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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sun 03 Dec 2023 18:33:38 No. 5852901 Report >>5852900 Which isn't at all a challenge for the intelligence and cunning of a once in ten generations prodigy such as yourself. Your evasion of his instant win attack has made Xue Laohue cautious, and so he's reverted to his usual reactionary fighting style and is waiting for you to make your move and strike, knowing that another clash is inevitable. You can't avoid it, either you attack him or you crash into the barrier of the array he's established and he's able to strike you without fear of reprisal. Either you break yourself against his guard or get slammed into his shield through the cruel whims of gravity. But you understand the gravity of the situation just as well as he does, but unlike him, you know the breadth of your abilities, techniques and the zenith of your powers and strength. He knows himself, but doesn't know you, while you know yourself and most of the tricks he keeps hidden up his frozen sleeves.
While the cloud cover makes it difficult to determine exactly what hour of day it is, your ability to call upon the moon to change itself into a blood moon to further increase the boon moonlight grants you, will surely play a pivotal role in the fight later since while you're strong you aren't certain if you can command the astral dancing of the sun and moon and force day to turn to night. Well at least not yet, but you do know you get a boost from moonlight and can paint the moon crimson to make that boost even more profound and powerful.
And you also know, of a curious ability granted by your new, moon aligned, cosmic existences. The ability to transmute ordinary water into blood. And Xue Laohue, in all his postering that has frozen half of Chuan and killed or ruined countless innocent lives that had nothing to do with your familial grudge with him or his hatred of anything that steps out of line with the strict mandates of the gods, has brought to you a large supply of water in the form of the enchanted snow storm that follows his every step.
With how much your ghostly law, supreme Yin physique and nature as a cosmic beast improve you control of and empower the potency of your yin aligned abilities, wresting the blizzard out from his control to turn it into a rain of blood should be as easy as lifting up a kitten by the scruff of its neck. While you're uncertain if you can force the Moon to break from its solar partner to darken the sky and bless you with its mystical energies, you do know that stealing a weapon from an enemy to turn into your own advantage is a sound, and usually winning strategy. And while Xue Laohue may be the eye of this storm, eyes are easily plucked out and as a natural born ruler, you are more qualified to command this storm than the old monster would've been even during his peak years.
The winds and snow themselves will bend to your will, you demand them to.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sun 03 Dec 2023 18:34:48 No. 5852903 Report >>5852901 Crouching on the falling piece of grossly overgrown insect, you lock eyes with Xue Laohue's only functioning eye. Sparks fly between you, fragments of ice and carmine embers spitting into the air as the will of the half dead master comes is assaulted by the resolve of you who dances blithely between the boundaries of life and death! This isn't the first time you've wrestled a spell from the hands of its caster, since you practiced a similar thieving technique against the spirit stone pillars his sect had first used smother Chuan with a mystical and lethal snowstorm. And pulling magic still being channeled by living hands, isn't so different from chasing it away from lifeless stone or altering its essence within its crystalline vessel.
<span class="mu-s"> Willpower+Magic trial. DC 115. DC greatly reduced by Yin physique, two Yin aligned spiritual roots (Ghostly yin and Cosmic: Lunar), and Cosmic nature: Blood moon evolution, and the strength of your resolve/ Self-esteem. </span>
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sun 03 Dec 2023 18:36:49 No. 5852905 Report >>5852903 best of 5 of course
Anonymous
Rolled 87, 70 = 157 (2d100) >>5852903 its 2d100 correct?
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sun 03 Dec 2023 18:38:07 No. 5852908 Report Quoted By:
>>5852905 and 2d100 for the roll.
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Rolled 62, 11 = 73 (2d100) >>5852903 Anonymous
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Rolled 33, 67 = 100 (2d100) >>5852903 Anonymous
Rolled 100, 54 = 154 (2d100) >>5852903 Anonymous
Rolled 66, 58 = 124 (2d100) >>5852903 So if two rolls, both have the same degree of dos but one is a crit and one is a few numbers higher. Which is better? Which best taken?
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sun 03 Dec 2023 19:06:34 No. 5852944 Report >>5852932 Much like crit fails work, since there are ways for you to still hit them even if 1's don't proc them for Huan (And only Huan), but they don't override the winning roll
So
>>5852931 this roll, provides a bonus that piggy backs off of
>>5852907 Not that it matters, much, since that roll is 1 DoS higher than it, but still, that 100 will make things a bit more interesting.
So
Fantastic Success. 50 over DC. Update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sun 03 Dec 2023 19:07:35 No. 5852945 Report >>5852944 Wait, sorry 40 Over DC. Still a Great success, especially with the crit augmenting it.
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>>5852944 >>5852945 Thanks Grandfather.
Also, This fucker thinks he can win in a contest of Self confidence? With Huan?! Bahahahahahahahaha.
Hahahahahhaha.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
The dao itself couldnt make us feel small?!
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>>5852952 >"I have lived for centuries. I have staved off death through sheer force of will. I have brought to heel my entire clan and sect. I could freeze this world as simply as breathing." >"I am a cat." Dude really thought he stood a chance.
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>>5852959 Putting a fragile item on the flat plane.
Truly he is courting death!
Anonymous
>>5852931 I was hoping for a nat 100 when I did the write in. Thinking it would be funny.
It brings a smile to my face, secondary I didn't know the time of day so I just threw in the Bloodmoon.
Anonymous
>>5852973 I honestly thought it'd be a bad DC, which is why I was against it, but apparently my eyes cannot see Mt.Tai.
Anonymous
>>5852982 Understandable, now I half remember a talk about his weakness. Hyper focus, reactionary and fire. Fire being because he's currently if believed using ice to slow his death. If be I'd further weaken him transforming the blood to fire. Or ghostly fire to turn up the heat.
Anonymous
>>5852989 turning blood to fire?
i think it's doable since blood should be yang aligned!
we could even make his own blood boil from inside!
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>>5852989 >>5853007 >turn water into blood >turn blood into fire >we turned water into fire Fucking Chinese magic, I swear
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sun 03 Dec 2023 20:28:52 No. 5853022 Report https://youtu.be/bnPk-p49MJ4 It is a contest of willpower and determination, a clash of pride, a tug of war with the breath of the killing cold and wailing winds, a struggle over the spell that created the blizzard and all of the Qi spent in its creation. Xue Laohue adjusts his posture, thrusting out his chest and righting his shoulders, kicking up the scythe made of your sister's beast core and corpse up from the ground and over his shoulders where they now rest. Ringlets of pale blue light surround him, throbbing with a rhythm of a heart beat as they expand and grow, floating above the now glowing array of ice at his feet. The half of him that has been turned to ice glows with the same radiance, flashing as he calls upon every ounce of spiritual energy within every part of himself. His meridians, his golden core, every drop of Qi within the well of his cultivation base, including that breath of heaven and earth that he had tucked away within his weary bones and pale flesh. His hair lifts, the frost formed on it falling as the icicles clinging to it break apart and float in the air, held aloft by the sheer density of the Qi he channels, both within and without to contest your open grab to usurp his Sect's greatest strength and advantage against the armies marching under the banners of the palace of natural laws and their allies.
It isn't an attack only directed towards him, but a lashing out that will spell disaster for all of his disciples and followers present in this field today.
You simply express your imperial aura, allowing the fountains of Qi your body natural produces to spill out from your heart and twin cores as you let go of the centipede and hold both your arms aloft at your sides, glaring down at him with disdain and boredom as your eyes lock firmly with his. Deathly Yin Qi, Fresh Blood Qi, Primordial Beast essence, and the breath of moonlight all surge out from you, First darkening your surroundings, then tinging them red, then emerald and then at last silver, as mock ghost flames circle around you like a halo of fire, while swirls and drags of carmine paint the air around you like bloody hand prints or the flow of living veins, before images of postering beasts and animals making threatening display appear within the explosions of beastial energy steadily flowing out of you, as your Aura waxes and wanes as its color fades in and out of pitch, tomb black, warm blood red, spring greens and golds, and shimmering silver dust. Your graveyard aura swallows the whole colosseum, its mere appearance causing a lull in Jionghuagege's mystical barrage and from the dulling of the distant sounds of battle, Tiexingege's fight against the winter blossoming wisdom sect.
Xue Laohue steps back, single eye wide with astonishment, fear or awe, it doesn't matter which. Seeing his reaction, a crooked, witches grin drags itself across your fair face, replacing your composed yet confident smirk that had before lain upon your lips.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sun 03 Dec 2023 20:29:53 No. 5853024 Report >>5853022 But he still refuses to relent and release the storm in his hand, clenching his fist tighter and drawing up reserves of energy and life that he shouldn't have to push back against your idle expression of overwhelming power and authority. His refuses to take another step back as you look down on him with the same low disgust you would at seeing a pile of dog shit in front of you.
Centuries of experience, stubbornness that staved off death itself for years, the dignity of a sect head who has lead his clan and sect for decades if not centuries and power enough to turn the whole world to ice. He musters and calls up all of it to challenge your serene display of superiority, unshaken and unmoved by his own grasping attempts to pull back his blizzard from your grip, when the process of exchanging ownership has already begun. The winds calm, still and then die as they dance in the palms of your hand as you turn over your hands so those same palms with face the cloud darkened sky. Snow dances and swirls over your fingers, hail falls into your palm, and melts into rain.
Red rain. Blood that has never been trapped within veins. His eye widens further, if it opens up any more it might just fall out of the half of his head he still has. For all of his conviction and self worth earned over a life time of success and supremacy, it is nothing compared to your inborn sense of entitlement and simple natural excellence. Your ever growing pride simply cannot be resisted by a man whose follows the laws set by others, even if those others are Gods and Celestial immortals!
His shoulders slacken with his jaw as he gasps as he sees his trump card crumble to dust before his eyes.
The clouds turn from black to scarlet, the winds cease howling to whisper, and the falling snow turns into drops of blood as with your alien insights and lunar essence, and a bit of help from your eclipsed yang phsyique, you take the whole spell born storm that is so vast as to cover half of Chuan, a magic that is leagues in every direction and composed by an expert's hands with highly refined and pure Qi, and with a snap of your fingers, transmute all of it to blood, robbing him of his sole advantage against you and causing a downpour of blood to fall and drench the lands of Chuan once frozen by his hand. Ushering in new life and your new era as Xue Laohue stumbles back, coughing up blood and gasping for air as the whiplash of having all of that power and spiritually energy torn from his command slams into him.
And as the storm clouds thin and part as the fierce blizzard turns into a beautiful rainstorm most would call ghastly, your crooked, toothy grin becomes triumphant and over joyed as what slips through those clouds makes you nearly drunk with raw elation and murderous excitement.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sun 03 Dec 2023 20:30:54 No. 5853025 Report >>5853024 It would seem fortune favors you again! It seems you spent so long speaking with Shidi and Xia about how Xue Laohue fights, and the old bastard took so long to hobble his way to your defensive line, that the storm he beckoned had hidden the transition from night to day~!
And with a craning of your neck and playful tilt of your head, and feeling the moonlight washing on your back resonating with the moondust in your veins and meridians and feeling it ooze into and fill you like a warm drought of tea, you raise up one of your hands to the sky while swinging the other with manic excitement towards Xue Laohue as he wipes the blood from his mouth.
"What can half a man do to oppose my will?! WHEN THE HEAVENS THEMSELVES OBEY ME LIKE A WELL TRAINED DOG!?" You howl with laughter, boasting blasphemously as your amber eyes glow with carmine light, the silver rings of their pupils themselves glowing through the blood red veil of light "Weep pitifully! Cry out in fear and fall to your knees beneath the bleeding moon, you mongrels!"
"What have you done?!" Xue Laohue cries out as the full moon at shining upon you wavers, as if a haze of heat had fallen over it as it grows indistinct and turns a terrifying blood red hue as the light washing on you changes its essence, the spell you took ownership of fueling this grandest display of might dominance. And leaning forward, you answer his question with a innocent titter.
Panicked, he swings his scythe, coating it with Qi as the magic stolen from Xuebai's beast core radiates from within it, as he thrashes it through the air, whipping it back and forth as he creates a net of Ice magic in the air that spreads out around him. A defensive technique that is also offensive? Curious, but its just an act of desperation to give him time to adapt to something his mind that has not basked in the brilliance of the stars, that has not bleed upon the moon, just simply cannot grasp or comprehend!
And from the sounds of the screams, the ill omen of the bloody moon and rain has revealed what kind of cloth those beneath Xue Laohue are cut from and revealed them as the rank cowards they truly are. But, can they be blamed for running? Their advantage had been taken and turned against them, and they were now fighting in a bloody mire against Monsters, Demonic beast and oh so scary heretics!
"Did you think my haughtiness was unearned, "Father?" You mock, as with a second swish of your wrist, you direct the bloody rain to fall up the net of ice branching through the air, subduing it and halting its path before a wave of intoxicating power surges down your spine and pulls a groan out of your lips. You can feel the moonlight bolstering your carmine mystic's heart and it is beyond intoxicating. Once you kill Laohue, you might just sharpen your claws on his army, if there's any left alive by then.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sun 03 Dec 2023 20:32:15 No. 5853026 Report >>5853025 With your spiritual sense, you notice Monu has recovered and is casting a spell of her own as Xue Laohue gnashes his teeth, seeing his second attack bungled, and vanishes.
But he's already coated in blood. You can smell and sense him moving through the air as if you still had whiskers. He reabsorbed the Qi he spent to build his careful constructed array and poured it into a physical strengthen technique similar to your blood torrent rush. He's been pushed to react, fearful of what will come next now that you've commanded the weather and the seemingly corrupted the moon without any real effort. Like a hunter lunging with their spear as they're charged by their prey. Or rather, a mouse lashing out with its bite when its cornered by a sadistically playful cat. You track his swift ascent through the melting canopy of ice, as some of the cultivators commanded by Jionghuagege turn and blindly fire towards where he was standing a fraction of a second before.
He's clever, using bubbles of Qi to disguise his position, but your predatory senses and the blood infused with your blood Qi soaking into his clothes, drying on his skin, reveal his true position.
So when he "Suddenly" Appears behind you after bounding between columns, pillars and thin spies of melting ice, you simply turn to face him with the same half mad smile you've been wearing since you've realized you were fighting in the night this whole time.
"Bad Luck~" You purr as he lifts up Xuebai's corpse over his head, preparing to swing it down onto your neck to sever your head in once clean slice when the crescent blade fell down upon you. He hops back, abandoning his attack wisely as you swing out with one hand in a clawing motion, five lines of raw destructive Yin Qi cutting through the air like a cat's scratch. But surprisingly, he lunges forward after the destructive force has subsided, closing the distance as Monu sends a string of wooden puppets from out of her sleeves, each one growing to the size of a man as she flashes mystical handsigns with both of her hands, casting different spells with each.
This time, Xue Laohue is thrusting with the haft of his scythe, trying to create distance by stepping up to you to send you flying away. Even when he's attacking, he's obsessed with keeping his guard up! What a spineless way of fighting!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sun 03 Dec 2023 20:33:56 No. 5853029 Report >>5853026 How do you counter his attempt to push you back Huanliuxue? <span class="mu-s"> DCs reduced significantly due to Blood Moon's light buffs </span>
>With a dying grudge shield, the moonlight may not be empowering it, but its a nasty surprise nonetheless (Magic Trial. DC 100) >Spit Sinner bone centipede venom in his eye, it won't do anything but blind him temporarily, but he expects poison from your mother, not you (Trickery trial. DC 140) >Fueled by moonlight and the scent of blood in the air, use one of your Blood Moon Awakened Perfected Carmine Mysticism techniques on him (Magic: Blood Sorcery: Carmine Mysticism: Trial. DC 90) >Violently! Grab hold of the scythe and try to pull him in so you can tear his throat out with your teeth. They may not be as sharp as your fangs, but human teeth can still tear flesh! (Strength trial. DC 120) >Use your feline martial arts to redirect his thrust downwards, and the Shooting star stampede to send him hurtling back towards the ground (Martial trial. DC 110) >Write in Anonymous
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Anons, I haven't read the update and THIS IS NOT A VOTE, but I had an idea so hear me out... >Blood Draining Fang >Weeping Scar Curse >Blood Red Lightning Cat Step >Cat catches star >The Eye stealing grasp
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>>5853029 >Use your feline martial arts to redirect his thrust downwards, and the Shooting star stampede to send him hurtling back towards the ground (Martial trial. DC 110) Could we do this but instead of using him as a club against the planet maneuver him to use the Eye Stealing grasp and permanently blind him? I'm sure he'll adapt to it but at least for a little while he'd be helpless and scared. I want to take it because his gaze is already blind to the truth and glory of Huan. I don't think he deserves to waste his remaining eye any longer. It may as well go into our pocket instead of staying in his socket!
And it'll make it so that Monu can probably finish him off to get the vengeance and closure she deserves, or we can with effectively zero effort as he panics.
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>>5853029 >Use your feline martial arts to redirect his thrust downwards, and the Shooting star stampede to send him hurtling back towards the ground (Martial trial. DC 110) Bad Xue! Go back to the blood pit below!
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>>5853029 >Use your feline martial arts to redirect his thrust downwards, and the Shooting star stampede to send him hurtling back towards the ground (Martial trial. DC 110) Mikiri Counter the fucker.
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>>5853078 And yeah, if we can follow-up into Eye Stealing Grasp, that would be perfect.
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>>5853078 >>5853079 I support this.
Fuck this bitch. Its on like donkey king
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>>5853029 >Use your feline martial arts to redirect his thrust downwards, and the Shooting star stampede to send him hurtling back towards the ground (Martial trial. DC 110) >Follow up with blood draining Fang I like Eye Stealing Grasp, it totally went over my head that he technically only has one eye here, but i want to put the DoT on him ASAP. For a defensive combatant, having a timer on yourself is the worst possible outcome, especially when said timer is bleeding out in front of the blood mage on steroids.
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>>5853029 Some trash talk lines we invoke through blood are heard through out the battlefield.
>"How does it feel to be the prey father?" >"How does it feel to be helpless?" >"How does it feel to be like the children you kill?" >"A father who drove his son to drinking a dog's death! Who gave up on love for power! Who sees the lives under him as so little!" >"The heaven eyes may have turned blind to your actions. But your daughter will seek justice for ten generations! For the lives that have suffered and lost because of your foul storm!" >Laugh laugh madly, "You are no noble cultivator, you are demonic in everything you touch. I can see the karma threads stained pitch black ready to drag you down to hell." Take your pic my dudes we need some good trash-talking
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>>5853203 I see it as right now we have a huge surprise buff, he may get over the sheer shock of how strong we are in a second here, but if we blind him we apply another new debuff. Then we'd hit him with the DOOM status effect. I do see what you're saying though and it is very sensible. A very solid course of action.
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>>5853029 >>Use your feline martial arts to redirect his thrust downwards, and the Shooting star stampede to send him hurtling back towards the ground (Martial trial. DC 110) Anonymous
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>>5853029 >Fueled by moonlight and the scent of blood in the air, use one of your Blood Moon Awakened Perfected Carmine Mysticism techniques on him (Magic: Blood Sorcery: Carmine Mysticism: Trial. DC 90) I wanna see what this button does
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>>5853206 It's also already implied that he's burning resources he doesn't have, but is getting anyway. This genre isn't usually very kind to people who are an inch from death--they might be good for one more fight, but not a massive campaign like this. They're too fragile and prone to exploding like bloodbags to sustain that level of input without a whole body.
I suspect another of the Fallen Gods has hooked up a faucet of power and providence to him, just like how one of them shot space catte down when she tried to sneak past the Heavens.
What we really want to do in this moment of surprise before he or his patron kicks in to the next gear is get that scythe away from him.
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>>5853257 I figure he's doing something wacky without realizing it like burning his soul as fuel. But having a benefactor giving him some kind of providence is certainly an idea I hadn't considered. Foolish of me. Disarming him would also probably significantly reduce his ability to project Ice qi as well. That's for sure something to keep in mind.
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>>5853029 >Use your feline martial arts to redirect his thrust downwards, and the Shooting star stampede to send him hurtling back towards the ground (Martial trial. DC 110) >and use the eye stealing grasp on his one good eyes as a combo finisher I also eventually want to grab the scythe from his grasp he has no right to hold our sister's corpse as a weapon against us.
>>5853205 All this while we trash talk his ass like he deserves
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>>5853037 >Use your feline martial arts to redirect his thrust downwards, and the Shooting star stampede to send him hurtling back towards the ground (Martial trial. DC 110) > Followed by eye stealing grasp Anonymous
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>>5853029 > Write in As
>Violently! Grab hold of the scythe and try to pull him in so you can tear his throat out with your teeth. They may not be as sharp as your fangs, but human teeth can still tear flesh! (Strength trial. DC 120) But instead of going for the throat rip his good hand off.
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>>5853029 >Use your feline martial arts to redirect his thrust downwards, and the Shooting star stampede to send him hurtling back towards the ground (Martial trial. DC 110) >Follow up with Eye Stealing Grasp We’ve gotten him rattled, so moving to further throw off his game by blinding him will keep him off balance.
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>>5853029 Supporting
>>5853399 . Just a shame Xuebai can't be here to savor the fight with us. I really want to see what happens if we use Cat's Court: Spiteful Blood Legacy with his scythe as a medium. Fucker is wielding our dead sister's corpse, and we control grudges. Seems like an easy way to disarm him to me.
Anonymous
>>5853025 Brothers I just came in, how'd last thread g-
>What can half a man do to oppose my will?! WHEN THE HEAVENS THEMSELVES OBEY ME LIKE A WELL TRAINED DOG!?" I see.
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>>5854279 To be fair to Haun
That line was straight fire
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>>5853029 Use your feline martial arts to redirect his thrust downwards, and the Shooting star stampede to send him hurtling back towards the ground (Martial trial. DC 110)
>Write in >>5853205 >How does it feel to be the prey father?" >"How does it feel to be helpless?" >"How does it feel to be like the children you kill?" Don't go out tonight
she's bound to take your life
There's a Blood Moon on the Rise..
>>5853784 Remind me what that does, because I really, really like the sound of it.
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>>5854295 >"Cat's Court: Spiteful Blood Legacy"- Forcefully awakens the last lingering dregs of personality within the rage left behind and inherited within a single drop of blood. Can be used to enhance one's self through the rage of their ancestors, create grudge miasma within a target to "poison" them, or as an attack by briefly giving the long sleeping anger a physical form. Very versatile. A mixture of "Pure" Carmine Mysticism and Necromancy, and an evolution of Blood Refinement. Basically, my idea was that we use it on his scythe, which was made out of our sister-- enabling the lingering grudge left over in her body to lash out against Xue Laohue, since she's not physically here. At worst, it'd disarm him and make his weapon unusable. At best, we might get a new awakened weapon out of the deal, or use it as magical leverage to worsen his existing body-turning-to-ice curse.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Tue 05 Dec 2023 04:28:48 No. 5854577 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying the result now.
Use your feline martial arts to redirect his thrust downwards, and the Shooting star stampede to send him hurtling back towards the ground:11
-Include the eye stealing grasp:8
-Include the Vein draining vein:1
Trash talk:4
Fueled by moonlight and the scent of blood in the air, use one of your Blood Moon Awakened Perfected Carmine Mysticism techniques on him: 1
Violently! Grab hold of the scythe and try to pull him in so you can tear his throat out with your teeth. They may not be as sharp as your fangs, but human teeth can still tear flesh!:1
-But tear off his hand instead: 1
So you'll use your ghostly soft style to redirect Laohue's lunge, leading him into a quick series Shooting Star Stampede kicks and stomps, and then try to finish the combination with an Eye stealing grasp to pluck out his eye.
Update will arrive shortly
>>5853205 Junior has been practicing the demonic art of shittalking, I see, and mastered it! What art!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Tue 05 Dec 2023 05:00:46 No. 5854624 Report Yet as gutless as his singularly defense obsessed martial style is, the number of options for how to counter a simple lunging thrust rival the stars above your head in number. The wisdom that comes with honing one's own martial skills and fighting nearly only life or death battles since they began practicing martial arts, joins its voice with instincts both natural and trained. Sure, it appears like a simple thrust, a harmless push. But even when all he's trying to achieve is creating distance between himself and the mysteries powers you wield, buying time to breath and reform his strategy in the face of your perhaps somewhat excessive display of strength and superiority, you can feel the strength in both his arm of meat and gristle and his arm of ice. Getting hit by that trust would break a few of your ribs and might even reduce a few of your internal organs to a meaty, bloody pulp. A gruesome thought, yet buried beneath all the tactically minded thoughts sprinting and swimming between your ears, you can't help but wonder what sort of color they'd be if he hit you hard enough to make your liquified viscera spill out of you like juice from an overripe peach.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Tue 05 Dec 2023 05:01:46 No. 5854626 Report >>5854624 You think you'll follow with a short burst of Shooting Star Stampede kicks, maybe one of its lower and more simplistic levels, just so the stomping in store for Xue Laohue doesn't teach him what to expect later in this fight. Maybe it'd be worth using its first and easiest level. The specter lightness skill and its "True" counterpart are similar at a glance, but ever since you learned the latter, you've idly imagined a very nasty trick where you use your lightness skill as bait to make your opponent expect the illusion of stalled time but run head first into the reality of it. Hmm. Yeah, the first level of the stampede would be the best. Xue Laohue will obviously figure out the "Lie" of your curious form of Qinggong, but that knowledge will be more to your advantage than his since you'll keep your newest and perhaps one of your most profound techniques up your sleeve in-case the fight stops going the way you want it to.
So as Monu's gang of puppets unsheathe daggers hidden in their palms and flock like crows above Xue Laohue in the moment as he steps forward to slam the end of his scythe into your gut, you subtly maneuver your hands, ready to catch his weapon and stomp him back to the ground, where worms like him belong.
'And when he's laid out on his back, I'll pluck out that sharp eye of his! Heh-Heh" You think viciously as you allow a smug smile to distort your expression
<span class="mu-s"> Roll 2d100. Best of five. DC 110 </span>
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Rolled 56, 67 = 123 (2d100) >>5854626 The eye will be a useful material, another for the collection.
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Rolled 26, 60 = 86 (2d100) >>5854626 FUCK YOU, "DAD"!
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Rolled 97, 5 = 102 (2d100) >>5854626 Let's get that eye in peak condition.
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Rolled 88, 88 = 176 (2d100) >>5854626 Anonymous
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>>5854667 >Two 88s >Four 8s Holy Shit.
How deeply auspicious.
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>>5854668 How I roll again on this site it dice + right
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Rolled 84, 66 = 150 (2d100) >>5854626 >>5854667 Holy crap! Damn!
Happy blood shed goes ham.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Tue 05 Dec 2023 05:56:22 No. 5854686 Report >>5854667 60 over DC! Incredible Success. Update will arrive shortly
Special condition met!
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>>5854674 dice+2d100 in the options field.
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Rolled 15, 71 = 86 (2d100) >>5854687 Anonymous
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>>5854686 >Special condition met! LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Be real with me Grandfather, do you make up the Special Conditions as we go or do you have a list of them somewhere? Anonymous
>>5854304 I knew I liked the sound of it. It's what we used against the God that lopped our arms off in Heaven yeah? No Blood means No Go, tragically; I'd love for some part of Xuebei to get some redress and closure. But; seeing as we're about to pluck out his eye and presumably make him bleed, isn't it possible for us to bring someone else back and make it into a proper Xue Family Reunion?
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>>5854712 You have to wonder what using Cat's Court on the blood rain would do, since it's blood that's never known a vein.
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I wonder if we could develop a technique something like this:> Blood Red Cat's Cradle: A daring and nearly mad technique inspired by Haun’s brush with death in the heavens and the madness of the blood moon. Haun rips off her own arm, then under the power of the True Specter Lightness skill weaves of a net of her own blood around the target. She then activates Cat’s Court: Spiteful Blood Legacy, swarming the target with an onslaught of grudge and blood empowered ghosts.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Tue 05 Dec 2023 07:27:17 No. 5854761 Report But your distorted grin of brutal mirth, and the movements of your limp hands like a jiangshi holding out their arms as they go hopping in search of Qi and Lifeforce, were all diversions. And the feral grin that Xue Laohue flashes when he spots them and bites into the hook you've left floating in front of his face, is all the signal you need to carry out the actual means of diverting his strike and sending him back down to the dirt to grovel where he belongs! He leans forward, bowing her back, tilting his scythe's pole like haft down to avoid the not so obvious counter he sees, as expected of a master of defense. However, he's made a fatal mistake. That for all your regal bearing, noble grace and high and mighty posture, that you would not lower yourself by using a thug's moves, that you wouldn't deign to act brutishly.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Tue 05 Dec 2023 07:28:18 No. 5854762 Report >>5854761 And so you unleash the stampede properly, starting with a kick to his hindquarters. Followed by a stomp to the back of his flesh and bone knee as he stiffens from the first time. The ponderous flow of time makes it easy for you to plan out the next step of your stomping dance. Having just stood up straight only to be made to kneel, you lift up the leg you used to spank him and stomp it on his back. Again. and Again. And Again. And a fifth time! After the first, you saw his eyes shimmer with understanding, so you're certain he's realized that the slowing of time was just a trick of perceptions. But it didn't matter if he did or didn't, since the second stomp, between his shoulder blades, sent him hurtling, turning over and flipping around as he rocketed out of the sphere of your specter lightness skill's influence.
The third, forth and fifth stomps landed because you were moving to fast and he was still reeling from the first two and the near breaking of his only real leg to stand on.
He lands, face first, and rises with a gust of cold air, turning around just in time to meet the heel of your foot as you land ontop of him, using your momentum to kick him onto his back and send him through a few yards of hard packed soil. He pushes himself up, swaying as he struggles to find any sense of balance. You do not relent. Or show mercy.
By time he blinks, you're on top of him, enshrouded by moonlight as the bloodmoon frames you from behind as you straddle him. Cackling just like your move, you extend two fingers, strengthening flesh and blow with a quick bit of blood manipulation and alchemy, and then, jab them past his ice blue eye. it happens so quick, he's unable to react to the jab, or your two fingers curling and the metal claws of your gauntlets, probably meant to be ornamental, cleaning cut through the nerves of his eye and pluck it out.
<span class="mu-s"> Eye of Xue Laohue, perfect quality, obtained </span>
And then, the force of your pouncing on top of him, collapses the floor of the arena. Monu is calling out to both of you, having been unable to keep up with a red shooting star, and as the two of you separate and fall away from eachother as the collapsing for breaks into the massive network of tunnels Tiexingege and her kids carved, and makes them collapse into a sinkhole large enough to swallow at least one of Suiqi's quarters.
But credit where credit is do, your mother catches onto what happened when the ground bursts open, and you see a few of her puppets decending into the darkness with you. Xuebai's corpse turned scythe glints in the gloom, like ice reflecting firelight, and then it zips away. You turn away from the eye dangly daintily between your fingers to watch where it flies, where it is called.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Tue 05 Dec 2023 07:29:19 No. 5854763 Report >>5854762 You land on your feet of course, playfully swinging the eye and twirling its nerves around one finger before twisting it the other away around and pocketing it for safe keeping. Xue Laohue is standing, subterranean streams pouring around him as crimson moonlight illuminates the cavern you created with his back.
Blood is weeping out of the empty space his eye used to be, freezing to pink hoarfrost from his breath as he holds himself up with his scythe.
"Do you truly think that would blind me to your presence? That without eyes, I would be unable to predict your location? Your cultivation aura is as bright as a star!" He barks raggedly, clearly feeling...well everything you just did to him, but quickly rallying and finding enough strength to stand with pride in his shoulders again, as if having his eye ripped out and being given a concussion really didn't affect him all that much "And you reek of death and blood! I could chop off my nose, burst my eardrums and still track you by the foul taste you exude into the air alone! Even if I sealed my spiritual sense, I can feel the vibrations of your footsteps!"
And true to his boasting, he does turn his head to follow you as you stalk closer to him and around his side. He lifts up his scythe as you stand, flabbergasted that the old bastard didn't so much as flinch from the beating you gave him, and he tosses his scythe, sending it spinning through the air as he lifts up two fingers of his ice hand and as you reflexively retreat and find that there isn't solid ground beneath your feet where you stepped. You stumble backwards, the scythe blade flying over your head without even trimming your hair
<span class="mu-s"> Special condition met: Roll two 88's in one roll, Double joy becomes Quadruple joy! Repeatable </span>
<span class="mu-s"> EVENT: A Treasure in the trash! </span>
But instead of your hands finding more empty space or hard stone when you fall, your right palm touches something. Rusted metal? A hilt that fits perfectly in the palm of your hand. A knife. Your fingers dance over its surface, and it vibrates. Resonating to your touch, to the energy always radiating from you. Primordial Beast Essence? Blood Qi?
The rust flakes off at your touch, and you feel a metal unlike any other beneath your finger tips. And Sense the spiritual energy of the knife kindle from just the heat of the palm of your hand. It is a magical tool! An artifact buried beneath who knows how much dirt and rocks. It must be ancient beyond reckoning, since you cannot reckon how old it would have to be to be buried so far beneath the surface just from the natural cycles of decay and erosion and if you can't reckon it, then no one else would be able to obviously! Just how much good luck can you have in a single night!?
The scythe wails as it cuts through the air, like your big sister is crying out in despair at her bones being used against her beloved younger sister.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Tue 05 Dec 2023 07:30:20 No. 5854764 Report >>5854763 You stand, and reacting instantly, catch its blade with the guard of the dagger as it flies to cut through your neck, turning on your heel and seeing the face of Xue laohue in the moonlit gloom as he rushes to catch you from behind, having expected you to dodge his flying scythe. Sparks illuminate the darkness, spitting from where the scythe meets the knife you nearly fell on top of.
A headbutt sends Xue Laohue reeling back. But he grabs his scythe with his outstretched arm, rubbing his brow with his icy fingers as he vanishes back into the darkness.
"Damn these human eyes" You growl, refusing to give chase into the impenetrable darkness in the cavern where the crimson moonlight can't reach. You won't give away the advantage it gives you, nor would you chase an ambush predator into the darkness before your eyes adjust to it. He might be using Yin Qi to increase it, even without your feline eyes, your physical cultivation and its refinement to your sense should've made the darkness look like day. But does he want you to pursue him, or to stay right where you are in the sanctuary of moonlight?
"Tch" you click your tongue, calming your racing heart by giving it a forceful clench with your blood Qi and decide to first figure out exactly what it was you picked up, before the frozen mutt comes screaming out of the darkness a second time.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Tue 05 Dec 2023 07:33:16 No. 5854767 Report >>5854764 What is the form of the dagger that you found in the dark (Choice determines origin, powers and intended use)
>A butcher's knife. A cleaver for cutting meat and bones. It has a handle made out of a human femur, decorated with a ring of bloodstone beneath its curled hook guard. The metal of its blade is pitted, and black like meteoritic iron, except where it is sharpened. It's cutting and chopping edge is the color of fresh blood. JUST LIKE YOUR HAIR! Oh its perfect! (Blood Qi / Carmine mystic artifact. It thirsts) >It has a wavy blade, white and grey like incense smoke. It has a hilt of gold, speckled with tarnish. A skull carved of white jade sits behind its delicate guard that is shaped a Coin. (Ghostly Yin Qi/ Ghost Artifact. It whispers) >It changes shape in your hand, turning from a single blade to five. Like the Steel Tiger Claw Feiqing wields, but the handle has a guard like a cat's paw pad, made out of some kind of pink metal and its blades are more curved and it is backed with fur that matches your own. (Primordial Beast Essence/ Magical Beast artifact. It remembers) >A piece of something like blood red glass, wrapped with what looks like rabbit's fur. It is coated with warm blood and dusted with lunar sand. You didn't find this knife. It was formed from where your blood met moonlight and the coldness of Xuebai's corpse! (Cosmic Qi/ Bloodmoon artifact. It is new) >Something else (Write in) And what do you do about the hiding Xue Laohue, Huanlixue
>Fuck it, chase Xue Laohue into the darkness! You aren't done beating his ass yet (Perception + martial trial. DC 140) >Stand at the edge of the moonlight and gaze into the gloom, waiting for Xue's ambush (Perception + Martial Trial. DC 140) >Test out your new tool and use it against Xue to flush him out (Trial type and effect dependent on the artifact chosen. DC 120) >Collapse the cavern, using the knife as a pick with Ghost Empress Melody to strike an earthshaking cord (Magic Trial. DC and effect dependent on the form of the knife) >Write in >>5854706 Depends. I do have a list, but sometimes they are spontaneous because I go "Oh that would be worthy of one" when it happens.
This one is one of the former, though I adjusted its unlock from (Roll two 88's in one trial) to (roll two 88s in one roll), once you reached golden core
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>>5854767 >It changes shape in your hand, turning from a single blade to five. Like the Steel Tiger Claw Feiqing wields, but the handle has a guard like a cat's paw pad, made out of some kind of pink metal and its blades are more curved and it is backed with fur that matches your own. (Primordial Beast Essence/ Magical Beast artifact. It remembers) Stand at the edge of the moonlight and gaze into the gloom, waiting for Xue's ambush (Perception + Martial Trial. DC 140)
I wonder if we can mess with him by creating qi balls
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>>5854767 >It changes shape in hand, it remembers. In keeping with our bestial fighting style.
>try out the new tool Im not followijg you in there, dumb shit.
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>>5854763 >"Do you truly think that would blind me to your presence? That without eyes, I would be unable to predict your location? Your cultivation aura is as bright as a star! He sees us. But when you stare at the sun you won't see the candle behind you. He's going to forget about Monu. And all the puppets making all that noise once they arrive will certainly deafen his senses enough to miss her approach.
His fate is sealed. Also hell yeah free super good alchemy ingredient, get.
>>5854767 I am currently suffering from choice paralysis. All of the daggers are cool. I cannot pick.
>write in >taunt him, tell him all of his failings as a cultivator, his inability to ascend, unworthy to be welcomed into even these unjust and corrupted heavens, of his blackened soul, of the truth that our heresy is benevolent, that even the wise and kind and resplendent Five Colors himself has seen our measure and found it satisfactory upon our meeting Honestly, spit entirely on him, his orthodoxy, and his worthless life. He's going to do some magic this time. Because his physical assault has been an utter disaster for him. Or he'll get so enraged that he won't be able to control himself. He's mad enough we have a human form, but to tell him that the greatest hero and legend of the orthodoxy condones Huan's existence? Oh yeah, that's spicy for him.
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>>5854779 Oh if what I want to get out of it is unclear because I kind of forgot to put it in
>the goal is to counter him or bide our time for monu to rejoin the fight We can even start to put down our own arrays to cast spells into the darkness, or let our grudge miasma seep out into the fugue to fill the cavern.
Sorry for not being specific, I was overeager.
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>>5854767 >It changes shape in your hand, turning from a single blade to five. Like the Steel Tiger Claw Feiqing wields, but the handle has a guard like a cat's paw pad, made out of some kind of pink metal and its blades are more curved and it is backed with fur that matches your own. (Primordial Beast Essence/ Magical Beast artifact. It remembers) >Collapse the cavern, using the knife as a pick with Ghost Empress Melody to strike an earthshaking cord (Magic Trial. DC and effect dependent on the form of the knife) Use some of that Human Sense and put these tools to good use!
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>>5854767 >A piece of something like blood red glass, wrapped with what looks like rabbit's fur. It is coated with warm blood and dusted with lunar sand. You didn't find this knife. It was formed from where your blood met moonlight and the coldness of Xuebai's corpse! (Cosmic Qi/ Bloodmoon artifact. It is new) > Write in Activate your Yang Eclipse and fill the tunnels with enough flame to collapse them to molten rock.
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>>5854767 >It has a wavy blade, white and grey like incense smoke. It has a hilt of gold, speckled with tarnish. A skull carved of white jade sits behind its delicate guard that is shaped a Coin. (Ghostly Yin Qi/ Ghost Artifact. It whispers) >Test out your new tool and use it against Xue to flush him out (Trial type and effect dependent on the artifact chosen. DC 120) Also, I kinda wanna put on a blindfold just to show off a bit
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>>5854767 >It changes shape in your hand, turning from a single blade to five. Like the Steel Tiger Claw Feiqing wields, but the handle has a guard like a cat's paw pad, made out of some kind of pink metal and its blades are more curved and it is backed with fur that matches your own. (Primordial Beast Essence/ Magical Beast artifact. It remembers) Something fun I had an idea for
>Write-in This land is bountiful in Primordial QI it enhances your senses. He thinks he can hide in the darkness on your home turf. Ha!
Wait for Xue Laohue and sense him using primordial qi. And counter attack the ambush using your new weapon.
Or
A less fun way would be to flush him out using the massive amount of blood above turning the water in the ground around him and flooding the tunnels. Using it to sense his every move.
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>>5854831 If I had to choose it would be the top one.
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>>5854767 >A piece of something like blood red glass, wrapped with what looks like rabbit's fur. It is coated with warm blood and dusted with lunar sand. You didn't find this knife. It was formed from where your blood met moonlight and the coldness of Xuebai's corpse! (Cosmic Qi/ Bloodmoon artifact. It is new) >Write in >Now since that frozen cod of a cad is trying to hide you should figure a way to turn the blood soaking his clothes into yang fire. (Magic trial?) Wanna hide in the dark like the lone chicken nugget that escaped his box in the freezer?
Get fried instead!
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>>5854767 >It has a wavy blade, white and grey like incense smoke. It has a hilt of gold, speckled with tarnish. A skull carved of white jade sits behind its delicate guard that is shaped a Coin. (Ghostly Yin Qi/ Ghost Artifact. It whispers) They all seems cool, so I'm gonna go with my gut.
>Test out your new tool and use it against Xue to flush him out (Trial type and effect dependent on the artifact chosen. DC 120) If our luck is so absurd that we just find a random ass artefact just from falling into a hole, we might as well abuse that fact, no?
He claims he can sense us just fine, and I have no doubt he can, but loosing his vision is bound to cripple him somewhat. He will likely no longer pick up on any fine, subtle movements we make. Not too sure how to abuse that, beyond communicating with Monu via sign language, as he likely will not be able to pick up on something that subtle.
Assuming anyone here knows sign language of course, though writing on paper and showing that would work too, I doubt he can really read anymore And it is just as this anon
>>5854779 says, he may miss Monu entirely. We will likely have to actively distract him for that, but it is a very real possibility. Just make sure he gets out of the hole first.
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>>5854767 >It changes shape in your hand, turning from a single blade to five. Like the Steel Tiger Claw Feiqing wields, but the handle has a guard like a cat's paw pad, made out of some kind of pink metal and its blades are more curved and it is backed with fur that matches your own. (Primordial Beast Essence/ Magical Beast artifact. It remembers) >Use the cavern as a resonator to hit Xue with maddening and excruciating cacophony from Ghost Empress Melody Anonymous
>>5854872 I like your underground concert idea but it may be a little too indiscriminate since Monu is still around too.
And she has a good chance to surprise him since her puppets probably don't have qi for him to sense.
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>>5854885 Monu is up there, only her puppets are in the cave, so she'll be alright.
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>>5854778 Actually, another anon had a good idea.
Adding
>Unleash a grudge cloud to the field To my vote. Look bitch either you come and make a move or we keep debuffing you.
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>>5854767 >It changes shape in your hand, turning from a single blade to five. Like the Steel Tiger Claw Feiqing wields, but the handle has a guard like a cat's paw pad, made out of some kind of pink metal and its blades are more curved and it is backed with fur that matches your own. (Primordial Beast Essence/ Magical Beast artifact. It remembers) >Write in Transform our eyes back to cat like eyes to allow us to see in the dark better and then
>Test out your new tool and use it against Xue to flush him out (Trial type and effect dependent on the artifact chosen. DC 120) Anonymous
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>>5854767 >A piece of something like blood red glass, wrapped with what looks like rabbit's fur. It is coated with warm blood and dusted with lunar sand. You didn't find this knife. It was formed from where your blood met moonlight and the coldness of Xuebai's corpse! (Cosmic Qi/ Bloodmoon artifact. It is new) >Collapse the cavern, using the knife as a pick with Ghost Empress Melody to strike an earthshaking cord (Magic Trial. DC and effect dependent on the form of the knife) >Write in >"Sorry Tie-Tie. Your tunnel has a blind little mole!" Anonymous
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>>5854767 The bit about the knives thirsting or remembering has me curious if they’re living weapons or not.
>A piece of something like blood red glass, wrapped with what looks like rabbit's fur. It is coated with warm blood and dusted with lunar sand. You didn't find this knife. It was formed from where your blood met moonlight and the coldness of Xuebai's corpse! (Cosmic Qi/ Bloodmoon artifact. It is new) >Collapse the cavern, using the knife as a pick with Ghost Empress Melody to strike an earthshaking cord (Magic Trial. DC and effect dependent on the form of the knife) Anonymous
Seeing as voting periods have been shorter recently
>votes:13 4rqJMRoH
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8i8jncQn
WLai/5bN
BiqkQoos
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>(Ghostly Yin Qi/ Ghost Artifact. It whispers):2 4LkQq4hi
BiqkQoos
>(Primordial Beast Essence/ Magical Beast artifact. It remembers):5 4rqJMRoH
1mfExxKX
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UP9c4PL2
+Q/Qgoga
>(Cosmic Qi/ Bloodmoon artifact. It is new):4 neTxgegu
WLai/5bN
PHTaawm4
W6HQZEsJ
>Stand at the edge of the moonlight and gaze into the gloom, waiting for Xue's ambush (Perception + Martial Trial. DC 140):1 4rqJMRoH
>Test out your new tool and use it against Xue to flush him out (Trial type and effect dependent on the artifact chosen. DC 120):4 CtYksz/Q
4LkQq4hi
BiqkQoos
+Q/Qgoga
>Collapse the cavern, using the knife as a pick with Ghost Empress Melody to strike an earthshaking cord (Magic Trial. DC and effect dependent on the form of the knife):3 1mfExxKX
PHTaawm4
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>taunt Xue Laohue:1 WcTQ/oRH
>Activate your Yang Eclipse and fill the tunnels with enough flame to collapse them to molten rock.:1 >Wait for Xue Laohue and sense him using primordial qi. And counter attack the ambush using your new weapon.:1 8i8jncQn
>Now since that frozen cod of a cad is trying to hide you should figure a way to turn the blood soaking his clothes into yang fire. (Magic trial?):1 WLai/5bN
>Use the cavern as a resonator to hit Xue with maddening and excruciating cacophony from Ghost Empress Melody:1 UP9c4PL2
>Unleash a grudge cloud to the field:1 CtYksz/Q
>Transform our eyes back to cat like eyes to allow us to see in the dark better +Q/Qgoga
Also calling out
>>5854779 for not picking a knife yet.
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>>5857018 >Also calling out >>5854779 (You) for not picking a knife yet. Anonymous
>>5857018 I will switch from
>Activate your Yang Eclipse and fill the tunnels with enough flame to collapse them to molten rock To
>Test out your new tool and use it against Xue to flush him out (Trial type and effect dependent on the artifact chosen. DC 120) Anonymous
>>5854767 >A piece of something like blood red glass, wrapped with what looks like rabbit's fur. It is coated with warm blood and dusted with lunar sand. You didn't find this knife. It was formed from where your blood met moonlight and the coldness of Xuebai's corpse! (Cosmic Qi/ Bloodmoon artifact. It is new) >Test out your new tool and use it against Xue to flush him out (Trial type and effect dependent on the artifact chosen. DC 120) Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Thu 07 Dec 2023 05:13:08 No. 5857356 Report Not ending the vote yet, but I will be soon don't fret juniors.
Instead I come bearing news, a new sect has revealed itself from the mists of /qst/
Stronghold master, found here
>>5857337 It has just emerged, but I feel I'd be failing as a daoist if I didn't give my fellow patriarch a shoutout and encourage my talented juniors to participate in his quest
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Thu 07 Dec 2023 21:40:39 No. 5858108 Report Forgive me juniors, I got a bit sidetracked last night. I'll try to end the vote and get the updates out in a couple hours from now, after I run a couple of errands.
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>>5858108 >after I run a couple of errands. He must brave the wilds and defeat countless rivals in his journey to
T H E S U P E R M A R K E T
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>>5857356 Seems to have elements of Post Apocalypse, is that common to the genre?
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 08 Dec 2023 03:58:12 No. 5858457 Report Rolled 2 (1d2) Alright, finally back, ending vote and tallying now. Errands took longer than I anticipated them to
>>5857018 Mount Tai lies forever in your eyes, glorious tally anon, your dutiful nature humbles all men
>>5857062 >>5857260 And with these additional votes using the random chance artifact with GEM wins
however, the second one makes it a tie between Primordial and Lunar so, I'll tie break for fairness sake
1: Primordial claw
2: Moon glass
>>5858163 Some cultivation stories do take places during/ after or include cataclysmic events, but are not what we'd consider post apocalypse, which why Stronghold master intrigues me (Besides it being another cultivation quest that I can partake in as an Anon), since post apoc cultivation is a pretty cool concept
>>5858145 Yes, it was a most perilous journey, but I stopped by a manual repository on my way and acquired numerous sacred texts I'd been searching for
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 08 Dec 2023 03:59:48 No. 5858459 Report Quoted By:
>>5858457 Oh, well that might be the most interesting combo with GEM, in this old ghost's humble opinon
Exciting'
Update will arrive shortly
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>>5858457 Looking at our own antics (or just Laohue's), it's not hard to see the bad times an irresponsible cultivator leaves in their wake. The clean up of this battle will be a pain.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 08 Dec 2023 04:38:04 No. 5858503 Report Quoted By:
>>5858457 Ah, sorry, misread the final tally, forgive me juniors, luckily I caught my mistake before finishing
So you'll test the moon glass dagger and use it to flush out Xue,
Need to adjust the update to fit the actual result of the vote, but that won't take me long. I would've been devastated if I hadn't caught my mistake here
>>5858466 Yes, especially with later stage cultivators
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 08 Dec 2023 04:43:31 No. 5858510 Report And looking down at what's fallen into your hand, you aren't certain what to make of it at a glance. It is made of a substance unlike any other material you've seen before in life, there isn't anything like it in the underworld or the nine heavens at least as far as you've seen and are aware of. It is closest to glass in looks but that is only because it is translucent, but it is clearer than even the finest work of the most trained, informed and well supplied glass makers. It is so see through that at first you weren't entirely certain that it was even solid at all. But how else would it have clashed with the scythe's blade fiercely enough to spit out a shower of sparks? Pressing the pad of your thumb on its rippled body, confirms that it is indeed not ethereal as it looks and is in fact denser than ordinary steel. More unusual and spiritual metals might be heavier or more durable than it, but this crimson "Glass" could easily blunt or slice through the finest armors mortal men can manufacture in their forges of mundane fires. It is tough, whatever it is and sharp to. Sharp enough to cut your palm through your armor, judging from the thick blood weeping down it side and gather in fat globules along its ragged edge. One edge is serrated, the other isn't and is so thin and sharp it is difficult to find its exact location in the gloom underground.
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Rolled 33, 85 = 118 (2d100) >>5858510 Anonymous
Rolled 98, 85 = 183 (2d100) >>5858510 Anonymous
Rolled 8, 23 = 31 (2d100) >>5858510 >>5858520 What is this god roll? What fortune is this?
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Rolled 93, 62 = 155 (2d100) >>5858510 >>5858520 Get fucked Ice Cube lmao
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>>5858520 >>5858525 >>5858526 Xue Laohue will not have a good time.
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Rolled 94, 55 = 149 (2d100) >>5858510 Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 08 Dec 2023 05:22:52 No. 5858548 Report Quoted By:
>>5858520 >>5858526 >>5858545 The dice really want to kill Xue Laohue dead, huh
>>5858520 But at 60 over DC, that is an amazing success, and will reveal a couple more abilities of your new toy than a base success would
update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 08 Dec 2023 06:09:39 No. 5858586 Report And the moment that boast escapes your mouth, the darkness of the cavern outside of your pool of scarlet light yawns outwards, washing over and swallowing up the moon's light until all that remains is a small ring just large enough for you to stand in, the last bastion of visibility in an ocean of lightless black. So Xue Laohue was using the darkness aspect of Yin to try and blind you, as if the loss of your sight would somehow cripple you more than it crippled him. As if you were not a beast and used to relying on all of your senses just to keep alive. And have been since that meant avoiding predators and keeping your stomach full, before you gained the ability to sense Qi. Sure the abundance of Yin energy in the air makes it difficult to pinpoint exactly where Xue Laohue is in the abyss surrounding your pinprick of moonlight, but you've spent enough time juggling different kinds of Yin aligned Qi to recognize the difference between a darkness spell and a giant chunk of ice overflowing with spiritual energy. Come to think of it, that half of his corpse would make for a wonderful cultivation resource, if you can stop Monu from defiling it or using it for something petty like cooling her bathwater.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 08 Dec 2023 06:10:40 No. 5858587 Report >>5858586 And even if it can only capture and not produce moonlight of its own, there really isn't a limit too how much light it can hold, so if you plan properly you can bathe in the moon's cold glow whenever you desire.
But your intuition tells you this dagger is hiding more than just that incredible power within its see through edge. So, you decide to test to see just what else it can to by extending the moonlight ribbons out from you in a web of somber light, to reveal where Xue Laohue is, and he is closer than he was before, stalking around you and waiting for you panic or lash out blindly, unaware that you can see him clearly again after his attempt to drag you into the same darkness you condemned him to failed hilariously.
And then you send your new toy zipping along the interconnected beams of moonlight. Once his guard lowers and his back is exposed, you'll have the glass like dagger stab him in the back. Or that was what you were planning to do. But the moment the magical weapon begins its flight, the sensation of controlling it and the moonlight it swims through changes. It isn't like you're holding and controlling the movements of a single mass, but rather holding together several, like grains of sands.
So you open your hand, envisioning the grains flowing between your fingers. Immediate, the blade fractures and fragments in a maddeningly orderly fashion that leaves each part of it perfectly equal to the rest. And with a clench, the blade rejoins, as flawless and whole as it was before.
Xue Laohue sensed that pulse of Qi, and stabs the blade of his scythe in the ground. Seems he's going to try and chase you towards him now, just as you were planning to force him to run back within your reach. You'll have to act fast.
Well, it doesn't seem to matter which part of the fractured blade is used as the foundation to reform it and if any of them can work as a conduit for the rest, than sinking the whole knife in his back got a lot easy. First, spreading your fingers as far apart and opening your hand as wide as you can, you turn the dagger into a cloud of glass dust, and it glints in the blood red moonlight, looking like nothing else besides flakes of vermilion snow. How ironic. And its good to know you can reduce the dagger so finely.
But, it becomes a bit difficult to control every flake of it, and you use track of them as they drift on the moonlight, with some specks of it still hanging around your head as you try to hastily wrangle them all back together the stab Xue Laohue with a flying knife. And in the process of controlling all of them through the ripples of moonlight, you discover another feature of this strangely forged blade.
It carries a poison within it. The madness of a full moon. Lunacy. Because Xue Laohue is scratched by one of the larger shards, enough to draw blood on his cheek and he slumps forward.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 08 Dec 2023 06:12:48 No. 5858589 Report >>5858587 His spell dying as its casting is interrupted, before his stern expression cracks, first into a smirk and then into a truly manically deranged grin as he howls with shrill laughter
"Your mother will weep frozen tears when I toss your mangled corpse at her feet!" He cackles, sneering as he lifts up his scythe, madness trembling through his whole body as his tone and posture change completely "Your name shall become prophetic this night, beast, and I shall relish as I guzzle down your foul blood! GYAHAHAHAH"
And he flies towards you, swinging his scythe crazily and without direction or purpose as you adapt and summon the dagger back together in the palm of his hands as he recklessly throws himself towards you. Stomping one foot down, he lifts up his scythe and pulls it back far over his head, before the manic look on his face freezes and relaxes back to an expression approaching sanity as you crouch down and step under the range of his swing.
"Wait! Why did I do this?!" He asked in bafflement and terror, as his usual self realized immediately the depths of the danger his momentary hysteria had plunged him into. It takes every ounce of willpower you have to not sneer something like 'you were caught in my spell, old man' as you lunge to bury the tip of your blade into him
<span class="mu-s"> Xue Laohue is momentarily defenseless. +60 to next attack roll </span>
How do you strike the exposed master, Huanliuxue!
>Slam into him and bury the dagger as deep as you can into him, slashing and stabbing him as many times as you possibly can, like you were raking him with your claws (Martial+haste trial. DC 150) >Send the lunar blade flying through the air on rivers of moonlight, and double team Xue with it, using the paw like strikes of your feline martial art to batter and push him into its path (Martial+ Magic+ Coordination trial. DC 160) >Change forms as quickly as you can and pounce on him to maul him (Strength trial. DC 130) >Kick him flat in the chest, and throw him directly onto the blade of one of Monu's puppets, who have finally entered the sinkhole (Strength trial trial. DC 170) >Write in Anonymous
>>5858589 >Send the lunar blade flying through the air on rivers of moonlight, and double team Xue with it, using the paw like strikes of your feline martial art to batter and push him into its path (Martial+ Magic+ Coordination trial. DC 160) Wombo combo!
Hmm what should we name the badass knife?
I put forth the name Blood Dust
Or Red Dust
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>>5858589 >Slash him and hit him with the knife from behind. Epic
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>>5858589 >Xue Laohue is momentarily defenseless. +60 to next attack roll Oh word?
>Change forms as quickly as you can and pounce on him to maul him (Strength trial. DC 130) I thought you were here to kill a beast, you fossil. Well here it is. What are you gonna do about it?
>>5858595 What was the name of the moon goddess again? I was thinking calling it [her name]'s crimson kiss/touch. Or we could just name it after Luna itself rather than the goddess who "owns" it. Or skip it entire and call it Crimson Embrace or something. Like laying in a bed of warm sand. Except it's fiberglass and it's sawing you in half. I'm not good with names.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 08 Dec 2023 06:56:22 No. 5858623 Report Dammit. Felt like something was wrong so I re-counted the prior vote and realized immediately what it was
Tally anon missed
>>5854778 . Which means The primordial beast essence/ magical beast artifact should've won instead of their being a tie, as it would have 6 total votes instead of 5 like the cosmic Qi one.
So since retconning my fuck up entirely would be a real pain in the ass at the point and Its past the point I can delete the update to re-write it with it and its abilities in minds
I will instead make the Primordial Beast artifact PLOT RELEVANT instead of it just being random drop in the vein of finding a bum selling a manual for the buddha's palm technique (kung fu hustle is a great movie)
And I can't say anything further about this, since it'd spoil the surprise, but I think it will more than make up for my blunder
If it is not enough, I shall kowtow, break my arm and destroy my cultivation and burn part, but not all, of my current supply of tea.
Anonymous
>>5858623 You will be forgiven without all the fanfare except
you must drink a glass of tea with half-and-half in it .
>(kung fu hustle is a great movie) Axe Gang, kill the dance floor.
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>>5858589 >Send the lunar blade flying through the air on rivers of moonlight, and double team Xue with it, using the paw like strikes of your feline martial art to batter and push him into its path (Martial+ Magic+ Coordination trial. DC 160) Anonymous
>>5858589 >Slam into him and bury the dagger as deep as you can into him, slashing and stabbing him as many times as you possibly can, like you were raking him with your claws (Martial+haste trial. DC 150) Welcome to Stab Town, population: you!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 08 Dec 2023 09:21:09 No. 5858710 Report Sorry again for my mistake, my blood is flowing in reverse because of it and I feel awful, juniors
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>>5858589 >Kick him flat in the chest, and throw him directly onto the blade of one of Monu's puppets, who have finally entered the sinkhole (Strength trial trial. DC 170) Let mom have her fun
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>>5858589 >Kick him flat in the chest, and throw him directly onto the blade of one of Monu's puppets, who have finally entered the sinkhole (Strength trial trial. DC 170) +60 is making me act the Young Master. Fucking showboat time.
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>>5858623 I have failed in my task and lead you down a wrong path. This is the folly of counting on a phone.
>>5858589 >Slam into him and bury the dagger as deep as you can into him, slashing and stabbing him as many times as you possibly can, like you were raking him with your claws (Martial+haste trial. DC 150) Anonymous
>>5858710 All good gramps, it's a sweet knife!
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>>5858623 Oof
Let this be a lesson to all of us to double check the tally.
>Send the lunar blade flying through the air on rivers of moonlight, and double team Xue with it, using the paw like strikes of your feline martial art to batter and push him into its path (Martial+ Magic+ Coordination trial. DC 160) Anonymous
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>>5858589 >Send the lunar blade flying through the air on rivers of moonlight, and double team Xue with it, using the paw like strikes of your feline martial art to batter and push him into its path (Martial+ Magic+ Coordination trial. DC 160) Part of me really wants to just go cat form and maul him like a tiger, but more of me wants him to die knowing we're a human than he ever could be.
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>>5858589 >Send the lunar blade flying through the air on rivers of moonlight, and double team Xue with it, using the paw like strikes of your feline martial art to batter and push him into its path (Martial+ Magic+ Coordination trial. DC 160) Anonymous
>>5858589 >Kick him flat in the chest, and throw him directly onto the blade of one of Monu's puppets, who have finally entered the sinkhole (Strength trial trial. DC 170) We poisoned his mind, now mother dearest can poison his body. His defensive style has not had much success so far, but poisoning him will put a much welcome timer on his life.
Assuming Monu's puppet's blades are poisoned. And that he does not have an antidote, which thinking about it is quite likely given their history. But hey, an antidote uses is an antidote he no longer has. Man, I almost feel bad for Xue, he is getting his ass handed to him really hard. It's not enough that around 80% of our techniques are completely unknown to him, we also just pulled a random, OP dagger out of nowhere mid-fight. If there was an "Asspull" category in the Olympics, Huanliuxue would have won gold medal 3 times in a row by now.
>>5858623 A tragic mistake, admittedly, but nobody is perfect. Personally, I can safely say that I do not mind whatsoever, especially if the other dagger pops up too. Hell, in that case this was a net plus!
Though, that might not mean much from me since I voted for the Ghost dagger so I have no real horse in this race either way.
Anonymous
Wait a minute guys... Would this not be a perfect opportunity to hit him with weeping scar curse? Should fuck a guy like him up pretty good...>weeping scar curse
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>>5859020 Ah, sorry, I'm this
>>5858691 Anon
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>>5858589 >Send the lunar blade flying through the air on rivers of moonlight, and double team Xue with it, using the paw like strikes of your feline martial art to batter and push him into its path (Martial+ Magic+ Coordination trial. DC 160) Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sun 10 Dec 2023 08:11:20 No. 5860719 Report Quoted By:
Didn't mean to take this long to end the vote, but I was so distraught by my earlier folly that I was afflicted with heart demons temporarily, but they've been best, so I'm tallying the result now
Send the lunar blade flying through the air on rivers of moonlight, and double team Xue with it, using the paw like strikes of your feline martial art to batter and push him into its path:6
Slash him and hit him with the knife from behind:1
Change forms as quickly as you can and pounce on him to maul him :1
Slam into him and bury the dagger as deep as you can into him, slashing and stabbing him as many times as you possibly can, like you were raking him with your claws:1
Kick him flat in the chest, and throw him directly onto the blade of one of Monu's puppets, who have finally entered the sinkhole:3
Use the wheeping scar curse:1
So you'll send the lunar blade flying through the moonlight, and use it as a second combatant to double team Xue with, catching him between your paw like strikes and its path
Update will arrive shortly
>>5858814 You are forgiven
>>5858815 >>5858962 and I am overwhelmed with feelings of joy to also receive the forgiveness of my juniors
>>5858636 I'd prefer being reduced to a human stick to that most inhumane of punishments
>>5858962 And yet it is nothing compared to the luck of the standard cultivation protag, lol
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sun 10 Dec 2023 08:31:26 No. 5860735 Report Your eyes must've flashed the moment they saw the opening in the strong, but by no means impenetrable, defenses of Xue Laohue. What was it that those who advised you on his fighting style's flaws and habits so fretful over? Sure he was harder to hit than most, but the only blood you've shed in this fight was from stumbling back and cutting yourself! Is this supposed to be one of the greatest slayers of demonic beasts in this era? Sure there's only half of him left and what is left is old and rickety, but from how cowed Shidi and Xia were, how bruised and beaten they were from just a few brief clashes with this cold hearted man, you were expecting more. Much more. Caution struggles against optimism and the thrill of seeing your prey bare his throat to you so wonderfully and completely. Arrogance answers that of course this master's defenses are breaking underneath your assault, even if he is the best the orthodoxy has to offer, because you are Huanliuxue and even without your matchless golden care, you are simply better than everyone through grit, training and natural proficiency. But Wariness warns that a cornered animal is the most dangerous and from all you have been told of this old monster is how cunning of a brute he truly is. He may never have met a beast like you, or a heretic like you, or be able to grasp the extent of your powers or form of your techniques and law, but he is crafty and even though his guard was tossed away in his brief flirt with madness, he is a man you must be cautious around.
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Rolled 73, 16 = 89 (2d100) >>5860735 Anonymous
Rolled 96, 21 = 117 (2d100) >>5860735 Anonymous
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Rolled 6, 81 = 87 (2d100) >>5860735 Rest in piss old man.
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>>5860739 He gets hit with the heat action: Essence of double team
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Rolled 89, 66 = 155 (2d100) >>5860735 Anonymous
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>>5860761 5 dos to filletminigion this old ice cube.
If its it over now, thats a lot of damage.
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>>5860761 > Bleed you monster! A thousand cuts for every beast you cut down who was your better! Bleed! I am the empress of beasts, the queen of blood, master of grudge and ghost and I condemn you to bleed for your crimes! Anonymous
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Rolled 58, 9 = 67 (2d100) >>5860735 Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sun 10 Dec 2023 09:41:04 No. 5860769 Report Quoted By:
>>5860761 Amazing success. 50 over DC and over 200!
Update will arrive shortly
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While we have everyone here for the rolls, Im thinking the knife can use a simple name like "white fang" or "moon shard".something nice and simple for an unassuming knife.
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>>5860771 Moon River could be a good name. Refers to its ability to split and flow as well as it's reserve of moonlight that it flows along.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sun 10 Dec 2023 10:31:44 No. 5860793 Report A shuffle step forward, your raise one of your hands, ready no matter how he reacts to your flickering approach. Still stunned by his own flight of insanity, Xue unwisely lifts up your sister's corpse to hide behind, holding it in front of his halved chest to shield himself from a full frontal assault. Which is exactly what you're going to do. But with a whistling sound, the knife flies across his back, carving through ice, flesh and bone. His focused expression cracks, a manic cackle escaping his clenched teeth before he regains control of himself, somehow expelling and tossing off the madness freshly injected into his frosted over veins. No matter, you don't need him to be in the throws of lunacy to kick his ass!. A swat to the jaw as he steps forward reflexively to avoid the dagger spinning back around to hit him again. And with your moon boosted strength, his forward momentum is sent spiraling back. The sharpened piece of moonlight flenses his arm of flesh and blood, before ricocheting off of his shoulder of ice. His dour grimace struggles to maintain itself as the corners of his lips tug and a look of murderous mania is forcefully imposed upon the half of his face that can still move. He roars. Actually, wordlessly roars, unable to buck off this newest strain of lunacy and instead choosing to embrace it to allow it to burn itself out.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sun 10 Dec 2023 10:32:45 No. 5860795 Report >>5860793 The arm of ice cracks and breaks at its elbow. And as he reaches out to grab it to turn the swing into a plunging stab, you shuffle up to him, sliding side to side before striking him twice in the jaw. He goes flying back, you flop onto your side lazily as his frozen arm flips into the air and with the accursed scythe still in its grip, flings itself towards your back. Xue Laohue gasps in pain, as he falls back first on four fragments of the lunar knife as he looses his footing completely and slips to the ground. You stand on your hands and feet, amber eyes aglow as he sighs and turns to powdered snow.
If you hadn't known of this movement technique of his, you might've thought he had just breathed his last. Instead, you're on guard, eyes flickering through the carmine lit carven before you hear a roar of frustration and look up to see him, with both arms attached again, getting battered by Monu's puppets.
And Monu herself! However, even though you adore you mother and love her dearly, you can't claim or pretend to think she's doing anything besides pissing Xue Laohue off. Even though her puppet's daggers and sickle blades are dripping with poison and acid, he doesn't so much as flinch as they scrape and shallowly cut his flesh. And certainly, Monu's viper like hand strikes aren't doing anything to him. When the body has lost half of its acupoints, hitting those that remain won't do much.
Growling in your throat, you raise two of your fingers and control the moonlit blade's flight directly rather than unconsciously.
Limbs, heads and splinters of puppets rain around you, and Monu is sent crashing to the ground after unleashing a flurry of palm strikes and finger jabs on her former lover, spilling the poisons she contains inside of herself all of her face and chest....well that's the most elegant way of describing what happened and certainly the least shameful.
"Enough!" he cries out, a subtler madness effecting him now, that of frustration. And before he can say anything else, he flies down at you, scythe left behind to cut down the remaining puppets like dried grass and rotten logs, since with Monu, er emptying her internal poison reserves, they've stopped moving and are posing even less of a threat than they did before. Is he breaking them just to prove a point or out of simple pragmatism to keep from being overwhelmed from too many foes, however weak they may be, coming at him all at once.
However, you were hoping he'd do that. There is a reason you've only been pawing and jabbing him. It was to train him to think your feline form of martial arts only comprised of hand strikes. So, subconsciously, he is only focused on your upper half and your blades that have freshly ripped themselves out of his back.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sun 10 Dec 2023 10:33:45 No. 5860798 Report >>5860795 Which means he leaves himself open to your lower half. Namely your beautiful legs. Twisting on your heel, you turn with your whole body to generate as much force as possible behind your angled kick, pumping as much blood Qi and moonlight in the muscles of your leg, causing your veins to actually glow crimson as you lean over to the side to lift your leg as high into air as you swing it at, and hit Xue in the frozen side of his empty head. There is a whip's snap as the air bursts between your flesh and his ice, which cracks and collapses inwards, reverberating to hit the remaining half of his brain as he is slammed to the ground. But before you can finishing cracking that ice, he puffs into snow again.
"Hnnn...Hnn" He grunts and groans, appearing twelve steps away from you, crouched over and with blood spilling from his nose, mouth, arm, back and side, he fumbles his fleshy hand in the air, searching for his scythe, which comes when its called, still with half of a twitching puppet stuck on its blade. Coldly, you stride up to him, hands at your side and blades of lunar glass flying and circling around in groups of four, ready to pin him to the ground as you approach him wordlessly. How disappointing you were expecting..
He doesn't stand, and instead takes a moment to dig through a pouch tied to his waist. You tilt your head, you cool but totally murderous expression turning into a small, confused frown as you wonder what exactly he thinks is in there that he thinks could save his life or is so important he wants to grope around for it while his death coldly approaches him.
Fire. Sun. Morning.
LING!
You eyes widen as the moment his hand picks out a small jade slip, the color of which you cannot see. It smells like sunlight and reeks of Ling. You bare your teeth, hissing reflexively as he smiles smugly as you sprint up to him and. Pause. That isn't him in front of you. Its a reflection, an illusion made from a combination of spiritual energy and ordinary ice crystals in the air. The presence of the slip was just so omnipresent, you couldn't tell where it was, and he used a bit of his precious Qi that you could pin point to create a double of himself in the mirage he made in the snow. Not enough to fool you for longer than a second, but he only need that one second to break the slip between his fingers.
"Crafty bastard" You admit, though you loath to do so as you turn around and see him, behind him, rising to his feet. He used your own desire to beat him to death to his advantage, knowing that you had lowered your guard with how easy of a time you were having hitting him and beating him around!
A golden pillar of light erupts from him.
"Now, I just need to delay until my new allies arrive" He sneers, wiping blood from his mouth, stumbling forward as he trusts his trembling leg a little too much
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sun 10 Dec 2023 10:34:46 No. 5860800 Report >>5860798 "I suppose one shouldn't except worms to have any dignity or class" You scoff, adopting your stance again and condensing your dagger into a single blade again "I'll just kill them to"
Insects begin to crawl from the ground, sparkling with Qi. Monu must've summoned them once she...recomposed herself.
"If you can finish me" He laughs proudly, frozen arm splitting apart and expanding into a shield of ice, as he ignores the vermin crawling up his legs as he sways in place
"Big talk for a man who was already a walking corpse before I was even born~!" You snicker, shouting as you rush to close the distance before he can pull any other tricks out of his limp sleeve.
How do you attack him now, Huanliuxue?
>Your current strategy is working well, no reason to change it Send the lunar blade flying through the air on rivers of moonlight, and double team Xue with it, using the paw like strikes of your feline martial art to batter and push him into its path (Martial+ Magic+ Coordination trial. DC 180) >Lead him towards Monu, fighting more defensively to lure him into fighting more aggressively himself, he might be controlling it, but your new toy has afflicted him with potent bloodlust (Trickery + martial Trial. DC 150) >Use the dagger fragments as a screen and launch a barrage of destructive Yin Spheres towards him (Magic trial. DC 160) >Step back the moment he swings, and hit him with the weeping scar curse (Magic: Curse Trial. DC 130) >Write in Anonymous
>>5860800 >>Lead him towards Monu, fighting more defensively to lure him into fighting more aggressively himself, he might be controlling it, but your new toy has afflicted him with potent bloodlust (Trickery + martial Trial. DC 150) Anonymous
>>5860800 >>5860800 >Coat the field in Grudge cloud. >When he swings, take a step back and weeping scar curse. We need to destablize his core. Either mass cold or mass heat.
Anonymous
>>5860795 >train him to think your feline form of martial arts only comprised of hand strikes Didn't we hit him with kicks before?
>>5860800 >Step back the moment he swings, and hit him with the weeping scar curse (Magic: Curse Trial. DC 130) Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sun 10 Dec 2023 11:25:23 No. 5860839 Report Quoted By:
>>5860829 Yeah. Well twice, but those kicks were followed by stomps and an eye rip, which makes that assault seem less like martial arts and more of a mauling/ simple brawling, that and the fact he then bounced back and forth from madness and sanity (several times) made Huan confident she could trick him into thinking she'd continue to throw punches rather than kicks
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>>5860800 >Using yang now? You eclipse Yang! Turn the spell's force and burn him with his protecting Yang Energy! >Empower it with the blood qi in the area and turn up the heat. >Fuck it we ball, since he turned himself into a willing oven to refine the old man into a cultivation pill(If we can't forget this) Grandfather is he using yang energy right now? I mean if he is he's basically turned himself into an oven. Laugh. Laugh at this man's foolishness.
Can the above be done?
Anonymous
>>5860800 >>5860840 Actually, cross this out I have a better plan
>Step back the moment he swings, and hit him with the weeping scar curse (Magic: Curse Trial. DC 130) >But also add onto this We place the weeping scar curse onto our new blade and use it as a spell focus. >To use Using Xuèjīngliàn! To pull massive amounts of blood in the area here and make a blood arena and create tens of thousands of blood slashes. Each hit means a new wound and worsens older wounds. Will need to name this new move. Then If that goes well we burn the blood I plan on suggesting next we refine the old man turning blood to fire, yin to yang. Turning him into a cultivation pill.
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>>5860866 Massive amount of blood + Blood Moon Boost + Pure Blood Qi + Ecplised Yang + Spell Focus + Tricking him and him being currently half insane and him going deeper defensive for reinforcements means it is the perfect time to finish this.
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>>5860800 >Step back the moment he swings, and hit him with the weeping scar curse (Magic: Curse Trial. DC 130) Anonymous
>>5860800 >>Lead him towards Monu, fighting more defensively to lure him into fighting more aggressively himself, he might be controlling it, but your new toy has afflicted him with potent bloodlust (Trickery + martial Trial. DC 150) Anonymous
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>>5860800 >Step back the moment he swings, and hit him with the weeping scar curse (Magic: Curse Trial. DC 130) Anonymous
>>5860800 >Step back the moment he swings, and hit him with the weeping scar curse (Magic: Curse Trial. DC 130) >"Now, I just need to delay until my new allies arrive" Wait, so you are telling me that the two major orthodox sects that have both been fighting each other for around a year have allied against a common foe?
They are being... reasonable? And not complete imbeciles?
We might be in deeper shit than we thought.
Anonymous
>>5860800 >Lead him towards Monu, fighting more defensively to lure him into fighting more aggressively himself, he might be controlling it, but your new toy has afflicted him with potent bloodlust (Trickery + martial Trial. DC 150) Anonymous
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>>5860800 >Step back the moment he swings, and hit him with the weeping scar curse (Magic: Curse Trial. DC 130) Anonymous
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>>5861100 Nah we just get rid of all these bitches in one swipe, casually becoming undisputed lord of Chuang and Ling and making good on our promise to the golden collar gang.
Anonymous
>>5860800 >Lead him towards Monu, fighting more defensively to lure him into fighting more aggressively himself, he might be controlling it, but your new toy has afflicted him with potent bloodlust (Trickery + martial Trial. DC 150) >Write in: Signal to Tie-Tie that enemy Reinforcements are on the way If anyone has any ideas how as to HOW to do the write in, I'm all ears. It's still a bit early for Weeping Scar, I wanna do just a bit more damage.
>>5861100 We probably helped a lot with that. Price of flamboyance, Ling and WB will join hands until Krazy Kat's in the ground then it's on to you regularly scheduled sect conflict.
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>>5861100 I mean we already knew that? When his drunk kid and that chick we made into an almost-pire fought us?
Anonymous
>>5861358 (Not a vote)
Could have Monu handle it personally or dispatch a puppet messenger.
Part of me wonders if we'd be better off just jumping out of the cavern and forcing ice man to follow us or let his army get fucking wrecked.
Anonymous
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>>5860800 >Step back the moment he swings, and hit him with the weeping scar curse. Personally I'd like to go Yang Eclipse and melt his ass, but this is good too. Be interesting to see how Cat's Court would react here too.
Anonymous
>>5861358 >>5861454 We could also try using our ghost balls to form words, though the enemy would know we know about them in that case
Anonymous
>>5861454 >Part of me wonders if we'd be better off just jumping out of the cavern and forcing ice man to follow us or let his army get fucking wrecked. Given the signal, it's very likely "his" army is going to be making a beeline for his position and coming after Us.
Anonymous
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>>5861993 I'm not sure he still has an army, though if the Ling do come it will make this a little bit more difficult.
Anonymous
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>>5860800 >Step back the moment he swings, and hit him with the weeping scar curse (Magic: Curse Trial. DC 130) Well that's bad news, especially since we don't have the most info on how Big Ling fight. If it's a group fight Blood Rain and what I assume using our new knife as a pick with GEM would do should cut down on the number of Adds.
Anonymous
This is to regain my honor, it must be done
>Votes:13 mA8gHV4L
Pva8t7lO
UP9c4PL2
8i8jncQn
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iwD5/P73
+Q/Qgoga
BiqkQoos
1mfExxKX
4rqJMRoH
PHTaawm4
neTxgegu
W6HQZEsJ
>Lead him towards Monu, fighting more defensively to lure him into fighting more aggressively himself, he might be controlling it, but your new toy has afflicted him with potent bloodlust:4 mA8gHV4L
iwD5/P73
1mfExxKX
PHTaawm4
>Step back the moment he swings, and hit him with the weeping scar curse:9 Pva8t7lO
UP9c4PL2
8i8jncQn
bd0Rwxk0
+Q/Qgoga
BiqkQoos
4rqJMRoH4
neTxgegu
W6HQZEsJ
>Coat the field in Grudge cloud.:1 Pva8t7lO
>Place WSC on new blade and use as a spell focus for Blood Refinement (Xuejinglian):1 8i8jncQn
>Signal to Tie-Tie that enemy Reinforcements are on the way:1 PHTaawm4
Slightly unsure if
>>5861919 is supporting the warning write-in or simply making a suggestion
Anonymous
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>>5863458 To judge you properly, I shall do a second count to ensure you have attained the Dao of Counting.
Total Vote Count:
4 Votes
>Lead him towards Monu, fighting more defensively to lure him into fighting more aggressively himself, he might be controlling it, but your new toy has afflicted him with potent bloodlust (Trickery + martial Trial. DC 150) >>5860805 mA8gHV4L>>5861072 iwD5/P73>>5861197 1mfExxKX>Signal to Tie-Tie that enemy Reinforcements are on the way >>5861358 PHTaawm4 (includes signaling monu)9 Votes
>Step back the moment he swings, and hit him with the weeping scar curse (Magic: Curse Trial. DC 130) UP9c4PL2
bd0Rwxk0
+Q/Qgoga
BiqkQoos
4rqJMRoH
neTxgegu
W6HQZEsJ
>Coat the field in Grudge cloud then weeping scar curse >>5860817 Pva8t7lO (includes weeping scar curse usage)>use weeping scar curse on him and our blade >>5860866 8i8jncQnYou have counted well Anon, but the road to redemption is not so light that only one proper count can allow you to ascend to the heavens.
Anonymous
>>5863458 To judge you properly, I shall do a second count to ensure you have attained the Dao of Counting.
Total Vote Count:
4 Votes
>Lead him towards Monu, fighting more defensively to lure him into fighting more aggressively himself, he might be controlling it, but your new toy has afflicted him with potent bloodlust (Trickery + martial Trial. DC 150) mA8gHV4L
iwD5/P73
1mfExxKX
>Signal to Tie-Tie that enemy Reinforcements are on the way PHTaawm4 (includes signaling monu)
9 Votes
>Step back the moment he swings, and hit him with the weeping scar curse (Magic: Curse Trial. DC 130) UP9c4PL2
bd0Rwxk0
+Q/Qgoga
BiqkQoos
4rqJMRoH
neTxgegu
W6HQZEsJ
>Coat the field in Grudge cloud then weeping scar curse Pva8t7lO (includes weeping scar curse usage)
>use weeping scar curse on him and our blade 8i8jncQn
You have counted well Anon, but the road to redemption is not so light that only one proper count can allow you to ascend to the heavens.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 13 Dec 2023 03:11:38 No. 5863650 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote now, didn't mean to take this long but I was otherwise occupied playing armored core.
>>5863458 >>5863482 Thank you both for tallying in my stead juniors,
So you'll step back and hit the bastard with the weeping scar curse!
Always fun when this curse rears its head
Update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 13 Dec 2023 04:08:39 No. 5863713 Report The blood falling like rain gathers in puddles and thickens beneath the unrelenting chill of Xue Laohue's breath. Splashing through the red pools, droplets fly around you as you rush to close the distance between you and the half frozen, half dead master of the winter blossoming wisdom sect. He lifts up his arm turned into a shield, his spiritual senses giving him a full range of vision, he's on his toes now, and will not make the same mistake that allowed you to batter him this close to death and if you give him even a moment to catch his breath, he pull some trick out of his sleeve. Would whatever technique or sorcery he'd unleash in a moment of desperation be enough to turn the tide of the battle and switch your places, make you the one teetering towards their next life? Probably not, but it might just slow you enough for whoever will respond to the beacon of light he sent up to get lucky, or extend this fight long enough that people who wouldn't have died otherwise join him in hell. And neither of those possibilities are something you can accept. Call it greed, call it selfishness, call it pride, but you cannot stomach the thought of losing those close to you even if it was their choice to put their lives on the line and join the fighting today.
Anonymous
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Rolled 57, 11 = 68 (2d100) >>5863713 Anonymous
Rolled 22, 90 = 112 (2d100) >>5863713 Frozen't
Anonymous
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Rolled 74, 12 = 86 (2d100) >>5863713 Whew, the tension is up up up
Anonymous
Rolled 48, 58 = 106 (2d100) >>5863713 Next time we teleport. We have two different ways of doing it after all. Why is he so stubborn? Why can't he just roll over and die like he is supposed to? Give up you geezer, you're already well past your expiry date.
Anonymous
>>5863738 Could go for carmine mystic spell using his eye as a focus. Between the boost from the blood moon and all of our general awesomeness we might be able to crack the glacier.
Anonymous
Rolled 32, 24 = 56 (2d100) >>5863713 Can we perform his last rites right here and now?
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>>5863746 I'm surprised Monu hasn't changed gears yet to go full spell casting. She kept trying to get in close and poison him and stab him. Huan can hold his attention well enough on her own so Monu can take the time to cast something substantial since so far her tactics have been ineffectual.
Though that makes me wonder, when we broke his ice arm off, was his original hand still in it encased in ice? I was under the impression his entire body was transmuting wholesale into ice rather than being frozen over. But it might be something to use if there's any flesh still in there at absolute zero.
Alternatively we do go full eclipsed yang and turn this place into a sauna.
>>5863765 Man, the dice are ANGRY tonight. Wow. What are the odds?
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 13 Dec 2023 04:48:23 No. 5863787 Report Quoted By:
>>5863723 10 under DC, nearly twenty. Failure. Update will arrive shortly
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I'd laugh if the only significant injuries he's ever sustained have been in our fight with him tonight. And they honestly don't seem like they even phase him at all. We absolutely mauled him over and over and he just seems a bit tired more than anything. What a pain this guy is.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 13 Dec 2023 05:18:16 No. 5863824 Report It begins as a whisper, low and guttural, like the last breath escaping a condemned man's lips after the executioner's blade lops of their head. The curse speaks itself, spilling out from your lips in a steady, constant stream of resentment, urging the enmity within scars long faded to rouse and bleed fresh and anew. Eyes darkening, your moonlit aura turns from gentle crimson to a darkness deeper than the shadows Xue summoned. Slouching forward, your eyes alight with violent malevolence as the curse you were taught takes hold of your entire being to speak itself. Eyes half closed, hair falling loosely over your face like a funerary veil, you chant, not missing a word or tangling your tongue as the hex mutters out of your mouth at a serene pace, belying its true nature of a thing of undying enmity and ceaseless resentment. Grudge miasma pours from your mouth and flows down your front, catching and flowing like waterfalls of ink.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 13 Dec 2023 05:20:19 No. 5863826 Report >>5863824 But something's wrong. The command stays bottled in your throat, ripping and tearing and making your hurt! Only then do you realize you had become so furious as to be blinded, momentarily to what was going on around you beyond wallowing in the enmity of his victims and your own grudges.
Xue Laohue had turned to powder snow in the time it took you to call up the burning hatred you feel towards him and all like him, and he reformed himself behind you, Frozen hand stuck to your face over your mouth and flesh hand gripping your beautiful red hair, winding its fingers through it and coiling it around them! The piece of shit moves fast for an old fossil!
And he's wrenching and pulling your head in two different directions! Trying to break your neck or tear it right off your shoulders!
"I wonder, will there be anyone to speak your final words as a curse, Huanliuxue?" He questions weakly, blood dripping from the hand on your scalp.
How do you try to break from his grip, Huanliuxue?!
>Use enmity incarnation: Devil of Grudges, and wear the mask of Xiongji and beat your way out of his hold! (Strength/ Martial Trial. DC 95) >....Wait why would you care about a broken neck? You can still puppet your body until it heals, just by stepping out of it and controlling it as a ghost would (Trickery/ Puppeteering trial. DC 110) >Tear the space between him and you asunder, revealing your Cosmic Qi (Magic trial DC 100) >Reverse the hold and throw him to the ground with your feline martial arts (Martial trial DC 150) >Trust the blood moon (Instinct trial. DC ???) >Write in Anonymous
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>>5863826 >Tear the space between him and you asunder, revealing your Cosmic Qi (Magic trial DC 100) Anonymous
>>5863826 Can't we just turn back into a cat? He very foolishly let go of his weapon to try and play the assassin instead of just beheading us. Once we're huge and feline our strength should absolutely overwhelm him. To say nothing of the fact he's behind us and our hind legs would be primed to disembowel him.
Or does that take too long?
Anonymous
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>>5863826 >Trust the blood moon (Instinct trial. DC ???) You are nothing, and I am the light.
Anonymous
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>>5863826 >Reverse the hold and throw him to the ground with your feline martial arts (Martial trial DC 150) Anonymous
>>5863826 >Trust the blood moon. I think we can afford this.
Anonymous
>>5863862 I believe Xue Laohue is about to kill himself and all we have to do is let it happen with the power of the Blood Moon.
Trust the Blood Moon.
Anonymous
>>5863886 I think that's a little silly. Why would trusting the blood moon amount to "do nothing and let the guy die" instead of something like "turn into a moonbeam and fly away" or something? Either way, I just don't like mystery boxes.
Anonymous
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>>5863826 >Trust the blood moon (Instinct trial. DC ???) Are we going to become blood?
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 13 Dec 2023 06:33:54 No. 5863893 Report >>5863837 Sure you can that's what the write in is for.
Anonymous
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>>5863826 >Trust the blood moon (Instinct trial. DC ???) Anonymous
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>>5863893 I just wanted to make sure it was a viable option and not just something technically possible first. Many thanks, Grandfather.
Even though I know it's doomed against the blood moon option. >>5863826 >>Write in >Turn back into a cat, using our true form's increased strength and flexibility to twist his strategy against him Anonymous
>>5863889 The power of the blood moon is misfortune, and I believe Xue is about to do something very unfortunate for himself.
I could be wildly misinterpreting the situation, but I really so believe that Trusting the Moon will turn Xue into a cherry slushy.
Anonymous
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>>5863903 Well yeah he's making a huge gaffe right now but I don't think snapping our neck is gonna make us explode into steaming blood and reform, blasting him into slurpee in the process. I just don't think that whatever trusting the moon does is going to be "passive". I'm sure it will work out for us, but I'd rather just kick his good arm off with our digging paws instead.
Finding new abilities is great, but I've also a mind that he's recording this or something. Even if he's not it's only a matter of time before some Ling prick comes screaming in atop a flaming comet to interrupt or something. I'd prefer rapidity to anything else at this point.
Anonymous
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>>5863826 >Turn back into a cat. Anonymous
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>>5863826 >Trust the blood moon (Instinct trial. DC ???) *sigh*
I can't resist
Man, we just HAD to fail this roll, huh?
I was really looking forward to seeing this curse used again...
Anonymous
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>>5863826 >>Trust the blood moon (Instinct trial. DC ?? Anonymous
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>>5863826 Oh snap he leaked blood on us.
Anonymous
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>>5863826 >Use enmity incarnation: Devil of Grudges, and wear the mask of Xiongji and beat your way out of his hold! (Strength/ Martial Trial. DC 95) Call me contrarian but I wanna go Xiongji on his ass. Let's not forget Xiong is a fire expert and we're fighting an icicle.
Anonymous
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>>5863826 >Trust the blood moon (Instinct trial. DC ???) Anonymous
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>>5863826 >Turn back into a cat I'm almost sure the ling will just watch him die and study any techniques we use to kick his ass.
Anonymous
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>>5863826 >Turn back into a cat for once I'm resisting the mystery box
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 15 Dec 2023 08:42:31 No. 5865878 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying the result now.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 15 Dec 2023 09:20:42 No. 5865890 Report The blood flowing from the few scars your curse was able to open fresh and new spills over your scalp, soaking deep and warm into the roots of your hair. Would any even be able to tell that there was blood in your hair? Why is your mind wandering at a time like this, while you can feel your spine being twisted and each vertebrae bending before it cracks. Yet the warmth of fresh blood washing down your face is so comforting as to be like a tranquilizer. Even though a broken neck isn't something someone like you should fret too much over, it will still be incredibly painful and crippling, even if only temporarily until you can put it back in its proper place, patch it up and heal the wound. Fu could survive having his head torn off and after mending the injury with just his internal energy, be left with only a new scar ringing his neck, so it isn't like you should be stricken with mortal terror at the mere threat of having your neck snapped and your spine broken, leaving you to collapse like a puppets with its strings cut. But shouldn't you be more concerned about it? Even for you this kind of tranquility is out of the ordinary, out right abnormal, and as much as the scent and warmth of fresh blood soothes and relaxes you, it isn't so comforting a drought to make you this placid while some brute is pulling, tugging and ripping at your hair and has one of his filthy hands stuck firm to your mouth.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 15 Dec 2023 09:22:12 No. 5865891 Report >>5865890 And meditating on the sensation of comfort, you realize it isn't coming from the blood oozing and spurting from Xue Laohue's palm. The blood spilling from him is merely a vessel, a conduit of sorts, like oil for flame. The actual sense of tranquility that's strong and tranquilizing enough to make you not really care about being mangled by his hands, is coming from the blood moon's light the two of you are standing in, a beam of carmine light that is warm in the way of already cooling blood is, chill but with lingering heat beneath the coolness of it. Your eyes shoot open and you lift your head to stare intensely at the moon, your amber, silver ringed eyes reflecting its fullness and beauty as by Xue's rough handling, your head is forcefully tilted to the side as you gaze upon the moon and wonder.
Has it always looks so much like an eye? Has it always looked so sad and lonely? And that sound, beneath the cracking of bone, dripping of blood and grunts of effort, that isn't the murmuring of a breeze traveling down into a hole in the earth. Is that? Whispering? But it sounds so close, like it is coming from within you, between your ears, inside of the blood surging through the miniscule veins inside of them.
Its a call. A beckon from within, trying to rouse a power you have not yet wielded of a kind you scarcely understand. Your body adapts to the light of the blood moon in more ways than simply growing stronger and more robust. It is whispering to the carmine mysticism and baser blood sorceries caged within every drop of you thickened and refined noble blood.
Despite perfecting carmine mysticism, and creating two "Descendants" with it, you haven't really had the time or the enthusiasm to explore that new aspect of yourself and the bounties it brings. All you and your two disciples of the practice have learned, is how to sustain yourselves with blood and breath, and how to heal injuries with those same substances.
But the moon of this bloody night and its rain, tempt you to indulge and delve into this mysterious mystical art that had once been an affliction and disease. The moon dust in your blood is murmuring you, trying to incite you to act on instincts never before awoken, to make use of powers kept sealed within your imperial blood.
And feeling your neck twist in a direction it shouldn't, you decide to trust the blood moon, or more accurately, trust the slumbering instincts the sight of it and the falling rain of blood have partially awoken, to see what exactly made Carmine mystics of the old breed so feared and abhorred.
To really let loose and have some fun~
<span class="mu-s"> roll 2d100. DC 108. Best out of five </span>
Anonymous
Rolled 55, 38 = 93 (2d100) >>5865891 Oh, that's cool.
Anonymous
Rolled 37, 35 = 72 (2d100) >>5865891 Anonymous
Rolled 18, 33 = 51 (2d100) >>5865891 The dice gods are starting to look down on us after all the success
Anonymous
>>5865892 >>5865893 >>5865896 ha, ha, ha. Very funny guys, but really. Really it's time to be serious now. .
Anonymous
Rolled 59, 80 = 139 (2d100) >>5865891 >>5865896 Clearly the dice are just tired of us masquerading as the inferior lifeform that is a human. This roll will prove it.
Anonymous
>>5865898 oh praise be, 3 dos.
Whew, misfortune really did scare us.
Anonymous
>>5865910 Catposting always works.
Anonymous
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>>5865910 >>5865897 We still have one more roll, shoot your shot
Anonymous
Rolled 85, 15 = 100 (2d100) >>5865891 Cat
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>>5865912 >>5865918 You lied sir. Still 8 below dc
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 15 Dec 2023 10:33:16 No. 5865922 Report >>5865898 Great success, 30 over DC, update will arrive shortly.
Anonymous
>>5865922 Grandfather, check my ID.
I have rolled twice, the second time to check a superstition
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 15 Dec 2023 10:43:52 No. 5865929 Report >>5865927 It isn't the first time I've allowed someone to roll twice to expedite the process, and it has been a little over an hour since the roll was called for, and I'm impatient today
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>>5865929 Ah, fantastic.
I just wished to ensure I had not decieved you.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 15 Dec 2023 12:06:05 No. 5865957 Report Quoted By:
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The blood in your veins is screaming, lit aflame by the moonlight and stardust trapped alongside it. It runs so hot it feels like its boiling inside of you, roasting you alive from inside out as the moon meets your gaze with your own and the cuts you made when you offered your lifeforce to it to paint its blank surface like an unmarred canvas feel as fresh and ragged as that day as when you laid in a pool of your own blood, with starlight and moonlight infusing into your veins, seeping into the marrow of your bones through your jadelike skin. Its scream rattles through you, echoing in your heart as it claws and gnaws at the walls of the veins keeping it locked up inside of you. Like a thousand evil spirits sealed with prayers and talismans, the enchanted blood you've carefully cultivated, refined, transfused and alchemically altered with the strange energies of the cosmos struggles to escape you, to flee burning into the night to escape the celestial fire that is not contained within it.
It is a good pain. And you feel your concerned frown stretched and pull into the same crooked lunatic grin you wore when you cut open your wrists and throat on the lunar surface, sickle shaped like a crescent moon. How sharp your teeth are this night, almost as sharp as your natural fangs. Flicking your frozen tongue over them, you draw blood and swallow it down.
Your heart is racing. Beating and pulsing with the breath of ghosts and the breath of life. The blood flowing down your face stills and bristles as you beseech the carmine mysticality within your furnace of a heart to awaken, activating the pure form of the occult art that lead an entire sect down the road of ruin and path of monstrosity, unaffected by the filth and scum within the blood they guzzled. Untainted. The moonlight and blood rain falls over you like a blush bride's veil. Blushing, blood carrying the emotions of shame, rage, and passion! Feverish, you throw your head back, feeling how loose your neck has become from old Xue tugging and pulling on it so harshly, and though he is eyeless, in the tears of blood shedding from his empty eye socket , you can see a look of fear reflected in the crimson rivers weeping from that hollow space. And you can see yourself, a predatory sort of madness glinting in your eyes as you throw out your arms and lift them towards the sky in euphoria as Xue struggles to rip your head off as the blood he squeezed into your hair falls in line with your will and obeys you command, stretching down in coagulated ropes, securing your head and neck and reinforcing them as you allow the moondust inside of you and the moonlight washing over you to both flow into your heart turned blood cauldron.
It begins a cycle of empowering. Blood and moonlight mingle and in revelry, devour each other.
Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 15 Dec 2023 12:07:06 No. 5865958 Report Yin and Yang, cold moonlight and burning blood married together, growing stronger as the screaming in your veins stops and quiets to purring whispers. Extraterrestrial spiritual essence fuses together with the Qi of ghosts and the Qi of Blood, altering itself and transfiguring the blood that plays host to it. An natural alchemical process, a new form of blood refinement, an unsealed secret of carmine mysticism born again in the fertile ground of your veins!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 15 Dec 2023 12:08:07 No. 5865960 Report >>5865958 "Oh, so you know the term? I thought for sure your ancestors did all they could to bury this particular tradition and its tragic legacy" You snicker and titter, suddenly feeling really fired up and energetic, is this blood doping? it feels like you've swallowed a dozen stamina enhancing drugs and washed them down with an heady elixir of divine blood honey medicines! Like the blood torrent rush! (衁急流奔,Huāngjíliúbēn) Exactly like when you pushed your body to its limits by taking as many pills and elixirs as it could handle before you fought Baoli-Wuyawang (暴力-乌鸦王, Violent Crow King), but even better and more energized! You feel like a walking natural disaster! A living massacre, waiting to be unleashed, every fiber of your being coiled and ready to explode!
"Even one as proud as I at time's feel the need to shed tears for the folly of simpletons like then" You poetically ponder, before cackling as you wipe a hand down over your face, your crowned helmet absolutely drenched in blood as your veins continue to crawl and shift as more and more blood flows into you, in such quantities as to make your steel tough veins bulge and creak
"It...it is supposed to be a myth" He shouts, as if yelling at you will make you stop being a carmine mystic "A cautionary tale to warn of the dangers of unrestrained and reckless cultivation"
"Eh, Fought one of the originals in hell, I wasn't impressed" You off handedly remark as you realize the creaking you heard was in your neck and not your veins and press against the side of your head to check and see just how badly he fractured your spine. Its already healing, but something feels off inside your throat. And you can immediately tell what that unpleasant feeling is, it is your veins, wrapped around your spine like a parasitic plant, piercing into it to give your brain a direct, moon fueled boost of Qi enriched blood directly from your heart.
Giving your enough clarity and swiftness of thought to realize what your instincts were luring you to do, and what was going on. The carmine mystic you met didn't look human at all, he didn't even look like Jiangshi should. And that Ling brat also started to change when you forced to transform into one as well, her teeth and ears.
Hmm. This is probably a glimpse at the sort of techniques you could achieve and master if you put in any effort to growing as carmine mystic, brought out by the light of the blood moon. A transformation technique, that isn't nearly as permanent as the changes wrought by the demonic influence of the original form of carmine mysticism, and just from feeling alone you can tell it has given you an even more of a boost than just bathing in the light of the bleeding moon already has. But why the thorns?
Cont
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 15 Dec 2023 12:09:08 No. 5865961 Report >>5865960 AH! The primordial beast essence! radiating both from within and from the titanic ancient tree you grew in the center of Suiqi! it must've influenced the instinctually changes your body underwent to free itself and quickly heal the damages done to your flesh, bones and nervous system by Xue Laohue wrenching your head and neck around like a dog with a toy! And Jionghuagege's flowers must've increased the presence and potency of the primordial air.
A wood aligned carmine mystic transformation magic. Intriguing! Most intriguing!
"But what does that make me at the moment? a blood sucking cat flower?" You titter thoughtlessly as you rock from your toes to your heels, relishing in the high of the unexpected change "A fairy of the Sanguine Divine Spirit Peach?
"What are you babbling about!? Give me a clear answer, you damn monster!" Xue Laohue, who is of course not privilege to be witness to your genius thought process, blurts out in a panic as you stop rocking in place and lift your foot, seeing some of your veins have rooted into the ground, sucking up the life force within the soil and spreading out, just like the vines that crawled all through the ancient sect of the Peerless Sanguine Jade Shrine. Or the roots of the man devouring flower Fu lead the subjugation off.
"Huan~, are you feeling alright?" Monu asked cautiously as she approached you. Now why would she be concerned, it had to be clear you were feeling well over the moon! You grinned, meaning to smile delicately at her as she tapped your shoulder
"Hmm?" You chirp, confused as to why she's fretting over you when you're overjoyed and lively, and clearly winning the fight "Oh I'm in full bloom can't you see? I am after all, as much of a flower as you are, Mama"
"Rrrright" She says through her teeth, as she gently pries open one of your eye lids "I think you might be a bit er, blood drunk, my sweet kitten"
"Of course I am, its in the name isn't it!" You bark with laughter, making her leap back as if she were scared of you, but that can't be it, she has absolutely no reason to fear you, she's your honored and beloved mother!
Thorns. thorns. You certainly have sprouted a lot of thorns. You might be mistaken for a flower demon instead of a cat demon looking like this, with how your mane of scarlet hair is sticking out like petals and leaves out from under the crown like helmet of your armor.
"You! Speak! What has Huanliuxue done!" Xue Laohue demands of your mother, who seems to have forgotten you were both in the middle of a life or death battle, as she blinks ponderously as glances between you and him as you hop in place, bouncing from one foot to the other, waiting for the first opportunity to lunge at Xue Laohue and start beating him up some more, the place in his palm where you pricked him seems to discoloring, for some reason.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 15 Dec 2023 12:10:17 No. 5865962 Report >>5865961 "I dunno? And if I did why would I tell you! You killed her elder sister and are trying to kill both of us as well!" Monu shouts, remembering that this is a fight suddenly
Hah. why is she acting so weird!
"Huanliuxuuue, why are you dancing?" She asks, as you realize you were indeed moving in a way that might seem like dancing, but you just felt like swaying and frolicking in the moonlight and falling blood. That much should be obvious to anyone.
A shard of ice launches from Xue Laohue's fist as he stands his ground, surrounding himself with air cold enough to freeze fire.
"I just trusted the moon is all" You giggle, hiding your face behind your hands, peering out between your fingers with glowing eyes, watching as Xue casts at least a dozen delayed spells, preparing himself for your assault.
"Don't look at me, I don't even know half of what she is capable of when backed into a corner" Monu snorts, as she lifts up her arms and sits down, closing her eyes to focus as she begins chanting a truly vicious curse as spiders crawl out from the collar and sleeves of her robes.
"Tch, no matter, if you were the guise of a ghost story monster makes no difference, even if I can't slay you myself, I can weaken you still, so the next man to take up my sword can put you down!" Xue Laouhue declares, summoning Xuebai's corpse back to his hand, sprouting several additions arms of ice to keep up with all the spells he's casting
How troublesome. A fish that doesn't know when to stop flopping about.
How do you punish his Hubris, Huanliuxue?
>See just how much you can blossom and make use of the veins that are rooted in the ground (Carmine Mysticism: Verdant. Trial. DC 75) >You really have an itch to beat the absolute crap out of him! So combine this transformation technique with Emnity incarnation: Devil of grudges, and embody Xiongji's grudge against the world as you wail on him (Martial: Ferocity trial DC 80) >OH! His palm is changing colors because that little prick planted a sapping seed in his flesh. Make it grown (Carmine mysticism: Verdant trial. DC 90) >Make use of all the blood that you're doing nothing with besides absorbing, and launch a barrage of carmine mystic spells at Xue (Carmine mysticism/ Magic Trial. DC 100) >Get distracted and try to explain exactly what is going on to Monu and Xue, rambling as the sheer adrenaline and blood drunkenness makes you act a little flighty (Agility/ Dodge trial. DC 60) >Write in Anonymous
>>5865962 >Make the plant grow. Oh, is this permenant?
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 15 Dec 2023 12:23:27 No. 5865967 Report Quoted By:
>>5865966 >A transformation technique, that isn't nearly as permanent as the changes wrought by the demonic influence of the original form of carmine mysticism No
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>>5865962 >>OH! His palm is changing colors because that little prick planted a sapping seed in his flesh. Make it grown (Carmine mysticism: Verdant trial. DC 90) Anonymous
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>>5865962 >>You really have an itch to beat the absolute crap out of him! So combine this transformation technique with Emnity incarnation: Devil of grudges, and embody Xiongji's grudge against the world as you wail on him (Martial: Ferocity trial DC 80) Anonymous
>>5865962 >OH! His palm is changing colors because that little prick planted a sapping seed in his flesh. Make it grown (Carmine mysticism: Verdant trial. DC 90) Wonderful song selection Grandfather, I could really feel it while reading this scene.
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>>5865962 >OH! His palm is changing colors because that little prick planted a sapping seed in his flesh. Make it grown (Carmine mysticism: Verdant trial. DC 90) Time to play with one of our new toys.
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>>5865962 >OH! His palm is changing colors because that little prick planted a sapping seed in his flesh. Make it grown (Carmine mysticism: Verdant trial. DC 90) Anonymous
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>>5865962 >OH! His palm is changing colors because that little prick planted a sapping seed in his flesh. Make it grown (Carmine mysticism: Verdant trial. DC 90) Anonymous
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>>5865962 >>OH! His palm is changing colors because that little prick planted a sapping seed in his flesh. Make it grown (Carmine mysticism: Verdant trial. DC 90) Dang it. Now we've sat here and delayed a bunch.
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>>5865962 >Make use of all the blood that you're doing nothing with besides absorbing, and launch a barrage of carmine mystic spells at Xue (Carmine mysticism/ Magic Trial. DC 100) We're a blood dryad. Fun.
Burst his heart!
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>>5865962 >OH! His palm is changing colors because that little prick planted a sapping seed in his flesh. Make it grown (Carmine mysticism: Verdant trial. DC 90) I kinda wanna vote for rambling but I can control myself and so can Huan
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>>5866247 We can't be a 3rd bit antagonist doing a 4th bit speech of power. Sadly.
Anonymous
>>5865962 >OH! His palm is changing colors because that little prick planted a sapping seed in his flesh. Make it grown (Carmine mysticism: Verdant trial. DC 90) >Blood Plant Moon Cat Vampire Ghost Man... I was just talking about how impressed I was by Huan's ability to Asspull and she just keeps on going. I'm starting to think this is just what happens when you jump straight to golden core without giving yourself any time to learn new techniques that match your power level.
I am not surprised Monu and Xue both had to take a moment to process this shit.
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>>5865962 >See just how much you can blossom and make use of the veins that are rooted in the ground (Carmine Mysticism: Verdant. Trial. DC 75) Look and see how blooming life trumps death and spring supplants winter.
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>>5865962 >OH! His palm is changing colors because that little prick planted a sapping seed in his flesh. Make it grown (Carmine mysticism: Verdant trial. DC 90) >"Qi of the Sun, defused and reflected off the Moon stained with blood-mine-and then fed into the Earth along with the Primordial Qi, also mine. But something's missing.. Ah of course. " >" Water. " Anonymous
>>5865962 >OH! His palm is changing colors because that little prick planted a sapping seed in his flesh. Make it grown (Carmine mysticism: Verdant trial. DC 90) He might not last too much longer, but I'm curious how us wearing Monu's grudge against the greatest target of her hatred would play out. Would it get a boost, or would it fall flat against someone who intimately knew her?
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>>5866870 With the real Monu literally fighting by our side, copying her style and mannerisms would be a super weird move
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sun 17 Dec 2023 09:24:16 No. 5867808 Report Ending the vote now, tallying the result.
OH! His palm is changing colors because that little prick planted a sapping seed in his flesh. Make it grow:11
-Qi of the Sun, defused and reflected off the Moon stained with blood-mine-and then fed into the Earth along with the Primordial Qi, also mine. But something's missing.. Ah of course...etc: 1
You really have an itch to beat the absolute crap out of him! So combine this transformation technique with Emnity incarnation: Devil of grudges, and embody Xiongji's grudge against the world as you wail on him:1
Make use of all the blood that you're doing nothing with besides absorbing, and launch a barrage of carmine mystic spells at Xue :1
See just how much you can blossom and make use of the veins that are rooted in the ground:1
Land slide victory for sprouting and encouraging the growth of the "Sapping seed" inside of Xue's palm, whatever that is.
Update will arrive shortly
>>5866495 Precisely!
That and Huan follows an unusual dao in the dao of ghosts and the dao of grudges, and she also went out of her way to obtain rare/ unique spiritual energy and attained a hitherto unknown magical beast evolution
Fighting her blind isn't fun, especially when she starts experimenting with her new toys, like the blood moon alterations to carmine mysticism
She really isn't like anything other cultivator have fought or are expected to fight
>>5867134 It'd also probably give Xue an aneurysm
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sun 17 Dec 2023 10:00:07 No. 5867829 Report Yet before you can think how best to mete out his punishment for the high crime of daring to struggle before your overwhelming and majestic lunar and bloodborne powers, you feel a twinge. A ghost of a sensation, similar to the description you've heard some amputees describe the "Feeling" of their lost limbs. Even though you've had your arms sliced off before, you've never felt anything quite like this before. And you can feel it, as tangibly as you can any other part of yourself. The sensation is real but what gives you pause is that is is totally separate from your body, yet you're still experiencing it and feel as if the source of the physical awareness is completely cut from you.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sun 17 Dec 2023 10:01:08 No. 5867830 Report >>5867829 The method to make the seed sprout and grow is the same as the one you used to make cause the alchemist turned carmine mystic who was foolish enough to think they could take your gift and run explode into a mess of core. It contains your blood within it, and whether its through blood manipulation or sorcery, no matter the vessel it is in, your blood obeys your will no matter how much it has changed or how far it has been taken from your veins!
You lift up a single hand, the vine like veins crawling from the center of your palm to your fingers glowing with a dim carmine light as you, with the power of blood, the frequency of life itself, reach out to the seed within your enemy's palm, and bid it to grow as he frantically casts his spells, unaware of the danger lurking within his own flesh!
<span class="mu-s"> Roll 2d100. DC 90. Best out of five </span>
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Rolled 44, 33 = 77 (2d100) >>5867830 Anonymous
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>>5867836 Heaven is having, a go.
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Rolled 82, 39 = 121 (2d100) >>5867830 >>5867808 >It'd also probably give Xue an aneurysm I think Huan has multiple ways to cause those at this point
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Rolled 18, 14 = 32 (2d100) >>5867830 Anonymous
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Rolled 80, 9 = 89 (2d100) >>5867830 Die.
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Rolled 52, 58 = 110 (2d100) >>5867830 Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sun 17 Dec 2023 11:08:22 No. 5867871 Report Quoted By:
>>5867838 Great success. 30 over DC. Update will arrive shortly
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At this rate Xue is going to give us more components and reagents than Baoli did. His struggling is only making Huan that much stronger. The fool.
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>>5867874 He has no eyes, forgive him for missing mount Tai.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sun 17 Dec 2023 11:39:35 No. 5867883 Report It only takes a single twitch of a finger to send the signal, telling the seed to sprout its roots and grow, that winter has passed and spring has come, that the soil is wet and fertile. The colors spread like a bruise down Xue's arm, as the seed cracking and sending out its roots through his flesh causes internal bleeding. The spells he cast with his arm of flesh begin to fail, their arrays breaking down at the meridians in that arm are disturbed, while the spells cast by his arms of ice flicker for a moment as the ripples of having his Qi sucked into the seed along with his blood and the life it contains disrupts his magic casting momentarily. Immediately, he realizes something is wrong, that it wasn't poison he felt stinging inside the muscles of his hand. But by time he notices, it is already too late. The blood sucking seed has hooked deeply into the flesh of his hand and arm, digging into the veins of his palm and wrist, anchoring itself inside of him by wrapping up his bones in its roots.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sun 17 Dec 2023 11:40:36 No. 5867884 Report >>5867883 A fire burns in the empty socket of the eye you plucked out, as a black, ink like substance crawls out and brands into his flesh the characters for Murderer, Child Killer, Liar, Traitor, and Heartless across his face and down his neck, burning him as he stumbles and falls to one knee, a look of utmost agony drawn across his face.
Ethereal, grey chains of fire wrap around his back, weighing him down manacles form around his wrists. He bows his head, as the flowers on his arms bloom, and from their mouths, bubbles of Lifeforce and Qi rise out, pink and blue, filling the air like pollen. He glances at his arm, and clenches his teeth.
The bubbles of lifeforce and Qi slowly flow towards your outstretched hand as Xue is pulled closer to the ground by the ghostly chains of the curse now stuck deep in his golden core. He swings his original arm of ice, as several of his spells fail simply because he stopped making the necessary hand signs to cast them.
His seed planted arm flies from him nearly severed, roots flailing out of its cut end towards the stump hanging from his shoulder. In a matter of moments, most of his arm had become completely subsumed by the seed, continues draining the arm as it withers and shrinks. Xue Laohue is panting, trying to compose himself and keep from panicking as you first bubble of his stolen life energy brushes your finger tip and you jolt, feeling the cracks and breaks in your spine immediately start to knit together and mend themselves. More and more of them clot together around your hand and seep into your skin, delivering what you stole from his veins and Meridians directly into your body.
Slowly, from the blood flowing out of his arm stump, ice begins to form in a crude copy of the arm he just cut off to save the rest of his body from the seed's hunger, all the while his other arms continue casting the few spells that he didn't fumble and fail to finish.
They're aimed at Monu, who is completely defenseless casting her curses. You narrow your eyes furiously.
What do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Direct the blood flowing into your veins from the bloody rain into the sapping seedling and taking inspiration from Jionghuagege, make it grow to massive proportions to shield your mother (Carmine Mysticism: Verdant Trial. DC 120) >Create a duplicate of your mother to fool his spiritual senses out of blood and some of his stolen Qi (Magic Trial. DC 115) >Attack him in a frenzied rage! How dare he threaten your mother! (Martial + Carmine mysticism trial DC 125) >Create a dying Grudge shield around Monu (Magic/ Timing Trial. DC 110) >Write in Anonymous
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>>5867884 >Create a dying Grudge shield around Monu (Magic/ Timing Trial. DC 110) He hasn't faced old reliable yet
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>>5867884 >Create a dying grudge shield around Monu. >Coat the field in grudge clouds. Fuck this man in paticular. He ia down, he is almost out.
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>>5867884 >Direct the blood flowing into your veins from the bloody rain into the sapping seedling and taking inspiration from Jionghuagege, make it grow to massive proportions to shield your mother (Carmine Mysticism: Verdant Trial. DC 120) Lets save dying grudge shield for a true desperate attack that he thinks will hit.
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>>5867884 >Attack him in a frenzied rage! How dare he threaten your mother! (Martial + Carmine mysticism trial DC 125) FINISH HIM
>So, who was better at sucking out your fluids? Me or Mother? I apologize, I couldn't resist Anonymous
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>>5867884 >Create a dying Grudge shield around Monu (Magic/ Timing Trial. DC 110) Anonymous
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>>5867884 >Create a dying Grudge shield around Monu (Magic/ Timing Trial. DC 110) Anonymous
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>>5867884 >Create a dying Grudge shield around Monu (Magic/ Timing Trial. DC 110) Anonymous
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>>5867884 >Attack him in a frenzied rage! How dare he threaten your mother! (Martial + Carmine mysticism trial DC 125) >HSSSSSSSSSSSSKKKK~OOOOOOWWWWLLL Anonymous
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>>5867874 Would be kinda poetic if we just ate him, closing the circle and so on... Wonder what eating a golden core would do to us
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 18 Dec 2023 10:34:41 No. 5868517 Report Quoted By:
Ending and tallying the vote.
Create a dying Grudge shield around Monu:5
Spread grudges:1
Direct the blood flowing into your veins from the bloody rain into the sapping seedling and taking inspiration from Jionghuagege, make it grow to massive proportions to shield your mother: 1
Attack him in a frenzied rage! How dare he threaten your mother!: 2
So you'll create a dying grudge shield around Monu
Update will arrive shortly
>>5867911 Junior has been afflicted with heart demons
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>>5867884 >Attack him in a frenzied rage! How dare he threaten your mother! (Martial + Carmine mysticism trial DC 125) Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 18 Dec 2023 11:09:06 No. 5868533 Report But soon your vision is obscured by a fog of black clouds. Grudge miasma spilling out of your mouth, lifting up into the air like smoke from fire, singeing the insides of your throat as your outrage that Xue would attack your mother while she was defenseless adds to and bolsters the grudge you already harbor for him due to the many crimes he has committed against your family and realm. Just to presence of the grudge energy freshly churned up from your own heart is enough to know what must be done to protect Monu, your dear mother. It is simple, but simple solutions are often the best and not just because they don't require much effort. Xue Laohue has to be on his last legs, and trying to at least kill the woman who he holds with such contempt since he's failed to really even injure you so far in this fight. Could it even be called a fight? A question for scholars to debate in the years to come.
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Rolled 18, 2 = 20 (2d100) >>5868533 Cat says no
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Rolled 57, 44 = 101 (2d100) >>5868533 Anonymous
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Rolled 2, 47 = 49 (2d100) >>5868533 Anonymous
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Wew laddie what's going on here
Anonymous
Rolled 51, 73 = 124 (2d100) >>5868533 Did we piss off some god of fortune?
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Rolled 5, 27 = 32 (2d100) >>5868533 Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 18 Dec 2023 12:12:53 No. 5868558 Report Quoted By:
>>5868544 10 over DC, fair success, update will arrive shortly
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>>5868544 4 rolls of 2d100 under 50 sounds improbable. I asked ChatGPT to do the math and found out it's retarded
>Certainly! When rolling 2 dice with values from 1 to 100, the minimum possible sum is 2, and the maximum is 200. To get a sum under 50, you'd need both dice to roll low values consistently. The combinations that satisfy this condition are pairs like (1, 1), (1, 2), (2, 1), resulting in sums of 2, 3, or 4. There are 3 * 3 = 9 such combinations.
The total number of possible combinations for 2 dice is 100 * 100 = 10,000.
So, the probability of getting a sum under 50 on one roll is 9/10,000. To find the probability for four consecutive rolls, you would raise this probability to the power of 4:
(9/10,000)^4 ≈ 6.5616e-14
This is an extremely low probability, indicating that getting four consecutive sums under 50 is highly unlikely.
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>>5868566 >I asked ChatGPT to do the math and found out it's retarded Chat GPT is a language model, it's meant to emulate written text, not do math. As far as I know, "browser" Ai types are still not great because they have a bad habit of making stuff up. They might get there one day, but we are not there yet.
And while we are on the subject, rolling 2d100 below 50 is 12.25% and rolling four 2d100 below 50 is 0.0225%. Pretty low
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 18 Dec 2023 13:05:50 No. 5868575 Report It does not rise, or stretch out. It simply appears, stealing away your mother's glamorous visage away from the vivid red moonlight, forming from nothing but your will and Qi, as swiftly as you arch your hand and use it to form a dorm over the palm of your other hand. You waited until the arrays of the spell Xue Laohue was casting with the extra arms of ice he sprouted from the back and shoulder of his frozen half complete and shine brightly, even managing to challenge the radiance of the blood moon's rapt attention with the glow of the spiritual energy soon to be unleashed from within the floating scriptures of the winter blossoming wisdom sect than unfurl like light reflected over a frozen lake behind the sect's weary master.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 18 Dec 2023 13:07:45 No. 5868577 Report >>5868575 The drilling pillars strike the ink black surface of the dying grudge shield. A white crack forms in the dome, but the barrier does not break. It absorbs the force and energy of the spells, bathing their already potent magic in the very essence of destruction and spite, multiplying it. And then, they're reflected back, deflecting off of the curved protections spell, their pale blue light turned grey by the brief time they spent within the dying grudge's roiling cauldron of enmity and raw destructive potential. Spinning in the opposite direction now, they shoot back towards Xue Laohue.
He claps his hands together and creates a shell of protection spells around himself, fusing them together with Ice magic as he bows his head. The sound of a scythe blade cutting through the air cuts through the wailing of the reflected spells.
The old fossil has sent his scythe flying through the air towards you again, attacking while he defends. Will his own spells be enough to shatter his defenses? Will he try to use his powder snow movement technique despite being nearly pressed to the ground by the weight of his sins branded all across his face and chest? The scythe is shrieking louder than before, and you can feel it is overflowing with Qi. And when is your mother going to finish spitting out her second curse at Xue Laohue!? And why can't the old fuck lay down and die already, most of his body is lifeless ice at this point! He might be the most stubborn and hard headed man ever born beneath the heavens!
What do you focus on, Huanliuxue?
>Making sure Xue's reflected spells strike him, by helping to break down his latest line of defenses with a few spells of your own (Magic trial DC 140) >Just pull him the rest of the way to the ground with the root like veins that have spread through the soil and have been feeding you the ambient life energy with in it (Carmine mysticism: Verdant/ Strength Trial. DC 115) >You may not be as experienced with curses, but you can help Monu speed up the casting of whatever hex she has in store for Xue (Magic: curses trial. DC 100) >The reflected winter's breath should be enough to break through Xue's defense. It'd be best to focus on avoiding or blocking his scythe before it can mow you down! (Martial/ Agility trial. DC 130) >Write in >>5865988 Thanks, junior. And that's probably because I had it on repeat when I wrote that update (and most of the updates after it)
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>>5868577 >Just put him down with the roots. Drain his QI further and he can't do anything aout anything.
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>>5868577 >Write in Take hold of our sister's Scythe and CUT HIM DOWN WITH IT.
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>>5868577 >Just pull him the rest of the way to the ground with the root like veins that have spread through the soil and have been feeding you the ambient life energy with in it (Carmine mysticism: Verdant/ Strength Trial. DC 115) Anonymous
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>>5868577 >You may not be as experienced with curses, but you can help Monu speed up the casting of whatever hex she has in store for Xue (Magic: curses trial. DC 100) Anonymous
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>>5868577 >>Just pull him the rest of the way to the ground with the root like veins that have spread through the soil and have been feeding you the ambient life energy with in it (Carmine mysticism: Verdant/ Strength Trial. DC 115) Anonymous
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>>5868566 >>5868570 This is true when dealing with real dice and actual random number generators. /tg/ and /qst/ dice are a bit different, so you get statistically unlikely results like this more often. If you've ever wondered why most QMs call for more than one roll, this is one reason.
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>>5868577 >The reflected winter's breath should be enough to break through Xue's defense. It'd be best to focus on avoiding or blocking his scythe before it can mow you down! (Martial/ Agility trial. DC 130) >>5868605 +1
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>>5868577 >You may not be as experienced with curses, but you can help Monu speed up the casting of whatever hex she has in store for Xue (Magic: curses trial. DC 100) Combo attack time!
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>>5868577 >You may not be as experienced with curses, but you can help Monu speed up the casting of whatever hex she has in store for Xue (Magic: curses trial. DC 100) Mother daughter curse combo takedown go!
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>>5868577 >Making sure Xue's reflected spells strike him, by helping to break down his latest line of defenses with a few spells of your own (Magic trial DC 140) Anonymous
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>>5868577 >You may not be as experienced with curses, but you can help Monu speed up the casting of whatever hex she has in store for Xue (Magic: curses trial. DC 100) MOTHER DAUGHTER CURSE CAST!!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 20 Dec 2023 15:43:55 No. 5870163 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote and tallying it now, nearly had to delay doing so, since the moment I woke up, I nearly took a bad fall right out of bed, but managed to catch myself before I tripped into anything.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 20 Dec 2023 16:08:55 No. 5870173 Report But stubbornness is no shield against curses. If one knows how to, they can brush away any sent their way if they're spiritually strong enough or their cultivation has an unshakeable foundation, and if they are knowledgeable of curses they can ward them away through various means or figure out the loopholes and conditions to slip out from their grasp like a freshly caught fish. But how easily that is done and if it can be done at all, depends on the type and potency of the curse. Xue Laohue shut your mouth before you could utter the phrase the neatly ties up the weeping scar curse, but some of his old scars still opened and wept. You only know a handful of curses, and only put into practice a few of those handful, really only two. The aforementioned weeping scar curse and the troublesome, dangerous and hard to control Blood Rain, Chaos mist, one of the few true examples of Demonic Cultivation that your practice.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 20 Dec 2023 16:09:56 No. 5870174 Report >>5870173 The cut of the scythe or risk of Xue Laohue enduring his own attack, are of no concern. Your mother's curse needs to be spoken before her traitorous ex can have a chance to silence her. Compared to her, you're a dabbler, but your voice joined with hers will hasten the spell and bring the curse into being and drive into Xue's frozen heart much quicker than she would be able to call it forth by herself.
So you clasp your hands together, the thorned veins wrapping around your hands and tying them together as you lift up your chin and being chanting sonorously, like a priestess. Oddly, your singing voice sounds like the murmur of wind rustling through the leaves of a forest.
The ground alights with a carmine glow, as the root-network of veins crawling down into the soil from your legs and soles of your feet do...something while the keen cry of the scythe cutting through the air continues to cut through the mother and daughter cursing and the roar of Xue's own spell drilling against his defenses with all the might of an avalanche.
<span class="mu-s"> roll 2d100. DC 100. Best out of five </span>
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Rolled 79, 55 = 134 (2d100) >>5870174 Rip and Tear
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Rolled 30, 28 = 58 (2d100) >>5870174 Anonymous
Rolled 65, 40 = 105 (2d100) >>5870174 Anonymous
Rolled 2, 47 = 49 (2d100) >>5870174 Anonymous
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We need to turn the temp really cold or really hot to distablize the old fart. I remember that being some advice we were given and haven't acted upon yet. Say lighting the surrounding blood qi aflame and turning the old man into a pill or just burning him to death.
Anonymous
Rolled 13, 11 = 24 (2d100) >>5870174 Anonymous
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>>5870176 >>5870184 >>5870190 >>5870197 >>5870201 The shit rolls just keep on coming don't they?
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 20 Dec 2023 16:52:12 No. 5870204 Report Quoted By:
>>5870176 Good success. 30 over DC. update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 20 Dec 2023 17:52:51 No. 5870240 Report You're only repeating what your mother is saying, but the curse she is chanting is in a dialect you're unfamiliar with, it sounds outdated and ancient and feels dusty in your mouth as you repeat her curse word for word as closely as you're able to while speaking an unfamiliar tongue. She's having no trouble chanting it to begin with, while the words are clumsy and slurred in your mouth that is mysteriously filled with blood that isn't your own, from her plump limps they are sharp and cutting, elegant and refined. Like verbal whip strikes or sword strikes. You almost feel embarrassed, hearing the difference in fluency and confidence between her accursed chanting and your own stumbling, sluggish mantra
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 20 Dec 2023 17:53:51 No. 5870242 Report >>5870240 But instead of forcing him lower on his knees, as Monu and You force the memories of his villainy into his head, viewed instead from the perspective of his victims, he just begins to laugh. As you expected. He is a man of ice and even when put in the place of his victims, he can't see any of his wrongdoings as anything besides the acts of a righteous deeds of an obedient servant of the nine heavens.
He looks even more like a rotting corpse, and has seen every action that has lead him here from the perspective of those he's harmed and killed, and all he can do is laugh as if he had just heard a funny joke. And from how strong the curse your mother wove is, those visions of his past must've seem as vivid as reality. Even after experiencing and feeling what Monu, Xuebai and who know how many others felt and thought when he ruined them or murdered them in cold blood, he doesn't see why he should feel any guilt or believe himself to be anything but justified for executing or maiming them for no reason besides the crime of being born.
Even with proof that he was wrong, his flesh decaying and filling with mold and rot, doesn't do anything to change his mind or make him feeling even a drop of regret or shame for crippling someone who was once his friend and lover, for killing scared and confused children and reliving their deaths within their own minds, and being made to confront that all the ruin wrought on Chuan ultimately came from his cruelty and zealous upholding of the laws of the cultivation orthodoxy hasn't done anything to shake his position or weaken his conviction. Something that even his own direct disciples were capable of realizing when confronted with the truth of the world.
He just learned what made Ping realize you weren't a mindless evil, what made Tian Mei admit you had every right to kill every orthodox dog you met down for what they have done to your people, and the realization that made Ping's friend turn his coat, and all he does is laugh and nod, like he was being told about his achievements in life by a celestial messenger. That goes beyond heartless. The zeal in his heart is a madness worse than the one you took from the moon and infected him with a couple of times across this fight.
They weren't exaggerating at all when they told you Xue Laohue was the ideal Orthodox cultivator and the embodiment of the laws they live by. Even after the curse has shown him exactly what was going through the hearts and mind of those he oppresses and hunts, and being made to see how his actions have lead to this, his downfall, he doesn't regret any of them, that much is clear. Even if you're misunderstanding what the curse does and over estimating its effects, the most self righteous cultivators you've met were shaken by those kinds of revelations.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 20 Dec 2023 17:56:08 No. 5870244 Report >>5870242 And Xue Laohue just laughs bawdily, doesn't even pause or frown or do anything besides puff his decaying, half frozen chest up with pride, when every other daoist confronted with the true history of the world or the fact that demonic beasts aren't born monsters has been at least a little distraught! And that's just from them hearing about it from a confident source. Xue Laohue has experienced and been made to, in an instant, live the lives of everyone he's damaged, broken or outright killed, and despite that mental assault isn't at all enlightened or even driven mad by the truth or even had one of his three views altered, despite most of them being proven just outright wrong and immoral.
How impenetrable is his confidence, how unbreakable is his self righteousness!? How can his conviction of the justice of the heavens remain so strong after that?! His heart is made of ice and you still struggle to grasp him being so cold hearted! Even demons can cry and feel guilt, but not Xue Laohue! He should've been born a devil! He'd have thrived in hell!
Outraged and in disbelief, you droop, feeling strangely like you're wilting as Monu cackles in triumph while Xue's barrier spells begin to fail as his protections falter beneath the assault of his own mystical might, but he doesn't budge even as he stares down the spells he had sent to kill Monu stone cold dead, his smile gleams with pride as he somehow summons the strength to stand up despite the ghostly grey chains holding him down and faces the ricocheted attack magic as confident as if he wasn't decaying by the moment.
And the scythe he forged out of Xuebai's corpse and core, swings down through the air towards you as you stare at him, almost amazed by his mental fortitude and self belief. His sense of self and pride rival your own at this point!
But Ah! You can't dwell on his ego! There's a scythe inches away from your neck and priceless face! It needs to be dealt with first before you can reel in shock from just how self deluded Xue Laohue truly is!
How do you defend yourself, Huanliuxue?
>Try to catch the scythe as it drops and swings for your neck (Reaction trial. DC 165) >Reinforce your skin with blood tinted wood Qi and all of the blood and life-force your "Roots" have gathered for you (Fortitude + Carmine mysticism: Verdant Trial. DC 130) >Turn your shock into rage, fulling convinced of your own morality and the need to put this monster down for good and just rush him (Speed+ Agility trial DC 115) >Glowering, smack the scythe away with the back of your armored hand and give Xue a piece of your mind (Strength trial. DC 85) >Write in Anonymous
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>>5870244 >Try to catch the scythe as it drops and swings for your neck (Reaction trial. DC 165) I said...
Take hold of our sister's Scythe and CUT HIM DOWN WITH IT
Anonymous
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>>5870244 >Try to catch the scythe as it drops and swings for your neck (Reaction trial. DC 165) Anonymous
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>>5870244 >>Reinforce your skin with blood tinted wood Qi and all of the blood and life-force your "Roots" have gathered for you (Fortitude + Carmine mysticism: Verdant Trial. DC 130) and then grab it once it's stopped
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>>5870244 >Turn your shock into rage, fulling convinced of your own morality and the need to put this monster down for good and just rush him (Speed+ Agility trial DC 115) Anonymous
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>>5870244 >Try to catch the scythe as it drops and swings for your neck (Reaction trial. DC 165) Too cool to not try despite high DC
Anonymous
>>5870244 >>Glowering, smack the scythe away with the back of your armored hand and give Xue a piece of your mind (Strength trial. DC 85) >Write-in that I figured would shake him. >"When I become a god Xue Laohue I will curse you to become a beast and remember all your sins in reincarnation for the rest of time. Never to be broken, never to be lost. You will forever repent as a beast, this I curse you with knowing once you die will be your conclusion." >"All the lives you live forever more will be a beast, and only when you truly repent will your memory be erased." >"As of now, your deeds will be known to all for how vile they truly are, a dao-twisted that doesn't self-reflect. You are no cultivator, you are not a beast, not human, you are simply a devil that never learned kindness. But I will teach it to you, life after life you will learn." What you guys think?
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>>5870268 Writer of this plan. Figured we could do this as we could trap his soul with dao of ghosts and make good on the promise once we ascend and take heaven.
Anonymous
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>>5870244 >>Turn your shock into rage, fulling convinced of your own morality and the need to put this monster down for good and just rush him (Speed+ Agility trial DC 115) Just don't be where it's going, duh.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>5870244 >Turn your shock into rage, fulling convinced of your own morality and the need to put this monster down for good and just rush him (Speed+ Agility trial DC 115) Sad and Horrific.
We can not abide this creature's continued existence on our planet any longer.
He must be removed.
Anonymous
Good god, this man is a cockroach, we've beaten him at almost every turn but he still is getting even stronger.
Anonymous
>>5871562 We should expect no less of the Head of the Wintering Blossom Sect. In regards to his resilience, cruelty and the pride he takes in it.
Anonymous
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>>5871784 Honestly, telling him that we've evolved once again thanks to his stubbornness might make his brain explode in sheer defiance of the idea that he helped us, willingly or no.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>5870244 >Turn your shock into rage, fulling convinced of your own morality and the need to put this monster down for good and just rush him (Speed+ Agility trial DC 115) I like the idea of the scythe catch, but our luck has been poor lately.
>>5871562 I’m wondering if him or Baoli have pulled a greater “how are you not dead yet” feat?
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>>5870244 >>Turn your shock into rage, fulling convinced of your own morality and the need to put this monster down for good and just rush him (Speed+ Agility trial DC 115) Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 22 Dec 2023 22:31:48 No. 5872270 Report Ending the vote, tallying the result, right out of a nap.
Try to catch the scythe as it drops and swings for your neck:3
Reinforce your skin with blood tinted wood Qi and all of the blood and life-force your "Roots" have gathered for you: 1
Turn your shock into rage, fulling convinced of your own morality and the need to put this monster down for good and just rush him: 6
Glowering, smack the scythe away with the back of your armored hand and give Xue a piece of your mind:2
When I become a god Xue Laohue...etc:2
So you'll turn shock to rage and abandon defense for offensive as you try to avoid cutting cut down like a tree, and just rush in to put down this rabid dog for good
Update will arrive shortly
>>5871562 The funny thing is this is pretty much how Huan is reacting
>>5871784 Precisely
>>5872021 If Baoli switched places with Xue in this fight, he'd probably be down and out already. Mostly because Golden Core 0 Huan is much stronger than the foundation Establishment Huan
Anonymous
>>5872270 >If Baoli switched places with Xue in this fight, he'd probably be down and out already. Alternatively, if Baoli was a golden core equivalent himself he'd probably be a lot tougher than he was. And he was very tough. Having your neck not only snapped, but mangled and surviving is insane. To say nothing of the absolutely insane amount of trauma it likely inflicted on his brain as well. Demons are built different. I don't know if we have delivered an injury to Xue that was as singularly devastating as that, even though we have probably delivered more damage cumulatively. Xue's ability to turn into snow and reform is extremely useful for him.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 22 Dec 2023 22:45:45 No. 5872278 Report Quoted By:
>>5872275 >Alternatively, if Baoli was a golden core equivalent himself he'd probably be a lot tougher than he was. Oh without a doubt, Demons are simply built different. Remember Heizhizhu Bāmóushā pretty much shrugged their shoulders and said "Sure" when you asked if you could have their severed arms
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 22 Dec 2023 23:24:32 No. 5872300 Report But if there is one good thing to come from Xue Laohue's sheer refusal to have even a shred of decency or anything approaching nobility or common virtue, is that it makes it much easier to be confident in your own ideals and concept of mortality, if what amounts to the avatar of the rule of the heavens laughs when presented with undeniable evidence of his own wrong-doings and the injustice of the laws he clings to so closely as to base his entire personality and way of life around upholding them! Of course, the bastard was always going to die this day, but before he revealed his true colors and low character, that was just going to be because of what he did to your mother and sister and all the other beasts who had the misfortune of encountering him before now. Before he ran head first into the wall known as Huanliuxue!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 22 Dec 2023 23:25:32 No. 5872302 Report >>5872300 He needs to go, he needs to die. Sure all of Chuan will prosper for his death and Monu and Xuebai will be avenged when his blood is cooling on the ground, but he's pissed you off and his continued existence offends you.
So he's going to die. Who cares about the scythe a hair's breadth away from your neck?! You just don't need to be in its way and its no longer a problem!
Lifting up one foot from the ground, your eyes flash with killing intent as a wave of it surges out from you oppressively.
<span class="mu-s"> roll 2d100. DC 115. Best out of five </span>
Anonymous
Rolled 30, 69 = 99 (2d100) >>5872302 Here we go again.
Anonymous
Rolled 25, 59 = 84 (2d100) >>5872302 RIP and TEAR
Anonymous
Rolled 44, 48 = 92 (2d100) >>5872302 Anonymous
Rolled 8, 49 = 57 (2d100) >>5872302 Shit this isnt very good.
FOR JUSTICE!
Anonymous
>>5872310 >>5872314 >>5872318 >>5872308 I would like to state for the record, the dice gods totally would have been kind to us if we grabbed the scythe.
Anonymous
>>5872321 Please present proof Junior. You would surely not just make this up from thin air?
Anonymous
Rolled 44, 17 = 61 (2d100) >>5872302 Full of rage we roll!
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>>5872308 1 dof. Time to get sliced.
Anonymous
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 22 Dec 2023 23:43:03 No. 5872329 Report Quoted By:
>>5872308 Failure, 10 under DC. Update will arrive shortly
Anonymous
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>>5872323 This Junior humbly presents and Iron Bound Dao of the cultivation world.
It is known to many as the "Rule of Cool"
Anonymous
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>>5872327 If it makes you feel better, twice the first roll was a 44. That's our lucky number.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sat 23 Dec 2023 00:59:19 No. 5872385 Report Stomping your raised foot down, hard enough to crack the earth and create a crater beneath yourself, you kick off from the ground the moment Xue Laohue vanishes beneath a cloud of dust and frost as the spells he launched come home to roost and seemingly explode against him as he swaggers forward, a stumbling mass of rotting flesh and ice. Taking flight, your soar towards the the cloud of frozen debris and water Qi with a single goal in mind, to pummel Xue Laohue to a pulp and maul him to death. There's no way a man as stupidly stubborn and ridiculously durable as he is would die to something like an explosion of absolute zero temperatures and raw destructive energy. There's just no...Eh?
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sat 23 Dec 2023 01:00:20 No. 5872386 Report >>5872385 But that pain brings clarity, and what remains of it is soothed by the warm embrace of the carmine elixir falling from the sky itself that you've been greedily guzzling since you used the blood moon to take on some kind of advance carmine mystic transformation technique. And what a curious technique it is, you'd like to have words with whatever mutant Jiangshi came up with turning themselves into a blood sucking flower that immortalized the technique within Blood Qi and Carmine mysticism itself! Not that you're complaining, you feel incredible except for the stinging pain of uprooting yourself. No flowers wilt after being plucked, it feels awful.
Thankfully the whole ordeal only lasted a breath, the cloud of frozen air and tossed up dirt and stone is still right in front of you, it hasn't even had time to clear, and Xue Laohue has to be reeling from that blast. No matter how stupidly durable he is, he's a rotting corpse rotting and that's just the parts of him that aren't inelegant blocks of ice.
'But cultivators, even beneath his level and yours, only need a breath to compose themselves and counterattack' A voice in the back of your head, the caution you chose not to heed when you decided to appease your rage by beating Xue Laohue to death for being such a disgusting piece of shit points out. Just as you feel a flare of repressed killing intent, directly from behind yourself.
"Shit" You bark, words half slurred due either to the pain you're still feeling or the sheer speed of your movements.
A biting cold slices down your back, followed immediately by the even more unpleasant sensation of ice bursting through and from within your flesh to break out of your skin as a single shard of ice spreads beneath the precise cut of the scythe as it arcs upwards through the air in a perfect crescent, cutting cleanly through you armor and parting the skin and flesh above your spine as you turn. Turning around mangles the trajectory cut and puts it off center, making it take a sharp turn just beneath your neck as Xue Laohue applies just a bit more pressure and strength to push it deep enough to cut through your spine.
Snarling and spitting, you lash out as a cat would, swinging a hand snappily at him as he turns to powdered snow and retreats several paces away, his robes torn and ripped apart, and even more of his body reduced to ice, making him somewhat more unpleasant to look at than the half rotted corpse he is gradually turning into.
"DOGFUCKER!" You rage with tears in your eyes, as you wince from the continue waves of pain rushing up from your back as the ice crystals embedded in it grow and burst out as your spider demons silk armor unravels and reforms itself to mend the hole in the back of it.
Which, funnily enough, is exactly what your panicked mother shouted, a moment later, as she hurls a glob of acidic venom at Xue, who leans to the side to avoid it, smirking as it splashes on the ground and eats through the stone there.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sat 23 Dec 2023 01:01:36 No. 5872388 Report >>5872386 "Now you aren't constantly healing through sapping up all the blood spilling on the ground here" He half chuckles, half scoffs "And draining the ground itself of all its essence, sucking it dry of life. This is why I abhor heretics such as yourself, this reckless attitude more than anything else! You'd kill an ancient tree by drawing too much of its Qi. Why you've even woken the restless dead of Chuan, just by expelling the turbid Qi from your meridians! You're a menace!"
"That's just an excuse, you're cruel enough to laugh after seeing just how innocent your victims were, you dried up frozen piece of shit!" You half hiss, blinking as the tears freeze to your cheeks as you grab one of the larger, more annoying icicles burst out of your back and snap it in half
"How can I do anything but laugh at the delusions of natural born sinners?" He cackles, just like your mother, mocking her "A devil wouldn't see anything wrong with how it lives, a demonic beast is no different, would they weep for the men and women they devour? Am I supposed to feel guilt just because I lived their final moments and saw just how ignorant they all were, your whore of a mother and tart of a sister esp...
"FUCK YOU!" You scream, all trappings of refinement and courtesy burned away by raw, murderous anger towards the insults this dog dares to bark your way
"So your type is old, half dead men. Guess there is no accounting for tastes, but I must decline the offer. I have no desire to lay with a beast, especially one as flea ridden and mangy as yourself, even if you dress yourself as a noble beauty" He mocks, sticking out his tongue in a way Monu often does as you tremble, outraged and so furious it feels like your head and face have filled with scalding steam "Whose face is that you stole, I wonder? For how proud of a beast you are, you'd think you'd show me your real face, Huanliuxue. Is that noble heart of yours, subconsciously ashamed of what you are?"
'He's just trying to make you lose your cool and act recklessly, its the same trick we used against Baoli' Your sense of caution warns, speaking through the din of mind numbering anger as you feel your scowl slacken as you own experience with pissing of your opponents to make them slip up dawns on you, and makes you realize that it is not only a mistake to get upset but that it is wholly unworthy of you to even give Xue Laohue the satisfaction of provoking your regal ire.
"I'm going to eat your cold heart, old devil" You churlishly spit, glaring murderously at him with eyes that would make a ghost seem spirited and vivacious
"You're welcome to try" He dryly replies, hacking and wheezing as he struggles to cling onto life even as he talks so audaciously to you, his better in every conceivable regard, as he coolly dodges another glob of acidic venom thrown his way. But he's winning, in that he's delaying and wearing you down until his backup can arrive.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sat 23 Dec 2023 01:04:28 No. 5872391 Report >>5872388 He doesn't care if he lives or dies. Well, he can't. He's been dying for years, he has nothing to lose, not even his pride if it has blinded him so completely that he can't even grasp that he's done more wrong than good in his tragically long life after being shown a shadow show of just a brief selection of all of his misdeeds, that showed him that the "monsters" he cut down were innocent, terrified children!
No. Can't get madder than you are already. The crow king made the same mistake. the only difference was he was stronger than you then. Xue Laohue might be weaker and hovering between life and death, but remains a threat. A threat you're going to relish in crushing beneath your heel! And it has to be your heel, since the sight of being you cut has made Monu a little hysterical. If this fight goes on much longer, her tears might wash away all the blood filling this sinkhole.
But you can't worry for her or console her or even just shout out you're all right and a little scratch like that is nothing to you, since the one who scratched you is ready to pounce on any kind of distraction or weakness in your defenses. You need to hit him, before he hits you, again.
How do you hit him, Huanliuxue?
>He wants you angry? Give him the directionless, insane fury of the rooster general. You're already cursing and acting like Xiongji anyways. (Martial: Ferocity trial DC 105) >Surround him with blood puppets, created from the blood you've bled and use them as fodder to find a hole in his guard (Magic/ Puppeteering trial. DC 120) >He expects anger. He doesn't expect you to start pretending to be your mother and hitting him with cold magic, especially considering how her grudges gives your abilities very different from your current Blood moon empowered and Blood flowery self (Magic/ Trickery trial. DC 150) >You can still feel the veins you left in the ground behind. They're terribly thirsty and parched down there. So have them emerge to tear Xue apart (Carmine mysticism/ Command trial. DC 140) >Write in Anonymous
>>5872391 Can somebody come up with a write in that's better than these? I remember that blood transmutation write in went really well.
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>>5872391 >>You can still feel the veins you left in the ground behind. They're terribly thirsty and parched down there. So have them emerge to tear Xue apart (Carmine mysticism/ Command trial. DC 140) Anonymous
>>5872391 >I like my meals warmed up. >Use ecplise physiology and our connection to the roots below ground. Gather then Turn all the blood into flames and burn this old man to death, Turn blood Qi to Yang Qi and THAW HIM! Turn the battle ground into a kiln that he cannot evade. I want to spread grudges again but it hasnt passed votes twice now, and we should keep it as a trick for the Ling.
Who, when they arrive in a heat aspected enviroment wont be prepared for our counter switch.
Anonymous
>>5872391 >Write in: he's covered in blood already, which is yang, so turn that blood into fire then burn him from within with the blood in his frozen veins! once already you wrestled his will to steal his storm this time the outcome won't be different. >>5872393 Here you go, time to turn up the heat
Anonymous
>>5872391 >Support >But add in pulling the surrounding blood to create a blood forge and ignite it to refine the old man. Anonymous
>>5872410 While the gist of it is not so much different between our write ins we have to consider how Monu is here and has a very particular yin constitution, though i don't know if hers would be more tolerant of flames given she needs dual cultivation with yang qi to survive (is that why xue calls her whore? Because his manhood was too yin aligned to satisfy her so she had to fool around?)
On the other hand maybe his teleport won't work as well in a fire environment while also being set on fire.
Anonymous
>>5872414 Why do you or multiple people keep trying to "refine" a man who isnt dead or utterly disabled yet?
A practice that is time consuming and attention based for best results, in the middle of battle to try and scrub away his soul and self?
I guess I am asking, why is everyone trying to marinade a steak when the cow isnt dead yet?
>>5872416 Easily sorted by either getting Monu away or condensing it around Xue. I dont think trying to burn his own blood is a good idea though. Best to use the bloodshed around us.
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>>5872391 >>5872410 Support. Mother it is time for you to run. As we are the moon, we are about to become the sun.
Anonymous
>>5872419 Simply It would be cool to turn him into a pill as an end for the old bastard. He's unstable, rotting, blind and only has one real frozen arm. He's more of a zombie then living. The heat should basically kill him at this point so why not?
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>>5872391 >You can still feel the veins you left in the ground behind. They're terribly thirsty and parched down there. So have them emerge to tear Xue apart (Carmine mysticism/ Command trial. DC 140) Anonymous
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>>5872410 Support.
HEAT IT UP
Anonymous
>>5872428 >The heat should basically kill him at this point so why not? Because the Ling are currently en route?
Anonymous
>>5872439 Even if we can't refine him the sheer heat should distablize him enough to kill him.
Anonymous
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>>5872441 Yeah so why bother? We're on a time crunch here man. Embrace the nuke and let's skedaddle.
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>>5872391 >He wants you angry? Give him the directionless, insane fury of the rooster general. You're already cursing and acting like Xiongji anyways. (Martial: Ferocity trial DC 105) Anonymous
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>>5872391 >You can still feel the veins you left in the ground behind. They're terribly thirsty and parched down there. So have them emerge to tear Xue apart (Carmine mysticism/ Command trial. DC 140) >"would they weep for the men and women they devour?", I'm disappointed in you Laohue, didn't you hear? The Happy Bloodshed was born weeping. Before I ever killed anyone, I grieved for the children they killed. The children who fed me in life as they had in death. Anonymous
>>5872412 Supporting this. Doesn't our intel say he's vulnerable to high heat?
Anonymous
>>5872796 I dunno if it's considered classy to argue against a vote hereabouts, but consider we've got a not-so-Fireproof ally in the area, as well as our own selves(or are we fireproof?), plus the merry hell a subterranean fire can play on the local area. I don't want to accidentally suffocate any of our forces, kill Monu, or condemn a region to be perpetually smoking and dotting up with sinkholes like some kind of Ancient Chinese remix of Centralia, PA. Even to kill this sumbitch.
Anonymous
>>5872796 Also. We are, at present; a plant.
Anonymous
>>5873052 we can be a fire planet.
Our veins are for all Daos.
Technically we are using ghost energy
But we are also bursting with life.
the limitations of the orthodox have no bearing on us.
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>>5873056 Logic does not apply to cats. They exist in both a liquid and a solid state and casually defy physics.
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>>5872391 >You can still feel the veins you left in the ground behind. They're terribly thirsty and parched down there. So have them emerge to tear Xue apart (Carmine mysticism/ Command trial. DC 140) What I really want to do is keep him alive, thorns buried in his flesh throughout his body, veins sucking away all his qi and power into the ground, leaving only enough to barely keep him conscious and in excruciating pain.
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>>5872412 Supporting.
It is fitting for a big warm fire during the winter holiday season.
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Finally caught up with this quest. Awesome read, i was entranced and inspired by this quest!
And as a reward for such here its my attempt at wiriting, much more humble and less awesome as yours, QM!
A simple fairy tale, with a little of worldbuilding, Red Fur Cat and Ugly Toad (红毛猫和丑蟾蜍, Hóng Máo Māo hé Chǒu Chánchú)
https://pastebin.com/KB3ePB8r as for vote, however,
>>5872412 this. this is good. we REALLY should burn this MF!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 25 Dec 2023 05:48:05 No. 5874034 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying the result now
You can still feel the veins you left in the ground behind. They're terribly thirsty and parched down there. So have them emerge to tear Xue apart:4
Use ecplise physiology and our connection to the roots below ground. Gather then Turn all the blood into flames and burn this old man to death, Turn blood Qi to Yang Qi and THAW HIM! Turn the battle ground into a kiln that he cannot evade.:3
I like my meals warmed up.: 3
he's covered in blood already, which is yang, so turn that blood into fire then burn him from within with the blood in his frozen veins! once already you wrestled his will to steal his storm this time the outcome won't be different:5
-But add in pulling the surrounding blood to create a blood forge and ignite it to refine the old man.: 1
"would they weep for the men and women they devour?", I'm disappointed in you Laohue, didn't you hear? The Happy Bloodshed was born weeping. Before I ever killed anyone, I grieved for the children they killed. The children who fed me in life as they had in death.:1
He wants you angry? Give him the directionless, insane fury of the rooster general. You're already cursing and acting like Xiongji anyways.
So since how
>>5872414 is worded, It seems like a vote for the write in directly above, it so I counted it as one
Which means >he's covered in blood already, which is yang, so turn that blood into fire then burn him from within with the blood in his frozen veins! once already you wrestled his will to steal his storm this time the outcome won't be different
is the winner. Update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 25 Dec 2023 05:49:19 No. 5874035 Report >>5873807 >>5873807 Your high compliments have stolen away my breath junior, and I am overjoyed you've enjoyed this quest so much!
Though this seat believes you are selling yourself short, for that gift of writing was incredible. It fit the setting perfectly, was nicely written with a good tone that fit the fairy tale aesthetic you were going for (and I just adored the way you opened it, with a blurb like it was actually written in a book of folktales/ histories, which is an excellent addition/ detail and got me hooked immediately) and it feels really authentic as a fairy tale that would be told in this Quest's world by those to whom Huan and crew are basically living mythological figures, while the characters in it remained recognizable as their inspirations (and I like how the Demon Ice King and the obstacles to get to him were clearly inspired by various of the hurdles and foes Huan has dealt with so far) , and the way its written does feel very much like a chinese folk story presented for kids (Though certain details make it seem like the in-universe story was written by Huan herself, considering her vanity/ self adoration)
In all honest, junior, this story is the work of a master in this old man's humble opinon, and it is a wonderful Christmas present. I cannot properly describe how much I enjoyed reading it, your writing of it was like Chef Ding carving the Ox. You seriously have a talent for this, junior and I will be including the Pastebin of Red fur cat and ugly toad in the OP of the threads from now on.
Oh and before I forget, to all my juniors and disciples, A merry christmas and happy holidays!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 25 Dec 2023 06:13:28 No. 5874043 Report But what hits you first is the intoxicating aroma of blood. Somehow, the blood spilling from your back has a much more potent scent than the blood that has been shedding from the sky and soaking into the ground. So dense and strong, it would be easy to flounder and outright drown in the metallic tinged fragrance and those unused to the heady perfume of shed blood might just faint if they were exposed to it. The bouquet of spilled blood is so thickly condensed its a wonder neither you or Xue are choking on it, its an atmosphere all of its own, nearly tangible like the halo of heat surrounding a flickering flame. Or your own imperious graveside aura.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 25 Dec 2023 06:14:55 No. 5874044 Report >>5874043 [Magic Trial. Roll 2d100. Best out of five. DC 95 .DC vastly lowered by living source Blood Qi+ Eclipsed Yang physique+ Massive amounts of blood+ Blood Moon. Effects Altered by the rays of Blood Moonlight. DC Raised by target's passive spiritual defenses/ Protection magic [/b:lit]
This DC would be much higher if the blood moon wasn't out.
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Rolled 88, 67 = 155 (2d100) >>5874044 Will this finally break our streak of bad luck?
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Rolled 100, 51 = 151 (2d100) >>5874035 As they say, based begets based. Bird of a feather flock together. Dawgs dawg wit dawgs, dawg. And Merry Christmas to you, too, Grandfather.
>>5874044 Burn baby burn.
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Rolled 78, 85 = 163 (2d100) >>5874044 Happy holidays Anonymous
Rolled 74, 93 = 167 (2d100) >>5874044 Tis the season to burn a motherfucker (literally, sort of).
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>>5874048 >>5874050 The dice just keep getting higher. They have spoken. His time is DONE.
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Rolled 74, 69 = 143 (2d100) >>5874046 ... Damn.
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>>5874046 >>5874050 > 100, 93 NAH BRO IS LEGIT COOKED FR. WHOLE EMPIRE BOUT TO SEE THIS MF GET BLASTED.
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>>5874053 >>5874054 Not a single roll failed, all with multiple degrees of success. And a hundo. WOOOOOO VISIBLE FROM SPACE
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 25 Dec 2023 06:44:42 No. 5874058 Report >>5874050 70 over DC
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>>5874046 A Crit.
A Profound Success! Shattering the void. Update will arrive shortly
https://youtu.be/ZMJ2xR5KQYM >>5874055 >WOOOOOO VISIBLE FROM SPACE Junior, You speak what I think
>>5874054 >Average Huan Win. I do not know whether to laugh or cry. I choose to laugh
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>>5874058 Now she is become CAT, destroyer of snow
and everything else in a mile radius and the soles of the feet of the gods in heaven itself Anonymous
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The feline queen of the night sky commands it to become bright as day. I hope the Ling piss their pants seeing this.
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>>5874055 >Old man, "Ha I injured he beast! Look how... Angry she is..." >Huan, "I shall create the sun under the moon and you will be the center. I cast. Blood Nova." >"Father... Shit yourself." https://youtu.be/qmwr2rU0UiE?si=k2gsAX5gxGBx-Bl1 Anonymous
>>5874058 >>5874061 "A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent."
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>>5874064 This is truly a "Power Word: FIREBALL" moment.
>>5874066 I feel genuinely bad for anyone who happens to be facing this direction in the next several moments. More specifically, their very unprepared eyes.
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>>5874058 Next Stop: Centralia.
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>>5874068 God damn, Huan has had enough of this shit.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 25 Dec 2023 08:43:11 No. 5874087 Report It happens in a blink. Like a shutter being pulled up from a dimmed room, replacing the gloom with the splendor of the rising sun. As the white hot light blinds even you for a moment as the yawning eclipses draws in all of the ambient Yang energy spread out through the pools of blood, the crimson dyed soil and falling through the air, you realize or perhaps remember with your new found knowledge of all things astral and with the wisdom of space, that moonlight is in essence just sunlight reflected. You're standing beneath a spotlight of sunlight sieved through sparkling moon dust, refracted through a mirror tinted as red as the blood flowing through your heart. You might be the only one beneath the heavens to realize that. And while it is audacious to do so, your cosmic nature as a harbinger of the blood moon and all its ill omens, you are innately privilege to command the light of the moon and control it like your own breath. In this moment, the sun within the bleakness of your soul is rising. And thus, you can command its light as well, through the sunlight that has cooled in the pale waters of the moon and been seeped in its roiling red blood.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 25 Dec 2023 08:44:11 No. 5874088 Report >>5874087 Xue Laohue, rotting flesh and ice, is melting. He is pulled downed and chained by the sins he only acknowledges as triumphs, and he still is smiling impudently and mockingly towards you.
He takes flight, calling on his last reserves of strength and expending what remains of his trashy life without a moment of hesitation or thought. He leaps from the ground and soars towards you, a vulture flying towards the sun. The keening cry of the flames blazing around and within both of you deafens you, but in your bones you can hear your mother cheering your name tearfully and filled with pride.
With a snap of your fingers and a snarl, you light Xue Laohue's funerary pyre. Might as well be quick about it if he's so impatient to die and burn until there isn't even ash left to memorialize him.
The falling stars in your amber eyes blink out, as two miniature white suns usurp the full moon pupils in your eyes and grow until they're spilling out from the corners of your blood drenched eyes like feathers or trails of smoke, tongues of super heated plasma and atomic fire lapping at your ears and hair, framing your face like the plumage of a phoenix as you call on more and more of the eclipsed Yang within your body and spiritual essence, channeling and calling up every bit of Yang aligned Qi within your meridians, cultivation base and two cores, and from outside of your body rising from the bloody puddles and the bloody rain like steam from boiling water, and even from Laohue's own failing body and the odd blood blossoms sprouting from your hair and and falling from your arms, shriveled from the heat produced by the summoning of a sun born bleeding.
There is no spark
There is no smoke
One moment there was nothing but stray flames, the next the is a heat so intense it could melt down ore without fire. The ground, already turning to glass, melts anew and turns into a field of magma, spotted by pools of boiling blood, turning the battlefield into a vision of hell. Every stone within range of your summoning melts down and bubbles until there's nothing but hot air left, every red rain drop boils in the air and the strange flowers sprouting from your veins, cut away or still attached wilt and catch fire themselves as the silk of your armor glows first amber, then crimson, before smoldering with the white hot radiance of the power you call upon
The night of the blood moon, becomes brighter than any day, as pink glow washes through the sinkhole and out of it the paint the sky
Another sun is born beneath the sky. All burns and becomes white, your whole world consumed by flames without color or hue purified by the crucible of the eclipsed sun and your own blood filled heart. Blood dribbles from your nose as the eerie squalling of the super massive, super condensed and super heated ball of fire surrounding your turns every drop of moisture within it to steam that vanishes as soon as it appeared.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 25 Dec 2023 08:45:12 No. 5874089 Report >>5874088 Everything within the conflagration, which was made with more precision than its predecessors and contained within exact measurements to keep your mother from being swallowed by it as well, is evaporated in an instant. It is expertly crafted, like all of your attacks and you can feel the heat roasting your brain in your skull as you push more and more Qi into it to increase its intensity, shooting past the limits of your own resilience. The sun was going to burn you anyways, the first one you made did, but you need to keep apply heat to make sure Xue Laohue doesn't succeed where his grandson failed. You can already see his figure, a shadow burned in the pure land of white heat.
So you pour more blood and feed more Qi into the earthborn sun and allow it to rage, even as its flames begin to lick and cling onto your armor and dance in your hair, the shadow remains where it stands, refusing to be swallowed up by the inferno and vanish into the light with some quiet dignity.
A voice rings out, over the din of the screaming sun
"No. This is more profound than the techniques of the Ling Clan" Xue Laohue ponders outloud as he takes an uncertain step forward, a fierce hiss of steam accompany his movement. You narrow your eyes and focus the flames onto him, increasing their intensity as the blood within the sun begins to take on curious shapes as you focus on Xue Laohue's form, and his frail heart.
The Light vanishes. You are nearly blinded and left in the dark as the white light retreats. And rushes into Xue Laohue, crawling into him through the wounds he bore throughout your fight, pushing into his empty eye socket as he stands, nearly within range to slice you again with his scythe. He stands there, frozen, surrounded by a few dancing white flames in a circle of rapidly cooling glass. Monu is covering her eyes, you've fallen back to the ground. You look up at him, blinking rapidly, unsure of what is going to happen when suddenly.
He coughs. A curl of black smoke escapes his lips and then his flesh and ice begin to crack, revealing a blood red glow within him as the sun that burrowed into his skull devours the tatters of his life and expands outwards.
One second Xue Laohue is there.
The next he is gone. Replaced with a towering pillar of fire, a wave of superheated air and the most terrible sound you've ever heard, like some brat lighting a firework stuck inside of your skull! Its an explosion of noise, enough to make your ears ring and your head hurt.
There is a rushing sound, as the pillar of white hot light climbs towards the hole in the ceiling and escapes to the sky.
"Heavens" Monu gasps in shock, peeking out from her sleeve and trembling as you suck in a breath of not so cold air, feeling you throat burn from the heat still lingering down beneath the earth as you watch the earth shaking explosion scale up and up as you sit splayed out right in front of it.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 25 Dec 2023 08:46:14 No. 5874090 Report >>5874089 [Meanwhile, outside of the sinkhole]
Jionghuagege watched, eyes wide and mouth inelegantly gaping in shock and awe as she watched a pillar of what look like pure sunlight shoot out from the ground and rocket to the sky, easily breaking through the barrier her, her daughters and the cultivators her elder as a sister and princess had shouted into listening to her and serving as her assistants in defending the arena they had specially prepared for her to fight her reviled foe to the death within with their combined protections spells. Everyone else stopped, the students of the palace of natural laws. Ping simply stroked his beardless face, his handsome white locks billowing behind him as he looked upon the explosion of Qi and super heated air with a cool face. Qinxin however, wasn't nearly as composed as his friend, and was frantically searching the sky as he lidded his eyes with his hand.
"Is that the Guardians of the celestial sunlight?" he spat and Jionghuagege had listened enough to what others had said when she wasn't busy entertaining their prison...er, honored guests or teaching her adorable children how to act now that they had minds like her own, and that was enough to make that name fill her bowels with ice water, even when she was surrounded by several handsome and stalwart guardians
"Do not fear, Qinxin my brother, this is similar to something my wild master has done before. I've only heard about it in hushed whispers, but this is exactly the sight they described. A blindingly hot light that burns the eyes and steals away the sight momentarily when you look away from its brilliance" Ping explained calmly, though Jionghuagege noticed he did spare a few worried glances towards the heavens as well.
Heavens that the moment after Jionghuagege looked up, surrounded by her terrified flock of daughters, turned bright white as the pillar of fire struck them and exploded like a firework. Suddenly the ground beneath her was much less stable than before, for how else could a well bred lady like her begin to sway and stumble so ungracefully?
Luckily her daughters had gathered to catch her when she fell
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[Meanwhile, in the bloody mile of the battlefield]
Fu breathed out, the breath stolen from him as he stopped dead in his tracks to watch the sky catch fire and all beneath the heavens become illuminated with an eye searing radiance as the dark of the blood storm and the gloom of the blood moon were banished in an instant
Everyone else chasing the retreating winter blossoming wisdom sect, also stopped dead in their tracks, except for the very enthusiastic Jiangliehuo, who was instead held in place by one mighty hand of an armored Feiqing while his other crushed the throat of one of the braver members of the enemy sect, who hadn't had the sense to panic and run when the sky began to bleed.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 25 Dec 2023 08:47:14 No. 5874091 Report >>5874090 Lei was standing atop a pile of corpses so withered they seemed like desert mummies, dancing and clapping his hands while Huili howled somewhere up ahead in the mire made of blood and white & blue robed corpses. Even the half mad ghosts led by Xuebai and Yujijiao had stopped to marvel at the sudden, explosive arrival of a sunlight fiercer than any other. With his juniors and the allies his master had gathered looking to him for answers as the first disciple of the heretical sect head, asking wordlessly if the sudden daylight was a good or bad sign, Fu sighed through his teeth and skull shaped helmet.
"Either its going to kill us, or it isn't. Stop standing there white faced like a buncha corpse and start the killing again!" He barked, swinging one of his two demonically forged axes towards the horizon the opposing army was fleeing to "We aren't stopping until we run them to the desert sands or we kill every last one of these self righteous pricks! Come on! Don't you feel it in your blood! the thrill of the hunt!"
And with that, Fu resumed his pursuit of the fleeing winter blossoming wisdom sect disciples, not caring if he was followed in his charge since the enemy was routed the moment the blizzard they felt so safe beneath was replaced with a hurricane of blood lit by a gruesomely red moon.
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[Meanwhile, on the other side of the slaughter]
Xue Dong couldn't breath, it felt like he'd been running for days, his lungs and legs were screaming at him as he plodded ahead, leaving the valiant retreat of his sect away from...whatever mad doom his grandffather had lead them all into. He should've taken control of the sect the moment he woke up and started braying for the blood of a long dead witch. Who in fairness, was in truth alive after all of these years, proving that outburst to not be a madness of the mind, but he could not claim the same of his father and master's choice to charge into battle against a mythical beast like the Huanliuxue!
All he could do was run away. He wasn't a fighter, he was an alchemist by trade and passion, and a strategist ever since the Ling picked a fight. His grandfather and his own brothers were warriors by birth, he just enjoyed writing poetry, a warm cup of wine and the sight of a snow capped mountain side, Xue Dong knew he shouldn't be here, but he had a responsibility to guide his sect in an organized retreat. They were already all running for the hills together, but without his sagacious guidance and authority, they'd scatter to the four winds in a completely blind panic.
Xue Dong paused to catch his breath and observe the state of his retreating forces, reaching out with his spiritual sense and several magical tools that showed him the position and status of the Sect's elders and other important leaders, pieces of icy white jade that he kept slung around his neck. No sooner did he begin to thumb through and check them that he found the most important one was...melted.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 25 Dec 2023 08:48:15 No. 5874092 Report >>5874091 That wasn't good. When the life connected to the jade was snuffed out, the jade cracked and turned grey. What kind of death could've made it melt? Xue Dong quickly decided to not dwell on that, less he drop dead from terror of just considering the possibilities. His grandfather was...dead. It pained him, but he had shed his tears and grieved when his breakthrough was sabotaged years back. From his quick check, most of the sects vital roles and seats were still in place, their occupants still alive. He'd only have to lead them to the safety of one of their allies, maybe the sages of the shifting sands, some place safe for them to regroup but known so any of their number who got lost along the way could safely travel their and... He frozen in his counting of jade baubles.
A flicker of killing intent caught his attention, and he turned to face his own shadow that had suddenly taken on mass and rose up like a kettle boiled over. A scream caught in his throat as he saw a shock of red hair, before he moved to guard her attack.
He stumbled back, striking out with a wind of freezing air as cold steel touched his eyes.
"Master Dong!" Some one cried as he screamed, the one thing he'd been told of the leader of the heretical alliance burned into his memory as the last thing he saw with his eyes before they were sliced open.
"Red! Red Fur!" He cried out, swinging his arms around and battering anyone who got close to him with fierce gales as he ran blindly in a direction, unaware that he had thrown his assailant and would be assassin threw the sky with his first strike.
All the students following him heard, was Red Fur, and they quickly began shouting it as they to, blind but only through panic, each picked a direction and ran for their lives, by foot or by flight.
And the call of Red Fur was heard by a particularly ill mannered Black Iron Army Ant Queen, who thought a competition of gathering heads had been called by her favorite and only older sister.
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[Meanwhile, half a mile away in a ditch]
Qiang laid in the ground, her head spinning and the taste of blood on her tongue. She didn't know what happened. The bee told her to harry or kill the general of the winter blossoming wisdom sect, and their rapid flight away from the terror that was Lady Huanliuxue made it more difficult than it needed to be. She didn't know how assassinations worked, clearly. Killing an emperor would've been easier than getting through a battlefield undetected by both sides fighting it, and that challenge got all the more difficult when her target chose to cut his loses and run away.
So where was she now? Qiang blinked. She was in a large trench of earth, with a big bruise on her chest and her sword in her hand She sighed and laid down, deciding to not get up again until the excitement died down or at least until her head stopped swimming and it didn't hurt to breath
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 25 Dec 2023 08:49:39 No. 5874094 Report >>5874092 "At least I got away without losing my other eye" She mumbled as she rolled onto her side and tried to drown out the sounds of screaming and clashing steel
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"Huh" You grunt, covered in soot and ash that might've been Xue Laohue, your mother standing across the field of glittering glass that seemed to have trapped a bit of starlight within it as you both looked up and watched the expanding cloud of fire roar across the sky.
Monu pouted
"Haaa" She sighed, crossing her arms and clicking her tongue twice "I was hoping to torture him. I know it wasn't going to happen, since the old fool had been dying for at least a decade by now, but you could've at least let me watch the light fade from his eyes or squeeze his last breath out of his throat, Huan~. You didn't need to explode him to prove a point. I don't think there's even a speck of dust left of him"
"Sorry?" You clumsily answer, still staring with stars in your eyes at the roar of the sun that invaded Xue Laohue's frozen heart.
"Its fiiiine" She pouts, shaking her head "He had a damaged golden core, he could've exploded at any moment, but shoving a fireball down his throat certainly didn't make his body less volatile. Still, I suppose I should be thankful at least, that you're alright, despite the scare you gave me before..."
She frowns and narrows her eye
"Hey, Huan, weren't you all...flowery a few moments ago, before he sliced open your back?" She pesters you, cautiously sliding across the pool of star filled glass, expecting an answer when you really have none. That was just one of many weird things that happened this night, like the knife made of frozen moonlight that you practically fell on top of. You weren't certain what was weirder, a dagger slipping out of your cut palm or you turning partly into some kind of bloodsucking tree or rose-bush. You still had some petals stuck in your hair from that transformation technique, even though it ended when...
"Huh, talk about good luck" You chuckle, looking up through the hole in the ceiling, seeing that it wasn't the explosion of fire that was making everything so bright, the sun was rising. That'd explain why you felt so winded and tired all of a sudden, besides how much Qi and blood you spent casting that final spell, and that transformation technique FELT like it took a lot of both to perform as well, and without the succor of moonlight, you were certainly feeling the aftereffects of both.
Not enough to not be able to keep fighting, but enough that you'd prefer to lay down and take a cat nap. There was a sharp, stinging pain in you back, and you yowled. Monu was slathering medicinal salve on your back.
"Mother! I don't need medicine! I can heal that myself" You whine, very much not appreciating the sudden burning sensation of having the medicine smear over your back.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 25 Dec 2023 08:50:41 No. 5874095 Report >>5874094 "We might have another fight to win. Well you might" She says before correcting herself "You can't be wasting energy until its a sure thing the fighting is done"
You all but hiss through your teeth. But can't argue against her logic. Except. Shouldn't Xue Laohue's back up gotten here by now? Your instincts and sense of caution were powerful and well honed enough to warn you if they were coming...
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[Meanwhile in the sky, some leagues away from the battleground]
"I am not flying towards whatever that is. Master Xue is free to dig his own grave" A female daoist wearing a horned ogre masked carved of scarlet jade scoffed, flicking her golden sleeve as she turned her flying sword away from the massive pillar of white light and the explosion rippling through the trees she had stopped above to admire the flames from a safe distance "If the Patriarch thinks I've given up a chance to capture our hated foe, the young master can track down Yaonan and ask her to throw away her life trying to catch a tiger by its tail. I have better things to do than risk becoming Cat-food to save a man who was my enemy a fortnight ago"
And with that, they flew back to the safety of the mountain retreat of the guardians of the celestial sunlight
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What do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Wait around to see if a second challenge will come down to die, just to make certain your instincts aren't playing a trick on you >Join the fight topside, and help chase away the rest of the winter blossoming wisdom sect, your presence should be enough to scare them off. >Tally up the dead while you meander through the battlefield, hoping not to find anyone you're fond of amongst their count, and try to find Ruolan's brother to drag back to her, if he's still alive. >With Monu, Renshu, Ruolan's help, try and figure out exactly why Carmine mysticism yet you transform into a magical plant girl thing. >Send Jionghuagege to offer terms of surrender to whoever is now in charge of the rabble fleeing towards the horizon away from you >Write in Anonymous
>>5874095 write-in
Roar to the heavens,"We have victory! All remaining foes surrender or be chased down and killed!
"Those that surrender will not be harmed so swear my name! Send your commander forth and we shall sit down and talk terms of your surrender!
As your second Jionghuagege to offer terms of surrender to whoever is now in charge of the rabble fleeing towards the horizon away from you.
Heh ogre said fuck that.
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>>5874094 >"At least I got away without losing my other eye" Crazy idea, super crazy probably really fucking stupid, truly insane and nonsensical idea
what if we gave Qiang the Freezer-Pop's eye? >>5874095 >"I am not flying towards whatever that is. Master Xue is free to dig his own grave" A female daoist wearing a horned ogre masked carved of scarlet jade scoffed, BEHOLD! The second wisest woman alive!
>Join the fight topside, and help chase away the rest of the winter blossoming wisdom sect, your presence should be enough to scare them off. Fuck off, scrubs.
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>>5874092 >[Meanwhile, half a mile away in a ditch] Huehuehue
>>5874095 >Tally up the dead while you meander through the battlefield, hoping not to find anyone you're fond of amongst their count, and try to find Ruolan's brother to drag back to her, if he's still alive. >>5874099 >Spoiler Not saying no, I like the idea; but there's a few matters we need to sort out before committing to it. Such as:
1. How?
2. What effects will it have and can we deal with the consequences? If we can get her depth perception restored and make her stronger, great. Unless she gets possessed by Xue Laohue's Ghost or whatever deviltry is brewing in Grandfather's mind.
3. The ethics of the grafting itself. We're taking a dead cultivator and attaching it to another person, an act we've been pretty haughtily condemning one of our fellow Heretics for.
Regardless of all of this, we should focus on cleaning up here first.
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>>5874095 >Tally up the dead while you meander through the battlefield, hoping not to find anyone you're fond of amongst their count, and try to find Ruolan's brother to drag back to her, if he's still alive. And more importantly...
> Work to save as many as we can Anonymous
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>>5874095 >Tally up the dead while you meander through the battlefield, hoping not to find anyone you're fond of amongst their count, and try to find Ruolan's brother to drag back to her, if he's still alive. Anonymous
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>>5874098 Supporting this.
Afterwards, first aid and tending to the dead.
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>>5874095 >Send Jijong to offer terms of surrender >Wander the battlefield to tally the dead and find the brither Holy shit. Kinda annoyed that we dont get to keep his body but. . Fuck that was good.
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>>5874126 This is also a good chance to practice a mass healing spell for Blood qi. Maybe carmine mysticism.
And to taste how monu's grudge is as it was resolved.
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>>5874035 thank you, Great Grandfather. Your praise is more than enough for this humble junior to carry on.
>>5874095 >Join the fight topside, and help chase away the rest of the winter blossoming wisdom sect, your presence should be enough to scare them off. Combine with
>>5874098 Anonymous
>>5874095 >pick up your sister's body then look around if the bastard's soul perhaps has stuck around so you can bottle it up and gift it to Monu. Anonymous
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>>5874095 > Write-in > use a drop of divine blood to boost our Carmine Mysticism while there is still enough blood rain around Anonymous
>>5874143 this is me i had to change device but want to boost my write in visibility with a meme depicting what could have been if we fought as a cat
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Not voting yet since I’m not at my usual IP, but did we also vaporize the scythe made of Xuebai alongside Laohue? While I wasn’t into wielding it (kinda fucked up to use your sibling’s defiled body as a weapon, even by our own standards), it felt right to bring it to big sis as proof that she was avenged.
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>>5874095 >Tally up the dead while you meander through the battlefield, hoping not to find anyone you're fond of amongst their count, and try to find Ruolan's brother to drag back to her, if he's still alive. Anonymous
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Holy shit he finally fucking died, it's a Festivus miracle!
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>>5874126 >Kinda annoyed that we dont get to keep his body but It was mostly Ice and the Qi related organs were probably imploding anyway. Consequences of being a fuckup like he was.
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>>5874126 To be fair, we are not Jingwhatever and it’s not in Hue’s character to care about chopping up Cultivators into chunks of Qi infused parts.
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>>5874303 Golden core tier materials are not exactly growing like grass.
So a bit annoying. Also I think we wiped the shit out of our sisters corpse, which was his scythe. Whoops. But oh well.
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>>5874126 And if there's no trace and we actually wiped out the Scythe made from our Sister, I say we should look out for her and see if the fact that Xue was killed actually helped her in some way. Her grudge against him and maybe other stuff was what made her stay in this plane, so that means she either can finally rest and get back to the wheel to reincarnate, or maybe we can try something to put her on a new body with her soul.
Hell, I don't know if we will make some fully resurrection spell or ritual for our ghost girls, but if it's not possible, I say we should be able to at least make some soul binding artifact, so when they finally resurrect in a new body we can track them down, but that comes with a bunch of problems on itself.
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>>5874095 >Tally up the dead while you meander through the battlefield, hoping not to find anyone you're fond of amongst their count, and try to find Ruolan's brother to drag back to her, if he's still alive. >Send Jionghuagege to offer terms of surrender to whoever is now in charge of the rabble fleeing towards the horizon away from you Interesting to know even the battle maniac has their limits.
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>>5875485 To be fair, it’s kinda hard to shrug off LITERAL ORBITAL BEAM MADE OUT OF PURE SUN.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 27 Dec 2023 20:45:51 No. 5875701 Report Gonna let the vote run for a little bit longer, because I am still exhausted after the rigors of the holidays and my indulgence of mulled wine
>>5874147 Absolutely hilarious, you must follow the dao of comedy, junior
>>5874098 >>5875485 The Scarlet masked woman is not Ling Yaonan, but one of the elders of the Guardians of the celestial sunlight sect, who all wear differently colored masks of jade.
Remember, the ogress went renegade and broke ties with her family and sect by cutting the head off of one of the other elders (the Crimson masked one) and is currently living her best life in this era of chaos and upheaval as a sword maniac/ demon
also this line of dialogue "If the Patriarch thinks I've given up a chance to capture our hated foe, the young master can track down Yaonan and ask her to throw away her life trying to catch a tiger by its tail."
But I can understand how easy of a mistake this is to make, especially since Yaonan stole the mask of the elder she cut down+the fact the jade masks are styled to look ogreish + the fact the one who showed up wears the scarlet mask, while Yaonan took down the owner of the crimson mask and stole it
But don't worry, everyone's favorite bloodthristy bitch is around...somewhere
Anyways, before I return to my closed door meditation to recover from the trials of Saint Nicholas, I want to say I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and have been showered with wealth
I was however blessed to receive some "divine scriptures" I was having a hard time finding myself
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>>5875701 I kinda had a inkling that she wasn't the ogre after posting it but it kinda made sense then I remember old dirt bag would've fought her to the death.
I hope we can capture the fleeing cultivator and make them sign a peace agreement and reparations for starting this war. Otherwise we'll have to worry about having to wipe various sects.
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Fairytale Anon here - which folklore myth you wanna hear next: why wolves and dogs howl at a moon; how turtles got their shell or five demons vs five color temple?
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>>5876292 five demons vs five color temple
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Thu 28 Dec 2023 22:38:13 No. 5876481 Report Ending the vote and tallying the result now that my head doesn't feel like it is being beaten like a temple's bell from within.
Roar to the heavens,"We have victory! All remaining foes surrender or be chased down and killed!...etc:3
Join the fight topside, and help chase away the rest of the winter blossoming wisdom sect, your presence should be enough to scare them off.:2
Tally up the dead while you meander through the battlefield, hoping not to find anyone you're fond of amongst their count, and try to find Ruolan's brother to drag back to her, if he's still alive.:7
Work to save as many as you can:2
Send Jionghuagege to offer terms of surrender to whoever is now in charge of the rabble fleeing towards the horizon away from you:6
pick up your sister's body then look around if the bastard's soul perhaps has stuck around so you can bottle it up and gift it to Monu.:1
use a drop of divine blood to boost our Carmine Mysticism while there is still enough blood rain around:1
So you'll tally up the dead while taking a stroll through the battlefield, to see if any of your disciples are amongst the count and if Ruolan's brother is still alive to be dragged back to her.
And when you're done, you'll figure out what terms to offer the defeated and scattered sect
Update will arrive shortly
>>5876292 Whatever you're drawn to write the most, junior
>>5875490 >What's that cat got in its paws? >THE UNMATCHED POWER OF THE SUN >>5874099 >BEHOLD! The second wisest woman alive! Self preservation instinct, a rarity amongst cultivators that aren't trained by or named Huanliuxue lol...though admittedly some of them like Fu don't have much of it.
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>>5876481 You know, using all this blood lying around to cultivate IS a good idea but kinda need to work on the optics of it.
It's a whole thing.
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>>5876554 I wonder if we can condense it like we did the divine blood or maybe even the pearl we made when we first cast Blood Rain, Demon mist.
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>>5876560 That IS a much better look for our PR. Clean up the blood, use it in privacy with our students.
The corpses. . . . I dunno, burn the weak ones, take the strong ones for Monu.
Or we can leave this open and observe, waiting for Jingu to try his hand with the cookie jar.
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>>5876564 I say we should use the power of the moon and our Yin side so we can make the blood storm a normal rain again to wash out the blood, like a full cleansing, maybe with JiongJiong and the survivors of the rival sect we can do it, it would be a good sign
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 29 Dec 2023 01:49:54 No. 5876587 Report Quoted By:
Big boy update coming in
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>>5876574 The warm spring rains roll in to wash away the remnant carnage of a brutal winter. Very auspicious.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 29 Dec 2023 01:50:55 No. 5876589 Report Though the medicine is unpleasant and stinging, you repress the urge to swat your mother's caring and tender hands away, which becomes much easier to do once you decided that her applying the burning salve to the cut along your back and the scrapes where the thorns from your vine like vines rubbed against your skin wrong is close enough to grooming that you can tolerate it while you wait for enough time to pass for Monu to calm down enough to realize that there isn't a risk of either of you being blindsided by whoever Xue Laohue tried to call in to save his sorry ass with one of his final breathes, and agree to let you go and stop pouring and rubbing medicinal salves onto your back and arms.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 29 Dec 2023 01:51:56 No. 5876591 Report >>5876589 And its when you look up then, half hoping that someone is leaping down the sink hole so you'll have an excuse to escape your cherished mother's smothering and coddling, that you see a glint in the ceiling and upon turning on your spiritual sense, realize that through sheer dumb luck or Xue Laohue trying to launch one final attack as he melted and before he exploded into sunlight, that he had tossed the scythe he had made out of poor Xuebai's body, and the force of his eruption into pale white flames, had launched it into the ceiling, where it was now firmly stuck.
"Oh don't talk to your mother like that" Monu laughs, pulling her arms around your neck and snuggling her head into your hair, ruining any progress she had made trying to comb it in an instant "A mother is supposed to treasure her daughters, you know"
"Look up" You say smugly, pointing at the stuck artifact while Monu holds you closer to her honestly ridiculously bosomy chest. She pauses, and then freezes and nearly chokes you as her grips tightens and pulls you head first into the valley between her twin peaks.
A sharp jab of your claw cut nails makes her yelp and release you, as you run out of tolerance for her shenanigans even inspite of your love for her and the bounds of filial piety. But even so, as you rub you warmed cheeks, you some how feel like you've lost a bit of your womanly pride after being reminded of the distance between a mother and her daughter.
Monu however, has gotten that scary look in her eyes, like she did when you showed off the medicine that returned her beauty and youth and returned to her the body she just humiliated you with. The fierce selfishness and desperation that frightened even you.
"We can pick up where we left off with this mother daughter skin ship after I've retrieve Xuebai's remains" She says tersely, looking very dignified despite how silly she was acting moments ago and the childishness of her play with you.
You huff, not answering her promise positively or negatively as she flies up to free the scythe from its rocky binding, while you make a quick escape out of the whole you made, before she can change her mind and decide to embarrass you further.
The arena you had built to fight Xue Laohue in, is surprisingly relaxed. Mostly empty except for the cultivators who Jionghuagege took charge of, and some of the alchemically altered soldiers who were manning its walls but were smart enough to not try an attack the immortal who was stomped behind their trenches. Like the frozen statue that was once a living man did, whose lifeless eyes you stare into, to steel yourself for what you must do next.
Once the rush of the fight died down, your guts and bowels have been twisting themselves with worry that you'll find someone who you care about just as dead as this poor fool. You trust your disciples to be strong, deserving of being your students, but you aren't so idealistic to ignore the realities of war.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 29 Dec 2023 01:52:56 No. 5876592 Report >>5876591 You've always been aware that they might die on the missions or chores you send them out on, but it never became more than a passing worry, and when they gathered here to stand against the enemies of the palace of natural laws, that worry became a fear. If you admitted you felt it, others might sneer or mock you for it, but if there is one thing you wish to avoid in life
It is losing those closest to you again, who have been privileged to receive more than just you just tolerating their presence but been given the rare blessing of a cat's fondness and in some cases affection. And while it is expected of sect head's to play favorites, and you certainly fear coming across certain corpses more than others, you find yourself hesitant to step out into the battlefield, out of fear that you'll find any of them dead.
But that doesn't befit a monarch. If a ruler isn't strong enough to face the consequence of their actions or commands, they don't deserve to rule over even their own household. So, strengthening your resolve and steeling your heart, you call ghost empress melody to your hands, and play a directionless melody as you without a destination in mind, stroll out of the colosseum.
And immediately, you notice none of the four walls have been breached, and that they're covered with giant honeybees that look at you with eyes glinting with true intelligence.
'I hope none of Jiong-Jiong's kids died in the fight' your thoughts bitterly turn, quickly snuffing out the amazement and joy you felt at seeing that Jionghuagege figured out how to ascended so many of her brood into true magical beasts. You're sure the girl would be besides herself with grief and drowning in her own tears if even one did. Tiexingege? She might've named them with numbers, but you're sure she'd grieve for her five sapient daughters became causalities in the fighting, even if she wouldn't dare to do so publicly.
And while you're lost in those sad thoughts and wandering aimlessly at the rear of the battlefield, where there aren't many corpses to be found or even wounded fighters, you nearly stumble into someone, but acting quickly, push them over to keep from making a fool out of yourself by doing something as clumsy as tripping into them.
That someone, you quickly realize, is that air head Mao Yue, who is still smiling cheerfully despite the fact you shoulder checked her into the mud made from blood.
"Yue?" You ask, having given her up as one of the most likely to die, considering the fact she hasn't yet picked a cultivation law to focus on or shown any particular talent for any particular thing. But looking at her as she laughs and scratches the back of her head, the only wounds she seems to have is a missing tooth and some frostbite and slashes along her arms and faced, covered in bandages
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 29 Dec 2023 01:53:57 No. 5876594 Report >>5876592 "Ah, lady Huanliuxue!" She chirps happily as you stand over her, surprised but pleasantly so to see that her freckled face is still plastered with a lively and carefree smile and not frozen in a look of terror forever more somewhere amongst the piles of dead "I don't no why I'm here, I got all turned around after I stumbled while following Mr Fu with the rest of em, and got a bit lost in that ruckus. Next thing I knew, bang, boom! I was being attacked! I think I ran into one of those evil daoists, and I didn't really no what to do"
'You would've if you paid attention during my lessons' you think but bite your tongue to keep it from using those exact words to scold her, since something must've stuck if she survived her encounter
"Luckily Niu was there to save me, though I still got all tattered" She says, lifting up her robes that are indeed torn and ragged "It was much less frightening after Miss Niu pulled me back over here"
"And where is Niu?" you ask, hoping she doesn't answer that Niu ran back into the fray, since while Niu isn't much stronger than Yue, she at least chose a law to stick to. Though, considering she practices the Pine Tree Warden Record (青松舍监档案, Qīngsōngshèjiāndàng'àn), you'd put more cash betting on her survival than not. She may be demure and kind of depressive to be around, and while she has about as much talent as Niu, she had enough wits that it'd be a shame for her to die so early into her cultivation.
"Flirting" Yue snickers, as she hobbles to pick up the crutch you realize she was walking with, and as you eyes shoot down to it, you notice one of her legs is also tightly wrapped with bandages "One of the summer sea dawn boys caught her eye, so she's been playing up her injuries to try and catch him"
"Still trying to find a worthwhile mate? I thought she'd given up already" You say, feeling oddly relieved, but not allowing yourself to lower your guard or relax, bad news could come at any moment but at least talking to cheery Yue was giving you some peace of mind and comfort before the bad news arrived
"Niu can do it if she tries" She says simply but happily "I hope she wins his heart, I've seen her fail at...well everything before we met you, master"
You smile and nod, and with a snap of your fingers, call some of the soldiers playing dice to escort Yue away from the technically still active battlefield, and get her away from you before she can trap you herself with her idle chatter and gossiping.
Down the hill the arena was built on, there are more bodies living and dead crowding your way. It would seem that, since everyone must be too frightened to dare to approach the arena after a pillar of sky searing fire errupted from within it, they've brought the injured and wounded here to be given treatment. There's a lot of Five Colors and five purities disciples here, treating the fallen and gathering the dead.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 29 Dec 2023 01:54:58 No. 5876595 Report >>5876594 And in the open aired hospital, is where you find Niu, who like Mao Yue said, was being as shameless a flirt as Lanfen with a bronze skinned, well built man who you could tell wanted nothing else than for Niu to pass out and leave him be which Niu, in her desperation to win his heart, didn't notice as she tried every trick in the book to win his affection. And did a poor job of it, at least compared to how your mother would've gone about seducing the admittedly alright looking fellow, though you know she wouldn't be caught dead playing with his heart.
Deciding to leave Niu to her eventual heart break, you instead swoosh through the rows of hastily assembled cots and stretchers, and as you weave through them, sometimes stopping to peer out the stricken faces of the dying and mortally wounded, you find that Senlin Zheren and Lanfen are assisting Master Su's students in treating the wounded or else alleviating their pain.
"Oh master" Lanfen says with a wave as she holds the hand of a man whose had half his face peel off from what looks like an axe blow "Good to see you. Or rather its a blessing, I didn't join the fighting but the sight of it still chilled my heart to the bone. Cultivators brawling isn't anything like the kind of fighting I was used to as a wandering martial artist, Heh"
She frowned and looked to her patient sadly and guiltily, as you notice said patient is wearing winter blossoming wisdom sect colors, and they notice your hair and immediately begin to thrash around in a panic.
"Fu's handiwork, I assume?" You ask idly as you step past her, shooting a glare at the man she's tending, while Senlin follows after you
"Of course you can tell? Fu can be quite scary when he's fired up" Lanfen sighs as she tries to calm her patient, who she seems baffled as to why he suddenly started panicking when he'd been so docile moments ago
"Sister Lanfen is right, though the fight was in our favor from the moment they lost the blizzard turned to bloody rain, and the blood moon emerged, the battle was still a murderous and bloody affair" The monk like deer explains as he accompanies you through the field of groaning and dying men and women "I did my best to preserve as many lives as I was able, Brothers Bo and
Wang Wencheng were grievously wounded, as were sisters Mao Yue and Niu, but I am told they will survive their wounds"
"And where are juniors Bo and Wencheng?" You question as they deer lifts their head and vaguely motions to two beds surrounded by many others. Bo is covered in more bandages like Fu, and judging from how he's laid out, has had both his arms broken, but the boy is still smiling blithely as he senses you notice and flashes a smile your way. Wang Wencheng is much less cognizant, since unlike Bo or Niu, he accepted the pills they're handing out to the wounded to ease their pain and cloud their minds, and ever fretful Wencheng seems to be flying higher than the heavens under their influence
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 29 Dec 2023 01:56:12 No. 5876597 Report >>5876595 "Tell the other healers not to give Wencheng any more medicine" You say, wanting to cut down a troublesome habit before it can form
"As you command, oh sagacious one" Zheren answers graciously with a deep bow, before turning and bouncing deeper into the sea of wounded and dying cultivators. And the more you pay attention to the contents of said ocean, the more you notice that most of them are wearing the white robes of the winter blossoming wisdom sect
"My lady and princess, I am at your service as always" Yinying whispers and purrs, having stalked behind you to whisper in your ear as the ground became muddier and thicker with corpses left to the crows and sun, and you stop as you realize how many of them are the alchemical transformed soldiers you created before the battle began, mixed in with the monsters you made through the same blood alchemy, and daoists whose robes are too dirtied or torn for you to easily place the sect they belonged to
"Oh good, my loyal retainer survived the night" You sigh in great relief as your fellow cat walks at your side, as you, having adopted your feline form, sit on your haunches to try and figure out how many of your mundane soldiers actually made it out of the fight, and find yourself smiling when you see the porcine Meiwei Zhurou huffing behind him, his single horn gently dabbed with someone else's blood
"Oh what providence, none of the royalty of beast kind has fallen this day, not that I believe one as powerful and well bred as yourself would be able to be brough low by these misbegotten ruffians who know nothing of noble noblesse oblige or even the common etiquette of dueling" The fancy pig rumbles and scoffs as he prances at your side, making a show of displaying his "battle scars" that amount to a few cuts and scrapes that he could've "earned" rooting through the soil, Yinying rolls his eyes, clearly sharing your exasperation as the windbag hog continues "I knew, of course, that a lady of your fine breeding and refinement, both in common decency and Qi cultivation, would show this rabble what for, but I regret to inform you that..."
Is around where you start ignoring what he's saying and tuning his long winded monologue out to speak with Yinying, though Zhurou doesn't seem to notice or if he does, doesn't care you're snubbing him and ignoring his overly proseful report of the clashing of the two armies.
"Zhurou mentioned all of the royalty survived the fight, no doubt including himself in the tally" You say, almost giddily, as that means your sisters are alright "The Geges survived then, and their daughters"
"Tiexingege is still chasing after our fleeing foes" He answers with a nod "Last I heard, she was competing with Fu as to who can catch them first. And her daughters, intelligent or not, are following her example. Lady Jionghuagege is leading her daughters to collect the injured"
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>>5876597 As if on cue, a small swarm of giant honeybees fly by, carrying the limp bodies of daoist back away from the mire of the battlefield
"Before Tiexingege's daughters get peckish" You joke, though she probably wouldn't stop them from snacking of the nearly dead as well as the abandoned corpse littering the battlefield "And you mentioned Fu"
"The first disciple lead the charge, and was wounded many times, but endured and defeated all who challenged him" Yinying explains as Zhurou, animatedly, acts out his version of events as Yinying escorts you through the corpse field, where you notice Baifenchi picking through the dead, followed by a pack of fresh Jiangshi, as well as a not so fresh Ping and Qinxin, who are trying to scold the moth as she ignores them completely, humming to herself as she collects corpses like she was shopping for the choicest cuts of meat at a butcher's stall
Ping looks to you exasperatedly, clearly hoping you'll take up the responsibility to scold his junior sister, but you decide its a harmless activity, raising the dead, and that a young girl does need her hobbies.
"Huili's packmates are eating some corpses over there" You point out, to avoid having to explain why you aren't wasting your breath lecturing Baifenchi for her necromancy, while also distracting Ping and his friend from bothering you with anything else.
"Goddammit" Ping snarls, pinching his brow "We've been telling that damn mutt to not do that in front of our allies!"
And that confirms that Huili has survived as well
And as you near his packmates, you find Xuebai and Yujijiao amongst the ghosts stalking the battlefield, with your eldest sister and the horned serpent bossing them around. You decide that telling Xuebai you and Monu retrieved her corpse and killed the man who killed her can wait, since she seems to be having enough fun playing at being queen of the dead.
But nearby in a crater pond that wasn't there before the battle started, that's nearly large enough to be called a lake, you have a scare as you spot Chuandapo's battered and cracked shell under the surface, but when you gasp, she lifts up her head tiredly and calms your heart before it can send your blood flowing in reverse. Yinying frowns as the turtle yawns, and you see that she is sharing the waters with Canlan Yuanquan and Lei, who has dressed down to just a loincloth, revealing that he's covered himself in arrays and spell charms painted with blood or else carved into his flesh by his own hand. You also find Liu, shouting for Lanfen and with a large dent in the side of his helmet, looking a little more than dazed and confused.
"Yinying, escort Liu to his owner" You say, keeping cool despite the fright Chuandapo's listlessness gave you, as you pad away from her, Yuanquan and Lei "And make sure his brains aren't scrambled'
"As you wish, your majesty" Is his reply as he parts from your side to bring Liu to healers before he drops dead from a concussion
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 29 Dec 2023 01:59:08 No. 5876601 Report Deeper into the battleground, where there are still some exhausted and ragged looking cultivators dueling amongst the wailing voices of the injured and the piles of white robed corpses, you find Siwang and nearly shed a tear to see him alive, presiding over the duels atop one of the banners of the palace of natural laws, beneath which no bodies lay. Some of the fights end immediate as you stride past them, the winter blossoming wisdom sect members surrendering at the sight of you as you approach Siwang and find that he isn't alone
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 29 Dec 2023 02:00:09 No. 5876602 Report >>5876601 "Well that leaves only one disciple unaccounted for" You mutter, amazed that not even one of the members of your sect have fallen in battle or turned up as a corpse so far. But the one who you haven't confirmed to be alive, is one of the ones who losing would hurt the most.
Qiang
And you certainly don't sprint around the battlefield in a blind panic when finding her is harder and takes more effort than it did to happen upon her martial brothers and sisters. And you certainly don't wet you fur with tears while you don't run around like a headless chicken in search for her.
But you find her on the edge of what you'd consider the battlefield, lazing around in a ditch that her body seemed to have made from the force of being thrown nearly out of the battlefield
"Qiang!" You cry out, running up to her as you can see her chest rise weakly. She sits up and stares at you, as you nearly barrel into her, crouching in front of her and looking away to compose yourself and calm your heart before you do anything embarrassing
"Yo...Are you crying, master?" She asks in her usual dull manner as she stretches to rouse herself from her nap "Did someone die?"
"No" You say as couth as you can be while scolding yourself silently. What were you afraid of? Of course Qiang couldn't die! She's your direct student. Such a thing would be impossible. But you still feel like you should be yelling at her for scaring you so much! The nerve of this girl
"And would it be a big deal if they had? Not like dying would've separated them from the sect" She muses tiredly, rubbing her eyes half awake "Sure it'd be a tragedy, but ghosts are pretty much normal people, when they're calm and tamed...Is the fighting done then"
"Mostly" You answer, still finding it hard to speak to her, like your tongue is tangled into knots
"Hmm" She answers with a tired grunt "Do you need me to do something, then?"
"No, just rest, you've earned it" You answer without thinking. Qiang smiles warmly and immediatly falls back to sleep, sitting up and half slouched, snoring loudly
"The nerve of this girl" You grumble, before marching off to take stock of the losses now that your mind is at ease after seeing or at least hearing your students were alright...er, well at least still alive after the vicious fighting they all took part in.
The mindless animals you turned to monsters, were completely wiped out, serving their purpose to blunt the attacks of and distract the disciples of the winter blossoming wisdom sect, who as you hoped, mistook them for true Demonic Beasts. Similarly, they also mistook the alchemically altered soldiers for shock troop Qi condensation, and while those elites weren't completely slaughtered like the beasts were, their numbers had been greatly reduced from the four thousand, four hundred, and forty for they had started with, and as far as you and anyone counting up the dead can tell, only four hundred and forty four of them survived the fighting.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 29 Dec 2023 02:01:09 No. 5876603 Report >>5876602 But they did manage to kill a few trash cultivators themselves, and your planning on rewarding the ones who did in someway. And the ones who bravely gave their lives keeping the heat off your actual underlings, would be honored and their families rewarded in their places.
The Five colors and Five purities sect, stayed mostly to assist Jionghuagege, though some of their number, Master Su and the Fa twins in particular, joined the fighting. They lost only a handful of disciples, since very few of them joined the fighting directly to begin with.
The Dusk Marsh wolves and Summer Sea Dawn Sect, suffered more losses, up into the dozens, but they counted amongst their causalities the ones they bore in delaying the winter blossoming wisdom sect, and retreating after the summer sea dawn sect back stabbed them, and the ones who took part in the fighting were either experienced in fighting the winter blossoming wisdom sect or were fresh replacements for the ones lost in the early clashes, sent directly from their temples to join the fighting, and so while they did lose more members than the five colors and five purities, they weren't crippled and would easily regain the numbers they lost and quickly as well, since their losses were primarily the lower ranked and staged of their sects.
The Temple of Celestial Fire, as expected of a sect who had been fighting the winter blossoming wisdom sect for years, were well versed in killing them. But the opposite was also true, and to earn you assistance in unshackling themselves from the Main Line Ling and their Guardians of the Celestial Sunlight sect, they suffered losses that will take them sometime to fully recover from, but are in no way crippling. And their Sect head, Disi-Ling Huofeng, had lost one of his arms while fighting another of Xue Laohue's grandsons in single combat
And while no one could tell how many ordinary mortals volunteers on either side had died, including their subordinate martial artists and those disciples unable to cultivator, since a mortal fighting a cultivator usually didn't leave much of a sign behind that they ever existed at all, it was obvious that The Crow Cloak Clan that had once tried to recruit Fu, Qiang, Hong, Lanfen and Liu had been...entirely wiped out in the fighting, dying to serve unworthy masters. And Hong laments that he had to cut down the old man who had approached them with years before, as he had survived long enough in the battleground of wannabe gods to try and strike the blindman from behind.
A shame, to be sure. But Fu, Qiang, Hong, Lanfen, and Liu have taken to wearing feathered cloaks as a sign of respect for the fallen martial arts school. Though others might take that show of respect as instead them taking trophies from the dead. Siwang, funnily, offered his own feathers to his elder martial brothers and sisters.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 29 Dec 2023 02:02:10 No. 5876604 Report >>5876603 All in all, your victory was not only complete but crushing, with the winter blossoming wisdom sect losing pretty much all of their mortal underlings and supporters either from driving them into battle or their cruel decision to freeze half of Chuan, and judging from how many bodies they left behind in their retreat, they've been more or less crippled as a sect. And that was before taking into account the loss of Xue Laohue.
This battle was display of strength that will keep the other sects of Chuan from daring to stand against the palace of the natural laws and their allies, or at least as openly as the Winter blossoming wisdom sect did. And its unlikely any of their old allies will give them aid or help them recover, considering the damages and deaths they caused in marching up to your doorstep. This victory should go a long way in securing the palace of natural laws legitimacy as a sect and temple. Should. One can never be certain with how foolish, arrogant and stubborn Orthodox cultivators can be.
But while everyone else celebrates their victory or sleeps or meditates to recover, you search through the wounded to find a specific disciple, and soon find exactly who you were looking for. Judging from the scars across his face, he had the extreme misfortune of getting in Feiqing or Youzaiwang's way in battle, judging from the lightning scars cascading down his face to his chest, but besides the scars, its obvious from his looks and age he's the brother Ruolan asked you to bring to her, if he survived.
the moment you recognize the familiarity of his face, your imagination runs wild with reasons for what exactly, Ruolan is planning for him, and none of your fantasies are good. Well, good for the brother, that is.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 29 Dec 2023 02:07:31 No. 5876607 Report >>5876604 <span class="mu-s"> Triple vote! </span>
What do you do with Ruolan's brother
>bring him to his Carmine mystic sister, as she requested and do nothing but watch what she does to him >Ask Ruolan what she's planning to do for him before deciding if you'll honor your promise to her or not >Tell Ruolan you'll hand him over, but only after she's helped you uncover more of the mysteries surrounding carmine mysticism >Be merciful and kill Ruolan's brother, since he's already suffered enough from the looks of things >Write in What are the terms of surrender you offer the defeated Winter Blossoming Wisdom sect
>Demand reparations for their misdeeds and for the current leaders to publicly humiliate themselves before you and lord Chuan >Annex much of their territory before they can regroup to contest your landgrab, and then allow them to scurry away with their lives >Enforce an immediate ceasefire, and send messengers to the other sects to send representatives to put the whole sect on trial for their actions, and use that to determine their punishment >Simply that anyone who forsakes the sect will be forgiven and allowed to live, but that you will see the sect demolished one way or another And what do you do once all that is done, Huanliuxue?
>Finally delve into the secrets of carmine mysticism, focusing on the branch of it you glimpsed in your fight with Xue Laohue, using the "Plant core" Fu and co retrieved in your studies (Mental/ Carmine Mysticism Training. DC >Push Lord Chuan into declaring you the official patron and protector of the Chuan lands, making it even harder for the other sects in the region to act against your or the palace openly >Call the other leaders of the alliance together, and make the alliance of at least the palace of natural laws, Five colors and five purities and Summer sea dawn sects official by giving the alliance a name >Try to convince either to dusk marsh wolves of temple of celestial fire to join the alliance permanently (Which one and how) >Tell Suiqi and the rest of the lands under you control the good news, and issue a public statement declaring them to be under the palace of natural laws' protection, establishing your territory in an official capacity >Write in Feel free to name the moonlight shard dagger you got this fight in this vote as well.
Also the google doc needs to be updated with the gains your disciples made last thread
Btw, choosing to usurp the blizzard, turn it into blood rain and summon the blood moon is the biggest factor that kept the palace of natural laws from losing any disciples and made the defeat of the winter blossoming wisdom sect as crushing as it was. Especially since it happened so early in the fight and you blood moon evolution basically gave everyone on the other side awful luck
that and the fact you had two tacticians in the form of Tiexingege and Jionghuagege, to the the one tactician employed by the winter blossoming wisdom sect
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>>5876607 >Ask Ruolan what she's planning to do for him before deciding if you'll honor your promise to her or not >Annex much of their territory before they can regroup to contest your landgrab, and then allow them to scurry away with their lives >Enforce an immediate ceasefire, and send messengers to the other sects to send representatives to put the whole sect on trial for their actions, and use that to determine their punishment On one hand we can grab a fuck ton of their land and expand.
On the other, we demonstrate to EVERYONE that we are incredibly lawful (palace of natural LAW) and show that we have better character them some orthodox sects. At the very least our reputation will improve more from the second option. I am down for either.
>Push Lord Chuan into declaring you the official patron and protector of the Chuan lands, making it even harder for the other sects in the region to act against your or the palace openly >Call the other leaders of the alliance together, and make the alliance of at least the palace of natural laws, Five colors and five purities and Summer sea dawn sects official by giving the alliance a name Any one of these three is fine with me
>Name the moonlight shard dagger 月球塌陷 (Yuèqiú tāxiàn: Moon Collapse)
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>>5876607 >Bring him to his mystic sister. See what she does. We can scold or praise her for it afterwards.
>Take their sect headquarters and treasures and manuels. >Otherwise, anyone below Core formation may cast off their colours and join the Palace of natural laws, or their allied sects or go independent and be forgiven. It's gonna cause some issues later, but we are a merciful ruler. Sometimes anyway, the only certainty is a demand for their techniques and treasures before they can stop us.
>Keep the Dusk Marsh wolves in the alliance, Through a three fold stratergy. One we are the rightful rulers of this land now and the proven injured party by the heavens. Two, in return for maintaining support, he may have some of the territory we cannot control from the WBS. Three, if he refuses then the Summer sea dawn will be in the alliance anyway. And that means they have US on their side, do they really want to live in a world where their rival has our favour via being an underling rather than them having our favour by being a friend? Think about it. Also yeah, Need to update the personal pastebin with all the gains we made here.
I also support Moon Collapse.
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>>5876607 >bring him to his Carmine mystic sister, as she requested and do nothing but watch what she does to him >Demand reparations for their misdeeds and for the current leaders to publicly humiliate themselves before you and lord Chuan And force them to drop the wisdom part of their sect name since clearly they don't have any and must earn it back.
>Push Lord Chuan into declaring you the official patron and protector of the Chuan lands, making it even harder for the other sects in the region to act against your or the palace openly The other sect heads in the alliance will probably grumble but can't deny our rising star. Or moon in this case.
As for the shard i'll propose:
Moonfell Sliver of Lunacy
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>>5876607 >bring him to his Carmine mystic sister, as she requested and do nothing but watch what she does to him Back to our grudge roots.
>Enforce an immediate ceasefire, and send messengers to the other sects to send representatives to put the whole sect on trial for their actions, and use that to determine their punishment Forcing the other sects to acknowledge us as equals? Yes please.
>Finally delve into the secrets of carmine mysticism, focusing on the branch of it you glimpsed in your fight with Xue Laohue, using the "Plant core" Fu and co retrieved in your studies (Mental/ Carmine Mysticism Training. DC Blood Dryad powers go!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Fri 29 Dec 2023 04:03:11 No. 5876727 Report Quoted By:
Just realized I deleted the DC connected to this choice when setting up the triple vote >Finally delve into the secrets of carmine mysticism, focusing on the branch of it you glimpsed in your fight with Xue Laohue, using the "Plant core" Fu and co retrieved in your studies
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>>5876607 Yah that blizzard to blood rain was clutch we gotta reward our disciples for surviving and doing well in the battle.
Could make healing pills with our cultivation level? We are an alchemist. And it's a bit since we've made any pills.
Also glad I thought up that transform water to blood tech.
Wonder if our girl will get a new nickname from the survivors? Blood Fiend?
In the contract I say we put a clause that all awakened beast must be sent to our lands under our protection or be given disiple status to a sect.
>>>5876613 Support
Also can someone refresh my mind what he did to his sister?
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>>5876607 >Ask Ruolan what she's planning to do for him before deciding if you'll honor your promise to her or not >Simply that anyone who forsakes the sect will be forgiven and allowed to live, but that you will see the sect demolished one way or another >Call the other leaders of the alliance together, and make the alliance of at least the palace of natural laws, Five colors and five purities and Summer sea dawn sects official by giving the alliance a name Anonymous
>>5876607 >bring him to his Carmine mystic sister, as she requested and do nothing but watch what she does to him >Annex much of their territory before they can regroup to contest your landgrab, and then allow them to scurry away with their lives >Call the other leaders of the alliance together, and make the alliance of at least the palace of natural laws, Five colors and five purities and Summer sea dawn sects official by giving the alliance a name >Tell Suiqi and the rest of the lands under you control the good news, and issue a public statement declaring them to be under the palace of natural laws' protection, establishing your territory in an official capacity How about Moonfell Lunacy?
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>>5876909 >Moonfell Lunacy I'm ok with a shortened name, though it is really asian if it's not three paragraphs long?
Then again there are few weapons as threateningly ominous as THE THRONGLER
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>>5876607 >him to his Carmine mystic sister, as she requested and do nothing but watch what she does to him >Demand reparations for their misdeeds and for the current leaders to publicly humiliate themselves before you and lord Chuan >Call the other leaders of the alliance together, and make the alliance of at least the palace of natural laws, Five colors and five purities and Summer sea dawn sects official by giving the alliance a name Anonymous
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>>5877203 The fuck does The Throngler do? It Throngles.
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>>5876607 >bring him to his Carmine mystic sister, as she requested and do nothing but watch what she does to him >Simply that anyone who forsakes the sect will be forgiven and allowed to live, but that you will see the sect demolished one way or another >Try to convince either to dusk marsh wolves of temple of celestial fire to join the alliance permanently (Which one and how) Dusk marsh wolves: pointing out their dao of strength and affinity to nature is already very close to us, and the fact that we fought and bled together against such a foe has made us brothers in arms.
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>>5876607 >Simply that anyone who forsakes the sect will be forgiven and allowed to live, but that you will see the sect demolished one way or another >bring him to his Carmine mystic sister, as she requested and do nothing but watch what she does to him >Tell Suiqi and the rest of the lands under you control the good news, and issue a public statement declaring them to be under the palace of natural laws' protection, establishing your territory in an official capacity >Write In: Clean up the Battlefield, collapse tunnels do something about all this blood, keep Suiqi from getting flooded when all the snow melts, limit the number of bodies Jingyu has to scavenge from and weapons other sects can loot, etc etc Sorry for the jumbled order, these triple votes are murder on when I have no choice but to phone post.
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>>5877399 Supporting Red Madness while I'm here. Tempting as the other names are, especially the Throngler.
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>>5876607 On another note we should name the blood ritual we keep using to finish off powerful cultivators.
I say Blood Nova or (Xuè zhī xīnxīng)
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Folklore Anon here. I have the most nastiest, vilest and repugnant ideas ever devised for the next work... I’m gonna do it.
Don’t cry for me, Argentina. For I am about to commit some sins.
>>5876607 >bring him to his Carmine mystic sister, as she requested and do nothing but watch what she does to him MUST. WATCH. GRUDGE.
>Annex much of their territory before they can regroup to contest your landgrab, and then allow them to scurry away with their lives >Enforce an immediate ceasefire, and send messengers to the other sects to send representatives to put the whole sect on trial for their actions, and use that to determine their punishment Better strike iron while it’s hot.
As for name of Knoife, Red Madness sounds good.
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>>5876607 Right, forgor last one.
>Call the other leaders of the alliance together, and make the alliance of at least the palace of natural laws, Five colors and five purities and Summer sea dawn sects official by giving the alliance a name Anonymous
>>5877435 blood pyre sounds better, even if having the last though of an enemy be "the fuck is a nova?" is quite tempting
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>>5877780 That would have been the psychological damage technique if we had chosen the cosmic nature: FREEDOM
Symbolized by the american flag
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Okay, should all be updated now.
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>>5877969 it will always work, just because we are Mary-Su... i mean most magnificent, wonderful and ABSOLUTELY NOT A SUCKER FOR A SOAP OPERAS SHUT UP Huanliuxue!
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So what should our plans be? We'll be suing for peace against the collalition against us. What should be our demands?
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>>5878572 1 and 2 carries the risk of us strecthing ourselves too thin. 3 is just asking to get suicide bombed or be sent a Qiang tier Assassinor five into our midst. On 4, No Sect Orthodox or otherwise will trade their techniques for the kind of cultivator who couldnt't escape or die fighting, leaving us with tons of mouths to feed, though they may hold some tasty grudges against their bosses, it may be a good opportunity to change some hearts and minds, as we did previously but on a larger scale. 5 has some potential but I get the notion that anyone still in WBS will just "disband" and reform under a different name but keep all the techniques, hierarchy and most tellingly; ethics and attitudes towards bestial cultivators and their confederates, regardless of our demands. And 6 is not not enforceable, but it seems like it'd be a pain in the butt to try to enforce, and given how whimsical Huan is; the difference is somewhat academic.
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>>5878572 4 is good for treasures. Techniquesbare unlikelynto be given for any none VIP.
5 no. Demand complete dissolution and promise no retaliation to anyone who wants to cast off their cloak.
2 is essential but 1 we should stretch as far as we can then hand off the rest of the territory to our allies.
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>>5878585 I'm confident they wouldn't do number 5 they care too much about face to pull something like that.
6 they swear to send there souls to hell. Which in these setting is a big deal as it can and will fuck someones dao heart up and make them unable to grow stronger.
1 is A. A buffer state and B. Resources that can be gathered to increase the strength of the sect.
3 these are othros they wouldn't be able to pull it off or they would shame there sects face. An example can be show by the dusk wolves
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>>5878632 >I'm confident they wouldn't do number 5 they care too much about face to pull something like that. Their options are that or cease to exist at all. They'll take the hit.
>6 they swear to send there souls to hell. Which in these setting is a big deal as it can and will fuck someones dao heart up and make them unable to grow stronger. >1 is A. A buffer state and B. Resources that can be gathered to increase the strength of the sect. Or stretch our supplies and numbers thin while on the border of some very irate neighbors. And on top of that, more mouths to feed.
>3 these are othros they wouldn't be able to pull it off or they would shame there sects face. An example can be show by the dusk wolves It would be shameful against fellow Orthodox Cultivators. But we're Heretics. Our end justifies their means, however distasteful it said means might be.
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>>5876607 The power of write-ins truly saved the day for our disciples.
>Ask Ruolan what she's planning to do for him before deciding if you'll honor your promise to her or not >Enforce an immediate ceasefire, and send messengers to the other sects to send representatives to put the whole sect on trial for their actions, and use that to determine their punishment. >Finally delve into the secrets of carmine mysticism, focusing on the branch of it you glimpsed in your fight with Xue Laohue, using the "Plant core" Fu and co retrieved in your studies (Mental/ Carmine Mysticism Training. DC As for the dagger, Moonstruck Red Fang (发狂的红牙) maybe?
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>>5876613 Changing mine from BOTHto just enforce an immediate ceasefire.
>>5878572 keep in mind, we are just trialing the winter blossom sect. It's not an entire coalition, just a single sect (them).
1 2 and 4 I can agree with
1 or as much of 1 as we can take.
(we aren't stretching too thin if we have the princess be the majority of our bulk, they can organize the lands sufficently enough for us)
2 We can put on them because otherwise its antagonizing us, also add that we may enter their lands to retrieve/deal with those beasts ourselves since they'd be under our care and it's less messy. If they get to it first they may have fair cause in slaying it (if it attacks them/things get a lot more grey).
4 but priority is rewards goes to thoes who suffered the most losses/contributed to most across the respective sects, this making a fair reward system for those who fought.
3 5 and 6 not so much
3. It was just the winter sect in this fight, we don't need more of their guys. so no.
5 would be nearly a death sentence for their sect especially after they lost their war so similar to 6
6 I agree with this anon
>>5878585 it may not be enforcable and is a bit out there.
all this said, we still need to actually meet with them. There is no point in discussing this at all if their stance makes it null and we aren't done fighting yet or already have terms we can both agree on with more nuance to them. Only after we speak to them and get them on the table should terms be discussed. Anything before that is putting the donkey before the cart.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 01 Jan 2024 03:35:56 No. 5878984 Report Ending and tallying the vote now. Happy new year to all my fantastic and filially pious juniors, may this year bring you fortune and happiness like a meatpie falling from the heavens.
Ask Ruolan what she's planning to do for him before deciding if you'll honor your promise to her or not: 4
bring him to his Carmine mystic sister, as she requested and do nothing but watch what she does to him:8
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Annex much of their territory before they can regroup to contest your landgrab, and then allow them to scurry away with their lives:3
Enforce an immediate ceasefire, and send messengers to the other sects to send representatives to put the whole sect on trial for their actions, and use that to determine their punishment:5
Take their sect headquarters and treasures and manuels.:1
anyone below Core formation may cast off their colours and join the Palace of natural laws, or their allied sects or go independent and be forgiven:1
Demand reparations for their misdeeds and for the current leaders to publicly humiliate themselves before you and lord Chuan:2
Simply that anyone who forsakes the sect will be forgiven and allowed to live, but that you will see the sect demolished one way or another:3
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Push Lord Chuan into declaring you the official patron and protector of the Chuan lands, making it even harder for the other sects in the region to act against your or the palace openly: 3
Call the other leaders of the alliance together, and make the alliance of at least the palace of natural laws, Five colors and five purities and Summer sea dawn sects official by giving the alliance a name:6
Try to convince either to dusk marsh wolves of temple of celestial fire to join the alliance permanently:2
Dusk marsh wolves2
-Keep the Dusk Marsh wolves in the alliance, Through a three fold stratergy.:1
-pointing out their dao of strength and affinity to nature is already very close to us...etc: 1
Finally delve into the secrets of carmine mysticism, focusing on the branch of it you glimpsed in your fight with Xue Laohue, using the "Plant core" Fu and co retrieved in your studies:2
Tell Suiqi and the rest of the lands under you control the good news, and issue a public statement declaring them to be under the palace of natural laws' protection, establishing your territory in an official capacity:2
Clean up the Battlefield, collapse tunnels do something about all this blood, keep Suiqi from getting flooded when all the snow melts, limit the number of bodies Jingyu has to scavenge from and weapons other sects can loot, etc etc: 1
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Moon collapse: 3
Moonfell Sliver of Lunacy/ Moonfell lunacy: 2
Red Madness: 3
Moonstruck Red Fang: 1
So you'll enforce an immediate ceasefire and send messengers to the other sects of Chuan so you can put the winter blossoming wisdom sect on trial for their crimes and will formalize the palace of natural laws alliance with the 5 colors and summer sea dawn...cont
>>5878112 Excellent work as always
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 01 Jan 2024 03:36:58 No. 5878985 Report >>5878984 And as there is a tie between moon collapse and Red madness, the decision between the knife's name and the alliance's will be determined next vote as well, just because it feels wrong to tie break for a name to me
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>>5878985 >And as there is a tie between moon collapse and Red madnes We could do a combination.
Red Moon's Maddening Collapse (紅月的瘋狂崩潰:Hóng yuè de fēngkuáng bēngkuì)
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>>5879016 How about Blood Lunacy? Luna-cy, moon madness. Sounds just right.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 01 Jan 2024 06:35:07 No. 5879041 Report The temporary housing your two true carmine mystic descendants have taken as their own, away from the manors and palaces donated as shelter to the rest of your sect, from the outside looking in appear to be nothing more than an old, run down apothecary complete with a collapsing root, loose shutters and a creaky door that can only close properly when a brick is shoved against it from the outside. All around it grow poisonous plants and thorned brambles sprouted from the primordial air filling Suiqi and the lands surrounding the city. But inside it is so luxurious as to be nearly blinding, especially to the well trained eyes of an alchemist such as yourself. Ruolan and Renshu have both put their new found renown and respect afforded to them, by being chosen from amongst all of the peddlers of pills, elixir charlatans and self taught alchemists who flocked to the white walls of Suiqi in the hopes of being taught by a genuine daoist immortal such as yourself or at least allowed to glimpse the glories of a sect of daoist mystics as servants and toadies, to extremely good use. Some of the dabblers and fraudsters playing at alchemist or physician have taken to trying to bribe their way into the ladder of the palace of natural law's alchemist division, by way of buttering up and brown nosing Renshu and Ruolan, and others who are simply awed by their transformation and new found understanding of internal and external alchemy, have showered them in gifts ranging from a lord's ransom in taels of silver, "rare" alchemical ingredients, gruesome trinkets, curious baubles and even bowls of their own blood.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 01 Jan 2024 06:36:08 No. 5879044 Report >>5879041 So with him trembling on your back, you waltz and swagger through the dusty hallways of the alchemist workshop, followed by bobbing ghost lights as you search for your two disciples in the mess they've made of the already run down curiosities shop. You do not have to look for long, as one of them finds you first.
And you can tell its Renshu even before he appears before you in a blur of motion like an unexpected gust of wind. He's drowned his natural scent in rose and peach perfume. And not even high quality perfume, but the cheap kind that reeks more of alcohols than it does anything else, yet somehow the stench of putrid peaches and rotting roses wins out and chokes you as he steps from the dark.
His hawkish eyes leer in the gloom, glowing blood red as he steps forward and immediately loses most of his intimidation factor as you see what he's dressed in. A skin tight silken vest dyed various shades of red, exposing most of his brawny chest and framing his pecs like a whore would their womanly assets. And poofy pants like the kind worn by dancers from the northern desert's tribe, all pink and red and covered in paw prints. He's also wearing sparkly makeup and shocking red lipstick that you think might actually be cinnabar ink smeared over his lips, and his greying hair is tied into a flowing, horse tail like pony tail, held in place by a ribbon of nearly see through pink silk. He looks ridiculous and is clearly wanting to show of his new body, despite looking like an old man trying to disguise himself a noble's concubine. But honestly, you can't help but admire the depths of his vanity to still look proud of himself while dressed like that. If he got rid of his loose, harem style pants, he wouldn't look too outlandish, but with them and his otherwise skimpy attire, he looks like a clown.
"Ah. Lady Huanliuxue" He greets you with a flick of his wrist and a sway to his step, flashing his teeth lengthened into fangs at the now ghost faced boy slung over your shoulder "To what do I owe the pleasure of this visit? Have you come to see the results of my and my new sister's hard research and harder work? Or have you seen my personal handiwork admits the killing fields and wish to reward me with a"
He giggles girlishly and stalks closer to you and Ruolan's old brother, shaking his hips and relishing in his returning youth as he grins monstrously at the horror stricken cultivator you're lugging around
"A exceptionally Qi rich treat" he snickers, drinking in the blind terror of the boy as you glare at him sourly, dressed in one of your pieces of underworld fashion
"If he pisses himself on me, I'm selling you to replace the dress" You say sweetly, more serious than your half joking tone would convey "And he isn't for you to experiment on or torment, Renshu, he's for Ruolan"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 01 Jan 2024 06:37:09 No. 5879046 Report >>5879044 "Oh I know, the little doll has been muttering to herself like she's been possessed by an earthbound spirit since word of the battle's end reached her, its honestly quiet scary and not at all cute" He chuckles, bowing as he retreats back and finally cups his fist to greet you properly, the ribbon in his hair flowing with his every, overly flamboyant movement. The man has become quite the peacock since he became a carmine mystic. He's even wearing silver nail guards like a certain hungry ghost whose prison you need to kick around next time you visit your kingdom of crypts and ghouls. Though only on his first finger and thumb.
"What?" The boy finally manages to remember he has a tongue and sputters out. Renshu giggles, flashing another wide grin as his eyes flash with ghostly green fire
"Oh, do you remember her?" He ask as he shows you the wherever Ruolan is in this maze of clutter and finery "I'm shocked, but more so I am appalled a brother could stand idle by while his sister was thrown to the wolves and bears, abandoned in the woods while he got to live the high life in the immortal's mountain. I heard the winter blossoming wisdom sect makes excellent plum wine, tell me, was abandoning poor Ruolan worth a draught of it?"
"Renshu" You snap, really not wanting to have to deal anymore struggling from your unwilling passenger "Don't rile him up, these clothes might be easy to wash and hard to dirty, but I still don't want the mud from his boots smeared on their sleeves"
"Oh forgive me, master, but I've grown fond of my fellow pupil, and the sight of he who forsook her has enraged me" He answers through his teeth, putting on a show of trembling with rage as you roll your eyes and groan in exasperation "and must I say you do that outfit a great justice, master"
The complement teases a smirk onto your lips, as you flick one of the robes butterfly patterned hand hidingly long sleeves, its pink, grey and white silk washed over with the pale blues and greens cast by the ghosts and false ghost flames crowding around you, giving it a lovely ethereal radiance.
The sash wrapped around your waist, keeping the short, leg and thigh exposing robe from dropping, tied as the moth spirit who sold it to you presented, into the shape of a butterflies wings, seem to flutter with every step you take closer to Ruolan's hiding place, while her brother baubles and Renshu delights you by heaping more and more compliments onto you to drown out the other man's panicked squeaking.
And just like he described. Ruolan has curled up into a dark corner of a room the two of them seem to have been using as a macabre tea room, judging from the piles of cups and platters stacking towards the ceiling smeared with both dried tea and blood. And the doll like girl has never looked more like a vicious blood sage than she does now, gnawing on the back of her thumb as she mutters angrily to herself.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 01 Jan 2024 06:38:34 No. 5879047 Report >>5879046 Her bulging eyes flick up the moment you saunter into the room, and then narrow fiercly as she spots her brother, he turns almost as pale as a corpse.
"Ruolan?" He gasps breathlessly, a look of anxiety and dread plastered across his face as you wordelessly toss him to the ground and cross your arms, your hanging sleeves giving your posture a jiangshi-ish like quality "I..I see you've done well for yourself, found yourself a new sponsor after you were"
"Tossed into the freezing woods to die?" She snarls and spits, faced wrinkled with such deep enmity she looks like she's aged a hundred years in a second
"That..that is a crude way of describing the events as they.." He begins, before his sister, now stronger than him due to practicing physicals cultivation via blood refinement and ingestion, kicks him like a leather ball into the wall and
"THE WALL!" Renshu exclaims, slapping his forehead, as the wall comes down "THE POTTERY BEHIND THE WALL! RUOLAN!"
Ruolan's brother gives a weak groan as you struggle not to smile gleefully, as Ruolan snarls and spits like a cat, a deluge of grudge miasma flowing out of her and gathering into dark clouds around her feet as she pounces on him and begins hammering his face into the floor with her deceptively delicate looking fists
"You didn't even spare a glance when they tossed me out of the temple! Mother and father at least said goodbye when they sold us off to those sagess!" She rages, as she lifts him up by the collar of his robe and gives him a vicious headbutt "You piece of shit!"
"What was" He tries to speak through a bloodied mouth, his teeth fractured and splintered. Which looked really painful, but if anyone deserved this kind of treatment
"Refuse their offer? Beg them to let me stay by your side, even if I was talentless trash? Anything besides abandoning me in the depths of the wilderness, and not just any wilderness, but a forest so overflowing with Qi it was a miracle I ever found my way out of it!?" She cries out, eyes pools of blood as red tears stream down her face while Renshu shakes his head over the gifts she had just shattered with her brother's body, like he was a mother mourning the loss of a fine porcelain plate after her children got a little too rowdy in their play. "You have every opportunity to act nobly and unselfishly, but instead you forsook the only family you had left and abandoned me without a second thought"
"I.." He wheezes as Ruolan pauses to catch her breath, hands dripping with his blood, his broken teeth stuck and stabbed into the skin of her knuckles
"What? You're sorry? When you didn't even deign to speak to me when I was found out to be a failure, again?" She accuses furiously, giving him another brutal strike to the jaw, tearing skin with that punch. But you aren't really paying attention to her pummeling of her brother, you're attentions are focused entirely on the grudge surrounding her.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 01 Jan 2024 06:40:26 No. 5879048 Report >>5879047 It is a gorgeous cloud of bottled up resentment, spite and feelings of betrayal, so sour and harsh on the tongue its almost like acid. Oh hers is a potent grudge, and tasty one as well, even though swallowing it down is as painful as it must've felt for her when she was tossed out of the temple and left to fend herself. It is rich and roiling with rage and self loathing, as thick as oil and smoldering. Not as hot as Xiongji's directionless grudge against nearly everything beneath the heavens, but it burns on the tongue like a strong medicine or a heated iron.
Her grudge, though fresh and still aching, is one that you could make good use of, just like Xiongji's, Monu's and Fu's, though you have no idea what embodying it would do for you. And you may not get the chance, since it looks like Ruolan might just beat her brother's skull and brains into a fine grey paste on the ground. A shame. While good grudges aren't hard to fine, this one was more complex than many of the random assortment of grievances and ill will you keep locked inside your belly.
But, the sound of fists pounding head against wood stop. And Ruolan takes a deep breath and rises from her brother, her eyes glowing pink as she stares deep into his eyes
"Go clean up this mess, and bang your head on the wall a dozen times for each day since you left me behind" She orders calmly, as she brushes her pale hair back into place and wipes the blood from her hands on paper napkin handed to her by Renshu as her brother, whose face is half a ruin rizes unsteadily to his feet, more blood and shards of his teeth dribbling down his chin as he gives a weak, whimpered grown and shuffles off to obey her
"Oh~" You purr interestedly, both sleeves covering your mouth as you realize what Ruolan has decided to do with her brother "How cruel, how cruel~ You've stolen away his will and hypnotized him! Since when did you have that ability, hmm?"
Ruolan, still huffing and puffing from the exertion and draining of the volatile emotions that just exploded out of her, puffs up with pride and smiles sweetly, looking much more fragile and doll like now as she explains "I discovered it during the sect wide training event, just before the battle! I, never used it before, but the whispers in my heart told me how to do it! So it is a true carmine mystic technique then"
"I mean, it isn't alchemy" Renshu mutters under his breath as Ruolan smirks smugly his way, as she clearly one a bet of his "Nor is it as impressive as Lady Huanliuxue's command over blood itself"
Which is something you learned long before you chose to adopt and improve Carmine mysticism as a whole. Though the Technique Spiteful blood legacy is technically, though it is an evolution of ordinary blood refinement
"Oh like moving really, really fast is?" Ruolan teases, thumbing her nose "Our elders in the sect can do that without having to refine their own blood"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 01 Jan 2024 06:41:26 No. 5879049 Report >>5879048 You start laughing. They really are like brother and sister. Its so sweet you nearly forgot that Ruolan just enslaved her actual flesh and blood brother.
"Stop fighting you two, and come along. I'm going to call the other permanent heads of our alliance and both of you have done such great work rediscovery the lost arts of the Carmine Mystics, that I think you deserve a seat at my side for this meeting" You say sweetly and motherly, patting both of them on their heads "Also, I want to show both of you off, as my creations, since you've proof that I've succeeded in reforming Carmine mysticism itself in my image"
"I would be honored to join such an event, but first I must change into less casual apparel" Renshu says with a glint of glee in his eyes
"Are you not? Are you going to meet the other masters all covered in blood like that?" You titter happily as you lean down to see Ruolan eye to eye
"Why should I? I'm a blood sage aren't I? Besides it marks me as a disciple of the happy bloodshed" She proclaims with a prideful look and haughty smirk. What a sweet girl, wearing her master's colors with pride, Heh-Heh.
"Oh what is that?" Fa Tang growls as you march into the meeting in your natural form, with Ruolan and Renshu at your side, the former dressed like an imperial hand lady and the other...well he isn't wearing much at all, and mostly just rubbed oil over his chest to make his muscles stand out more.
"You better not be speaking to the princess of blood and bones like that" Renshu snaps, both with his tongue and fingers, back
"No, I am talking about you freak!" Tang spells out with a shout "What the hell! Why are you dressed like that, and more importantly"
"Where can I find your tailor, what a bold fashion statement, especially for a daoist" His twin Jin howls with laughter, meeting Renshu's gaze and apparently feeling a immediate kinship with the flamboyant mystic "It must be so liberating to be an outspoken heretic, if you can dress so lightly and still walk with so much poise and dignityu"
Tang gnashes his teeth while Renshu poses and shows off his "Fashion", which is mostly just some leather belts he's found and a thin silken veil "No, what the hell are those two, Master Huanliuxue"
"They're my students as carmine mystics, I'm sure you've heard of them. I've purified that forbidden art and made it my own, so stop sweating, they aren't demonic cultivators. Renshu is just overly thrilled with his change" You explain kindly, knowing it won't do much good, but feeling a need to defend your students "The other, more demure and somber of the pair, is Ruolan"
"Do you make sport of committing offenses against the common sense of cultivation, Bloodshed?" Master Shidi asks with a scowl beneath his tangled mess of a beard. He, like his rival, are still covered in bandages and are drinking spirit medicine elixrs rather than the ginseng tea master Su is offering.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 01 Jan 2024 06:42:27 No. 5879050 Report >>5879049 While now one armed Huofeng has simply tied the sleeve that would've contained his now missing arm up to the stump that it left behind
"Yes" You snicker as you stride up to the table and sit down on your haunches
"She has shown us that much of the rules we follow are meaningless, and in fact keep us from reaching our full potential" Master Xia says with a wry smile as Shidi's scowl deepens into a grimace as he looks at innocent Ruolan and. Well you can't stomach calling Renshu innocent with how shamelessly he's dressed "She is after all, an afront to the laws of cultivation herself, just by existing, so why not go all the way, I approve in your choice of disciples, they must be worthy to be your students, no matter how they are trained"
"Ass-kisser" Lord Shidi snorts, shaking his head as Xia takes his insult as well as can be expected, by hurling his cup at his rival's head
"Calm yourself Tang, these two are no malevolent force" Master Su scolds "They're simply practice a different style of cultivation than you or I do, like the follower of any other law of cultivation. But we should cut iron and chop nails, and approach the matter at hand rather than hurl insults and tableware at one another or gawk at our peer's students or their peculiar choice of dress"
"I have no idea what is going on" Huofeng sighs, slouching in his chair "Why were we summoned here? for what purposed do we convene"
"Yes, let us get to the matter at hand. We've beaten the winter blossoming wisdom sect, and the dusk marsh wolves have repaid the debt owed to the palace of natural laws, but there is still the issue that no ceasefire has yet been called" Shidi Xiudao says, after taking a moment to compose himself and set down the knife he was about to bury into Xia's leg
"I've already enforced a ceasefire" You state imperiously, with a smug look on your feline face as you lick the back of your paw lazily "I did so immediately. Turns out, being as strong as I am, makes calling for one a breeze. As easy as lifting my own paw, as it were, Heh-Heh"
"She has, while you and Xia were recovering from your wounds, she and I and the head of the temple of celestial fire, took to the skies and proclaimed her victory and called for a ceasing of hostilities, which they winter blossoming wisdom sect is unable to contest in their present state"
"And I've had ghosts go traveling around explaining the situation and making sure that everyone knows the fighting has stopped" You explain chipperly, setting your paw on the table "And have sent more lively messengers to the other sects of the region, to send representatives to preside over the trial of the villainous winter blossoming wisdom sect"
Shidi waits for you to finish speaking before talking himself, a wise choice, if he interrupted you, you'd have smacked him over the head for being rude.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 01 Jan 2024 06:43:28 No. 5879051 Report >>5879050 "Just because they can't complain doesn't mean they'll listen to your order to stop fighting" He points out sagely and with a lifted finger "But since they were beaten so soundly and have lost their strongest member and sect head, it is unlikely even their most stalwart of allies will answer their calls for help, as honor means nothing to them, and by your strength alone they will be detered"
"Of course they will be" Xia says with a nod "Huanliuxue just handily tore apart one of the most feared cultivators of the region, with a reputation for killing demonic beasts, and did so while making a mockery of one of their strongest known techniques"
"It was a pretty incredible display of strength" Huofeng of the temple of celestial fire agrees "And the other sects will be hesitant to make an enemy of you, even if you are a heretic who boldly goes against all the rules and traditions they follow and live by"
"And even if the winter blossoming wisdom sect prove to be foolish enough to continue fighting a lost battle, the palace of natural laws has earned more legitimacy in the eyes of the other sects by calling for the ceasefire" Master Su explains with a wave of his hand, splashing tea across the table "Though I did not know you had asked those same sects form a jury, or that you intended to bring your enemies to court"
"I'd have just taken their lands and looted their treasure" Xia shamelessly proclaims, feet kicked upon to the table "Since your mere existence, lady Huanliuxue, has made it clear the heavens don't care to enforce their own laws"
"Personally, I'd have offered penance and pardon to the survivors in exchange for oaths of peace to ensure there'd be no more needless bloodshed" Shidi explains with a disgusted look thrown the way of his rival "But, if the danger is dealt with, I have no place giving advice, our alliance will be dissolved, as the debt we owed you has been repaid"
"And the temple of celestial fire is awaiting your support to cut ties with their overlord sect" Huofeng states with a nod "As payment for the aid given in your fight with the winter blossoming wisdom sect, and similarly has no right to speak out of turn on such matters"
"Well, Master Su, Master Xia? our alliance has no reason to fall apart just because the danger has passed. We have nothing to lose and much to gain by making it official, do we? Even if the dusk marsh wolves are departing now that their honor has been fed and appeased" You say coolly, revealing the reason you called the meeting and only now beginning to approach the subject of making your sect alliance official
"We do have much to learn from one another, and as you said, much to gain through friendship. Our lands will be safer with a formal alliance between our temples, and trade will flourish now that we are closer" Master Su agrees with more words than need to be said "And our disciples will benefit greatly from an increased mingling between our temples, Master Xia?"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 01 Jan 2024 06:44:29 No. 5879052 Report >>5879051 "I would be honored to continue to serve Mistress Bloodshed, and I have already promised her whatever she desires as well as the loyalty of myself, my clan, and my sect" Xia answers, though he doesn't need to since he's been practically licking your paws ever since you put the fear of Huanliuxue into him during your decent from the heavens
"Gutless weasel" Shidi growls "And the dusk marsh wolves will never stand beside the summer sea dawn sect as allies or friends"
"Again" Xia mocks, and Shidi glares at him like he's trying to skin him alive with his thoughts alone, what a scary looking face he's making "Oh so cruel, after I saved your sorry excuse for a life"
"Hah, we've fulfilled our oath and will return to our swamp" Shidi says simply, turning to face you, face slowly reddening as he tries to control the anger simmering inside of him "Beyond that, the palace of natural laws, will not be listed amongst our enemies, unlike their new found subordinate"
"And the five colors and five purities?" Tang presses, after Su whispers into his ear
"You've earned our respect, at least. We will not avoid either of your sects and will treat them like any other" He states as he rises from his seat, standing only with the help of a pair of crutches "But I suppose, besides preserving our honor, this temporary alliance, did give me the pleasure of seeing the dusk marsh wolves sect rise higher than the summer sea dawn, since we remain our own masters. So thank you, for making this scum reveal his true colors to the world, Huanliuxue"
"The tides of the sea are ever changing, unlike the stagnant slime of the swamp" Xia serenly replies, while Shidi spits at him and gives him a final look of contempt before hobbling away
"My sect needs you to break free from their own masters, so at least until then, we have a mutual enemy to stand together against" Huofeng answers simply, with an uneasy smile "If the gods be kind, maybe our sects will forge a bond as strong as that between the palace, five colors, and summer sea, but for now, it is just an alliance of benefit for the temple of celestial fire"
"So neither of you have any complaints about formalizing our alliance?" You ask with a cheerful grin as you flick your tail
"None at all, the palace and five colors already share many techniques, and are privileged to be the only two sects in Chuan to control a harmonious five elements spring, which alone would make it wise for us to ally, so as not to compete or challenge one another over the influence such a wonder brings" Master Su answers just as cheerfully "And both our sects have helped one another often enough that it is only natural for us to declare one another as allies to the rest of the world of cultivation"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 01 Jan 2024 06:46:07 No. 5879053 Report >>5879052 "I have stated it before, I serve you, Huanliuxue, and will fulfill your desires as you command me" Xia says with a shrug of his shoulders "A shark knows to follow fishing nets for an easy meal. The smart thing to do when you find someone who is terrifyingly strong is to ask them to be your master"
"Just like how you chose your wife, henpecked minnow!" Shidi shouts from somewhere in the street
"One moment, I will be back soon" Xia grumbles
Leaving you, Ruolan, Renshu, Fa Jin and Tang, and Su Zhe'xínglǚ to wait until his return to discuss the name of your now official three sect alliance while Xia Jīnsè-shāyú picks a fight with Su Zhe'xínglǚ [
<span class="mu-s"> Triple vote! Again </span>
What do you pick for the name of your alliance with the 5 colors & 5 purities and Summer sea dawn sects
>The Tomb, Mountain and Sea >The Bountiful Spring pact >The Heavens Defying Sects >The Three Deaths >Something else (write in) And just as importantly, what do you name your new artifact
>Moon Collapse >Red Madness >Red Moon's Maddening Collapse >Blood Lunacy >Something else (Write in, new or previous allowed) And finally, what do you do once all of that is sorted out, Huanliuxue?
>Study and practice carmine mysticism with Ruolan and Renshu (Mental/ Carmine Mysticism Training. DC 165. General or Verdant path focused?) >Celebrate your victory, thanking Lord Chuan, the Buddhist monks, and your allies while commending your own students for their deeds in battle, and inform the common people under your protection that the "Demonic Sect" has been vanquished >Ask the prisoners you've taken to reach out to the other members of the winter blossoming wisdom sect and ask them to beg them to turn themselves over to judgement peacefully and stop fighting, while you wait for the other sects to respond to your call for a trial. >Figure out what to do with Xue Laohue's eye and his scythe >Using your cult and influence over Lord Chuan, make it so Ghosts, Demonic Beasts, and those Half beasts your roar created are considered citizens within Chuan, at least by its mundane laws and people >Write in Also i noticed the google doc has Baifenchi marked as FE Rank 6, instead of FE Rank 1. But that's the only inaccuracy I noticed in its most recent update
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>>5879053 Ah! Forgive this Junior, he shall break his nose kowtowing if that will amend his failure.
>The heaven defying sects Its short, catchy and allows for new members.
>Moon collapse. >Use our cult to turn half beasts and full beasts into citizens by mundane law. >Also ease any tensions between buddhists and daoists in the region. >USE A DROP OF GODLY BLOOD TO REFINE OUR CARMINE MYSTICISM. Anonymous
>>5879087 Before I forget.
>Dispatch our carmine mystics to harvest the blood left on the battlefield. Clean it up to prevent negative effects on the enviroment and provide materials for their own advancement. Anonymous
>>5879053 >The Bountiful Spring pact >Something else (Lunar Collapse) >Celebrate your victory, thanking Lord Chuan, the Buddhist monks, and your allies while commending your own students for their deeds in battle, and inform the common people under your protection that the "Demonic Sect" has been vanquished Really outta get this outta the way. Then dealing with the prisoner, and THEN we can hang out with Ruolan and Renshu.
Love those two btw, Renshu in particular is already shaping out to be a favorite!
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>>5879053 >The Tomb, Mountain and Sea >Blood Lunacy >Dispatch our carmine mystics to harvest the blood left on the battlefield. Clean it up to prevent negative effects on the enviroment and provide materials for their own advancement. Happy new years, Gramps and fellow students
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>>5879053 Sect name write-in
>Mountain Dawn of Color Seas Alliance. Dawn as it is the start of a new era.
Artifact
>Moon Collapse >Celebrate your victory, thanking Lord Chuan, the Buddhist monks, and your allies while commending your own students for their deeds in battle, and inform the common people under your protection that the "Demonic Sect" has been vanquished >Invite the dusk wolves to at least join the celebrations a good meal and drink before they head home. Once the celebrations are finished we deal with various things around our land such as dealing with the winter sect, further legitimizing our sect, and deal with prisoners.
Grandfather could we delegate the prisoners/treaty/the winter sects surrender stuff to the geges and swiang? I believe with swiang handling such a case would be the break though he needs to obtain human form.
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>>5879053 >The Tomb, Mountain and Sea >Red Madness >Figure out what to do with Xue Laohue's eye and his scythe But also
>>5879091 +1 to having our Renshu and Ruolan look at the Blood Moon's handiwork.
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So, after we finish this Cultivation War, what is our list of things to do? Besides following list:
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>>5879153 Priorities.
Smash the stone puppet in thst library. Smash it dead.
Put the kingdom of ghosts under our full control.
Use our godly blood, supercharge our blood refinement.
Find causius belli to Kill the Ling.
Cintinue to expand our ability to bring in awakened beasts into our sect.
And as a personal note, I want to bring Lord Chuan up to par, teach him a few trinkets and occultic secrets. But we can also use him to unite the mortal world into a new empire, in our image perhaps.
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>>5879053 >The Tomb, Mountain and Sea >Red Madness >Study and practice carmine mysticism with Ruolan and Renshu (Mental/ Carmine Mysticism Training. DC 165. General or Verdant path focused?) Anonymous
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>>5879053 >The Heavens Defying Sects An Audacious name for an Audcaious cat's Alliance
>Moon Collapse >Red Moon's Maddening Collapse >Ask the prisoners you've taken to reach out to the other members of the winter blossoming wisdom sect and ask them to beg them to turn themselves over to judgement peacefully and stop fighting, while you wait for the other sects to respond to your call for a trial. Anonymous
>>5879053 >>5879087 >>USE A DROP OF GODLY BLOOD TO REFINE OUR CARMINE MYSTICISM. I've been voting for this basically since my write-in to grab these blood spatters
>>5879091 >>Dispatch our carmine mystics to harvest the blood left on the battlefield. Clean it up to prevent negative effects on the enviroment and provide materials for their own advancement. Delegation! Its what leaders do.
>The Bountiful Spring pact I like harmless names. Also, we are really the good ones!
>Moon Collapse I like harmless names and not announcing our techniques to our enemies.
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>>5879153 A thought occured to me, waking in abstract terror in the middle of the night. A grave threat to the honour of our sect. . .
Our disciples have no fashion sense!
We must quickly away, send little snake princess to get Anji to make our FE students clothing!
I think we agreed in a previous thread between players that FE is a good time to get them spider silk armour
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 03 Jan 2024 08:56:32 No. 5881000 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying its result now.
The heaven defying sects:2
The Bountiful Spring pact:2
The Tomb, Mountain and Sea:3
Mountain Dawn of Color Seas Alliance.:1
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Moon Collapse:4
Lunar Collapse:1
Blood Lunacy:1
Red Madness:2
Red Moon's Maddening Collapse:1
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Use our cult to turn half beasts and full beasts into citizens by mundane law.1
ease any tensions between buddhists and daoists in the region.:1
USE A DROP OF GODLY BLOOD TO REFINE OUR CARMINE MYSTICISM.:2
Dispatch our carmine mystics to harvest the blood left on the battlefield. Clean it up to prevent negative effects on the environment and provide materials for their own advancement.:3
Celebrate your victory, thanking Lord Chuan, the Buddhist monks, and your allies while commending your own students for their deeds in battle, and inform the common people under your protection that the "Demonic Sect" has been vanquished:2
Invite the dusk wolves to at least join the celebrations a good meal and drink before they head home.:1
Figure out what to do with Xue Laohue's eye and his scythe:1
Study and practice carmine mysticism with Ruolan and Renshu:1
Ask the prisoners you've taken to reach out to the other members of the winter blossoming wisdom sect and ask them to beg them to turn themselves over to judgement peacefully and stop fighting, while you wait for the other sects to respond to your call for a trial:1
So the alliance between the Palace of Natural laws, Five colors and five purities, and Summer Sea Dawn Sects will be known as the Tomb, Mountain and Sea
The magical dagger will be known as moon collapse
And you'll dispatch Renshu and Ruolan to harvest any blood left on the battlefield, to prevent any unfortunate side effects from its presence, and to gather resources for their own advancements
Update will arrive shortly
>>5879102 Glad you enjoy them, Renshu is a treat to write.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 03 Jan 2024 10:20:10 No. 5881026 Report Once what could be generously described as a fight between to the heads of two illustrious daoist sects and more accurately described as two half crippled bums clumsily exchanging blows to the pity and amusement of the passing crowds, you, Master Su and Master Xia discuss the name of the alliance now formed between your three sects. Even if really, Xia is signing his oath of loyalty and subservience to you and the palace you have built. Which is why, after a quick discussion amongst the tallest branches of the primordial tree covering all of Suiqi in its gentle shade, that it is decided that amongst equals, the summer sea dawn sect would be represented last, since in essence they aren't really YOUR equals, since their head has sworn loyalty to you and more or less become your vassal out of sheer pragmatism and survival instinct. It'd almost be praise worthy if it wasn't such a gutless move, and one he made without the consent of the elders beneath him or his apparently stronger wife and Master Su advices you to not so openly display and flaunt the dominance over the Xia clan and the sect they rule over, at least until the other influential figures in it meet you and quickly come to accept that they're better off as your subjects.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 03 Jan 2024 10:21:11 No. 5881027 Report >>5881026 But if others want membership, you can always adjust the name of the alliance later, its not as important or unchanging as say, the name of Sect or a hard to get rid of epithet that sticks to you like blood on fur.
And while you would've liked to write the tomb part of the alliances name with the character for an emperor's final resting place, that spelling used the same tomb the Ling used as their family name, and being a part of an alliance bearing a part of those bastard's name would be as disgusting as eating a handful of mud.
So instead, you spell it as Fénmùshānérhǎi (Tomb, Mountain, and sea, 坟墓山而海) and decide its emblem will be a combination of the symbols of its three member sects. Of course both of these are likely to change once others learn of your beneficent nature or simple natural superiority as a cultivator and genius prodigy unstrained by the stagnant traditions and choking laws ordained by the nine heavens.
With that important decision out of the way, Monu and Su discussing boring things about their youths and Xuebai stalking after Xia to torment the man some more as he hobbles off back to his bed so he can meditate and focus on directing his body's internal energies healing the wounds the bastard Xue gave him, you're left alone to ponder something equally important.
What to name the very useful and nifty knife of hardened moonlight that you've recently come into ownership of. This time, you deign to ask those with lacking taste, lackluster style, threadbare etiquette and faulty senses of refinement, as well as the students you like the most and think have the best ideas that don't come from the shrewd mind you possess.
Ping, Feiqing and Lei in particular are good walls to bounce your ideas off of, even if one of them can't speak. As are Baifenchi and Jionghuagege. You try to drag Qiang into the fun, but she slips away the moment you tell her how exactly she needs to amuse you, same as Yujijiao, who makes an excuse when you explain what exactly you want her opinion on.
You of course, already had the best name possible for your treasure in mind when you started asking your disciples and randomly picked servants of the palace of natural laws or passing Nobility from Suiqi whose houses you might've entered uninvited and whose windows you might've broken when you found it difficult to navigate the maze of their palaces' interiors.
And that would be moon collapse. But Feiqing and Ping point out that many of the ways that can be written are, well they don't say it openly, but they are right to think that several ways of writing that catchy name for an amazing knife, are boring, plain and reek of an unrefined mind, so the three of you, plus Lei who is playing around with your knife and cutting his thumbs, finger and palms with it with no noticeable change to his demeanor, figure out the most elegant spelling of Moon collapse, as such a wonderous, heavenly treasure deserves.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 03 Jan 2024 10:22:12 No. 5881028 Report >>5881027 In the end, you settle on spelling it as Yuèqiú tāxiàn (月球塌陷), with the characters for the moon, and the word to sink or cave in. Which are strangely fitting for the knife, considering how and where you found it, and you always enjoy a good double meaning in a name,
And with nothing else to do besides wait for the old fogies who are, by technicality alone, your peers by way of being the patriarchs and matriarchs of their own sects, you decided to clean up your own mess.
By having Ruolan and Renshu clean it up for you, sending them out into the battlefield that even the cultivators who fought in it avoid and rumors are spreading amongst the mortal and dead populace of Suiqi and its surrounding settlements of it being cursed or haunted, as if there aren't ghost walking the streets or even gossiping with them about the bloody field like they were sharing ghost stories. And while that could be chalked up to the superstition of commoners who don't know better, you know that much blood Qi will attract all the wrong kinds of attention and leave the worst impression of yourself and more importantly your sect as a whole if you just leave it to fester and pollute the landscape.
And the moment you give them their orders, they recruit several lesser alchemists, including the one who chickened out from being granted your blood and Qi to ascend into a higher state like they did, to assist them in the gathering of blood. And you decide to keep some of your other students busy so they don't cause trouble, sending Houmogui and Baifenchi. You'd have sent little river bastard, but the little thug is helping Chuandapo and Huili "Patrol the border". Which as far as you can tell, and Siwang and Yinying and Fu have told you, mostly involves scaring travelers down the roads and rivers to amuse themselves.
You'd have gone back to your temple, but you can't be certain that the other sect heads of Chuan don't want to die and have their seats torn to the ground, so you, and all the forces you gathered to defend Suiqi, including Uncle Shoushan's Buddhist warrior monks and the surviving Alchemically refined soldiers, stay there. As does Lord Chuan, who, though you haven't run into him, has been convinced by Xia Xiaosi, whose become something of a wild man since he's been given the job of tending to the young magical beasts of the city, that each of the demon cats lounging around and seeking your attention and favor, were personally blessed and uplifted to their present state by your touch.
Something which has made Qiang and Yinying oddly testy and snappy whenever that harmless prank is brought up in their presence.
And, it turns out killing one of the strongest cultivators in Chuan, makes for quicker replies, as you don't have to wait long at all, you didn't even get bored telling outright lies to the most annoying occultists and wannabe sages who sought your wisdom by time you got your first reply.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 03 Jan 2024 10:23:13 No. 5881030 Report >>5881028 Which was a magnificent jade slip carved with the seal of every sect in Chuan except of course your own, the five colors and five purities, the dusk marsh wolves or the summer sea dawn sect.
However, instead of sending representatives to Suiqi or better yet, your temple where you hold the greatest advantage, they ask or rather bluntly demand, that you take time out of your day that could be spent on duties vital to the running of your sect and domain or refining your cultivation or improving or inventing new techniques, to travel to a meeting location of their choosing, in the center of the province, where they say they'll send a delegation of their senior members and will urge the Winter blossoming wisdom sect to travel to as well.
So not all orthodox cultivators are born without brains. Though, that's only if this isn't their attempt to set up an ambush. Surprisingly, they claim to have managed to reach the current head of the winter blossoming wisdom sect, another Xue and one of Monu's grandchildren who you've never heard about. But beyond the meeting location and time, the message is purposefully vague.
And you got another message, by way of a gutted swordsman draped outside of Suiqi's walls. Which has to be the doing of the seven slaughtering swords. But since you aren't a murderous psychopath, its meaning is lost to you, unless they're thinking like cats and think you might have forgotten how to feed yourself. It could be a threat or their idea of a friendly greeting.
And around the same time that bloodied corpse is found, Renshu, Ruolan, Houmogui and Baifenchi finish cleaning up the battlefield and gathering the blood that was spilled or fell as rain over it.
Ruolan and Houmogui look frightened when you go out to admire their handiwork and see the fruits of their labor, which are six clay vats tall, wide and deep enough to drown at least a dozen men in each, filled to their lip with blood that they had carefully pulled from the ground or scooped from the pools it had settled into, oddly without congealing or going rancid,.
And when Baifenchi off handedly tells you what has them so scared, they have good reason to be.
There were less swords and corpses on the battlefield than there were when Baifenchi last counted them. Seems like the ogress and corpse stealer both snuck in and stole away their prizes. In fact, technically, you're still allied with the Ogress, so she might've actually taken part in the fighting and just wasn't seen admits the chaos. A battle maniac like her wouldn't steal swords from corpse they didn't make themselves. Wait. Neither her joining the fight or skulking around in the after math make any sense. Fu, Qiang, Hong, Lanfen and Liu would've spotted her instantly, and you couldn't mistake her scent or Aura even if it was raining blood
Which means either the swords and corpses were stolen by common and petty thieves, or Jingyu stole them all, bodies and blades alike, himself.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 03 Jan 2024 10:24:35 No. 5881031 Report >>5881030 But why would he take swords? Eh, maybe he's trying to court the ogress or something, and that's assuming that is what happened, instead of some down on their luck bandits braving the battlefield rumored to be cursed or filled with blood sucking monsters and man devouring trees. Or a certain cult of sword fanatics did it, and the corpse they left was their way of asking permission to loot the dead.
How do you answer the demands of the rest of Chuan's cultivators, Huanliuxue?
>Counter Demand they come to your temple and kiss your feet for daring to think they can boss you around >Concede and travel there, reasoning they'd have to be unbelievably stupid to think they could lead you into an ambush, so this can't be a trap >Use some of the gathered blood to make a puppet out of and possess it to travel to the meeting spot, since you don't want to risk your friend and preferred vessel Yuyi's life >Send a message back that you will be late, and investigate who stole the swords and corpses >Bring Tian Mei and the other valuable winter blossoming wisdom sect prisoners with you (Can be taken with the Concede or blood puppet options) >Write in Anonymous
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>>5881031 >Use some of the gathered blood to make a puppet out of and possess it to travel to the meeting spot, since you don't want to risk your friend and preferred vessel Yuyi's life Anonymous
>>5881031 >Concede and travel there, reasoning they'd have to be unbelievably stupid to think they could lead you into an ambush, so this can't be a trap >Use some of the gathered blood to make a puppet out of and possess it to travel to the meeting spot, since you don't want to risk your friend and preferred vessel Yuyi's life We'd do both as if it's a trap we can countertrap and be like, "Really? Do you think you could outsmart my outsmarting? Those who wish to live bow their heads the rest will die for this transgression. Also, the head of the head schemer will be mine."
Also, it would be funny that they think they killed the great demon only to see us appear above them with a smile and beat the shit out of them.
Anonymous
>>5881031 Right so, Im going to do something annoying now. Im going to keep voting for using that godly blood drop until it passes. I provide this warning to blunt my fellow disciples annoyance and perhaps encourage them to help me further.
>Refine our carmine mysticism with the god blood before we go. >Make a puppet out of blood to go to the meeting place. >>5881020 Foundation Establishment.
The stages are QG QC, FE, CF, GC, NS.
Qi gathering Qi condensation, foundation establishment, core formation, golden core and nascent soul, so far.
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>>5881031 >Send a message back that you will be late, and investigate who stole the swords and corpses Oh? Did you think you were important?
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>>5881118 >>5881118 I can support this.
If they do betray us while we are there, we should have our puppet ask for anyone uninvolved in the conspiracy to speak so we know who to spare when we kill them all.
Anonymous
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>>5881031 >Send a message back that you will be late, and investigate who stole the swords and corpses Anonymous
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>>5881125 I'll support this proposal because it's current year 2024 and it's high time to use that droplet of blood, preferably before we make the puppet.
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>>5881125 >>5881031 Supporting divine blood Carmine Mysticism. Super-vampirism might become the new phasing otherwise (RIP Crusty Jones).
My reasoning is that we need to become stronger (against Ling, two other Heretics and expulsed gods etc.) despite our sect not being able to fend off a further tribulation caused by Qi cultivation. We need non-Qi cultivation now, and Carmine Mysticism is what we have access to.
Also (lower priority than answering the other sects at all): send a blood puppet.
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>>5879391 Anonymous
>>5881031 >Send a message back that you will be late, and investigate who stole the swords and corpses We should NOT underestimate fucking Jingyu
Anonymous
>>5881350 Then join the blood coalition, become more powerful to face Jingyu
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>>5881031 >Send a message back that you will be late, and investigate who stole the swords and corpses Bit of a catch 22 to try and power up before chasing Jingyu, which will give him more time to gather corpses and grow stronger.
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>>5881517 If you can power up with a day before the winter blossoming sect arrives, you can power up before you go and hunt a foundation establishment cultivator. It took us a few weeks of intense mediation to rocket to GC, he is still in late FE. A days delay is nothing.
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>>5881031 >Drink the God's blood droplet >Send a message back that you will be late, and investigate who stole the swords and corpses I say it's time we finally take the power up and investigate. We need to settle those missing corpses and swords before doing anything, they surely can afford to wait.
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>>5881031 >Use some of the gathered blood to make a puppet out of and possess it to travel to the meeting spot, since you don't want to risk your friend and preferred vessel Yuyi's life Also
>>5881350 +1
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>>5881031 >Use some of the gathered blood to make a puppet out of and possess it to travel to the meeting spot, since you don't want to risk your friend and preferred vessel Yuyi's life Anonymous
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>>5881031 >>Counter Demand they come to your temple and kiss your feet for daring to think they can boss you around Anonymous
>>5881459 Dunno man, we have no idea what this will do to us and how it will affect us. As it stands, we already have many cool new abilities that we have hardly explored, for fighting Jingyu I'd feel more comfortable relying on what we already have.
Anonymous
>>5881915 We know it will supercharge our physical cultivation and unlock a lot more power.
Anonymous
>>5881930 I don't want filthy god blood of the bastards who sentenced our kind to death to fill our veins.
We are better of using it to fertilize the tree back home.
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>>5881959 Dont be stupid. We had a peach filled with the blood of who knows how many murderous bastards and defilers of decency.
And carmine mysticism itself is an art with disgusting and degrading histories. "Perfected" means it no longer corrupts inherently, not that it is a different art to the imperfect version and its history.
The blood will be consumed and used to fuel us. Just like the toad, Just like the old tiger, but 300 times better. Dont get stuck on sentimentality, think of the practicality.
Moreover I am going to recommend we use another of our 3 drops for our meditation chamber, so I assume you will oppose that as well?
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>>5881959 But we always did consume aspects of the bad guys! We totally ate that Toad (child-eater). We inserted knowledge about a nasty technique directly into our mind along with some memories of the Crow Demon (extremely nasty guy who also tolerated child-eating in his realm).
We only missed properly pressing everything out of the five cultivators sent to kill us which only strengthened Jingyu (should have eaten those too). We on a daily basis consume literal grudges from the ghosts of some of the worst guys below the heavens!
Tldr: we incorporate evil stuff in order to do good stuff all the time.
We are also not as strong as you might think. We took down the Snowman (extra vengeance: never use their name) only due to rolls more stellar than our newest techniques.
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>>5882163 I'd argue we owe more to pulling out a bunch of buffs at well placed intervals (blood rain, blood moon, lucky knife drop, Verdant Carmine Mysticism which needs a proper name for the form change). Same conclusion, but different path to it.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sat 06 Jan 2024 06:30:00 No. 5883280 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying the result now. Wasn't feeling well the last few days, but that is my own fault since I ate some dodgy fridge chicken.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sat 06 Jan 2024 08:21:20 No. 5883347 Report While the demanding tone of the message you got back, and that all the sects in Chuan besides those who have named you a friend of theirs or given their word on their neutrality towards your palace are sending disciples to meet you in what amounts to an open field far from your territory and sect, is certainly a cause for concern. Even a blind man would be able to tell how much all of it sounds like a trap, but you're smart enough to also realize that it would take mind boggling amounts of collective and combined incompetence incompetence and audacity to actually set up a trap that obvious that even a simpleton could notice. Levels of stupidity that even the most stone headed of orthodox cultivators would struggle to reach, the absolute peak of idiocy. But knowing how most of your fellow daoists live their lives and act, it is nearly as likely that they actually think you'd fall for such a blatantly obvious set up. But whether they're earnest or not, or if they're just trying to make you use face by having you act reasonably and cautiously after your latest grand display of power and overwhelming superiority, doesn't matter. It is, in the end, the lesser of the two problems you're facing right now.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sat 06 Jan 2024 08:22:21 No. 5883348 Report >>5883347 Who ever robbed the corpses and stole them away, doesn't care if they're discovered. They have a convenient patsy, since it is known you deal with arts and techniques pretty much every daoist that isn't wearing your pawprint would consider ghoulish perversions of their sacred methods and laws. Bar a few notable exceptions, of course. It wouldn't take much to convince those watching from the safety of their hidden temples and mist shrouded retreats, that you were the one who carried away the dead and ripped their swords from their noble but stone dead hands.
Actually, the more you think on it, the more dangerous this sounds. And you already considered it more of a risk than whatever the other sects are plotting, if they're even plotting at all. Sure, at first glance, it'd be easy to ease one's mind by just taking the obvious answers at face value. That desperate thieves turned graverobbers, or that the battle obsessed freak snuck into a chaotic battlefield, or that the monster that likes stappling and sowing dead flesh to their own body scrounged around taking his pick of the dead when it was finished, or that the demonic sect of sword lunatics decided to act like heretics should and discreetly grabbed hold of the opportunity to own several valuable and magical swords instead of letting it pass them by.
But the longer a shrewd mind such as yours thinks about it, the easy answers as to why have so many swords and bodies gone unaccounted for days after the fighting has ended fall apart under further scrutiny. Common criminals are superstitious and easily frightened, and you're pretty sure there isn't a soul who'd turn to grave robbing anywhere near Suiqi after you and Siwang culled the criminal population of the city. The ogress likes fighting and killing but she is also the furthest thing from subtle, so her entrance wouldn't have gone unnoticed even with the blizzard and its master raging, and while you've only met her once you know she wouldn't have sat out the fighting only to creep in to steal swords from warriors she could've cut down herself. It doesn't rule her out as a suspect, of course, since you'd put nothing past the ling especially gone whose gone rogue. Jingyu may be the most obvious suspect, as a scavenger by nature and trade, but even so you're uneasy and can't be certain that he is the culprit, for one thing, why would he take the swords when all he needs are the corpses. The effect the missing dead would have on your sect's reputation if rumors begin to spread about it would have, might just be a coincidence. The ogress is still, technically, your sect's ally and Jingyu doesn't care about anything besides cutting up the dead and growing his own power by robbing it from others.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sat 06 Jan 2024 08:23:22 No. 5883349 Report >>5883348 The seven slaughtering swords might've took offense that they weren't allowed to join the revelry of the night, or think you don't care about your standing with the other sects of Chuan, and they would have a reason for taking the swords as well as the bodies.
But what if, besides the three most likely candidates for defiling the dead left to the crows and worms, there was a fourth, hidden threat that did it just to smear the good reputation you've put so much work into establishing and that you've earned by being just more righteous and noble than the rest even if the laws, morality and virtues you uphold are your own and far more natural and wild than the ethics held by most of the rest of the world. Someone who have a reason to see you isolated, who holds a grudge against you, or else wants to force you into villainy despite that by nature you're more inclined to do good than evil, even during your more whimsy driven moments or wild fits of pique.
Two more suspects leap into your mind, like fish from a river.
The Ling, who you already know deal with forbidden cultivation techniques, and whose renegade scion is already on the mental list of who could've done it. And Demons. Actual demons, not your fellow magical beasts or demonic cultivators like Lei. And while they'd both have a reason to sully the palace of natural law's reputation, you also are well aware of the many uses a body could have in alchemy, for making poisons or medicines, at least once it was properly broken down and treated. The bounty Monu made out of the Crow king's remains was incredible, even if she was still playing coy and not telling you all she made out of it, including poisons she thought would've been wasted of Xue Laohue, the man whose painful death was the only thing that kept her breathing before she met you.
But if you dwell on the wealth of materials those corpses could've been turned into, the list of suspects grows and fills with all kinds of unknowables. Sure a witch like Monu or stray hungry ghost could've taken the dead for their own nefarious needs, but they also probably don't exist.
You can be certain, at least, the other suspects do exist and have a reason for stealing the swords of the dead and the dead themselves.
"Send a letter back to tribunal of sects, telling them that unforeseen troubles will delay my arrival to the site of the trial but the responsibilities I have to the lands and people under my rule are more important to me than seeing justice delivered to my enemies" You sigh heavily, a headache forming just behind your brow as you quiet your thoughts before they can grow too conspiratorial and ridiculous and issue your command to Feiqing, who has the best penmanship in your sect, besides yourself and Monu, who you won't trouble as she is busy gathering and cataloging the results of her labors of chopping up crow demon,
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sat 06 Jan 2024 08:24:22 No. 5883351 Report >>5883349 "Do not include the nature of these troubles in the letters, nor tell the messengers we send of them, but make it clear that this matter is pressing and that I am not just running away or trying to delay to by time for myself" You add sternly, flicking your tail side to side as you stand and slink away to put an end to the troubles personally
"Understood" Feiqing says with a nod "May I ask that Lanfen and Jionghuagege to assist me? we'll need to write several more letters than before, since we'll have to send a copy to both the sects themselves and their traveling representatives"
"You're the senior to both of them, you could just tell them to help you, but I'll give my word if you're not confident enough to command them yourself" You answer with a roll of your eyes as Feiqing nods again and bows, nearly hitting his head on the doorframe as he walks out of the room, still unused to the changes to his body brought about by his newly awakened bloodline.
Which suspect/ suspicion do you investigate, Huanliuxue? (You may order your disciples or request your allies investigate the others, if you so wish)
>Jingyu, that damn corpse thief has to be behind it. And Xuebai might've lost him but he'll be the easiest to track down, considering his habits and your ability to see ghosts and their grudges. >The seven slaughtering swords. They might be doing it out of pique or simply to enrich their armory, but they're as likely a suspect as Jingyu >Ling Yaonan. It shouldn't be hard to find her, and while why she would steal corpses as well as swords or else had joined the fight without being noticed are still mysteries, she is the ogress and a Ling at that. >The Ling themselves. Those dirty bastards have to be conspiring against you and trying to make you look bad! You don't even need to investigate them, you can just accuse them outright >This might be the work of devils, considering one came after your head and you found demon crow feathers before the battle with the winter blossoming wisdom sect >Another possibility (Write in) Anonymous
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>>5883351 >This might be the work of devils, considering one came after your head and you found demon crow feathers before the battle with the winter blossoming wisdom sect Anonymous
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>>5883351 >Ling Yaonan. It shouldn't be hard to find her, and while why she would steal corpses as well as swords or else had joined the fight without being noticed are still mysteries, she is the ogress and a Ling at that. Anonymous
>>5883351 >This might be the work of devils, considering one came after your head and you found demon crow feathers before the battle with the winter blossoming wisdom sect >Ask sis to investigate Jingyu >Send Yinying and Qiang to investigate the seven swords >Send our flying disciples to contact Yaonan as a technical ally >Get Yujijao to interrogate the ghosts of the fallen Anonymous
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>>5883351 >Jingyu, that damn corpse thief has to be behind it. And Xuebai might've lost him but he'll be the easiest to track down, considering his habits and your ability to see ghosts and their grudges. We need to find him anyway and he's the most likely culprit, and if he's not behind this i'm sure he hasn't been idle so stomping him out is still worth it.
I wanted ping to catch him but if the corpse thief really is so good then even with our tutoring it would be difficult to bridge the gap.
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>>5883351 >Seek out Jingyu Anonymous
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>>5883351 >Jingyu, that damn corpse thief has to be behind it. And Xuebai might've lost him but he'll be the easiest to track down, considering his habits and your ability to see ghosts and their grudges. Stealing weapons is one thing
Stealing corpses is another
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>>5883351 >This might be the work of devils, considering one came after your head and you found demon crow feathers before the battle with the winter blossoming wisdom sect I was pretty sure that it's Jingyu but after the update I think hell is behind it
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>>5883351 >This might be the work of devils, considering one came after your head and you found demon crow feathers before the battle with the winter blossoming wisdom sect Anonymous
>>5883351 Could be multiple independent culprits. Seven Swords collecting blades, and Jingyu collecting bits?
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>Jingyu, that damn corpse thief has to be behind it. And Xuebai might've lost him but he'll be the easiest to track down, considering his habits and your ability to see ghosts and their grudges. Have Qiang ask
>The seven slaughtering swords. They might be doing it out of pique or simply to enrich their armory, but they're as likely a suspect as Jingyu Seems unlikely they wouldn't just tell us if it was them.
Personally handle
>This might be the work of devils, considering one came after your head and you found demon crow feathers before the battle with the winter blossoming wisdom sect Best to leave this one to us since it might be personal.
Ask Monu to
> Make discreet inquiries within our own sect Wouldn't be surprised to find out our own people are gathering corpses for alchemy, necromancy or blades for some project of Feiqing's.
The Ling...just doesn't feel right to me. Still best to be thorough. Set members of the Summer Sea Dawn sect on a discrete investigation of possible Ling involvement. Set an orthodox dog to catch an orthodox dog and all that.
The Ogress...really seems unlike her, and no one comes to mind who would be good to track her down. Not opposed to someone else's suggestion on tracking a lead though. Ghost snek?
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>>5883711 >>5883434 Supporting all this as an addition to my original vote as well.
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>>5883351 >The Ling themselves. Those dirty bastards have to be conspiring against you and trying to make you look bad! You don't even need to investigate them, you can just accuse them outright Anonymous
>>5883711 Changing mine to support
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>>5883351 Write-in
>Ask the Ghosts of the people. No doubt some were lingering around the battle, lost, and would've seen them take their body away. Anonymous
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>>5884680 Oh this is actually a really good idea, +1
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>>5883351 >>5884680 This is actually simple and effective. Ghosts do tend to know who fucks with their corpse. Or at least have a vague idea. With the number of corpses gone we're sure to find several lingering and pissed off spirits.
>support Anonymous
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>>5884680 Support in addition to previous stuff
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>>5884680 Yes supporting this smart move
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>>5884680 >>5884126 Once again changing mine to support this new idea instead lmao.
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>>5884680 My write-in actually included this stuff already, lol
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>>5884680 Supporting. Can't believe I forgot we can talk to dead people.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 08 Jan 2024 12:05:18 No. 5885455 Report Quoted By:
>>5885454 And I got the name wrong of the quest I was recommending! I am so ashamed I do not know if I should laugh or cry, and have surely lost face for this careless conduct.
Normal cultivator quest, not common.
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>>5885454 Every cultivator quest I check out, except this one, ends up dying. Maybe it's something wrong with me?
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 08 Jan 2024 13:54:42 No. 5885495 Report Watching Feiqing struggle to maneuver through the door frame, your eyes are drawn to the new add to his look brought about by said awakening. The star jade color of his eyes, the nubs of horns growing from his head, how high his face is now because of his growth spurt and of course, the iron grey hue his skin was taking on that made it look like he had just been pulled from a forge himself, still covered with soot and hot embers. While it made you feel pity for the man, who was already reviled and outcast no matter where he was due to his natural ugliness, you couldn't help but wonder if that was the end of the changes his lineage would cause. He already was starting to resemble a hybrid between human and forge devil, especially when he brought the metal he infused into his skin to the surface. And as the room dimmed with his absence and you pulled your idle thoughts back to the matters at hand and the mystery of the vanished corpses and stolen swords, a realization struck you as hard as Feiqing's fists strike the anvils he works with.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 08 Jan 2024 13:55:42 No. 5885496 Report >>5885495 'Perhaps he has been stolen as well' you think grimly as you push aside this new mystery and flop onto your side with a sigh, closing your eyes as you step out of your body and through the nearest wall as a severed spirit, a living ghost. Quickly transforming your ethereal form, you adopt an appearance close to your human form but more ragged and purposefully flawed and drained of color, so your star striking beauty doesn't stand out amongst the rest of the dead.
You pause in front of a mirror, looking over your ghostly disguise to make sure you don't look too much like your naturally comely self, and not so much like wild fairy, adjusting your ethereal form's facial features and misty dress so you'll just look like any other self pitying dead cultivator stuck in the battleground that snuffed out their life.
'I ended up looking like Yuyi, more than anything else' you realize, amused as you poke at the false freckles on your fake, spectral face. It feels stiff and like a mask. It'd be easier to just turn into your soul's natural, flame like form, but that would make you identity even more obvious to vengeful ghosts of the winter blossoming wisdom sect, since your ghost flame is pretty unique in its coloration and the movements of its otherworldly fire.
There's a shriek, and some serving girl who was unfortunate enough to have a weak spiritual sense drops the stack of dirtied plates she was carrying as she nearly walks through you, and, probably thinking you were the specter of some murdered servant who came before her, falls on her behind and cries out covering her head and praying loudly, ironically, to you! Not knowing that who she's praying to can hear her prays, because she's standing right in front of her, wearing a purposefully blood stained robe. Smirking, you glide over the trembling woman and make haste to the battlefield, which has as many wandering ghosts as it did last time you walked it to collect the blood that had been gathered from it.
As to be expected, most of them don't know they're dead yet and are too befuddled and confused to be of any use. This is common for most who die suddenly. Fu's father was the same, if you recall correctly.
'Huh, that old man has probably been reborn already, and so are the kids of my home village' you think to yourself as you float over the bodies, trailed by a curious Baifenchi who was one part of the "corpse retrieval force" that had been quickly put together once things had calmed down enough that burying the dead was no longer the least of the many concerns everyone had. You think Xia Xiaosi is also a part of it, since his father ditched him in Suiqi once he recovered enough to hobble back to the sea with most of the rest of the disciples he brought with him to the fight. The thought alone is sweet enough to bring a smile to your face, especially when you think about the children who you buried and avenged before you even knew what you were.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 08 Jan 2024 13:56:43 No. 5885497 Report >>5885496 "What are you smiling about" A churlish, pouty voice drawls, sounding like they're on the verge of angry tears. Turning, you see a cultivator who looks like he had the bad luck to run headlong into one of Fu's axes, judging by the fact his ugly, though not as ugly as feiqing's, is split in two. He's already showing signs of becoming a hungry ghost, with grudges swirling around him like a vortex and fangs sprouting to replace the teeth in his jaws
"We're all dead, you know! Our sect is broken and scattered, and we were cut down like dogs! The heavens have abandoned us, and we aren't even going to get proper burials, dammit! Wipe that damn smile off your face!" He rages, gnashing and bearing his teeth
Baifenchi flutters her wings, but says nothing. Clever girl that she is, she realized you must have a reason for disguising yourself.
"But we didn't die without reason, surely" You say in flighty, airy voice like you having nothing in your head besides clouds and fond memories, and have to fight the urge not to laugh at the ridiculous lie you just told
"Even if we killed some of the traitorous bastards who decided to side with a man eating demon over their fellow daoist, We still died" The ghost says sadly, thinking you to be one of his more naive and stupid martial sisters, his regrets darkening his eyes as he bows "And our patriarch was torn apart, surely, devoured to his bones. Beasts are picking through the battlefield and carrying off the living, while we're left here to rot or be picked at by the crows and vultures"
You freeze, trying to think how a naive idiot girl who would still be smiling even after dying a horrible death would respond to something as bitter and cynical as what the ghost just told you, since your carefree and happy smile must've made you seem the type of fool who doesn't know what fear is or has ever had a gloomy day in their lives.
"Do you not think they're taking the living to heal and the dead to bury" You question, a bit of your own frustration slipping through the role you were playing, as despite yourself, being accused of being a brutish animal or wicked demon was still one of the easiest ways to piss you off.
He just looks at you with a broken smile that you've only seen torture victims down in hell wear before, and just laughs as he cries, holding his head in his hands. Sighing, you leave him to his tears, since clearly he wasn't nearly as mentally put together as you had hoped, and go off to look for ghosts that aren't consumed as consumed by the melancholy of death or lost in a fantasy as this one was.
You watch a group of them looking for their swords and other valuables, who ignore you or rather don't notice you even as you shout in their ears as loudly as you can. You find a pack of female ghosts consoling eachother but they don't have anything to say besides assurances that they're still beautiful in death.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 08 Jan 2024 13:57:43 No. 5885498 Report >>5885497 And you listen to two men from the dusk marsh wolves and the summer sea dawn arguing whose fault it is that they're dead for awhile.
You finally find a useful witness, after trying to get a ghost to stop crying about the loss of their heirloom weapon, and after you kick them off of your leg as they bury their face in your robes to cry and wail about it some more after they had just started to describe who took it from their corpse' clammy hands. They're a Buddhist monk, who is talking gently to one of the ghosts you passed by earlier, dressed in armor and missing half of their side from what looks like a common Qi blast.
"Do you need assistance releasing your earthly tethers?" They ask in a brotherly tone, warmth like a summer breeze drifting on their every word "Many of those who linger here cannot let go of what binds them to this illusionary world, and thus cannot progress to their next life, do you suffer grief and regrets as well, young lady?"
"No, I'm trying to figure out if any of them saw whose been stealing their bodies and belongings, also, not dead" You grumble, at your wits end already having to play nice and pretend to be a wayward soul like the rest to covertly gather information, which isn't working since they're either too depressed about their deaths, half mad or believe you to be and ignore you completely when you try to ask them if their body or treasures have been taken from them. And since you don't need to pretend around a buddhist, since they won't care who you are unlike the souls of your fallen enemies, you change your ethereal form back to a copy of your actual flesh and blood self
The monk's expression darkens, as he rises from the side of the weeping soul he was consoling and hustles over to you
"They didn't just take their bodies" He says in a hushed voice, as you immediately realize what is going on, remembering the odd absence of a furious phantom Xue Laohue shouting curses in your ears "I hid when a flock of them descended from the sky at night, upon black wings bearing embers, they took their pick of the wandering dead"
"Fucking crow devils" You groan, throwing back your head as you do, having already suspected that demons might've been the culprit
"And they weren't alone, there was a man with fox eyes and a fox smile, amongst them, he was human but had the presence of a demon" The monk continues, his voice now trembling with fear as his form distorts and his faint presence becomes clearer, as that fear binds him to the world of the living, however transiently "he seemed both delighted and enraged as he pranced amongst the corpses, looking into their glassy eyes and frozen faces, like he was disappointed he hadn't killed them himself. He seemed more dangerous than the devils, who stole away whole corpses along with the souls chained to them, while the fox eyed man ripped the bodies apart with claws that grew and burst from the tips of his fingers"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 08 Jan 2024 13:58:44 No. 5885499 Report >>5885498 "Oh master, you look positively livid, does that fox eyed man sound familiar?" Baifenchi quietly asks, nearly whispering as she crawls closer to the two of you, curiosity shining within her eyes "Oh! I think I heard elder sister Lanfen and elder brother Feiqing talking about this! Was he your former..."
"Baifenchi, do not say the next word" You sweetly coo, venom oozing from your words, as the moth feels the threat carried in them and shuts up, realizing how angry speaking it will make you "And yes, I do know him. That's Jingyu, my elder sisters gross pet who broke his leash and ran away from her"
"Oh, the one Xue~ taught how to steal organs and mold flesh?" Baifenchi asks cheerfully "She actually gave me some pointers when I was digging around in corpses myself...Corpses that elder brother Siwang left to me, after his executions"
You can hear the owl hooting that that is the only unobjectionable means for Baifenchi to refine her natural talent with necromancy.
The monk shoots a disgusted look at the moth, who just flaps her wings happily as she flutters over his head, circling it like a flame.
"She likes stitching together dead bodies, so what, can't a girl have hobbies?" You sarcastically answer "So, the fox eyed man and crow devils were working together"
"It seemed so" the monk says, sounding suddenly more guilty than afraid.
"And you were hiding when they came to harvest the dead, right?" You ask slowly, already knowing who exactly was amongst the souls and bodies taken, and just how cowardly that would make this warrior monk
"Yes, and my brothers who gave their lives fighting back this scourge of wrong minded daoists were amongst their harvest" He tearfully admits "Oh Yongzheng would scold me if he knew what I did, hiding while others were dragged off beneath the earth, to the yellow springs!"
"No. Stop. enough of that. Release your earthly attachments!" You snap, slapping him as hard as a ghost can slap another disembodied soul "Wallowing in self pity is the quickest way for a ghost to go mad besides festering in their own grudges, you can still make up for your cowardice, but I need you lucid, were the crow demons and the fox eyed man the only ones who defiled or stole corpses, or stole from them?"
"There were some hooded figures wearing ridiculous masks like children pretending to be ghosts who took one blade, but they came after and only took that one blade" The monk asks. So the seven slaughtering swords did steal A sword, but that's all they did and you can't really blame them for being greedy and opportunistic, the sword must've been valuable and you can't be angry with them for it. Especially when this monk just told you something much more infuriating than some sword fanatics taking the chance to claim a treasure that would've otherwise sunk into the mud and been lost.
And that's that the monstrosity known as Jingyu has contacts and friends down in hell now.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 08 Jan 2024 14:00:04 No. 5885500 Report >>5885499 Friends who he worked together with to traffic souls and take more valuable organs, muscles, bones and spiritual roots for himself to make up for his utter lack of any real potential. You might have traded and used souls as currency yourself, but you haven't gone as far as capturing them to bring them into circulation by making them part of the underworld's economy! If the souls are already in your pocket, there's nothing wrong with spending them, but actively kidnapping ghosts to use as cash? Now that's wicked, especially when the souls you've taken belonged to monks of all people. Sure you're planning on spending the Trash emperor's soul once you grow tired of using its cage as a paper weight and can find something expensive enough to spend it on, but that piece of shit was going to spend a long time burning in hell anyways. What you're doing with Long Tiantunri's soul and what Jingyu is doing are two totally different things, anyone could see that.
What do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Immediately storm down into hell to smash Jingyu's soul harvesting operation, mostly out of spite and to send a message for any demons to not stick their nose into your territory! >Track down the corpse thief himself, aiming to remove that particular stain from the world personally >Send a few of your disciples to hunt down Jingyu while you go to witness the trial of the winter blossoming wisdom sect >The winter blossoming wisdom sect hasn't seemed to have informed the rest of the world of Jingyu, so put up warnings about Jingyu all across the lands you rule and tell the other sects in your alliance + the dusk marsh wolves and Temple of celestial fire, about him. >Jingyu is a small fry. But that sword the seven slaughtering swords took...what made it so important that they only took it? You have to know! >Write in Anonymous
Folklore Anon here.
I made another pastebin with the new tale, "Cat Empress" where Huanliuxue's legacy preserved as... romantic tale.
Im kinda sorry for this heresy most foul, but dark spirits overcame my mind with this horrible idea and compelled make it.
https://pastebin.com/AnbsrDcd as for vote,
>>5885500 >Track down the corpse thief himself, aiming to remove that particular stain from the world personally Anonymous
>>5885500 >Immediately storm down into hell to smash Jingyu's soul harvesting operation, mostly out of spite and to send a message for any demons to not stick their nose into your territory! >Send a few of your disciples to hunt down Jingyu while you go to witness the trial of the winter blossoming wisdom sect Anonymous
>>5885504 My eyes wept tears of blood and my liver rotted inside my body from the sight of such a depraved, perverse story. How could you have subjected the Cat Empress to
not defeating the Black King herself[/spoler]? Anonymous
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>>5885510 Because I have to commit to the bit of helpless maiden, anon. I’m almost sorry and half heartedly beg for forgiveness Maybe I’ll rewrite that part. We shall see.
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>>5885500 >Kill Jingyu Ourselves. The devils can wait until after we go to the yellow springs again. Remove his fucking head.
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>>5885500 >Track down the corpse thief himself, aiming to remove that particular stain from the world personally Anonymous
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>>5885500 >Immediately storm down into hell to smash Jingyu's soul harvesting operation, mostly out of spite and to send a message for any demons to not stick their nose into your territory! We kill Jingyu but leave his operation (even if only temporarily), it's waiting for him down in Hell. We smash his operation first, he'll arrive with nothing.
Either way it won't be the last of him, a simp is nothing if not tenacious; but he'll have a harder time growing his power without a base and allies, think how far we would've gotten without Monu or Fu.
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Siwang continues to be monumentally based.
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>>5885500 >Immediately storm down into hell to smash Jingyu's soul harvesting operation, mostly out of spite and to send a message for any demons to not stick their nose into your territory! > Send a few disciples to hunt down Jingyu Anonymous
>>5885500 >Track down the corpse thief himself, aiming to remove that particular stain from the world personally. >Tell the monk ghost he did well informing you of this information Our disciples I don't think are strong enough to smash him. We'll need to track him down next w the question would be how.
Probably a trip to hell or something and track down grandma crow demon. Field trip time who should we bring?
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>>5885724 yeah I don't think they can handle this.
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>Track down the corpse thief himself, aiming to remove that particular stain from the world personally.
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>>5885500 >Track down the corpse thief himself, aiming to remove that particular stain from the world personally >Send a team of select disciples (Ping, Huili, Baifenchi?) As a formal delegation to the 7SS to inquire about the sword. Anonymous
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>>5885500 >Track down the corpse thief himself, aiming to remove that particular stain from the world personally I knew the Crows would eventually make their move since they’ve been on the surface once we obtained our human form.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Thu 11 Jan 2024 16:56:51 No. 5888097 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying its result now.
Track down the corpse thief himself, aiming to remove that particular stain from the world personally:7
Immediately storm down into hell to smash Jingyu's soul harvesting operation, mostly out of spite and to send a message for any demons to not stick their nose into your territory!:4
Send a few of your disciples to hunt down Jingyu while you go to witness the trial of the winter blossoming wisdom sect:3
Tell the monk ghost he did well informing you of this information:1
Send a team of select disciples (Ping, Huili, Baifenchi?) As a formal delegation to the 7SS to inquire about the sword.:1
So you'll track down Jingyu personally, deigning to sully your paws with his filthy blood.
Update will arrive shortly
>>5886291 Every possible MC has their own blessings
>>5885504 The beginning of this brought a smirk to my face immediately, with the mentions of the other "animal bride" stories, as well as the immediate follow up about the attempts to erase the Cat Empress story (Wonder who could've done that, lol), and the rest of it was so amusing to me, I actually started to tear up, since the mental image of both the story itself and what I imagine Huan and Fu's reaction to reading it were Absolutely hilarious, and so is how I think certain other characters would react to it (Lanfen & Monu in particular)
But besides my own amusement, probably caused by heart demons, once again you managed to capture that authentic folklore feeling in this writing, while also fitting in the established setting, and once again I like the roles familiar faces take in the story (especially some who we haven't seen in awhile, and the surprise appearance of good ol Five colors at the end!) , and how evocative the writing was. You should definitely keep nurturing this talent, since what you write brings joy to my heart, junior.
Can't wait to read the next folk tale you regale us with
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Thu 11 Jan 2024 18:05:45 No. 5888142 Report But you've tolerated the foul presence of Jingyu for too long. Everywhere he lurks ends up stinking of corruption and filth and his own breed of madness certainly didn't help your ghostly sister regain her sanity faster, not to mention the thieving bastard killed Ping. Actually killed Ping, who you've become rather fond of since he opened up his eyes and realized the obvious, that despite your at times morbid personality you are no demon. Sure Ping didn't actually died, but you really have no idea why he didn't. Fu you can at least theorize it has to do with his dabbling with opening up his body to possession, its natural and cultivated resilience and the young man's formidable and deep wells of raw rage and stubbornness, but Ping? No idea at all. You could easily figure out why he woke up from being briefly dead, he managed to stop and remove his heart later without dying, it probably has to do with the fact both him and Fu cultivate ghostly and deathly Qi, but there is a difference between surviving being decapitated long enough to reverse having your head cut of and just rising from the dead like the grave was any other kind of bed.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Thu 11 Jan 2024 18:06:45 No. 5888143 Report >>5888142 Sure it will be sullying yourself to interact at all with the filth that Jingyu has become, but, well, you've already killed a lot of the trash of the winter blossoming wisdom sect, including the insolent idiot who made Jingyu become what he is today by casting him out.
"Hm, why does it seem like everything awful in the world can be traced back to Xue Laohue's feet?" You ponder out loud, as you follow the trail the organ stealer left for you. It isn't a trail many could follower. Jingyu may be crazy, they turned themselves into a monster after all, but he isn't stupid. He covered his tracks by helping to capture the ghosts of the bodies he plundered of their viscera, organs, sinew, muscles, bones and whatever else his sick excuse for cultivation could need, which would certainly prevent say, Fu, Ping, Qiang, Baifenchi or any exorcist from finding them. But you don't need to see ghosts to see their grudges. Actually Fu might have cultivated his sense for grudges enough to see these tracks as well, but then again he might not. Because grudges that are torn between the world of the living and the underworld are odd looking. Faint, not entirely there, like the haze of incense smoke in a closed room allowed to air out. The grudge miasma is still there, but it's watery and thin, appearing weaker than the resentment and enmity they actually contain, but when you swallow up the grey, mist thin clouds, you can feel the true potency of the grudges that Jingyu has unwittingly become entangled in.
Which isn't even a mistake on his part, though you're loath to praise such a vile creature, the only reason he left a trail at all is because he got covered in a substance he has no knowledge of and cannot even see. Which proves that he needs to be euthanized now, before he gets any stronger. That kind of cunning is really dangerous. So you'll take some of the Crow-King poisons and medicines with you, just to be sure that cockroach can't skitter away from you even if you face him when the sun is the highest in the sky in a place with Qi that interferes with your own spiritual energy. You aren't certain what kind of Qi that would be, since any one who isn't a genius at cultivating like yourself would struggle to just contain Ghostly Yin Qi and Pure Blood Qi in their meridians, let alone their spiritual roots.
Your mother had the foresight to realize you wouldn't wait around to listen to her explain what each pill, jar of poison or the long talons she stuffed in your dimensional gourd did, so she include notes detailing what they all are supposed to be used for with them, which you will have to thank her for by getting her some expensive wine or rare spirit grasses. But while tracking your sister's stray dog takes no time at all, since a golden core of your quality can move across the land really quickly and even with how thin the grudges connected to Jingyu are, grudges are your foremost area of expertise.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Thu 11 Jan 2024 18:07:46 No. 5888144 Report >>5888143 You were born from your own grudge and understand them better than anything alive beneath the sky or below the earth, let alone walking the world with breath in their lungs and warm blood in their veins. Finding where the monster is hiding isn't hard at all, its as difficult as finding Monu by her scent or cleaning your own coat. But that isn't what keeps you from immediately crushing Jingyu to a fine powder. No its where he's chosen his hiding place that makes things difficult.
Because, while before he mostly kept himself to the depths of the primordial forest of the tragic lovers, Winter blossoming wisdom sect territory though as far as you can tell they didn't patrol it even half as well as they should to claim it as such, or else skittered out to its surroundings to cut up anyone unfortunate enough to have high quality organs who met him on a moonlit night like some kind of boogeyman, but now he's moved his den. Probably sensed Xuebai was leaving him behind like the piece of trash he was, sensing that it probably wasn't a good idea to stick around or somehow finding out about the depths of the disdain you feel towards him. Why he did it, doesn't really matter, but where he's made his new home does.
Because it makes killing him as annoying as a thorn caught in the fur. The trail of grudge smoke stuck to him, and his own resentment, leads directly into the heart of another cultivation sect. Which normally wouldn't be a problem, but considering you vaporized a very well known if not loved figure in the cultivation world of Chuan, and all but demolished the respected, "righteous" sect he belonged to, that was popular enough with its peerage for them to help fight back the aggression of the Ling sects, the other sects that haven't actually met the palace of natural laws and only has the rising of ghosts and the spread of both Primordial beast essence and Pure Blood Qi that washes across anywhere you stay or walk across, as well as the beating you gave said figure and sect to base their views of you on. Ripe ground for hearsay and libel to grow.
Now the only time you've heard of this sect before is when you sent them a message asking them for help doing what got all the eyes in Chuan on your back, and when they sent their reply and put their seal on the letter written by practically every other sect in the land of thousands of rivers and lakes. They themselves aren't the problem, they're, from what Monu, Ping, Qinxin and several of your prisoners including Tian Mei .Who you should really figure out to do with instead of just letting them enjoy your and Jionghuagege hospitality. They're just a bunch of herbalists and alchemists who haven't joined any of the intersect fighting that rose up in your wake, sitting in their peaceful, idyllic lakeside temple and the flowering fields around it trying their best to ignore the conflict surrounding them.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Thu 11 Jan 2024 18:08:47 No. 5888146 Report >>5888144 Absolutely defenseless, they don't even practice martial arts of any kind or teach a single offensive technique. That anyone knows of, a good cultivators knows to keep their true potential and capabilities well hidden, there aren't many good cultivators but they do exist outside of the palace of natural laws. Probably.
The issue is, they're popular. Wildly so. They supply most of the dog piss your "fellow daoists" consider heavenly elixirs and fill most of the markets with the pills they peddle. Nothing comparable to what you and especially Monu can make, especially with Jionghuagege's honey on hand, but their symbol is a mark of quality in the minds of orthodox cultivators and their healers are very sought after, to the point them not being able to fix the Late and unmourned Xue Laohue's fuck up that started converting his body to ice was apparently a shock to the rest of the region. And you, are very much not popular, because good taste and common sense are in short supply among the cultivators of the modern era. And they will look for an excuse to reprimand you or make life in your sect a living hell, even if they're too chicken hearted to actually try fighting you. They might be trying to lay a trap for you at the location of the winter blossoming wisdom sect's trial, but that's besides the point.
You waltzing into the turf of a respected, valued and beloved sect, well it wouldn't be courting death since you're you and could easily batter aside a bunch of spineless healers who can't stomach a little bloodshed and anyone who tries to drag you to court yourself to answer for your trespass, but doing so would give ammunition to every sect that wants you gone and cause for them to use it against you, in ways beyond just dying in the attempt to cut off your pretty head. Ways that are much more annoying than assassination attempts. They might even be stupid enough to try and scold you! Which would end much more bloodily than them sending one or two doomed assassins to your temple.
'Though I'd like to see them try to force me to pay a fine for whatever damages I cause' You think to your self with a snicker as you stand at the edge of what the alchemist sect marks as their territory. A sigh curls out of your through as you hang your head limply to the side, already thoroughly frustrated with this dilemma. Maybe you should just march up to Jingyu's hiding hole, just to prove no one can stop you from doing whatever it is you please at any given moment of time. It would certainly give you less headaches in the future, if every other temple knew what to expect from Huanliuxue.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Thu 11 Jan 2024 18:09:57 No. 5888149 Report >>5888146 What do you decided to do about the dilemma of trespassing, Huanliuxue?
>Ignore it entirely. You do not follow the rules, laws or traditions of the other sects. The only laws you follow are that of nature and the ones you make up yourself. >Act diplomatic and tell to the sect the pest that has rooted itself under their floorboards and why you need to stomp it flat. >flush Jingyu out of hiding by calling the army of ancient ghosts indebted to you from Five colors' garden. It'll cause a scare and trouble for the sect, but it won't cause YOU any trouble since no one will know you were the one who ordered them to do it. >use yourself or one of your human disciples as bait to lure the organ thief out from his burrow. >Use the crown of trapped sands and caged winds to send a tornado ripping through the landscape directly to Jingyu's hovel, giving you plausible deniability of simply being thrown through the other sect's land (magic trial: DC 85) >Write in Anonymous
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>>5888149 >Act diplomatic and tell to the sect the pest that has rooted itself under their floorboards and why you need to stomp it flat. Anonymous
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>>5888149 >Act diplomatic. We can spin this as doing a good deed, or even squeeze out a reward for it. Tell them we found the heretic monster Jinyu in their domain and will kill it for them. Refusal will see them as harbouring a heretic. Agreeing will paint us as noble.
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>>5888149 >Act diplomatic and tell to the sect the pest that has rooted itself under their floorboards and why you need to stomp it flat. we are about to meet the most annoying fuckers ever aren't we.
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>>5888149 >Act diplomatic and tell to the sect the pest that has rooted itself under their floorboards and why you need to stomp it flat. Anonymous
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>>5888149 >Write in >just grab the first guy or girl of the sect that you see, tell them a woefully short moral dilemma barely related to the situation to solve on the spot and when they agree smile widely and string them along as witness. If you don't act cryptically whimsical why be a golden core at all?
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>>5888149 >Act diplomatic and tell to the sect the pest that has rooted itself under their floorboards and why you need to stomp it flat. >Do it sneaky so as to not scare the corpse boy away >Write-in say we will have a debate with the sect leader on alchemy afterwards and any damages that happen we'll throw down some primordial qi to grow some rare plants for them. If we get them on our side the drug users will have to like us and they become a good ally to make honestly 2 and 1
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>>5888149 >Act diplomatic and tell to the sect the pest that has rooted itself under their floorboards and why you need to stomp it flat. Imply that they won't need to worry about competition on the pills and medicines market if they could do us a favor. It's days like these I miss when we were a nondescript housecat who could sneak right through sect temples.
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>>5888149 >You're a cat. When did a cat ever ask for permission to go anywhere? You are also a master of stealth and you will use your skillset to enter and exit unseen. Jesus when did we become a politician?
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>>5888218 Who says we can't? We literally snuck into heaven like yesterday. You think these hippies are more watchful than the gods?
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>>5889214 Ironically they probably are. The only gods paying attention was a guy seething on the ground staring at the sky all day and a dude who is literally made of guard duty.
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>>5889212 When we gathered together people we care about. When it was just us against the world we could spit defiance knowing that only we'd take the heat for it.
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>>5889212 When we became a public Sect.
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>>5888149 >use yourself or one of your human disciples as bait to lure the organ thief out from his burrow. >Ping Anonymous
>>5889263 >>5889308 I just feel like it's below our station to ask some puny sect of pharma nerds for permission of passage. We are the rightful empress of all under the heavens and we stride through our domain as we please! So if diplomacy option wins I hope it's more along the lines of "out of professional courtesy I am announcing my presence in your turf" rather than"may I please come in?".
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>>5889214 >>5889873 Same anon phone posting btw.
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>>5889873 If they were Puny, then we wouldnt have an issue.
So instead we should probably treat it similar to what you say. Offer the sweet treat of a service in exchange of good relations. If they make a fuss, threaten them with harbouring a heretic and our displeasure.
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Ending and tallying the vote now. Meant to do so yesterday,
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sat 13 Jan 2024 23:11:02 No. 5890381 Report But ever fickle, your whims quickly turn from making an example of your imperious character by charging to Jingyu without giving fair warning to the flower pickers and pill rollers who unknowingly are guarding them with their very presence, instead shifting in favor of acting nice and polite despite having every right to walk and go wherever you please. Sure if they try to refuse you entry you'll just ignore them, but it telling them that there is a monstrous pest in their lands will cut down any misunderstandings that might other arise to bother you in the future. Like them crying to the stronger sects who could actually threaten your disciples and endanger your subjects that a big mean demon cat invaded their lands and wrecked the place for no reason. And now that you stopped to think about it, its probably best if you change back into your human form. Most cultivators attack magical beasts without thinking or else run away scared to cling to the thighs of the master when they run into one that has fangs and claws sharp enough to fight back.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sat 13 Jan 2024 23:12:03 No. 5890384 Report >>5890381 You lock it in place with a red ribbon of silk and a hair pin shaped like a black bone, and then push back the hair covering your ears behind them in a loop braid to show off the only obvious sign of your demonic beast nature, your pointed ears that since you've reached and embraced the stars have extended at to a finer taper, well the one that isn't notched. This trace of inhumanity will make it obvious that you aren't an ordinary jade beauty, though there is a chance it will get you mistaken for a demon but surely these daoists who spend all their times in their gardens have at least heard of the red furred bloodshed enough to see your ears and hair and make the connection.
Smiling blithely, you raise one leg up grandiosely and dramatically step over the invisible line marking the alchemist sect's territory as your hands busy themselves putting on the rest of your jewelry and accessories, stringing jade beads in your hair, fitting golden rings on your fingers and bangles over your wrists as you bouncily march further into their turf without an invitation.
But you do inform them of your presence, in the expected, customary manner of sending of pulses of spiritual energy, enough to be picked up on their defensive arrays and magical wards as well as the spiritual senses of the elders of the sect. Now, normally the pulse is as disruptive as ringing a bell, a gentle wave of Qi that murmurs over the land like a gentle wave lapping against the shore. But you're Huanliuxue, and even if you used the minimum amount of power to create the pulse, it is more of a crashing wave of energy rather than a delicate and dainty ripple in the water. Even a Qi Condensation Novice could sense your approach in this manner, which wilts the grasses around you, before reviving them and causing them to regrow with a near razors edge, as the perfume of death, fresh blood and the sensation of being in the eyes of a lurking predator roil out from you like water spilling out of a pot. The pulse is so intense it becomes visible in the air, black smoke replaced with a carmine tinted light replaced with a verdant colored wind, in that sequence as white lighting crackles in the air immediately around you and the dew on the constantly wilting and reviving grasses turn to tiny drops of red blood.
The deathly Yin Qi in the pulse also makes a few song birds drop from the sky to your feet, dead as you leisurely strut ever deeper into another sect's territory, hands folded properly in front of yourself, hidden in the sleeves of your imperial dress, your jewelry ringing and chiming like funerary bells as the morning light seems to dim and darken from your presence alone. The atmosphere becomes heavy and turbid with the breath of ghosts and the stagnant air of the grave, but also lively and fresh with energy of healthy blood and the dignity of old nature, before a mysterious twinkling force sweeps around you, that of astral Qi.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sat 13 Jan 2024 23:13:04 No. 5890387 Report >>5890384 To say your approach is imposing and terrifying, even though you keep a refined and peaceful posture and attitude as you make it, would be an understatement. Rather than ringing a pearl sized bell, its more like you're slamming a temple's pride and joy repeatedly into the ground and shouting until your voice goes hoarse that you're coming.
So it takes no time at all for you to be met by one of the members of the sect unfortunate to have a corpse thief infestation.
They're a proud young man, hair tied into a tight bun with hair crown of pale blue and ink flowers attached to a silver branch, his face feminine and youth to point that until you saw the broadness of his shoulders you thought he was a flat chested girl. He's slender and graceful atop his flying sword, which also has a formal design, dressed in robes that are primarily grass green but shift to the various colors of flowers near its extremities, primarily white but with a hint of more garish colors near the absolute edge of his robes.
Already he has a paper talisman in hand, made of freshly pressed paper, and one hand lifted up in a seal that's probably to control the sword he is balancing on.
You pause, and flash a lazy tired smile up at him as he lifts up his chest and breathes in, looking like a new actor struggling to remember the lines they rehearsed before they repeat them on stage. They've trained this boy well, so that's a sign that the temple you're visiting isn't entirely worthless.
"Hold! Who dares disrupt the peace of the valley guarded by the Illustrious and heavens' favored Thousand Lotus Hall Sect (千莲花殿堂, Qiānliánhuādiàntáng), do you come as invader or guest, foul aura o..." He shouts arrogantly, only deigning to look down at you with harsh eyes, that are probably meant to look scary but just make him look like a girl in the middle of a shouty tantrum, when he's nearly finished spitting out a not so subtle accusation that your an invader rather than visitor. and immediately freezes and pales when he actually sees you, smiling gently up at him with the contented air of a foreign princess as his mouth is stuck open and his eyes widen, a drop of cold sweat rolling down his brow as starts to tremble as he realize exactly who has just all but kicked down the temple gates of his treasured sect.
"Oah, Oah" he flounders, gasping like a fish as he glances around, looking for back up that wasn't sent or for a horde of rampaging demons just behind you or perhaps a ghostly procession "You're...You're the"
You bow your head and roll your hand with your wrist, urging him to continue wordlessly as he struggles to speak, nearly choking on his tongue as he realizes just how doomed he'd be if you had come to take control of the temple he calls home.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sat 13 Jan 2024 23:14:05 No. 5890389 Report >>5890387 "The Huanliuxue!" He shouts shrily, coughing up a mouth full of blood as he reels back to the hilt of his sword, shielding himself with both of his arms as if speaking your name will incite you to leap up there and rip out his throat with your teeth or else obliterate him with a blast of Qi fired from a single finger
"Yes" You say, grinning wider to force back down a titter that is fighting fiercely to escape your lips "Out of courtesy, I've announced my presence in these lands before going about my business here, business I wish to discuss with your master, boy, so if you would be so kind as to fetch them for this visiting lady, hmm?"
He does not need further encouragement and flees as soon as he arrived, you stop sending out bell tolls of spiritual energy and walk a little more briskly ahead, tracking his movement in the air to figure out where the Thousand Lotus Hall itself is hidden, in case his master responds by declaring a state of emergency and preparing themselves to be sieged by an unseen army of terrors beyond their reckoning. And you have to admit, they are decently skilled at maintaining these lands, there are more spirit grasses and herbs than not growing nearer to their sect and the mundane flowers that do sprout and splendid and closer to the cousins in the celestial courts than the other flowers that grow beneath them. If they hire out their members, you might just take one on as your gardener, though you wouldn't trust him near your herb gardens, especially since you grow quite a number of underworld natives in them, Heh-Heh-Heh.
The Thousand Lotus hall itself is within the trunks of an entwined willow and gingko tree that both stretch to the heavens and are nearly peer to the ancient tree you grew in the middle of Suiqi. And all around it, streams and rivers from the lake it sits in the center of run into it, filled with lotus flowers.
'A little on the nose and blatant, isn't it? That'd be like naming the Palace of Natural laws The temple above a thousand tombs or something similarly uninspired' you think dismissively as you hop between the stones that serve as a bridge only someone who practices some form of lightness skill could cross, with your hands clasped behind your back. The living gates of the sect are open to you, and the courtyard and entrance before it are deserted.
Seems they're hiding from you, a wise choice but you can sense every member hiding in the shacks around their grand orchard of spirit fruit trees of countless varieties and fields of flowing cotton. There's a few outer disciples without any Qi beyond what they were born with, laying flat in the field of cotton and the rice paddies they had somehow fit inside their temple's natural walls, that are lit by glowing bulb shaped flowers and mushrooms that are large enough for you to take a nap on in either of your forms.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sat 13 Jan 2024 23:15:05 No. 5890390 Report >>5890389 "Hmmph" You snort haughtily as you waltz into the temple, without being greeted or welcomed, something you will hold against them later as you use your spiritual senses to figure out where the girly boy from earlier is, and the location of the sect's head and various elders. The top of the entwined trees? How presumptuous. Your personal quarters in the graveside temple may be more well appointed and finer than the rest, but it isn't literally above the others. Actually its below most of them, since you prefer being closer to the ghostly sea you built your retreat on top of rather than distancing yourself from it.
The door leading into the sect's main building is however closed, but a solid kick opens it and you have free reign to wander into and up it.
The sight that greets you inside is impressive enough for you to whistle sharply in approval. Roiling vines connect the various levels of the hall together, their flowers serving as tables and plateaus that are in use by painters, scholars and alchemists, while the vines themselves arrange and rearrange themselves as an ambulatory stair case whenever a disciple of the sect needs them to, and the ground isn't boarded or carpeted, but rather made of soil and filled with soft grasses and wild flowers that help circulate the natural Qi through the room and keep the spiritual essences of the two trees it is built in strong and flower.
Silence falls the moment you walk in, as the various cultivators turn to loud banging sound and see you striding in like its your temple and they're the intruders. And like a bunch of barn mice, they scatter into side passages or out of the sun roofs letting natural light into the trees without a word spoken, scrambling to get away with scrolls, spirit herbs and slower to react disciples in their arms.
"What a skittish school" You chuckle to yourself as you whistle and snap your fingers, commanding the living stair way to obey you and fall into place, before using it to walk directly up into the shrine where the sect's leaders are meeting, no doubt discussing how to react to the sudden arrival of the greatest and most dangerous heretic in ten generations in their domain.
Your senses sharpened by cultivation and nature as a demonic beast, pick up pieces of the conversation they're having as you approach
"Are you certain?"
"But why..."
"Weren't they..."
"Did they give any hint to their..."
"Evacuation..."
"Perhaps we can appease..."
"So the rumors are true, she has taken..."
"You're certain she wasn't dragging the corpse of..."
"Wait, senior martial brothers, do you senses that?"
You put a hand on the fine door made in the design of a blooming lotus, made of white and brown jade and push open the door.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sat 13 Jan 2024 23:16:06 No. 5890392 Report >>5890390 And see six cultivators sat around a table, two of them women, four of them men, deferring to a girl who looks around your age with flowers sprouting from her black hair and a stressed expression. And flower boy! Whose back is turned to you. Unfortunate for him, as you stride forward and with one hand, push him down to his hands and knees, pulling one of the empty chairs behind him before swinging your feet onto his back to use him as a footstool as you sit directly opposite of the obvious sect head, in as bold of a statement of your identity and status as you could make without taking a few heads.
The oldest of the elders, older than Monu was when she was a crone, falls over, fainting as his long winding beard covers his face, while a woman with crow's feet on her eyes forces a smile and smacks her longest counter part on the back, forcing her to sit straight and smile as well as the sect head's eyes look ready to pop out of her head. The three other men, older but not old enough to be greying look composed and calm as your improvised foot stool trembles soundlessly beneath you.
"Ah" The sect head gasps, her brain finally catching up that the demon she was just told was on the outskirts of their territory was siting in front of her and using one of her core and perhaps personal disciples as furniture, greets you by rising from her seat, cupping her hand and giving a quick bow, which the elders beneath her quickly copy.
"The matriarch and elders of the Thousand Lotus Hall greet you, Huanliuxue!" She shouts, with a relaxed smile that is obviously hiding an internal scream as you frown tightly and incline your head in the bare minimum of a bow, a ripple of irritation and offense that can't be acted on washes off the elders as the head's eye twitches as she struggles to maintain her composure and uphold proper etiquette.
"Would...would" One of the elders begins, glancing to the sect head who lifts her finger to approve him addressing "Would the illustrious head of the palace of natural laws be so kind as to explain to us the reasons for her...unexpected visit? And why the lady has come without a guard or escort? We...we worry your sect might think we've kidnapped you"
'Translation, are there others we didn't see and are you going to kill us all?' you surmise in your thoughts before glancing down at the boy under your legs, eyes widening as you remember you didn't exactly tell him why you were here, just that you had a reason to be.
"Senior should've sent word in advance, we had heard you were delayed from meeting with the representatives of Chuan Province's sects, but had we known those pressing matters that occupied would bring you to our humble hall" The younger of the two female elders says, being silently fed lines by her elder and the sect head both "We...we would've prepared a welcome worthy of a visiting sect head, this is all...so sudden!"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sat 13 Jan 2024 23:17:06 No. 5890393 Report >>5890392 She's trying so hard to sound cheerfully and happy you're here that the strain is about ready to snap and send her into a blissful sleep like the old fogey sat across from her
"Please forgive us for being unprepared and being unready to welcome you with the pomp and ceremony afforded to one of your...position" One of the men says slowly, clearly meaning "Scary strong demon beast" rather than "Sect head" when he speaks the word position
"My reasons for coming here?" You ask, lifting one leg to cross it over the other, shifting both to settle directly between the flower boy's shoulder blades, heel first "Oh that's simple, there's a certain pest that has been troubling my lands, preying upon innocents and fellow daoists who...well were supposed to be under the protection of or belonged to the winter blossoming wisdom sect"
A chill goes through the room when you speak that sects name. Like you're swinging around their bloody banner as a war trophy while standing atop a mound of their corpses. They just picked a fight and lost, but clearly there's more to it than that in the eyes of these elders, and admittedly there was, but only between Xue Laohue and your family. You don't personally have anything against the Xue clan, unlike the Ling, and don't harbor any grudges against any of them not named Laohue.
"They tried to cover up its predations, something I do intend to bring up in the trial against them for their incompetence, cruelty, and other criminal acts" You add on with an idle tapping of your fingers against the arms of the chair you're sitting in, the clicking of your nails pushing the younger female elder of the edge as she slumps to the table, mortal terror finally putting her to sleep "But they were unable to contain, subjugate or kill the damn thing, so since I know how strong it could get if its allowed to run rampant and live freely, I've been tracking it to put an end to it and..."
"Its trail lead you here" The sect head guesses. Smart girl
"Correct!" You shout, stomping a foot down, pressing flower boy to the ground with a yelp as he to, goes unconscious with a fountain of blood from his mouth, but he's still alive. He'll regret being alive when he wakes up, but that isn't important "And since I respect courtesy, etiquette and protocol" 'When it suits me' you add mentally as you rise from your chair and walk over the twitching footstool to slam both your hands down on the table, cracking its wooden surface as you flash a lovely smile at the sect head
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sat 13 Jan 2024 23:18:07 No. 5890394 Report >>5890393 "I came to warn you of its presence and mine in your territory before I traveled to its den and put it down, before it can kill any of your students or the civilians under your protection" You say, sugar sweetly, swaying your shoulders playfully as all the faces around the table that aren't on the ground or on the table turn snow white pale as a horrid realization crashes down onto all of their heads, that even you can feel the weight of
Sighing, pinching the creases of your brow, you asked pained "Did...did some of your disciples already go missing? Villages go silent?"
Their own silence is answer enough! These incompetent fools! Were they too busy picking roses and peonies to notice anything? The connection between the disappearances or that they were a sign of something much worse than slacking disciples.
"We...a few of our hall's students have been late from harvesting the hidden gardens were we cultivate the rarest and longest growing flowers, that also serve as the meditation chambers awarded to those who have done a greet service to the wider sect or have..have acquired enough commendations to purchase the right" The sect head weakly explains as the older woman at the table rubs her temple as it really sinks in for them just how much their idleness and ignorance has cost them. And worse, it seems like Jingyu has made his new home in their sacred grounds, where they cultivates flowers that probably could be used to brute force a leap in ones cultivation or to breakthrough a bottleneck. They've practically been feeding bears! Fortunately for them, you've arrived to take the role of Oriole stalking the mantis that has had free rain to stuff itself off of their hardwork and wealth.
"Okay" You say, leveling your tone to not shout at them, you are trying to diplomatic, and scolding them like misbehaving children, while deserved wouldn't make anything better "Okay, well that changes things. The monster gains power by stealing organs, bones, muscle and even the skin from its victims and incorporating them with its own body. It was once an outcast of the winter blossoming wisdom sect by the name of Jingyu, who made up for his lack of natural talent through the grossest form of demonic cultivation I've ever encountered. And He, more than anyone else, has benefitted the most from the fighting between the sects. Every body he gets his hand on, makes him that much stronger, he steals potential, physiques, constitutions, even spiritual roots"
As you explain, the faces around the table darken and the air becomes electrified with their growing outrage at just hearing a vague description of the fate that has probably befallen their favored disciples.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sat 13 Jan 2024 23:19:09 No. 5890395 Report >>5890394 "And Jingyu is well versed in slipping away and remaining unseen, a master at acting down low and discreet, I only realized he was still trespassing the lands that are now mine, when some of the bodies" You say, pausing as you realize immediately admitting to just leaving the corpses of other cultivators out so they could bleed more into the soil for you to collect and turn into a cultivation resource would be quite the faux pas and an overall bad idea, so you lie and say instead "Awaiting burial after the battle my sect had with the winter blossoming wisdom sect, went missing along with some of their relics. And its only because I know of his habits"
"Then why didn't you stop him before?" One of the younger looking men snaps, before being dragged beneath the floor by a dozen thorny roots that shoot up from it
"Well to answer that sharp tongued junior, its because I didn't know where he was lurking at the time and was focused on raising my own students at the time and establishing my sect" you answer with a amused snort as you look at the empty spot where the smart mouthed elder had been moments before "Jingyu just got too bold and made a misstep that ended up making me aware of his presence, and then through my own methods, I followed the trail he didn't know he left here"
"What methods!" The oldest of the men still conscious or present at the meeting shouts excitedly, before covering his mouth before lashing vines that erupt from his chair can do it for him
"My own you arrogant bastard!" You snap angrily, crossing your arms "Why would I tell you them, when you'd just wave them of as demonic cultivation if you don't steal them for yourself! Little frog in the well, know your place!"
"Forgive my subordinate for his impudence, he is a toad lusting after swan meat, and has a habit of pressing his fellow daoist to reveal their techniques or practices to him at first meeting" The sect head says quickly and appeasingly, clapping her hands together and putting on her most pleasant smile "Through the authority possessed by I, Lian Tianhua (莲 天花, Lotus Heavenly flower) , Mistress of the Thousand Lotus hall and heir of its traditions, will offer to you whatever support you need in subjugating this loathsome be...Monster, as well as allow you access to our sacred groves. You have our gratitude and thanks, for revealing this threat to us and offering to vanquish it selflessly and unasked"
'Oh, they're actually smart, that's a surprise. I half expected them to shout me out or make demands they couldn't enforce for disturbing their meditations or something ridiculous like that. What admirable survival instinct!' you think idly as a slight smile curls on your lips, as you think if you need or even want their help. Which they are probably going to force on you anyway, just to avoid totally indebting themselves to you like the dusk marsh wolves did by accident, so you might as well choose how exactly they help you kill Jingyu
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Sat 13 Jan 2024 23:20:26 No. 5890397 Report >>5890395 What support if any do you request from them, Huanliuxue?
>Deny it and cordially and politely refuse any they offer anyways, since you do not need any of it >Just ask them what defenses their hidden gardens have and the contents of those groves, as well what physiques and constitutions the missing disciples had, so you can be prepared for Jingyu now that he has them >Ask for one of their sect treasures, even though you already have Ghost Empress Melody and Moon Collapse, to use in the fight >While you can crush Jingyu with only one finger, you want to show off, so request they send a few of their members to "Support" you in your "battle" against him >Write in Anonymous
>>5890397 >Information on whats down there and the missing disciples. >As I am selfless and Noble and angered by Jingyu's existence, I shall be on my way without recompense. But come the meeting, I hope you may help me excuse my delay. Not so subtle "Here is the payment you can offer". Then kill this clown.
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>>5890403 +1
A good word can be surprisingly helpful in the right place.
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>>5890403 >>5890397 I'll support this too, witness to what kind of monster the winter blossoming sect hid from their peers is just what we need to turn opinions around.
I thought of getting some help to cast a net or use their defensive arrays so he can't escape but i don't think he's good enough to slink under the claws of Hue.
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>>5890403 yeah that's a good thing to point out
Supporting
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>>5890397 >Just ask them what defenses their hidden gardens have and the contents of those groves, as well what physiques and constitutions the missing disciples had, so you can be prepared for Jingyu now that he has them Anonymous
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>>5890395 >Just ask them what defenses their hidden gardens have and the contents of those groves, as well what physiques and constitutions the missing disciples had, so you can be prepared for Jingyu now that he has them >If they start yapping about trade secrets just have a alchemy debate and say you can grow many types of rare plants >I like you Sect head Lian Tianhua after this is over let's have a cup of tea together. Anonymous
The thing I currently worry about is that old ice bastard soul. Somehow someway, I have a feeling a trade was made with the crow demons and Jingyu with that.
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>>5891176 Nah his soul is stuck in his eye as his last mortal remains after he got roasted so hard even the gods were making smores from the heat of it.
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>>5890403 Supporting.
Interested to see how this will play out, I could imagine him being Core Formation since he's had a lot to work with since the last time we saw him and combined with I think being reborn as a full on demon will make him at least a durable bug.
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>>5891361 I doubt it. Core formation? Probably. Golden Core? He is incapable of such greatness. Only WE are supreme talents, envied by the highest masters of heaven.
Jingyu is a talentless hack with the skills of a butcher and a cockroach. His cultivation is stilted compared to ours, and a rocket compared to everyone else.
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>>5891431 But what if he steals a golden core?
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>>5891440 The rest of his crap would be shredded and damaged by the sheer power it contains.
He'd be needing to form an entirely new body to insert it within himself, and even then he needs a decent core to stand against us.
But that's neither here nor there
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>>5891473 >He'd be needing to form an entirely new body to insert it within himself, He's done that before.
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>>5891484 He has, yes.
But the battle is about 2 days past? He can't be that fast.
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>>5891431 He's was a protagonist option, so by meta he's capable of just as much as us. We'd be wise to watch our step.
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>>5891496 I mean he did it mid battle after dying. He's had all the time since then to prepare a new body. I don't think time is too much of an issue.
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>>5891498 By meta, it took us a Month minimum [multiple more likely] to ascend to Golden Core and we did it bypassing core formation faster than anyone.
He JUST got back from the battlefields. We move faster and arrived quicker than he could and before he got month[s:lit] to cultivate.
If he's GC, I'm calling bullshit.
>>5891501 He's not had such a ready and raw access to sufficiently high level materials until our wholesale slaughter. CF cultivators don't just drop dead, even in battles between sects.
So no, I stand by and maintain that unless some bigshot down in hell has stepped in, he's not got the materials he needs in advance and even if he has, He's not had the time to abuse them and ascend further than CF.
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>>5891514 Remember that he has had nothing to do but prepare and cultivate the entire time. He hasn't been running around like Huan has. Nor has he had distractions teaching others or building a burgeoning nation. He's had even more time to do whatever he wants than Yaonan has and she's pretty flippant. Mostly because Sis cut him loose and started spending less time making him do things for her.
You're acting like just because we did it really fast doesn't mean they haven't been doing it for longer to split the difference.
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>>5891520 While true, the building and maintaining of that nationstate and sect have in turn provided the resources needed for such rapid growth.
Still, I don't think he could have managed GC without being noticed. It's implausible, it's the biggest bottleneck of cultivation.
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>>5890403 Supporting. Also adding another write in:
>During my duel with the Late Head of the Winter Blossoming Sect, a curious thing happened. After Jingyu is tended to, I'd like to speak to some of your students on it, as it may fall under the expertise of the Thousand Lotuses Hall, the Palace of Natural Laws would welcome some -fresh eyes- on this matter. I figure, talking to Herbalists about turning into a plant may not be the worst idea in the world.
>>5891572 There but for the grace of some votes, he would be the protagonist and possibly going after us. Underestimate him or any of the other potentiatess at our peril.
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>>5891581 I don't underestimate him. I know he's a scary bastard, I know if we leave him he's going to be a terrible hassal.
but under my comprehension of what is needed, what is required and what he has [incomplete] I don't think he has caught up with us.
Also, your write in is kinda explaining a secret of carmine mystism. I'd prefer a bit more of a bond before we do that.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Mon 15 Jan 2024 22:57:28 No. 5892386 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying the result.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Tue 16 Jan 2024 00:52:10 No. 5892472 Report Tapping a pointed, scarlet painted nail on your chin, you make a show of looking indecisive, just to make the gathered elders sweat a little more thinking you'll ask for something truly outrageous in exchange for getting rid of their squatter and disciple killer. Support can mean a lot of things, they're hoping it will mean assistance in killing their pest but know it can just as easily be a reward, which is why their sect head made certain praise your selflessness when she offered it. And to her credit, unlike her underlings, she doesn't tremble, twitch or look at all faint as you stare her down, allowing the suspense to settle and for all of those sat around the table to make peace with having to turn over their coffers, empty their treasuries and plunder their own relic halls. Impressive, despite being more a cultivator of flowers than of Qi, she doesn't look away or even get goosebumps on her arms, indeed, she's showing more of a spine than Xia Jinse-shayu ever did.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Tue 16 Jan 2024 00:53:10 No. 5892473 Report >>5892472 "Truly senior's own heart possesses a magnanimous quality itself, to ask only for so minor a thing in exchange for removing the pests eating this halls glistening mulberry leaves" She says with a smile that only a keen eye could see is strained, but you still can't tell if its because of what you've asked for or because you used butchery as an example for it "Beyond the alarm arrays and sensory ward spells, the primary defense is the maze like quality with which we grow our groves and the spirit plants themselves"
"And how exactly do they protect the pathways they line?" You press with a curious cat's smile and twirl of your finger "If your own disciples need permission to enter"
"We give them charms and elixirs that immunize themselves to their natural defenses" She answers slowly "An energy supplement pill to pass the first ring of the gardens for those granted access to only the meagerest of them, as we cultivate the slumbering dragon bell flower there, whose pollen can put to a dreamless slumber without end if it is breathed in"
"Oh I heard of that, my mother the toad witch liked to use that to make her less than lethal toxins" You answer, and Tianhua is exaggerating, if your Qi circulation is weak or unsteady or slow, the slumbering dragon pollen can put you in a coma but if your meridians and the Qi flowing through them are strong, it'll only make you drowsy "Anything else in the outermost gardens"
"Viper headed scorpions" the female elder wiping blood from her mouth with a handkerchief answers "Ghost Chasing Moths, Ogre Leech vines"
"Heh-Heh-Heh~" You chuckle approvingly, covering your mouth with your sleeves as that approval makes the old woman blush in shame "So the defenses are lethal. And cruel. Viper headed scorpion venom is a quick and painful killer, Ghost Chasing Moths feed off of Qi and Ogre Leech Vines water themselves with warm blood, Sure to kill any unprepared renegade trying to steal from your gardens, and kill them horribly"
"What we cultivate in those groves is worthy an emperor's bounty" One of the two remaining men mutters, trying to defend their extreme defenses, which much get much more treacherous the deeper into the gardens you go. You arch an eyebrow and glance at Tianhua who has pursed her lips tightly
"Which senior shall receive a jade slip detailing the current contents, amounts and growth of all that we tend in those heavenly gardens" She says slowly in a cautious way like she were tip toing between grass, her tone raising until its serenity takes on a quality of bird song "So she will not be delayed in her mission. The inner ring of gardens, requires further protection, and a token to move through, as the routes through it change due to the ambulatory nature of some of the bushes and trees within and a night pearl to see, as all other kinds of light are absorbed by the Sundew Melons and Radiant Phoenix sunflowers we grow together"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Tue 16 Jan 2024 00:54:11 No. 5892475 Report Quoted By:
>>5892473 "So the first layer of gardens is the one you expect to stop no intruders?" You ask, and immediately realize you'd broached a sensitive subject as everyone in the room goes corpse quiet and tries to avoid eye contact with anyone else, looking to the ceiling or their own shoes "Or is there another obstacle you haven't described yet, in the inner gardens"
"Corpse Puppet Morels" Tianhua says quietly, as your eyes widen with delight
"Oh! I didn't realize anyone had figured out how to cultivate those on purpose! Usually you can only find those in haunted graveyards or places saturated with ghostly Qi! The bane of tomb raiders!" You excitedly exclaim as Tianhua sinks further and futher in her chair, sliding off it legs first "How naughty of you all to keep that a secret, but I can't blame you for doing it. How many wicked sages have used those nasty mushrooms to create their own little private army of shambling corpses?"
"We didn't supply them!" The loudmouthed elder gasps and now he's gagged with vines
"I wasn't accusing you?" You say, actually shocked that he thought you were as you look from him to Tianhua who is standing now with a smoldering look in her eyes "I was just saying that other sects would use your gardens as kindling if they knew. And they'd do the same to my own private garden of spirit herbs if they knew what I was growing"
"Oh" Lian Tianhua says, relaxing immensely and looking like she was soon to wilt herself as she remembered the obvious "Right, I for a moment forgot Senior was a outspoken heretic herself, If we have caused offense..."
"You haven't, you'd know if you had, really you've done something much more difficult than offending me, and that's making me even a little impressed" You cheerfully reply with a flick of your wrist and a beaming smile that could blind those unprepared for it "And is that all for the inner ring?"
"It is, the corpse puppet morels deal with most threats that could slip through the first layer of defenses" She professionally answers, bowing her head "The core gardens"
'Might have something more aggressive than the mostly harmless Ogre Leech Vine. If they grow corpse puppet morels, I wouldn't be surprised if they've managed to get a clipping of Infernal Arrowroot' you think to yourself as you smile pleasantly and brightly at the deceptively innocent looking sect head 'especially since I've only heard of Corpse Puppet Morels being successfully grown by demons'
"Don't...have any protections of their own. the fear of the unknown tends to keep our disciples from straying, after they know of the morels" She says meekly bowing her head, like she wasn't purposefully using one of the fungus the writer of "Occult Treasures of the fields of the underworld, and the Alchemy of the dead" listed as one of the most dangerous for mortals that he'd encountered in his travels down in Diyu. And the moment she says that, you wonder just how trusting can she and her predecessors be?
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Tue 16 Jan 2024 00:55:12 No. 5892476 Report "Hmm, I see, I see? And your missing students?" You ask, rubbing your chin before snapping your fingers
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Tue 16 Jan 2024 00:56:13 No. 5892478 Report >>5892476 Lian Tianhua, purposefully meets your eyes and locks gazes with you, steel in her own bright green, orange ringed eyes as she folds her hands together and though she bows to see you away politely, she does not turn her eyes away from your own. Her staring drilling a hole into you, she says, quiet and steadily but with a cold tone evincing of her willfulness speaks her concession
"If you bring my little Luli back to me, I shall do much more than just corroborate that the reasons you had delaying the trial you yourself demanded, are more than justified, Sagely Senior. I shall have my disciples retrieve the necessary tools for you to safely traverse our gardens"
"Then I shall head immediately for your private gardens, once I receive them" You titter and step out of the room to vanish like a ghost outside of their view, for dramatic effect, while you actually just twist around and lean your back against the wall outside of it after manipulating the shadows and creating a few false ghost lights to flare brightly before they blink out, where you contemplate all you've learned about the gardens and the disciples Jingyu has most likely taken apart and being to put together a plan to deal with the offensive brute once and for all.
What do you do, one you've entered the secret gardens, Huanliuxue?
>Beeline for Jingyu's location, any time wasted is time he can use to slip out of your claws >Well, they no doubt expect some of their plants to be missing anyways....(Harvesting/ Alchemy+ knowledge trial. DC variable) [Bad karma] >Scout ahead as a disembodied spirit, to figure out if Jingyu has made defenses and if the spirits of his victims could tell you if he's gotten stronger since when Ping encountered him (Stealth trial, DC 50) >Study their Corpse puppet morel patches to figure out how the hell they're growing them (Knowledge trial. DC 120. DC reduced by experience with ghostly alchemy) >write in Anonymous
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>>5892478 >Scout ahead The morel interests me, but we can figure that out later. Wonder if Lilu is dead already
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>>5892478 >Beeline for Jingyu's location, any time wasted is time he can use to slip out of your claws If we save Luli we earn an ally.
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>>5892492 Even as a ghost, we can save the girl, if she is still alive.
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>>5892478 >>Beeline for Jingyu's location, any time wasted is time he can use to slip out of your claws We got the information, let's just crush him.
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>>5892478 I do have a question grandfather. Did we take any blood with us? We could make a temp blood clone as I feel with how sly Jingyu is, he has hostages. Just in case he's found out to enable his escape, I doubt he figured we'd find him tho and might escape to hell.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Tue 16 Jan 2024 01:43:34 No. 5892522 Report Quoted By:
>>5892515 Well, Huan can transmute water into blood due to her weird cosmic evolution, but she also could just make a blood clone by letting out some of hers, so you could very easily make one. Or several if you don't care about them being crude and looking nothing like Huan herself
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>>5892478 >Beeline for Jingyu's location, any time wasted is time he can use to slip out of your claws Undoubtedly he has traps, and defenses, and we will DESTROY THEM ALL.
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>>5892478 >Beeline for Jingyu's location, any time wasted is time he can use to slip out of your claws Anonymous
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>>5892478 >Beeline for Jingyu's location, any time wasted is time he can use to slip out of your claws A blood clone is a giod idea too
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>>5892478 >Well, they no doubt expect some of their plants to be missing anyways....(Harvesting/ Alchemy+ knowledge trial. DC variable) [Bad karma] Why is stealing stuft suddenly giving us bad karma? We've been a habitual thief since our awakening!
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>>5893104 Because we said we wouldn't be getting paid for this. You wouldn't want to be a liar, would you?
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>>5892478 >Beeline for Jingyu's location, any time wasted is time he can use to slip out of your claws We're a cat of our word-- and I don't think it'd be a good idea to use our spirit form when we know there are soul-snatching demons afoot.
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>>5892478 >Beeline for Jingyu's location, any time wasted is time he can use to slip out of your claws Between those three missing kids and what he may have grabbed from the Battlefield and
I really hope I'm wrong about that , we need to move. He might not be Golden Core, but he will be a dangerous foe with even one of those three kids' organs.
Also, Tianhua seems more Heretical or at least Heterodoxical than I originally believed.
A good relationship between the Palace of Natural Laws and Thousand Lotus Hall might be beneficial indeed. But that's a matter for after Jingyu is dealt with, quickly.
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>>5892478 >Beeline for Jingyu's location, any time wasted is time he can use to slip out of your claws It was already a bit of a loss of time to even talk with the elders, i doubt anything they grow is challenging to huan to overcome if jingyu did it.
But now we can at least spot what is supposed to be there and what the bastard added himself.
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Ending the vote, tallying the result now.
Scout ahead as a disembodied spirit, to figure out if Jingyu has made defenses and if the spirits of his victims could tell you if he's gotten stronger since when Ping encountered him:1
Beeline for Jingyu's location, any time wasted is time he can use to slip out of your claws:8
Well, they no doubt expect some of their plants to be missing anyways....:1
Make a blood puppet in your own image: 2
Landslide victory for just rushing Jingyu's punk ass down, knowing every second wasted is one he can use to slip the net.
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>>5893104 Ah it is about the circumstances surrounding the action in this instance. If you'd gone straight to their gardens, sneaking in or breaking in, stealing from them wouldn't be wicked enough to ping as Bad Karma unless you stole A LOT, but because of the conversation you had with them and exactly what you chose to say to them, it is villainous enough to become a bad karma action. But not from the thievery but from the treachery and breaking of trust that it now entails. Basically what
>>5893114 said. It's the lie that would affect your karma the most, in this circumstance
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 17 Jan 2024 08:33:20 No. 5893964 Report The hidden gardens of the Thousand Lotus Hall are clearly partitioned and cut off from the rest of what the Buddhists you know and consider friends call the sea of bitterness, nestled within a secret realm that can't be accessed without solving a riddle only a imperial palace gardener would have a chance of solving themselves. A riddle that can be bypassed with a token that only the sect's head and elders have, one of which you've been a loaned. A dried Lotus flower that magically revives and blooms once again when it is placed in the basin of the stone statue nestled within an rarely visited nook of the lakeside forests surrounding their temple. The moment it is placed in the water, were you'd normally have to combine seven different kinds of rare flowers that were part of some long dead empress' favorite arrangement, the vermin, muddy waters turn clear as jade and purify themselves as the statue's eyes glow with the tell tale green of wood aligned spiritual energy, as the surrounding overgrowth parts away and a dimly lit path untouched by the warmth of the morning sun opens, leading you into the twilight of the sect's sacred groves.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 17 Jan 2024 08:34:21 No. 5893967 Report >>5893964 And the dialogue of both begins to replay between your ears as your imagination wanders beneath the canopy of Tassel trees and cherry blossoms painted in the cool colors of the encroaching night that shall never arrive here.
"I would pass from this life of toil and bloodshed without end with fewer regrets, if I can in my final moments, remember this serene night beneath the whispering trees in your arms instead of the nightmares of war, my prince" The war weary general flirts as a phantom of your vision of his appearance lounges beneath the crooked tassel tree whose petals dance in the sky like the first snow fall of a year
"Why don't you follow me into the gardens, acting as if there is a barrier you keeping you at their gates? Are they not lovely, Shizun? Come frolic with me in the flowers" Piao Tuzi giggles as you envision the heroine of the hare and hunting hound dancing before the couple from the other novel, twirling and dancing as petals swirl around her as if held on ribbons. Sighing, you banish both pleasant day dreams to focus on what's real, the obstacles and defenses of the garden.
Already a flock of Ghost Chasing Moths are fluttering behind you, sipping on the ghostly Qi of your aura, but being careful not to stray too closely lest they be burnt to a crisp like their mundane cousins would be when they get too close to a flame. They're harmless to you. As are the Viper tailed Scorpions and Ogre Leech Vines, since if your body's refinement and cultivation wouldn't protect you against their venom, your internal Gu would. But the odd thing is, you don't see a single scorpion or blood drinking vine anywhere in the first garden as you fly upon it on wings woven from moonlight, using Moonlight Ascent (月华上升, Yuèhuáshàngshēng) and your Specter Lightness skill [幽灵-轻工, Yōulíng-Qīnggōng] to soar above the gardens.
Which is a very bad sign. It means Jingyu has taken them for his own uses deeper in the garden. Frowning, you find the first signs of his activity. A dried smear of blood across medicinal grasses, and marks in the loamy black soil showing something the size and weight of a human corpse being dragged down beneath a bridge separating one portion of the garden from another. The spirit peaches looking on from the hill above watched a brutal murder take place?
'Hmm, that'd be a good scene for a sequel story, tree spirits weeping as they watch helplessly on' you muse as you, with arms held at your side, trot down to the bridge and find face down in the stream, a pale water bloated corpses, and its weeping ghost sitting beside it. Judging from the hole in both their chesst, these must be the mortal and immortal remains of Qi Qi.
Clicking your tongue, you pull the corpse up on the river to make certain your suspicions
"Such a waste" You spit as you see that, yes, Jingyu tore out their gold gate heart and left them rest of them to molder in and pollute the waters of the stream
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 17 Jan 2024 08:35:22 No. 5893970 Report >>5893967 "At least my body shall become fertilizer for these serene gardens" Qi Qi, who looks like he's a little young than Fu and a little older than Ju sighs, head in his hands as he pouts. He barely left childhood before he died. Poor kid.
"All corpses do" You say with a shrug, nearly scaring the ghost to death as they realize you can see them, as you prod the corpse with your foot and frown. Black Veins. That's a sign of the viper tailed scorpion venom, though plenty of other poisons, mundane or no, have the same sign. Yep, Jingyu tamed the scorpions. Wonderful. And he has a sense of irony, leaving the corpse of someone who can't drown to fester in water shallow enough that drowning in it would take a lot of effort or stupidity.
Frowning, you tap your heel on the ground, watching the miasma of decay and the clouds of grudges rising from the body to pinpoint where Jingyu is hiding, since the other grudges you'd been using to track him had become to faint to follow in here.
"Wait, who are you, why are you here?" Qi Qi asks, floating behind you, their lower half turned to a flickering flame as you bound sprint through the peach tree orchard above, following the black mists of his hatred that survived him in death. You ignore them to focus on what's important, catching Jingyu before he realizes he's being hunted.
"A friend to children" You answer just to get them to shut up and stop repeating their questioning "and I'm here to deal with a pest, that's all you need to know, ghost"
That at least gets the spirit of Qi Qi to shut up and follow you in silence as you run through the outermost plots of the garden, pausing only to note that a few blossoms of the slumbering dragon bell flowers sprinkled through out have been plucked or snipped, which means Jingyu also has some of their pollen. Must've been how he snuck up on Qi Qi and caught him without their being a fight or at least one violent enough to leave any sign of struggle besides the dragging of a limp body.
The remaining slumber dragon flowers release their pollen but you just hold your breath when you run through the clouds of the stuff and roast what clings to your robes and hair by increasing your body temperature by giving the blood in your veins a light boil. Besides the idyllic beauty and dream like quality of the gardens themselves, there's nothing out of the ordinary past Qi Qi's corpse until you reach the inner gardens.
Which are made up of towering pine trees that scrape the ceiling of the secret realm. Or they did, but several of them have fallen over or been blasted apart. A fight happened somewhere within the outer limits of the labyrinth forest of the second layer of the glade.
"What happened here?" Qi Qi's specter asks curiously as they crest the hill you just leaped onto from the base, hands clasped stylishly behind your back "These trees could withstand a thousand axes, yet they've bene reduced to splinters!"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 17 Jan 2024 08:36:22 No. 5893971 Report >>5893970 "Your killer happened" You answered, annoyed as you peer into the gloom and frown, wrinkling your nose as you see more and more signs of a battle actually worthy of being called such having taken place inside, even with the plant life itself moving to disguise the wounds done to the forest as a whole. The scent of a new grudge, bitter with sorrow, wafts up to your nose, and you easily are able to navigate the moving treeline to its source, deeper inside the woods, path lit only by a mock ghostly light floating in front of your forehead as even the smallest beam of light piercing through the treetops is swallowed up by the fellows and melons growing a safe distance away from the trunk of the wandering monk pines, which you're pretty sure are the variety that makes up most of the forest.
"Elder Sister Cuifen!" Qi Qi wails as soundlessly, her pale body stumbles from the darkness, head hanging limply, putrescent juices and coagulated blood pouring from her eyes, mouth and the open wound in her throat. Her hands hang loosely in front of her, her robes torn and covered in mud and dried blood and the stains of rotting flesh. Her heather hued hair covering her pretty face, defaced by fungal growths and the final expression of agony she made when.
When Jingyu harvested her mysterious Emerald Field while she was still alive. How gruesome, how brutal.
"Seems he tossed you into a patch of corpse puppet morels" You state as if questioning the corpse as you cup her face in your hands and turn her head with a crack "A sliced throat was the decisive wound, not fatal, but choking on your blood had to distract you, letting him get you on the ground and do as he desired with your body"
Qi Qi is shouting now, trying to warn you about the dangers of the mushrooms sprouting from her cheeks and shoulders, so to demonstrate that you're in no danger at all because you're you, you pluck one of the morels and toss it on your tongue, biting down and eating it without closing your mouth. If your blood couldn't combat a bit of parasitic fungus, you'd be unworthy of your name and the blood Qi radiating out from your twin cores.
"Tastes of earth, with a hint of moldy taste" You snicker as a very angry ghost emerges from her own wandering corpse, her expression twisted in an ogre like mask of rage while her mortal remain remain agonized as they press against you, the mushrooms piloting it trying to find a suitable patch of soil to lay down on or a host that they can infect somewhere beyond you
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 17 Jan 2024 08:37:24 No. 5893972 Report >>5893971 "Your giving tasting notes of the mushroom growing from my corpses!" She shrieks with a high pitched, song bird voice as you ignore her, plucking another mushroom to snack on as you inspect her body and find that there is a mandarin sized void in her chest cavity, a bit above her lower danitan and womb, which has to be where the physical form of her emerald field sat, and you can feel roots growing along with her veins, and can tell the green tint of her once jade like skin isn't all decay.
"Waste not want not" You tease and titter as you push her corpse over and break one of its legs with a stomp, causing her to rage and yell louder "What? Do you want your corpse to kill your juniors when they're sent in here to clean up the messes your killer made? You have a better chance to get a proper burial this way, trust me"
"Who even are you to come marching in here, further mangling my corpses!" She yells and cries as you try your best to tune out her whining, using the enmity keeping her bound her to improve and deepen the ethereal tracks Jingyu left in his trail of carnage, and make not of the devastation his fight with Cuifen left behind, seems she put up much more of a fight than her junior Qi. Jingyu had to struggle to claim her emerald field. A shame he got it all the same and left the rest of her to become someone else's problem. Especially considering she wouldn't have been taught any means of defending herself in the thousand lotus hall. All the trouble she gave, came from her own instinct and natural talent. She simply didn't have enough of either to win, is all.
"I think they're a specialist our elders hired to subjugate the demon who slew us both" Qi Qi answers helpfully, not being entirely wrong "Since they do not practice the fighting arts nor do they rear warriors. She seems to be an exorcists of sorts, but the colors of her robes are unknown to me, as is the crest embroidered onto them"
"She seems to be a heartless bitch to me! Disrespecting the dead in such a manner!" Sun Cuifen's spirit cries, gnashing her teeth as her spectral body twists towards the monstrous, the upper half of her face replaced with a rose flower as she snarls, but follows your lead anyways
With the magic tool the two ghosts' elders loaned you, you are easily able to make your way through the inner gardens, lifting up the second of the tokens entrusted to you, this one a green and brown jade medallion with a plum tree and bat carved into it, and bidding the wandering monk trees and the other moving bushes and trees to part and create a straight line to the inner most gardens.
Which are contained within a cave in the center of the forest of the inner grove. Frowning, ignoring the warnings and threats of the two ghosts at your back, you enter the cave's mouth and snap your fingers, channeling a bit of spiritual energy in the walls and lightning them to reveal a tunnel like a temple carved into the earth.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 17 Jan 2024 08:38:25 No. 5893973 Report >>5893972 The two ghosts look astonished it was so easy for you to enter, and fall in line as you hurry down the staircases and soon find yourself in the middle of a grotto that can not exist outside of the secret realm.
Within the cave is a mountain shrouded by mists, with trees sprouting from every peak, connected to each other by their branches wrapped together like they were holding hands. In the center of the mountains are a collection of trees treated like shrines containing gods, each wrapped with ribbons, talismans and prayer flags, each one sprouted from one part of a vast array carved into the stone floor beneath the mists wrapped around the mountains.
And in the center of this flat plane, in the middle of the array, a figure stands arrogantly, one hand in their pockets, looking into a cage of roots and branches as he idly flicks the wrist of his other hand and chips away at the cage, inch by inch. You blink. Lian Luli is still alive? Who else could be sheltered by the trees her ancestors became but the heiress of their bloodline! When you found the corpses of the other two, you were certain Jingyu had already chopped her up.
Well no time to waste then.
You move closers, drifting through the mist like a ghost seen from the corner of the eye before you pause, sniff the air and yell in rage and revulsion!
"Pheromones!" You snarl as you pull at your robes, not wanting to tear them when you transform "Oh the cheap, and dirty tricks, you've given yourself pheromones to melt the brains of anyone who gets near you into puddles of animal lust! Forcing people to go into heat, that's just sick! I know you're a murderer, but are you a rapist as well, Huh, JINGYU!"
"Wait are you..." Cuifen gasps, sounding like she's concerned for you before you toss of your robes cross your arms and still snarling, transform into your natural demonic beast form, bounding away from the jewelry and clothes you tossed away so you can start ripping the corpse thief apart sooner
"WHAT!?" Qi Qi shouts, clinging to the thigh of his elder sister in fright as Jingy turns on his heel, glowing yellow eyes wide with fright.
"My life truly is a winter without end" He sighs drearily, acting unlike how Ping, Qiang or Xuebai described as he claps his hands together and
Immediately throws himself to the ground, kowtowing and scraping the floor as he kneels in the most subservient and self humiliating way he can.
You stop, paw raised and claw outstretched, eyes smoldering with disgust as the smell in the air thins and you see Tianhua's little sister pressed into the corner of the cage of roots, hands covering her mouth an a curious, bright green birthmark shaped like a lotus blossom on the center of her brow
"Misfortune follows any good fortune that I receive as surely as winter follows autumn" He bemoans, keeping his head planted firmly to the stone floor "Forgive this worm for speaking out of turn, honored one!"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 17 Jan 2024 08:39:25 No. 5893974 Report >>5893973 "Eh?" You grunt as you look over at the kneeling, fox eared and tailed man, around your apparent age in human form "What the hell are you blabbering about, I've come here to kill you"
"I assumed as much" He drearily replies, sounding on the verge of tears "Nothing ever goes right for me, and the way your disciple looked at me when we met told me all I needed to expect from her master, when the devil I was clinging to the thigh of distanced herself from me, I knew I had to make myself scarce as well before she turned on me"
You blink, wondering if this is really Jingyu since he's acting nothing like anyone in your sect or family who met him described. Where was the mania? The mad glee? The wild arrogance? He just seems...kind of depressed.
"Suppose I got too greedy and sure of myself" He continues mumbling "Even after I covered my scent and got away from that crazed fox, should've known her more intellectually blessed younger sister would still be able to find me, even after all the efforts I went through to mask myself. Just my luck, just my luck"
"Eh?" You say again as his fox tail flicks up
"That the demonic beast causing all sorts of mayhem, the heretic who consorts with ghosts and demons, would have a functioning moral compass!" He rages suddenly, lifting up his head, baring his fangs before slamming his head back down "Haven't the heavens denied us both all that we deserved, aren't we both unloved by and scorned by the gods!? Why! Why do you want me dead! Ping survived our scuffle, is it because I teased your other student? Wasn't robbing me of my vengeance enough! I'm so close to achieving something great and you show up, like a goddess of death! Truly, is my murderous spree that offensive to you, who devours humans? That you'd seek me out personally? I know I disgust you, but I do not see what I have done to earn your ire! I was wronged by the same people who wronged your mother, given a crummy lot in life by the heavens, and have done my best to avoid stepping on your toes once I became aware of you!"
You glance up at Luli who looks much more scared of you than Jingyu now, then look back at him, unsure what to make of all of this.
"Did some of the souls I traded for demonic body parts belong to your disciples, I'll get them back! I swear I wasn't aware of who they belonged to at the time" He wimpily wails as you blink and try to grasp the difference between this Jingyu and the one you've heard about
"The girl" You begin as he groans as in pain.
"I haven't figured out bloodlines" He cries out, smacking his head on the ground "And even if I knew how to take them for myself, why would I want one that gives those who possess it a timelimit on their lifespan! It is shit! A shit bloodline! I was uh..."
You narrow your eyes
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:RrBqpVle Wed 17 Jan 2024 08:40:41 No. 5893976 Report >>5893974 "Not what you think" He quickly scrambles, shaking his head, rubbing his forehead raw on the stone "I just, well, was trying to see if I couldn't take on a student of my own! You proved heretics can flourish in this world if they're bold enough, and I already got what I wanted from this pitiful sect anyways, I swear to you, guardian of children, I had no ill intents. and certainly not what you're thinking"
"Pheromones" You say coldly, murderously, flexing your claws
"Gah, she's too young to be affected that way by them that way, it was just making her compliant enough to stop screaming, they work as a relaxant as well as an aphrodisiac, you know" He answers hurriedly, trembling all over "I just figured, since she was given a bad lot in life, I should help her break free from it, like I did with the assistance of your "wonderful" sister"
You narrow your eyes, not at all convinced he isn't that wretched.
What do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Just kill him. Him acting pathetic changes nothing, and he gave up his chance at escape when he kneeled before you >"You're an afront to nature. That's reason enough for me to kill you. By the natural laws, you should not exist, organ stealer" >Inject blood Qi into him, paralyze his body with it, and question Lian Luli herself as to what happened and what's going on, transforming back into a girl to set her at ease >"I expected you to run, not meekly accept your fate. Why aren't you even trying to survive encountering Me, huh?" >Write in Anonymous
>>5893976 >Write in Immediately suspect a trap and put our intellect to work deciphering where and what it could be
Then kill him.
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>>5893976 >Inject blood Qi into him, paralyze his body with it, and question Lian Luli herself as to what happened and what's going on, transforming back into a girl to set her at ease Anonymous
>>5893976 You did a better job of surviving than ANY OTHER path Jingyu, but you have 3 big issues.
>One, your path of Cultivation disgusts me. >Two, While I have sympathy for your spurnment, It doesn't Excuse the above. Even if I recognise my sister's involvement. >Three, I simply don't trust that if I leave you alone, you will not soon come for MY spiritual roots and viscera. It's of higher quality than any other, making this an act of preemptive self defence. Now I've been on the "Kill Jingyu" train for the past while. And I bet Grandfather knew that offering this chance in this way, he'd get a pause.
So I want to see how he can try and convince his way around this.
>Inform him of the above issues, See if he can come up with a way to excuse himself. >Question Lian Luli If he's willing to start over again. . perhaps. Discard this disgraceful practice and undertake Proper cultivation. He's not human anymore. .
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>>5894148 I do have another idea. If he's not willing to accept retraining, then we can offer him a ghostly cultivation technique.
A position in our court, it'd be nice to have him there.
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>>5894020 >>5893976 Agreed. Sneaky opportunistic bastard. Probably sneaking up behind us as we speak.
This fiend is a master of opportunity, we've just followed the trail of evidence for that. Assume that he is always working to take advantage of something, including our good nature.
SQUASH HIM!
Anonymous
>>5893976 Adding on to this write-in
>>5894148 , can we soul-trap him after we kill him, since we know that the remnants of Baoli's faction are on the move? Sending him to hell isn't really removing him as a threat, as long as they're around.
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>>5894020 Support
he has harmed children already
he stole from our disciples (you go into a battle field we fight in and didn't expect to find the coprses of those under us? He is either lying or foolish, in either case his punishment is death)
and we already confronted him before.
He speaks wwith us now not because he feels remorse, but because he knows he can't kill us and harvest our organs.
Check for any traps, and end his life.
afterwards
>>5894166 try to capture the guys' soul. We will need to interrogate him for the whereabouts of the demons and our dead.
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>>5893976 >"I expected you to run, not meekly accept your fate. Why aren't you even trying to survive encountering Me, huh?" Anonymous
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>>5893976 This
>>5894020 . No mercy for this cockroach anons.
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>>5893976 >>"I expected you to run, not meekly accept your fate. Why aren't you even trying to survive encountering Me, huh?" Anonymous
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>>5893976 >Write-in Speech" >"Gods? I care not for them, I care for my sect and my family. Who gives a damn as long as they live well." >"You never strove to be something better, you vilified the world. You cursed the world and only took never giving a damn about anyone but yourself. A selfish monster of a man to twisted to see what he became." >"Why did I track you down? Look what I see, two innocent dead and a third no doubt on the way before I came here. This sect that never did anything to you. Tragic deaths." >"I know for a fact, that you've never regretted killing anyone. And will continue to do so as long as you live." >"Goodbye Jingyu and may your next life be better." >Just kill him. Him acting pathetic changes nothing, and he gave up his chance at escape when he kneeled before you Anonymous
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>>5893976 >>5894020 Support, you should be smart and thorough when exterminating cockroaches.
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>>5893976 >"I expected you to run, not meekly accept your fate. Why aren't you even trying to survive encountering Me, huh?" >Immediately suspect a trap and put our intellect to work deciphering where and what it could be We're like the finest cut of meat for someone of his cultivation method and his first action is this suspicious?
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>>5893976 >"I expected you to run, not meekly accept your fate. Why aren't you even trying to survive encountering Me, huh?" I want to pick his brain for a bit, out of curiosity if nothing else. He's completely fucked, after all, we have nothing to lose by chatting with him a bit.
He asked why we would seek him out personally, and that is fair question. After all, his synopsis is accurate; he has done next to nothing to offend us personally, we are quite the flagrant heretic ourselves with a whole repertoire of disturbing techniques, and we both don't particularly care about the orthodoxy. So why hunt his ass down?
The answer is simple, of course, its because we are a (mostly) moral person who (generally) cares about doing the right thing, and killing him is, by all accounts, doing everyone a favour.
So my question is, why is he behaving like such a bastard? What makes him think his highway organ robbery and his blatant disregard for the lives of others is acceptable? We were no better than a hardened murderer ourselves at first, but that was in part because we didn't know any better, and we steadily cleaned up our act, and now we have an entire sect who respect us to show for it, as well as the reverence of the common people of Chuan.
So what's his reason? What made him want to cultivate so badly as to resort to stealing body parts? And why keep doing it when we have shown that not being an ass is a perfectly good alternative? Hell, he is already trying to imitate us by taking on a student, so clearly the idea has taken root in his mind somewhat.
I'm curious as to what drive the poor bastard. We are unlikely to spare him regardless, but I want to hear him out regardless.
Anonymous
>>5893976 >"I expected you to run, not meekly accept your fate. Why aren't you even trying to survive encountering Me, huh?" I want to pick his brain for a bit, out of curiosity if nothing else. He's completely fucked, after all, we have nothing to lose by chatting with him a bit.
He asked why we would seek him out personally, and that is fair question. After all, his synopsis is accurate; he has done next to nothing to offend us personally, we are quite the flagrant heretic ourselves with a whole repertoire of disturbing techniques, and we both don't particularly care about the orthodoxy. So why hunt his ass down?
The answer is simple, of course, its because we are a (mostly) moral person who (generally) cares about doing the right thing, and killing him is, by all accounts, doing everyone a favour.
So my question is, why is he behaving like such a bastard? What makes him think his highway organ robbery and his blatant disregard for the lives of others is acceptable? We were no better than a hardened murderer ourselves at first, but that was in part because we didn't know any better, and we steadily cleaned up our act, and now we have an entire sect who respect us to show for it, as well as the reverence of the common people of Chuan.
So what's his reason? What made him want to cultivate so badly as to resort to stealing body parts? And why keep doing it when we have shown that not being an ass is a perfectly good alternative? Hell, he is already trying to imitate us by taking on a student, so clearly the idea has taken root in his mind somewhat.
I'm curious as to what drives the poor bastard. We are unlikely to spare him, but I want to hear him out regardless.
Anonymous
>>5895157 >we have nothing to lose by chatting with him. This could be him entirely buying time or setting a trap for him to escape or another.
He's been working with demons, we will not underestimate our enemy. I am not interested in watching him lament his situation. I am interested in watching him die. the questions can wait for when his soul is in our grip.
Anonymous
>>5895157 What he
>>5895163 said. We can talk to him when his soul is in our hands.
Anonymous
>>5895163 >>5895165 We just finished turning a golden core elder into a pile of ash, I sincerely doubt he has anything up his sleeve that we have to fear. Him, or the crow demon's whose patriarch we personally killed 2 cultivation levels ago.
And this is ignoring that he is neck deep inside the personal gardens of a sect who now knows he is in there, and are all likely on full alert. There is no way he is making it out here alive.
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>>5895190 A cornered animal is the most dangerous anon. He's in some serious shit and since I don't want any unexpected bullshit to happen then let's kill him first then talk to him.
Anonymous
>>5895190 'm not worried about him hurting us, I'm worried that he's keeping us talking while he's actually escaping, using some trickery. He is a cunning opportunist playing on our curiosity and good nature, wearing a mask of good behavior just like he wears the organs of other cultivators.
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>>5895247 >while he's actually escaping, using some trickery I will not claim that this is impossible, but you are going to have to be far more specific to convince me there is a real, genuine chance he could escape us while we exchange a few words. I mean seriously, how the hell would he give us the slip from the deepest layer of the hidden garden of an enemy sect, while said sect knows he is in there and likely has the place on lockdown? Keeping in mind that we tracked him down like a blood hound all the way from our territory, despite his best efforts to erase his tracks, thanks to our abilities which he was unable to plan for. I'm not buying it, if we truly want him dead, he will not worm his way out of it.
And for what it's worth,
>wearing a mask of good behavior just like he wears the organs of other cultivators. As far as I remember, he never hid his twisted nature from anyone in person, be it Qiang or Ping. Hence why I want to chat with him, to see if he is simply trying to weasel his way out of here as you suspect, or if he actually started to use his brain for once.
you know, after stealing a better one. Anonymous
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>>5895301 He is working with demons, we do not know the end all be all of hell, I am not going to bet on powers that are not resonable in their operation. The reason we can't be specific is the reason we don't need to take a chance. We don't know the limits of what demons can pull out their ass.
But if we are going that route, give us one good reason we should ask him now instead of just dragging it out of his soul once he's dead? We are more then skilled with souls, and his body and pacts won't matter when he's dead.
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Ending and tallying the vote now. Bunch of nice write in's this round and good discussion to!
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