneeling Ping, Feiqing, Lei and Jionghuagege and marched directly up to you. Yinying hissed, his fur standing on end as you stood as still as a corpse, your hands in front of you and a pleasant, demure smile on your face
"What power" He exclaimed, clapping his hands jubilantly as he looked up at your face, grinning brightly, like a little boy "What incredible power. You must be the Huanliuxue everyone has been talking about, lately"
"Lately? There's been shrines of her in chuan for years, master Su" Tang growls, trying to be intimidating
"That is a recent event for us" Su huffs, crossing his arms as he looked deeply into your eyes "And they've been talking more about you, much more recently. You've stirred up quite the storm. Heh-Heh, those old, conservative fools have really gotten their balls into a twist about you, huh, young lady. Allow me to introduce myself, I am Su Zhe'xinglu, and you must be Huanliuxue, the graveyard cat who devours the bones and souls of men"
"Ohoho! Now that's a nickname I haven't heard yet!" You exclaim, laughing and nearly causing Fa Tang to trip backwards from shock, he probably expected anything but that to come out of your mouth "And we've met before, I've even wandered around your temple once or twice"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Sat 23 Sep 2023 03:40:00 No. 5771385 Report >>5771383 "What!?" Tang shouts, infuriated, but his master raises his hand and stops him before he can do anything rash. Or maybe it was Fu glaring murderously at him that made him stop from unsheathing his blade
"I am aware, I never forget the light in someone's eyes. Its different for everyone, even if they're in another body" He cackles, winking at you "Yuyi"
"WHAT!?" Tang shouts again before Ping sighs
"A friend of hers" He assures "She learned to look like that via possessing her"
"My my, she's been inside another woman" Jin giggles, covering his mouth. And Tang is the one who shuts him up with a slap
"Yes yes" The old man casually reacts, waving his hand carelessly
"And I also took quite a few liberties while I visited. Using it as the site of my first breakthrough, stealing a barrel of your enchanted spring water to make my own, and stealing your laws while I was there as Yuyi so I could teach my own students" You rapidly explains Tang looks like he's about to cough up blood while his golden haired twin laughs and laughs
"Yes, yes" he repeats, nodding his head
"You knew I was there the whole time?!" You ask, and are surprised by how loud you said it, nearly shouting.
"Cats are rarely as sneaky as they imagine themselves to be" He laughs as you feel your cheeks burning, flushing redder than your hair as your world spins as you remember every time you visited his temple, how worried and fearful you and your interference were you'd be found out, your heart flutters and your stomach twists from sheer embarrassment in hindsight "and your visits have only been beneficial. Your mischief made my disciples proper daoists, a little magic water is a worthy exchange for all the good you've done my sect and students. And even when you were weaker, you had a unique presence about you. Similar to a powerful earthbound ghost but...different"
"Then why would you risk everything to help a demon like me, going so far as to not only allow me stealing from your sect's only treasure and rob you of your cultivation techniques" You ask angrily, glaring so you don't cry from remembering how proud you were to outwit him in the past "And further to entertain allying with a bunch of heretics and monsters"
He frowns
"I knew a little fox once" He says, and you understand his reasons immediately , beyond acting virtuous or moral "A mischievous, playful little thing. She thought she was sneaky to. So did the girl who raised her. Her tricks were harmless at first, like the ones you played on my students were. But she grew bold and careless, and her caretaker was...never cautious. They were found, and you know the rest of that story, I assume. Where others saw a crime, I saw potential, like a certain witch. So I watched curiously, but did nothing to stop them or"
"Help them" You growl
He hangs his head
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Sat 23 Sep 2023 03:41:05 No. 5771386 Report >>5771385 "One of my few regrets in a life well lived. I lost two friends that day, and broke from my sect" He hastily explains, sensing your fury in the air like the scent of freshly spilt blood "And chose to make a place where anyone could learn but well, only those thrown out of their sects wished to learn from a washed up old fool without any face"
"That isn't true" The two Fa twins shout
"Well, some believed I'd be a good teacher, despite my past" He chuckles "That is why I've come here, to make certain I do not make the same mistake twice"
"And you two are okay with this?" You ask, pointing at Fa Tang and Fa Jin
"We owe him everything, and would follow him to our graves" Fa Tang answer proudly "Besides, we know you're not a demon. One reason our sect is poor is because we don't take beast extermination requests"
"And I heard you were pretty" Jin titters like a woman "And that is the understatement of a generation, you took my breath away the moment I set my eyes on you and those magnificent..."
Fa Jin shuts up when he notices he is on the receiving end of several murderous glares
"So, now that it has been mutually agreed upon the Palace of natural laws and five colors and five purities will ally, how about this old man gives you some advice" His master quickly offers, before his student gets murdered by either Fu, Qiang, Yinying or a horde of pissed off cat demons "In dealing with his former friend or if you'd prefer, a lesson in making friends"
<span class="mu-s"> Double vote </span>
How do you react to Su Zhe'xinglu's offer
>Decide to Punch Su Zhe'xinglu. Even if he regrets not doing anything to help Monu and Xuebai, he still didn't help them and that pisses you off. And ask why he never helped your mother afterwards >Accept both of his offers, since you will need some help earning the trust of the other sects and learning Xue Laohue's weaknesses is vital to your survival >Ask if he'd like to meet with your mother, to see if that bridge could be mended. And tell him you don't really mind your sister being a ghost, since there's little difference to you if someone is alive or dead >Turn to your true form to discuss the details of your alliance in uh, detail >Write in And what do you do next, Huanliuxue?
>Send Fu to the dusk marsh wolves to try and get them on your side >Welcome Xia Xiaosi and try to figure out what to do with him and what his sect wants to happen to him >Travel to the lair of the seven slaughtering swords >put aside your anti Ling prejudices and reach out to the Temple of Celestial Fire to see if you can turn their coats >Continue your experiments with carmine mysticism and alchemy (Mental/ Magic/ Alchemical Training DC 180. +46 bonus ) >write in Anonymous
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>>5771386 >Ask if he'd like to meet with your mother, to see if that bridge could be mended. And tell him you don't really mind your sister being a ghost, since there's little difference to you if someone is alive or dead >Send Fu to the dusk marsh wolves to try and get them on your side >Welcome Xia Xiaosi and try to figure out what to do with him and what his sect wants to happen to him I think we could do these two at the same time, since one is for Fu and the other for us.
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>>5771386 >>Accept both of his offers, since you will need some help earning the trust of the other sects and learning Xue Laohue's weaknesses is vital to your survival >Send Fu to the dusk marsh wolves to try and get them on your side >Honestly those strengthened are a good police force that'll lessen the activity of criminals and a good force for our disciples to manage. Even if they aren't cultivatiors such hale and hearty people will be good in farming and exploration and even spies honestly. As they are mortals and have no Qi cultivators won't be able to sense them. Anonymous
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>>5771386 >Accept both offers. >And offer him the chance to mend the bridge with Monu. I dont really hold it against him. And his kindness is done with genuine nature.
>Send Fu to the dusk wolves >Accept Xiaxiosi and figure out what to do with him. Whatever we want to happen, will probably be opposite what his sect wants
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Gamps, did you archive the last quest? I don't see it on the list
>>5771386 >Accept both of his offers, since you will need some help earning the trust of the other sects and learning Xue Laohue's weaknesses is vital to your survival >Send Fu to the dusk marsh wolves to try and get them on your side Anonymous
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>>5771386 >Accept both of his offers, since you will need some help earning the trust of the other sects and learning Xue Laohue's weaknesses is vital to your survival >Continue your experiments with carmine mysticism and alchemy (Mental/ Magic/ Alchemical Training DC 180. +46 bonus ) We need more prep time to weather the storm.
But we can also direct our students to familiarize themselves to lead our new army as this fellow cultivator said.
>>5771422 I would prefer not to send Fu away right now as he could be needed to fend off the winter sect.
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>>5771386 >Accept both of his offers, since you will need some help earning the trust of the other sects and learning Xue Laohue's weaknesses is vital to your survival >Send Fu to the dusk marsh wolves to try and get them on your side >Welcome Xia Xiaosi and try to figure out what to do with him and what his sect wants to happen to him Anonymous
>>5771386 >Accept both of his offers, since you will need some help earning the trust of the other sects and learning Xue Laohue's weaknesses is vital to your survival >Send Fu to the dusk marsh wolves to try and get them on your side >Welcome Xia Xiaosi and try to figure out what to do with him and what his sect wants to happen to him Who are the 7 slaughtering swords again?
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>>5771501 I just archived it.
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>>5771589 I still can't see it on the search list, and even in the general list. Nonetheless, the direct link in the OP works. It seems like suptg glitched or something.
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>>5771602 Apparently it's already archived? And when I tried to archive it again it ended up archiving this one instead?
I'm confused
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Also Grandfather, you might want to contact Lord Licorice to undo this mistake I have done. If it was a mistake or not a glitch.
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>>5771386 >Accept both of his offers, since you will need some help earning the trust of the other sects and learning Xue Laohue's weaknesses is vital to your survival >Send Fu to the dusk marsh wolves to try and get them on your side Anonymous
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>>5771386 >Accept both of his offers, since you will need some help earning the trust of the other sects and learning Xue Laohue's weaknesses is vital to your survival >Send Fu to the dusk marsh wolves to try and get them on your side >put aside your anti Ling prejudices and reach out to the Temple of Celestial Fire to see if you can turn their coats I know it's a losing fight, but pulling an enemy of my enemy is always satisfying.
>>5771555 One of the sects who replied to us, presumably a true heretic one seeing as they called us a "Fellow rebel against the blind heavens". The other new cult introduced was the Sages of Shifting Sands who just insulted us and will probably get a "fun" visit from us at some point/
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>>5771386 >Accept both of his offers, since you will need some help earning the trust of the other sects and learning Xue Laohue's weaknesses is vital to your survival >Welcome Xia Xiaosi and try to figure out what to do with him and what his sect wants to happen to him Anonymous
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>>5771386 >Accept both of his offers, since you will need some help earning the trust of the other sects and learning Xue Laohue's weaknesses is vital to your survival >Welcome Xia Xiaosi and try to figure out what to do with him and what his sect wants to happen to him Anonymous
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>>5771386 >Accept both of his offers, since you will need some help earning the trust of the other sects and learning Xue Laohue's weaknesses is vital to your survival >Welcome Xia Xiaosi and try to figure out what to do with him and what his sect wants to happen to him Anonymous
>Votes:12 >Ask if he'd like to meet with your mother:2 >Accept both of his offers:11 >Send Fu to the Dusk Marsh Wolves:8 >Welcome Xia Xiaosi:7 >Reach out to the Temple of Celestial Fire:1 >Continue your experiments with carmine mysticism and alchemy:1 >Turn the strengthened mortals into a police force:2(?)
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Tue 26 Sep 2023 00:44:38 No. 5773755 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote now, was sick over the weekend but I've conquered that stomach bug
>>5772940 And very much appreciate your efforts tally anon, you'll receive a dozen commendations at least for this
So You'll accept both of Master Su's offers, and send Fu to the dusk marsh wolves while you welcome Xia Xiaosi to suiqi and try to figure out what fate his sect wishes to befall him there.
Update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Tue 26 Sep 2023 03:40:09 No. 5773864 Report "Only a fool would ignore the wisdom of their elders" You answer with a smirk and flick of your wrist, turning on your heel and waving your hair in a similar wave as your tail would flick if you were in your natural form, as with your other hand you bid Su Zhe'xínglǚ and his two disciples to follow after you, thus granting them entrance to Suiqi as honored guests. Ping, Feiqing, Lei and Jionghuagege fall in behind them, though the queen of bees rushes up to your side with a perky smile and bounce to her step while Fu and Yinying stand like stone sentinels, each trying to glare to rambunctious and lewd eyed Fa Jin into the dirt while they march behind him, keep his neck within reach in case he risks his life to make another smart assed remark or worse, start openly and outright flirting with you. And just thinking about that makes your skin crawl.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Tue 26 Sep 2023 03:41:21 No. 5773865 Report >>5773864 "Jin is a fool easily bewitched by women, despite acting like one himself" Fa Tang growls, glancing back as if to make certain Fu hasn't chopped off his twin brother's head, who you've only now noticed is in fact covered in make up, applied in a very sultry and womanly style
"The only flaw in my character, and why shouldn't a beautiful man enshrine and draw attention to his good looks" Jin scoffs in defense of himself "Its not like I slack off pruning my eyebrows or painting my face, you'd do well to put in some effort yourself, big bro, like little Jiao used to"
"Like wine, a man is better when aged" Su Zhe'xinglu says sagely as if it is some great cosmic wisdom "Youth is wasted on the young, especially those who indulge freely in their passions and the heat of their blood. Too easily will they indulge in the joys of life, and so they will sink deeply into its sorrows, never realizing it is that same hot blood that leads them to both the sweet and bitter waters of existence"
You nod, considering those words a bit more seriously and contemplatively than the first bit of his musings about men being like wine. If your mother would be believed, the opposite is true but you don't have any experience let alone as much as she does in that field. And you doubt old Su does either, considering your mother's appetites and hedonism.
"And that isn't all the advise you'd said you'd give to me. If I wanted romantic advice, I'd ask my mother" You begin before the old man chuckled and shook his head
"A poor choice" He joked, grinning ear to ear and by then you realize that boasting about using fanciful and indulgent stories for a basis on such matters would be a shockingly embarrassing thing to do
"You've got me there, uncle" You laugh instead, realizing how close your wagging tongue was to leading you to utter humiliation. You might write and know a good romance novel when you read one, but all but bragging about using their teachings in the real world would be a fate worse than death. You need to change the subject quickly before you pride and gossiping tongue betray you.
"So" You sigh breathily as you lead your fellow daoists deeper into Suiqi, without any destination in mind though your feet are pulling you towards a certain tea house, one which was probably owned by one of the richest women in the city now. Where you beat up those two rival young masters and humilated them in front of mere mortals. That was a fun day
"No no, I am Su" The old master jokes, earning a rare giggle from Qiang, who was still hiding within your shadow using her Yin Qi to draw it in around herself. You shoot a withering glare his way, before continuining
"How should I deal with your former friend, that son of a bitch who crippled my mother and killed my sister?" You ask through your teeth with half a hiss "If you could sense me when I was trying to hide myself, surely you can feel his blood lust chilling the air"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Tue 26 Sep 2023 03:42:22 No. 5773866 Report >>5773865 "Snow Tiger has always been a hot head, despite his name and technique" He says, immediately switching from jovial and casual joking to dangerously serious and severe "Despite being half a frozen corpse, his blood is still burning. He is easily controlled by his rage and it easily becomes murderous. He will, like a drunk bull, charge head long at any threat he sees until it is battered to dust or he is. He will not relent in his aggression or turn away. The moment he sets his mind to killing someone, anyone, no matter their age, allegiance or their relationship to him, he will devout every drop of blood in his veins to destroying them. He is stubborn, with an unbreakable will and the worse case of zealotry born into this stagnant world"
You nod along. Reminds you of a certain crow you plucked, who signed his death certificate the moment he allowed his fury to swallow him up and make him go berserk. Maybe purposefully pissing off an enraging this frosty piece of shit would be the winning strategy, make him so angry he can't see anything but red. The perfect camouflage for a coat like yours, Heh-Heh.
"But that just means he is overflowing with conviction. The man shrugged off a crippling cultivation injury and a spiteful curse spat at him by a powerful earthbound spirit with a stronger grudge, all because he opened his eyes long enough to see the face of the woman who broke his heart, and turned his blood to ice" The old master continues on "He will die to uphold his beliefs and he will gladly give his life to ensure those beliefs remain dominant. His conviction lead to him mutilating a childhood friend, his own wife, and the mother of his only son"
Wait what? The words hit you on the back of the head like a whip crack. Monu never once mentioned siring a brat with him! Or called him anything besides an Old lover or repertoire of insults and curses.
"There is nothing he will not stoop to to protect the edicts of the nine heavens" The old man continues on, ignoring your gnashing teeth and shocked expression "Except Demonic cultivation. He is the embodiment of the laws that govern the world. Your mere existence as a beast that can speak and now can walk in the guise of a human girl, is enough for him to consider you anathema to his own existence. Just like seeing your mother still drawing breath was enough for him to ward off the underworld's pull on his soul. He only practices orthodox and approved techniques and methods, this makes him more predictable than a heretic like yourself, but he has mastered his sect's martial style and their prized Law of Sacred Winter Breath Accord, more profoundly than Miss Hao ever attained, but she also dabbled outside of it. He is, even wounded as he is, one of the great modern masters of defensive magic. His guard is nigh impenetrable.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Tue 26 Sep 2023 03:43:34 No. 5773867 Report >>5773866 Su Zhe'xínglǚ suddenly stamps his walking stick to the ground, shattering it to splinters with a vicious grin on his otherwise kindly, wrinkled face
"But he has weaknesses, while his single minded focus and controlled rage grant him with an indomitable force of will, it also distracts him from threats beyond his tunnel vision. If you and your mother were to enter the field together, he would turn his back to you" He declared, fists still clenched on the pulp that remains of his staff
"Or he would have, until I gutted his grandson" You answer quietly, trying to process who Xue Ming was to Monu, your beloved mother, and if she even knew he existed
"Oh" He meekly squeaks, plucking a few strands out of his beard "Well, then I am uncertain how Tiger will react or whose throat he will lunge for first. But I know he will insist on landing the killing blow himself and will ignore any damage he causes to the world in pursuit of ending both of your lives. Then, his physical weaknesses. He might have survived his injuries, but he is only surviving them, only enduring them. He is freezing to death, slowly and even ascending to a new realm of cultivation will not save him. He could be outlasted or..."
"The shock of suddenly unfreezing will kill him" You gasp, the answer finding you like a divine revelation, like a bolt of lighting bounced into your skull or illuminated
"Oh, I was suggesting to simply speed up his freezing rather than thawing him out, but that would work to" Master Su exclaims, wide eyed "Or you can chip parts off of him to slow him down, he might be able to move his limbs still, but they are frozen solid from what I have heart. But, besides his character and weaknesses, I'd suggest leading him to a battlefield that is disadvantageous to him or else empowers your own techniques. He is a guiless man, he will follow you to either if he is incensed enough to do so"
"Understood, and about making friends amongst my fellow daoists?" You ask without missing a beat, sliding up to and leaning against him with the cutest smile and most adorable look in your eyes you can muster
"Ah" The old man says, entirely unaffected by the beauty pressing against him and looking up at him with bright eyes "Well, that's simple. You just need to give them a reason to like you. We cultivators like to think ourselves wise, but our hearts are still ruled by the desires that afflict all mortal men and our beliefs and three views are just as similar to those of the mundane folk. They expect you to be a demon, a man eating wretch, a great evil. And some will always think you to be such, but others, who don't have their heads stuck deeply in the sands of ignorance, will change their view of you if you give them reason to. Especially now that peace has long vanished between the sects and chaos reigns in the martial, cultivation and mundane realms. These are the times traditions can be torn down"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Tue 26 Sep 2023 03:44:35 No. 5773868 Report >>5773867 You snap your fingers
"Either for their own ends or for the greater good. Both the self serving and truly righteous will have reason to rebel against the status quo, if I give them a justification. You are, because you know I am not a devil by heart" You surmise as the old man smile's coyly while Jionghuagege looks completely lost in the conversation
"And, Master, a knife in the back can put into power those who are more amiable to us and our ends" Qiang whispers into your ear, half emerging from the gloom she cloaked herself in to lean over your shoulder "Though I may have left my old profession behind me in disgust, I never lost my talent for it"
"And I would give my life to bring you the head of any you command me to" Yinying says solemnly
"Assassination wouldn't win me many friends" You muse, tapping your chin
"And if its found out, it'd make her look even more villainous, if such a thing was possible" Jionghuagege chimes in
"Just offering an expert's advise" Qiang says blasély, shrugging her shoulders as she stops hiding herself "A ruler should consider every tool at their disposal, right?"
"You must consider you reputation in the eyes of the wider world" Fu counters, lifting up his chin and at the mention of reputation you remember what you were planning to do after meeting the heads of the five colors and five purities
"Fu, I'll be giving you the honor of acting as my messenger, herald and intermediary . Travel to the Dusk Marsh Wolves Sect's temple and speak with them, you may bring a few of your sect mates with you, if you deem it necessary. And I would if I were in your shoes, since their request could well be a trap"
"I'd like to see them try" He boasts with a near feral grin "I haven't met a man who can put me down, and I am uncertain if one exists"
Man. the way he worded that specifically excluded that mad ogress from the list of those who could, theoretically, make Fu take a permanent dirt nap.
"Still, better safe than sorry" You state with a shrug "No reason to get cocky and gamble with your life. Take...I don't know, Hong, Liu and Niu with you for backup"
"I won't need it, but I'll obey your command" Fu snorted, seems having his head ripped off has done wonders for his pride.
"Guessing you want to keep me at your side" Qiang asks curiously as Master Su and his disciples slowly migrate over to the tea house you unconsciously brought them to "Just in case"
"Maybe" You titter, bounding after the old man and his underlings "better safe than sorry, right?"
"I will be paying, if you are joining us for lunch" The old man declares, loud enough for the whole street to here "And I will continue to offer what little wisdom I have, if you'd like"
"Well, I can't refuse a free meal" You happily reply, but you don't accept or deny his second offer of advice.
Since you're worried you might change his opinion of you and scare him away if you voice some of your thoughts on the other matter at hand
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Tue 26 Sep 2023 03:45:36 No. 5773869 Report >>5773868 What to do with Xia Xiaosi and what his sect wants and is hoping will be done to him. The guy is a trouble making buffoon and an actual, literal bastard. But would his own father want him dead? The idea makes your stomach twist into knots, and you have no issue meditating or sleeping beside rotting corpses or eating human flesh. Indeed, most of the things you like would terrify or at least unsettle most other people. The macabre interests and enchants you, but a father betraying their own child. Is such a thing possible? You know the reverse scenario to be and it stands to reason that there are men in the world who could commit such an unthinkable crime. And beasts do it all the time, some even eat their young if times are harsh. A lot of them do actually. Cats do.
But could a civilized mind do the same. Beasts do it for rational reasons, like nutrition or to protect the litter from disease or predators, not just because they can. Would a man really see the loss of face and shame of an illegitimate womanizer son as a logical cause for sending the boy to his death?
Maybe. Men's hearts can be blackened and their minds warped more than any beast. It is possible, though contemptible.
But then again, you did write them specifically asking for Xia Xiaosi, and all but threatened them with the public disgrace of using your likeness in his novels without his permission. Hell, writing novels to sell to a mortal audience could be more humiliating than the shame of being dragged to the courts over a fictional character's behavior and depiction in those stories. You requested a friendly meeting, to give Xiaosi a chance to make up for the disgrace he's caused his clan and learn how to act as a diplomat. Maybe they aren't sending him out to die for a reason to declare war or just to be rid of him. Maybe his father is honestly hoping he will reform and become a better man. Since it would be a grave faux pas to kill someone at a friendly and non violent meeting without any excuses besides the fact he is an annoying pest. And they don't know who you or the palace of natural laws sect are.
Maybe Xia Jīnsè-shāyú (金色 -鲨鱼, Golden Shark) would be happy with either out come, maybe he's rolling the dice praying for one or the other. Maybe. Maybe
"What kind of tea would you like, Miss? even our finest leaf will be on the house" One of the serving girls says happily, drawing you out of the swamp of your ruminations and you see it is the girl whose face you saved from having a horrid scar, when Xia Xiaosi and Shidi Liu had their fight outside of this very building. Why is she still working the tables?
"Give me a sample of everything" You cheerfully answer "And why are you still a waitress? I thought your family would have enough money to hire people to do that job now that you're ridiculously wealthy! I mean look at this place! We're sitting on solid jade chairs and drinking from silver cups!"
She shrugs
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Tue 26 Sep 2023 03:46:37 No. 5773871 Report >>5773869 "I wanted to meet you again" She replies sweetly, bowing her head "Is something wrong, miss? You look lost in thought"
"Trouble with a man" You off handedly answer as she sets a premium bottle of wine down on the table, much to the Fa twins shock
"I'm assuming beating him like you did those two brutes is out of the question, Miss immortal?" She asked curiously, pouting and looking deeply concerned
"It might not be, actually" You muse, rapping your knuckles on the table.
What do you decide to do about Xia Xiaosi, Huanliuxue?
>Decide there's nothing to lose meeting him and giving him a chance to work out an alliance or some kind of deal with his family and sect. >Well if you kill him, you either get a third sect baying for your blood or you appease them. But doing so would make the dusk marsh wolves joining your cause a certainty. So kill him and send his head as a gift with Fu! (Bad Karma) >Wait for him to arrive before making up your mind and judge the situation by seeing what orders his father gave him and how he acts while acting as a diplomat. >Give him and his sect a test, by meeting him in your natural form and seeing how he'll react to being the guest to a menagerie of beasts. >write in Anonymous
>>5773871 >Give him and his sect a test, by meeting him in your natural form and seeing how he'll react to being the guest to a menagerie of beasts. When in doubt, troll.
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>>5773871 >Give him and his sect a test, by meeting him in your natural form and seeing how he'll react to being the guest to a menagerie of beasts. Anonymous
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>>5773871 >>5773976 Support, trolling is certainly the wisest option.
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>>5773871 >Give him and his sect a test, by meeting him in your natural form and seeing how he'll react to being the guest to a menagerie of beasts. Anonymous
>>5773871 >Give him and his sect a test, by meeting him in your natural form and seeing how he'll react to being the guest to a menagerie of beasts. >But give him a small hint somehow. It wouldn't be a far game otherwise. Anonymous
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>>5774074 >Support the motion of trolling and giving a hint Anonymous
>>5773871 >Give him and his sect a test, by meeting him in your natural form and seeing how he'll react to being the guest to a menagerie of beasts. >inb4 he reacts like pic related No wonder the drunk was so strong, he was our nephew.
What a shame he likely would never listen to reason, like golden hair. What a waste of potential the orthodox cause.
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>>5773871 >Give him and his sect a test, by meeting him in your natural form and seeing how he'll react to being the guest to a menagerie of beasts. IIRC, he's only met Huan in her Human Form. His sect is also Orthodox. This might turn into a preliminary bloodbath that we don't need before fighting Snow Tiger. Soooo...
>Reveal yourself as the woman who beat him and his rival if/when he reacts poorly >Or when it's sufficiently amusing Anonymous
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>>5774074 Supporting.
>>5774173 Just want to point out that I mentioned during the fight that there might be a connection between him and Monu, fighting style and general alignment are too similar (and also different from the usual ice schtick that sect does)
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>>5773871 >Give him and his sect a test, by meeting him in your natural form and seeing how he'll react to being the guest to a menagerie of beasts. Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
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Ending the vote now.
Give him and his sect a test, by meeting him in your natural form and seeing how he'll react to being the guest to a menagerie of beasts.:10
-But give him a small hint somehow. It wouldn't be a far game otherwise.:3
-Reveal yourself as the woman who beat him and his rival if/when he reacts poorly: 1
Landslide victory for giving the boy and his sect as a whole a test by meeting him in your natural form and seeing how he'll react to being guest to a tribe of beasts, and finding himself in the middle of their den
Update will arrive shortly
>>5774173 Nearly fried my keyboard cause I spat out some nice black tea when I saw this. Lol
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Thu 28 Sep 2023 03:18:49 No. 5775712 Report Quoted By:
Big update coming in, had way too much fun writing blondie again
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Thu 28 Sep 2023 03:21:23 No. 5775713 Report The girl gives an understanding nod and with a pleasant, yet weary smile, she pours steaming water into a fist sized teapot shaped like a cat made from a deep red clay speckled with flecks of gold and black, with the spout being its mouth and the handle being its tail.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Thu 28 Sep 2023 03:22:23 No. 5775715 Report >>5775713 A whimsical thought suddenly crosses your mind right as you put the now cooled cup to your lips and flick your tongue out to test if the tea was still too hot for your liking.
The lovely girl wasn't lying, it was eye openingly sweet. And if you hadn't watched her prepare it, you'd suspect she had snuck a handful of sugar in with the dry leaf. The tea is just that natural sweet? That's ridiculous. You roll your tongue around, trying to pick through the flavors, floral, malty and sweet, trying to pick out specific tastes while Old man Su and the Fa twins sip and sample the tea in austere and polite silence. The tea itself is thick and lingers on the tongue, not like static but more like the warmth of blood, sticky and sweet. And there is a taste you can't quite place amongst all the roasty and floral notes in it. You decided to stop focusing so hard on the tea, as you realize you've gotten distracted again when you've gone in for your third sip, smacking your lips to try and figure out what that something is that you're tasting.
And again, that same whimsical though crosses and practically cartwheels across your mind as a very cattish smile spreads across your lips. Why not play and mess with him a little? It's also fun to be mischievous and provocative and toying with others is probably your biggest hobby! And the prank wouldn't just be for your own amusement, no it wouldn't be just a pointless game to keep away boredom or laugh at the poor boy's reaction, it'd be a test! A test for the tolerance of the summer sea dawn sect and their chosen emissary! To see how they will react to a demonic beast. They can't ally with the palace of natural laws if they can't play nice and refuse to go along with a cat's fickle desires. And just thinking about the face blondie would make when he sees that the beauty he's been pining for to the point of making a copy of her in ink to place into his stories is in actuality a fearsome man eating cat makes you nearly cackle with glee. The thought of his shocked expression is just too irresistible to resist. How can you not go through with this plan? It's going to be absolutely hilarious! You might die of laughter and the more you think about it and imagine Xiaosi reacting more and more dramatically to the revelation of your true nature, the stronger your desire to freak him out for no real reason becomes. And the bigger the smile you wear grows.
"She's planning something devious, just look at the face she's making. Its putting a chill into the very marrow of my bones" Fa Tang sighed, as tiny titer escaped your lips and you made a very gross and devilishly playful face as you leaned over the table, holding your cup of tea in both your hands. Without realizing it, you've pulled your legs up onto the chair and are crouching on top of it now, sneering in very monu- like manner
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Thu 28 Sep 2023 03:28:44 No. 5775720 Report >>5775715 "I've seen that exact expression many times before, Hao wore it all the time. She's planning mischief, not murder...I hope" Su Zhe'xínglǚ helpfully pointed out, lifting his eyes from his own cup of tea
"You're right, you're right uncle! I've just figured out the answer to my problem! I'll test the boy by playing a trick on him, if he doesn't find it as funny as I do, or runs for the hills in fear of his life, I'll know his sect can't be trusted to be friends with us beasts!" You cackle, leaning back and thrusting your legs out to keep from tipping over the chair carved out of pure white jade, since you really don't want to damage such a fine work of art nor look like an idiot by falling over out sheer excitement
"Ah that's the boy trouble you were mentioning earlier" Fa Jin airily sighed, fluttering his eye lashes and pouting "And here I thought it was something scandalous and exciting"
"Life isn't a romance novel, girl-boy" You huff, sticking your tongue out at him playfully , still coming coming down from the high of your near manic scheming "They're just sending someone I find really annoying as a diplomat. And sure, that is only because I requested they do, but still, having to be in his company can only be tiresome. So why not have a little fun testing his mettle, hm, hm?"
"Girl boy?" Fa Tang said, trying to restrain a laugh while Fa Jin's pout deepened as he did his best to look like an offended maiden
"I'm almost envious of the bastard" He laughs, letting the insult roll off his back like water on a duck's feathers as he flicks back his hair with the back of his hand "So come on, gossip, how do you plan to toy with this annoying boy, hmm?"
"Well, I'm going to meet him in my natural form and see if he still finds me beautiful" You say, grinning so much its starting to be painful "From just that one meeting, that initial reaction, I'll know if his sect and mine can be friends"
"You're meeting an orthodox cultivator, in your demonic beast form?" Fa Tang chokes, spitting up tea on his twin, having swiftly turned away to not spray you in the face with his mouthwash. And Jin looks ready to skin his other half alive for that.
"Of course, it'd be impossible to keep it a secret anyways, but this way I'll know if their sect can join our alliance!" You declare brazenly, wagging your head side to side as Master Su gives a low chuckle
"I see, I see, well, since I am the second leader of this alliance, I should be their to meet this envoy as well" He says with a crooked smile, showing off his pearly whites like he was bearing his fangs, and with a mischievous glimmer in his old eyes. And so you and him begin conspiring together to perfect this test of tolerance and make sure the punchline will land once Xia Xiaosi sees the true face of his crush in all its wild and untamed glory!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Thu 28 Sep 2023 03:29:45 No. 5775722 Report >>5775720 [Meanwhile, on the river towards Suiqi]
Xia Xiaosi's heart was thumping in his chest, his nerves were frayed and threatening to snap completely and his ears were still ringing from the scolding his father gave him out of nowhere. It was only after he calmed enough to stop insulting him that he understood why he was so displeased with him, and he realized the severity of his mistake in indulging in fantasy and expressing himself creatively by writing down his daydreams. Maybe it was a bit brazen to decide to publish those daydreams and mid-afternoon fantasies and sell them to help bolster his personal funds, but he was barely given an allowance and their were no well paying jobs or missions since all of Chuan went crazy. First it seemed like every grave in the region spat out two dozens ghosts, and every sect was panicking thinking some seal had been broken, then word spread that the warring Sun and Winter sects were trashed by a horde of demonic insects and there were people turning into demonic beasts, and last he had heard the north half of Chuan was frozen solid to try and keep all of that at bay while the elders argued and debated what to do.
His father had only come back from the latest meeting to yell at him and send him out to "make amends for his childish indiscretion and lustful ways" which he was worried was the politest way of saying "Offer your head before this mess gets any worse". And he was terrified he'd be torn apart by the rampaging insect devils or frozen into stiff sea ice, but surprisingly he didn't march into the hellish landscape he expected from all the rumors and hearsay he had heard.
Firstly, while there were legions of giant insects, they seemed to be tamed, perhaps ensorcelled by some spell. And while there seemed to be more people worshipping cats than he remembered there being the last time he passed through those parts of the world, they seemed harmless enough. He even met a few of the unfortunates turned into beasts, and found they were just intoxicated with an excess of primordial beast essence. He didn't stick around to find out how that happened to them, since he was worried whoever was controlling the giant ants would send them after him, and those fears only grew when he found the battlefields were they had clashed with his fellow daoists and eradicated them. That and rumors of a infamous sword demoness kept him on his toes and too afraid to wait around in any one town or village for too long, lest he have the misfortune of finding her or one of the demons that were terrorizing the land.
Which is why he also made most of the trip by boat, just to be safe. But that still did nothing to sooth his nerves and calm his heart. He had seen the pillar of emerald light from the shores of the temple in the sea, and had been able to spot a truly massive true practically glowing with primordial beast essence for several days now.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Thu 28 Sep 2023 03:30:46 No. 5775724 Report >>5775722 He had an inkling how there were so many half beasts and were the giant insects came from, but an idiot could draw a connection between those mysterious happenings to the massive fucking tree sprouted in one of the four sister cities that were the pride of Chuan.
He grinded his teeth, keeping his hand close to his sword as he departed from the fishing ship he'd pay to transport him to Suiqi, and nearly drew it when he saw there were at least a dozen demon cats lounging by the river side. They all lifted their heads and stared at him with malevolently glowing eyes as the pieces in the mystery of exactly the what the hell was going on past the walls of thorns and towering flowers and the once frigid wasteland began to fit together in his mind. He realized there was no way in hell he could fight off that many demonic beasts. Yet despite his mortal terror, he could only think 'And Shidi Liu said there were wolves devouring villages, hah, figures that idiot would mistake cats for dogs"
But, the cats didn't move to rip him apart, neither did the other demon that emerged from the waters of the boat he had just stepped off of, a massive turtle with a violet shell. And the moment they emerge, the feline gang turned away from him and crowded around the other beast.
Perhaps he was lucky after all. He'd slip away while the demons were fighting and...he paused when he didn't hear sounds of violence or yowls or panicked screams. He glanced around, and tilted his head in confusion as all of the river folk walked up, unafraid, to the demonic beasts. Who weren't fighting at all, in fact, from where he stood, it looked like they were just trying to get the attention of the overgrown turtle. And if his eyes weren't playing tricks on him, so were the people.
He blinked, hand still on his sheathed sword's pommel as he tried to figure out what to do. 'Well maybe these beasts are tamed like those insects were'. That sounded reasonable. There was no sane reason for them to gather around demonic beasts otherwise.
He looked around, and frowned. He had expected at least a welcoming party, and had hoped for that beautiful girl that beat the shit out of him the last time he visited Suiqi would've been a part of it. His father said she was furious about his homage to her, but was hoping that was just him trying to scare him to behaving.
Then an unpleasant thought crossed his mind.
"Wait, are you here to welcome me?" He asked loudly, and one of the demon cats, slightly larger than the rest with colors like swamp foliage and mud and the pattern of a leopard walked up to him and gave him a hard look. And then trotted away, like it had a job it was late to.
He looked around, and decide it was best to wait and watch rather than follow a demon into a city that seemed to have been half consumed by a jungle.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Thu 28 Sep 2023 03:31:47 No. 5775726 Report >>5775724 "Ah, you must be the messenger sent by the summer sea dawn sect, I am Su Zhe'xínglǚ , sect head of the five colors and five purities" An old man who Xiaosi had seen once or twice before during tournaments or auction said, cupping his hand and bowing politely, a gesture he hestitantly returned "I was here on business with the palace of natural laws myself, and heard an envoy would be sent to this city to discuss...personal matters with a member of that sect"
"Old man, can you still see? Can't you see this place is infested with demons?" He asked frantically, wondering if perhaps he or the world itself had gone mad
"The head of the palace of natural laws is fond of them" He answered bluntly, shrugging his shoulders as if he was talking about simply a strange choice in pet or favorite snack "Though they are aware the sight of them is intimidating to most cultivators, which is why she requested I lead you to person whom you've caused some trouble for, for a private meeting, before you begin you work as a diplomat in this city"
"Is this all just a display of power?" Xiaosi sighed in relief "That is rather eccentric, most would think keeping demonic beasts as pets to be heretical behavior, but there's nothing more intimidating than enslaving so many monsters to your will. Still, for a sect with no history or reputation to be able to tame so many monsters, that head must be an old hermit of terrifying power"
The older cultivator only smiled as he lead him into the city, which, as he now expected, was swarming with demonic beasts
"Truly terrifying" Xiaosi muttered, his eyes boggling as he tried to comprehend how much Qi and personal force of will someone would have to expend to subjugate so many demons to their will and be so confident in their control they allow them to wander a city filled with innocent lives. Confident or careless, but he didn't dare speak that in front of what was probably the scary old geezer's only friend in the world that walked on two legs
"I've heard the girl your meeting was driven nearly to her wits ends by your advances to her" Master Su suddenly spoke up as he lead him to the richer, more well to do districts of the city, drawing his attention away from a girl with cat ears and tail who was dancing and singing a song in the middle of a crowd of monks pruning cattails by one of the many waterways running through the city "And that she beat you senseless, many times, because of them. So why are you..."
"The most attractive kind of woman is one who is stronger than I am" He answered without any shame or regret
"Ah. So you're a weirdo" The old man said plainly, turning away from him in disgust as he lead him into one of the many estates standing above the rest of the city, that were now shaded with the rest of it by the heavens' breeching tree in the center of it.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Thu 28 Sep 2023 03:32:48 No. 5775727 Report >>5775726 Maybe if he could get into her good graces, that fiery girl could convince her master to allow his sect rights to cultivate beneath that tree. It had to be filled to bursting with spiritual energy.
"Is my crimson haired fairy waiting for me here?" He asked with a confident sneer as he followed the ancient sage into the estate's garden
"Yes, poor girl" He sighed, shaking his head
"Oh my big sis enjoyed my company, even if she wouldn't admit it" He laughed, swaggering forward with his chest puffed up, noticing the old geezer had stopped at the bottom of the stair's leading into the mansion "Eh? you aren't coming"
"She wishes to meet you alone, to properly hammer through that thick skull of yours she has no interest in you" Master Su said sharply, glaring through him so fiercely that Xiaosi felt he had been run through with a knife "I'm certain the letter her master sent made that clear enough already"
"I didn't read it, but my father did say she..." he began before the old man guffawed and spat "Ah you poor idiot" and walked away howling with laughter. Uneasy once again, Xiaosi opened the door and walked into a darkened room, covered in hanging silks dyed scarlet and paper lanterns panting violet shadows and flicker gold orange lights across the stuffy space, a parlor of sorts like you'd fine in an opium den or pleasure house. A shive crawled up his spine and down his arms as he tried to quickly groom his hair and regain his composure.
He tried to call out, but found his tongue stuck in his throat. There was someone else in the parlor, he hoped dearly it was the red jade beauty he'd met before and not a god of death coming to claim his soul.
"I..I've come as you requested" He sputtered, finally able to speak as he saw a shadow move behind one of the silk screens, a familiar silhouette "I've heard there's been a misunderstanding, and you've heard about the novels I wrote and mistook my well meaning homage f..for something far more unpleasant and distorted. I've come to apologize, I've should've asked for permission"
There was no reply from her besides an idle, bored sounding hum.
"To use your likeness" He continued, sweating and trembling all over as he knelt down on his knees before the screen, not daring to look behind it "Did that swamp dog tell you and exaggerate about the character you inspired...I was told your sect has some troubles, my father is the head of the summer sea dawn, I could put in a good word if you'd like...I know you're furious with me, but at least let me hear your voice! This is torture! I've come all this way to hear your sonorous voice and gaze upon your winsome face, and you won't even speak to me! Was my writing really that bad?"
"Well, if you insist" The voice tingled in his ears, curling around him like smoke and making him shiver for an entirely different reason than before. And it was enough to make him miss the shifting of the shadow, until it was to late to run
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Thu 28 Sep 2023 03:33:49 No. 5775729 Report >>5775727 "And yes! You've never not annoyed me, blondie!" A ox sized cat demon, with fur as red as blood and with markings unlike any he had seen before roared, emerging from behind the screen to pounce on him. He froze, and recognized the eyes leering at him in the dark and the voice it was speaking with, how could he when she was speaking with just as much disgust and annoyance as when he teased her before. And in the moment before he fainted from sheer fright, his mind caught up enough to connect that beauty he was hoping to meet, the scary monster ontop of him, and the cat deity the peasants had taken to worshiping the last couple of years
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"S...s..s" Xiaosi stammered as he tried not to look at you as you lay on your side in licked your paw, lounging atop a pile of silk cushions
"Spit it out, boy" You growl, annoyed that he fainted rather than doing something amusing "I don't have all day, and I regret not killing you more by the second"
"So" He began, nearly swallowing his tongue as he looked away as you tried to force him to look at you as you glowered at him, a growl rumbling in your throat "I uh, would prefer if you looked like you did when"
"I beat the every loving crap out of you and your rival in public?" You snicker "Why? Aren't I as beautiful like this? This is how I was born, am I not lovely? Does looking upon me not still your heart and steal away you breath, Heh-Heh-Heh"
"I.." he began, drenched in sweat as more of it beaded on his brow and he shut his eyes "Just...that's your natural form, you didn't turn into a...this"
"Yes" You answer, wondering if he'll faint again and getting giddy with anticipation to see if he will
"Why did you interrupt my and Liu's fight if you've always been a demon cat, even back then?" He asked, opening his eyes, and you saw they were practically swirling around. His brain must've been fried with how confused he is, or he's gone mad with fear
"I told you already, or did you forget my scolding already, shitty brat?" You snap, biting close to his ear to make him jump, giggling as he did, and nearly leapt straight out of his skin
"But..but" He stammered, before slapping his cheeks and taking a deep breath "Aren't your kind supposed to eat people, not noodles? And terrorize them rather than protect them?"
"Hmm, you didn't answer my question first" You pout, extending a claw and dragging it across the floor, giggling as he shivered from the sound "Am I not beautiful? No matter the shape I take?"
He scrunched his face, furrowing his brow and barring his teeth
"Y..yesh" He said through his teeth
"Be honest, ladies don't like to be toyed with" You cackled as he groaned and slouched, looking like half a corpse already as you pestered and prodded him to make him say humiliating things and compliment you while he was shaking from scalp to toe with fear
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Thu 28 Sep 2023 03:34:50 No. 5775731 Report >>5775729 "Your coat is finer than any silk, your tail fluffier than any cloud in the sky, and your eyes glitter like polished agates" He says after taking a long, painful looking pause to weigh his options "You're a fairy amongst fairies, as fair a feline as you are a woman. Is that enough"
"Hmm, for now" You cackle as you flick your claw and walk away from him "And No, my diet is varied and I don't make a habit of terrorizing people. Most of us beasts don't"
"Are you something besides a demonic beast?" He asked then, demandingly
"I mean, I am royalty and a beautiful young lady" You giggle, prancing around him and flicking your tail as he grinds his teeth, clearly struggling to understand so simple even a child could figure it out, why you didn't act like a demonic beast "Should"
"Hah! Are you just toying with me! playing with my heart to drench me in fear and confusion to make me taste better?!" he shouted, standing up and pointing rudely at you. You sat him back down with a pointed glare
"Are you an idiot?" You asked dully, rolling your eyes "Wait, don't answer that, I know you're an idiot, you lustful monkey!"
"Th..then why did you bring me here! To hold me captive, to torture me?" He asks, biting his finger nails
"Because you designed a character after me, and I don't like how you wrote her, I'm nowhere near that sadistic and cold!" You huffed as a look of enlightenment crossed his face "Its just plain insulting! It hurts every time I imagine my face saying those cliche and infantile lines!"
"Cliche?" he asked, wilting and looking like he was about to faint again
"And infantile" You sneer, sitting back down and returning to your grooming
"Then...your master must've taught you well and tamed your wild nature" He gasps "Like all the other beasts in Suiqi! What an amazing man he must be"
"Oh, I'm the head and founder of the palace of natural laws. I just wrote the letter that way to keep my identity a secret awhile longer" You titter, leaning close enough for him to feel the heat of your breath and see his reflection on your fangs "And they're well behaved because they aren't scared for their life and are well fed"
"On people?" He ventured, lifting an eye brow
"Why does everyone think we have a taste for human flesh!" You roar, outraged, making him cower beneath the table you set up, knocking over the plates of food and cups of tea on it as he hid "Is it a pride thing!? No! I haven't been feeding them people! They're just children, dammit!"
"Ch..children" he repeated as you placed your front paws on top of the table and pressed it down, making it buckle as you growled and put your weight down onto it
"Yes, children" You mockingly praise him, which makes him look a little too happy for your liking
"And the people you tri..who worship you, call you the protector of children" He continues, slowly, which makes sense considering how slow witted he is
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Thu 28 Sep 2023 03:35:50 No. 5775732 Report >>5775731 "I am, I hate seeing them hurt or scared" You angrily answer "Why is it so hard for you people to understand, I have no ill will against humanity, I don't lust for your flesh, and all the people I've killed either attacked me first or pissed me off! I'm not a monster"
"You're a beautiful young lady!' He shouts, with tears in his eyes and terror in his voice "The most gorgeous in the world! Goddesses look plain compared to you"
"Stop freaking out, I won't kill you if you stop complimenting me! I am not an enemy of humanity, I'm just a daoist housecat" You huff, now annoyed with him for an entirely different reason than before "Whose tired of being kicked around and looked down on, or leered out by jackasses like you"
"I don't understand what you want me to say!" He blubbers , covering his head and weeping openly as you sigh in frustration and roll your eyes "and how can't I be frightened when there's an ox sized man eating cat yelling at me with the voice of a pretty girl?"
"I don't know, maybe start acting like a man, my students handle it pretty handidly" You jeer as he hesitantly pokes his head out, looking hopeful "And no, I won't transform into a human if you ask nicely, I only change my shape when I desire it"
"We...well, uh" He says weakly "If..If I write your character better, will you forgive me"
"I'd prefer you not to use my likeness at all" You bluntly state
"Then I can leave if I promise to not make her character less offensive to you?" He asks pleadingly
"You're here for a reasons besides annoying me, Xiaosi" You grumble
"You remember my name" He says with a nervous chuckle "I..I can't write if you eat me"
You slam a paw near his head and glare down at him
"it was a joke, I was joking it, it was just a bad joke!" He frets with stilted laughter and tears in his eyes
"You would waste a golden opportunity to earn some renown and face to scurry back under your daddy's robe?" You tease, purring as you lift your paw and swagger away from him "and to risk my ire running away when I still have use of you"
"Oh right, your sect is in some trouble, but what does that have to do with me?" He asked meekly, covering his head as he glanced up at you
"Are you really so stupid you thought you were sent here just to apologize" You ask slowly so he can understand you
"Oh" he defeatedly mutters "I'm supposed to work out a deal between you and my father, right?"
"Yeeees~" you coo as he winces and weeps
"I'm going to die!" He wails, crying on the floor and soaking it with his tears.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Thu 28 Sep 2023 03:38:07 No. 5775736 Report >>5775732 <span class="mu-s"> Double vote </span>
What kind of deal do you try to strike with the summer sea dawn sect,
>Just acclimate Xiaosi to the presence of beasts, since he's more scared of them than violent towards them, and use him as a puppet to try and pull his sect into your alliance, which really needs a name >Well, if his reaction is an indication of the rest of his sect, an outright alliance is unlikely, so just use this chance to establish trade between your sect and his, which will be nearly as good as allying with them >Since he's been behaving, reward him by talking to him in your human form and filling his (and thus his father's) head with dreams of the wealth and glory he'd attain if you owe them a favor or two, betting on the father being like the son and being weak to temptation and the allure of powers. >You know, you could probably take over ALL of the summer sea dawn sect if you kill just a few of its elders, and there's a perfect figure head in front of you, who you could feed pills and cultivation aids to quickly bump up his cultivation...What was it Qiang said about knives in backs? [bad karma] >Write in And what else do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Ask Monu and Feiqing to help you strengthen ghost empress melody >Reach out to Xuebai and ask her to sacrifice her pet monstrosity to buy you more time >Try and track down the ogress to see if she could be any help >Train your students with Master Su's disciples, and have Tie-Tie drill your strengthened mortals and her kids in preparation for the fight to come >Find a third type of Qi to dye your spiritual roots, even if only temporarily, you'll need every advantage you can against your mother's ex >Try and evolve as a magical beast again, while there's still time to before the blizzard arrives >write in Huan was not the kind of cat girl Xiaosi was hoping for, lol
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>>5775736 >Just acclimate Xiaosi to the presence of beasts, since he's more scared of them than violent towards them, and use him as a puppet to try and pull his sect into your alliance, which really needs a name >Find a third type of Qi to dye your spiritual roots, even if only temporarily, you'll need every advantage you can against your mother's ex We have an open slot afterall.
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And here's a diagram I found on wikipedia about the five elements
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>>5775736 >Just acclimate Xiaosi to the presence of beasts, since he's more scared of them than violent towards them, and use him as a puppet to try and pull his sect into your alliance, which really needs a name >Make him feed the newly awakened beasts and be supervised by another disciple to help with with his slow witted ness. Basically make the boy do hard labor to build character and make him a better cultivator. Aka make him a butler his father will thank you honestly. >Try and evolve as a magical beast again, while there's still time to before the blizzard arrives Also can we just ask them this as we go evolve? If not ignore this.
>Ask Monu and Feiqing to help you strengthen ghost empress melody Anonymous
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>>5775736 >Just acclimate Xiaosi to the presence of beasts, since he's more scared of them than violent towards them, and use him as a puppet to try and pull his sect into your alliance, which really needs a name He amuses me.
>Try and evolve as a magical beast again, while there's still time to before the blizzard arrives. Amping up our base stats feels like a good move.
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>>5775736 >>Just acclimate Xiaosi to the presence of beasts, since he's more scared of them than violent towards them, and use him as a puppet to try and pull his sect into your alliance, which really needs a name >Try and evolve as a magical beast again, while there's still time to before the blizzard arrives Sometimes all you need is one billion dollars. Or in this case, just really high raw stats.
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>>5775736 >Just acclimate Xiaosi to the presence of beasts, since he's more scared of them than violent towards them, and use him as a puppet to try and pull his sect into your alliance, which really needs a name >Train your students with Master Su's disciples, and have Tie-Tie drill your strengthened mortals and her kids in preparation for the fight to come Anonymous
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>>5775767 >Support I really like the beast idea.
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>>5775758 >Metal >Creates: Water China what are you doing?
>>5775736 >Just acclimate Xiaosi to the presence of beasts, since he's more scared of them than violent towards them, and use him as a puppet to try and pull his sect into your alliance, which really needs a name >Train your students with Master Su's disciples, and have Tie-Tie drill your strengthened mortals and her kids in preparation for the fight to come Anonymous
>>5775928 >China what are you doing? Drinking mercury. Literally.
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>>5775736 >Since he's been behaving, reward him by talking to him in your human form and filling his (and thus his father's) head with dreams of the wealth and glory he'd attain if you owe them a favor or two, betting on the father being like the son and being weak to temptation and the allure of powers. >Find a third type of Qi to dye your spiritual roots, even if only temporarily, you'll need every advantage you can against your mother's ex Anonymous
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>>5775736 >Well, if his reaction is an indication of the rest of his sect, an outright alliance is unlikely, so just use this chance to establish trade between your sect and his, which will be nearly as good as allying with them >Find a third type of Qi to dye your spiritual roots, even if only temporarily, you'll need every advantage you can against your mother's ex Anonymous
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>>5775736 >>You know, you could probably take over ALL of the summer sea dawn sect if you kill just a few of its elders, and there's a perfect figure head in front of you, who you could feed pills and cultivation aids to quickly bump up his cultivation...What was it Qiang said about knives in backs? [bad karma] >Try and evolve as a magical beast again, while there's still time to before the blizzard arrives Anonymous
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>>5775736 >Since he's been behaving, reward him by talking to him in your human form and filling his (and thus his father's) head with dreams of the wealth and glory he'd attain if you owe them a favor or two, betting on the father being like the son and being weak to temptation and the allure of powers >Try and evolve as a magical beast again, while there's still time to before the blizzard arrives Anonymous
>>5775736 "I saw my crush after a long time and she turned out to be a giant cat" The story of Xiaosi
>Just acclimate Xiaosi to the presence of beasts, since he's more scared of them than violent towards them, and use him as a puppet to try and pull his sect into your alliance, which really needs a name Jiong would be the natural choice, but given his... preferences I wonder how he'd take to Tietie
>Make him feed the newly awakened beasts and be supervised by another disciple to help with with his slow witted ness. >Try and evolve as a magical beast again, while there's still time to before the blizzard arrives Evolution before we really kick off the beast revolution.
>>5775758 If memory serves the logic is something like: wood feeds fire, which cools to form earth, earth produces metal, metal carries water (think a bucket or pipes), and water gives nutrient to wood to complete the cycle.
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>>5776150 Metal has associations with lightning and storms too doesn't it?
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>>5776150 A cat is fine too.
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>>5775736 >Just acclimate Xiaosi to the presence of beasts, since he's more scared of them than violent towards them, and use him as a puppet to try and pull his sect into your alliance, which really needs a name "The Protectors"?
>Find a third type of Qi to dye your spiritual roots, even if only temporarily, you'll need every advantage you can against your mother's ex Anonymous
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>>5775736 >Since he's been behaving, reward him by talking to him in your human form and filling his (and thus his father's) head with dreams of the wealth and glory he'd attain if you owe them a favor or two, betting on the father being like the son and being weak to temptation and the allure of powers. >Find a third type of Qi to dye your spiritual roots, even if only temporarily, you'll need every advantage you can against your mother's ex Anonymous
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>>5775736 >your alliance, which really needs a name "Inverted heavens"?
I think i read this name in a wuxia manwha about a conspiracy beyond orthodox and unhortodox sects.
>>5775767 And i'll support these choices.
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>>5775736 >Just acclimate Xiaosi to the presence of beasts, since he's more scared of them than violent towards them, and use him as a puppet to try and pull his sect into your alliance, which really needs a name >Train your students with Master Su's disciples, and have Tie-Tie drill your strengthened mortals and her kids in preparation for the fight to come Anonymous
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>>5775736 >Just acclimate Xiaosi to the presence of beasts, since he's more scared of them than violent towards them, and use him as a puppet to try and pull his sect into your alliance, which really needs a name >Try and evolve as a magical beast again, while there's still time to before the blizzard arrives Anonymous
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>>5775940 I might have guessed.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Sun 01 Oct 2023 04:34:02 No. 5779482 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying the result now. Meant to do so earlier, but I had a lot of chores and errands to run the last twoish days
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Sun 01 Oct 2023 06:41:39 No. 5779547 Report "Beg my pardon, most radiant and illustrious divine beast" Xiaosi mutters, eyes fixed stubbornly on the candle flame lighting the room you've been tormenting him inside, rather than you or the completely unfazed master Su, who as befitting his position and seat as the head of the other half of your budding alliance, is seated right beside you and given the rare privilege of being allowed to run his finger's through your finer than silk hide as you sit on your haunches, towering over and covering the lesser cultivator in your shadow, while your fellow leader sits besides you, surround by false ghost flames.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Sun 01 Oct 2023 06:42:40 No. 5779548 Report >>5779547 "You're the summer sea dawn temple's representative here in Suiqi, an emissary, an envoy. Your job is to help improve relations between your temple and ours and find a mutually beneficial agreement your papa and I and Uncle Su are happy with" You cheerfully answer "I, personally, desire your sect to join with the alliance between the palace of natural laws and the five colors and five purities"
"As do I" Su Zhe'xínglǚ chimes though he doesn't tear his eyes away from his work and is writing so faster that his hands have become a blur of color and flying ink "The summer sea dawn's inclusion would strengthen the alliance greatly, at least in the eyes of our fellow daoist, as most of them have yet to realize the threat Lady Huanliuxue poses, nor the wealth two Harmonious elemental springs could provide"
"And if you can strike a deal that makes all three of us elders happy, you'll gain quite a bit of renown as a savvy diplomat and earn your family back the face your stupidity has cost it" You cackle as Xiaosi reflexively covers his bottom and balls, remembering all to well the punishment you meted out on him and his equally haughty rival "And that shouldn't be too hard, even for an idiot boy like you, I'll admit, your father has the upper hand in negotiations. We really don't have much to offer him."
Xiaosi ticks his jaw, the wheels in his head turning, though sluggishly.
"And no, a wealth of beast cores is not on the table. Spring water might be, but not the lives of those under MY protection" You snarl, protective instincts flaring as you preemptively cut off that branch before it can cause issues
"I wouldn't dream of demanding so extreme a price, I was just...wondering how I could convince my father and the rest of our clan to strong arm the rest of the sect into accepting what they believe to be demons as our friends" He quickly blabbers, waving his hands in the air "Especially since you're so crazily strong, Big Sis! I mean, look what you've done to Suiqi"
"Look what she's done to everyone who thought taking her head would be as easy as trampling dried grass" Master Su chortles, shaking his head as Xiaosi nods furiously in agreement
"Well, you can just write them praising their upright and laudable characters" You suggest, as the embers of an idea begin to stoke the fires of your intellect. Xiaosi is terrified of beasts, and a first hand account of them not being man eating monsters and acting like the good children they are is sure to sway at least a handful of ignorant minds. His bond of blood might be watered down, but at least its there. And connected to the head of their sect
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Sun 01 Oct 2023 06:43:40 No. 5779549 Report >>5779548 "So, you'll need to spend time around the magical beasts here, be they official members of the palace of natural laws or merely under its protection, become used to their presence and meditate on what is praisable about their personalities and make it clear to daddy dearest they aren't a threat to mankind, and certainly aren't sin driven demons" You coolly explain, as the straw haired boy nods along, with a sharp look in his usually bored and arrogant eyes, though you can tell from how he cringes that he really doesn't want to do the job you've just forced on to him
"You can start by helping keep those without care takers or means of procuring food for themselves fed" Master Su adds, wagging his ink drenched brush in the air
"And you'll be monitored by one of my trusted disciples, for your both your safety and that of your charges" You say, already making up your mind that Qiang will be put on baby sitting duty to make sure Xiaosi doesn't lash out in fear or run away, nor that any of the beasts decides his Qi rich flesh would make a lovely treat, since while you are loathe to admit it, that is also a possibility.
"You'll figure out the rest of your duties once you've fallen into the rhythm of its more banal chores" You add with a flippant wag of your paw as you rise and yawn, stretching out as you make to leave the meeting "Just start by putting in a good word for and convincing your father of our good intentions, don't try and make him into a beast lover with one letter. If you do, he might think you've fallen under my spell"
Xiaosi pouts
"But I have, at least when you don't have fangs that look like they can tear my fair head from its shoulders" He whimpers, his lip trembling as you leave him with Master Su. You have more important things to do than hold an idiots hand and teach him how to do a simple job and messing with him has gotten a bit stale already. More important things like, say, attaining further refinement and evolving as a magical beast. Getting stronger and deadlier before facing down the blizzard and its master can only be a good move. Its common sense to train and better one's self, but this kind of improvement requires more thought than your daily exercises and practices. The blizzard is still far enough away that you feel you can risk attempting to undergo a second evolution, but you'll have to be quick about it and decide which one to pursue with haste. Your deep understanding of demonic beasts has revealed to you several paths you can take to improve yourself as one, but in the wild there are mysteries that are still lost and in need of being rediscovered.
'What to do, what to do' You ponder as you sit outside of the mansion you were gifted from its owner, the mother of the cannibal girl you mutilated a few years ago, whose ghost is glaring daggers at you from the courtyard, trying to curse you with all her pitiful spiritual might.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Sun 01 Oct 2023 06:44:41 No. 5779550 Report >>5779549 'besides choosing my path forward as demonic beast, I should also think of a few names for the newly founded alliance. I'll have to pass them by uncle Su first, but having a few ideas will make it easier for us to come up with a name we can enjoy calling ourselves' you muse, tilting your head and sneering at the phantom to let her know you can see her as you unsheathe your claws and cut them through the air, sending her running as she turns into a ghost light and flickers towards her grave
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[Meanwhile, in the marshland temple of the Dusk marsh Wolves sect]
"What is the meaning of this! Why has a hero like you sworn himself to a rampaging demon!" The wild bearded Shidi Xiudao (銹 刀, Rusted Blade), roared, sending the cup of wine he'd been drinking from careening towards the wall of his private, and well appointed quarters. Two axe Fu remained still, his expression hidden behind his many bandages, but his eyes narrowed hatefully as the elder cultivator raged.
"Please, boy, tell me you've been enchanted! Tricked! That the loathsome beast is forcing you to serve her through some underhanded trick!" He shouted, his eyes wide as his grey flecked hair fell over them, wine dripping down his impressive beard as his honored guest stood as silent as a corpse, showing no outward signs of mind control or cursing
"Huanliuxue is the one who commanded me to investigate the disappearances within these swamps, who is to thank for the lives I saved in leading my martial brothers and sisters into battle for the benefit of these lands. It was her will that freed them from the flower that devoured villages" Fu explained, a dark fire smoldering in his eyes "You will hold your tongue, unless you mean to apologize for your flagrant disrespect of my master. I will tolerate no libel against her, nor hear any more of your baseless accusation"
Xiudao gnashed his teeth and towered over the younger man, whose eyes followed him with a look of barely restrained disdain, a far cry of his polite and respectful behavior when he was first welcomed into the temple after he dragged one of its disciples half dead from the swamps. One of Xiudao's own nephews, though the name escaped his mind at the moment.
"You've got guts for a country punk" He praised in low, threatening growl "Tell me, Two axes, how long has the hero of the common folk been serving a man eater"
"Since she found me and helped me get my revenge against an actual man eater" Fu answered, hands reaching for his twin axes, entirely unafraid of the looming death before him "This is your last warning, master Shidi. You've lived your whole life in this world of honor, you of all men should know what badmouthing a teacher to the student whose life they saved will result in"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Sun 01 Oct 2023 06:46:02 No. 5779551 Report >>5779550 "Some back-bone you have, can't recall a heretic with half the bravery you're showing" Xiudao snorted, crouching down to glare directly in the bandage mummy's eyes "That's true loyalty burning inside you. I'll let you off with a warning for being an impertinent little shit, I'll even keep your allegiances a secret out of respect of the sheer ballsiness of admitting them to me, the head of a righteous sect, But"
"Kill me then. I came here to make you join my master's cause, if I cannot, there's no reason for me to return her" The younger man said with a dismissive wave of his hand "You know my mind is my own, it is not addled or befuddled by a hex. Huanliuxue has earned my loyalty and reverence, not just because she gave me my revenge, not just because she saved my family, but because she's the only daoist with the tenacity and will to challenge the heavens. Isn't it fucked up?"
Lord Shidi blinked in disbelief. He had underestimated just how ballsy this young man was, to speak of the heavens like a hated foe.
"They don't do shit for us mortals anymore! Where were the gods when my father was devoured alive by a tiger? Where were they when the Ling charged over the border, or when that shitty excuse for an emperor ran wild indulging his every whim and desire!" He raged, his eyes turning bloodshot as a strange black mist rose out of his lips, crackling like thunder "Where were they when entire villages were sucked dry by an abomination? Or when our fellow daoists completely abandoned their duties to murder eachother and rampage wantonly!
"Boy" Shidi warned, more out of fear for the brazen boy's well being than out of outrage for what he was saying. He agreed with most of it. Why were the gods so distant and careless. He'd never thought of it before, but wasn't their apathy strange? He'd never heard from any of his ancestors of a single case of divine intervention. So why did they still honor them if they got nothing done. He tried to push the treasonous thoughts away, but they rose anew and with more vigor.
"I didn't believe in gods until I was given proof they exist, by way of them attempting to strike down my master twice for the audacity of rising above the fate they gave her, from the muddy puddle she was born into, wailing about children they watched die!" Fu raged and raged, spit flying from his torn lips as he raised his voice to a feverish bellow of anger that could be heard for miles "And again, when she did nothing but cultivate, they attempted to smite her, while their "righteous" followers left countless men, women and children to freeze or starve to death, just to protect their own skins after they started to lose a fight THEY started!
Shidi Xiudao bowed his head shamefully
"My offer still stands, no one has to know of this" He muttered weakly, some how cowed by the zeal of the young man in front of him. No, the young dragon! This boy would've gone far, if he just didn't tie himself to a master abhorred by the heavens.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Sun 01 Oct 2023 06:47:07 No. 5779554 Report Quoted By:
>>5779551 But if he wasn't repeating lies and half truths, why was she abhorred, the only person they knew for sure she devoured was an overly ambitious little prick
"That the dusk marsh wolves refused to repay a debt and went back on their word?" He smoothly threatened, a stab going through Shidi's heart as he winced and nearly back handed the impudent bastard, but he was cornered. Killing him or even letting him leave without repaying the debt they owed him for exterminating that demonic plant. It had been repaid before with the token to enter the tournament, a permanent invitation to it, but the cunning cat had returned it with her demand for assistance. The head of the dusk marsh wolves respected nothing more than brazenness
"Damn you, two axes" He snarled, slamming a fist into the wall and collapsing a wing of his temple as he unleashed his rage with a surge of Qi, cracking stone and sundering wood "Fine. You'll go back home with your head still on your shoulders. I can't take back what I said, what I promised to you. For services rendered, since the first prize didn't satisfy you, I'll repay our debt to you with blood and steel. We dusk marsh wolves will lend our fangs and ferocity in protecting your master, but only until our debts are equal"
"Until you save a life belonging to the palace of natural laws, and shield their land from danger" Fu said with a nod "That is enough, that is all I ask of you"
"But don't think we'll stay allies once those terms are fulfilled, honor alone demands I take this action" Shidi Xiudao warns, kicking the shards of his broken cup out of his room "Once I am no longer bound by my oath, you and your master cannot trust that I will remain a friend"
Fu smiled knowingly. If he hadn't been able to force the Shidi clan and their underlings into an alliance, he would've just offered to "kill" himself and escape enemy lands by faking his death through way of his body's ridiculous even for a cultivator level of durability
<span class="mu-s"> Result: A leashed wolf. Outcome: Success. The dusk marsh wolves have, Temporarily? allied themselves with the palace of natural laws </span>
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Sun 01 Oct 2023 06:48:08 No. 5779555 Report Which beast evolution do you attempt to attain, Huanliuxue? [Choose one] >Continue down the primordial beast line, and attempt to reach its second level (Current stage, 1st. Wild princess, improves the attributes of the evolution and adds new benefits, makes you larger and stronger ) >Become a true guardian spirit (Different options for the variation of the Guardian spirit line, based of your worshipper's belief, primary Qi types...etc, with different effects depending on your choice, more variations unlocked due to Huanliuxue's current karmic balance) >Infuse your beast core with a raw element (Elemental line Choice of the five elements, effects dependent on element chosen, improves chosen affinity and alters body to suit it ) >Meditate within the ancient tree, and become a wild sage/ Or a feral warrior (Wild sage or Feral warrior line, Nature magic focused or Beastial martial arts focused evolutions, increases your connection to nature, choice of preferred terrain/ landscape alter effects, more effects unlocked due to Huan's Living source: Primordial beast essence) >Refine your blood Qi rich blood and alter your body with elixirs (Alchemical bloodline, effects vary depending on elixirs infused into your blood and physical cultivation undergone. Toad-blooded (poison) bloodline variation, is unlocked) >Alter your beast core and physical body by adding the parts of other beasts to it (Chimeric bloodline, changes your species to chimera, alters the effects of your wild princess evolution, effects depend on the body parts used, more variations unlocked by living source: Primordial beast essence ) >Visit the dragons, and ask the parents of the little soul to allow you to become her oath sister (Draconic bloodline. Grants you draconic heritage, privilege and all the abilities and benefits of it, you will be equivalent to a newly hatched dragon in terms of draconic traits/ powers) >[True devil line is locked to Huanliuxue, due to her current karmic balance] >use your perfected carmine mysticism to transform your body with your pure blood and Ghostly Yin Qi (Sanguine predator line, improves carmine mysticism and greatly improves physical stats and further improves your ability to control blood and affinity with blood qi, improved and altered by living source: Blood Qi.) >Study with the old mystics in hell and immerse yourself in their energies of its lower levels to master the magics of the dead (Crypt sorcerer line, makes weaker ghost subservient to you and grants a greater affinity to ghostly yin qi and necromancy, as well as granting you ghostly abilities, improved and new effects due to secret art: Severing of the Eternal soul and Mortal vessel ) >Break through the sky and swim in the cosmic energies of the stars (Cosmic nature line. The cosmos beckons to your spirit, the deepest abyss welcomes you) >Try to find a different path
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Sun 01 Oct 2023 06:52:32 No. 5779556 Report >>5779555 Couldn't fit in complete descriptions due to the amount of options you have open to you.
But two things need to be explained (I'll explain the other choices in detail if asked, as well as the variations/ sub evolutions huan has for each, I just can't list them all without breaking up the options into multiple posts and making it a pain to read)
1: the Cosmic nature line is a mystery box, since there is no record of that evolution in any of the histories/ records Huan has read. She is the first to have access to it
2: attempting to unlock different advance evolutions can either be a write in choice, which if you correctly "Guess" one of the hidden evolutions, you'll unlock it for free but if you don't, you'll waste time
or you can do a luck trial to try and stumble onto one of the evolutions Huan unlocked if you succeed it
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Sun 01 Oct 2023 06:55:35 No. 5779559 Report Quoted By:
>>5779556 *Huan hasn't unlocked
And also, nearly forgot to remind you, the highest known "tier" of evolution any ascended beast has reached has been 8 total evolutions, 9 being the theoretical limit. Huanliuxue is, after this vote, will be a tier 2 demonic beast, no matter what is chosen.
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>>5779555 >Break through the sky and swim in the cosmic energies of the stars (Cosmic nature line. The cosmos beckons to your spirit, the deepest abyss welcomes you) A magical cat girl is fine too. Also thanks for throwing in the lines of him taking care of cats. I figured it would be funny when he meets up with his dad.
>Son! have you redeemed our name?! What did the devil cat do to you!" >"She... She made me take care of cats! Fed them fish! Groom there fur! The horror! I even had to teach them... Letters!" >"Ghas... Honestly son, that doesn't sound bad." Anonymous
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>>5779555 >Break through the sky and swim in the cosmic energies of the stars (Cosmic nature line. The cosmos beckons to your spirit, the deepest abyss welcomes you) Those who can walk the void between stars fear no cold!
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>>5779555 >Break through the sky and swim in the cosmic energies of the stars (Cosmic nature line. The cosmos beckons to your spirit, the deepest abyss welcomes you) Mistery box AND the chance to stare at the heavens from above their hateful heads? Sign me up for eldritch fuckery!
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>>5779555 >Break through the sky and swim in the cosmic energies of the stars (Cosmic nature line. The cosmos beckons to your spirit, the deepest abyss welcomes you) Anonymous
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>>5779555 >Break through the sky and swim in the cosmic energies of the stars (Cosmic nature line. The cosmos beckons to your spirit, the deepest abyss welcomes you) To be the first of a kind? No way Huan would choose anything else.
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>>5779555 >>Continue down the primordial beast line, and attempt to reach its second level (Current stage, 1st. Wild princess, improves the attributes of the evolution and adds new benefits, makes you larger and stronger ) I'll buck the mystery box curse.
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>>5779555 >Become a true guardian spirit (Different options for the variation of the Guardian spirit line, based of your worshipper's belief, primary Qi types...etc, with different effects depending on your choice, more variations unlocked due to Huanliuxue's current karmic balance) Anonymous
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>>5779555 >Cosmic nature line Yeah no, this is absolutely something I wanna figure. What the HEEEEEELL is it?
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>>5779555 >>Refine your blood Qi rich blood and alter your body with elixirs (Alchemical bloodline, effects vary depending on elixirs infused into your blood and physical cultivation undergone. Toad-blooded (poison) bloodline variation, is unlocked) Anonymous
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>>5779555 >Continue down the primordial beast line, and attempt to reach its second level (Current stage, 1st. Wild princess, improves the attributes of the evolution and adds new benefits, makes you larger and stronger ) Anonymous
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>>5779555 >Break through the sky and swim in the cosmic energies of the stars (Cosmic nature line. The cosmos beckons to your spirit, the deepest abyss welcomes you) I haven't read too many wuxia, but if this is going where I think it's going, I would accept no substitute.
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>>5779555 >Break through the sky and swim in the cosmic energies of the stars (Cosmic nature line. The cosmos beckons to your spirit, the deepest abyss welcomes you) I'm remembering the story of how the Zodiac was created and the cat was tricked into missing the heavenly banquet. This is our time to get revenge for all cats.
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>>5779555 >Break through the sky and swim in the cosmic energies of the stars (Cosmic nature line. The cosmos beckons to your spirit, the deepest abyss welcomes you) Gathering up all the fringe energies of life and death, alpha and omega, heh.
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>>5779555 >Become a true guardian spirit (Different options for the variation of the Guardian spirit line, based of your worshipper's belief, primary Qi types...etc, with different effects depending on your choice, more variations unlocked due to Huanliuxue's current karmic balance) Anonymous
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>>5779555 >>Become a true guardian spirit (Different options for the variation of the Guardian spirit line, based of your worshipper's belief, primary Qi types...etc, with different effects depending on your choice, more variations unlocked due to Huanliuxue's current karmic balance) Anonymous
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>>5779555 >Break through the sky and swim in the cosmic energies of the stars (Cosmic nature line. The cosmos beckons to your spirit, the deepest abyss welcomes you) Anonymous
Since cosmic is winning, will we get powers from stars and constellations?Rat gang may have died, but cat gang lives on.
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>>5779940 Cosmic is clearly the
PHASING option. Or at least, it would be if it didn't win.
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>>5779555 >Break through the sky and swim in the cosmic energies of the stars (Cosmic nature line. The cosmos beckons to your spirit, the deepest abyss welcomes you) I was torn between wild sage and crypt sorcerer but I cannot resist a mystery box
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>>5780210 There are a lot of really cool options! Guardian Spirit, Cosmic and Draconic are probably my favorites, but Sanguine Predator definitely has a very cool edge to it.
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>>5779555 >Become a true guardian spirit (Different options for the variation of the Guardian spirit line, based of your worshipper's belief, primary Qi types...etc, with different effects depending on your choice, more variations unlocked due to Huanliuxue's current karmic balance) Anonymous
The idea of an invading force rapidly approaching and Huan being like "Hold my beer I'm off to the fucking MOON, BRB" is pretty hilarious
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>>5780755 >suddenly radahn meteor action >crow king cries in fight boner Anonymous
>>5779555 >Break through the sky and swim in the cosmic energies of the stars (Cosmic nature line. The cosmos beckons to your spirit, the deepest abyss welcomes you) Something no one has ever become before? Sounds right up our alley.
Also, can't help but to see a pattern of sorts here.
>Ghosts & Grudges -> Blood -> Primordial Beast -> Cosmic >Death -> Life -> Birth -> Non-existence Anonymous
>>5780778 Yeah maybe we can get some inspiration for our next dao up there as well. Like, the dao of the laws of cosmos (Physics)? Become Catenheimer?
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>>5780792 >Become Catenheimer? Schrödinger would be a better fit.
We are both dead and alive, after all Anonymous
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>Break through the sky and swim in the cosmic energies of the stars (Cosmic nature line. The cosmos beckons to your spirit, the deepest abyss welcomes you)
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Tue 03 Oct 2023 13:12:30 No. 5781943 Report Let this vote run a bit since it was important, but I'm ending and tallying it now (pretty sure it is also the most votes we've gotten thus far, but I could be wrong). Also the praises for HCQ I saw in /qtg/ while I was wandering through it hoping for some heroic QM to announce they'd run a Xianxia quest of their own, really did brighten this old man's heart.
Cosmic nature:13
2nd stage primordial beast:2
Guardian spirit:4
Alchemical Bloodline:1
So you will go where no Cat, or magical beast for that matter, has gone before. The one place that hasn't been corrupted by the orthodoxy, SPACE!
And attempt to attain your 2nd beastial evolution along the cosmic nature line
The mystery box is torn open, ready to be plundered
Update will arrive shortly
>>5779568 >>5780755 >>5780760 My sides
>>5779940 I miss the rat. And also the gamer, ring, Muscle man and even the short lived americana cultivator. So many fellow daoists, lost to the ebbs and flow of time
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>>5781943 To be fair, the ring ended because we died. But we were likely to die sooner or later, the combat and consequences of it seemed to be on the ruthless side Anonymous
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>>5781946 Yeah, I get what he was going for but the "low level" nature of it made it a fucking slog.
Partly why at the end of it we said "fuck it, I've had enough of being helpless and pushed around, we'll take on a problem directly" and once that wound happened [which being low power was going to be a major hinderance for months] it was best to just have at it for death or for success.
Huan avoided this by not being something that men could just cut in half, like a child born without claws.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Tue 03 Oct 2023 14:23:02 No. 5782006 Report There is a poem, at the edge of your consciousness, that is begging to be written. The exact words escape you, at least they evade capture this night like a particularly cunning field mouse, but as you sit atop the highest branch of the newly grown ancient tree bathed in moonlight, you feel as though you should pen a poem to immortalize the beauty of the proud moon washing down upon an equally proud beauty, yourself of course. Where Amber eyes meet silver blue light? Could that work? You frown, lifting up your head and breathing deep the hot air washing above Suiqi, pure and clean from the mountains like a whisper of burning sands. You've started to enjoy the heat this primordial weather has brought to this once humble sparrow's nest. But, beside simply not being able to pin down your creative impulse and find the poet within this pleasant night, you can't justify spending hours trying your hand at poetry as you did when you wrote Hare and Hunting Hound. You've climbed this tree not to nap or bathe in the moonlight while you preen your ego and flaunt your love for yourself.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Tue 03 Oct 2023 14:24:02 No. 5782008 Report >>5782006 and you think you know what it is. No mortal man or beast has ever walked through the stars, but you've tasted and brought in the energy of the cosmos, vast and unknown within yourself, absorbed it and made it yours. And now you have a theory that the cosmos is as untamed as it is unknown. A place of astral chaos and wild, untapped energies. The pull you feel, must be the moon beckoning you to swim within them and wash your body and fill your soul with its pale light and the fire of the stars, to dirty your fur with stardust and sleep in the void. Like you did when you saturated your soul with the breath of damned souls and wretched devils. Surely you'll transform and attain a new form, refine yourself in a way no one else has before. You don't know what you'll become or what powers will be granted to you, but you are certain you and you alone have the mindset to grasp the nature of the cosmic wilds. And with comprehension, comes insight. Cosmic insights. Fragments of the universal dao that are truly universal, and completely unknown to even the few daoists who remember that the dao is within everything and everything is within the Dao.
But, but, but, there is one problem. Well, you refer to it as such, but its more like the problem. Maybe the biggest problem you've ever encounter. See, the heavens are between you and the moon and its sea of stars. And that's a problem. A very big and dangerous problem. Sure you could cry to old five colors and beg him to open up a bath for you by beating up all the arrogant godlings in your way, but while that is the safest way of reaching space safe, sound and in one piece, your pride refuses to allow you to accept to be so cowardly. Which is strange, because normally you'd have absolutely no issue with cheating, especially when something as valuable as your life is on the line. But, there is a feeling, that you won't reach the stars if you rely on others to take you there. And also it'd be rather pathetic for someone who refers to herself as princess, queen, empress and the rightful ruler of all she looks upon, to crawl and prostrate herself at the feet of another, rolling onto her back and exposing her belly to plead them for help
And that you'd be pleading for assistance in attaining power that has never been possessed before, it'd be even more pathetic and humiliating to go crying to the elder god.
Which means that unless you get supremely lucky again to stumble upon a door that leads into the night sky, like you did with the hidden realm or the hunk of stellar jade that was carved into your imperial throne, you'll have to take the simplest and most direct way forward
Straight past and through the heavens. Something their inhabitants frown upon even when its one of their pet dogs trying to join them and claim divinity for themselves.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Tue 03 Oct 2023 14:27:15 No. 5782010 Report >>5782008 And the gods have tried to directly murder you with their own hands twice, hell you're pretty certain some of them are still trapped down here in the red dust of mortality when they fell when they failed to end your life in their first attempt. You repress a giggle at the thought, this is no time to be laughing and making merry. This is going to be so difficult that even the great Huanliuxue requires a little assistance
'Like when I fought that pervert crow' You think cheerfully, before the weight of the risks you're willingly facing come crashing down upon you again and make you wince. Doing something so outrageous as sprinting through the celestial court, as a mortal, as a demonic beast no less, could prove a lethal offence even for a prodigy like yourself.
Which is why you've come prepared, with every performance enhancing pill, drug, medicine and technique and trick you've learned throughout your life as a cultivator.
You breath in, and breath out, tempering your heart beat and easing yourself into the idea of what you're about to do, battling with your nerves. It takes a few attempts to really calm yourself, and you begin panting and whimpering out of both panic and aversion towards risking your hide so fragrantly and boldly before you take a deep breath and release it, forcing a serenity onto yourself and enter a half meditative trance just to keep from halving second thoughts right before you leap.
"Okay, lets prove all of my bluster and stick my tongue out at those shitty gods a third time" You sneer, licking your lips and grinning as you gather the various pills into your mouth, including the flickering wind pellet (闪烁风 丹, Shǎnshuòfēng Dān), Hare's fleetness drug, and Tireless stamina drug and swallow them down as you activate The Blood Torrent Rush (衁急流奔,Huāngjíliúbēn), wrapping your heart and lungs with blood Qi as you also sheath your muscles and sinews, and as your veins bulge, you use your heart to constantly energize and refine the blood flowing through them to give you an extra edge besides the extreme rapidity already granted to you by your doping and body strengthening technique.
All that's left to do, is begin your ascent and prove that cats can catch stars! Twitching, shaking all over and sweating, a manic energy possesses you, but you refuse to let it distal into confidence. Because you simply aren't confident at all, for once!
<span class="mu-s"> DEFY OF THE NINE HEAVENS AND THE RULE OF THE CELESTIAL COURT </span>
<span class="mu-s"> DC lowered by element of surprise and self buffs! </span>
<span class="mu-s"> Roll 2d100. DC 180. Best out of five. Combined trial. All of this cat's cunning is on display this moonlit night </span>
https://youtu.be/PoO6Xn78MFI Anonymous
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Rolled 21, 90 = 111 (2d100) >>5782010 Jesus christ that's a high dc...
Anonymous
Rolled 76, 96 = 172 (2d100) >>5782010 Fuckin'. . .
I hope we still have some buffs here. I hope they still apply here. . . AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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>>5782012 Fuck, short by 8. . . Forgive me brothers.
Anonymous
>>5782012 Can we spend some points here or is that not allowed in training rolls? I remember there being some leftovers from the breakthrough.
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>>5782016 it is allowed in training rolls, but this says combined. I'm just. . not sure if combined includes training or not.
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Rolled 43, 92 = 135 (2d100) >>5782010 oi vey 0.0021 chance of success !
Anonymous
Rolled 88, 78 = 166 (2d100) >>5782010 Is the DC that high because cosmic was the hardest option?
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>>5782028 That. . . isn't how I remember it working.
I think it's the best of the combined totals my guy.
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>>5782032 permit my cope good anon
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Rolled 83, 42 = 125 (2d100) >>5782010 I hope we don't get smote...
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Tue 03 Oct 2023 15:26:54 No. 5782046 Report >>5782012 A close failure, eight steps from success, kind of ironic considering eight is the number of luck in china. Anyways, update will arrive shortly.
Now the FUN begins
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>>5782046 Well, Huan had to learn some humility eventually.
It's been a long time since the puppets, she might have forgotten it.
Anonymous
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>>5782051 No, this is where it finally starts.
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>>5782046 So we'll have to slap some bitch deity on our way up
Anonymous
>>5782046 Huanliuxue launches herself like a dragon and surpasses the heavens but hits the moon instead colorized
Anonymous
>>5782046 Grandfather, don't we have any cultivation bonuses left? I thought we had gained some since the last big breakthrough? Or does that not apply to evolution, specifically?
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Tue 03 Oct 2023 16:31:02 No. 5782105 Report >>5782083 This isn't a training or cultivation roll, its a trial of literally every kind wrapped into one, reflecting that Huan is using everything in her bag of tricks to try and slip into space unnoticed
Anonymous
>>5782105 I see, so we failed to sneak by, and will have to pull a Monkey King and fight the gods in heaven.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Tue 03 Oct 2023 16:54:17 No. 5782129 Report But you can't think about that. That fear. That uncertainty. It'll lead to hesitation. And hesitation will lead to death, or something even more final. And how sad of an end to your story would that be? Arrogance the downfall of the prideful beast? That can't happen, you wont all it to be. You need to empty your mind, embrace nothing, wash away all doubt, all conviction and silence all of the boisterous and whimpering thoughts in your head. Silence. Void. Pour everything out, quiet the hear to calm it, unburdened and free. Wild. Released from earthly attachments and affairs. A white field, unsullied by mortal fears and desires. Cleansed of desire and dread. Empty. Empty. Embrace and become the void. Remember the lessons of the buddhas and their earthly disciples. Forsake Daoist common sense and the pursuit of immortality for a scarce few moments and sink into nothing.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Tue 03 Oct 2023 16:55:18 No. 5782132 Report >>5782129 So why. Why aren't they striking you? You have to be within reach by now? They can't have missed you. The clouds are thickening again, the air is saturating with heavenly Qi, so potent and thick you can barely move through the air. Just being on the outermost edge of the heavens feels like you'll be burned away like an ember in the air, dashed to pieces and squashed until their isn't even dust left of you. But unlike when you made your golden core, or attained your human form, there is no grand display, no array covering the heavens, no declaration of murderous hate or demands for your death. There is just silence, except for the thumping of your heart and flowing of your blood. Just the bone biting cold and the burning in your abused lungs. Nothing. Nothing. But beyond the sky above earth, you can see on the horizon a heavenly vision. The lowest level of the Celestial realm, across a vast distance. How many leagues is that? Is it further than the world you left behind? More vast than the distance between the lands of the living and the lands of the dead? Your mind boggles trying to comprehend the sight before you, the separation between sky and heaven. And instinctively, you know what you're seeing is merely the best your brain can come up with to describe the unknowable, the incomprehensible. Where white clouds turn to gold and jade and the sun is replaced with a pure white blanket of light, where the blue sky turns the myriad of shades of five colors and the air is replaced with the breath of the heavens and celestial dew.
Your panting, when did you start panting? How long have you been hopping between clouds? How far have you flown? You don't know. Your lungs feel like they've been filled with coals. Your running out of breath and stamina, despite all the medicine you've taken. You need to use your own blood as a healing salve, absorbing it in your veins and bleeding it back out in an act of auto cannibalism, as you coat yourself in the scarlet healing armor and with a pain groan, dare to step into the aura of the nine heavens.
You've managed to keep your presence hidden so far, and sneak up to the door of the celestial court. A cat knows how to sneak into a home. If you can just pass by this last hurdle, sprint across the vast open space before any god notices you're there or feels you defiling their pure lands, you can catch your breath, and make for the cosmos beyond even the heavenly realms. Just a little longer, you just need to hold on a little longer, to keep your composure and calm for a little longer, and you'll make it. The goal is in sight, focus. Don't panic. Don't gloat. Just keep running. Keep leaping. Keep flying. Its in sight, you can see the heavens, you can reach the heavens. Just a little...
You gasp, as innumerable miles beneath you, a flicker of killing intent pierces through the sky and makes your heart skip a beat as a chill colder than death seeps into you.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Tue 03 Oct 2023 16:56:19 No. 5782135 Report >>5782132 -
[ Meanwhile, on one of the tallest mountains allowed to stand beneath the heavens ]
https://youtu.be/Kk8YzHeE7Sg An exiled martial god stood poised, having not moved from where he stood since he pulled himself out of the hole he found himself in after he had been thrown out of heaven for his failure, his white hair flowing behind him in a wild mane, matted with mud, soaked with sweat and tangled with branches and thorns. His heavenly regalia had been charred from his decent, soiled by mortal earth, and soaked in sweat, blood and tears. While the others were content, certain their seniors would forgive them soon and they'd be brought back to the heavens, this particular deity's grudge against the demon whose slyness had lead to their banishment was stronger.
So he stood, with the divine weapon tied to his station in the celestial bureaucracy in hand, a bow made out of the horns of Qilin and Dragon older than nations, strung with their whiskers, drew back the last of the arrows in his quiver, fletched with a phoenix feather and tipped with Celestial silver. The antlers creaked, cracking as he held onto the last of his divinely granted strength, pushing the last of drops of Qi that hadn't been torn from him when he was thrown from the heavens into the arrow as it splintered and buckled. With sharp eyes, he gazed into the sun.
And countless leagues away, on the border of the lands he had been exiled from, a pant reached his strained ears. And in the moment before he lost the power and immortality he stubbornly held onto and fainted to awake as a mere mortal, he loosed his arrow and snarled "Here's your long overdue divine punishment, you prideful bitch!"
And as he fell, his hair turned a rusty red brown, the last of his divinity fade as golden motes of light like fireflies from his hair.
_
And the very moment you feel the killing intent, and turn around on instinct to try and see the danger swiftly approaching, at the very edge of the grey bleakness you've left behind, rising from what looks like an ant hill, a star flashes, red and gold.
You turned around to look for the enemy your spiritual senses and instincts screamed about not even a fraction of a fraction of a second before, with your body bent into a crescent as your hair raised and your eyes widen in frightened shock. That slight shift, the subtle movement, saved your life.
As an arrow tipped with a star and tailed by a comet, pierced through the skies and into the heavens, an aura of a roaring dragon surrounding it. Your fur was set ablaze, burning with ghostly teal fires just from being surrounded by the aura.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Tue 03 Oct 2023 16:57:20 No. 5782136 Report >>5782135 But you only screamed when the rapidly melting arrow head cut through your side, biting deep into your flesh and spilling your blood across the heavens, drops of it soaking into the gold and jade clouds as the dragon aura and arrow cut a straight tunnel through them, lined with teal fire. By turning around, you moved to the very edge of the attack's radius, and were thus not disintegrated by its Heavenly Qi.
But, the pain is so intense, you forget everything for a moment, and yet out a loud yowl that echoes through the once silent heavens, disturbing them like a stone tossed into a still pond.
And then you scream, in frustration and rage
"SHIT!" You roar, as gathering your wits, you make a mad dash for the gates of the celestial court, abandoning discretion and stealth and ignoring the deep, bleeding gaze from your shoulder to your hind legs. Your guts haven't fallen out, and they aren't tangling up your feet, that's enough. You can heal quickly. You have a dozen ways to mend your wounds. Run. Run! Just make it to the border of the nine heavens. You can scurry away and find some shadow to hide in, or scale the wall and...and do something!
"Shit! Shit!" You chant, like the mantra of a curse, to keep from praying since that would send up the alarm quicker than your scream and the arrow that elicited its landing will. There goes the element of surprise. Now you just have your speed to rely on. Well that and your cunning! But how cruddy of bad luck is that! That arrow had to have been shot by one of the assholes who failed to kill you in your home village! To think they'd wait all this time to attack you when your back was turned, while you were on the precipice of success! The asshole!
And sure enough, a moment later, a horn is blasted, and white energy ripples through the air like the wakes of a wave as a dozen suns alight on the horizon. Screaming, you can hear screaming besides your own. Shouting. Calls to arms. More suns burn the horizon. More sea tossing and earth shattering horns are blown.
And then you nearly faceplant directly into grey white, jade veined marble as your next step doesn't touch open "air" or Heavenly clouds, but solid stone stairs. Stumbling and nearly falling off them again, you manage to collect your frantic thoughts just long enough to realize your standing on a stairway reaching down from the heavenly realm and to the very edge the heavens, just above the boundary between it and the mortal world.
And there is a long trail of blood and teal fire leading up to this particular set of stairs. The blood pooling beneath your shaking feet is burning. Well that isn't going to help at all! Damn all the gods but especially that prick who shot you! You were hoping that lot had all starved to death or died from their fall! Son of bitch! You realize you're cursing up a storm of profanity and spewing out such thick clouds of enmity and grudge energy to make it even easier to find you than the blood trail will!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Tue 03 Oct 2023 16:59:26 No. 5782140 Report >>5782136 So you bite your tongue, and clench your jaws tightly together to keep from letting any more noises slip out of them as you, limping, stagger up the first few steps of the stairway. You need a plan, and quickly. You can hear footsteps, and the shouting voices are near enough to be comprehensible, and with an upward glance you can see the shadows cast by the gods who sounded the alarm and lit the beacons, stretched out across the clouds like giants.
Quickly. Quickly. You don't call yourself a genius prodigy for no reason. You need a plan. Even a pitiful exiled god nearly killed you. Unlike in hell, you can't possibly fight your way out of this mess you've gotten into. All you can do is keep reaching towards the moon and moving forward. But you can't stumble forward blindly. You need a plan. A good plan of action will keep you from getting skinned today. And while it isn't as brag worthy as slipping beneath the noses of every god, but tricking a few is still a feat worthy of being boasted about, right?
Walking up the stairs at a steady, though staggered pace because of all the pain having your side ripped open and losing what feels like gallons of blood, you devout all of your mental energy, exert all of your brainpower and squeeze every drop of genius that you can to come up with a plan in the seconds it'll take for the guardian gods to track and hone in on your position.
<span class="mu-s"> All DCs are hidden while you are in the nine heavens. At your current level, the power of gods is beyond comprehension </span>
How do you try to escape your pursues and slip into the lowest of the nine heavens, Huanliuxue?
>Create a blood puppet and transfer the Teal fires onto it, Smothering the flames on your fur out with Ice magic, and use it as a diversion as you limp beneath a bush to stop your bleeding and heal quickly (Magic/ Stealth trial. DC Unknown) >Focus inwards and eclipse your Yin with your yang and rely on the unknown powers of your eclipsed Yang physique (Magic/ Focus trial. DC Unknown) >Wait. Most of the people in Chuan worship you. They pray to you, instead of other gods, real or imagined. Maybe they have enough faith in you for you to use it as a disguise. Slip away into a stream, and transform yourself into your human form. Clothes can wait until after you've hoodwinked the first gods to reach you (Trickery/ Deception trial. DC unknown, lowered by current Karma and having worshippers) >FUCK IT! Your bleeding out your miraculous drugs! Nothing ventured nothing gained! Just sprint as fast as you can and make a break for it! (Haste trial. DC unknown. Increased by your wounds) >Write in https://youtu.be/a6qMW-6KZT0 >>5782128 Precisely. If you had succeeded, You'd have gotten through without issue. Now its more complicated.
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>>5782140 Oh no, not a stairway to heaven. I still have trauma from the one in Tale of Immortal, it was the first difficulty wall that I had to stop and grind for days to be able to pass through. >Wait. Most of the people in Chuan worship you. They pray to you, instead of other gods, real or imagined. Maybe they have enough faith in you for you to use it as a disguise. Slip away into a stream, and transform yourself into your human form. Clothes can wait until after you've hoodwinked the first gods to reach you (Trickery/ Deception trial. DC unknown, lowered by current Karma and having worshippers) I bet guardian deity would have helped with this plan as well.
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>>5782140 >Create a blood puppet and transfer the Teal fires onto it, Smothering the flames on your fur out with Ice magic, and use it as a diversion as you limp beneath a bush to stop your bleeding and heal quickly (Magic/ Stealth trial. DC Unknown) Stealth is our strong side.
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>>5782140 Oh mother fucker.
>Create a blood puppet and transfer the Teal fires onto it, Smothering the flames on your fur out with Ice magic, and use it as a diversion as you limp beneath a bush to stop your bleeding and heal quickly (Magic/ Stealth trial. DC Unknown) Oh shit oh fuck oh shit
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>>5782140 The alarms already sounded, lesser true gods will be sent to investigate at min. I'm uncertain we can count on one regions worth of worship fooling those fools when Chuan's worship is known as heresy. It would be like us explaining we're a new regional god from Chuan and relying on their ignorance of mortal affairs, and them looking between reach other knowing there's few to none candidates for that outside of their own descendants, which we're clearly not even in human form.
Human form Huan piques more mysteries than it resolves, we can't necessarily count on a down bad lesser god to ignore the situation's inherent weirdness to protect an injured peerless beauty in distress. ..can we?
Changing our apparent nature of Ghostly Yin to empowered Yang doesn't bury the elephant, only curtains it. Although it will enhance our healing and aid negating the fire of the wound, on its own it's only an accessory that can't flip the core situation. What's being relied on, really? That our genius will provide an option within power we haven't fully explored?
A blood puppet is like the first demonic trick we pulled against Heaven, they certainly haven't forgotten it. Even if it works, the existence of a diversion betrays its truth. Supposing it succeeds they'll destroy the puppet then at once start looking around for us, and we'll still have left a blood trail to the bush. There are a few methods to extend the use of our trick, and erase our traces, though its core strategy will still require continual supreme stealth.
Gonna eat and think of combos and drastics. Anonymous
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>>5782140 >Focus inwards and eclipse your Yin with your yang and rely on the unknown powers of your eclipsed Yang physique (Magic/ Focus trial. DC Unknown) Trying to trick them implies letting them catch up, which means that if it doesn't work we are FUCKED.
And hiding in a bush to heal means that if we fail to hide, we are also equally screwed.
I dislike gambling on an unknown, but against opponents we don't stand a chance against, distance is our greatest advantage, so keeping it up is crucial.
Also, does anyone in heaven even know who the intruder is? If they do not, a blood puppet diversion will let them know very quickly who they are dealing with, while our Yang physique might not, whatever it does.
Though we DO need to heal as well, so I'm tempted to hide in a bush anyway.
Hopefully our Yang physique helps us close our wounds somehow.
Man, we are in some deep shit this time, huh?
Anonymous
>>5782140 >Wait. Most of the people in Chuan worship you. They pray to you, instead of other gods, real or imagined. Maybe they have enough faith in you for you to use it as a disguise. Slip away into a stream, and transform yourself into your human form. Clothes can wait until after you've hoodwinked the first gods to reach you (Trickery/ Deception trial. DC unknown, lowered by current Karma and having worshippers) truthfully i won't go for this but then i thought it up a little
Huan already looks above the average jade beauty by a factor of ten
(unless all heavenly gods all have silver hair like the god that fell do we can pass by looks alone)
no one would ever imagine a heretic cultivator to have the balls to enter heaven alone.
(and they won't look so virtuous anyway)
the god that fell is a perfect scapegoat of a resentful moron with a grudge for heaven
and if they get confused even for a minute more we can just escape safely.
in short: Huan needs to play the part of the shamed maiden hurt by the vengeful disgraced god long enough to give them the slip.
ready the crocodile tears anons, time to put them womanly wiles at work.
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>>5782140 >Wait. Most of the people in Chuan worship you. They pray to you, instead of other gods, real or imagined. Maybe they have enough faith in you for you to use it as a disguise. Slip away into a stream, and transform yourself into your human form. Clothes can wait until after you've hoodwinked the first gods to reach you (Trickery/ Deception trial. DC unknown, lowered by current Karma and having worshippers) Anonymous
>>5782201 What if instead of blaming it on the fallen god we blame it on that most dastardly of fiends Huanlixue!
The best lies are mostly true, we claim the following true statements:
- She took credit for our achievements as a protector of Chuan! We're the real protector of Chuan!
- Her scheming machinations led to us being injured by an arrow meant for her!
- If you follow this trail of blood it should lead straight to her!
Then let the gods assume the pure hearted naked injured maiden is the victim and that Huan is somewhere else. Bonus points if we get the gods to heal our wounds!
> switching my vote from the Blood Puppet plan to the False Goddess plan. Anonymous
After some thought I'm caught between two potentials.
One was suping up the blood puppet with carmine mysticism, perhaps part of our soul too, but it doesn't stop them from knowing exactly who's invaded Heaven.
Using Chuan's faith as a disguise, if we also maintain yang physique and remain in human form we can entirely cover our ghostly yin, but that still leaves traces of our beastly blood. Given there's an extended trail of it removing it all before the area is investigated is unlikely, which means we should include it as part of our plan before any discoveries can be made.
So what if there's a bullshit third option!
>>5782140 >Wait. Most of the people in Chuan worship you. They pray to you, instead of other gods, real or imagined. Maybe they have enough faith in you for you to use it as a disguise. Slip away into a stream, and transform yourself into your human form. Clothes can wait until after you've hoodwinked the first gods to reach you (Trickery/ Deception trial. DC unknown, lowered by current Karma and having worshipers) +
We change our nature using Eclipsed Yang but instead of relying on only it or Chuan's faith we pretend we're one of the Daoist's who were trying to stop a beast from rising up to heaven. We don't need to know who saved us by firing that arrow, but we do need to act well, and altering our blood AND our injury so that it doesn't look like a sweeping arrow wound will make deceiving them easier.
Although it's more complex, even if we transition to human form we'll still reek of ghostly yin and there's still plenty of a blood trail around that we shouldn't bet they have no methods to test, that's why I think we'll need to keep eclipsed Yang active and come up with a deception addressing the trail of our ascension.
No matter what we do, as long as that long trail of blood remains they'll still know it was us eventually. We can't hide it all while doing the other stuff. When they investigate the arrow they'll know who fired it, after that it's not much of a logical leap then. That's why our deception should be consistent with these factors and make use of them.
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>>5782228 anon, I love you.
Anonymous
>>5782228 your plan would have merit if Huan was more than just a local nuisance.
she escaped once yes but that they think she's insane enough to sneak into heaven away from 5 colors protection is unthinkable for them
besides why aim their hatred at ourselves while we can say the truth that a fallen god shot an arrow towards heaven?
Anonymous
The think I'm not taken in by these votes is that they rely on the gods who would find us being ignorant of the situation up in the heavens enough that they'd just believe us outright. It's playing with molten lava and hoping you wont burn down your house.
Anonymous
>>5782250 the lying option is less of us pointing out our ignorance but exploiting their arrogance instead.
for who could strike at heaven but another disgraced god?
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>>5782237 Supporting this option of Human shape + Yang Physique + bullshit story
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>>5782250 It's pretty much all playing with lava at this point.
Anonymous
>>5782250 It's true we don't know the extent of their knowledge. That's why we should mask our nature and make use of the present traces which we can't cover up fully.
They don't have to believe us outright, in fact I don't think it's best for us if they do, if they suspect us and test our karma that's good. They should be suspicious towards what would be a hugely rare event.
The thing I'm concerned about most is that it's Heaven that knows we achieved human form. Certainly not all of them were watching, but without modification I doubt the base strategy can fool them long enough.
Further, we only need to fool them long enough to get away uninjured.
>>5782242 Actually, should we (in pretend) know it was a fallen god? Our explaining that might provide too much insight into our perspective. How would we know it was a fallen god firing that arrow? That's why I suggested we assume the stance that they were saving us.
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>>5782143 I bet anything would have helped. You can't exactly jump into the deepest end if you barely know how to swim, my friend. Next time let's not act on a whim for something so important, temperance.
Anonymous
>>5782263 To explain, though this lie does make modifying the nature of our injury a big priority (or we could claim we're alive because we weren't its main target), the alternative requires reasoning out to who we're deceiving that the fallen god attacked out of pettiness. They may simply know the individual in question isn't that kind of person, and we don't, given that they're one of the god's previously charged with protecting the heavens via tribulations.
The idea they fired out of spite, regret, etc, collides with the essence of the mission they held previously a bit hard.
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How about just doing everything?>Use blood qi to create a dummy that keeps on sprinting up, leaving a trail of smoke and blood. Hide in a bush, change into human shape, heal our wounds and switch to Yang alignment.
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>>5782140 >Create a blood puppet and transfer the Teal fires onto it, Smothering the flames on your fur out with Ice magic, and use it as a diversion as you limp beneath a bush to stop your bleeding and heal quickly (Magic/ Stealth trial. DC Unknown) Anonymous
>>5782257 This anon
>>5782274 makes a good point about clashing with personalities. They may have been exiled, but they were still gods, and would probably want to return, and firing upon the heavens would basically ensure they'd remain crippled for the rest of their mortal life, so it may be a difficult swallow.
But beyond that, how would we even attempt to slip away once we make face-to-face contact with one of these gods? They'll most likely be on high alert, and want our testimony, and if we slip away from them while they have these considerations then they're most likely to focus their entire efforts on finding the maiden who gave them the slip, which would make escaping into the cosmos far more difficult.
It may be a mistake to try and just escape into the cosmos, but it doesn't give them time to widen their net wide enough to catch us were we to fail in any of our deceptions, so that's seeming more appealing to me.
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>>5782304 Point behind their heads and Joseph them.
..claim we'll marry one of the gods saving us and then skedaddle out the ceremony?
this is a joke It's something we'll have to play by notch, which we should cover up because our human form still has it. As for what can get us away it ultimately depends on who we manage to deceive. ..Once we're healed, with the drugs still active, I'm not worried about being unable to get away. If they cuff us, well, whoops. I see hiding in plain sight as more reliable than sneaking, as delaying them with a puppet or vanishing will force their investigation while we'll be healing.
Anonymous
>>5782304 those would be good point but it hinges on the fact that:
1) all the gods know each other and can vouch for each other immovable virtue.
(doubtful that they even care beyond their immediate superior, rivals or their crush/family)
2) all gods are on good terms and rivalries from the mortal realm don't carry over
(lol, this is xanxia)
3) they are rational people
(a simple failure to strike down a heretic caused banishment for a couple gods.)
besides we (disguised as a wounded maiden) are the only witness and clearly the wronged part.
the sentinels who missed Huan stealthy ascent probably saw the screaming comet like arrow come from below.
simple truth is the name of the game.
even a lie detecting spell won't catch us lying, the fallen has shot an arrow to heaven and hit us, plain and simple, let them draw conclusions.
besides this is ancient not!china, word of mouth is as good as irrefutable proof
especially against a banished good for nothing disgrace.
then we can use some demure bullshit like feeling faint or too embarrassed to testimony right now to give them the slip long enough to disappear while they hound the culprit.
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>>5782375 If it comes up that we seem weak or something, we can just chalk it up to having to expend most of our strength to endure that desperate final attack.
Anonymous
>>5782375 now that i think about it if we bullshit enough and get them to get us to an apothecary to heal we can rob them blind and turn trouble into the steal of the century monkey king style indeed
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>>5782393 >the heavens: cat burgled Anonymous
>>5782140 Watch some god cover for our girl as he's fallen in love with her.
Also grandfather can I write a otamake for a bonus to roll? I was thinking one about that guy at the shrine who first saw Huanliuxue human form?
Anonymous
>>5782446 Just write it anyway. Do not barter your goods for unfair gains like a greedy merchant.
if you wish to write, write. If not, don't. Do not pollute the pool.
I support the duel options of
>Alter our body with our Physique and
>Adopt the mein of a god Also guys uh. . . I think we may have bit off a bit more than we could chew with this scheme.
Anonymous
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>>5782140 >>5782201 Alright, I'll vote for this deception.
I truly hope we can turn this bad fortune into some of the greatest luck Huanliuxue has ever known. Burgling the heavens sounds fantastic
Anonymous
>>5782500 Plundering heaven's apothecary does seem very us, though pushing our luck seems exceptionally unwise.
Anonymous
>>5782768 Obviously if there's an opportunity to go straight to space then we take it, but if they get exceptionally lax...
Anonymous
>>5782778 A mouth too full cannot close its jaws anon.
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>>5782794 But the wise squirrel stuffs his cheeks!
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>>5782140 >>FUCK IT! Your bleeding out your miraculous drugs! Nothing ventured nothing gained! Just sprint as fast as you can and make a break for it! (Haste trial. DC unknown. Increased by your wounds) Anonymous
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>>5782140 >Wait. Most of the people in Chuan worship you. They pray to you, instead of other gods, real or imagined. Maybe they have enough faith in you for you to use it as a disguise. Slip away into a stream, and transform yourself into your human form. Clothes can wait until after you've hoodwinked the first gods to reach you (Trickery/ Deception trial. DC unknown, lowered by current Karma and having worshippers) Anonymous
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>>5782140 >Wait. Most of the people in Chuan worship you. They pray to you, instead of other gods, real or imagined. Maybe they have enough faith in you for you to use it as a disguise. Slip away into a stream, and transform yourself into your human form. Clothes can wait until after you've hoodwinked the first gods to reach you (Trickery/ Deception trial. DC unknown, lowered by current Karma and having worshippers) >>5782484 If push comes to shove we do have a one time reset, but I hope it doesn’t come to that point because it’d leave a sore point for the story.
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>>5782140 >Wait. Most of the people in Chuan worship you. They pray to you, instead of other gods, real or imagined. Maybe they have enough faith in you for you to use it as a disguise. Slip away into a stream, and transform yourself into your human form. Clothes can wait until after you've hoodwinked the first gods to reach you (Trickery/ Deception trial. DC unknown, lowered by current Karma and having worshippers) Anonymous
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>>5782140 >Wait. Most of the people in Chuan worship you. They pray to you, instead of other gods, real or imagined. Maybe they have enough faith in you for you to use it as a disguise. Slip away into a stream, and transform yourself into your human form. Clothes can wait until after you've hoodwinked the first gods to reach you (Trickery/ Deception trial. DC unknown, lowered by current Karma and having worshippers) Anonymous
I just wanted Space Catte :( Curse those salty dogs for waiting for us to try that!
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>>5782140 >Wait. Most of the people in Chuan worship you. They pray to you, instead of other gods, real or imagined. Maybe they have enough faith in you for you to use it as a disguise. Slip away into a stream, and transform yourself into your human form. Clothes can wait until after you've hoodwinked the first gods to reach you (Trickery/ Deception trial. DC unknown, lowered by current Karma and having worshippers) Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Fri 06 Oct 2023 10:56:18 No. 5784855 Report WELL, This is embarrassing! I had an incredibly vivid dream of updating the quest, and didn't realize I hadn't actually written anything until I woke today and went to check to see if there were any new votes. Whoops
Anyways, ending and tallying the vote outside of dreamland now.
Wait. Most of the people in Chuan worship you. They pray to you, instead of other gods, real or imagined. Maybe they have enough faith in you for you to use it as a disguise. Slip away into a stream, and transform yourself into your human form. Clothes can wait until after you've hoodwinked the first gods to reach you :13
-play the part of the shamed maiden hurt by the vengeful disgraced god long enough to give them the slip.:2
- Blame the dastardly fiend Huanliuxue!: 2
-Use Eclipse Yang Physique's power and weave a fanciful tale:3
Create a blood puppet and transfer the Teal fires onto it, Smothering the flames on your fur out with Ice magic, and use it as a diversion as you limp beneath a bush to stop your bleeding and heal quickly:2
Focus inwards and eclipse your Yin with your yang and rely on the unknown powers of your eclipsed Yang physique:1
Use blood qi to create a dummy that keeps on sprinting up, leaving a trail of smoke and blood. Hide in a bush, change into human shape, heal our wounds and switch to Yang alignment.: 1
FUCK IT! Your bleeding out your miraculous drugs! Nothing ventured nothing gained! Just sprint as fast as you can and make a break for it! :1
So You'll gamble that the prayers and faith of the people of the Chuan region will be enough for you to disguise yourself as a minor goddess, a slip away into a stream and switch forms to try and trick the first gods to reach you.
A shame the write in schemes/ cover stories didn't get enough support, they were really clever
anyways, update will arrive shortly
>>5784055 Why does every daoist want to bully poor, innocent Huanliuxue!?
Anonymous
>>5784855 I doubt that at this point I can vote for any of the write-ins so maybe the one with 3 votes wins, right?
Anonymous
>>5784855 I’ll back the Yang and tall tale write in if it’ll make a difference
Anonymous
>>5784855 I didn't think we would need to vote for the cover.
I would support the blame Huan and Yang qi to cover our ghost one
Anonymous
>>5784875 Much the same as I.
But when that count post is done, the tallying is done, so further votes dont get counted. Hiding our physique wpuld have been good, but cest la vie
Anonymous
>>5784885 I think gramps accepted it once before
We need to get back into the groove of tallying before he does, just to make sure.
Although in this case it wouldn't make much of a difference because we though the ideas on how to do it didn't needed to be voted on.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Fri 06 Oct 2023 11:48:06 No. 5784895 Report >>5784869 >>5784872 >>5784875 I'll be generous and include some Eclipse Yang Physique trickery. Fortunately I checked back on the thread before finishing writing
>>5784890 That I have
>>5784885 It is usually the case, yes
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>>5784895 You continue to be based.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Fri 06 Oct 2023 12:37:14 No. 5784912 Report Pain provides clarity through the haze of exhaustion and bloodloss. Every breath is a struggle that burns your throat even as a familiar coolness seeps past your fur and soaks into your flesh. You need to lick your wounds and mend them before your body becomes to weak or parts of it begin to die, which will make healing all the more difficult. As if you didn't have enough problems on your plate, being injured deep in enemy territory and already having a hunting party chasing after your tail. Wincing, you step forward, splashing blood that oozes out of the fur on your paw that its soaked into. There is a moment, as a drop of blood jumps up in front of your eyes, glowing from the strange fires that you've noticed don't seem to burn you now that you've walked or in reality stumbled a few paces, where you see your haggared and worn reflection and meet your own eyes. Suddenly, inspiration strikes you, but nowhere near as hard as the heavens sent arrow did. More like a flash of lightning in the night sky rather than being struck by that same bolt of lightning.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Fri 06 Oct 2023 12:38:15 No. 5784913 Report >>5784912 Its only logical, right? If belief has power and worth to gods, then it must also have an effect on false divinities, like yourself, who has been named the patron and protector of Chuan, both the family and the region they rule over.
A wicked grin rips its way through your winces of pain as a solid, trustworthy plan begins to take form in your head. But you'll have to act quickly and put on a good show to hoodwink the first gods to find you, or else it'll all go up in smoke and you'll find yourself in a far worse position than simply bleeding out on the stairway to the heavens. Hmm, hmm. There certainly are a lot of waterfalls spilling out into the empty space beneath the golden clouds holding up the nine heavens. The story of the carp jumping over the dragon's gate comes to mind. You still have enough energy to swim upstream, especially with all the spirit medicines surging through your veins. That'll take care of the blood trail and the tracks being left in it. And it'll also wash off the teal flames clinging of so stubbornly to your fur, licking at it without burning it. Which is important for the next stage of your plan.
Forcing yourself not to limp, you make a dash for the nearest celestial waterfall, as clear as polished jade, from its green waters to its white foam. Allowing the gentle breeze murming through the clouds to carry you there, having turned partially ethereal and lightened your body with the Youling Qinggong, you splash into the water, and find it relaxingly cool. And it would've relieved the extreme pain in your side, however its crushing weight and surging force prevent you from finding anything about the water soothing. Biting down and shutting your nostrils, you shield your eyes from being torn out by the water with two tiny protection spells over them, and then with great difficulty, swim your way up the water, kicking all four of your legs inelegantly, treading clumsily through the crashing waters. Stubbornness quickly wins out, and soon you're pulling yourself over the edge of the falls.
You'd like to take your time to catch your breath, but if you did you know it'd be heard. Survival instincts screaming, paranoia creeping, you continue your battle against the current and your lung's screaming demands for air. Even for someone who likes to so often straddle the line between the living and dead, there are limits to how long they can hold their breath. Forcefully oxygenating your blood has helped prolong it, but you're running out of air and time.
But you keep swimming, even as bubbles drip out of your jaws and your head begins to feel like it was filled with hot air. The second the waters feel calm enough that sitting still won't pull and push you back towards the edge, you lift your head above the water and take a big gulp of air before diving back down and swimming a bit further, scared that someone had heard you and desperate to put distance between yourself and the sound of the splash and gasp.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Fri 06 Oct 2023 12:39:17 No. 5784914 Report >>5784913 Eventually, you've calmed enough to be confident to raise your head, having shifted into your human form some distance back and breast stroking your way towards the shallower waters of the stream. Which is easier said than done as the stream is vast! Larger than any you've seen in Chuan, that's for certain. And Chuan is famous for its rivers! It has to be several leagues across.
With your blood red hair flowing behind, you kick your way through the water until its low enough for you to stand in. But, as you approach the shore, and paper lanterns and torches come into view, as well as the shadowy figures holding them, you realize there's more that can be done to make your divine disguise a little more convincing.
Your presence is like a graveyard, everyone who has even a sliver of spiritual sense comments on it or praises you for it. You've spent so much time amongst ghosts you reek of them and tend to send chills down the spine of anyone who isn't expecting or accustomed to the ghostly air surrounding you and oozing out of your body. You may think the gods are a bunch of morons, but you'd be dumber if you'd think for an instant they would not notice one of your key, and most attractive in your opinion at least, features.
So, you take a risk. Your body possesses to physiques, a rarity and another charm point of yours, your Supreme Yin Physique and your Eclipsed Yang Physique. And its the latter that you're trusting your life into and betting it all. Ever sense it awakened within your body, you've felt its power, mysterious and otherworldly, like a solar eclipse. And while you haven't had a chance to experiment with what those powers exactly are and learn how to wield them, you have enough of an inkling of what some of them might do considering the name of the physique to take a chance and leap into the void, grasping for the unknown to grab a hold of and keep from plummeting to a humiliating demise.
A complete solar eclipse, looks like a ring of fire around a black sphere. A ring of blindingly white fire. Yang is represented as white. So its obvious that one function of this physique would be to shroud one's self with pure Yang energy. And that should be enough to mask the corpse stench you so proudly wear. Or it hopefully will be enough to trick the noses of the dogs hunting you.
Furrowing your brow and screwing your eyes, you blindly grope around within yourself to figure out how to "Turn on" the "Ring of Yang" while you stand on the tips of your toes and try your best not to slip and fall back under water. Eventually, you feel it, like a spark being struck in front of your eyes directly onto a mound of kindly. Warmth spreads around you, and the scent of sun radiates from your wet hair, which rapidly begins to dry.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Fri 06 Oct 2023 12:40:18 No. 5784915 Report >>5784914 You think it's worked! You aren't certain of all its effects, but you've created a ring of Yang energies around your very Yin dominated body and soul. And it doesn't seem to reek of blood, but the smells of the river and your hair are making it a bit hard for you to certain if it gives of the feeling of pure blood Qi or not.
With a hand on your torn open side, you begin to wade closer to shore, thinking up all kinds of excuses, tall tales and outright lies to feed the gods who have gathered at the shore, having spotted you struggling your way to it. Hopefully. Because if they haven't come to the aid of an injured goddess, they've saw you before you transformed and have come here to end your life!
<span class="mu-s"> Roll 2d100. DC 120. Best out of five. DC further lowered by improving your disguise and masking your true presence </span>
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Rolled 70, 7 = 77 (2d100) >>5784915 Anonymous
Rolled 95, 44 = 139 (2d100) >>5784915 Anonymous
Rolled 7, 81 = 88 (2d100) >>5784915 AAAAAA
Anonymous
Rolled 79, 18 = 97 (2d100) >>5784915 Anonymous
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Rolled 56, 45 = 101 (2d100) >>5784915 Shitshitshit
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Fri 06 Oct 2023 13:10:49 No. 5784935 Report >>5784923 Success. 10 over DC. Update will arrive shortly
>>5784919 >>5784926 What are the odds of this?
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>>5784935 We nearly got a 99 too
>>5784928 Anonymous
>>5784935 We didn't pass the first roll by 8, both anons roll a 7... Maybe being so high on the sky let's some of the western mysticism and folklore mix on this realm. Have an eye out for a trebol and a gold pot at the end of rainbows.
Anons I have a serious questions, does Huanliuxue have an opportunity against a Leprechaun?
Anonymous
The gods made us get our luxurious fur wet. Forcing a cat to swim is an indignity that shall not be forgotten!!
Anonymous
>>5784940 They live on large, flying disks in the sky.
Several expensive vases and treasures shall be knocked off the edge in retaliation!
>>5784938 And yeah, I think we do. They are lucky creatures but caoable of being bested with Wit.
Anonymous
>>5784855 >WELL, This is embarrassing! I had an incredibly vivid dream of updating the quest Dao! Dao increased! Grandfather has gained a fortuitous encounter.
>>5784940 bet they have statues too..
Anonymous
>>5784940 >>5784942 >>5784944 I suggest, maybe play with their most expensive and beautiful robes as a simple kitty would play with the curtains of it's home...
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>>5784954 >>"Huanliexue has been here." >"How can you tell?" >All the celestial tables have their bounty cast across the lower world >All the divine quality robes and cushioms have been clawed to thin shreds >Heaven flipping techniques have been stolen and defaced >glorious red fur has been shed across all the prestine white fields >the statues of our founders have been defaced and pissed on. >"Huanlieaxue was here, fuckers." Stenciled across the qi stone mines. >>"I don't know, but I can sense it." Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Fri 06 Oct 2023 14:55:13 No. 5785030 Report But either way, hesitation now means death. Either you're marching up to your own execution or you're not. Running away with an obvious injury would be suspicious as hell, turning your back and ignoring them would also be suspicious as hell. Hell, just a bathing beauty oozing blood in a river is suspicious isn't it? You didn't notice any fish that looked fierce enough to leave a wound as grievous as the one on your side, beneath your ribs and few inches above your waist. Nor were there any rocks jagged enough to rip through a swimmer's side. But it isn't as suspicious as hesitating to seek help or turning your nose up to would be saviors and ignoring them outright. You'll have to choose your words carefully, but approaching this search party is your best chance at survival, doing anything else will make them more suspicious of you than if your ears turned furry again and your tail sprouted out of the base of your spine again.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Fri 06 Oct 2023 14:56:15 No. 5785032 Report >>5785030 "Stop staring at her, can't you see the lady is in distress! What would your mother think if she saw you ogling a wounded girl instead of helping her!" He snaps angrily as you stagger forward, heart racing in your chest and cheeks draining of color as you get within a pace of him, expecting disaster to strike at any moment and for one of the young deities to discover your ruse, and it nearly rips out of chest as the handsome god kneeling in the mud and offering you his cloak swoops up to you and wraps it arounds your shoulders, shielding you from the lurid gazes of his friend peeking through his fingers. The suddenness of his approach makes you tremble involuntarily as he snarls and bares his teeth like fangs
"Young Master Xiōngtiěxiá (Fierce Iron Hero, 凶铁侠), is correct to scold you, you horny monkey!" One of the two who were focused on your wound rather than your beauty shouts, rushing towards the peeper to strike him with an iron fan over the head viciously, as he, cover his head and tries to run away "You worthless twit! Do not run away! Face your punishment"
"How couldn't I! You saw her face and body as well as I! A man can be forgiven for forgetting himself and the whole world in the face of such a dangerous double threat!" He cries out as Xiongtiexia, who you are certain now is the leader of these eight boyish gods considering how the oldest looking of them referred to him in such a respectful manner, sighs and wraps his cloak around you more tightly, soiling it with mud and your blood as he looks into your eyes compassionately and fearful
"Are you alright?" He asks, as the five gods who aren't busy chasing or being chased gather around you, their cheeks still nearly as red as your hair with blush as you look around at their faces and realize all of them are unbelievably handsome, and with how close the young master they're following is to you, that'll be an easy reason to give to excuse the racing of your heart if they ask. Because it is beating faster than it ever has before, now that you stuck between five gods. But how pathetic of gods do the rest of them have to be if they're following a martial god who barely smells of blood and calling him young master? What's more, Xiongtiexia has no fierceness in his eyes and his face is flawless, lacking any kind of scars and his hands...his hands are as soft and delicate as a highborn girl! What is up with that?
"Uh..uh" You stammer, realizing you should say something and answer the womanly god before your silence becomes a reason for suspicion, but how couldn't you be surprised to see a martial god whose so boyish and innocent looking! He doesn't match the image of a warrior deity you had at all, or that the rest of the world had either? he looks nothing like the fierce statues of ogreish brutes or chivalrous, handsome men with rugged features and powerful jaws and broad shoulders. If he wasn't dressed like a man, you'd have mistaken him for a pretty girl! What the hell?!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Fri 06 Oct 2023 14:57:16 No. 5785034 Report >>5785032 He leans closer, pouting as you struggle not to cackle at his pretty face, when you compare it to what a martial god should look like in your mind.
"Forgive me" You whimper weakly, lowering your eye lids to look drowsy and faint, leaning into his chest and causing his entire face to flush red, so red in fact that it could be camouflaged in your hair, throwing your arms over his neck for good measure. You swear you saw steam shooting out of his ears and nose after your second assault on his composure, Heh-heh
"I'm so weak and terrified I was still frozen with fear when you pulled me from the water" You moan, weeping and crying faint tears as you bury your head against his neck, keeping your eyes just open enough to watch the other five deities and gauge their reactions to know if you'll need to bite his throat and kick him in the groan to distract them as you run away or if they're buying your teary damsel act
"Thank you, thank you! You've saved my life!" You wail, clinging onto his armor as he bites his lip and looks up, clenching his shaking fists as he struggles with his natural urges as you press your beautiful body closer to his own "I was certain this day was my last! Thank you! Thank you!"
"Whu..wha..what happened?" He asks, his voices squeaking as he becomes the subject of five jealous stares that feel ready to set him alight or run him through like sharpened knives "To you I mean, how were you injured is what I mean"
And you've gotten your claws into him. Making your lip tremble and making certain to keep from allowing your exhilaration at not being found out and making this god fall hook line and sinker for your trick, you flutter your eyelashes and look up to him with a pitiful expression, looking as meek and harmless as you can stomach to.
"Well" you purr, running a finger down from the nape of his neck to his chest "Before a handsome hero pulled me from the cold, cold stream, I was attacked!"
"Buh, Buh by what?" He stammers, fighting a battle with himself to not at least throw a glance down at your breasts as you bounce and press them against him, using every ounce of your womanly charms to distract him from any flaws in your disguise. The others are jealous enough of his good fortune to miss those same flaws, if there even are any.
"A terrible red furred beast! I think it wanted to steal my skin and face, or else eat me down to my bones" You cry, clinging as tightly as you can to him as his expression screws and becomes a grimace of frustration as sweat beads down his stricken face as he tries to pull away. As if you hadn't noticed the effect your body was having on him. Really making him fall for you and become blinded by arousal was the easy part of this deception, the hard part was not clawing and biting him for it! But you restrain you rage and your shame and keep up the act of the grateful maiden and trembling, delicate flower, even though you hate it.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Fri 06 Oct 2023 14:58:17 No. 5785036 Report >>5785034 So long as you can tell yourself it is the hilt of his sword poking your stomach, you think you can hold back from mauling him for at least a few seconds longer.
And the moment the description of your "Attacker" leaves your lips, the look on Xiongtiexia's face turns from restrained lust and gentle concern to outright terror. Wait, terror? Shouldn't that be anger or righteous fury? Shouldn't he be declaring vengeance against the "demon" who "attacked" this fair maiden clinging to him for dear life? Did you make a mistake? Was his armor and crown just a fashion statement and not a symbol of office. Is this guy really a martial god. Why is his lip trembling and face turning pale. Hah?!
"It was awful! Hideous and monstrous!" You cry, pushing aside your confusion to keep playing your role of injured and frightened goddess, even as your "hero" winces and trembles as best as he tries to hide it and the thing between his legs "I'm just lucky it was struck by an arrow and scared off long enough for me to flee into this river and swim away, or else I would be a bloodied skeleton by now. And if you weren't here to fish me out, I might've died of fright"
"Or blood loss" One of the other older looking gods remarks, looking with worryingly at the spreading crimson circle in the cape wrapped around you, wincing as he does
"Ran off...it wasn't killed?" Xiongtiexia asks sharply, eyes wide as you nod and pout, holding onto him as he tries to keep you apart from the hips down "Did you see where the brute ran off to hide then?"
"Yes! Don't worry little sister, we brave warriors will seek out the demon who attacked you and put an end to them!" One of the other gods, a boy with spiked up hair and freckles on his face declares, struggling to. You expression falls in disbelief as you see a supposed martial god struggling to unsheathe their sword. And was that a cloud of dust that came out when they managed to draw it? You stiffen out of sheer shock. You knew the gods were worthless, but you didn't think them so incompentent. These eight have to be the least amongst the martial deities, surely. Surely!
Xiongtiexia shakes his head so hard and fast that it shakes you around as two of the other gods cover the freckled faced boy's mouth.
"What he means to say, is we heroic men will lead you to safety!" He shouts, loud enough for any other search parties to hear and to make certain his own companions understand him and don't do something as stupid as swearing to look for a demonic beast. That they, mighty gods, are apparently scared of. What? Whaaaat? You..it might be the bloodloss, but somehow you're more confused than panicked now. Why are they acting like that? Just from approaching them you could tell any one of these eight could squash you like an ant under their fingers, so why are they such huge pussies? They really have to be the bottom of the barrel, the weakest of the warrior gods.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Fri 06 Oct 2023 15:00:13 No. 5785041 Report >>5785036 "And then help you get the medicinal attention and care you need!" Another one, this one a man with long, free flowing rust red hair declares just as loudly
Xiongtiexia gives him a thumbs up when he thinks you aren't looking.
"And stay by your side to protect you and hear your story in detail, so none of it is forgotten in your shock and panic" He says, smiling comfortingly as he scoops you up while your still stunned by how shameless and cowardly these eight gods are "And swiftly! With more haste than the northern wind! Lets get out of here before the demon catches the scent of her blood again. Such a bold monster won't end its pursuit of its prey just because it was injured!"
"Prey!? Oh how awful!" You cry out in fake fright as you look around at the faces of the other seven supposed martial gods for any sign however subtle that they've figured out your deception and are leading you into a trap of their own but...There isn't any. They all look relieved and worried for you, earnestly so. Did it actually work? Were you able to trick real deities into believe you were one as well? Even if they were eight foolish young boys?!
You give a sigh of relief and lay your head back against Xiongtiexia's chest as you allow yourself to relax, your heart still racing as you lower your guard for just a moment to catch your breath and plan your next move.
<span class="mu-s"> Your divine disguise is currently at 2 points of integrity. Acting suspiciously will cost one or more points of integrity depending on the severity of the act, and when it reaches zero or lower, your true identity will be discovered. 1 is from succeeding in the trickery/ deception trial, and 1 is from getting a 2nd degree of success (10 over dc) </span>
What do you do now that you've tricked a couple of gods into believe you are a goddess, Huanliuxue?
>Try and throw the search parties off of your trail by giving Xiongtiexia and his toadies false information as you "remember" what happened >Sternly ask them to put you down, you aren't so injured you can't walk and want to take the chance to get away from them as quickly as you can (Stealth trial. DC unknown) >Play up the severity of your injury and pain, so they'll take you to a healer rather than Xiongtiexia's family home. Which will be easier to slip away from than eight boys fretting over you AND a household of divine servants >Realize even an incompetent god could probably heal themselves, and do so once the eight idiots have brought you to "Safety", with your internal energy, rather than your Blood Qi's healing properties or blood itself (Concentration trial DC Unknown) >Just see where they're taking you and stay on guard and ready to make a run for it >Write in Anonymous
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>>5785041 >Try and throw the search parties off of your trail by giving Xiongtiexia and his toadies false information as you "remember" what happened Anonymous
>>5785041 >Play up the severity >Give them false information to throw them off the scent. Lets gobble their medicine.
But. . . fucking hell. Were they born in the heavens?
One thing I do like about Xianxia, is that the one's from the bottom are generally more competent than those at the top once they get there, due to the hunger and experience
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>>5785041 >>Play up the severity of your injury and pain, so they'll take you to a healer rather than Xiongtiexia's family home. Which will be easier to slip away from than eight boys fretting over you AND a household of divine servants Anonymous
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>>5785041 >Realize even an incompetent god could probably heal themselves, and do so once the eight idiots have brought you to "Safety", with your internal energy, rather than your Blood Qi's healing properties or blood itself (Concentration trial DC Unknown) Anonymous
>>5785065 I'm kinda hoping that the impurities will be cleansed with these medicines.
Make our cultivation progression skyrocket. Skyrocket our skyrocket tier process.
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>>5785077 I'm worried that a doctor would be more competent and notice that Huan isn't what she claims to be.
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>>5785041 >Play up the severity of your injury and pain, so they'll take you to a healer rather than Xiongtiexia's family home. Which will be easier to slip away from than eight boys fretting over you AND a household of divine servants A little concerned about dealing with a competent god level healer as well, hoping that it's just servant and not an actual god level healer. The family home might have a family elder though, not just his silver spoon kids.
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>>5785041 >Play up the severity of your injury and pain, so they'll take you to a healer rather than Xiongtiexia's family home. Which will be easier to slip away from than eight boys fretting over you AND a household of divine servants Anonymous
>>5785041 Anons... Hold up... I might have an idea of what we should do.
>Act frightened and paranoid, looking at everywhere from time to time to keep them at the edge. >"Valiant gentlemens, please, I don't wanna stay out in the open... The beast might be already on us, prowling, stalking us... I never saw it coming. First was the Shadows acting strange, then the smell of blood oozing in, and then the silent steps of the beast..." >"I might have enough strength to heal myself, but we need to keep moving... I-If the beast is coming for me then we need to keep walking, we can't stay too long in here... " My logic here is that we can make them paranoid, enough so they can make mistake, and with our body and beauty already playing with their minds, the threat of the demon might cloud their minds so they don't think about going with their superiors.
We can heal a bit, keep poisoning their minds... And then make them have the biggest scare of their Inmortal lives. We either make a blood/meat puppet to present as the beast, or we can just make the beautiful Huanliuxue turn into the most terrifying and poor creature... Perhaps the redhead beauty was "poisoned" by her attack and she starts to bleed, have spams and rot in front of their eyes while clouds of miasma rolls in trying to claim the young gods... and in all the panic they make we make a run for the final step of the heavens. Maybe with out mind tricks they even move us closer to our destiny. And tell them to not speak or scream, the beast might hear us.
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>>5785308 I'll support this
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>>5785308 Switching to the psychological warfare option as well
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>tfw the only competent killers in all of the heavens are the ones that got kicked out for being tricked by huan's cunning blood-pool-ruse
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>>5785041 >and throw the search parties off of your trail by giving Xiongtiexia and his toadies false information as you "remember" what happened If the Doctor's of any use whatsoever (humor me), he won't just examine the wound but us as a whole. This carries the risk of discovery. Something to think about, Brothers.
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>>5785388 At least one of your brothers has thought of it
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>>5785065 >Changing the severity vote for >>5785308 But keep lying to them
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>>5785388 Also disguising an arrow wound for a beast attack won't fly with any doctor worth a pinch of salt
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>>5785308 I'll vote for this too but with the added caveat that we would heal ourselves because we are too shy frightened and ashamed to let a healer check our body.
>>5785565 If caught on that we can say we didn't want to implicate any god and that shifting the blame on the only troublemaker worth a smiting who also survived was an obivious culprit.
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>>5785608 I'm not sure playing up their paranoia and then trying to shift the identity of our attacker like that will keep us in their good graces.
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>>5785041 >>5785608 Whops, forgot to link the vote to the post
Anyway the robbing heaven's apothecary thing was mostly if we get the chance.
The fact that this patrol is made up of clueless fools is a godsend (heh) but our luck may not hold and we should count anybody here as a mortal danger.
Especially kids who pull the tail of cats.
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>>5785667 The paranoia one is aimed at the guards.
The other lie is for the doctor or physician if we're discovered.
(Which the guards won't be present for since this is an examination of a young girl's wounded body)
No contradiction here sir.
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>>5785041 >Try and throw the search parties off of your trail by giving Xiongtiexia and his toadies false information as you "remember" what happened Anonymous
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>>5785041 >Realize even an incompetent god could probably heal themselves, and do so once the eight idiots have brought you to "Safety", with your internal energy, rather than your Blood Qi's healing properties or blood itself (Concentration trial DC Unknown) Anonymous
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>>5785041 Btw, very interesting they have such high cultivation but are incompetent.
Looks like the heavens could benefit from some new management.
Perhaps it's a matter of them being "outer gods" guarding the area of the stairwell, while it's the "inner gods" with the actual power and experience. It almost feels too good to be true for the entrance staff to be adorably naive yet still strong.
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>>5785041 >>5785308 Supporting the write-in
Also man this has to be the most damage Huan’s taken to her pride.
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Making true to my word and tallying
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>>5785346 this one said he would support the write-in, but didn't mention his last one>>5785358 this one said he was switching, but ended with as well, so I'm not sure he wants to do both or just the new one>>5785608 this one added the caveat to heal ourselves, but didn't vote for that option Anonymous
>>5785041 >>5785308 Apologies tally anon, I shall also support the write-in.
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>>5786324 No need to apologize, I'm tallying specifically so we know how the votes are turning out and give the chance for people to change their before grandfather counts, to avoid what happened before.
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>>5786319 Oh yeah i didn't even remember there was an option to heal ourselves.
Though it was kind of included into the write in by
>>5785308 >"I might have enough strength to heal myself Anyway for the record it may count as a vote to heal by ourselves.
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>>5786875 >Anyway for the record it may count as a vote to heal by ourselves. Yeah, I think it's the best if we also heal ourselves while we make them paranoid
>>5785041 >Aside from my write in, heal ourselves Sorry for the problems tally anon
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>>5786319 Clarification: I am switching to the write -in. Thanks tally bro!
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>>5786875 I though it wouldn't count as healing ourselves because the write-in followed that up with
>but we need to keep moving. So we said that we could do it, but wouldn't due to time constraints
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Mon 09 Oct 2023 18:00:34 No. 5788967 Report Ending the vote now. I spent the weekend in closed door meditation after a battle with demonic liquor. Namely, a fellow daoist challenged me to drink something that could probably melt a metal spoon in it. I had two of em to prove my manhood. Anyways, I am alive again.
>>5787550 Thank you for tallying, junior.
So you'll perform a little psychological warfare.
Update will arrive shortly. And I know Ima have fun writing it
>>5782072 Hilarious! How'd I miss this?
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>>5788967 >How'd I miss this? it's because i couldn't be arsed to turn the black fur red.
truly a disguise so perfect even her mother couldn't recognize her
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Mon 09 Oct 2023 19:26:05 No. 5789064 Report And as you bounce in the arms of the cowardly Xiongtiexia, a sting of dread pierces through your heart like the arrow that nearly turned you into stardust. It was incredibly good luck that the martial gods who stumbled upon you were lovesick little boys, novices without experiences who don't realize their strength. And while they're currently taking you to a healer, that shows they still have enough sense to think clearly. And that's bad. Its better if their minds are clouded and completely darkened with the threat of a demon that doesn't exist. Or at least doesn't exist as they envision, considering that said demon's identity is your own. And while they're certainly making hurrying away in a panic, once they think they're out of harms way and safe they'll begin to relax and calm down. And start to think even more, which absolutely cannot happen. If they compose themselves to remember their stations and have enough clarity of mind to realize they should tattle on their superiors about what "happened".
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Mon 09 Oct 2023 19:27:06 No. 5789066 Report >>5789064 You did spend awhile in her skin after all, Heh-Heh.
First, you pull your arms into your chest and try to make yourself look small by curling into a ball. Then you force your eyes open, as wide as they can go, lifting your bushy eyebrows to make them look even bigger and more frightened, fittingly making your expression that of a frightened or startled animal. A cute, little animal and not the sort that could rip through an army with their claws or tear through iron with their bite. Then, you start looking around frantically, glancing all around you and making your eyes flit from one direction to another, making your pretend panic all the more believable. And since the color of your eyes is so rare and breathtaking, this is something that the young gods will notice and it'll put them on edge, especially since your using your eyebrows and hands to frame your eyes, as you cover your mouth the edge of the cape and begin to chatter your teeth nervously.
And already, they're more on edge than they were a few moments ago just from you opening up your eyes and glancing around fretfully. That's proof enough that with a few more pushes, they'll go careening into wild panic and fright like they were horses ran towards a cliff.
"Valiant gentlemens, please, I don't wanna stay out in the open" You mutter from behind your hands and the heavenly silk covering them, feeling Xiongtiexia's hands tremble upon your back as your quietly terrified voice reaches his ears, a bead of sweat dripping down his pale face as you now use his cape to hide a truly mischievous grin from his sight "The beast might be already on us, prowling, stalking us"
"There's nothing to be afraid of" he says, trying to sound strong and stalwart, to comfort himself as much as you "We've put a fair distance from where it attacked you, and an injured animal wouldn't follow us so far from whatever hole its crawled into"
"The young master is right, Demons may be unable to resist the temptation of the flesh of saints and virtious souls, but they are also cowards by nature" One of the two more mature martial gods chimes in, smiling weakly as he reaches for his sword and grabs hold of it to disguise the trembling of his own hands
"Besides, we'd be able to see it coming if it was so gluttonous and foolhardy to pursue us while all of the martial gods were pursuing it. This one is shockingly red, correct? So soaked with spilt blood it is constantly dripping it" The fool who got chased and whacked with a stick for leering at you encourages with a smile and a glance down your collar, which earns him another slap from his elder brother
"I've also heard the Huan Liu Xue is surrounded by clouds of corpse eating flies and reeks of rotten meat" Another of their number, with Ling gold hair adds, raising a single finger as their attempts to reassure you and chase away their own fears gives you an idea.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Mon 09 Oct 2023 19:28:07 No. 5789069 Report >>5789066 Your mischievous, playful smile turns into a crooked and wicked witch's grin, and if you weren't hiding your mouth, that would've blown your disguise to smithereens. Thankfully, the almost lurid look of delight in your eyes can be mistaken for agony if looked at from a certain angle.
"I never saw it coming" You whimper and sniffle, turning the atmosphere a deathly cold and much more tense than it was a moment ago with just a few words, and with a few more, it turns into the setting of a horror show, if only in the little minds of your "Heroes" "First was the Shadows acting strange, then the smell of blood oozing in, and then the silent steps of the beast"
Shadows will always look strange and unearthly when viewed with frightened eyes, and an imagination running wild will make them seem monstrous even beneath daylight. And while it is a faint, all of the martial gods do have a twinge of blood in their aroma. Scents are something humans notice less than other beast, since their sense of smell is so dull and reduced, and they become accustomed to smells if they spend enough time around them. But when the mind is searching frantically for signs of danger's approach, those hidden scents will become fresh and strong again. Just as their ears strain to hear what can't be heard, the footfalls of a cat, something intangible that might not even exist in heaven. But with panic heightening their hearing, every sound from the rustling of jade grasses, to the murmuring of a pearlescent stream, to their own footfalls and heartbeats, could become the prowling of a hungering and violent Demonic beast.
But you can't stop there. Sure, Fight or Flight is a power instinct, but there's a little bastard besides them that could ruin your plan completely. Rarely spoken of, but more common than writers and warriors alike like to imagine, it is Freezing in place. While its a temporary instinct, that gives way to flight or fight eventually, the seconds of standing still could prove disastrous to both your plan and self.
So you need to keep pushing, and remind them all of the importance of not stopping once you've started running.
"I might have enough strength to heal myself, but we need to keep moving" You urge, gripping tighter onto Xiongtiexia's collar as you look up into his willow leaf eyes pleadingly, shivering and trembling all over as you force him to look into your tear filled eyes "I..if the beast is coming for me, you need to keep running, before it can catch up and find me again"
His expression goes blank, his eyes dullying and flicking around just like you made yours do.
"The s..safest place for her to rest and recover w..would be the palace of the Head, right?" He asks, turning to his retainer, who strokes the wispy and wimpy beard on his chin
"Yes" He answers, bowing his head "Most astute of you young master, if that rabid beast has gone so far as to attack a denizen of heaven unnoticed, there's no telling where it'll show up next"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Mon 09 Oct 2023 19:29:08 No. 5789070 Report >>5789069 All eight of them share the same horror stricken expression as those words sink into their hole filled brains and the illusionary Huanliuxue that exists only in their imaginations grows ten leagues taller and a hundred times more fierce, as their minds cook up a nightmarish monster from what little you told them of your "attack" fueled by their own wild imaginations that were in turn fed by what you HADN'T told them and their panic just made up to give shape to the specter haunting them.
And while their decision nearly got a reaction out of you and made you panic yourself, you realize it could be turned to your favor. Sure, it sounds frightening, being taken to their superior who has to be at least a little smarter than these runts, but by biting your tongue and restraining your survival instincts to just consider it a moment longer its obvious you could turn it to your advantage. For one, they've headed higher in the celestial realms just taking you to safety, and the way they're talking about this head, he must be the leader of the martial gods who has to live closer to the peak of the nine heavens.
So if you just allow them to take you even most of the way there, breaking out of the sky and into the cosmos will be much easier. Or you could give them the fright of their lives and send then sprinting away, leaving you free to make your own way through the heavens or take the chance to explore while their attentions are still on its boundary, looking for a cat that has already scurried into their house. Hmm, decisions, decisions.
But, the more you think about it, the more uncertain you are of if this is as much of a blessing as you've began to think of it as. Wouldn't it be suspicious to refuse, and if you terrify these boys by say, making your body seem to rot and melt into blood by some kind of demonic poison, that if they start screaming their heads off, that your carefully constructed disguise would become worthless? And if you make a puppet to send them running faster, if any of them attack it, that'll reveal the ruse instantly unless they really do have holes in their brains.
You shut your eyes and wrinkle your nose, thinking deeply about what to do next as the next step in your plan is vital and could very well ruin it and bring about your downfall.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Mon 09 Oct 2023 19:30:09 No. 5789072 Report >>5789070 What do you decide to do, Huanliuxue?
>Go with the flow and allow them to transport you through the streets and terraces of heaven, and to the Head Martial God's palace >Decide that these useful idiots are no longer useful, and now that you're out of the "Wilderness" of heavens and the outskirts of the Celestial courts is in view, to give them the slip by giving them the fright of their immortal lives (trickery trial. DC unknown, Greatly reduced by the targets being afraid) >Try to divert them from taking you some place as dangerous of the doorstep of the leader of the war gods, by pointing out he's probably out looking for the demon himself, so wouldn't somewhere else be safer? Surely such an intelligent beast would've foreseen them seeking shelter under the wings of their elders.
>Delay doing anything and instead focus on studying your surroundings and getting a feel for them, and see if there's anything or anyone around you that could help you escape disaster (Perception trial. DC Unknown) >Cause a commotion once your "Saviors" are around other gods, hoping to make them panic as well and create a smokescreen to cover your trail with a bit of chaos and pandemonium >Write in Anonymous
>>5789072 >Try to divert them from taking you some place as dangerous of the doorstep of the leader of the war gods, by pointing out he's probably out looking for the demon himself, so wouldn't somewhere else be safer? Surely such an intelligent beast would've foreseen them seeking shelter under the wings of their elders. Anonymous
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>>5789072 >Try to divert them from taking you some place as dangerous of the doorstep of the leader of the war gods, by pointing out he's probably out looking for the demon himself, so wouldn't somewhere else be safer? Surely such an intelligent beast would've foreseen them seeking shelter under the wings of their elders. Anonymous
>>5789072 >Go with the flow and allow them to transport you through the streets and terraces of heaven, and to the Head Martial God's palace It's exactly because he'd be out looking for us himself that we should go to his home. After all, that's where he isn't.
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>>5789072 >>5789084 has a good point. I'm changing my vote >>5789076 to >Go with the flow and allow them to transport you through the streets and terraces of heaven, and to the Head Martial God's palace Anonymous
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>>5789084 Judging by the competency we've seen so far of these gods, he very well may be just sitting in his place not wanting to get up to go and chase some "little demon". There's no guarantee he isn't too lazy or too arrogant to be bothered.
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>>5789084 >Support >when we get up there, give them a fright the DC might be raised, but we can still keep them paranoid.
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>>5789072 Let's go with
>Go with the flow and allow them to transport you through the streets and terraces of heaven, and to the Head Martial God's palace But I'd like to add a small ruse where we beg to not bother the head god with us.
> M-Masters, please don't bother the head god with news of me. I wouldn't want to bother such a powerful god, and surely he's busy hunting that horrible demon. > If you could just find me a room (with a bath) where I could tend to my wounds and heal myself (in private) > Then after maybe one of you could take me home when all this blows over? Basically try to get a quiet room out of the way to heal, catch our breath and fucking plot like we've never plotted before.
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>>5789072 >Decide that these useful idiots are no longer useful, and now that you're out of the "Wilderness" of heavens and the outskirts of the Celestial courts is in view, to give them the slip by giving them the fright of their immortal lives (trickery trial. DC unknown, Greatly reduced by the targets being afraid) Anonymous
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>>5789072 >Try to divert them from taking you some place as dangerous of the doorstep of the leader of the war gods, by pointing out he's probably out looking for the demon himself, so wouldn't somewhere else be safer? Surely such an intelligent beast would've foreseen them seeking shelter under the wings of their elders. Let them think they are falling prey to their enemy's machinations
I would have liked to turn the whole thing into us the defensless goddess too ashamed to be brought in front of important people while wearing only a cape but things shifted to fear so let's spook them further.
Maybe huan could direct some shadows to move by casting a discreet spell?
But i guess it may tip them off if they have some special sense or artefact of spell detection.
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>>5789072 >>Go with the flow and allow them to transport you through the streets and terraces of heaven, and to the Head Martial God's palace Anonymous
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>>5789072 >Go with the flow and allow them to transport you through the streets and terraces of heaven, and to the Head Martial God's palace Anonymous
Zodiac cultivation quest is back for those interested
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>>5789072 >>Go with the flow and allow them to transport you through the streets and terraces of heaven, and to the Head Martial God's palace Anonymous
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>>5789072 >Go with the flow and allow them to transport you through the streets and terraces of heaven, and to the Head Martial God's palace Going with grandfather's prompt about poison I also suggest that maybe on the way we start acting progressive worse for wear. This will serve the dual purpose of getting them to hasten up, putting them more on edge and making it an easier sell if we eventually decide to turn into sludge lol
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>>5789072 >Decide that these useful idiots are no longer useful, and now that you're out of the "Wilderness" of heavens and the outskirts of the Celestial courts is in view, to give them the slip by giving them the fright of their immortal lives (trickery trial. DC unknown, Greatly reduced by the targets being afraid) Anonymous
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>>5789072 >Go with the flow and allow them to transport you through the streets and terraces of heaven, and to the Head Martial God's palace Anonymous
>Votes - 13 >Try to divert them - 3 >Go with the flow - 9 >when we get up there, give them a fright - 1 > If you could just find me a room - 1 >Decide that these useful idiots are no longer useful - 2
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Wed 11 Oct 2023 17:13:51 No. 5791710 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote now.
>>5791601 Your deeds this day shall be recorded, Junior, very much appreciate your help
So You'll go with the flow and allow yourself to be taken to the head martial god's abode.
Update will arrive shortly
>>5790096 Fuck yes! Rat gang is back
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Wed 11 Oct 2023 20:46:42 No. 5791901 Report But when you open your eyes again you see that you're no longer in the idyllic countryside of jade grasses, riverbeds lined with pearls and glittering gemstones, and golden barked and silver leafed willow trees, but are instead within the Celestial court itself, or at least its poorest district, where the weakest and least worshiped gods live closest to the world of men and beasts. Which isn't to say it is a crime ridden slum or impoverished shanty town, far from it. It makes the rich quarters of Suiqi seem like a bunch of dirty hide tents, and the palace of that scummy emperor seem like the hovel of a beggar. There are fragrances in the air, fresh and sweet beyond description, each breath seeming like the first you've taken in your life and supercharged with spiritual energy. The Qi here is so dense that its pressing down against you and just lifting your head or arms to sit up in Xiongtiexia's disgustingly sweaty arms takes a bit of effort to do.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Wed 11 Oct 2023 20:47:43 No. 5791903 Report >>5791901 And her mother looked like she spent most of her time in the fields rather than stuffing her face.
The carefree laughter and chatting of the gods in the street your "saviors" are carrying you through stops, a moment or two after the keen eyed mother hurried her daughter away so she wouldn't see such a gruesome sight as your beautiful self bleeding out from a deep gash along her side. Which isn't even that scary, its not like your bowels have spilled out or bone is visible through the wound. But if you only saw the expressions in the crowd forming around you and the gods you tricked, one could be forgiven for thinking Xiongtiexia held a mangled or half devoured corpse in his arms. A few of the onlookers are more courageous than the rest, or at least are the sort of people who instead of turning away or leaving a corpse choose to get a closer look out of gruesome curiosity alone. A hundred or so faces, nearly as gorgeous and flawless as your own, look down on you with mortal terror in their eyes, their jade like faces turning some how paler than they were before, looking less like they were carved from mutton fat jade and more like they were corpses themselves, drained of blood.
Blood. Would a immortals blood be tastier than an ordinary mortals? Probably, considering how saturated with Qi their bodies must be, since just the Qi of the heavenly air and winds is so intense and concentrated it feels like you're being carried through a river of honey rather than an open air street. Its almost intoxicating, in the way the thin air of the mountains or the stagnant lifelessness of a long unopened grave is. Heady, rich and more intoxicating than life itself. You give your tongue a sharp bite, to keep yourself from getting distracted and to resist the powerful urge to just languish and bath in the Heavenly air and its heavenly Qi. You've decided not to make a scene or spread panic through the Celestial courts, since that will just draw attention closer to where you are instead of leaving it around where your yowl of pain was heard. Besides, being carried higher into the heavens is not only a blessing but a convivence, at least for the time being. Once smarter gods begin to ask questions and come to take a look at you, then that convivence may become peril, like a caterpillar emerging from its cocoon as a dragon rather than a butterfly, but if all Martial gods are meat-heads then that peril shouldn't arrive as quickly as the panicky side of you might think. Especially if the head martial god isn't home and is still out on the edge of heaven chasing after the ghost of Huanliuxue, entirely unaware that his subordinates are transporting the demon he hunts right up to his doorstep. Heh-Heh! You're going to have to tell the story of this day to everyone you meet, how humiliating it will be to the heavens and their denizens to know that a cat tricked them all and hid herself amongst them!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Wed 11 Oct 2023 20:48:44 No. 5791905 Report >>5791903 You make a show being in agony, and keep your frightened expression plastered securely to your face, to keep up the ruse and keep any of the concerned gods trying to get a glimpse of your face or the shape of your injuries from becoming suspicious, as a nearly mortally wounded girl should be crying and wailing in agony. Even just the crimson stain on the coat wrapped around you is probably the most blood they've seen in their long lives, at least as much as they've seen when its close enough to smell and feel the warmth of life radiating from it. And seeing the disgust and horror on their flawless, divine faces provides you with a nearly transcendental sort of pleasure. Sure your very existence makes gods sick to their stomach, but when are you going to have another chance to see their faces turn green with revulsion and their gem like eyes flood with mortal terror, like the kind felt by their worshippers who they turn up their noses at and whose suffering they are blind to? Can't a girl indulge in such a simple pleasure? Even if she's also risking hide and tail to experience it, and is oozing blood like a cracked jug of water?
But you excuse yourself for this indulgence, since the most dangerous gods around are currently chasing a paper tiger version of yourself, who is also now going to haunt the nightmares of these household deities while you slip by unnoticed right beneath their noses, literally, since the keep crowding around Xiongtiexia and his toadies and asking them all sorts of questions, fretfully wringing their hands or looking at you with sad, tear filled eyes as you relax with a forced expression of agony on your face while you wait to be carried through the crowd of curious goddesses and concerned gods. Some of them seem worried for your well being, but plenty more seem more worried about their own, demanding answers of what could've possibly wounded a god in the heavens themselves.
But those demanding voices get louder, as the meeker and gentler gods part from the mob around your "saviors" and leave only behind the selfish and bullheaded, whose demands turn into shouts, rage fanned and fueled by fear, if not for themselves than for their families.
Seems none of the martial gods who went riding on a Huanliuxue hunt paused to tell the other gods exactly what was going on, why an alarm was sounded or anything at all. Maybe they were so bored out of their minds after ten generations of peace, that they were simply eager like children at the promise of any kind of action. And while the shouted demands for answer becomes nothing more than meaningless noise to your ears, as you stopped paying attention to blabbering and blubbering of the worthless gods around you, what does catch your attention is one of the stubborn gods who won't take silence for an answer grabbing at your shoulder and glaring down into your eyes when Xiongtiexia won't acknowledge his existences.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Wed 11 Oct 2023 20:49:45 No. 5791907 Report >>5791905 And that surprise is enough to make your blood flow in reverse, making a heart even as strong and trained as you own jolt and pause. Which is quite the feat considering the changes you made to it once you perfected carmine mysticism. But, this lout's invasion of your personal pace, and rough handling of an injured girl, is as much of an opportunity as it is an offense. With every survival instinct screaming at you to run away and hide, as even this idiot is leagues stronger than you despite being from the looks of his hook and net adored robs, a patron of fishing or perhaps bondage play, and much less of a threat than a warrior god, you pout and tear up your eyes, lip trembling and hands pulled to your chest, as you expose the eight martial gods and the fool who sullied you with his touch to your most potent technique. Your kitten face.
And in the moment Xiongtiexia sees how scared you are of the god shaking your shoulder, he slams the pommel of his sword into his gut and growls "Out of our way! You're clamoring and fear mongering is impeding our work and risking this poor girl's life! Move, now, or face the sharper end of my blade"
"Y..You can't" The god whimpers, covering his stomach as a single tear rolls down his cheek
"We're following orders given by the elder gods, if you think your need for answers is more important than their wills, than please, file a complaint with them" He snarls, seeming actually like a half way decent martial deity for a moment, or at least passing for one momentarily by the fierce look he gives the handsy bastard who touched your arm "What is going on is no danger to you or anyone else so long as you stay in your homes and keep out of our way, the problem will be solved shortly and everything will return to normal. She is injured and needs to be taken to safety, move or I'll strike you again. You should be thankful I left you with just a smack, for you unforgiveable behavior towards a wounded lady"
"Yes. More injured may pass through here, but so long as you remain within the safety of your palaces and gardens, there is nothing for you to fear, for we martial gods are handling the problem" One of the more mature gods says as the other nods
"And you should kowtow and beg forgiveness at her bedside, for impeding her recovery" The other scoffs, before hitting the top of the fisher god's head with a quick chop of his hand "And risking her life by stopping us! you'll be lucky if a scolding is all you recieve, when the day is done, fool"
Suddenly even the most stubborn of shouters parts away and shuffles back down the street, muttering apologizes and bowing their heads to you as Xiongtiexia glares and snarls at them, barring his teeth at them like a dog protecting their master.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Wed 11 Oct 2023 20:50:46 No. 5791909 Report >>5791907 "Forgive me for not driving them away sooner" He pleads shamefully, bowing his head as he lifts you higher and continues carrying you through the now cleared street "I don't know what possessed them to act so foolishly, could they not see your life is in jeopardy?"
The rest of the trip to the palace of the head martial god is uneventful, except for the sights you see. The nine heavens are truly a beautiful land, and every time you turn your head or move your eyes your breath is taken away by another awe inspiring sight or vision of unearthly beauty in the landscape. And that is without accounting for the density and pureness of the Qi that fills every nook and cranny, down to the smallest pebble and spider web. If you reached down to grab a goldfish from one of the ponds and swallowed it whole, you'd probably be granted an additional century of lifespan or more. And there are a lot of ponds and rivers in the piece of heaven your being taken to. In fact, the architecture and gardens change to look like they're made from massive reefs of coral so colorful it makes rainbows look drab and boring, and are underwater with waving orchards of seaweed and kelp and gigantic fish swimming through the sweltering and bubbling air like birds, with fins flowing at their backs and sides like beautiful silk gowns and dresses.
And you can sense the Qi in the air slowly shift as you pass by these undersea palaces in the sky, becoming dominantly water aligned while still being unbelievably pure and refined, despite being in a state so raw that it'd need to be passed through a cultivators meridians several times to be cleaned and cleansed and suitable to be added to their cultivation base. For a moment you think they're taking you a short cut to the estate of their boss and superior god, but you realize that isn't the case when they lead you through the "Sea district" And up into a place of pale white and fluffy clouds that sits directly above the palaces of coral and countless ponds and rivers. and the moment they step into this place, the smell of rains washes over you like a crashing wave. Whereas the "sea district" had the scent of salt and water, this higher tier reeks of rain water, wet earth and ozone, like every storm in the world was born and reared here.
With seafoam and brine clinging to their legs, Xiongtiexia carries you through the streets made of frozen sheets of lightning and solid black storm clouds that shine like onyx or obsidian flakes, all the way up to the highest palace in this portion of heaven, past a garden with a lake of golden waters and curly tailed cranes, Guardian lions and a statue of a flood dragon roaring defiantly up to the golden palaces standing at the absolute peak of the nine heavens that stretch beyond the horizons and are half hidden by mists of every color and shade of jade, with the five towers visible the five colors of the Wuxing.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Wed 11 Oct 2023 20:51:47 No. 5791911 Report >>5791909 Seems your tale really frightened the boys, if the man they chose to hide behind is living just below what has to be the "home" of the five colors emperor. But that still means there's quite a distance between you and the wild cosmic plains. And that is perhaps the great understatement you've ever made, considering the obstacles are still in your way. The least of which is the fact the other martial gods are probably going to realize where your trail ends and notice which of their numbers is missing, and that'll lead them to the gossip of an injured goddess who no one in heaven recognizes.
And that's if none of the gods you passed by are suspicious of your identity or frightened enough to actually make an issue of it and demand answers from their betters, or if any of them got a long enough look at you to realize you're no god at all. And that is no telling if the servants of the head martial god are more perceptive than his underlings are. There's no telling how many ways there are that you could've been found out or if your ruse has already been uncovered. All you can do is keep moving forward and higher up
"Little Xiong? What are you doing up here, weren't you and your friends on patrol duty this year?" A guard dressed in ancient look armor, with a halberd that you can tell could cleave the skies in twain and shatter the earth asks "And whose that you're carrying? Surely you didn't wander of to indulge your youthful passion and decide your boss' house would be the proper place for an illicit...affair"
The guardian deities eyes widen as he notices how much you've bled, even though you've been slowly patching yourself up and healing with your internal energy to disguise how sluggish your healing would be compared to a gods, as you were carried through the heavens. Xiongtiexia's face screws into a grimace.
"You think so lowly of me to imagine me as so lewd and shameless a man? She was attacked by a demonic beast. And even with that thick head of yours, you know which one it is" He angrily answers as the guardian deity tilts his head and looks at you intently, and you stop breathing as your heart refuses to budge out of fright as he scrutinizes you from hair to toes "A beast so arrogant and outrageously audacious, that they'd even follow her into the celestial courts to finish her off"
"Finish me!?" You cry, not being able to think of what else to do as you feel a cold sweat trickle down your brow as the guard rubs his chin and tilts his head the other way. Fuck, does he know what you are? This can't be how you die. You refuse a death so ignoble and humiliating. You start frantically looking for an escape route as Xiongtiexia clears and continues
"Which is why we've brought her here, for even a demon wouldn't dare to enter the household of the god who slew whole legions of them when he was mortal" He declares as the guard smirks
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Wed 11 Oct 2023 20:52:48 No. 5791912 Report >>5791911 "You got scared didn't you, when last time you spoke, you were gossiping with your friends who couldn't even hit a cat with an arrow" The guardian deity mocks, wagging his head side to side "And calling my lord such rude names. Guess you got luck he put you in bed for a few weeks with that slap, hmm? considering where all your friends who were laughing with you that day ended up"
None of Xiongtiexia's friends or the young god himself can look the guard in the eyes as he laughs and laughs, throwing his head back
"Well, he's forgiven you hasn't he?" He says with a shrug "And you know every martial god is always welcome in his home, and I'm sure he'll want to hear exactly how a demon got past you and the other youngster's to maul a poor...uh"
He scratched his chin again and sighed as he leaned closer to you and sniffed the air above you, and seemed to consider your scent like a connoisseur would the the aroma of tea or wine.
"Shepherdess of stillborn souls" He guess with a genuine and handsome smile, nearly turning your blood to ice as you realize from smell alone that he was able to detect hints of your deathly "graveyard" aura, the blood Qi roiling withing your body and breath all through the "Eclipse" you were hiding your true presence behind. You were lucky he didn't sense the primoridal beast essence
"Guess we're only fortunate that their duties have been halted for the time being, like so many others" He says with a nod "Or else their could've been a greater tragedy than just a goddess being scratched and spooked, caused by YOUR incompetence. We should've thrown all of your generation down to earth, none of you have known battle or war"
"We haven't been allowed to fight, even now that nations and sects are fighting again" The lecher mutters ruefully, and nearly gets sent over the horizon by the guardian deity slamming the bottom of his halberd's haft into his stomach, making you and the seven remaining martial gods go as stiff as corpses
"Shut up, if you want to complain, go cry to the five color emperor. You know my lord would be the first to descend to the earth again if those restrictions weren't in place" He snaps as Xiongtiexia's two retainers shuffle away to pick up his friend, who is coughing up blood and struggling to breath "But, we all follow the same mandates, so don't get smart with me again boy"
He reaches to grab you out of Xiongtiexia's arms, but pulls back when he glares at him
"I may be a failure of a martial god, but I will not leave the side of a maiden who needs protection" he says, a flicker of killing intent resonating within him. He doesn't see it, but the guardian deity smiles at his show of bravado "I swore to bring her to safety, so that is what I will do"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Wed 11 Oct 2023 20:53:52 No. 5791913 Report >>5791912 "I suppose I shouldn't diminish you any further" The guard says, bowing to the side "It'd be hypocritical of me to deny you this little honor, after how often I reprimand you and your generation. You can carry her to a guest room, just keep out of my lord or his wife's way, neither of them like you little Xiong. Luckily for you, My lord invited all his pals over for lunch, so you're unlikely to run into either of them today. And I expect you to take responsibility if any of your friends harass the rain fairies"
There is much more killing intent coming from the guardian deity now as he stares down all of the eight martial gods
"For your own safety" He coldly explains with a tilt of his head "You'll think my strike a loving tap if any of you look at his daughter or her handmaidens with hungry eyes. And little miss, you should be honored, usually one of your station would never be allowed to glimpse the abode of two of the foremost gods in the pantheon. Welcome to the house of Rain and War. And I promise, once these idiots blunder and come crying home with their tails between their legs"
His eyes flash red as a killing intent more intense than the crow king darkens the sky and his teeth seem to sharpen into flesh tear fangs as a shadow falls over his scar mangled face.
"I will personally bring you the head of the flea ridden animal that dared to harm such an innocent creature as yourself" He says, grinning in a way that you think is meant to be reassuring "Truly, demons are repugnant beings, if they'd try to devour a goddess whose only purpose for existing is caring for the souls of stillbirths while they await reincarnation. The utter evil of such an act, I can barely imagine it. The happy bloodshed is truly a despicable creature, to attack a pure existence like you, shepherdess"
"Bastard, who does he think he is. Treating us like wild, perverted beasts. Calling us useless and talking to such a beauty like she was a beggar's child " Xiongtiexia mutters once they're out of ear shot of the gate guardian and well within the front garden of the palace of the head martial deity, which is graced by a several miles tall statue of who can only be the head himself, holding up a sword towards the sky, striking a heroic pose "One day...I'll ruin that mangled face of his even more"
You look back at the guardian deity who is still watching you with a pitying look in his eyes
"Young master, your temper" One of his retainers reprimands with a wag of his finger and shake of his head "remember where we are, the older martial gods aren't to be trifled with. We'll need to tell them of their guest, once we've put her down to rest and recover"
You can see where this conversation is going, so pretend to have fainted from the sight of the guardian deity and his bloodlust, before they can, as you anticipated, ask you your name
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Wed 11 Oct 2023 20:54:53 No. 5791916 Report >>5791913 "Say, we never introduced ourselves did we?" the injured pervert gasps, only now realizing he never acquainted himself with the beauty his leader has been lugging around nearly all day "Oh, that smug bastard's ugly mug made her faint, after all she's been through!"
"Fool! It has to be blood loss!" Xiongtiexia scoffs "If we weren't pestered in the road, we would've gotten her here quicker. We'll ask her once she's woken up, so we can find out who to ask to learn more about her"
"Young master..." The other retainer sighs, and you begin to realize why the guardian deity warned them not to chase after their boss' daughter
"I just don't think the gatekeeper was right about her station? She's far to elegant and well spoken to hold a position as crummy as babysitting unborn souls. You've had to have noticed to, right? The way she speaks and holds herself, even while under duress?" He continues on, trying to defend himself since what he said sounded like he was seeking approval to court you "She has to be of a noble bloodline, or at least a well to do family, probably related to one of the more important civic gods. Maybe one of the executioners, considering how red her hair is"
"Brr, if she's related to one of those boogeymen, I think I'll bow out of the contest for her hand in marriage" One of the others says, as you feel yourself be carried up several flights of stairs and settled down onto a bed.
"Stop gawking at her while she sleeps, she'll be more beautiful when she isn't fearing for her life, you dick with legs" Xiontiexia scolds as you hear a door shut.
And the moment you hear their footsteps fade away down the hallway, you bolt up right and look around the room. It is well maintained, with light blue paint on its walls and white silk and soft pillows on the bed, but not much furniture besides a mirror on the wall, and a single chair in the corner. There are thick curtains on the wall, hiding a window. That when you try to open to see about leaping out and running away from the den of not one but two of the foremost gods in the heaven, you find it locked and a giving the glass a sharp punch only leaves you with sore, aching knuckles. And that's after you put all your power into hitting it and empowered your punch with as much Qi as you could channel into your fist without risking blowing it to pieces.
Groaning in pain, you weigh you option as you toss open the cape Xiongtiexia left wrapped around you and rub your hand over the cut along your side, healing it the rest of the way, taking care so it won't leave an unseemly scar, and then, now that the most obvious route of escape is lost to you, you decide to borrow some clothes.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Wed 11 Oct 2023 20:55:54 No. 5791917 Report >>5791916 Luckily, it seems the guest rooms keep a stock of spare dresses in here, which judging from their style is meant for the servants of the house, which means they just about meet your standards of fashion, though you don't like wearing clear sky blues and rain cloud greys, it feels too close to the winter blossoming wisdom sect. But its better than walking around with just a cape and dried blood covering you. Though you don't think these clothes are made of silk or any other material your familiar with, they feel light and airy as clouds, incredibly flexible and stretchy, and their style is peculiar. Only a few of the spider demon silk robes and dresses you've worn have been so short at the legs, but unlike your favorite outfit to wear into hell, the sleeves don't make up for how much legs they show. In fact
there aren't any sleeves at all? Heavenly fashion trends are truly bizarre, especially since the collar reaches down your chest and leaves that area partially exposed. You dig around for less bold clothes to wear that won't be drawing so many wandering eyes, but find that all of the ones in the closest have the same cleft in the collar reaching down into the chest region.
"Too breezy" You complain, but decide to discard the cape you were wrapped in for several reasons. One of them being that if you were seen wearing it, you might be thought to be pining for Xiongtiexia, but another is that if someone who is less of a lovestruck fool looks at the blood pattern staining it, they might realize you were struck by an arrow rather than torn open with claws and fangs.
But what matters now, more than having to wear clothes that aren't to your taste, is that you've escaped death for the time being and have healed that nearly lethal wound in your side, though your insides there are still feeling a little sore so you shouldn't exert yourself. But more importantly than even that, you're in the palace of the foremost martial god, who is apparently married to another bigshot god, who you'll have to guess is a rain goddess. Maybe that drunk one that's worshipped in Chuan and credited for giving it all of its rivers and lakes by dropping her wine cask to the ground?
Well if she is, and the head martial god is throwing a party instead of helping his underlings search for a rampaging demon, this place might not be so treacherous. And if any god has found out who you are by now, then it might be safer here than walking the street? Would there be a demon stupid enough to hide themselves in the home of the foremost war god?
You huff and sit down in the bed, to organize your thoughts and plan how to get out of here without being spotted by the gatekeeper or his master.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Wed 11 Oct 2023 20:57:08 No. 5791918 Report >>5791917 What do you do Huanliuxue?
>Try to sneak out of the palace, before anyone living in it can notice you're there and look for a way higher up into the heavens (Stealth trial. DC unknown) >Well, if he is the head martial god, he must have some incredible treasures. That no one will expect to be stolen, Heh-Heh (Perception/ Stealth/ Luck trial. DC unknown) >Decide to crash the party the martial gods are throwing, since expending so much internal energy has made you really hungry and tired >Adjust your disguise and make yourself seem like one of these "Rain fairies" the gatekeeper mentioned, so you can freely wander around the palace and cause mischief at your leisure (Magic/ Trickery/ Deception trial) >Write in Got a bit carried away with this update,
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>>5791918 >Sneak out of the palace. I'm tempted. I'm also REALLY REALLY happy to get the fuck out of here.
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>>5791918 >>Try to sneak out of the palace, before anyone living in it can notice you're there and look for a way higher up into the heavens (Stealth trial. DC unknown) Don't miss the forest for a tree. We came here to get past these cloudy heights. Let's not expand our stay any more than we already had to. Also if that old guard could just about tell everything about us just from a cursory examination I can't imagine how much more insight a more senior and experienced (or worldly) deity may gleam from our presence alone. The less chances we have of running into one of them the better.
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>>5791918 >Try to sneak out of the palace, before anyone living in it can notice you're there and look for a way higher up into the heavens (Stealth trial. DC unknown) If we successfully leave the manor, what are the chances that they'll realize that Huanliuxue is actually trying to go higher rather than going back down to earth?I think if we succeed at this they'll feel like utter and total fools!
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>>5791918 >Try to sneak out of the palace, before anyone living in it can notice you're there and look for a way higher up into the heavens (Stealth trial. DC unknown) >disguise your hair to better blend into the night. Hopefully nobody looks up and see us running away, still since it's still night i think a disguise would work best but not as a rain fairy, just don't have shock red hair while everybody is looking for red fur.
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>>5791918 >Try to sneak out of the palace, before anyone living in it can notice you're there and look for a way higher up into the heavens (Stealth trial. DC unknown) Anonymous
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>>5791918 >Well, if he is the head martial god, he must have some incredible treasures. That no one will expect to be stolen, Heh-Heh (Perception/ Stealth/ Luck trial. DC unknown) Is it a real trip to the heavens if something isn't stolen?
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>>5791918 How about a sneaky sneaky plan?
> Where there's a party there must be a kitchen making food! Track it down and try to masquerade as a hapless new servant, doubtlessly there must hidden servant passages you can use to escape! Anonymous
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>>5791918 >Well, if he is the head martial god, he must have some incredible treasures. That no one will expect to be stolen, Heh-Heh (Perception/ Stealth/ Luck trial. DC unknown) We are a Chinese Animal Protagonist that snuck into Heaven. Our path is clear.
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>>5791918 >Try to sneak out of the palace, before anyone living in it can notice you're there and look for a way higher up into the heavens (Stealth trial. DC unknown) Get out of there Huan!
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>>5791918 >Try to sneak out of the palace, before anyone living in it can notice you're there and look for a way higher up into the heavens (Stealth trial. DC unknown) I would love to cause more mischief and/or steal shit, but to say that we are in over our head is an understatement so huge I can scarcely describe it.
Meeting that guardian deity might already be the closest we have come to death, pretty sure the only reason he didn't see through our disguise was because he was completely at ease. We CANNOT afford to go anywhere near higher tier gods, that could only end one way.
Go quick, while people are still busy combing through the entrance of heaven and nobody bothers to look higher up.
Eyes on the prize.
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>>5791918 >Decide to crash the party the martial gods are throwing, since expending so much internal energy has made you really hungry and tired Anonymous
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>>5791918 >Well, if he is the head martial god, he must have some incredible treasures. That no one will expect to be stolen, Heh-Heh (Perception/ Stealth/ Luck trial. DC unknown) Anonymous
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>>5791918 >Well, if he is the head martial god, he must have some incredible treasures. That no one will expect to be stolen, Heh-Heh (Perception/ Stealth/ Luck trial. DC unknown) Let's try to grab a souvenir before we skedaddle
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>>5791918 >>Well, if he is the head martial god, he must have some incredible treasures. That no one will expect to be stolen, Heh-Heh (Perception/ Stealth/ Luck trial. DC unknown) Anonymous
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>>5791918 >>Adjust your disguise and make yourself seem like one of these "Rain fairies" the gatekeeper mentioned, so you can freely wander around the palace and cause mischief at your leisure (Magic/ Trickery/ Deception trial) Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
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Ending the vote, tallying the result now.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Fri 13 Oct 2023 03:45:50 No. 5793460 Report Simple self preservation quickly dashes any greedy thoughts you may have. Sure the palace of any god, let alone one of the foremost and mightiest amongst the heavens, must be filled with treasures beyond imagining or comprehension, the sort of magic tools, elixirs and artifacts that could make the whole world bend and fall to their knees, and that's not even considering the good stuff Mr head martial god has to have stowed away. Weapons made only to cut down demon kings, manuals of divine techniques and records of celestial mysteries, armor that can't even be pieced by all the arrows and spears of the war host of the nine heavens or the fangs of a dragon. So many treasures that could turn the world upside down and utterly wreck the status quo. But, but. You've been doing just that by living every day of your life proudly and with dignity, holding your head high despite living in a world that wants nothing more to see you dead and your good name slandered and dragged through the mud.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Fri 13 Oct 2023 03:46:57 No. 5793461 Report >>5793460 And if you change your mind, you can always sneak back in through a window or the floorboards to snag the choicest treasures, more suitable to be owned by one as majestic as yourself rather than gather dust in the possession of an immortal thug. Now, putting wealth and awe inspiring power as far out of mind as is possible, you need to find a means of escaping this dragon's pool and tiger's den before it becomes the site of your death. Sure you'd make a pretty corpse, but you have no intentions of dying even if for once you are the weak who is the prey to the strong. Just thinking about how outmatched you are compared to those around you makes your skin crawl. Its infuriating, but you can't do much more than pout since even the weakest of these gods could reduce you to the fine red mist and unpleasant memory.
"So this is what this is what all the weaklings I've trampled felt like, when facing me" you whisper, trying to raise your spirits with some encouraging boasting, but it doesn't help, because all that self encouragement does is bring to mind all of the horrible, painful deaths of those foolish or arrogant enough to think they were your match. Shuddering, you push those fresh memories of your many crushing victories out of your mind, but the dread they brought remains and settles like a cold and stagnant water in the back of your mind
"Heh, I need to get the hell out of here" You mutter to yourself, nervously scratching your neck as you casually make your way towards the stairway leading down a floor, trying to look as small and as unnoticeable as you possibly can. You catch a hiss in your throat, the hairs on the back of your neck standing up on end as you cling to and try to hide behind the railing as a train of servant passes by the stairs, carrying silver plates of delicacies fresh from the kitchens. Most of it is meat, but you don't get hungry looking or smelling at it, even though you exhausted your still all too mortal body to heal it, because your nose and eyes do not recognize what kind of meat it is? The smell is foreign, strange. And while each dish is practically glowing with the Qi it contains and are liberally spiced with spiritual herbs and stranger condiments like a blood red crystal crushed like salt, the mystery of what is being served and the unfamiliar smells makes it all look unappetizing. Or maybe that is just your fear of death talking. Corpses with a fresh meal in their stomachs tend to turn putrid quicker than those without.
You blink. Ah! Imagining your own decaying corpse is somehow soothing! Hey isn't this how Buddhists meditate sometime? You'll have to thank your Buddhist friends once you've gotten out of here.
But, now that the grisly day dream of decaying and moldering to sun bleached bones have settled your ever rising panic and growing dread, you notice a few things.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Fri 13 Oct 2023 03:47:58 No. 5793464 Report >>5793461 The servants left the door to the kitchens open, some of them broke off and headed towards another door that judging from the giggling you heard, leads to the garden, and you can sense the path Xiongtiexia and his retainers took from the front entrances. Each of these is a potential route of escape.
The issue is passing by unseen. You're pretty adept at suppressing your aura, but will that make much of a difference when the people you're hiding from would think you as small as an ant anyways? Probably not, as much as it hurts your pride to admit. So you should focus more on not being heard or seen outside of the bed and take care not to arose any suspicion by wandering someplace you shouldn't.
Kitchen, garden or front gate. Hmm...hmm. Why now of all times must your feline sense of indecision rear its head?
<span class="mu-s"> Roll 2d100. Best out of five. DC 125 </span>
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Rolled 41, 76 = 117 (2d100) >>5793464 What would've been the DC for the attempt at theft I wonder?
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Rolled 5, 11 = 16 (2d100) >>5793464 Big money baby
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Rolled 33, 28 = 61 (2d100) >>5793464 Anonymous
Rolled 59, 82 = 141 (2d100) >>5793464 >>5793487 Lol
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Will no one roll the fifth?
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Rolled 9, 23 = 32 (2d100) >>5793464 >>5793511 No.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Fri 13 Oct 2023 04:35:15 No. 5793547 Report Quoted By:
>>5793491 Success. 10 over dc. Update will arrive shortly. nearly done with it actually, just forgot to do this part
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Fri 13 Oct 2023 05:05:04 No. 5793574 Report Well the front gate would be suicide. Even if the gate keeper didn't see through your disguise on a second look, he's a guardian deity. If there's anything in the heavens or beneath them that could notice a cat sneaking out, it'd be him. He doesn't look with just his eyes, he noticed something was off about you and confirmed with his nose. He's practically a beast himself. Humans have dull senses of smell, but that doesn't seem to be true about gods. Or at least guardian deities. It makes sense they're alert and far more perceptive than the rest, considering their purpose is centered around guarding shrines or holy sites. Funny that you're considered one yourself in Chuan. Slipping past his attentions will be difficult, and isn't something you'll gamble your precious life on. Worst case, he looks past your false divinity and cuts you down with out hesitation, or else he drags you back to the guest room and guards it and your trapped until the head martial god comes to get a look at you. Either way, going through the front gate will only lead to tripping into your open grave. No good.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Fri 13 Oct 2023 05:06:06 No. 5793575 Report >>5793574 Well, whatever the reason, sneaking past and blending in with the vapid beauties of the heavens will be much easier than escaping the notice of the guardian deity or squeezing through the crowded kitchens. So you cautiously descend the floors of the palace, lurking in the corners of the hallway near stairs and counting the servants that walk by, figuring out the strict schedules they follow as they move through like blood cells in veins, obeying the demands of the party goers and carrying out the duties beneath their masters notice. Even the palace of a god needs cleaning.
The biggest challenge is avoiding them, since they of all of the denizens of the palace will notice something or someone out of place, but thankfully their master has trained them well and their eyes don't wander and they don't stray from their duties, you just have to watch them and use common sense to predict where they're going. Which is easier than it sounds, all you have to do is pick the hallways, nooks or unoccupied rooms that look like they've been cleaned recently and wait until they're out of sight before going down another flight of stairs.
Then, once you've reached the ground floor, all you have to do is slip behind the next line of servants as they take out a new tray of snacks and tea to the ladies in the garden. Luckily, their are a lot of shadows for you to lurk in while you wait for the opportunity to enter the gardens undetected.
And then, once you step outside, all you have to do is scurry into the flowering bushes and wild growth trees to begin your escape, never once even glancing in the direction of the small gathering of goddesses laughing and splashing in a lake of crystal clear waters while servants wait on the shores with refreshments and towels. But you do have to dive under a thorny bush when you sense another presence in the wild and neglected part of the garden. Laying face down in the mud, you peer up to see a towering grey haired girl stomping her way through the undergrowth, seething as she snaps branches and tears up roots. You freeze as she passes you by. That has to be the foremost martial god's daughter, judging from the pressure you felt just being within a few paces of her. Incredible. Incredibly scary~. What is she even doing here, throwing a tantrum like a little kid? You press yourself closer to the stem of the bush, watching her as she stomps around, gnashing her teeth and grumbling under her breath, snapping trees and stomping craters into the ground, steam rising from her head as her jade like skin roils red, with heat. You've never seen someone so angry that their bodies start to steam. But you have seem someone nearly as tall as her. That damn Ling Ogress. You keep a close eye on her, every inch of your body tensed and ready to bolt at the first sign of her turning her temper in the direction of your hiding spot.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Fri 13 Oct 2023 05:07:26 No. 5793576 Report >>5793575 After a few minutes of venting her rage on whatever is within reach, she suddenly cheers up, her scowl turning to a bright smile, as she all but skips out of the woods, leaving behind only devastation in her wake as she shrinks before your eyes to turn from an ogress to a short and adorable girl nearly hidden inside of her cloud like hair. You stare at her back in confusion, and decide that gods are strange creatures and think no more of it as you hustle through the woods, moving with much more ease and confidence than you did in the palace. And the more distance you put between yourself and the monsters that lived their, the easier it is to breath. Each step you take, removes a great weight from your shoulders as the crushing pressure given off by the divine residents of the palace eases up and the looming specter of death skulks away as you go deeper and deeper into the forest.
Which now that you can freely stop and ponder for a second or two without being at risk of being blasted to dust or utterly vaporized, this forest is probably a hunting reserve of sorts. Fortunately, the tantruming of a goddess has spooked all of the game away, which means you're free to trample through their territory without worrying about being made into their dinner. With head held high, you boldly swagger through the woods, confidence growing with every step you take away from the palace. Soon you see a high wall wrapped with sturdy looking ivy, the border of the estate. Once you climb over that, you'll have escaped and can focus more on climbing higher in the heavens rather than just keep your head attached to your neck. Humming to yourself you pull yourself up the wall, using the ivy to clamber up it. Straddling the top, you glance back and narrow your eyes.
Something is off...
<span class="mu-s"> Perception trial! Roll 2d100. DC 135. Best out of five. DC massively reduced by Your natural instincts and cautious nature </span>
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Rolled 52, 22 = 74 (2d100) >>5793576 RIGHT RIGHT!
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Rolled 11, 64 = 75 (2d100) >>5793576 Remember to look up. The place most animals always forget to look.
Also DAMN, 135 with a "massive" reduction? The fuck's hiding out there, the Predator? Heavenly beasts are no joke. We'll have to subjugate them some day. An Empress of Earth, Hell and Heaven.
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Rolled 1, 62 = 63 (2d100) >>5793576 Five color preserve us...
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>>5793615 Oof. Good thing 1s don't crit fail in this quest or that would be very bad on top of very unlucky.
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>>5793620 Pretty sure the best we could hope for on a crit fail in the heavens is to be ejected at speed toward the mortal world.
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Rolled 20, 73 = 93 (2d100) >>5793576 cmon, we need some high numbers!
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Rolled 5, 99 = 104 (2d100) >>5793576 Oh boy, here we go.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Fri 13 Oct 2023 06:23:48 No. 5793658 Report >>5793655 Failure. 30 under dc.
special condition met
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>>5793658 >special condition met But I don't want to meet the thing that can sneak up on us.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Fri 13 Oct 2023 07:36:54 No. 5793701 Report The world goes still. The world goes silent. The passage of time slows to a crawl. Everyone one of your senses, natural or spiritual strain to hear something that isn't there. Like staring into the depth of a crypt without even a flickering soul's light to illuminate the shadows born where the sun has never touched. The sound of your blood flowing in your vein sounds like a roaring river. Your own breathing the squalls of a storm. The sound of leaves brushing against each other in the wind sounds like the clattering of countless blades. On edge, hypersensitive, you extend your senses as far as they'll go. Something. Something is watching you. You can feel it, but you can't sense it. Your frozen stiff with terror, stuck in place as you gaze into the now foreboding and frightening forest of a god's hunting reserve and wait with baited breath for something, anything to emerge from the gloom. Blinking, you look above, into the tree branches hanging over the garden wall. You start, nearly falling over the wall when a shadow shifts over your face. But there's nothing there and there's nothing in front of you.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Fri 13 Oct 2023 07:37:55 No. 5793702 Report >>5793701 But your legs become heavy and tremble like jelly. The sensation is only growing stronger. The silence remains. You gasp, as the weight of your mistake crashes down on you like a mountain.
Of course! How could you be so blind. You weren't sensing a predator on the prowl! What you were feeling is the reason you only saw a single guard in the whole of the palace. Only one. At the front of its gate. There wasn't a single household soldier or armed retainer within the palace! The palace of the foremost martial god! They only needed one. What you were sensing was....
The edge of the perceptions of a guardian trusted to watch the whole of the vast estate and all within it. A man who would be keeping a close "eye" on you, who is being "Hunted" by a demon. And you've just stepped outside of it. It was your instincts screaming at you! He might not have noticed you moving around, but he sure as hell would notice you leaving the "range" of his protection!
<span class="mu-s"> Special condition met: Fail with a roll containing 99 WHILE Golden Core rank 1 or higher, or against a god </span>
You twist around on your heel, as the sense of being hunted vanishes. Or rather transforms. A thousand invisible eyes swivel around and lock onto you. And for an instance so brief as to be unnoticeable, there is a flash of killing intent so intense it makes your heart stop and blood freeze, literally. You take an involuntary step back as an all consuming fear of death swallows you. And in that moment, all you can think is 'I don't want to die'
And in that moment, your desperation becomes stronger than it ever has been before
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The world dims, like the sun has been completely eclipsed. All color drains from the world. The heavens look like the underworld, dreary and grey. Time crawls. And it isn't just your perception of it. Everything has slowed. Adrenaline and survival instincts alone can't do that. You stare, dumbfounded, as the ground is split or rather cleaved open, a glimmer of a blade light slicing through the ground and sky alight, cutting clouds and slicing stone from the front of the palace's gate to where you stand on the hill behind it. A golden scythe of pure Qi, that just the sparks of spiritual energy flying from it cut you like a storm of needles. You bite down, hard, clenching your jaw as you stand your ground, and anticipate where exactly the actual strike is being swung even as the air it is cutting slices through you.
Where your neck would be if you were in your true form, carrying a scared witless goddess by her neck like a dead bird. Closing your eyes, you breath out, swinging one leg to the side and hoping whatever has made the fractions of this second stretch out for so long isn't keeping you in place or making you move as sluggishly as everything else.
Pain. Searing, white hot pain.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Fri 13 Oct 2023 07:39:21 No. 5793703 Report >>5793702 Reflexively, you moved to shield yourself with your arms, to block the sword light even though it would be pointless to try, lifting them above the invisible cutting line of where the guardian expects the demon's throat to be. Then it vanishes from your elbow up.
You blink, seeing the deity standing before you, just as confused as you are as his halberd's head doesn't meet a neck, but instead slices cleanly through both of your arms like they were mist. Two arcs of blood follow them as you stumble backwards, but don't lose you footing. His head turns slowly towards you, as time begins to return to its regular flow and place, slowly breaking through whatever force halted it long enough for you to save yourself from being cut in half.
[Secret art unlocked: "True" Specter Lightness Skill: Broken Clock (真实-幽灵-轻工:破 钟 , Zhēnshí-Yōulíng-Qīnggōng: Pòzhōng). An evolution of the "Sphere of illusionary time" generated by the specter lightness skill, rather than simply slowing the perception of time within a bubble to create the illusion of slowed time, you are now capable of actually forcing time to slow or with effort, stop it momentarily]
Your severed arms soar through the air, blood trailing them and painting you and the god who cut them off red. A little voice in the back of your head reminds you that even that is something you can heal, considering you have half a dozen or so ways to heal even crippling wounds, as the rest of your mind goes blank and fills with screaming.
How do you try to escape, Huanliuxue?
>Command your veins to shoot out and dig into your arms so you don't leave them behind, and sprint towards your goal in the horizon (Haste trial. DC unknown) >Unleash Cat's Court: Spiteful Blood Legacy, targeting your own blood, to create a distraction by summoning all of the accumulated grudges of ten generations of magical beasts against the guardian deity (Magic Trial. DC unknown) >Turn your severed flesh and bones into Bombs by over flowing them with destructive Yin Energy (Magic trial. DC unknown) >Keep up the charade and hope that the Guardian deity will turn his back looking for the "Demon" he missed, long enough for your to scurry off >Gruesomely refine your body down into blood and spread out your now liquid body to run for your life (Haste/ Stealth Trial. DC Unknown) >GO FOR HIS THROAT (Martial trial. DC unknown) >Write in Anonymous
>>5793703 >Unleash Cat's Court: Spiteful Blood Legacy, targeting your own blood, to create a distraction by summoning all of the accumulated grudges of ten generations of magical beasts against the guardian deity (Magic Trial. DC unknown) Anonymous
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>>5793703 >Gruesomely refine your body down into blood and spread out your now liquid body to run for your life (Haste/ Stealth Trial. DC Unknown) Anonymous
>>5793703 >>Unleash Cat's Court: Spiteful Blood Legacy, targeting your own blood, to create a distraction by summoning all of the accumulated grudges of ten generations of magical beasts against the guardian deity (Magic Trial. DC unknown) Here's hoping the sheer unbridled amount of HATE that this expels will distract him enough to think we - the obviously pure and innocent godling maiden was snatched up by the demon that sheds blood oh so happily.
Could we also use our severed limbs in this somehow? Like willing them forward to touch him from behind or something? Or just, I dunno, sizzle and hiss? Something to provide even a tiny little distraction. Which would normally be beneath notice if it wasn't for Huan's truly fearsome reputation? Then again, this guy is one of those REAL OG motherfuckers.
I really don't know how we're supposed to escape this guy. We just got caught in the very edge of his perception, now he's right on top of us. We have to make the distance to get out of it again, and hope he goes in a different direction. Unless he's like, hard locked to only have heightened senses on a proper domain and not just an ephemeral "here". Which would help.
I knew not staying true to beast power was a mistake. We never should have come here. Oh woe is us.
I want to kill this terrifying bastard one day. What a pain, literally!
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>>5793725 >spoiler The guy is just doing his job.
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>>5793738 Yes. His job which just so happens to be killing us. Keep in mind he was extremely keen on killing Huanliuxue. He would be -happy- to butcher us if he got the chance. That kind of overrides any professional courtesy I would consider offering him.
Also he called us flea ridden. Fuck him, we take great care of our fur.
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>>5793750 I can understand killing him in self-defense, or if he stands in our way, but what you're advocating is returning later and taking revenge for staying at his post. That's just petty.
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>>5793761 No, I am advocating taking revenge for personally insulting us and threatening us. Also the whole, just about killing us thing. Besides, we're gonna have to come back some day. We're going to end up having to fight him. And if you vote in any way to hold back just because he is "An okay dude just doing his job" I'll piss in your windshield wiper fluid reservoir. I guarantee he's just as much as a self-righteous, smug, unfair prick like the rest of these gods. I sincerely doubt he would extend the same courtesy to his foes that you are to him now. But I don't know, and neither do you know that he deserves to be treated fairly, so let's just agree to disagree I suppose?
This is of course assuming we don't die here. Which I will assume. Because we're cool. I'm going to be proper miffed if we instead have to abandon our attempt to breach the skies entirely because of this dude, just because it's easier to go down than up.
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>>5793713 >Support. >Begin running when the distraction attack is engaged Unleash the magic and fucking RUN
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>>5793703 >Gruesomely refine your body down into blood and spread out your now liquid body to run for your life (Haste/ Stealth Trial. DC Unknown) >Dude senses us disappear from his range then speeds to out location outside the palace in 0.01 seconds and nearly cuts us in half Hahahahahahahahaha F U C K
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>>5793772 At this point man, we go up.
The only way back to the earth is if this bastard hits us so hard we are cast out of the heavens. Its too much distance to cover compared to the space above us
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>>5793780 >The only way back to the earth is if this bastard hits us so hard we are cast out of the heavens I mean he just hit us so hard that he vaporized the width of our arms that were between his blade and his target. He'd have to hit us more softly to just knock us down kek
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>>5793798 The difference between lovetap and utter annihilation is academic at this stage
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>>5793703 >Keep up the charade and hope that the Guardian deity will turn his back looking for the "Demon" he missed, long enough for your to scurry off Holy shit, comes in by casually slicing our arms off. This is not a fight we can win anons, bluffing our way out is our best bet at this point!
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>>5793836 I'm just worried he'll notice rather quickly we aren't really a goddess. Or that he won't let us run because it wouldn't be safe for us to leave his side with a demon around even though he did just cut our arms off by mistake. I half expect him to do some wibbly magic and poof us back to the estate. Or literally throw us.
I may just be overly negative, I just can't see any good options here. Nor can I think of any. Like we're getting mogged so fucking hard by this guy. Maybe we could use our new Specter Lightness permutation to slow/stop him for just a moment and get away. The problem is we got no intel on this guy or what he's capable of other than absolutely overwhelming us.
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>>5793703 >Keep up the charade and hope that the Guardian deity will turn his back looking for the "Demon" he missed, long enough for your to scurry off Shit, this is why I didn't want to get to the house of someone that wasn't a weak immortal.
Was the lie in the option that he would be out hunting for us in the divert one two votes back so good that even anons fell for it?
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>>5793846 Well I guess if he catches on we can still use one of the "panic button" options like releasing vengeful spirits or doing a T-1000 and turning liquid
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>>5793836 I really don't like that option personally.
I mean, the dude could sense our absence from the other side of what I am assuming is a huge fuck-off celestial palace, and now that he is in front of us we are suppose to bank on him being distracted by a demon that isn't there?
For that to work he needs to:
a.) STILL be fooled by our disguise
b.) Believes "Huanliuxue" to be able to have such stealth that he cannot detect them from this close
if either is untrue, we are screwed.
And personally, the lack of DC is scaring the shit out of me.
Though for what it's worth, "realistically" speaking, we are pretty much screwed. If this guy intends on killing us, I highly doubt we can out-run him. Our best hope is that he is honour bound to guard the palace, so he cannot leave for long, and thus cannot chase us.
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I know we're about to be vaporized if we pick the wrong option/roll badly again, but leaving our arms strikes me as a very poor idea, and we've already seen what Huanliuxue can do with an arm when she's improvising an attack on the spot, who knows what these gods can do with two of our arms.
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>>5793899 Yeah it's a far shot, but as you say so is anything at this point. Trying to outrun or outgun this guy is definitely not an option so basically we can try to bluff and bail or create a distraction and bail.
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>>5793703 >Keep up the charade and hope that the Guardian deity will turn his back looking for the "Demon" he missed, long enough for your to scurry off Anonymous
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>>5793703 >Unleash Cat's Court: Spiteful Blood Legacy, targeting your own blood, to create a distraction by summoning all of the accumulated grudges of ten generations of magical beasts against the guardian deity (Magic Trial. DC unknown) >self destruct your arms with yin qi. I really don't feel he's gonna let us go, and a sudden attack of an unknown type may be just enough for us to slink away.
Maybe it will even be effective as he's surely killed a lot of beasts himself.
>>5793969 Most of the things we can do with lost body parts is very heretical, but i won't put it above them to have some divining techniques, best detonate the arms as well and regrow them later.
To pick them up with blood will oust us as a carmine heretic while a powerful grudge attack could still be a genuine weird thing gods could do if pressed.
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What was the name of that technique we have that open old wounds? Since he is a martial god and fought in wars before, he should have plenty.
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>>5794027 Grudges and Old wounds Exist for EXACTLY this reason.
It's why we chose them as our dao, they scale with the age and ability of our enemies.
So if we're gonna do anything to a martial deity . . .Use the blood on their hands.
>>5793776 >Add detonate our arms Anonymous
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>>5794027 Found it, it's
Weeping Scar Curse (哭泣疤痕魔咒, Kūqìbāhénmózhòu). A grudge curse which opens up old wounds on a target, even those scarred over.
>>5793850 Changing my vote to
>Unleash Cat's Court: Spiteful Blood Legacy, targeting your own blood, to create a distraction by summoning all of the accumulated grudges of ten generations of magical beasts against the guardian deity (Magic Trial. DC unknown) >Use Weeping Scar Curse, as a martial god, the guard is likely to carry enough old wounds that it should slow him down >Then run away, don't try to fight Anonymous
>>5794027 It was the "Weeping Scar Curse"
And while I had the exact same idea, (he has scars all over his face after all) I highly doubt it's going to do us any good.
I mean, shit, this guy is a god. Isn't he going to just shrug off a curse from a weakling like us?
And even if he doesn't, we already have an apprentice who doesn't die from being beheaded, and we can survive being turned into blood smoothie. Pretty sure getting every scar of his reopened, as many as they may be, is just gonna get him to raise an eyebrow at best.
Could slow him down but, again, I think he might just shrug it off, virtue of being a god.
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>>5794037 I'm just hoping it would buy us time to put some distance between us, fighting whatever grudge comes from the arm plus the bleeding should be distracting enough.
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To be honest, I just don't know how to get out of this. Why did we let us be dragged to the house of a head martial god again? This place is probably the most well guarded here.
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>>5793725 >I knew not staying true to beast power was a mistake. We never should have come here I'm pretty sure no-one expected that we would have to pass by the heavens to achieve our transformation, with "Break through the sky" being metaphorical instead of literal.
At least I know I did. And since I voted for Guardian Spirit, it can't be cope. Anonymous
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>>5793850 >>5794045 But to be fair, the DC to sneak away was only 120, with two 60s we could have made it, so it's not like it was incredibly difficult. We just had bad rolls.
I think I'm done for now. Four posts back to back is kind of too much thinking about it Anonymous
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>>5794050 I hoped the inhabited heavens wouldn't stretch the whole sky, but then that might have been too optimistic, also bad luck that the fallen god steered us right in the middle of their domain.
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>>5793703 >Unleash Cat's Court: Spiteful Blood Legacy, targeting your own blood, to create a distraction by summoning all of the accumulated grudges of ten generations of magical beasts against the guardian deity (Magic Trial. DC unknown) and if the arms aren't transformed into conduits for the grudges then,
>Turn your severed flesh and bones into Bombs by over flowing them with destructive Yin Energy (Magic trial. DC unknown) I think this is our best shot, since our blood is all over him.
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>>5794043 Your reasoning is sound, and it might even work out, but the more I think about it the less I think it's worth it.
The weakling, wet-behind-the-ears gods from earlier could already reduce us to a Huanliuxue-shaped stain with a single motion, and this fucker was making them look like snotty children. Our curse will just bounce off, and make us waste time casting it. (didn't we have to cast it for a fairly long time against the drunkard?)
I am also hesitant to show off a very powerful technique of ours, the more secrets we have the better. If it saves our ass then it's a no brainer, of course, but again I'm pretty sure it will fail anyway.
>>5794045 To be fair, it was an express ticket to higher in the heavens, and if we had successfully sneaked out, it would have worked out wonderfully. Unfortunately the dice were not with us.
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>>5794050 I mean with heaven being an actual place, with actual beings in it that had on multiple occasions directly attacked us before, why wouldn't we think it was literal? Where else are we gonna go to get space stuff than straight up into space? We ain't got no portal to the moon in our closet or anything. Yet.
I just wanted to complete the wild royalty line. We're only on stage one of three. We're not just a princess any more so why stay at that tier, you know? Anonymous
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>>5793703 >>Gruesomely refine your body down into blood and spread out your now liquid body to run for your life (Haste/ Stealth Trial. DC Unknown) Anonymous
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>>5793703 >Unleash Cat's Court: Spiteful Blood Legacy, targeting your own blood, to create a distraction by summoning all of the accumulated grudges of ten generations of magical beasts against the guardian deity (Magic Trial. DC unknown) Our only saving grace might be that the guard is honor bound to stay and guard the palace. Keeping up the charade is tempting in it's own way, but I'm worried it just ends in us confined to a room again, or worse under the care of a healer.
And ten generations of grudges against the asshole gods themselves? Should be some good stuff. Can't resist.
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>>5793703 >Keep up the charade and hope that the Guardian deity will turn his back looking for the "Demon" he missed, long enough for your to scurry off Anonymous
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>>5793703 >Unleash Cat's Court: Spiteful Blood Legacy, targeting your own blood, to create a distraction by summoning all of the accumulated grudges of ten generations of magical beasts against the guardian deity (Magic Trial. DC unknown) Guardian Deity of Chuan is looking mighty fine now isn't it. Though I shouldn't grouse, my shitdick roll is what got us disarmed, so to speak.
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>>5793703 >Keep up the charade and hope that the Guardian deity will turn his back looking for the "Demon" he missed, long enough for your to scurry off I’m assuming our disguise HP has decreased yet (unless Gramps forgot) so a strong bluff is still on the table. Also Broken Clock will be a mighty good asset once we get back to normal waters.
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>>5794310 >nearly 3 hours later and just realized I meant to type "has not decreased yet" Fucking hell
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>>5794460 At least you caught it, anon. Better a sloth than the tree it clings to.
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Honestly idk what the majority of votes are, BUT I just wanna point out some things >If we decide to drop our costume and fight, MAKE SURE we STOP ECLIPSING OUR YIN NATURE. We only know that in did we were capable of disguising our true nature from the Guardian God, something truly remarkable, but we don't know how that affects our powers or abilities. If we're going to unleash such a powerful technique such as using our Grudges, then we better let out Yin nature shine once we use it. Hell, maybe even use our Grudge Miasma and see if it can weaken the god and strengthen our technique >If we're going to keep the disguise, we need to make it good. Either we give some shitty excuse of "Oh, I couldn't stay in such holy grounds by being such a lowly good as myself. I couldn't be in such proximity of the Martial God grounds so that's why I went over here, I didn't want to scare the gods that were invited so I just scurried from the palace and stay near, surely that demon wouldn't show it's face over here, by someone so watchful and powerful as you." Or we better try, and I mean TRY to really think in something really convincing right now to say so we can lower our DC on the decieve roll, because if we don't come with something now, we're just held up by the normal DC >Or, a third option would be to just act crazy and paranoid as before. Our flight instinct just went crazy and we don't even feel safe staying put in such a place, if we keep making more distance between us and the beast we might survive, we won't be safe until the beast is confirmed to be killed or it was injured and thrown back to Earth. I say that maybe his duty outweighs A LOT more any chivalry that might be still on him, surely there's not even half a grain of that same thing that the young Martial gods have to take us all the way up here, maybe he's going to say "Well you do you then, crazy bitch. If you get killed by the heavenly creatures out here then it's not my problem, you're such a small goddess or saint that I won't leave my post to secure the Martial God's house."
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>>5795025 >idk what the majority of votes are Give me a minute
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>Votes - 15 >Unleash Cat's Court: Spiteful Blood Legacy - 8 >Gruesomely refine your body down into blood - 3 >RUN >Keep up the charade - 4 >Turn your severed flesh and bones into Bombs - 1 (3?) >Use Weeping Scar Curse - 1
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>>5793703 >>Keep up the charade and hope that the Guardian deity will turn his back looking for the "Demon" he missed, long enough for your to scurry off Anonymous
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>>5795034 Great Iron Ox come to our aid and avenge ten generations of betrayal.
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In the not unlikely case in which we end up as a disembodied ghost rather soon, we should consider our one free time-travel ticket and try maximising it's impact.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Mon 16 Oct 2023 04:08:11 No. 5797248 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote now, sorry for vanishing over the weekend, the three in a row updates just drained me into a husk of myself. I've recharged with sunlight, sushi and steak, so I'm fired up and ready to write more.
>>5795034 and a thousand praises and commendations to my junior for tallying up this vote in my absence, you were born under a blessed star.
So you'll perform cat's court spiteful blood legacy on the rivers of blood flowing out of your severed arms, summoning upon the accumulated grudges of ten generations of demonic beasts against the guardian deity.
Update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Mon 16 Oct 2023 04:44:50 No. 5797280 Report But it isn't your screaming. It is a thousand, thousand different voices screaming in your skull, threatening to crack it wide open and spill out like a torrent of burning oil with the vibration of their din. A noise more unpleasant than the weeping of the damned souls of sinners or the scoffing of the self righteous. Innumerable cries of pain, roars of rage, bellows of betrayal, shrill bird song, yowling cries, rumbling and defiant growls. It is the death cry of every kind of beast, bursting out from within the blood flowing in your skull. It is pain, it is agony, it is heartbreak. You're hearing the last moments, dignified, shameful and terrified of every demonic beast whose lives were cut short by the laws of commanded by beings like the god that just sliced both of your arms cleanly in two. The Selfish, prideful, arrogant, short sighted, smug, self righteous and unfair gods that revel and delight in your kind's suffering and extermination. It is a undying grudge, a generational enmity, a ceaseless spite that lurks in the veins of all ascended beasts, waiting for the chance to come screaming back to life, reigniting the embers of lives unjustly and pointlessly snuffed out, it is the fading smoke of clear cut and burned forests, funerary pyres and livid fury so intense as to rival the sun that has watched over a genocide without purpose or goal for ten long generations.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Mon 16 Oct 2023 04:45:51 No. 5797281 Report >>5797280 You unleash a move you've only used once before, against the crow king, Cat's Court: Spiteful Blood Legacy" (猫 法院: 刻毒血遗产, Māofǎyuàn: Kèdúxuèyíchǎn) . Now you turn the lingering grudges within blood against a god as your mouth opens wide as your own voice joins the choir of the hunted.
A thousand, thousand drops of blackened blood boil and expand, oozing, shifting and billowing as the guardian deity, sensing hostile intent within the clouds of blood and grudges, turns on his heel, spinning his halberd around his back to grab it just beneath its head, shifting his center of mass towards his legs as he turns his body to put all of his strength behind a mountain splitting thrust as a single cat's eye emerges from the ink black clouds, crackling with malice and murderous sorrow.
<span class="mu-s"> roll 2d100. DC 108. Best out of five </span>
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Rolled 99, 54 = 153 (2d100) >>5797281 Are we gonna summon the devil mind herself?
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Rolled 1, 36 = 37 (2d100) >>5797281 This is my angry face.
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Rolled 1, 41 = 42 (2d100) >>5797281 >>5797289 >>5793655 This god has 99 problems, but it's not a female dog that is his main concern.
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Rolled 75, 28 = 103 (2d100) >>5797281 Fucking chills. I had my doubts about this course of action, but they're gone now. Even if we die here, letting these grudges fly is worth it.
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>>5797281 Good thing we ca't critfail anymore
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Rolled 17, 49 = 66 (2d100) >>5797281 Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Mon 16 Oct 2023 06:55:14 No. 5797422 Report >>5797289 Fantastic success. 40 over dc. Update will arrive shortly
>>5797299 >>5797390 What are the odds of this?
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>>5797422 1 in 10,000 if my math is right. Or maybe half that since it's 2 rolls out of four.
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https://youtu.be/YBaC5MzGR0c> ;
It is a primal, uncontrollable thing, a bellow of blind rage and bottomless grief that tears its way out of your lungs and throat, but you can hear the music inside of it, base, brutal and unconquerable. The war cry of the vengeful dead, the scared children and the weeping elders. The essence of the self destructive war against nature and its primordial order, trying to tame what cannot be chained and leashed. Your vision tinges red as your own grudge, that you've held since you've learned the truth of what you were and what was done to your kind, is drowned out by the raging ever rising cadence of the countless beasts who never knew why they were hunted down, who turned to monsters just to survive, who were stabbed into backs by their friends and allies. The daoists who have been silently murdered without any one in the world shedding even a tear for their plight and the tragic lot they were given in life.
And when the dead are not mourned, their wailing becomes a curse against the living who have forgotten and scorned them. The halberd pierces through the veil of grudge rich blood, but hands emerge, ghoulish and decayed, all bearing sword ruins or other signs of the violent deaths that rent their mortal bodies limb from limb. Some have traces of scale in their milky white flesh, others hair so coarse as to appear as fur. They grab hold of the halberd as it pierces through the rivers of blood and clouds of grudges, and the heavenly weapon begins to tremble as the warrior wielding it struggles to force it to move, to wave away the fog of enmity as it begins to sparkle and crackle with black and carmine streaks of lightning, forking, arcing and dancing around the mist like it were a massive dying grudge shield spell. Figures, mangled corpses begin to emerge from the cloud as the guardian deity pulls his weapon back to his side and raises two fingers on his free hand as he brings it up to the bottom his chin, eight golden rings of Qi formed out of constellations and star signs, ringing his arm as he prepares to cast some sort of heaven's defying spell, his eyes cold, sharp and analytic like a hunter's
Whatever he expected to emerge from the blossoms of blackened blood spurting from your wounds, it wasn't a massive broken horned ox, with steam ushering forth from its snout as it bellowed, braying as it charged him with a dozen qilin fur tasseled spears stuck into its proud back. He blinks, and launches forward, propelled by an invisible force as he strikes the bull directly between the eyes, splattering it back into a pool of blood swirled with dark grudge miasma like ink dribbled atop water. He breathes out and twists his whole body around to avoid the spears still stuck inside the pool of spilled blood, tossed by a pair of arms that emerge from them, half scorched to bones and ash.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Mon 16 Oct 2023 08:17:23 No. 5797486 Report >>5797485 He wrinkles his nose, spins completely around, lifting up his right leg before slamming it down onto the half submerged skull like a hammer, sending fragments of bone and burning feathers into the air, surrounding him like falling flower petals as he frantically looks around, as your spiteful blood legacy infused blood pools across the hilltop, spilling down into the trench he made with the swing that cut off both of your arms.
He snaps his jaw shut, lifting up his spear to block as a woman with a hole in her stomach, two cats tails and a bob of short hair leaps out from beneath his feet, eyes glowing yellow as she lashes out with a broken pair of steel claws. Two voices hiss, as a four armed, stitched together boy with a serpents tail lunges from the blood splattered behind the god's back. He wheels back, catching the first with the bottom of the halberd's haft, while flicking its head around over his head, driving the beak like point of its axe head straight through the serpent ghost's skull. He breathes in, hundreds of serpents made of blood crawling up his halberd as the broken jawed grudge shade lunges at him, steel claws aimed for his throat.
A blur of silver surrounds him, as with one curling swing of his halberd, he cuts both of his attackers into two, reducing them to blood splatter and wisps of black smoke. He stomps a foot down, rolls his neck, the red tassel cresting his helmet dancing and reducing a swarm of pale lilac butterflies to mist. Mist that begins to choke the life out of the jade grasses beneath his feat as a blood drenched woman in a white, moth wing styled robes flashes hand signs rapidly, her lower half subsumed with in an abdominal chimeric fusion of a dozen different beasts.
He blinks, eyes blazing red and vanishes, his path only trackable by the two comet tail like trails of red light, zigging and zagging through the air before he suddenly appears again, a vast canyon cut through the heavenly landscape and the chimeric fusion of the resentment given form split into four pieces, the last being the moth priestess, who he crushes beneath his heel, her spectral wings fluttering frantically.
He breathes out, and flicks his hand across his face, a few drops of sweat flying from his fingers as he surveys the puddles of blood and black clouds surrounding him. And with the same hand, he catches an arrow fletched with silver hawk feathers, crushing it as ice erupts from its shaft. Showing no signs of distress or pain, he pivots on his heel, cracking the ice with a flex of his arm and sending its shards to impale a rat toothed man who had snuck up behind him, his own throat slit and cut open down to his stomach. But before the shade of enmity can return to the blood it was summoned forth from, they fling a knife at the god's head, and it flies for the eye slit of his helmet. He steps back and knocks the knife away with the head of his halberd, and steps into another puddle.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Mon 16 Oct 2023 08:18:24 No. 5797488 Report >>5797486 He looks down, eyes now two blood red suns as a wolf's head snaps down on his ankle, its teeth breaking against his skin. With a kick, he decapitates the blood phantom, snarling now in frustration
And that frustration becomes a look of shock as the clouds gather and the blood crawls to form from the legs up a winged warrior, dressed in armor eerily similar to his own. Silently, the newcomer beckons him with his free hand, a long, thin sword lifted beside his cheek, his eyes milky and empty of life. There is a space between his shoulders, were flesh was cloven open and bone cut cleanly through as if struck by an axe head, or perhaps a halberd swung with brutish strength and lethal precision.
"Boy, how you've grown" Is all that the winged swordsman utters, and that is enough to break the spell his sudden appearance casted over the guardian deity, who howls with a rage nearly comparable to your own, as flecks of spit fly from his mouth and he loses all semblance of the cool, calculated composure he had shown in fighting back against the summoned dead of ten generations of murdered souls to instead cry out like a rabid animal as a very ungodly rage possess him
"Liar! Liar! Liar!" He chants like a mantra, as if he was fighting off a possession or a curse "I trusted you! You monster! You devil!"
The winged soldier tilts his head, smiles, and steps forward, fearlessly entering his opponents rage, dodging his first wild swing with a sidestep, avoiding a strike that craters several miles of the heavens, and sends a rippling quake through a few more. The second attack, a wide foot level swing that sends a crescent of sword energy far into the horizon, he leaps over, pulling back his oddly shaped sword past his head as his tattered white wings spread. The third, a wild back hand, he meets with a thrust, piercing and shattering the gauntlet covering the guardian deity's hand, which wraps around the thin, flexible blade and bends it. The grudge remnant's eyes flash with surprise, but his smug smile doesn't fade.
"A headbutt? Really? You're less like a crane and more akin to a goat now" He chides, grinning teeth slicked pink with blood, as the guardian deity, trembling with rage grabs hold of his intact shoulder and crushes it, twisting the limb like a reed as he pulls his head back and screaming, hammers his armored head against the winged warrior's own, reducing it to a slurry of blood and condensed resentment with a few heaven's quaking strikes.
A swarm of animals half formed of blood, from tiny spiders to tigers pounce upon the guardian deity, pulling him down into a mire of blood and liquid enmity as he stands there, shaking from head to toe and giving off a truly terrifying amount of killing intent, so great that it in fact's darkens the celestial sky like storm clouds.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Mon 16 Oct 2023 08:19:25 No. 5797489 Report >>5797488 "GET OFF ME VERMIN! DECIEVERS! BACKSTABBERS! INSECTS!" He screams, eyes wild and frenzied, his aura surging as he lashes out with his halberd, using it more like a butcher's cleaver, cutting and slicing at the half formed shades pulling and tugging him, using all of his strength and with a feral desperation, even though he hasn't even been scratched by any of the old memories you called forth from the dregs of their lives within your own blood.
Everything around him is devastated. A tally that doesn't include yourself, as you made a break for it the moment he took his eyes off of you, using every one of the dozens of grudge apparitions as a smoke screen to allow you to flee before the guardian deity could realize the obvious, and that you weren't who you'd claimed you were. It was pure luck that one drop of your blood contained the inherited enmity of someone whom he recognized, considering how easily he cut down every other memory embodied and formed in blood down. All the others, all unique and scarely potent grudges in their own right, barely gave him pause. But that white winged warrior occupied him long enough for you to put a comfortable distance between yourself and him.
And as a bonus, you were able to catch your arms in your mouth as they fell, while all that excitement was going on. It was a terrifying display of might and the enduring nature of grudges, and it all lasted but a few moments, if you weren't attuned to grudges on a level beyond anyone else, even Qiang or Fu, you're certain you would've missed the action and only been aware of it as far as the god swinging his halberd and becoming suddenly drenched and blood and furious.
But he is no longer your biggest concern, as while you sprint, and struggle to keep your cut off arms in place with a couple of your veins burrowed into your own flesh and wrapped tightly around their bones, as well as a patch of ice made out of your own blood, a second source of killing intent rises from somewhere behind you. A bit further back than the Guardian deity stomping on quivering puddles of blood and demanding that "He" show himself again so he can kill him a third time.
And considering how even you're shivering just sensing it, that can only be the head martial god noticing his servant's rampage through your smokescreen.
Stopping will mean death. If your fortune's remain miraculous, he'll be too preoccupied roughing up his gatekeeper to notice you dashing for the highest rung of the celestial ladder. But between footfalls, as you continue making a mad dash for the empty palace of the five colors celestial emperor, an uncomfortable realization squeezes into your thoughts.
Five towers, each the color of one of the five elements.
Five Wise Immortal Sages (五哲仙哲, Wǔzhéxiānzhé), the students of Five colors who orchestrated the ten generations long atrocity and misrule of the heavens and the world beneath it.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Mon 16 Oct 2023 08:21:30 No. 5797490 Report >>5797489 Your relieved, tired smile turns into a half winced frown. Where else would those five assholes be, if not squatting in the supposed throne of the master they betrayed so long ago? And those five traitorous, self serving bastards were strong enough to wipe the survivors of the apocalyptic marital spat between five colors and the devil mind out, to return the nine heavens to a clean slate they could rule over with an iron fist, imposing their own ideologies and version of history in place of the natural order and the truth.
'Another seemingly insurmountable hurdle is in my way. If I survive the day, they're going to start saying "Like a cat through the heavens" instead of "A carp leaping through the dragon's gate"! And I will start that trend myself if I do! Endless praise won't be enough if I manage to reach the stars!' your thoughts ramble and complain as you pause to catch your breath and try to figure out exactly how your arms were attached, since if they aren't aligned properly they won't work right or have even a fraction of their usual dexterity and swiftness. And then you'll have to rip them off again to put them back into the right place. But that's an issue, the timespan you have to make decision is miniscule! Fractions of fractions of seconds, you can't even call it even half of a moment! But at the same time, if you act hastily and without thinking, death is a certainty.
"Damn all the gods" You wail, as one of your arms loosens and droops down your side, swinging by the veins you've needled through it, hanging limply in the air
What is your next course of action, Huanliuxue?
>Fix your arms and put them back to where they belong, not having them is one hell of a handicap, and since they'd become your front legs as a cat, even more of one if you need to switch forms (Magic/ medicine trial. DC unknown) >Find somewhere to hide, suppressing your aura and Qi while you compose yourself and collect your thoughts (Stealth trial. DC unknown) >Tch, you can fix your arms later, so long as they aren't left behind or taken as trophies, it doesn't matter. You just need to keep climbing, you're so close! (Invade the Five colors celestial emperor's palace) >Well there's no shame in living to fight another day! Better turn around and run while the foremost martial god and his lacky duke it out, so you can escape without anyone in the nine heavens noticing you're gone (Run away) >Write in >>5797410 Really happy you liked that update so much, I was praying it'd have that kind of a reaction!
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>>5797490 >Fix arms >Invade the palace. We havent failed yet
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>>5797490 >Find somewhere to hide, suppressing your aura and Qi while you compose yourself and collect your thoughts (Stealth trial. DC unknown) Anonymous
>>5797490 >Find somewhere to hide, suppressing your aura and Qi while you compose yourself and collect your thoughts (Stealth trial. DC unknown) >Fix your arms and put them back to where they belong, not having them is one hell of a handicap, and since they'd become your front legs as a cat, even more of one if you need to switch forms (Magic/ medicine trial. DC unknown) Stealth is our strong suit, to the point it's been an autosuccess before.
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>>5797490 >Fix your arms and put them back to where they belong, not having them is one hell of a handicap, and since they'd become your front legs as a cat, even more of one if you need to switch forms (Magic/ medicine trial. DC unknown) >Well there's no shame in living to fight another day! Better turn around and run while the foremost martial god and his lacky duke it out, so you can escape without anyone in the nine heavens noticing you're gone (Run away) Anonymous
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>>5797490 >Tch, you can fix your arms later, so long as they aren't left behind or taken as trophies, it doesn't matter. You just need to keep climbing, you're so close! (Invade the Five colors celestial emperor's palace) Anonymous
>>5797548 We need our wits with us and to recompose our body.
Also as they wouldn't think to look for a cat demon in the palace of the martial god they wouldn't look at the front steps of the five assholes.
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>>5797490 >>5797636 Whoops forgot to link it and say support for this option:
>>5797548 I would make a meme about a cat running around on two legs with her arms in her mouth but i'm phoneposting and no access to a pc
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>>5797490 >>5797548 Support.
Here's hoping we think to apply True Spectre Lightness to Blood Red Lightning Step, because we're gonna NEED SPEED.
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>>5797666 Truly one of the memes of all time
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>>5797490 >Tch, you can fix your arms later, so long as they aren't left behind or taken as trophies, it doesn't matter. You just need to keep climbing, you're so close! (Invade the Five colors celestial emperor's palace) Deep within our “it’s so over”there truly was an indomitable “we’re so back”
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>>5797490 >Tch, you can fix your arms later, so long as they aren't left behind or taken as trophies, it doesn't matter. You just need to keep climbing, you're so close! (Invade the Five colors celestial emperor's palace) Lets see his old house, we've already visited his garden.
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>>5797490 >Find somewhere to hide, suppressing your aura and Qi while you compose yourself and collect your thoughts (Stealth trial. DC unknown) It's a good thing everything here is so saturated with Qi that we can end up just blending into the background.
>Fix your arms and put them back to where they belong, not having them is one hell of a handicap, and since they'd become your front legs as a cat, even more of one if you need to switch forms (Magic/ medicine trial. DC unknown) Connect the correct blood vessels with each other and the rest should go smoothly.
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Some musings over this vote:
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>>5797490 >>Tch, you can fix your arms later, so long as they aren't left behind or taken as trophies, it doesn't matter. You just need to keep climbing, you're so close! (Invade the Five colors celestial emperor's palace) Anonymous
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>>5797490 >Find somewhere to hide, suppressing your aura and Qi while you compose yourself and collect your thoughts (Stealth trial. DC unknown) >Fix your arms and put them back to where they belong, not having them is one hell of a handicap, and since they'd become your front legs as a cat, even more of one if you need to switch forms (Magic/ medicine trial. DC unknown) ...Can we do both? if not, then just the first one.
>>5798624 That is an interesting thought, and it gives me an idea.
If we take something valuable from Five Colours palace, hide it under a couch somewhere, people might assume that this was our objective all along and try to catch us before we go back down to earth... leaving the palace unguarded for us to walk through undisturbed.
May not be worth it, as their sensory abilities might be good enough that this will backfire, but if we are not confident in sneaking through the palace it might be worth considering.
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If we're verrry lucky the martial god will assume we(human) was simply kidnapped by us(cat) in the chaos of Cat's Court. Then we ran screaming to the safest place in the heavens, the five color palace.
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>>5797490 >Fix your arms and put them back to where they belong, not having them is one hell of a handicap, and since they'd become your front legs as a cat, even more of one if you need to switch forms (Magic/ medicine trial. DC unknown) Anonymous
>>5798862 I wouldn't be surprised if there was a rule of no unauthorized entry on penance of death for the five colors palace.
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>>5797490 >Tch, you can fix your arms later, so long as they aren't left behind or taken as trophies, it doesn't matter. You just need to keep climbing, you're so close! (Invade the Five colors celestial emperor's palace) Odds are whatever dwells here would notice us anyway, stopping to heal gives whoever's tracking us time to catch up, and to hell with turning back.
No rest for the wicked, then.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Wed 18 Oct 2023 08:18:37 No. 5799964 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote tallying the result now, need to fix my sleep schedulem, forgive me for being a lil late again.
Fix your arms and put them back to where they belong, not having them is one hell of a handicap, and since they'd become your front legs as a cat, even more of one if you need to switch forms:8
Tch, you can fix your arms later, so long as they aren't left behind or taken as trophies, it doesn't matter. You just need to keep climbing, you're so close!:6
Find somewhere to hide, suppressing your aura and Qi while you compose yourself and collect your thoughts :6
Well there's no shame in living to fight another day! Better turn around and run while the foremost martial god and his lacky duke it out, so you can escape without anyone in the nine heavens noticing you're gone:1
And since most of the winning vote (Re-attach your arms before climbing higher) is combined with one that's just below half the vote (Finding somewhere to hide before healing)
You'll do that, Hiding away suppressing your presence and collect your thoughts as you occupy yourself with fixing your arms
Update will arrive shortly
>>5797666 Pure gold, clear jade, this made me douse my keyboard in tea. Funny stuff.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Wed 18 Oct 2023 08:41:53 No. 5799971 Report Growling in your throat, you pull your hanging left arm back up to the stump it left behind, reeling it up with your embedded veins like you were pulling in a fish with a rod. How embarrassing and obscene, though you have to admit there is a certain transfixing beauty in seeing blood gush out between the stump and lower half of the arm, and the wriggling bulges of your veins writing just beneath your fair, blood smeared skin, which to most eyes would see as dirtying or defiling its jade like surface, but yours cannot help but to find the spreading of blood...enticing.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Wed 18 Oct 2023 08:42:54 No. 5799972 Report >>5799971 <span class="mu-s"> roll 4d100. First pair of dice = Stealth Trial, Second pair of dice: Magic/ Medicine trial. Stealth DC:105. MM Trial: 75 </span>
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Wed 18 Oct 2023 08:43:54 No. 5799974 Report Quoted By:
>>5799972 best out of five for each roll of course.
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Rolled 18, 18, 53, 95 = 184 (4d100) >>5799972 I AM a surgeon
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Rolled 2, 63, 68, 69 = 202 (4d100) >>5799972 Rollan
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Rolled 75, 34, 61, 94 = 264 (4d100) >>5799972 How are we failing so bad at stealth?
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Rolled 62, 69, 5, 91 = 227 (4d100) >>5799972 I think we’ve at least passed both at this point?
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Rolled 83, 55, 97, 66 = 301 (4d100) >>5799972 Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Wed 18 Oct 2023 09:48:48 No. 5800008 Report Quoted By:
>>5800002 Stealth: 138, Great success, 30 over dc
Healing: 163 Incredible success, 80 over DC
Update will arrive shortly
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Rolled 66, 1, 84, 14 = 165 (4d100) >>5799972 >>5800000 180 minimum to succeed both tasks. So as of that 184 we're fishing for better results. Can't breathe easy yet though, we're still deep behind enemy lines.
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>>5800002 Mutilation does wonders for Huan's discretion.
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>>5800015 Those were separate sets my guy, I failed the hide DC. And by a lot.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Wed 18 Oct 2023 10:32:58 No. 5800024 Report The road behind you is trashed and fraught with danger, the road ahead is pristine and also fraught with danger. But the monsters lurking up ahead have been roused from their dens while it sounds like two dragons are clashing behind your back. Moving away from the fighting is the only sane thing to do, even if all the rubble that's fallen and canyons that have been carved would make excellent hiding places, there's also to gods brawling there and while there may be five monsters amongst monsters squatting in the empty palace on the horizon, unless your fortune suddenly plumets down towards hell running into them onto the road leading to their stolen seat is as unlikely as running into a buddha while on a morning stroll. Or you think so, you know there's a saying about killing buddha if you meet him on the road, but you have no idea how common it is to bump into buddhas. You've certainly haven't met one, but you've met a handful of daoist immortals.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Wed 18 Oct 2023 10:33:58 No. 5800028 Report >>5800024 And while you weren't as knowledgeable about other people's bodies, you still knew the human body inside and out, literally, as well. Though not as quite in as much detail as knowing their layout down to their individual hair and nerves, there isn't much variation between human bodies, unless said body was blessed with an unusual physique or peculiar organs, like say, the venom glands you created and hidden away within the masterpiece that is your body, like a painter playfully hiding themselves in their life's work.
A shadow falls over you as you use a bit of blood sorcery to forcefully refine the patches of skin where the hair thin scars left behind by the severing and reconnecting of your arms circle around them, the impurities dripping down your fingers and leaving an ink like stain from your palm to their tips. Glancing up, you see a younger and far more elegantly dressed Five Colors Celestial emperor staring down at you. A statue made of...is that statue made entirely of star jade! You thought the chunk you had Feiqing carve into a throne was the largest piece in existences, in heaven or earth, but this statue looks like it was made of a single part, and you almost didn't notice it as you passed it by. Looking around, you see that the monument is surrounded by five others, all wearing masks and kneeling before him, with a few benches places around each and sparkling waters flowing from each of the smaller statures beneath Five color's giant doppelganger.
There's a few buildings nearby, built in a similar style to the catacombs containing the forgotten king and the spirit's of the bloodless war, outdated, and with a few figures moving around, carrying piles of scrolls and paper lanterns. You can hear faint whispers all around.
This place seems important, and if you'd have to guess, is where prayers are received and records are kept. The beating heart of the heavenly bureaucracy. The perfect place for you to hide, tapping your bare toes on the ground, you blink and the world is drained of colors. You measure the distance between yourself and the top of the Five Colors idol's head, calculate your trajectory, and with four hops, are sitting on top of its head on the center of its gaudy crown, legs crossed and hands atop on your knees. And perhaps the smuggest grin you've ever made on your lips.
And a few moments later, some rotund man with ruddy cheeks and a long black beard stumbles up the road, huffing and puffing as his bulging gut heaves and rises with his every struggled breath. He has red eyes, piggish and a face that from here looks kind of apeish. He glances around, out of breath and you feel your spirit flee your body for a moment as you see that while with his off hand he's scratching one of his titanic ass cheeks, in his main hand he is dragging the guardian deity who cut you up!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Wed 18 Oct 2023 10:40:05 No. 5800031 Report >>5800028 For a moment you think he's dead, with his head caved in, but he stirs and groans in pain as the red skinned fatty raises his ass scratching hand up to his forehead and places it above his tired looking eyes, his jowls shaking as he looks around, peering and squinting across the square.
Is...is that the head martial god!? He looks nothing like the statue in front of his palace or any of the idols you've seen on him down on earth! He has more than two chins and has a body like a rubber bouncing ball! He's so fat! And besides having his gatekeeper's blood dripping from one hand, and pieces of his teeth stuck into his callused fingers, his fingers and tangled mess of a beard are glistening with fat and amethyst purple drops of wine. His daughter was kind of cute, but he's a hideous fat bastard, the only reason you recognize him is because he has a scar beneath one eye, just like his statue.
He guffaws, and glances down with a bright, almost boyish smile at the god he was dragging like a limp doll at his side.
"Ah don't know what yer bahbbling about *Hic*, there ain't no demon here, No lil goddess ayfer" He chuckles and snorts, wiping his nose as the guardian deities eyes looks up and for a moment you worry he's seeing you, but no, he's just fainted from the pain of having his face caved in by his master's meaty cudgel of a fist. But more importantly, Why is the foremost martial god so fat? And talking like an absolute bumpkin!? You've seen literal rice farmers with more eloquence and grace than him!
"And if yer lucky, ye didn't see her ayfer, or else Ah *Hic*, ahm gonna have to tell the sages ya done and killed one of ours cause ya got spooked by a snot nosed brat's talltales, *Hic*" He continues on, wagging a pudgy finger in the face of his unresponsive servant's face "Nah lets git back to the party, Ah can whip those brats inta shape ta see if they was telling the truth or if y'all got were just playing a prank on...on me, *Hic*
The ground shakes as he turns around and stumbles back down the road, painting a circle of blood sprinkled with gold as he drags his limp gatekeeper behind him, laughing as he pats his gargantuan get, making the ground shake with every booming howl of laughter he makes.
"Ah, mah wife is gunna be furious with ya! Ya tore mah house in half, chasing ah imaginary cat, ya fool" He grumbles as his jovial expression darks "*Hic*, ha, her screech is already given me ah headache, gunna need more wine just ta stand it"
How is the head martial god so fat? Why is he a country mouse? AND HOW COULD HE HAVE SUCH A CUTE DAUGHTER WHEN HE MAKES FEIQING LOOK HANDSOME! Wait...his statues! He used to have a pretty face, before gaining a couple hundred pounds. But that doesn't explain, WHY IS HE SO FAT? Were ten generations of peace long enough for him to fall so low and degenerate into a pig? You frown, feeling somehow disappointed as you watch the foremost martial piggy disappear back in the direction his house.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Wed 18 Oct 2023 10:41:06 No. 5800033 Report >>5800031 But you can't put your finger on why you feel almost...cheated after seeing that disgraceful excuse for a god. Frowning, you take a deep breath and sigh.
Now that you've caught your breath, what do you do next, Huanliuxue?
>Continue on towards the palace on the horizon, before anyone whose brain isn't drowning in wine notices your trail! You're not giving up yet! The secret of the stars will be yours! >Stroll into the record halls and take a look at some of the prayers there while seeing if any of the scrolls there are worth stealing (Perception trial. DC unknown) >Hmm, it looks like the building where the prayers of mortals are received has a list of all the gods in the heavens, in the form of a gigantic golden scroll...Hmm, you just got a brilliant idea, why not deface it! >This is too much! You wanna go home, in one piece preferably! Just run for the exit of the nine heavens and don't look back! >Write in Anonymous
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>>5800033 >Continue on towards the palace on the horizon, before anyone whose brain isn't drowning in wine notices your trail! You're not giving up yet! The secret of the stars will be yours! Anonymous
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>>5800033 >Continue on towards the palace on the horizon, before anyone whose brain isn't drowning in wine notices your trail! You're not giving up yet! The secret of the stars will be yours! Gotta keep the momentum up here
Anonymous
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>>5800033 >See if any og the scrolls are worth stealing >Then run for the stars. Persuit is gone.
Anonymous
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>>5800033 Either
>This is too much! You wanna go home, in one piece preferably! Just run for the exit of the nine heavens and don't look back! Or
>Continue on towards the palace on the horizon, before anyone whose brain isn't drowning in wine notices your trail! You're not giving up yet! The secret of the stars will be yours! Anonymous
>>5800033 >Stroll into the record halls and take a look at some of the prayers there while seeing if any of the scrolls there are worth stealing (Perception trial. DC unknown) >Continue on towards the palace on the horizon, before anyone whose brain isn't drowning in wine notices your trail! You're not giving up yet! The secret of the stars will be yours! We shook off the trail for now and we have a bounty in front of us..
Who would put alarms on scrolls? Clearly not these unappreciating pigs.
Get some that are quick and easy to reach then skedaddle upwards.
Anonymous
>>5800033 >Stroll into the record halls and take a look at some of the prayers there while seeing if any of the scrolls there are worth stealing (Perception trial. DC unknown) We're still disguised, even after all that, they haven't realized human us and cat us aren't the same. Just....watch out for a godly librarian who can sense a single moved scroll from a mile away. Still, I think it's worth a quick look.
...how much blood is all over our clothes?
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>>5800033 >>Continue on towards the palace on the horizon, before anyone whose brain isn't drowning in wine notices your trail! You're not giving up yet! The secret of the stars will be yours! Prayers? Who needs to see those? We fix problems people pray about without even hearing them.
Anonymous
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>>5800033 >Continue on towards the palace on the horizon, before anyone whose brain isn't drowning in wine notices your trail! You're not giving up yet! The secret of the stars will be yours! We have already sacrificed enough time recuperating, we cannot afford to tarry any longer, unless we want even more troublesome people to catch up. We have brushed up against death enough this arc for my liking.
Not that going to the palace isn't running head first into the wolf's open maw, but you get the point. Anonymous
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>>5800033 >Stroll into the record halls and take a look at some of the prayers there while seeing if any of the scrolls there are worth stealing (Perception trial. DC unknown) Anonymous
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>>5800033 >>Hmm, it looks like the building where the prayers of mortals are received has a list of all the gods in the heavens, in the form of a gigantic golden scroll...Hmm, you just got a brilliant idea, why not deface it! Stick it to the man! What could possibly go wrong from this.
Anonymous
Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.
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>>5800033 >Stroll into the record halls and take a look at some of the prayers there while seeing if any of the scrolls there are worth stealing (Perception trial. DC unknown) Anonymous
>>5800033 >Continue on towards the palace on the horizon, before anyone whose brain isn't drowning in wine notices your trail! You're not giving up yet! The secret of the stars will be yours! I feel like stealing something valuable and important from Heaven is courting death, to use a turn of phrase common to wuxia. If getting to the Celestial Realm is as easy as just... flying up super hard, a single immortal-rank cultivator with the wherewithal to follow us back down to the material world could massacre our entire sect (and us with them). There'll be plenty of time to steal their shit once *we* get up to God-rank.
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>>5800249 Overconfidence would be to go in the middle of the room and vomit a hairball in their favourite comfy slippers.
Anonymous
>>5800271 I've two thoughts.
The first being that by defacing the golden scroll, we'd somehow effect where the prayers are directed. That's my instinct.
Second is that the scrolls in the library is knowledge, techniques and other arcane secrets which could, to borrow another phrase, put wings on a tiger and boost our already ludicrous cultivation speed.
Physical objects are of lesser value than KNOWLEDGE because of the meritocratic system of cultivation. Internal power can never be removed from you, while exterior power is quick, easy and ultimately hinders you in the long run. This is a gamble worth taking.
Anonymous
>>5800271 to add another bit, The immortals won't come down to slap our shit in.
Old five colours made his displeasure known the last time they did that. Bounced their tribulation lightning right back up at em.
Still, new topic.
Theoratical 9 tiers of Magical beast, 8 is the highest achieved.
I'd like to posit that it is better to focus down on bloodlines rather than multi-class into multiple.
Wild princess line goes up to 3, so that's a third of our choices made already. I don't think anyone here would disagree with it being in Huan's nature and demenour to be the undisputed ruler of cats. The greatest specimen of cat to ever exist.
Cosmic nature. . . is an unknown. So we can follow that to it's logical conclusion, for arguments sake lets say it is 3 as well, to leave us with a third bloodline.
What other bloodlines would you guys consider pretty good?
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>>5800359 Guardian deity, because one day we are going to usurp the heavens
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>>5800348 >Internal power can never be removed from you >brain damage >sealed meridians >fancy ass mumbo jumbo that does something or other to make you more less gooderer inside I'm just saying. There are absolutely ways to take that kinda stuff away. Some of them easier to shake off than others, but still there. Not disputing the usefulness, but honestly, I kinda want to just get the fuck out of here. I'm almost ready to just cut our losses, even. This place is a shithole.
Anonymous
>>5800359 I'm partial to Draconic or Chimera bloodline, myself-- but I don't think it's really something Huan would go for. Sanguine Predator or Crypt Sorcerer would be interesting, but I'm not sure which would be more useful (especially considering we haven't even got Cosmic Nature yet). All this, of course, also assumes that Grandfather doesn't introduce yet another mystery box bloodline, which will almost certainly win the vote.
Anonymous
>>5800465 >another mystery box I'm calling it for time travel bloodline
Anonymous
>>5800465 >>5800473 If there's another mystery box I'm pissing both of your pants.
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> Ah can whip those brats inta shape ta see if they was telling the truth or if y'all got were just playing a prank on...on me, *Hic* Ok...so the head martial god is going to go back to his party, gather up the idiots we tricked, and beat the shit out of them while confirming our existence. Or drink and fight with his wife. Or both. Once he confirms our existence what will he do? His head guard is out of commission at the moment (how fast do the gods heal?). Is he going to send the idiot squad after us? Or does he come himself?
How much time do we have here? And does anyone put the puzzle together, that maiden and cat are one and the same? Does the head god believe his brats, or does he dismiss them as pranksters when we're nowhere to be found?
... He's going to talk about this at a party full of gods. Oh...oh dear.
>>5800033 Switching from
>>5800148 To
> Continue on towards the palace on the horizon, before anyone whose brain isn't drowning in wine notices your trail! You're not giving up yet! The secret of the stars will be yours! Someone at that party is going to put two and two together. I'm guessing the head god's daughter, who was angry, about not being allowed out to hunt us? Someone sober, intelligent, and far far too powerful.
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>>5800512 Not if I shit yours fist!
Anonymous
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>>5800033 >Continue on towards the palace on the horizon, before anyone whose brain isn't drowning in wine notices your trail! You're not giving up yet! The secret of the stars will be yours! Our goal is beyond the heavens and it's only a matter of time before we're hunted down, so let's be expedient. It feels a bit wrong to give them so much credit when they're doling out pitiful displays like they have been, but we've gotten as far as we have by being prudent, and it only takes one stray swipe of one of these gods fingers to turn us into little more than fine dust.
Anonymous
>>5800033 >Stroll into the record halls and take a look at some of the prayers there while seeing if any of the scrolls there are worth stealing (Perception trial. DC unknown) I'm actually really liking this section because this is frankly the first time we and Huan have been in a situation where our unusual techniques, quick thinking, and a bit of luck can't fully protect us.
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>>5800585 Oh yes, it's been a wild and fun ride. Really glad we got into this mess.
Anonymous
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>>5800033 >Stroll into the record halls and take a look at some of the prayers there while seeing if any of the scrolls there are worth stealing (Perception trial. DC unknown) I figured we could find the map of heaven and help our future conquest easier. Or a inheritance list of ascended gods and raid them in the mortal world. Alchemist lists for pills. Gods currently in prison for be trouble makers that we could recruit later.
And no doubt the head record keeper and the vices are out at the party. Leaving the lower ranked gods here and with how lax this place is easy pickings before we head up to the sky.
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>>5800033 >Stroll into the record halls and take a look at some of the prayers there while seeing if any of the scrolls there are worth stealing (Perception trial. DC unknown) Anonymous
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>>5800033 >Continue on towards the palace on the horizon, before anyone whose brain isn't drowning in wine notices your trail! You're not giving up yet! The secret of the stars will be yours! Anonymous
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>>5800033 >Stroll into the record halls and take a look at some of the prayers there while seeing if any of the scrolls there are worth stealing (Perception trial. DC unknown) Anonymous
>>5800033 >Write in that costs almost bo effort and should conflict with no other vote: > Collect some of the divine blood spatters that was just distributet on the ground. It should be an ideal physical and Qi cultivation material! >>Continue on towards the palace on the horizon, before anyone whose brain isn't drowning in wine notices your trail! You're not giving up yet! The secret of the stars will be yours! Anonymous
>>5801261 >I support this write in whole heartedly. A drop will be . . Incalculable.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>Votes - 19 >Continue on towards the palace - 13 >Stroll into the record halls - 8 >This is too much! - 1 >Hmm, it looks like the building - 1 > Collect some of the divine blood - 3
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>>5801332 Huh, my ID changed.
I'm 72YFfiSl, the scaredy cat
>>5801261 Actually, I'll support getting some of that divine blood if we can.
Even if we don't get enough for cultivation, we might be able to use it to fool someone with our blood qi.
Anonymous
>>5801261 +1 to this write in
That is clever. Should not take us more then 2 seconds, and could be invaluable.
So long as they can't track their own blood, but I'm probably being paranoid. Anonymous
>>5801261 Supporting the blood collecting, even if we don't have a good means to store it besides pooling it into a little ball
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>>5801349 We could just soak some of our clothes with it, should be easy enough to extract later.
Anonymous
>>5801340 It's not like we're in a place where a single misstep resulted in our arms being clean cut off. It's not like there are beings who can sense us on the other side of a building, move to us in a blink, and bisect us.
Nothing to be paranoid about at all.
Anonymous
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>>5801332 The blood vote isnt going to gain traction.
Shit.
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>>5801332 Add me to the blood vote + record hall
>>5801730 I think QM can still include it.
Anonymous
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>>5801326 Support write in
Anonymous
Updated tally>Votes - 19 >Continue on towards the palace - 13 >Stroll into the record halls - 9 >This is too much! - 1 >Hmm, it looks like the building - 1 > Collect some of the divine blood - 8
Anonymous
>>5801759 This is your daily reminder that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.
Anonymous
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>>5801833 More like a swift and rapid execution in this instance.
Anonymous
>>5801759 Imma going to support the blood vote too.
Anonymous
>>5801759 Heck. I'll join in on the Divine blood collecting vote. It's on the way to the other stuff anyhow.
Anonymous
>>5800082 (It me in the case my id changed)
I'll change from manuscript pilfering to blood taking then run upward like hell.
Untraceable theft and potential to curse a martial god? Sign me up, we could even find a tooth if we're lucky!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Sat 21 Oct 2023 11:13:54 No. 5802963 Report Ending the vote, meant to do so yesterday but I burned myself while cooking breakfast and pretty much stayed in bed all day, cause oil burns fucking hurt. Luckily it wasn't serious, just had the supreme misfortune of a glob of boiling oil falling directly on top of my bare foot. I might've fixed my sleep schedule because of my choice to sleep through the pain
>>5801332 >>5801759 And thank you for tallying the vote in my stead my austere junior
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>>5802020 >>5802086 >>5802224 additional votes/ changes
You won't allow another's misfortune and take the oppurunity to harvest some of the blood the guardian deity has oh so carelessly left lying about, as it is an ideal material for both physical and Qi Cultivation (And it is)
And then continue towards the palace on the horizon, before anyone whose brain isn't drowning in wine notices what's going on
New update and thread will arrive shortly
Anonymous
>>5802963 Oh yeah, if possible you need to get in contact with the Suptg owner since
>>5802963 this thread got mislabeled
Anonymous
>>5802975 I'm still sorry about that
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:GJ/2QmaE Sat 21 Oct 2023 12:23:59 No. 5802992 Report >>5802986 New thread
>>5802975 >>5802977 It doesn't really bother me, certainly not as much as having the 7th thread outright deleted did, I'm fine with leaving it as is. The archive being a lil scuffed like Huan herself is fitting, I think, lol
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>>5802992 But when people go to read the archive, they will be confused about the gap between he threads, unless they notice the name when they open it and the link to thread 16 at the top.
If they see the gap in the archive itself, they will pay extra attention to the opening text and see it..
I'm speaking from experience of my lurker/archive reader times
