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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sat 21 Oct 2023 12:20:49 No. 5802987 Report >>5802986 Who with a single move, accidently cut both of your arms off and cut a deep ravine through the heavens. Acting quickly, you unleashed one of your secret arts, Cat's Court: Spiteful Blood Legacy" (猫 法院: 刻毒血遗产, Māofǎyuàn: Kèdúxuèyíchǎn), targeting your own precious spilled blood, summoning and channeling the grudges of ten generations of wrongfully murdered magical beasts.
An technique that would've finished the few rivals you theoretically have beneath the heavens, served only as a distraction to the monstrously powerful divinity, by sheer luck, one of the vestiges of enmity who answered your call seemed to have been a relation of his in the distant pass and drove him to such a rage he began to wreck the landscape around his master's abode.
Who as you high tailed it away and found a hiding spot atop the head of a gaudy star jade statue of Old five colors, came out of his den and beat the guardian deity who made the great you feel mortal terror, within an inch of his life so quickly you couldn't even sense their clashing.
However, when said master, the foremost martial god, came looking for you, he was so drunk he was unable to sense you or your spiritual aura as you hid behind the statue of the emperor of the heavens, who really lives in a shack out in the wilderness somewhere.
Just thinking back of the events of this night and early morning, make you realize how many times you've brushed with and courted death today, having risked your life far too often for you to be at all comfortable with since you've teetered on the edge between living and dying just by being in the presence of haughty and pique filled gods more times than you have since you stopped being little notched ear and earned your name, Huanliuxue.
And while the same well groomed and trained survival instinct and healthy sense of caution urges you to simply slip away and continue climbing the sky, by doing the unthinkable and entering the palace of the five colors celestial emperor so you can break out of the celestial courts into the cosmic wilderness beyond and catch a few stars, there is a treasure before your eyes.
Shining red, scarlet, crimson and carmine and smelling irresistible. It is the gold flecked blood of the guardian deity, that has been smeared and splattered all over the ground when his master dragged him around like an abused strawdoll.
For any heretically minded cultivator, that is a treasure that would be worth dying for, but for you, who practices blood sorcery and uses blood Qi extensively and have turned themselves into a perfected, uncursed form of Carmine Mystic without the numerous flaws of the old breed of blood sucking Jiangshi that created the most heathen and wicked art you stole, co-opted and improved just by practicing, that violent ape's blood is worth dying a thousand times over!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sat 21 Oct 2023 12:21:51 No. 5802989 Report >>5802987 A lick of it would send you rocketing up the ranks of carmine mysticism, unlocking powers and improving your physical cultivation at least ten fold, while using it for the rich blood Qi it gives of, even without purifying and cleansing it, would more than satisfy your need for sources of that most rare form of Qi.
Luckily, while you wouldn't call yourself a practitioner of ice magic, you know enough of it and have enough Water Qi in your meridians and cultivation base to be able to freeze the water in the air and cut it into vials that will never melt, due to the boost your Supreme Yin physique gives to your ice magic.
So, biting your tongue to stop from giggling in delight, you clamber down the great statue with as many ice vials as you can carry, and begin your harvest, using your ability to control blood to make the precious substance funnel itself directly into the vials.
It takes a bit of practice to manage to contain it without the container exploding violently and with a loud pop, but the only god, a tired eyed goddess with her haired tied into a tight bun and scrolls bursting out from every open space of her dress, just nods and waves you away when you stammer something about cleaning up the mess to her when she comes to see why a girl with shocking red hair is on her hands and knees in a puddle of blood, covered in sweat and pale as a corpse.
<span class="mu-s"> Divine Disguise integrity reduced by 1, current integrity, 1 </span>
Not your finest moment, but hey, at least the banality of her divine appointment kept her from asking any more troublesome questions, allowing you to secure your prize. God's blood turns out to be a tricky material to contain, it evaporates into a shiny, golden powder that blows away on the wind, turning into sparkling light, and it seems to have a mind of its own, that doesn't want to be taken by a demonic beast, making it resist your efforts to capture it every step of the way. However it does have one good property, and that is that when you are able to capture it in your vials of ice, it is able to be greatly condensed so your able to pack away much more blood into the dainty containers than is physically possible.
So while you only got four drops of divine blood out of all your hard work, those four drops are invaluable.
<span class="mu-s"> four drops of concentrated guardian deity blood obtained. Held in vials of celestial ice </span>
You stow them away somewhere safe on your person, and decide to not run away with your tail fluffed up and instead to continue on your mission to reach the stars by continuing on to the palace in the horizon, the empty throne of the heavenly emperor. Before anyone whose brain isn't drowned in wine notices what you're up to.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sat 21 Oct 2023 12:22:52 No. 5802990 Report >>5802989 Rolling one of the vials between your fingers to distract yourself from the fact that the Five Wise Immortal Sages (五哲仙哲, Wǔzhéxiānzhé), the strongest and most powerful immortals besides the old man of course, are probably waiting for you up the road, you notice that the golden tadpoles of Qi in the blood gathers together to form a golden core in its center, that reflects your face better than most mirrors. You return the vial to the hiding place in your clothes with the other three immediately, flicking it up into the air and catching it as it falls back down.
Getting distracted by a pretty face, even your own, now of all times will surely lead to your death. You need a plan if your going to break into the palace of the celestial emperor, even if its empty.
And what is that plan, Huanliuxue?
>Supreme Audacity! Just blitz through the gates and run as fast and far as your legs and numerous techniques can take you! (Haste trial. DC unknown) >Sacrifice one of the blood vials to cause a distraction (Trickery/ stealth/ magic trial. DC unknown) >Pretend to be seeking an audience with the five colors celestial emperor, using the lie you've told everyone else up to this point (Deception trial. DC unknown, altered by disguises integrity) >They know a demonic beast is in the heavens, not a carmine mystic. Rip out your heart and throw it as far as you can, hoping to reform your body around it (Fortitude/ Strength trial. DC Unknown) >Write in Anonymous
>>5802990 >Sacrifice one of the blood vials to cause a distraction (Trickery/ stealth/ magic trial. DC unknown) Anonymous
What do have to look in qstarchive to vote for the last thread? >>5802990 >They know a demonic beast is in the heavens, not a carmine mystic. Rip out your heart and throw it as far as you can, hoping to reform your body around it (Fortitude/ Strength trial. DC Unknown) Anonymous
>>5803004 Thread 17 is misarchived as 16, while thread 16 somehow got archived but doesn't appear
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sat 21 Oct 2023 12:52:48 No. 5803014 Report Quoted By:
>>5803005 Yeah, I archived it, but for some reason Suptg freaked out and didn't list it anywhere. And a well meaning anon tried to archive it, despite me mentioning this, and ended up archiving thread 17 by mistake.
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>>5802990 >sacrifice one of the vials. 3 is still more than we need. It doesnt hurt to give it up, since we just got it.
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>>5802990 >Sacrifice one of the blood vials to cause a distraction (Trickery/ stealth/ magic trial. DC unknown) Anonymous
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>>5802990 >Sacrifice one of the blood vials to cause a distraction (Trickery/ stealth/ magic trial. DC unknown) Anonymous
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>>5802990 >Sacrifice one of the blood vials to cause a distraction Anonymous
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>>5802990 >Pretend to be seeking an audience with the five colors celestial emperor, using the lie you've told everyone else up to this point (Deception trial. DC unknown, altered by disguises integrity) Anonymous
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>>5802990 >>Pretend to be seeking an audience with the five colors celestial emperor, using the lie you've told everyone else up to this point (Deception trial. DC unknown, altered by disguises integrity) Anonymous
When we get back we should try using at least one drop to improve our peach
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>>5803125 Talking about when we come back, I hope we don't end up being too late (or hurt) to deal with dad.
If Monu is our adopted mom, he is her ex-boyfriend and the drunk was our nephew, the dude is our dad. Anonymous
>>5803132 I doubt we'd be too late, we're the mc after all, though we may arrive to find several of our students injured by him.
>>5803125 Having though it over I wouldn't be surprised if the blood would also be great for improving the Five Elements Springs belonging to us and to The five colours and five purities sect
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>>5802990 >Pretend to be seeking an audience with the five colors celestial emperor, using the lie you've told everyone else up to this point (Deception trial. DC unknown, altered by disguises integrity) Anonymous
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>>5802990 >Sacrifice one of the blood vials to cause a distraction (Trickery/ stealth/ magic trial. DC unknown) I don't think that we can outrun anybody but the most anemic of gods
Our disguise is paper thin and we're carrying vials of blood on us.
Throwing our heart away would mean to leave a body and the blood we just collected.
Frankly i would have liked it if we could have added stealth to our haste trial but this trickery option will have to be enough.
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>>5803132 We'll probably just arrive on Goku timing with several people hurt. Just gotta make sure our entrance makes up for the delay, like coming down as a blood meteor
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>>5803147 >improve the five elements spring >now the vermilion springs of five elements Vermilion seems more fitting than crimson, considering it came from a deity. Because of the Vermilion bird cardinal beast from mythology. A divine animal. It all works beautifully.
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>>5802990 >Sacrifice one of the blood vials to cause a distraction (Trickery/ stealth/ magic trial. DC unknown) Anonymous
>>5803147 I don't think the blood is best used as a thing to enhance the springs.
I think we should use 1 drop to MASSIVELY improve our dao of blood, another drop to hang in our meditation chamber.
And the last dot, can supersede the peach and allow us to grow a blood swamp/spring of our own, aftrer refining it.. We just need to find a way to section it off from the rest of our territory.
That's the best dispersion I can think of.
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>>5803422 Maybe it would help revitalize the preserved peach and let it grow into a tree, so it's not the last of it's kind anymore.
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>>5802990 >sacrifice one of the blood vials Anonymous
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>>5803429 It took peaches 1000 years to grow and mature, for a product inferior to the blood.
I can abide planting the peach in the blood swamp idea, but I reject just reviving the plant. It's a waste of immense perportions.
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>>5803227 > Disciples all beaten and broken on the ground > Winter Blossoming elder calls us a coward for running away > Snow storm clears... > Starts raining blood > Fu starts laughing > Winter Blossoming Elder looks up > New star in the sky > Red star Anonymous
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>>5803602 >extra-orbital dynamic re-entry Please, sir, I can only get so erect.
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>>5803602 The Comet Pounce
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>>5802990 >Pretend to be seeking an audience with the five colors celestial emperor, using the lie you've told everyone else up to this point (Deception trial. DC unknown, altered by disguises integrity) Think it's a fool's errand but it's that or risk giving up a vial.
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>>5803839 The only problem is our disguise only has one HP left. Whereas we have four vials.And if we drop our disguise in the midst of them, we're basically as good as dead. I'm less worried about getting in than I am about getting stuck in there and constantly worrying about the disguise falling before we can get out.
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>>5802990 >Sacrifice one of the blood vials to cause a distraction (Trickery/ stealth/ magic trial. DC unknown) Shame to lose one, but frankly at a single disguise point remaining best not to take chances.
A... decidedly insane approach does come to mind though should we encounter one of the five sages. Could we...embody the grudge of the 5 Color Emperor? Likely madness of the highest order but...
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>>5803892 I feel like we would literally explode. But to be more serious, we are still limited somewhat by our own limits even when wearing a mask. We just tend to have enough options to do stuff similar to whomever we are using the aspect of while utilizing their mindset and skillset. Huan trying to embody Grampa Ling would still only be as strong as Huan can force herself to be. We'd be burning extremely brightly, but it would burn us out to try and actually do as 5 Colors do, and not nearly as impressively still.
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>>5802990 >>Pretend to be seeking an audience with the five colors celestial emperor, using the lie you've told everyone else up to this point (Deception trial. DC unknown, altered by disguises integrity) Anonymous
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>>5802990 >>Write in > I just love write-ins and convoluted actions: > use one vial to boost our Carmine Mysticism (we need a bit more Carmine performance for the following stunt) > Use Blood Qi to grow a second heart that is "good enough" to not immediately die without our real heart > Rip out our real heart, wrap it together with our remaining vials and throw it. But throw it downwards! It's much easier throw downwards than upwards! > Our body then walks upwards, pretending to having been mortally injured by Huanliuxue and having the wish to die amongst the stars. Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
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Ending the vote, tallying the result now. Sacrifice one of the blood vials to cause a distraction: 9 They know a demonic beast is in the heavens, not a carmine mystic. Rip out your heart and throw it as far as you can, hoping to reform your body around it:1 Pretend to be seeking an audience with the five colors celestial emperor, using the lie you've told everyone else up to this point: 5 Convoluted plan: 1 So You'll sacrifice one of the blood vials to cause a distraction Update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sun 22 Oct 2023 16:19:18 No. 5804255 Report The thought of testing just how important the transformed heart of a carmine mystic is crosses your mind, along with excerpts from the few surviving stories of the demonic sect whose legacy you've taken and made your own, how hard the strongest of those blood guzzling monsters were to put down without them finding some way to rise again from their unmarked graves or sealed prisons. But they've been dead for so long, before even your kind fell from grace and became nothing more than beasts to hunt, that figuring out which of those ghost stories have any sliver of truth would require intense study and actual practice with your abilities as a pure carmine mystic, and you haven't done much to figure out exactly what you can do as one besides turning one cultivator into the debased form of jiangshi that make up most of the art's legacy and grooming Renshu and Ruolan into becoming the true, proper new kind of carmine mystic like yourself. If you had studied and experimented with this brand of mysticisms unique and ghoulish abilities and powers, you might take a risk of seeing if the stories of them only needing a mumified heart to persist in their wretched state of undeath were true by ripping out your own and filling it to bursting with the rest of your body, refined and melted down into so much blood. But, improvisation is as much of a killer as it is a savior, even for a prodigy such as yourself. Especially when you're already courting death just by breathing in the air around you. Now isn't the time to indulge in your curiosities, scientific or macabre. Sure Fu survived having his head lopped over like a rotten tree trunk, but would your survive ripping out your own heart? There's a sliver of doubt that you wouldn't, even with all the work and effort you put into improving and adapting it into a sort of blood cauldron. Bleeding out because you got cocky and decided to trust hearsay and old stories meant to frighten children and novice cultivators alike is perhaps the death you'd like to avoid the most. If you have to die at all, it should be flashy and memorable and a worthy end to the glorious and proud life you lived so far. Dignified and above all else elegant. Sighing through your nose, you pluck a vial of divine blood from within your rob and hold it between the knuckles of two of your fingers, swinging it back and forth as you rock your wrist up and down. The true potential of carmine mysticism remains sealed and hidden, but you have some experience with the more base and common kinds of blood sorcery and plenty of talent with manipulating blood and making use of Blood tinged Qi. You were hoping to use all four of the vials for your own development or for the betterment of your sect. 'I suppose reaching the stars is more than worthy enough a cause to toss away such a prize' You decided after deliberating if sacrificing such a valuable thing is a good idea. Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sun 22 Oct 2023 16:20:18 No. 5804258 Report >>5804255 Smirking, you toss the vial up and catch it, shattering it with a single clench of your fist. The chilled blood spurts between your fingers and drips down from your hand as a thick slime.
<span class="mu-s"> Roll 2d100. DC 145 . Best out of five </span>
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Rolled 44, 54 = 98 (2d100) >>5804258 Come on, Defy the heavens
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Rolled 27, 10 = 37 (2d100) >>5804258 Damn that's a high DC
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Rolled 59, 89 = 148 (2d100) >>5804258 Anonymous
>>5804271 FUCK YEAH
Now we just need to see if anyone gets us extra Degrees.
GOOD JOB JUNIOR!
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Rolled 79, 14 = 93 (2d100) >>5804255 Anonymous
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Rolled 15, 81 = 96 (2d100) >>5804258 Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sun 22 Oct 2023 16:49:10 No. 5804284 Report >>5804271 That was a close one. Success! Update will arrive shortly
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>>5804273 >>5804284 This humble disciple has brought good fortune to his martial brothers at last. I usually don't roll, just because my luck stat is low IRL-- but I'm glad this worked out, even if it was by the skin of Huan's teeth.
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>>5804284 I hope this is enough to end this heaven adventure.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sun 22 Oct 2023 18:15:29 No. 5804358 Report The trick to getting past the Heavenly emperor's empty palace, is simply not to break into it at all but to make anyone guarding it think you did. You aren't here to plunder the nine heavens of their treasures or find out any dirty secrets kept by the five wise immortal sages, you've tested your luck and cunning more times than you care to consider today just making your way into the heavens and up them towards their oh so distant skies. Sure there might be a stairway inside of it that leads directly to the choicest patch of stars or maybe there's a shepherdess of the stars visiting the palace that you could tail to find the path, but the idea of their being an easier path hidden behind its walls made of every color of jade, twinkling like the distant stars themselves in the morning light is just hopeful thinking. Much more likely, the moment you break down the gate, you'll run into all five of the wise immortal sages. So the only way you can imagine you'll get through the palace on the end of all horizons, is simply not to enter it to begin with and just to climb over it while everyone is looking for an intruder inside of it. Which means, you need to make one hell of a distraction to keep this ruse from being immediately uncovered. Which is where the broken vial of god's blood dribbling slowly out of your hands like congee comes into play. The moment you open your hand, which you feel like is about to explode apart from the pressure of the blood you just released, all of the blood condescend in the palm of your hand will burst forth. That in of itself would be a good distraction, vandalizing the palace of the ruler of the nine heavens with something as "Filthy" as blood, but you have another plan in mind for it. Stabbing one of your carefully trimmed nails into the palm of your other hand, you draw blood, and when you pull your clenched fist back from your open hand you draw it out of your veins like a long ribbon and carefully siphon it into your tightly clenched fist, mixing it with the divine ichor inside of it and polluting it, but also infecting it with your blood Qi, allowing you control over it. Then, thrusting your arm forward and opening up your hand and nearly breaking a few of your fingers from the force of the godly blood as it rushes out to fill the air as a massive jet of gold flecked blood, tiny tadpoles of heavenly spiritual energy swimming through out it, you direct its flow towards the massive, gilded gates leading up to the palace. Pushing your arm inside of the end of the stream, you clench it into a fist as the bloody river pulls you along with such vigor it feels like your arm will be ripped right out of its socket as you're whipped around by the current. Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sun 22 Oct 2023 18:16:30 No. 5804360 Report >>5804358 Waiting until the uncontrolled geyser of blood lifts you high up into the air, you funnel as much Yin Qi into the palm of your clenched fist as your body can contain, transmuting it into raw, destructive Yin Qi and using the divine blood wrapped around your arm and spraying the walls of The five colors celestial emperor's palace as a kindling for one of your simplest but most trustworthy of spells.
A destructive Yin sphere that has been glutted on heavenly Qi and further empowered by the blood it is submerged in, that you've also been subjecting to the forbidden art of blood refinement (Xuèjīngliàn, 血精炼) since you stuck your hand into its crimson depths. For a flicker of a moment, the time it takes for you to close your eyes halfway in a blink, the world greys as the wild whipping stream reaches its apex and throws you high into the sky, so high in fact you can see over the walls of the palace. Then, struggling against the currents and destruction trapped in the palm of your hand, you separate two fingers from your fist and use them to unleash the largest and most powerful destructive Yin sphere you've ever created.
The simple act of casting the spell, a simple Qi dart, throws your arm back out of the bloody river as it surges forward and grows as it eclipses the entire jetstream of blood, enveloping it and reacting to it as its smooth surfaces flaws and begins to crack, unleashing pillars of onyx black lightning from its depths as the explosion of Qi begins to collapse in on itself.
But before it does, you place a single dying grudge shield beneath yourself, before a ink black cloud of pure destruction erupts from the yin sphere as it crashes into the gates of the palace and sends a ripple of silent force outwards, before a deafening roar chases after it, so loud it shakes dust from the gate and walls around it.
The dying grudge shield you hid behind to keep from blowing yourself to bits cracks, and you kick off it the moment before it returns all of the energy it absorbed back down towards the ground. A second shockwave, a second roar, and you're launched over the walls. With a twist of your shoulder and a roll of your hips, your spinning through the air.
You doubt that was enough to crack the walls or bust open the gate, but it made enough noise to make it seem like you did. If you actually did, well that's something to brag about later. Now you just need to focus on sticking your landing. Throwing out your arms to slow your decent and using your specter lightness skill to lighten yourself by way of becoming partially ethereal and more ghostly, you look down and see you're seconds away from crashing through a high arched window.
Arcing your back, you lunge forward, throwing both of you arms out and bracing for impact. You feel it in your teeth, as shards of glass rip through your clothes and cut into your skin.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sun 22 Oct 2023 18:17:31 No. 5804364 Report >>5804360 And the moment before you hit the floor, you roll, over and under, stopping yourself just before your collide with the wall.
Blinking, you glance around. You fell into an empty room, its furniture covered in sheets, its walls lined with cobwebs and dust filling the air, and covering the ground, several inches deep. Disgusted, you leap to your feet and see the clothes you "borrowed" from the home of the foremost god now barely cover your chest and shoulders, having been completely evaporated from the backlash of the Dying grudge shield. No matter.
Wasting no time, you run through the line your landing cut through the dust and leap out the window, shielding your eyes with your arms. The sound of the shards of glass hitting the ground is almost musical, like the tinkling of chimes. Now you didn't just leap out of the window to be dramatic, practically nude, slamming your body through a hole of jagged glass cut you all over, giving your more than enough wounds to draw blood out of use to create some false tracks for anyone who comes to investigate the two explosions.
Floating in the air, you create a scene that won't hold up to scrutiny but will be believable enough to trick the first responders, who'll be frantic and might even thinking the Celestial palace is under attack. With a few flicks of your fingers, you paint the wall leading up to the broken window and the room behind it red, leaving paw prints through the scarlet streak and smearing them to make it look like a tail brushed across the fake tracks. Then, with your scrapes and cuts already healing, you drift through the air and land on the balls of your feet, smearing the jade tiles of the palace's roof and don't look back to admire your artistry as you sprint up it and clamber up the side of another wall to the second tier of the palace's rooftop and keep running, ripping off what remains of the clothes you borrowed shamelessly as you leap nude from one portion of root to the next, soaring over a garden and rolling on your side, barely avoiding falling off the edge and into a recreation of a battleground, with carefully polished but broken weapons and the skulls of beasts and demons half buried in pale white sand.
Grimacing, you hop to your feet, flick your eyes around and take in only as much of your surroundings as you need to plot a course across the palace's roofs and to its highest tower, where you'll use as a platform to leap into astral void.
And you'll need to rush through it and be quick about scaling this last hurdle, because you can already hear the alarms and shouting voices not too far behind you. Seems your "attack" on the gate drew more attention than your yowling at the bottom of the nine heavens did. But that's fine.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sun 22 Oct 2023 18:18:37 No. 5804367 Report >>5804364 Flashing a confident, audacious grin, you embody the swiftness of death as you run forward and fling yourself into the empty air, lifting your legs to your chest and throwing out your arms, flying above the mock battlefield to wrap your arms around a pillar holding up a roof over a pavilion set with empty tables and dust covered teawares atop them.
With much haste and little grace, you shimmy up the pillar and make good use of your flexibility to bend your legs over your head, using them to latch onto the neck of a dragon forged out of gold that graces the corner of the pavilion's ceiling. Then you just simply lean back and curl and grab ahold of its lower jaw, careful not to prick yourself on its teeth, and flip up on top of it.
Glancing back, your gnash your teeth as you see and sense the auras of dozens of gods, all rushing to the celestial emperor's palace.
That was faster than you expected. Much faster. They didn't waste anytime, so you can't either.
What do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Waste no time, turn back into a cat and get to the top of the palace as quickly as you can, not stopping for anything (Haste trial. DC unknown) >To be safe, make a few more, lesser distractions, to throw off your trail and keep the gods away from the course you plotted across the roof tops (Mischief/ stealth trial. DC unknown) >Caution is key, slow down just enough to stay alert and keep yourself from getting ambushed or sneak attacked by something that could reduce you to a red smear >Reflect on the events of the day, hoping to gain some insight or revelation that will inspire the creation of a new technique that'll make reaching the stars as easy as extending your claws ( Wisdom/ intellect trial. DC unknown) >Write in It's the final stretch
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>>5804367 >To be safe, make a few more, lesser distractions, to throw off your trail and keep the gods away from the course you plotted across the roof tops (Mischief/ stealth trial. DC unknown) Anonymous
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>>5804367 >Reflect on the events of the day, hoping to gain some insight or revelation that will inspire the creation of a new technique that'll make reaching the stars as easy as extending your claws ( Wisdom/ intellect trial. DC unknown) Anonymous
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>>5804367 >Reflect on the events of the day, hoping to gain some insight or revelation that will inspire the creation of a new technique that'll make reaching the stars as easy as extending your claws ( Wisdom/ intellect trial. DC unknown) We've seen and done a lot in the home of our final foes, so it's fitting
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>>5804367 >>To be safe, make a few more, lesser distractions, to throw off your trail and keep the gods away from the course you plotted across the roof tops (Mischief/ stealth trial. DC unknown) Anonymous
>>5804367 >Caution is key, slow down just enough to stay alert and keep yourself from getting ambushed or sneak attacked by something that could reduce you to a red smear Distractions are just trails that lead back to us. Haste is noisy. Stopping is suicide.
Given that the greatest treasures in the heavens are likely just below our feet, who in their right mind would be on the rooftops, climbing up? Surely the Happy Bloodshed seeks to murder the five color emperor, or steal his treasures? Only a housecat would invade the heavens just to perch on the highest ledge in the universe.
Ehehehe.
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>>5804367 >Reflect on the events of the day Yeah this should be the simpelest test. We get bonuses for witnessing things and understanding them, and we've seen tons of shit today.
So in the interest of lowering the DC by providing valuable ideas/experiences
>The divine sense of the guardian god, plus his instant transmission. >The shooting arrow of the bastard that cut us on the way up and how the teal fire worked. >The running speed of the idiot junior gods we tricked into giving us a ride. >The beasts and vistas of the upper heavens, surely something there would have sparked our minds. >The very palace around us is probably bountiful in insights, that preserved battlefield is probably where they captured the moment of their betrayal Give me a few more minutes and I'll come up with some technique ideas.
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>>5804392 Oh, plus our blood legacy, THAT unleashed a lot of animal inspiration.
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>>5804376 I can also support
>Caution is key, slow down just enough to stay alert and keep yourself from getting ambushed or sneak attacked by something that could reduce you to a red smear I just want this to end
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>>5804367 >Caution is key, slow down just enough to stay alert Anonymous
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>>5804367 >Reflect on the events of the day, hoping to gain some insight or revelation that will inspire the creation of a new technique that'll make reaching the stars as easy as extending your claws ( Wisdom/ intellect trial. DC unknown) I wanted to vote for haste trial but in a toss-up between pondering and slowing down I'll take the pondering
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>>5804367 >Reflect on the events of the day, hoping to gain some insight or revelation that will inspire the creation of a new technique that'll make reaching the stars as easy as extending your claws ( Wisdom/ intellect trial. DC unknown) Part of me wants to just run, but Huanliuxue has always been one to use her head.
>It's the final stretch That should reassure me, yet for some reason it makes me *very* nervous.
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>>5804367 >To be safe, make a few more, lesser distractions, to throw off your trail and keep the gods away from the course you plotted across the roof tops (Mischief/ stealth trial. DC unknown) Anonymous
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>>5804390 Ah hell, I can't resist. Switch me over to
>Reflect on the events of the day, hoping to gain some insight or revelation that will inspire the creation of a new technique that'll make reaching the stars as easy as extending your claws ( Wisdom/ intellect trial. DC unknown) From the caution option. We're as safe as we're going to be in the heavens, and we're here to learn after all.
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>>5804367 >Caution is key, slow down just enough to stay alert and keep yourself from getting ambushed or sneak attacked by something that could reduce you to a red smear Anonymous
>>5804392 I'm pretty sure that the room we crashed into also carries some significance. A sealed room that noone dares enter with the furniture gathering dust is usually a marker of a painful death, maybe of a child?
The more mundane explanation would be if it's just messy to illustrate the general decay we've seen in the heavens so far.
I sincerely hope we did not just vandalize the room of 5CEs dead daughter or something...
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>>5804527 It was an honest mistake. He probably won't hit us more than once out of reflex. Maybe.
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>>5804367 >Reflect on the events of the day, hoping to gain some insight or revelation that will inspire the creation of a new technique that'll make reaching the stars as easy as extending your claws ( Wisdom/ intellect trial. DC unknown) There has to be some sort of tell for them using insta-transmission or simply a burst of power.
Also i feel like the distraction was kind of a bad move, before they were searching the city, now they are looking around the palace itself.
Also now i wonder if we were to recreate our body from our heart, then make a new heart and give it a piece of our soul would we have a twin on hand?
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>>5804367 >Reflect on the events of the day, hoping to gain some insight or revelation that will inspire the creation of a new technique that'll make reaching the stars as easy as extending your claws ( Wisdom/ intellect trial. DC unknown) Anonymous
>>5804367 >Waste no time, turn back into a cat and get to the top of the palace as quickly as you can, not stopping for anything (Haste trial. DC unknown) [Stray Cat Strut plays in the background]
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Updated the pastebin with our new technique and loot. Of two minds about including theme music. Because grandfather's taste slaps.
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>>5804367 >>To be safe, make a few more, lesser distractions, to throw off your trail and keep the gods away from the course you plotted across the roof tops (Mischief/ stealth trial. DC unknown) Anonymous
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>>5804367 >Reflect on the events of the day, hoping to gain some insight or revelation that will inspire the creation of a new technique that'll make reaching the stars as easy as extending your claws ( Wisdom/ intellect trial. DC unknown) Anonymous
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Tue 24 Oct 2023 15:04:48 No. 5806060 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote now.
>>5805950 Thank you junior, though by my count the total was 16. Doesn't change anything however
So you'll reflect on the events of the day, hoping to create a new technique to expedite getting the hell out of the heavens.
Update will arrive shortly
>>5805182 thank you!
>>5804527 Blood stains are hard to wash out...
>>5804458 Nothing to worry about, surely.
>>5804390 lol
>>5804889 Good song
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Tue 24 Oct 2023 15:29:03 No. 5806081 Report However, even as you move your legs and continue running across the rooftops, your mind wanders elsewhere and away from what's in front of you, trusting your instincts and muscles to know when to jump, when to slide, when the scramble, when to climb and when to just run. Instead, your thoughts meander through this terrifyingly eventful day and all the daring and life threatening things you've done throughout it. Escaping death's grasp by the whiskers on your face, seeing with your own eyes the decay of the heavens and seeing just how frightening even indolent and apathetic gods can be. Visions, memories that made your life flash before your eyes and at the time made you too frantic to escape with your life to ponder or contemplate what your sharp eyes were seeing, play back in your mind's eyes, slowed down and stretched out, like watching a puppet show retelling your frantic adventure through the celestial court. From the beginning, when you did what no one had dared to even consider doing and simply flew up past the sky and into the heavens, nearly slipping by unnoticed before an arrow shot by a sore loser nearly ended your journey and made reaching the stars far more difficult. Why didn't the teal fires the scorched the sunset gold hued clouds around you not singe and eat away at your fur? Why didn't it burn you? The quiet humiliation of being carried by brainless godlings, and the great fun you had in making them all but wet themselves in fright over a "Demon" they could've bested without any effort on their part. How easily they were tricked by just a pretty face and watery eyes. And how swiftly they moved through the heavenly realm, quicker than any wind or dancing bolt of lightning! All of the breath stealing vistas and views that made the heart yearn and weep in a way you still can't quite put into words, the beauty of the heavens inspiring a sense of longing that you can't describe or place what exactly it is you're longing for! And the heavenly beasts and celestial fauna, as mysterious as they were graceful, otherworldly beyond reckoning yet just as eye catching as the heavens themselves, as different as their counterparts down beneath the clouds and skies as the heavens are to earth itself. Alien, yet familiar, like myths and legend come to life. Like dreams born again into flesh and blood. Illusions given substance and made tangible. Like ghosts you can touch. 'Well, I've pretty much always been able to "Touch" ghosts' You wandering thoughts muse as you fling yourself from one branch of a towering gingko tree to another, its autumn gold leaves falling around you and sticking onto your bare body, glued in place by sweat, blood and dust You grab hold of the next branch, and pause for a moment, hanging onto it and making it droop down with a long creak as you gather your recollections of the day and meditate on them, shifting through them for worthwhile insights or heavens' shaking wisdoms. Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Tue 24 Oct 2023 15:30:04 No. 5806082 Report >>5806081 <span class="mu-s"> Roll 2d100. DC 108. Best out of five </span>
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Rolled 27, 33 = 60 (2d100) >>5806082 Anonymous
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Rolled 7, 68 = 75 (2d100) >>5806082 Anonymous
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Rolled 24, 49 = 73 (2d100) >>5806082 Anonymous
Rolled 70, 68 = 138 (2d100) >>5806082 I hate the heavens, we roll like shit here.
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Rolled 38, 1 = 39 (2d100) >>5806082 Anonymous
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>>5806089 I guess the dice like to be ironic
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>>5806089 Thank FUCK, I was getting real nervous there.
This would have been a sad place to fail in.
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>>5806089 Great success, 30 over DC. Update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Tue 24 Oct 2023 17:07:34 No. 5806160 Report But your meditations keep getting clogged with perhaps your greatest blunder of the day, rising up again and again from your memories to spoil your ruminations and ruining your calm with feelings of indignation and burning shame. You should've recognized what you were feeling, even if his perceptions were nearly indistinguishable from the unease of being in the presence of greater beast and more vicious predator. You, who declares herself the ideal of the rules of nature and the laws of the natural world, life and death itself, and works to return the world to following and upholding those innate laws and the justice of the wilds rather than the hypocritical drivel and selfish mandates of the heavens, wasn't able to distinguish the unease of a predator on the hunt and the feeling of being watched. To a truly civilized mind, one born into the safety of city walls who knows not night without the light of hearth or lantern, there is no difference. But even with the sense of humanity and understanding you've fostered, and all you've learned about how little separates humans from any other beast, you recognize that there is a difference between a prowling hunter and one lying in wait. They're different! A stalking tiger prowls its territory, a spider merely sits atop its web and waits for prey to blunder into the sticky trap it has woven. And you stepped directly into the guardian deities web, mistaking the dread of his presence with a hungry beast searching its domain for a meal. Mistaking the warnings of your survival instincts for something else, and that cost you your arms for a time and nearly cost you your life. An unforgiveable mistake, a most shameful misstep. A folly that a girl who proclaims herself the empress of all beasts, and that she lives by natural laws rather than the edicts of the heavens, should never had made. There is no defense you can make for yourself for blundering so terribly. And admitting this, against the protests of your pride, allows you to achieve clarity and true calmness of mind, as you look past your fuck up to contemplate the divine sense of the man who maimed you. Temporarily. It felt like a thousand eyes, sprouting from every tree, every stone, every blade of grass and even bursting from the sky like so many maggots chewing through a corpse. And thinking back on the moments you had to realize you were in danger, it was a perfect sphere surrounding the palaces ground. A sphere. Like the shape your self taught lightness skill creates, altering perceptions. And he moved from one edge of it to the other, similar to your phantom cat step technique at a glance. To an untrained novice's eye maybe. He cleared a vast distant in an instant, the sort of feat you only hear about gods doing. In legend. But why can't you? You're a legend in the making, even if your name is more infamous than famous, more feared than adored. Cont
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>>5806160 And while it would be impossible to replicate the technique, innate ability, divine power or intuition trained to such an extreme it becomes a supernatural sense in of itself, you could take inspiration from it. And the eclipse you wore when he cut off your arms. If you could figure out how to use whatever power you now hold that turns the world grey and sluggish, as if you had caught everything in your specter lightness skill but it isn't just a trick of the mind, then maybe you could create a lesser version of the guardian deity's charge. But since you haven't figured out how to use that trick on command yet, you need to get creative. And as the foremost heretic beneath the heavens, innovating is your forte. One reason you've gotten as far as you have, is the element of surprise is nearly always on your side. Sure anyone with experience or fighting instinct can figure out the specter lightness skill's gimmick after being caught by it once, and figuring out how it its lightening differs from the standard is practically child's play, but most who have seen it, don't see it a second time.
A sphere...why does it need to be a sphere? Why can't it be a line? Or some other shape. Why can't it be formless? Formless means there is no limit to its range, only your perceptions. And of course your ability to keep track of every moving part of this technique. But what form does this formless technique take?
Eclipse. A total solar eclipse. The moon hiding the sun. Darkness enveloping light. Light in darkness. Ghost flames. False ghost flames, one of the spells you learned early on and haven't had much use for besides ambient lighting or playing mean tricks on the skittish, like Yuyi. But the false ghost lights are made of pure yin. Your body has two physiques, one yin, the other Yang. And the latter is...strange, a white dot of yang in your supreme Yin body. Like how your soul sometimes look when you don't make the effort to appear as either of yourselves, but ghostly, when you wander outside of your body. Hmm. Hmm
A dot of yang in yin. Placing a little life in false death. Blood in the breath of ghosts. Sunlight hidden in ghostly light. But what does that mean?
Yin and Yang can't be separated, they're always intertwined. Like life and death. The sun and moon constantly chase one another across the skies, an endless celestial dance. One of the immutable, unchangeable truths of nature. It commands the tides of the sea, changes the seasons. Day and night. One celestial body taking the other's place in the sky.
The eclipse goes against this rule. But it is also natural. Like a hawk catching a hare, or a cat a mouse. When their cycles across the sky synch up, one covers the other, subsumes the other. Yin or Yang supremacy. Or that is what scholars and sages declare it. But isn't it the opposite?
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Tue 24 Oct 2023 17:09:56 No. 5806162 Report Like your eclipsed Yang physique. Yin and Yang in harmony. Sun and moon embracing. Not like predator and prey in the throws of death, but the embrace of lovers, of mates long separated but joined again. The brief meeting of the sun and moon. The eclipse. Where they rejoin. The moment Yin and Yang become shades of grey, become one, indistinguishable. Like ash after a fire. Ash. Taking the white light of Yang and transferring it, like fire from a torch to kindling, between pockets of Yin energies. Transferring life to death. the blurring of the lines drawn in the sand. Between living and dying. Between being here, and being there. Without the intermediate period of moving from here to there. Cat's court: Phantom Cat Waltz (猫 法院: 幽灵猫圆舞曲, Māofǎyuàn: Yōulíngmāoyuánwǔ qǔ) A formless array of false ghost lights, hanging in the air, that you can reshape as easily as you would the arrangement of them any other time. Changing its shape and breadth as you see fit, making an area where you simply do not need to move in. You can just, switch where you're standing with where one of the fake ghost flames is bobbing. By transferring the Yang of your life with their Yin, switching around seamlessly like you were cheating in a game of dice. You already know how to move Qi around, why can't you do the same with the Qi in your own body? You have to move it from your flesh into your spirit whenever you wandered out of it as half a ghost, anyways. That's the theory at least, trusting in what insights you now have concerning the true nature of eclipses and the movements of the two most important celestial bodies. Fitting. You'll reach the stars by understanding them, by meditating on their movements and ceaseless dancing across the night sky, like so many shoals of fish Well if this works outside of theory but, well, eclipses and cats are mysterious things, so as mysterious as your thoughts and as enigmatic as your goals are to everyone besides yourself they're just common sense to you. The shifting of celestial bodies Of sun and Moon, of Cat and Illusion, Yang and Yin. Ghost light and Huanliuxue! Not moving an inch, you create a handful of false ghost lights, and envisioning and focusing hard on the image of an eclipse slowly forming in the midday sky, you close your eyes, and try to shift your body along with the Qi you transfer into the flickering swaying puddles of Yin energy you scattered in the air And when you open them again, after a rush of strange movement that completely smashed your sense of direction and gave a feeling close to vertigo but not quite, you're standing where the ghost light was before and it is hanging in the air where you were a moment before A grin breaks your solemn expression that you wear when in deep thought or meditation, and soon, laughing like a witch, you're blinking from one area to the next, practicing to become comfortable with this new technique that even you barely understand how it works
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Tue 24 Oct 2023 17:10:57 No. 5806164 Report >>5806162 Setting lines of ghost flames and testing the limits of how far you can switch places with them and how many places you can have a ghost flame set to before it becomes impossible for your mind to keep up, and you begin making mistakes or forgetting where exactly you've left your mock ghost lights.
In theory, this is one of those vaunted limitless techniques that sects adore to claim their founders mastered, allowing them to move from one end of the world to the other, or strike an enemy from the same distance or by pass any shield, armor or guard. But your current abilities limit it far below being limitless. And it requires set up to do anything besides moving from one point to the other, and it becomes more complicated and mentally straining to recall exactly where you can move the more ghost lights you add to the Waltz formless expanse, and moving them around makes that more difficult. You'll need to practice more to use it in battle, but as a movement technique it is...
"Flawless!' You declare with another burst of laughter, using a combination of your partial ethereal lightness, the new technique and building up momentum before switching with your ghost lights, to breeze through the palaces grounds, flying through the air with ease and little effort as you clear rooftops and surpass walls with even less trouble than you'd have climbing up or leaping over them
It becomes a bit dicey, keeping up your momentum and moving across the palace faster than a vengeful ghost after the target of its grudges, when debris, all of it hunks of jade, begin to shower from the sky. You actually stop when the first chunk of jade clatters to your feet as you show off to no one by striking a dramatic pose after your latest swapping of positions. The first thought you have is 'Oh! I actually broke the walls with that distraction' the second is 'Oh no! I have to get out of here', as several tons more of jade blocks come whistling down from the sky.
But the frantic pace you need to keep to avoid having your head split open by falling jade or else being squished flat beneath it, does make accustoming yourself to using the phantom cat waltz easier and faster than it would be if you hadn't added oil to the fire and were practicing without any threats to your life. Being in eminent danger of being crushed beneath rubble is better encouragement to learn quickly than praise or anything else is!
Acting on instinct and moving and creating new ghost flames whenever you need to move from beneath the shadow of a pillar of jade, you combine the new technique with running, relying on both your innate grace, dexterity and this cheat of an ability to escape the fate of so many worms, only using the cat's waltz when you have no way of escaping the shower of massive rocks.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Tue 24 Oct 2023 17:11:58 No. 5806166 Report >>5806164 "YOU!" A voice calls out, as an aura so blinding you have to look away appears in front of you, seemingly out of nowhere, before there is a loud crash and the golden gates of the palace's walls fall down on the figure in the mountain sized aura and crushes the piece of palace he was standing on into dust. Shrugging your shoulders, you sprint up the doors, which are now leaning on the highest tower of the palace, zig zagging with both the phantom cat step and Waltz as more and more jade blocks tumble down its surface as...
"Holy shit!" You grasp, as you sense the aura that had just vanished beneath the massive golden gates flicker back to life beneath them, as the titanic, leagues tall doors are lifted from the ground as a roar of rage you can only call indignant vibrates through them.
Not only is that god still alive~ but you're pretty sure they're one of the five sages! Who had the supreme misfortune of standing where a miles wide gate was falling! If you were scared for your life, you'd be laughing yourself to death right now! You only need to go a little further, just a little further! The finish line is within reach! Certain death is behind you!
All you need to do is make one last leap!
The gates buckle and launch into the air just as your left heel leaves their tops, as you throw yourself into the void between you and the tower reaching towards the stars. Flailing your arms and legs around most inelegantly, you realize at the apex of your leap of faith's arc, that you won't make it.
In a human body at least. A roar of malice rises up from the ground, as the idiot who decided to call out to you instead of just attacking, who was smashed beneath rubble because he decided to monologue to what to him is an ant, rockets up from the base of the tower and up to you in the form of a pillar of colorless fire.
Your form shifts, as you turn from girl to cat, his fingers slipping through your hair.
You turn, as his hand then moves through empty space as he grasps nothing, where your glorious scarlet mane was a moment before.
He is dressed in a pure white robe, blinding like staring into the sun, like it was woven from silk taken from the light of stars. His face is covered with a jade mask in the shape of a stylized sun, but a long white beard hangs from it. The two of you meet eyes as he rockets upwards, having no doubt planned to drag you up with him, not expecting a beast to willingly return to the form they were born with as your feet touch down on the tiles of the last tower's roof, and you run away as he zooms off out of sight, shouting very unsagely words after you as you make a break for the stars.
As you run up to the peak of the tower, the rainbow colors of the heavenly skies are replaced with black void and glittering stars.
And as light as you are, half ethereal, the loss of gravity and absence of air tears you from the heavens and hurls you into space!
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And for a moment. You have nothing to say or think. For all the regal airs you put on, for all of your superiority and grandeur, for all your arrogance and delusions of being more than you are, more sophisticated, more refined, more graceful, more powerful, the sight of the stars from space humbles you more than any battle or opponent ever will. You see just how small you are.
How small you are now. One day, this will be your playground and the planets will move and align to your will. But for now, you are a spec of red in a vast cosmic nothingness, alone, completely alone with nothing but your thoughts and a beauty beyond words. You couldn't describe just how magnificent the view is up here, looking down on heaven and earth, and it'll haunt your dreams more than Ling Meng's laughing face ever did. At least it will until you conquer it and make it yours.
And you say you're alone, but there's a gaggle of goddess with shepherd crooks and bags full of miniature stars staring at you wide eyed as you drift past them.
You flick your tail and send them scattering by just barring your fangs towards them. Giggling as you watch them push and shove one another, knowing that they don't need to be faster than a demon, just quicker than your friends, they soon vanish into the...well nothing of space.
Leaving you then truly alone with nothing but your thoughts and the stars you will one day claim.
And all you can think is
'Where do I go?'
You knew something would happen if you immersed yourself in the Qi of the stars and the breathe of space, but now that you're up here, you aren't certain where you should go to cultivate those energies. No one has ever done this before, fed their beast core on the spiritual energy of astral chaos before.
Hmm. Hmmm. Hmmmm!
Where do you go to adopt cosmic nature, Huanliuxue ?(Location will determine the variations of the Cosmic nature evolution you can choose between)
>They say there is a rabbit on the moon, and you've always been entranced by the full moon. Fulfill the dream of the kitten you once were and step on the moon >Drift in the void, the darkness deep and vast and without end, where no light or warmth reach. Allow yourself to be swept into the nothingness of space >Chase the stars! And prove that they can be caught! dive into the river of stars the goddesses were tending to, and be swept into the field of constellations. >Challenge the sun! The Ling style themselves after it! Take inspiration from it! Its just a big ball of fire, so why not fly close to it >Go somewhere else (Write in) Anonymous
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>>5806167 >Challenge the sun! The Ling style themselves after it! Take inspiration from it! Its just a big ball of fire, so why not fly close to it Anonymous
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>>5806167 >Fulfil the dream of a kitten, and step on the moon. I want to go to the blackness of space, but Huan wouldn't. She would go for the moon, chase the stars or challenge the sun, in that order.
Life goal> curiosity > overwhelming pride.
Also damn, that is a broke ability. Fuck yeah.
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>>5806167 >Chase the stars! And prove that they can be caught! dive into the river of stars the goddesses were tending to, and be swept into the field of constellations. Moon is definitely Yin, and Sun Yang. No idea what void or star would be.
I'll go for constellation in honor of the twice-dead rat gang.
I swear cultivation quests are cursed, this is the only one that has lived. Anonymous
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>>5806167 >They say there is a rabbit on the moon, and you've always been entranced by the full moon. Fulfill the dream of the kitten you once were and step on the moon Anonymous
>>5806167 >They say there is a rabbit on the moon, and you've always been entranced by the full moon. Fulfill the dream of the kitten you once were and step on the moon Anonymous
>>5806167 >Drift in the void, the darkness deep and vast and without end, where no light or warmth reach. Allow yourself to be swept into the nothingness of space. The Sun, Moon and Stars are small potatoes compared to the overwhelming vastness of the Void in which they sit. Beyond Taiji-- Yin, and Yang, and all the contrary-but-complementary energies that create and sustain the cosmos, lies "Wuji"-- the primordial non-existence from which all things arose, and to which they shall return. Let's get it, lads!
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>>5806167 >>Drift in the void, the darkness deep and vast and without end, where no light or warmth reach. Allow yourself to be swept into the nothingness of space Anonymous
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>>5806167 >>5806200 I'll change to:
>Drift in the void, the darkness deep and vast and without end, where no light or warmth reach. Allow yourself to be swept into the nothingness of space Because achieving wuji sounds fitting for Huanliuxue.
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>>5806202 Junior brother, while I accept this is a way to great power, and encourage others to change to it.
I must make clear that this historic achievement is best marked by charactee rather than benefits. And shall champion the Moon first and foremost.
The moon is the cats eye.
The void is. . . Not. There isnt really a connection apart from Yin, which is black.
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>>5806167 >>They say there is a rabbit on the moon, and you've always been entranced by the full moon. Fulfill the dream of the kitten you once were and step on the moon Moon rabbit. I demand your secrets. Why do you make accursed water roil and crash? Do you like, have a problem with cats or something, bro?
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>>5806167 >Drift in the void, the darkness deep and vast and without end, where no light or warmth reach. Allow yourself to be swept into the nothingness of space We have Yin & Yang covered to some extent already, let us go beyond.
God damn, the Phantom Cat Waltz might just be the most bullshit ability we have created yet. Fighting Huanliuxue is officially starting to sound like one of the most frustrating challenges one can undertake under the heavens.
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>>5806167 >They say there is a rabbit on the moon, and you've always been entranced by the full moon. Fulfill the dream of the kitten you once were and step on the moon If there are truly rabbits on the moon go there and conquer them, as an empress in the making all beasts shall be under your protection.
(Though i won't mind if void wins either)
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>>5806167 >>They say there is a rabbit on the moon, and you've always been entranced by the full moon. Fulfill the dream of the kitten you once were and step on the moon Anonymous
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>>5806167 >They say there is a rabbit on the moon, and you've always been entranced by the full moon. Fulfill the dream of the kitten you once were and step on the moon As long as we don't meet a schoolgirl named Usagi...
In a lot of ways this feels like a choice between growing closer to our original grudge/ghost powers in the void, and embracing our guardian nature as the light of the moon. And when I think about it that way the moon feel right.
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>>5806167 >Chase the stars! And prove that they can be caught! dive into the river of stars the goddesses were tending to, and be swept into the field of constellations. Void kinda sounds like the edgelord choice (which makes it kinda fitting to our other stuff desu), but I'm more curious about this option, constellations sounds like some heavy magic shit and I'd like to invest a few more points in magic because most of our abilities are so physical.
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>>5806167 >They say there is a rabbit on the moon, and you've always been entranced by the full moon. Fulfill the dream of the kitten you once were and step on the moon Anonymous
>>5806250 I understand your objections, honored martial senior. The Dao of the Void is deceptive, and esoteric-- until one realizes how the cosmos is sustained by it. If, as in your analogy, the moon is the eye, the void is the pupil: the essential emptiness, without which it (and more broadly, existence) cannot function. Imagine an eye as a solid chunk of meat: inert, incapable of perceiving light. A lung, unable to draw breath. A planet, unable to move, for lack of space.
Just so, the void represents the conditions of Huan's birth-- in the sense that it is loss and absence which has defined us from the start. How would we have awakened, if not the loss of the village children who once cared for us? How would we have become the inheritor of an ancient legacy of beast cultivators, if not for the Orthodoxy erasing their place in the world? What are negative and positive, Heaven and Earth, Yin and Yang, without Zero, to define them?
On one hand, we are presented with celestial bodies; on the other hand, we have a chance to grasp at the counterweight to all of existence. This junior humbly reiterates his commitment to the void.
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>>5806250 >>5806435 I'll repeat my proposal that we should honour the memory of our fellow fallen sibling in cultivation, taken from us in it's crib.
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>>5806435 This Senior hears the words you speak and finds them, amusingly, weightless. For on the convention of potency you are utterly correct, the void probably provides a myriad of obscure powers and abilities. In this we agree.
What is found disagreeable, is the notion of how it relates. Her birth was Grudges; Pain, fury and sorrow. Huan is absent of nothing, even when faced with the Dao itself she made herself abundantly clear with "I'm not anything, I'm Me. and there is only one Me."
Hell, observe.
>"I am unique, no ifs and or buts. I am not just unique among my lives, I am unique throughout all the world, beneath all the nine heavens!" You laugh, boasting in the face of the universe, of all knowledge and things "I am Huanliuxue, and there are none like me within you" "But what of the realms beyond the nine heavens you know?" The road questioned, in the same tone as if they were asking a child why they did not simply fly like a bird or swim like a fish, playing along with their childhood fantasies and delusions
>"There to" You snort, turning up your nose haughtily "For there has never been a cat quite like me" "Is that so?" The universe echoed back in your own voice "Every star in the sky thinks it is unique, yet all must go through the same life cycles, grow, cool and then fall into themselves and die"
>"I am no star, I am me". In her Hubris and Ego, Huan is certain of her unique nature. This I think leads her to the moon as a wish and the Sun as defiance against the brightest symbol of power in the heavens.
I ask then, why would Huan choose the void?
Riddle me that, and my vote will change. Character, not Benefits.
>>5806458 I hold no affinity for the Dao of the rat.
Perseverance is key among daoists.
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>>5806167 >They say there is a rabbit on the moon, and you've always been entranced by the full moon. Fulfill the dream of the kitten you once were and step on the moon Huanxiulie are you goofing on Elvis? Heyuh baby, are you having fun? Also, this junior brother must ask: how long has Huanxiulie existed in a state of Superposition?
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>>5806665 Always, for she was born super.
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>>5806665 >Also, this junior brother must ask: how long has Huanxiulie existed in a state of Superposition? Oh I know this one, alright so you go into the archive right? Thread one, post four. Cheers, bro.
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>>5806167 >They say there is a rabbit on the moon, and you've always been entranced by the full moon. Fulfill the dream of the kitten you once were and step on the moon Simply it was our desire to touch the moon since young. The moon is bright and dark through various transformations. No doubt most every animal and person has seen the moon. It is the jewel of the sky all mortals wish to hold.
Now the first mortal walks upon it. And I've come up with a haiku for such a fitting moment.
Rabbit chases moon
Cat leaps towards sky and stars
A God weeps below
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>>5806167 >>Chase the stars! And prove that they can be caught! dive into the river of stars the goddesses were tending to, and be swept into the field of constellations. Which cat can resist chasing dots of light?
Also, choosing moon might lead us to the same bloodline as the rabbit. If the rabbit behaves non-royally or distasteful, what if something of this badness sticks to us? What if it doesn't like children (why else would it hide on the moon for an eternity if not to self-isolate from living beings)? What if it dislikes romance novels? The horror!
We should aim for something unique.
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>>5806897 If there IS a rabbit on the moon, it is our sovereign duty to bring him to heel. All beasts, no exceptions.
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>>5806167 >Drift in the void, the darkness deep and vast and without end, where no light or warmth reach. Allow yourself to be swept into the nothingness of space Anonymous
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>>5806167 >>Chase the stars! And prove that they can be caught! dive into the river of stars the goddesses were tending to, and be swept into the field of constellations. Anonymous
>>5806167 >Chase the stars! And prove that they can be caught! dive into the river of stars the goddesses were tending to, and be swept into the field of constellations. On a purely poetic level I feel this choice complements our newly acquired technique. Huanliuxue, the cultivation world's rising star, amidst her ensemble of flickering ghost lights.
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>>5807179 Hmmmmmmmmm......
Now that i think about it did those sheperds of stars leave anything behind while escaping?
Even a lone twinkling miniature star would be incalculable worth to study.
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>>5807226 New ability unlocked: throwing a decaying neutron star at our enemies.
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>Chase the stars! And prove that they can be caught! dive into the river of stars the goddesses were tending to, and be swept into the field of constellations. I desired SPACE CATTE, I will get SPACE CATTE.
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>>5807268 If we had went with rainbows instead you could have had nyancat
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Since this vote seems to be split, I'm talling a bit earlier then normal so we get a feel of how it's going>Votes - 21 aGCttUq9 cyvXqOVC P9CZlr7U pt+f7Rsm XRmzjRg5 khuIibwY VYy5mqRK XxUJkxZa JdeCiO8/ bP1hO4sd PkIXCY4Y /U/TlymD iLQrmhWH EgaaD6Iw E1ndm66N V8vOu+72 Obzkf6UM sG7oWZ76 JqujUhEb Voe815t4 ebXnDeQN>Challenge the sun! - 1 aGCttUq9>They say there is a rabbit on the moon - 9 cyvXqOVC pt+f7Rsm XxUJkxZa bP1hO4sd PkIXCY4Y /U/TlymD EgaaD6Iw E1ndm66N V8vOu+72>Chase the stars! - 6 P9CZlr7U iLQrmhWH Obzkf6UM JqujUhEb Voe815t4 ebXnDeQN>Drift in the void - 5 khuIibwY VYy5mqRK XRmzjRg5 JdeCiO8/ sG7oWZ76 That's a lot of votes
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>>5807233 >"So, what is this new power you have discovered, foul demon?" >"Gamma ray burst." >"Wha- Anonymous
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>>5806314 >>5806921 But aren't the chinese constellations animals as well?
We need to dive in their rivers so they can meet their new empress!
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>>5807360 In due time. But the moon at night is big and bright, deep in the heart of Chuan.
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>>5806167 >Drift in the void, the darkness deep and vast and without end, where no light or warmth reach. Allow yourself to be swept into the nothingness of space. They're all good ideas, and I don't have the brain power needed to come up with a good write-in.
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I want us to meet Azatoth
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>>5807454 We already met the Dao, the source of all things. Does that counts?
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By the way, I must remind people. When we get to the snow tiger and kick his ass all the way down to hell, and render his body for components, we have 3 people to deal with. Jingyu. This peice of shit. Stomp him, kill him, have him present to fight with the snow tiger and then KILL HIM! He is the other heretic that genuinely concerns me. Vile and wicked be he. 2nd. That fucking Ghost bastard, the forgotten king. He tried to ruin our cultivation. And he took our daughters eye. Then there is Yoan. . . Kinda okay to just leave her be for now. She is a prodigy and a butcher, but kinda. . More respectable than the other two. Kinda wants dealing with but also not a massive priority, hit the others first.
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>>5807475 Jingyu might be advancing his cultivation by leaps and bounds.
Even with oir attempts of recruiting, this war should be leaving plenty of high quality parts for him to nab.
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>>5807477 He cannot climb as fast as we can. That is why we need to smash him down immediately as we are able.
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>>5807477 Huan should still be leaps and bounds ahead of him though and Xuebai wouldn't be helping him so I'd still bet on her wiping the floor with him.
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>>5807479 I meant in that he is the highest priority target in that list.
Honestly, all of that order is good. Deal with the guy that has the oportunity to grow in power the fastest, deal with the one that is closest, then see if we can track down the wandering one.
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>>5806167 >>Chase the stars! And prove that they can be caught! dive into the river of stars the goddesses were tending to, and be swept into the field of constellations. The zodiac has no cat. Yet. And we came here called by the stars in the first place
>Drift in the void, the darkness deep and vast and without end, where no light or warmth reach. Allow yourself to be swept into the nothingness of space I think this is also okay.
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>>5807647 Well you gotta pick one right now, guv.
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>>5806167 >>They say there is a rabbit on the moon, and you've always been entranced by the full moon. Fulfill the dream of the kitten you once were and step on the moon Anonymous
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>>5807411 here's a write in suggestion:
> Dive into the river of stars, but follow it to its SOURCE where stars are born Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Thu 26 Oct 2023 18:44:27 No. 5808233 Report Ending the vote now
>>5807351 thank you for tallying, junior, as every you receive my praise and gratitude. and with the votes that came after you tallied
Moon is at 10 votes
Chase the stars 7
Drift in the void is at 6
And there was a write in and challenge the sun remains at 1
SO
You'll fly to the moon to cultivate upon the breath of astral chaos and Lunar Qi
Update will arrive shortly
https://youtu.be/ZEcqHA7dbwM >>5807233 That gives me an idea...
>>5806768 Beautiful poem, junior, it shall be framed above the sect's dining hall
>>5807357 kek
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>>5808233 My knee jerk reaction was to post a link to that song, but then I saw you beat me to it.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Thu 26 Oct 2023 20:59:32 No. 5808307 Report They say there is a rabbit on the moon, but the fairy tales you overheard when your world was simple and stopped at the reeds by the river, spoken from mother to child, never explained or remembered how the rabbit ended up there. Perhaps they are one of your ancestors? You never gave much thought to old stories like the rabbit on the moon. Were the banished there? Were their ashes scattered there? You've seen rabbits from the moon, sitting on the laps of little goddesses, but not THE rabbit from the moon. Rolling, tumbling through the vacumn of space, you keep your eyes locked on the moon, only now being able to look on all of it when you have spent your life, both of them, as a mindless cat and as Huanliuxue, looking up at the moon entranced by it, caught by its spell and enchanted by its cool beauty. You've bathed in moonlight as much as you have blood and the stench of corpses. And one of your earliest dreams, from the days when your sight was muddled and your thoughts little more than crude instinct and the simplest of emotions, has persisted to now. Ever since you were a kitten who knew nothing, you've always wanted to catch the moon, to reach up and touch it with your paw. Long ago, before you were you and before you had any kind of wisdom or sense of self, you learned that couldn't be done. It was impossible. The moon was beyond the reach of those who were born on soil and straw, and out of reach even from the hands of the gods. But now, you had a chance to reach it, to press your paws into its silver sand and dust your fur with its white powder. You blink, being dragged along towards the dark by unseen hands, as you contemplate where in the night sky you'll swim. But you realize you don't need to sit and ponder it as you are rolled and tumbled through the void of space. You knew where you would undertake your transformation and achieve your next evolution as a demonic beast since even before you decided you were going to break through the sky to reach the stars. It has to be the moon. It can only be the moon. The dream of a snow white kitten with a notched ear would be fulfilled today. A cat would step on the moon, and leave paw prints all across its surface, that hopefully can be seen from both the heavens and earth. Cause you know few will believe the tale of you not only entering the heavens from the skies beneath them, but escaping out of them from the top of the celestial emperor's empty palace. So it would be prudent to leave behind some form of proof, a mark that can't be swept away by any broom or brush of the sleeve. So, giving in completely to youthful whimsy and childish dreams that have survived all of the gloom, bloodshed, resentment and bleakness of life, you swim towards the moon, as it hangs silent in the black bleakness of space like a polished silver plate or perfectly formed pearl. Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Thu 26 Oct 2023 21:00:32 No. 5808308 Report >>5808307 this is...more difficult than you anticipated. There's nothing to push off of, and nothing to move through, not even air. Luckily as a cultivator, and specifically one who follows the dao of ghosts, you don't have to breathe often and need less air than even most of your fellow daoists to survive. Though there is a light, unpleasant burning sensation rising up from your lungs and settling on your cheeks, you keep a cool head and don't flounder around in the void like a fish pulled onto a pier. Instead of using your composure, you enter a near meditative state as you wonder how exactly one can move through nothingness and propel themselves through empty space.
Kicking your hindlegs only makes you spin around and tumble directionlessly, flicking your tail does nothing. As does pawing at the emptiness in front of you, as if you were struggling to claw onto a river bank. And your entrance into space won't give you any hints in this conundrum you face, as you were just sucked into it, as if it had a maw and stomach to swallow you down into. Which is a most unpleasant thought.
Sighing a bit of what little air is still inside your lungs out, you feel your voyage through the cosmos slow. Letting go of a bit more air, with a more forceful size, you soon prove the theory you had, as your movement through the stars slows and eventually comes to a halt, leaving you hanging in...well nothing.
With a flick of your tail, you create a destructive yin sphere, small enough to control the shape and force of its explosion, and set it off at your back. It isn't enough to hurt you or do any more damage than ruffling your fur, but it sends you careening forward. And like the dawn of a new morning, the realization of how you can travel through the void washes over your mind, enlightening you as you attain insight you are certain not even the gods have grasped. Well, at least the ones who aren't on star herding duty. And the moment it does, you realize you could've just created platforms of solidified spiritual energy, or barrier spells, or spilt and frozen blood to hop of.
It might even be a more efficient means of travel and get you to the lunar surface quicker.
But it is just too fun to blast yourself through the void via controlled explosion, alighting the darkness with burst of light like fireworks in the night sky. You clamp your jaw shut, to keep from losing more air with giddy giggling in your excitement as you rocket and fly across the stars, propelling yourself with blast of destruction and wild explosions that are silent in the void of space.
And in not time at all, with laughter stifled in your throat, you're falling towards the bleak white surface of the moon. Up close, you can see it is pocketed and marked with many craters, cliffs and valleys, all of it varying shades of grey nearing white.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Thu 26 Oct 2023 21:01:33 No. 5808309 Report >>5808308 A white that calls to mind bone ash. Maybe they really did scatter the ashes of an awakened rabbit across the moon. Righting yourself, you adjust your posture as the gravity of the moon pulls you closer and closer so you'll land paws first, but not so quickly as to risk death by falling when you crash into its surface.
But still, you splay out your legs until they're flat at your sides, so the fall will be gentler. Sure, landing belly first on the moon isn't as elegant as daintily touching your paws down before galloping off, but every cat knows how to fall and you'd rather not limp around the lunar surface with broken legs or bones poking through your skin. Sure the fall seems slow, but one can never be too careful when descending from space.
There is no sound, not even a thud, as you hit the surface. There is however, a cloud of white, sparkling dust that covers your fur and hangs in the "Not air" for a long time, like mold spores or dust in a forgotten tomb. Blinking, you brush your face with the back of your paw to keep the oddly soft dust out of your eyes, before taking in your surroundings.
Several oddities stand out in the already bizarre, alien landscape of the moon, which reminds you more of hell than it does the heavens or mortal realm, if only because of how colorless it is.
First, you notice there is a titanic sweet osmanthus tree, that you didn't see until you landed on the moon. Or more like, it didn't appear until you were on the moon. In fact, the more you look around, the more different the lunar surface looks from what you saw in the night sky and as you approached and fell towards it. Almost like what you and everyone else has seen for all their lives was an illusion. There are rice paddies, grasses and stranger yet, signs of life.
Rabbit prints and human foot prints, countless foot prints, all across the powdery, dusty surface of the moon. And the longer you look, the less bleak, lifeless and hellish the landscape looks, and the more it appears as a world just eternally bathed in moonlight. But where than moonlight is coming from, that is bathing all you can see cold blue, you cannot know.
The trees bark is scarred, covered with the marks of countless axe strikes, and indeed when you walk towards it, there is a worn woodsman's axe, like the type Fu used to prefer before he became strong enough to burst their handles with one swing and dull their cutting edge with a few landed strikes. An entirely mundane, ordinary axe head. With no magic or enchantment woven into the fibers of its wood or metal. It doesn't even look to be made of any kind of exotic materials. It is just a normal wood cutting axe, the sort that is used by peasant all across the world. And it is sitting here, beneath a tree that can't be spotted from earth, space or the heavens, which is yet bigger than...well all three of those worlds combined, and you'd wager good money adding the yellow springs wouldn't match the size of the tree.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Thu 26 Oct 2023 21:02:46 No. 5808310 Report >>5808309 Which is larger than the moon looked before you landed on it.
It boggles the mind and is making you feel faint and nauseous when you try to think about how any of this, especially the presence of a completely mundane axe, is possible, so you stop trying to make sense of it before you're driven mad trying to comprehend what isn't possible.
There's also a mortar, a completely ordinary mortar with a wooden pestle, resting close by the axe, in the shade of the tree, smeared with pounded rice and reeking of medicine. Wait, did you just breathe in?! A moment ago there was nothing! But now there is air, rich and warm air all around you, only as cold as a night by a riverside or pond! How!? Why?!
Huffing, you greedily swallow a lung full of air, not trusting the atmosphere to not vanish as quickly as it appeared. And as you turn from the tree to what used to be nothing but a bleak expanse of grey dirt and craters, you see a palace that seems half made of ice and moon dust. A shiver trickles down you spine as you swallow hard, questioning if this isn't just a dream but preventing your natural curiosity from asking anything beyond that lest it'd invite madness inside.
Glancing back to the tree, you see a straw hat hanging on the axe's head by a thin string band, and new foot prints.
'Oh don't tell me I've walked into a second vanishing bookstore!' you think, wincing as you remember the creepy secret realm you waked into, and suddenly everything makes sense. This is a secret realm, of sorts. It has to be. The other possibilities are too daunting and terrifying to consider or even for you to face, so now, the moon is host to a secret realm. And you can only hope it isn't owned by the ghoulish white arm that waved at you when you left the last secret realm you blundered into.
Wincing, you hop into the air, finding there to be much more gravity now, arching your back and hissing on reflex as every hair stands on end. Something touched you! Something touched yoooooou~! Behind your ears and to the base of your neck, a hand wiped down, petting your fur! But there's nothing behind you.
Biting your tongue, refusing to shame yourself by whimpering even though you'd lose no face since there's no one in space to hear you whimper. No, it was your imagination, just like the girlish giggling you hear, the titter echoing through the wind. it's just your mind playing tricks. You're just on edge and making up sounds and touches because you expect to see something and hear something, like you did in the first secret realm
Where you found a book about yourself, that constantly updates and records everything you do and every technique you learn.
"Ha..ha ha" You force a laugh, glancing around, hoping to catch a pale figure or at least a shadow out of the corner of your eye, but there's nothing.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Thu 26 Oct 2023 21:05:29 No. 5808312 Report >>5808310 Except the sensation of fingers dancing behind your ears and tracing down your neck, onto your back until they reach your fluffed up tail. An a dull, rhythmic thumping. Like a mortar pounding seeds into medicine. Or an axe swinging into a tree. No. It isn't there. There is no giggling, no disembodied, invisible hand petting you, and if you turn around, the mortar and axe will not be swinging themselves
it is all just your mind playing tricks on you. Nothing more. There's nothing there. There can't be anything there, because if there is, your heart might just stop out of sheer fright. There aren't any ghosts or disembodied, you can't sense any blood or signs of life, and even your spiritual sense shows...nothing. Not even that damn tree that is larger than any world you've stepped onto combined has no spiritual signature or even a trace of Qi. Yet, your instincts tell you there are three presences besides yourself here, beneath the shade of the Osmanthus tree. And you refuse to believe that, for sanity's sake.
But you do sense a few spots where there is Qi. Strange Qi. Alien Qi. Stellar Spiritual energy. The breath of the moon. The vital energies of space. And you immediately head towards them, head lifted up and eyes locked on the dusty indigo sky, because if you look ahead or to your side and see new foot prints following you, you think you'll fall over stone cold dead from fright alone!
And where do you go to cultivate the Cosmic Qi and use it to refine your beast core, Huanliuxue? (Each choice has two "Sub paths" of the lunar branch of the cosmic nature line of evolutions)
>There is a arrow, that smells of the sun, fallen atop the hill. You have a....urge to cut yourself on it and pollute the surface of the moon with both your blood and the ceaseless flow of blood Qi radiating from your dantians and beast core, mingling and smudging the lunar energies with the beauty of bloodshed [Blood moon/ Sun killer paths] >There is a beam of moonlight rising, close to the palace of ice and moondust, it glimmers and sparkles, just like the light of the moon when you first opened your eyes. There is a presence leading you there...[Lunar Deity/ Chang'e's chosen paths] >An unfamiliar flag flies in the distance, frozen stiff as if it stands still in the breathless realm of the "Real" moon. Red and blue and marked with stars, and stained with mortality [Avatar of freedom/ Conqueror of the stars paths] >Wander aimlessly, chasing illusions and visions. Arrows, palaces, flags. There is nothing here, there is nothing here, there is nothing here! but you hear laughing![Moon maddened/ Monkey's understudy paths] >Write in The moon sure is MYSTERIOUS.
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>>5808312 >There is a beam of moonlight rising, close to the palace of ice and moondust, it glimmers and sparkles, just like the light of the moon when you first opened your eyes. There is a presence leading you there...[Lunar Deity/ Chang'e's chosen paths] As funny as the AMERICAN option would be, it really doesn't feel like it fits the world.
Also, that update of Huan remembering her infancy and having fun was fun.
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>>5808312 >There is a beam of moonlight rising, close to the palace of ice and moondust, it glimmers and sparkles, just like the light of the moon when you first opened your eyes. There is a presence leading you there...[Lunar Deity/ Chang'e's chosen paths] Anonymous
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>>5808317 Meant to say that it was cute
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Thu 26 Oct 2023 21:17:40 No. 5808327 Report >>5808312 (Each choice has two "Sub paths" of the lunar branch of the cosmic nature line of evolutions)
And by this I mean that each choice leads to a decision between the two paths attached to it, not that you get both of them
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>>5808312 >a beam of moonlight (Lunar deity/chang'e's chosen) Lets not go mad. And I like the idea of Lunar deity.
I have an idea of where else we could go, but I wont give ideas for sub paths.
>There is a lake here, Shimmering silver waters that half way across turns black as the void above. Watching, the blue ailver moonlight pushes back and forwards, losing and gaining ground but always over the lake and its boundries. Not a whisker over. Anonymous
>>5808312 >Wander aimlessly, chasing illusions and visions. Arrows, palaces, flags. There is nothing here, there is nothing here, there is nothing here! but you hear laughing![Moon maddened/ Monkey's understudy paths] Give me that Wukong cameo, might as well learn from the biggest asshole to the heavens.
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>>5808327 I guess Blood Moon is infusing our blood qi into the moon and turning it red, and sun killer is harnessing the power of solar eclipses
Lunar deity would be usurping Chang'e and chosen would be working with her (since if her story is to go by, she should have a grudge with the gods)
The flag is getting an american citizenship or working for NASA
Moon Maddend is some lovercraftian shit, and monkey's understudy might be Sun Wukong?
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>>5808312 >There is a arrow, that smells of the sun, fallen atop the hill. You have a....urge to cut yourself on it and pollute the surface of the moon with both your blood and the ceaseless flow of blood Qi radiating from your dantians and beast core, mingling and smudging the lunar energies with the beauty of bloodshed [Blood moon/ Sun killer paths] KILL THE SUN
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>>5808338 Sun Killer references the tale of Hou Yi.
>>5808312 >An unfamiliar flag flies in the distance, frozen stiff as if it stands still in the breathless realm of the "Real" moon. Red and blue and marked with stars, and stained with mortality [Avatar of freedom/ Conqueror of the stars paths] Daily reminder that Neal Armstrong won the USA-Lunarian war.
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>>5808312 >>There is a beam of moonlight rising, close to the palace of ice and moondust, it glimmers and sparkles, just like the light of the moon when you first opened your eyes. There is a presence leading you there...[Lunar Deity/ Chang'e's chosen paths] I like the idea of being the deity in fact like the people of the land think of us
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Personal ranking is >Sun killer Fuck you ling, Fuck you SKY, we are the top cat. Sadly cannot vote for personal reasons related to a severe aversion [disdainful hate] of Hou Yi, the man who shot down 8 suns.>Lunar deity Because we deserve to be worshipped from afar, close worship is too uncomfortable.>Monkeys understudy Wukong is the Huan if Huan was less talented but much more audacious.>Chang'e's chosen Subordinate to a god? eeeeh. Still cool if we got someone we could like other than old five colours but still. Eh.>Blood moon Like a less cool sun killer. Might tie in with our eclipsed yang physique.>Star conqueror >Avatar of freedom Both are kinda ill fitting outside of cameo status, and also kinda lame. Freedom? Ruling space? we don't offer the first and we're going to do the second anyway. We are an imperial personage, all shall obey us and that is that.>Moon maddened. Going mad because there's weird shit around you is weak sauce to a cultivator. Huan herself can be creeped out but to go mad? Where's your self confidence? Lovecraft has no hold on a daoist, your job is to look at the void and go "huh, that's how that works".
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>>5808348 >>5808375 I nearly forgot about Hou Yi, even though he is Chang'e's husband.
I'm still keeping my vote to become a lunar deity though.
I wonder what would happen if we picked guardian spirit down the line as well, would we reach maximum divinity?
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>>5808375 Also, is your dislike because his myth likely was merged with two others, so he ends up looking like a schizo that flips flops around between heroic figure, a massive asshole and a regular emperor? Anonymous
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On the one hand, we can make the moon ours. Who needs a bloody garden when you have a bloody moon?
On the other
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAFlWDpOcrw >>5808312 >>There is a arrow, that smells of the sun, fallen atop the hill. You have a....urge to cut yourself on it and pollute the surface of the moon with both your blood and the ceaseless flow of blood Qi radiating from your dantians and beast core, mingling and smudging the lunar energies with the beauty of bloodshed [Blood moon/ Sun killer paths] I don't particularly want to descend to the level of "goddess". We're Huanliuxue, not some ineffectual deity. So I can't in good faith pick the moony friend option.
Anonymous
>>5808312 >Wander aimlessly, chasing illusions and visions. Arrows, palaces, flags. There is nothing here, there is nothing here, there is nothing here! but you hear laughing![Moon maddened/ Monkey's understudy paths] monkey
>An unfamiliar flag flies in the distance, frozen stiff as if it stands still in the breathless realm of the "Real" moon. Red and blue and marked with stars, and stained with mortality [Avatar of freedom/ Conqueror of the stars paths] The last place tainted by the orthodoxy...SPACE!
But to be more serious I am very worried about why precisely heaven was filled with incompetent morons.
It may be that worship is poisonous and twists you into a caricature of your former self as a result of countless mortals giving you their energy over a long period of time and being unable to see you as anything other then a possibly schizo caricature.
Anonymous
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>>5808312 >There is a beam of moonlight rising, close to the palace of ice and moondust, it glimmers and sparkles, just like the light of the moon when you first opened your eyes. There is a presence leading you there...[Lunar Deity/ Chang'e's chosen paths] Obviously an empress would go to the palace
Anonymous
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>>5808312 >>An unfamiliar flag flies in the distance, frozen stiff as if it stands still in the breathless realm of the "Real" moon. Red and blue and marked with stars, and stained with mortality [Avatar of freedom/ Conqueror of the stars paths] Anonymous
>>5808399 I think it's more likely that it's because they spent eight generations in peace, built on top of lies with everything that could lead to introspection and growth being banned. So it lead to arrogance and hedonism.
Or maybe some of them feel guilty over their mistakes and just gave up, or we just were very lucky to manage to avoid anyone that was competent. After all, if the guard wasn't held back by his boss, I have no doubt he would have killed us. And he did manage to sense our aura of death and blood, but our affinity for caring for children, even before we tried to sneak out.
Anonymous
>>5808388 In playing a game of FATE, I masterfully orchestrated a collaboration of masters and servants into the grand battle against the Ruler and their mad master. Hou then betrayed me in the height of battle and slew my characters freshly blooming love interest when she saved him from the shot. The emotional damage has never healed and I despise the traitorous bastard with a cold and enduring spite that extends to much of what he touches. I never said it was a rational or good reason to hate him.
>>5808399 It's not really "worship" that's poison. It's stagnancy. Peace, in a word.
If you can recall, it's been a year and a bit, but Grandfather did state that when Monu claimed "it takes 10 years to get to Foundation establishment" that it was an artificial average. People take this long because it is the "safe" option, that invites no conflict and creates no drive to succeed or surpass or innovate. and Innovation would get them murdered if they were not of good standing anyway.
These new martial gods, born in the heavens haven't had to fight in generations. A martial god. without any fighting to do. Can you see the rot and the ineptiude's origin yet?
Anonymous
>>5808312 >Wander aimlessly, chasing illusions and visions. Arrows, palaces, flags. There is nothing here, there is nothing here, there is nothing here! but you hear laughing![Moon maddened/ Monkey's understudy paths] Man... I like pretty much all of these. I'm just gonna go with my gut, and my gut tells me that this should lead to the most interesting options.
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>>5808419 The worst part of your story is that it's completly in character for him to change his mind out of nowhere and betray you.
He did kill his son in one of the stories. One where he wasn't Chang'e's husband, or the guy that stoped a great flood.
Anonymous
>>5808399 >The last place tainted by the orthodoxy...SPACE! I understood that reference. Thank you, Huan Curry.
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>>5808438 I see the moon mad as Cheshire cat territory and the Monkey path being everyone's favorite inspiration for grandiose storytelling. Both being a sort of trickster path. Which are certainly cool as hell. Especially since Huan literally just developed a form of teleportation. Options options so many options.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Thu 26 Oct 2023 23:54:21 No. 5808458 Report Quoted By:
>>5808445 Heh, just don't try to make her into curry
Anonymous
>>5808312 >There is a beam of moonlight rising, close to the palace of ice and moondust, it glimmers and sparkles, just like the light of the moon when you first opened your eyes. There is a presence leading you there...[Lunar Deity/ Chang'e's chosen paths] I think I'd prefer the blood moon but since that's not looking like it's gonna win I'll vote for second best. The other two feel like an undesirable change in course so I hope they don't win.
Anonymous
>>5808482 You think learning from the guy who told every single deity he was way cooler than all of them is a departure from what Huan normally is like?
Anonymous
>>5808505 Yeah it should be Huan herself that does that, not studying under some monkey that's doing his own version of the exact same thing.
Anonymous
>>5808508 Really? Kinda weird to say learning should be off the table but alright. I don't agree but I ain't voting for that one either so what's it matter kek
Anonymous
>>5808512 Learning is not off the table, Monu still has things to teach us and I'd vote to learn them if possible. It's that studying under Wukong because he's also against the heavens takes away that Cat against the heavens feel we've had the whole quest and turns it into Cat and Monkey against the heavens instead.
Anonymous
>>5808505 A monkey having fun apes and mocks.
A cat having fun is cruelty incarnate.
Much different even if huan got good karma and is good at impersonations and she gets more powerful the more a grudge the enemy has. Huh.
Are we sure Huan's not a monkey?
Anyway i'm gonna vote for sun killer because kool.
>>5808312 >There is a arrow, that smells of the sun, fallen atop the hill. You have a....urge to cut yourself on it and pollute the surface of the moon with both your blood and the ceaseless flow of blood Qi radiating from your dantians and beast core, mingling and smudging the lunar energies with the beauty of bloodshed [Blood moon/ Sun killer paths] If we had a wood root physique that osmanthus tree would probably be the path to godhood.
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>>5808521 The monkey also became a buddha, and Huan likes the buddhists even though she is a taoist
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>>5808515 I don't really see it that way as Wukong would be far from the first person we've worked with who has a vendetta against the heavens. I'd even argue that grudge was born from us learning what could have been from others like Monu.
But then again I'm biased since the winning option so far in the one I'm the least into, but Gramps has always been good at making me feel we made a good choice one way or another (like eclipsed yamg going from meh to hype with our last major fight) Anonymous
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>>5808312 >Wander aimlessly, chasing illusions and visions. Arrows, palaces, flags. There is nothing here, there is nothing here, there is nothing here! but you hear laughing![Moon maddened/ Monkey's understudy paths] Anonymous
Actually, this just made me think, did we change dimensions or something? Chang'e, Hou Yi and Sun Wukong are mythologies of our world, and the moon landing was a real events. Even though there's taoism and buddhism, I've always seen the quest as being in it's own universe, with it's own characters and history, with those two names only appearing because it's a genre staple. Although it could be said that those stories would be similar, since they involve mythologies that directly inspire the cultivation genre, specially with the eight immortals, and those characters do sometimes directly appear in stories set in other universes in the genre, instead of expies. But then again, why the american flag?I may be massively overthinking all of this.
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>>5808312 >>There is a arrow, that smells of the sun, fallen atop the hill. You have a....urge to cut yourself on it and pollute the surface of the moon with both your blood and the ceaseless flow of blood Qi radiating from your dantians and beast core, mingling and smudging the lunar energies with the beauty of bloodshed [Blood moon/ Sun killer paths] >Wander aimlessly, chasing illusions and visions. Arrows, palaces, flags. There is nothing here, there is nothing here, there is nothing here! but you hear laughing![Moon maddened/ Monkey's understudy paths] Either of these. Lunar Deity is boring
Anonymous
>>5808530 The flag is... interesting to say the least. Maybe we're at the unified concept of all moons, across all universes. This is both the moon america planted a flag on and the moon Haun looked at as a kitten, and the goddess Luna and...
Anonymous
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>>5808542 That could make sense, this isn't the moon the celestial object, a mere satellite that orbits a planet. This is the moon the platonic ideal.
Anonymous
>>5808530 Another option is that the moon exists in a state of flux between space and time. The bigass tree could be from the primordial past. Or a different dimension. Same with the flag. Or perhaps what we are seeing isn't real but also isn't fake. In that it is a glimpse of "other" that is just as real as anything else, but isn't supposed to be here. I imagine it's like looking into a kaleidoscope. All of those colors exist, even though they have no business being in that tube.
Anonymous
>>5808547 So it wouldn't be illusions, they are real, just not real at that particular moment and place, until they are, and aren't anymore. Feels very Dao-like, so it be it.
All good theories so far anons.
Anonymous
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>>5808312 >There is a beam of moonlight rising, close to the palace of ice and moondust, it glimmers and sparkles, just like the light of the moon when you first opened your eyes. There is a presence leading you there...[Lunar Deity/ Chang'e's chosen paths] Anonymous
>>5808549 >tfw we're getting dark souls lore'd and the truth is there is no answer but no one wants to admit it It is very fun though.
Anonymous
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>>5808551 Just like Evangelion having christian symbols because the creators thought it looked cool
Anonymous
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But yeah, theory crafting is very fun, even if ends up meaningless. It's all about the journey, not the destination.
Anonymous
>>5808312 >An unfamiliar flag flies in the distance, frozen stiff as if it stands still in the breathless realm of the "Real" moon. Red and blue and marked with stars, and stained with mortality [Avatar of freedom/ Conqueror of the stars paths] >>5808530 I suspect American Flag is in reference to
Touhou 15: Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom. I'm pretty sure QM has posted Touhou music in thread before, but I might be misremembering. Anonymous
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>An unfamiliar flag flies in the distance, frozen stiff as if it stands still in the breathless realm of the "Real" moon. Red and blue and marked with stars, and stained with mortality [Avatar of freedom/ Conqueror of the stars paths] I see the great expanse of the cosmos and weep, because there are still places left to explore and bow to the Proper Beast Empress
Anonymous
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>>5808312 >Wander aimlessly, chasing illusions and visions. Arrows, palaces, flags. There is nothing here, there is nothing here, there is nothing here! but you hear laughing Monkey's understudy
Anonymous
>>5808547 The tree could be Telperion
Anonymous
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>>5808560 I suspect you suspect correctly.
Anonymous
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>>5808697 No way, we don't even know any gloomy dark spid- uh oh.
Anonymous
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>>5808312 >>There is a arrow, that smells of the sun, fallen atop the hill. You have a....urge to cut yourself on it and pollute the surface of the moon with both your blood and the ceaseless flow of blood Qi radiating from your dantians and beast core, mingling and smudging the lunar energies with the beauty of bloodshed [Blood moon/ Sun killer paths] Anonymous
Doing an early tally because whew that's a lot of votes in one day>Votes:21 P9CZlr7U pt+f7Rsm 76emYAnd 2NUFWYSg /U/TlymD VYy5mqRK aYDU4ccC XxUJkxZa sG7oWZ76 iLQrmhWH V8vOu+72 JdeCiO8/ S+IqnYPS bP1hO4sd XRmzjRg5 nhV3aKrU k5HA34uZ khuIibwY ebXnDeQN aGCttUq9 x8CrSdM2>There is a arrow, that smells of the sun:4(5) /U/TlymD XxUJkxZa bP1hO4sd nhV3aKrU(*) x8CrSdM2>There is a beam of moonlight rising:7 P9CZlr7U pt+f7Rsm 76emYAnd aYDU4ccC iLQrmhWH S+IqnYPS k5HA34uZ>There is a lake here, Shimmering silver waters that half way across turns black as the void above.:1 76emYAnd>An unfamiliar flag flies in the distance:5(6) VYy5mqRK sG7oWZ76(*) V8vOu+72 khuIibwY ebXnDeQN>Wander aimlessly, chasing illusions and visions.:4(6) 2NUFWYSg sG7oWZ76(*) JdeCiO8/ XRmzjRg5 nhV3aKrU(*) aGCttUq9 Asterisks are for anons who picked more than one. Either way close race.
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>>5808851 Thanks for doing it anon, spares me the effort.
I'm fine with whatever option winning except the flag. Even if it's a Touhou reference, I still think it doesn't fit the world.
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>>5808852 Which is a shame, because if the conqueror of the stars path wasn't tied to it, I would have voted for that option since I like the sound of that name. Anonymous
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>>5808312 >There is a beam of moonlight rising, close to the palace of ice and moondust, it glimmers and sparkles, just like the light of the moon when you first opened your eyes. There is a presence leading you there...[Lunar Deity/ Chang'e's chosen paths] Anonymous
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>>5808312 *Long sigh*
Moon's Haunted.
>There is a arrow, that smells of the sun, fallen atop the hill. You have a....urge to cut yourself on it and pollute the surface of the moon with both your blood and the ceaseless flow of blood Qi radiating from your dantians and beast core, mingling and smudging the lunar energies with the beauty of bloodshed [Blood moon/ Sun killer paths] This is a really close vote. Usually one sort of bulldozes the others but it's damn near any faction's game.
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>>5808312 >There is a beam of moonlight rising, close to the palace of ice and moondust, it glimmers and sparkles, just like the light of the moon when you first opened your eyes. There is a presence leading you there...[Lunar Deity/ Chang'e's chosen paths] Anonymous
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>>5808312 Changing my vote
>>5808438 to:
>There is a arrow, that smells of the sun, fallen atop the hill. You have a....urge to cut yourself on it and pollute the surface of the moon with both your blood and the ceaseless flow of blood Qi radiating from your dantians and beast core, mingling and smudging the lunar energies with the beauty of bloodshed [Blood moon/ Sun killer paths] I like this option second best and it has a better chance to win, so I will back this horse instead.
Normally I wouldn't bother but Lunar Deity is not what I was hoping for when I voted to get a space themed evolution.
Ideally void would have won the previous vote but I will try to salvage what I can.
Pretty sure I am going to like any evolution we end up with anyway but fuck it Anonymous
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>>5808336 Changing my vote to
>There is a arrow, that smells of the sun, fallen atop the hill. You have a....urge to cut yourself on it and pollute the surface of the moon with both your blood and the ceaseless flow of blood Qi radiating from your dantians and beast core, mingling and smudging the lunar energies with the beauty of bloodshed [Blood moon/ Sun killer paths] I'm sorry, but I dislike the idea of Lunar Deity (and I highly doubt people are going to chose to be under Chang'e of all people) so I'll make a late gamble in the hopes of getting cooler options.
Anonymous
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>>5808312 Change from
>>5808482 to
>There is a arrow, that smells of the sun, fallen atop the hill. You have a....urge to cut yourself on it and pollute the surface of the moon with both your blood and the ceaseless flow of blood Qi radiating from your dantians and beast core, mingling and smudging the lunar energies with the beauty of bloodshed [Blood moon/ Sun killer paths] Since it was my preferred option and it looks like it's making a comeback.
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>>5808312 Fuck it. Changing earlier vote
>>5808560 to
>Blood Moon/Sun Killer path. I originally voted for the meme/Touhou reference, but since Star Conqueror/Avatar of Freedom isn't going to win...
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>>5808851 Alright, then I change from
>>5808348 to
>There is a beam of moonlight rising, close to the palace of ice and moondust, it glimmers and sparkles, just like the light of the moon when you first opened your eyes. There is a presence leading you there...[Lunar Deity/ Chang'e's chosen paths] Because I like it more than the Sunkiller
Anonymous
Stop fucking changing votes, you're going to drive grandfather insane
Anonymous
>>5809728 Not if I embrace that insanity first!
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With the changes made (and if I counted right since I just reused my work to save time), The Arrow That Killed Suns and The Beam of the Lunar Palace are neck and neck. The tiebreaker could lie with the Schrodinger's vote.
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>>5809756 I think that's the highest amount of votes we had so far
Anonymous
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>>5809756 >>5808312 I'll vote for moonlight if it's not way to late already.
Anonymous
>>5809756 The real question is. . Do you want Hou, the backstabbing bastard whoreson traitor Yang aligned bitch ass motherfucker with bad hair to win over literally anyone else.
Anonymous
>>5809777 Even if it wasn't my initial choice, the sun killing arrow feels like the perfect way to come full circle. Coming to the moon fulfilled one of (if not our first) dream from when we were just a wee kitten, so doubling down by choosing the path that lets us take down the symbol of our very first grudge. (and by proxy the gods since the leaders of the unjust heavens are Ling) feels thematically appropriate.
Anonymous
>>5809756 I think a way to solve this impasse, is to mix both the beam and the arrow. Chang'e and Hou are husband and wife, and we do have eclipse nature.
Anonymous
>>5809784 Although this reasoning is really good.
The only reason I won't change my vote is because I had voted for guardian spirit originally, and lunar deity feels close enough. Anonymous
>>5809785 I am fine with this reasoning, but I don't know if Grandfather will allow it, since we're already balls-deep in a Mystery Box.
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>>5809803 That would just make it a box so mysterious that not even grandfather knew of it!
Anonymous
>>5809777 Reminder that this vote leads to a sub vote, and that the choices are distinct from each other. Blood moon has nothing to do with any flipflopping Hou.
>>5809789 I mean we can still pick up guardian spirit later. Probably. We have a certain number of ranks to spend in total right? I don't know how it works exactly but that was my impression. I don't particularly care for either though. Feels too much like it would tie us down more than we'd like.
Anonymous
>>5809973 Yeah, but I doubt people will vote for that later.
We already got two chances for it
Anonymous
>>5809976 Just keep talking about it every thread until everyone just picks it because they can't escape your words in their heads. EZ PZ. Theory craft about what it may be able to do. Stuff like that.
Also it had to contend with a mystery box this time. Which is basically a DC 10 trillion.
Anonymous
>>5809973 There's a theoretical max of 9 evolutions, but 8 is the highest amount on record. I'm not sure if there's a max level per path, so we could do a 3-3-3 split (though I'm curious how we'll level up this cosmic related path any time soon).
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>>5809983 >(though I'm curious how we'll level up this cosmic related path any time soon). >new goal unlocked, build a space elevator Anonymous
>>5809980 I'm unsure if that would work, the only thing it did for phasing was to become a meme.
I'm still betting on time-travel as a second mystery box for the next evolution Anonymous
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>>5809983 Huan space program, sending cats into orbit with orion drives
Anonymous
>>5809986 I voted for phasing every time it came up. PHASEBROS4LIFE
Time travel always makes things super confusing or super pointless. There's never an in-between. It's either a headache or a bore. Never liked it. Anonymous
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>>5809991 My brother, good to see some of us still live.
Shame the the same can't be said for Crusty. Anonymous
>>5808312 >>There is a arrow, that smells of the sun, fallen atop the hill. You have a....urge to cut yourself on it and pollute the surface of the moon with both your blood and the ceaseless flow of blood Qi radiating from your dantians and beast core, mingling and smudging the lunar energies with the beauty of bloodshed [Blood moon/ Sun killer paths] We shouldn't let ourselves get distracted and focus on the things we're best at: blood and ghosts/grudges. We should take the blood option.
Anonymous
>>5810030 If blood moon means we permanently paint the moon red, that's something I could get behind. It'd just be such a ridiculously grand feat and giant fuck you to the gods.
Anonymous
>>5810115 that would be a deciding factor in the vote for me.
Hell, might be a deciding factor in THIS vote, if Grandfather could confirm.
I'd prefer making it a phase thing, because moonlight is very pretty, but permenant blood moon is also acceptable.
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>>5810157 I dislike the idea of turning the moon red, but if it would be just an extra phase, I think it would be cool.
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>>5808354 >>There is a arrow, that smells of the sun, fallen atop the hill. You have a....urge to cut yourself on it and pollute the surface of the moon with both your blood and the ceaseless flow of blood Qi radiating from your dantians and beast core, mingling and smudging the lunar energies with the beauty of bloodshed [Blood moon/ Sun killer paths] I am changing my vote to the blood moon
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>>5808312 >There is a beam of moonlight rising, close to the palace of ice and moondust, it glimmers and sparkles, just like the light of the moon when you first opened your eyes. There is a presence leading you there...[Lunar Deity/ Chang'e's chosen paths] Anonymous
Does this quest need to implement anti-samefag measures?
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>>5810712 The amount of voters for this votes is indeed suspicious
Anonymous
idk how you can samefag on this site but i do know this site is ip lock
Anonymous
>>5811055 I'll explain how easy it is.
I am.
>>5810157 >>5809777 >>5808415 My Ip changes based on the device you use [Phone/computer] and your network [got two, plus data because my wifi's a bastard]
It's trivial to swap between them and get 5 ID's to post for my preffered option.
It's not hard to do, it's just incredibly gay.
Anonymous
>>5811182 for travelling Anon's it's even simpler, just walk to the next open hotspot and you can swap your ID that way.
And as you can see, my ID's swapped again. It's quite frustrating sometimes, but people can recognise posting style with enough sample size.
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>>5811184 >>5810712 The most suspicious to me are the 1id posts that only repeat a standard option without writing or changing anything.
You have to be a hardcore lurker to not say anything at all and i can't believe there's that many of them.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sun 29 Oct 2023 18:35:34 No. 5811301 Report Ending the vote now, had to cat sit for a day.
>>5809728 It would've
>>5809756 Which is why I am indebted to this valiant disciple of mine, for facing the trial in my stead
And with the votes that came after it, the final tally would be
Blood moon or Sun killer: 12
Lunar diety or Chang'e's chosen: 9
Lake write in: 1
Avatar of freedom or conqueror of stars: 3
Moon maddened or Monkey's understudy:4
However, since there's a bit of a concern for demonic cultivators using forbidden techniques to sway the vote, if we subtract 1 ip votes.
Well all that changes is BM/SK and LD/CC have one and two votes less respectively, by my reckoning so even if there are villainous forces acting against us, there is no change in the final result
So the winning vote is The choice between the blood moon and sun killer paths
update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sun 29 Oct 2023 18:38:25 No. 5811306 Report >>5811301 Actually it would've been 2 less votes for each, I missed one, still doesn't change the result though in the end
Anonymous
>>5811306 Grandfather, the question of the permenancy of the Blood moon is raised and this Junior speaks for his own Juniors when he inquires as to the answer.
It may be revealed in the update, but the answer will have determining effect on deliberations.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sun 29 Oct 2023 20:27:00 No. 5811403 Report All around you you can sense hot spots of spiritual energy, where the breath of the stars has gathered and coalesced together the strongest, creating wellsprings of rich, naturally refined and purified Cosmic Qi just waiting to be poured into your beast core and mixed into the primordial beast essence there that has been overflowing lately and escaping your body with every breath you take or drop of sweat that trickles down you brow, constantly radiating from you like smoke from a fire, in countless different ways. The palace made of ice and moondust catches your eye first, but the moment you look upon it and consider approaching it, you feel a tug like you've suddenly been submerged halfway up your legs in a river with a strong current, the unseen presence you cannot locate through sight, scent or spiritual sense urging your forward, pushing and pulling on your fur with all the gentleness of a breeze whispering through cattails. Just the idea you are being lead there, that whatever inhabits this strange moon is trying to guide you to the palace, trying to lead you and make your choice of where to bathe in the light and Qi of the moon ticks you off. You may possess human emotions and ideas, but you're still a feral beast, wild and free. Masterless, allowing no one else to choose the path you walk, just the idea that there is an outside influence trying to dabble with your destiny, that something else is trying to put a collar around your neck and guide you with a leash, seriously pisses you off and makes you turn up your snout at the palace and turn around so as not to even disgrace your eyes with the sight of it. And as you turn, the gentle, achingly slow lunar wind crawls down from the crest of a hill behind you, carrying with it the scent of the sun. A smell that doesn't belong here, and is clearly flowing out of one of the other prime cultivating spots across the lunar landscape that had caught your attention if not your eyes. Intrigued, you rush over, galloping and kicking up clouds of grey white dust as you run through the pale blue grasses and beneath the crooked shadows cast by the realm eclipsing osmanthus tree. The smell of fresh ashes and smoke with a queer scent joins the fresh aroma of sunlight warming stone, grass and wood as you charge up the hill. And find a single arrow laying on a crude shrine, the sort barbarian tribes in the deserts would make, stacking stones atop one another to form a simple sort of grave marker. A Cairn. Perhaps the tower of stacked stones is all the remains uncovered of the incomprehensibly ancient grave. Oddly, the arrow doesn't looked like it was placed there as an offering or memorial, but rather that it had fallen before the grave, or some churl decided to loose it into the grave when they couldn't have shot it into the still warm breast of whoever the grave belongs to. And curiouser yet, looking upon the honed, razor fine edge of the arrow fills you with desire. Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sun 29 Oct 2023 20:28:01 No. 5811404 Report >>5811403 A desire to bleed, to lift it up and cut your wrists and slice your throat, to spill out all of the excess blood you've hidden away in your veins and heart and kneel down, bathing in it, allowing it flow over your bare skin like warm summer rain, pooling around your legs, leaving streaks of scarlet down your throat and arms. To paint yourself red. And oddly, you fantasize yourself in your human body when you do this, and stranger yet, this day dream of self harm doesn't revolt you as it probably should but it isn't the same macabre delight you felt when you admired the wounds you survived in the nine heavens. That was as much gloating about surviving such a vicious attack as it was your usual fondness of corpses and gore and other things most would call grisly or disturbing and try to avoid.
You ponder it, as you shift to standing on two legs as you turn into a human girl again, walking up to the arrow and pouting as you try and mull over the desire to tear open your veins to figure out why it feels different from any of your other macabre whims and thrills, like sleeping atop graves or drenching your fur or hair in blood. And as you tap your finger to the the tip of the arrow head, drawing a single bead of blood, you understand why its strange. Why the fantasy of ripping open the veins in your wrists and throat should've disturbed and disgusted you, and why it didn't.
The urge isn't to mangle your body, to relish in the warmth of your blood or swallow pain to make it pleasure, which is something only the wildest of perverts would do, which is why you're greatly relieved to realize that the day dream wasn't in fact the first signs of a masochistic yearning or suicidal tendencies, which you're certain others would argue against since what you did early this day would've been suicided if anyone but the great you tried it.
No the urge is a desire to corrupt, to pollute and degrade this pure land around you with your filthy blood? Filthy? Hah! Your blood is purer than water and more valuable than refined mercury! But when you look on the arrow and the blood it drew, you can only envision spreading that beautiful coat of red you wear, as hair and fur, all across the pale surface of the moon, with both fresh blood and the blood Qi ceaselessly spilling out from your heart, dantians and beast core.
To mingle the lunar energies with the beauty of bloodshed. The beauty of yourself. Corrupting the cosmic Qi with your own essence, to truly make it yours as you integrate it to the roiling primordial beast essence and ghostly breath caged inside of your beast core.
But, the longer your hold the out of place, sunshine smelling arrow in the palm of your hand, the more that vision of a moon painted in your colors, reeking of your blood is replaced with a different scene in your minds eye. Another illusionary scene, of a sun scorched world, a wasteland of sand and rock hard soil, blistering heat and blinding sunlight.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sun 29 Oct 2023 20:29:02 No. 5811407 Report >>5811404 A land so dry there weren't even clouds in the sky, only ten blazing, furious suns burning the world, evaporating the seas and bleaching the bones of all things a porcelain white. The world was dying beneath the oppressive gaze of ten suns. Until an archer emerged and walked the sun-beaten world, and one by one, shot nine of the ten suns out of the sky. The scene playing in your mind's eye shows you this, shows the suns bleeding fire and pure radiance, their light fading as they fall from the skies with raven like cries, as the archer stands, his face hidden by the merciless sunlight as he notches and fires arrow after arrow, none of them missing their mark as he stands stalwart and uncowed by the overwhelming power of the quarry he has chosen. He just expertly shoots them down with incredible precision and haste.
And as each sun falls, more is revealed as the light in the sky dims. And while at first you were curious of the identity of this man, half expecting the glare of the sun to reveal Five color's cheerful smile, but the longer you indulge in this fantasy, the more your attentions are drawn to the arrow itself, and the bow that fires it, sending it into the hearts of the villainous suns who trouble and injure the world in their arrogance without any concern for those living upon it.
It is as inspiring as the idea of staining the moon red with the paint of your veins is tempting. You to are an enemy of the sun. The Ling proclaim themselves guardians of the celestial sunlight and style themselves after it, wearing gaudy golden robes.
You frown, and tap your finger on the point of the arrow head again, widening the cut there and drawing another bead of blood, fatter than the first.
To turn the moon red, if only for a few nights, and absorb the essence of a blood tinged moon. A blood moon is an ill omen, a symbol of war and death, a herald of coups and all the bloodshed that follow them. You helped complete a coup, when you helped the three Dian brothers gut the worthless excuse of an emperor like a fish.
Yet the idea of shooting down a sun, not the sun, is appealing beyond words. You've never used a bow before, having done not even as much as learn how to notch an arrow and pull a bowstring, but you'd be willing to learn if you could bury an arrow like the one in your hand into the hearts of the Ling.
Either way if you paint the moon red or refine this arrow and absorb it into your beast core, you can sense that you'll attain great and unexpected powers. You just have to make your choice and embrace the next step of beastial evolution, and attain cosmic nature.
Flicking the arrow up right, you turn it to see your reflection in its arrowhead, turning it around and twisting it between two fingers, your heart racing as you try and decide if you should snap it in half to release the essence of murdered suns within it, or use its sharp edge to slice open your own throat to dance in blood soaked moonlight.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sun 29 Oct 2023 20:31:37 No. 5811409 Report >>5811407 Choose [Basic cosmic nature line abilities. The ability to travel to space, without passing through the heavens, access to cosmic Qi, can breath and move with ease in the void of space, can practice star magic and astrology, Always knows ones exact location beneath the night sky, You cultivate cosmic Qi more efficiently and stranger/ alien abilities...]
>Blood Moon: Become a herald of misfortune, who is strengthened beneath moonlight and whose presence alone can upset the tides, of both the sea and war. Gain the ability to worsen the luck/ fortunes others. Increase potency and affinity of Yin spells/ abilities/ techniques, gain the ability to transmute water to blood, without alchemy, and control moonlight, as well as access unique techniques and spells fueled by it. Able to force the moon to become a blood moon temporarily, and blood moonlight strengths your blood moon abilities more than normal moonlight does, and alters them (As well as carmine mystic abilities, and any form of blood sorcery/ refinement/ control). Your blood has been infused with moon dust. >Sun Killer: Become the next sun killer, who cannot be burned by even the fiercest flames (Immune to fire and heat), become a natural master of archery, unmatched on heaven or earth. Capable of "Snuffing out" Fire spells and techniques with your aura, or seal them entirely with an arrow. Yang spells/ abilities/ techniques are strengthened, but all that are fire aligned are replaced with "Dead heat", a black fire that consumes other flames. Gain the ability to steal/ trap sunlight or mundane fires, and convert it into Dead Heat Qi instead. You can see much farther than before, and your vision becomes flawless, no matter how dark or bright your surroundings are. And now the sun will know to fear you. >Write in Cosmic nature is scary, and all of its variations are equally as scary/ powerful
How Huanliuxue will look after this evolution, will be revealed next update :)
>>5811347 If you pick blood moon, blood moons will be more common as a natural occurrence, as well as Huan being able to summon one
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>>5811409 >Blood Moon: Become a herald of misfortune, who is strengthened beneath moonlight and whose presence alone can upset the tides, of both the sea and war. Gain the ability to worsen the luck/ fortunes others. Increase potency and affinity of Yin spells/ abilities/ techniques, gain the ability to transmute water to blood, without alchemy, and control moonlight, as well as access unique techniques and spells fueled by it. Able to force the moon to become a blood moon temporarily, and blood moonlight strengths your blood moon abilities more than normal moonlight does, and alters them (As well as carmine mystic abilities, and any form of blood sorcery/ refinement/ control). Your blood has been infused with moon dust. Anonymous
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>>5811409 >Sun Killer: Become the next sun killer, who cannot be burned by even the fiercest flames (Immune to fire and heat), become a natural master of archery, unmatched on heaven or earth. Capable of "Snuffing out" Fire spells and techniques with your aura, or seal them entirely with an arrow. Yang spells/ abilities/ techniques are strengthened, but all that are fire aligned are replaced with "Dead heat", a black fire that consumes other flames. Gain the ability to steal/ trap sunlight or mundane fires, and convert it into Dead Heat Qi instead. You can see much farther than before, and your vision becomes flawless, no matter how dark or bright your surroundings are. And now the sun will know to fear you. Anonymous
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>>5811409 Hmmmmmmmmmmm
I hate Hou, I hate Hou, I hate Hou.
And making the sun turn red is METAL AS FUCK.
However, absolute immunity to one of the 5 elements? that alone is worth it. the rest is so much MORE
>Sun Killer. DIE, LING SCUM, DIE!
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>>5811409 >>Blood Moon: Become a herald of misfortune, who is strengthened beneath moonlight and whose presence alone can upset the tides, of both the sea and war. Gain the ability to worsen the luck/ fortunes others. Increase potency and affinity of Yin spells/ abilities/ techniques, gain the ability to transmute water to blood, without alchemy, and control moonlight, as well as access unique techniques and spells fueled by it. Able to force the moon to become a blood moon temporarily, and blood moonlight strengths your blood moon abilities more than normal moonlight does, and alters them (As well as carmine mystic abilities, and any form of blood sorcery/ refinement/ control). Your blood has been infused with moon dust. This existence is ours. Everyone else is just living in it. As monumentally badass as Sun Killer stuff is, I can't turn my back on the most maniacal showing of dominance we can make, not to destroy but to change.
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>>5811409 >Sun Killer: Become the next sun killer, who cannot be burned by even the fiercest flames (Immune to fire and heat), become a natural master of archery, unmatched on heaven or earth. Capable of "Snuffing out" Fire spells and techniques with your aura, or seal them entirely with an arrow. Yang spells/ abilities/ techniques are strengthened, but all that are fire aligned are replaced with "Dead heat", a black fire that consumes other flames. Gain the ability to steal/ trap sunlight or mundane fires, and convert it into Dead Heat Qi instead. You can see much farther than before, and your vision becomes flawless, no matter how dark or bright your surroundings are. And now the sun will know to fear you. Perfect eyesight? That'll go perfectly with our waltz.
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>>5811409 >Blood Moon: Become a herald of misfortune, who is strengthened beneath moonlight and whose presence alone can upset the tides, of both the sea and war. Gain the ability to worsen the luck/ fortunes others. Increase potency and affinity of Yin spells/ abilities/ techniques, gain the ability to transmute water to blood, without alchemy, and control moonlight, as well as access unique techniques and spells fueled by it. Able to force the moon to become a blood moon temporarily, and blood moonlight strengths your blood moon abilities more than normal moonlight does, and alters them (As well as carmine mystic abilities, and any form of blood sorcery/ refinement/ control). Your blood has been infused with moon dust. Let's be our own thing, instead of walking in the footsteps of others
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>>5811409 >>Blood Moon: Become a herald of misfortune, who is strengthened beneath moonlight and whose presence alone can upset the tides, of both the sea and war. Gain the ability to worsen the luck/ fortunes others. Increase potency and affinity of Yin spells/ abilities/ techniques, gain the ability to transmute water to blood, without alchemy, and control moonlight, as well as access unique techniques and spells fueled by it. Able to force the moon to become a blood moon temporarily, and blood moonlight strengths your blood moon abilities more than normal moonlight does, and alters them (As well as carmine mystic abilities, and any form of blood sorcery/ refinement/ control). Your blood has been infused with moon dust. This meshes greatly into our Dao, synergises with the Carmine Mysticism (which we should use more anyways) and the techniques dont require us to enter human form.
Archery would force us to stay human and hinder melee (making the fights less cool).
Anonymous
>>5811480 I for one trust that our genius smith Feiqing would be able to design a bow for quadrupeds. But even still, shapeshifting dynamism in fights would be pretty cool to learn in order to quickdraw 360 no-scope dome fools with arrows.
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>>5811472 Fuck, my ID changed
>>5802994 I'm this anon
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>>5811482 Feiqing is best boy and I can't wait for him to reach the heights of cultivation he deserves
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>>5811409 >Sun Killer: Become the next sun killer, who cannot be burned by even the fiercest flames (Immune to fire and heat), become a natural master of archery, unmatched on heaven or earth. Capable of "Snuffing out" Fire spells and techniques with your aura, or seal them entirely with an arrow. Yang spells/ abilities/ techniques are strengthened, but all that are fire aligned are replaced with "Dead heat", a black fire that consumes other flames. Gain the ability to steal/ trap sunlight or mundane fires, and convert it into Dead Heat Qi instead. You can see much farther than before, and your vision becomes flawless, no matter how dark or bright your surroundings are. And now the sun will know to fear you. Both of these are fucking great, god damn.
Worsening luck is just vague enough to sound completely broken, and transmutation blood + stronger blood spells + summoning blood moons sounds like a dream combo, not to mention ridiculously edgy, just the way Huan likes it.
On the other hand, immunity to fire and heat? That ALONE would be worth considering, but add in flame snuffing and Dead Heat Qi and it's another delightfully edgy option. Besides, the Ling is our first and truest grudge, even before that of the magical beasts, getting this feels like a cathartic way to go.
I wanted to go for blood moon during the previous vote, but fire immunity and dead heat both sound far too useful/cool for me to ignore. But then again, archery would be a weird skill to get, and we have never been much of a ranged fighter. Though of course instantly mastering the skill is a pretty good way to get started.
I have swapped like 4 times just writing this, so needless to say I am very torn. I'm gonna follow my heart again, but I am on a fucking razors edge. I'm gonna regret not getting to see the other one in action either way.
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>>5811484 I can't wait for people to mistake him for a Buddha when his body looks like it's made entirely out of a celestial metal. He deserves the praise.
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>>5811409 > And now the sun will know to fear you. SO FUCKING METAL.
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>>5811407 >>Blood Moon: Become a herald of misfortune, who is strengthened beneath moonlight and whose presence alone can upset the tides, of both the sea and war. Gain the ability to worsen the luck/ fortunes others. Increase potency and affinity of Yin spells/ abilities/ techniques, gain the ability to transmute water to blood, without alchemy, and control moonlight, as well as access unique techniques and spells fueled by it. Able to force the moon to become a blood moon temporarily, and blood moonlight strengths your blood moon abilities more than normal moonlight does, and alters them (As well as carmine mystic abilities, and any form of blood sorcery/ refinement/ control). Your blood has been infused with moon dust. Anonymous
>>5811487 >we have never been much of a ranged fighter I don't quite agree with that assessment. I concede we favor melee for direct attacks, but we do have quite a few ranged magic attacks. And several "ranged" attacks. In that they don't require physical touch or proximity to use, even though they aren't projectile in nature.
Huan is more of a de/buff fighter than a melee fighter IMO.
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>>5811409 >>Sun Killer: Become the next sun killer, who cannot be burned by even the fiercest flames (Immune to fire and heat), become a natural master of archery, unmatched on heaven or earth. Capable of "Snuffing out" Fire spells and techniques with your aura, or seal them entirely with an arrow. Yang spells/ abilities/ techniques are strengthened, but all that are fire aligned are replaced with "Dead heat", a black fire that consumes other flames. Gain the ability to steal/ trap sunlight or mundane fires, and convert it into Dead Heat Qi instead. You can see much farther than before, and your vision becomes flawless, no matter how dark or bright your surroundings are. And now the sun will know to fear you. Anonymous
>>5811496 Debuff fighter is definitely the best way to describe our fighting style, but I don't remember us having that many ranged attacks.
Though of course I call "ranged" anything that we can use from a fair distance away, or projectile generally.
By that definition, we have Yin orbs but I can't recall much else. Our curses don't need physical touch for the most part but their actual range is vague and we have so far used them at medium range at best which I am not sure I would define as "ranged" proper. Then our grudge shield can bounce attacks back pretty far (that is how we took out the archer that got Ping's arm, no?) but whether that is an "attack" is something of a semantic argument waiting to happen.
That is more range then I gave credit for admittedly, but I will maintain that "not much of a ranged fighter" is correct in that we usually debuff from range, then finish off in melee, as our most devastating moves (various draining fangs & our martial arts) are centred on close combat.
Unless I am forgetting something, which is entirely possible.
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>>5811409 >Blood Moon These are both so fucking OP
Blood moon is thematically perfect for huan
Imagine a demon king rise to power and as they grow in power destroying the land suddenly huanliuxiue comes knocking like: "bitch you empowered me too now you reap what you sow."
Yet the sunkiller while quite the shift from our usual fighting style is incredibly overpowered
I'm going to vote for the bloodmoon in the hope that we may keep the arrow since the other option would be to break it.
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>>5811480 Make a bow out of bloody flames.
Fire it with our tail. NO, WAIT.
FIRE ARROWS OUT OF GHOST EMPRESS MELODY!
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>>5811409 >>Blood Moon: Become a herald of misfortune, who is strengthened beneath moonlight and whose presence alone can upset the tides, of both the sea and war. Gain the ability to worsen the luck/ fortunes others. Increase potency and affinity of Yin spells/ abilities/ techniques, gain the ability to transmute water to blood, without alchemy, and control moonlight, as well as access unique techniques and spells fueled by it. Able to force the moon to become a blood moon temporarily, and blood moonlight strengths your blood moon abilities more than normal moonlight does, and alters them (As well as carmine mystic abilities, and any form of blood sorcery/ refinement/ control). Your blood has been infused with moon dust. Anonymous
>>5811492 Is this a vote or did you already?
>>5811515 Almost all of our blood techniques can be used from range. As well as general qi projections. Like freezing water in the air for ice spears, or generating a ton of electricity, probably make a fireball with our eclipsed yang now as well. We also throw those nifty little blood needles and stuff.
I agree that any reflection of the DGS is kinda irrelevant to the discussion. Since it's a defensive technique with a backlash rather than an offensive technique with a defensive element. I'd also say curses don't quite fit the bill of an "attack" since they don't directly cause harm.
But saying "medium range" doesn't count as ranged is unfair. You don't need to be attacking from a continent away for it to be ranged. The Ogress' Sword Light is absolutely a ranged attack despite being short-mid ranged.
Most of Huan's abilities can be utilized equally in various ranges. She has an absurd amount of utility and options in that regard. We just tend to stick to melee because, well, we're a giant cat. Nature's second greatest killing machine. I'll admit using a weapon specifically is a little strange for her, but her usage of G.E.M. does set the precedence that using tools and gear is in her wheelhouse. Which is also another example of having something that can be used in melee or range. It has more to do with creativity and common application than necessity for us, it seems.
In case you're wondering what nature's greatest killing machine is, it's
dragonflies. A nearly 100% hunting efficiency. Crazy murdery little buggers. Anonymous
>>5811407 >>Sun Killer: Become the next sun killer, who cannot be burned by even the fiercest flames (Immune to fire and heat), become a natural master of archery, unmatched on heaven or earth. Capable of "Snuffing out" Fire spells and techniques with your aura, or seal them entirely with an arrow. Yang spells/ abilities/ techniques are strengthened, but all that are fire aligned are replaced with "Dead heat", a black fire that consumes other flames. Gain the ability to steal/ trap sunlight or mundane fires, and convert it into Dead Heat Qi instead. You can see much farther than before, and your vision becomes flawless, no matter how dark or bright your surroundings are. And now the sun will know to fear you. I know we're fighting an ice master but honestly Black fire is cool.
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>>5811549 Think of it as an unpleasant surprise for Baoli.
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>>5811557 >yfw baoli learned some weird ice-fire in his time as a rolling head that is immune because it's already not hot or technically flaming Anonymous
>>5811541 Entirely correct argument, fair enough.
As you said, we do tend to stick to melee since it comes naturally, as such I overlooked more then I realized. Just because you throw a rock at someone's face from point-blank doesn't mean it's not ranged, I was silly to think that.
For what it's worth though, make no mistake, just because it doesn't really mesh with what we have done so far, doesn't mean I think archery is a bad idea, on the contrary. Weaponry is a skill set we have very much neglected, and could be very useful. Having established that we do, indeed, have ranged options, I will now argue that we have no real LONG ranged option, which archery could be.
Besides, we don't have many reasons to fight as a human right now, (other then getting thumbs) with archery it would give us a cat/melee - human/ranged dynamic that could be nice to experiment with.
I realise that my initial post made it sounds like I though picking archery would be a mistake, but that's only from the perspective of "shoring up a weakness" VS "focusing on our strengths". I tend to like focusing on our strengths, so I could understand the argument that we would not need to learn long ranged fighting if we never fight anyone at long range, which given our penchant for stealth is fairly reasonable.
...Maybe not the most convincing argument considering that we nearly got 1 shot by an arrow earlier but I digress.
I would have though "nature's greatest killing machines" would be Orca's. Feels like a statistical technicality, but hey, dragonflies ARE pretty cool, and very good hunters, so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised. Anonymous
>>5811566 >I will now argue that we have no real LONG ranged option, Absolutely true. Our longest range option right now would probably be to make a spear out of a liquid and just chuck it as hard as we can from as far as we can and hope.
And to be fair, we don't really need to pick up any long range options. As you said, Huan is so good at closing distance that having extreme range options matters less. I mean, we can literally teleport with our ghost lights now, so we can just pop closer at an alarming rate, assuming we broke stealth in the first place. She is basically a hard counter to any ranged fighter that isn't also an ambush combatant. So the idea of "Jack of all, master of none" is very fair. We gain just as much by sticking with our specialties. It's always valid to find a niche and completely dominate it. There's no wrong answer here, truly.
To be entirely fair, getting blindsided by a fallen god when so far the wimpiest and weediest of the dorks in heaven could have sneezed us to death makes it less that the bow was the deciding factor in the danger. We also almost got zero'd by a halberd-wielding security guard in the same afternoon. Being blindsided hurts like hell. Almost makes me feel bad for people who fight Huan. Almost.
This can mean only one thing. Awakened Orca versus Awakened Dragonfly. The battle to determine the killiest. Will the sheer unbridled power of the orca swat the dragonfly? Or will the unsurpassed mobility and accuracy of the dragonfly sink the orca? Find out next time on NATURE'S DEADLIEST WARRIOR! Anonymous
>>5811561 >Laughs in supreme Yin alignments. Anonymous
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>>5811580 I dunno man. I feel like getting hit with Absolute Zero would still hurt despite the fact we can walk through the coldest of Hell without a coat on. Zero Kelvin is scary. Even my confidence only goes so far when thinking about how a fight junkie figures out how to make themselves more lethal.
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>>5811409 >Blood Moon: Become a herald of misfortune, who is strengthened beneath moonlight and whose presence alone can upset the tides, of both the sea and war. Gain the ability to worsen the luck/ fortunes others. Increase potency and affinity of Yin spells/ abilities/ techniques, gain the ability to transmute water to blood, without alchemy, and control moonlight, as well as access unique techniques and spells fueled by it. Able to force the moon to become a blood moon temporarily, and blood moonlight strengths your blood moon abilities more than normal moonlight does, and alters them (As well as carmine mystic abilities, and any form of blood sorcery/ refinement/ control). Your blood has been infused with moon dust. I've been too hard on the Cosmic voting brothers, this is great.
Anonymous
>>5811577 It's definitely up in the air, both options have serious merit. I'm still tempted to change my vote.
>Being blindsided hurts like hell. Almost makes me feel bad for people who fight Huan. Almost. I would feel bad if it wasn't freaking hilarious every time.
My favourites include the spider assassin stopping mid-fight to complain that we make no fucking sense and the crow king losing his temper at our bullshit.
Honourable mentions go to the Ogress hitting us with one of our great weakness, soul destroying techniques, only to doubt if it actually worked or if we were just acting, because how the FUCK could you possibly tell.
Man, now I need to see this. Finding an Orca is gonna be a challenge. Anonymous
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>>5811593 This is one of the few votes where if it were a coin toss I wouldn't be upset with either. Hell even I am tempted to switch my vote. My mind is awash with possibilities from both of them. Blood moon means fighting Huan at night (or perhaps even high enough to simply see the moon) is basically a death sentence. Doubly so if it's a certain happy night or she chooses to make it one. The other pretty much takes the icon of divine strength and its associated element and completely tells it to fuck off with extreme prejudice. They're both so fucking cool.
>yaonan pouting because she legit can't tell when huan is pretending or not completely by accident That was great. Made me grin like an idiot when that happened. If only she didn't make enemies out of literally every single fucking one of our students and apprentices. Silly girl.
We found a turtle. I'm sure we can find an orca on the coast of a particularly cold sea. Bonus points for orca's being deceptively intelligent. One might actually seek us out after hearing gossip from sailors. It could go somewhere and stir up a stink to draw attention. Which also makes me wonder about another smart fish awakening in a dolphin. Though rape-cave laughing-fish is already scary enough without magic and super strength. Anonymous
>>5811541 It was not a vote. I just want to ooh and aww, then have a big think.
>>5811409 But this is a vote.
>Sun Killer: Become the next sun killer, who cannot be burned by even the fiercest flames (Immune to fire and heat), become a natural master of archery, unmatched on heaven or earth. Capable of "Snuffing out" Fire spells and techniques with your aura, or seal them entirely with an arrow. Yang spells/ abilities/ techniques are strengthened, but all that are fire aligned are replaced with "Dead heat", a black fire that consumes other flames. Gain the ability to steal/ trap sunlight or mundane fires, and convert it into Dead Heat Qi instead. You can see much farther than before, and your vision becomes flawless, no matter how dark or bright your surroundings are. And now the sun will know to fear you. I'm siding with versatility over mastery on this one. Imagine dealing with Huan as a archer master. A teleporting stealth master with command over the undead, whose arrows cause horrific wounds. And then when you finally catch up to her she turns into a god damn giant cat. Or pulls out two fuck off giant axes.
Anonymous
>>5811619 I wonder if we could use bones as arrows and have them animate upon impact. Imagine shooting a whole ass arm at someone and the skeletal hand grabs them by the throat when they try to dodge or block. Fun.
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>>5811409 >Blood Moon: Become a herald of misfortune, who is strengthened beneath moonlight and whose presence alone can upset the tides, of both the sea and war. Gain the ability to worsen the luck/ fortunes others. Increase potency and affinity of Yin spells/ abilities/ techniques, gain the ability to transmute water to blood, without alchemy, and control moonlight, as well as access unique techniques and spells fueled by it. Able to force the moon to become a blood moon temporarily, and blood moonlight strengths your blood moon abilities more than normal moonlight does, and alters them (As well as carmine mystic abilities, and any form of blood sorcery/ refinement/ control). Your blood has been infused with moon dust. Archery doesn't really match our style imo. Also like I said I just like the sheer grandiosity of painting the moon red.
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>>5811619 >>5811635 You have activated my neurons, martial brothers.
Consider this: Vein draining arrows. Don't even need to hit something important, just cause a scratch and they bleed out.
Alternatively: Grudge arrows. Our arrows home in on people we have a grudge against. That seems like exactly the kind of bullshit grudges would allow us to pull off.
Combine the two and you have the most vicious technique known to archery.
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>>5811643 >aimbotting DoT That really is the most disgusting thing I have heard in a while. I love it. Huan just points the attack straight up and launches a half dozen arrows that start to chase you around while she's free to whip up whatever horrible plans she wants, knowing you have to dodge them or you'll bleed to death.
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>>5811409 >Blood Moon: Become a herald of misfortune, who is strengthened beneath moonlight and whose presence alone can upset the tides, of both the sea and war. Gain the ability to worsen the luck/ fortunes others. Increase potency and affinity of Yin spells/ abilities/ techniques, gain the ability to transmute water to blood, without alchemy, and control moonlight, as well as access unique techniques and spells fueled by it. Able to force the moon to become a blood moon temporarily, and blood moonlight strengths your blood moon abilities more than normal moonlight does, and alters them (As well as carmine mystic abilities, and any form of blood sorcery/ refinement/ control). Your blood has been infused with moon dust. Anonymous
Come on everyone, we need more votes. This is our battleground. Give it all you've got. We aren't even only 1 vote away from a tie. Also let's talk about stuff. We get fucking space magic regardless of which option gets chosen. Isn't that rad? Literal solar flare territory. Though now I truly have to wonder, perhaps one of the evolutions of either of these paths will let us conjure a solar eclipse. To go with Huan's eclipsed physique. Also we get fast tracked to space without having to go through the cloudy heavens. All of the stress left my body upon reading that.
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>>5811647 Mnh, not to disparage another vote option during the count (both are excellent choices) but; all they'd have to do is destroy the arrows midair. Or become all ghostlike or just tank the hits like a cut price Fu.
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>>5811819 That's true. Though so far I don't think we've encountered an orthodox cultivator than can become intangible. Not to say there are no techniques like that, just that I can't remember encountering any. Tanking the hits isn't really viable, they'd need to staunch the bleeding or they'd inevitably die. Which again, isn't a hard sell, healing isn't quite difficult, and overcoming the curse should be possible for anyone close to Huan's level at the time they battle. But it still complicates the idea of just trying to shrug off the hits. But destroying them is an option. Of course the same is true of every other projectile techniques, and even some non-projectile ones like grudge clouds and such. But it'd still be a distraction. And momentary lapses in attention can be very dangerous in battle.
They're valid points but they also apply to quite a few of our techniques. And they still would even if we boosted the techniques in question out the wazoo. So it's not too harsh of a dig at the voting choice.
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>>5811409 >>Blood Moon: Become a herald of misfortune, who is strengthened beneath moonlight and whose presence alone can upset the tides, of both the sea and war. Gain the ability to worsen the luck/ fortunes others. Increase potency and affinity of Yin spells/ abilities/ techniques, gain the ability to transmute water to blood, without alchemy, and control moonlight, as well as access unique techniques and spells fueled by it. Able to force the moon to become a blood moon temporarily, and blood moonlight strengths your blood moon abilities more than normal moonlight does, and alters them (As well as carmine mystic abilities, and any form of blood sorcery/ refinement/ control). Your blood has been infused with moon dust. Anonymous
>>5811787 Fun fact if you like eclipses: what is colloquially called a "blood moon" is a lunar eclipse
>>5811480 Backlink for transparency. I'm sorry that i am based in a country with bad infrastructure that forces me to IP change a bit more often than would be necessary elsewhere.
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>>5812017 >Fun fact if you like eclipses: what is colloquially called a "blood moon" is a lunar eclipse That is quite a fun fact. I hadn't known that.
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>>5811409 >>Sun Killer: Become the next sun killer, who cannot be burned by even the fiercest flames (Immune to fire and heat), become a natural master of archery, unmatched on heaven or earth. Capable of "Snuffing out" Fire spells and techniques with your aura, or seal them entirely with an arrow. Yang spells/ abilities/ techniques are strengthened, but all that are fire aligned are replaced with "Dead heat", a black fire that consumes other flames. Gain the ability to steal/ trap sunlight or mundane fires, and convert it into Dead Heat Qi instead. You can see much farther than before, and your vision becomes flawless, no matter how dark or bright your surroundings are. And now the sun will know to fear you. Anonymous
>>5811409 >Sun Killer: Become the next sun killer, who cannot be burned by even the fiercest flames (Immune to fire and heat), become a natural master of archery, unmatched on heaven or earth. Capable of "Snuffing out" Fire spells and techniques with your aura, or seal them entirely with an arrow. Yang spells/ abilities/ techniques are strengthened, but all that are fire aligned are replaced with "Dead heat", a black fire that consumes other flames. Gain the ability to steal/ trap sunlight or mundane fires, and convert it into Dead Heat Qi instead. You can see much farther than before, and your vision becomes flawless, no matter how dark or bright your surroundings are. And now the sun will know to fear you. Both sound utterly ridiculous (fitting for the hell in heaven we experienced), but my love of thematic completeness draws me to the bow. Either way we are making the sickest entrance on the battlefield when we come down.
>>5811557 Speaking of Baoli, the story of Hou Yi did see the birth of the three-legged crows, so I wonder if they’re around still.
Wouldn't be the first time three-legged crows got associated with Hell for example Anonymous
Grandfather, does sun killer evolution come with a bow? It just hit me that being a legendary archer with flawless far-sight is kinda useless if you don't have a legendary bow+arrows to leverage this skill? In which case I guess it'd be another job for Feiqing, or maybe one more shopping trip to hell...
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>>5812017 Also, luck manipulation was one of the original options for our dao, due to cats being associated with it.
>>5812149 Blood Moon is the option that fits Huan's theme the best, not sun killer. It expands on her eclipse nature, her blood magic, the supernatural cat abilities and her supreme Yin physic
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Oh, and we already have our instrument as a weapon, we probably would need to stop using it to carry a bow around.
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>>5812162 Or go for a quest to find the ex god who fired his arrow from Earth while we were going to Heaven, and claim the bow
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>>5812184 Although now that I'm thinking about it, maybe Feiqing is enough of a genious to turn it into a bow.
It is a string instrument afterall.
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>>5812183 Thematic might not have been the best choice of word , but my reasoning is pretty much
>>5809784 . Either way wherever the votes falls I'll be satisfied.
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>>5812197 I see, that makes sense
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>>5812189 Nah, hands off our guqin, that's a central part of our character by now like the notched ear. Don't we have a pocket dimension for carrying all our shit ACME style anyway?
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>>5812184 Did you forgot that it floats?
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But the bow would need to float as well, or we need to get used to putting and pulling it out of the pearl to swap mid fight.
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>>5812222 Wait, our dimensional storage is a pearl right? Or am I misremembering again?
Because normally it's a ring and I'm second guessing myself right now Anonymous
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>>5812227 You might be thinking of the sealing beads we have (and pparently completely forgot about since we haven't done much kidnapping besides the emperor's soul)
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>>5812228 >>5812229 Thanks
Also here's a tally.
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>>5812233 I just realized I probably made a mistake, how can it have 19 votes, but 11 + 9 one the options.
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>>5812233 Alright, found the error
I didn't put V8vOu+72 on the votes list, so there should be 20 voters, not 19
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>>5811409 >Blood Moon: Become a herald of misfortune, who is strengthened beneath moonlight and whose presence alone can upset the tides, of both the sea and war. Gain the ability to worsen the luck/ fortunes others. Increase potency and affinity of Yin spells/ abilities/ techniques, gain the ability to transmute water to blood, without alchemy, and control moonlight, as well as access unique techniques and spells fueled by it. Able to force the moon to become a blood moon temporarily, and blood moonlight strengths your blood moon abilities more than normal moonlight does, and alters them (As well as carmine mystic abilities, and any form of blood sorcery/ refinement/ control). Your blood has been infused with moon dust. Anonymous
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I'd also like everyone to contemplate that we are probably the only cosmic beast and likely to remain the only cosmic beast until we have reversed the unnust order of the five celestial sages. The reason I say "likely" is that we will probably assault the heavens eventually, establish a foothold and such. If we can do that, it would be. . . Ideal opportunity to draw the most attention we can to this scuffle and offer our boldest beast students the chance to make their own mad dash up the Heavens. They would need to be higher than a mere golden core. With a map, a direction and a plan, definitely some lifesaving treasures. But other than that, no aid. Its a plan, and absolutely not compulsory for them to do. But I think it will be a great chance for them to grow as cultivators. The apparent rule for attaining the nature is "must reach the space by their own power". A distraction doesnt count, I think.
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>>5811409 >>Blood Moon: Become a herald of misfortune, who is strengthened beneath moonlight and whose presence alone can upset the tides, of both the sea and war. Gain the ability to worsen the luck/ fortunes others. Increase potency and affinity of Yin spells/ abilities/ techniques, gain the ability to transmute water to blood, without alchemy, and control moonlight, as well as access unique techniques and spells fueled by it. Able to force the moon to become a blood moon temporarily, and blood moonlight strengths your blood moon abilities more than normal moonlight does, and alters them (As well as carmine mystic abilities, and any form of blood sorcery/ refinement/ control). Your blood has been infused with moon dust. Anonymous
>>5812218 >>5812222 I have a crazy idea
If Sun Killer wins, our Blood Qi it's still getting somewhat empowered because it's Yang aligned. We can shoot 2 birds with one arrow.
If we want to create a body from 0 for our snek girl and our sister, we can start experimenting with a cool meat construct using our Carmine Mysticism, and that is:
Legendary Artifact: Wild Ruler's Paws: Crafted from the Bloodpits of Huanliuxue, gathering all kind of rich materials, the highest form of Alchemy, Magic and Biology, the Wild Princess and her disciples created a perfect copy of Huanliuxue's hands, capable of moving and acting at the order of their Owners. They look like disembodied hands, leaving a trail of Blood Qi thick enough to look like silk and adorned by beautifuls brazelets of Silver and Gold. They move at the command of Huanliuxue and as good at their owners original hands, channel Qi and manipulate it, and basically do anything Huanliuxue can.
We basically clone our hands, and because of how we almost turned into a full Jiangshi that Ling bitch some threads ago from distance thanks to a arm we ripped off, I say it's possible. We can keep them hidden on our robes or maybe master our Carmine Mysticism to make extra arms to fight, but how I think we could primarily use them is for using either our Guqin or our Bow, hell we can just leave our hands grabbing a bow while Huan is calculating distance and stuff like some kind of sniper, or have them play a song of the Guqin and rise an army while we send arrows at the speed of light. That way we can use both our new weapon and Guqin without trouble.
The other alternative is two bind a Ghost as our personal servant, but maybe it won't be talented or powerful enough to use our Guqin or Bow as good as us. So yeah, what do you guys think?
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>>5812437 The thing that kills me is despite voting blood moon for the continued thematics, I can see that Sun Killer is extremely busted. And I kinda want it to win despite my vote. Too bad a man is built on principles.
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>>5812450 Blood moon is going to really get us to do a bunch of insane things... Plus that and keeping the thematics is awesome, tho it depends how good it is if we actually, REALLY try to go more into Carmine Mysticism, and we can take out so much juice out of the Guardian God's blood.
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>>5812437 But Blood Moon should allow us to push Carmine Mysticism much farther than Sun Killer! We could even turn a large sea or river into blood with which to fuel our Carmine Mysticism! (Even though Sun Killer totally isnt bad)
>>5812017 Backlink for transparency
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>>5812437 So you want to pull some crazy hindu many hands shit? Sounds cool, I'll support something like that whether BM or SK wins.
It would fit with our buddhist friends.
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>>5812455 >But Blood Moon should allow us to push Carmine Mysticism much farther than Sun Killer! Well yes, but I still wanted to point out that if people go Sun Killer it doesn't means our Carmine Mysticism will stay at the same level as it is. Blood Moon let us go world beyond for our blood magic, tho Sun Killer it's still going to push us for leagues still
>>5812465 Not going full gigantic wall of hands, but more of a solution for those who are just thinking how the Guqin + Bow logistic could go if they really wanna go for Sun Killer
If we end up going Blood Moon it won't be necessary, we just turn into Cat Jesus and throwing the war ships of our enemies with a flick of our tail
But anyway
>>5811409 >Blood Moon: Become a herald of misfortune, who is strengthened beneath moonlight and whose presence alone can upset the tides, of both the sea and war. Gain the ability to worsen the luck/ fortunes others. Increase potency and affinity of Yin spells/ abilities/ techniques, gain the ability to transmute water to blood, without alchemy, and control moonlight, as well as access unique techniques and spells fueled by it. Able to force the moon to become a blood moon temporarily, and blood moonlight strengths your blood moon abilities more than normal moonlight does, and alters them (As well as carmine mystic abilities, and any form of blood sorcery/ refinement/ control). Your blood has been infused with moon dust. Anonymous
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>>5812450 I mainly like it for the theatrics. Turning the moon red and the rain into blood makes for quite an entry and it just feels so quintessentially Huan.
Anonymous
It seems that we're on the path of dyeing the moon in our essence, which is really cool. I'm definitely hyped about how she'll be treated upon her return to earth.
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>>5812437 The line between the Ling bitch and her arms was sympathetic sorcery.
If you have part of someone, you can effect them more easily and powerfully. That's what it was.
Good useage of it is powering our spells to these hands, not puppeting them. Still I support their creation, it serves many purposes.
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>>5812502 Oh man are we going to slap that winter sect icicle so fucking hard!
Idiot>goddamns cat i've come to restore the order as heaven decree!
Huan>i've seen heaven and become the devil
Idiot>hwat.
The moon moves in front of the sun and turns blood red, the land is overrun by an ocean of blood while huan cackles madly.
...or you know we just melt him with a solar flare.
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>>5811409 >Sun Killer: Become the next sun killer, who cannot be burned by even the fiercest flames (Immune to fire and heat), become a natural master of archery, unmatched on heaven or earth. Capable of "Snuffing out" Fire spells and techniques with your aura, or seal them entirely with an arrow. Yang spells/ abilities/ techniques are strengthened, but all that are fire aligned are replaced with "Dead heat", a black fire that consumes other flames. Gain the ability to steal/ trap sunlight or mundane fires, and convert it into Dead Heat Qi instead. You can see much farther than before, and your vision becomes flawless, no matter how dark or bright your surroundings are. And now the sun will know to fear you. these are both sick and I want them both, but as I must pick one, I pick this.
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>>5811409 >Blood Moon: Become a herald of misfortune, who is strengthened beneath moonlight and whose presence alone can upset the tides, of both the sea and war. Gain the ability to worsen the luck/ fortunes others. Increase potency and affinity of Yin spells/ abilities/ techniques, gain the ability to transmute water to blood, without alchemy, and control moonlight, as well as access unique techniques and spells fueled by it. Able to force the moon to become a blood moon temporarily, and blood moonlight strengths your blood moon abilities more than normal moonlight does, and alters them (As well as carmine mystic abilities, and any form of blood sorcery/ refinement/ control). Your blood has been infused with moon dust. Anonymous
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Wed 01 Nov 2023 20:44:30 No. 5814582 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote now that this sect has endured the autumnal march of a thousand skeletons. Hope all of my juniors enjoyed the season, if they celebrate it. Loved all of the deep minded discussion that went on this vote
>>5814293 And I am ever thankful for you taking care of the tallying whenever I, in my contemplations, am late to doing it myself
So Blood Moon wins! Update will arrive shortly
>>5812803 Heh
Anonymous
I wonder to what extent the infusion of moon dust will do, permanently connect us to this crazy realm? Let us move the moon? Make moon artifacts out of our blood?
Anonymous
>>5814590 Whatever it does, it better make our fur shiny
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>>5814593 >pearlescent blood red fur Looking like a classic muscle car. Stylish.
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>>5814593 >>5814590 Well apparently moondust smells like burnt gunpowder, so our signature aura scent will get another strangely fitting addition.
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>>5814663 I read an article a long time ago that said space had a particular smell. But that's because if you were huffing vacuum/void you would be smelling your own nose and lungs fucking dying kek
Can't recall what they said it smelled like off the top of my head though.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Wed 01 Nov 2023 22:32:13 No. 5814732 Report 'But even if its there dying breath, the essence of a dead sun, is still, in essence, the essence of the sun' your thoughts muse as you twist the arrow head around to face the other side of it, the reflection in it dyed red by moonlight reflecting off of your blood-red hair 'but what is in my veins, is the essence of me. Someone has already hunted suns, until only one remained. But no one has ever painted the moon in shades of scarlet and crimson. Shall I usher in the carmine night, and bleed with the moon on this dreary night' Hey! that would make for a good line if you ever have a reason to write a sequel to Hare and Hunting hound! But you've made up your mind, while having the same power that shot down the brothers and sisters of the sun would certainly make exterminating the loathsome ling clan easier, you relish in killing Ling, making it as easy as turning over your hand would be boring and deny you the satisfaction of watching those dogs squeal and whimper. The cruel thought makes your eyes glint in the dark, sparks of murderous intent dancing upon them as you consider the fine point and edge of the arrow head, ponderously dragging the unmarred tip of your thumb down it, watching blood blossom out from the hair thin cut as the flesh of your hand splits open. Using the pain to steel your nerves, you flip the arrow around press it against your throat. Swallowing hard, a deep breath steadies your hands as you grasp the arrow, and with one violent plunge, bury it deep into your neck. A snarl escapes your lips, blood bubbling out with the sound as the agony of the self inflicted wound brings horrid clarity to what you're doing. Fear thrums in your heart, self preservation instincts scream in your ears, and common sense tries to hold down your arms to keep you from doing anything worse to yourself. But you fight against these instincts, animal and human and wrench the arrow out of your neck, rending through skin, flesh and tearing open the artery in your throat. Blood gushes out, spraying out like a geyser, pouring down your bare chest and washing over your trembling belly. Spitting, tears flowing down your cheeks in rivers, you pull one hand away from the arrow and immediately thrust it into yourself, straight down through your wrist. The proper way to slice open one's wrists, of course, is to cut down towards the arm whether than across. Not as poetic as a thin red line bleeding out one's life, but a gash from hand to elbow will drain more blood out faster than any dainty cut upon a feminine wrist. Your left arm becomes shrouded in red, your hand twitching and trembling and completely unable to hold onto anything with anything passing for firmness. So instead, you bite onto the arrow, and instead of burying it up to its feathers in your wrist, you drag its head messily down the length of your right arm, holding it between your teeth. Nakedness hidden in a layer of glistening blood, you realize this offering was not enough. Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Wed 01 Nov 2023 22:33:14 No. 5814735 Report >>5814732 More blood must be spilled, to spread across the lunar surface, to infuse into the moon's dust, to seep down into its core and turn it into a crimson pearl hanging in the night sky. Giggling to try and bury your own doubts of this reckless plans and the worries that maybe you've gone a step too far in trying to grasp the power of the light of the moon, you make use of blood control to make a final cut, to spill out as much blood as your body can stand.
Tendrils of blood hold onto the arrow, pulling it delicately out from between your lips, before whipping it around in the around and slicing it through your stomach, spilling out fountains worth of blood as your neck and wrists weep enough of it to fill a small lake. Your sitting in a pool of your own blood, each drop and stream of it that falls from your arms and neck sending ripples across it that travel as far as your eyes can see, a rapidly fading, hazy world. Kneeling down, biting your lip, you use one hand to hold in your guts so they don't slip out of your belly, and then with the other trembling hand, begin a sequence of hand signs to cast a spell.
A spell that didn't exist until now, that you'll be lucky to remember when it is done and casted. Blood sorcery, strengthened by the blood Qi radiating out from your golden and beast cores, refined through the carmine mysticism embedded into your heart, and feeding upon the queer Qi of the moon and its light.
Tip toeing the line between consciousness and unconsciousness, dancing on the boundary between life and death, you close your eyes and focus outwards on the blood spilling out across the valleys and hills of the moon, defiling the grave you've knelt before and filling its craters like a deep bloody sea.
And some how, the grimace of agony you wear has become a triumphant, cocky smile, your teeth drenched in blood, the taste of it clinging to your tongue and sticking in your nose, thicker, denser and richer than you've ever smelled in life, battle or the hunt. Surpassing even the tragedy that cost you your simple life, the intoxicating aroma of blood surrounds you and soaks into the soil of the moon underneath you, the ocean of blood sinking into its surface and deep into its bones, dying it red like the silks worn by a murder victim.
And yet as you sit there kneeling in your own blood, only having the strength to open your eyes to watch the scarlet pools you've spilt spiral and drain into the crimson coated lunar surface, you see moonlight, pale blue and indigo so dark to seem black and white sparkles like ground up pearls, flow back up the currents of your bleeding wrists, twinkling like the night sky as they crawl up the rivers of blood spilling out from you and into your wounds. A strange sensation overcomes you, a feeling of yawning emptiness and coolness, spreading down from the wounds where the moondust and light flowed up in opposition of the lifeblood flowing out of them. Sparkling, twinkling, glowing.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Wed 01 Nov 2023 22:34:15 No. 5814736 Report >>5814735 Vision hazy. World fading to black. The blood beneath you begins to glow to, pale pink like smeared blood at first, but its hues shift and its color deepens, darkens. Scarlet, crimson, carmine, blood red lights in the night. All around you, you see and smell blood, the pale white grey dust of the moon turned red like the dust of the mortal world, red like rust. It floats in the air like motes of dust, like mold spores, like cotton seeds drifting in the wind, like ashes and embers rising from a burnt village. The reek of black powder, mingled with blood, fills your lungs as you take a breath. And feel...nothing, enter them. Blinking, you see that your sitting on the moon you saw when you first approached it, only now it is painted red in your blood, and its Lunar Qi is mixed with Pure Blood Qi, creating something new and mysterious. The grave is gone, the arrow that you used to rip open your throat and wrists is gone, the tree, the palace, all of it is gone but your blood and the moondust it infused into remains. Yet if you narrow your eyes and peer through the sparkling dust that now twinkles in your eyes, you can see into that other moon and walk it again. Is it a state of mind? An illusion? a dream born from an oxygen deprived mind? or some kind of secret realm like you first thought?
And you can feel the moondust in your veins, swirling in the heady, crimson waves within your beast core, churning in your meridians, soaking into every inch of your flesh and skin. There is no air around you, let you can breathe and smell the bloody moon and the void surrounding it. You can sense that your body has changed, your beast core hums mysteriously somewhere inside of you, altered and made partially alien to the world you were born onto. And surely that has changed your body as well, both of your bodies. Feline and Human. You certainly feel like there are stars in your eyes and moonlight in your veins, but just like when you first attained your human form, your absolutely covered in blood, so what changes there are to it are hard to see. And unlike then, there is a thick layer of moondust clinging to every part of you, every nook and cranny. And worse! It is in your hair! if you turn back into a cat, your beautiful coat will be matted and filthy!
Idly scratching your arms, you find that the deep cut you tore into them have vanished. Not healed, just vanished. Frowning, you scratch of the layer of dried blood with sparkling dust suspended within it. Normally you'd be happy to see it hasn't scarred, but seeing your skin unmarred and no longer torn fills you with unease. Of the same sort you felt well wandering the other moon, that you can still see when you look through the stars trapped in your eyes. Best not to dwell on it.
"Hah" You groan into the airless expanse, tapping a heel on the blood soaked dust beneath your feet "I wish I had a mirror, or at least some still water to see how my reflection has changed!"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Wed 01 Nov 2023 22:35:16 No. 5814739 Report >>5814736 Pouting, crossing your arms beneath your unbridled bosom, you look over the bland but much improved by a fresh coat of red paint lunar surface.
"I wonder if its going to stay like this" You ponder jubilantly, as you rock back and forth on your heels, leaning with the rhythm while you test the waters of your cultivation base, finding it strangely foreign. Especially the energy radiating from your beast core. It feels cool, but not like the deathly breath of ghosts and devils you dredged it in before, cool like moonlight falling upon an old grave. The chill of death and the chill of night, purifying and soothing. It'd have to fetch a empire's ransom at an auction, if there was any daoist on earth capable of ripping it out of you.
"I need a mirror, and I need to check my scripture" You sigh, pouting again as you bounce in place, enjoying the odd feeling of standing and breathing in void, and the lesser weight of the gravity here on the moon "to see what exactly this moon energy has changed about my looks and nature, and what sort of bounty of abilities evolving into Cosmic nature has granted me"
Frowning, you grab a bit of your hair and rub it between your fingers, finding that your luxurious locks shimmer a bit like the spiritual essence and moon dust that flooded your veins, meridians and beast core. Its subtle, but once you notice it, it is even more eye catching than the blood red color of the hair itself. Not gaudy or flashy, but its there, like the light of distant stars. And it stands to reason, your fur will look the same. But that's all you can tell has changed until you clean yourself up, washing off all this blood and dust, and get a nice, long look out yourself in the finest mirror you can find in Suiqi. At least power wise, you can feel the mysterious energy of the stars and moon surging throughout your body and soul and can tell, even if you have no sort of idea of the mysterious abilities this Cosmic evolution has granted you, that they're potent enough to upturn heaven and earth.
But still, you look down at your feet anyways, even though all you'll see is your nude body coated in dried blood and red dust, just to be certain your transformation hasn't ruined your human guise in some way. And that's when you notice the array.
A massive spell formation that stretches across the lunar horizon, beginning and centered where you stand now. The spell you used to cultivate the Lunar Qi inside of your beast core, to transform yourself into a partially cosmic existence. Which just might be as visible in and beneath the heavens as the moon's current fresh red coat.
'I hope it looks like a cat's eye in the night sky' you think happily as you skip along the moon's surface, finding it much easier to move around as freely as you wish now.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Wed 01 Nov 2023 22:37:13 No. 5814741 Report >>5814739 You aren't certain why you're skipping along the moon, besides the vain hope you'll find a mirror laying in the dust somewhere so you can check and admire both of your bodies, to see how beautifully they've transformed, since your evolutions as a beast can only make you a more beautiful and perfect creature.
What do you do once you've tired of frolicking on the moon (besides immediately finding a mirror to see how your latest evolution has changed your looks), Huanliuxue?
>Paint the newly unpainted portion of your spiritual roots with the same spiritual essence you used to evolve into a Cosmic beast (Add Cosmic/Lunar Qi to your spiritual roots in the empty slot) [Can be taken with other options] >Descend back to Suiqi, and see if Fu and the blonde pest have had done as you told and gotten the Dusk Marsh Wolves and the Summer Sea dawn sects on your side. >Study your scripture and experiment/ practice with your new cosmic themed abilities, while you're still in space, and give your evolution a name >Make a grand entrance back down to Chuan, to boast and show off that you visited and escaped the heavens and have stained to moon in your colors! >Explore the hidden moon, feeling much more at home now that you're a bloody moon cat yourself! >Is one evolution enough to face off against the living blizzard storming to Suiqi? As far as you know, there is no rule that you can't evolve twice in one day... >write in Sorry there wasn't a vivid/ complete description of Huan's new looks, beastly and human, like there was when she first earned the latter form, but as I was beginning to write them I realized
There are no mirrors on the moon, and so I was forced to break my promise, forgive me juniors. Trust me, I was as excited to write it out as you were to see it.
Next update there will be a nice, long look at Cosmic Nature: Blood-Moon Huanliuxue. I swear my arm on it.
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>>5814741 >Paint the newly unpainted portion of your spiritual roots with the same spiritual essence you used to evolve into a Cosmic beast (Add Cosmic/Lunar Qi to your spiritual roots in the empty slot) [Can be taken with other options] >Study your scripture and experiment/ practice with your new cosmic themed abilities, while you're still in space, and give your evolution a name I just ate, and the description of Huan cutting her arm and neck made me gag. Good job. Anonymous
>>5814753 And just to be sure, I'm not being sarcastic or ironic. It was a very well written and vivid scene. Anonymous
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>>5814741 >>Make a grand entrance back down to Chuan, to boast and show off that you visited and escaped the heavens and have stained to moon in your colors! Anonymous
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>>5814741 >Paint our roots. >Practice in space/study scripture. >Go and see if people allied with us. I think we could evolve again. I just dont want to. Lets consolidate and strengthen the new gains.
Lets call the evolution "Bloodshed Moon"
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>>5814741 >Paint the newly unpainted portion of your spiritual roots with the same spiritual essence you used to evolve into a Cosmic beast (Add Cosmic/Lunar Qi to your spiritual roots in the empty slot) [Can be taken with other options] >Explore the hidden moon, feeling much more at home now that you're a bloody moon cat yourself! Anonymous
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>>5814741 >>Make a grand entrance back down to Chuan, to boast and show off that you visited and escaped the heavens and have stained to moon in your colors! Anonymous
>>5814741 >>Paint the newly unpainted portion of your spiritual roots with the same spiritual essence you used to evolve into a Cosmic beast (Add Cosmic/Lunar Qi to your spiritual roots in the empty slot) [Can be taken with other options] >>Study your scripture and experiment/ practice with your new cosmic themed abilities, while you're still in space, and give your evolution a name The qi is in our core, may as well be in our meridians as well. SPACE! My other choice would have been literal hell qi, but we have something a bit cooler than that, now.
And I really REALLY want to explore the moon, but we can always come back. However right now we have the perfect place to practice with absolutely no worries about collateral. So long as we don't spend too much time here. We can only have spent about a day or so total since we decided to go up here. I don't think Iceberg is going to be close enough to threaten our home and domain yet.
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>>5814794 Another option could be primordial qi, since while we are a source of it, our roots aren't dyed with it.
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>>5814799 Well the way I see it, primordial qi in our root will just make the other roots "richer" without doing much. But putting space qi in a root will confer weird space stuff. Cause primordial qi is just "The good shit" of qi as far as I am aware. But it's not specifically tied to anything.
It's a strat, certainly. Though I'll be honest now I am forgetting what exactly getting qi in our roots actually -does-. It gives us access to higher forms of expressing the corresponding qi, right? Makes it easier to actually do stuff with it?
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>>5814741 >Paint the newly unpainted portion of your spiritual roots with the same spiritual essence you used to evolve into a Cosmic beast (Add Cosmic/Lunar Qi to your spiritual roots in the empty slot) [Can be taken with other options] We might as well I guess. There are probably a thousand options we could pick, including ones that are probably better, but I doubt we will seriously regret this, and it will combo with our evolution now, so it is bound to be quite strong. Not to mention cool as hell.
>Study your scripture and experiment/ practice with your new cosmic themed abilities, while you're still in space, and give your evolution a name If we don't know what this evolution allows us to do, it might as well not have happened. Info gathering is obligatory.
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>>5814741 >Paint the newly unpainted portion of your spiritual roots with the same spiritual essence you used to evolve into a Cosmic beast (Add Cosmic/Lunar Qi to your spiritual roots in the empty slot) [Can be taken with other options] >Make a grand entrance back down to Chuan, to boast and show off that you visited and escaped the heavens and have stained to moon in your colors! Anonymous
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>>5814741 >Paint the newly unpainted portion of your spiritual roots with the same spiritual essence you used to evolve into a Cosmic beast (Add Cosmic/Lunar Qi to your spiritual roots in the empty slot) [Can be taken with other options] >Study your scripture and experiment/ practice with your new cosmic themed abilities, while you're still in space, and give your evolution a name Afterwards should head home and prepare for the fight.
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>>5814741 >the entire cutting sequence You SURE we didn't end up a little moon maddened? But onto business
>Study your scripture and experiment/ practice with your new cosmic themed abilities, while you're still in space, and give your evolution a name As we've learned in the past, an unused technique or unique trait is a double edged sword, don't want another Internal Gu moment.
>>5814809 Going back to the first thread:
>"Spiritual roots are the very foundation of a living beings body and soul, through them, their qualities can be divined and their potential for cultivation can be discovered. Mine were once nearly as magnificent as yours, aligned to Water and Pure Yin" As for our special roots:
>"By your character, I'd say you were naturally aligned with Metal or Fire, but I noticed a discrepancy in the balance of Yin and Yang within you from my first study of you, which I at first attributed to your natural temperament, but now I realize I was mistaken. Your spiritual roots, are truly exceptional. For they are in a way, transient" >"Transient? What does that mean, that they can change when they otherwise shouldn't?" You ask quietly as you are too shocked not to >"In a way, I suppose, its like the fickle nature of a cat. You can change your affinity, and even further specialize it with careful enough planning. I have heard legends of this type of spiritual root before" Monu says ponderously as she holds her hand to her mouth and adjusts her pipe with it "it is a rare quality to possess, to be able to dye yourself whatever color you wish. It could allow you to practice opposed cultivation arts or create paradoxical combinations of spells, and judging from how black your roots are, is what facilitated your change to near pure Yin! And what has changed your presence to be so similar to a ghosts!" >"With enough time and effort, you can switch your affinity and cultivate off of any form of spiritual energy, or specialize yourself as you have already done. With practice and a sturdy enough foundation, you could even cordon off portions of your spiritual roots to allow yourself to possess multiple specialties and elemental affinities, even those naturally opposed to each other as I mentioned, while even the most talented of cultivators can at best expect a dual natured affinity. A prodigy of prodigies, blessed by the heavens by scorned by its laws, how ironic" TL;DR: It's the thing that actually lets us be the insane jack-of-all-trades wildcard we are.
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>>5814861 Many thanks, friend. Hm. In that case I think I'm going to have to drop the paint portion from my vote.
>>5814794 >>5814741 Apologies for changing, but I'll be just
>Study your scripture and experiment From here on.
Gaining something normally completely inaccessible does sound better to me than dipping extra into something we can generate naturally. So I guess I'd like to hold onto that possibility.
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>>5814741 >Study your scripture and experiment/ practice with your new cosmic themed abilities, while you're still in space, and give your evolution a name >Make a grand entrance back down to Chuan, to boast and show off that you visited and escaped the heavens and have stained to moon in your colors! Better study what huan can do here now then return before the human popsicle reaches suiqi.
But damn if his fat ass is slow, is it because he has to drag a whole storm front with him instead of rushing over?
I can only imagine his face when we dispel his snowy clouds and the red moon appears gloriously!
I bet he hasn't even seen it yet so wrapped up he is in his little tantrum cloud.
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>>5814932 >the red moon appears gloriously And empress melody plays this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jynTNYSKNuk Just change one word Anonymous
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>>5814741 >Paint the newly unpainted portion of your spiritual roots with the same spiritual essence you used to evolve into a Cosmic beast (Add Cosmic/Lunar Qi to your spiritual roots in the empty slot) [Can be taken with other options] >Study your scripture and experiment/ practice with your new cosmic themed abilities, while you're still in space, and give your evolution a name Anonymous
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Honestly, what the fuck even is moon magic gonna be like?
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>>5814741 >Study your scripture and experiment/ practice with your new cosmic themed abilities, while you're still in space, and give your evolution a name I think we should take a few moonrocks with us
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>>5814741 >>Paint the newly unpainted portion of your spiritual roots with the same spiritual essence you used to evolve into a Cosmic beast (Add Cosmic/Lunar Qi to your spiritual roots in the empty slot) [Can be taken with other options] >>Make a grand entrance back down to Chuan, to boast and show off that you visited and escaped the heavens and have stained to moon in your colors! Anonymous
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>>5814741 >Paint the newly unpainted portion of your spiritual roots with the same spiritual essence you used to evolve into a Cosmic beast (Add Cosmic/Lunar Qi to your spiritual roots in the empty slot) [Can be taken with other options] >Explore the hidden moon, feeling much more at home now that you're a bloody moon cat yourself! Anonymous
I realized now how if we had gone for the sunkiller we could have sniped the ice cream geezer from the fucking moon. Imagine the absolute mindfuck of having arrows rain down from above and think it's from heaven until you see the grinning cat engravings. Though there would have been the challenge of fashioning a functional bow and arrows out of moon rock but at this stage i wouldn't have put it past huan to be able to do it.
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>>5816157 I think the real problem would be firing down through the heavens themselves. They'd be slapping them out of the sky not knowing they weren't the target.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 03 Nov 2023 05:21:24 No. 5816285 Report Ending the vote, tallying the result now.
Paint the newly unpainted portion of your spiritual roots with the same spiritual essence you used to evolve into a Cosmic beast:10
Study your scripture and experiment/ practice with your new cosmic themed abilities, while you're still in space, and give your evolution a name:9
Make a grand entrance back down to Chuan, to boast and show off that you visited and escaped the heavens and have stained to moon in your colors!:5
Descend back to Suiqi, and see if Fu and the blonde pest have had done as you told and gotten the Dusk Marsh Wolves and the Summer Sea dawn sects on your side.:1
Explore the hidden moon, feeling much more at home now that you're a bloody moon cat yourself:2
So You'll add Cosmic Qi to your spiritual roots, giving you ghostly/pure yin, Pure blood, and Cosmic/ Lunar roots, currently (You can always switch these affinities, if you're feeling saucy)
And read your updating scripture to learn what your exactly Cosmic nature unlocks powerwise, and experiment and practice with these new abilities and think up an official name for this hitherto unknown branch of bestial evolution
Update will arrive shortly
>>5814753 >>5814755 Thank you! That's a heaven grade compliment as far as this old man is concerned!
>>5814861 >You SURE we didn't end up a little moon maddened? I may have still been infected by the heart demon known as Halloween spirit when writing it
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>>5816285 >I may have still been infected by the heart demon known as Halloween spirit when writing it Few spectres are as powerful. You are lucky to have escaped with your soul intact! Great fortitude.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 03 Nov 2023 08:10:14 No. 5816347 Report Alas no careless goddess has left behind their hand mirror upon the desolate lunar plains, nor has any stray beam of starlight turned a patch of the common as sand in beneath the sea moondust into moonglass for you to admire and inspect you newly transformed self. But at least all of the frolicking, running and skipping has gotten you comfortable with your newly moonlight infused and refined body, in both of its forms. Though all of that pouncing and running around has gotten you absolutely covered with moondust, to the point you're certain it is swirling in your lungs in the absence of air. It is a truly magical feeling, truly alien and bizarre, but it is refreshing. The closest you can come to describe the sensation of the dust coating your skin, fur and lining your lungs probably, is that of sparks striking the skin without pain, or ice crystals forming upon it again painlessly, but even that doesn't sound right when you think of how to describe the sensation itself. It is the feeling of moondust and Lunar spiritual essence, radiating all around you, flowing within your veins and moving through the airless space like countless rivers and streams. The moon itself is a prime cultivation zone, but alas, you do not have the time to sit down and cultivate its strange and extraterrestrial Qi to anywhere near the extent of which you'd be satisfied with, since a certain should be dead angry walking icicle is threatening the palace of natural law sect, the lands under its protection, and your family. Wasting that much time in the void of space would only leave a field of unmarked graves for you to return to and a pack of disappointed if not furious ghosts with all too familiar faces. However, it will take no time at all to section off and stain a portion of your transient spiritual with this Cosmic, Lunar Qi! Boosting the strength of your evolutionary boons and powers and creating an alignment to the breath of the moon and stars you now hold is just a smart thing to do, since having insipid cosmic powers would mark you a failure of a cultivator and quite the fool as well 'Still, this change will be next to worthless if I don't figure out how to wield the cosmic forces now imbued into my, spiritually and physically' You think idly as you kick a moon rock and watch it soar across the horizon and out of the gravity field of the moon to a destination unknown to even the gods below you 'Heh, below me, now that is a satisfying realization. But I can gloat later, first, practice. But before practice, I'm dying to see how I look now after this lunar evolution of mine' And so, with great ease, you leave the moon, slipping from its grip with as much ease as you'd drift and glide through the air on earth, levitating like a ghost up and away from its gravity well, which you don't know how you know that term, but you do now! Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 03 Nov 2023 08:11:15 No. 5816348 Report >>5816347 Doubtlessly few beneath the heavens have the sagacity to come close to comprehending the concept, unlike you, who understands it as much as she does her own tail.
Spinning around to try and fling the dust and dried blood covering you away, you admire the astral landscape and catch sight of a comet, and see that it is made mostly out of ice. Ice can act as a mirror if its properly cut, and with a bit of heat, you can make yourself a bath in its sparkling tail.
Smirking, you reach out and grab hold of the frost it sheds, finding yourself behind dragged along behind the comet. With clenched teeth and a bit of grit, you mange to find enough chunks of rock and ice falling from it to climb your way up to the comet itself, and with a flashed handsign and a simple temperature raising spell, imbued and empowered with blood Qi, you melt a dent in its surface deep enough for you to wash yourself in and clean your hair.
Once that vital task is seen to, you transform into your natural state and use your claws to sheer away at a suitably sized chunk of ice to serve as a crude mirror, to get a proper look at how your body has been transformed while your blood wept into the moon and its dust flowed back up into your veins and beast core.
The first thing you realize, as you face your own reflection, is that your fangs have changed. Your incisors have curved slightly, appearing almost like crescent cut moons, and with a testing flick of your rough tongue, you finder they've gotten something of an edge, increasing your fangs lethality and giving a cut to your bite. And while you inspect your teeth, you get a better look at the star like sparkle you noticed in your fur, and find that your entire, silky coat has a shine like moonlight lending your fur a further elegance and glow. Like spilt blood beneath the full moon. And when it shifts with your movement or the wind, there are larger sparkles in it, like shooting stars, passing through the strands of fur. Sometimes the glow even seems to take on shapes, especially when it passes over the markings on your coat. Which you notice have also changed again, your regal looking fur pattern increasing in complexity by incorporating the phases of the moon in various places, crescents framing your eyes, full and half moons dotting your back and sides, fading in the pink fur of your underbelly and rings around your tail like eclipses.
And as you spin around to catalogue each and every change to your fur's markings and patterns, you notice that your whole body has been changed, proportionally. Sleeker, svelte and exotic. And larger, but not by much. There is a greater mystique to your feline looks now, more so than before and far beyond any ordinary cat. An extraterrestrial sort of mysteriousness, like you might just appear from the arc of a shooting star or fade into moonlight at any moment.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 03 Nov 2023 08:12:16 No. 5816351 Report >>5816348 Your limbs are longer and your tail is as well, and the shape of how your fur has grown is different, and there are as well a few subtle shifts in the color and hues of your blood red coat, besides how shiny it now is. The color seems to shift the longer you look at it, deepening and lightening, like how nights darken and brighten depending on the phase of the moon.
The notch in your ear remains unchanged though judging by its whole counterpart, they are a smidge taller than before. Your eyes, like you felt, are filled with stars. The amber yellow twinkling with passing lights like falling stars, glowing with bright harvest moons when they catch the light of passing stars. Which also shows you that there are subtle curves to your pupils, only noticeable when they're narrowing to or are already slits.
'Stars in my eyes, and moonlight in my fur' You think, purring in delight as you lift your paw and extend its claws as you inspect its pad for any discoloration 'Ethereal beauty with a dab of extraterrestrial mystique. A body adapted to live and thrive amongst the stars, a star jade beauty! A lunar feline. There is no house cat of my breed, now more than ever. And how exotic my elegant self looks! I could stare at this mirror of ice for days, Heh-Heh'
Changing shape, you find that your human self has grown a little taller, just like your feline boy has. Most of the added height coming from your legs, which are now gorgeously long and still feline slender and the hair between them shares the unique shifting shine like the rest of your hair atop your head. Though a fairy you remain, you're now more like a cosmic fairy and oddly enough, you pointed ears or at least the one that isn't notched, have grown longer at the tip, tapering to a finer point. And parting your lips and measuring you teeth, you see your human incisors have a subtle crescent point like their feline counterparts due, only noticeable when closely inspected, but their sharpening means you'll have an easier time tearing out throats if you're ever desperate enough to do something as crude as bite someone while in human form.
And looking at your face, you notice the pupils of your eyes are ringed with silver, which you hadn't noticed when they were cat's eyes, probably because you were more focused on how their slits resemble crescent moons. And these eyes of course share the stardust and moonlight as your feline eyes do, though they still don't glow like fire when light is shined on them. How humans have thrived and become so widespread while barely being able to see in the dark is one of the world's greatest mysteries.
And you notice something odd as you stare into your own eyes, no matter what sort of light you're standing, you always look like your standing in moonlight instead, from head to toe. Including your hair. Giving you the appearance of being woven out of moonlight itself.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 03 Nov 2023 08:13:17 No. 5816352 Report >>5816351 And as you lean back away from the mirror made of ice, you notice that looking that the way your voluminous hair sparkles as it wavers behind your shoulders and back, looks like a view of the night sky, only replacing the bleak blackness with striking scarlet, and thus your fur coat must as well. As your blood red hair seems to shift in how light or dark it is as well as it shifts and moves around, brushing just above your buttocks. Though it always looks some shade of blood red.
Which reminds you, you should really dress yourself in something before you return from space. And maybe you'll paint on some crescent moons just beneath your eyes with some eyeshadow, to really revel in your new moon touched beauty. Though putting one atop your brow would be a little too garish.
Sighing, you hop off the comet, and allow yourself to drift down its freezing tail as you look around for your dimensional gourd, having remembered to grab and hide it with your hair when you clambered out of the river and brought it with you when you fled the head martial god's palace. Fortunately, it wasn't damaged by the guardian deities attack, though you're careful when you uncork, or else you might lose some of your treasures to the vast nothing between the stars.
Grabbing one of your sects standard red and pink robes, you dress yourself quickly as you sit in the inky void, even though there's no one around to peep or throw a lecherous stare your way way up here, it'll just save you time later once you've finished studying up on the powers granted by your evolution.
Which once you know, will give you an idea what to call this before now undiscovered branch of demonic beast evolution. Which according to the creepy scripture stalking your every moon, is a variation aligned to what else but the rare blood moon. Flipping through the index of your self updating manual, you quickly find the pages that detail in depth your new abilities and with a flick and swirl of your finger, command the scripture to turn to them
Some of what it tells you, like that your now capable of traveling through and breathing in the airless, gravity less void of space without issue, you had already figured out by yourself. And that your able to cultivate cosmic Qi, you were certain of anyways since you had added it to your spiritual roots. There's a helpful explanation detailing what exactly star magic is and how astrology differs from what most think of when they hear astrology and even the cultivation techniques that rely and are shaped by it, which is helpful since that would've required diligent and harsh magic training to learn about, surely. And you already have a few ideas for spells and techniques derived from both star magic and a cosmic beast's astrology.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 03 Nov 2023 08:14:17 No. 5816353 Report >>5816352 "Always know where I am beneath the night sky" You mumble as you make the page flip, wondering for a moment if you're upside down or not as you drift carelessly through the cosmic fields "Herald of misfortune? Strengthened by moonlight!? Turn water into blood, control moonlight!??"
And as a red glow covers the paw printed pages of your scripture, right as you read what lies at the bottom of the page that the light of a blood moon, which you are now capable of summoning on any night innately, like unsheathing your claws or flicking your tail, you realize another peculiarity of your newly evolved self.
Your eyes glow red like a bloodmoon's light when you're excited. Even when you're human. That'll be a wonderful tool for intimidation, and you figure out as quickly as you notice it, that you can control when it happens, in a way similar to blinking and with a bit of practices know how to keep your eyes from flashing with a blood moon's glow involuntarily. Though it certainly is frightening , isn't that pale glow attractive the longer you look at it?
Smirking, deciding to consider that mysterious attribute just another of one of your many charm points, you close the scripture with an aristocratic flick of the wrist and store it back within the gourd tied to your ankle to keep it from drifting away.
And then you begin experimenting with the Qi you cultivated on the moon and imbued into your beast core, since while that quick read taught you what you're capable of, you won't be confident wielding this alien and astral Qi until you've put in some practice with it. And what better way than seeing how it interacts with your basic spells and the foundational techniques of your ghostly feline martial arts.
Since you're not planning on inventing any spells or techniques deserving of a tile, you just experiment briefly and lightly, to know the weight and feel of the new tool at your disposal and figuring out how to wield it. But even just doing that much provides fantastic results!
Testing the star sorcery by using the cosmic Qi in your meridians to create a simple bolt of Qi, like your destructive yin spheres, you're at first disappointed and wonder if not breathing air for awhile has messed up your head, since instead of an arrow or blast of Qi soaring through the air, the breath of the stars takes the form of miniaturized stars of every color that just sort of hang in the air where you created them.
Tapping your chin, you try a few more complex spells and shapes of basic Qi blasts, including setting them up in an array.
And it isn't until a passing asteroid catches you eye as it passes by the corner of your vision, you realize that the lowest level offensive spells created with cosmic Qi and star magic have a truly curious and amazing property. Two in fact.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 03 Nov 2023 08:15:18 No. 5816354 Report >>5816353 Firstly, they will home in on and chase after their target without any input by their caster, as you see when the latest batch of rainbow stars that emerged from the palms of your hand shoot off after the asteroid as it zips past you, leaving behind trails of Qi that can cut or evaporate whatever they touch or pass through.
And secondly, the ones that were made before you had a target in mind, will remain stationary until a threat passes by them, like say the chunks of an asteroid that got cut to ribbons and explode by the trails of a dozen faux shooting stars, and then home in to pursue them, or shoot out beams of light like the trails their more aggressive counterparts leave in their trail, which, considering you had made about a hundred of the damn things, turns the shower of space rock into nothing but star dust and a distant memory.
Both of these DEMAND further experimentation, but you reign in your natural curiosity and urge to test your new shiny "Claws", since you tend to get carried away when inventing new magics or adapting spells to new types of spiritual energy, and you really don't want your homecoming to be attended by familiar ghosts upon the mass grave that used to be Suiqi, so you have to hurry yourself along. The moment there isn't a living blizzard threatening to destroy your sect and slaughter your students, you can indulge and spend a couple days or weeks...months, practicing and experimenting with your new toys to your hearts content.
Which is why you swear to only see how Cosmic Qi will work if you use it as if you were performing the The Whispering Death Claw (呢喃死亡爪子, Nínánsǐwáng zhuǎzi) or its older brother the red Death Scythe (红色死亡 镰, Hóngsèsǐwánglián), which makes your claws twinkle with Qi like they contained the night sky itself. Would this make your whole hand sparkle if you did this in your human form or just your nails? Well that is a question that can be safely answered later.
Swinging and swatting in the void, you at first don't notice any effect beyond what is to be expected from sheathing your claws with Qi, like you tend to do with destructive Qi in your fights anyways,
Until you notice you're getting closer to certain stars and are struck with a realization that would've stolen your breath if there was anything besides moondust and comet steam in your lungs.
Your claws are cutting and slicing through space itself! What!? How! That's an incredible ability! The applications of this...the possibilities are endless! Imagine what Qiang could do with a bit of this sort of Qi. Shaking your head, you stop yourself from giving into your urge to know more and figure out how to make a truly unfair technique that has no counter, the dream of any cultivator, because finding that would take work and more importantly, time.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 03 Nov 2023 08:17:54 No. 5816356 Report >>5816354 Still, just knowing a little bit of moonlight in your claws can allow you to do something that outrageous, gives you a couple of ideas how to implement it into your fighting style and its use in actual combat.
And to take your mind off of this heavens upturning discovery, you decide to try to make a Vein Draining Fang (血管 倾浆 獠牙, Xuèguǎnqīngjiāngliáoyá) but with Lunar Qi in place of Blood Qi.
And see a glimmering vortex of Qi spin out from where you flicked your claws, formed out of crescents of Qi slicing through the void. Until they pass by a stray space rock, at which point they constrict and compress, slicing it to pieces and scattering its pieces above them as it continues on merrily like a whirlwind made of blades. That. That is almost worthy of being a named spell. Just from that one demonstration, that accidental spell could be used to lockdown, toss or cut up an enemy.
'I really wanna play around more' you complain to yourself, grimacing as you hold up a single claw, around which a star crudely drawn out of Qi dances 'Everything test I put this new Qi through makes me wanna play around with it more! But there is a literal deadline hanging over not just my head, but the heads of everyone I care for'
What a pain! Who could've guessed that star magic would've been so exciting!
AND YOU STILL NEED TO NAME YOUR COSMIC EVOLUTION!
What do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Don't tempt fate any longer, and return back to Suiqi to see what you can get done before the blizzard hits it, and if your attempts at expanding the number of sects in your alliance has borne any fruit. [Try and Prepare further the battle with the Winter blossoming Wisdom sect with what little time is left before the blizzard they march under reaches your territory] >Experiment solely with star magic and astrology, and practice with it until you're satisfied and have a new spell or a couple worthy of a title to take into battle against the head of the winter blossoming wisdom sect (Magic training. DC 100. +46 bonus) >Only practice incorporating your new cosmic nature and abilities into your fighting style and see if you can create any fighting moves with it and cosmic energy (Martial training. DC 100. +46 bonus) >Realize just how rich the stars are in resources and go take a look around...every where for some treasures and rare materials to take back home with you (Perception/ luck trial No DC Higher number= greater results) >Wait. You have free reign in the night sky? What's to stop you from dropping like a ferocious crimson comet direly on top of Xue Laohue? [Start the fight on your own terms] >Write in Feel free to throw your hat in the ring for christening Huan's new evolution or give your support for your favorite write in for it, otherwise it'll default to Cosmic Nature: Bloodmoon
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>>5816356 >>Wait. You have free reign in the night sky? What's to stop you from dropping like a ferocious crimson comet direly on top of Xue Laohue? [Start the fight on your own terms] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJas8GsVgWo I literally cannot help myself. Please everyone vote for something more prudent.
As for the name, the only thing that comes to mind for me is "Cat's Cradle". Because of that song with the little boy blue and the man on the moon. Which isn't a very good name. And the reference isn't worth it.
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>>5816356 >Realize just how rich the stars are in resources and go take a look around...every where for some treasures and rare materials to take back home with you (Perception/ luck trial No DC Higher number= greater results) Anonymous
>>5816356 >Don't tempt fate any longer, and return back to Suiqi to see what you can get done before the blizzard hits it, and if your attempts at expanding the number of sects in your alliance has borne any fruit. [Try and Prepare further the battle with the Winter blossoming Wisdom sect with what little time is left before the blizzard they march under reaches your territory] I feel like returning home and consulting Monu in creating a storm dispersing array would be the best use of our time left.
But while i wouldn't discount starting the fight early on our terms we would still be dropping in the center of a blizzard the bastard controls.
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>>5816356 >>Don't tempt fate any longer, and return back to Suiqi to see what you can get done before the blizzard hits it, and if your attempts at expanding the number of sects in your alliance has borne any fruit. [Try and Prepare further the battle with the Winter blossoming Wisdom sect with what little time is left before the blizzard they march under reaches your territory] Anonymous
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>>5816375 >>5816356 As for her new nature:
Moonglow blessing: crimson crescent
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>>5816356 Oh god, now we have gap hax!? How do you intend to keep up the stakes in the narrative, Grandpa? What monsters will we have to fight?
>Wait. You have free reign in the night sky? What's to stop you from dropping like a ferocious crimson comet direly on top of Xue Laohue? [Start the fight on your own terms] Anonymous
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>>5816356 >Wait. You have free reign in the night sky? What's to stop you from dropping like a ferocious crimson comet direly on top of Xue Laohue? [Start the fight on your own terms] Death from above motherfucker! Take some smaller comets with us as we go down to exterminate his retinue.
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>>5816356 >Don't tempt fate any longer, and return back to Suiqi to see what you can get done before the blizzard hits it, and if your attempts at expanding the number of sects in your alliance has borne any fruit. [Try and Prepare further the battle with the Winter blossoming Wisdom sect with what little time is left before the blizzard they march under reaches your territory] Man, we need to train and create new techniques very badly. Forget our brand new evolutions and Qi type, we haven't trained properly since we reached Golden Core. That alone would have guaranteed some flashy new grudge, ghost and blood techniques, but now we have dumped even more unexplored potential onto the undiscovered technique pile. I mean yeah we have been busy but it's getting ridiculous. We are improving our hardware at ludicrous speeds and paying no attention to our software, so to speak.
After we kill coolest grandpa, we have some training to do.
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>>5816356 >Return to Suqi We need Jingyu to act as fodder in this fight.
Deploy him as a skirmisher towards the backline while we take on the snow tiger ourselves.
We should face off against them before they reach the city, to spare the most innocents.
>>5816407 After killing Tiger then kill Jingyu, THEN we can train.
Do not let that blasphemous blight on the natural world grow stronger.
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>>5816415 And. AND we have the perfect Lure for him.
When the dust settles, we can begin our counter attack against the Sect HQ of the winter blossoming sect.
If we have sister tell him that is why we are gathering he should have no reason to suspect anything. We love our sister after all. .
Then crush him dead, before we even begin the assault. Dont want him slipping away.
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>>5816356 >>Don't tempt fate any longer, and return back to Suiqi to see what you can get done before the blizzard hits it, and if your attempts at expanding the number of sects in your alliance has borne any fruit. [Try and Prepare further the battle with the Winter blossoming Wisdom sect with what little time is left before the blizzard they march under reaches your territory] Anonymous
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>>5816356 >Realize just how rich the stars are in resources and go take a look around...every where for some treasures and rare materials to take back home with you (Perception/ luck trial No DC Higher number= greater results) Anonymous
>>5816348 >your entire, silky coat has a shine like moonlight Shiny has been achieved
>>5816353 >the breath of the stars takes the form of miniaturized stars of every color So that's what you meant that it gave you an idea
>>5816356 >Don't tempt fate any longer, and return back to Suiqi to see what you can get done before the blizzard hits it, and if your attempts at expanding the number of sects in your alliance has borne any fruit. [Try and Prepare further the battle with the Winter blossoming Wisdom sect with what little time is left before the blizzard they march under reaches your territory] I like bloodmoon for the name
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>>5816356 How about:
>Cosmic nature: Bloodmoon Rising It's a bit more ominous while still simple. Or is that too Stephenie Meyer?
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>>5816356 >Wait. You have free reign in the night sky? What's to stop you from dropping like a ferocious crimson comet direly on top of Xue Laohue? [Start the fight on your own terms] Apologies anon, but I too am incapable of prudence.
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I have some names: Carmine Moon Dew, Bloodmoon's Fair Light, Moon's Sweet Blush, Peach Moon Light (I guess we could try and make some light adjustment to the Moon's color to make it have a nice Peach color, so that's why I gave the name, and maybe we could make some cool power with it), Moon's Deep Cut,
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>>5816356 >Your claws are cutting and slicing through space itself! What!? How! This either lets us recreate The Hand or Vergil’s Judgement Cut, both are actually ridiculous in our hands/paws.
>Don't tempt fate any longer, and return back to Suiqi to see what you can get done before the blizzard hits it, and if your attempts at expanding the number of sects in your alliance has borne any fruit. [Try and Prepare further the battle with the Winter blossoming Wisdom sect with what little time is left before the blizzard they march under reaches your territory] It’s taking everything in me not to vote for the meteor entrance a la
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>>5816356 >Don't tempt fate any longer, and return back to Suiqi to see what you can get done before the blizzard hits it, and if your attempts at expanding the number of sects in your alliance has borne any fruit. [Try and Prepare further the battle with the Winter blossoming Wisdom sect with what little time is left before the blizzard they march under reaches your territory] Anonymous
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>>5816356 >Wait. You have free reign in the night sky? What's to stop you from dropping like a ferocious crimson comet direly on top of Xue Laohue? [Start the fight on your own terms] Anonymous
>Realize just how rich the stars are in resources and go take a look around...every where for some treasures and rare materials to take back home with you (Perception/ luck trial No DC Higher number= greater results) But I have an idea that I offer you all>Wait. You have free reign in the night sky? While gathering treasures gather large flying rock around the orbit around the moon and drop them upon Xue Laohue! Roar that the heavens have forsaken him. Conning everyone into thinking the heavens are enraged at him and making them think maybe they are wrong. Then head home. And prepare for the fight. I figured it would be funny and in character as a prank. I would've posted earlier but I had work at the time.
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>>5816987 But that gives the heavens credit for trying to take him down when it's more damning that they're not doing anything about him.
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>>5816991 Ok but... BUT.
Wouldn't dropping meteors be badass upon him? I mean I bet we can see the storm from up here it's a big frosty target.
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>>5816991 >>5816987 Alright changing my write-in a bit.
>Wait. You have free reign in the night sky? While gathering treasures gather large flying rocks around the orbit around the moon and drop them upon Xue Laohue! Also, throw the seeking Lunar Qi as formations for good measure to make sure they hit their target. >Futher vote if we want to start the fight or head home afterward Anonymous
>>5817001 I'm kind of worried about deities getting involved since we are technically throwing rocks through their homes, also i believe space defense is one of the duties they don't shrink otherwise no more world, no more offerings.
That said once we assault heaven you better believe we will be doing so from above.
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>>5817042 >"I cast orbital bombardment" >"You wha-" Anonymous
>Votes - 16 XxUJkxZa XRmzjRg5 GV1c0CfO (2 post ID) JS7iQ0lV (2 post ID) VYy5mqRK iLQrmhWH JdeCiO8/ xUgiKcKQ (2 post ID) JqujUhEb aGCttUq9 eRImqHM4/5UTV9s6Q/P9CZlr7U (1 post ID technically) /U/TlymD 2NUFWYSg x8CrSdM2 S+IqnYPS V8vOu+72>Wait. You have free reign in the night sky? - 5 XxUJkxZa VYy5mqRK iLQrmhWH /U/TlymD S+IqnYPS>Realize just how rich the stars - 3 XRmzjRg5 aGCttUq9 V8vOu+72>Don't tempt fate any longer - 8 GV1c0CfO (2 post ID) JS7iQ0lV (2 post ID) JdeCiO8/ xUgiKcKQ (2 post ID) JqujUhEb eRImqHM4/5UTV9s6Q/P9CZlr7U (1 post ID technically) 2NUFWYSg x8CrSdM2>Orbital bombardment - 1 V8vOu+72
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>>5817418 My ID changed AGAIN.
>>5816505 >>5811483 >>5802994 Linking to my old ones
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>>5817418 Is it now a sin to be a 2 poster ID
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>>5817781 If you ain't got at least 10 shitposts in a thread are you really here? Be honest.
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>>5817781 There is an old samefag tactic where you post something to check if your ID changed, then vote, or vote once and post something afterwards just to not have a 1 ID post.
I was too lazy to check whether that was the case or if it's anons that voted last round, so I just noted it down since I have to hover over the ID anyway to copy it while counting and it shows the numbers of posts.
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>>5817042 Do it from both sides, attack the while climbing the stairs, and have comets pelt them from above!
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>>5816356 Brothers, I must consult with the intrusive thoughts.
>Wait. You have free reign in the night sky? What's to stop you from dropping like a ferocious crimson comet direly on top of Xue Laohue? [Start the fight on your own terms] Also echoing my Senior Brother's proposal for Bloodmoon Rising. Because it's close enough to the CCR Song and I'd like to post the lyrics from it during the fight with Grandpa Xue.
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Okay I got it out of my system. Changing my vote like a responsible person. Sorry for the hassle, Tallynon and Grandfather.
>>5816359 going from
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>>5816356 >>Don't tempt fate any longer, and return back to Suiqi to see what you can get done before the blizzard hits it, and if your attempts at expanding the number of sects in your alliance has borne any fruit. [Try and Prepare further the battle with the Winter blossoming Wisdom sect with what little time is left before the blizzard they march under reaches your territory] We really do need to make sure we win. And while we could probably absolutely fuck him up with the most unexpected entrance, if he has two braincells he'd have seen the moon going schizo up there. Unless that, too, was only in our head.
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>>5817418 GV1c0CfO it me
>>5817042 Also me but clearly isn't a vote.
I'm out of home and my ip keeps changing, though i give my word of honour i do not samefag and always write the reasons for my choices.
Have a moon rabbit
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>>5816356 >Voting for either of the options taking us back to earth. We cannot risk leaving our sect in danger any longer. >Write-in: use one drop of divine blood to boost our Carmine Mysticism. This should more or less work fast? I dont want my earlier write-in (collecting this spilt blood) to stay without consequences for the upcoming, very important fight. Later, one further drop might be used for Qi cultivation, while the last one might be used for some mega-project or simply by our favourite, one-eyed assassin.
>>5812455 Backlink for transparency
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>>5818724 Speaking of one-eye, we mustn't forget to curb stomp the ghost king when we get a minute.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 06 Nov 2023 09:31:11 No. 5820336 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote now, didn't mean to vanish over the weekend again,
>>5817418 Thank you junior for tallying in my stead and taking into consideration the votes that came after, which put Don't tempt fate any longer at 10
You'll do just that and return to Suiqi without further delay
>>5818162 Cute!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 06 Nov 2023 11:21:42 No. 5820425 Report Cosmic Nature: Blood Moon? Blood moon rising? Moonglow blessing: Crimson Crescent? Carmine Moon Dew? Blood moon's fair light. Moon's Sweet Blush? Peach Moon Light? Moon's Deep Cut? Nearly a dozen potential names for your newly discovered, wholly unique evolution fill your mind as you contemplate all you know about your new cosmic nature and its bizarre, star and moonlight born abilities. And more fill your head, jostling and shoving to find their place of prominence as you try and decide which is not only the most fitting, but also the most elegant, imperial and awe inspiring amongst them. You decide to put the challenge of picking a name for your new form aside for now, when the prospective titles stop making even the slightest bit of sense, like cat's cradle, which one would only really understand the symbolism behind if they knew how you came to awaken as a demonic beast. You're certain most cultivators in the world have heard of the majestic and terrible Huanliuxue by now, but the chance that there are those who haven't or think you were created by some other tragedy due to hearsay or wild rumor, makes that one of the choices you're the least likely to take. If only because declaring it proudly only to be met with confusion sounds horrible, and even if everyone beneath the heavens would understand what that title is referencing, it doesn't sound like it belongs to an beast evolution, but some kind of technique. Maybe a cage of lightning or moonlight? Or sorcerous blood. Hmm. Well if you can't figure out which sounds the best, you'll go with your first name for it and just call what you are now, Cosmic Nature: Bloodmoon. It has a certain eloquence and fierceness to it, at least when you mouth the words in your mouth and repeat them like a mantra with as much gravitas and in as regal a voice as possible. And considering how bizarre and beyond the boundaries of orthodox cultivation the powers bequeathed onto you via your new evolutionary state, even a name on the nose as Cosmic Nature: Bloodmoon won't reveal a thing about what your capable of doing to them in a fight to death. So really, aesthetics and tastes are all that matters when picking a name out for the new stage you've reached in your development as a demonic beast. And it isn't like not having a name picked out and written in stone will reduce or weaken your new powers. And you can always change the name later if you're forced to declare what you've become to a friend or foe. Certainly the first couple of names you came up with sound nice when you test them on your tongue, but everything you come up with is gold. It's why all of the techniques you created have incredible names that inspire awe and dread whenever they're spoken, Heh-Heh. So you really can't lose when it comes to labeling your new existence. Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 06 Nov 2023 11:22:43 No. 5820426 Report >>5820425 But you still want it to be as elegant and awe-inspiring as is possible, an epithet that the mere utterance of would inspire mortal terror in the hearts of even the five wise immortal sages!
So if anyone asks what you've become, you'll just tell them you've attained Cosmic nature: Bloodmoon. And if that doesn't work out and the unthinkable happens and it is mocked as sounding silly and childish, well you'll just kill whoever was impudent enough to say such hurtful things and see if one of the other evolutionary epithets you came up with sound better to other's ears.
But until that happens or you've grown fonder of one of the other names you came up with or think up one that's even better, this peculiar and extraterrestrial evolution you've attained is Cosmic Nature: Bloodmoon (宇宙本性:血月亮, Yǔzhòuběnxìng: Xuè Yuèliang). If only so you have something to tell anyone who asks what the form you've attained is and what is called, so you don't look like an absolute idiot pausing to figure out a name on the spot. Especially if its your mother or older sister, who you can already hear teasing you relentlessly.
Besides, if everything has been going according to your plan, there's a much more public name you need to decide on, that oh your hopefully budding alliance.
Spinning through the void of astral chaos, covered in purple and red star dust, you turn your eyes down to the green blue pearl that is the world you were born onto. So many leagues beneath you. You were hoping the Dusk Marsh Wolves and Summer Sea Dawn had enough survival instincts to see which way the wind was turning. If they stood by their outdated morals and antiquated laws, like some of the sects you reached out to did, well they were idiots who no one sensible would mourn the deaths of. You hoped they weren't. Some of your students, Fu especially, seemed fond of swamp dwellers at least. And Xiaosi was fun to push around and bully, and showed at least some of his bloodline was worth having around, considering how well he was getting along with the recently awakened beasts of Suiqi
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[Meanwhile, in Suiqi]
"We're damned" Shidi Xiudao coolly stated, standing atop one of the branches of the ancient tree recently sprouted in the heart of Suiqi, his posture stiff and unyielding beneath the unnatural blood red moonlight that washed over him and all of the world, his battle worn face hardened, his eyes narrowed and brow furrowed like he was fighting an agonizing migraine "We're all damned. Even if my wolves survive this battle against the foremost sect of Chuan, on the side of heretics and heathens, I am doomed to be remembered...All of my line and disciples are doomed to be remembered as a cult like you lot! Damn you Fu! And Damn my honor"
"Small minded as always, mud skipper" Su Zhe'xínglǚ cackled, his eyes alight with fascination as he gazed upon the clearly cursed crimson moon hanging fat and bloated in the sky like a brutally mauled corpse
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 06 Nov 2023 11:23:44 No. 5820428 Report >>5820426 "History remembers the righteous in time, I'm certain you will be remembered as a principled, heroic and honorable man" The master of the five colors and five purities consoled, before a mocking smile appearing on his wrinkled face "And dull witted, if history also recalls your reaction to a sign so clearly showing the head of this alliance's superiority as a daoist and cultivator, and her raw power"
"Heh-Heh-Heh" Monu cackled, the brand atop her beautiful brow appearing fresh and raw beneath the altered moon light "My youngest daughter is a treasure to the world, wouldn't you say my lovely snow white! Certainly she has my flair for dramatics, considering how she chose to reveal herself to the world this time, oh this will shake things up, I wonder if that toothless old fossil is shivering in his boots"
"I would not have asked you to join our side if I didn't think we'd both benefit from it, master Shidi" Fu said calmly, walking past his teacher's adoptive mother without sparing her a glance, even as he noticed the ghost of his master's elder sister curling around her shoulders. She was a witch who only had room in her heart for her children, and spat cruelty like a viper did venom.
"You've chosen to stand beside the right minded and virtuous, at least as far as the laws of nature are concerned" Ping chuckled darkly, wearing a black hooded robe as he guided along the two strange Jiangshi that Huanliuxue had taken to mentoring as of late, Fu didn't know much about hopping corpses, but these two didn't resemble any of the monsters in the stories his late father used to tell him to keep him from wandering the mountainside as a boy.
"Do you have to make us sound so villainous, Ping?" Feiqing sighed, pouting deeply as Master Shidi glared back at them and Brother Lei, who waved coyly at the head of the Dusk Marsh Wolves sect, who return his greeting with a scowl "We're only trying to survive, and thrive, there's no reason to think you'll lose face standing beside us, at least once our master proves her nobility to the world"
"You claim as such, while standing beside that wretched diabolist and a cackling witch?" Shidi Xiudao asked with a raised eyebrow, the temperature dropping as he earned himself both Monu and the ghost of Xuebai's ire, but not Lei, who simply continued coyly waving at him, adopting the manner of a swooning maiden, just to mess with the newest member of the alliance they needed to endure the storm to come. Was he just an idiot?
"And while your master courts those despicable summer sea dawn sect hooligans?" He pressed, turning to Fu, with a trusting and pleading look in his eyes. He wanted him to provide an excuse that would allow him to maintain his honor while allying with his sect's fiercest rivals and hated of enemies.
Fu stepped forward and bowed his head to begin explaining as he heard the near silent wing flaps of his junior martial Brother Siwang approaching, to bring them news.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 06 Nov 2023 11:24:44 No. 5820429 Report >>5820428 _
[Meanwhile at the gates of Suiqi]
"Haaah" Xia Jīnsè-shāyú sighed, as he fanned himself carelessly, one hand stuck inside of his open pink robes, that were draped loosely on his shoulders, exposing his muscular chest and the deep scar of a shark's bite running along his side. The skin of the shark was wrapped around his waist like a sash, while his golden hair cascade over his shoulders, glowing like the sunset in the bloodred moon light. The muscles in his arms rippled as...
"What is it?" Qiang asked curtly, her rudeness shaking Lanfen out of her stupor. The handsome man, flicked his fan closed and jabbed it at the taciturn girl, who stared at him coldly with her own eye, narrowed in such a way that Lanfen wondered if the moon had stolen her senses since that was the face Qiang usually made before she stabbed someone
"My bastard son didn't mention you were courting those frog eaters favor as well" He blithely answered, an easy, forgiving smile on his sun touched face "I can smell the stench of that bearded dog from down here, you can't wash away the filth of the marsh, nor the foul presence of the Shidi Clan"
"That isn't all" Qiang said in a way that almost sounded coy "Something else displeases you, "Master" Xia"
Lanfen shuddered. She knew how Qiang was like, but did she have to say master like she was stepping on dog shit? Sure Huanliuxue was worthy of worship and prettier than Lanfen herself, but that was no reason to treat anyone weaker than her like the scum of the earth. Then again, Lanfen had heard gossip, that Huanliuxue didn't like the envoy this man had sent to Suiqi, for whatever reason. He certainly was no Fu, but he was easy on the eyes, a trait her obviously inherited from his hunk of a father!
"That bastard lied to me" Master Xia pouted, tapping his fan on his cheek, looking like he might cry. Lanfen shivered as she heard one of Qiang's rare "Laughs". What was so amusing?
"Little Xiaosi has become nearly as fond of beasts as our faithful are" She sneered, her smile putting a further chill down Lanfen's back as a hint of ghostly essence whispered in the air around her "Surprising considering how scared witless that lecher was when he first arrived. But he adapted quickly and is now a fanatic of Demonic Beasts. I didn't read the letters he wrote to you, but I am guessing you feel mislead by their contents, "Master"?"
"He praised them so highly, spoke so often of their natural beauty and grace and spoke so ardently and fervently of their kindly nature and demure personalities, I thought they were, you know, the sort of "Monster" that popped up since that wave of Primordial Beast essence, the ones with the cute ears and adorable tails" Master Xia answered plainly and shamelessly "Like I heard there were hiding behind all those scary army ants, I had half a mind to break through the wall myself to see if the tales of cat eared beauties were true, but alas"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 06 Nov 2023 11:25:44 No. 5820432 Report >>5820429 He turns to Chuandapo, who was resting on the shore of one of the crystal clear streams running out of Suiqi, purified by Canlan Yuanquan, and makes a face of pure despair
"They are ordinary demonic beasts, except" He continues with a sparkle in his eyes as Lanfen's heart sank as she knew what was coming. She'd lost to her master, again! Fu never takes his eyes off of her when she's around, and her womanly charms made her look like a little girl in comparison! Now this day dream made a reality was pursuing her as well! She wanted to cry and wail! "He always mentioned some of them had learned how to take on human form, like out of myth! and Described to me your...mother?"
Lanfen shook her head as fast as she could, wordlessly begging Qiang not to get them both killed by unsheathing her sword and striking their handsome guest. Her one eye twitched, and Lanfen did not know if it was because Master Xia had all but stated his intentions towards their beloved master, or because he made a mistake so many others had with Qiang
"She isn't interested" Qiang said through clenched teeth, as Lanfen felt like she'd deflate out of sheer relief
"Hmm, I think I'll ask her myself, after I go and bully that stick in the mud, Shidi" Master Xia flippantly replied, waving off Qiang with a wave of his closed fan "Say, didn't your mother send letters to the mortal nobility of Chuan as well, will they be here to? My wife says I need to make nice with them as well, and I can already hear her nagging. Oh and don't worry, I won't pick a fight. If your master can paint the moon in her colors, I know earning her ire is to court death"
"I do not know, I haven't read their reply" Qiang answered with a quiet huff and disdainful look in her own eye, like she was looking at walking garbage.
"Aw" He pouted, tutting as he swaggered up to the open gates, as Qiang watched his every step warily. Lanfen didn't know why, he seemed as harmless as a cultivator of his level could be. So why was her martial sister treating him like a half rabid dog? It wasn't like he was brother Huili.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 06 Nov 2023 11:26:45 No. 5820433 Report >>5820432 <span class="mu-s"> Double Vote </span>
How do you meet and introduce yourself to the heads of the dusk marsh wolves and summer sea dawn sects, Huanliuxue?
>With style, descending from a beam of bleeding moonlight upon their meeting and trying to cow them with your aura, making it clear you're the boss! (Spirit/ Will trial DC 120, DC reduced due to blood moonlight) >Just by sneaking up behind them and asking exactly what they seek to gain by allying with a beast such as yourself (stealth trial, auto success) >By cordially welcoming them to the alliance and getting right to business, laying out plans and informing them of the circumstances you're all in together >The summer sea dawn sect hasn't allied with the palace of natural laws yet, so focus on their head and figure out how to give him the final push to ally with a heretical sect. He's a dangerous man hiding behind smiles and an airy attitude. >write in And
And what do you do to prepare for the arrival of the blizzard of Xue Laohue?
>Just wiping out Xue Laohue won't end your problems with the local sects, Meet with Lord Chuan and use him to give the Palace of natural laws more recognition and public support than your acts of charity and benevolence has already won it. The support of the mortal nobility will be a great boon, even if they all already consider you their guardian spirit. >Ask your sister to slow down Xue Laohue by tossing her pet in front of him. Jingyu is an affront to nature and needs to die, so he might as well accomplish something with his worthless life before he does. >Find the ogress. She's a brute and is the subject of several grudges within your sect, but her strength would not be unappreciated in the battle to come >Try to empower your carmine mysticism with a drop of divine blood >Test the loyalty of the dusk marsh wolves and the shidi clan, by giving Shidi Xiudao the mission of bringing you the head of the head or at least an elder of the impudent Sages of the shifting sand's sect. >Write in Anonymous
>>5820433 >Descend in moonlight. WE WILL. BE DRAMATIC!
>Meet with lord Chuan and rally the commoners support. >Have our Gege's draw out a battlefield 20-30 miles outside the city's limits, and prepare it as best they can. We will take the fight to the blizard rather than allow it's cold to ramage against the city. >Ask our sister to throw Jingyu at the enemies army's rear, to reave through the Qi condensation and Foundation establishment novices. Anonymous
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>>5820433 >Just by sneaking up behind them and asking exactly what they seek to gain by allying with a beast such as yourself (stealth trial, auto success) >Ask your sister to slow down Xue Laohue by tossing her pet in front of him. Jingyu is an affront to nature and needs to die, so he might as well accomplish something with his worthless life before he does. As much as I like grand entrances, our dice have been spotty lately and giving them a jumpscare is funny too.
Sunmer Sea Dawn sect continues to be extremely entertaining!
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>>5820447 >Digging in outside the city Yes that sounds smart as well, let's prepare an ambush.
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>>5820433 >With style, descending from a beam of bleeding moonlight upon their meeting and trying to cow them with your aura, making it clear you're the boss! (Spirit/ Will trial DC 120, DC reduced due to blood moonlight) PRESENTATION!
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>>5820447 I'm trying to think of the politick we can do, but the best I've got is presenting Jingyu as an example of a very bad heretic, then killing him and presenting his head.
But I can easily see other side effects of that blowing back on us. Maybe the fact we plan to plunder the winter sect and can offer them a selection of the loot?
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>>5820433 >With style, descending from a beam of bleeding moonlight upon their meeting and trying to cow them with your aura, making it clear you're the boss! (Spirit/ Will trial DC 120, DC reduced due to blood moonlight) >Speaking softly yet resolute, "I am she who sheds blood. Thank you for coming here on short notice. I know some of you question why join under my banner. Ten generations have ruthlessly cut down children. Why I would treat with humans who have stood by or have hunted us? "Simple, from the fat god above. Yes, he's grown fat I saw him as I climbed through heaven to reach the moon. Has schemed for reasons I cannot fathom. To betray enlightened beings such as I. Since you have come I will tell you the true history that was stricken from the records. To know that you have justice on your side. For we shall claim it."
>Tell them the true history and answer any questions they have. Once they hear the history their blood will boil with rage. In anger that their ancestors have been tricked that they themselves have been tricked. The aura shows off that we have the strength to carry out our will. And a history that we are in the right what is there to fear?
>Ask your sister to slow down Xue Laohue by tossing her pet in front of him. Jingyu is an affront to nature and needs to die, so he might as well accomplish something with his worthless life before he does. Anonymous
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>>5820433 >With style, descending from a beam of bleeding moonlight upon their meeting and trying to cow them with your aura, making it clear you're the boss! (Spirit/ Will trial DC 120, DC reduced due to blood moonlight) >Try to empower your carmine mysticism with a drop of divine blood Anonymous
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>>5820433 >By cordially welcoming them to the alliance and getting right to business, laying out plans and informing them of the circumstances you're all in together >Ask your sister to slow down Xue Laohue by tossing her pet in front of him. Jingyu is an affront to nature and needs to die, so he might as well accomplish something with his worthless life before he does. Anonymous
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>>5820433 >The summer sea dawn sect hasn't allied with the palace of natural laws yet, so focus on their head and figure out how to give him the final push to ally with a heretical sect. He's a dangerous man hiding behind smiles and an airy attitude. >Try to empower your carmine mysticism with a drop of divine blood Anonymous
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>>5820433 >With style, descending from a beam of bleeding moonlight upon their meeting and trying to cow them with your aura, making it clear you're the boss! (Spirit/ Will trial DC 120, DC reduced due to blood moonlight) >Try to empower your carmine mysticism with a drop of divine blood >>5820447 I'll also support askkng the geges to prepare us a battlefield.
Even growing giant flowers to cut the wind would limit damage to the city.
As for the other options i still think jingyu is an obstacle for Ping to overcome by his own or with his friend.
The mortal nobility can be welcomed and the other sect leaders put to the test once the storm has been subdued.
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>>5820433 >With style, descending from a beam of bleeding moonlight upon their meeting and trying to cow them with your aura, making it clear you're the boss! (Spirit/ Will trial DC 120, DC reduced due to blood moonlight) >Ask your sister to slow down Xue Laohue by tossing her pet in front of him. Jingyu is an affront to nature and needs to die, so he might as well accomplish something with his worthless life before he does. Anonymous
>>5820433 >>By cordially welcoming them to the alliance and getting right to business, laying out plans and informing them of the circumstances you're all in together >Try to empower your carmine mysticism with a drop of divine blood For this upcoming fight, we need any addition of potential resilience. I hope upgraded Carmine Mysticism gives us that. Similarly, we should ask Monu for something. Shes good with making pills and with cold Qi techniques. Maybe she can support us?
>>5818724 Backlink for clarity
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>>5820433 >With style, descending from a beam of bleeding moonlight upon their meeting and trying to cow them with your aura, making it clear you're the boss! (Spirit/ Will trial DC 120, DC reduced due to blood moonlight) >Just wiping out Xue Laohue won't end your problems with the local sects, Meet with Lord Chuan and use him to give the Palace of natural laws more recognition and public support than your acts of charity and benevolence has already won it. The support of the mortal nobility will be a great boon, even if they all already consider you their guardian spirit. Anonymous
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>>5820433 I would have thought Qiang would have been used to us being her mom, unless some beach bum doing it is the issue.
>The summer sea dawn sect hasn't allied with the palace of natural laws yet, so focus on their head and figure out how to give him the final push to ally with a heretical sect. He's a dangerous man hiding behind smiles and an airy attitude. >Have the Geges prepare an arena outside of the city Anonymous
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>>5820433 >By cordially welcoming them to the alliance and getting right to business, laying out plans and informing them of the circumstances you're all in together >Just wiping out Xue Laohue won't end your problems with the local sects, Meet with Lord Chuan and use him to give the Palace of natural laws more recognition and public support than your acts of charity and benevolence has already won it. The support of the mortal nobility will be a great boon, even if they all already consider you their guardian spirit Anonymous
>>5820433 I'll add
>Empower our carmine mystisism with blood to
>>5820447 on condition that this will also help with our body strengthening/tempering cultivation since the two seem connected.
Even if the stuff is split half between each it;s still massive, and leaves us with 2 spare vials.
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>>5821293 Fuck sake. Now I'm conscious about ID.
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>>5820433 >The summer sea dawn sect hasn't allied with the palace of natural laws yet, so focus on their head and figure out how to give him the final push to ally with a heretical sect. He's a dangerous man hiding behind smiles and an airy attitude. >Test the loyalty of the dusk marsh wolves and the shidi clan, by giving Shidi Xiudao the mission of bringing you the head of the head or at least an elder of the impudent Sages of the shifting sand's sect. >Along with Fu and some Juniors from the Palace of the Natural Law Merely testing their loyalty is pointless if we're not going to change their minds about Demonic Beasts, but just sending them without someone they trust implicitly would cause trouble. Enter Fu, one of ours who they trust and respect and someone that can act as mediator between the two forces.
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Granted, diplomacy isn't his wheelhouse, but no one sees Mount Tai by staying in their comfort zone, Heh-heh-heh.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Wed 08 Nov 2023 14:11:28 No. 5823381 Report Ending the vote and tallying the result now, needed to tame the wine I drank with hot tea before I did. With style, descending from a beam of bleeding moonlight upon their meeting and trying to cow them with your aura, making it clear you're the boss!:8 -Speaking softly yet resolute...etc/ tell them the true history: 1 Just by sneaking up behind them and asking exactly what they seek to gain by allying with a beast such as yourself:1 By cordially welcoming them to the alliance and getting right to business, laying out plans and informing them of the circumstances you're all in together:3 The summer sea dawn sect hasn't allied with the palace of natural laws yet, so focus on their head and figure out how to give him the final push to ally with a heretical sect. He's a dangerous man hiding behind smiles and an airy attitude.:3 _ Just wiping out Xue Laohue won't end your problems with the local sects, Meet with Lord Chuan and use him to give the Palace of natural laws more recognition and public support than your acts of charity and benevolence has already won it. The support of the mortal nobility will be a great boon, even if they all already consider you their guardian spirit.:4 Have our Gege's draw out a battlefield 20-30 miles outside the city's limits, and prepare it as best they can. We will take the fight to the blizard rather than allow it's cold to ramage against the city.:5 Ask your sister to slow down Xue Laohue by tossing her pet in front of him:6 -Ask our sister to throw Jingyu at the enemies army's rear, to reave through the Qi condensation and Foundation establishment novices.:2 Try to empower your carmine mysticism with a drop of divine blood:4 Test the loyalty of the dusk marsh wolves and the shidi clan, by giving Shidi Xiudao the mission of bringing you the head of the head or at least an elder of the impudent Sages of the shifting sand's sect.:1 -Along with fur and some juniors: 1 So you'll make a showy entrance back to Suiqi, descending upon a beam of bleeding moonlight and attempting to cow the two rival sect heads with your aura And once you've shown them that you're the strongest amongst the heads of the alliance and the boss, you'll ask Xuebai to finally due away with Jingyu by ordering that afront to nature and your eyes to attack the winter blossoming wisdom sect, so he may accomplish something of worth before dying. Update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Wed 08 Nov 2023 15:02:46 No. 5823402 Report Quoted By:
>>5823381 Realized I miscounted, and that carmine mysticism empowering should be at 5 votes not 4, doesn't change anything but figured I'd mention it. Back to writing
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Wed 08 Nov 2023 15:52:19 No. 5823443 Report Getting down from the stars proves a much easier task than ascending to them. Probably because you don't have to slip back through the nine heavens on your way down, and just ride the astral currents and streams of blood red moonlight out of the nightsky and down into the world you were born into. Though just to be on the safe side, and to avoid having your paws severed at your wrists again, you do move around the patch of sky that you used to climb up to the lowest rung of the heavens, so its less likely you'll become the target for sky piercing arrows or world cutting polearms. Getting shot and mangled in the same day is more than enough abuse for one outing, even if that outing was as audacious and suicidal as brazenly flying up into the celestial courts and sprinting through the empty palace of their so called emperor, who you are certain isn't even aware he's been crowned as such, taking into consideration of what you know about Kindly old five colors. Giving the clouds that you walked through to enter the higher realm as wide as a berth as possible, you look upon the world from an angle few have seen, only gods and yourself since the current generation of cultivators is too meek and tame to even considering trying to challenge the heavens directly as you have this night. It is dyed with the mist like crimson glow of the blood moon whose light carries you back down to the basin of a thousand rivers and lakes. You can see Suiqi, in its primordial radiance, mist and a haze surrounding it, giving it an air of ancient mystery and wildness that flows beyond its walls. You can see the Summer Sea, looking like it has had blood spilled all through it, and you can see the northern half of Chuan covered in the vortex of the sorcerous blizzard called by the winter blossoming wisdom sect, that extends all the way from the Primordial Forest of the Tragic lovers, to the viper pass canyon and cliffs of despair and the desert sands beyond them. The only place it is challenged, besides the line you drew in the sand yourself, are the desolation of the forge devil's furnace and the true primordial wilderness behind the forest the winter blossoming wisdom sect claims as their territory. You hang in the air, shifting back to your human form, dressed in star dust and bloody moonlight, both of which cling to your robes as stubbornly as burs and tomb dust. From this high up, you can even see the ghostly yin Qi radiating out of your split open mountain temple, and streams of blood Qi and Primordial beast essence flowing from the rent asunder peaks and spreading across Chuan just like its many rivers and streams. But turning your attention back to Suiqi, you notice, while the city hasn't changed at all since you flew out of it at sunset. There are two strong presences inside of it that weren't there before, proud, unwavering auras of warriors. Two of the strongest in the cultivation world of the Chuan. Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Wed 08 Nov 2023 15:53:20 No. 5823446 Report >>5823443 Those have to be the heads of the Dusk marsh wolves and Summer Sea Dawn Sects. It is a wonder your disciples and mother have kept the deadly rivalry between those sects from flaring and turning into a brawl that would've wrecked your city like their arrogant little piss stain disciples had done...before it was officially your city. And they're strong. From this distance, so high in the clouds and bathing in the freshest moonlight before it is polluted and dulled by the impurities of the world, you can't get an accurate gauge on their power or stage of cultivation.
But they have both formed golden cores, that much you can sense, fine golden cores but well while you have an remarkable talent for measuring the development of your fellow daoists, you formed a golden core with such haste that the fact it got made at all would make elders of the orthodox sects coughed up blood. The time you spent forming it would've only just begun its formation and it would've surely been flawed and worthless as a core, if anyone but you managed to so swiftly form their golden core. But, you're just amazing like that and while the ruler of the great wheel's law would appear dangerous, treacherous and wildly reckless to the fools still holding themselves back by obeying the mandates of the degraded heavens, it is what allowed you to make a peerless golden core.
Well that and your natural talent.
But as incredible and powerful as you are, these two who you're trying to court and tempt into an alliance are strong. Especially when compared to the common riff raff and worthless trash that call themselves cultivators. And they must know they're amongst the elite of this stagnant world, the strong standing leagues above the weak. The kind of knowledge of self, of one's overwhelming superiority, makes for a unwavering since of pride and a brash ego. You'd know, but your pride and self confidence is well founded, as beneath the heavens, you've yet to meet your equal especially as you are now, with your flawless golden core and lunar evolution.
But they don't realize their swaggering manner and proud demeanor are unfounded. Cause while they'd certainly both give you a bit of a work out if it came down to a fight, you'd still crush them in the end. And they need to realize that as well, or else they'll cause problems and butt heads with you when you need the power of their sects and their personal strength on your side.
It'd be beast if you show them just how far above them you are, to display the disparity of power, prowess and natural talent between yourself and them, so they don't think they can boss you around. You need to show them you're the boss, the matriarch of this alliance, the alpha. Like any beast running into another of the same coat, You must prove your dominance and establish a hierarchy if this alliance is to grow.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Wed 08 Nov 2023 15:54:21 No. 5823448 Report >>5823446 Since even if its mutually beneficial for all sects who would join it, you'd have to be a fool ignorant of the world to think there wouldn't be a leader. And that leader, the boss of this clowder, would of course be you! And for these two to enter Suiqi, means they're ambitious enough to ally with a heretical "Demon" like yourself for their own gain, which means they're probably arrogant enough to imagine they could take over and lead the alliance themselves.
So a dominance display is in order, you don't need to bite their necks or pin them to the ground or lick their hair aggressively or anything, just cow them with your power and show off your might so they recognize your strength and of course, your innate superiority and regality.
So, redirecting and pulling the beam of moonlight you were relaxing in, you prepare to make a flashy entrance onto their meeting with Monu and Master Su, slowly revealing and unrestraining your aura to allow its full and complete radiance to shine out around your and encompass the world as you fly down towards Suiqi like a falling star.
<span class="mu-s"> roll 2d100. DC 120 Best out of 5 </span>
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Rolled 27, 5 = 32 (2d100) >>5823448 Anonymous
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Rolled 82, 6 = 88 (2d100) >>5823448 I hope our ego doesn't bite us in the ass.
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Rolled 98, 86 = 184 (2d100) >>5823446 Anonymous
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Rolled 67, 39 = 106 (2d100) >>5823448 ....
>>5823458 Oh dear.
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Rolled 56, 96 = 152 (2d100) >>5823448 >>5823458 >184 Very nice!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Wed 08 Nov 2023 16:11:31 No. 5823471 Report Quoted By:
>>5823458 Peerless Success. 60 over DC. Update will arrive shortly
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>>5823448 I think that a drop of god blood combined with the liqueur the peach has been soaking in, the blood of the crow demon, the head of the winter blossoming wisdom sect's blood and maybe some of his ice, a few drops of our own blood in other words, a mix of god, demon, human and demonic beast blood, would make for a very powerful pill.
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>>5823476 Being the 444th post, it is probably a good idea.
But I have 2 things to put it to use for.
One is to use on ourselves, boost our shit into the stratosphere. Best use, should be done immediately.
The next use, is two stage. The first is use it to cultivate, see if it triggers any special conditions.
And after the fact, unsure. Maybe an item as you describe, maybe empower the peach to become a forest of Blood Qi.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Wed 08 Nov 2023 17:56:54 No. 5823567 Report [Meanwhile, beneath the boughs and branches of the Primordial tree in the center of Suiqi] Sparks flew between the eyes of the grandmasters and heads of the always clashing Dusk Marsh wolves and Summer Sea Dawn sect, the bearded and wild looking Shidi Xiudao (銹 刀, Rusted Blade) stood, one hand up the hilt of his Dao, the tarnished brass of its pommel shaped like the face of a snarling boar gleaming with the same fury as its master, his other hand held flat and aloft in the air. The pressure that surrounded him whipped his tangled mat of hair and glorious beard in the air around him like a swamp born lion's mane, the dull amber of his robes revived as if freshly dyed and no longer steeped in stains of mud and marsh water. Across from him, sat on one side of a fine coral tea set, lounged Xia Jīnsè-shāyú (Golden shark), whose hand rested upon his shark toothed spear, that was laid down on the grass on his side, its polished blade gleaming in the red moonlight, making its head seem ready to leap to life and swim through the air like a hungering shark itself to bite into the heart of his rival. His eyes glowed yellow and fierce as he laughed, his white teeth gleaming like pearl's in the charnel light of the accursed moon. At the side, sat the Toad witch who had forsaken her name, pouring a curiously steaming wine into the cup of her old friend, Su Zhe'xínglǚ [哲' 行旅, Wise Vagabond] watched, hiding the trembling of his hands by gripping the wrist of one with the other as he held out a cup to be filled with the wine offered. Two axe Fu and Quick Draw Qiang stood, forced to kneel before the overwhelming pressure and killing intent exuded by the heads of the Shidi and Xia clans. Around Xiudao, the world darkened, the heat and aroma of swamplands oozing out of him as the ground seemed to shift and sink in as the air grew heavy and moist as his figure become obscured like the shadow of a stalking predator. While Jinse-Shayu was instead awash with golden radiance, shimmering waves and rippling ethereal water, like the depths of the sea awash with sunlight dredge up and brought to the surface. Bolts of light, shaped like sharks and drifting shadows like shoals of fished darted around him. The dark depths of a marsh that swallows men and the remorseless depths and coral cliffs of a sea fraught with predators met and clashed, amber and pink bursts of Qi roiling in the air and sending showers of spark flying from just the two masters meeting each other's gazes, neither moving to make good of the murderous drives roaring in their hearts. They had been like this for minutes, having locked eyes and been frozen in their clash of auras, neither of them willingly to concede ground after they had introduced themselves to their rival and exchanged vitrol rich insults. Neither of them budged, for they were evenly matched. Even as their auras began to affect their surroundings, they remained still and ready to pounce. Cont
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>>5823567 Until the song of the blood moon reached their ears.
In a moment, the illusionary worlds projected into the perceptions of the onlookers of their silent clashes were overwhelmed. The stygian marsh filled with glowing predator's eyes and the sense of overwhelming foreboding, the sense of being prey, being hunted and the quiet sea hiding the remorseless hunters and unknown depths, inviting with relaxing warmth before killing with cold cruelty, were devoured.
Swallowed whole.
By an imaginary world painted red. Shidi stepped back, a flash of a mountain of graves filling his mind's eye as the warmth of the marshlands he called home was stricken, stolen away and left with the chill of death. Grinning skulls and ink eyed, weeping phantoms surrounded him, sealing his breath and robbing him of his confidence as the lord of the man devouring swamp. The chill of the grave surrounded him, the stench of blood overwhelmed him. Bile rose in his throat as he broke his gaze from his rival to star at the imposing blood moon. He felt as if he was standing in the center of a battlefield, a forlorn survivor of an apocalyptic clash between armies. As if he had been dropped in a corpse pit and could only stare like a frog in a well at the distant, glowing moon.
And the pressure surrounding him was only growing stronger, the aura was expanding. Turning more brilliant and oppressive. He had no fear of his mortality, but he felt now as when he was a little boy, feeling the rush of triumph, in succeeding the coming of age ceremony of his clan and surviving the depths of the marshes for a month on his own, bleed out of him as his father, compassionless, lead him by the hand to show him the water bloated and maggot infested carcasses of his brothers and friends who had failed while he succeeded. He had remembered, how many of his childhood friends had not returned at all and simply vanished into the murk.
But this time, the bones of his father lead him to the steps of a throne built from bones, from within which feline eyes peered out and tears of blood trickled.
He saw in the night sky, a faint, tiny shadow. His mouth wagged and he cried out "Huanliuxue!"
Xia Jinse-Shayu, felt it as well, but he did not reel back, He fell forward, his body instinctively reacting despite the cool, arrogant demeanor he had held since he entered the territory claimed by this upstart cult of beast worshipers. Self preservation demanded that he kowtow, kneel and place his brow to the mud. His aura of a sea painted gold in the sunset was washed away, and he envisioned the ghostly, graveyard aura that had consumed it with a single snap of its jaws, as a bloody sea, filled with the broken hulls of sunken warships, predated by sharks more terrible than the one he had fought in his youth, from whose stomach he hand wrenched a high quality beast core overflowing with Qi refined from the flesh of the fishermen and daring cultivators who had sought to catch the man eating beast.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Wed 08 Nov 2023 17:58:56 No. 5823574 Report The jaws that had bitten into his side and left him a scar he couldn't refine away no matter how many times he remade his body surrounded him, but they were not the jaws of a shark. They the little fangs of a house cat, grown large enough to swallow the world. He was falling, descending, sinking down into the abyss of the sea that not even he dared to explore. His mind panicked and fled, all of his plans and schemes crumbling from just the arrival of the young beauty he had dreamed of seducing. He laughed at the tall tales of sailors, but in front of the bleeding radiance of the queen of beast's aura, he realized the were yet monsters in the world that could devour even him. Without even snapping their teeth. In his mind's eye, in his spiritual sense, he could see her, a mass of shifting blood within which a soul clung inside, half feline and half human, yet wholely neither, a shapeless mass of death and blood and something...something he didn't know. A man who had sailed beyond the reaches of the world, was faced with the yawning unknown and as his pride demanded he rise and stand
He found himself not in the sea, but in a ocean of dying stars and flickering suns, were bone white moons danced around a single, baleful red eye.
The aura was growing more intense and turning into something more terrifying than visions of hell and feral hunting that had assaulted his sense and set his survival instincts on fire. His spiritual sense before could only feel oceans of blood and mountains of bones, but now, when he tried to reach out to she who had invited him here
He could only touch the void of space and scream in the palm of a goddess woven of moonlight who had made the suns themselves bleed.
He wretched, coughing up blood as Shidi gripped his face with one hand, drawing blood with his nails as he clenched his teeth and moved like a beaten dog.
And then, the ground rippled, Deathly Yin Qi, Primordial Beast essence, Demonic Blood Qi, and that unknown light of the stars flowed around them, as all in Huanliuxue's presence felt as if they stood in the heart of spaces, watching the lifecycle of stars and moons. Repeating endlessly. The decay and rebirth of the universe, all before an imperial seat, all accompanied by the yowling songs of stray cats as a grinning smile set with amber eyes eclipsed the cosmic dance of renewal and destruction.
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And then Huanliuxue, making no effort to hide or restrain her aura, stepped back to the earth and entered Suiqi. And laughed and laughed, exulting, reveling in the submissive displays of two powerful, confident men. One hand sweeping through her hair, she held her head back, and laughed, with tears in her eyes. Her blood red hair indistinguishable from the aura of blood surrounding her, her shadow indistinguishable from the ghostly aura surrounding her, her eyes indistinguishable from the starlight, and her breath indistinguishable from the primordial breath of a thousand beasts
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"So, allow me to introduce myself!" You shouted as you resealed your aura and diminished enough that it just felt like standing before a field of graves, to just impart a light chill like a haunted house as you skipped and swayed towards the bearded master and the golden haired master, who were still on their knees after you dropped your full aura on top of them and crushed them beneath it "I am the magnanimous, sagacious Huanliuxue! A once in ten generations prodigy, royalty of the natural world, sorcerous of ghostly sorcery, preserver of the blood of life, and stealer of starlight. Founder and current head of the palace of natural laws sect, and only challenged in my beauty by my adoring mother"
Who was laughing almost as loud and madly as you were moments ago, spilling wine all over herself and the stunned master Su who looked at you like a lost lamb
"Hah! Like buddha stepping down into the grisly cutting block of war" She declared, spilling more wine as Fu and Qiang lay beside her, taking a nap for some reason together. Oh how cute! They looked just like kittens. sashaying over, you crouched down and poked their cheeks "Heaven turning beauty immersed in "Demonic" essence, how's that for a wake up call you half chewed lecher!"
"I see how you have earned the service of the hero two axe fu" the man who must be Shidi Xiudao, who looked like a mud drenched homeless person, with a tangled, matted mess of greasy black hair and a beard just as mud splattered and twisted, so dirty you expected a bird or mouse to poke its head out beneath his chin "What monstrous power! So this is the power of a heretic who doesn't hide, but walks beneath the sun with their head held high, Boldly proclaiming to everyone they meet they denounce the laws of the heavens! Incredible. And yes, I am the patriarch of the Shidi clan, current head of the dusk marsh wolves, Shidi Xiudao, arrived her to repay the debt owed to your disciple. For a man his nothing without honor!"
His hands trembled as you turned to him, tilted your head, and smiled as much like a cat would as you possibly can. He swallowed hard, sweat beading and rolling down his brow as you turned then to the man who hadn't declared they would be joining your yet nameless alliance before he came to visit.
"Xia Jinse-Shayu. I can see your resemblance to Xiaosi, he cowered just when I showed him my magical beast form" You snickered "But you...how'd you get a reputation as a womanizer when you cower before a beautiful woman, eh? You were probably planning to trick me or smooth talk me before you got a look at me, hm? That smile of yours doesn't reach your eyes and I know the smell of a rat, pretty sure my real papa was a mouser before a dog ate him"
He says nothing and remains kneeling, not rising or showing any sign of even hearing your insults and attacks on his pride.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Wed 08 Nov 2023 18:00:59 No. 5823578 Report >>5823577 "Have I made it clear what will happen if you try to cheat or backstab me or do something like say, snatch up a couple of the demonic beasts under my care to harvest their beast cores?" You ask, lifting his chin up with a finger, stabbing him with your nail, but not hard enough to draw blood or risking chipping the fine point you had cut into it.
He nods.
"Good, now we can discuss the terms of our alliance" You chirp happily, pulling your finger back and twisting around on your heel, holding your arms out childishly as you step between him and Shidi, who hasn't taken his eyes off of you since you came into view. You felt his eyes and spiritual sense a few miles in the sky
"Anything you desire! I shall bring it to you!" Xia cries out, eyes wild "I'll seek penance for my selfish intentions by serving you with utmost loyalty, I'll even give you my body if that is what you, or my daughter's body if that's what you prefer, Mistress Bloodshed!"
Monu tosses her now empty wine bottle at his head, knowing she's safe from any kind of reprise from him
"Gutless coward, selling your heritage and sect out so easily?" Shidi spits, smirking like he's won some sort of personal victory by not immediately bowing and offering himself into servitude to you "Leave him to his wife, she's the true strength behind his sect this generation"
You shoot the cowering head of the summer sea dawn sect with an imploring look, asking if that's true silently. He looks conflicted, before nodding once.
"Heh-Heh" You cackle, but don't bully him anymore, since this could also be an act to try and make you lower your guard. These two, for as intimidated as they were by your aura and Qi, could still give you trouble in a fight "But moving on before I laugh myself unconscious, Shidi, I heard you were only joining this alliance temporarily"
"Yes" He answers, locking eyes with you "That is all you are owed. One battle, one enemy exterminated. As your disciples did, the dusk marsh wolves will fight that which threatens you, and then wash our hands of this matter. Unless"
"Unless?" Master Su chimes in
"Unless the terms of alliance are favorable" He answers "A matter we must discuss at length, but from the sounds of things, you've gotten yourself an underling without doing so much besides walk up to him. Seems you're weak to women as always, shark"
"Bite your tongue off and drown in your own blood, mud eater?" Xia snaps back, recovering some of his dignity and remembering a glimmer of his pride. Shidi just smiles coldly.
"You've given your word, you'll give her all she desires" He snorts, turning away dismissively "As of now, the dusk marsh wolves stand taller than the Summer Sea dawn sect"
"Mother, keep them from fighting, we'll sit down and discuss things after I've spoken with my sister and reveled a little more in the moonlight" You sigh with a dismissive wave of your hand, as Xuebai's spirit uncoils from Monu's shoulders and hops up to you
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Wed 08 Nov 2023 18:02:00 No. 5823579 Report >>5823578 "Loving the new look, little sister, I hope you know once I'll surpass you one day, as is my duty as your <span class="mu-s"> Elder </span> sister" She snickers playfully, snapping at where your ears would be if they were a cat's ears "And thank you for making those two cocky pricks kneel and grovel, I almost felt high just watching them, I can only imagine how drunk on power that sight made you, with your living body and all, so, did you want to ask my advice how best to make use of a slave under your thumb"
"No, I just realized that shitty old fossil is getting closer by the second, and you have an expendable pet we can throw at his legs to buy us some time to prepare further and give him a far more unpleasant surprise than merely having four sects standing in his way, instead of just one" You say cheerfully, pressing your fingers together and grinning just imagining the look on his face when he sees the forces you've aligned against him, drinking the fantasy like cool, crisp autumn water.
But Xuebai doesn't giggle, or titter or mock her now useless flesh puppet, instead her ears droop, her ghostly form shrinks down to the size of a fox kit and she looks away meekly
"Xuebai" You say sweetly, crouching down to be on eye level with her again "Did you grow fond of that disgusting wretch? I thought you'd be happy to toss him to the tiger's mercy, to cut him from your side and be rid of him and his stench"
"W...well, see, the thing is Huan that uh, well its funny really" She begins "I kind of lost him"
"What?" You ask, wondering how you can lose something as gross as Jingyu
"Well I didn't need him for company or revenge once I reunited with you and mother, and I found a junior in Yujijiao" She explains, shrinking down until she is just a white ghost flame with a pale blue center "And I knew you were going to kill him eventually. I guess he might've...maybe sensed that I was getting colder with him, that I didn't need him and"
"What" You say trying to keep your face impassive and lovely looking as rage bubbles up within you, how could she lose her pet monster!
"Hehihihi, He kind of just vanished. It happened around the time ogress and mother started leaving behind fields of corpses, so I just assumed he was scavenging but, I couldn't find him, or sense him, and he never replied to my summons and I was going to tell you but...I didn't think he was still useful to our cause" She whispers, sounding the closest to tears you've ever heard your carefree and mirthful elder sister, even when she was half mad and rabid when you first met her.
"It's all right my little snow white, worms like him are good at squirming away from getting stomped" Your mother consoles your sister as you stand in place, seething and struggling not to show it, which must not be working. Dammit! Dammit! FUCKING DAMMIT!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Wed 08 Nov 2023 18:03:16 No. 5823581 Report >>5823579 How do you react to learning that Jingyu is loose, out of your sister's control, and most importantly, isn't about to die a dog's death, Huanliuxue!
>"XUEBAI YOU IDIOT! HOW CAN YOU FUCK UP SO BADLY WHEN YOU HAVE NO RESPONSIBILITIES OR..OR ANYTHING!?" >"Okay, find him then and then we'll drag him to fight Xue Laohue by a leash if we have to. How hard can a giant, stitched together corpse monster be to find!?" >Change your immediate plans, and find another distraction. Maybe an ogre shaped one would work.... >Shrug and apologize to your sister. its no big deal, and it'd be a waste of time tracking that worm down. Time better spent preparing to kill that bastard Xue Laohue >write in Anonymous
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>>5823581 >>"Okay, find him then and then we'll drag him to fight Xue Laohue by a leash if we have to. How hard can a giant, stitched together corpse monster be to find!?" With all the dead cultivators around best not to let him wander and get several more upgrades
Anonymous
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>>5823581 Oh dear. He's got heaps and heaps of cultivator corpses to work with too.
>Shrug and apologize to your sister. its no big deal, and it'd be a waste of time tracking that worm down. Time better spent preparing to kill that bastard Xue Laohue I wonder if we could use Xue's corpse as bait to lure out Jingyu?
Anonymous
>>5823581 >"Do you have any idea what he might do, now that are entire battlefield of powerful cultivator corpses lay across the land? I trusted you would keep an eye on his at this most critical time! Go find him, before it's the apprentice that surpasses the master instead of an elder surpassing her younger sister!" Anonymous
>>5823581 >Shrug and apologize to your sister. its no big deal, and it'd be a waste of time tracking that worm down. Time better spent preparing to kill that bastard Xue Laohue Personally I hope buddy is doing ok. Maybe now that he's not simping for Big Sister he's developed into something somewhat respectable.
Maybe he'll even come in at a critical moment and help by doing something impressive!
Anonymous
>>5823581 >Shrug and apologize to your sister. It's no big deal, and it'd be a waste of time tracking that worm down. Time better spent preparing to kill that bastard Xue Laohue >No doubt this worm has a great fortune in this chaotic era... Mother sent down a decree that all talented corpses that are gathered to be refined or cremated. The worm will target the nearby corpses on the battlefield. Then logically I wouldn't put it past him following the trail of the ogress either or plan on targeting sect graveyards that we have victory over. The winter sect graveyard would be a prime target for his cultivation and revenge... Many generations of corpses all no doubt perfectly preserved... Hmmm, what to do what to do... thoughts Mother? Sister? Anonymous
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>>5823601 And if no one votes for my write-in, consider my vote for
>"Okay, find him then and then we'll drag him to fight Xue Laohue by a leash if we have to. How hard can a giant, stitched together corpse monster be to find!?" I would rather we went wit Meeting the Chuan lord or empower our abilities with the blood, but this is the option that won last vote.
Besides, there's no reason for us to apologize to her, we haven't insulted or screamed at her. It was her mistake, and she is crying because she knows it was a fuck up.
Anonymous
>>5823614 >he's developed into something somewhat respectable. Anonymous
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>>5823581 >>5823614 Although along with not actively looking for him, maybe we should worn folks that there's a wandering cultivator hunting butcher out and about?
So nobody is caught off gaurd if he decides to start playing the predator instead of the scavenger. Wouldn't want him to be able to do something foolish like attack one of our people while their backs are turned.
Anonymous
>>5823618 Come now, he's not even that bad in the grand scheme of things. He's at the very least a creature of our collective family trauma.
I never understood why so many are so adamant that he's a lost cause while the Orgress has done far more to mess with us personally, but folks are pretty soft on her comparatively.
Frankly though, I hope that both are able to grow and develop so all four of us (Huan, Jingyǔ, Yāonān, Fèiqīng) can gang up and do some attack and dethrone god type shit. With our girl at the head of the pack of course.
We already have Fèiqīng, completing the heretical set would be neat!
The struggle of dagging the Ling Bitch and Frozen Worm into line will only make things more satisfying too.
Anonymous
>>5823581 >Shrug and apologize to your sister. its no big deal, and it'd be a waste of time tracking that worm down. Time better spent preparing to kill that bastard Xue Laohue We don't have time for a goose chase. If he's got more than two
stolen braincells he is gonna be far away from here.
Besides, I would have been surprised if we got rid of him that easily. He is gonna show up again and it's not gonna be a fun experience. At least I'm pretty sure we are far stronger than he is... though it may not be by much considering how many cultivator body part loot boxes he has had access to.
Xia and Huili should meet up. I feel like they have something in common to bond over.
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>>5823636 >I never understood why so many are so adamant that he's a lost cause while the Orgress has done far more to mess with us personally, but folks are pretty soft on her comparatively. I don't understand that as well, but the votes landed were they are in the past, so this is the path we take, unless we end up as yet another bipolar quest protagonist that changes their mind at the drop of
player hat
I wanted to try and get both of them. Got to catch'em all. But now both of them got to go. Anonymous
>>5823636 I mean I want to kill both Yaonan and Jingyu. But I'm just certain he has gotten worse, not better. What happens when a wild dog slips the leash? It eats a toddler or mauls several people. Without a force guiding him for prudence he'll just be able to indulge in his murderous tendencies at his own leisure rather than by command.
I'm not going to forget the way he gave Qiang the heebie jeebies. Or the fact he sees everything as meat for his oven of a body, ready to bake. There's no way someone as warped as he is in the head is going to "get better" without someone helping him along. I just hope he keeps hunting cultivators instead of civilians. And that he doesn't take an interest in the curious beast-people that now pop up.
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>>5823581 >"Okay, find him then and then we'll drag him to fight Xue Laohue by a leash if we have to. How hard can a giant, stitched together corpse monster be to find!?" Anonymous
>>5823636 For what it's worth, I agree that "completing the heretical set" would be pretty great, but we don't really have a good way to do so.
Jingyǔ nearly killed Ping & Qinxin, and has shown close to no regard for human life, which is something that does not mesh well with us. As far as we know, he would scrap all of our close friends for parts if given the chance, and we have no reason to let him live, much less give him a place in our sect. Pretty sure Ping and Qiang would throw shitfits, as they would have every right to. Jingyǔ has behaved as nothing more that a heartless monster on a leash. We have been given no proof that he is anything else, so why treat him like anything else?
If he were to show a great change in his character, I would be open to giving him a chance, but I would be very surprised if he does.
Yāonān is the same thing. I think she is hilarious personally, but she has made an enemy of most of our upper disciples and killed a child we wanted to take under our wing. The only reason she is still alive is that she makes for a mean distraction, but at her core she is a remorseless killer, and we have killed people far less wicked than her for far pettier crimes.
Though with her there is a chance of us maybe allying later, since we likely have a lot of enemies in common, and she would be much more convenient to keep around then to kill. Any formal ceasefire would need for her to meet us halfway somewhere though. Probably apologize to some of our disciples or something. If she just keeps on not giving a fuck, we will not have any reasons to either as far as killing her is concerned.
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>>5823649 Hmm maybe you have a point, but I do like to think the best of our heretical peers more than I should, especially given they were one or two votes away from being US. I'll always have a soft spot for them.
I do wonder what the likelihood of Jingyǔ and Yāonān meeting up is. I get the feeling they'd get along well assuming Jingyǔ still looks more like a fox eared pretty boy than a Resident Evil end boss and is able to give her a good fight.
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>>5823664 I'm sure they'd get along pretty well. Jingyu would be constantly trying to get into her pants
literally, for stealing her legs and Yaonan would be over the moon having someone she can cut down, piece back together stronger and cut down again. And the whole, committing mass murder thing they both have going on.
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>>5823660 Not giving a fuck seems pretty core to the ogress. They really both need to die, but it's a long list of targets frankly.
Anonymous
>>5823660 Jingyǔ is a beast off his leash because he was never treated as anything but a beast on a leash. Gotta remember that he's Xuebai's creature, a beast of her hate and trauma. He became what he was because he was bewitched, and was once someone that Ping called a friend.
I have a feeling that correcting him wouldn't even be that hard if a powerful enough master got him under control and guided him with care.
You're pretty much spot on with Yāonān, but again I do get the feeling that a strong corrective hand and some true comradery would go a long way with her. All her life she’s been a tool of the Ling, just as much a beast on a leash as Jingyǔ. Monster that she is, some strong companions that could actually teach her humility and then teach her the joys of things besides killing alone might do wonders.
But again, all this might be wishful thinking. And there's also the idea of Huan needing to get over her natural disgust for both and needing to feel whimsical enough to get others to do the same.
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>>5823581 >Shrug. its no big deal, and it'd be a waste of time tracking that worm down. Time better spent preparing to kill that bastard Xue Laohue >have Xuebai assigned to Ping as a tutor and to devise methods to kill the abomination she made as penance. Worse than i thought he slipped away immediately, still i think this may be a good way for xuebai to repent by tutoring ping and prepare him for his round 2.
Also i don't want to send her spirit around, she's vulnerable and what if jingyu devised a way to trap spirits?
>>5823615 You may have actually found his first target.
I don't think we left the bodies of golden cores lying around yet so it can't get THAT much further.
And if Ping doesn't feel like it we can possibly send yaonan on a fun hunt, maybe insinuating he could be related to a certain deviously slippery necromancer? (Which is kind of true)
Anonymous
>>5823686 Clearly Yaonan needs to learn how to paint, and Jingyu needs to take up woodworking. This goes well with Huan's hobby as a novelist and Feiqing's hobby of knitting.
Anonymous
>>5823686 I think you are correct, some strong guidance and/or friends might just go a long way with both of them, it's just that giving them a chance is a hard sell. Not even to Huanliuxue, who can be pretty whimsical at the end of the day, but to all of our disciples, who have every reason to hate their asses.
Though Yāonān is much more likely that Jingyǔ. I mean, our mother already likes her, so if she can be convinced to play ball with our disciples a little bit there might be hope of her mellowing out somewhat.
Jingyǔ... I don't see how that could happen right now. He would need a serious wake up call somehow.
We will see if they get a chance to show off their good side, I guess.
>>5823690 >The palace of natural laws holds arts & handicrafts workshops on weekends Fun for the whole sect!
Jingyu would make for a wicked surgeon. He would make the guy who performed appendectomy on himself look like a fucking joke. Anonymous
>>5823696 Dude has so much practice it wouldn't surprise me if he could stitch nerves back together with a sewing needle and some wadded paper. Also his general acuity with spare limbs means he could probably run the entire operation without assistants. Guy is cracked. Anonymous
>>5823715 Fun fact we are Jingyu worst match up in a fight. Since he's cut up his body so much we legit just open all his wounds and he dies. All his organs would disassemble. Since we invoke old wounds he's honestly not a threat to us, but to our disciples that's a whole other matter.
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>>5823696 >Jingyǔ... I don't see how that could happen right now. He would need a serious wake up call somehow. We will see if they get a chance to show off their good side, I guess.
I think the wake up call is his personal ghost waifu that pushed him into being the "man" he is today, abandoning him like meat scraps. And not the good kind.
Since Haun isn't inclined to help out we'll just have to hope that a Bewitched Monk free of his enthrallment isn't something terrible, or something otherwise inconvenient for us.
I'd find it deeply hilarious if he's just wandering the blizzard, depressed. Grieving the loss of his new found place in the world under Xuebai's thumb.
I wonder what stage he'll be at next time we find him.
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>>5823581 >Shrug and apologize to your sister. its no big deal, and it'd be a waste of time tracking that worm down. Time better spent preparing to kill that bastard Xue Laohue >"In that case, then we need to do something... I've neglected my mission of recovering your body and of the cute Yuji, so I must say I'm sorry, and sorry again because I'm the one who can truly train both of you in your ghost forms. And as such, you will make a team with Yuji, Ping, and our mute friend who I should talk a little with. Your mission is to find that dog and know where he is, or even try to find some kind of lead... I doubt we can bring him here before the fight, and maybe you could move fast enough to go and come back with an update. If you're willing to do this bidding I would be blessed by having you take it, if you don't, then we better keep our war efforts to a maximum and see if we can make sure you and Yuji are ready to fight" Idk how much time we have left, but if we have enough maybe we can have a lead on where the monster is. Also, I've been thinking on maybe give Lei that demon that was sucking his Qi and help him perform his ritual so this time all is good, and maybe talk to Fu and see if he can maybe let Xuebai and Yuji to posses him for a time in this battle if they aren't strong enough to fight for their own, or maybe give a huge boost to Fu with our ghost disciples
Anonymous
>>5823581 >XUEBAI YOU IDIOT! HOW CAN YOU FUCK UP SO BADLY WHEN YOU HAVE NO RESPONSIBILITIES OR..OR ANYTHING!?" Anonymous
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>>5823581 >Shrug and apologize to your sister. its no big deal, and it'd be a waste of time tracking that worm down. Time better spent preparing to kill that bastard Xue Laohue Truth is, with the bloodbath we're setting up, odds are damn good we'll be seeing Jingyu soon.
Anonymous
>>5823726 >yfw he doesn't have many injuries because when he attached the mangled parts to his body it was by design so they don't count as wounds since it was the people he stole them from who were hurt Wouldn't that be some cosmic technicality.
Anonymous
>>5823846 Nah see the tech if I remember right reverses all wounds acquired. and to replace parts he's gonna have to open up his body. Meaning there are various seems all over his body.
To prevent being affected he'd have to do some crazy shit.
He'd have to basically in my opinion erase his memories of what he's done. As the soul remembers and transfers that soul to a new body that was perfectly sculpted.
Even if his soul doesn't remember his body does. And even if the body doesn't remember the soul does.
Only then would he be free from this technique's grasp. But I'd leave it to Grandfather ruling. No doubt he's still an early foundation checkers while we've been playing 4d golden core chess.
Anonymous
>>5823581 >Shrug and say it doesn't matter. I don't want to let him weasle away, the fucker. He's too dangerious to be left alive, but he's ultimately of lesser importance at current.
>>No doubt this worm has a great fortune in this chaotic era... Mother sent down a decree that all talented corpses that are gathered to be refined or cremated. The worm will target the nearby corpses on the battlefield. Then logically I wouldn't put it past him following the trail of the ogress either or plan on targeting sect graveyards that we have victory over. The winter sect graveyard would be a prime target for his cultivation and revenge... Many generations of corpses all no doubt perfectly preserved... Hmmm, what to do what to do... thoughts Mother? Sister? Give orders for the battlefields to be dragged and ensure that no corpses are left for him to feed on. Won't work completely but it'll do us good.
>>5823636 We're hard on him because he's a monster. Like, an actual, honest to goodness sociopathic monster who's gone mad and practices a style of disgusting cultivation. He's also directly antagonistic to us because we have the BEST spiritual roots anyone could ever get, and he will want them.
Yuan has a bit more screen time and is just a straight battle junkie. She likes to kill worthy opponents, sure but that's a lot more acceptable than canabalising them for parts.
I don't see a point to be mad with Xue. It serves nothing.
Anonymous
>>5823862 I dunno man. It seems like the contrived sort of thing that would exist in this genre. "They weren't HIS wounds, so the technique didn't affect him!?" sounds 100% like a double take moment. There's also the fact that it may not even really matter, I mean he put it all together once, why couldn't he quick fast put it back together again? Even the drunkard was forcibly stopping and healing some of the damage that it caused him.
Though it does beg a question. Is stuff like surgery an injury? Truly? Obviously it's causing harm to the body, but it is aiding with healing. If we used the technique on someone who had a broken bone that doesn't break the skin, and they had to be cut open to manually reset the bone, would the bone re-break and the incision split open as well? Interesting.
Anonymous
>>5823581 >Shrug and apologize to your sister. its no big deal, and it'd be a waste of time tracking that worm down. Time better spent preparing to kill that bastard Xue Laohue While that's a very bad thing, we're also on an uncertain time schedule with the approaching boss fight.
>>5823862 >>5823874 Honestly, even if the wound curse doesn't work, Spiteful Blood Legacy would probably be a massive boon because there's no way dude doesn't have a massive amount of grudges aimed at him.
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>>5823581 >>"Okay, find him then and then we'll drag him to fight Xue Laohue by a leash if we have to. How hard can a giant, stitched together corpse monster be to find!?" Anonymous
>>5823874 Yes, Surgery counts.
If it has to heal, it probably counts.
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>>5823894 >there's no way dude doesn't have a massive amount of grudges aimed at him. No doubt. I bet all of his organs would shut down out of spite.
Anonymous
>>5823581 NOOOO I CAUGHT UP.
Fuck now I have to actually wait for the next post.
Alright since I just got here I have had a question that was burning in my mind since like thread 15 in the archive.
We have blood qi, we are good at blood qi, we were able to (tragically) de-catgirl yuyi, and that was before core formation, and before we went bloodmoon. So suffice to say, we should be really good with bodies and blood.
Which leads to me my question, Feiqing apparently looks like a monster, and Fu bandages all his scars. Could we not, if they wanted, attempt to fix that get rid of both of those problems? It shouldn't be that difficult or major, and if we could remove tails and shift ear canals in foundation establishment, surely we can work on their flesh and improve that which they dislike.
Anyway that's my two cents. I'll participate in the next vote after I get over my copium of catching up.
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>>5823948 I kinda think Fu likes the scars. As for Feiqing. I've half a mind he's going to literally carve a new face for himself out of steel or something. But hypothetically speaking, yeah we probably could change that stuff. It may be more difficult since they are cultivators and pretty strong ones at that, as opposed to the still mostly normal Yuyi.
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>>5823948 I had the same thought and had asked Grandfather that in another thread.
He said we turn them into vampires or something with the carmine mysticism. Honestly, since our girl is good at creating pills she could make one that renews the skin or a bone-changing pill using blood qi as a base.
Tho I feel like feiqing would reforge his body. To be reborn in a body that is truly his. We could help him gather some of the materials. And it would be a fun side quest.
As for Fu we could do that I think. In fact, just scars could be charged with grudges. Made to be formed into tattoos that would be cool.
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>>5823948 I think we already asked Fu and he refused? I'm not sure.
As for Feiqing, I want him to reforge his body himself. He is the best boy, he deserves the honor all for himself. Although maybe it could be good to give him the idea?
What I was thinking is to give Qiang's eye back.
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>>5823964 Camping trip with Qiang to find and kill some sort of monster eagle to get a new eye?
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>>5823969 If only we had preserve the body of that asshole tiger, we could give our daughter cat eyes to match her mother
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>>5823969 I kind of want to give her a real cursed demon eye (from the crow demon?!)
So she can still wear the eyepatch and continue to be the brooding chuuni of the group
>>5823744 To be fair she doesn't have anything else, and once her influence on the pet slave is gone how's she going to get him back? Pleading? Haunting? Chill his feet while he sleeps?
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>>5823948 It's not hurting em, so no reason to get involved. If anything it's best for them to do it themselves if they want to get it done, instill drive in our own students.
Quiang is the exception, Being our martial daughter and this is an injury rather than a part of themselves.
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>>5823869 >We're hard on him because he's a monster. Like, an actual, honest to goodness sociopathic monster who's gone mad I really don't think he's that far gone, compared to other's we've had the fortune and misfortune to encounter.
>practices a style of disgusting cultivation. While I'm forced to accept this is how Huanliuxue sees things due to past votes, I honestly don't see how what he does is any worse than what the Orgress does. Both is cultivation through murder and bloodshed. The Worm's method is just more round about.
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>>5823992 I think there's a functional difference between "Kill a bunch of people until I figure out how to kill better" and "I am going to staple his pancreas to my rib cage".
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>>5823992 He's probably not that far gone. He's probably about the level of Monu just without any of the talent and none of the nurturing instinct.
Doesn't mean sweet fuck all to the fact he IS a sociopathic monster who hunts his peers for materials and has incurred the grudges of our sect.
>Don't see how what he does is worse than the ogress. He violates natural law. Previous votes didn't actually determine our view of his cultivation, it was first brought up as an instinctive reaction by Huan in the battle against Baoli's third gladiator. "A disgusting form of cultivation, no animal does that".
and yes,
>>5823995 there is a functional difference between mastery of the sword and murder vs self frankenstien. Not least the which because Jingyu is characterized by scavenging battlefields for materials and graves for parts while the ogress makes them.
TL;DR, the Ogress isn't someone who violates our morality inherently and her actions can even be somewhat respectable while his are not.
Still kill the both of them, but Jingyu first.
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>>5823995 >>5824007 >TL;DR, the Ogress isn't someone who violates our morality inherently and her actions can even be somewhat respectable while his are not. I mean, he's a literal grave plundering monster sure, but you act as if he doesn't also know how to fight in his own right. Or that wanton slaughter is even respectable to begin with.
I don't know man. I feel like Jingyǔ isn't getting enough credit here, but I suppose we'll see how it ends up.
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>>5824026 Jingyu has the misfortune of way less direct screen time compared to Yaonan, so the main things that’ll stick out is his parts collecting and fight with Ping where they technically both died (beating Fu to the punch of being “too angry to die”).
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>>5824026 Who said he couldn't fight well?
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>>5824032 I believe Jingyu killed various fellow disciples of his sect such as his junior sister. He is a mad dog that wouldn't mind killing children to gain power.
He would've killed Ping and his friend if elder sister hadn't stopped him. Honestly, I see no redemption for him. He has no morals.
I can mayybbeee see the Ogress. Although she killed her sect, they hated her, despised her, and loathed her. She had no love.
She only respects strength, so we just gotta beat her ass honestly. And make her apologize to her disciples. And ask Fu and Co. What else they want.
Also, we got to fix our blind disciples' eyes.
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>>5823862 >No doubt he's still an early foundation checkers while we've been playing 4d golden core chess For all we know he's been strengthening himself via some heretical measure that never even occurred to us. Lets not get overconfident at a critical juncture.
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>>5824212 >he turned his nutsack into a golden core by smashing other nuts into it Truly something beyond Huan's comprehension. And any sane and healthy person.
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>>5823581 Supporting
>>5823869 in burning corpses and gathering intel. I don't want to ally with Yaonan but I also really dislike that we have lost sight of the 2 other MCs. Something tells me these assholes will turn up at the worst possible moment.
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>>5823874 Of course it's his wounds. If I cut off my arm to replace it with a dead person's, my wound is an amputated arm.
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>>5824248 I think if you cut your arm off to replace it with a dead person's the damage ain't in your arm, guv.
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>>5824026 Wanton slaughter isn't respectable, Wanton slaughter of Ling is absolutely respectable. Who's been doing that?
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>>5823726 >>5823846 >>5823862 >>5823874 >>5823908 >>5824248 We won't know for sure until we try, but I maintain that the most important factor is whether a grudge targets the person bearing the scar. Our whole technique is born of grudges, so even if they erase the scar by reforming their body, the curse might still work, as long as the grudge that the scar bore is still there.
If we assume the above is true, that does mean that the curse is not guaranteed to work. If Jingyu attached flesh to himself, does that really count as a scar born from a grudge?
He kills someone, cuts off their arm, then replaces his arm with theirs. He has a scar from the surgery, but it was inflicted himself, it bears no memory of a grudge as he bears no grudge against himself.
Unless he does. It would be one hell of a twist if the technique works purely because he hates himself If we go by this scenario, then *technically* the scar weeping curse shouldn't work, but on the other hand, he now literally has a body part from a person he murdered, and probably hates his ass. That might mean that instead of simply reopening wounds as the curse would normally, it causes stolen body parts to eject themselves, refusing to serve the bearer of their curse, or maybe even try to kill his ass themselves, possessed arm style. Should be an interesting case study if nothing else.
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>>5824355 She's been doing both actually.
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>>5824152 I don't know if the Yujijiao can forgive the person who killed her, it'd be like asking Monu and our sister to forgive the sect that screwed them over, unlikely. We are better off just killing
>>5823948 I'm this anon btw
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>>5824426 I feel like all this talk of original four heretic choices really discounts the ability of those that came after like Fu, Quiang and Ping.
They too had a meteoric rise not unlike the ogress and the corpse man and surely won't be the only ones as wise sages often say that the world is vast and the realm of cultivation is deep.
These four were just the foremost talented heretics of Chuan at the start.
And as for the question of who is worse between the two consider that while yaonan likes bullying the weak she doesn't actually go out of her way to kill talent as she only beat up Fu and friends and her slaughter scenes are usually when the enemy is particularly hated.
I wouldn't put it past jingyu to steal body parts from children if it was of enough quality, which is kind of what demon hunters do with beast cores.
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>>5824039 >Not least the which because Jingyu is characterized by scavenging battlefields for materials and graves for parts while the ogress makes them. This sorta implies it by implying that he doesn't make his own corpses. Hell, frankly piliging from the dead and gone is far more respectable than taking the life of someone that has so much life to live.
>>5824152 >>5824436 I think something that is being discounted in all these talks about Jingyǔ's morality is that half if not all of it was influenced by Xuebai directly.
I could be misremembering, but was it not Xuebai herself who taught him these methods of "gross" cultivation? Was it not Xuebai who guided his hand on which targets would be valuable since his lessons from his former masters were so neglectful? Would it not be Xuebai's, for lack of a better word, responsibility to make sure he knows the deal about things like Demonic Beasts or to tell him, "Hey, don't get any ideas about killing children" if that were even something he'd come up with on his own since again, most of his actions were directed by her in some way?
He's the Bewitched Monk, his whole THING is being a tool honed by Xuebai, from his very first action of betraying Xue Laohue and the winter blossoming sect to start with.
I'm not saying Jingyǔ isn't responsible for his actions, but many of his more "monstrous" actions were directly influenced by Xuebai. And can cutting down members of orthodox sects including the sect we hate so much to fuel his own growth even be called monstrous?
I feel it's at least semi-reasonable to wonder if her lack of influence in his life might lead to him becoming less horrible, or if the "horrible" things he has done are even all that bad in comparison because a lot of the allegations against him "probably" being a child killer are just that. Otherwise, I'd imagine it was half influenced by Xuebai.
It could go the other way and he could become even more wrathful and bitter by her departure, but it's really a coin toss. One that I'm not sure why people are so sure will land in a particular way.
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>>5824436 She entered marital tournaments and killed the contestants.
She only held back from killing Fu and the rest because she thought they were a fun fight.
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>>5824475 martial, not marital.
Although she probably flirted while killing them
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>>5824436 Also, I don't mean to discount Ping, Quiang, and Fu's efforts. But they, and to an extent, Fèiqīng too are all people who are directly influenced by Huanliuxue.
To me, what makes the 4 interesting is that while they're all connected, seeing how the ones that aren't directly influenced by us (the players) cultivate, develop, and impact the world is super interesting to me personally.
Of course, Fu, Ping, and Quiang will always be our special little guys, but they are OUR guys.
If left to their own devices what levels of greatness could Jingyǔ and Yāonān achieve on their own? Will they too wake up to justice or are they doomed to be the heretical monsters that put the world in this state to begin with?
I honestly feel bad for Fèiqīng sometimes because we got him so early, and while his life is probably way easier and he probably wouldn't give it up or the world, you gotta wonder what he could have become.
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>>5823581 >Shrug and apologize to your sister. its no big deal, and it'd be a waste of time tracking that worm down. Time better spent preparing to kill that bastard Xue Laohue Anonymous
>>5824479 Bad Timeline: Fèiqīng simps after Yāonān and becomes her personal smith, making god killing weapons for her to fight us with.
...I wonder what Fèiqīng could do with a drop of god blood...
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You guys remember when we were in the primordial wild and we battled the corpse-eaters? That always struck me as strange, because eating corpses is like the most natural thing there is. It almost seems like hanging around ghosts and graves so much has given Huan a kind of human respect for the dead. But then again we are working with Monu, and are snagging cultivation materials from slain foes any chance we get. Are we just a massive hypocrite?
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>>5824528 Huan following the natural laws is strong thus she makes the rules,
Her responsability is to make them fair for the weak to prosper, those too stupid to understand are fair game.
I remind you we spared the monster that played along when we scared those cultivators from the primordial wilderness even if he did eat some humans.
The corpse eaters however strong prey on the decomposed dead thus making them on the level of worms.
Also Huan is of course a massive hypocrite like all cats how dare you insinuate otherwise
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>>5823581 >>Shrug and apologize to your sister. its no big deal, and it'd be a waste of time tracking that worm down. Time better spent preparing to kill that bastard Xue Laohue We should make clear that this issue needs to be solved. Some time later. We should prepare for the upcoming fight - ideally be boosting our Carmine Mysticism with divine blood. This enemy is very dangerous and i guess he has taken a very deep look into techniques prohibited by the Orthodoxy to keep himself alive.
Later, when fighting the Snowman, we shouldnt leave too many corpses or too much blood lying around in order not to help Frankenstein's Prometheus or the Ogress, respectively.
>>5820865 Backlink for transparency.
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ending the vote, tallying the result now. Sorry for taking two days, grandfather had a run in with a demon of dodgy seafood and barely escaped with his life. Loving all the discussion and write ins, btw
"Okay, find him then and then we'll drag him to fight Xue Laohue by a leash if we have to. How hard can a giant, stitched together corpse monster be to find!?":4
Shrug and apologize to your sister. its no big deal, and it'd be a waste of time tracking that worm down. Time better spent preparing to kill that bastard Xue Laohue:11
Do you have any idea what he might do, now that are entire battlefield of powerful cultivator corpses lay across the land? I trusted you would keep an eye on his at this most critical time! Go find him, before it's the apprentice that surpasses the master instead of an elder surpassing her younger sister!": 1
No doubt this worm has a great fortune in this chaotic era...: 3
have Xuebai assigned to Ping as a tutor and to devise methods to kill the abomination she made as penance.: 1
"In that case, then we need to do something...":1
XUEBAI YOU IDIOT! HOW CAN YOU FUCK UP SO BADLY WHEN YOU HAVE NO RESPONSIBILITIES OR..OR ANYTHING!?": 1
So you'll shrug off the loss of your decoy, and tell Xuebai it is no big deal and finding him would be a waste of time, that would be better spent figuring out how to kill that bastard xue Laohue
>>5824508 a new friend, perhaps.
>>5824508 Worst timeline
>>5823638 >Oh, well the head of this heretical sect is a young girl, easily manipula...OH MY GODS Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sat 11 Nov 2023 14:05:45 No. 5826765 Report But while the outrage you feel is intense, it is brief, like a supernova. And swiftly does it collapse in on itself and cool, like a Neutron stars. Terms that just kind of flood into your mind, uninvited and foreign until the moment they show up in your self reflecting thoughts. Curious. But while hearing that you had lost a decoy you'd been idly planning to use for sometime, and so suddenly and at precisely the moment you were about to move him into position to find his dog's death and serve a grand purpose as a pawn in your schemes, did piss you off it isn't a set back so terrible as to keep you angry. And it certainly isn't enough to keep you furious and yelling at your elder sister, who is clearly expecting you to fly into a rage at her. She has literally shrunk in on herself and is cowering before you. You refuse to consider it pitiful however, because honestly, who wouldn't cower before a Huanliuxue with fury flickering in her star spun eyes? That'd be a terrifying sight that rob the courage from even the most fearless of warriors and bold of fighters. And Xuebai has only recently returned to a stable state of mind, so she can be forgiven for mistaking your flash pique for actual anger. So to set her at ease and show her that you aren't about to strike her with the back of her hand and pour venomous words into her big, fluffy ears, you titter sweetly and shrug a little more expressively than necessary but not enough to appear overly dramatic to your new lack...allies. They're allies. Only one of them has lost his spine and cowardly offered up his allegiance to the paw print banner of the palace of natural laws. "Forgive me for losing my temper, Elder sister" You apologize, bowing your head as Xuebai's ghost flame turns into a little snow fox again, sniffling and pouting. You'd think she was waiting to laugh at you, but her eyes were wet and teary. You could humble and outright humiliate her, but what would be the point in being cruel to her? "This setback, while troublesome, doesn't threaten us or our plans overmuch or really at all" You comfort, knowing damn well how threatening a corpse stealing monster is in this chaotic era, especially in this war torn land where the corpses of lesser cultivators have been left out to feed the crows and the worms, could be, especially to the common, helpless folk of Chuan. Your adoring worshippers. And Jingyu, if he has had the mind to steal any brains to replace his lust rotten lump of fat in his skull, will surely be able to develop his art of butchery and grow in strength enough to threaten more than just the meek. He did kill Ping once, and that was before he had access to a buffet of refined bodies and inherited physiques. But that is problem to be solved later and like many a vermin have been dealt with, with a swift stomp of your foot. Or slicing of your claws. "But it is still a blunder that foils them" She answers, ears lowered "One I'm solely responsible for making" cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sat 11 Nov 2023 14:06:45 No. 5826766 Report >>5826765 "Its fine" You reply with a roll of her eyes, that might look dismissive but you hope Xuebai can see you mean it to be disarming, to show that it really isn't that big of a deal. For your family and sect, and even the latter half of that stipulation is uncertain. Jingyu is a threat when corpses of the strong are plentiful, and who knows what wicked sorceries and loathsome techniques he'll develop now that he's off his leash? But you don't say that. You spent enough time in the company of the dead to know how easily upset they can be. Sure Xuebai is no Xiongji, but she has been dead for a long time.
"Is it really?" She asks sweetly, blinking the spectral tears out of her misty eyes "I'll spend years tracking him if it'll earn your forgiveness, little sister"
"There's nothing to forgive. Who cares if a worm wiggles away out from under my paws, beneath the dirt" You scoff haughtily, wondering if she realizes as you have the risk Jingyu poses to other people and if she even cares about that, or if she is simply scared of upsetting you and losing a part of her once lost family due to petty sibling strife. Somehow, the former seems the more unlikely of the two scenarios.
"That's right, you've done nothing wrong xuebai" your mother coos and coddles "We'll deal with the whelp who has refused his purpose in time, but I'm sure you realize we have more pressing concerns than dealing with a traitorous dog, yes?"
"Exactly, the time it'd take to hunt him down would better serve preparing to slice the throat of that bastard Xue Laohue" You answer, flicking your eyes away from your sister as she grows bloated upon your mother's praises and looks more like a demonic fox should and half like a ghost turned monstrous. You'd felt him staring, Shidi Xiudao watching you with the eyes of a hawk, scrutinizing and contemplative. He'd been listening closely to your sisterly spat.
"Seems you've lost a pawn, alliance leader" He says with a smug air, though his expression remains dull and impassive, you can see the smirk in his eyes "An expendable pawn, a sacrificial puppet, from what I've heard from your own lips. I find low tactics of that type detestable. If you wish to kill a man like Xue Laohue, you should face him openly, not whittle him down by sending stooges to exhaust his hands as he cuts them down like dried grass"
"Honor?" Monu snaps, eyes aglow with a cold fury as she spins around, having been occupying herself fluffing up Xuebai's fur and scratching beneath her chin. Master Su takes a sip of wine and raises up his hand between your mother and the head of the dusk marsh wolves.
"She has been harmed by that man, gravely injured" He peaceably speaks, his manner defusing and soothing, to keep Monu or Shidi from picking a fight with the other
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sat 11 Nov 2023 14:07:46 No. 5826767 Report >>5826766 "And you know Laohue only through reputation, I know...knew him personally. He has a heart of ice. Honor is something he gives little consideration, especially when it gets in the way of his goals. He would be considered righteous by the <span class="mu-s"> old </span> breed of daoist, but this modern era? He is aggressive by nature, murderous, a zealot bred and groomed by this once stagnant world" He continues, speaking slowly to allow every word time to sink in "A stubborn fool who will use any means to uphold the laws of the five wise immortal sages, besides demonic cultivation. He will not fight honorably. He considers Lady Huanliuxue an abomination for the circumstances of her birth. Why should we fight fairly, when he will be fighting with every thuggish trick known to mankind?"
Shidi is not swayed
"He may have forsaken his honor for the sake of his duties, but I shall not. Just because the world is upheaval does not mean that one should abandon the code they have lived their life upholding" He answers, while Xia rolls his eyes dismissively. You just cross your arms, and pout to disguise the inquisitive look in your eyes. Just how far would he go to protect his honorable face?
"A code that would make us your sworn enemies, that would guide your hand to snuff out the lives of innocent children" Monu rebukes, stating plainly her world view and how much she despises the "righteous" rule of the cultivation world, a view you and most of your disciples share "A rule that will soon be a relic of the past"
"Perhaps, but honor is immutable" He replies, turning his attention from her to you "Though I suppose a beast has no concepts of such things"
Su is now holding your mother back from doing something very foolish, as she gnashes her teeth and hurls curses at the man who all but spat on you. But you just laugh
"No, we have our own form of it, that doesn't demand we act as fools or risk our lives for the respect of others. I do understand the honor you speak of" You answer sharply, scathingly "You might think it cruel of me to sacrifice a dull tool, but if you met him, you'd see there is nothing dishonorable about it, in the civilized or feral concept of it"
He tightens his frown and nods
"I will not act as if I know the circumstances behind your decision" He answers bluntly "I was simply stating my distaste for such methods. We are allied for the time being. It is good for us to know where the line the other would not cross is drawn. And clearly, yours is far past the point I would refuse to step past"
"There was no need to be so insulting" Master Su scolds, even though Shidi is stronger than he is, they are equal in terms of station as heads of their respective sects
"Her mother took more offense than she did" He answers plainly and with shrug "I was just making clear that..."
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sat 11 Nov 2023 14:08:47 No. 5826768 Report >>5826767 "You are no pawn to be sacrificed, which is why you tested my temper?" You ask, voicing why you think he'd act so rudely besides just being a rude, mannerless man. Which he clearly is, judging from the state of his beard and hair. You can practically feel the fleas and lice crawling over his face! Does he even know how to bathe?! Urgh!
"And that I will refuse any commands to act underhandedly" He says, smiling amusedly "Seems you're shrewder than your mother is, Bloodshed"
You narrow your eyes and send him to the ground by unexpectedly exerting pressure upon him, directing your aura to smother him.
"She is my beloved mother, do not insult her" You state plainly "That is another line not to be crossed in our alliance"
"Understood. I've disrespected both of you, and will offer my blade as a means of atonement" He answers through his tightly clenched teeth "Just not in Xue Laohue's back"
"You'll offer your balls!" Monu shrieks, still furious at how he spoke to you, referring to you as beast once.
"He's just testing the limits of the self control of mother and daughter, Miss Hao" Master Su sighs exhaustedly "This is common behavior between allied sects, though master Shidi has acted most inappropriately"
"As if I spoke the first insult" He grumbles on the ground, even though you are no longer pressing him down to it. Oh right, Monu did call his vaunted honor a "Relic of the past". But still, he was acting like a prick, so you had every right to smack him down into the mud.
"Ah, madam! I will do the frog eater one better. Give me the word and I will parley with Xue Laohue and personally bury this spear of mine into his belly, to save you the trouble of dirtying your fair hands with..." Xie Jinse-Shayu begins before he is frozen by your glare, your mother's glare, and your sister's as well.
"He is mine to kill!" All three of your shout at once
"Shameless slut" Shidi rumbles as he lifts himself out of the mud, not even bothering to wipe it from his tangled bramble of a beard "Currying the favor of your new master so openly, by offering to do what my principles will not allow. And you must've misread to room, she is called the bloodshed, why would she shy away from a little killing? And her mother with a vendetta, and the half mad ghost"
"Half mad?" Xuebai takes offense as you pinch your brow.
"Enough!" you shout, to stop this meeting from devolving into meaningless bickering and showboating, if you wanted that you'd hold council with the awakened alley cats and strays and the pampered pets of Suiqi! "We are here to discuss how to slaughter Xue Laohue, not offend or get one each other's nerves. Master Su has already given his thoughts on the matter, that I should use Laohue's blind fury to lure him into an unsuitable battleground for his law and fighting style. Shidi, Xia, Mother, what do you think"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sat 11 Nov 2023 14:09:48 No. 5826769 Report >>5826768 "Let us face him openly" Shidi answer without hesitation "I will not deny you the glory of claiming his head, but my sect will blunt his assault so you may fight him with the honor of a uh.."
He pauses, you know he was about to say man, which is doubly insulting considering you are not one and aren't really human either.
"The honor that I keep" is what how he decides to correct himself, with a satisfied, self pleased smile "One on one, that should suffice to repay the debt owed to young master Fu"
He motions to Fu, who is only now groggily rising to his feet after he and Qiang had the misfortune of being caught in your aura when it was being expressed with the intent to crush and cow, and drawing upon the full breadth of your cultivation.
"Why not have us act as his friends, and strike when he thinks he has you and the stick in the mud cornered?" Xia yawns with a pleasant, easy going smile "That way the pig and you can both satisfy your honor and desire for revenge, while I prove my loyalty by sliding a knife in his ribs...Non lethally of course, I wouldn't steal away your prize, Lady Huanliuxue"
"Your ability to bow your head lower and lower impresses me, shark bait" Shidi chuckles
"Neither of those plans conflict with what I advise you to do, it'd be wise to leverage every advantage you can find against him" Master Su answers, stroking his much more well maintained and clean beard "Send the summer sea dawn to under a false alliance banner, have the dusk marsh wolves attack his armies, So long as it will still allow you to lead him into a trap, I will provide all the support I can offer, my sect may be small, but we are diligent down to our most novice member"
"While traps are dirty tricks, so long as I do not spring it, I will fight to draw the lord of winter's breath near it" Shidi says, agreeing with Su's scheme in his own way
"I have no complaints, a Shidi might be stupid enough to fight in terrain disadvantageous to their style and art, but a Xia knows to run for water when a fight begins" He laughs, which reminds you of your first encounter with his sect and clan. Xiaosi didn't seem to be running towards one of the streams running through Suiqi. While he may be an idiot, you can't fault him for not dipping into those waters back then. They used to be nearly as filthy as Suiqi was before you and Siwang removed most of the filth and scum within its walls.
"Suiqi is defendable" Monu says with a smile "We should stay here, have the Geges..."
"Who?" A Shidi asks, glancing around while Xia tilts his head like a baffled pup
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sat 11 Nov 2023 14:10:48 No. 5826771 Report >>5826769 "The only other magical beasts besides myself who have attained a human form, the mothers of the giant ants and bees you've seen flitting about the city. One is busy trying to train her newly intelligent children and the other is...I don't know what Jionghuagege is up to actually" You explain as fast as your tongue can wag, before pausing as you turn to your mother, since fu and qiang are still recovering "mother, what is she up to"
"Hell if I know, she has her head in the clouds that girl. She might still be playing princess with our prisoners, but I have noticed she's been excited about something" She answers with a shrug and you can guess what that something is. Tie Tie had five of her daughters awaken and become proper demonic beasts, so Jionghuagege probably has had a few of her brood ascend as well. Actually, she might be busy, as well, a bee turning them all into magical beasts, since her law practices demonic beast creation as one of its pillars.
Yeah that's probably what Jiong-Jiong is doing.
"Now as I was saying, we should have the geges fortify the city and prepare a battlefield outside the city, miles away form it" Your mother finishes her thought "So we have some place to run back to if the fight doesn't go in our favor, but a perfect arena for us to meet the blizzard head on"
"Actually I was planning on ordering just that" You answer sweetly, only lying a little, that was close to one of your plans of what to do with the time Jingyu marching to his death would've bought you but...well its close enough! "You speak what I think mother!"
"Of course, we're mother and daughter after all" She gloats, puffing up her chest. Which catches the eye of master Xia, who might've been too scared of your overwhelming power to leer at your chest and nape as shamelessly as he is staring at your mother's breasts.
He looks away the moment he notices you've noticed him staring, not daring to look into your glaring eyes.
"What troublesome allies you've found" Master Su chuckles, noticing this exchange. You scoff and shake your head
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sat 11 Nov 2023 14:11:49 No. 5826772 Report >>5826771 <span class="mu-s"> double vote! </span>
What plan do you go with, Huanliuxue?
>Combine all four, having Master Xia approach Xue Laohue and fake an alliance, have the dusk marsh wolves whittle down his forces, and lead him to the arena the geges will make outside of Suiqi. >See if you couldn't bait Xue Laohue away from his blizzard by using the prisoners you've taken as bait to draw him out somewhere the palace of natural laws and its allies can attack him from all sides >Take him to hell, literally. You know how to gateways to the underworld, so lure him into a trap that'll open one directly beneath his feet. What better battlefield than the yellowsprings for a cultivator who walks a ghostly path? >Trust Xia Jinse-Shayu and order him to feed as much misinformation as he can to Snow tiger as you busy yourself preparing for the fight to come. >Write in And several parties are seeking an audience with you, which do you meet first?
>The monks at your village and Lord Chuan have arrived at the boundary of the primordial landscape surrounding Suiqi! the time has come to meet the man who has named you his guardian spirit >Master Shoushan, Yongzheng and their brother Buddhists have traveled to Suiqi! its been too long since you've spoken with your friends. >Siwang met an unknown cultivator, who claimed to be a messenger from the temple of celestial fire, while he patrolled the western half of your territories. Might as well see if you couldn't get a few more bodies between you and Xue Laohue >Houmogui also met an unknown cultivator, one that sent her flying back to Suiqi in terror. From what she's babbled, it'd seem she got frightened by a representative of the seven slaughtering swords sect >You found a smoldering crow feather in your temporary lodgings in Suiqi... >write in Anonymous
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>>5826772 >Combine all four, having Master Xia approach Xue Laohue and fake an alliance, have the dusk marsh wolves whittle down his forces, and lead him to the arena the geges will make outside of Suiqi. >The monks at your village and Lord Chuan have arrived at the boundary of the primordial landscape surrounding Suiqi! the time has come to meet the man who has named you his guardian spirit Anonymous
>>5826772 >Combine all four, Xia can use the fact we have compelled the Shidi into our alliance as reason why they must act against us. >Lord Chuan has arrived. He isnt terribly useful in the fight but I dont really want more allies until we ransack the winter blossoming sect. Less shares to give out, yeah?
I also want to establish a covenant as an actual guardian spirit.
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>>5826772 >>Combine all four, having Master Xia approach Xue Laohue and fake an alliance, have the dusk marsh wolves whittle down his forces, and lead him to the arena the geges will make outside of Suiqi. >You found a smoldering crow feather in your temporary lodgings in Suiqi... A face we haven't heard from since I think the human tribulations.
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>>5826772 >Take him to hell, literally. You know how to gateways to the underworld, so lure him into a trap that'll open one directly beneath his feet. What better battlefield than the yellowsprings for a cultivator who walks a ghostly path? I don't trust Xia
>The monks at your village and Lord Chuan have arrived at the boundary of the primordial landscape surrounding Suiqi! the time has come to meet the man who has named you his guardian spirit Anonymous
>>5826779 You know what? Add to mine
>Make known to our allies our intent to ransack the HQ of the WBS when they are defeated, and the rewards inherent in the act. Meritorious acts will earn larger shares. That should spark their greed as well as their loyalty.
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>>5826783 Isn't the victor looting the loser a given in a war?
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>>5826772 >Take him to hell, literally. You know how to gateways to the underworld, so lure him into a trap that'll open one directly beneath his feet. What better battlefield than the yellowsprings for a cultivator who walks a ghostly path? >Siwang met an unknown cultivator, who claimed to be a messenger from the temple of celestial fire, while he patrolled the western half of your territories. Might as well see if you couldn't get a few more bodies between you and Xue Laohue Anonymous
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>>5826786 A given, but not one these people will think about unless brought to their attention.
What isn't a given is our attitude to sharing. We could very well claim all the choice spoils and leave them with land and aome common spirit herbs.
Make clear we plan to reward good service and that can do some favour in future negotiation over retaining the dusk marshes services.
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>>5826772 >Take him to hell, literally. You know how to gateways to the underworld, so lure him into a trap that'll open one directly beneath his feet. What better battlefield than the yellowsprings for a cultivator who walks a ghostly path? >The monks at your village and Lord Chuan have arrived at the boundary of the primordial landscape surrounding Suiqi! the time has come to meet the man who has named you his guardian spirit Anonymous
>>5826772 >Take him to hell, literally. You know how to gateways to the underworld, so lure him into a trap that'll open one directly beneath his feet. What better battlefield than the yellowsprings for a cultivator who walks a ghostly path? You know what? We have been choosing all the safe, boring options for a while now, let's get funky.
We can tip Yi Zhu off and tell him to start a popcorn business... since we are about to give the demons down there one hell of a show.
>The monks at your village and Lord Chuan have arrived at the boundary of the primordial landscape surrounding Suiqi! the time has come to meet the man who has named you his guardian spirit All of them are tempting, but I suppose getting the general populace on our side will make the post fight damage control easier. Might even make it hard for the Guardians of the Celestial Sunlight to retaliate without losing face.
You know, I like this Shidi Xiudao fellow. If all cultivators had a spine that stiff and a sense of honour that deep maybe our ancestors would never have been backstabbed as they were.
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>>5826772 I can't help but be intrigued by the crow feather and in conjunction with a trap to send icicle man to hell it could be incredibly effective (until the crows betray us too).
But it would cast a shadow on Huan's reputation even if undiscovered, best for all to see the moment we crush him down ourselves in front of all of Chuan.
>Combine all four, having Master Xia approach Xue Laohue and fake an alliance, have the dusk marsh wolves whittle down his forces, and lead him to the arena the geges will make outside of Suiqi. This will work great, so long as the two sects can actually work as intended and not end up fighting their own grudge out for real.
I think the forces we gathered will be good enough to hold the line until we break the ice.
We could feed Xia with some false info on how the armies we gathered are just to make them lose time while we prepare a ritual to summon demons (not true but will put a flame under his ass to confront us directly as soon as possible).
>have Xia lie to Xue and tell him we're doing a ritual to summon demons to tip the scales, the more horrific the lie about the ritual the more he will eat it up and urge him to act. Also do we need to meet all these extra people now on the eve of the fight?
I guess there's not enough time to use the divine blood to enhance cultivation.
>The monks at your village and Lord Chuan have arrived at the boundary of the primordial landscape surrounding Suiqi! the time has come to meet the man who has named you his guardian spirit Come and see us beat a racist old man live on stage! Complementary crushed ice* for all participants! (*may contain body parts, will be dyed bloody regardless).
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>>5826772 >write in >combine all three, have the dusk marsh wolves whittle down his forces, and lead him to the arena the geges will make outside of Suiqi. Do not have Xia approoach Xue. I don't like the guy and I feel like he'd fuck it up.
>The monks at your village and Lord Chuan have arrived at the boundary of the primordial landscape surrounding Suiqi! the time has come to meet the man who has named you his guardian spirit Anonymous
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>>5826772 >Take him to hell, literally. You know how to gateways to the underworld, so lure him into a trap that'll open one directly beneath his feet. What better battlefield than the yellowsprings for a cultivator who walks a ghostly path? A sneaky traitor is a sneaky traitor. Xia would betray us just as soon as not.
>Master Shoushan, Yongzheng and their brother Buddhists have traveled to Suiqi! its been too long since you've spoken with your friends. Anonymous
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Updated the pastebin and google doc. Got our new evolution and teleportation technique in there plus the 3 drops of blood. Also added the notable members of the alliance. Lemme know if I missed anything. We also need a name for the circle formation tier of our law, which if nobody mentions Im just gonna name "Forming the Great Rulers throne"
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Things we should consider in regards to the hell plan. 1. Is there moonlight in the yellow springs? 2. Our high karma has made our flesh delicious to demons.
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>>5826828 I also think that it's likely that most of our allies will not follow us if we go to hell, so it will end up a 1v1. Unless we get interrupted by demons and they turn it into a free for all.
If you really don't trust Xia, there's this option
>See if you couldn't bait Xue Laohue away from his blizzard by using the prisoners you've taken as bait to draw him out somewhere the palace of natural laws and its allies can attack him from all sides Or even what this anon suggested
>>5826812 Anonymous
>>5826833 The thing is I want to fight him, I just want to do it without compromising our previous standards. Using the prisoners isn't better then just using dusk wolves and the arena to fight him. Also I'd rather we didn't involve the prisoners in the fight. I like our plan of combining tactics to fight him, I just dont like Xia's place in it.
Besides we can take him, we need a battle to temper our new skills, so sending him to hell is just the cheap way out.
I am this anon btw
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>>5826772 >Combine all four, having Master Xia approach Xue Laohue and fake an alliance, have the dusk marsh wolves whittle down his forces, and lead him to the arena the geges will make outside of Suiqi. >You found a smoldering crow feather in your temporary lodgings in Suiqi... Anonymous
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>>5826772 >>Combine all four, having Master Xia approach Xue Laohue and fake an alliance, have the dusk marsh wolves whittle down his forces, and lead him to the arena the geges will make outside of Suiqi. >You found a smoldering crow feather in your temporary lodgings in Suiqi... Anonymous
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>>5826828 >1. Is there moonlight in the yellow springs? ...I didn't even consider that. There might be, but I don't particularly feel like risking it personally. He needs to be fought under the moonlight, it would be silly to throw that advantage away willingly.
Not too worried about demons interfering, but the above worries me, so...
>>5826772 >>5826803 Changing vote to:
>Combine all four, having Master Xia approach Xue Laohue and fake an alliance, have the dusk marsh wolves whittle down his forces, and lead him to the arena the geges will make outside of Suiqi. Anonymous
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>>5826772 >See if you couldn't bait Xue Laohue away from his blizzard by using the prisoners you've taken as bait to draw him out somewhere the palace of natural laws and its allies can attack him from all sides >Houmogui also met an unknown cultivator, one that sent her flying back to Suiqi in terror. From what she's babbled, it'd seem she got frightened by a representative of the seven slaughtering swords sect Anonymous
>>5826772 >>Combine all four, having Master Xia approach Xue Laohue and fake an alliance, have the dusk marsh wolves whittle down his forces, and lead him to the arena the geges will make outside of Suiqi. Llllllleeeeeeeet's get ready to rumbllleeee!
>Master Shoushan, Yongzheng and their brother Buddhists have traveled to Suiqi! its been too long since you've spoken with your friends. What's good my Nirvana seeking brothas?
>>5826803 >You know what? We have been choosing all the safe, boring options for a while now, let's get funky. I don't want to fight him in hell considering that the demons are going to be all over his fucking nuts the moment the fight is over. Which means we'd have to fight them off to loot whatever he has on him. Useful organs and blood and such will be consumed, treasures stolen. It's a hassle. To say nothing of the attention from the stronger demons in hell who would notice the strange clash of mortals in their realm. I don't want some rando king in hell to turn up and cage or try to kill us the moment we're done murdering the icicle.
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>>5827025 Safely grabbing the body might be an issue either way, like I wouldn't be surprised if Jingyu tried to swipe the body of the most powerful person he knew of once we exhaust ourselves killing him.
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>>5827092 I'd rather fight off Jingyu than an entire legion of hell.
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>>5827100 Or a king of hell. I think grandpa said that Baoli was an upstart. A rising star, maybe even a prodigy, but still weak compared to the true power.
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>>5827120 A big feathery fish in a small slimy pond. But I'm sure he'll get a head in life.
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>>5826833 But you see even if Xia fucks up and betrays us being with the enemy already puts him on their side of the battlefield.
If we didn't send him there he would be on our side where his betrayal would be even worse!
Besides if he doesn't hold up his part i don't fear that Shidi would pull his punches from distress.
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>>5826772 >Combine all four, having Master Xia approach Xue Laohue and fake an alliance, have the dusk marsh wolves whittle down his forces, and lead him to the arena the geges will make outside of Suiqi. >Houmogui also met an unknown cultivator, one that sent her flying back to Suiqi in terror. From what she's babbled, it'd seem she got frightened by a representative of the seven slaughtering swords sect Anonymous
>>5827141 Shitty is probably VIBRATING at the idea of sharkboy double-crossing.
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>>5827180 Wouldn't that be triplecrossing?
But yeah i can predict that despite the deception their sect won't pull any punches if they get in front of each other.
Not that we really care so long as it works, hell it would weaken them both further skewing this alliance's balance even further in our favour.
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>>5827423 >Wouldn't that be triplecrossing? Not technically? I think. The sea-sucking sect isn't officially allied to the winter wiggedy wack sect. Unless you count betraying the orthodoxy in general to be part of it.
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Im kinda skipping a lot of the discussion of this vote, but I still wanted to point out some things that came to mind 1- Xue is a honorless rat. He knows we're in Suiqi, but he also knows where our original HQ and village is. Idk what disciples are still on our village, so maybe we can coordinate Houmogui and Siwang so they're messangers. Houmogui and maybe other disciple (Lei for example) take guard on the village, so Cute doesn't try to fuck us over while we fight him here, surely he's going to try and at least fuck with us even if he's going to die. Maybe we can send a couple of Shidi and Xia disciples to make them get familiar with our disciples too 2- The blossoming sect live in the mountains, so they're Yin aligned. The moment we take the battle on a high moon that surely are going to also empower the Blossoming sect, either some disciples surely have a Dao water focused that uses the Moon, or maybe Xue have some secret demonic technique like the Ling dogs have one with blood, better if we try and focus our Yang side, see the effects we have with the eclipse active, and go with our unlucky debuff powers 3- If we go with the 4 plans combined, maybe things could go faster with the Geges daughters, we could maybe go crazy with some secret ants brigades on the battlefield, of maybe Shidi and Xia disciples, waiting for them to get them over them, and in the confusion we make a huge attack to overwhelmed them. Then we secure the disciples and retreat to the battlefield the Geges made 4- Maybe we can coordinate with the JiongJiong to use her powers and our Primordial Qi to grow huge trees and make the battlefield like Suiqi: Hot and steamy weather to try and confront the snow blizzard Xue is summoning, or maybe try some way to stop the blizzards so we're in neutral grounds, because for the looks of it most of our forces consist on Yang aligned daoists 5- We could try and make a huge ghostly Army from the villages and cities affected by the artificial Blizzards we helped. There should be a bunch of ghosts still on the land, if we go all those places while playing our instrument we can make a huge tidewave of ghosts as maybe the first contact on the conflict
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>>5826812 Supporting this approach. Instead of trying subterfuge, just have his men fight as shocktroopers in the battle when we spring our trap.
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>>5826772 >>Combine all four, having Master Xia approach Xue Laohue and fake an alliance, have the dusk marsh wolves whittle down his forces, and lead him to the arena the geges will make outside of Suiqi. But feed Xia some false information that would shift the enemy's attention into a wrong direction if passed on. Lets go half-way to Sun Tzu's doomed spy.
>Houmogui also met an unknown cultivator, one that sent her flying back to Suiqi in terror. From what she's babbled, it'd seem she got frightened by a representative of the seven slaughtering swords sect >>5824550 Backlink
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 13 Nov 2023 15:48:10 No. 5829065 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying the result now. Combine all four, having Master Xia approach Xue Laohue and fake an alliance, have the dusk marsh wolves whittle down his forces, and lead him to the arena the geges will make outside of Suiqi.:10 -have Xia lie to Xue and tell him we're doing a ritual to summon demons to tip the scales, the more horrific the lie about the ritual the more he will eat it up and urge him to act.:1 Take him to hell, literally. You know how to gateways to the underworld, so lure him into a trap that'll open one directly beneath his feet. What better battlefield than the yellowsprings for a cultivator who walks a ghostly path?: 4 Make known to our allies our intent to ransack the HQ of the WBS when they are defeated, and the rewards inherent in the act. Meritorious acts will earn larger shares.:1 combine all three, have the dusk marsh wolves whittle down his forces, and lead him to the arena the geges will make outside of Suiqi. Do not have Xia approoach Xue.:3 See if you couldn't bait Xue Laohue away from his blizzard by using the prisoners you've taken as bait to draw him out somewhere the palace of natural laws and its allies can attack him from all sides:2 _ The monks at your village and Lord Chuan have arrived at the boundary of the primordial landscape surrounding Suiqi! the time has come to meet the man who has named you his guardian spirit:7 You found a smoldering crow feather in your temporary lodgings in Suiqi:3 Siwang met an unknown cultivator, who claimed to be a messenger from the temple of celestial fire, while he patrolled the western half of your territories. Might as well see if you couldn't get a few more bodies between you and Xue Laohue:1 Master Shoushan, Yongzheng and their brother Buddhists have traveled to Suiqi! its been too long since you've spoken with your friends.:2 Houmogui also met an unknown cultivator, one that sent her flying back to Suiqi in terror. From what she's babbled, it'd seem she got frightened by a representative of the seven slaughtering swords sect:3 So you'll listen to the advice of your mother and three other leaders of your still nameless alliance and combine all four of their suggested approaches And then will meet with the monks who made a shrine out of your old home and Lord Chuan Jianjun, deciding now is the time to meet the man who named you his and his family's guardian spirit Update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 13 Nov 2023 17:38:29 No. 5829148 Report "All of you have given me fair and wise Counsel, and like Master Su claimed, I see no reason I cannot employ the wisdom of my four elders together" You answer with an air of imperial dignity, though without sounding haughty, impressing your fairness and just nature upon the two newcomers to your alliance...after you damn near squashed them beneath your aura to impress that you were the top...cat! of the anti Xue Laohue alliance "So we'll go forward with all of your plans, I trust you can rally your clan and sect and have them take up arms and march or fly to Fair Suiqi, Lord Shidi and I will not dip my hands in you deceit, Lord Xia, as my feline pride might draft a tale too unbelievable even for that rabid dog of the orthodoxy! Master Su, Mother, you both know our enemy better than I do, as I know nothing about him besides that he needs to die, while you two new him personally and closely, so I'll leave the initial set up for the arena of our fateful clash as your responsibility and its construction to your discretion and that of the Geges" "I would like to meet these princesses" Xia chimed in, eyes agleam like the light of sunset reflecting off the waves "if I am to trust the safety of my mistress to the fortifications they build, I must first inspect them. For the ease of my heart" "Getting cold feet after boasting about intruding on the tiger's den?" Shidi scoffed, before his eyes narrowed shrewdly and suspiciously "Or do you plan to deliver to that old monster the secret weaknesses of our defenses" "As if the younger wild princesses would leave any" Monu gloats, wagging her hips with a confident smirk on her lips, flicking out her fat, toad like tongue as Xia retained his pleasant, easy going smile against the accusation of his hated rival "They're diligent children and both of them have known more war than the civilized world put together" "Insects wage it more often than men" Master Su agrees with a nod "Especially Ants, I'd be wary around Tiexingege, if there is any treachery in your heart, she'll sus it out" An empty treat, more likely that meat head will challenge Xia to a fight the moment she lays eyes on him, without caring in the slightest how much mightier he is than her. Its just what Tie-Tie does. Its why she won't stop pestering you for a spar, even though you both know what the outcome would be. Your complete, crushing and total victory. "Do not bother my adorable juniors, Xia" You curtly reprimand, before the man can defend or explain himself "The defenses are to protect the city and the members of our sect who won't contribute to the fighting, for one reason or another. I don't shy away from danger or death! So there is no reason for you to fret, I'm the strongest beneath the heavens! And it'll take more than a little cold to injure me" "And I will oversee your inspection, if your heart is so fragile, shark bait" Lord Shidi bluntly proclaims, glaring at his rival "You have a habit of exaggerating, after all" Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 13 Nov 2023 17:39:30 No. 5829150 Report >>5829148 "And civilian lives are at stake, though I need no convincing. I've met the Geges and seen their work, they will not fail in this task" Master Su mutters "But you who have not made their acquaintance, have reason to doubt their capabilities, even if it is for all the wrong reasons"
"Huan does make day trips down to the yellow spring, a little frost will do her no harm" Your mother laughs, backing up your boasting with a wink, as she sets about lighting her silver pipe "I'll allow you to pry, so long as you don't annoy the princesses. If you want to meet demonic beasts, may I suggest you ask your bastard son to introduce you to his new flock of friends, hm?"
"I was about to suggest the same" You snicker, smiling mischievously as your sweep across the room like a ghostly presence rushing in, carrying a deathly chill in with them "We've been sharing a lot of thoughts today, haven't we? Mother"
"Heh-heh-heh" She cackles, much to the displeasure of Xia and Shidi, who are clearly unused to the witchy laughter that is pretty much part of your familial inheritance, and Monu's croaking cackle is especially disturbing when it comes from her youthful, pretty face
And while you had plans, the moment you leave the walls hastily built around the massive tree sprouting in the heart of Suiqi, you are buried beneath messages, just like before you left to claim moonlight as your own. Replies from minor, petty sects, continued barrages of insults sent from the shifting sands, invites from high and noble society to wile away your time at parties thrown in your honor, requests to sanctify shrines, frantic missives asking why the moon has turned bloodred and if it is an ill omen or not written by your two junior Carmine mystics, gifts of all kinds, clumsy notes written by brushes held between paws and jaws, reports of unknown cultivators at your borders. Two of those, both penned by Feiqing's hand, but given by Siwang and Houmogui respectively, and just as you had gotten the mound of letters dumped at your feet nearly organized, two messengers dressed in the reds and pinks of your sect arrive. You don't recognize either of them, and sense no Qi beyond what men are born possessing from them, so they must be newly recruited servants or hopeful initiates hoping to curry your favor to get a leg up over the competition in joining your sect as outer disciples.
And its from their stuttering mouths that you learn, on either side of Suiqi, two groups of guests arrive. A delegation of Daoist priests and the entourage of Lord Chuan Jianjun on the west, and a line of Buddhist monks to the east who have said to any who ask they're under the protection of the region's "true power". And that can only be Shoushan, Yongzheng and the others, who have picked up a monk or two from every monastery from their temple to Suiqi, from how the breathless messenger describes it.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 13 Nov 2023 17:40:30 No. 5829151 Report >>5829150 "Invite the Buddhists into Suiqi, and tell them I'll meet with them later" You order airily, waving off that messenger before turning to face the other, before remembering that you should make sure no one balks at the presence of Buddhists in the city, since most of the people here are Daoists, many of them finding faith after being saved or blessed by your generosity and mercy "Oh, and make it known they have my permission to convert anyone willing to listen to them, be they Beast, men or in-between. Now, you"
You smirk and stalk up to the other messenger, a freckled cheeked boy, who blushes fiercely as you lean down to look him in his eyes. He frets, struggling to figure out where to look as he doesn't have the courage to lock eyes with you and his first instinct to look down nearly makes the poor boy faint. He decides to look up and over your head while you shuffle closer, finding his panic cute. He trembles as he feels you breath wash over his face as you lift a hand to his face and grin, showing your teeth though he doesn't see them.
And then, instead of brushing his cheek or lifting his chin as he expected and probably prayed for fervently in his mind, you jab his forehead with two fingers, sending him reeling back and falling to the ground. Then, putting your hands on your hips, you stand over him gleefully as you deliver your command to him, while he's caught in your shadow. He's trembling a lot harder now that he can't look away from you and is forced to meet your gaze.
"Go run off to meet those priests and the lord of these lands" You command sweetly, almost purring as he nods to show he's heard your command "And tell them the "guardian spirit" of its ruling family will finally deign to meet her loyal supplicants. So they better dress their best and be ready to entertain me, the most honored guest they'll ever have in their lives, Okay~"
"Understood Ma...Madame" The boy squeaks and you push away the thought of how much he looks like a mouse beneath you, small and trembling. Which isn't hard, as you've grown bored of teasing him already and doing anymore will just be outright bullying the poor young man.
"Then off you go" You chirp, waving him away as you step around him, already deciding you'll meet Chuan Jianjun with your feline face. If you want to give the old man a shock, you'll transform mid meeting, just for the sake of dramatics and to see the look on his and the priests faces.
It shouldn't be hard to win the support of a man whose used your name and reputation for his own benefit since the moment stories were told and spread about the happy bloodshed, but more than receiving it openly and thus having a pedestal of legitimacy to stand upon after you deal with Xue Laohue and his winter blossoming wisdom sect, which will make getting accepted by the other sects of Chuan as their equal and fellow daoist easier, with the support of not only the people but the nobles who rule over them
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 13 Nov 2023 17:41:31 No. 5829152 Report >>5829151 you really just want to meet the man who named you his family's guardian spirit face to face. You've heard a lot about him, but never met him before. So the curiosity you have of him has only grown the longer he goes around claiming your blessing and praising your name, and even if he is a dullard, at the very least you need to thank him for all the good his preaching has done for your reputation, public image and face outside of the world of cultivation!
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[meanwhile, at the boundary of the Primordial weather shrouding Suiqi"
Chuan Jianjun was surrounded by fearful men. While his vassals publicly shared his new found faith in his family's guardian spirit, actually seeing the Huanliuxue's power displayed by how she had transformed lands once familiar to them, while they had been away pursuing their vendetta against the clan and family of the man who attacked their subjects without cause or reason beside his own ego and ambition, had terrified those of little actual faith, who only worshipped the guardian spirit because it was expected of them and made them popular with the commonfolk and their own soldiers.
Jianjun would be lying to claim he was not intimidated himself. He had received reports of troubles happening in his lands, while he hunted the Ling in their own lands. Catastrophic storms, earthquakes, flooding one year, and then recently he had heard that graveyards and tombs had become filled with ghosts and that phantoms wandered the countryside, that an unnatural blizzard blanketed his fiefdom and strange monsters emerged from the woods. He decided to head back, when he heard of armies of gigantic insects spilling out from the cursed mountain that had been struck by lightning and by some fortuitous circumstances that he could only chalk up to good karma and the favor of the heavens, the happy bloodshed had chosen to at last make an appearance years after gobbling up that bastard Ling Meng.
By spreading alms and provisions to his people caught beneath the strange, out of season winter storm and cowing the ghosts rampaging across the country side and taming the legions of ants and hornets escaping the mountain. And chasing back the blizzard. This had proven the favor of the Chuan family and the existence of their benefactor to even the most skeptical and doubting of their followers and servants.
But this was troublesome for the lord. He had decreed the spirit guardian of his family and lands to at first win the favor of the peasantry, and while he never doubted the Huanliuxue existed, most of his zealotry and worship was a facade to keep up appearances and maintain the belief that he was favored by the heavens. Morale won wars, and it was hard to keep fighting while stories of hardship and supernatural happenings came to camp with every supply convoy or messenger that found them.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 13 Nov 2023 17:42:32 No. 5829153 Report >>5829152 Even if he had earned a reputation as something of a sorcerer, and even though he was a superstitious man fascinated by the occult, the sacrifices, human or otherwise, that he offered to his patron were meant to calm the hot blood of his troops or else encourage them in battle. And while providence and good fortune was showered upon him, and he suspected part of it came from those offerings and his own kind treatment of the many cats he kept around him as "Messengers of the divine spirit", he also knew he was simply born under a good star and luckier than most, since the Huanliuxue first emerged at his and his people's darkest hour.
So, hearing that the guardian spirit had protected his lands while he was away and actually appeared publicly. One of his favourite scholars had claimed to have been visited by her, early on during his campaign of retribution which had by now seen the Ling family tree shorn of most of its branches, but he had suspected that to have been an excuse for him to run away to a monastic lifestyle on the road, away from the stresses of courtly life and his family.
But, it would seem, all the belief he had encouraged and fanned had summoned the Huanliuxue to truly guard his lands and people. It made sense, they had built shrines for her all across Chuan, even funding the construction of a true temple at the site of one of the first villages burned by Ling Meng, where folklore stated the Happy bloodshed emerged from the ashes from, spawned from the blood and tears of the slain. And he never doubted she was real, since how else would Ling Meng die so suddenly and brutally but...He never imagined the lie he spun to protect his family's position and enshrouded himself in the growing myth of Huanliuxue would prove to be more than the fiction he thought it to be.
And more troubling, his use of body doubles in his conquest of the Ling lands, had made even his closest advisers believe he could escape death and rise from mortal wounds. So they all looked to him for answers as they stood upon the edge of a world out of a fantasy. Suiqi looked nothing like any of them remembered, and the wildlife they had encountered had been peculiar and odd, looking like they had strode from prehistory. And that wasn't even considering the ghosts and beast folk they had encountered on the road, which luckily meant them no harm and even joined them on their journey to Suiqi.
And now they sat, as if waiting for an imperial guest, in their encampment at the boundary of the ancient world summoned by Huanliuxue's world, being waited upon by ghosts and people with beastly ears and tails as the priests who saw him as the saint of their goddess rambled on and on about the cause and reason for Suiqi looking like it was a lost jungle ruin and why so many of his subjects had turned half beasts and why the ghosts that were supposed to be terroizing his countryside were pouring him wine.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 13 Nov 2023 17:43:33 No. 5829154 Report >>5829153 He looked up with a look of utmost confidence to the messenger, a man dressed in the robes of a daoist sage, who he feared was one of the legendary immortals that rarely descended from their mountains, told him of his master, Huanliuxue, demands to meet him.
Dress in his finery and entertain her as if she were the empress. That was easy enough. But for all his dabbling in the occult and interest in the spiritual, Jianjun had no idea how he was expected to act in the presence of the divine and knew any misstep could lead to disaster. Calamity even. But he was expected to know, because he was the bloodshed's chosen and a sorcerer of great power, according to the reputation he carefully cultivated. His nerves and composure had been tested before, but the moment from the heavy mists before his camp parted to reveal a cat with blood red fur as large or maybe a bit bigger than an ox, he wondered if this was how he'd die, all of his lies unraveled and his manipulation and tugging of men's hearts leading to his demise.
But he did not allow his merited fear at being face to face with a spirit, a real spirit. In the flesh. to show on his face and immediately fell to his knees and kowtowed as the giant, man eating house cat god stalked closer to the long table they had set and sat waiting around for her arrival.
"My guardian and patron! I have done your will and bled the Ling, and killed them wherever I found them, exterminating them like the vermin they are!" He shouted, sweating already as he acted the part he was expected to play, the dutiful worshiper and mysterious occultist "I have offered their flesh to you, and avenged the dead a hundred times over. I am your humble servant, Chuan Jianjun"
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The lord of the Chuan region is kneeling before you, head pressed firmly in the dirt. His long mustache looking like the whiskers of catfish as he glances up at you with every other word, his carefully groomed hair tied up in a complex knot and braided with various trinkets and charms. He looks half charlatan sorcerer and half noble lord, wearing fine silks marked with crude imitations of actual spells and knickknacks and baubles that wouldn't be out of place in a curio shop. Though some of them do possess actual magic and faintly radiate Qi.
And from the feverish look of zeal in his eyes, you can tell he never doubted your favor or your benevolence. This is a man of strong faith! Smugly, you look down at him, relishing in his worship as the other nobles and priest stare at you in awe or disbelief, some of them looking nearly as smug as yourself while their lord and master continues kneeling with an adoring and awed look on his face. Seems some of the nobles weren't convinced their lord's guardian actually existed, and just played along with his zeal to earn his favor and share in the adoration and praise of their subjects. You certainly can feel a mysterious energy glowing out of Jianjun himself. Is that Faith?
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 13 Nov 2023 17:44:33 No. 5829155 Report >>5829154 Well, whatever it is you sense, you're expected to answer his declaration of his faithfulness and righteousness in your eyes and make a good impression on your loyal adherents.
Already the priests in his company are praying and counting their prayer beads.
How do you answer Chuan Jianjun's fervor, Huanliuxue?
>With false familiarity and affection, praising him for his good work in slaughtering ling dogs and stating that you're pleased with his sacrifices and offerings >By telling him to rise and filling him in on the treachery of the winter blossoming wisdom sect and how they have turned away from their duties and purpose and grown so wicked as to strike you, the Chuans own guardian diety! >"Tell me, Chuan Jianjun, What is the meaning of life?" It has been awhile since you asked anyone this question... >Pay him back, by applauding and commending his actions and pretending his faith and the faith of the common people is what drove you to action >Write in Anonymous
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>>5829155 >"Tell me, Chuan Jianjun, What is the meaning of life?" It has been awhile since you asked anyone this question... Anonymous
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>>5829155 >"Tell me, Chuan Jianjun, What is the meaning of life?" It has been awhile since you asked anyone this question... Anonymous
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>>5829155 >"Tell me, Chuan Jianjun, What is the meaning of life?" It has been awhile since you asked anyone this question... Anonymous
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>>5829155 >"Tell me, Chuan Jianjun, What is the meaning of life?" It has been awhile since you asked anyone this question... Anonymous
>>5829155 >>By telling him to rise and filling him in on the treachery of the winter blossoming wisdom sect and how they have turned away from their duties and purpose and grown so wicked as to strike you, the Chuans own guardian diety! Best to start immunizing our people towards the beliefs of the orthodox.
on that note, damn yall really wanna ask the guy what the meaning of life is. Why bully the poor charlatan.
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>>5826887 I am this anon btw. IP changed.
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>>5829199 Because it's what we asked of his subordinate that eventually became a monk, the same one that he mentioned in his PoV change.
It's like pottery, it rhymes.
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Chuan's actually a fucking genius. Not only is he competent but he actually has some common sense. Already like this guy.
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>>5829155 >"Tell me, Chuan Jianjun, What is the meaning of life?" It has been awhile since you asked anyone this question... A rather ominous question, considering we used to ask this to Ling soldiers we were about to devour, but thankfully nobody knows that.
...right?
Also, anyone remember the soul eater who stalked us for a bit after we read his diary? It's been a while since we chatted with him. Is he just biding his time, or did he give up, I wonder? Waiting for one of our apprentices to get curious instead? Anonymous
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>>5829215 This one
>>5829153 >One of his favourite scholars had claimed to have been visited by her, early on during his campaign of retribution which had by now seen the Ling family tree shorn of most of its branches, but he had suspected that to have been an excuse for him to run away to a monastic lifestyle on the road It's a callback to the very first thread
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2021/5040335/#p5082865 Anonymous
>>5829217 We didn't ask that question only to Ling soldiers, although that was the first time we did
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2021/5040335/#p5042150 Anonymous
>>5829225 Fair enough, but it seems like even if they weren't Ling soldiers, we killed them anyway afterwards.
Except the scholar that was mentioned prior, of course.
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>>5829243 Only the tax collectors.
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>>5829155 First
>Pay him back, by applauding and commending his actions and pretending his faith and the faith of the common people is what drove you to action. >But you have a question a simple one to judge his character. >"Tell me, Chuan Jianjun, What is the meaning of life?" It has been awhile since you asked anyone this question... Anonymous
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>>5829304 >And none of the men you devour can give you a worthwhile answer! Be they the remnants of the scattered Ling invaders, bandits preying upon the defenseless and poor. Unfortunate wanderers who had the supreme misfortune of meeting you when you were hungry and the odd tax collector or two. Not only.
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>>5829225 Pretty wild the things in that first thread coming home to roost soon.
It's fascinating how much influence Xue has had on our life. His botched breakthrough was what brought Monu to Chaun and into our life.
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>>5829216 I really like him.
I'm inclined to offer hik tutoring in the magical arts, make him a proper sorcerer.
But first we need him to be given the run down in private. We know he isnt our chosen and we know he decided that he was blessed, so lets chop iron and sever nails and hammer out a contract.
He serves us as a mortal face, he makes child abuse and adhacent crimes the harshest punishment in the realm and he serves well and good.
In return we protect him, tech him some mortal sorcery and can offer his kids a place in the sect if they have potential, martial training if not.
Any disagreements?
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>>5829155 >"Tell me, Chuan Jianjun, What is the meaning of life?" It has been awhile since you asked anyone this question... Anonymous
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>>5829436 His campaign of retribution has likely already harmed scores of children. He's also a Liar, and deeply steeped in the material and temporal world.
As such, I don't think he'd make much of a Student. But I'm going to withhold judgement until I hear his answer.
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>>5829155 >Pay him back, by applauding and commending his actions and pretending his faith and the faith of the common people is what drove you to action Though a comment on the winter sect and how we will crush them here soon enough won't be amiss.
All the other options also seem okay to me, even the trolling question, though i think he may crumble. (Unless he did think of the question in depth and will surprise us with a deep response)
>>5829436 He's a cool guy for sure, wise to the hearts of men and how things work.
I support establishing a permanent liason position in his court to scout for talent and teach them some tricks.
Some lesser sect pawn who will enjoy their time in a court but won't go mad with power.
>>5829217 I remember the soul eater in that book, we should probably give it a quick read rob it of anything useful then burn it amongst other trash.
He can't possibly hope to overcome mentally a golden core cultivator of Huan's caliber.
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>>5829217 >>5829595 Talking about things in the past to check, we should finally clear the puppets in the library when we go kick the ghost king's ethereal ass.
Maybe even bring Feiqing and Monu along, they might want to study it.
Anonymous
I know it's probably just a small matter, but did we ever decide to do something with Jiùqūliáoyá's beast core? I can't recall that we did. I remember some talk about upgrading Fu's axes with it, but did that actually happen?
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>>5829675 I think we did to that, together with the frog's core for another disciple (I think it was Ping?)
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>>5829155 >"Tell me, Chuan Jianjun, What is the meaning of life?" It has been awhile since you asked anyone this question... Are we finally back?
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The gods are getting creative in their assassination attempts, I see.
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>>5829155 >"Tell me, Chuan Jianjun, What is the meaning of life?" It has been awhile since you asked anyone this question.. Anonymous
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>>5829894 Dang ol attackin the fabric of reality mang
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>>5829155 >"Tell me, Chuan Jianjun, What is the meaning of life?" It has been awhile since you asked anyone this question... Anonymous
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>>5829155 >>Pay him back, by applauding and commending his actions and pretending his faith and the faith of the common people is what drove you to action Anonymous
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>>5829155 >"Tell me, Chuan Jianjun, What is the meaning of life?" It has been awhile since you asked anyone this question... Anonymous
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>>5829155 >"Tell me, Chuan Jianjun, What is the meaning of life?" It has been awhile since you asked anyone this question... Fuck with him a little bit. I'd like for Huan to have a genuine conversation with him however. No falsities or pretending.
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Ending the vote, tallying the result now. Binge watched Qi refining for 3000 years. It was pretty funny and one of the characters is kinda Huan (human) adjacent in terms of looks. If you watch it, you'll know who I'm talking about once they show up. "Tell me, Chuan Jianjun, What is the meaning of life?" It has been awhile since you asked anyone this question...:13 By telling him to rise and filling him in on the treachery of the winter blossoming wisdom sect and how they have turned away from their duties and purpose and grown so wicked as to strike you, the Chuans own guardian diety!:1 Pay him back, by applauding and commending his actions and pretending his faith and the faith of the common people is what drove you to action: 4 Crushing victory for asking Lord Chuan the question you asked so many times before you become a daoist and began your cultivation Update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Thu 16 Nov 2023 01:43:12 No. 5831757 Report The atmosphere of this meeting which might determine the destiny of the entire region of Chuan, both in the mundane world and that hidden one inhabited by cultivators, ghosts and magical beasts, has suddenly become rather ridiculous. With every man present, living or dead, prostrating themselves before you without daring to lift their heads. Except for the priests who cannot look away from you. And they're the culprits who've turned this world flipping event amusing just from how they're dressed! You've seen a few of your worshippers in Suiqi and Fu's villagers delight in making and wearing masks styled after your gorgeous face, but the garb of actual priests of the Huanliuxue heresy is just plainly ridiculous. They've clearly tried to copy you in being dyed by blood, because their robes were clearly drenched in it and here and there you can still see white peeking out from the reds fading to brown. Which isn't ridiculous by itself, and is actually a stunning fashion statement that has your full approval. No what makes them look ridiculous, as they count their beads and chant mantras and prayers you've never heard, is the white veils they wear. Which have a cat's smile and eyes drawn on them with carmine infused ink, which when combined with the rest of their get up, which includes sorcerous stylings much more sensible than Lord Chuan's dress, as they're actually wearing true occult and magical accessories and symbol that have meaning together rather than being just any bauble or "Spell" sold by roadside con men and charlatans playing at being mystics to an overenthusiastic noble with a hobby for magic. And a few of them even seem to be floundering in the initial stages of Qi Condensation, which they've must've stumbled into by sheer chance or dumb luck. But even so, even if their mystical knowledge is real and they have grasped some of the "Secrets" of immortals, the fact they're looking up at you with veils with cat eyes and a smile that feel like your reflection if it was drawn by a child with a ink brush, makes it hard to take their awe and reverence of you seriously. But you do no laugh or mock them. They took good care of your old home and the graves their. They even built you a statue in your honor. You'll just have to tell them to swap out the cat smile veils with something a little more dignified. And imposing. Maybe masks of bone or smears of blood painted on with their own hands? Holding back a pout, you shift your eyes from your adoring fans down to Lord Chuan, who is trembling from scalp to the bottoms of his feet as you stand before him, casting a long shadow over him as the bleeding moon wraps you with its light. Besides the priests offering their prayers and worship and one or two generals loudly shouting they knew you weren't a figment of their deranged lord's mind like "others" had claimed, all are silent. And have been since your approach. Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Thu 16 Nov 2023 01:44:12 No. 5831758 Report >>5831757 They're waiting to see your response to the man who has offered his triumph to you and has tied the fate of his house and family to you and your feline whims. The man who made the name Huanliuxue not something to be reviled or whispered about like a ghost story or tales of a man eating monster, but instead to be praised and fawned upon. A name to be respected, belonging to a vengeful guardian deity. A shame the cultivators squatting on his land didn't get the memo and still speak your treasured name like it was something foul and disgusting.
But, while you had day dreamed once or twice of how you would act and what you would say should you meet this man who has done more for your reputation than any of your good deeds and natural leaning towards benevolence have, when you're sat before him they all fade away like ashes scattered over a river, washing away out of your mind. Memories flash through your eyes, vivid recollections of before you met Monu and were taken under her wing, that cold era of your life when you were lost, adrift in the world without purpose, meaning or any goal grander than filling your belly and persisting in life without direction or ambition. Before you learned of Qi and when you were truly the man eater your fellow daoists believe you to be, and persist in smearing your honorable name with claims that you remain as such.
Back when the only spiritual energy you found was in the flesh, blood, fat, gristle and bones of the unfortunate who ran into you on their nightly strolls or your directionless wanderings. When you still sought the meaning of life and knew nothing of the wider world and its many mysteries. How far you've come since then. You were little different from a mindless beast back then, but look at you now. You've found kindred spirits, like minded companions, met a kindly god, understand humanity, share their common sense, even learned to walk like them and have grasped the nature of the stars themselves.
But for some reason, the first real curiosity of your second life, the first question you asked when the grudge that created you, second of your three mothers, keeps pushing and shoving its way to the front of your mind.
What is the meaning of life? Despite how far you've come, You still don't know it. Though you've long grown bored with all the insipid answers spoken by men, beasts, demons and ghosts and didn't care to even ask a god what they thought they meaning of existence was, the question itself never seems to have died and was merely overshadowed by various kinds of whimsy or concrete goals and lofty ambitions.
You narrow and squint your eyes, which is enough to make some of the bowing generals and officials shriek and cry out as if you'd just snarled and bared your fangs at their liege and master. You pay them no mind, even as they seek cover behind their peers with actual spines and guts that don't curdle so easily.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Thu 16 Nov 2023 01:45:14 No. 5831761 Report >>5831758 No matter how hard you try, the question remains stubbornly sat on your tongue, like a toad crouched on a lotus flower, refusing to budge or allow you to even consider asking anything but it.
'Well, it has been awhile since I asked anyone this old question of mine' you muse, smiling as your eyes soften fondly 'Besides, it isn't like it was ever a rule that I eat anyone who gives an answer that I dislike to it'. Actually, thinking about those days, does anyone know you ever made a habit of asking the people you were about to eat what the meaning of life was? You were by no means gluttonous, but you're pretty sure no one who heard those words lived to see another day before that one scholar, who was the last one you asked it before you lost the habit and found new things to be curious about and found some actual direction in your life again and purpose beyond mere survival alone.
Well, no reason to hesitate. Even the ghosts present are dying to hear what you have to say to Chuan Jianjun, to see how you'll reply to his obvious devotion. They're wondering how a goddess will answer true and unshakeable conviction in her benevolence and righteousness.
"Tell me" You say solemnly with a half rumble of a purr in your throat "Chuan Jianjun, what is the meaning of life"
Your priests freeze. Ah, seems some do recall your old habits beside yourself. They must've asked the vengeful ghosts around your village, since being eaten by a demonic beast would certainly breed the right kind of resentment to bind the souls of the dead to the earthly realm as vengeful ghosts. But they sat nothing to warn lord Chuan, simply exchanging glances and stopping their fretting and excessive displays of piety. They fold their hands together and sit upright, kneeling before you, waiting to see how you'll react to a response that hasn't even been given yet.
Lord Chuan breathes a sigh of relief and sits up, showing proper high etiquette and looking directly at you as he straightens his back and adjust his posture. He is composed, calm minded and overflowing with noble dignity and well bred graces. He sighs again, crossing his arms and tapping a finger on his elbow, his charms and trinkets rattling as his courtly robes move with him.
The tension becomes unbearable, and you're about to tell him to hurry up when he flashes a relaxed smile and sighs in defeat.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Thu 16 Nov 2023 01:46:14 No. 5831763 Report >>5831761 "I must be honest, my goddess, I do not know. When I was young, I wasted my life with dalliances and all manner of meaningless hobbies, when I grew older, I occupied myself with research and occult studies, clinging tightly to a childish delusion I could become a daoist mystic, a sage who could walk in the footsteps of immortals" He states plainly and ashamedly, bowing his head as he gives you his abridged life story "When my lands were threatened, I studied the forgotten arts of war and battle, yet it was you who were the salvation of my people. I merely repaid your kindness, when you acted while I reacted. How can I claim to know the purpose of my life, when I've spent it so carelessly? I've been pampered until this era of chaos began, and I've been pushed along by its currents ever sense. I cannot claim to be the wise mystic I envision myself to be, I cannot claim to be a hero of the people, I can barely call myself a man, my father chose my wife and I've done nothing to warm her heart to me"
He locks eyes with you, relaxing so much that the stress seems to be melting off of him like steam, his eyes drooping and his smile spreading across his face like a puddle of water.
"I've done what was asked of me and have lived an unexciting life, more or less, until what was expected of me, was to take inspiration from you, Huanliuxue, strap on armor, take up a spear and bow, and ride a horse into battle at the head of an army?" He asks, his voice warm and content as he lowers his head again "Such a ridiculous thing, war. But while battle has shown me there is more to life than books, study and overseeing my lands and fulfilling my duty to them and my ancestors who allowed me to live such a privileged life, how could I claim to know the meaning of life, when I have barely lived and cannot foresee the twists and turns in the road ahead of me? I know my pleasures and my duty and I know the burden of leading men to their deaths, and of being unable to save all those who look up to me for guidance and leadership. But until I was made to become a warrior, I was only a leader. And what can a ruler of men say about life, when he has never camped beneath the stars or worked the land he owns? I know nothing of life. All I know is who I am, and what I must do"
He clears and rubs his throat, as his smile turns awkward
"I plead forgiveness if my answer is inadequate and tame, Lady Huanliuxue, but I am not so arrogant to even imagine to know what the purpose of my life is, so how could I know what the meaning of all life is?" He meekly continues, glancing to see your reaction to his words as he speaks them "All I know is I am alive and wish to remain alive, nothing more. Death scares me, living bores me at times, excites me at others, but do I know what it all means?"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Thu 16 Nov 2023 01:47:15 No. 5831765 Report >>5831763 He laughs as you contemplate his words, with much greater ease than you did when you were so young and directionless, but for some reason, you can't find his non answer, his refusal to even try, as worthless as all the earnest and passionate answers you've heard for the question of the meaning of life before. Even when you debated a scholar this man trusted and adored and crushed his faith in humanity with a suggestion of what it was that you didn't even believe yourself, nothing he said really sounded wise or meaningful, or even close to the true meaning of life.
But Chuan Jianjun's words give you pause. They're as shallow as a puddle when you first hear them, but the moment you consider them, they become as vast as a sea.
"No" He states quietly and humbly "So all I can do is live, and see if I find it out"
Life itself was an answer you heard before. But Lord Chuan doesn't claim that Living is the meaning of life, only that he knows he is alive and nothing more. But isn't it wise to realize the limits of ones own intellect and knowledge, to shrug and declare that you don't know the answer to a question that in truth probably doesn't have a single answer? Isn't understanding that wisdom itself? To realize one's own ignorance and embrace it instead of refusing to accept that some questions simply can't be answered no matter how hard you try to?
Some might be too proud to outright refuse this insight, too certain of their own belief about life and its meaning, but you can't help but to treasure it as it should rightfully be treasure. How can a cat as well traveled as yourself claim there is only one reason and purpose for life?
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"Interesting~" You purr, stalking up to him and leaning down so your hot breath washes over his exposed neck "I've heard so many self serving and plain boring answers in my time, but few have had the boldness to outright refuse to even present an idea of what life's meaning could be"
You hear Chuan Jianjun swallow dryly before you pull your head away and nearly knock him over with a burst of laughter.
"How amusing, How amusing! How truly amusing you are, Lord Chuan!" You declare, patting the ground in front of him with your paw, leaving an imprint in the ground "Stand proud, you have wisdom and understanding enough to approach me and speak to me openly, Jian~Jun~"
This might be seen as a test, you don't intend it to be, since you're certain he is too devoted and indebted to you to even think of asking you for more favor and blessings than you have already "bestowed" upon him. And all his followers and the ghosts that have swarmed around him turn to him, expecting him to ask for just that. Power, wealth, some token of your favor or a display of power to back up his position in the world.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Thu 16 Nov 2023 01:48:46 No. 5831767 Report >>5831765 "What can this humble servant do to please you?" Is what he asks instead "I shall offer all things in the world I can grasp, and the dying gasps of those whose presence upon it displeases you. I am yours to command, goddess. It would be unthinkable to think I deserve more providence than you have already given. I have been your servant since you devoured that wretched Ling Meng"
You're starting to like this little noble. More than you already did, at least. You think for a moment. But an unusually, unnatural cold freeze makes you shiver. No natural wind could make you feel cold. You don't have time to waste with frivolities. Every breath, every second must be spent preparing for the source of that chill.
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What do you tell Chuan Jianjun,
>"Nothing, your devotion is enough. My grudge against the ling is satiated, mostly. Return home, and live as you will" >"While I am pleased by your worship, the doctrine and tenants you follow, the offerings, sacrifices and ways you pray to me is all wrong..." (How do you wish to influence the faith of your worshippers>) >"I am Chuan's protector. Shout it from every tower and in every town, the people who live under your rule are under my protection and have my favor. I only desire your praise" >"Be my friend, and stop being so stuffy and stuck up. Cat's like me prefer their people to be at ease, relaxed. After all, I am your family's guardian spirit, there's no reason for you to offer me anything more than you already have, besides your friendship, Heh-Heh-heh" >"There are unseen enemies plaguing your lands. Demonic cultivators, devils. I've been doing what I can to oppose them but alas...they have mortal agents and disciples, out of my reach. But not out of yours" >"Would you like to know the real history of the world, knowledge seeker?" >Write in And what do you do afterwards, Huanliuxue?
>Make a public appearance with Lord Chuan, making his family's rule over the region that shares their name all but unbreakable, and reveal to him your human form, and openly give him your support, so no one can contest his claim of divine favor. >Meet with Shoushan, Yongzheng and the other monks. The daoist majority might listen to Lord Chuan, but the buddhists in the land will trust their seniors far more. >Meet with one of the mystery cultivators (Seven slaughtering swords or Temple of the celestial fire?) >Use your own magic and expertise to assist in preparing the arena/ fortifying Suiqi (Magic trial. DC variable) >See if you can't recruit the ghosts haunting Chuan to your cause, as well >Write in You still have time to drink a drop of divine blood, though time is running out to ready yourself for the fight against Xue Laohue
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>>5831767 >"Would you like to know the real history of the world, knowledge seeker?" >Meet with Shoushan, Yongzheng and the other monks. The daoist majority might listen to Lord Chuan, but the buddhists in the land will trust their seniors far more. Anonymous
>>5831767 >"Would you like to know the real history of the world, knowledge seeker?" >"While I am pleased by your worship, the doctrine and tenants you follow, the offerings, sacrifices and ways you pray to me is all wrong..." (How do you wish to influence the faith of your worshippers>) Well, no more sacrifices, human or animal, we know how that can taint blood qi. Ritualistic bloodletting is alright, as long as it is willing.
Value the lives and wellbeing of children above all. Even Ling children.
All cats are our natural subjects, and as such, must be treated as they were part of our court. But don't ban their ownership, since we still have some happy memories from our house cat days.
Always keep graveyards well maintained, and give the dead a proper burial. All ghosts belong to our court.
>Meet with Shoushan, Yongzheng and the other monks. The daoist majority might listen to Lord Chuan, but the buddhists in the land will trust their seniors far more. Anonymous
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>>5831767 backing this guy's tenants
>>5831813 but I want to vote on the other one for
>write in >drink a drop of the god blood Now or we won't have enough time.
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>>5831813 Animal sacrifices should be alright so long as they are eaten shouldn't they? Like a ritualized start to a meal. I don't think Huanliuxue is vegan so I think she'd be more upset that they're wasting perfectly edible food.
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>>5831839 I'm worried that people could accidentally kill recently awakened animals.
Also I'm not sure at which point does using blood of death in rituals causes the lingering blood qi to become corrupted.
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But if there's a way to make sure that even the regular peasant can tell an awakened animal, and the sacrifice is eaten afterwards (and was going to be eaten even without the sacrifice anyway) then it's alright.
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>>5831840 Well, recently awakened animals are both much stronger than their mundane counterparts and they are also able to speak so I don't think anyone is gonna be confusing the two.
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>>5831767 >"Would you like to know the real history of the world, knowledge seeker?" >Use your own magic and expertise to assist in preparing the arena/ fortifying Suiqi (Magic trial. DC variable) Who can claim to out ambush a cat?
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>>5831839 Most ritual sacrifices explicitly do not consume animals being sacrificed since they are considered to belong to whatever you are sacrificing to. Unless the ritual itself requires some form of imbibing of sacrificial flesh.
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>>5831767 >"There are unseen enemies plaguing your lands. Demonic cultivators, devils. I've been doing what I can to oppose them but alas...they have mortal agents and disciples, out of my reach. But not out of yours" >Use your own magic and expertise to assist in preparing the arena/ fortifying Suiqi (Magic trial. DC variable) I was skeptical at first but, I like Jianjun.
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>>5831767 >"Would you like to know the real history of the world, knowledge seeker?" >Meet with one of the mystery cultivators (Temple of the celestial fire) >Invite the head priests to your temple after the war, so that they can get a better feeling of what you are all about Anonymous
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>>5831767 >"Would you like to know the real history of the world, knowledge seeker?" Something a little extra at the end. as well
>"I'll reward you for your answer and your faith in me after my battle. May we meet again Lord Chuan." >Meet with Shoushan, Yongzheng and the other monks. The daoist majority might listen to Lord Chuan, but the buddhists in the land will trust their seniors far more. Anonymous
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>>5831767 >"Would you like to know the real history of the world, knowledge seeker?" >See if you can't recruit the ghosts haunting Chuan to your cause, as well Anonymous
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>>5831767 >"Be my friend, and stop being so stuffy and stuck up. Cat's like me prefer their people to be at ease, relaxed. After all, I am your family's guardian spirit, there's no reason for you to offer me anything more than you already have, besides your friendship, Heh-Heh-heh" >Make a public appearance with Lord Chuan, making his family's rule over the region that shares their name all but unbreakable, and reveal to him your human form, and openly give him your support, so no one can contest his claim of divine favor. Anonymous
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>>5831767 This
>>5831813 , plus forbid extermination of awakened beasts. Notify us about them, instead.
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>>5831767 >"Be my friend, and stop being so stuffy and stuck up. Cat's like me prefer their people to be at ease, relaxed. After all, I am your family's guardian spirit, there's no reason for you to offer me anything more than you already have, besides your friendship, Heh-Heh-heh" >"Would you like to know the real history of the world, knowledge seeker?" >Use your own magic and expertise to assist in preparing the arena/ fortifying Suiqi (Magic trial. DC variable) Anonymous
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>>5831767 I support the edicts of
>>5831813 And his informing Chuan of the history of the world.
But in addition
>"Be my friend." Noe for the main vote.
>Enhance our mystic carmine stuff with the drop. >Meet in public with lord chuan >Also meet publically with Shoushan, to announce buddhism as permitted sister faith. Knock out thie before it becomes a problem.
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>>5831767 Backing up
>>5831813 But I'd also like to add optional but well beloved Pilgrimages
Their destination being places in turmoil/suffering and offering aid, protecting children from the strife/working to minimize how many die from a given war or slaughter.
Outside of that I really like the monk idea but I also really want the ghost court to be up to par with our animal and human counterparts rn.
>See if you can't recruit the ghosts haunting Chuan to your cause, as well >>5829199 Im this anon btw
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>>5831767 >"Be my friend, and stop being so stuffy and stuck up. Cat's like me prefer their people to be at ease, relaxed. After all, I am your family's guardian spirit, there's no reason for you to offer me anything more than you already have, besides your friendship, Heh-Heh-heh" "The only thing I truly know is that I know nothing." Socrates said something to that effect, no? Either way, Chuan Jianjun is alright in my book. We are going to get him involved in many shenanigans later, I can feel it.
>Use your own magic and expertise to assist in preparing the arena/ fortifying Suiqi (Magic trial. DC variable) Yeah politics are nice and all, but we really should leave the rest for later. Xue has a nice track record when it comes to crippling/killing our family members and I would like to ensure we break his winning streak.
>You still have time to drink a drop of divine blood, Do you mean time to do that *after* this vote? if so, we can do that then, otherwise I will need to amend my vote.
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>>5831767 >"Would you like to know the real history of the world, knowledge seeker?" >drink a drop of the god blood >>5831813 I like these laws too but i want to use the godblood now, the icecream man could refuse to enter the arena or attack suiqi directly and a personal power up always work where a trap may fail.
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>>5831767 >"Be my friend, and stop being so stuffy and stuck up. Cat's like me prefer their people to be at ease, relaxed. After all, I am your family's guardian spirit, there's no reason for you to offer me anything more than you already have, besides your friendship, Heh-Heh-heh" >"Would you like to know the real history of the world, knowledge seeker?" >Meet with Shoushan, Yongzheng and the other monks. The daoist majority might listen to Lord Chuan, but the buddhists in the land will trust their seniors far more. Anonymous
>>5832243 Not only Socrates, but Confucius, Laozi and the Buddha all are quoted with very similar things (along with my personal favorite, based Zhuangzi). So it's even more rooted in eastern thought than in western.
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>>5833072 I guess realizing you are a dumbass is a human constant
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>>5833113 I dunno. There are way to many fucking idiots nowadays who think they're geniuses.
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>>5831767 >"Would you like to know the real history of the world, knowledge seeker?" >Use your own magic and expertise to assist in preparing the arena/ fortifying Suiqi (Magic trial. DC variable) Anonymous
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>>5833115 There's always been, only that now in the digital era we know about all the idiots worldwide.
And can make fun of them
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Ending the vote, tallying the result now "Would you like to know the real history of the world, knowledge seeker?":14 "While I am pleased by your worship, the doctrine and tenants you follow, the offerings, sacrifices and ways you pray to me is all wrong...":5 "There are unseen enemies plaguing your lands. Demonic cultivators, devils. I've been doing what I can to oppose them but alas...they have mortal agents and disciples, out of my reach. But not out of yours":1 "Be my friend, and stop being so stuffy and stuck up. Cat's like me prefer their people to be at ease, relaxed. After all, I am your family's guardian spirit, there's no reason for you to offer me anything more than you already have, besides your friendship, Heh-Heh-heh":5 "I'll reward you for your answer and your faith in me after my battle. May we meet again Lord Chuan.": 1 _ Meet with Shoushan, Yongzheng and the other monks. The daoist majority might listen to Lord Chuan, but the buddhists in the land will trust their seniors far more.:6 drink a drop of the god blood:4 Use your own magic and expertise to assist in preparing the arena/ fortifying Suiqi:5 Meet with one of the mystery cultivators (Temple of the celestial fire):1 Invite the head priests to your temple after the war, so that they can get a better feeling of what you are all about:1 See if you can't recruit the ghosts haunting Chuan to your cause, as well:2 Make a public appearance with Lord Chuan, making his family's rule over the region that shares their name all but unbreakable, and reveal to him your human form, and openly give him your support, so no one can contest his claim of divine favor.:2 So You'll ask Lord Chuan if he'd like to know the true history of the world, before meeting with Shoushan, Yongzheng and the other monks of their temple to curry favor with the buddhists of Chuan and beyond Update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sun 19 Nov 2023 01:04:26 No. 5835061 Report And while you know how valuable every moment is, how precious every second is, when you're this close to the fateful confrontation with the man who crippled your mother, killed your sister and caused untold misery upholding the faulty laws and mandate of the heavens, as the cold, magically summoned wind whispers and whips over your back and curls around your tail, a fickle sort of whimsy overtakes you as your eyes widen from the shock of realizing how close your enemy has gotten and how much ground he has crossed and so quickly, as Lord Chuan and his retainers to feel the unnatural chill summoned by the land wrecking, life ending, world upending blizzard the winter blossoming wisdom sect loves to create and cultivate like flowers in their garden. And at that precise moment, as you shiver in the cold with the lord of the land, his generals and advisors and the men who named themselves your priest, you cannot resist the pull of you frivolous desire and thus cannot deny the whimsy that has struck you nearly as stiff as the frigid air has. 'I can't waste any time, but spreading awareness of the heavens' crimes isn't wasting time, is it?' you argue to convince yourself that you aren't doing something foolish 'The more people know of the injustice ordained by the gods, the stronger a foundation I and my followers have to stand on, and the more people believe the truth, the more legitimacy my claims of being wronged and oppressed since birth will have. Yeah, telling Lord Chuan what really happened ten generations back will only be beneficial, and not just for the wrongfully maligned me, but for all who suffer under the heel of the nine heavens!' So, making up your mind and ignoring the fur piercing cold that now has settled even over the warmth of the ancient weather you've summoned over Suiqi and its surroundings, you lift up your head and with all air and dignity of the empress you are all but predestined to be, you look Lord Chuan in his eyes once again and flick your tail to disguise its shivering. "My my, such loyalty, such humility, it should be rewarded" You laugh, lifting up a paw to cover your mouth as Lord Chuan reels back as if you'd just smacked him with the same paw, stunned that you didn't demand the world of him or something equally outrageous "And don't look at me like that, it is I and I alone who decides when you've been visited by too many blessings. I still have plenty of divine providence to grant you, Jianjun, So..." "Noble divine spirit, you would not reward your most stalwart and austere follower with your direct command?" one of the priests wearing those ridiculous cat faced veils asks you, interrupting you and you shoot him a leer for his impudence, which sends him to his hands and knees immediately and makes him shout "I do not mean to question your wisdom, oh most magnanimous lady of harmonious wilds, I simply wonder why you would do your hero such a disservice as not acknowledging him with your mandate!" Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sun 19 Nov 2023 01:05:27 No. 5835063 Report >>5835061 "I was getting there, impatient kit" You snarl, stamping your paw on the ground and lifting up your chin to look further down at the blabbermouth, and look more imposing as you do it "And some random clearing in the road is not the proper place to reward my most favored mortal follower with my wishes and edits inscrutable to lesser minds, nor is it the place to present him with my formal command and the mandate his family has earned for their service and faith, however, these mists where the warmth of the forgotten dead and forsaken past meet with the cool air of the blind world beyond my reach, to create a mist perfect for an atmosphere of mystique and wonder, is the perfect place for me to present my servant with a fraction of my immortal wisdom, and share with him insights unattained by even the wisest of daoist immortals"
Lord Chuan leaps up, eyes aglow with a child-like giddiness. Innocent, yet overpowering curiosity overflows from him, from his posture, to his expression, to the very aura that surrounds him as his dutiful presentation and quietly reverent bearing are scattered by his exuberation at the mere mention that occult and hidden knowledge will be revealed to him. He's so joyful, even though he remains silent and still since he jumped up from the ground, that you half expect him to start dancing and singing like a a common street performer.
But this favoritism has sown the seeds of jealousy, and even though you've just scolded one of his juniors, the apparent head of the priests of your temple, who you can only tell is the leader because he is dressed more gaudily and with more elegant and pampered air around him than his followers, stands up and puffs out his chest.
"Of course, as your second greatest worshipper, it is only just that I to am privy to these secrets, so if tragedy befalls the house of Chuan and robs it of its head, your wisdom can still persist in this impure, earthly realm" He declares loudly and haughtily, and with as annoying as he's being, his argument is pretty air tight. He is your high priest, at least for the time being before you can reform your worship and organize it to be more to your liking and true nature, and thus to the common sense of the world, would be expected to be as favored by the goddess he worships as her "Chosen" hero. So you'll have to relent, even though you want to say you could just tell someone else if Chuan Jianjun dies and that you intend to spread the secret you intend to share with him far and wide until it isn't even a secret any longer, but that would be tiresome like a thorn stuck in your paw. Besides what is the harm in letting him hear the truth you're going to impart to Lord Chuan?
If he denounces it, you can just kill him and be ride of him quicker. If he accepts it, well then you have a foothold to convince your fellow though lesser daoists of the apathy and cruelty of the heavens. Either way, you win out in the end.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sun 19 Nov 2023 01:06:27 No. 5835065 Report >>5835063 "Of course, but only if Lord Chuan agrees to accept this gift of my knowledge" You titter, smiling though you really wanna smack some humility into the big mouthed priest's skull. And before he can speak, as he opens his mouth and sucks in a lung full of air to yell his gratitude, you command him to be patient with a raised paw, and continue by asking him "So, knowledge seeker, would you like to know the true history of the world, as I know it? It's been buried for an awful long time, by treacherous hands and wicked minds"
Immediately, the head priest and the noble lord are looked upon with jealous eyes by the charlatans and deluded occultists in their entourage, while the more normal of Lord Chuan's underlings wait with baited breath to hear his answer though if they've spent their lives in his service they should know damn well what it'll be since its obvious to you who has known him for all of a handful of minutes.
"But of course" You purr, narrowing your eyes mischievously "This knowledge is only for your four ears, and I will only tell you both it in private, that is, if Lord Chuan is willing and ready to have a target painted on his back by those who wish to see this truth dead and buried"
"While this dabbler is unworthy of such a treasure as the wisdom of a goddess, I cannot refuse such a priceless gift as divine education. I would be honored to be taught of the truth of the past that has passed into myth, my merciful master" He answers. throwing one arm over his chest as he steps back and takes a deep, courtly bow, his long mustache swaying in the wind like two cattails by the river side "And at once I shall command my loyal generals and esteemed advisors to take their leave of us, so no ears but mine and your head priest's may know of this forgotten history"
You sit down, doing you best to look divine and godlike, like an idol in a shrine, while the generals, soldiers, officials, scholars and random assortment of occultists, sages, sorcerers, magicians and low alchemists file out down the road, leaving their camp empty so there is no chance of any of them to pry into the private history lesson, you're soon to give.
The head priest is blessed by his juniors, who pray around him and splash him with vials of blood and handfuls of salt before they to shuffle away, handing Lord Chuan a dish of salt to cast over himself and a small needle which he uses to prick both his thumbs, anointing himself with his own blood like it was a perfume. That must have some ritual significance, but you're too entranced by the style of it to figure out why exactly they're smearing blood and salt on themselves. But you assume its a purifying ritual or warding spell of some kind.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sun 19 Nov 2023 01:07:28 No. 5835067 Report >>5835065 "ENLIGHTEN US WITH YOUR BOUNDLESS WISDOM! OH SHEDDER OF VILLAINOUS BLOOD AND GUARDIAN OF THE MOST INNOCENT!" The head priest suddenly wails, nearly making you lose the composure of a goddess you had oh so carefully cultivated and set up, as the loud sound makes you nearly leap out of your skin in surprise.
"I am ready to be enlightened, Lady Huanliuxue" Lord Chuan states a moment later, much more demurely and controlled as you blink and resist glaring at your supplicant, who is prostrating himself before you, raising up and lifting his arms stiff to the sky before slamming them and his upper body back down to the earth, hard enough to bruise his temple when it strikes the ground
"Well, there's only one way to say this. The other gods you follow are false. They're murderers and Liars, and rule the heavens through deceit and treachery most foul" You begin, speaking sharply and coldly so there's no chance for either of them to mistake this as a bad joke "They usurped their seats and use the name and authority of an emperor who has never sat upon his heavenly throne. The five wise immortal sages have bred and raised the younger gods to be witless simpletons and hedonists, after they committed an act so foul, they had to wipe the heavens of ten generations past out to the hide their villainy"
"Eh?B...but that's" the head priest groans after stammering madly for a few moments but Lord Chuan...hasn't react at all. He is kneeling before you, hands placed on his legs, back straight, expression unreadable and his eyes piercing and inquisitive
"The five colors celestial emperor and the supreme devil mind were a mated pair. He abandoned the heavens and the world beneath them in despair, and his five disciples who you know as the five wise immortal sages realized they had a chance to reshape the world in their twisted image" You state plainly, every word hurting to speak, even though you've proudly spoken them before. Somehow, repeating it now to lord Chuan is...extremely painful to you "So they murdered the other survivors of that apocalyptic war. Their juniors, their peers, their elders. All of them. Any god, deity, immortal or demi god, was struck down for being in the way of their ascension as the supreme rulers of heaven. And on that day, they wiped out all the guardian spirit beasts, who had before been the brothers, sisters and friends of Daoist sages and immortals, murdering more of them than their human counterparts"
"The immortal sages..pr..protect us from the" The head priest babbles as you tear his world apart without a care, rending large swathes of his common sense to little pieces as Lord Chuan stares at you and does nothing beside adjust the hem of his robe, listening intently
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sun 19 Nov 2023 01:08:29 No. 5835070 Report >>5835067 "I have seen the moment of their treachery, when they stole their teacher's spear and drove it into the heart of one of their allies, when they wiped out their rivals and took control of the nine heavens and created a fabricated history where my kind, Magical Beasts, were demons and servants of the devil mind. They killed everyone who knew otherwise, and tricked everyone else into believing we were the traitors. In a single, selfish act, my people were turned to monsters and cattle" You continue, pain turning to fury as your head priest clutches his head and screams, as if the beliefs he was raised on and his worship of you are doing battle in his skull and threatening to rip out of him
"The laws they made, have made the world stagnate for ten generations. Crippled progress and suppressed spirit beast like myself into awful, short lives, hunted for sport by those they once called brother" You snarl as Lord Chuan scratches his cheek, his expression still unreadable as you continue on ranting against the injustice of it all "They tried to slay me for surviving their pogroms and generational genocide of my kind, even though I have only been kind and good to the people of Chuan. Even though I awoke to avenge murdered children, to slaughter the devils in human skin who shed blood without reason. All because I seek to return the world to its natural state, to reinstate the natural order, and make the heavens worthy of worship again. To purge them of the filth and corruption that has turned them silent, apathetic and above all else cruel"
Your head priest is shuddering now, weeping openly as Lord Chuan rubs his chin and nods thoughtfully
"I see. So the pantheon widely worshiped is comprised of villains and blackguards, who replaced the old and elder gods through treasonous means. The whole rule of the heavens is built upon betrayal and treachery" He says almost gleefully, with the fervor only a man with a heretical heart could have "And the five wise immortal sages have groomed not only the junior and lesser deities to believe their lies and uphold their unjust and malign edicts, but they have also corrupted the temporal laws of man and the mysterious world of immortal sages and magical monsters"
"Yes, that is the short form of what I just told you, I believe" You answer, astounded by how open minded Chuan Jianjun is while your head priest looks like he's about to start having an epileptic fit just from having the unpleasant truth crammed into his ears.
"Which is why we were ruled by an emperor so evil natured that he tore the realm apart, why men had not warred until Lord Bao struck at him, and Ling Meng stabbed at Chuan's heart. Why I was unprepared to face him in battle, as no one remembered how to fight a war or lead armies" He continues, voice wavering with an emotion you find sweet, pure resentment
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sun 19 Nov 2023 01:09:30 No. 5835071 Report >>5835070 "And they stamped out much of the mysteries of the world, and turned it plain! And weak! The peace they ordained has drowned my lands in blood and tragedy!" He rages, raising the volume of his voice until it is booming like thunder. The meek man showing exactly how he's been able to kick the Ling's ass all the way back to their ancestral holdings, despite, in his own words, wasting his life with his nose in books and scrolls.
"YES!" The head priest shouts, suddenly rising after you thought he'd fallen over and had his heart explode or something from how poorly he was reacting to the truth "I see now! Through her cruel words, our master has revealed to me the truth! I am enlightened! The heavens have been ruled by demons, and the true deities have been branded as devils as they enforce a rule of corruption, sin and heterodoxy upon the earth! And the night of a thousand natural disaster was the rage of the mandate of heaven rebelling against the pretenders! Punishing the world for man's sinful behavior and their worship of false gods!" He raves, eyes blood shot and nose bleeding. Apparently his internal battle was far fiercer than you could've imagined. He turns to lord Chuan, madness in his eyes as he takes him by his wrist and kneels, pressing his purple and bruise mottled brow to his hands as the noble looks rather distressed by his new demeanor "Lord Chuan! We must return to the natural order and honor the forgotten gods by making peace with the natural world, before it is too late! We shall burn the temples of the false heavens"
"I wouldn't go that far" You mutter under your breath, rolling your eyes "But there are immortal sects who know the truth as well as I do, you will know them, for they to have my favor"
"WE MUST CAST DOWN THE IDOLS OF THE MODERN ERA, EMBRACE CHAOS AND RETURN TO PRIMITIVISM!" The head priests wails, throwing his arms around and dancing around you and Lord Chuan sit, much more well behaved and well mannered.
"And is there anything else I need to know, that is most pertinent to this truth? I am certain the story is longer and more tragic than what you have said, but I do not think to demand all of a goddess' time' He asks politely and meekly
You flash perhaps the most wicked smile to ever distort your beautiful face
"One of the five wise immortal sages is an ancestor of the Ling" You hiss in dark delight, seeing a flicker of undying hate in Chuan Jianjun's eyes
"I see...I see" he says, sounding darkly pleased himself. Of course, Old five colors real name is Ling Wucai, but you don't think he'll mind you leaving out that part of the story for another day
"When shall we meet again" He asks softly, as if finishing his prayers to a shrine's idol
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sun 19 Nov 2023 01:10:31 No. 5835072 Report >>5835071 "Whenever we next meet" You playfully answer as you hop back into the abyss and leave him and the head priest who is still dancing wildly like a monkey, his mad laughter following him as you catch a wayward breeze and drift to the other side of Suiqi, where your buddhist friends are waiting for you and...
You look down at the mansion they've been herded into. And the section of the noble districts of the city they've taken over. Cause it isn't just blind Shousan, principled and fiery Yongzheng, and their fellow monks of the Ancient Tree Forest Monastery ( 古树森林梵刹, Gǔshùsēnlínfànchà), and maybe a few other young and spirited shaved head baldies they riled up to join them in their travels.
No, they've brought an army of buddhists and more than a few demonic beasts dressed in Buddhist prayer beads and some of those blessed few who were partially turned into beasts by your roar. And all of them are standing at attention around the mansion, ready to march for war as snow begins to fall and melt in the sky above Suiqi, as the primordial weather fights back against the outmost edge of the land swallowing blizzard.
Flying down immediatly, you find blind old Shoushan feeding Senlin Zheren a handful of leaves, while the monk like deer with golden antlers and a coat the same color as the monks' robes, orange and red, bows his head as he respects his elder, while Houmogui pretends to listen to one of the other monks, the fattest of the monastery, tries to explain to her the core beliefs of buddhism, and her rusty red fur gleams like polished bronze in the fading light of the blood moon.
"Oh, Red Cat has deigned to meet us, like she promised" Yongzheng chuckles as you stomp down in front of him and Shoushan
"Doesn't sound like she's chosen to meet us in the new body she earned through her enlightenment and partial buddha nature" Shoushan chuckles, turning his blind eyes to you "Though she has sought universal oneness, greetings, little sister"
"Greetings, our friendly doctor!" The other monks shout as they greet you with deep bows
"Uncle Shoushaaaan" You say sweetly "Why did you bring an army that could've crushed the whole empire to my lovely city"
"Oh? We've reached Suiqi? The air was so humid and hot I thought we got blown off course and ended up in the dusk marshes" The old man jokes
"Why is there an army of battle ready Buddhists here? Where did you even find that many?" You press, as Yongzheng smiles, amused by your annoyance while Shoushan just smiles and lifts up his favorite misbehaving disciple beating stick
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sun 19 Nov 2023 01:11:32 No. 5835074 Report >>5835072 "The current breed of daoists have won themselves far more enemies than they have friends, they return our kindness with emnity, suspicion, libel and cripplingd" he speaks, without his facade of a friendly, dithering old man "I am not the only monk who has been attacked for enshrining the sanctity of life, and befriending those they deem unworthy of life and wisdom. All of our temples, have tragic tales to tell, of well meaning brothers cut down for being "Demon worshipers" or having sister monasteries reduced to ash for harboring "Cultists". Ten generations of peace between the self righteous sects of daoism and our Buddhist ancestors, have only been achieved through the governments allowing our persecution while acting as if we are equally favored as the impious and selfish cultivators who've forgotten the face of the dao and the primordial source"
He takes a breath as you stand there, stunned into silence by kindly old shoushan's fervor and the enmity bubbling out of him in thick, dark clouds that dribble from his age withered frame like drops of putrid rot from an poorly sealed coffin.
"We Buddhists have been bullied for ten ages, kicked around and stomped into the dirt. And it is true, we've faded somewhat, lost favor and support in the public mind due the smear campaigns of wicked daoists, but many remember the Buddhas teachings, and answer the Bodhisattvas call to war. And were in fact, waiting their whole lives to pursue so impious a thing as cold revenge" He answers, his voice lowering and turning harsh like a war scarred veteran, his thin arms trembling with rage he has suppressed for all of his long life "And many more were willing to listen to us "Shaved fools", we "Stuffy old relics" When these "Heroic" immortals have spent the better half of a decade running rampant, slaughtering each other and anyone who stands in their way"
Did...did you accidentally set off a holy war? You blink, trying to figure out how that jovial and serene natured monk you knew could talk so adamantly about such a violent, volatile topic, when his old face and grandfatherly smile returns
"So we've had no shortage of converts, though I appreciate your allowance of preaching in your territory saintess, it is not needed. You old breed of daoists are capable of peaceful coexistence and civilized discourse" He says with chuckle
"I had no part in this" Yongzheng suddenly blurts out, scratching the back of his bald head "My master had your letter read to him, and immediately sent many of his own to every temple he had visited in his youth as an exorcist"
"And turned into a demon instructor, drilling us until we felt like our hands might fall off" One of the other buddhists complains loudly
"He also reformed several bands of bandits and criminal organizations from our holy temple to this strange city" Yongzheng reprimands
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sun 19 Nov 2023 01:12:33 No. 5835075 Report >>5835074 "And he should've made them train harder than he made us" The other monk pouts as you blink, still struggling to grasp how exactly your invitation to meet and gossip with Shoushan and his students turned into a rallying of several buddhist temples to take up arms against their oppressors and religious rivals. All you'd wanted was for Shoushan to share his buddhist wisdom with your disciples, the same wisdom that helped you attain your human form and understand faith itself
"You did say you'd pay for monastery repairs and the construction of new temples, so its only fair we answer in kind" Shoushan happily answers your thoughts "And you are the only cultivator to treat us with respect and common dignity, as a friend, rather than to look down on us with suspicion and arrogance, is it really so hard to see why we would be willing to lay down our lives to defend such rare open mindedness and compassion in this era of chaos?
"Did you just read my mind?" You ask bluntly
"Huuh? What's that, I can't hear you, you need to speak louder, my hearing is failing in my old age" He plays coy, pretending to be suddenly death when you know he has sharper hearing than men a quarter his age
"He can" Yongzheng answers, not entertaining his master by playing along with his mischief "We might not show off like cultivators, but we have powers of our own. Remember, I could see you for your true self when you walked around in Miss Yuyi's skin"
"And you're alright with the weaponizing of your faith?" You ask all of the present monks
"What master Shoushan said is true, we're tired of being pushed around and treated like filth, and cannot stand idly by when there's a chance to save countless lives" One of the monks huffs, crossing his arms "When pacifism would damn them all, and doom the tides of change to recede"
"And I imagine, little sister, you to want to see those smug, self adoring smiles wiped off the faces of those sinful souls who imagine themselves the equal of the buddhas" Another snorts confidently "Besides, there is a history of Buddhists fighting daoists"
"You do not remember the journey to the west clearly" Shoushan says quietly "If you think one of its lessons was to "Fight daoists"
"Journey to the what?" You ask, now even more confused than before.
Shoushan's grandfatherly smile turns oddly sad when you say that. In fact, all of the monks look sad for some reason, even Yongzheng. It makes you feel uncomfortable, and worse, ashamed and ignorant! But how are you supposed to know what they're talking about? Its probably some kind of obscure Buddhist fable. The looks of pity just piss you off
"Another time" Shoushan says sadly "We have other matters to discuss, like the lovely demeanor of this disciple of yours!
And now he's deflecting, sensing that you feel humiliated! Which just makes you angrier. But for now you'll let this pitying disrespect slide.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sun 19 Nov 2023 01:16:11 No. 5835077 Report >>5835075 "Snow?" Yongzheng ponders, looking to the sky. Crap. Crap! Well, you can forgive their accidental wounding of your pride, time really is in short supply and running out quicker by the second!
What do you say to Shoushan and the other Buddhists
>"Would you like to be introduced to the rest of my students, Uncle Shoushan" >"yes, like you signing up your army of monks to the cause! Say, Yongzheng! is it against your religion to ally with Daoists against other daoists?" >"No, don't change the subject. What is the journey to the west and why are you looking at me like I'm a woefully ignorant child for not knowing about it, You damn shaved head baldies!" >"I dunno, he's always been like that. Might have something to do with him eating the bones of buddhists like yourself before he became a magical beast. He's a good kid though" And what do you do to ready yourself for battle, now that the blizzard is on the horizon and you only have a few days left before it arrives, Huanliuxue?
>Realize immediately that Buddhists angry about daoists and a Daoist occultist who rules the land, are a poor mix, and have Shoushan and Lord Chuan meet and publicly declare friendship, to keep anything bad from happening from being your fault >See how progress on the arena is coming and acclimate yourself to the battleground being prepared for you. >Remember the two unknown cultivators seeking an audience with you, and that a bunch of pissed off Buddhists will probably chase them off and piss of their masters, so meet with both of them but separately, so you at least don't make any new enemies. >Experiment with your Cosmic nature abilities and Lunar Qi, and try to come up with a new, killer technique before you run out of time (Combined training. DC 160. DC increased by time restrictions) >You're a pure carmine mystic, but you haven't explored the abilities or how you can evolve as a living carmine mystic like the old, demonic kind used to. So ask for a tithe of blood to try and progress as a blood-drinker...(If you drink the divine blood you'll need to make a fortitude trial. DC 180, failure = injuries of increasing severity depending on the degrees of failure) >Try to cultivate enough faith through worship to evolve a third time, but as a true guardian spirit >write in Had a lot of fun writing both the True history half and the Buddhist avenger half of this update
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>>5835077 >Would you like to be introduced to the rest of my students, Uncle Shoushan" >Remember the two unknown cultivators seeking an audience with you, and that a bunch of pissed off Buddhists will probably chase them off and piss of their masters, so meet with both of them but separately, so you at least don't make any new enemies. Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sun 19 Nov 2023 01:39:22 No. 5835104 Report Quoted By:
>>5835077 AH! I forgot to put the <span class="mu-s"> double vote </span> text and the write in on the first half of the vote! Such a blunder can only be paid with with my life!
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>>5835077 >Yes, Like signing your army of monks up to the cause We just need em to keep the fodder in check.
>Realisze that angry buddah's and daoists occultists don't mix, get them to declare friendship. >Remember the unknown cultivators and meet with both seperately before they are run off. We don't need to do the first one ourselves, just give the uncle our letter of passage.
Then we need to do some diplomancy, see if the other sect will attack the back.
Also buddhist powers. . . Hmm, maybe something to investigate later?
But we don't have the time or the capacity to enlighten ourselves anymore. We've only got diplomacy or home field powers to test.
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>>5835177 Guys, I really need to put out the reasoning here.
We should absolutely push through the alliance of buddah and daoists, because it benefits the mortal realms, our followers and our friends, and we don't have to do dick about it. This is. . the best way forwards.
then we can put something else that needs a physical action to do.
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>>5835077 >"No, don't change the subject. What is the journey to the west and why are you looking at me like I'm a woefully ignorant child for not knowing about it, You damn shaved head baldies!" I can't resist the comedic effect.
I Want Huan to get pity pets from the blind monk while he tells her stories.
>Remember the two unknown cultivators seeking an audience with you, and that a bunch of pissed off Buddhists will probably chase them off and piss of their masters, so meet with both of them but separately, so you at least don't make any new enemies. These meet and greet are great fun, let's see who also showed up.
And hope our genius can carry us through the storm.
Though from what i remember the icicle bastard had used Xuebai core to turn into a golden core but botched it, or was he trying to push past golden core?
What even is past that? I will need to brush up because my knowledge of daoism is as shallow as a puddle.
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>>5835077 >After this battle I'll read the story journey to the rest. You all forget I'm young... Bullies all of you. No matter. >Transform into human and dress in your heroic armor. >"yes, like you signing up your army of monks to the cause! Say, Yongzheng! is it against your religion to ally with Daoists against other daoists?" >>5835177 Support bottom option with handling relations
Also I thought deer was female
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>>5835077 Much as I'd like to hear about the Most Excellent Sage, Uncle Laohue won't wait. We'll have to ask about it later maybe on the way to introducing the Monks to Jianjan.
>>"yes, like you signing up your army of monks to the cause! Say, Yongzheng! is it against your religion to ally with Daoists against other daoists?" >See how progress on the arena is coming and acclimate yourself to the battleground being prepared for you. >>5835192 I don't disagree, but I think Chuan (people and leader) would be more open to the Monks setting up shop here after they've killed some Winter Sect troublemakers.
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>>5835077 So much epic!
>"yes, like you signing up your army of monks to the cause! Say, Yongzheng! is it against your religion to ally with Daoists against other daoists?" Delegate someone one onto
>Realize immediately that Buddhists angry about daoists and a Daoist occultist who rules the land, are a poor mix, and have Shoushan and Lord Chuan meet and publicly declare friendship, to keep anything bad from happening from being your fault Lanfen maybe?
Then hustle over to
>See how progress on the arena is coming and acclimate yourself to the battleground being prepared for you. Could we spar with Monu in the arena? Does she think she could give us some practice with Xue's ice techniques?
Now would be a good time for those crow king recipes to finish...
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>>5835077 >"Would you like to be introduced to the rest of my students, Uncle Shoushan" >Remember the two unknown cultivators seeking an audience with you, and that a bunch of pissed off Buddhists will probably chase them off and piss of their masters, so meet with both of them but separately, so you at least don't make any new enemies. Anonymous
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>>5835077 >"yes, like you signing up your army of monks to the cause! Say, Yongzheng! is it against your religion to ally with Daoists against other daoists?" >Realize immediately that Buddhists angry about daoists and a Daoist occultist who rules the land, are a poor mix, and have Shoushan and Lord Chuan meet and publicly declare friendship, to keep anything bad from happening from being your fault >Remember the two unknown cultivators seeking an audience with you, and that a bunch of pissed off Buddhists will probably chase them off and piss of their masters, so meet with both of them but separately, so you at least don't make any new enemies. >Experiment with your Cosmic nature abilities and Lunar Qi, and try to come up with a new, killer technique before you run out of time (Combined training. DC 160. DC increased by time restrictions) Anonymous
>>5835204 >What even is past that? I will need to brush up because my knowledge of daoism is as shallow as a puddle. I think Nascent Soul. But don't worry too much about it. One of the great things about being the head of two Heretical Schools as well as a Protagonist is the ability to operate without the slightest idea of what's going on.
I believe Uncle Laohue is a Golden Core who's badly fucked up his meridians, but is Old in a game kills people young, not least of all by men like he. He's likely more experienced with cultivation and fighting, but crippled so even if he kills us, he'll die before he can get any further. Cold comfort that will be to the Palace of Natural Laws, Suiqi and Chuan, if we lose. Rotten bastard would leave the place like a year round winter wonderland, and gift our downright turgid beast core to his successor, seeing to it his sect and grudge will outlast ours.
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>>5835472 The crow king has been cooked. We just never got told the profits of it.
>>5835807 Correct. And after that it is spirit severing stage.
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>>5835077 >"yes, like you signing up your army of monks to the cause! Say, Yongzheng! is it against your religion to ally with Daoists against other daoists?" I guess if we went for the Monkey King option on the moon, we would have been able to learn some buddhist techniques to mix with our daoist ones.
But I still prefer Blood Moon, because it's our own path
>Remember the two unknown cultivators seeking an audience with you, and that a bunch of pissed off Buddhists will probably chase them off and piss of their masters, so meet with both of them but separately, so you at least don't make any new enemies. I really want to become a guardian spirit, but this is time sensitive
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>>5835077 >"Would you like to be introduced to the rest of my students, Uncle Shoushan" >Remember the two unknown cultivators seeking an audience with you, and that a bunch of pissed off Buddhists will probably chase them off and piss of their masters, so meet with both of them but separately, so you at least don't make any new enemies. Anonymous
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>>5835077 >"Would you like to be introduced to the rest of my students, Uncle Shoushan" >Realize immediately that Buddhists angry about daoists and a Daoist occultist who rules the land, are a poor mix, and have Shoushan and Lord Chuan meet and publicly declare friendship, to keep anything bad from happening from being your fault keep the lads united.
Let's try to keep the forces under us cohesive for long term integrity, other then that I don't mind what first vote is and open to change.
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Ending the vote, tallying the result now.
Would you like to be introduced to the rest of my students, Uncle Shoushan:4
Yes, Like signing your army of monks up to the cause! Say, Yongzheng! is it against your religion to ally with Daoists against other daoists? :6
No, don't change the subject. What is the journey to the west and why are you looking at me like I'm a woefully ignorant child for not knowing about it, You damn shaved head baldies!:1
After this battle I'll read the story journey to the rest. You all forget I'm young... Bullies all of you. No matter:1
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Remember the two unknown cultivators seeking an audience with you, and that a bunch of pissed off Buddhists will probably chase them off and piss of their masters, so meet with both of them but separately, so you at least don't make any new enemies:8
Realize immediately that Buddhists angry about daoists and a Daoist occultist who rules the land, are a poor mix, and have Shoushan and Lord Chuan meet and publicly declare friendship, to keep anything bad from happening from being your fault:5
See how progress on the arena is coming and acclimate yourself to the battleground being prepared for you.:2
Experiment with your Cosmic nature abilities and Lunar Qi, and try to come up with a new, killer technique before you run out of time: 1
So You'll ask "yes, like you signing up your army of monks to the cause! Say, Yongzheng! is it against your religion to ally with Daoists against other daoists?"
And then meet with the two messengers, if at least so you don't offend their masters and make new enemies.
update will arrive shortly
>>5835472 Happy you enjoyed it, junior.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Tue 21 Nov 2023 11:30:53 No. 5838067 Report "Yes, like signing up your army of monks to the cause!" You shout, loudly enough so Shoushan won't be able to use his age as an excuse to ignore what you've just said, before whipping you head to face young Yongzheng as he examines the unmelted snowflake in the palm of his hand with a scholarly concentration, as if staring at it would reveal the reason for it falling out of season and refusing to melt from the warmth of his palm "Yongzheng!" He doesn't jolt and nearly leap out of his skin like you had hoped he would, merely flicking his eyes from the center of his hand to look at you at the corner of his vision, seeming somewhat bothered that you had interrupted his important study of the singular snow flake in the palm of his hand. But not bothered enough to be angry with you, as far as you can tell. He isn't glaring, just staring. "Is it against your religion to ally with daoists against other daoists?" You question, while his seniors shuffle around to form a ring around the two of you while Shoushan watches, making a show of picking and digging around in his ear so he won't be called on by his student to interject on his behalf. Seems the older monks have taken advantage of your question by turning it into a surprise quiz for Yongzheng. "Are you truly a Daoist?" He asks simply, rolling his eyes as he turns his attention back to the snowflake refusing to melt from his body heat "I mean no offense, but in the eyes of the world, can you truly be considered a daoist when you ignore or outright stand in opposition of the core tenants of the standard of the faith, some by simply existing" "A Daoist is a Daoist" You answer with a sagely nod of your head "And most of what I ignore and stand against are corruptions and have no place in the world, let alone my heart, and go against the principles of Daoism itself" "In your eyes and belief, yes, but would the world recognize you as such?" He questions, lifting his eyes to glance your way again "Who cares. I know what I am, and if I state it loudly enough, others will listen" You reply with an annoyed huff "Would you still be a Buddhist if some prankster went around and replaced all your texts with their antithesis?" Shoushan grins as Yongzheng tics his jaw and admits defeat with a slumping of his shoulder "I see your point" He says with a humble bowing of his head "Though I didn't mean to start a debate, I see your wits are still somewhat more well honed than my own. I was just asking if that is really a question? If you aren't recognizable as a Daoist, there shouldn't be any issue with us standing at your side against the world, no?" "Ah, well it was still a stupid question to ask, uncle should stop whacking you so hard with that stick of his" You snicker and sneer, flicking your tail along the back of Yongzheng's neck as you stride behind him "He really should" He mutters "But he hasn't run out of excuses to do so yet" Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Tue 21 Nov 2023 11:31:53 No. 5838069 Report >>5838067 "Besides, three sects have already recognized me as their fellow daoist" You cackle, which finally gets an amusing reaction out of Yongzheng, whose eyes pop and are so wide they look like they'll simply roll out of his skull. Some of his seniors are caught off guard by this as well, though their reactions are much more tame. They nod their heads, show their admiration with applause or sharp whistles, or simply rub their chins in thought.
Except for Shoushan, who flashes a knowing smile as he flicks wax from his fingers
"What?" Yongzheng laughs, sounding almost proud of your accomplishment, wearing a beaming smile as you circle around him, smiling as smugly as is possible "Truly? or out of ambition"
"Regret, honor and self preservation" You answer, raising up your paw and stretching out your claws as you swish it through the air the emphasize their reasons "The five colors and five purities are lead by a man who has seen the true face of the orthodoxy and aligned with me for various reasons, including regret for his past inaction, the head of the Dusk marsh wolves is so honor bound you'd think he was wearing his like manacles and chains, My adorable students saved him some face and protected his lands, so he thinks he's obligated to repay the favor even if I am a "Demon, so while he is a temporary ally, I trust him more than the last. And the last"
"Is the kind of Daoist the great sage met?" One of the other monks, whose name escapes you at the moment snickers. The same one who reference the story they all seem to think you should know, like it was a book they all read and enjoy. Hmph, when this trouble is done, you'll bury them under references of The Hare and Hunting Hound, see how they like not getting a reference and feeling foolish because of it!
"Brother" Shoushan scolds as Yongzheng covers his mouth to hide that he is laughing behind the sleeve of his robe "And please, tell me of the last of our new allies character"
"I only just met him, but I intimidated with a display of my awesome power so he groveled before me and swore his subservience at my feet" You answer "Which, considering what I've heard from a few of my disciple's gossiping and how suspicious of a character he is, I don't know if he is at all trustworthy. He has a reputation as a womanizer"
"AH!" All the monks gasp at once
"The Summer Sea Dawn's patriarch, the dancing golden shark" One of them remarks, nodding his head like he knows the man personally
"That sinful lout" Another groans, rolling his eyes "We know exactly who you're talking about, little sister"
"Oh so I don't need to explain further?" You ask mischievously, intending to speak further to see how much dirt these monks can pile on your groveling underling, who should be leaving to present himself to Xue Laohue sometime soon "You know he offered me his body, how gross is that! And his daughter to! What did he take me for, some kind of rotten girl"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Tue 21 Nov 2023 11:32:54 No. 5838071 Report >>5838069 "Oh that is just like him" Another scoffs, his jowls and ear lobs wobbling as he does so "He feuds with the dusk marsh wolves, yet is drowning in a mire of earthly temptations"
"How animalistic of him, bowing at the first show of strength and showing his belly to his superior" Yongzheng says "How hypocritical, considering how strongly Daoists are supposed to oppose animals practicing their faith. No matter if they're benevolent or not"
"I know right, it was honestly pathetic. Like the crow demon I killed, he at least was outspoken that he was a piece of shit so I wasn't really surprised when he tried to take the coward's way out and surrender after I started kicking his ass" You chuckle "But I'll see if my new underling's kowtowing was earnest or not, since he's offered to stab Xue Laohue by acting like he's joined their cause"
Shoushan is suddenly surrounded by a cloud of raw enmity so deep and dark you cannot even see his face.
"Ohoho, so you know that old fossil as well, Uncle?" You ask, turning to face the eyes hiding behind the storm of resentment
"I know that brute" He answers in a voice as soft as silk but dangerous as a naked blade. And you immediately understand
"He took your sight" You gasp, before your next thought escapes behind those four words "Wait, just how old are you, uncle?"
"A man bound to the laws of other men, willfully ignorant and proud of that flaw" He says, his voice still delicate but dangerous sounding "Chained by the malignant code of conduct passed down from one generation to the next. Though, as much as I dislike him for his churlish behavior, I am also grateful. For it was he who set me down my right path, killing the arrogance of my youth along with that poor, innocent creature"
"Grandfather has told me of this sad tale" Senlin Zheren suddenly chimes in, when you had nearly forgotten he and Houmogui were present "It touched me deeply, and reminded me of the harshness and ignorance of our fellow cultivators, Master"
"And to answer your other question, deary, I am younger than your mother" Shoushan chuckles, hiding his rage with a jovial smile, but his resentment doesn't leave him "By quite the margin. But, I will keep my followers in line, two of your allies have taken your side for good reasons, but I cannot say as such for the third. But the days to come will give that wastrel a chance to reveal his true colors I suppose"
"It just might be because Huanliuxue has split open his belly and dragged his bowels out" Yongzheng states calmly "Though I hope it doesn't come to that, and he truly changes his sinful ways. If he realizes they are sinful at all"
"Sin has different meanings depending on one's beliefs" You answer, and receive an approving nod from Shoushan
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Tue 21 Nov 2023 11:33:55 No. 5838072 Report >>5838071 "if the world is just, Xue Laohue will repent with his last breath, but I see the truth of the world, and know how empty it can be" Shoushan says sadly, as he waves his hand and orders his students and fellow monks to fall in line "I shall meet with your other allies, and explain the circumstances of our joining of your alliance, Huanliuxue. Perhaps my presence will make them undergo a bit of self reflection and make them reconsider their places in this world, though from your words, one of them already has"
"Well just don't picking a fight you can't win" Houmogui blurts out, looking a little frantic for some...OH! right! She'd ran into an unknown cultivator and had her wits scared of her didn't she? "Sure, I think the boss here can keep the three old farts in line, but they aren't the only cultivators around here, Ya hear?"
Yeah. Shoushan's Buddhists will probably play nice with the Five colors and Five purities, and the Dusk Marsh wolves sects, and the Summer Sea Dawn sect aren't going to stop by Suiqi so how they get along with them doesn't matter, but there are two other daoists presence near the city. One who you are certain would enjoy killing saintly monks like them. Seven slaughtering swords, its in the name. And the other, well they're aligned to the Ling, and you can't be certain if they're trustworthy due to that connection, even if they said they're tired of serving those dogs, but at least you're confident they won't go on a rampage for no reason.
And even if the seven slaughter sword's representative doesn't slaughter with his sword, sooner or later, one of the Buddhists fired up and fueled by their resentment towards the wrong sort of Daoist will run into them, and the other, less threatening cultivator and chase them off. And the last thing you want is to make the enemy of another sect, when there's already three or so temples who have made you their enemy.
But you can't just invite them both into the city. One is a heretic and the other an underling of the most self righteous of the righteous sects of the world. You'll need to meet them separately and away from the other, if only so you won't offend their masters.
And you're certain both of them will prefer to meet you in different forms. Human for the orthodox cultivator and Demonic Beast for the heretic. And since getting dressed just to shed your clothes again would be a pain, you'll meet the later first, then turn into a human girl to set the other messenger at ease.
From what Houmogui reported, the messenger of the Seven Slaughtering Swords (七惨杀剑, Qīcǎnshājiàn) is squatting in the ruins of one the villages your sect wasn't able to save in time, before the blizzard claimed all of the lives of those who once lived there.
Swimming through the last stream of blood red moonlight and knowing exactly which lost village your disciple was flying over when she ran into the heretical cultivator, you arrive at its border before the sun can rise.
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>>5838072 And find that the graves that had been dug there had been dug up and plundered, with bones and rotting limbs strewn about the village. Was this the work of common grave robbers, scavengers looking for a meal or was the other heretic trying to get on your good side by strewing corpses all around as decoration.
The moment you step foot on the ground, you can sense their presence. It is similar to the ogress. Blood and Iron. An unrefined scent, an air of bloodlust heating the air until it was boiling with murderous rage. It cooled before the rolling waves of your graveyard aura, and you were confident the other cultivator felt your presence long before their spiritual sense picked up your Qi signature in the mists rolling through the empty ruins.
They do not keep you waiting or force you to stalk through the ruined village, not that they could frighten you even if they tried. Instead they sweep out from one of the collapses hovels, dressed in a ragged black cloak that obscures their outline and hides the position of their arms and legs. Their face is hidden by a hood and a mask made out of a skull. A human skull that glows with Qi. the remains of a cultivator.
They stand, appearing to float a few inches off the ground with the fog hiding their feet, the winds rustling their long billowing cloak as they admire you from a distance
"Ah. The bloodshed herself. I had an inkling that monstrous vampire bat was your understudy" they speak in a deathly whisper that makes it difficult to tell if they're a man or a woman "I assure you, I have behaved myself as a guest should in another's house. I respect the territory you've taken by your own power, magnificent queen of beasts. My master, who holds one of our namesake blades, respects your force of will and admires your courage to reveal yourself, and in such a grandiose way. Though, I suspect that odd happenings before your official debut, such as that wave of primordial beast essence, were your work as well, majestic one"
"You aren't what I was expecting, I didn't think someone who belongs to a sect that calls themselves the seven slaughtering swords would be so" You say, pausing as you look them and their ghostly get up up and down "Polite. Or is this just you trying to curry my favor, skull mask?"
"Oh. We are quite vicious to those we think we can take in a fight. We exult in bloodshed and murder. But, well, standing before you is like walking past the debris of a vast and apocalyptic battlefield. I am almost driven to tears in awe of your ghoulish aura, Young mistress" They say, sounding almost like they're in love with you already "But yes, I did not come here to deliver a letter of challenge. My master, who holds one of our namesake blades, wishes to strike an alliance with you, the boldest of heretics"
"You smell like the Ling Ogress" You state loudly, ignoring what they were saying
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Tue 21 Nov 2023 11:36:01 No. 5838075 Report "We understand you've hired that..remarkable woman" they say, trembling with delight as they speak of that brute, sounding like Monu does when she sees a pretty face in a crowd "Before. And we to sought her services, but alas, she turned my martial brothers and sister in so much minced meat. She'd flourish in our temple, but alas, she is an independent spirit who takes our offer as an insult and a challenge" "So you approached her first then, rather than the glorious me?" You ask, stalking closer to see if you could frighten them and make them speak in a tone besides one of barely contained affection, besides outright lust "She holds a storied blade, she slaughters. She could've made us the eight slaughter swords sect" they joke, shrugging their shoulders "But you to, are the happy bloodshed, you drown in the blood of your enemies. You and us are a good match, no? We share a cause and an enemy. And, standing before you, I can feel the Qi of Slaughter flowing from you, and sense your body has undergone some abnormal alterations" That could be referring to the strengthening of your veins, the transformation of your heart when you created perfected carmine mysticism, or your sinner bone centipede Gu. Warily, you contemplate your response "Really? Never knew she did. Figured she picked it up from a roadside stall" You titter, deciding to meet his joking around with good humor "And remembers of my sect hold some strong grudges towards her" "Then kill her, take her blade or have one of them do it" He states coldly "That is our way, and our Dao. She pursues the Dao of Blades, but she is not a sister of mine, though...how wonderful a sword maniac she would be. But I stray from the topic at hand. I have come to present to you, Graveyard princess, My master, who holds one of our namesake blades' offer of...friendship" "The rotten smelling letter he sent did make it seem like he was overjoyed that I stepped onto the world stage" You say with a voice as sweet as decay "Is he interested in me because of my name alone, or does he just want to join in on the killing" The mask wearing freak lifts up their head so you can see them smile, revealing a neck covered in scars "Just to share in the spotlight and make the world remember we exist" they answers with a wistful sounding hum "The Ling princess is forcing our hand, stealing up all the nice blades left behind by her victims. Her habits resemble our own too much and..." "You think you'll take the blame without any of the fun?" You snicker, finding their reason for wanting to join the scuffle nearly cute "Correct" they answer with a bobbing nod, as they seem to hop in place, but the fog makes it hard to tell "If you need time to consider, or wish me to tell you more about what you could gain out of an alliance with us, an older demonic sect, I will wait here in these ruins" "Did you turn up these graves?" You ask "Not those of the children" They answers coyly "They rest undisturbed, Notched ear" Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Tue 21 Nov 2023 11:37:08 No. 5838078 Report >>5838075 "Someone has done their research" You reply, just as coyly
"You are not the only daoist to walk by the yellow springs" they answer proudly "I ask only that you consider our offer"
"I will" You cordially answer, reasoning its best to have the option of accepting rather than refusing them out right "But don't leave this village"
" A guest knows their place" They cackle as they hop back and wisely suppress their aura and spiritual energy, even though you can still track them by scent and with your whiskers.
Sighing, you skirt the village to make sure they were lying, and find a few undisturbed graves with toys made out of human bones laying on top of them. Somethings are too creepy even for your tastes, so you quickly leave the ruins to the sword maniac and head out in search of the other messenger, dressing in the uniform of your sect rather than any of your more fashionable outfits.
The messenger of the Temple of Celestial Fire (庙的天上火, Miàodītiānshànghuǒ), is waiting for you in a humble roadside inn, Siwang lead him there while the two of them were tracking eachother and your junior, ever sagacious, though to tell him to wait there while he fetched you.
As you swagger down the hillside road, you draw all sort of gazes and stop the morning chores of every man tending the paddies surrounding the inn, which doesn't even have an inn. Humming, you kick open the door, careful not to send them flying off their hinges. The balding inn owner chokes on his tongue as he raises his voice to start giving you a hiding for being so disruptive and rude, his jaw nearly dropping to the floor as you sashay into his dreary inn and immediately brighten and luxuries it with your presence. The inn is nearly empty, but even if it was bustling with clients, it wouldn't be hard to pick out the cultivator of the fire temple from the rest of the crowd.
He is sitting by the least grimy window, dressed in a robe that's body was a fiery red, but the neckline a sparkling yellow, with golden fibers woven inside of its silk. Is there a better method to show they're the dogs of the golden robes Ling, than to have a gilded collar like that as part of their uniform? He lifts his eyes away from the rising sun, and he doesn't so much as flinch from the radiance of your beauty. Is he a eunuch or just a cut sleeve? His hair is tied into a tight knot, crested with a small pin of red jade cut into the shape of a flame.
His eyes drift down from your face, and only when he spots the symbol of your sect does he react, by beckoning you over. Seems he's afraid of causing a scene, like you didn't just stall the morning work of this village just by strutting by.
"You can only be the rumored demonic beast herself. It seems the rumors were true, and you've stolen a human body" He begins, before you stall his tongue with a glare
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Tue 21 Nov 2023 11:38:09 No. 5838079 Report Quoted By:
>>5838078 "I made this body myself, of all the myths surrounding my kind, that has to be the stupidest. What, are we all some kind of ghost or demon? Don't answer that" You groan with a roll of your eyes as you kick your legs up onto the table and cross your arms under your bust "I earned this form, and have only possessed others'with their consent"
Usually. But Yuyi isn't here to argue is she? Heh-Heh. The other cultivator chokes, the red amber eyes looking almost pained as their cheeks flush with embarrassment
"I...am sorry, I am ignorant of the nature of demonic beasts. It isn't an area that earns one renown for studying" He says weakly "I apologize for my misunderstanding, But that is what is taught about beasts that look human. They steal corpses or possess the weak minded"
"Libel and horsecrap" You spit, smirking ear to ear "This beauty of mine is mine alone, a personally crafted work of art. The truth is far more benign, would you like to hear it? If you're serious about changing your coat and taking off that collar of yours, then you should know the truth about us ascended beasts"
"My sect is seeking to sever ties with the main branch, both in the mundane and cultivation worlds" He answers with a nod "But, is that the truth? Every story I've heard"
"is Libel and horsecrap" You interrupt, irritated and waving a hand in annoyance "I learned how to look like this because I attained human wisdom, and grasped concepts that don't exist in the pure world of animals. and realized there isn't much difference at all between the civilized world of man and the wild realm of beasts. It isn't that different from the process that turned me from a mindless beast into a magical one"
"Eating people?" He asks warily. You narrow his eyes
"He'll pay for those damages" You chime happily as the balding owner looks at the hole in his wall in despair, as you waltz up to the cultivator you just slapped through it and crouch over him as he rubs the hand shaped welt on his face "And you really need to watch your tongue, ignorance can be deadly in the face of pride"
"Hrrn, forgive me, forgive me, I spoke out of turn" He mutters as he lays in the ground "So, then, how does it work. So I can cease being ignorant and be safe from your pride"
"It depends. I woke up to the world and saw it in vivid colors because of a grudge. Your relatives killing my beloved people, and crushing innocent lives beneath their heels" You answer with a mock affection "The owl you followed, grew his intellect, because he was enraged at the sight of injustice. The causes are different but the source is a strong emotion, alien to the little minds that feel them, a spark to enlighten and broaden them. Attaining human form is similar, you just need to learn how to feel and think like one of you hairless apes. I've opened the gate for it, so expect more of my sort to start showing up"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Tue 21 Nov 2023 11:39:10 No. 5838080 Report "Ling Meng was truly the cause of your appearance?" The laugh weakly, wincing in pain with every guffaw "The Guardians of Celestial sunlight were enraged when you killed him, he was one of two members of the mortal branch of the Ling clan they had aspirations for. And the other was that traitor, Yaonan, who claimed to have killed the beast responsible for our woes. " "Is that why she killed Yujijiao? To save the face of a clan who couldn't even find a cat?" You ask, the anger already bubbling in you, already heated by the insults born of ignorance, begins to boil over fresh and anew "I" they begin before seeing the look in your eyes and reconsidering his words "Do not know. I just know she was paraded around and heaped with praise, before murdering one of their elders somehow and vanishing. She was a trouble maker, in and out of the sect. One day she was being celebrated, and the next our overlords were cursing her name. I don't know wha...who she killed or why, only that she cut ties with her family and sect. I don't care about that lunatic, none of us in the temple do, we're just tired of being pawns and fodder" "Ah, so you know how we magical beasts feel then?" You ask, setting him up for another slap "Huh?" he gasps, clearly confused, before he sees your excited, ferocious smile and the joyful gleaming in your eyes and his panicked mind pieces together what you've told him and realizes why you're the first beast to attain human form in however many generations "Oh...OH!" Damn, you were hoping he'd say something stupid enough to deserve being slapped again. "Ooooh" He whines, pinching his forehead "Oh that...that makes so much sense. I've only heard stories, old stories of beasts walking like men. If it was as simple as stealing bodies, they'd be much more common, even though we c..." His eyes widen with mortal terror "Cull" You finish for him "And yes, it would be. But, since they aren't allowed to live as anything but beasts, and continue on as they did before, until they're slaughtered for no reason they can comprehend, they remain as simple beasts, no matter how strong they get" he just stares at the sky "Shit. I really bungled this meeting didn't I?" He moans, closing his eyes "But, we have common ground at least" You put a foot on his chest "Your sect hasn't come close to feeling the pain of ten generations squandered and murdered in cold blood, they've only lost a portion of one generation. My people have had everything taken away from them, their history, their potential, their pride" You coldly lecture him, as he winces and turns away to shield his face "For ten, long generations. Imagine your children living the lives of pigs. Imagine them living the lives of deer? While it is similar to your loss, and our grudges are alike and share a target, they are not equivalent" He tenses and whimpers "Buut, I can forgive you for your continued ignorance" You snicker as you lift your foot of his chest and allow him to breath
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Tue 21 Nov 2023 11:40:23 No. 5838081 Report >>5838080 Before leaning over him to wag a finger in front of his nose, smiling ear to ear
"Just make sure to inform your master of what to avoid saying, okay~?" You ask with mock playfulness as he nods rapidly "Good, you may stand"
"Will you help us free ourselves, in return for us offering our services in your battle against the winter blossoming wisdom sect?" He asks wearily. Ah, so that's why they sought you out. They don't have the muscle to break their shackles themselves
"Maybe" You giggle with a shrug "At least the messenger they sent is smart enough to learn, and not ask too many stupid questions"
"I am humbled by your praise" He squeaks, clutching his chest. Did you accidently crack a rib when you stepped on him? Maybe, but that's none of your concern.
<span class="mu-s"> Double vote </span>
How do you respond to the offers of the Temple of Celestial fire and the seven slaughtering sword sects
>Just send their messengers back, that's enough to ensure non aggression between them and the palace of the natural laws and that's all you want >Covertly align with the Seven Slaughter Swords, since openly doing so would make you seem more villainous than you are and might drive off your other allies >Tell the Temple of Celestial Fire that if they make to rebel against the guardians of celestial sunlight, you'll help, but expect them to do the same by attacking Xue Laohue's forces >Question one of the messengers to learn more about their sect's and master's temperaments (Which one and what do you ask) >Write in And do you ready yourself for the battle to come, Huanliuxue?
>Trust Xia-Jinseshayu, and allow him to lead Xue Laohue to the battleground you've prepared while Shidi Xiudao leads his sect against the army of the winter blossoming wisdom sect >Act on your suspicions of the Summer Sea dawn's head, and tell Shidi to attack the winter blossoming wisdom sect early, and launch a surprise attack yourself on them before retreating to the arena Monu and the Geges have prepared for you >Drill and practice day and night, being careful not to over exert yourself, until the day the snow tiger is within reach, so you'll face him at your finest. >Train with your students (Training trial. DC variable depending on who and how many of your students you train. Elite Teacher perk reduces DC and increases results of successful training) >Practice with one of your allies in a friendly spar (Who?) >Write in Also remember, you have created a 4444 elite mortal troops, whose bodies you've refined/ improved/ transformed via blood alchemy, A menagerie of mutated mindless animals you've turned into true monsters/ faux demonic beasts via blood alchemy (Some with spells stored in their bones), and have two True Carmine mystic "descendants" Renshu of the river and Ruolan who...aren't much different from regular people in terms of strength or mystical abilities, currently, since they (like you) are still at the first, initial level of Perfected Carmine Mysticism.
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>>5838081 >Align with the Temple of fire It grants us more legitimacy and destroys the orthadox cohesion.
>Train students (Monu, Su and the Geges) We need ace units, so helping core formation people level up is the best idea.
Letting our sisters power up will empower their kids who will be acting as our army.
>Trust Xia to lead him to the battlefield. Either it works, and we are at an advantage or we are betrayed and we don't have to worry about questioning his loyalty anymore.
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>>5838081 >Tell the Temple of Celestial Fire that if they make to rebel against the guardians of celestial sunlight, you'll help, but expect them to do the same by attacking Xue Laohue's forces >Train with your students (Training trial. DC variable depending on who and how many of your students you train. Elite Teacher perk reduces DC and increases results of successful training Anonymous
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>>5838081 >Tell the Temple of Celestial Fire that if they make to rebel against the guardians of celestial sunlight, you'll help, but expect them to do the same by attacking Xue Laohue's forces >Train with your students (Training trial. DC variable depending on who and how many of your students you train. Elite Teacher perk reduces DC and increases results of successful training) Anonymous
>>5838081 >Tell the Temple of Celestial Fire that if they make to rebel against the guardians of celestial sunlight, you'll help, but expect them to do the same by attacking Xue Laohue's forces The swords are too edgy
>Drill and practice day and night, being careful not to over exert yourself, until the day the snow tiger is within reach, so you'll face him at your finest. When did we acquire Carmine Mysticism disciples?
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>>5838167 When we turned some prodigy alchemist volunteers into non-corrupted jianshi. One of them went mad with power nearly immediately, so we had to cut him down.
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>>5838081 >Tell the Temple of Celestial Fire that if they make to rebel against the guardians of celestial sunlight, you'll help, but expect them to do the same by attacking Xue Laohue's forces Between the help against Xue, the weakening of the Celestial Sunlight, and extra delegitimizing of orthodox cultivation at large, we have everything to win here.
>Train with your students (Training trial. DC variable depending on who and how many of your students you train. Elite Teacher perk reduces DC and increases results of successful training) We will be fine
hopefully but our students are going to need all the help they can get. We have yet to loose any disciples, and I would like to keep it that way.
I like the Seven Slaughter Swords, but they are going to need to work on their... work ethic a bit if they actually want to ally with us. We don't really do indiscriminate murder. Discriminate murder, absolutely, but that doesn't seem like their style. We can work together against the orthodoxy, but that could turn into a bit of a PR nightmare for us if they are caught doing evil shit for the kicks.
If they can change their ways to killing only criminals or assholes or what have you then we can work with that, I think.
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>>5838081 >Tell the Temple of Celestial Fire that if they make to rebel against the guardians of celestial sunlight, you'll help, but expect them to do the same by attacking Xue Laohue's forces >Train with your students (Training trial. DC variable depending on who and how many of your students you train. Elite Teacher perk reduces DC and increases results of successful training) I know Huan is gonna make it out, but I don't wanna lose a single one of our precious students to these assholes.
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>>5838081 >Just send their messengers back, that's enough to ensure non aggression between them and the palace of the natural laws and that's all you want >Tell the Temple of Celestial Fire that if they make to rebel against the guardians of celestial sunlight, you'll help, but expect them to do the same by attacking Xue Laohue's forces >Train with your students (Training trial. DC variable depending on who and how many of your students you train. Elite Teacher perk reduces DC and increases results of successful training) As for how many? All of em, group training sesh lets gooo.
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>>5838081 >Covertly align with the Seven Slaughter Swords, since openly doing so would make you seem more villainous than you are and might drive off your other allies >Drill and practice day and night, being careful not to over exert yourself, until the day the snow tiger is within reach, so you'll face him at your finest. Anonymous
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>>5838081 >Tell the Temple of Celestial Fire that if they make to rebel against the guardians of celestial sunlight, you'll help, but expect them to do the same by attacking Xue Laohue's forces Train with your students (Training trial. DC variable depending on who and how many of your students you train. Elite Teacher perk reduces DC and increases results of successful training)
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>>5838081 >>Tell the Temple of Celestial Fire that if they make to rebel against the guardians of celestial sunlight, you'll help, but expect them to do the same by attacking Xue Laohue's forces >>Question one of the messengers to learn more about their sect's and master's temperaments >Seven Slaughtering I.E also the Rules of that sect as well and would they amend the more unreasonable ones. Such as no killing children, unreasonable mass slaughter/slaughter I want to talk with chat that they prob have corrupted blood qi and if they amend the laws of their sect to reasonable levels we offer to purify their blood qi.
Which would remove the mental corruption and make them less insane. And a great bargaining chip to keep them in line.
>Train students (Monu, Su and the Geges >Trust Xia to lead him to the battlefield. Anonymous
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>>5838352 I actually really like the idea of using our ability to purify blood qi to make them better and keep them performing better. We can turn em into decent allies.
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>>5838262 I am this anon btw
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>>5838352 Looking at our treasures and abilities we could create a blood pool using just water which could easily then feed a blood tree without killing anyone which is funny.
But I'm thinking we bring out the Massive Pearl of Crystalized Primordial Beast Essence and upgrade all our beast disciples and boost it with training rolls.
And use a drop of gods blood to remold our human disiples bodies to become stronger or something as a reward for being faithful.
Could we do that grandfather?
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>>5838081 >Tell the Temple of Celestial Fire that if they make to rebel against the guardians of celestial sunlight, you'll help, but expect them to do the same by attacking Xue Laohue's forces >Train with your students (Training trial. DC variable depending on who and how many of your students you train. Elite Teacher perk reduces DC and increases results of successful training) Anonymous
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>>5838387 Fuuuuck no. That blood is way too valuable to use in sucha frivolous manner.
We can do that already with carmine mysticism and blood qi, not a unique resource.
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>>5838081 >Just send their messengers back, that's enough to ensure non aggression between them and the palace of the natural laws and that's all you want >Trust Xia-Jinseshayu, and allow him to lead Xue Laohue to the battleground you've prepared while Shidi Xiudao leads his sect against the army of the winter blossoming wisdom sect Anonymous
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>>5838081 >>Tell the Temple of Celestial Fire that if they make to rebel against the guardians of celestial sunlight, you'll help, but expect them to do the same by attacking Xue Laohue's forces >Trust Xia-Jinseshayu, and allow him to lead Xue Laohue to the battleground you've prepared while Shidi Xiudao leads his sect against the army of the winter blossoming wisdom sect Anonymous
Just finished reading through the archives and phew, wish I got in earlier. I think I could've, even, and just didn't realize how good it was earlier.
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>>5839575 Yeah it gets better as it goes. Now that you caught up tho you gotta wait for each update.
Certainly wish I learned and caught up to this before they finished up that space vote, would've gone void instead of moon.
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>>5839629 I still like stars best. Maybe after the conclusion of this thread grandfather will humor us with telling us how some of the other evolutions might've looked like, I'm especially curious about the monkey king and USA ones...
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>>5840270 I think Wukong would give us buddhist techniques and abilities.
The USA one would give us a gun.
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>>5840270 Hey, no reason we can't potentially get a second Celestial evolution (unless Grandfather says otherwise). I would be down for getting Star-Conqueror, Sun-Killer, or any manner of Void-shit, if double-dipping is available.
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>>5840284 Given we got the moon, i'm either for star conqueror or void.
That said we need to build a rocket ship to conquer the United States.
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>>5840272 I imagined the US one like
>"I cast thermonuclear fusion" >"You wha-?" Anonymous
>>5840571 >"I cast USS Gerard R. Ford" >"huh?" >bodyslammed by an aircraft carrier and all of its materiel and munitions Anonymous
>>5840597 "You have eyes, but cannot see Mount Rushmore!"
"You Court Oil!"
"-all this happened in the time it takes to drink a starbucks coffee..."
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 24 Nov 2023 06:16:06 No. 5840933 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying the result now.
Tell the Temple of Celestial Fire that if they make to rebel against the guardians of celestial sunlight, you'll help, but expect them to do the same by attacking Xue Laohue's forces:12
Just send their messengers back, that's enough to ensure non aggression between them and the palace of the natural laws and that's all you want:2
Covertly align with the Seven Slaughter Swords, since openly doing so would make you seem more villainous than you are and might drive off your other allies:1
Question one of the messengers to learn more about their sect's and master's temperaments:1
-Seven Slaughtering I.E also the Rules of that sect as well and would they amend the more unreasonable ones. Such as no killing children, unreasonable mass slaughter/slaughter:1
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Train with your students:9
-Monu, Master Su, The Geges:3
-Every one of your disciples:3
Trust Xia to lead him to the battlefield.:5
Drill and practice day and night, being careful not to over exert yourself, until the day the snow tiger is within reach, so you'll face him at your finest.:2
So You'll align with the temple of celestial fire, telling them they'll have your help to free themselves from their overlords if they help you by strike the Winter Blossoming Wisdom Sect army
And trusting the other Sect heads to fulfil their part of the plan, you'll focus what time you have left training and toughening up your disciples
Update will arrive shortly
>>5838169 Cut down? Huan popped him like a balloon
>>5840272 >>5840571 >>5840597 >>5840823 Heh, Nearly choked on my tea reading this.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 24 Nov 2023 07:56:59 No. 5840993 Report It doesn't take you long to make up your mind and find the answer for both of the latest offers of an alliance delivered to the gates of the palace of Natural laws. While the name Huanliuxue belongs to the most renowned and feared heretic beneath the heavens, and the boldest as well, allying with the Seven Slaughtering Swords would ruin the small ledge of good reputation and faith that you and your disciples have earned despite appearances and prejudices. That, and you aren't exactly a fan of indiscriminate slaughter. Discriminate murdering is more your style and taste, and from their name alone and the mannerisms of the messenger they chose to send to your doorstep and what he had to say, it isn't the Seven Slaughtering Swords. They're the same breed of lunatic as the ogress and have just as terrible a sense of ethics and murderous ambitions as she. Not to mention, they wield corrupted blood Qi and would only darken the reputation of the blood of life, worse than it has been tarnished already. Picking a fight with them isn't wise, but allying with them and naming them friends of the palace of natural laws sect will only soil the sanctuary for beasts, freaks and outcasts you're building. And in good conscious, you cannot give rabid dogs like them free reign to run rampant in the lands under the protection of your banner. Allying with these sword lunatics would only encourage and strengthen them, as well as their conviction to test their blades on anybody they meet on the road like it was a friendly greeting. Sure they have an animalistic view of strength and know not to forfeit their lives in a fight they can't win, but giving them a platform to stand on to preach their bloody gospel, let alone the very same stage you intend to use to clean up the image of Magical beasts and other "demonic" techniques, is just stupid. It will incite pointless violence, killing and make you look bad when you are generally and honestly more benevolently minded than the orthodox sects! However, aligning yourself with the temple of celestial fire, would only bring benefits and will make your reputation in the world of cultivation more reflective of your deeds and three views, and also help tear apart the bonds and cohesion of the orthodox sects. While the Seven or so slaughtering swords would bungle your claims of being of beneficent character and merciful when you can be, the flaming temple will provide legitimacy to your claims that you are far from the demon you so often call yourself, despite being friends with one or two man eating demons, holding a court of deranged hungry ghosts, keeping a stable of students who certainly seem to be doing their damndest to appear villainous at times, and at times eating the flesh of intelligent beasts and men yourself. There are no downsides to making friends with the disillusioned servants of the Ling. Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 24 Nov 2023 07:58:00 No. 5840994 Report >>5840993 They'll help you kill Xue Laohue, avenging your family, weakening the guardians of the celestial sunlight AND delegitimatize the dogma that has turned the whole world of cultivation blind and lazy, while promoting and legitimizing your position. Who knows, maybe they'll even inspire a surge of converts to the rules of nature and the laws of the wild, Heh-heh. But that's thinking hopeful and is a scenario you wouldn't even entertain as being possible, even though amongst your personal accomplishments you count deeds, battles, victories and triumphs worth of legend already despite your young age.
'I'll just tell the seven slaughtering swords I'll consider their master's , who holds one of their namesake blades, as if that means anything to me, offer so as not to offend them or give any orthodox dog who finds out about our correspondence blackmail to leverage against me' you think and plan out as you skip through the clouds back towards the inn the cultivator from the temple of fire is boarding up in and helping repair the damages you caused by slapping him and his loose tongue through one of its walls 'Which is more formality and kindness than they could expect if they approached one of the heads of the self righteous sects or a heretic of a deranged mind like they imagine me to possess'
It is baffling why people think you so monstrous without having met you. At least if they knew you, they'd have a reason to be concerned, considering how you like to decorate and dress. Sighing and pushing that question out of mind, you descend back to the earth elegantly, moondust sparkling behind you as you grace the inn and the village around it with your presence once more.
The inn keeper watches you warily, while his son just watches with an enchanted, love stricken look on his mulish face as you prance up to the door. The messenger, whose name you haven't bothered to learn or ask for winces, his mouth filled with nails and an artifact hammer in his hands. More fitting for smithing magical tools or cracking the skulls of monsters than nailing boards in place, but the short handled, white steeled mallet must be the only tool he had on hand that could be used to hammer nails.
"One of my students have fists that would put that hammer to shame" You titter as you glide over to him and leave over his shoulder as he tries to say something through his mouth of iron "Oh? Why have I returned so quickly after having left to mull over your master's offer of an alliance? I've already decided my conditions for helping the temple of fire cut itself free free from the guardians of the celestial sunlight's leash"
He grunts, eyes agleam and sparkling with joy as he stands up. You lean back, avoiding his rising head as he looks at you, grinning with iron nails between his teeth
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 24 Nov 2023 07:59:01 No. 5840996 Report >>5840994 "Its simple really. If you want to rebel against my enemies, I'll do all I can to help and make sure you remove those troublesome collars of gold" You giggle, circling around him with your hands held behind your back "But only if you do the same for me. And turn your swords towards Xue Laohue's throat"
He wilts before you, crumpling down to his knees in a very girly way as you look down on him.
"Did you expect to win my strength over to your side without a price? I might hate the Ling, but I'm no fool. Did you think you could trick me into working for free? Because I'm a cat? Services require payment, and if you want my assistance, you'll have to earn it"
You giggle, your smirk growing into a toothy and very unlady like grin, more befitting a cutthroat than a princess
"With blood and death. Even if we share a foe, I can't and won't help you if my sect is destroyed because you didn't stick your necks out for me" You bluntly explain, standing up and turning your back at him "Besides, you fought the winter blossoming wisdom sect before, it should be too steep a price to ask that you fight them again"
He furrows his brow
"What? Don't think I can end this fight quickly? I am Huanliuxue, and one of my many talents is besting the strong" You brag, swaying your shoulders and hips "I might be an overwhelming power myself, but I've beaten opponents who had me outclassed at the time with wits, cunning and pragmatism. Xue Laohue is as good as dead, I just..."
You frown as the reason you've been working so hard to get more bodies in the fight and grow your still unnamed alliance hits you like a landslide.
You don't want to lose any of your precious disciples. And while you're confident you'll be the last one standing in a battle against Xue Laohue and his sect, you don't want to be the only one left standing. Loneliness is something you abhor, and will do anything to avoid feeling again.
"Want to be certain its my victory" You calmly state, with all the majesty of royalty, composing yourself and not allowing your fear to show in your voice "And establish my sect as a formidable power. It might seem miserly of me, but the temple of celestial fire will only benefit from these terms, and from siding with me. Your master must see the way the wind is turning in this era of change, if he has any sense at all, he'll see I'm being more than generous with this my only demand. Once you're finished fixing that wall, go back to him and tell him I expect to see his sect on my side of the battlefield"
And with that said, you leave the inn.
The blizzard is closing in. There isn't much time, but your bowels feel like they're rotting now that you accidentally faced the reason for your frantic diplomacy and alliance forging. People you care about might die, again. And just the thought of it alone makes your legs feel like they're made of grass jelly.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 24 Nov 2023 08:00:02 No. 5840997 Report >>5840996 There might only be a few days, but several of your students are on the edge of reaching the foundation establishment stage and the ones who aren't quite there yet, well, even a single step or rank difference could be vital to their survival.
And sure, most of them have experience fighting other cultivators, from when they held Suiqi, but would it be enough for them to go to war. Even if you're aiming for said war to only last a single day? You'll need to train them, all of them, the Geges and Monu to.
Luckily, you're the best teacher you know.
"I'll start by having Qiang breakthrough like I did at the five elements spring, then gift her a bit of blood Qi..." You think outloud as you turn partially ethereal with the specter lightness skill and allow yourself to drift on the winds back towards Suiqi
<span class="mu-s"> roll 2d100. best out of 5. DC 100. DC vastly lowered by great teacher bonus. DoS may earn certain students beneficial traits </span>
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 24 Nov 2023 08:02:03 No. 5840999 Report Quoted By:
>>5840997 *Elite teacher bonus
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Rolled 63, 85 = 148 (2d100) >>5840997 Anonymous
>>5840997 /roll 2d100
Been awhile since I rolled hope I remember the command.
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Rolled 20, 22 = 42 (2d100) >>5840997 Come on not!daughter. I believe in you. And all our other students, but that's beside the point right now.
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>>5841002 It's dice+2d100 in options
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Rolled 93, 66 = 159 (2d100) >>5840997 >>5841004 Thanks and cheers mate.
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Rolled 44, 15 = 59 (2d100) >>5840997 Best students for best cat.
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Rolled 38, 20 = 58 (2d100) >>5840997 Hope we can train em good.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 24 Nov 2023 08:27:23 No. 5841011 Report Quoted By:
>>5841007 Incredible Success! 50 over dc and very close to being 60 over dc.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 24 Nov 2023 11:53:18 No. 5841090 Report But, even if you're the best, there's only a few days left until the fighting reaches Suiqi. Even before you reach the city carried by a gentle breeze, its street are abuzz with activity. Shidi Xiudao had proclaimed his alliance to the palace of natural laws in a grandiose fashion, having moved his disciples and their mortal followers in the path of the enchanted winter storm. You never expected him to show such discretion and forethought, avoiding any incidents between his students and yours or the peaceful demonic beasts, ghosts and half beasts that are sheltering behind the white walls of Suiqi. But apparently, even though he has only just began marching and leading his strongest through the sky atop flying, but rusted swords, they've already had clashes with the Winter blossoming wisdom sect, that light up the night sky like the stars themselves were exploding. You can only imagine how the rest of the sects of Chuan are reacting to this sudden shift from one of the most ardent defenders of the mandates of the heavenly orthodoxy. Hopefully it has surprised them enough to give you a little more time to whip your sect into fighting shape. Troubling, some of the more knowledgeable amongst the mortals of the city speak of specific battles they heard from a friend's cousin or distant relation still under the snowfall, witnessing clashes between the Dusk marsh wolves and Summer Sea Dawn sect. That could mean anything, either that they are taking any chance they can to fight, that Xia Jinse-Shayu didn't tell his underlings of his deception, or he's made the lethal mistake of betraying you. Until you hear reports from a source more trustworthy than some butcher's half third cousin four times removed seeing two cultivators clashing in the sky during a meteor shower, there's no way to figure out which is the case. You wouldn't put it past your fellow daoists to start fights, but would Lord Xia truly be so heartless to allow more blood to be shed just to make his false allegiance to the winter blossoming wisdom sect's cause more believable? Though, considering the tension shown just between him and Lord Shidi, It is just as likely that they're avenging slights and deaths whenever they can and are using Xia's fake allegiance as an excuse to exact their revenge on both sides. Golden shark may also be stupid enough to try and... You snarl, gritting your teeth. You're turning your stomach sour with all this worrying. Trying to figure out why weaklings are killing each other is just going to cloud your mind more than worrying about losing your beloved students already has. There are only a few days remain you aren't even sure how many, for you to make your disciples stronger. To give them an edge in surviving the brawl beneath the blizzard. Sure, Fu can survive being decapitated but Fu is a special case and when fighting other cultivators, there's a lot more to worry about than just having your head cut off. Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 24 Nov 2023 11:54:19 No. 5841092 Report >>5841090 Fortunately, you don't have to waste time gathering them. They're all within the walls of Suiqi. All you have to do is send messengers to fetch them and bring them beneath the primordial tree to be trained as hard as their bodies can endure without breaking or exhausting their stamina or inner energy. And Monu and the Geges shouldn't need much more time to make the finishing touches to the future gravesite of Xue Laohue, so they'll be able to join the sect wide exercise. And you should probably summon Renshu of the river and Ruolan and find a method for both of them to cultivate through blood refinement. And if any of the Five colors and five purities sect wish to study under the amazing Huanliuxue, you won't turn them away, either!
And so, you sit beneath the ancient tree that grew from seed dreaming of the past, as you do from time to time, and wait for your students to arrive so they can begin their trials.
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>>5839575 >>5839629 Well I'm happy you're here now. Hope you keep enjoying it
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 24 Nov 2023 11:55:20 No. 5841093 Report >>5841092 <span class="mu-s"> Fu has achieved foundation establishment rank 4, Lei has achieved foundation establishment rank 4, Feiqing has achieved foundation establishment rank 4 and through studying the he Last Will of a Heaven's defying Smith and meditating on the bangle of the great forge devil has awakened the "Forge Descendant" Bloodline (Granting him outright immunity to fire and heat, increasing his stamina and durability beyond human limits, and not only increasing his crafting results as if they were accomplished by a cultivator a stage higher, but has access to unique artifact and crafting techniques...etc), Ping has achieved foundation establishment rank 3 and partially studied the scripture entrusted to him by the ancient sages and gained the "Unbeating heart" Alchemical Hidden organ (Granting immunity to blood born disease, poisons effective up to his cultivation level, and making him no longer ping on life tracking techniques, as well as increasing his survivability in combat/ on missions) Qiang has transcended the Qi condensation stage and entered the foundation establishment stage at rank 2 and through comprehending the Daos of ghosts, grudges and blood has gained the "Emperor killer" talent (Allowing her to able to wound/ temporarily cripple targets of one cultivation stage higher than herself when sent out on assassination missions or into combat, no matter their defenses, without losing her life, and all but guarantee success with targets of the same realm ) and due to receiving a source of Pure blood Qi has access to it and its derived techniques and the chance to adapt to primordial beast essence... Siwang has transcended Qi condensation stage and entered the foundation establishment stage at rank 2 and has progressed greatly towards attaining a human form, Chuandapo has transcended the Qi condensation stage and entered the foundation establishment stage at rank 1, Huili has transcended the Qi condensation stage and entered the foundation establishment stage at rank 1, Quixin has achieved foundation establishment rank 2 (Focus Exorcism/ Demon slaying), Practicing an unknown law unique to the Guardians of celestial sunlight, Yujijiao has achieved Qi condensation stage rank 6, Yinying has achieved Qi Condensation stage rank 7 and reached a bottleneck, Zhurou has Achieved Qi Condensation stage Rank 6 and reached a bottleneck, Niu has achieved Qi Condensation stage rank 5, Mao Yue has achieved Qi Condensation stage rank 5, Bo has achieved Qi Condensation stage Rank 5, Wang Wencheng has achieved Qi Condensation stage rank 5, Houmogui has achieved Qi Condensation stage Rank 6, Hong has reached Qi Condensation Rank 8, Canlan Yuanquan has achieved Qi Condensation stage rank 8! and reached a bottleneck, Lanfen has reached Qi Condensation Rank 8, Liu has reached Qi condensation rank 7 </span>
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 24 Nov 2023 11:56:20 No. 5841094 Report >>5841093 <span class="mu-s"> Baifenchi has the transcended Qi condensation and achieved the foundation establishment stage rank 1!!? and gained the talent "Star disciple" (Effects of training this disciple are twice as effective, they have a very bright future), Youzaiwang has achieved Qi Condensation stage Rank 8 and has successfully adapted the lightning messenger law into a hard martial art, Senlin Zheren has achieved Qi Condensation Stage Rank 6, Jionghuage and Tiexingege have achieved foundation establishment rank 5 and have both gained the "Tactician" Talent (Unless the enemy general has this talent or its upgrades, armies lead by the Geges will always be considered to be fighting with an advantage/ favorable conditions, no matter battlefield conditions, field landscapes or enemy actions).
Monu has achieved Core formation rank 3. Renshu of the river and Ruolan have both learned enough blood sorcery and Pure carmine mysticism to be able to hold their own in combat against low level Qi condensation cultivators (And can now cultivate normally as well as evolve as Pure carmine mystics, Creating within them the potential to cultivate qi!. Break down of Degrees of success results. Over 4 DoS, the training results are equivalent to a normal length training session despite time restraints, 1 DoS Baifenchi reveals her Star Disciple talent, Quixin reveals his cultivation level, 2 DoS, Feiqing awakens his bloodline, Ping creates his unbeating heart, 3 DoS, Qiang unlocks Emperor killer, 4 DoS, The Geges unlock Tactician, 5 DoS Special condition met</span>
<span class="mu-s"> Like the planets orbiting the sun, a teacher raising prodigies is a peerless pillar of their sect's future, and like the moon, receives enlightenment from their progress. +280 to next cultivation roll, +40 bonus to raising a disciple to foundation establishment stage X 5, total cultivation/ training bonus +531 And you're going to need it, especially to progress your cultivation...</span>
The next few days and nights are a blur. You're uncertain if you slept a wink since you've began training you students and you are uncertain how many days have past since then, its all feels unreal and dreamlike. Flopped on the ground, exhausted and spent from drilling and training alongside your students and lecturing and teaching them to impart a portion of your vast wisdom into them, you reflect on what stands out from the frantic sect wise exercise.
First, that little death obsessed Moth has proven herself something of a prodigy following in your steps, having skipped the most of the Qi condensation stage and refining her self taught law of Death and necromancy by leaps and bounds and she hasn't even gotten a big head about it. She also showed off her latest spell design by taking some corpses and turning them into something that looked a little too alike Jingyu for your comfort, so you blasted it to bits after a demonstration of her "Corpses Ogre", just to be certain it didn't start acting like the missing wretch as well.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 24 Nov 2023 11:57:21 No. 5841097 Report >>5841094 You might need to start paying more attention to the little tyke. In fact, your pretty certain she is on the verge of a Demonic Beast evolution. But so are her elder martial brothers and sisters, Siwang, Chuandapo, and Huili, though they haven't made an efforts to refine their beast cores yet. And Siwang has shown potential to undergo the same transformation you and the Geges went through and soon, since he's been busy acting as the face of justice in your territory since you were thrust into the spotlight against your wishes and being made to actually sit down and hear both sides of the story instead of just killing whoever he knew to be guilty has began to broaden his perspective and forced him to take time away from his constant training, study and meditation to socialize with humans outside of your sect to understand their common sense and how it applies to law and punishment. Which is good, it might make him less tightly wound and serious, even if that is part of his charm. It certainly has given him a hatred for...certain kinds of criminals that he mostly ignored before hand, now that he's looking at the bigger picture instead of simpler and more direct crimes that even a witless animal could understand. Which has also refined his unnamed, self made law.
And since you stopped scaring Quixin away, which might have to do with the larger number of Former Orthodox in Suiqi than your temple, and got to watch him train you were able to use your unusual and natural talent of accurately gauging the cultivation of your fellow daoists, down to the progress they have made to reach the next rank of their current stage, on him and find out he is remarkably a foundation establishment stage cultivator, though you haven't figured out the details of his cultivation method and techniques, but it resembles some of the Ling dogs you've fought so it must be one of their laws.
Yawning, you blink and see Feiqing who, while still ugly, has changed. His skin has become like wrought iron and pounded copper, particularly demonic iron like the axes you've given to Fu, and Enchanted Copper, Darkened towards grey like meteoritic iron, yet with a warm, red glow to it like the heart of a furnace, almost making him look like he's smeared himself with soot and red hot ash, You...aren't sure why that happened , just like you aren't sure why his eyes are the color of Astral Jade ever since he finished making you your throne, but you're pretty sure it has to do with the bangle of the great forge devil. Why else would he grow two heads worth of height, grow more muscular than Fu is, and sprout to little nubs on his forehead like a young goat growing its horns, or why his nails have become black and hardened.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 24 Nov 2023 11:58:23 No. 5841098 Report >>5841097 Monu mumbled something about awakening a dormant bloodline, while you dragged her out of her bed for morning training, while she was suffering at least three kinds of withdrawals from your instance she stop indulging her numerous vices when death is on the horizon, but she hasn't gotten back to you with what bloodline he's inherited.
Still, you never knew Feiqing was hiding such a secret, nor that he hid such great potential. And you've so far managed to keep your mouth firmly shut around him and kept from voicing your opinion that his sudden change makes him seem like he's part forge demon, especially since his arms have darkened more than the rest of him....
And while Feiqing waves his burning iron smelling hand in front of your face, you see Ping, who decided to one up his martial brother in surprises by one day, walking up to you as proud as can be, with his own heart in his hands and great bloody hole in his chest. Apparently he drank some elixir the ancient sages of the underworld had made and had....made his heart stop beating without dying? He explained why he did this to you, how it would increase his life span and make his body more resilient, but you couldn't help but think that for all his explanations it was a righteously stupid thing to do, to drink some shady drugs on the advise of corpses that don't know they're dead. But its his heart, so he can do what he wants with it. And as foolish as you think taking that risk was, you can't help but admit that it is pretty fashionable and cool.
But not nearly as impressive as Qiang wandering off like a stray in the middle of the night and coming back in the morning with a wolf demon's head and unusually smug and arrogant. Apparently, though she has been as quiet and terse as she usually is, ever since the wider world of cultivation became aware of your sect, she's been practicing in her mind and running through imaginary scenarios. Apparently, according to her own words, she did it as a form of stress relief as she had been taught to calm herself by imagining difficult assassination missions and figuring out how to succeed without trading her life for her target's death. And since her theorized targets would be influential members of the Winter blossoming Wisdom or Guardians of the Celestial Sunlight sect, or even the Patriarchs of the Shidi and Xia clans or kindly old master Su, she's been spending every waking moment imagining ways to kill cultivators that could squash her like an ant.
And this exhausting mental practice has produced results, as the wolf demon's head she tossed at her feet looking like she was about to purr, was an assassin sent out of hell to take you down. Which means that they were probably as strong as you were the last time she went to hell, and she cut them down before they even entered Suiqi.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 24 Nov 2023 11:59:24 No. 5841100 Report >>5841098 She remains tightlipped about HOW she learned there was an attempt on your life underway, and when you press her she will only admit that her "contact" swore her to secrecy. You don't press her, though, it might be your imagination but you could've sworn her one eye had a slit pupil for a moment when she waltzed up to you with the devil's head in her hands. And her teeth did seem a little more pointed, but that was probably your imagination. Certainly it had nothing to do with the method you used for her to inherit your pure blood Qi...surely.
Really. It feels like you've had a year or two result with all of your sect in just a few of days, which just goes to show that you're the best teacher that can be found beneath the heavens or in them. Hell, you even managed to teach a few of Su's students how to cultivate like heretics, "wild and reckless" as Tang called it "Flashy and efficient as well" as his twin Jin dubbed it, and they've all developed and refined their cultivation or martial arts by leaps and bounds.
<span class="mu-s"> Special condition met: Roll 5 degrees of success or more on a training roll, while holding the Elite trainer perk and training disciple. Huanliuxue has gained the "Honored Teacher" Reputation, and will passively attract new disciples and be sought after for advice/ sagely wisdom, by other cultivators. I really didn't expect you guys to ever get this </span>
But the whole of the Five colors and five purities sect, the stragglers of the Dusk marsh wolves who were trusted to hold the "last line of defense" as Shidi called it and the Temple of the Celestial fire sect who arrived to deliver their lord Disi-Ling ( 第四-陵, Fourth Tomb) Huofeng (Fire Vanguard, 火锋, Art name), have started to call you a sage and honored teacher, even when they're first meeting your acquaintance. Apparently Master Su was so grateful and Monu easily drawn into his plans, that rumors and stories have began to spread of your wisdom and breadth of insights beyond your holdings, and so to have stories began to sprout of your sagacity and talent as a teacher. And with it, you've began to be praised as a venerable and honored teacher, at least by the sects friendly to you, as you rightfully should've been ages ago if not for the simple fact that you were born into a litter instead of a cradle and grew up as a stray cat instead of a spoiled and revered child. it is a step in the right direction, but there are many more yet to take until you receive all that you deserve that the heavens and their toadies have denied or outright stolen from you.
But even just reflecting on the whirlwind of a week or so you've had is tiring, so you begin to drift in and out of sleep despite the yammering of Ping, Feiqing and not Lei since he's still a mute...
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 24 Nov 2023 12:00:26 No. 5841101 Report >>5841100 Warm. Soft. Bright
You surge awake, surrounded by unfamiliar scents before a familiar one calms you down enough to wake up fully instead of flailing around in a panic. The smell of opium. Monu. And there she is, dressed one of the palace of natural law's robes, adjusted to her size, with a knife in one hand and an apple in the other, cutting its slices to resemble foxes and cats while Xuebai sways over her head in ghost flame form.
"Ah, you're awake Huan. I was wondering when you'd collapse from over exertion" She says sweetly, biting into a piece of frozen apple "I thought cats were supposed to nap, not sleep for half a day"
"How humiliating" You pout, rubbing your eyes and frowning. you were a cat when you fell asleep. You shoot a suspicious glare at Monu, who smiles mischievously
"Found out there was a pressure point that could make you switch forms, won't tell you were it its, heh-heh" She cackles, eyes glinting "Nor will I tell anyone else, its my secret to keep, okay~?"
"So long as you don't abuse it" You mumble, still feeling really sleep and the moment you sit up, chilly, as the blanket she put on you falls off and you realize just how frigid the air is and...Oh crap.
Monu puts a hand on your shoulder before you can rush out
"Don't worry, Laohue is on the horizon but he isn't here yet. Got to give it to Shidi, he is one tenacious man. If he wasn't so unhygienic and pig headed..." Monu says calmly, before drifting off and shaking her head, patting you on the shoulder "I won't subject you to such torture, so stop screwing your face at me, darling. Anyways, where was I"
"How should I know, I just woke up" You sneer, and she flicks your forehead
"Ah yes. Shidi's been doing a wonderful job delaying Laohue's march, their sects have clashed several times while you were working yourself to, heh, the bone" She says with a wink, before glowering "and working the rest of us until our bones felt like dust. But Shidi made a mistake, and thought Laohue would continue to fight him fairly and well..."
"Well, is he dead or not?" You ask in the middle of a yawn
"He should be, considering he fell into a trap and had been fighting for a little over a week before then, but surprisingly, Xia bailed him out and attacked from behind, allowing the both of them to run like hell back to Suiqi, their armies in full retreat. My old temple must've gone on a mad recruiting spree, if they could force the dusk marsh wolves and summer sea dawn to flee" She grumbles as you stare at her, wide eyed in surprise
"Really? I half expected him to betray us" You gasp, rubbing you chin in thought while Monu begins brushing you unruly hair "Aren't the two of them mortal enemies, did either of them say why Xia risked his life to save Shidi's?"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 24 Nov 2023 12:01:26 No. 5841102 Report >>5841101 "Nope. I think he just realized you'd kill him if he didn't" Monu says, sounding like she's smirking in amusement "That or the temple of Celestial fire arriving on scene spooked him into thinking the Guardians had stopped hunting their traitor to bring the full brunt of their aggression back towards your adorable face"
"And how have they been fairing?" You ask
"Same as the Wolves and Dawn, they've been having some success and some failure, and usually in equal measure until Xue Laohue arrives onto the scene and scatters them like grains of rice. I always knew he was a monster but, somewhere between his betrayal and near death experience, he seems to have broken every limit" She says in a voice you've never heard from her, stark and dry and frightened beyond belief "but nothing you can't handle, my Huan"
"Fun" You groan, pinching your brow, yelping as Monu tugged on the brush too tightly
"Sorry" She says quietly, bowing her head "Oh, and Junior Feiqing and I collaborated after a night of hard drink to dull the nerves and"
"Is that an induendo or?" You ask, shivering and feeling ill at the thought of your mother coupling with Feiqing of all people
"No! Heavens no! I have standards" Monu gasps in offense, rolling her eyes "I'm am not so wanton. No, see, he's been having...ideas lately, crazy ones, insane ones. But the difference between a genius and a lunatic is results, so I lent him some of my skill to see if they could work or if his new look had addled his brains and..."
"And?" You ask, wondering what the result of two drunken craftsmen would result in
"With some of the spare and useless parts of the butchered Baoli Wuyawang, we've made you a gift <3" Your mother purrs, dancing her fingers on your shoulders "I've also taken the liberty of bringing the results of refining his stinking corpse here, in case you or I need them in the coming fight. They're some of my best work, as poisons, drugs, and medicine. The other materials I've stored away, somewhere safe"
"And what did you make from his corpse?" You ask, excitedly
She pokes your nose, you pout, knowing what that means
"Its a surprise!" She cackles "Well except the gift Feiqing made for you, he demanded you be given it immediately. But knowing its some of my finest work, should give you an idea how potent a harvest It has been, no?"
"I guess" You drawl, grinding your teeth in irritation
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 24 Nov 2023 12:02:58 No. 5841104 Report >>5841102 <span class="mu-s"> Double vote </span>
What did Monu and Feiqing make with the leftovers of the crow king
>A scythe made of of Baoli Wuyawang's spine and blood hardened and alloyed with Black Bile Iron. Imbued with his red black flames and bloodthirst >An upgrade to ghost empress melody. They've added his feathers, sinew, eyes and talons to your beloved guqin, that has grown stronger for it and inherited some of the attributes and abilities of the parts fused into it, and given it a few more sorcerous abilities of its own >A "Heart Manual" containing several of Baoli's techniques. Made out of his vile heart. Lei helped with this one and you remember just how dangerous the crow king's techniques were >Baifenchi poked into the barrel Monu was carrying the butchered and refined body parts of Baoli and did...something to his wings. They're now attached to your spider demon silk armor, and allow you to copy his ability to fire and control their razor sharp & hard as steel feathers like their previous owner did (And remember, his feathers could sprout eyes) >Write in And what do you do, Huanliuxue
>Check out the arena and ready it for the assault your retreating allies are leading into it, and take the time to practice with Monu and Feiqing's gift >Visit Shidi and Xia and ask for intel about Xue Laohue's fighting style and capabilities in the hours before he reaches your defenses. And commend Xia for his loyalty and ability to forget his grudge when it mattered, and Shidi for being as persistent as a ghost >Take command of the scattered cultivators, and put them under the command of the Geges and launch a counter offensive against the winter blossoming wisdom sect with the Dusk marsh wolves, Summer Sea dawn Sect, and temple of celestial fire, hoping to bleed and reduce their forces as much as possible and more than they've already been reduced by Shidi's attacks. >Hearing how strong Laohue is, you're fired up. Take Monu and your strongest disciples and face him instead of waiting around for him to knock on your door! >Write in Also a lot of the nameless laws practiced by your students will gain names, assuming their founder survives the fight coming up
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>>5841104 >Wings The techniqurs are nice but ultimately replacible on our own.
And also fire aligned, rather than Yin.
>Visit Shidi and Xia Information, information information.
We need it. And besodes they are leading him into a trap of our own anyway.
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>>5841104 >An upgrade to ghost empress melody. They've added his feathers, sinew, eyes and talons to your beloved guqin, that has grown stronger for it and inherited some of the attributes and abilities of the parts fused into it, and given it a few more sorcerous abilities of its own >Visit Shidi and Xia and ask for intel about Xue Laohue's fighting style and capabilities in the hours before he reaches your defenses. And commend Xia for his loyalty and ability to forget his grudge when it mattered, and Shidi for being as persistent as a ghost Anonymous
The info on who is who on the google doc is incomplete. I have no idea what the names of the wolf, snake and turtle are.
>>5841104 >A "Heart Manual" containing several of Baoli's techniques. Made out of his vile heart. Lei helped with this one and you remember just how dangerous the crow king's techniques were >Visit Shidi and Xia and ask for intel about Xue Laohue's fighting style and capabilities in the hours before he reaches your defenses. And commend Xia for his loyalty and ability to forget his grudge when it mattered, and Shidi for being as persistent as a ghost Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 24 Nov 2023 12:40:56 No. 5841138 Report >>5841135 Wolf, Huili. Turtle, Chuandapo, Snake, Yujijiao. Huili and Chuandapo are close friends after Huan put them through training hail for the former to regain his back bone and the later to stop be so mind bogglingly lazy
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The info on who is who on the google doc is incomplete. I have no idea what the names of the wolf, snake and turtle are.
>>5841104 >Baifenchi poked into the barrel Monu was carrying the butchered and refined body parts of Baoli and did...something to his wings. They're now attached to your spider demon silk armor, and allow you to copy his ability to fire and control their razor sharp & hard as steel feathers like their previous owner did (And remember, his feathers could sprout eyes) >Visit Shidi and Xia and ask for intel about Xue Laohue's fighting style and capabilities in the hours before he reaches your defenses. And commend Xia for his loyalty and ability to forget his grudge when it mattered, and Shidi for being as persistent as a ghost Also should we use Enmity incarnation, Devil of Grudges Baoli version against Xue Laohue?
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>>5841138 Thanks, sorry about me deleting my post and asking again
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 24 Nov 2023 13:15:58 No. 5841162 Report Quoted By:
>>5841094 AH! I forgot one. River Bastard! Jiangliehuo! He's only gone up from rank 5 to rank 6 of Qi Condensation, but I am ashamed I forgot to include his progress
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>>5841139 What we meed to use against Xue is the wound opening technique.
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>>5841093 Feiqing's bloodline will be great long term. Good to see him start to reach his protag potentials.
Ping's organ is situational, but still useful.
Qiang's talent will be good for this fight, and being able to awaken primordial bloodline will make her look even more like our daughter, kek.
>>5841094 Baifenchi's talent plus our teaching skills will put her on a very fast track to become incredibly powerful, nice.
The Gege's talent will be very useful for both this coming fight, and the war against the Ling that we will have to wage afterwards. We need to offically make them our alliance's generals.
Renshu and Ruolan are great because it means we are reviving pure carmine mysticism. Maybe one day we will make good on our promise to the old jiangshi to teach his reincarnation.
>>5841104 >An upgrade to ghost empress melody. They've added his feathers, sinew, eyes and talons to your beloved guqin, that has grown stronger for it and inherited some of the attributes and abilities of the parts fused into it, and given it a few more sorcerous abilities of its own >Take command of the scattered cultivators, and put them under the command of the Geges and launch a counter offensive against the winter blossoming wisdom sect with the Dusk marsh wolves, Summer Sea dawn Sect, and temple of celestial fire, hoping to bleed and reduce their forces as much as possible and more than they've already been reduced by Shidi's attacks. Anonymous
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Also, I guess being a demonic descended explains why he was so ugly.
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>>5841104 >An upgrade to ghost empress melody. They've added his feathers, sinew, eyes and talons to your beloved guqin, that has grown stronger for it and inherited some of the attributes and abilities of the parts fused into it, and given it a few more sorcerous abilities of its own >Visit Shidi and Xia and ask for intel about Xue Laohue's fighting style and capabilities in the hours before he reaches your defenses. And commend Xia for his loyalty and ability to forget his grudge when it mattered, and Shidi for being as persistent as a ghost Anonymous
>>5841139 Sorry, When I made the listings i thought that some names didnt need explaining, the first of our sect being the main ones. and I admit, a good amount of laziness.
I will correct myself later, and while doing so, shall tally the improvments each disciple have made. Compare it to last time.
Though Banchie, the bat, has gained 4/5 levels from qi condensation rank 6.
In other news, we have 12 foundation cultivators, the geges at 5, Fu, Lei and Feiquing at 4, ping 3, quiang and swiang at 2, while chuandapo, huili, quixin and Baifenchi all sit at 1.
Not bad, not bad at all.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 24 Nov 2023 16:47:52 No. 5841381 Report >>5841369 Baifenchi ( 白粉翅, White Powder Wings) is a moth. Houmogui (吼魔鬼, Shrieking Devil) is a bat, a vampire bat.
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>>5841381 I hope my confusion is understandable grandfather, they are both tiny and grisly girls with macarbe interests. One just acts like a thug.
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>>5841104 >Baifenchi poked into the barrel Monu was carrying the butchered and refined body parts of Baoli and did...something to his wings. They're now attached to your spider demon silk armor, and allow you to copy his ability to fire and control their razor sharp & hard as steel feathers like their previous owner did (And remember, his feathers could sprout eyes) >Visit Shidi and Xia and ask for intel about Xue Laohue's fighting style and capabilities in the hours before he reaches your defenses. And commend Xia for his loyalty and ability to forget his grudge when it mattered, and Shidi for being as persistent as a ghost I like our armor being improved,
But as for what we do, either gain intel or prepare in the arena. Im open to either.
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>>5841104 >A "Heart Manual" containing several of Baoli's techniques. Made out of his vile heart. Lei helped with this one and you remember just how dangerous the crow king's techniques were >Visit Shidi and Xia and ask for intel about Xue Laohue's fighting style and capabilities in the hours before he reaches your defenses. And commend Xia for his loyalty and ability to forget his grudge when it mattered, and Shidi for being as persistent as a ghost Anonymous
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>>5841104 >A "Heart Manual" containing several of his techniques. I love a good mystery box, and Baoli's wife and mother implied he had a *lot* of shit that we hadn't seen available to him beyond our duel. .
>Visit Shidi and Xia and ask for intel To be forewarned is to be forearmed
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>>5841104 >A scythe made of of Baoli Wuyawang's spine and blood hardened and alloyed with Black Bile Iron. Imbued with his red black flames and bloodthirst Shamefully, we do not yet have a personal weapon to wield in human form and have to make due with what we find. This seams like a suitable fix.
>Visit Shidi and Xia and ask for intel about Xue Laohue's fighting style and capabilities in the hours before he reaches your defenses. And commend Xia for his loyalty and ability to forget his grudge when it mattered, and Shidi for being as persistent as a ghost. Knowledge is power.
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>>5841093 Key QC = Qi condensing, FE = foundational establishment, number after indicates rank.
Fu FE 2 to FE 4, gained 2 levels.
Lei FE 2 to FE 4
Feiquing FE 2 to FE 4
Ping FE 1 to FE 3
Quxin FE 1 to FE 2, gained 1 level
Quiang QC 9 to FE 2, gained 2 levels.
Swiang QC 8 to FE 2, gained 3 levels
Chuandapo QC 8 to FE 1
Huili QC 7 to FE 1, gained 4 levels.
Yujijiao QC 4 to QC 6, gained 2 levels
Yinying QC 5 to QC 7, gained 2 levels and bottleneck.
Zhurou QC 5 to QC 6, Gained 1 level and bottleneck.
Nui, Mao Yue, Bo, Wang wengcheng all QC 4 to QC 5, gained 1 level.
Houmogui QC 5 to QC 6, gained 1 level
Hong QC 6 to QC 8, gained 2 levels
Canlan Yuanquan QC 5 to QC 8 gained 3 levels and bottleneck.
Lanfen QC 7 to QC 8 gained 1 level
Liu QC 6 to QC 7
Baifenchi QC 6 to FE 1, gained 4 levels.
Youzaiwang QC 5 to QC 8, gained 3 levels.
Senlin QC 5 to QC 6, gained 1 level.
Gege's both jump to FE 5, don't remember their previous level. 1 to 4 levels gained
River bastard, Jiangliehuo QC 4 to GC 6, Gained 2 levels.
These are rough overviews for who gained the most and to try and determine valuable info. Like how much a "standard" duration is meant to give us, and who has hidden talents and benefits.
Monu went from Core formation 2 to 3, so that's just incrimental.
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>>5841790 >Yujijiao QC 4 to QC 6, gained 2 levels Huh, I thought we were still figuring out how "Ghost Cultivation" would work.
Also seeing this makes me notice that Xuebai isn't on the list at all. I wonder how she was able to get out of the training if we made a point to make sure Monu got off her plush rump to train.
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>>5841810 Technically not a disciple. Just sister ti the founder and daughter of the grand elder.
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>>5841104 >A "Heart Manual" containing several of Baoli's techniques. Made out of his vile heart. Lei helped with this one and you remember just how dangerous the crow king's techniques were We can get plenty of cool gear, but techniques are harder to come by. Also if we can learn how to steal memories by eating eyes, that alone will be worth it. Besides, who says we can't teach these techniques to our disciples later?
>Visit Shidi and Xia and ask for intel about Xue Laohue's fighting style and capabilities in the hours before he reaches your defenses. And commend Xia for his loyalty and ability to forget his grudge when it mattered, and Shidi for being as persistent as a ghost Intel = good
Also they deserve some credit, it sounds like they both pulled some real heroic shit out there (Even if Xia's motivations are suspect)
>walking up to you as proud as can be, with his own heart in his hands Ping wears his heart on his sleeve... sometimes a little too much in fact.
>she will only admit that her "contact" swore her to secrecy. You know, I had long theorized that demons might try to worm their way in via our disciples, and well it seems the time has come. I trust Qiang, of course, but I doubt she will be the last to make deals of some kind down there. We are going to have to keep a VERY close eye on hell, because after heaven they are next on the "Can Fuck Our Shit Up Really Bad" list. Forget direct attacks, (though I have no doubt there are plenty of old demons that would spell trouble for us) just the info network they have is bad news. The Crow King did an entire background check on our ass, and that was ages ago when we were still entirely hidden. At this point they have more info on us then some of our disciples I'm pretty sure. It's no wonder the Slaughter Swords got their info from there.
Not that I think we need to worry immediately, just... you know... keep a finger on the pulse of what they are up to is all. I would bet money they are doing the same.
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>>5841104 >An upgrade to ghost empress melody. They've added his feathers, sinew, eyes and talons to your beloved guqin, that has grown stronger for it and inherited some of the attributes and abilities of the parts fused into it, and given it a few more sorcerous abilities of its own >Visit Shidi and Xia and ask for intel about Xue Laohue's fighting style and capabilities in the hours before he reaches your defenses. And commend Xia for his loyalty and ability to forget his grudge when it mattered, and Shidi for being as persistent as a ghost Anonymous
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>>5841104 >A "Heart Manual" containing several of Baoli's techniques. Made out of his vile heart. Lei helped with this one and you remember just how dangerous the crow king's techniques were >Visit Shidi and Xia and ask for intel about Xue Laohue's fighting style and capabilities in the hours before he reaches your defenses. And commend Xia for his loyalty and ability to forget his grudge when it mattered, and Shidi for being as persistent as a ghost I forgot Baoli had crazy eye powers, so this is a gigantic boon for our information gathering capability along with all his other crazy skills.
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>>5841104 Yeah that's a big problem I'm worried about. There isn't anyone around the core formation in our disciples. No doubt there will be in the ranks of our enemies I wish we could gift them treasures it's just we rose too fast to the golden core for them to catch up.
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>>5841113 I have been comvinced, changing wings to
>Heart Manuel Baoli is heavily fire focused. I initiali decided that this didnt really matter but on second reading and the others, this could be invaluable for Huili and Quixin
Pluuuus,if we know all his techniques, actually know them, Emnity incarnation Baoli could be super tier.
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>>5841104 >A "Heart Manual" containing several of Baoli's techniques. Made out of his vile heart. Lei helped with this one and you remember just how dangerous the crow king's techniques were >>5841104 >Visit Shidi and Xia and ask for intel about Xue Laohue's fighting style and capabilities in the hours before he reaches your defenses. And commend Xia for his loyalty and ability to forget his grudge when it mattered, and Shidi for being as persistent as a ghost >Privately, ask Xia why he saved Shidi No sense in having silly questions bother us while the fun breaks out.
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>>5841104 >>Baifenchi poked into the barrel Monu was carrying the butchered and refined body parts of Baoli and did...something to his wings. They're now attached to your spider demon silk armor, and allow you to copy his ability to fire and control their razor sharp & hard as steel feathers like their previous owner did (And remember, his feathers could sprout eyes) Techniques are things you learn and refine over time, while Huanliuxue's already spent almost all of her training and preparation time. So we want something immediately useful, which means equipment upgrades or new equipment. As for wings vs scythe vs guqin, I just think the wings sound the most awesome, and we don't really need another weapon in the first place.
>Take command of the scattered cultivators, and put them under the command of the Geges and launch a counter offensive against the winter blossoming wisdom sect with the Dusk marsh wolves, Summer Sea dawn Sect, and temple of celestial fire, hoping to bleed and reduce their forces as much as possible and more than they've already been reduced by Shidi's attacks. Command is the most important part of an army and war effort
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>>5841104 >Baifenchi poked into the barrel Monu was carrying the butchered and refined body parts of Baoli and did...something to his wings. They're now attached to your spider demon silk armor, and allow you to copy his ability to fire and control their razor sharp & hard as steel feathers like their previous owner did (And remember, his feathers could sprout eyes) Besides the immediate combat boost that still leaves our hands free, distributing eye-feathers among our troops can let us see the big picture of how the battle unfolds, assuming we don't get sensory overload from seeing so much at once.
>Visit Shidi and Xia and ask for intel about Xue Laohue's fighting style and capabilities in the hours before he reaches your defenses. And commend Xia for his loyalty and ability to forget his grudge when it mattered, and Shidi for being as persistent as a ghost Anonymous
>>5841104 In the absence of our usual tally-junior, I have made an attempt. It's neck and neck, but it looks like Heart Manual is currently beating out Wings by a single vote.
Wings: 5
>5841139 >5841411 >5843570 >5843674 >5841435 GEM upgrade: 4
>5841121 >5841208 >5841297 >5842070 Heart Manual: 6
>5841497 >5841507 >5841991 >5842093 >5842480 >5842402 (changed from >5841113) Scythe: 1
>5841587 Visit Shidi and Xia: 13
>5841113 >5841121 >5841139 >5841297 >5841411 >5841497 >5841507 >5841587 >5841991 >5842070 >5842093 >5842480 >5843674 Take command: 2
>5841208 >5843570 Anonymous
I wonder if it's worthwhile to get the swords of the Slaughter Swords sect for Feiqing, they might make good materials for his next project
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>>5843992 You need two >> to link to a post, but I applaud the effort
>>5844255 Better to leave them alone for now, we will have more than enough enemies as is without going out of our way to make more.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 27 Nov 2023 07:26:27 No. 5844937 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying the result now. Sorry for vanishing over the weekend, again. I did battle with a fierce wine spirit.
>>5843992 And thank this junior for taking on the austere duty of tallying in my stead while I recovered from my fierce battle
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The Heart Manual containing the secrets of Baoli's violent & brutal fighting style, Techniques and hellish sorceries/ demonic arts has been crafted, after a neck and neck race
And you'll visit Shidi and Xia to try and learn how Xue Laohue fights and what powers he wields in the hours before he crashes into your fortifications, and give both of the masters praises, for their loyalty and sheer stubborn refusal not to become a corpse.
Update will arrive shortly
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>>5844255 I think I'd prefer to deal with Uncle Laohue and take over his former Sect before we start fucking with any of the others.
Though given how wars between Sects play put, there'll probably be a lot of toys for him to play with. Putting some of the sturdier Juniors on "clean up" duty might be in order. With orders to run like hell if they meet Jingyu, natch.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 27 Nov 2023 11:20:51 No. 5845030 Report Quoted By:
think this is a new record for an update size
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 27 Nov 2023 11:22:01 No. 5845032 Report Monu leaves you to fetch the gift she and Feiqing made for you out of the moldering corpse of the crow king, and Xuebai's ghost leaves with her. Taking advantage of your new found privacy, you dress yourself in one of the finest robes designed by Anjing-Yinsh, deciding it is only fitting for you to be wearing your sect's uniform rather than one of the imperial dresses lined with fur and regalia fitting only for a princess of the wilds when you march into battle leading the palace of natural laws to war. Not that it matters, since you'll be wearing your spidersilk armor over it, but it'd be more of a waste to tear through one of your fashionable dresses while shifting forms and it'd be insulting to your followers for you to be wearing anything but the colors and emblem of the temple you've established. 'Even if I'll be standing beneath proud banners flying the same colors and bearing the same symbol as what I'm wearing' you muse as you stick you arms through the robe's sleeves and tighten it around your waist, gliding over to a mirror fastened to the wall. There's no point struggling against this wild mane of scarlet hair, so you'll wile away the moments waiting for Monu to return applying a bit of makeup. Nothing too flash or overly extravagant, but to your rich tastes and personal style nonetheless. Without appearing too creepy or macabre, or gloomy and unforgivably drab and boring. Finding a balance between embodying your ideal of beauty and what others consider fashionable, without going beyond into tacky and excessively gaudy is a fine balancing act. While your natural beauty is best left untamed, playing around with beauty products and experimenting with new ways of applying them is always fun. You're half way done brushing a deep, flushing red turning to soot black shadow around your eyes, in a way that you find makes your human eyes appear to resemble their cat counterparts, when Monu, Feiqing and Lei enter your room. You suppose you shouldn't be offended they didn't knock as you hadn't bothered to close the door. You glance, brush in hand, seeing Lei dressed head to toe in armor that would be more fitting worn by a demon, except for the wooden Huanliuxue mask he's been wearing ever since he bought it in Fu's village. "Mmnrr" He groans as you put down the brush, take a second glimpse at your experimental style and with a pout, realize you don't like it nearly as much as you thought you did. So for the third time since Monu left, you wash your face in cold water, rubbing it down with a coarse cotton cloth, before starting again. Maybe a minimalist look will work better than something as bold as that last attempt "May we enter, Lady Huanliuxue?" Feiqing requests politely, and you grunt to answer his request as you look over your face, rubbing and pinching your cheeks. No, maybe no make up at all would be best? It isn't like a face as pretty as yours requires any extra work to be stunning and breathtaking. COnt
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 27 Nov 2023 11:23:02 No. 5845033 Report >>5845032 "Forgive me, daughter, but I had completely forgotten to mention the part Junior Brother Lei had in the creation of our gift to you, Sect head" Monu says, trying to sound humble but her natural boisterousness and boldness makes it sound and feel clumsy and foreign to her lustrous voice
"Oh?" You say, voice ringing and bright like a chime as you look at Lei, as he waves excitedly at you, his face hidden by a crude imitation of your own "I thought he was just following behind the two of you like a lost duckling, as is a habit of his. Still, I didn't know you had any skill as a craftsman, Lei. Then again, I don't know much about you at all. Which isn't my fault is it? Considering your injury"
He just shrugs while Feiqing sighs, his greying skin glittering in the dull white light of morning like unmelted ore.
"He provided a magical assistance" Feiqing explains, clasping his hands together, bowing his head and nearly having his inner closer drop off. Seems Monu dragged him from his morning bath, just quick enough for him to put on the bare minimum to be presentable. Feiqing feels your stare on his chest, still dripping wet and clears his throat.
"I don't understand what he did, but it felt familiar" He explains, sounding some what embarrassed now, and as he wags his tongue you can see that his teeth have changed as well, sharpening to points and seeming almost polished. Lei grunts and moans wordlessly and Feiqing's eyes widen as he gasps "Demonic magic?!"
"I thought you realized that little brother" Monu snickers, hiding her face behind the drooping sleeves of her own dress, which tells you most of the time she was a way she spent changing her clothes and styling her hair into two hanging, youthful braids and putting on some fresher makeup "Lei doesn't deal in anything besides the forbidden, and he has as many secrets as a woman my age should have, Heh-Heh. Are you uncomfortable that your hands have made a demonic tool?"
"No" Feiqing says simply, sounding and looking stunned by his own words as he scratches the back of his head "But, it was my idea to melt down that devil's heart, so really I only have my own imagination to blame for what we made"
"Blame?" Monu sneers as Lei lifts up his mask and grins manically enough to remind you of his past as a true demonic cultivator "You, I and Lei made something that should be praised and lauded, not something to be locked away like an old shame. It's a wonderous trinket, a one of a kind treasure that can't be found anywhere else in the three realms! Also, think about who we're giving it to, sure its creepy, but Huan adores creepy, don't you my sweet?"
You sigh heavily, nearly growling as you glare at your reflection, unable to make up your mind. You've been squeezing your cheeks so roughly trying to goad any inspiration out of them that they're starting to feel sore.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 27 Nov 2023 11:24:03 No. 5845035 Report >>5845033 "More than normal girls, I guess?" You answer with a roll of your eyes, turning on the padded stool you were sitting on to face your mother and two disciples "And I'd have thought you'd use The Crow King's heart to make a spirit medicine"
"Parts of it, yes" she answers with a nod "But it was a tough and stringy organ, I'd have to let it ferment into putrid juice to get all its essence out, and there were organs much more valuable than the bird's shriveled, miserable heart. In fact, some of its condensed blood I've used to improve some of your divine blood honey medicines, for example. So don't think i was being wasteful with the rare materials you've brought me, dear daughter of mine"
"I was surprised to find it amongst the detritus of her efforts as well" Feiqing answers with a nod, glancing to Lei "Or, well, Lei brought it to me with a few other...pieces of the corpse, before Monu and I got drinking"
"Is that were his wings went? I was going to weave those in the sleeves of one of my dresses" Monu pouts, tugging on Lei's ear as Lei shrugs
"So, Lei helped you melt the heart into something" You say, getting tired of them dancing around the subject or changing it "What is that something? What is it you three made for me in a bout of drunken genius?"
"Lei could tell you" Monu shrugs with a click of her tongue, looking away as you level a very disappointed look her way "Oh don't give me that look "My expertise is poisons and curses, I may dabble in puppets, but Lei is the one who was raised practicing devilish sorcery and sealed a demon inside of himself". You look to Feiqing. Lei slips by you and grabs one of your lipsticks without asking to begin sketching a complicated alchemical formula or sacrificial array on the mirror you were borrowing. Hopefully that doesn't summon anything.
"It is something like a blade scripture or iron slip. A manual forged rather than written" He explains, revealing a bundle of paper talismans and seals, out of which hunks of what looks like crimson hued amber jut out "The heart crystalized as we added some of Monu's more unpleasant reagents"
"Bandit stew" You mother cackles, squeezing next to you and preening a few stray locks of her black hair out of her eyes, pushing them back into the braids hanging over her shoulders
"I think Lei took a sip of that foul concoction" Feiqing shudders as he places the heart turned amber in front of you "I do not know what we did while drowning in the vapor of wine, but it is potent. Just touching it unprotected forces the intimate knowledge of its previous owner into your mind. Lei was generous enough to scrape the "Scum" off the top, and seemed to enjoy himself reliving the memories within its thickened blood, but even so..."
"So it teaches techniques just by holding it?" You gasp in amazement as the revelation of what Feiqing is trying to describe to you strikes you and immediately you realize how valuable of a gift they have just given and placed before you
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 27 Nov 2023 11:25:35 No. 5845037 Report >>5845035 "Yes but be warned, the process of which it imparts the insight contained within is quite sudden and violent" He explains as you give one of its exposed jagged points a prod "MASTER!"
Feiqing wasn't exaggerating. The shift from the present into the memories recorded within the "Heart Manual" are sudden. So sudden you think you felt whiplash being pulled into the recollections of the demon you killed and your mother butchered. You're in his skin, standing over a screaming soul, reaching black taloned fingers into his eye socket, stabbing your arm through the air to pluck out his eye in the middle of battle. Its the Eye Stealing Grasp he never used against you, the method he used to gather the eyes he wore upon his wings. The smell of blood and the sensation of the soul in agony under your fingers is intoxicating. The strike, you grasp it immediately. Its a thrusting finger jab, aimed at one of the weakest points of any anatomy, the eyes. Two fingers push gently past the eye before curling around it, and with a single violent tug, the eye is pulled from its socket, undamaged and perfect for consumption.
You pull your finger back as the Baoli you're sitting passenger inside his head lifts the eye up by its nerves, holding the wailing ghost with his other hand as he hoists it above his mouth. Your mouth. And opens wide to swallow it down and seal it away in his gullet. You shudder, the jelly like texture, the dripping warmth and lingering taste of the eyeball lingering on your tongue even though you broke your connection with the accursed manual before the memory reach the point of actually swallowing the eye.
Somethings are too grisly even for you. Looking down at your hand, your muscles twitch, containing a new memory inside of them as you feel instinctively how to perform the move Baoli perfected over years of practice.
"Remarkable. And dangerous" You say with a nod towards Feiqing, who is covered in a cold sweat, wrapping the heart with more paper seals as you appraise his work, two fingers curled in an eye plucking hook.
The Eye stealing grasp (眼睛偷垒把握, Yǎnjingtōulěibǎwò) is now yours. And judging from how Lei's first two fingers are held out straightened as he sketches his explanation of the function of the heart manual (Xinmìjí, 心秘笈, Lit Heart Secret book), it is his now as well. You hadn't expected the vision to be so vivid and real feeling. You can still feel the wettness of the eye along the insides of your finger, still smell the aroma of fearful blood and still taste the sweet pain of Baoli's long dead victim on your tongue. You'll have to be careful with this gift. But the prize of taming it would be great indeed. When you roll your tongue around your mouth in thought, you swear you feel the pop and squelch of a freshly plucked eye between your teeth.
A gross sensation that now has an unpleasant familiarity to it.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 27 Nov 2023 11:27:00 No. 5845038 Report >>5845037 "Find someplace secure to keep this, and keep the rest of the sect away from it until we've studied it further" You command with a flick of your two fingers "I am gracious to receive such a high quality treasure, but I am sure you all understand why it must be locked away instead of paraded"
"It is obviously the result of demonic cultivation and isn't the sort of thing a conquering hero should show off" Your mother admits with a frown as she plucks her eyebrows "Especially when most still look upon your stunning self and find ways to abhor your pretty face. A travesty, and abandoment of common sense, to be sure"
"Mm" Lei pouts, mimicking Monu's grooming as Feiqing nearly collapses in relief. And through the protections he's put around the abnormal manual, you can see flickers of cold black and crimson fire still raging within the crystalized heart
"I shall keep it safe, Master" He states proudly "And admire it in private. Just the initial glimpse I got while wielding it, showed me a vision of a forge demon's workshop"
"Oh, Baoli Wuyawang's mother in law mentioned something about him trying to get in the good graces of the Count of the Eleven Resplendent Furnaces" You say, as Monu looks at your proudly, though not understanding a word you just said she never lets a chance to praise you escape while Lei looks at little too familiar with the nonsense babble you just blurted out
"Who is that?" Feiqing, rationally, asks before applauding your memory, which gives Monu time to realize you might not know who you're talking about besides a name, so she gracefully and mercifully keeps her lips sealed
"No idea, but the name certainly is evocative of the vision you glimpsed, no?" You snicker, as you slip past your mother, dodging her attempt to grab hold of and smother you with affection, as you skip up to Feiqing and tap him on his head, his small eyes flicking up to stare at the offending finger "Maybe, if the count is still alive somewhere down in hell, we can go pay him a visit and see if they're connected after all"
"I don't want to go to hell" Feiqing whimpers, brow furrowing and drawing attention to the two curious bumps pushing out of his brow.
'Well, you may not have much choice' You think but keep to yourself, you also bite your tongue to keep from laughing out that 'You might have some relatives down there, my boy!', since Feiqing might freak out if he understands what his new look makes him resembles. He had a lot of people mistake him for a demon or monster before he stirred up his blood enough to rouse his lineage, the poor man
"Qiang's been there, I'm sure she'd tell you it isn't as scary as folklore and priests make it out to be" is what you actually say with a bratty huff and pout
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 27 Nov 2023 11:28:01 No. 5845040 Report >>5845038 "Qiang doesn't get scared of anything! She ate her own eye once to summon the curse placed in side of it! She didn't even flinch when you taught her how to cut her soul from her body! I'm sure she'd only shrug if you told her to kill herself" Feiqing rages with a sense of self preservation "She is not the baseline master! She is the extraordinary exception, also, didn't you disguise her as a walking corpse or ghost when you took her down to the underworld"
"The people loved her" You deflect, turning away from Feiqing. Dammit, he has a point.
"And why was that?" He presses, glowering and for once taking advantage of his unfortunate appearance
"How am I supposed to know how demons think! I'm pure of heart and saintly of mind" You scoff, crossing your arms, refusing to admit defeat as you escape the argument to instead ask Monu "You told me Master Shidi and Master Xia had retreated and returned here, where are they? I have something to ask them both"
"Fu's already standing guard at the furthest defensive line" Feiqing warns you "And everyone can feel it in the air, today is the day we face the Winter blossoming wisdom sect. And not because of intuition or spiritual sense, snow is falling again, and there's already been clashes between our allied sects and the encroaching storm"
"Questioning me? How have you become so bold, Feiqing?" You smirk, patting him on the shoulder proudly
"No. Just informing you of the situation" He states, bowing his head "I think questioning them on their encounter with the patriarch of the winter blossoming wisdom sect is a wise move. It's just..."
"Your flights of fancy" Monu interrupts, wording your whimsical nature as politely as it can be termed "Would be disastrous at this time and place"
"I am well aware, and my sense of whimsy has been well fed and satiated after I took a trip to the stars, and...oh that's why you two are acting like this, I did kind of vanish up into the sky didn't eye, Heh-Heh" You cackle as your mounting irritation at being lectured turns into amused acknowledgement
"You did something outrageous again, Huanliuxue, without thinking about how endangering your life effects my poor, fragile heart" Monu whines with tears in her eyes
"Wait is that what she did?" Feiqing gasps
"I didn't tell you?" You ask as he nods frantically "Well I'll regale you and everyone else with that story, once we win this battle. But, trust me, I am not going to be chasing butterflies and daydreams, I had my fill of the fantastical. Not like talking to Shidi and Xia would've pushed me to be my most whimsical anyways...but, I'm getting upset again, so lets stop talking about this supposed flaw of my flawless self, and instead one of you tell me where the heads of our allied sects are recuperating. And I'm sorry to worry you mother, but what can I say, I am your daughter after all"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 27 Nov 2023 11:29:02 No. 5845041 Report >>5845040 "At least tell me next time you're doing something so reckless, and not as reckless as storming the celestial realm, but simply reckless and dangerous" Your mother scolds "And I will show you where they're resting, since Feiqing needs time to recover from the shock and Lei is"
She pauses as you both look at Lei, who is look intensely at your collection of beauty products
"Don't touch them" You snarl "Anything missing will come out of your allowance, Lei"
His gaze intensifies as he rubs his chin in thought
"Feiqing, get Lei away from my stuff" You bark, snapping your fingers, as Monu titters and leads you by your shoulders to wherever Shidi and Xia stumbled and collapsed at.
And it turns out they're underground. The tunnels and sewers beneath Suiqi went deeper than anyone living in it knew, and the roots of the Primordial tree and Tiexingege's ordering her children to dig in and tunnel beneath the city broke into a trove of hidden rooms, chambers, grotos and safehouses. And its the furthest from the surface, in a room lit by Qi filled Lanters, where The rival patriarchs are being tended, by Jionghuagege. Both of them look terrible, wrapped in more bandages than Fu wears, with what skin shows being bruised or black and frost bitten. Shidi is more injured than Xia, with cuts all over his body and broken bones. His legs have several wooden clamps keeping them in place, and one of his arms appears to have been stitched back on. He is staring bleakly at the stone ceiling, his eyes smoldering and grim.
Xia meanwhile is fliriting with Jiongjuagege who, innocently, doesn't realize the kind of man he is. He wisely stops the moment you step into the room and glower at him, silently warning to keep his wandering hands away from your silver haired little sister.
"Both of you fought Xue Laohue" Is all you say, stating a fact as you sit down between the beds that were dragged down here, as the loyal guards from both their sects peer through the door, being kept from eachother by one of Tiexingege's intelligent children. You think its the poor girl called Three
"And were defeated by him soundly" Shidi Xiudao rumbles, his voice faint and pained "The man has flown over the dragon's gate"
"Honestly, you'd be better of running, Lady Huanliuxue. He's burning what little lifeforce he has, but that's enough to make him a monster. By all sense and reason, the man should've died years ago, but he's fighting with the best of Chuan like an older brother slapping down his younger siblings!" Xia wails, pouting with a long, bandage wrapped tightly around one half of his face, holding his jaw together and obscuring his eye as Jionghuagege hums and applys more ointment to his arm. Which as she removes the bandages, you see has no skin. It had all flaked off like morning frost
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 27 Nov 2023 11:30:03 No. 5845042 Report >>5845041 "Coward!" Shidi spits, literally, at Xia "Our sects and the temple were fighting on equal ground with the winter blossoming wisdom disciple, even on in their element, until that old monster came screaming out of the snowblind! And if he is clinging to life to fulfill his duty, he will not keel over and die like any other old man would. his corpse will hunt until it is destroyed, he must be killed for his aggression to end"
"You're used to getting your ass kicked" Xia shouts back, shacking a fist as Jionghuagege tries to calm him and three lifts up her head an antenna and...That smell in the air. Tiexingege is about to come here to shut up Xia, you can tell by your littlest sister's pressure. Using some kind of pheromone, her daughter called her from the front line cause he was troubling Jionghuagege
"You hide behind your wife, no wonder you weren't able to deny that masochist as your bastard" the other man growls back and you pinch both of them by the ear like they were misbehaving children
"I do not care how dangerous he is" You state calmly though sharply "You both survived encountering him. I will fight him myself. So tell me how he fights"
"Xia is useless for this" Shidi bluntly states, sitting up with a great deal of effort and agony judging by his expression "As master Su warned me, his defense was impeccable and despite clashing with him numerous times during our assaults on his vanguard forces, I could not once break his guard. His grasp of defensive magic is beyond mastery. Despite being on the verge of death, he blocked my every strike"
"Not just that" Xia chimes in, wagging a finger
"He used archaic techniques" Shidi admits through his teeth "Techniques no longer widely practiced within his Sacred Winter Breath Accord, a movement technique of some kind"
"You shouldn't be surprised, those techniques are only really useful fighting other cultivators or powerful demonic beasts" Xia says, kicking one leg over the other casually "Laohue is known for both"
"It was cowardly" The other master snarls "He turned himself to powder snow and ran my leg through while I was mid clash with him. His black belly son distracted me"
"From what I saw on the other side, he used that trick several times, and you never adapted" The golden haired man chuckles
"You try hitting snowflakes with a sword, he avoided even the sword light I mustered. And that's when he didn't simply cut through it with his scythe or shatter it with a simple protection spell" The tangled bearded swamp man shouts angrily, slamming his fist into the table with tears in his eye "He fought without honor, and denied me glory in death. He barely paid attention to me, he only fought me when my disciples threatened to shatter his army"
"He did describe you as an annoyance" Xia mumbles, glancing down at his own injured arm, sighing as he admitted "But he stopped doing so after your second clash, he was going to kill you on your third if I hadn't stepped in"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 27 Nov 2023 11:31:04 No. 5845043 Report >>5845042 "I should've died" Shidi wheeps "I was humiliated. Despite being raised in the same peaceful era, Laohue is my better as a warrior, even as he hovers between life and death"
"Sounds like he allowed you to wear yourself down, waste your energy and expend your Qi before moving in for the kill" You theorize, tapping your heel on the ground as you lean your chair back and stare at the stone ceiling thoughtfully "Something he would be easily capable of doing, considering his mastery of defensive spells and techniques. You've only really fought in tournaments, I'm guessing, since your and Xia's sects mostly kept out of the fighting between The Ling and Chuan sects"
Shidi refuses to answer, ticking his jaw.
"Where the goal is to win fights as quickly and impressively as possible" You continue to contemplate, feeling grudge miasma fill the room from Shidi's side of it, seasoned with the sour taste of shame "Laohue is fighting to kill, and I am guessing, his sect rarely entered tournaments if they did at all, so you weren't familiar with his fighting style. But you are now"
His eyes sparkle with realization.
"Ah. He did fight in a peculiar manner, different from his students" He explains, rubbing his head as he recollects, while you slam your chair back down onto all four of its legs "He'd try to keep his distance, and only move in to strike with his fist, open palm or scythe's edge when I was open after attacking. It is a very reactive style, but I wouldn't call it passive or categorize it as a soft martial art. Thinking about it now, it was more like he was hunting a beast, wearing me down and trying to bleed me before moving in for a fatal blow. His students fought similarly, but I could just overwhelm them with my greater speed and more profound swordsmanship"
"And he can turn into snow" Xia reminds, smacking his hand into his open palm, acting as if stating what everyone in the room already knows is somehow profound "He's an ambush fighter. Shidi wouldn't relent or give him a chance to disengage from their bouts, but he always attacked him when he was winded after battering his way through weaker opponents. And then pig head over here turned his blunted blade against his peerless guard. No wonder you were trounced so easily"
Shidi flashes a glare at Xia that makes it clear if he could walk he'd throw himself across the room and throttle the man for his impudence.
"And no wonder he only arrived on the battlefield after the heart of the storm crashed into it. He must be staying in the middle of the blizzard for some reason. He always returned to it quickly when he was drawn out by the wolves" Xia continues to extrapolate with dramatic and wild arm movements, that you think are supposed to represent Laohue's movements in the battlefield, out of and back into the blizzard
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 27 Nov 2023 11:32:05 No. 5845044 Report >>5845043 "I always fought in heavy snowfall, in terrain suitable for him" Shidi groans, realizing how much of a handicap he was fighting with at last "But can I be blamed? I was trying to repay a debt, and you demanded to be the one to kill him, Huanliuxue, all I could due was delay and lure him in the direction of your trap"
"Not like you could've killed him anyway" Xia chuckles, hiding his mouth behind his sleeve like a girl. You lean back as Shidi hurls his bedpan at his head, cursing up a storm.
"I came close. I only need one good blow I just...couldn't break his defenses" Shidi roars before slumping back to his bed with a forlorn look on his face and a defeated groan "He can't be that tough, he's been dying for years"
"Don't look so ashamed, Lord Shidi" You console softly as he listlessly stares at the ceiling, unable to do much considering the heavy beating he took and the frost bite he is recovering from "You have the persistence of a ghost. Most men, even at your level, would've died. You fought an opponent that was perhaps your worst matchup, considering your aggressive style of swordplay, in conditions not only favorable to his techniques but that were terrible for anyone but him to fight in. Lift your head up, you fought well, you stubborn old dog"
"That does nothing to sooth my wounded pride. I had to flee battle, more times than I have before in my life, against one man. Death would've been preferable, I've disgraced myself" He weeps "I am undeserving of praise when I was unable to even wound that man"
"And Lord Xia, despite you sharp tongue and bullying of poor Shidi over here" You say, jabbing at the man feeling sorry about himself at your side with your thumb "You've proven loyal beyond doubt. Just as a lesser man would've crumbled before Laohue in combat, and not even stop him for a moment, Most would've jumped at the chance to see their rival suffer a dog's death. It is rare indeed, for a man possessed by a grudge powerful enough to be inherited, to forget it when it truly matters. You could've just watched Shidi die in disgrace, and still done the job I gave you, but instead you risked your life to save his"
Shidi's eyes brighten again as Xia sulks, covered in fluid you do not want to recognize even though its acrid stench is wafting up to your nose like a poisonous mist.
"By stubbornly fighting an enemy you couldn't overcome to draw him towards where he needs to be, and giving him an additional reason to barrel into the cage waiting for him, both of you have succeeded in the tasks given to you" You say with a nod "Be proud of that, instead of wallowing in yourself pity. But you two still can help bring Laohue down, since both of you have seen how he fights, and the spells and techniques he uses. Just from different angles which..."
"Makes both our recollections equally as valuable" Xia says with a smug grin while Shidi tries to kill him with his eyes
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 27 Nov 2023 11:33:05 No. 5845045 Report >>5845044 "Yes" You say dully as Jionghuagege returns to the room with wet towels and fragrant soaps. And a furious Tiexingege, who has a look on her face that tells you she was ready to castrate Xia Jinse-Shayu. She doesn't enter the room or even accuse him, she just stands there silently, glaring daggers at him like Shidi is
"Now, enough talking and bickering, you are both going to tell me all you can remember about the fights Laohue was a part of, the spells he used, his stance, how he fought with his scythe and bare hands, the way he moved, how quickly he could turn into snow and reform his body" You begin listing off rapdily, counting down with your fingers "What tricks he used. How he fought with a scythe of all things. How he ambushed Shidi, what wounds he tried to make first. Did he go for hamstringing strikes first? When he went in for the kill, what kind of attack was it, was it a move that had recognizable tells or was a different strike each time he tried to take your head? Did he say anything, was he silent? How long did he fight you each time. Did he seem weaker the further from the snow he got? Was he drawing strength from it? Is it keeping him alive"
Shidi, Xia, Jiong-Jiong, and Tie-Tie all stare at you
"Could...could you repeat that?" Xia asked numbly "A little slower?"
"Girl. Speak clearly, I didn't understand any of that" Shidi says curtly.
He then yells in pain as Jionghuagege tightens his bandages a little too much.
And so you repeat yourself, and begin a discussion of how the old monster fights that last hours. And it is most enlightening.
By time you and the Geges emerge from the ground, the sky is darkened. But not because its night. Dense black clouds, roiling with thunder, cover the sun and snow is blanketing the streets. The people are panicking, and looking to you for answers, crowding around you, falling to their knees, praying and offering you anything to chase the snow and the cold again. It hurts, deeply, to see their desperate faces with their tears freezing to their cheeks. And you make a promise you might not be able to keep, again and again.
Someone tugs your sleeve, and you turn to tell them you will end the deadly storm as you did before but, you see a familar face.
The doll like, somber, Ruolan, as white as the snow in hair and hide, with blood red eyes. She smiles slightly, parting her lips to reveal two fangs before she turns away and frowns sullenly
"Do you have something to tell me?" You ask, leaning down to her as her eyes burn and flare. She closes her eyes, takes a breath and sighs
"My brother is a member of the winter blossoming wisdom sect. They tossed me into the forest to die, but took him into their temple" She says, as quiet as a mouse trying to hide "I told you this already. He cannot have cultivated for long. If he is a part of this army..."
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Mon 27 Nov 2023 11:35:29 No. 5845048 Report >>5845045 "Do you want me to spare him? Tell him you're still alive?" You ask. Her glassy, often sad, eyes sharpen and narrow.
"No. Leave him to me" She spits and snarls, in a very feline way "He left me to die!"
"Ah" You say, smirking as a flicker of resentment clouds her eyes, and grudges spill out from her lips, faint and wispy but surprisingly intense for how weak the cloud of enmity escapes her. She's restraining and hiding a lot of resentment within her frail body "I see...I see. How surprisingly vicious of you, Ruolan"
"I'm a blood sage, I should be vicious" She says, with a very non threatening pout, as she vanishes back into the crowd and you wonder if she imagined she looked like an fearsome creature of the night just then. No matter. The hour has come. The snow storm and snow tiger are here, and trifling matters like Ruolan's resentment mean nothing now. Not now, at this crossroads of fate. There is a fateful battle to win, and many lives for you to protect and many more for you to end. So many lives in the palm of your hand.
It is an oppressive, crushing responsibility thrust onto your shoulders. Is this why the gods have become so apathetic?
"No matter" You decide with a shrug "I am a ruler, and it is my duty to guard my subjects. My duty to order them to the deaths..."
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With the Winter blossoming wisdom sect and Xue Laohue approaching, what do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Lead your elite troop of alchemically transformed soliders, mutated monsters and mortal volunteers buddhist warrior monks, and The Gege's armies to the battleground your mother and Gege's prepared, and use them to blunt the first waves, while you disciples and allied cultivators wait for the real threats to appear. >Xue Laohue is a hunter of beasts. He fights like men are any other animal. He sees and fights every opponent as if they were his quarry. He won't expect to have the tables turned on him. Have Tiexingege and Yinying lead ambush parties of varying compositions to weaken and blunt the approaching army, while the dusk marsh wolves, Summer Sea dawn, and temple of celestial fire sects do the same >The weak are prey to the strong, but it is the duty of the strong, of rulers, to protect and guard the weak. Lead your army against Xue Laohue's, leaving the strategy to the Geges. And leave the Arena open to retreat to if things get hairy. >Knowing the Xue Laohue is easily tunnel visioned, use Monu and Yourself to draw him away from his forces, so they cannot interfere, and have you armies make sure they cannot interrupt your battle with him >Use the Heart Manual and try to steal a few more of Baoli's techniques while the fighting begins. >Gather everyone, and give a speech (Write ins encouraged) >Write in Anonymous
>>5845048 >Gather everyone for speech. "The snow falls upon us and we are at last confronted with the arrogant sages and unjust heaven's lackie, The Winter Blossoming Wisdom Sect and their master Xue Laohue! They come today to claim the head of every magical beast in my kingdom. They come today to put all who see the truth of the world to the sword. They have come to wipe us from the map and to destroy any trace of the Chuan which does not bend to their evil visions.
We face a daoist sect 10 generations in stagnancy, their methods are tested and true. Their elders are murderers without peer and their elites have been blooded in the first war of generations. But now they face You!
Magical beasts, who's very birthright is to grow strong through the natural cycle of Qi and strife.
Dusk marsh wolves and Summer sea dawn and Celestial fire monks, each a tradition of just as great a time, just as sure and tested a methodology.
Buddhists, kicked around and neglected by a world that has forgotten your strength yet ever advancing towards a supreme enlightenment.
And my Own Palace of natural laws, heretics only in that we have dared to tread new paths, follow new ideas and daos and return to an ancient order of affairs.
Who can face against us, in our variety? Who can match our many strengths? Where one would be countered, another will counter. Where one may be crushed under the weight of this ancient titan, many shall cast off his weight and chains. We are the Cultivators Alliance of Chuan [subject to name change], And we shall not fail.
I shall draw away this storm, trust your leaders, trust my generals, defend your home, Defend the future that is to come!"
>Draw Xue away with ourselves and Monu to the arena while the army keeps the enemy sect from interfereing. Give them confidence, reenforce that unity is our strength and while not dismissing the threat make it managable.
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>>5845048 >Knowing the Xue Laohue is easily tunnel visioned, use Monu and Yourself to draw him away from his forces, so they cannot interfere, and have you armies make sure they cannot interrupt your battle with him Anonymous
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>>5845048 >Knowing the Xue Laohue is easily tunnel visioned, use Monu and Yourself to draw him away from his forces, so they cannot interfere, and have you armies make sure they cannot interrupt your battle with him Anonymous
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>>5845048 >Knowing the Xue Laohue is easily tunnel visioned, use Monu and Yourself to draw him away from his forces, so they cannot interfere, and have you armies make sure they cannot interrupt your battle with him I don't like the manual, I should have changed my vote to the wings
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>>5845080 Biggest issue is the memories.
Too many of them is just Baoli reborn. Need to space out our memory absorbtion. On the other hand, Instant mastery.
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>>5845101 But think, Baoli mirror match. When the deluded one faces the real one (possessing) in a hell-in-a-cell deathmatch for the ages.
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>>5845102 Thats cool and all. . Just so long as we are not the deluded one!
I think our willpower and pride is enough to dull the effects but still
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>>5845106 Baoli wishes he could be us. Or fuck us? Or kill us? It's really, really hard to say. But jokes aside I don't think his memories are going to be enough to override us. Even if they are so forceful.
Some weedy runt who doesn't know any better though, should definitely be kept away.
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>>5845048 >Her >Knowing the Xue Laohue is easily tunnel visioned, use Monu and Yourself to draw him away from his forces, so they cannot interfere, and have you armies make sure they cannot interrupt your battle with him Anonymous
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>>5845048 >Knowing the Xue Laohue is easily tunnel visioned, use Monu and Yourself to draw him away from his forces, so they cannot interfere, and have you armies make sure they cannot interrupt your battle with him While the wound opening technique will be very useful against Xue Laohue I think Enmity incarnation, Devil of Grudges should also be good. He fights reactively so we should constantly change our own style and not use a single move twice, I also think we should save dying grudge shield until he uses something particularly nasty if we are gonna use it all. I don't doubt that he could easily copy it given his defensive skills
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>>5845101 Might just vote to burn the thing in the future, better to lose an upgrade then to have something dangerous around.
And we already have way too many techniques we never are going to use anyway
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>>5845177 >better to lose an upgrade then to have something dangerous around. By that logic we should destroy probably about half or a little more of all the relics we have.
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>>5845203 Not really, other then the book that can possess people. Which has been a while since we saw anything of it.
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>>5844257 I still really wish I had the foresight to change my vote here, after anon counted the vote. Anonymous
>>5845212 The peach can do who knows the fuck in the wrong hands. We have a skull that could potentially kill an entire province. Our book that details our every move would be hilariously disastrous for us if someone managed to take it.
We are swimming in dangerous artifacts dude.
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Although it would lead to a tie, and someone else probably would break it in favor of the manual anyway, so no point in crying over spilled milk. I just really don't see us using Baoli's eye stealing without coming off as a massive hypocrite over our disgust of patchy's cultivation method. Which is fitting for cultivation characters, they are always do what I say, not what I do, like the orthodox in the quest
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>>5845220 Thing is I don't see it doing good anything on good on good hands as well.
The peach and skull we have been using as cultivation focus, but the book and manual? Just something to lock away and hope no-one ever uses it.
Anonymous
>>5845224 And I mean the book that can process people, not the book that can tell our story Anonymous
>>5845224 He is a master of fire. The spells and the techniques are what we want to know, even if we never use it.
The information isnt evil, we can develop more from it. And worse case passes, we can recognise it and counter.
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Although the manual has more techniques, so maybe we can get one that is good in the future. And since we have eclipse nature, we can probably use the fire techniques even though they are yang aligned. Might even mix well when mantling the rooster general, since I think I remember he also has fire abilities?
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>>5845221 Pretty sure that's just how he got eyes in his feathers and did some dank sorcery. We can literally just not eat the eyes if we steal them. We can put them in a bag for alchemical reasons. Or crush them. It doesn't matter. I don't quite agree with your assessment that it works like Jingyu's but that could just be a difference in our understandings of how both methods work. >>5845224 My guy just because we aren't misusing our tools doesn't mean they aren't dangerous. EVERYTHING is a poison in sufficient quantities.
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>>5845236 >>5845248 Fair, I may be worrying for nothing.
>that could just be a difference in our understandings of how both methods work. Cultivation techniques are incredibly complex, and people how different interpretations, so that might be it. I always like discussing things in this quest, everyone is civil and try their best to discuss the setting, character, abilities and future.
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>>5845260 Cultivation is weird. How much simpler it would be if all we did was lift heavy things to grow in power. Truly we are cursed with knowledge.
It is pretty nice to be able to come in and not have to shitfling constantly just to get people to hear.
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>>5845281 That is body cultivation is the superior dao
Just lift until you can punch the breakthroughs.
Anonymous
>>5845080 We could've had flying eye feathers on that biblical vibe baka.
>>5845236 Also yeah, destroying it is not the way to go.
At best we can go to the underworld and trade it for something of equal or near value if we really don't like it. Maybe even use it to see if the Mother Crow has something she could give us in its stead.
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>>5845048 >Knowing the Xue Laohue is easily tunnel visioned, use Monu and Yourself to draw him away from his forces, so they cannot interfere, and have you armies make sure they cannot interrupt your battle with him Cut off the head, and the battle ends.
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>>5845224 >>5845233 Yeah I've been advocating burning "soul eater's manual" for a while now, as it is it's just useless dead weight that some day one of our more edgy students like Ping might try his hand on and end up possessed.
After all this excitement with the sect war is settled we should really clean up our basement a bit, including the vermin in the lower levels.
Anonymous
>>5845437 >I've been advocating burning "soul eater's manual" for a while now >it's just useless dead weight It really isn't, nor is Baoli's heart-manual. The strongest cultivators are always those who try to advance along every avenue possible that fits within their understanding of the Dao. Adding soul devour into the mix is not only within our wheelhouse as an offshoot of the Dao of Ghosts, but is actively beneficial overall because it lets us protect *our* soul from corruption and outside influences. What are we going to do when we run into others like Yaonan, that can actually do soul-damage consistently? Past a certain level of strength, that's not uncommon, particularly once we get towards god-rank. Tossing away something cool because it carries a risk not only isn't Huan's style, but kind of goes against the principles of Cultivation in general, to me.
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>>5845519 Adding knowledge and adapting principles.
Soul consumption is vile and unbefitting of us and we shall not engage in the practice.
>>5845319 Dont be daft. Yoi don't trade an item like this. . What you do is yiu set up an auction. Embellish the legend, build up the desireability. Then gwt them to start a bidding war between the demon clan and anyone who wants a core formation tier demon.
Anonymous
>>5845632 We learned how to trap souls in jars thank to the souls eaters journal, getting rid of it outright is stupid when it clearly contains useful information.
Not to mention that despite learning how to devour souls ourselves, we have yet to do so even once. It's a tool, it's all in how you use it. Tossing it away is for people who don't trust themselves not to use it responsibly, and I trust Huanliuxue plenty.
Anonymous
>>5845637 You mistake me. Your every point I agree with and knowledge is what we need. Every vile practice is used because it works, if we know how it works we can use that helpfully while discarding the bad aspects.
I merely take great offense at sub optimal bargaining practices. You sell the heart ad an heirloom to the crows, to incite bidding wars. And you sell the book as the foundational text of soul draining. Mega shit.
I dont think we should, it is letting genies out of bottles, but if we did, that is how to do so.
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>>5845741 >literally i have no shekels but i must jew You gotta respect the hustle.
Anonymous
>>5845632 you have eyes but do not recognize Mt.Tai,
don't you know that the only thing an auction does is allow an MC to purchase something of incredible value for really cheap?
We'd get ripped off!
Anonymous
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>>5845048 >Xue Laohue is a hunter of beasts. He fights like men are any other animal. He sees and fights every opponent as if they were his quarry. He won't expect to have the tables turned on him. Have Tiexingege and Yinying lead ambush parties of varying compositions to weaken and blunt the approaching army, while the dusk marsh wolves, Summer Sea dawn, and temple of celestial fire sects do the same Anonymous
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>>5845815 Though now i want to see Huan pull off a few of her evil as fuck horrid morbid things she collected in an orthodox auction.
Everybody can see what treasure they are, but can't get over how evil they look.
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Ending the vote, tallying the result now. Gather everyone for speech:2 -big write in:2 Knowing the Xue Laohue is easily tunnel visioned, use Monu and Yourself to draw him away from his forces, so they cannot interfere, and have you armies make sure they cannot interrupt your battle with him:8 Xue Laohue is a hunter of beasts. He fights like men are any other animal. He sees and fights every opponent as if they were his quarry. He won't expect to have the tables turned on him. Have Tiexingege and Yinying lead ambush parties of varying compositions to weaken and blunt the approaching army, while the dusk marsh wolves, Summer Sea dawn, and temple of celestial fire sects do the same: 1 Landslide victory for isolating Xue Laohue from his forces, taking advantage of his single mindedness and hatred for You and your mother to lure him into the grave you've prepared for him, while your army, disciples and ally make sure his men cannot interrupt your battle with him Update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Wed 29 Nov 2023 13:14:14 No. 5847830 Report The horizon that day would be an inspiring sight. The snowstorm raging beneath darkened clouds blacker than jet, the sun and its warmth conquered by the snow it had once melted by its presence alone. Shards of ice flying through the sky like flocks of birds, whistling through the air shrilly, cutting the wind with a dreadful dirge of rage. Gales kicked up the powder and sent hardened balls of tightly packed snow falling through the sky like volcanic rocks spewed out from the earth, impacting upon the ground and sending up clouds of powder snow, blanketing the horizon and obscuring what lay beyond it more than even the sun smothering clouds did. It was a white abyss turned grey and in the stillness of this sunless day, all that could be heard was the whistling of icicles, crashing of snow and the snapping of trees. The curse born blizzard marched like a stampede of vengeful spirits, intangible yet destructive. All around you stood cultivators. Nearest were your own students, who stood proud and unintimidated by the grand display of the winter blossoming wisdom sect's magic. The students of the Five colors and five purities were nervous, terrified, shivering from more than just the cold, except for their master and the Fa twins, who stood proudly at your side, opposite of Monu, the old man calmly stroking his beard and the Fa brothers crossing their arms with defiance on their faces. Tang's embodied in a scowl and Jin's as a self adoring smirk. The leaderless Dusk Marsh Wolves and Summer Sea Dawn sect, were surrounded by a communal enmity, on opposite sides of the fields their rivalry turned to dark clouds and clashed, but you could sense from the aroma of their resentment alone as you idly lapped at its miasma that an equal measure of their anger was directed towards the unseen army that marched beneath the snow storm. Their temporary army leaders were the seconds of both the sects, Golden cores of subpar to middling quality, with a handful of Core formation experts under their direct command. Many of them were wounded, still wearing bandages and bruises. The temple of Celestial fire stood apart from the rest, their sect head only recently arrived, purposefully wearing his red agate mask around his neck, an open and brazen display of his having cut ties with his relatives and former overlords. He had a sullen, sad face and wore a short beard and mustache. He watched the oncoming storm impassively, tossing wood into one of the bonfires lighting the arena. Which was dug into the earth, with towering tree branches woven with stones serving as its walls, a coliseum of the champion of natural laws. It was uneven, pocked with holes, tunnels and trenches, were the mundane armies sheltered within, dressed in heavy winter clothing and furs to warm themselves, while Tiexingege's children marched in strict lines up and down the trenches and fortifications that ringed the arena itself. Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Wed 29 Nov 2023 13:15:26 No. 5847832 Report >>5847830 There were four ringers of walls, cultivated and grown by Jionghuagege, reinforced with ice hiding poison and great stones ripped from the ground by Tiexingege's excavations and cut by Feiqing's hands. A thousand, hundred, eleven of the alchemically transformed elites manned one of each of the four rings, dressed in the finest armor Suiqi could provided. The mutated animals turned monsters were chained and leashed, ready to be let loose upon the first sight of the enemy.
The air smelled of smoke. And then, the gloom was banished by an inspiring display of misplaced confidence. Formations of flying swords, spell arrays alighted the sky, some only to declare prominent combatants or burn insults to you and your mother in the sky with spiritual energy. Mantras and proverbs were chanted across the field by so many voices and such intensity their volume made the ground shake and tremble. They were repeating the edicts of the winter blossoming wisdom sect and the laws of the heavens they served, but with so many different slogans and war cries, it all became jumbled. A nonsensical commotion of curses, boasts, declarations, and insults.
The Din was deafening, and the fireworks show they put on, wasting their spiritual energy with their flashy intimidation tactics and displays, like they were fluffing their tails and arcing their backs, yowling to disguise their fear. Trying to look larger and more dangerous than they actually were. There really was no difference between humanity and the rest of the animals in the world. But at least their Saber Rattling and peacocking lit up the battlefield. Though the decision to expend so much Qi and set up arrays and formations just to send threatening messages, personal mottos, excerpts of some long dead orthodox sage's wisdom, and churlish & childish insults across the sky, just to serve the purpose of a few lanterns, fire pits or false ghosts was still so offensively stupid, you couldn't even appreciate the dramatics of it. And it certainly didn't terrify you. Only a scared animal tried to make itself look intimidating. One confident in its strength had no need to flaunt its power. Especially not towards its lesser.
Sure you could respond in kind, but what would be the point? You were strong and they already knew that, and were terrified of you. Why else would they need to try and raise moral with what amounts to a fireworks display? Sure its flashy, but it costs Qi and effort that would be better used sharpening their claws. Maybe it was the only way they could steel their nerves? Well there was no point trying to find logic in their foolishness. If they were being jackass, it was only to your benefit.
Sure some of the other sect's members were affected by their displays and their war cries, and certainly the mortal army of Suiqi were cowed, but that'd change when they saw the first line of attackers get utterly demolished by the combined might of five sects.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Wed 29 Nov 2023 13:16:27 No. 5847833 Report >>5847832 Or at least you hoped they would. You'd gathered all them here for one purpose, Mortals and cultivators alike, to hold back the winter blossoming wisdom sect while you and Monu took your time with Xue Laohue, and relished in your family's long awaited revenge as you tore him apart. Piece by piece.
Luckily, there was a certain flaw of Xue Laohue's character that will make isolating him a simple task. His single minded focus. He gets tunnel vision easily. While you weren't certain if he'd hate you or your mother more, one of you would draw his attention and be able to lead him anywhere. Like say, miles from his own army, in the middle of the arena you were now standing in!
Monu grinned when she heard your plan, and she was now waving one of your sect banners above your head, dressed as proactively and Monu-ish as possible while you sat one your haunches, taking the chance to get in some last minute grooming while you could, frost already crawling on your spider demon silk armor.
"HAO LIANDUYE! HUANLIUXUE! WITCH, VILLAIN, DEMON! THIS IS YOUR DIVINE JUDGEMENT!" A hoarse voice roared over the clamor rising over the blizzard, as the storm itself was split in two as a pillar of calm ran down its center, a wave of Ice aligned water Qi swinging down like an executioner's blade from the heavens, sending a burst of freezing air right down the middle of your defenses and into your face. Some of the elite troops were sent flying, and some of the weaker cultivators were thrown to the ground. But You and Monu didn't budge, and she kept laughing and dancing and waving your flag
"I AM THE HEAVENLY RETRIBUTION FOR ALL OF YOUR BLACK DEEDS AND VILE WAYS, YOUR ATTROCITY ENDS NOW! I SHALL STEM THE BLOODSHED AND BURN THE WITCH!" He bellows, as in the tranquil gap between the split in two snow storm, you can see him, leading his army, a little dot on the horizon "THE WORLD WILL NO LONGER SUFFER EITHER OF YOUR PRESENCES! YOUR FOULNESS WILL BE EXPUNGED FROM THIS WORLD. SO SWEAR I, XUE LAOHUE. XUE MING WILL BE AVENGED BY MY HAND, SO SWEAR I, XUE LAOHUE! TODAY IS THE DAY OF THE WITCH AND HER PET'S DESERVED DEATHS"
"And he just makes it easier for us" You cackle coldly
"He just split the blizzard and you're laughing?!" Some nobody bleats as Monu's laughter turns manic, her eyes ablaze with rage and her grudges overflowing from her mouth and spilling from her nose. Fu raises his head
"That's nothing compared to my master's strength" He declares plainly
"Red Fur isn't the kind to be shaken by so many empty, boring words!" Tiexingege shouts, clacking her mandibles
"But that was rather frightening, wasn't it, Tie Tie?" Jionghuagege frets, fluttering around in her human form, wringing her hands in worry
"The old man is dying" Ping says simply with a nod, before cracking a nervous smile "Even if he has been dying for years. I trust Lady Huanliuxue to finally push him over the last step into his next life"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Wed 29 Nov 2023 13:17:28 No. 5847836 Report >>5847833 "Xue, despite being half an icicle, is full of hot air" Master Su declares, but his tone tells you the show of force has shaken him despite him being stronger and further along in his development than your confident students and little sisters
"Either we die for a demonic beast, or get cut down by her" Another nobody wails
"First Xue, then the ling! If we die today, we die to free our brothers and sisters from their collars"
"How many corpses do you think they've made in their march here! They've turned more villainous than the cat"
"Has the bloodshed done anything even half as vile as freezing half of Chuan!?"
"We're in the right here, Huanliuxue is no demon, The sect head was wise to join his spear to her struggle!"
"To die in blood stained snow, how romantic"
"This really is the end of an era"
"Why isn't she in her human form? Then I could at least die happy and smiling"
"Don't let her first disciple here you, I heard he broke a man's arm for trying to deliver a love declaration to her!
"They sure do talk a lot for "walking corpses"" Qiang muses, hand on the sword at her hip, And true to her word, they kept talking and gossiping amongst themselves "They were so dreary moments ago"
"Wolves howl when they die to" Huili mused poetically "They're making memories for their friends"
"Which poets tongue did you steal, doggy? Yujijiao snickers, coiling around the legs of her living and embodied martial siblings
"I think its about time we head out, mother" You state, turning to face her as she continues to bounce and wave your flag around
"No time for good byes?" She asks
"No need, I'll see them all again after the battle is won" You confidently answer with a scoff, lying to yourself. You know well that you might not and this might be the last time you see some of them. But even though you really want to say goodbye to each and everyone of them and wish them luck in the fighting, there's no time to. So instead, you're forced to be satisfied with watching them converse as friends and comrades, so at least your last memory of them alive will be a pleasant and sweet one.
Pinwheel girl's dying moments flicker in your memories. The warmth of her blood and her final shuddered breath washing over your face as she held you, shielding your little body with hers in her last moments of life. Taking a sharp breath, you close your eyes, burning the smiling faces of your disciples as deep in your memory as that awful day that created you.
"Are you sure you're ready to leave them behind, Huan?" Monu asks softly, lovingly, her motherly affection for you overwhelming her rage towards the man who ruined her
"I'm sure, Lets go. Lingering will only turn this memory more bitter than sweet" You answer with a nod, kicking off the ground and taking flight. Monu's smile turned sad, but she followed you, the banner of the palace of natural laws still in her hand. It is for the best not to dwell on those smiling faces you're leaving behind.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Wed 29 Nov 2023 13:18:28 No. 5847838 Report >>5847836 Worrying will only distract you in battle, and if this is the last time you see some of them, you want your last thoughts of them to be pleasant. Instead of fretting if they'll die today or not, let them be immortalized at their brightest and most lively! LIKE FIREWORKS!
<span class="mu-s"> Double vote </span>
Who is in charge of the mission to occupy the rest of the winter blossoming wisdom sect as you and Monu duel Xue Laohue
>Fu >Tiexingege >Jionghuagege >Huili >Someone else And what are your first words to the bastard himself, Xue Laohue, Huanliuxue?
>Your grandson died weeping, begging for you to save him. I wonder if you'll die as pathetically, Xue Laohue (Lie) >Oi! Old Fossil! Your captured disciples are waiting for you in Suiqi! Come, race me there! >If there's one thing I hate more than anything else, its the delusions of the self righteous! How many have you killed with this tantrum of yours?! >Papa~! >*Let Monu handle pissing him off* >Write in VERY excited for the next update
Anonymous
>>5847838 >The Geges working in tandem They are our generals, and they are good at covering eachother's specialties in a fight
>"I wish my nephew told me who he was, I would have made our fight special instead of crushing him like the useless drunkard you raised him as! Good thing I'm closer to mom's side then yours, right dad~?" Anonymous
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>>5847838 I can't do better than this esteemed anon:
>>5847845 Anonymous
>>5847838 >both Tie and Jiong together Other anon gives interesting proposition
>Papa~ Holy shit this one has incredible potential, but I think we aught to
>If there's one thing I hate more than anything else, its the delusions of the self righteous! How many have you killed with this tantrum of yours?! Anonymous
>>5847845 Oh sweet fuck.
Yes. Absolutely yes. Though I would perhaps said "left a body to bury, rather than vaporise him like the useless drunk" but thats just me
>Support this Anonymous
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>>5847909 Oh, that's even better
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>>5847845 I'm officially changing my vote to
>"I wish my nephew told me who he was, I would have left a body to bury, rather than obliterate him like the useless drunkard you raised him as! Good thing I'm closer to mom's side then yours, right dad~?" He technicality did announce he was the grandson of Xue Laohue and heir to the Winter Blossoming Wisdom, but he didn't say he was also the grandson of Monu.
Not that we would even know if he did, since even if he would have know and been willing to admit descendance to a heretic, he would have used her real name, and I don't think we knew that at the time. Anonymous
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There's also the fact we gave Ming respect before he died and he was far from useless in the fight. But this is just to taunt Laohue, not necessarily the truth. Even though I imagine we would have probably treated him differently if we know.
Anonymous
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>>5847838 Finally I've returned from the hell that is Covid Flu fusion.
Wish I was around to vote for GEM getting an upgrade since it's been kind of on the sidelines for a minute, but we go on. >Tie+Jiong Most experience as commanders,probably can support each other better than anyone else here can.
>"I wish my nephew told me who he was, I would have left a body to bury, rather than obliterate him like the useless drunkard you raised him as! Good thing I'm closer to mom's side then yours, right dad~?" Nuclear mad snowman incoming, but this is a disgustingly mocking thing to say.
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>>5847980 That sounds like it would have sucked a lot. Glad to hear you are better now
Anonymous
>>5847980 List of shit to do when daddio here is dead.
Convert the remains of WBWS to our forces and steal their toys.
Stabalise this alliance.
Go and put that "forgotten king" in his fucking place for trying to disrupt our breakthrough and secure our underground domain properly.
And wipe out those accursed Ling bastards.
I have put that at the bottom because with our allaince we should be able to hold them back and secure Chuan easily enough to give us soke breathing room.
I've no belief that the ogress will be easily found, so I have no intent to waste time looking. Anything missing?
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>>5848015 We probably will have to deal with the Ling sooner then that because our alliance with the Celestial sect depended on us helping their rebellion for them helping our army.
But I still want to deal with the Forgotten King first, securing the heart of our territory should be essential.
And I want to loot that library and puppet Anonymous
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>>5848015 Don't forget go back to space for Space Cultivator Part 2: Void-Form Boogaloo
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>>5847898 IP changed but I am this anon btw.
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>>5847845 Supporting. I kinda want to give this to Fu as our first discipline, but he's too hotheaded to be a good commander - even Tie Tie will be more strategic.
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>>5847838 >Fu *Let Monu handle pissing him off*
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>>5847838 >Fu >*Let Monu handle pissing him off* This is gonna be great! She's gonna tear him apart!
Anonymous
>>5848338 I want her insults, but I prefer he target us.
Anonymous
>>5848385 We should take turns with Monu. Can we do a Woldorf and Statler routine?
Anonymous
>>5848487 >We should take turns with Monu. Trading bars on the battlefield with Mama Monu.
Send Ol Xue Laohue to his death with the first diss track playing in the background.
Anonymous
>>5848550 We'll make him cough blood!
Anonymous
>>5848553 >"That's why yo son dead" >HRK! Really, weaponized bants is the finest of techniques.
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>>5847838 >>5847845 +1
But I will support this
>>5847909 amendment as well.
Can't help but feel like taunting him about killing his relatives is a bit of a boomerang, given that Xue has plenty of ammo on that front himself, but hey, we want to piss him off? No reason to go for anything else than the big red target on his forehead.
I am very hyped about this fight, I am positively vibrating already. Anonymous
Yknow I just realized we forgot to do one thing that would've been imperative in this fight that we did in our last major fight. We forgot to get ROID OUT Haun like we did with the Crow King. Tragic mistake desu.
Anonymous
>>5848698 Yeah I was gonna ask, where was the vote to do that?
Anonymous
>>5848709 I'd say we probably could've done a write in at this point and get it.
>>5845048 It just wasn't given as an option bc the ROIDS are not usually one's first choice.
Anonymous
>>5848724 > could've You mean can? We've had dark horse write in wins before.
>>5847838 Backing
>>5847845 and taking ROIDS.
Anonymous
>>5848732 well no bc he's in front of us right now, with the crow king he gave us the time to ROID UP.
Anonymous
>>5848735 But whats stopping us from taking them anyway? We should take them before roasting him though.
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>>5848740 Nah, do some before, then do some after roasting him. Mostly because the idea of a cat taking drugs, insulting someone, and then taking more drugs is really, really funny.
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>>5847838 >The Geges working in tandem >Papa~! Anonymous
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>>5847838 >Tiexingege >Old man, dying man, miserable frozen hypocrite of a man; tell me what is the meaning of life? Anonymous
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>>5848698 No need. Hes a few stages above us, But still on our stage.
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>>5848740 Looking at the Pastebin, we don’t really have a lot of pills prepped, and the only one that could do something is theoretically the fire body stabilizer. We’ve neglected that aspect for a 10+ threads.
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>>5847838 i support the mother daughter dissing duet.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Thu 30 Nov 2023 23:57:13 No. 5849818 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying the result now.
The Geges:11
Fu:2
Tiexingege:1
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"I wish my nephew told me who he was, I would have made our fight special instead of crushing him like the useless drunkard you raised him as! Good thing I'm closer to mom's side then yours, right dad~?":8
-Switch "Made our fight special" with "Left a body to bury":4
If there's one thing I hate more than anything else, its the delusions of the self righteous! How many have you killed with this tantrum of yours?!:1
*Let Monu handle pissing him off*:1
Take some pills in prep:1
Papa~!:1
Old man, dying man, miserable frozen hypocrite of a man; tell me what is the meaning of life?:1
The Gege's will lead the Palace of natural laws and their allied forces into battle
And Huan first words to Xue Laohue will be "I wish my nephew told me who he was, I would have left a body to bury, rather than obliterate him like the useless drunkard you raised him as! Good thing I'm closer to mom's side then yours, right dad~?"
Since half of the votes supporting that option are in favor of the amendment
Update will arrive shortly
>>5848550 >>5848553 >>5848584 Heh
>>5849456 Junior, this strike to my sides made me spit up blood myself with laughter! Good job!
>>5847980 And I know from experience how bad that shit is, glad you're recovering, Junior.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 01 Dec 2023 02:33:31 No. 5849941 Report [Meanwhile, on the ground] _ Those amongst the allied forces who had never before seen a magical beast switch between their forms, witnessed it now as Tiexingege hopped atop the head of one of her favorite five daughters, the one's smart enough to talk back to her after she gave them orders, whether it was with her words or through pheromones. The little tanned girl hopped across the lifted heads of her less intelligent progeny, the taller of the younger princesses following after her and dressing her in her armor as she had set off from her place in the line of cultivators without bothering to prepare clothes to wear in her diminutive human form. Jionghuagege's wings of manfiested Qi glowed comfortingly as she passed over the same soldiers who turned their heads down as the nude Tiexingege leapt over their trenches and the walls they were standing atop. By time she came to a stop, she looked like a miniature warrior, dressed in armor pounded into shape by the bare hands of Feiqing, made out of the discarded chitin of the mindless daughters she lost before Red Fur woke back. Despite being so small and childish looking, she struck an imposing figure as one of the few beasts whose mere existence was an offense to the heavens. And like her elder sister she reveled in it. Though Jionghuagege was plain compared to Huanliuxue and had a freckled face, she looked the image of a fairy as she bumbled in the air besides her dear friend, wearing a dress she had borrowed from Huanliuxue, that though it was drag and grey like decaying flesh, only accented the brightness of her silver hair and the gentleness of her expression and holding. Her bright green eyes ringed gold looked down demurely, as her gentle smile turned in sorrowful frown as she allowed her more boisterous sworn sister take the center stage. Her red clay hued skin glowing in the light of Jionghuagege's glimmering wings, Tiexingege swaggered forward, her arms crossed in a crass manner, and her cute youthful face stricken in a thuggish grimace. Her hair, long, metallic black, glinted like an unsheathed sword as she stomped a foot down on the outermost of the four rings of walls and shouted wordlessly, a sudden snap of noise that caught the attention of every soldier and cultivator stationed within the arena "LISTEN UP YOU MAGGOTS!" She roared, puffing out her little chest as far as she could, baring her teeth as she pulled one hand from out of beneath her arm and crudely jabbed her finger towards the horizon and the army awaiting her there "Red Fur has entrusted you to our Commands! Whatever the reasons that brought you here, whether it was your choice or your boss', your purpose is now to serve as living shields! If you can swallow your arrogance and listen to me, who has fought more wars than your whole species has for generations, the little sister of the Happy bloodshed, and have any strength at all, you'll probably survive!" Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 01 Dec 2023 02:34:32 No. 5849942 Report >>5849941 "Tie-Tie means that if you trust our expertise in the matters of strategy and tactics, you will likely survive to share in the glory that Lady Huanliuxue will earn on this most fateful of days. Isn't it like something out of a song, warriors gathering at a princess' call to action, gallantly throwing themselves into battle to shield her and ensure her dream of a better tommorrow will be preserved" Jionghuagege spoke, taking her turn as Tiexingege ground her teeth and glared at the nearest man, one of the elite's Huanliuxue had crafted through her blood alchemy and tricky magics
"Hah! You will listen to us, otherwise you'll be nothing but a bunch of corpses!" Tiexingege drawled, gnashing her teeth in annoyance "I know you daoists don't respect anyone besides trembling kneed old men, but I know some of you are strong enough to be worth a damn! Forget your pride, don't think of yourself as cultivator or a heir to whatever moldy traditions you were entrusted, you're a soldier. A soldier's duty is to obey, fight and win and if need be die a bloody death"
"Tie-Tie means, even though we don't exactly match the ideal of a general or martial master, we are experienced and practice laws that are centered on commanding armies, as you can see by our legions of adorable daughters" Jionghuagege interpreted the aggressiveness, postering and challenges spoken as insults of her sister "And we expect you to follow our orders like they do, rather than, in the heat of battle, think yourselves the sole hero of this fateful clashing who is destined to save the princess from her evil..uh, ex father?"
"What Jiong-Jiong means, is you better fucking listen!" Tiexingege shouted, to the amusement of some and the blatant terror of others, who had heard stories of what her daughters would do to the wounded and seen the aftermath of the battles she commanded "If you ignore me, or impede others from following my orders, my girls have orders of their own to trample your sorry asses! Keep up or fall behind! Don't get in the way"
"I.." Jionghuagege sighed, pausing and tapping her chin in thought "Listen, Tie-Tie means well, that threat is probably mostly empty. Just go along and follow our commands as closely as possible, and don't allow any delusions that you're the protagonist get in the way of your, tehee, soldiering!"
"Basically, except the idea that I won't stomp you flat if you get in the way of me or my strategies!" Tiexingege bellowed, stomping another foot "Scar face! You're up first! Get on your helmet and follow me with Huili and his packmates, we're going to crash right into the first wave of those snowmelts!"
"Don't call me that" Fu growled as he sprinted up through the line, pursued by a massive, ox sized wolf with an ash grey hide and sparks trapped in his eyes, followed in turn by slightly less large wolves, and a flopping, violet shelled turtle struggling to keep up with them
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 01 Dec 2023 02:35:32 No. 5849945 Report >>5849942 "And I guess I'll take these toys Red Fur left for me as well, since I know you civilized men folk are so delicate you get jumpy at the sight of anything out of the ordinary!" Tiexingege sneered, ignoring Fu's protests "Hurry up, I want both your axes at my side, punk! And you, Cinder pup! I expect you to be as willing to send your packmates to their glorious death in battle as I am my daughters!"
"We're taking the alchemical monsters?" Fu asked, hefting up his axes to show his bratty commander that he did indeed remember to bring them within into battle "Do you even know how to command them? They might just be strong animals, but their bites will bleed us just as easily as those bastard's blades"
"Don't need to. I've made stampedes before" Tiexingege snickers, as she blinked, seemingly remembered she had more "toys" available to her than a pack of monstrosities chained and tightly leashed "OH! And if any of you have the guts or the arrogance to think you can keep pace with me, you're welcome to join me in repelling this first assault, but remember, fall behind and you're getting stomped!"
"I will take command of the especially magically inclined amongst your valiant souls. My daughters and you will form an artillery line. Lend your talents to me, and I shall, with all the elegance of a painter, turn your spells into a rain of destruction on those cruel men coming to destroy Suiqi and her kindly people" Jionghuagege said sweetly "We'll prepare the way for Tie-Tie and any of you bold enough to think you can impress her"
"Or foolish enough to try and upstage the great me, only scars over here is allowed to try, and the ember shedder as well" Tiexingege cackled manically, bloodlust clear in her sharp eyes "Going to want some of your shark bait types to come on to, don't care if you want to or not, Chuandapo there needs water to move swiftly, and I ain't leaving her behind, ya hear!?"
A stream of water was created and crashed into and flowed past all four of defensive line's rings
"Dead White Fur and Headless horns will lead those amongst you who already croaked and gave up the ghost" She continued, turning her back to the army, as she looked over the wall and gauged the distance of its drop "I'll send one of my daughters back with the rest of your orders! Now come on you gutless fuckers! The fighting isn't going to wait for us! IF WE DIE, WE DIE FOR THOSE WHO CAN'T FIGHT FOR THEMSELVES"
"COME ON!" Fu bellowed after her "Follow these two axes! I'll cut a path for everyone to follow! We cultivators are supposed to be the guardians of the people, not their oppressors! Let us remind the other sects of our shared purpose, come with me and the midget and our names will become legend"
"MIDGET!?"
"And if that sounds too scary for you, just sit here and cast the spells I tell you, my daughters shoulder be almost finished setting up the defenses to stop any counter barrage they may throw our..." Jionghuagege began before
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 01 Dec 2023 02:36:33 No. 5849948 Report >>5849945 "WAIT FOR ME HUILI!" Chuandapo splashed over the wall she was fluttering on, followed by Siwang and Yinying, who raced after Fu, pursued by a snarling, silver coated tiger the size of a fine riding horse, Yòuzǎiwáng ( 幼崽王, Young King), whose shadow eclipsed the defenders on the outermost wall. Then, lead by Feiqing dressed in an armor of raw ore's magnetized around him and a strange masked man by the name of Lei, a surging wave of cultivators and mundane soldiers, altered and not, surged out through the gates of the four rings.
"WE CAN'T LET A BRAT LIKE THAT LOOK DOWN ON US!"
"HAH I LIKE THAT LITTLE ANTS GUTS! LETS SEE IF SHE CAN BACK THEM UP"
"ANY MAN WHO DIES WITH A CLEAN SWORD DIES SHAMEFULLY"
"YEAH! FUCK THOSE WHITE FURRED DOGS! WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE CUTTING SHORT SO MANY INNOCENT LIVES"
"WHAT A FOUL MOUTH, HER ELDER SISTER SHOULD DISCIPLINE HER MORE!"
"SEE ME FLY LIKE A STAR, YOU LITTLE SMART MOUTHED BRAT!"
"LETS COMPARE HOW MANY HEADS WE EACH TAKE! SEE IF YOUR SKILLS CAN MATCH YOUR BOASTING!"
"I can't believe that actually worked" Jionghuagege sighed in relief. Tiexingege had told her she planed to rile up their forces so they'd be more willing to follow her into 'The hell I crave, Jiong-Jiong, the chaos of clashing blades, that ocean of blood, pure, unrestricted war!'
And then she reached out and grabbed Baifenchi by her wings
"Little princess, wait here with me, your elder sister" She cooed "They haven't made any bodies for you to play puppets with, and such grisly things will only reduce morale if you employ them to early into the battle"
"She's right" Qiang yawned, taking her place as the guardian of the defensive commander alongside Ping, who scolded the moth "And stay behind the Dying grudge shields we've hidden within the more standard protection spells! Lady Jionghuagege, your cunning is admirable. They may curse us for such a trick, but we heretics fight dirty"
"Hey, aren't you that traveling exorcist?"
"He is" Qinxin says calmly "And I will be remaining here, as I cannot take part in the savagery the iron princess will unleash, Rejungui, so once more, we fight as brothers and join our power"
And as if on cue, a streak of red fur flew over the wall, Jiangliehuo(江劣貨 , River Bastard) chanting "KILL KILL KILL KILL!" as he joined the charge into battle
"Oh my noble protectors" Jionghuagege cheered, clasping her hands and swooning as the white haired Ping, crimson haired Qiang, and Qinxin, who struck a very heroic image with his hair tied in a loose ponytail "But, Qiang, I have a different purpose for you, that Tiexingege couldn't hear about. She'd have thrown a fit if she heard I meant to end her fun early, when she's been waiting and pining for a battle of this scale for so very long..."
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Beneath you, the palace of natural laws, its mortal underlings and allied sects, spill out from the Arena.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 01 Dec 2023 02:37:34 No. 5849952 Report >>5849948 You can make out a line of black, that must be Tiexingege and her daughters, that grows and spreads out as the Black Iron Army Ants she hid beneath the ground around Suiqi burst out to join her wild charge towards the first wave of Winter blossoming wisdom sects and their own mortal lackies.
Both armies split down the middle to avoid Xue Laohue, whose path is clear as it is a slick of ice so reflective you can almost make out your own reflection, even this far up
"Oh, Jionghuagege is making a flower arrangement for our friends <3" Monu snickers, looking back as she flies alongside you, standing on a cloud of corrosive miasma as you simple float through the air, bounding across it and stretching with every "leap" you take
You dare to glance back, and see that she is acting as a conductor in the air, leading several magic specialists in creating an row of arrays, before a wall that nearly covers all of the arena in the faint blue glimmer of protection spells. And by sheer coincdence, the second you look back is the second she leads them into launching their first volley against the first wave of the Winter blossoming wisdom sect
"Oh wow!" Monu gasps in awe as blossoms of red mist and dust pepper snowstorm as Jionghuagege softens the line Tiexingege is about to lead what looks like half of the total allied army's numbers crashing into, wisely avoiding Xue Laohue's path "Looks to be a massacre in the making! I knew those girls were the right choice to leave in charge, look how hard they're working to impress their older sister, how sweet. How adorable~"
You weave to the side to avoid one of the spells misfired into the sky, smiling
"No, Tie-Tie is doing this because she loves fighting, especially if its to guard the weak" You sigh, adoringly at the sight of your two little sister's handiwork, as you sense a surge of ghostly Yin Qi emerge from, well every where, as the ghosts your ascendance to the golden core realm roused join the brawl Tiexingege must be overjoyed to take part in "And Jionghuagege, probably is just delighted she can be helpful without dirtying her hands, considering how she concerns herself with etiquette and how gentle her heart is"
"Mmm, no, they're doing it to make you proud more than anything?" Monu says, tapping a finger on her lips "But, we shouldn't be slacking off admiring them"
"Yeah, we can't get distracted in front of our enemy" You agree "So lets go wave our tails in front of his face and get him to chase us into the grave we've dug for him"
"I don't think he'll be willing to chase my tail again after all that happens" Your mother says coldly without an ounce of humor in her voice, her expression lethally bleak and harsh as the two of you drop from the sky to appear in front of Xue Laohue as he sprints past your forces and towards the arena. Do you even need to give him an incentive to chase you there
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 01 Dec 2023 02:38:35 No. 5849953 Report >>5849952 "Heeeeeey lover" Monu lackadaisically calls out, waving the palace of the natural laws' banner ponderously in the air, in a manner as mocking and provocative as her dallying timbre "Its been a few years hasn't it? See you've aged like fish in barrel, you piece of shit. Miss me? I know I've been dreaming of you for years, and how lovely your dying screams will be. What? Aren't you happy to see the old, beautiful me again? Heh-Heh!"
"Whore" He disdainfully and off handedly replies, meeting all of her abuse and disrespect with a single insult spat her way as if he was brushing a fly away out of his hair "And Wretched beast"
He stops dead in his tracks, the snow clearing around him and making him more than a blurry shadow to your eyes as he places a scythe unlike any other at his side and leans against it.
He is split down the middle. One half of him is covered in ice. The one holding the scythe in place, that has a curved blade that's nearly as long as he is tall, and whose polished blade is covered in frost and decorated with. Monu cracks her teeth.
"You sick fuck!" She rages, as she recognizes as well as you that those blue gems were once Xuebai's eyes. The scythe was made out of her body, her bones. Its blade is serrated with her claws and teeth.
"I believe my most repugnant acts were done at your request, at least the ones I've made in bed" He chuckles grimly. Beneath the ice covering half of him, there is nothing, but the faint image of an old, exhausted looking man. But the side still exposed to air is young, and despite the horrible filth that just left his mouth, you can't help but see what Monu must have when she courted him and took him as his mate. He is jaw droppingly handsome, rugged and youthful with a fire in his defiant eyes. And he is young again, just like Monu, but clearly on death's door, sickly pale and ragged, with dark shadows around his harsh eye and icicles clinging to his beard and hair.
You flick your tail and step in front of Monu to stop her from doing something stupid
"Ah, wretched beast. You can understand the meaning of my words then. Would you like me to detail exactly what your owner asked of me, when we were young and I foolish enough to believe I could change her wicked personality and loose ways?" He asked bluntly, voice booming like cracking ice "Or are you just going for my throat"
"My mother" You correct "Not my owner, Huanliuxue has no master but herself"
"A poor choice" He answers with a nod "You killed my grandson, didn't you. Tell me, did you eat him like you did that Ling brat whose mother should've swallowed him?"
AH, so it isn't just because he's handsome that Monu fell for him so long ago. Its because his tongue is just as dirty as hers can be! He sneers, his ice blue eye squinted in sick amusement at the look of disgust you shoot him and Monu's boiling rage
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 01 Dec 2023 02:39:35 No. 5849955 Report >>5849953 ""I wish my nephew told me who he was..." You begin before his expression shifts from calm, controlled and delighted to nearly as enraged as Monu, his easy smile turning into a glower that'd make Xiongji's furious grimace seem like a kitten's pout
"You have no right" he roars, lifting up Xuebai's weaponized corpse into the air "Neither of you have a right to claim relations to my brave Grandson"
"Well go fuck yourself" Monu cackled, making a very rude gesture with both her hands "OH WAIT! You preferred when I fucked you! Unfortunately all I have on hand is this banner! Guess I'll just have to plant it in your asshole, you awful cocksucker! How dare you do that to my baby! How dare you! My xuebai! Xuebai!"
"And yet you never cared so much about our son" He quietly replied, cooling down as soon as he heated up "Are you trying to talk me to death? Come down here so I can finish what I started and get a warm fur to wrap myself with as I die"
Holy shit this guy is awful. One of the heavens' worst crime is giving a piece of shit like him such a nice looking face. If he thinks he can rile you up as easily as he can Monu, however, he's sorely mistaken. Besides that threat is nonsensical. Your fur wouldn't be warm. It'd be as cold as the grave.
"If I had known who he was, I would've left a body to bury rather than vaporize him like the useless drunk you raised him as" You harshly shout down at him. The only thing that has made him lose composure is his grandson, everything else falls off his back like it was made of slick ice...well have of it actually is!
He freezes, and looks up at you with a murderous glare in his one eye, twisting the scythe formed out of your sister's bones as his nearly alluring smile turns into crooked and snarling thing that would be more fitting on a demon's mouth. Or a beast's.
"Good thing I'm closer to mom's side then yours, right dad~?" You howl with laughter. And to your surprise, Xue Laohue joins you.
"Ah, so you are her daughter after all, and not a mere pawn to enact her fantasies of revenge, while she laid back, like she did whenever she wanted anything" He chuckles, wiping a tear that froze to his cheek away with a flick of his wrist
"You were usually the one under me" Monu says, flicking her toad like tongue over her lips lewdly, but her expression and particularly her eyes remain murderous and fiercely cold "And begging. You will again when I take my poor Xuebai's body back and use it to gut you and leave you to bleed out into the snow"
"Don't care about you whore, talking to the greater threat" He yammered, moving his hand like a talking puppet as he glanced to you "Huanliuxue. Isn't it? What a waste you were born a beast and a greater waste, that you were raised by that juvenile lush. I assure you, my grandson's worst traits came from her. Hao Lianduye is a stain that is hard to scrub away. Clingy. Smudges anything she touches like ink"
You narrow your eyes. Your mother continues to seethe
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 01 Dec 2023 02:40:37 No. 5849956 Report >>5849955 "But rejoice. You've enough good karma you should be reborn a human" He says with a wink and a cocksure grin "I'll make it painless, in honor of the respect you've shown my grandson, so long as you never speak of him again while you still live, Huanliuxue"
"Stop disgracing Xuebai's corpse" Monu hisses through her teeth, one eye twitching, the one that had been torn out, as the brand marking her as Witch seemed fresh and inflamed as her whole face turned nearly as red as your fur
"You turn corpses into medicine, bitch" he scoffs, shaking his head "Now, I shouldn't waste my time talking to corpses. If you aren't coming down then..."
There's a flash of light.
There's a spear of ice floating feet away from his face, caught between at least eight protection spell barriers. Your mother threw the first strike, her palm glowing white blue as an glowing array floats an inch from her open palm. The Spear is crushed and a moment later, he's in the air, moving far too quickly for a man who is half a block of ice.
Monu freezes. The frozen scythe is shrieking. Like a fox pup.
Grudge miasma pours out of her mouth, dark and crackling thunderously like the clouds above and...purple tinged poisons spill out with it.
You press a hindpaw on her stomach and push her back. She shakes her head, remembering the plan and flying away as the scythe sings through the air as Xue Laohue swings it in an arc that would've sliced off her arm. He blinks and looks down at you, you extend your claws and with raised fur, ready to run or fight.
He pulls his scythe back and stands, confident in his ability to block any attack thrown his way and furrows his brow.
"I have to ask. Why, of all people, her?" He asks simply
"Family means more to me than a name" You proclaim proudly before smirking and snickering and running after Monu "I value her more than you ever will yours, since I wouldn't send her off on a fool's errand to die like you did with poor Ming"
You hear Xue Laohue crack, as his expression turns from relaxed to something beyond rage, blood dribbling from the split between the ice and what is left of his body
"I'll pluck that smart tongue from your mouth, flea ridden cur!' He bellows, charging at you though the sky, standing on the back of the artifact that was made from your sister's corpse, using it like a flying sword as he chased you and Monu, easily keeping up and gaining ground.
And while you bowed and rolled through the air like a leaf tossed by the winds, you could see just how complete his guard was. Seemingly unconsciously, he was deflecting and protecting himself from the second volley Jionghuagege lead, protection spells flickering, summoned into being for but a moment to block the stray spells by appearing the moment they neared Xue Laohue.
Su wasn't kidding. That's an insane level of skill! And he's accomplishing such a feat as if it were as easy as turning over his hand.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 01 Dec 2023 03:00:04 No. 5849966 Report >>5849956 "Would you like to hear his last words?" You ask as you spun around to check if you were above the arena.
"No, but I believe I have heard yours" He says, not calmly, just so furious that he sounds deathly serene as he kicked off the flying scythe and pressed his hands together in a fashion you resemble. That's how Ping holds his prayer beads when he's chanting mantras.
The air around you begins to freeze. You hear Monu shout your name.
Ah. You recognize the spell he's casting. Shidi told you about it. He used it to kill one of his nephews. You can't remember the name, but you're sure it was something stupid and conceited. He's trying to tear you apart by freezing the air around you into needles and icicles of varying size, piercing you all over like a pincushion before expanding them within your flesh. Isn't that kind of fair? Using an instant kill move at the start of a fight?
"No reason to shout, mother, something so brutish can't hope to reach me" You boast, grinning as the skeletal hands on your helmet move and close it by becoming a face guard
"Such arrogance" Xue Laohue states, floating above you, Xuebai's corpse in his hand as he glares down at you.
How do you prove this bastard wrong, Huanliuxue?
>By using the "True" Specter Lightness Skill: Broken Clock, and appearing behind him to try and bite his throat (Martial trial DC 170) >With the phantom cat step, lunging at him and performing Cat catches star (Martial trial. DC 185) >Coat your claws in cosmic Qi, and escape the trap by cutting through the space between you and Xue Laohue's ice needle storm (Magic/ Timing Trial. DC 95) >By turning human. The cage of ice is sized for an Ox sized cat, not a you sized girl!, At most you'll need to use the phantom cat step to avoid a few falling icicles (Speed Trial. DC 100) >Write in BOSS THEME!:
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>>5849966 Also if you're wondering why there was 20 minute delay between the last two parts of the update. It took me that long to find the right Theme for Xue Laohue
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>>5849966 >By using the "True" Specter Lightness Skill: Broken Clock, and appearing behind him to try and bite his throat (Martial trial DC 170) Anonymous
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Is it risky? Yeah. Will it be fucking cool as hell if we land this shit? Hell. Fucking. Yes.Probably shouldn't do it though, two over 85s is a huge ask.
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>>5849966 >By turning human. The cage of ice is sized for an Ox sized cat, not a you sized girl!, At most you'll need to use the phantom cat step to avoid a few falling icicles (Speed Trial. DC 100) I kind of want to keep our Cosmic Qi and its properties in reserve for an ace. Using it just to dodge the opening salvo seems like a waste.
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>>5849966 >By turning human. The cage of ice is sized for an Ox sized cat, not a you sized girl!, At most you'll need to use the phantom cat step to avoid a few falling icicles (Speed Trial. DC 100) Unless somebody comes up with a great write in (please do my brain too small), this is the best option available.
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>>5849953 >" when we were young and I foolish enough to believe I could change her wicked personality and loose ways?"" man really thought "I can fix her"
poor guy, game was rigged from the start.
>>5849966 >Coat your claws in cosmic Qi, and escape the trap by cutting through the space between you and Xue Laohue's ice needle storm (Magic/ Timing Trial. DC 95) We haven't really gotten a lot of experience with cosmic/space skills so maybe we should just start off slow for our own sake.
Also this is a very important battle, we can't end it too quickly :P
Boss Battle lets GOOOOOOO.
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>>5849966 >Expand a cloud of Miasma so Xue can't see us while also casting a ring of Ghost flames around us, so we can teleport out of his spell. >Try to improvise a way to use our luck-based abilities or use hexes to debuff Xue, even to just see how can he fare with our magic instead of the regular spells he's been blocking From what I can tell, there's a difference between normal attack spells (Like the Yin Sphere we use and the ones Jiong is using), and our Hexes which are more of a witch thing, and I doubt Xue was also some kind of Ginuea Pig for Monu's hexes when she was still part of the sect, and surely our luck based attacks could be maybe countered by Daoist who really practiced some Path like that.
Also, if more shittalking is acceptable yet...
>"I can't believe you really try and turn the blame on mother after your own fuck ups! 'I couldn't make her out of her sinful ways, WAAAAH, WAAAAAAH'." >"If you didn't liked it, why did you even indulged it? Why permit her? WHY EVEN TRY SOMETHING WITH HER?!?! You're just a sick fuck trying to get an upper hand after ALL THESE YEARS" >"You're not different from the young boys who she enchants with her beauty these days, you're worst! Can't get over the fact even in your ragged, sickly, malnourished and disdainful actual self!!!!" >"Tell me, it really doesn't tell you something the fact that my nephew resembled more to mother than to you?! The same man who i've been told who is a honorless bastard, inhumane and barely distinct from the image you and your peers share of me as a demonic beast and dangerous "Heretic". I've been with mom enough to KNOW why he even sacrificed himself to SAVE THE LING BITCH, BECAUSE HE DECIDED TO FOLLOW MOM'S WAY INSTEAD OF YOURS" >"It doesn't matter if she wasn't there, it shows how truly noble and gentle Monu's soul is compared to yours, being capable of overwrite your worthless essence to grow into such a mighty, noble and caring cultivator... Maybe after I kill you I will truly know if there's something worth in your Sect in the form of the disciples that survive the battle, or if the only worthy individual died trying to hunt me since my glorious awakening after meditating for so many years" Anonymous
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>>5850056 I really like the idea of the ghost flames, we should probably use those during the fight. Will probably go for it after this exchange
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>>5849966 >>By turning human. The cage of ice is sized for an Ox sized cat, not a you sized girl!, At most you'll need to use the phantom cat step to avoid a few falling icicles (Speed Trial. DC 100) >"Fresh bastard, making me take this form so soon~" Technically the cosmic Qi has the best chance where dice are concened, but it's early yet. And I want to fish for a way to deal with the storm around him.
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>>5849966 >Turn human >Start to spread ghostlights >Pvph0x I agree captcha. Anyway lets start laying the foundation of future victory
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>>5849966 >Coat your claws in cosmic Qi, and escape the trap by cutting through the space between you and Xue Laohue's ice needle storm (Magic/ Timing Trial. DC 95) >Start to spread ghostlights Anonymous
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>>5849945 >"IF WE DIE, WE DIE FOR THOSE WHO CAN'T FIGHT FOR THEMSELVES" Now that Tiexingege, is a good line. >>5849966 By turning human. The cage of ice is sized for an Ox sized cat, not a you sized girl!, At most you'll need to use the phantom cat step to avoid a few falling icicles (Speed Trial. DC 100)
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>>5849966 >By turning human. The cage of ice is sized for an Ox sized cat, not a you sized girl!, At most you'll need to use the phantom cat step to avoid a few falling icicles (Speed Trial. DC 100) I thought about using the dying grudge shield to redirect the one's we cannot dodge but given his defensive mastery i don't want him to be able to grasp the technique for himself.
Let's keep at being slippery and test his defenses cautiously, our advantage is that the storm is not a passive danger thanks to Huan's physique and it will probably subside if Tie-Tie kills or engages enough of their casters.
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>>5849966 >Coat your claws in cosmic Qi, and escape the trap by cutting through the space between you and Xue Laohue's ice needle storm (Magic/ Timing Trial. DC 95) GAP HACK GAP HACK
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>>5849966 >By turning human. The cage of ice is sized for an Ox sized cat, not a you sized girl!, At most you'll need to use the phantom cat step to avoid a few falling icicles (Speed Trial. DC 100) Opening with a OHKO move is cheating, everyone knows you gotta build up to your big attacks.
On a more serious note, I'm worried if we'll be able to keep Monu alive to the end, she's the weakest link of the three combatants and her fighting style would probably be best for less up close action.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 01 Dec 2023 16:22:45 No. 5850431 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying the result. By using the "True" Specter Lightness Skill: Broken Clock, and appearing behind him to try and bite his throat :1 By turning human. The cage of ice is sized for an Ox sized cat, not a you sized girl!, At most you'll need to use the phantom cat step to avoid a few falling icicle:7 Coat your claws in cosmic Qi, and escape the trap by cutting through the space between you and Xue Laohue's ice needle storm:3 Expand a cloud of Miasma so Xue can't see us while also casting a ring of Ghost flames around us, so we can teleport out of his spell: 3 Try to improvise a way to use our luck-based abilities or use hexes to debuff Xue, even to just see how can he fare with our magic instead of the regular spells he's been blocking:1 Extended shittalking: 1 "Fresh bastard, making me take this form so soon~": 1 So You'll turn human and slip out of the cage of icicles, using phantom cat step if necessary to dodge Laohue's unfair opening, OHKO technique Update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 01 Dec 2023 16:46:47 No. 5850441 Report Such arrogance? Couldn't the same be said about him? You're not the one trying to catch someone with two vastly different forms in a cage sized to contain only one of them. The bars of a cage sized for an Ox are easy for a young woman to slip through. The cage might be shrinking and closing in on you, but that doesn't change the size of its initial gaps. If it was meant to contain an ordinary beast or even a lesser magical beast, this unfair tactic might've been sound, but thinking a bunch of slivers and shards of ice could be the end of the Grand Heretic Huanliuxue? That is a level of arrogance that could eclipse all nine of the heavens with its breadth. And he has the audacity to call you arrogant, simply because you were stating a fact! That such a brutish and crude technique couldn't hope to reach you to mar your skin let alone end your life! Who the hell does he think he is to think he can end this fight with a single move?! The master of the snowy peaks hasn't yet realized just how dangerous and cunning you can be! Maybe that glare of his will crack again when he sees you slipping through his grasp with less difficulty than it takes for you to wake up in the morning! There are flashier ways to break his trap and shatter his cage of ice. But one of your greatest strengths has always been the element of surprise. In a world where every technique, every strike and every spell has to be recorded and approved by the heavens, an imaginative heretic is a lethal threat. And while any heretic could easily catch on orthodox dog off guard with their forbidden techniques and unusual styles, the tricks you've taught yourself even catch demons unaware! You're the master of the unexpected! But even so, showing off all your powers at the start of the fight isn't cunning at all. It's reckless and foolish! Losing the advantage of surprise that'll keep Xue Laohue on his toes, and giving him ample time to adapt to your strongest techniques is a losing play. So its best to take the simplest approach to start with and only unleash your full power when you're certain you can draw blood from the bastard's frozen veins. When he starts to run out of breath and starts feeling age and death creeping back to claim him, is when you'll devastate him with your most damaging moves, lethal spells and fatal strikes! Until his legendary defense is broken, landing a decisive blow will be all but impossible. Taking in a deep breath, having decided your next course of action in the moment it took him to audaciously accuse you of arrogance and having laid out the foundations of your battle plan in that same moment as well, your body begins to shrink and transform in a flash of carmine light. Its a good thing all your planning was mental, if you had to speak all of it out loud, you'd already be in several bloody pieces, Heh-Heh-heh. Xue Laohue lifts his chin <span class="mu-s"> roll 2d100. Best out of 5. DC 100 </span>
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Rolled 31, 48 = 79 (2d100) >>5850441 Anonymous
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Rolled 72, 36 = 108 (2d100) >>5850441 Anonymous
Rolled 63, 97 = 160 (2d100) >>5850441 Anonymous
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Rolled 32, 33 = 65 (2d100) >>5850441 Anonymous
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Rolled 74, 2 = 76 (2d100) >>5850441 60 over hub
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 01 Dec 2023 17:13:46 No. 5850461 Report Quoted By:
>>5850447 Exactly 60 over DC! As easy a success as turning over your hand! Update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 01 Dec 2023 18:02:46 No. 5850505 Report And you lean your head back as you fall, rolling around mid air as he lifts his hand of living flesh from its icy counterpart and holds it aloft over his head, his only eye glinting with an emotion that can only be disgust so deep its turned into a homicidal rage. The mere sight of your human self has made him angrier than any reference to his dead grandson or Monu's verbal abuse by several magnitudes. What? Can't he appreciate one of nature's masterpieces, is his mind so clouded by his beliefs that he can't admire the elegance of your transformation, how seamlessly you switch between your two bodies, how gracefully you move when some beasts would be disoriented from the sudden change of weight, posture, proportions and height? You don't even need to perform any aerial maneuvers or make use of flight or your specter lightness kill to avoid his barrage of expanding icicles, they all fly past as you fall and curl your back to flip around. An insult that has to sting for the proud hunter of beasts, for one of them to turn their back to him as he attacks them unfairly with one of his finishing moves. The flying shards of ice, shooting around you like comets and stars, don't even come close enough to hitting their target for you to feel their movements through the air. They don't even ruffle your hair. Your tumbling fall is so graceful that anyone watching would think you and Xue Laohue practiced for the entertainment of a crowd. Even though you make no effort to dodge his volley of icicles, it seems like you're dancing around them, as if you had planned out their trajectory in advance and purposefully chose the moment of your change and descent to fly through the storm of them as stylishly elegant as was possible. Xue Laohue however, is not impressed and tries his hand at second brutish attack. A pillar of ice, carved into a stake large enough to pin a dragon to a hill. You lazily lift up your eyes and yawn. It shoots down after you, as you roll yourself around in your second complete rotation, just in time to place your hands just behind its sharpened point and handstand. Luckily, your dress like spider silk armor doesn't act like an actual dress would and refuse the command of gravity as you flip yourself forward and press yourself down onto the temple pillar sized stake of ice, crouching down like a cat ready to pounce as the rubies set in your crown like helmet glint almost malevolently, while the winds Xue Laohue commands whip the fur like skirt of your armored dress around. "What ostentatious armor, and here I thought your mother was the vainest creature beneath the heavens" Xue Laohue quips as he lifts up to fingers and tries to send you and the pillar crashing into the nearest wall. But with the Phantom Cat step, you clear its entire length in what appears like two steps and stand tall and proud at its flat bottom, shoulders high and back arced as you press your feet together at the heels. Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 01 Dec 2023 18:03:47 No. 5850507 Report >>5850505 You stand there, head tilted with a smug and brazen smirk on your plump lips as you wait for Monu to launch her attack. Xue Laohue is right, that you're the greater threat, but your mother's poisons can slay even dragons.
His single eye shifts to the side, glancing as Monu gags and retches, slouching over as all sorts of ichors, slimes and steaming toxins erupt out of her mouth as two insectile legs push out of her throat, almost making you gag along with her as the head of a centipede much larger than her body let alone her stomach pushes its way out of her gullet with a shrieking cry. It's one of her Gu insects! That's what she was raising them for?! how unsightly!
Shuddering, you leap off the pillar as it crashes into one the living walls surrounding the arena and its four rings of defenses and bounce and bound through the sky, kicking off the slabs and chunks of ice, wood and dirt that have flied off from the explosive impact, racing up to Xue Laohue and your mother as he turns, keeping both you and her in his sights as he faces down the monstrous Gu centipede, that has burst out of your beloved mother's mouth, forcing her to hang there with her mouth stretched grossly wide, showing why her smiles have always been so toad-like. All the poisons she keeps in her stomach stain her robes a rainbow of bruise purples, mossy greens and bile yellows.
Xue Laohue falls past you, reaching out with his hand as the centipede shrieks and gives chase. You grab hold of one of its pink plates of chitin, hitching a ride to the frozen fossil by digging the metal claws of your gauntlets into its flesh.
Then the winds come, shrieking much louder than the giant insect itself, fingers of the blizzard slipping through the barriers Jionghuagege and the magic specialists under command have created.
And you think of them as fingers because you can see them, formed out of snow, shards of ice and winds moving and whipping about so violently they turn white like rapids. It appears in front of Xue Laohue and clenches into a fish around the centipede, several segments behind its head.
There's a spine chilling cracking sound, as those segments burst and explode, turning to balls of red shards of ice as they flash freeze and expand through its own exoskeleton. The Gu Insect still flails around in death as Xue touches the ground and flicks his scythe in front of himself, his single eye focused on you as you're now in free fall, with your hands buried wrist deep in dead centipede. But you can't help but grin.
Xue had chosen to land behind all four lines of defense. He cannot be further away from his troops now, and he thinks he has the upper hand.
The ground around him crazes with frost as ice spreads from his feet like fungal roots. With just the Qi he naturally produces, he has drawn a defensive array under himself, putting his guard back up after he dropped it as he fell. On the ground, he's no longer at risk of being attacked from beneath.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Fri 01 Dec 2023 18:04:58 No. 5850509 Report >>5850507 And with Monu still retching and trying to catch her breath, he only has to worry about blocking your attacks for the moment. Falling as fast as you are, your next clash should happen in a matter of moments.
One of the soldiers in the trench nearest to him screams and charges him. The moment he is withing eight paces of him, he turns to ice without so much as a sound, just a whirl of snow twirling around his corpse like a silken ribbon.
Despite his furrowed brow and furious grimace, he's far more cautious of you than he was moments ago. Maybe he's learned his lesson of trying to finish you with one blow now?
How do you try to break through his defensive array and guard, Huanliuxue?
>Using your blood manipulation to take control of the lower half of the Gu Centipede and crash it into his array as a distraction, while you leap off of it and over him to fire a volley of Vein draining fang darts at him (Magic Trial. DC 170) >Run down the length of the centipede, coating your gauntlets in electricity and blood Qi and drag two blood red bolts of lightning down onto his barrier, hoping to split it open before you crash into it (Magic trial. DC 165) >Activate the blood torrent rush, and simply try to rush past his guard to force him to fight you hand to hand, coating your gauntlets in destructive Yin Qi (Speed Trial. DC 130. Followed by a Martial trial if successful, DC determined by DoS) >A few seconds is long enough for you to possess that corpse he made and lunge at his back from his blind spot through (Stealth/ Strength trial. DC 140) >Summon Ghost empress melody, and harass him with its slicing winds! (Magic trial. DC 160) >Write in Anonymous
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>>5850509 >A few seconds is long enough for you to possess that corpse he made and lunge at his back from his blind spot through (Stealth/ Strength trial. DC 140) We could charge right at him, but his full attention is on us, and we would still have a martial trial after blood torrent. We should go for an ambush for now and use the corpse he thinks is down
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>>5850509 >A few seconds is long enough for you to possess that corpse he made and lunge at his back from his blind spot through (Stealth/ Strength trial. DC 140) Anonymous
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>>5850509 >A few seconds is long enough for you to possess that corpse he made and lunge at his back from his blind spot through (Stealth/ Strength trial. DC 140) Why the hell do we have mortals in the arena?
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>>5850509 I thought of something funny guys, there is a massive storm, right? And with Bloodmoon we're able to transform water to blood right?
And with blood, we can cast a massive sun bomb like we did in the other fight.
We could set up the field as the turtles in his defensive field and finish him in one blow.
>WIth your Supreme Yin physique take control of the ice storm(I.E allow us to use ice magic) and further on transform it into blood with Blood Moon's ability to take water to blood. >Call down the Moon to become blood to control the blood in the area and the bloody snow and turn his advantage into a disadvantage and open up more uses with blood arts. >Use grudge shield or Cat's court: Phantom Cat Waltz to counterattack or dodge depending on on his reaction. I.E basically set up the field if he wants to be defensive
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>>5850570 I add to this from what we learned he's a very reactionary fighter who waits for you to attack to counter attack.
And uses the terrain of ice to hide and ambush, we have to take away his advantages before attacking or he's gonna fuck us up. As we can see from the high dc's presented to us, attacking head-on is going to go badly we have to outwit the old ruck and drive him to anger.
So someone come up with some good trash talk to make him spit blood.
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>>5850509 >>A few seconds is long enough for you to possess that corpse he made and lunge at his back from his blind spot through (Stealth/ Strength trial. DC 140) If nothing else it buys us a little time.
>>5850570 This does make sense though. I'd like to try and convert the ice to bloodcicles if we can. The fact we'd be doing something for seemingly no reason would probably put him on edge and might even spur him to stop being so defensive, or double down and turtle even harder. Either way plays to our advantage though.
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>>5850570 >Support. Ice to blood. get fucked.
If he is reactive, force him to initaite. He has seen that his instant kills dont do shit.
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>>5850509 Supporting the write-in
>>5850570 .
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>>5850570 Supporting this, we need to further change the battlefield to our advantage. We should also spread some ghost lights at the earliest convenience.
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>>5850509 >>5850570 +1
>>5850826 Maybe we could mix ghost lights into our attacks, so on the outside they make us look more flashy since they're just ghost lights, but we're covertly spreading them throughout the battlefield by doing so. As long as Huan can remember where she performed certain attacks, then she should be able to just hop to those locations when needed.
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>>5850509 >A few seconds is long enough for you to possess that corpse he made and lunge at his back from his blind spot through (Stealth/ Strength trial. DC 140) I am very torn, but I am going to play it safe for now.
>>5850570 This is a good idea, but summoning the blood moon is only temporary, so we would blow one of our biggest techniques right off the bat, which I am not a big fan of.
Considering that his tactic is to defend and outlast us, that is something that would be very dangerous for us to go along with, given his skill with defensive techniques.
Our best bets are either to try to beat him at his own game by outlasting him, which should be doable if we slowly bleed him out via draining fangs, debuff him with various curses and poison him, or alternatively we just to kill him ASAP with the big guns.
But, hitting him with a draining fang right now is DC 170, which is... not great, so visibly outlasting him is easier said then done.
4.65% chance to hit that with any given roll, giving us 21.1% with Bo5 in case you are curious With that in mind, it would make sense to bringing out the battering ram right off the bat to soften him up enough so we can start sneaking hits in through his defences, but I am worried that he is just going to pull some bullshit techniques he has hidden up his ass and make us waste our trump card.
I say we bide our time and take what cheap shots we can, while we can, then when he starts busting out more dangerous techniques we can meet them in kind with our own.
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>>5850851 4.5% on a roll doesn't multiply itself five times if you roll five times. The real way the number is calculated is much weirder and stupid to figure out. Just like how a coin toss is 50/50 but you can roll it twice and get the same result each time, it doesn't become a 100% chance to get the other side if you flip it twice. Anonymous
>>5850861 Yes, that is not what I did. When working with probability in a row, you multiply the percentage together, but from base 0. So two coin tosses becomes 0.5 * 0.5 (50% times 50%) which gives us 0.25, ergo 25% chance to toss heads twice. With that in mind, since success is 4.65% and failure is 95.35%, the easiest way to calculate the odds of success is to calculate the odds we have of failing all 5 rolls, which is 0.9535^5. (95.35% to the power of 5) That gives is 0.7881, which means the chance of succeeding once or more is 0.2118, or around 21.1% percent. At least that is how I remember probability working. Did I fuck something up somewhere? Anonymous
>>5850570 Support everything but the blood moon summoning since that type of power boost would be better saved for when we've seen more of what he under his frozen sleeve.
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>>5850851 >>5850899 Shouldn't the blood moon last one night? I think we can end the fight before then.
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>>5850891 Fuck if I know I just saw that it was almost exactly five times the initial chance and assumed lmao Anonymous
>>5850570 >With your Supreme Yin physique take control of the ice storm(I.E allow us to use ice magic) and further on transform it into blood with Blood Moon's ability to take water to blood. Anonymous
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>>5851103 I linked to the wrong post so
>>5850509 >With your Supreme Yin physique take control of the ice storm(I.E allow us to use ice magic) and further on transform it into blood with Blood Moon's ability to take water to blood. Anonymous
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Didn't we gain luck manipulation or something? How does that even work? I'd be hilarious if we could cause gramps to fumble and trip over his own scythe or something...
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>>5850917 Wait, does it?
I don't remember it being said anywhere how long it lasts exactly...
If it does last a whole night, then hell yeah lets summon that fucker and get crackin'.
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>>5851245 It's daytime though?
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>>5851256 The moon can appear in the sky during the day too, you know.
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>>5851256 I see nothing saying we can't summon a blood moon during the day, but that doesn't get us any closer to knowing how long it will last.
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>>5851261 Well besides the possibly very high DC
We have no way of proving it'll be anywhere as effective during the day.
And if the fight goes on while its in the background he knows to expect it to be stronger the darker it gets, rather then outright surprising him.
Besides the fact that its likely to fail, we will have revealed to him a weaker form of our special attack that he may be able to adapt to as it approaches its peak strength.
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>>5850509 >>Activate the blood torrent rush, and simply try to rush past his guard to force him to fight you hand to hand, coating your gauntlets in destructive Yin Qi (Speed Trial. DC 130. Followed by a Martial trial if successful, DC determined by DoS) Anonymous
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>>5851313 There is no proof to show that it will be any less effective during the day, either. The moon hangs in the sky just as well during the day as it does during the night.
It's not an unreasonable assumption, of course, given that the sun overpowers the moonlight with its own sunlight, but given that it's a blood moon (emphasis on blood) I don't see why that should impede our strengthened ability to wield blood magic better under it. Moonlight, maybe, but blood magic is our focus based on the above write-in. And frankly if we are going to get into this particular debate than a much bigger concern is the giant fuck off blizzard that is currently clogging up the sky. THAT would do a much better job of blocking the blood moon than the sun would, I think.
Bottom line though is that we literally do not know. We JUST learned how to do that, came back to earth, talked to some folk, trained our apprentices, and now we are in a fight and we have yet to so much as test the technique. I suspect we will not know the details until we use it, all we can really do now is speculate.
Unless we knew for certain that it would last for the entire day/night, which I don't believe we do, I say we use it later. Assuming the skill isn't useless because of the blizzard telling us to go fuck ourselves, of course.
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>>5850570 I'll support this, it will also discourage his army and embolden our own, besides if he's cautious and we know he focuses on reactionary defense an overwhelming offense will pierce through, or at least not risk us to fall into a trap.
I'm almost expecting him to bounce it back on us then we use dying grudge shield and it becomes a ping pong match of death.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:mYP2hxS6 Sun 03 Dec 2023 17:43:45 No. 5852864 Report Ending the vote, tallying now, fight will continue in the new thread. A few seconds is long enough for you to possess that corpse he made and lunge at his back from his blind spot through:5 "Blood Blizzard" write in: 8 Activate the blood torrent rush, and simply try to rush past his guard to force him to fight you hand to hand, coating your gauntlets in destructive Yin Qi: 1 So the write in plan wins, DC will be revealed at the end of the update. My hands, juniors, are trembling with anticipation
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>>5852864 Are we going to a new thread as well? Page 10 and all that
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