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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 19 Jan 2024 02:32:29 No. 5895636 Report >>5895635 Even if he got sloppy, as he is clearly trying to make you believe with how blatantly he's been moving and leaving a trail through the gardens he's defiling, leaving corpses strewn about everywhere, he isn't so careless as to not have a escape plan ready for the worst kind of like. Like perhaps the worst possibility of say, an angry golden core tier cultivator with peerless cultivation tracking him half way across all of Chuan intent on reducing him to a smear on the ground with a wave of her paw. And instead of trying to run, put up a struggle, or beg for his life, he's asking why you've come to kill him. A man who is certain he is going to die wouldn't waste his breath on such pointless questions, even if it'd give him peace in death and a worm certainly wouldn't. They'd look for the first hole they could vanish into.
He has given himself up to the fickle mercy of your capricious self, not because he knows there's no chance for him to slither out of your claws or even to scrape your cheek if he tried to run or fight back, but because he's confident there's a way out for him even in the face of red furred death. He isn't buying time for unseen allies to arrive and distract you by throwing away their lives to your fangs and claws, he isn't trying to seem so pathetic you'll feel sorry for him and let him go in spite all of how offensive his mere existence is to you, and isn't trying to make you lower your guard through your curiosity of him. No. No you recognize that glint in his tear filled eyes. He already had a plan in place for when he got cornered. He already had one on the off chance he was overwhelmed in a fight when he was starting out, you'd have to have a brain of gravel and mud to think he wouldn't have one now, after he's seen how scary his betters can be and after he's already had at least one close brush with death.
He's hoping to irritate you enough that you won't think about why he's given himself up to your claws willingly, even leaving his throat exposed since he became aware of your presence. He is hoping you kill him without blinking, that you'll move on from his corpse to speak with the scared child he's backed into a cage and scared to the point of tears. He's using what he's heard of you from hearsay and folklore to devise a plan to slip through your grasp by dying. The puzzle starts to fit together but the final piece is set in place when you think back to how exactly he survived like Ping did when the two of them clashed and both of them died, temporarily.
He knows how to make back up bodies. One of the most forbidden of demonic arts, and his method of making them has to be even more forbidden than most ways of creating a new vessel if the one you were born with has the misfortune of dying. And he made misstep when he spoke of his deal with the crow demons. He mentioned what he gained from it, demonic body parts.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 19 Jan 2024 02:33:33 No. 5895638 Report >>5895636 He's gambling the gains he's taken from Qi Qi and Sun Cuifen, with a demonic blooded back up hidden far away from his current hunting ground! This cocky bastard! The sheer audacity of his plan would be impressive if it weren't so cowardly!
A cold, harsh laugh, unlike your usual witch like cackle, rises from your throat as Jingyu freezes, eyes shooting up to yours with all the defiance a beetle can show to dragon.
"I must admit, that is cunning, in a low, cowardly kind of way. If you were dealing with anyone else, your plan might've worked" You back handedly compliment him, your voice booming like the crashing of stars in the void of space "But you made one mistake, and that was thinking you could trick me, that your vulgar mind could create a deception that could fool my towering, heaven piercing intellect!"
His grimace shifts into a churlish scowl as he pushes himself up by his knuckles to kneel, arrogantly lifting his head in your presses as his fox eyes narrow
"You certainly have a big head. I Suppose even after attaining human form, you are still a house cat at the end of day" He says as if that is supposed to be insulting somehow "So you've figured out my contingency, hm? Are you certain? If you're wrong I shall return and continue doing whatever it is I did that has made you look at me with eyes so murderous"
"I'm confident I have, are you confident I haven't?" You question, sending a jolt down his back as it straightens and his expression falls, becoming uncertain before he narrows his eyes fiendishly and flashes a cocksure smirk, flicking his tongue over his teeth, half way between human and fox fangs
"I think you've spent too long rooting through moldering bones to comprehend even a fraction of the principles of the demonic dao I proudly follow" He boasts, lifting his head up, still grinning as he fully exposes his neck to you "So let us see which way the dice will roll!"
You squint your eyes. But how would he escape to his demonic back up body? It can't be through his soul alone. He deals with demons and if he's met Ping and Qiang, he must have an inkling of what their teacher is capable of or at least a vague idea of their Dao. It'd be beyond risky, it'd be suicidal and pointless to try and flee as a bodyless ghost.
But he only knows you practice ghostly techniques and the sorcery of the dead, since he has ONLY met Ping and Qiang! That's it! A piece of the puzzle you thought was solved! A hidden image on the back of the board!
The Jingyu you're speaking to is a puppet. Or rather most of his body isn't "Jingyu". He's taken a lesson from his battle with ping, and has condensed his lifeforce and hidden it, reducing what could be considered "him" to a fraction of his body and sealed his consciousness and soul inside of it.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 19 Jan 2024 02:34:34 No. 5895639 Report >>5895638 He's gambling on you not noticing, that you'll take him by the throat instead of say, reducing his entire body to dust with a single move, so whatever it is he's turned himself into, he can't crawl away while you're comforting the scared little girl he's been terrorizing.
Clever. If you'd met him earlier in your life, you might've fallen for it. Then again, if you had, he'd have gone for your throat himself.
"I don't roll dice, I just set them on the result I want, and if any one complains that's cheating" You snicker as Jingyu's cocky expression falters and he shifts, trying to guard whatever parasite he's turned his true body into as you purr "Well they must have a wish to die, which I am always happy to grant"
Breathing out, you cover him a cloud of grudges and then with a flick of your tail launch a destructive Yin sphere into his stomach. It spirals and before he can scream in pain or surprise, Jingyu's body is twisted around, his limbs breaking and snapping as the essence of destruction ripples through his body before the sphere of Qi collapses in on itself explosively. You saunter forward, changing shape beneath the veil of resentment as Jingyu's body bursts like an overripe peach being squeezed by an invisible hand, tendrils of smoke and a mist of blood clinging to and falling over you as you walk from the gathered enmity with a grin, confident that is the last you'll see of Jingyu in this life. Considering you just pushed him through a vortex of spiritual energy in its most volatile and destructive state, he'd have to the emperor of all cockroaches to have any chance of surviving to sully your sight ever again.
"What...what did you do to it?" Qi Qi's ghost askes, voice cracking with mortal terror and fear even though he's already "He's gone! He's vanished! There's nothing of him left"
"What the hell kind of monster are you!" Sui Cuifen shouts "Get away from the young lady! Don't you dare hurt her!"
You roll your eyes and sigh heavily as you cross your arms under your breasts and rest your head in one of your palms, sighing as you hang your head and tune out the shouting spirits now swarming around you and trying to pull you away from the girl you'd just saved. Not that they're having any success, since their hands just slip through your body and slip away as they try to hold onto your....
"Oh!" You gasp and then laugh, throwing your head back as you slap it and then shake it, amused by your own air-headedness. You hadn't noticed you were naked until the ghost started pulling on you. It can be easy for forget when you switch between your feline and human forms, but this time is inexcusable since you had taken off your clothes before confronting Jingyu, so to spare them from being torn to shreds and ruined when you turned into an ox sized cat.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 19 Jan 2024 02:35:36 No. 5895641 Report >>5895639 How foolish! Luckily neither your mother or sister are here to tease you about it. Still, you should probably get dressed, if only so you don't frighten little Luli anymore than your initial transformation and execution of Jingyu did. A nude stranger is scarier than a dressed one, even if they're a rare jade beauty, but especially if they're splattered with blood, gore and have bone fragments stuck in their hair.
What do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Before getting dressed and brushing out the remains of Jingyu from your hair, trap his ghost in something so you can question him later (Magic trial. DC 80) >Comfort Lian Luli before questioning her, and make sure she's alright before you begin asking anything, assuring her that she has no reason to fear you >Expel a bit of Ghostly Yin Qi and play ghost empress melody so Luli can see the ghosts of Qi Qi and Sui Cuifen, and they can join the conversation. >ask her exactly what Jingyu did and what he told her while she was trapped down here with him >write in Anonymous
>>5895638 >The Jingyu you're speaking to is a puppet. Or rather most of his body isn't "Jingyu". He's taken a lesson from his battle with ping, and has condensed his lifeforce and hidden it, reducing what could be considered "him" to a fraction of his body and sealed his consciousness and soul inside of it. So he's a Lich. Fuck.
>>5895641 >>5895641 >Before getting dressed and brushing out the remains of Jingyu from your hair, trap his ghost in something so you can question him later (Magic trial. DC 80) >Check Lian Luli for any sign of being Jingyu's New Body, I don't know much from Xianxia, but I know Unknown Armies and it seems like something a number of antagonists from there would pull.
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Knew he was trying some bullshit.
>>5895641 >Before getting dressed and brushing out the remains of Jingyu from your hair, trap his ghost in something so you can question him later (Magic trial. DC 80) >Comfort Lian Luli before questioning her, and make sure she's alright before you begin asking anything, assuring her that she has no reason to fear you Anonymous
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>>5895641 >Comfort Lian Luli before questioning her, and make sure she's alright before you begin asking anything, assuring her that she has no reason to fear you Anonymous
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>>5895641 >Before getting dressed and brushing out the remains of Jingyu from your hair, trap his ghost in something so you can question him later (Magic trial. DC 80) Find the soul, confirm its his, and trap it.
if its not, we find and finish him.
To the anon who said look for a trap first, good job. For the anon who wanted to ask him questions, assuming we grab his soul, you will have your opportunity.
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>>5895641 >>Before getting dressed and brushing out the remains of Jingyu from your hair, trap his ghost in something so you can question him later (Magic trial. DC 80) >Comfort Lian Luli before questioning her, and make sure she's alright before you begin asking anything, assuring her that she has no reason to fear you >Check Lian Luli for any sign of being Jingyu's New Body, And, if at the end, somehow, Jingyu escaped from our attack to his original body I have an idea.
>Lick some of the blood that's on us, change to our Yang nature and using a more potent Blood Qi, find whatever trace of demonic or the lifeforce of Jingyu to infect him, like what we did to the blonde Ling which we were turning into a Jiangshi from biting her arm Now that I think about it, if Jingyu was developing more around the grudges of his victims instead of going for a more Demonic focused Dao, he could've been a copy of us. But while he (apparently) works for a more material side compared to our Material and Spiritual Dao around bodies and blood, we have an upper hand I think.
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>>5895641 >Before getting dressed and brushing out the remains of Jingyu from your hair, trap his ghost in something so you can question him later (Magic trial. DC 80) Lock that bastard down. Be nice after.
>Check Lian Luli for any sign of being Jingyu's New Body Definitely never hurts to be sure.
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>>5895641 >Before getting dressed and brushing out the remains of Jingyu from your hair, trap his ghost in something so you can question him later (Magic trial. DC 80) Of one thing i'm certain, he can't duplicate his soul, so to be sure let's trap him and be done with it.
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>>5895641 >Before getting dressed and brushing out the remains of Jingyu from your hair, trap his ghost in something so you can question him later (Magic trial. DC 80) Since we committed to killing him, might as well go all the way and make sure he is down for good. The last thing we need is for him to pass on to hell right into the waiting arms of some demons. I don't even want to imagine the shenanigans he could get up to down there.
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>>5895641 >Before getting dressed and brushing out the remains of Jingyu from your hair, trap his ghost in something so you can question him later (Magic trial. DC 80) So Jingyu has durability, we have versatility, Yaonan started with the most resources, and Feiqing I guess has his bloodline unlocking as his protagonist bonus
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>>5895641 >Before getting dressed and brushing out the remains of Jingyu from your hair, trap his ghost in something so you can question him later (Magic trial. DC 80) >Comfort Lian Luli before questioning her, and make sure she's alright before you begin asking anything, assuring her that she has no reason to fear you Anonymous
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>>5896008 I will add
>Comfort the girl To my vote as well. We should trap that weasely sod fisr but then we comfort children.
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>>5896111 It's Jingyu, the bastard probably has a body waiting for him in Hell too. At least that sounds like something we'd have done.
It does occur to me that we're soul trapping right in front of a witness, which might not do wonders for our reputation. Oh well!
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>>5896179 She is a child and more importantly, a novice.
We are performing an exorcism.
What is she gonna say in opposition to that? That she knows better?
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>>5896179 >At least that sounds like something we'd have done. He has shown himself to be a resourceful, and since he had an entire year while two major sects killed each other to gather up bodies it's not impossible for him to have a lot of backup bodies sprinkled around. Probably not *good* backup bodies, but good enough to stay alive and get back to harvesting.
Catching his soul is pretty important if that's accurate, otherwise we are never getting rid of this fucker.
>which might not do wonders for our reputation Well, its a mixed bag I think.
On the one hand, catching souls, very spooky heretical technique, sure.
On the other hand, the person we are trapping is a corpse mutilating monster who nearly just killed the only witness. I think they are likely to find it in their heart to be understanding.
Besides, we have HERETIC in big bold letters all over our reputation already, even if it does get out, the news that we can catch souls will raise eyebrows at best. Unless we start showing off our soul collection or something.
And yeah, we can always play the "exorcism" card. Jingyu can clearly travel between bodies, so we are just taking extra measures to be thorough! Easy.
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>>5896179 >look she's evil, she fucks with souls! >you know the ling have forbidden soul destroying techniques, right? >HUH Oh no, they'll think ill of us. Big whoop.
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>>5895641 >Before getting dressed and brushing out the remains of Jingyu from your hair, trap his ghost in something so you can question him later (Magic trial. DC 80) >Comfort Lian Luli before questioning her, and make sure she's alright before you begin asking anything, assuring her that she has no reason to fear you >Expel a bit of Ghostly Yin Qi and play ghost empress melody so Luli can see the ghosts of Qi Qi and Sui Cuifen, and they can join the conversation. >ask her exactly what Jingyu did and what he told her while she was trapped down here with him Seriously, we need to do all of it
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>>5895641 >Before getting dressed and brushing out the remains of Jingyu from your hair, trap his ghost in something so you can question him later (Magic trial. DC 80) Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
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Ending the vote and tallying its result now
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sat 20 Jan 2024 04:41:44 No. 5896916 Report But, you push the almost motherly instinct to comfort the crying child a few paces behind you down, squashing it under foot along with the ever growing urge to clean and wash yourself and brush out your hair of the filth left behind by wasted potential. The natural etiquette of cats to keep their fur clean and sleek and the responsibility to nurture and comfort the young are working against your best interests, the instincts, principles and virtue you so often obey and indulge in without so much of a second thought need to be ignored. While it goes against your three views to not comfort a little girl whose so scared she's trembling, leaving her tears to dry to her cheeks, and it certainly goes against the standards and noble procedure you usually follow to not wash the bits of brain, skull and bloody chunks of meat out of your hair, you can't immediately tell Lian Luli she's safe now, everything will be all right and there's nothing for her to fear anymore and neither can you scrub off the detritus of Jingyu's exploded corpses even though the longer his blood settles onto bare skin and free flowing hair, the stronger the urge to start scratching and scraping what's left of him off becomes!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sat 20 Jan 2024 04:42:45 No. 5896917 Report >>5896916 'Alright, you little worm, how have you tried to squirm away from me now' Your agitated thoughts grumble as you begin to seek out the soul that got blasted out of Jingyu's body when it detonated like a firework.
<span class="mu-s"> roll 2d100. Best out of five. DC 80 </span>
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Rolled 49, 81 = 130 (2d100) >>5896917 Leave No Quarter.
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Rolled 9 (1d100) >>5896917 COME ON BABY, LET'S DO IT
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Rolled 75, 38 = 113 (2d100) >>5896958 Wait hold on, I didn't remembered it was 2d100
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Rolled 78, 76 = 154 (2d100) >>5896917 Yoink
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Rolled 3, 100 = 103 (2d100) >>5896917 NO ESCAPE FROM THE RULER OF THE GREAT WHEEL'S LAW!
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Rolled 1, 58 = 59 (2d100) >>5896917 Anonymous
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sat 20 Jan 2024 07:35:12 No. 5897076 Report Quoted By:
>>5896984 70 over DC. A magnificent Success worthy of your imperial majesty and
>>5897000 A crit
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sat 20 Jan 2024 08:55:36 No. 5897111 Report And you immediately realize exactly how he's trying to slip away, he's attempting to make you think you obliterated him body and soul, since he is well aware you can see ghosts and sense their presence when ever trained exorcist would struggle to feel their breath in the air. Even the ghosts who are trapped in haze and have their heads filled with fog and aren't really aware of the world beyond themselves would know it would be pointless try to escape the Ruler of the great wheel herself, instinctively. Jingyu, despite the surprise of being reduced to less than dust, pretty much scattered into atoms, in the blink of an eye, had planned for his escape as you realized how he was plotting to cheat death and rob you out of the satisfaction of cutting him down. The hidden organ he'd created to enshrine his soul and mind, it turns out, is incredibly durable. The craftsmanship of it probably a sign of your sister's abilities as a teacher more than anything else. Still, it is impressive how strong he made his true body, considering it wasn't completely splattered with the rest of him.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sat 20 Jan 2024 08:56:37 No. 5897113 Report >>5897111 Your eyes narrow to murderous slivers and fill with venom as you look over his pitiful wretched form and snarl "Perverting your spirit into flesh and blood, somehow you've surpassed yourself as a disgusting vermin. I'd aplaud you, but I don't want to squish you, Heh-Heh-Heh"
And then, opening up your dimensional gourd, you retrieve a small clay jar, the sort you used to imprison ghosts of all kinds, the design you copied and learned from the diary of the soul eater. All you need to do is put a little more blood into the mixture of bone-ash, gravedirt and blood, carefully pouring it in by the handful so as not to smear the sealing talismans inside, and taking what Monu taught you about making Gu containers, make it capable of supporting life. Or at least the perversion of it Jingyu has "achieved". It would be easier to just use one of your sealing pearls, but those are hard to come by and Jingyu really isn't worth using one. And making a cage for him this way isn't that much harder.
Once you were certain it'd hold him, you plopped him unceremoniously inside, and gave it a few shakes. The first couple were to test the jar's seal and spells, the rest were just to bully the worm inside of it. Heh-Heh-Heh.
<span class="mu-s"> Jingyu's "Flesh soul" acquired </span>
Placing the jar on the ground, you used your ability to control blood to forcefully pull most of the mess splattered over you off, and worked the rest of it out with a comb, only not tugging and pulling it all out because you didn't want to risk pulling strands out of or fraying your beautiful head of hair.
Once you were satisfied and feeling clean and fresh, you dressed your self, patted your hair and shook your head to make sure there wasn't any Jingyu left in it, and then pick up the jar holding Jingyu by its lid, grasping it with three fingers and swaying it side to side as you sauntered up to the living cage of roots and branches holding Lian Luli.
"What...what was that little demon you scooped up just now?" Qi Qi asked sounding frightened to hear the answer as you pause, flip the jar onto you palm to balance it, as you pick up the jewelry you discarded with your free hand and just carelessly put a few pieces back on before smiling as turning to the terrified looking ghost of Qi Qi and the furious looking Sun Cuifen
"His soul" You answer plainly and with a lazy air "Don't know what he did to it to make it like that, but my usual method of keeping ghosts in jars should still work to keep him from scurrying away to hide in some puddle of filth or another"
Sun Cuifen looks aghast but wisely does not accuse you of anything or voice her distaste for your heretical ways, since she is bright enough to realize you could easily put her in a box or a jar if she annoys you enough.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sat 20 Jan 2024 08:57:37 No. 5897114 Report >>5897113 Qi Qi just trembles and stares at the jar wobbling on your palm as you stick the black bone hair pin behind you notched ear and with a cheeky smile, cheerfully skip up to the cage where Lian Luli is trapped inside.
She's holding her knees to her chest, wearing the mostly green robes that novices of Thousand Lotus Hall are given to wear, eyes bloodshot and weary, and cheeks soaked with tears. Her eyes, every shade of jade, emerald and the color of spring grasses and leaves flick from your smiling face to the jar swinging in your fingers' grip. She has a rabbit like presence, soft and fluffy, harmless with pale skin, and her hair is nearly the color of her eyes, the crown of it the color of dried grass before it gains color gradually making it the same, vibrant assortment of greens as her eyes. She looks like a fairy that ushers in the coming of spring, especially with her hair tied in such a childish style, two buns and braids.
And she scoots closer to the cage, your heart flutters and lightens until it feels like its resting on clouds as you tilt your head, smiling less toothily and cheekily and more gently and trustworthily, like a dependable big sister.
"It...he can't get out, can he?" She asks quietly, voice like a murmuring brook, the two ghosts of her elder martial siblings chewing on their nails or cheeks as they watch the two of you talk from a safe distance
"Not if this is my handiwork" You joke, pretending to inspect the jar in your hands as you sit down and examine the roots she's holding onto and frown "Yep, I made this, no chance he can slip out, even wrote the talismans inside of it lining its walls. He has a better chance of attaining enlightenment than he does breaking free of this cage"
There's more than wood Qi flowing through these trees that her ancestors became. The essence rolling through what was once their meridians is familiar, too familiar.
"You're a demon" She asks measuredly, trying to look mature and ladylike as, with a shaking hand, she brushes loose strands of hair out of her eyes
"No, Demonic Beast, there is a difference, though I prefer being called a Magical or Ascended Beast, to make it clear to idiots I'm no devil" You say sweetly, patiently, bowing your head and lowering your shoulders to look less intimidating and meet Luli at her level "And even if I were a true demon, I could never harm little girls like you"
"You aren't as scary as you seemed, miss" She says with a snotty snort of laughter, the spray of which you brush of without your smile breaking "I heard demonic cultivators were.."
"Like this wretch, Heh-Heh?" You snicker, smile twitching as you tried not to take offense "also, just a heretic, not a demonic cultivator, I know some but, well there is a big of a difference between the way I cultivate and the way Demonic Cultivators do"
"Are you sure he can't get out?" She asks wearily as you take a breath and repress the instinct to snap and defend your work, she means nothing by it
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sat 20 Jan 2024 08:58:38 No. 5897117 Report >>5897114 "I have ghosts that'd make him seem like a house trained puppy held in jars just like these, you have nothing to fear, He isn't getting out. Your name is Luli, right?" You say as she lets go of the living bars as you lean closer to her. She turns away, her eyes looking distant and glassy as she grabs her knees again
"Mmm" She answers with a little sigh, but something is troubling her and you think you know what is. You reach out and brush the root and a shock shoots down your arm. You recoil on reflex, eyes widened by the shock of spiritual energy that zapped, but you aren't surprised. There are trace amounts of blood Qi flowing through these roots. But now isn't the time to ponder exactly why it's there is and if it is for the reason you suspect it is.
"He told you about your bloodline, didn't he?" You ask carefully and slowly as the girl shivers at the mention of the word bloodline
"He...he was lying, to lead me astray from the proper, righteous path, right? Demonic cultivators are liars by nature, dupli...dupli...deci...crafty" She stammers, so scared her voice sounds like breaking class. You bite your cheek, keeping a pleasant look on your face, gentleness in your eyes and a relaxed posture as internally you start shouting every curse you know.
"I won't become a tree, will I, Miss heretic? These are just normal, ordinary spirt trees" She says panickedly, hyperventilating and rapidly spiraling into panic as you stand on the balls of your feet, as she pats the walls of roots around her harder and harder to try and assure herself that they're just Qi rich plants. But you know different. You can sense traces of souls inside of the trunks of the tree and drops of old blood being pushed through them, and there is no reason for Tianhua to lie about the drawback of their clan's oh so precious bloodline.
You brush your fingers over the roots, another shock. Like a mother's hand slapping it away. The image of a cat yowling at a stranger, wrapped around her little, flashes in your mind as you lean back and sit down, legs sprawled out as you hold yourself up with your hands and let out a long, dreary sigh.
"Its nonsense of course" Sun Cuifen blusters nodding with Qi Qi "Her family is just...misfortunate, they never live long no matter how strong their foundation are, or how much they extend their bloodline"
"Some say the whole family is cursed, or spend too much time gardening to improve their own bodies much" Qi Qi mutters into your ear, wincing as Cuifen's ghost snarls at him, turning monstrous for a flash before returning to her normal, mangled self
You bite down on your tongue, stopping from thoughtlessly asking what happened to her and Tianhua's mother. It'd only make her fears feel more real, and make her certain of the awful truth of what she has been raised to consider a gift. Besides, lifting up your eyes to look at the smaller tree that has wrapped around Luli, you think you've been looking at their mother this whole time.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sat 20 Jan 2024 08:59:39 No. 5897119 Report >>5897117 And she isn't anywhere near as trusting as her little girl is. Still it is half a miracle Luli is speaking to you at all, considering what she's seen and been through, especially since that includes both your original form and the gruesome execution of Jingyu. You might be good with kids, but if she thought you were a monster, she wouldn't ne talking to you at all.
What do you tell Lian Luli, Huanliuxue?
>The truth as you know it. >The lie, as she knows it. >Keep her mind otherwise occupied, asking if she's alright, what happened before you arrived, and of her hobbies and friends if she starts getting too scared, while you figure out how to free her >Distract her and keep her calm while you inspect the tree that is most likely her mother, and try to figure out her clan's bloodline and its origin (Instinct/ Knowledge trial. DC 140) >write in Anonymous
>>5897119 >The truth as you know it. >"However, I also turned sort of into a tree just recently for a bit, I should be able to help you find a cure with a bit of study. I'm the best alchemist with primal qi and a few other useful abilities. We'll ask your sister to see the records and as the most talented of the generation. Nay the most talented ever, I will help you. As long as you trust this big sis." Anonymous
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>>5897119 >Keep her mind otherwise occupied, asking if she's alright, what happened before you arrived, and of her hobbies and friends if she starts getting too scared, while you figure out how to free her Anonymous
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>>5897119 >Keep her occupied >Imspect the tree to figure out its origin. Anonymous
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>>5897127 Support
The cat doesn't lie to kids and she help them
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>>5897127 Support. We are uniquely able to try and sort this problem out.
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>>5897119 >>5897127 +1
We have learned many painful truths ourselves, and we achieved greatness because we accepted them, and vowed to forge on despite them. The truth will be painful, but lying would condemn Luli to their fate.
As for promising to help her, I was just thinking the Thousand Lotus Hall could help us understand our newfound plant powers, and now we have the perfect excuse to mingle with them more. Our luck continues to rival our intelligence, it seems.
>Flesh soul ...You can do that? I gotta say that is as impressive as it is disturbing. Jingyu was not fucking around.
It also occurs to me that this might be a way to allow Xuebai and Yujijiao to cultivate again. I'm not sure we would want them to convert their souls to flesh, but surely the technique could be used in more roundabout ways to create new bodies or something? It could be a nice angle to explore, since we have made very little headway with this particular conundrum as I recall.
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>>5897117 >Distract her and keep her calm while you inspect the tree that is most likely her mother, and try to figure out her clan's bloodline and its origin (Instinct/ Knowledge trial. DC 140) I also want to invite Sui Cuifen into our sect. If her natural talent let her use a pacifistic Law to put up a good fight, it'd be such a waste to just let her go to the afterlife. She might even be able to develop ghost cultivation for us.
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>>5897201 She is a bit orthadox, and doesnt trust us.
But this is very very good, two decently powerful ghosts would make for delectable fonts of ghostly Yin Qi.
Make the offer, worst they can do is refuse. Still, this idea of asssiting, while noble in intention, has the potential to yeild fruit for our primordial vamp flower transformation. To say nothing of the political payout an alliance wull yield us.
Good idea all around.
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Now that I think of it. Would it be possible to adapt the process magical beasts use to assume human form to allow the trees to turn back into humans?
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>>5897119 >Keep her mind otherwise occupied, asking if she's alright, what happened before you arrived, and of her hobbies and friends if she starts getting too scared, while you figure out how to free her Anonymous
>>5897229 No. We ascended by comprehending human wisdom, these are humans who are transformed into trees.
Seemigly still possessing a level of consiousness.
My present ideas are transsublimation into a jingashi or perhaps speedrunning cultivation
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>>5897127 Supporting. It's a bit out of line to be making the offer to Lulli directly, but that's just how Huan is.
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>>5897119 >Distract her and keep her calm while you inspect the tree that is most likely her mother, and try to figure out her clan's bloodline and its origin (Instinct/ Knowledge trial. DC 140) If we are to cure her
It will be through finding the origin.
Are we truly telling her the truth? Or merely what we think is true. Are we truly telling her a lie? Or what she believes to be a lie.
Find the truth of the matter and ascertain for ourselves. Then and only then can we in good faith speak, for our words will be true not just because we believe them to be, but also because the dao holds it so.
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>>5897245 So they already comprehend human wisdom, meaning they're 90% there.
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>>5897119 >Distract her and keep her calm while you inspect the tree that is most likely her mother, and try to figure out her clan's bloodline and its origin (Instinct/ Knowledge trial. DC 140) I wouldn't know about it but i know of plants who, ...heh. cultivated and recently half-turned into a plant myself by mistake.
But it is plain to see there is a strong bond of love making these trees protect you so fiercely and if you want i can offer my insights on their true nature.
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>>5897119 Converting a soul into flesh and blood, might be useful if we also learn how to create a body Frankenstein style.
>Distract her and keep her calm while you inspect the tree that is most likely her mother, and try to figure out her clan's bloodline and its origin (Instinct/ Knowledge trial. DC 140) Split between this and the write-in, but we can still offer to help if the dice go sour
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>>5897119 >Distract her and keep her calm while you inspect the tree that is most likely her mother, and try to figure out her clan's bloodline and its origin (Instinct/ Knowledge trial. DC 140 Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
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ending the vote and tallying its result now. Been playing Palworld. Hell of a drug.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 22 Jan 2024 12:53:27 No. 5899780 Report Your mouth parches, your throat dries, a sensation somewhere between static electricity and haze of heat and radiation traveling through the cosmic void washes over you to churn and spiral in your head as you look down at Luli's wide, hopeful eyes tinged with fear and clench your teeth down, locking your jaw as tightly as you can to stop from telling her what you know as the truth. Her sister and tormentor both described the Lian's treasured bloodline the same way, one that cuts its possessors life as a human short. Truth can be unpleasant but lying to a child when they're afraid does no good, especially when the lie will be revealed anyways down the road, in a few years. How old was her mother when she? Died isn't the right word is it? When she transformed into a tree. Her elder sister, Tianhua, seemed very young for a sect head and patriarch of a clan of cultivators.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 22 Jan 2024 12:54:28 No. 5899784 Report Quoted By:
>>5899780 But even so, deciding to do that makes you feel like you stabbed a knife through your own back. A self inflicted wound best mended by soothing the scared child knelt in front of you.
"Many cultivators decades your elders have eyes but fail to see Mount Tai" You praise softly, wiggling closer to the cage of roots and thorns, careful not to touch it directly as you study it from a distance. A close distance, but far enough so it doesn't shock you with the spiritual energy it still possess. Luli wrinkles her nose, screwing her eyes as she looks at you with a pout meant to look angry but it only makes her seem more rabbit like and adorable, despite her best efforts.
"What do you mean, what does that have to do with...." She questions, proving that she is more aware than most kids her age and quite a few cultivators several times her age. Clever girl. Wearing your best "mischievous elder" smirk, you lean forward, still trying to figure out where the human could be in the tree surrounding her, but like she said, it looks like an ordinary spirit tree if there could be such a thing. White barked, glowing blue vein like lines tracing up its trunks, branching into its pale leaves that glow softly in the mist.
"Everything. You are perceptive and clever enough to realize Jingyu would have every reason to want to trick you, to deceive you. Imagine how much face he'd gain in heretical circles if he managed to lead astray the heiress of the thousand lotus hall and turn her to demonic cultivation. Shhhhh" You explain as you, noticing that the lines in the bark look too much like veins than the usual pathways of Qi commonly found in high quality spirit trees or the ones that have had a century or two of growing and flourishing, before you snap your teeth down on your tongue, realizing you were about to curse in front of an innocent little girl, so you change the word about to jump off your tongue at the last moment "Senior sister even, despite being the friendly sort of heretic, delights in righteous cultivators joining her cause and becoming her disciples"
Admitting that strikes up a new curiosity, that last just long enough to distract Luli from the fear that was on the verge of swallowing her completely
"Why?" She asks, clearly seeing you more like one of her fellow students of the thousand lotus hall than a baby devouring apostate sage that delights in corrupting the youth and spreading lies
"Every convert they or I get proves that the philosophy and practices of their schools are enduring, that their three views have merit, that they are right and the others are wrong" You explain relaxedly, though your eyes remain sharp, mapping out every glowing blue vein along the trees bark as you connect the thin strips of light to the complicated vascular system of a human body
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 22 Jan 2024 12:55:35 No. 5899786 Report "Isn't that childish?" She scoffs, not entirely buying your explanation as you realize that every pathway of spiritual energy matches closely with mental diagram of the human body's circulatory systems you're imagining in front of it, just stretched out and misplaced
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Rolled 21, 31 = 52 (2d100) >>5899786 For children I suppose.
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Rolled 46, 7 = 53 (2d100) >>5899786 Anonymous
Rolled 7, 79 = 86 (2d100) >>5899786 Roll bad!
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>>5899789 >>5899794 >>5899793 Holy shit. Someone please bring it back
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Rolled 20, 28 = 48 (2d100) >>5899786 It might be over bros
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Rolled 98, 94 = 192 (2d100)
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>>5899815 We've never been so back
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>>5899815 Oh yeah, I'm thinking its a certified Huan moment.
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>>5899815 And here I was, doubting, like a fucking idiot.
Why would I ever doubt the great Huanliuxue?
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>>5899815 ...Actually, is this our highest roll yet?
I know we have rolled in the 180s before, but I can't recall 190 or higher.
0.36% chance of rolling 192 or higher btw
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>>5899815 Shoutout to the haters and the non-believers, and for those praying for my downfall thank you, that only makes me stronger
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 22 Jan 2024 14:30:25 No. 5899828 Report Quoted By:
>>5899815 Seems Huan was pretending to be a pig to eat a tiger, a very fortunate success and an astonishing one, 50 over DC! as expected of the princess!
Update will arrive shortly
with some music to accompany it
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>>5899815 A tremendous clutch!
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>>5899815 Genuine jaw drop.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 22 Jan 2024 16:08:55 No. 5899896 Report Sparks fly, blood red and spring sky blue, between the point of contact between the palm of your hand and the smooth root. The green leaves glowing from it and glowing veins running through its sparks both begin to glow more brilliantly and brightly than before as the pupil of your eyes contract and turn to sickles as the surging and increased flow of QI through your meridians sets them alight as well, making your ghostly beauty seem all the more radiant and haunting as your veins and meridians alike burn with carmine light as your eyes flare with flying stars and moondust falls from your hair as the silent battle between you and the consciousness in the tree rages while Luli stares, sensing that you're channeling a great quantity of Qi but also realize that whatever you're discharging so much of it for is no danger to her. Across the array in the meditation chamber, the other trees begin to glow just as brilliantly as the one that had been Luli and Tianhua's mother. And they begin to divert the ambient flow of Qi from their roots, leaves and barks across the diagrams carved into the stone and infuse them into the tree and the cage its root have formed through them, by creating a liquid that is pure spiritual essence. Just the sight of it makes you want to drool, but that might just be that exertion of forcing first one and now many cultivators turned tree to connect the steady flow of their Qi with the admittedly abnormal currents breathing through your meridians.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 22 Jan 2024 16:09:55 No. 5899897 Report >>5899896 "Fool of a whelp!" The eldest amongst them brays, scolding a woman who looks very much like Luli and her elder sister, who is squatted on the floor with the fiercely protective expression only a mother could wear upon their face "You endanger our own squabbling with this intruder!"
"Carmine mystic!" The oddly churlish woman spits, and you taken aback wondering how she could've produced the sweet Luli and the composed Tianhua with an attitude like that "You can all sense it! This invader harbors demonic Qi withing their cultivation, and seeks to infect us all! Infect my daughter"
"So you are not descendants of the Peerless Sanguine Jade Shrine?" You purposefully blurt out, acting the role of the confused youngster to show the old souls you aren't a member of the school they fear you to be
"Don't act the fool, I sensed the refinement of your cultivation the moment you entered our chamber, Heretic" The eldest amongst them barks, flicking his sleeve your way "You exchanged spiritual essence with this child, seeking insight to our bloodline and its beginnings"
"And you cannot keep them from me now" You snicker as you mold your spirit into resembling your human form, and just to mess with the tree-spirits, dress it only in blood red petals as you saunter up to their leader and the apparent ancestor of the whole Lian Clan "I've wired my veins with the roots of her tree, and all of you are connected to them as well. Whatever is in my blood, I can meditate upon and study like any manual"
"Because you practice that abhorrent art" Luli's mother accuses wildly
"I have other methods, I'm rebuilding the sorcerous techniques and spell repository of Carmine mysticism from the ground up" You dismiss with a snort and glib wave of your hand as the ancestor and progenitor of the bloodline looks you up and down while all the others gather around and, having never been warriors in life, hurl empty threats and insults even if with their number and all of them being some level of golden core, could easily overwhelm you through sheer numbers if they tried.
But they don't.
"I recognize those eyes" He says slowly, a look of wordless terror etched in the wrinkles of his face "I have seen eyes like them before, without the starlight that glimmers within yours"
You blink and frown to stop a look of shock and panic from spreading across your own fair features. You recognize his face to. Its hard to tell with how much older it is, but you remember his eyes. They were much more carefree and have lost must of their kindness and purity, but those are the same eyes as the cultivator who covered for you in the past, when you stole the Sanguine Divine Spirit Peach from the...You push aside the realization and recognition, composing yourself and steeling your gaze.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 22 Jan 2024 16:10:57 No. 5899898 Report >>5899897 "In another life, perhaps, grandfather" You say sweetly as you circle around him, hands on your hips and a spirited spring to your step "But that you here, meditating in the boughs of these trees, can recognize the forbidden magics I wield, even though I've scrubbed them of the demonic dirt that they'd grown from, tells me that I wasn't far off from the truth of the matter when I tried to cover my tail with that foolish girl act, hmm"
"How dare you make such brazen accusations!"
"A demonic beast cannot be be free of devilry"
"A diabolists art pruned of its thorned branches still contains its poison"
"Junior, you dare! We keep records of that sect of man eating demons to guard against them!"
"You court death, cat! As mighty as you are, you are in our domain, where our will is law!"
"Retreat from our sanctuary, leave our descendant in peace, and we shall be merciful and only poison your meridians as a warning, rather than a sentence of death"
"Tch, you all are a bunch of bags of hot air and arrogance! You may not know who I am, but I hold dominion of the dead! And none of you are looking particularly lively to me, know your empress, ghosts!" You snap angrily, shouting and yowling loud enough to send a few of the specters flying through the air and to cow the others, who immediately give up trying to threaten you when you make it clear you won't be cowed
Except the elder with the familiar eyes, who is calmly stroking his beard.
"Take your leave, juniors" He commands with a voice like rumbling thunder "I shall discuss privately with this intruder this matter, so they are not forced to damage our rooted meridians and interconnected arrays taking the knowledge they desire"
And like that, they all blink away. Except Luli's mother, who gnashes her teeth at you and shoots you one hell of a murderous glare before she to turns to drops of light and vanishes into the roots revealed through the mist.
"None of them remember a time when your kind were welcomed with open arms as fellow daoists" The old man sighs sadly, slowly lowering himself to the ground "Meditate with me, for a moments passing, and I shall willingly relinquish the wisdom you seek, and the true history of the thousand lotus hall and the Lian family. That you are familiar with the sect whose name was stricken from all historical records and living memory outside of this hall I built, reveals the depths of your wisdom and the towering height of your intellect and the care you showed in merging temporarily with our living array..."
Living array. Something that has been outlawed as demonic cultivation. Interesting.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 22 Jan 2024 16:11:58 No. 5899899 Report >>5899898 "Speaks of the extent of your natural talent and the rare refinement of your cultivation. That child who fought your intrusion, does not know a faction of what you and I remember, of that which has been purposefully lost and forgotten" he continues on with a serene expression and musical tilt to his tone "And was blind to your heroism by the extent of her maternal instincts. Grab my hands and we shall begin this lecture"
"You are a member of Peerless Sanguine Jade Shrine" You state boldly, keeping your hands on your hips as you lean over the primordial ancestor of the Lian clan
"Once. When they were worthy of being considered daoists, let alone humans" He answers sharply, eyes burning with rage long burned down to cinders in ash "To be specific, I was a disciple of the Temple of Carmine orchids branch of the once noble sect. I was the last generation, before they forsook their humanity and turned themselves all into Jiangshi. In their desperation, they lost their hope and their minds. I did not, even when my cultivation stalled, I simply switched to a wood aligned treatise to cultivate Qi and practiced the martial arts, spells and techniques of the sect, others did as well, but we were outliers and outcasts for it. They were obsessed with blood Qi, rare in its purest form, which I sense you have acquired through means unknown"
Means which set the peerless sanguine jade shrine sect down on their path of degeneration, villainy and eventual destruction
"And when their supposed salvation was found, you rebelled?" You question as the old man scrutinizes you with a curious glint in his eyes. He hangs his head and sighs, his shoulders weighed down with shame
"I fled, at the time, I was an elder, a leader of the sect, but I did not horde the blood my disciples wasted their youth refining like my peers did, I simply forsook out methods and traditions long before the traitors in our ranks did the same, forsaking them instead for the demonic magic that..." He says, pausing to grind his teeth as the cinders in his eyes turn into a raging inferno as he snarls and grimaces like a demon "That son of a bitch brought back from his voyage on foreign seas! They turned themselves into walking, bloodthirsty corpses, enchanted their blood and used it to fill their meridians in place of Qi. A living death they proudly called it, eventually he entitled it Carmine Mysticism"
"And when exactly did you run away, and abandon them to the monstrous fate they embraced?" You ask, trying to connect his story to the carmine mystic you fought in hell
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 22 Jan 2024 16:13:00 No. 5899901 Report >>5899899 "When the other elders declared that villain the new sect head, after he exsanguinated the previous head after biting out their throat" He answered coldly, eyes smoldering and growing darker by the second "When my brothers and sisters embraced a curse and became a plague on the land. I ran away. Could I have prevented their reign of terror? Their destruction? I have thought of this often in my deathless meditations here, and much in my life"
"So you created the bloodline, to try and recreate the lost source of pure blood Qi?" You asked connecting the dots of the puzzle as the old man told his story "Using your knowledge of growing unusual and strange spirit grasses, herbs, trees, and fruit, you inscribed within your own genes inherited techniques and magical powers created for the sole purpose of"
"You are eerily astute for your age. I know cat's mature much faster than humans, but you cannot be older than..." He begins before you lift up your hand and smile politely, all but ordering him to stop before he says something to piss you off "But the reason was, I was certain they were still noble at heart, still redeemable. Other sects did worse, had clawed their way back to dignity after the rule of worthless or evil natured heads. If I could just re-create the fruit that lead the founding of the sect and whose theft had lead to its downfall, surely, I thought then, they would forsake the unforgiveable path they'd been lead down and betray the traitor whom they all served like sons and daughters but..."
He growled and pulled down the collar of his robes.
"Even though I held onto that hope in my old age, when I met with my closest martial brother, and told him of my plan, I had to put him down like a rabid dog" He says tearfully, shedding tears for the creature that nearly ripped his head from his shoulders judging from the scar left their "And it was then, when I was made aware that my old friends were truly irredeemable. Their thirst for blood became addiction, they drank more than they needed to maintain their bodies and progress their abhorrent cultivation of strength"
Your eyes must be sparkling, because you realize now where the plant like transformation technique the blood moon gave you for a night came from, how the branch of carmine mysticism it came from was created.
"It was your blood" You mutter under your breath, eyes wide as the realization blossoms into true insight
"Hmm?" The old ghost says, and you can't tell if he heard you or not
"Nothing" You say quietly, bowing your head "I understand why you made the bloodline now, but why make it put a limit on how long its inheritors could live, why turn them into trees?"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 22 Jan 2024 16:14:01 No. 5899902 Report >>5899901 "I was dying. My first son gave his live so I could retreat back to this realm" He explains sorrowfully, tears now dripping down his cheeks "The techniques I imbued into my blood, the enchantment, the alchemy, they were potent, strong, but only for growing spiritual plants or using them. And mastery of them was difficult, I had not been able to record every step of the process, how to use them in battle, how to control the results of hybridization, how to create replacement bodies through plant material to evade death. I believe, before I made the last change to the legacy I left behind, all that had been put to page in the manual detailing the bloodline techniques I created, was how to improve the quality of spirit herbs through spreading blood as fertilizer. It was an unformed art so...I condemned myself to this partial existence. I hadn't been able to leave the golden core stage in the end, but I knew my descendants could easily surpass me but"
"But then the decline of all cultivation happened" You guess and the old man nods his head, your chest swells with pride
"Precisely, the descendants who had surpassed me, died in the apocalyptic war, and ever since they haven't been able to cultivate quick enough to reach past the golden core stage" he explains weakly "The transformation was supposed to be a means to preserve knowledge, nothing more, those who couldn't attain nascent soul could forsake the practices and find another method of cultivation but...they began to see it as a feature rather than the disastrous flaw it was, for in the moments before they are wholly changed, they are capable of creating spirit grasses that surpass anything naturally occurring. Whether through greed, ambition or simple duty to the family and sect, they all gave their human lives to give heavenly gifts to their descendants. And eventually, it became procedure for them to do so. Eventually, they forgot it wasn't a choice. They began to believe once one began to practice the law unique to our bloodline, they had made it their destiny to join me here, in my silent vigil"
"They didn't tell the latest heir that she was going to turn into a tree at all" You state, fury rising as all you've learned here begins to paint a very, very unpleasant picture of the character of the elders of the thousand lotus hall
"Why would they? If they knew, they might take after their ancestor's example and run for the horizon" The old man says with a humorless chuckle and cool enmity roiling in his dark eyes "I have no illusions that they'll listen to you, as cheeky as you are, even though your cultivation would've been impress in my day and age. Even if you told them they could avoid the fate by taking up a different technique or reaching nascent soul, they'd continue on as they are, my descendants, and maintain the status quo"
"Morons" You ruefully comment, spitting on the ground
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 22 Jan 2024 16:16:47 No. 5899905 Report >>5899902 "But you've stolen one legacy of mine already, Pure Mystic" He says with a twinkle in his eyes, as his words nearly make your reinforced and strengthened heart stop "Having somehow redeemed that dastard's techniques, and I grow weary of seeing so many young faces like my own surround me, to remind me of my failures and glory days. Would you like to be a thief again little sister?"
Fuck! Fuck! He knows! He figured out you were the one who stole the Sanguine Divine Spirit Peach!
"Hah! So it was you!" He laughs as he sees your shocked faced "Figured it was that strange cat I let in all those centuries ago! Guess this answers one question that has troubled me, but creates many more to take its place. Do not look so stricken and fearful, I've long ago stopped caring. If it had remained in their possession, I am sure that temple would've walked the same demonic path"
"Don't scare me like that, I might refuse to do it, but I know how to eat ghosts!" You threaten angrily, grinding your teeth, leaving out that you do not know how to devour souls and have in fact, locked away the living scripture that could teach you or anyone else desperate for power how to do it
"It'd be a mercy at this point" He drearily replies without missing a beat "So, thief, will you help this old ghost fix his final mistake, at least? The child I sense in this chamber, doesn't have the potential to surpass golden core, and I fear her seniors will purposefully stunt her growth to ensure she contributes another treasured plant to the sect's gardens. I created the bloodline, I can take it away, I can transfer it"
You sit down, as he asked you when he began talking with you privately and glower at him.
"This isn't a trick?" You ask
"Why would I tempt the ire of one who can devour souls?" He jests back, his eyes seeming to contain just as many twinkling stars as your own "It'd spare the child, and allow my descendants to finally enjoy the contentment of old age"
He wags his hand tempting you to take it and inherit his knowledge
What is your answer to the Lian Ancestor's offer, Huanliuxue?
>Accept it, an offer like this doesn't come around everyday >Refuse, you'll make your own legacy, taking someone else's is beneath you >Tell him to just remove it from Luli, you'll make up a story to explain its absense >It is Luli's decision if she wants to have it or not, you'll tell her the truth and let her decide if she wants to risk turning into a tree or not. >Write in two things.
First 5 DoS was the minimum required to get this outcome of being offered the bloodline, and second, this update is exactly 18,888 characters long, minus the links and this Bit. I just thought that was neat, is all.
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>>5899905 >It is Luli's decision if she wants to have it or not, you'll tell her the truth and let her decide if she wants to risk turning into a tree or not. Anonymous
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>>5899902 >You did not write down the method of forging a new body. But you know it? This knowledge, I can carry to your descendents. They will need to learn it rather than use it innately, but it can be done. >It is Luli's choice if she wishes to risk it. But otherwise, Im content to take such an offered bloodline if she doesnt want it. We can adapt and counter he transfiuration.
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>>5899905 >It is Luli's decision if she wants to have it or not, you'll tell her the truth and let her decide if she wants to risk turning into a tree or not. I guess trying for a sneaky pact with Luli to keep in contact and aid her in surpassing the limitation of her bloodline either by repressing the transformation or shaping it to become more of a dryad is an outcome we can aim for.
Or we can offer to make her a catgirl instead and piss off everyone.
Her choice
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>>5899905 >Write in Offer to join forces and try to develop a way for the trees to turn back into humans. If demonic beasts can assume human bodies, and there exist demonic plants who presumably could do the same, it should be possible for former humans to do it. We can, for example, try to convert them into full-fledged demonic plants, or try and teach them a shape-shifting law.
Removing the bloodline can remain as a backup measure. Don't let Luli decide, the sect elders can press her into refusing.
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>>5899963 Support
It's doable, they still have there qi pathways honestly we could with a little poking and prodding have the trees fruit and create new bodies and shove the ghosts in them. It would be like the peach boy story going down the river heh heh.
Dao of ghosts to move the soul, blood and primal qi to create the fruit/ body. It would just take massive amounts of blood so much that we'd be hunted...
But we can turn water to blood.
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>>5899963 I support this as well
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>>5899963 The elders cant say shit. We are asking her here and now, and it will be resolved here and now.
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>>5899963 Also, why are you tryig to REVERSE the transformations that have already occured. They are dead. And their death is benefittitng their sect immensely already, its why the guild is so strong.
Why break that and not save the girl still alive?
Why not prevent future transformations,
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>>5899905 >It is Luli's decision if she wants to have it or not, you'll tell her the truth and let her decide if she wants to risk turning into a tree or not. I want to do this then
Offer to join forces and try to develop a way for the trees to turn back into humans. If demonic beasts can assume human bodies, and there exist demonic plants who presumably could do the same, it should be possible for former humans to do it. We can, for example, try to convert them into full-fledged demonic plants, or try and teach them a shape-shifting law.
But I want to let luli decide so not the rest of that vote.
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>>5900030 Because their deaths were a mistake.
If any of them decides not to turn back, that's their right. But they should have the option.
Also this shit is one step away from using women as cultivation cauldrons.
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>>5899905 >It is Luli's decision if she wants to have it or not, you'll tell her the truth and let her decide if she wants to risk turning into a tree or not. I want to ask Luli this first and foremost. Any solution we might develop later is theoretical, while the solution we have before us is very real. I think she deserves a say in it.
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>>5900341 Who gives a fuck, they are dead. I have zero interest in restoring them to life and a passing interest in the preservation of a childs life because this is within character for Huan.
The dead trees? Let em be trees. If anyone wants to leave we can bring their spirits with us.
But if its between an option of those trees and the living child, I vote for the living child. Which is not being given attention. Fixes rather than prevention.
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>>5900341 >Because their deaths were a mistake. Yet a willful one. Ask not a martyr to renounce their sacrifice. They're fucking goobers that'd probably say no, anyway.
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I think that it's better if we ask the elder for a decree, in which he bestows upon us some kind of right to Luli's care and wellbeing, something that not even Luli's sister or her peers can't fight back.
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>>5900448 The trees haven't died for 10 CULTIVATOR generations, they're gonna keep on living just fine without another to the pile.
The thing about this is, if we take the inheretence, THEY don't get it. Their garden's expansion stops and it remains as it is, and their crops no longer get the brief spurts of high tier crap.
but we can provide that, if we wanted to, by reaching Nascent soul, which luli can't do. She isn't talented enough.
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>>5900451 Speaking of which, if she refuses it, I DO want this. Its a shit bloodline because shit people have it.
We can make it shine
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>>5899905 A question, Grandfather-- if we accept this bloodline, are we precluded from taking or creating others? Can we, as the founder is currently choosing to do, pass it on to others if we so wish?
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>>5900448 Considering how he had to tell all of the others to fuck off so we could talk, I am sure they would never want to be people again. And their clouded judgement would preclude any advice they get.
>>5900458 Man we MAKE bloodlines we don't steal them. More though that we already took this guy's original path from him, I'd feel really bad to take the one he forged for himself from his descendants. It's his legacy. Not something lost or forbidden, just misunderstood. We're not dredging it out of taboo to show it for what it really is or reviving it from long dormancy. So it feels wrong to me. But that's just me. I understand if other anons aren't quite as big on letting him keep his goodies in his family tree
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>>5899905 >It is Luli's decision if she wants to have it or not, you'll tell her the truth and let her decide if she wants to risk turning into a tree or not. Being able to give Luli the truth about her bloodline appears to me to be the reason we decided to learn about the bloodline first. If she refuses to become a tree then I don't see a reason not to accept the bloodline, then we could probably even refine it and give it back to her at a later time.
But will she want to refuse it even if it's her great elder's wishes for her to do so? Her mother did get turned into a tree, and having the bloodline removed from her would appear to make it difficult for her to be with her mother again, at least is how it could seem to her. Maybe we could figure out a way for her to communicate with her mother without turning into a tree somehow and bring that up to her if she decides to keep the bloodline?
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>>5900530 Perhaps with this new knowledge we're bringing we can enable the heirs of this bloodline to choose when they become trees, near the end of their lifespan.
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>>5900352 >But if its between an option of those trees and the living child, I vote for the living child It's not between, you absolute egg. Restoring the trees to human form solves Luli's problem as well.
>>5900375 >>5900504 Maybe instead of deciding they would refuse, we actually ask them?
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>>5900772 >Maybe instead of deciding they would refuse, we actually ask them? Anonymous
Grandfather here. The curse has struck me again. Seems I've been caught in am ip range ban, so I'm phone posting to inform all of you. So if the next update takes awhile, now you know the reason for the delay
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Tue 23 Jan 2024 12:19:35 No. 5900806 Report >>5900799 OKAY! Forgive me juniors for making your blood flow in reverse with worry, if any of you have coughed up blood from stress, forgive me. Everything is cool now, guess I only noticed I was affected by this devilish array near its climax. But man did that make me worried I was being forced to wash my hands in a golden basin
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>>5900772 It is absolutely BETWEEN them. One will stop Luli becoming a tree and dying. The other is trying to revive dead cultivators from trees and in the process destroy a useful resource of their sect.
But sure, let her die before we ressurect them.
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>>5900827 First of all, it's not "turn the trees back into humans", it's "teach the whole sect, trees included, to turn back into humans", so anyone who becomes a tree can just turn back right after. And even if it's not good enough for your tastes, it doesn't preclude taking away Luli's bloodline.
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>>5900847 It isnt he whole sect, there is ONE family which has this bloodline and they are the rulers lt this sect.
That is it and they are the only ones this helps. Because the rest of the sect are humans and only humans.
So no it isnt good enough. And I want to give her a choice, but I really hope she doesnt want it because I want it.
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>>5900871 I don't see how it being a single family makes it not good enough.
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>>5900994 Because you made claim of this saving a sect, when it's not. The impact is dramatically restricted and goes from a few hundred people to 2-3 of the current generation, maybe a couple of dozen dead cultivators.
What makes it not good enough is that Huan has no reason to give a shit other than whimsy [which excuses most of our other not reasonable or characteristic attitudes]. Who cares that a bunch of old fossils turned into trees? We care because they are going to turn a child into herb food.
Moral compulsion [protector of children]. Reward Compulsion [We get a plant oriented bloodline]
Whimsy compulsion [We feel like it at the moment]
You're running on Whimsy and that's the weakest of the lot. Where's our benefit? Where's our moral impetus?
The sect won't reward us for helping them destory the key to their success. There's no morality we have that relates to helping idiots
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>>5901083 I did not make a claim of saving the sect, that's on you. But who we will be saving is the current sect head. Worth a debt of gratitude, isn't it?
Secondly, you're saying the trees are the key to the sect's success, but in truth they're a giant wall on the road of cultivation, preventing anyone from ever reaching nascent soul. With these trees, this sect is a dead end.
Finally, these "old fossils" are a bunch of the strongest and wisest sect members, golden cores. I bet they'd be more useful to the sect as humans than as trees.
As for the motivation, if this sect has any smarts it will become our ally and vouch for our character in front of other orthodox sects.
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>>5901139 >I didn't make a claim of saving the sect. Accepting you didn't, then I'm going to give you your own words and say your intention here is unclear. ""teach the whole sect, trees included, to turn back into humans", so anyone who becomes a tree can just turn back right after""
>Saving the current sect head Nope. She's not got the bloodline, her little sister Luli does. Now I'm curious if its for her bloodline or love of her sister, but irrelevant.
>These trees are the key to the sects success Yep. They are the source of their top quality spirit herbs and that is related to their position as medicine and potion healers. Stated in previous threads "nascent soul" is a realm not seen in centuries/ages, so at present they are sitting at the top of a very short mountain. It's still a mountain and their value is tied up in medicines and healing ability. To remove the trees will damage that.
The sect doesn't turn their members into trees, it turns the ruling lineage into trees. And if a ruling member with this bloodline could reach nascent soul, they wouldn't become a god damned tree. They aren't good cultivators because they are all shit and the world of cultivation has stagnated, that's it.
>Old fossils are more use alive than dead. No. Ehh, sorta. If you can revive them all, they are worth their weight in numbers? gotta be a couple dozen, which would catapult the sect into a very strong position by number of GC alone. But they are doctors and practice non-combat laws, unsuited and weak against actual aggression. At least dead they can make more spirit herbs and at better quality.
>Become our ally and vouch for our character in front of the other sects Already going to have their support in the meeting by returning Luli to them alive. It's our payment for services rendered. Allyship is also likely, but frankly that's on them. They have nothing to offer us but political clout, we provide much more than that to them.
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>>5901170 >>Old fossils are more used alive than dead. Having dozens of golden-core alchemists would create a golden age of pill creation.
I just wanted to give the daughters their mother back out of kindness. But Dozens of wood-aligned golden cores forging massive amounts of pills and Huanliuxue Primal qi can create massive amounts of herbs... And using a formation would push it further beyond.
It would catapult our disciple's cultivation levels by leaps and bounds. Not to mention the wealth generated and with such a strong ally another big win to suppress any collations forming with such a stranglehold on the pill market.
Yah. It's worth it. So damn worth it of it can be pulled off.
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>>5901288 >It would create a golden age of pill creation No it wouldn't. They are not innovators, and they aren't heretics so unless they drastically adjust attitudes to discover actual good ways to adapt and utalise herbs. They are golden core so they aren't trash but they're not capable of ushering a golden age. We are in an age of decline.
>Kindness to children Acceptable. I still don't hold it as very important, but it's acceptable.
>Catapult cultivation levels. Yes, it can. But that's best reserved for bottlenecks. The reduction in supreme quality herbs will be a damage in the later years, present boon though is a surplus of competent alchemists.
>We will benefit from their pill making powers. Though they are "allies" in this sense, not subordinates so we'd still need to pay for them. We don't benefit from the wealth generated because we are not their superior/tribulary sect. Providing Primal Qi would allow us to bargain in for a cut of the profits thought.
And we haven't got skin in the alchemy game. We are alchemists, and Monu is. Our Blood sages were mortal alchemists, nobody else really qualifies.
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>>5900502 It'll make it more difficult or more restrictive to , but you could make your own, the DC will just be higher or otherwise the bloodline will be shaped by this one and no. That's a founder only ability, inheritors can only pass it through their descendants, Usually. there are more esoteric means of passing bloodlines. Most of them unpleasant/ demonic. No one knows how many bloodlines someone could in theory inherit, since most of the ways to do it outside of being born into it are forgotten, forbidden or "forgotten"
Vote is still ongoing, just popping in to explain this
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>>5899905 >It is Luli's decision if she wants to have it or not, you'll tell her the truth and let her decide if she wants to risk turning into a tree or not. Anonymous
>>5899905 >It is Luli's decision if she wants to have it or not, you'll tell her the truth and let her decide if she wants to risk turning into a tree or not. We can always kidnap her later.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Wed 24 Jan 2024 12:02:43 No. 5902107 Report Ending the vote now that I'm not too busy to and have gotten some sleep, and tallying its result. There's been some fruitful and intense discussion this time, hasn't there?
It is Luli's decision if she wants to have it or not, you'll tell her the truth and let her decide if she wants to risk turning into a tree or not.:8
You did not write down the method of forging a new body. But you know it? This knowledge, I can carry to your descendents. They will need to learn it rather than use it innately, but it can be done.:1
Offer to join forces and try to develop a way for the trees to turn back into humans...etc:3
So you'll firmly state it is Luli's decision if she wants the bloodline and its attached risks, and you'll tell her the truth and let her decide what happens to her.
Update will arrive shortly
>>5901265 The experience nearly gave me Qi deviation
>>5901916 What cat like thinking. If a kitten is crying, just take it to care for it yourself.
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>>5902107 Oh, miss counted cause I missed
>>5900055 the later half of this junior's vote. Doesn't change the outcome, but I'd be remiss if I didn't correct and point out this discrepancy, even if it is a small one
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Wed 24 Jan 2024 13:33:34 No. 5902150 Report Despite the shock of learning the identity of this ghostly grandpa and being smashed by the deluge of information and knowledge he gives you as offhandedly as if he were describing his morning exercises to keep himself limber, you do not spend even the time it takes you to blink contemplating or musing over his offer of handing over the golden finger of his entire lineage as if it was the last orange in a basket. There is really only one possible answer to such an offer, no matter how valuable or useful the powers and techniques he's offering up are. Your eyes sharpen and turn cold, stern and domineering and you level a look at the old fossil that some people would beggar themselves paying for just a glance of.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Wed 24 Jan 2024 13:34:36 No. 5902152 Report >>5902150 Simple ones, just a slightly more advance design of the humble protection spell. What is awe inspiring is that you seemingly instinctively created a defense against the drawback of connecting yourself to the living array so directly, that it could begin affecting and changing your body as a form of security. Seems the elders of the thousand lotus hall was wrong, the inner most cultivation chamber did have one defense of its own besides the fear of what unknown protections it could have. A lesser cultivator, an unwary one, who tried to tap into their ancestor trees and drain them of their preserved wisdom and insights to enlighten themselves as you forcefully did, would be subsumed and turned into a human shaped tree.
But your instincts and natural talent as a once in ten generation's prodigy and peerless master over the flow of your blood and the veins containing them, allowed you to rewire your circulation to create what amounts to blood talismans all throughout your body, creating wall after wall of internal spiritual barriers against the invasive Qi. It was a defense worthy to be called its own unique defensive magic. Did Xue Laohue use something similar to impede his own transformation into an icicle. That stray thought bringing a bitter taste to your tongue, you stop contemplating how you instinctively protected yourself against the natural defenses of the array of formerly human trees and turn your attentions back to the awe struck child in front of you.
"What did I just do?" You ask, since her jaw is stuck open and her face is frozen in a look of a wonder "I just waltzed into the afterlife and spoke with your ancestors"
Her enchanted look cracks and begins falling apart as she wrinkles her brow and screws her face, before her eyes go wide as the realization of you communing with the dead via touching the tree surrounding her means. She really is quick to pick up on things, isn't she?
"Then that means" She begins, dread dawning on her adorable face still chubby with baby fat as you solemnly nod your head
"Yeah, your mama gave me quite the rude greeting, but I am nothing if not forgiving" You say jokingly, hoping to keep the atmosphere light and cheerful, even while its clear that your efforts to keep Luli calm by being nonchalant aren't helping at all, you bright grin turns over into lips parted frown
"Then that means...No, no, no, no" She says frightened, eyes bulging and face gaining a corpse like pallor "No, no, that...My..Tianhua said that..."
"Calm down" You order, sharpening your expression and adopting the countenance of a firm teacher "Fear kills the mind, and leaves only prey instinct behind. Yes, your elders and sisters lied to you, I do not know why she lied but I have a pretty good guess why the elders holding the high seats of your sect have"
She blinks, eyes already glistening with tears, but like any good daoist, she sits and listens to her senior. A trained behavior of any worthwhile student.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Wed 24 Jan 2024 13:35:37 No. 5902153 Report >>5902152 "Greed" You continue, spitting the word out like it was venom you were forced to swallow "The inheritors of your bloodline, as they reach the end of their lifespan, are capable of great feats of spiritual plant hybridization and creation. Each one of these trees, gave up their human lives and departed early from the world, to bring blessings to their descendants and student"
Luli looks confused as to why such a selfless sacrifice for the good of the temple could be a bad thing, but she also looks afraid, trembling like a child just told a scary story to make her behave. She must be having one incredibly fierce internal conflict inside that cute head of hers.
"Then...then its a choice?" She asks, little voice cracking by lifting with a youthful hope "I don't...I can refuse, when...when I get older and my cultivation is as profound as""
She gasps, finally hearing that you spoke of her mother as she pulls her hand away from the roots she is clinging to desperately and fearfully. The moment she recoils, they twist and slither towards her. Even if death, her mother is trying to nurture and dote upon her. But the roots of a tree are too rough to brush away tears, and the show of motherly love only serves to terrify Luli.
"It is. But not one you would have" You answer cynically, shaking your head with a sour expression, bitterness stinging your tongue with every word spoken "What is one life for a treasure that will uplift the sect and allow them to keep their privledged position amongst peers in the world of cultivation"
"But" She protests, unwilling to accept just how selfish her respected seniors could be
"Its for the good of the sect and clan, isn't it? What wouldn't you do to service your beloved family and hall?" You ask coldly, grimly as she shrinks back and grabs her knees, looking like she's trying to vanish away into nothing as she tries to become smaller by curling up into herself "You're naive, Luli. Ambition, Greed and Pride can make men do things even demons wouldn't do"
"But..but they've always been so kind...Tianhua, she must not, they have to be tricking her! Like the wicked elders from that story she told me!" She shouts back tearfully, voice hoarse now, ragged. Your eye twitches as it, to your ears, starts sounding like a cat mewling beneath the beating of hooves, the roaring of fire, and the screams of the dying, desperate to be saved.
"She told me the nature of your bloodline. I just spoke with the trees that were once your ancestors to confirm a few suspicions of mine" You say as she slumps like a doll dropped to the ground, hands clenching into trembling fists as wisps of a grudge rise from her, licking her like tongues of flame seeking kindly
"She...she" She repeats, struggling to throw off the dawning realization that the world isn't as simple and happy as she thought it was
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Wed 24 Jan 2024 13:36:38 No. 5902155 Report >>5902153 "Doesn't know as much as I do" You answer strongly, not sternly, but rather stalwartly, acting as a rock she can cling to in her time of confusion "Whether purposefully or through their own ignorance, the elders of your sect entrusted with the secret of your inheritance, forgot its rules. Or they never knew it to begin"
"Bwah?" She makes a noise that sounds like a question as she sways, looking like she's about to faint from stress and mental duress alone.
"Your clan's original ancestors put it in to preserve his knowledge, he was dying when he altered the bloodline he began to put a time limit on any of its inheritors who studied and reached the highest mastery of the law he created around his inherited techniques" You explain seriously "It isn't a curse or a means to enrich the sect with sacrifices of its own head, it was a mistake, the power boost that allowed the creation of so many treasured herbs, is a happy accident, and one that has turned sour and rotten"
She blinks dumbly
"He thought his descendant would be reasonable, and stop practicing the cultivation method he founded if they weren't capable of surpassing the golden core state" You explain, a little slower this time, hands on your knees and head leaned backwards to stare at the ceiling "There isn't really a time limit, but once you reach the gold core state and grasp certain insights, come to certain understandings, the transformation begins, the accidental blessing is reached, and you are doomed to join your ancestors here in increasing the density and purity of the Qi flowing through your gardens"
"My mama, they said she got sick" She says weakly, pitifully
"A lie to comfort a child" You answer plainly, looking back down at her and leaning closer to the roots, they do not shock you back now
"Then why did she..." She sniffles, rubbing her eyes with the sleeves of her robes
"I'm certain she made her choice for your benefit, little one" You lie, brushing tender hand down the length of one of her roots "She's still protecting you now, she even bared her fangs in my direction, something ever some gods would hesitate to do"
She sniffs and sobs, choking and hiccupping as you sit beside her.
"In her eyes, she was dying, at the end of her life. She must've put what was left of her energy into creating a spirit herb that would've made your life better, more privileged" You say after a ponderous sigh, tapping a finger on your chin as you pout your lips "If she knew there was a choice, that she could decide to give up the law she practiced in favor of one that wouldn't activate the bloodline's changes, she would've, I know"
"What does it all mean?" She whimpered helplessly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Wed 24 Jan 2024 13:37:44 No. 5902156 Report >>5902155 "Either you forsake your family's legacy or you risk turning into a tree at the pinnacle of your life and cultivation, with how many of your ancestors have been transformed down here, it won't take you long to rocket through the stages of cultivation, and it means you won't live a long life" You say solemnly, locking your eyes with hers "Unless, you surpass them all, and become the first of your family and clan to become a nascent soul cultivator"
Her eyes look empty, exhausted mentally and emotionally.
"I even betray my sect and family, or I struggle for something that is nigh impossible" She mutters under her breath, somewhere between anger and sadness
"There is a third, secret option, one that only you and I need to know about" You say sweetly, reaching through the bars of her cage to ruffle her hair and pat her head. Her eyes get a little bit of light and life in them again as she looks up at you hopefully
"The founder of the sect and your clan, offered to take away your bloodline, seal it, or give it to someone else" You answer, leaving out exactly who that someone else was "You don't need to carry this burden, to walk to your grave hoisting up a responsibility you never asked for. You could live a normal life, er, as ordinary as an immortality seeking daoist can, Heh-Heh"
"Tianhua doesn't know about any of this" She asks sharply, eyes suddenly scheming and plotting
"None of it. She doesn't know that you aren't doomed to the fate of your mother, that you can't avoid that fate through excellence, and no one but me, you and your original ancestor know of the third choice" You answer just as sharply, curious what she is planning with what you've told her.
"She was expected to inherit the bloodline" She says quietly, grudges crawling up her cheeks like water seeking roots, but she shakes her head, a look of guilt or that of a stomach washing across her face as the grudges just...vanish complete. You lean back, twirling a curl of your hair, very curious as to how quickly she was able to stamp out her own feelings of resentment so quickly and effectively. That's incredible. Especially for a little kid. That takes a saintly level of forgiveness.
"I'm not giving this curse to anyone else" She says, as the greediest part of you wails and laments the loss of such a priceless treasure, but, it could only be Luli's choice if you ever received it or not. Its not like it would've had any drawbacks in your hands, your eventual attainment of nascent soul is a guarantee, after all.
"Ohhoooo?" You give an intrigued chuckle "So what will it be? Will you strike out your own path or"
The light in her eyes gives you your answer. You'd recognize that look and fire anywhere! Determination~! Ambition~! This girl is cut from the same proud cloth as yourself isn't she! She's actually going to go for it! She's going to strive to surpass her every ancestor and reach the nascent soul stage instead of taking the easy way out!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Wed 24 Jan 2024 13:38:46 No. 5902159 Report >>5902156 That's a quality most cultivators lack in this era! Courage! Audacity! True Daring! The confidence to take risks and gamble their long lives to reach even greater heights and attain powers the meek can scarcely imagine.
A truly frightening and admiring grin graces your lips, as you look upon the young girl with more respect than you've given to her supposed betters, as your eyes twinkle and sparkle with delight.
"I see~ I see ~" You Purr, clapping your hands together and rubbing them as you stand up "That's a lot of ambition for a little girl to have, but who am I to argue, eh? Come on Kid, lets get out of here"
"I can do it if I try" Luli pouts, crossing her arms as the roots part, now that she isn't surrounded by dangers and the old ghost has tugged the ear of her mother's ghost and reprimanded her for being over protective and embarrassing the girl, surely.
"Perhaps" You curl your tongue and rumble your words with more delighted purr like cadences "I'm just impressed by your backbone is all, I wasn't saying you were making your own grave or anything"
"Because you can teach me, right, master?" She says cheerfully, hopping to your side, hands clasped behind her back as you freeze, face frozen in the smile you were wearing a moment ago
"Huh?" You ask, confused as to how she suddenly decided she was your disciple
"You know more than my sister about my bloodline, right? If you meet a master more informed and worldly of your teacher, who has a greater understanding of the dao, it's only common sense to beseech them to take you on as your disciple right?" She says, still cheerfully as you raise an eyebrow and give her a scrutinizing look. The bonds between students and teachers should be a lot stronger than that! The saying goes a teacher for a day, a father for life!
"You were born in the wrong generation, kid" You chuckle, kind of impressed by her brazenness and shamelessness as you shake your head
"So will you take me on as your student" She presses, stepping closer to you and looking at you with her big, adorable eyes. Did...did she just realize that you're weak to the whims of children and is using your instinct to dote upon them to her advantage?
What a frightening little girl. Monu would like her.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Wed 24 Jan 2024 13:39:53 No. 5902160 Report >>5902159 How do you answer her demand to be taken under your wing, Huanliuxue?
>Accept it, who is going to tell you you can't. Beside it is her best chance for survival and success in her life >"Well, there is an etiquette about abandoning your sect, you know, you have to ask your head and other teachers first if you intend to replace them..." Let her older sister deal with her childishness >"Prove you're worthy of wearing my paw print, and I'll think about taking you one as my disciple. I only take on the best of the best, just ask Two Axe Fu, Quickdraw Qiang, Ping of the cursed arm, Forgebreaker Feiqing, Siwang the silent death, The princess of bees and the princess of ants..." >Refuse, her lack of devotion to her teachers is a danger you will be avoiding! >Write in Anonymous
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>>5902159 >Accept it, who is going to tell you you can't. Beside it is her best chance for survival and success in her life Anonymous
>>5902160 >"Prove you're worthy of wearing my Paw print." >You have until I and your big sister return from the conclave of sects to do so. Impress me. I AM concerned about that like of piety. The secret is that we are testing how she thinks she can impress us, I'm willing to take her on anyway. But make it a task to become our disciple, and she might treasure it more.
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>>5902160 >"Prove you're worthy of wearing my Paw print." >You have until I and your big sister return from the conclave of sects to do so. Impress me. Anonymous
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>>5902160 >"Prove you're worthy of wearing my paw print, and I'll think about taking you as my disciple Anonymous
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>>5902160 >"Prove you're worthy of wearing my paw print, and I'll think about taking you one as my disciple. I only take on the best of the best, just ask Two Axe Fu, Quickdraw Qiang, Ping of the cursed arm, Forgebreaker Feiqing, Siwang the silent death, The princess of bees and the princess of ants..." Anonymous
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>>5902160 >Accept it, who is going to tell you you can't. Beside it is her best chance for survival and success in her life. Anonymous
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>>5902185 I'll support this, though i'm unsure about having her abandon her sect outright.
I was thinking more of a mentorship role to add to her insights, possibly as an exchange with our bee princess learning something from their sect instead or together.
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>>5902160 >"Prove you're worthy of wearing my paw print, and I'll think about taking you one as my disciple. Anonymous
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>>5902160 >Accept it, who is going to tell you you can't. Beside it is her best chance for survival and success in her life I like this girl already. Welcome aboard!
Part of me is was sad that we missed out on the bloodline, but on second thought its for the best. Huanliuxue has never been one to follow someone else's path. We have made our own law, our own evolutions, our own sect, and we will make our own bloodline, one day. This feels right.
Besides, a good apprentice is worth more then all the treasures under the heavens. Especially given that with her unique talents, I suspect we will learn as much from her as she will from us.
Looks like Jingyu has a good eye for apprentices. Not sure how to feel about that. Anonymous
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>>5902160 >"Prove you're worthy of wearing my paw print, and I'll think about taking you one as my disciple. I only take on the best of the best, just ask Two Axe Fu, Quickdraw Qiang, Ping of the cursed arm, Forgebreaker Feiqing, Siwang the silent death, The princess of bees and the princess of ants..." Anonymous
>>5902160 >"Prove you're worthy of wearing my Paw print." >You have until I and your big sister return from the conclave of sects to do so. Impress me. My big concern is how easily she was ready to jump ship.
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>>5903242 She DID just get told that she was going to be turned into a sacrifical lamb. Even snuffing out her grudge, she is still likely angry.
I think if we can make her treasure her studentship, as well as tutor her as a mentor and a mother like we do our others, then she will show greater fifial piety.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 26 Jan 2024 12:44:58 No. 5904074 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote and tallying the result now.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 26 Jan 2024 14:49:48 No. 5904126 Report Covering your mouth with the ends of your sleeves, you look over the determined little girl with her hands balled into fists and tenacity sparking in her eyes that are all the colors of spring, she isn't budging and is daring enough to meet your gaze directly and lock her eyes with your own as she stands before you with tears still staining and wetting her cheeks, while you mull over her sudden application to be your student that is all but a demand. Taking all the benefits and drawbacks of taking her on as a disciple into mind, along with your own personal feelings and fondness for the bold child, makes making the decision as tough as chewing through a dried and salted fish without any water to soften it. But you would be unworthy of being a ruler if you didn't know how to deal with difficult decisions like this, immediately and smoothly without causing a fuss or needless offense.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 26 Jan 2024 14:50:50 No. 5904127 Report >>5904126 She's already brazen enough to demand to be made your disciple, how proud will she become after she's spent a lifetime as your disciple, how much of your haughty and regal demeanor will she mimic or adopt? For your own future well being and to be certain you can save her rather than struggling only to meet failure and heart break, there is only one choice that won't make your bowels curdled that won't force you to drive a knife through your own breast in shame.
And that is, of course, to have Luli prove she has the innate talent to create a golden core of high quality and go even further beyond, to show her prospective second master that even at the beginnings of her cultivation she has the drive and talent to reach for the stars and actually take hold and grasp them for herself.
"Prove you're worthy of wearing my paw print, and I'll consider taking you as my disciple, my direct disciple, a rare privilege even within my school" You purr, flicking out your arm and lifting her drooping, bowed chin up with a single finger, forcing her to meet your gaze again, forcibly reigniting the fading sparks of ambition within her eyes and fanning the flames of hope in her heart "I only take on the best of the best, the palace of natural laws is no place for dragons and snakes to intermingle. Even those amongst my students who were not born blessed to be genius cultivators have other amazing talents or incredible aptitudes, and a few were already making names for themselves before they joined the sect"
Luli's eyes narrow and her lips tighten, but she remains austerely silent, hanging off your ever word as you crouch down to be at eyelevel with her, smiling daintily and pleasantly now.
"So show me you can be the equal of names like Two axe Fu, Quickdraw Qiang, Ping of the Cursed Arm, Steelfist Feiqing, Siwang the Silent Death, Huili the Ashen gale, Chuandapo the ship breaker, Weirdo Lei, The Princess of Bees and The Princess of Ants" You list of several of your best, most talented, and accomplished disciples "Then If you can stand out in the shadow of the Toad Witch and The Happy Bloodshed, I'd be happy to accept your petition to enter the halls of my temple"
You lift your hand away, and a sudden mischevious whim makes you flick her nose playfully but not hurtfully. Wagging your finger now, you add another clause to the deal struck between a master and a novice.
"You have until I and your big sister return from the conclave of sects to do so" You gravely amend, as you step back and straighten up your back, standing proud and dignified as you throw a few locks of hair out of your eyes in a grandiose fashion "Impress me"
"I will" She steely replies, not hesitating to accept your challenge or complain and whine that it is unfair
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 26 Jan 2024 14:51:51 No. 5904128 Report >>5904127 "I'll hold you to that" is your reply as you hold out your hand and beckon her to follow you, genial and pleasant but still underlined with a provocative tone, still challenging her to do her best and strive to reach the bottom steps of the peak you scaled with only a few strides.
It takes longer to leave the gardens then it did to enter them, mostly because it takes a considerable amount of effort to avoid the gruesome sights Jingyu left in his wake. Innocent eyes like Luli's shouldn't be tarnished by such unpleasantness and filth until she is ready to face all the harshness and horrors of the world on her own terms. She remains silent, brow crumpled as she no doubts tries to figure out how she can impress you with so little time given and what she could even do to earn even your meagerest approval as a cultivator.
So it might take a little longer to leave the grove than it otherwise should, as you didn't get to admire its beauty and fragrances as much as you'd like when you entered it, but when you do eventually lead Luli out of it and leave and since she's tired, carry her upon your back back to the Thousand Lotus Hall's temple, you're met with a very different reception from when you first barged your way into its grounds.
Its highest ranked disciples, with robes more white than green, are lined up into two columns and kneeling down, while the elders and matriarch Lian Tianhua stand, dressed in their full regalia and holding various treasures of the sect and symbols of the positions and seats they hold in the sect. You don't know what any of those treasures are or what they're capable of doing, but the meaning and ceremony of presenting them is not lost on you. Neither is the pale faces of everyone knelt before you, the cold sweat staining some of their robes.
And a very flustered and onery Siwang who has a bandaged wing and is looming above the elders with more venom in his eyes than is in Monu's...well everything.
Your appreciative and indulgent smile turns into a disappointed glower as you gently set down the napping Luli on the ground, as two fretful maids rush over to hold her up and Shepard her away from the steely eyed demonic beast now glaring at their masters.
Tianhua parts her lips to give a rehearsed speech of the gratitude and joy they feel seeing you return with the most important missing disciple alive and no sign of the wretched vermin who slaughtered the other to in sight, when you snap your fingers and point at her crudely and snarl
"Explain why my student is injured!" You snap, surpressing your outrage until you have a target for it
"It was a...very unfortunate mistake" Tianhua says, pained smile stretched on her face and a vein bulging on her brow "A disciple of ours on patrol, was approached by your fair natured student, and being surprised and having overhead the discussion of the organ stealing devil"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 26 Jan 2024 14:52:52 No. 5904130 Report >>5904128 "Notched and loosed an arrow into my wing" Siwang chirps brassily, clearly vexed from being shot without warning "I however, knowing that this was no fault of my attacker, and that you, my master, would be displeased if I caused an inter-sect incident, withheld from retaliating to instead deliver my message. I have been otherwise treated fairly and with dignity"
"Message?" You ask curiously, anger temporarily quelled
"From elder brother Ping, who penned it soon after he heard you were traveling in such of that most evil of monsters" He replies instantly, cheerfully hopping from his perch and swooping silently over the heads of the others present "It was however soaked through with blood, but my memory is sharp, Elder Brother Ping, simply wished for you to know that while he is displeased that he was not trusted with the duty he believed to be his by right, that being the subjugation of Jingyu, he understands that as sect head and his master, it was your decision in the end and he does not hold any ill will nor fault you for deciding to personally slay the devil, though I to must note that if I had been asked to, I would have valiantly and proudly taken up the responsibility to bring the vile creature to justice!"
"I thought owls were supposed to be quiet, that one has quite a lot to say" The elder who boldly asked for the secrets of your techniques remark as you pout and grab Siwang's injured wing as he salutes with the other, the poor thing wincing as you stretch it out to examine the wound.
"You better whip whoever did this" You coldly remark as you mercifully let go of Siwang's wing, watching Luli like she were your own kit as she is ushered closer to her elder sister, who immediately loses her composure once she is within arms reach and scoops her up into them, peppering her tired face with kisses and frantically brushing her hair, like she were searching for cracks in a porcelain dish "That is as much mercy as I can muster, but that is a matter for later. I've ended the threat and retrieved your sister, and found the bodies of Qi Qi and Sun Cuifen"
And still have their ghosts at your back, but you do not mention that even as the two spirits bow their heads and kneel, expecting to be able to be seen.
"What, what state were they in" The elder of the two female elders asks hesitatingly
"Mangled" You state bluntly, taping a foot on the ground as Siwang bows his head in mourning for those he never met "If you want the grisly details, ask for them when the little lady isn't present, they're too awful for her ears to hear"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 26 Jan 2024 14:53:53 No. 5904131 Report >>5904130 "I...we will see when we retrieve the bodies" The elder states quietly, rubbing the back of her hand meekly as Tianhua grows worried by her little sister not returning her affections, but doesn't question her as she lets her go and tries to covertly clean up the smearing of her lipstick, no one in the crowd or amongst the elders so much as uttering a squeak about her open and unrestrained show of sisterly love.
'I'd be happy to tell you how you failed them' you ruefully lament, but do not speak your mind since you are trying to be cordial with these people, even if one of them shot Siwang with an arrow.
"I shall assist in their recovery!" Siwang declares loudly, flicking up his uninjured wing dramatically as he volunteers, and you roll your eyes
'And get rewarded with another arrow?' You think to yourself but once again, hold your back your scathing thoughts and do not allow them to become scathing words
"Thank you, thank you" Tianhua says tearfully, as she walks up to you and takes your hand in hers and holds it against her chest. you can feel her heart beating through the soft flesh your hand is being firmly pressed into, while Tianhua sniffles and continues to thank and praise you "I cannot in words describe the extent of my gratitude and thanks, you have done this sect and myself a great service this day, I will spread word of your selflessness and do all I can to clear up the false rumors surrounding your name. The Thousand Lotus Hall and the Lian clan are indebted to you, Huanliuxue, and you and any of your disciples will always be welcome here, as guests or as temporary students. This worthless excuse for a sister, who could not even protect her sister, thanks you, from the depths of my heart, I thank you, I cannot hope to repay this kindness, Lady Huanliuxue, not with all the treasures beneath the heavens or the wealth of this humble hall. If there is anything I can do to show even a fraction of my gratitude, feel free to speak your desire. For saving Luli, I'd do or give anything to reward you"
"I've already said, I do not need to be repaid" You say with a sly smile as you wiggle your hand free of her grip and slide it out from her cleavage "I was
"Senior is truly generous, Senior is truly beneficent, Senior is truly magnanimous" She praises after sniffling and wiping the tears clumsily from her eyes "Noble is not enough to describe Senior's graces and character! Your selflessness, integrity and virtue all amaze and humble this meek daoist. As I promised, you will our full support during the trial of the Winter blossoming wisdom sect and if there is anything..."
"I already said, I don't want or need any reward you can give me" You scoff, turning away from her as she seems oddly let down as one of the elders quickly shuffles between you, one of the ones who was silenced during the meeting for being impertinent.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 26 Jan 2024 14:55:19 No. 5904134 Report >>5904131 "Forgive me for my audacity, but we must confirm the demon has been subjugated before the sect head's promises can be made official and binding" He says, like a cheap fish monger trying to sell yesterday's catch. You blink, almost too amazed by his impudence, before smirking
And dropping the jar holding Jingyu's true form into his hands. He grabs it reflexively and goes corpse white as his jaw gapes and his eyes bulge. Giving a shriek, he recoils and pulls his hands away, and you catch the jar by its lid with three fingers before it can hit the ground and shatter
"I took his soul as a souvenir!" You declare with a manic cackle, sticking out your tongue and really indulging in acting the heretic "And you nearly let him out again, is that proof enough for you, boy~"
"Y...yesh" He gasps, clutching his throat, trembling all over as he retreats behind the pouting Tianhua
"I cannot fault you for using your own methods to ensure the evil does not rise again, but I would ask you not to frighten my disciples by displaying such a frightful prize to them, or directly dropping it into their laps as a joke" She says refined and acting as the resplendent and unreachable lady immortal of a hall of fairies of all kinds, but while her expression is stern and serious, her eyes are light and amused, while Siwang hops over and closely inspects the jar, tilting and rotating his head as he examines it thoroughly.
"I am permitted my whims" You snicker as you shake the jar, making Siwang start and click his beak together, threateningly "But you all look like you want to say something"
"We received a message from the jury awaiting your arrival" The younger of the two female elders says meekly, keeping her head bowed "And I believe every sect who has sent a representative to it has as well. Your lateness has been forgiven, and you have been permitted to bring one or two of your disciples, if you so wish"
There is a lot that isn't being said, but you won't press them now, mostly because you're going to press them to further punish the moron who shot Siwang! If they're so adamant about rewarding you, that can be their thanks for your heroic deed, instead of shooting an arrow into one of your precious disciples, the idiots!
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What form do you arrive at the conclave in
>Human form, to keep your fellow daoist at ease >Feline form, to proudly display your nature and heritage >Send a blood puppet in your stead, and watch from a distance >Possess a temporary body, maybe something shocking like a corpse, just for kicks. >Write in And who, if anyone, do you bring with you, Huanliuxue? (Lian Tianhua will be traveling with you, unless you tell her not to follow you)
>Fu >Qiang >Ping >Feiqing >Siwang, he's already here >Go alone. >Someone else (Write in) Anonymous
>>5904134 >Send a Blood puppet. No, I don't trust any of you fuckers.
>Swiang, Fu They will be safe.
I do wonder how the sister will react to us taking her little sis as a disciple
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>>5904134 >Human form, to keep your fellow daoist at ease >Fu >Ping I feel like it won't be a trap no longer or at least not coordinated amongst all sects in attendance, in any case i'll elect to bring the most survivable of our students.
Maybe have Qiang hidden nearby since she's the stealthiest but I'll veto Siwang this time as he's injuried already.
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>>5904134 >Send a blood puppet in your stead, and watch from a distance >Fu >Ping's friend whatshisname Anonymous
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>>5904134 > Feline Form No more games! We are who we are and they damn well better get used to it!
> Fu > Ping Gotta apologize to Ping for stealing his kill, but there were lives at stake and no time to waste.
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>>5904134 >Human form, to keep your fellow daoist at ease Normally I would allow my paranoia to take over, but since we know there will be a sect there who can also vouch for us besides our allies, who I am sure will not be trusted for fraternizing with us, it would be very stupid for anyone there to try anything. The "b-but heretics!" excuse will only fly so far when the (supposedly) very popular sect of medics is there to vouch for our character, anyone who tries anything will instantly get shit flung at them from sects who value honour that might otherwise have looked the other way.
At least, that is the calculated risk that I am taking. Bottom line is I am confident we can get away if shit hits the fan.
>Fu He has a reputation, which will help us, and is VERY hard to kill, which means we can take him into a potential trap without worrying too much about him.
Siwang would be an easy number two, as he could just fly away, but he is injured so that is not happening
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>>5904134 >Human form, to keep your fellow daoist at ease >Fu >Ping Anonymous
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>>5904134 >Human form, to keep your fellow daoist at ease >Siwang, he's already here >"Have Siwang ask for compensation for being wounded, it's a good learning lesson for him. That if your wronged you should clear debts so there isn't bad air to follow." >Fu Also a note for later since I understand why Ping is miffed we still have the corpse stealer's soul in hand. Tell him when he and his sworn bother are fully prepared they can fight and beat down this evil.
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>>5904134 >Feline form, to proudly display your nature and heritage >Siwang >Ping Fu would be bored by such affairs, and this is the trial of the century, we'd be monsters to not bring Siwang along. And we need to talk with Ping about settling matters with Jingyu.
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>>5904134 >Feline form, to proudly display your nature and heritage >Ping Anonymous
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>>5904134 >Human form, to keep your fellow daoist at ease >Ping >Siwang Anonymous
>>5904134 >Send a blood puppet in your stead, and watch from a distance It's already been revealed that there was some plan in place to do something to Huan when she arrives at the trial, given what the reactions were to her appearance to the Thousand Lotus Hall, so appearing in our human form or feline form probably won't make a huge difference. Even with the clout of the Thousand Lotus Hall sect, we're still a dangerous Heretic, and given all the time they've had to setup the meeting place, who knows what sorcerous trap is waiting there.
I won't vote to willingly bring our disciples into a trap we don't know the scale of.
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>>5904134 >>Send a blood puppet in your stead, and watch from a distance Call me paranoid, but I am indeed paranoid.
>Go alone. Anonymous
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>>5904134 >Human form, to keep your fellow daoist at ease >Siwang >Ping Anonymous
>>5904753 We should stop underestimating our disciples, they are capable and valuable assets. Ping knows the Orthodoxy and their tired old tricks and Siwang is (on top of being the best lawyer/peosecuter in all realms) literally an owl which makes him extremely perceptive. Those two will have our back.
Oh and for the Jingyu affair I'd say we just tell Ping it was a family affair, as Xuebai has unleshed this curse on the world it was on us to stop it. He can safeguard the vessel if he wants.
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>>5904134 >Feline form, to proudly display your nature and heritage You invited US, we'll come as we're most comfortable
>Ping and Siwang Ping has his background as an member of an orthodox sect (plus he's probably harder to kill since he ripped his on heart out), and Siwang will get some great insight from this trial that I feel might be the last key for him to become human.
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>>5904134 >Human form, to keep your fellow daoist at ease >Go alone. Anonymous
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>>5904978 The sort of trap that would be effective against a golden core will be like 1000x more effective against a foundation establishment, unless the foundation establishment is a direct counter to it, then it'd be something like 10x - 100x effective. It's not about underestimating, it's about accurate estimation.
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>>5905102 Is this a trial? This is more politics than anything else and if we end up compromising it may sour our relationship with Siwang.
Though seeing what happens might benefit him in the end.
Dunno.
But there's no limit on who to bring and most votes include all three of Fu, Ping and Siwang so we're probably taking all three anyway.
Anonymous
I'm waiting with bathed breath for the fool that will appeal to the other Orthodox sects to censor Huan, bonus point if it's one of the disgraced gods that fell when she attained human transformation.
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I guess some other Anon already gave the idea, but I say we should ask Tian for some miracle cure for Siwang for his wing, and then bring him and Ping to the council.
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>>5905265 Actually had to check last thread that this isn't some mass misunderstanding, but we did vote to enforce a ceasefire and put the WBW under a trial after vaporizing Laohue.
>>5905372 We already have Scarlet Healing Armor for healing, so I don't see much of a point of asking for a cure
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>>5904134 >Human form, to keep your fellow daoist at ease >Siwang >Ping Anonymous
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>>5904134 >Human form, to keep your fellow daoist at ease >Ping A daoist, reformed and enlightened. He understands them better then our other disciples would.
>Siwang, he's already here Represent our kind (besides us). His presence showcases how we are more then just beasts.
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>>5905265 >Is this a trial? This is more politics than anything else Either way, it's an educational experience. Best case, we present him with excellent material for him to meditate over. Worst case, it's a ridiculous show trial and that lights a fire in his belly.
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>>5904145 I change fu for
>Ping. As others have pointed out, he is previously WBS
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 29 Jan 2024 12:58:23 No. 5907591 Report Ending and tallying the vote now. Love all the discussion and planning that went on this voting session.
Send a blood puppet in your stead, and watch from a distance:4
Human form, to keep your fellow daoist at ease:9
Feline form, to proudly display your nature and heritage:4
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Siwang:8
Fu:5
Ping:11
Qinxin:1
Go alone:2
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"Have Siwang ask for compensation for being wounded, it's a good learning lesson for him. That if your wronged you should clear debts so there isn't bad air to follow.: 1
So you'll head to trial of the winter blossoming wisdom sect as a human, to not spook the orthodox daoists, and you'll bring Ping and Siwang with you (Since while siwang is a bit short, most of the votes asking for Ping also want him, so I am being lenient)
Update will arrive shortly
>>5905339 Hilarious
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>>5907591 A thought has been bothering me so I will air it.
Was the primordial forest of tragic lovers named for old Ling Wucai and the supreme Devilmind? He placement fits and the age fits and it being an extension of his garden, which is in fact the site of his battle against her.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 29 Jan 2024 14:40:29 No. 5907646 Report Quoted By:
>>5907636 Yes actually! Junior is most perceptive! As they say History becomes legend, legend becomes myth. It was also mixed with other tragic stories in folklore, both real and literary, and of course certain asshats encouraged it to cover up the original origin of the forest's name since you can't stop people from calling it what they always have, but yeah, the origin does come from Wucai and Moxin. Though it has been so long that even if the Five Wise Immortal sages didn't make the effort to muddle it into folklore, people would've forgotten about it and done it themselves anyway
Hence the primordial part of the primordial forest of tragic lovers. Incidentally, it is also a famous destination for love-sick nobles/ poetic types to commit "romantic" double suicide inside of it.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 29 Jan 2024 16:28:28 No. 5907714 Report But you put that issue aside for now, a suitable punishment for harming your precious disciple will need time to ferment before it can be put into motion, and its not like the thousand lotus hall can refuse any demands or "suggestions" you may make to them about how to punish their witless student for being a twitchy idiot who shot Siwang for the grand crime of startling him. Oh he would pay, he would pay for every feather he ruffled! But you control your burning need for vengeance and wear a pleasant, demure mask or as close to one as you can manage while smelling your own disciples blood in the air, and turn to the elder who informed you of the change of conditions in the meeting you set up, which is irritating at best and insulting at worse.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 29 Jan 2024 16:29:29 No. 5907715 Report >>5907714 "It'll be a good learning experience for you, and I can think of no finer example of the magnanimity of magical beasts than yourself" You answer and applaud, leaving out the few exceptions to that fact of the quality of Siwang's character and morals, since it should be obvious that YOU are the pinnacle of Magnanimity amongst beasts and amongst humans "I expect you to use all of your erudition and wisdom to our causes benefit, and help me in bringing justice to the winter blossoming idiocy sect. But I also expect you to listen, watch, and Learn"
Siwang's eyes sparkle. He's heard the unspoken command hidden between the words you've spoken. 'I think if you'll attain human form, if you follow me, and see the justice and law of the cultivation world first hand'
"I understand, Lady Huanliuxue, I shall not disappoint your towering expectations for this most humble of disciples, and will mark this day in memory" He declares loudly, for all to hear, the screeching making more than a few cultivators cover their ears "And if all goes well, as it surely will, for justice is inescapable in the end And Karma will always punish wrongdoers, I shall finally entitle the cultivation path you guided me towards!"
"If you do well enough, I might gift you a name for it myself, the same honor I have given to Fu" You chuckle, amused and relieved by Siwang's enthusiasm so soon after being struck by an arrow, if the identity of his attacker is made known to you, you'll bring him a second gift at the end of the trial, a coward's hide to claw through
Siwang gasps, eyes wide and adoring as he bows and hops backwards a few steps
"This disciple is undeserving of such an accolade, lady huanliuxue" He chortles, clearly thinking he is very deserving of such an accolade after all of his diligent training, meditation and "charity work" across Chuan
"Fu? Of the two axes?" One of the younger of the male elders scoff, might be the one who was dragged into the floor, you didn't bother to remember their faces or voices "So the rumors are true then"
"How can they still be rumors when he's battered aside dozens of lesser cultivators, and lead the charge in the clash that broke an entire' sects back?" You asked, incredulously and honestly baffled that people are still thinking that Fu being your first disciple are mere rumors
"There have been few if any survivors from the battles he's supposedly taken part in, the massacre at Suiqi and the earlier claiming of the city that brought a descent of us immortals upon that mortal city" He says as sharply and scathingly as he can without having his tongue immediately torn from his mouth by you, Siwang and Lian Tianhua herself. You smirk, and decide that such a smug barb against you was the perfect prompt to reveal just how many cultivators you had taken prisoner since Xue Laohue beat his war drums and lead himself and many of his students directly to their own graves
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 29 Jan 2024 16:30:31 No. 5907717 Report >>5907715 "That's because I take prisoners rather than order executions when I win a fight, unless they've done something to offend or piss me off, or they're already dead" You answer just as sharply and much more coldly, cowing the elder with your voice as Siwang clicks his beak threateningly, resisting the urge to flap his wings. You'd heal his injury once you were out of sight from prying eyes that might try and fail to mimic your healing techniques or else claim the spirit drugs you gave him were stolen from their supply.
"That changes things" The elder solemnly admits, after a moment of awkward silence that got Lian Tianhua coldly sweating like the rest of her sect, while her younger sister watches the exchange with a look of youthful admiration, clearly enjoying seeing the elders who were planning to sacrifice her get browbeaten, ear pulled, and treated like disobedient children
"Truly yours is a merciful nature" Tianhua compliments you with a light smile, looking earnestly impressed "I shall confirm the survival of these prisoners, since few of our fellow daoists will believe the words of a demonic beast"
"Ascended Beast" Luli poutily corrects, her sudden interjection confusing her sister like she had just sprouted a second head or a pair of handsome cat ears "She prefers to be called an ascended beast, or Magical beast"
"I..I see" The elder sister says haltingly, stunned by the younger's sudden surge of confidence "There is a difference isn't there"
"Not really, even if one of my kind doesn't hunt or eat human, you still call them demonic beasts and hunt them down, supposedly there is a difference, between those that have eaten human flesh and those that haven't, but like many things, our fellow daoists ignore it in favor for their own benefits" You venomously elucidate, pleasant smile now parted to show your teeth "Doesn't matter, as truthfully, there is no separation between man-eaters and the rest. Well besides their personality and ethics"
Siwang clicks his beak, very much wanting to start a discussion about those ethics, but instead he appeases his own obsession with lawful behavior and order by stating "It is one of the most obvious shows of injustice and hypocrisy from orthodox cultivation, Chuandapo may have poor choice in friends and be rather careless and clumsy, but she has done nothing to deserve the fate that awaited her without our master's timely intervention, and neither has Yujijiao, may her rest be peaceful and eternal"
"Forgive me if I've said something unpleasant or awakened bitter memories" Lian Tianhua says hurriedly
"Eh, I call myself a Demonic beast as often as not, I just expect people who know me to know what I am, besides I met Yujijiao as a ghost" You say with a lilt of laughter, to show Tianhua she hasn't offended you by speaking clumsily or needs to be so high strung "And thank you Luli, for correcting your sister before I could explain myself to her"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 29 Jan 2024 16:31:33 No. 5907719 Report >>5907717 Luli beams with pride and puffs out her chest, little hands on her hips.
"A ghost?" One of the disciples surrounding you asks
"I see" Tianhua says, sounding rather crafty as she absorbs the new information presented to her "Your arrow is one steeped in the breath of the wandering dead, it should be no surprise that you cohabitate with specters and phantoms. I would like to express, that the thousand Lotus hall does not hunt magical beasts, of any character..."
"But you buy their cores with the spirit stones you receive for your medicines and herbs" Siwang's interrupts, eyes judging and staring like he could see through her. Lian Tianhua audibly gulps and redirects her gaze to her shoes, while everyone else looks away
"Moving on" She deflects quickly "If I am to travel with you to meet this second disciple of yours, may I know their name? Perhaps their personage is already known to me, otherwise, it will make for good conversation fodder on the road"
"We can all fly" Siwang chirps, not really getting that she was using a turn of phrase when she said on the road, but that just makes for a good oppurtunity for him to learn more human common sense, you'll have Tianhua explain it to him on the trip back to your temple
"Ping. Former disciple of the Winter Blossoming wisdom sect, sent out to die during a blizzard that for once they didn't cause" You rapidly begin listing off the abridged version of Ping's history "Found him about to be sacrificed by a daoist temple turned cult, he hounded me as I traveled the wild places of the world, realized I wasn't a baby eating demon, nearly died, had his arm cursed when I saved him from a horrific, gruesome and memorable death, and he has been my disciple ever since. He makes a hobby of traveling around exorcising troublesome ghosts, its how he refines his cultivation and technique. That arm of his is much more a blessing than a curse"
"He also stopped his own heart with alchemy and tears it out when he wants to make a point" Siwang adds blithely "Or just to show off while drinking with Elder Brothers Feiqing and Lei"
There is a long, somber silence like the quite of a deep winter. Lian Tianhua, blinks slowly and wets her lips while every other member of the thousand lotus hall sect stare at the two of you in disbelief or else dread, except Luli who looks very interested about Ping's odd choice body refinements, which admittedly is fairly fashionable and impressive from your perspective
"I see" Tianhua says finally, breaking the silence "I have heard stories from the battlefields your sect has entered about warriors fighting while possessed by ghosts, I assume Ping is one of the causes for such wild rumors"
You smile widely, stretching the smile as far as it'll go on your face, to keep from saying that it is probably Fu, who they actually know about and might admire or at least respect as virtuous young man, who is the actual source for those stories, that aren't stories at all.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 29 Jan 2024 16:32:34 No. 5907720 Report >>5907719 "He is, despite his change in fashion and allegiance, of good, moral and upstanding character and he is righteous by nature" You explain a bit about Ping, to avoid having to approach the awkward misunderstanding of who exactly is often possessed by the vengeful and furious dead "He is one of my most accomplished disciples, and stands proudly in my favor. He also died once fighting Jingyu but that is neither here nor there"
"Died!?" Tianhua gasps, blinking as she tries to piece together the puzzle she imagines you've scattered before her "So he is a ghost as well"
"He got better" You answer with a shrug, leaving her reeling "Now, I'll tend to my disciple Siwang's wounds, and then I shall be ready to collect Ping, so if you need to make preparations, wash your face or choose who you'll leave in charge, you should do it all quickly"
"May I watch? I am fascinated by the mystery of what healing techniques and spells a heretic beast would have developed in the wild taboo outside of the sanctity of the orthodox laws" The too curious for his own good elder asks, shuffling meekly up to your side like a girl confessing her love to a valiant martial artist. You stare long and hard at him, until he skitters away, before you lead Siwang out of the entrance of the hall, and into shadows you can deepen to hide the scarlet healing armor as you treat his minor though unforgiveable injury.
Lian Tianhua it terms out, is quite the gossip and once she is away from the elders who serve under her, she is willing to discuss all manner of things, forbidden and not. And more impressively than that, she is actually a good conversation partner, she doesn't easily get on your nerves, is unfailingly polite and respectful, and sure the praise she heaps upon you does become bland and flavorless after awhile, but you did just save her little sisters life so you can forgive her for being a little too worshipful of your majesty. The insights and gossip she shares with you are as captivating as they are intriguing and though the trip is short you learn a lot about rare spiritual plants and their preparations and uses in alchemy and medicine, as well as some delightful and juicy rumors about well known and respected figures in the sects of Chuan. All of which is useful.
You also learn she's a fan of Hare and Hunting Hound, though for whatever reason thinks Piao Tùzi should end up with a minor antagonist who you may have slightly based off of your own mother. Respectfully of course. Maybe you'll invite her to the book reading club, just to see how Yuyi reacts to another immortal barging into her home.
'I should stop by her house anyway, to play with Yanyu, Huian, Ya, and Jiao. Maybe I'll introduce Luli to them, they may be a few years younger than her, but...wait how old are they? How old is Luli?' you ponder as you drift lazily through the air like a leaf carried through the wind.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 29 Jan 2024 16:33:35 No. 5907723 Report >>5907720 Tianhua sits inside of a mortar large enough to crush corpses, something Monu and demonic alchemists own as well, and Siwang is scouting ahead.
You think on that now burning question, until your party of three reaches Suiqi, and Tianhua insists to make a stop there and spends some time gawking at the wolf sized housecats lounging around and patrolling the streets, the buddhist warrior monks marching with them, and the cat mask wearing daoists following behind them. You actually have to shake her to get her moving again once she sees the first new patrol, and she explains she thought she was having a fever dream.
Her first encounter with Tiexingege's kids is worse, for her, since she does more than freeze when she sees the giant black iron army ants, and instead screams her head off at the sight of them. Which attracts Tiexingege herself, who you wrestle into turning into her human form to keep Tianhua from cowering and her hair from turning white from fear. It turns out, the head of a gardening sect is terrified of insects which is...weird, all things you know about plants, insects and pollination considered. Tiexingege, despite being in theory weaker than Tianhua, terrifies her and bullies her without really meaning to. Jionghuagege shows up, mercifully in her human form which she seems to prefer, very unlike her sister, but not so mercifully, a squad of her daughters acting as her handmaidens, since Jiong-Jiong decided to force ascend all of her hive to be like her, causes the matriarch to faint.
So the short sighting seeing trip into the "Huan flavored Suiqi" as Lian Tianhua so chummily put it, is extended for a few hours as you wait for her to wake up and recover, and you have to track down Siwang, who sensing the presence of his rival, decide to spar with Yinying. Or that's what your self appointed royal guard and the windswift judge described it as, you'd call it profesional hide and seek.
And Tiexingege, misunderstanding, or not carrying that Tianhua thinks her and Jionghuagege's kids will eat her alive, keeps her five ascended daughters guarding you and her at all times.
"W..w..what are their names" She asks you, trying to be civil while clinging to your arm. She's gotten tears and snot all over your sleeve. She trembles, trying not to look at them as they march under their mother's orders, as she sits cross legged on top of the head of One
"One, two, three, four and five" You answer dully, shooting a pleading look at Tie-Tie, begging her wordlessly to actually name her daughters instead of just numbering them. She doesn't need to be like Jionghuagege, who named all her daughters before she turned them into demonic beasts with an array you really don't understand even with your expert knowledge of the creation of demonic beasts, but she at least should give them proper names. Alas, Tiexingege doesn't notice your silent plea, nor does she acknowledge Tianhua quietly asking her to please go away.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 29 Jan 2024 16:34:36 No. 5907726 Report >>5907723 The stop at Fu's village, is much more relaxing and pleasant for Lian Tianhua, who is amazed by Jionghuagege's work in creating the giant flowers that now dot the country-side around it, and again, she delays your arrival to the trial by insisting to meet the prisoners kept there, something she didn't have the mind to ask in Suiqi but that's understandable as she nearly wet herself with how terrified she was of the Geges' broods, so she wasn't in the state of mind to be curious after said curiosity got her into her waking nightmare.
Ju of course, having been taught bad manners by Tie-Tie, and Tie-Tie deciding to travel down with you, which meant Jiong-Jiong did as well, acts every bit the delinquent around Tianhua, trying to intimidate her and treating her like a captured enemy princess much to the amusement of Tie-Tie and adoration of Tianhua, who becomes immediately fond of and fawns the girl with only slightly less affection than her little sister Luli.
This means she shortly meets Shu, Fu and Yuyi, but she doesn't get past introductions before you drag her off, so she can meet with the prisoners, primarily Tian Mei, who is still locked up inside your temple and stop making you even later for the trial you demanded!. You have a change of plans immediately, as Tianhua reacts...poorly to the Qi of heaven and earth surrounding your temple and seeping into the landscape. The ghostly yin Qi is intense, if anything, your swift ascent through Core formation and breakthrough into uncharted territory of the golden core stage had made it stronger. That or the ghosts beneath your temple and catacomb kingdom have gotten more active after they fought Qiang, Ping and Fu while you cultivated in deep closed crypt meditation. Either way, she immediately falls ill from the density of the ghostly Qi, proving herself sensitive to it since Jionghuagege can come and go as she pleases without so much as faltering in her step!
So instead, you have Fu fetch Tian Mei and Ping.
Initially, Mei thinks you've captured Tianhua and tries to explain that being your prisoner isn't bad at all. Once that misunderstanding is cleared up, and they've had a short, private chat, you introduce her to Ping
She cannot stop staring at his ghoul arm, pale than the rest of him. So much so she doesn't notice his delightfully macabre band of prayer beads made out of human teeth and bone, or the odd scar across his bare chest. Wait. You blink and stare at his bare chest yourself, intently.
'Jingyu also didn't like to wear shirts, he wasn't wearing one when Qiang or I met him, and now Ping keeps his robe open to show off his self mutilation, what's up with that, is it something in the water of the wells of the winter blossoming wisdom sects temple?' You wonder as you gaze scholarly at his bare torso, noting that he's put on some muscle since you first met him.
"Master" He gasps, turning away and blushing, acting very girlishly as your curious stare turns murderous
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 29 Jan 2024 16:35:38 No. 5907728 Report >>5907726 "Not like that, I'm not my mother" You snarl, smacking him on the head gently "Get your head out of the gutter"
"It did look like you were..." Tian Mei began before thinking better of it
"Ping" Fu sighs, rubbing his brow "You know her standards are not so appallingly low, do not fall into unrealistic fantasies"
"I wasn't, brother Fu" Ping snaps, blushing so much a bit of color returns to his ghoulish arm, his long white hair whipping as he turns to face his martial brothers, indignant and embarrassed "I simply misunderstood her expression, and recalled the...habits of her mother and elder sister, I was terrified not excited, I assure you"
"Why were you scared, huh~!?" You and Fu drawl thuggishly nearly in unison as Ping grinds and gnash his teeth.
"You are terrifying, master" he says, wisely saying no more than he needs to "And so is your mother"
Fu snorts, stopping himself from saying something rude you'd slap him for
"You must be Ghost arm Ping" Tianhua says, peaceably lifting up one hand to stop the argument from continuing but with a pained look in her eye that screams 'Stop talking about it' "I am to understand you will be accompany us to the trial?"
"I am?" Ping asks curiously, glancing to you, you answer with a nod "It seems that I am. As a former student of the winter blossoming wisdom sect, I have every reason and obligation to air our their dirty secrets, and can provide a unique perspective on the matter, surely, this is why Lady Huanliuxe chose me to join her, I presume Fu is the first?"
"Siwang" Fu answers bluntly "Its for the best, I might start taking heads if they insulted our master, or lose control of myself to my friends in my shadow. You and Siwang are much cooler headed than I am"
"Siwang once strung an attempted rapist up by his entrails, spreading them out across at least a dozen trees. It took him days to die" Ping answers, making Tianhua cough and shoot an unreadable look towards the Owl she knows as polite and generally cheerful boy
"I'd have done worse" Fu says darkly, not making it clear if it'd be through his own choice, the choice of the grudges he plays host to, or some combination "Much worse"
"Fair enough" Ping says, noticing the same, and gently backing away from the subject with a nod, before he turns back to Tianhua, bitterness and resentment boiling up inside his eyes and a haze of grudge energy darkening his face "And I am to understand, you are the famous Lian Tianhua, who my master rid of the evil known as Jingyu, as I know she would not allow something that disgusts her to exist beneath the same skies as her once she got it in her mind to exterminate them, no matter the thoughts or wishes of others"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 29 Jan 2024 16:36:40 No. 5907730 Report >>5907728 "She did, we were unaware of his presence until she appeared and informed us of it, and made us notice the strangeness of the length of time some of our disciple's had spent in our gardens" She says chokingly, glancing between Fu and Ping, "Fortunately, she had arrived soon enough to save my little sister Luli, but that monster still took from us two rising stars and rare talents"
"You have my condolences" Ping says with a bow "If I had been informed of that wretch's presence and activities, I would've gladly subdued him myself"
"And mine" Fu adds with a nod, arms crossed and two axes stuck in the ground in front of them "And you've said that a hundred times, I thought you got over it. Our leader does what she wants when she wants, it's her privilege"
"I have made my peace with it, doesn't mean I can't complain about being denied my chance for a rematch and vengeance for all the people I once knew who Jingyu butchered like pigs" Ping answers calmly, hands pressed together in a monk like fashion
"Thank you, your teacher did mention that you had history with that devil" Tianhua says carefully, trying her best not to upset or reopen Ping's wounds
"Did she tell you he killed me?" he asks curiously
"Ping, you know our master, of course she did, she probably explained it in all its grisly detail about how you exploded him with his own strike. Remember it was a mutual kill, nothing to be ashamed about" Fu says cheerfully, patting Ping on his cursed arm's shoulder
"She didn't mention it was mutual" Tianhua says quietly "Your martial brother is right, that is something to be proud of"
"Didn't matter. We both got back up" Ping says gloomily "Do you know how insulting that is? He killed four other cultivators that day, nearly killed the true companion I found in my hunt for him, and succeeded in killing me. That I pulled myself back from that edge, doesn't matter. Cause he did as well, with contemptuous ease! Like he was turning over his hand! He birthed himself again! I may be hurt I wasn't allowed the chance to take him down, but I must admit, that only Huanliuxue or the grand elder of our sect could hope to put a permanent end to that cockroach!"
"I think Qiang could figure it out, she has a plan to kill everyone she meets, she met him" Fu says flippantly, rubbing his chin in thought "Maybe Baifenchi as well"
"I am sorry that you encountered such a beast, and were unable to end him rightly. I regret I was unable to face him, to notice him until he had killed two of my students" Tianhua sympathizes, placing a hand over her heart
"Feiqing could if he had a forge handy" Ping says with a chuckle "And I thank you for your sympathy, but must beg your pardon, elder, to collect my travel necessities"
"Yeah Feiqing could, I could've probably" Fu says loudly to continue the conversation without moving from your side "Tiexingege as well"
"Only because she'd tear him to itty bitty pieces!" Ping yells back at the top of his lungs
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 29 Jan 2024 16:37:42 No. 5907733 Report >>5907730 "Interesting disciples you have, he wasn't what I expected" Tianhua giggles "I was expecting some half decayed revenant when you talked about him, he's actually rather handsome, even with that unnerving arm of his"
Fu pouts, glancing away but says nothing.
"Oh, and Young Fu is exactly as noble and gentlemanly as he is in the stories told about him" She adds with a familiar, monu-ish twinkle in her eyes
A ghost of a smile reveals itself from Fu's pouting.
It turns out, among the necessities Ping needs to travel includes his friend Qinxin. You decide to ignore his presence, but only after Ping informs you that it was the least he could convince Monu to allow you to travel to the conclave with, talking her down from first going herself, to then sending every foundation establishment member of the sect with you, to Xuebai and Yujijiao, before he haggled her down to Qinxin.
Who you can safely ignore like you always do.
The trip to the trial in the middle of Chuan, is much shorter and get delayed twice by Tianhua being curious. The basin of a thousand rivers and lakes, is so deep its waters are wine dark, lending credence to the legend of a lush goddess dropping her wine cask onto Chuan one day, the same goddess you've usurped as the idol of most of Chuan. And like Monu told you years ago, you can sense from its edge that the waters are rich with Qi
And there is something, leagues down, where the pressure must be excruciating, that has a trace of Heavenly Qi. You only recognize it from the sea of ambient spiritual energy of the purest waters, because you snuck into Heaven and got nearly blinded by the Celestial breath of the nine heavens. So that means that legend is true, and proves your theory that most gods are natural fuck ups who got lucky or were born divine.
"They should be here" Lian Tianhua says, more to calm her own nerves than to assure you both hadn't wasted your time "This was the location we all agreed upon"
She tugs on her hair, plucking petals from the flowers she grows in it while Ping kneels down to examine the cold, crisp waters
"Lots of bodies sunk in this lake" He muses idly, making Tianhua wince and shake her head
"Every lake has bodies in it, every land has murderers clever enough to sink the evidence of their crimes" She argues for her own peace of mind
"This is a lot of bodies for a lake. I think the stories of its waters seeping into the underworld may be true" Ping remarks ponderously as he runs his pale arm over the waters
"I will ask Chuandapo to retrieve them" Siwang declares after a few moment of intense thought "So they may be given the proper rites and laid to rest"
"Odd then that the ghosts aren't rising up across its waters like morning mist" You muse idly, hands clasped behind your back "Maybe the second legend of the basin is also true"
"Also true?' Tianhua questions, your eyes gleam as you decide to allow that remark to become another layer of mystique around yourself.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 29 Jan 2024 16:38:43 No. 5907734 Report >>5907733 It takes half an hour, judging from the incense stick Ping lights after you get tired of waiting, but eventually an unfamiliar cultivator in robes marking him as a disciple of a sect you don't recognizes flies out from the center of the lake. His eyes scan over all four..er five of you, looking for a bloodsoaked cat the size of a dragon with a dead cultivator stuck between her teeth, instead he finds a world upending beauty, smiling pleasantly at him
Or instead the shimmering white piece of rope he's holding in his hands.
An immortal binding rope. A rarity in this era, but something common in the past. A magic tool to suppress the cultivation of any who is bound by it, one of the few ways to trap a cultivator without crippling them. Sometimes used to allow seniors to humilate their juniors by lowering themselves to their level before beating the crap out of them. It is Thin like spider silk. And you know spider silk, most of your clothes are made of it. You also notice the disgust he looks at Siwang and Ping with, and especially Qinxin. He at least has enough brains to now not to show his feelings for you on his face
"We did not agree upon this" Tianhua says, a voice as cold as ice, outrage rumbling like thunder in her otherwise delicate voice "This is an outrageous insult and show of cowardice from the sects of Chuan, whom the heretic Huanliuxue approached and offered a chance to save their misguided fellows who attacked her and her sect unprovoked and caused suffering not only in their territories but many of the territories claimed by their fellow temples"
"The demon reduced the strongest defensive magic master in the world of cultivation, not just Chuan Province, to so much red dust" The man whose hair is slicked back, giving him a weasel or ratty look that is only magnified by his buck teeth "The demon has spawned more of her ilk and lead them to possess human hosts, the demon consorts with hell bound spirit, the demon eats human flesh"
"She is Huanliuxue!" Tianhua shouts back, wagging her head and her hips "And she is no demon, she's just a somewhat macabrely minded girl. Huanliuxue helped the thousand lotus hall in its time of greatest need, Huanliuxue has saved my sister"
"The demon probably caused the ills that befell you" the man says drolly like he was a bureaucrat signing the deaths of an entire region during a time on famine without so much as looking at the edict before him "The demon has brought one of the murderous invaders with it. The Demon cannot be trusted"
'Fu was right not to come along, he'd be half way to beating this smug asshole to death if he were here. Even Ping looks ready to rip this arrogant bastard's head off' you think as you tilt your head and smile
"The demon is right here" You mock him, imitating his voice as greasily and whiny as your own melodious and elegantly smooth voice can manage
He glares at you, you grin cheekily back
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 29 Jan 2024 16:39:44 No. 5907737 Report >>5907734 "You're all just too scared to meet her with the same trust she's given to you" Tianhua huffs, crossing her arms and unleashing her meanest big sister glare at the talking piece of garbage. It doesn't work. her face just isn't shaped for looking intimidating.
"The demon will not be allowed entrance or participation in the proceedings, unless they heed and respect the guidelines their betters have agreed upon" He says apathetically, disdaining every word he has to speak to you and looking increasingly furious with Tianhua "And this senior should realize how her defense of this demon reflects upon her reputation and good standing, perhaps, Senior has been enchanted by her wicked sorceries"
You tilt your head further to the side and sigh.
How far could you kick him if you really put all of your strength and effort into sending him flying?
"I was not informed of any decision to bind the person who, in endless mercy, chose not to slaughter her enemies, and instead trust their peers to settle upon a suitable punishment for their misjudgment, misrule, abuse of those beneath their protections, and unprovoked attack upon her" Tianhua argues as you stretch open your hands and clench them into fists, imagining throttling the smug dogfucker whose floating before you. Actually drowning him would be more satisfying, wouldn't it?
"You're treating her like she's the one on trial" She harshly adds
"She has committed many crimes and evils, that the winter blossoming wisdom sect also caused suffering in their attempts to repress the evil she embodies" The man begins before he suddenly sent flying back, looking very ungracious as he goes flipping through the air
You look to Siwang, smug even by your own standards
"A freak gale" He defends himself as you smile proudly at him "Such things often occur in places where the air is so dense with spiritual energy"
"The demon will not join the proceedings unless it submits to be sealed!" The man shouts back, flustered and clearly embarrassed now
"You...You!" Tianhua rages, to insulted on your behalf to even form words
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 29 Jan 2024 16:40:47 No. 5907739 Report >>5907737 What do you do about these demands thrust upon, Huanliuxue?
>Reply by simply grabbing the rude worm by his throat, and use his life as a token to barge your way in, unbound (Haste/ strength trial. DC 100) >Send Tianhua to argue against this outrageous demand, and wait on the shore, and not so subtly imply if they begin without you, you'll send them all and the waters of the basin to spray in the faces of the nine heavens/ >Accept and let them bind you with the damn rope. They've made the mistake in assuming you can only defend yourself with the strengths and powers granted by cultivating Qi. They've overlooked your beastial evolutions and natural cunning, among other things. >"Ping, kick his ass for me, I don't want to dirty my foot doing it myself" >Accept, but the moment you get to wherever they're holding the trial, use the size of your cultivation base and potency of your imperious aura to melt the ropes in a silent threat to every sect present to NEVER try this sort shit with you again [Option Unlocked by possessing Tier 0 Golden Core or being in middle stage of the golden core realm with a tier 3 to 1 core, or Late stage tier 4 or 5] >Write in Anonymous
>>5907739 >Accept then melt the fucking rope. >Inform the assembled masters. "I will make myself very clear. I summoned you to place on trial the worms who have ruined Chuan's land, abandoned it's people and cast away it's face in an attempt to slay me, all because of a mortal spat between their mortal families. They are on trial, because I wish to be benevolent, as a good daoist ought. NEVER MISTAKE MY BENEVOLENCE FOR WEAKNESS OR RESTRAINT FOR HESITATION. Attempt this sort of duplicitous action again and I shall be impolite. Now, to the Trial." Anonymous
I wonder if the thousand lotus hall would be able to tell us anything about the plant core, of course we could also ask Luli. That said we should keep the peach a secret unless Luli manages to join us >>5907739 Accept, but the moment you get to wherever they're holding the trial, use the size of your cultivation base and potency of your imperious aura to melt the ropes in a silent threat to every sect present to NEVER try this sort shit with you again [Option Unlocked by possessing Tier 0 Golden Core or being in middle stage of the golden core realm with a tier 3 to 1 core, or Late stage tier 4 or 5]
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>>5907739 >Accept, but the moment you get to wherever they're holding the trial, use the size of your cultivation base and potency of your imperious aura to melt the ropes in a silent threat to every sect present to NEVER try this sort shit with you again [Option Unlocked by possessing Tier 0 Golden Core or being in middle stage of the golden core realm with a tier 3 to 1 core, or Late stage tier 4 or 5] Not a great start. But at least it indicates that they intent to shame more then assassinate us. I'm guessing the rave reviews we are getting with the common folk is upsetting their feelings, so they want to take this chance to nurse their bruised egos.
Unless they are so fatally dim that they actually believe we would willingly walk in there with this rope intact for more than 3 seconds, but I'm gonna assume there are at least a few elder cultivators in there that have more than 2 braincells to rub together, who realize that that would never work. A risky assumption to make, I know.
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>>5907764 Amog men, Lu bu.
Among horses, Red Hare.
Among cultivators, Huanleiaxue
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>>5907739 >Accept, but the moment you get to wherever they're holding the trial, use the size of your cultivation base and potency of your imperious aura to melt the ropes in a silent threat to every sect present to NEVER try this sort shit with you again [Option Unlocked by possessing Tier 0 Golden Core or being in middle stage of the golden core realm with a tier 3 to 1 core, or Late stage tier 4 or 5] Anonymous
>>5907739 >>Reply by simply grabbing the rude worm by his throat, and use his life as a token to barge your way in, unbound (Haste/ strength trial. DC 100) >>5907764 What makes you think they don't plan to sentence us to death?
The rope would make that a lot easier.
They already have in mind that we are their lesser and are already guilty.
We don't know the DC for breaking that rope, but I rather not gamble.
We are the ones who called for this meeting, but we did not agree to be bounded.
We are going inside if he likes it or not, if he had a problem he should've fixed his attitude.
The age where our kind is bound and slaughtered by the orthodox died with the leader of the winter blossom sect.
They aught to understand the new precedent. If they have a problem, they can air it out in battle. There is a limit to diplomacy and mercy.
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>>5907778 Grandfather didn't mention a DC for breaking the rope, so I assumed that the action was automatic, and would be instant when we decided to break free.
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>>5907779 if it is within our means, then I am willing to change my vote to breaking it right after entering.
That said I must ask Grandfather to clarify us in the the ways of the Dao of binding catgirls and know if we are safe.
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>>5907739 >Accept, but the moment you get to wherever they're holding the trial, use the size of your cultivation base and potency of your imperious aura to melt the ropes in a silent threat to every sect present to NEVER try this sort shit with you again [Option Unlocked by possessing Tier 0 Golden Core or being in middle stage of the golden core realm with a tier 3 to 1 core, or Late stage tier 4 or 5] Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 29 Jan 2024 18:47:21 No. 5907796 Report >>5907780 There isn't a DC because there's really no effort on Huan's part, because her cultivation base is just comprised of that much Qi, lower tier golden cores would have to role for it, but since a tier 0 towers above a tier 1, Huan busting the rope is just her normal levels of Qi overloading its ability to keep it locked away and her powers seal, like what happened to Monu when her cultivation was crippled/ broken.
Its the method that makes it not require a trial, as trying to damage it through brute force and not just excessive amounts of Qi, would require a roll but be impossible for anyone beneath the ropes maker level of cultivation.
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>>5907796 I see, thank you for enlightening this Junior.
>>5907778 I change this vote to
>>5907756 Supporting this one.
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>>5907739 >Accept, but the moment you get to wherever they're holding the trial, use the size of your cultivation base and potency of your imperious aura to melt the ropes in a silent threat to every sect present to NEVER try this sort shit with you again Anonymous
>>5907739 We have come in peace and they threaten us with death, imprisonment and war. Based solely on hearsay, rumors, and ignorance. We SHOULD break this guys fucking legs for this. As well as every one of these arrogant pricks here. They should be throwing themselves at our feet just for not killing them.
I am truly disgusted by these walking piles of brainless filth.
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>>5907868 Let's accept the binding rope, destroy it for a power play, and once the court is finished we demand that we ourselves punish the guy with a slap that can cave in half of his skull. Or perhaps do it after the power play so they can't say shit.
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>>5907739 >Accept and let them bind you with the damn rope. They've made the mistake in assuming you can only defend yourself with the strengths and powers granted by cultivating Qi. They've overlooked your beastial evolutions and natural cunning, among other things. Let them underestimate us. We'll reveal our true strength when the time is right.
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>>5907739 >Accept, but the moment you get to wherever they're holding the trial, use the size of your cultivation base and potency of your imperious aura to melt the ropes in a silent threat to every sect present to NEVER try this sort shit with you again [Option Unlocked by possessing Tier 0 Golden Core or being in middle stage of the golden core realm with a tier 3 to 1 core, or Late stage tier 4 or 5] It's funny and it sends a message.
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>>5907982 >tfw the giant cat that casts spells and does spooky shit is still a giant cat Anonymous
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>>5907739 >Accept and let them bind you with the damn rope. They've made the mistake in assuming you can only defend yourself with the strengths and powers granted by cultivating Qi. They've overlooked your beastial evolutions and natural cunning, among other things. Anonymous
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>>5907739 >Accept and let them bind you with the damn rope. They've made the mistake in assuming you can only defend yourself with the strengths and powers granted by cultivating Qi. They've overlooked your beastial evolutions and natural cunning, among other things. If we can break it anytime then we can get much more information out of them, such as their true intentions, by acting powerless until we've heard enough.
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>>5907739 Seconding my fellow junior's write-in here
>>5908101 . I am trying to imagine the legendary sort of salty run-back these people try to pull after getting caught trying to pardon the WBW sect's crimes-- believing themselves to be safe because we're "bound". Let's see what they think they can get away with, and then turn the tables. They'll lose so much face they'll turn into Noppera-bō in embarrassment.
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>>5907739 >>5907986 I'll add anon's
>>5908101 pretend we're helpless to dig for information to my vote. It's useful and would make the situation even funnier.
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>>5908101 Supporting. Give a wink or something to our disciples so they know to play along.
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>>5907745 my pride battles with my cunning, but this junior accepts that it'd be funny as shit to do.
Changing to
>>5908101 Anonymous
>>5907739 >Accept with the full intention of breaking the rope at the first appropriate moment. But also:
>"Ping, get the rope from this murine moron and kick his ass." I'm not opposed to the rope trick but i really can't stand the smugness this worm will have in his face when we agree.
Or we immediately break the rope which would be just as funny when the guy realizes the entity of how fucked he is.
Anonymous
>>5908175 Nah I wanna see the faces of all the naysayers when they realize how much trouble all their shit talking has gotten them into.
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>>5908179 Pretend to be a pig to eat a tiger indeed.
We will see clearly the face of those who can listen without being threatened, and those who do not.
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>>5907739 >Accept and let them bind you with the damn rope. They've made the mistake in assuming you can only defend yourself with the strengths and powers granted by cultivating Qi. They've overlooked your beastial evolutions and natural cunning, among other things. I hate it.
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>>5908179 Have we mastered blood Qi and body transformation enough to transform only parts of our body? Because I would really like to flash a big sharp-teethed cat smile when we drop the facade.
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>>5907739 >Accept and let them bind you with the damn rope. They've made the mistake in assuming you can only defend yourself with the strengths and powers granted by cultivating Qi. They've overlooked your beastial evolutions and natural cunning, among other things. Anonymous
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>>5907739 >Accept and let them bind you with the damn rope... until you get enough information. It'll be funny and show we had enough mercy not beat them to a pulp the moment we walked in.
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>>5908649 Oh I'm sure we're in the Blood Qi realm of doing bodyhorror stuff. The problem would be trying to hide every trace of us using the Blood Qi so they don't know we have it and it's not just some side-effect of us killing people and having something fucked up in ourselves
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>>5907739 >Accept, but the moment you get to wherever they're holding the trial, use the size of your cultivation base and potency of your imperious aura to melt the ropes in a silent threat to every sect present to NEVER try this sort shit with you again [Option Unlocked by possessing Tier 0 Golden Core or being in middle stage of the golden core realm with a tier 3 to 1 core, or Late stage tier 4 or 5] Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Wed 31 Jan 2024 16:54:37 No. 5910334 Report Think this is a new record of number of votes in an update. Ending the vote and tallying its result now.
Accept, but the moment you get to wherever they're holding the trial, use the size of your cultivation base and potency of your imperious aura to melt the ropes in a silent threat to every sect present to NEVER try this sort shit with you again:9
-Inform the assembled masters. "I will make myself very clear...etc:1
Accept and let them bind you with the damn rope. They've made the mistake in assuming you can only defend yourself with the strengths and powers granted by cultivating Qi. They've overlooked your beastial evolutions and natural cunning, among other things.:12
"Ping, get the rope from this murine moron and kick his ass.": 1
So you'll let them bind and tie you with the rope, deciding to pretend to be powerless to gather information/ See their true intentions & character and get them to underestimate you, very much pretending to be a pig to eat a tiger
update will arrive shortly
>>5907868 Now you're thinking like a cultivator
>>5907999 Exactly!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Wed 31 Jan 2024 19:23:13 No. 5910592 Report Your left hand twitches, the tendons that would extend claws contracting as the ones that would pull its fingers into a choking vice grip pull back against them. It would be all too easy to make this smug piece of shit choke to death on his own blood, and it would be all too satisfying to put this arrogant young master who vastly overestimates where he is placed on the food chain in his proper place. But that would be uncouth, the actions of a beast who doesn't know anything beyond their instincts, who squanders their sapience and higher intellect by continuing to live as a wild, lawless animal unaware of the wider world. And more importantly it'd be foolish. Oh your pride is yowling for blood, and you have every intention of extracting every drop of it you can from this insolent brat when you smear his broken body across Chuan like the world's messiest painting brush, but you have only survived this long because you know when to reject your sense of pride and bury your dignity. It is wisdom that has gotten you far in life, and even lifted you beyond the limits of the nine heavens.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Wed 31 Jan 2024 19:24:14 No. 5910594 Report >>5910592 That they asked you to submit to being bound at all, shows just how witless and uninformed these representatives and the sects they hail from are, especially about your abilities and achievements. Which is a great boon for you. The less someone knows about you, the lies they will believe about you can be much more wild and outrageous and the truth can be obscured and hidden much more effortlessly. And they seem to have forgotten, in face of your terrifying display of might that was melting Xue Laohue into steam, that even with your cultivation locked and sealed away, you are still an ox sized cat most of the time whose blood is saturated with moon dust and astral energies. And from how this brat has been referring to you, they expect a feral, dim witted and moronic animal that can barely piece together a sentence rather than the towering intellect you are. They are entirely defenseless to your cunning and sharp wit.
Raising up a hand, you stop Ping or Siwang from speaking out of Turn or launching an attack at the messenger, glancing at them with a relaxed smile to show them you have every thing under control and have a plan already in motion to turn this outrageous demand into a benefit and advantage instead of the restraint and danger it is meant to be. Only a fool with more air between his ears than brains would think a chained tiger still couldn't bite of their hand if they tempt it.
"Then so shall it be, I submit to being bound, tied up and wrapped in that Immortal Binding Rope, its owner should be honored I am raising the value of his family's heirloom by deigning to allow it to press against my flawless skin" You serenely answer, not entirely forsaking your sense of pride and imperial dignity, and not mentioning you plan to shred the treasure until it couldn't even stop a worm from using any Qi it might've absorbed through eating dirt "And you should be grateful I am feeling unusually lenient today, Boy!"
"I will bind my master and seal her immaculate cultivation and resplendent sea of Qi" Ping states, shooting you a concerned but trusting look, asking silently if you're sure you want to risk so much on a plan only you know the full extent of, your response is a cat like smile oozing with confidence "As I am her disciple, and the only one present with hands to work the rope, the responsibility is naturally mine to take, as no other man would be permitted to even so much as brush against her accidentally!"
The messenger's narrow, triangular, thuggish and scheming rat eyes alight with pique and offense against an imagined slight. In truth he wouldn't under ordinary circumstances be allowed to breath the same air as you, trembling like steam is about to flow out of his ears.
"A demon's disciple cannot be trusted to properly bind their master, a heretic's nature is one of treachery and deceit" He declares with an ostentatious flick of his sleeve and an even smugger, self satisfied expression on his face
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Wed 31 Jan 2024 19:25:15 No. 5910595 Report >>5910594 "Then I shall take the rope and tie her, as I while I am not her disciple, I am an acquaintance of her. It would be unsightly if a man were to rope up a young woman, especially one as fine as jade, an ethereal fairy like Huanliuxue" Lian Tianhua interjects hopefully, trying more to preserve your feminine dignity and pride as a woman than the pride you have as a cultivator or beast
"This senior is too close with the demon, and may have fallen beneath its spell, and I am unaware of the Thousand Lotus Hall practicing any sealing techniques" The man says, flicking his eyes contemptuously over his better who had just offered her hand to pull him out of the grave he was digging for himself, but as his eyes settled on you and narrow hungrily, lecherously as he looked you from scalp to heel and actually took a moment to admire the transcendent beauty of your body and fairy like face, he froze.
You tilt your head back and sigh, hoping that this idiot brat isn't stupid enough to actually try what that slavering, predatory look on his face makes you dread he will.
"I was ordered to bring the demon bound by this rope, this responsibility was mine and mine alone, whether the demon submitted to the will of her betters or struggled" he says boisterously, all puffed up with his chest lifted, looking disgustingly giddy and enthused as he steps down, not realizing if you did "Struggle" his corpse would've been spread across all corners of Chuan by now "Hold out your hands, beast"
You give him one last chance to make his eventually death not torturous beyond the comprehension of a tadpole like himself, releasing a wave of killing intent his way and affixing him with a murderous glare. But, alas, the man is too consumed by lust at the chance of being actually able to touch a woman, let alone one as peerlessly beautiful as yourself, to notice that he is making a mistake that will be preserved in history through horror stories and cautionary tales
"Be quick about it, I grow bored easily" You threaten, but he is to transfixed by the scenic view of the twin peaks on your chest now that he's right in front of you to listen to the second warning, you in all your mercy have given him, maybe Anjing-Yinshi would enjoy sucking him dry over a decade or two.
Roughly he grabs your wrists and snickering replies snarkily "I must be thorough to ensure the demon does not slip from its bindings". His cheek are a gross shade of red if such a thing can exist, and you swear you saw steam rising from his nose as he takes you hands and pulls them behind you, setting them against the small of your back. And the pervert has the gall to squeeze your buttocks, you do not give him the satisfaction of yelping and are to enraged to blush.
Tianhua moves to slap him, and Ping is counting the beads on his prayer talisman, staring at the precise location of the lecherous pig's heart in his chest while Siwang just glares, expression unreadable beyond a stark and murderous fury
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Wed 31 Jan 2024 19:26:17 No. 5910600 Report >>5910595 "Demons are tricksters, I had to check her for hidden weapons" he sneers, squeezing the other cheek as he moves the rope around your wrists and secures them to your waist. You could wiggle out of this with only your natural flexibility, since even when you're a human girl, you can contort yourself about as well as you can as a monstrous cat.
He runs a hand down your thigh as he pulls the rope up your front, leaving your legs mercifully unbound as he leans against you but wisely keeps his hips pushed back in the other direction as he lifts the ropes up higher, weaving it between your cleavage.
'No, A spider demon is too gentle a predator for scum like him' You decide furiously, remaining silent and stone faced as he squeezes one of your breasts like he was checking a peach for bruises 'Maybe I'll bring Jingyu back out and let him play with him, or hand him over to Xuebai. No, Monu. She knows how to make some truly suffer as they die and how to extend their death for ages and ages'
"You know, I have quiet the sway in my sect, if you become my woman, I'll pull some strings to make sure you get out of this alive" He whispers raspily in your ear, feverish with desire
And you laugh. And laugh harder at the expression of indignation he makes when you laugh in his face. As infuriating and disgusting as he's being, that is just too funny not to laugh at. The mere thought is so ridiculous it makes you laugh yourself sick.
He slaps you. Your laughter stops and you expression steels. Stars fill your eyes and something beyond rage fills your heart.
'Oh, Monu's gentle touch is too good for him. I'll just remind him what cat's do to cheeky little mice' you think as you start to pick yourself up of the ground, licking the blood dripping down your nose off with an unaffected smile 'If I can catch this mouse before those three do'
"Know your place bitch!" He whines, standing over you to try and mend his broken apart ego, grabbing for your hair before Ping grabs hold of his wrist
"Touch her again, and I shall show you exactly why heretics are feared, cur" He says, voice as cold as ice as you flip your feet around, roll back and hop to your feet "Such filthy hands soiling my master's silken hair, would best to be cut off, what I shall remove for your earlier transgression, shouldn't be said"
"You dare, I am..." The boisterous fool begins before he shrivels and shrinks as every blade of grass along the shore is torn from the ground and floated in the air, razor edges gleaming "I am..."
"Unimportant" You drawl through your aching jaw, dulcet tone more threatening than a cloud of grass turned into Qi infused flechettes or a dead arm gripping his tightly enough to crush diamonds "Lead us to our fellow daoists, if you would, Unimportant"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Wed 31 Jan 2024 19:27:18 No. 5910603 Report >>5910600 "You cheeky little" he gapes and wheezes, tears in his eyes as he looks around and realizes none of the connections that made him think so big of his worthless self are around to defend him "Fine, I will deign to escort the demon harlot"
"You should be grateful my master's deigns and whims to be merciful, for the moment" Ping warns as Siwang just watches, one eye twitching as he rotates his head this way and that, feeling perhaps for the first time the true depths rage and can disgust can sink to, feeling twisted emotions and a yearning for vengeance few beasts can
You smile. At least one good thing came out of that humiliation. Unimportant remains silent as he leaves you to be carried like a kitten by its scruff by Siwang across the vast lake that would make some ocean's feel inadequate about their own size, and in the center is a pavilion of gold streaked white wood, floating atop a pillar of ice that could hold a village atop it.
Siwang sets you down, Ping holds you as you right your posture and the messenger flies off to complain to his master that he was bullied while acting like a creep.
And Daoists of robes of every color stand gathered, debating and gossiping to themselves, but the fall silent and any whipsers become hushed as you're placed down in the center of them, grinning audaciously despite the bruise covering half your cheek, the blood still steadily streaming from your nose, the mud and grass stuck to your hair and of course the bondage of the Immortal Binding Rope. Ping stands at your side, arms held in front of him in his sleeves, a ghostly wind billowing his robes and white hair as Siwang flies in circles around you, head turning and twisting as he keeps a lock on the perverted Young Master, quieter than he's ever been.
Lian Tianhua however steps forward indignantly, hands properly held in front of herself as she moves with the posture and demeanor of a big sister about to start tugging ears and scolding. She is interrupted by a howl of laughter, that freezes her in place, lips parted to begin the reaming. More voices join in and your blood turns to ice as several young masters in the gathering laugh in your face, pointing and jeering while their elders and seniors look with at your present state with expressions of horror and shock. They've lived long enough and are wise enough to realize it is a terrible idea to mock a devil, even if they're safely bound and tied up and as defenseless as a kitten. That, or they remember you were born from grudges and have actually listened to the babbling of the mere mortals beneath their mountain top retreats and hidden grottos. Tianhua gasps and stammers as some of them even make a show of toppling over as they insult you with their laughter.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Wed 31 Jan 2024 19:28:20 No. 5910607 Report >>5910603 "She looks like a stray that got pulled out of a Carp pond!"
"Are you sure they didn't bring a cheap courtesan here by mistake?"
"Har! Displayed like a cut of meat, no more than a beast deserves!"
"How unseemly, how shameless to walk around, showing off such...unique interests"
"This is the demonic beast we've been told to fear? I feel sorry for the beauty she stole that body from!"
"I think I see how Xue Laohue was slain by a mere kitten, any man would be struck dumb with breasts like that in their face"
"So this is the empress of beasts? It is to be expected animals think mud and grime to be finery like silk robes and jade bangles"
"The Ling truly are a clan of simpletons if they were haunted by such a foolish creature, smiling as it is covered in filth and mocked"
"What a waste she was born a demonic beast, she might've been a heart stealing lotus blossom otherwise rather than a rabid animal"
"I was thinking our seniors were joking! Will the trial be delayed until the beast learns how to speak?"
"Who dressed her, that's so gaudy and frivolous, she must've bought that with stolen wealth"
"Her hair makes her look even more barbaric than those eyes of hers"
"HEY BEAST QUEEN, did you lose the tip of your ear fighting over days old fish?!"
"It is shameful to mock a child ignorant of the ways of the world, juniors, you disgrace yourselves"
"What a pitiful looking girl"
"So the fearsome Huanliuxue isn't so cowardly to keep hiding in a hole in the ground, once she is permitted to bring bodyguards?"
Ping's eyes are calculating, Tianhua looks like she's on the verge of tears, Siwang is still tracking the Unimportant pervert, and you keep your head held high, remembering everyone one of the faces that jeers and hurls insults and mockery your way, creating a tally of just how many people you're going to need to kill after this trial for the sake of pride and personal dignity alone. It would've been a bloodbath already if Fu was here instead of Ping or Siwang.
"Are you all stupid?" Qinxing shouts, stunned and awed in the worst way as you remember he exists in your presence as he steps forward, reprimanding the gang of long masters surrounding you with sneers and verbal jabs "Your masters should be ashamed you turned out like this. This is a creature that could squash you all with less than no effort, yet was merciful and just enough to offer your sects the chance to decide the fate of her defeated enemies, after they had wrought ruin and tragedy all through your lands! I'm astounded you gave the Ling's confederation so much difficulties! We might've had the ogress shaming us in our ranks, but you're all a bunch of children playing at being bullies"
"Brother Qinxin, please, restrain yourself' Ping says soothing, placing his living hand on his shoulders "I'm sure their seniors knew what would happen if they were sent to this trial, and chose them specifically because their deaths would be no great tragedy"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Wed 31 Jan 2024 19:29:21 No. 5910609 Report >>5910607 A half a dozen voices shout "Junior, you dare!" at Ping and Qinxin's way as you finish up remembering the faces from the crowd who taunted and ridiculed you, as a thunderclap silences the argument before it can begin, and several of the young masters who'd formed a circle around you are dragged away by the arms, ears or even hair by their seniors. Who don't apologize for their actions.
"Confirm that the Demonic Beast Huanliuxue is restrained, and her cultivation is sealed and locked away" A austere and dignified voices rises above the rest. Five sages dressed in the robes of different sects walk up to you and flash a few hand signs, cast a few detection spells and put paper talismans against your forehead and arms, watching them for a moment before muttering amongst themselves and seemingly convinced you have none of your famous strength, pull of the talismans and boldly declare with one voice
"The demonic beast Huanliuxue is subdued and poses no threat!"
An arc of lighting flies through the crowd, and a fight breaks out somewhere in the back, some cultivator taking offense with another, apparently due to something they said just now. Which is odd.
"You should reprimand all of your loud mouthed disciples immediately! Whip them and have them scrape at Master Huanliuxue's feet" Master Su Zhe'xínglǚ who you didn't know was attending roars, raging as he flies above the crowd atop a sword "Their actions reflect poorly upon their temples and teachers, such rowdiness and surly behavior is unbefitting of daoists, they make a mockery of this assembly, insulting the head who called it so virulently and venomously, we are hear to judge the crimes of the Xue family and the misdeeds of the Winter blossoming wisdom Sect"
"That is true" Another voice, the same one that called for silence with a thunder clap "However, in the interim, the true extent of this self proclaimed queen of all beasts and matriarch of the unlawful palace of natural laws sect's crimes and villainy had been made apparent to us, so it was decided she to would be made answer for her own crimes"
"You're just showing favoritism to the Winter Blossoming Wisdom Sect" A Summer Sea Dawn cultivator bellows "Huanliuxue has been nothing but cordial and kind to the sects of Chuan, she sent missives and asked for aid instead of immediately marching to war when she was attacked"
"The fish fucker is right, The palace of natural laws, as we all remember, has been acting with dignity and grace since they revealed themselves, they gave you all a chance to avenge the wrongs done to your lands and peoples, and you sat one your hands and watched as Xue Laohue walked into his grave after rampaging through your turf" A dusk marsh wolf cultivator laughs
"As much as I am loath to admit, Huanliuxue hasn't committed any crimes besides existing and raising other demonic beasts" Fa Tang snorts, appearing beneath his master as the argument spreads throughout the hearing
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Wed 31 Jan 2024 19:30:27 No. 5910610 Report >>5910609 "She even saved one of the most valued disciples of the Thousand Lotus Hall!" Tianhua tries to be heard over the din.
"Silence! The allied sects of the palace of natural laws are welcome to take part in the trial against the winter blossoming wisdom sect and the trial against The Huanliuxue" The dignified voice from before yells as lighting streaks over the gathered heads of the assembly "But there will be order, any who speak out of turn will be punished, no matter if they speak to insult or raise a valid point, be seated and compose yourselves as Daoists"
The crowd immediately separates, and you can see several Winter Blossoming Wisdom sect members, some of which who look strikingly like Xue Laohue or Monu, shuffle through the crowd as outer disciples dutifully bring rows of seats for all of them. The apparent new head of the winter blossoming wisdom sect, stands next to the party dressed in the unmistakable garb of the sages of the shifting sands, the dog fuckers who answered your letters with insults and condemnation.
And as the mob parts, you see the head judge who probably bullied and bolster his way to the position, wearing electric blue and storm cloud grey robes, each color sectioned by article of clothing. His eyes are crackling with lightning and the hair not contained in the stately bun he wears, is standing straight up due to the static roiling in the air around him.
"Huanliuxue, it was not our intent to have you mocked and humiliated" He sourly claims but you don't believe it "That behavior is unbecoming of daoist cultivators, you have my apologies"
There is a silence, only he and you are standing. Ping and Qinxin are kneeling, Tianhua is seated, and Siwang is perched in the rafters of the palace like pavilion. The quiet persists, now that the hecklers are out of the way, every daoist sent to represent their temples are appraising, studying and scrutinizing your every move as you make an effort to appear harmless and submissive, which is only a challenge because of your self worth and pride.
"As she called this conclave, she has the right to decide the order of the trials" Master Tianhua gasps in sudden realization
"If our fellow daoists have any sense of ethics and morals, that is correct" Master Su adds, raising up a single finger
"Yes! She's the leader of this conference, not you storm cloud!" The Summer Sea Dawn Disciple from early impudently shouts, not at all helping your case
You sit down, crossing your legs as you listen to the obvious leaders of the jury debating amongst themselves, all elders from their sects, while their juniors and underlings sit in austere silence, awaiting for their decision
"That is correct, she did request this trial and so by technicality, is the head of the assembly" One of the elders says after what feels like hours of intense debate, a few young masters voice their dissent but the elders are unwilling to listen to their whining or let them have their way
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Wed 31 Jan 2024 19:31:41 No. 5910612 Report >>5910610 "Huan Liuxue, please stand" Another elder, dressed in tan and cream robes says dismissively "You may, if you wish, repeat the accusations leveled against the Winter blossoming wisdom sect, or ready your defense before hearing your own lengthy list of wrongdoings"
Oh they are just dancing in the palm of your hand, aren't they?
What do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Sell the image of helplessness by tearfully complaining about your treatment and tell everyone present what Unimportant did to you prior to bringing you to the assembly . And make sure you learn his name and sect (Deception trial DC 120) >Feign ignorance of what exactly they're asking you to do, to make them think you as simpleminded as they believe all beasts (Deception trial. DC 70) >With false Meekness, ask what exactly are the crimes they're accusing you off. You are curious exactly what sort of villainy they think you've been committing behind the curtain >Ask Ping to list off everything you've brought the winter blossoming wisdom sect to stand trial for. >Get on the nerves of Laohue's replacement and their allied sects, and trick them into incriminating themselves before the trial begins (Trickery trial. DC 150) >Write in Anonymous
>>5910612 >Sell the image of helplessness by tearfully complaining about your treatment and tell everyone present what Unimportant did to you prior to bringing you to the assembly . And make sure you learn his name and sect (Deception trial DC 120) >With false Meekness, ask what exactly are the crimes they're accusing you off. You are curious exactly what sort of villainy they think you've been committing behind the curtain Thought we would start killing already. Guess we can find out about the cretin who's genitals will be ripped off then force fed to, ask about what crimes those assembled are yapping about THEN start the culling.
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>>5910612 >Ask Ping to list off everything you've brought the winter blossoming wisdom sect to stand trial for Brothers, forgive this junior but this one can barely contain the urge to break our restraint and slaughter them all. Peace is too good for them! They are better off fertilizing the ground!
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>>5910632 There is nothing to forgive brother, we SHOULD break our restraints and kill all the vermin before commencing the trial in full. It will be as easy as turning over one's hand.
Anonymous
>>5910612 >Sell the image of helplessness by tearfully complaining about your treatment and tell everyone present what Unimportant did to you prior to bringing you to the assembly . And make sure you learn his name and sect (Deception trial DC 120) >With false Meekness, ask what exactly are the crimes they're accusing you off. You are curious exactly what sort of villainy they think you've been committing behind the curtain A beast we may be but what crimes have we committed?
Anonymous
>>5910646 >>5910631 We should bring the attention over the winter blossom sect first, showcasing their wrongdoings and hihglighting them makes whatever they would accuse us of bear less weight later on.
Anonymous
>>5910612 >>Sell the image of helplessness by tearfully complaining about your treatment and tell everyone present what Unimportant did to you prior to bringing you to the assembly . And make sure you learn his name and sect (Deception trial DC 120) >>Ask Ping to list off everything you've brought the winter blossoming wisdom sect to stand trial for. I have become so angry I have integer overflowed into sheer giddiness at the thought of butchering all of these people. Never before have I known such glee. I am practically salivating at the idea. Even the Ogress' excitement towards battle seems like a flickering candle next to the bonfire of my unquenchable desire to destroy these idiots masquerading as thinking people.
Wait nevermind, I'm back to continent-shattering hatred again. I think Siwang is feeling it too. Aside from the glorious us. Patience, best bird. All we need is just a little more patience.
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>>5910612 >With false Meekness, ask what exactly are the crimes they're accusing you off. You are curious exactly what sort of villainy they think you've been committing behind the curtain >Ask Ping to list off everything you've brought the winter blossoming wisdom sect to stand trial for. Anonymous
>>5910650 How so? I don't think it will make any difference.
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>>5910612 >Sell the image of helplessness. >With false meekness I'm furious already. My blood is legitimately boiling. How fucking DARE HE!
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>>5910612 >Ask Ping to list off everything you've brought the winter blossoming wisdom sect to stand trial for. No false meekness, it has no point.
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>>5910612 >Sell the image of helplessness by tearfully complaining about your treatment and tell everyone present what Unimportant did to you prior to bringing you to the assembly . And make sure you learn his name and sect (Deception trial DC 120) >With false Meekness, ask what exactly are the crimes they're accusing you off. You are curious exactly what sort of villainy they think you've been committing behind the curtain This is fun, pay off will be great
Anonymous
BROTHERS AND SISTERS, I HAVE AN IDEA.
>>5910612 >Feign ignorance of what exactly they're asking you to do, to make them think you as simpleminded as they believe all beasts (Deception trial. DC 70) Let's test their patience, if after how our allies were vouching for us they think we're a dumb beast then this just leave them more out of balance, and after showing us as some dumb beast
>Tell how Unimportant treated us, describing it with some ignorance of the lustful approach that he used on us. (Deception trial?) That leaves him on evidence, and if he feels the needs of saving face that way we can surely someone or himself is going to say his name and sect, where we're going to pay a visit maybe after the trial.
And this is the part where Idk what to do next. Do we let them list off our supposed crimes and do our defense? We can communicate with Ping by whispering the answer so he can talk for us when he doesn't know the answers, and wait until there's some serious allegation that we are the only one that knows of. We can keep playing dumb but defend ourselves, and once it's our turn to tell the crimes of the WBWS, we can destroy the binding rope as a power play and list off their crimes, they're going to be unstable with not only our dumb act but our actual power to destroy the binding rope.
But that leaves us to an early defense where the WBW sect head and company feels secure enough to give their speeches and "Proofs" so they don't feel pressured and possibly make mistakes, and in the end, we don't even know what is supposed crimes we actually committed nor what kind of shit they're going to try and accuse us of.
Anonymous
>>5910741 >we don't even know what is supposed crimes we actually committed nor what kind of shit they're going to try and accuse us of. Frankly, I don't care. They're wrong and they are stupid. They can go fuck themselves, we ain't paying shit for the dumb fucking nothing they're going to make up and imagine. It is taking all of my restraint already to not vote to bust out and murder them immediately.
Anonymous
>>5910756 This is perfectly natural brother.
At the very least, This worm and his sect are enemies. And they need to hand him over to be executed. And then have their teacher publicly apologise for groping us.
This is the BARE FUCKING MINIMUM.
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>>5910612 >With false Meekness, ask what exactly are the crimes they're accusing you off. You are curious exactly what sort of villainy they think you've been committing behind the curtain With any luck some of the crimes they claim are so large scale that we can mock them for not noticing it sooner and get either a few more allies, who at least we can't have pull it all off, or make them look stupid for allowing a simple beast to pull it off and watch they try to come up with excuses that don't hold up to scrutiny
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>>5910612 >With false Meekness, ask what exactly are the crimes they're accusing you off. You are curious exactly what sort of villainy they think you've been committing behind the curtain With any luck some of the crimes they claim are so large scale that we can mock them for not noticing it sooner and get either a few more allies, who at least realize we can't have pulled it all off, or make them look stupid for allowing a simple beast to get away with for so long and watch as they try to come up with excuses that don't hold up to scrutiny
Anonymous
>>5910756 >>5910758 Like I said, I want Huan to rip his dick and balls off and and feed it to him. Break every single bone he used to grope her too. His transgressions should be repaid a thousandfold.
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>>5910763 We should skin him, Then regrow his skin. Then skin him again. Then disembowel him. Then regenerate his guts and skin. Then we should - you guessed it - skin him and pull his eyes out, with the optic nerve intact and connected so he can still see, then stuff his eyes into his throat, forcefully growing new tissue so he can swallow his eyes and still have them attached to their sockets, tie little lights to them as well so he can see inside of his own stomach. That's a good start.
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>>5910660 Because much of our defenses will have us bring up what the winter blossom sect did (specifically in regards to their wars), and our responses to it.
Remember on a fundemental level, the reason for our existence was due to a mortal level squabble that eventually brought sects into it. These combined resulted in the problems today.
If we address the WBS first, the context is already ingrained in their minds. Rather then just listing our crimes from the start and trying slowly rectify that piece by piece afterwards.
Honestly doesn't matter too much, but I'd rather we set the record straight in why we were in the right (i.e. WBS being in the wrong) before we go into why we weren't in the wrong.
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>>5910612 Seconding
>>5910658 . It might not mean much to play the part of the helpless maiden to these goddamn vultures, but we should definitely add this chucklefuck's crimes against us to the list.
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>>5910612 >Sell the image of helplessness by tearfully complaining about your treatment and tell everyone present what Unimportant did to you prior to bringing you to the assembly . And make sure you learn his name and sect (Deception trial DC 120) >Ask Ping to list off everything you've brought the winter blossoming wisdom sect to stand trial for. Fellow brothers, restrain your anger. We have a lot to gain here by playing this smart, and a lot to lose by letting our wrath take over, as justified as it would be.
Judging by the level-headedness the cult elders are showing so far, they are taking this trial here seriously, which is very good. The fact that they are putting us on trial for our """crimes""" is also excellent, because it gives us the opportunity to publicly rebuff their claims of us being criminals. If we win that trial and are found to be innocent, then no sect will ever be able to raise their hand or plot against our sect publicly, or else they will be the ones in the wrong. This will give us a massive amount of room to manoeuvre, which is exactly what we need. Besides, as strong as we are, we are not going to take out multiple sects attacking ours at once if we are found guilty and they decide to end us. Even if we can, our disciples will not. This is a golden opportunity to protect our sect and get every idiot sect from coming after us, and we need to take it.
We can think of colourful ways to end Unimportant's pathetic life after. While we are on the subject, you guys think it's possible to grow plants in people's flesh? Given our newfound mastery of blood and recent discoveries, it seems very possible. And I think I know the perfect seedbed... surely it should last a few decades if we take care of it properly.
Anonymous
>>5910612 >>5910658 Support
It's gonna be real funny once they know that our girl isn't bound.
I wonder what we ask for this bullshit that they put up as clowns.
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>>5910612 >Sell the image of helplessness by tearfully complaining about your treatment and tell everyone present what Unimportant did to you prior to bringing you to the assembly . And make sure you learn his name and sect (Deception trial DC 120) >With false Meekness, ask what exactly are the crimes they're accusing you off. You are curious exactly what sort of villainy they think you've been committing behind the curtain Are the crimes I have been accused of as hideous and dishonorable as this repulsive creature has committed, dear Masters?
Anonymous
I wonder if they sent the retarded one as a check to see our true nature.
Anonymous
>>5910912 What I think is really darkly amusing is not only is he a molester and pervert, but he technically is a zoophile. Of all the things he wants to fuck, he picks a monster cat. It's a REALLY bad look for an orthodoxy dog.
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>>5910926 >I wonder if they sent the retarded one as a check to see our true nature. That was definitely the reason. It is clear some of the people here respect decorum and are likely not complete idiots, so that was just their way of finding out what we would do if the ball was in our court. If we murdered him then and there, then they would know we are no better than a bloodthirsty beast.
The real question is, what do they think now? If they conclude that we are just a pushover, that would be perfect, but keeping them suspicious is fine too. They are probably keeping their eyes peeled for now. We will have to see how this plays out.
Anonymous
>>5910937 I mean it's just a technicality isn't it
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>>5910947 Yes, but you think the stubborn and unreasonable Orthodox sects will care? Pretty much all of them unilaterally denounce us just for existing. Being a cat demon fucker probably wouldn't look good to them even if it was wearing a human skin at the time.
Anonymous
>>5910612 >you don't care to hear what bogus accusations they dare to leverage against you. break the rope and take your place as head of the assembly as they agreed. You said i'm the leader, no takebacksies.
>Ask Ping to list off everything you've brought the winter blossoming wisdom sect to stand trial for. There is absolutely no need to listen any longer and Siwang has the fucker in his sight so he can't escape.
Time to lay down the law.
I could be persuaded to have Tianhua justify to our lateness and swear of our good character as an introduction but beyond that the humiliation ends here.
There is so little to gain from losing even more face that i'm surprised any of you consider to keep the game up the trial won't get anywhere otherwise.
Anonymous
>>5911062 wait for us to get a name
We need the name and sect of the bastard who dared to touch us.
Anonymous
>>5911062 The biggest thing to gain is how deep they dig the hole for themselves. It'll also show which sects are enemies.
At any time we can break our holdings and whoop ass.
Remember the saying if the enemy is making a mistake don't correct him. The same thing applies.
It'll all the more sweater once we start collecting heads.
Anonymous
>>5911075 Do we really?
He's in the crowd, we can pick him out easy and once in our hands he can squeal all of his connections.
>>5911092 There is such a thing as too much dirt, we already know they hate us and waiting for them to pile up on the grudge would only add to the need to kill to restore face.
Not very peaceable if we want to avoid the label of archdemon queen reborn, what you want is basically justification for the next three sect wars all at once.
Anonymous
>>5911315 We already plan to show how powerful we are by breaking the binding, do we really have to show them how deviously cunning we are and how little reputation holds us back?
Better leave them thinking they can constrain us with propriety so we can smother their sects politically instead of all out war from day one.
Anonymous
>>5911321 Besides what, do you want them to know Huan also got molested?
The allmighty powerful demon queen who could at any time get out of her bondage let herself be felt up by a creep?
Our reputation will turn to slutty in zero seconds to all of not!china forever and ever.
Please note how Huan already HAS TO kill all who belittled her to restore face.
If those present get pushed into a corner realizing they dug themselves too deep to survive this meeting they will band together in desperation and this assembly will turn into a massacre and our reputation will become that of a butcher.
We already have another sect war scheduled up against the sand assholes sect we do not need them to form a coalition of other dickheads.
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>>5911336 >Besides what, do you want them to know Huan also got molested? >The allmighty powerful demon queen who could at any time get out of her bondage let herself be felt up by a creep? >Our reputation will turn to slutty in zero seconds to all of not!china forever and ever. This is probably the only good argument I have seen for NOT crying about it, really. On the other hand, it also shows cunning to allow someone to incriminate themselves so we could further humiliate and extort them. However, I concede. Reputation does matter, even amongst the lowliest of gnats and aphids.
>>5910612 >>5910658 Pretty please change my vote to not include the deception Grandpa. My intellect was reduced to that of a beast by my anger.
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>>5910612 >Sell the image of helplessness by tearfully complaining about your treatment and tell everyone present what Unimportant did to you prior to bringing you to the assembly . And make sure you learn his name and sect (Deception trial DC 120) >With false Meekness, ask what exactly are the crimes they're accusing you off. You are curious exactly what sort of villainy they think you've been committing behind the curtain Anonymous
>>5910612 >Ask Ping to list off everything you've brought the winter blossoming wisdom sect to stand trial for. Those boys and Unimportant aren't why we're here. We're here to stick it to make the Winter Blossom Sect answer for their crimes against Chuan.
Remember the Blizzard. Remember the suffering it caused. Remember all the wrong Laohue did into our kind, to Xuebei and Monu, and hundreds of blameless innocent people. Remember he was so sunken into the Orthodoxy's view that he couldn't even conceive of it as wrong at all. Weigh that against this latest indignity, Seniors; there is work to do.
Anonymous
>>5911494 I agree but first we need to free ourselves otherwise nobody will listen and we will have to repeat everything again afterwards.
Anyway it's me,
>>5911336 dropping a meme to boost my argument's reach
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>>5910612 >Ask Ping to list off everything you've brought the winter blossoming wisdom sect to stand trial for. Anonymous
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>>5910612 >>Sell the image of helplessness by tearfully complaining about your treatment and tell everyone present what Unimportant did to you prior to bringing you to the assembly . And make sure you learn his name and sect (Deception trial DC 120) >>With false Meekness, ask what exactly are the crimes they're accusing you off. You are curious exactly what sort of villainy they think you've been committing behind the curtain They will all pay. Just be patient fellow juniors. Let them show their true faces first.
Anonymous
>>5910612 If my count is correct, including the rope pervert, 17 heads will roll by the end of today (of course not including any additional hecklers who want to be added to the list)
>With false Meekness, ask what exactly are the crimes they're accusing you off. You are curious exactly what sort of villainy they think you've been committing behind the curtain >Ask Ping to list off everything you've brought the winter blossoming wisdom sect to stand trial for. They make their “case”, we counter by presenting evidence of the WBW doing far worse.
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>>5911678 I don't believe this to be a case where evidence matters much, besides what evidence do we even have? Jingyu's soul in a jar?
And what do they have? Huan bound like a criminal.
It feels very much more a case where the stronger dictates their terms and the weak suffer.
Which is why dictating our terms while being bound won't matter until we show off to make them listen.
Anonymous
>>5911748 This is true.
The mentality of justifying our case is only for the sake of proving we are in the right.
We are def going to showcase our power at some point. Its just a matter if its before or after we hear more from them or not.
Anonymous
>>5911748 I want to hear their allegations and evidence mostly for curiosity's sake. If start the killing now they'll be babbling and prostrating themselves too much for us to get a coherent sentence out of them.
After we kill all the people we need to kill is when we should take control of this assembly and have Ping list the charges.
Anonymous
>>5911757 >>5911752 what i fear is that peer pressure will force even those on the fence to declare shit against us thus ending up on the kill list.
and when we reveal our power and more than half the assembly realizes they damned themselves is when the negotiations will break down forcing Huan to kill to protect her students and the end result would just be a mess.
Anonymous
>>5911765 Breaking out of our bindings and killing so many young masters is already gonna result in a mess. I don't see how sating our curiosity is gonna make that so much worse.
Anonymous
>>5911748 You're correct that it is strong rule and weak falter. That's why we are playing dumb and weak, so their position of strength lets them put out all their shit as cassius belli.
Then flip the script.
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>>5910612 >Sell the image of helplessness by tearfully complaining about your treatment and tell everyone present what Unimportant did to you prior to bringing you to the assembly . And make sure you learn his name and sect (Deception trial DC 120) >With false Meekness, ask what exactly are the crimes they're accusing you off. You are curious exactly what sort of villainy they think you've been committing behind the curtain Anonymous
>>5911775 This brother is correct. Most people watching this will die very painfully today anyway so it is matter of how much information we can get from them before we slaughter them. Very painfully.
Anonymous
>>5911772 >>5911775 >>5911800 right now the kill count is only a dozen foolish young masters who are expected to die in stupid ways and they don't even need to die right now because they don't matter. (except rat face).
but I want you all to understand that what you are suggesting is very malicious and would be very hard to justify because if we end up slaughtering everyone who mouths off then our grievances wouldn't matter because nobody sympathizes with a mass murderer.
besides we already have enough casus belli to fuck over the sand sages since we have the very strong worded letter they sent us in response.
Anonymous
>>5911821 You seem to have mistaken what world we live in. Sympathy is weak, alliances are strong as is rightiousness. It doesn't matter if they "Feel for our plight" it matters that they support us or they don't. And NOBODY ELSE would stand for this.
I want the winter sect judged in this trial.
Then I want Unimportant surrendered to us, or else we are declaring war on his sect.
Then to mitigate or dismiss the trial of us.
The actual murdering and grudges of the other young masters can damn well wait till later. They are unimportant, unlike the groper and the reason we called them here. Once the winter sect has been judged and we have the SOB, we can leave. They hold no power beyond their collective fighting power and we eclipse that immensely.
Remember that they work by rules for thee but not for me, and work accordingly.
Anonymous
>>5911858 my point is if you want people to listen to you killing them until they do isn't gonna work.
And sympathy and honor despite being a heretic is what got us our allies in the first place.
Anonymous
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>>5911866 threatening them with death until they listen will, in fact, work.
Not that I care about that. So long as we are rightious, then that's all that matters.
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>>5912017 I'm not sure how you convinced yourself that being duplicitous and deceiving is rightful but whatever, I trust grandpa to not get to the point that we're forced to massacre everybody just to save face.
Anonymous
>>5911821 >>5911858 There's literally no need to go and kill those unimportant cultivators who talked shit NOW, and I doubt saying how the actual Unimportant acted with us is going to fuck up our reputation, like what the hell?
The guy is going to be a disgrace for the sect the moment we openly ask "Is this how the rightous sect members act with any other woman? Or this sect in particular who teaches this stuff?" They either accept the blame for the whole sect of Unimportant acts as a escape goat for that reputation assasination of acting like that. SPECIALLY after we show our strength and how actually deadly we are. And it's more fucked up if we follow the Orthodox stories of how Demonic Beast steal bodies, who on their sick mind think is Okay to grope and abuse the body of a fellow human that was snatched? They don't even know if the real person is still there or something, and he just still did it, and it's that misinformation the one we're going to use to give Unimportant to us.
And the other cultivators who mocked us? Easy: "With how I was treated, even after I was the one who called for this council, I'll demand that those Daoist who dared to insult me either pay those aggresions with a punishment of my liking, or that I'm compensated with an artifact precious enough for me to forgive them. The insults against my illustrious persona, even after I followed the demands of the council, I'm sure they wouldn't be accepted by any other respectable Daoist from any other sect."
The punishments? I say we ask what finger they use lees and we cut them. Or even a mark that they can happily wear for the rest of their lives but it still won't be crippling enough to fuck with their cultivation. Shame, painful, but not mortal for their cultivation or body.
Anonymous
>>5912039 And indeed it is as you say a lot of shit will pile up on that disgrace, but the fact that we could have, at any time, stopped him and instead let him molest us make us sound like we wanted him to.
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>>5912097 And we could've just killed him before we accepted the terms the council was asking, and Unimportant abused of this just because. The people who asked for this terms and Unimportant sect are on fire because of his actions. Now ask if the elders or any of the present cultivators would feel if their significant other was put in such situation, with their powers sealed and abused like that. It doesn't matter if they could stop it, the action of Unimportant weighs more than what we could or couldn't do, because he was a representative of not only his sect, but all the elders, sect heads and council who asked for this measure against us
Anonymous
>>5912039 I never said the hecklers had to be now. Unimportant however does have to be now, I can ignore the others. Our pride is big enough.
>>5912097 But I counter you. We got smacked and blood was drawn when we resisted, because we were bound and he is not.
That we know we could still kill him, doesn't matter so much as the others don't know that
Anonymous
>>5912112 Unless we don't actually snap the rope they will know pretty soon.
But you're right the rat bastard screams of pain and despair will resound loudly as we dictate our terms.
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>>5912121 "pretty soon" is gonna be after we've rolled, and with a good roll, we'll have put the image of a maiden in the mind of everyone.
It's all about set up
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>>5910612 >Sell the image of helplessness by tearfully complaining about your treatment and tell everyone present what Unimportant did to you prior to bringing you to the assembly . And make sure you learn his name and sect (Deception trial DC 120) >With false Meekness, ask what exactly are the crimes they're accusing you off. You are curious exactly what sort of villainy they think you've been committing behind the curtain Anonymous
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>>5912112 We shouldn't kill Unimportant though. I want to drag his ass back and start collecting on the blood debt he owes us, he can't up if he's dead.
Maybe we could use his ass as a footstool for the duration of the trial though.
Anonymous
I wonder if blood mastery can allow us to turn Unimportant into a woman. Then we sell him to the shittiest brothel we can find.
Anonymous
>>5912625 lol of all the vile torture fantasies mentioned so far turning him into an actual hooker sounds funniest. Onthe other hand a deviant like him might even enjoy this. Maybe we can sell him to some gay horse cock demon to ravage his ass for eternity?
Anonymous
>>5912773 Weak sauce as it sounds, I couldn't condone a rape, and instead advise nigh eternal torture by demons.
Its a moral hang up.
Anonymous
>>5912803 Whoring him out is a karmic punishment though. Let him taste his own medicine.
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>>5913014 I dunno, I am quite set on making him literally see inside of his own stomach while it's still in his belly.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 02 Feb 2024 19:52:26 No. 5913124 Report Quoted By:
Such heated and spicy discussion, what wonderful righteous fury my juniors have displayed. Also think the record of votes has been once again broken, incredible. Anyways, chopping nail and severing iron, ending the vote and tallying its result
Sell the image of helplessness by tearfully complaining about your treatment and tell everyone present what Unimportant did to you prior to bringing you to the assembly . And make sure you learn his name and sect: 12
With false Meekness, ask what exactly are the crimes they're accusing you off. You are curious exactly what sort of villainy they think you've been committing behind the curtain:12
Ask Ping to list off everything you've brought the winter blossoming wisdom sect to stand trial for:11
Feign ignorance of what exactly they're asking you to do, to make them think you as simpleminded as they believe all beasts :1
Tell how Unimportant treated us, describing it with some ignorance of the lustful approach that he used on us. :1
you don't care to hear what bogus accusations they dare to leverage against you. break the rope and take your place as head of the assembly as they agreed.:1
So you'll fake helplessness, tearfully complaining about your treatment and reveal Unimportant's violations to the assembly, and learn his name and the sect he belongs to
then after the deception roll is made, acting meek as a bound prisoner should, ask what exactly you're being accused of, out of curiosity of what the orthodox sects think you've been doing in your spare time
This was a very close vote, update will arrive shortly
>>5911509 Hilarious!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 02 Feb 2024 20:30:59 No. 5913183 Report Well some of them are, and you can't allow the swelling pride at the sight of it to blind you. It wouldn't require unusual perceptiveness, natural acumen or an abnormal ability to read a room to tell most of the gathered representatives are equally dismissive and wary of you. They expect a "Demon" like you to have innumerable tricks hidden away in her sleeves and tucked away in her blouse, they are right to think so but they also are staring down their noses at you like a simple beast but warily so, ready to lash out with words or swords the moment you give even a hint of rampaging. The rope gives them a false sense of security, but their brains aren't rotten enough to think you entirely helpless. Too many of them still have their guard up and are acting with discretion and prudence, even though you're standing before them in human form. Actually that might be making some who would be entirely defenseless against your wiles wary and on edge because of the stupid myth that demonic beasts gain human forms by stealing them. Mock you as they have, even the young masters who jeered and slighted you look at you with the eyes of someone handling a starved tiger or bear, their expressions make it clear they think they're looking at a monster, dangerous even while chained and helpless.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 02 Feb 2024 20:32:48 No. 5913186 Report >>5913183 Fluttering your eyelashes, making your lips even more pouty and full, you squeeze tears from your eyes and use every woman's greatest weapon to full effect, crying and pouting as the elders who just gave you precedence stare at you in silent confusion while the young masters they are shackled and stuck with have a...mix of reactions. Doing your best to look as pathetic and helpless as possible, like you've just tripped and fallen into a puddle in full view of the crowd, you shoot a pitiful look up with big watery eyes as you open your mouth to start complaining and whining feebly.
<span class="mu-s"> roll 2d100. Best out of 5, DC 120. </span>
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Rolled 51, 54 = 105 (2d100) >>5913186 Anonymous
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Rolled 42, 56 = 98 (2d100) >>5913186 Anonymous
Rolled 70, 89 = 159 (2d100) >>5913186 Tears, a woman's most lethal weapon.
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>>5913200 Brothers and sisters... We got em
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Rolled 54, 39 = 93 (2d100) >>5913186 Anonymous
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Rolled 38, 68 = 106 (2d100) >>5913186 Let Justice be Done
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Mediocre but at least we got it done
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 02 Feb 2024 21:03:54 No. 5913228 Report Quoted By:
>>5913200 Good success, 30 over DC and a hair's breath from being 40 over DC. Update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 02 Feb 2024 23:05:11 No. 5913352 Report "This is no way for a lady of my birth to be treated" You caterwaul, throwing your head back, movement and dramatic gestures limited by the fact you have your arms lashed to your back which is straightened by the same ropes "This is no way for any girl to be handled! No Daoist should abuse their sister in this manner! This isn't only unfair it is unjust and monstrous"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 02 Feb 2024 23:06:13 No. 5913354 Report >>5913352 Hushed voices rises through the silence, whispered conversations, Master Su throws you a knowing glance, a look of fondness glittering in his eyes. He must be seeing a lot of your mother in you, at this moment.
"She is right to admonish all of you for your barbaric behavior and cruel treatment of her" The nameless Summer sea dawn sect disciple raises his voice, shouting it to the heavens as he shakes his fist.
"This behavior reflects most poorly on the gathered sects" Another voice remarks loudly "Even if she is a demon, publicly shaming her is going a bit too far"
"Novices and youngsters are not blessed with the gracefulness of age, and youthful cultivators are often impertinent and prone to swaggering and displays of vanity to impress their peers and relish their new found status within the world of cultivation" A woman with tan skin the hue of fired red clay says, explaining the obvious to you, thinking you aren't aware of the intricacies of human behavior and relationships "I shall personally reprimand those under my tutelage and advice my fellow elders to do the same to their students, even if you are our natural enemy, you deserve some measure of begrudging respect, for your accomplishments alone"
"Not to mention it would set a terrible precedent if the head of intersect trials can be freely abused and manhandled" Another elder, a glassy eyed old mutters from behind his hand, glancing to the delegation of the winter blossoming wisdom sect and sages of the shifting sands, who are looking around at their fellow cultivators like they've all gone insane, their jaws nearly dropping to the ground as they all look like they can't believe what their ears are hearing.
"Manhandled! That's putting it lightly!" Your age shrilly, before looking away and averting your eyes when you outburst draws the attention of the now shamed crowd, using your actual embarrassment to look flustered and humiliated in the way only girls can, wordlessly wounded and frightened. And while your Qi and spells are sealed, through carmine mysticism, your ability to control the flow of your blood isn't, so you make the furious blush on your cheeks spread down your neck and to your ears, making you appear catastrophically embarrassed and truly humiliated to the point even voicing the source of your shame would be enough to strike you dead where you stand.
There is a long, long silence as dozens of pairs of eyes look you up and down and truly pay attention to the shabby and sorry look they had mocked you for not even a few minutes prior. And it doesn't take a genius to piece together that state of your hair, the bruise and blood on your face and your beauty together to paint a very awful picture more offensive than a rotting corpse in their collective minds.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 02 Feb 2024 23:07:14 No. 5913355 Report >>5913354 "She's wearing some poor girl's corpse! Don't feel sorry for her, she's playing with your emotions using someone else's face" One of the sages of the shifting sand shouts in disbelief, reminding everyone of the "Fact" they all believe without any actual evidence or proof of a demonic beast having ever stolen someone else's body. But he is, accidentally, correct, unfortunately, your expert performance of the role of the "defiled maiden and abused princess" has more than made him seem like the true villain between the two of you in the eyes of most of the conclave.
"Which makes the implications of her present demeanor and sudden meekness all the more disturbing, Junior!" The storm cloud rumbles low, face half hidden behind his tented hands "Huanliuxue, I demand you explain the reasons for your outburst and present condition"
"Do you have any daughters? It should be obvious why she took offense to the use of the word man-handled!" Lian Tianhua shouts, giving you a chance to put on more of a show and make the act more realistic, by acting like you want to scrub your skin not only raw but off, looking deeply uncomfortable which isn't hard as you do want to wash away the filth of that lecher's touch, but you subdue the murderous rage you have and instead present the demeanor of a noble woman whose been defiled and wronged but still maintains her dignity and pride
"It is all right, Lady Tianhua" You say weakly, tears making your voice waver as you strike at the hearts of those elders who do have daughters and those students who do have sisters as you step forward and wincing, and with a grave, wounded and bleating voice address the Storm Cloud hesitantly, not meeting his eyes and instead staring at your feet "It is well within this Senior's right to demand such a thing. The disciple that was sent to meet me at the shore and was entrusted with the treasure binding me, took advantage of my weakness and"
You pause to relish in the looks of horror, disgust and shame that flicker across the crowd of cultivators as pulses and waves of killing intent flood through and rebound off of the walls and ceilings of the Pagoda. You shuffle your feet, look down, slack your shoulders and push out your chest, to make your next words all the more impactful.
"Touched and groped my body in a most illicit and perverted manner" You sniffle, pouting as you blink away more tears and force yourself to cry rivers "Ran his hands down my bound body, squeezed my breasts and rubbed my bottom"
Ping clutches his prayer beads, Qinxin grips the hilt of his sword, Tianhua rushes to your side to comfort you, Master Su and Fa Tang look downright murderous, the summer sea dawn disciples begin shouting over one another and for once the few Dusk Marsh Wolves present agree with the rivals and raise their voices with them to shout out in outrage.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 02 Feb 2024 23:08:16 No. 5913356 Report >>5913355 The whole of the gathering stops, and then notice that the other demon present has been staring with a devil's wrath in his star pupiled eyes at one spot in the crowd from the moment since your party arrived. With grim purpose and murderous intent.
There's a dry cough and shrill, weak laugh from a weasel's throat.
"When I refused his advances" You continue darkly, looking up to lock your eyes with several others, starting with the storm cloud, then moving from the apparent heir of Xue Laohue, the brazen Sand sage, before drifting them over to where Unimportant is trying to hide behind his aghast and disgusted looking seniors, sniveling and pleading as his teacher, a thin mustached, martial look man glares at him with a barely contained fury "Which included an offer to be his woman, he struck me, pushed me to the ground and grabbed for my hair"
"She's...She's!" Unimportant stammers weakly, trying to accuse you of lying, but keeps biting his tongue as he tries to muster the courage to save it beneath the collective pressure and killing exuded by the whole of the assembly, trying to avoid your piercing gaze and especially Siwang's murderous attention
"My disciple, Ping, however, risked our expulsion by acting against this abused of power and misplaced authority and preventing further harm to my person, as did the heroic Lian Tianhua, who endured accusations against her character and wild libel from the young master" You continue, the facade of helpless and wilting femininity dropping a little despite your best efforts, head bowed to the elders who bullied their way into heading the assembly "Before I hear the accusations and claims of villany leveled against me and my good character and reputation, would like assurances that that savage will be brought to justice and held accountable for the degrading and salacious things he has done to me and my body"
"That you stole" Someone mutters, but you can hear over the din of shouts and angry voices as Unimportant's elder martial brothers and sister's and his own master quickly come to the decision of how to respond the accusation against their junior brother and disciple. By distancing themselves from him by way of literally kicking him out of their little group and forming a wall together to keep him from scurrying back to cling to their thighs.
"The most austere temple of the White Jade Devil Opposing Army (白玉魔鬼抗击军队, Báiyùmóguǐkàngjījūnduì), turn over their Disciple Shi Shun, to be held accountable and punished for his vulgar actions this day, which do not reflect the beliefs or usual character for the members of our military force, nor the teachings of his master" Said master shouts as quickly as he can, hastily covering his own ass.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 02 Feb 2024 23:09:18 No. 5913358 Report >>5913356 Raising up a finger to jut towards the sky, he continues harshly "And let the records show that such actions were not within the orders he was given, when this master foolishly believed him capable of carrying out a simple command of sealing and ferrying the devil Huanliuxue across the waters, as his uncle, I am disgusted by his moral failings as well as his attractions to a beast inhabiting a bloodied corpse, forgive this daoist for speaking out of turn, but the shame I felt was too great to remain silent!"
Siwang looks even more confused now than he did when you started crying, but he keeps a predatory eye on the cowering Shi Shun, who is now the one having insults and abuse hurled his way, as well as a few spells and clods of dirt. It would seem absolutely no one approves of what he did to you, even from the side that would want nothing more than to see you drawn, quartered and sold in the market for their personal profit. Pursing your lips tightly to keep an unforgivably victoriously smug smile, you adjust your posture and stand resolute as the elders sat in the highest chairs demand order while Tianhua rubs you back and Master Su shoots demeaning glare across the crowd.
"You and only you are forgiven for the outburst" You state before Storm cloud can as you blink away tears and glance the way of the other supposed leaders of the conclave "But too not delay my own trial, I'd be content to put off his punishment until the end of the proceedings, after judgement has been passed on me and the winter blossoming wisdom sect"
"That is acceptable" Storm cloud glowers, but his attention is focused on Shi Shun rather than you "if you require a break to recompose yourself and calm your heart"
"I do not" You state firmly as Tianhua shoots you a worried glance, hand not moving from your side
"Then" He says, motioning to the Winter Blossoming Wisdom Sect delegation and the sages of the sand, who sends out from the closely knit group a man or woman, it is hard to tell with how much cloth they've wrapped around themselves like they were still in the desert enduring its heat and braving its sand storms "Please, present the evidence against Huanliuxue and list her crimes, we have all heard and been horrified by them, but for her benefit and the benefit of her followers and allies who have eyes but do not see mountain Tai"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 02 Feb 2024 23:10:19 No. 5913360 Report >>5913358 "The consumption of human flesh, the practice of demonic cultivation, harboring an exiled demonic cultivator, becoming the disciple of a known demonic cultivator, defiling a sacred site, plundering graves, starting an unauthorized cult, misleading the youth, dealing with wicked hungry ghosts, releasing sealed evil spirits, relations with demons, leading other daoists down a demonic path, devouring souls, intruding in and wrongfully claiming the holdings of other sects as their territory, unlawfully establishing a daoist temple, unlawfully proclaiming her ascension as the head of a cultivation sect, creation of a false cultivation sect, spreading heretical faith urging others to apostasy, Paganism, refusal and habitually breaking of the heavenly mandate, disrespect to orthodox cultivation, disrespect to various cultivators her senior, meddling in the affairs of mortal states, assassination of the son of heaven, Willful corruption, accidental corruption, Turning human, desecrating the dead in connection to attaining human form, harboring Demonic Beasts, raising demonic beasts, creating demonic beasts, unleashing demonic beasts onto the world, the murderer of" The rattle on and on, each time they speak an accusation you consider how to disprove or rebuke it entirely, the list of your supposed murders is extensive, but most of those you are accused of killing or at least who were considered important enough to be included aren't actually dead. You are certain of it the moment you hear the name Tian Mei sometime after Xue Ming, eventually the false murderer charges stop, but not the list of your supposed crimes
"Forcing mortal nobility into adopting a false faith, friendship with Buddhists and adopting of their beliefs, including righteous sects in her numerous illicit activities and making them share the blame of her villainy, lying, libel, assumed blackmail, causing catastrophe through way of altering the landscape, creating hauntings, transforming the populace through way of beast possession and the worse of all the crimes, creating a Stampede of Demonic Beasts, the first beast wave seen in ten generations, that is currently rampaging throughout the fractured empire!"
You blink, struck dumb by that last one as the sand sage smiles smugly as he speaks it, doting the dragon's eye as the assembly mutters amongst itself, looking aghast and hateful towards you for it, treating you like you're a terrorist and stating disbelief that even a heretic and demon would go that far. You have absolutely no idea what they're talking about with that last one, since the roar that made a wave of primordial beast essence, only gave birth to a handful of beasts and turned a few fortunate individuals more beast like.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 02 Feb 2024 23:12:50 No. 5913363 Report >>5913360 And your primordial weather spell, was centered on Suiqi and only affected its populace, and neither the kids born from the roar or the weather rampaged. Except maybe Huili. And Chuandapo you guess, but she wasn't trying to hurt anyone, and Yujijiao did kind of take over a desert oasis but she had good intentions. And Siwang's murder spree that you joined may be considered a rampage by some's definition. But they said throughout the empire. You've only left Chuan once, and you certainly didn't create a bunch of rowdy kids that you left behind to cause mischief and trouble.
This is some one else's doing, and because you're a shining pillar of Primordial Beast essence and have gathered a horde of demonic beasts under your banner, its being blamed on you.
"Huanliuxue"
And a lot of the rest of what they accuse you for doesn't hold any water or is a huge misunderstanding.
"Huanliuxue"
Really, its a relief! You'd had worried they might've had an actual case against you, but most of what they just said was just farting. This will be easier than you thought!
"Huanliuxue!
"Hmm?" You purr, looking up to see who wants your attention all of a sudden, and see one of the Xue's, not the replacement for Laohue, looking at you annoyedly
"What is your justification for these crimes, or will you rebuke them, or get this over with an offer your plea?" She asks haughtily, making an all too monuish expression
You smile ear to ear, grin turning like a toothy crescent moon.
"Ah" You gasp, and barely hold back a cackle
How do you answer, Huanliuxue?
>Start by explaining their misunderstandings of the nature of Magical Beasts, asking permission to show verifiable proof by way of showing them the Collected Accounts of Ascended Beasts, their histories and legacies left behind, the Bestial edict to attain a human form, and the Beast saint doctrine, and give a flash lecture on your extensive insights on the nature and existence of demonic beasts~! (Persuasion Trial. DC Variable (Higher result, more people convinced) +15 to roll due to sympathy earned) >Plainly state that while you're guilty of committing some of those crimes, most of it is nonsense and ask Master Su to inform them of Tian Mei and the other prisoners survival while you try to sus out who actually caused the beast stampede they're condemning you for (Knowledge/ Wits trial DC 160. DC lowered due to ???) >Inform the jury that you have a legal expert on your side, and have Siwang whittle down the accusations until only the serious ones and the one's you've unavoidably committed are left for you to face >Proudly proclaim you aren't beholden to the laws of man or the heavens. You're a demonic beast! this is ridiculous, would they put a wildfire on trial for property damages? >Start insulting and inciting your accusers to get them to slip up and scuttle their own case against you without actually answering for any of the things they accuse you of doing (Trickery trial.DC 180) >Write in Anonymous
>>5913363 >>Start by explaining their misunderstandings of the nature of Magical Beasts, asking permission to show verifiable proof by way of showing them the Collected Accounts of Ascended Beasts, their histories and legacies left behind, the Bestial edict to attain a human form, and the Beast saint doctrine, and give a flash lecture on your extensive insights on the nature and existence of demonic beasts~! (Persuasion Trial. DC Variable (Higher result, more people convinced) +15 to roll due to sympathy earned) Watch a nat 100 and our boy Siwang obtains human form right there.
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>>5913363 >Inform them you have a legal expert. Once that's cut down a bit.
>Explain that they have Misunderstood demonic beasts completely. [persuade roll] I can come up with several arguments to support, if this would help.
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>>5913363 >Inform the jury that you have a legal expert on your side, and have Siwang whittle down the accusations until only the serious ones and the one's you've unavoidably committed are left for you to face Siwang! I choose you!
After that we are left with the remaining hard ones,
which with our rightfully earned sympathy
>Start by explaining their misunderstandings of the nature of Magical Beasts, asking permission to show verifiable proof by way of showing them the Collected Accounts of Ascended Beasts, their histories and legacies left behind, the Bestial edict to attain a human form, and the Beast saint doctrine, and give a flash lecture on your extensive insights on the nature and existence of demonic beasts~! (Persuasion Trial. DC Variable (Higher result, more people convinced) +15 to roll due to sympathy earned) Anonymous
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>>5913363 >Inform the jury that you have a legal expert on your side, and have Siwang whittle down the accusations until only the serious ones and the one's you've unavoidably committed are left for you to face Anonymous
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Honestly if they try to talk shit to Siwang about law he'd use facts and logic to dismantle their childish assertions. Which would be hilarious since logically and rationally, Siwang is air fucking tight when it comes to law and legal precedent. Genuinely they can't refute his conclusions without moving goalposts. That may actually be beneficial for him. To experience the failings of law when people think they are "above" it.
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>>5913363 >Start by explaining their misunderstandings of the nature of Magical Beasts, asking permission to show verifiable proof by way of showing them the Collected Accounts of Ascended Beasts, their histories and legacies left behind, the Bestial edict to attain a human form, and the Beast saint doctrine, and give a flash lecture on your extensive insights on the nature and existence of demonic beasts~! (Persuasion Trial. DC Variable (Higher result, more people convinced) +15 to roll due to sympathy earned) I think this is a good start, if risky start. The one's who don't care won't listen anyway, but if we can convince the fence sitters or sow doubt among the less extreme elders then we will have achieved our goal. Besides, if we are going to try to sell our good cultivator façade
Is it really much of a façade? We have acted very straight laced if you ignore the heresies. Grain of truth and all that. then we will need to find a way to convince them that a lot of the crimes we are accused of are not really crimes in the first place.
As far as the accusations go, some are true, like "consuming human flesh", or "murdering the son of heaven", others are debatable, like "meddling in the affairs of mortal states" and others are completely false, like "devouring souls". With the absolute Fuckton of charges they have thrown against us, it should be pretty easy to claim all of them are false, so long as we prove *some* of those charges are false, then simply claim that they are all false by association, and that the Winter blossoming wisdom sect is just trying to besmirch our good name to weasel out of their own legal predicament. But we will see about that later.
>>5913374 >Watch a nat 100 and our boy Siwang obtains human form right there. I was thinking earlier that Siwang reaching human form in front of everyone here would be the textbook definition of perfect timing. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a goat to find, and the nearest active volcano to go to.
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>>5913363 >>5913385 Actually, adjusting my vote, putting
>Inform the jury that you have a legal expert on your side, and have Siwang whittle down the accusations until only the serious ones and the one's you've unavoidably committed are left for you to face first, and then
>Start by explaining their misunderstandings of the nature of Magical Beasts, asking permission to show verifiable proof by way of showing them the Collected Accounts of Ascended Beasts, their histories and legacies left behind, the Bestial edict to attain a human form, and the Beast saint doctrine, and give a flash lecture on your extensive insights on the nature and existence of demonic beasts~! (Persuasion Trial. DC Variable (Higher result, more people convinced) +15 to roll due to sympathy earned) If Siwang has a possibility to reach greater understanding here, and maybe reach human form, then we might as well stack the deck in his favour by putting the spotlight on him for a bit.
If we can only do one option though, then my previous vote stands.
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>>5913374 I'll switch my vote a bit and support this line of thought.
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>>5913363 >Inform the jury that you have a legal expert on your side, and have Siwang whittle down the accusations until only the serious ones and the one's you've unavoidably committed are left for you to face After Siwang cuts down the shittiest charges we can double team with him to take down the remaining ones.
>Start by explaining their misunderstandings of the nature of Magical Beasts, asking permission to show verifiable proof by way of showing them the Collected Accounts of Ascended Beasts, their histories and legacies left behind, the Bestial edict to attain a human form, and the Beast saint doctrine, and give a flash lecture on your extensive insights on the nature and existence of demonic beasts~! (Persuasion Trial. DC Variable (Higher result, more people convinced) +15 to roll due to sympathy earned) >>5913375 >I can come up with several arguments to support, if this would help. It should help.
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>>5913363 >Start by explaining their misunderstandings of the nature of Magical Beasts, asking permission to show verifiable proof by way of showing them the Collected Accounts of Ascended Beasts, their histories and legacies left behind, the Bestial edict to attain a human form, and the Beast saint doctrine, and give a flash lecture on your extensive insights on the nature and existence of demonic beasts~! (Persuasion Trial. DC Variable (Higher result, more people convinced) +15 to roll due to sympathy earned) Anonymous
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>>5913363 >Start by explaining their misunderstandings of the nature of Magical Beasts, asking permission to show verifiable proof by way of showing them the Collected Accounts of Ascended Beasts, their histories and legacies left behind, the Bestial edict to attain a human form, and the Beast saint doctrine, and give a flash lecture on your extensive insights on the nature and existence of demonic beasts~! (Persuasion Trial. DC Variable (Higher result, more people convinced) +15 to roll due to sympathy earned) >"While, it is certainly possible for an Awakened or Demonic Beast to steal a dead body, this one is very much alive, very much my own. A cat is far too proud to do otherwise." >"And yes, I AM a Heretic. I'll make no bones about that matter, can any one of you name an Orthodox Sect, in power at the time of my initial cultivation that would even be remotely safe for a talking cat to join? Heresy was my sole sanctum and remains to be for me and any other awakened beasts, and it wasn't we heretics who decreed that, it was your forefathers." Anonymous
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>>5913363 >>5913395 I too will support this vote, I think Siwang is on the cusp of attaining human form in defence of his master right now, and with the perfect trust and confidence in each other Siwang and Huan can pass the ball to each other during the counterinterrogation to whittle down any accuse, they will applaud us for eating the ling bastard just you wait and see.
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>>5913385 >As far as the accusations go, some are true, like "consuming human flesh", or "murdering the son of heaven" HOLD ON, WAIT A MINUTE
There's two ways we can go with the accusation of "murdering the son of heaven": The first one is that we play dumb, because who actually killed that men were the three Duan (?) brothers following orders of their emperors, and unless in that complot there was spies or orthodox agent that survived and escaped, I'm sure that Qiang went straight to save Yuyi and the maidens. We now there were orthodox agents + the ogress and a cult if I remember correctly, but we didn't actually killed them. So they either move the goalpost into changing it to complot, which I GUESS it could be dismissed because they wrote those charges before the council, and they got plenty of time to get their charges straight with anyone who was giving them the info.
If they're not dismissed and have proof that we did killed him, we can maybe "summon" the father of the last emperor to testify, and talk for himself how he saw more than justified that we ended the degenerate life of his son. I'm sure the soul of the previous emperor has a substantial weight even after death.
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>>5913360 >The consumption of human flesh "I'm sure you don't understand us *Ascended Beast" because of your tendencies and laws you follow, but the moment we atain conscious is like being born for a second time. We just follow our instincts while having a whole blank slate in terms of morality and our newfound intelligence. Because of my nature as a cat, we're predatorial creatures, and the circumstances that made me Ascend just clouded my mind with anger and grudge. Imagine how mad a house cat gets once you take one of their kittens away, now give him the size of a hunting dog, and everything an Ascended beast carries on their newfound conscience. In actuality I'm not found of eating human flesh, there are so many delicacies that I would enjoy before getting back to it, and the Ascended Beast doesn't crave human flesh unless they're as sanguinary as (mention the tiger that killed Fu's father). And if you don't like what I say, you should now that even the most innocent Deer would eat rabbit and other animals flesh if it's in need, as any other herbivore do.
>harboring an exiled demonic cultivator "Unless you have records and explain who this exiled demonic cultivator is, this is a baseless accusation and I won't address it"
>dealing with wicked hungry ghosts You Daoists don't deal with Ghosts, the Exorcists with actual abilities to do so know, so I doubt you even know what the world of the dead are like. the "wicked hungry ghosts" that you talk about are a rude generalization and old lady stories like the ones such as the Ascended Beast. the ghost can turn hungry, wicked and mad, but only when they fall down into the dispair of their passings and the anguishes of their mortal lives, the ones that walk on my territories are as functional as everyday living people and can attend their mortal business before finally going back to the wheel of resurrection"
>devouring souls False and a stretch, you only asume that but I doubt you have any proof of it
>intruding in and wrongfully claiming the holdings of other sects as their territory I won't accept nor acknowledge this claim nor the one of "Meddling in the affairs of mortal states" until it's my turn to present the accusations against the Winter Blossoming Winter Sect
>friendship with Buddhists and adopting of their beliefs In a world where the Daoist despise my kind I extended a friendly hand to the Buddhists, because they don't seek my destruction, the destruction of other Buddhists, and the goal in their beliefs, which adoption I doubt you have a proof aside from our cooperation.
Honestly Idk what i'm doing here but I guess that if they're correct there's a general idea that Huan could use. And this is the perfect moment for an actual Lawyer anon to come in a work a case on what we should do lmao
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>>5913542 honestly I'd just wait for siwang to remove the clutter and then we can begin actually giving arguments.
The list is long and we shouldn't waste our breathe until its actually our turn to speak.
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>>5913363 >Plainly state that while you're guilty of committing some of those crimes, most of it is nonsense and ask Master Su to inform them of Tian Mei and the other prisoners survival while you try to sus out who actually caused the beast stampede they're condemning you for (Knowledge/ Wits trial DC 160. DC lowered due to ???) Anonymous
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>>5913363 >Start by explaining their misunderstandings of the nature of Magical Beasts, asking permission to show verifiable proof by way of showing them the Collected Accounts of Ascended Beasts, their histories and legacies left behind, the Bestial edict to attain a human form, and the Beast saint doctrine, and give a flash lecture on your extensive insights on the nature and existence of demonic beasts~! (Persuasion Trial. DC Variable (Higher result, more people convinced) +15 to roll due to sympathy earned) Anonymous
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>>5913363 Supporting
>>5913375 >I have my attorneyyyyyyy... with me Anonymous
>>5913520 I'm kinda dumbfounded that we're accused of this, I thought we covered our tracks quite nicely. Did Yao spill the beans on us?
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>>5913542 >harboring an exiled demonic cultivator I think that's Monu, and this accusation is a great excuse for the sob story to turn it against the winter idiocy sect.
>dealing with wicked hungry ghosts Our very presence and cultivation soothes the souls of those ghosts and relieve their spirits of the mad anger poisoning their minds.
>devouring souls our karma will disprove this if it can be measured, accidentally did they know we found out the ling have techniques to destroy souls outright?
>>5913520 >>5913802 I feel they are taking the piss and unloading on Huan all of the shit that happened recently, what we could say is how we actually aided the three heroes to slay the wicked emperor, (who we also cured of his karma ailments by the way)
Strange that i haven't seen anything related to carmine mysticism or trespassing into heaven, they probably do not know of it.
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Okay lets get started.>Anything relating to demonic beasts >Harbouring a Demonic cultivator >Defiling a sacred site, Plundering graves, starting an unauthorized cult, relations with demons. >Causing catastrophe by way of altering the landscape >Demonic cultivation
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>>5913363 >>Inform the jury that you have a legal expert on your side, and have Siwang whittle down the accusations until only the serious ones and the one's you've unavoidably committed are left for you to face >>Proudly proclaim you aren't beholden to the laws of man or the heavens. You're a demonic beast! this is ridiculous, would they put a wildfire on trial for property damages? Anonymous
>>5913815 >>5913836 I just want to point out that we are, in fact, harbouring a demonic cultivator, that cultivator being Lei.
They are not "exiled", as their demonic sect was wiped out if I remember correctly, but regardless we are gonna want to be careful with sweeping statements about us having nothing to do with demonic cultivation because that is not strictly true.
And yes, they are referring to Monu, which is where the "exiled" came from, and her not being a demonic cultivator is something we will want to clear up, but I find it unlikely that nobody from the Winter blossoming wisdom sect caught a glimpse of Lei while he was fighting during our big battle. It's possible, or maybe Lei was careful about what techniques he used so as to not give himself away, but I think we will want to thread carefully here.
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>>5913841 I, personally, Don't give a shit.
They mean Monu. Monu is who is being used against us, and out of all of the sects here, only 1 or two were with the winter sect in their battle against us.
So we address that Monu isn't who they say she is, and kick things off from there. Nobody is going to bring up Lei unless we do, so lets not.
>ATTENTION GRANDFATHER! Oh, I also came up with a supporting argument for our lecture.
Human forms reflect the beastly forms which we come from, see our notched ear. And the colour of out hairs, and the shape of our teeth and our eyes.
If we can shift form, then duh, watch.
Though that might require us breaking the rope. But if we wear our armour, we can shift from one to another without stripping nude in front of these letchers.
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>>5913841 >harbouring a demonic cultivator, that cultivator being Lei There's no proof of Lei existence, and from what we know, about his family Clan.
Idk if when we took the demon our of him, he told us if it was an accident that happened years ago or it was recently when we found him, but unless there was an Orthodox sect who KNEW of his Clan existence, why did they killed all the clan and not him? Why didn't they just kept an eye out for him? When did they finally knew of his whereabouts and didn't do nothing to take him either prisoner or Kill him?
They can come up with something idiotic like: "Well, it was on your sect ground!" And then we can call them negligent because they chose to save their necks and not get into the cursed mountain where you knew he was hiding.
>>5913849 >So we address that Monu isn't who they say she is, and kick things off from there. In the Law of the Orthodoxy, raising or creating Demonic Beast makes you a Demonic Cultivator, even if her Cultivation Law is still withing the Orthodoxy Approved Laws, so there's not much we can do, aside from maybe make another sob story of what Monu went through before meeting us.
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>>5913921 By outright dismissing the rasing and creating of ASCENDED beasts [the phrasing is important], we clear her of the title.
It's a power move that can only be carried through by confidence and certanty.
Oh and her law isn't just Orthadoxy approved, it was one of the rare laws she was PERMITTED TO INNOVATE. Upstanding character and talent are the requirements for that, unless the sect wants to admit to bending rules, which Xue wouldn't have allowed. Character witness if we need to leverage it.
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>>5913841 I think they are probably referring to Monu with that charge. Since they all lack braincells and nuance and everything that isn't Orthodox is Demonic to them. The retards.
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>>5913363 >Start by explaining their misunderstandings of the nature of Magical Beasts, asking permission to show verifiable proof by way of showing them the Collected Accounts of Ascended Beasts, their histories and legacies left behind, the Bestial edict to attain a human form, and the Beast saint doctrine, and give a flash lecture on your extensive insights on the nature and existence of demonic beasts~! (Persuasion Trial. DC Variable (Higher result, more people convinced) +15 to roll due to sympathy earned) Anonymous
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>>5913363 >Start by explaining their misunderstandings of the nature of Magical Beasts, asking permission to show verifiable proof by way of showing them the Collected Accounts of Ascended Beasts, their histories and legacies left behind, the Bestial edict to attain a human form, and the Beast saint doctrine, and give a flash lecture on your extensive insights on the nature and existence of demonic beasts~! (Persuasion Trial. DC Variable (Higher result, more people convinced) +15 to roll due to sympathy earned) This is our greatest opportunity to make lasting change against the false history the five sages installed. I think it should be our main priority. Frankly the list of crimes is half true anyway, the main issue is that they're crimes at all! It's only after we've established that the laws themselves are unjust that we should unleash best bird.
>Inform the jury that you have a legal expert on your side, and have Siwang whittle down the accusations until only the serious ones and the one's you've unavoidably committed are left for you to face Anonymous
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>>5913363 >Start by explaining their misunderstandings of the nature of Magical Beasts, asking permission to show verifiable proof by way of showing them the Collected Accounts of Ascended Beasts, their histories and legacies left behind, the Bestial edict to attain a human form, and the Beast saint doctrine, and give a flash lecture on your extensive insights on the nature and existence of demonic beasts~! (Persuasion Trial. DC Variable (Higher result, more people convinced) +15 to roll due to sympathy earned) Anonymous
I appeal to my fellow Juniors that we utilize Siwang here to showcase the wisdom of other beasts besides ourselves and to assist in his path to enlightenment. If he infact ascends then and there it will surpass anything we could have said.
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>>5913363 >>Inform the jury that you have a legal expert on your side, and have Siwang whittle down the accusations until only the serious ones and the one's you've unavoidably committed are left for you to face I forgot to vote. I realize. So I shall.
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>>5913378 I would also like to note for Grandfather, that order of precedence matters here, so i'd rather withdraw my vote to start by explaining if it will contend this much with Inform the Jury. I believe the others had similar intentions for Siwang going first but I will not speak for them.
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>>5914411 That is true.
If someone can round up the votes, and we can see how many people need to unvote for something to get Swiang back in the running.
Its more likely that people adding him to votes
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 04 Feb 2024 03:14:22 No. 5914625 Report Ending the vote, tallying its result now
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>>5914625 AND MAKE SURE THAT HUAN REFERS TO HER KIND AS ASCENDEN BEASTS just like
>>5913957 told here, I do believe he has a point that it's time we start using that name
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 04 Feb 2024 06:18:57 No. 5914808 Report Quoted By:
This Intermediary update is so profound and heaven's defying, it might've broken the quests record for update size. I had too much fun writing this
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 04 Feb 2024 06:19:58 No. 5914811 Report "My oh my~. That is quite the long list isn't it" You titter innocently, eyes down cast to hide the bitterness growing within their amber depths, but your bright and cheerful grin remains, unchanged and still as a corpse's expression on your lips. A fair number of those you wouldn't even consider crimes, even if in the eyes of the heavens and orthodox sects they're the worst misdeeds amongst the lot of crimes they're accusing you of.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 04 Feb 2024 06:20:59 No. 5914812 Report >>5914811 "My master ever speaks truthfully! I have devoted my life to eroding the injustices of the world and ensuring justice arrives as swiftly as my wings carry me over the winds!" He proudly declares, flapping his wings and taking off to soar in front of the sand sage, who reels back and reaches for their sword, eyeing Siwang suspiciously through the bit of their wrappings that doesn't cover their eyes "You whose voice rustles meekly as though it is a desert wind whispering through a canyon past, are a braggart and blind to your own failings if you think to make light of my understanding of the laws that keep society serene, without even engaging in a duel of words with me"
"You're asking to debate me?" The sage chuckles, looking around like he expects this to be the punchline of a joke he wasn't let in on "Are you as arrogant as your master, little bird? You haven't lived amongst men, you're a mere demonic beast that has been given delusions of purpose and grandeur"
"Ascended Beast" You correct, lifting your chin as Siwang ruffles his feathers and snaps his beak in annoyance, clearly feeling the sage's insult
"You are ignorant of the life I've lived, I've spent most of it in the company of humanity and pursuing their best interests" He scoffs back, trying to mimic the motion of flicking his sleeve with his wing, turning his back to face the rest of the gathered cultivators "If there are no objections, I shall act as my master the future empress of all beasts' defender in this trial! are there any who, who, who object? And do not waste thine breath uttering such impertinence as my opponent! He who has not lived as a beast or amongst them knows nothing"
"I'll break your confidence and make you cough up blood, you may choose which crime to face first, fledgling' The sage says, making Siwang's eloquent and refined manner of speaking, making his mockery sound more childish than the boy actually is.
"From the beginning!" He declares boisterously, hopping away from the sage "The consumption of human, you clearly do not understand us awakened beasts, due to the very laws that your wield against the princess of ghosts, fair and noble Huanliuxue. The moment we become what you so crudely dub as demonic beasts, it is like a second birth, a time of confusion as the mind is expanded and enlightened. We know no morality, only instinct. My master is a housecat, housecats are one of the most prolific predators beneath the heavens and also one of the most successful, to my understanding. Her first emotions upon ascending, were ones of vengeance and hatred! Surely you've heard the story of how she came to become Huanliuxue? Or must I give an account to inform you of her origins"
"I do not pay attention to the superstition of mortals who are not even toads in wells" The sages answers proudly, rolling his eyes "There is no need to repeat the ghost stories of farmers"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 04 Feb 2024 06:22:11 No. 5914815 Report >>5914812 Siwang ignores him and begins a rousing retelling of the beginnings of your legend, as you have told it to him and his martial siblings countless times before. Clearly, your fellow daoists are not as entertained as you are, pinching their brows, noses and placing their heads between their hands, though some of them listen with rapt attention with shrewd, calculating expressions.
"What was the meaning of telling that fairy tale?" The sage says through gritted teeth, annoyed with Siwang's youthful energy already
"To inform you of the reason for my masters consumption of human flesh, and to show that we ascended beasts do not crave for or desire it, and that her hunting of humans during her infancy as awakened beast was more due to hunger and enmity of her victims. I can confidently state, Human does not make an appearance upon my master's dinner plate. But would it be a crime if she did? I've heard house cat is a delicacy in some towns, and you humans raise beasts for slaughter, what makes eating a certain piece of meat immoral? It isn't as if it is cannibalism for her or I to consume human flesh or blood" Siwang rapidly assaults the sage with his argument before he can get a word in "And as far as I am aware, there are no laws against beasts devouring humans, only cannibalism. My master has never eaten another cat"
"That isn't the point" The sage stars before Siwang fluffs himself up and angrily hops up to him, twisting and turning his head as he leans in close, the other cultivator reaching for his sword's hilt on instinct
"Then please inform me what law she has broken by eating the flesh of villains when she was younger? I am aware man eating beasts are hunted down, but do they count as outlaws, I am unaware of any legislations that account solely for the actions of animals, their are ordinances for the treatment of livestock and punishment for harming another's property, but in the written and recorded laws of the once united empire, and the edicts of our own society, there are none that pertain to beasts or name any of their actions criminal. All they state is that ascended beasts are outlawed and the product of demonic cultivation!" Siwang shouts into his face before twirling around, throwing feathers and lifting himself on a gale of wind "Thus, unless we are to punish every pig that has eaten its farmer, every wild dog that has devoured a weary travel, and every old tiger in the mountains, this law does not apply to my master, who at the time was unaware of the moral implications of predating a fellow sapient"
"That...that doesn't" The sage begins while several of the aged hermits overseeing the council stroke and preen their beards in thoughts, nodding in approval of Siwang's argument "That isn't why it is on her list of misdeeds, being unaware of a law doesn't make you immune to it!"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 04 Feb 2024 06:23:12 No. 5914817 Report >>5914815 "But at the time she was following only her instincts as a predator, are all predators then murderers? If she ate only other ascended beasts, would you have any complaint, it is your pride and belief you stand above us beasts that makes it seem abhorrent. Humanity is not free from the food chain, they can be prey as easily as they are predators" Siwang argues back, one wing covering his face "She had stopped eating human once she attained understanding of the world and her place in it, and satisfied the grudge that made her so bloodthirsty to begin with"
"The murder of Ling Meng" The sage states like that is a blow that will knock over Siwang's admittedly kind of confusing and meandering argument, but it seems to be effective, even though he's arguing as much for the laws of nature as he is the laws of men
"Was not included on the tally of my master's supposed misdeeds, so it has no place in this trial" Siwang answers coolly, head bowed "And before you claim the intelligence of the consumed victim is what makes it a crime, I must ask, how many of you cultivators butcher us magical beasts and use our flesh to make pills or Qi rich meals? If intelligence alone is what makes eating human flesh a crime, rather than cannibalism, then all of you who have hunted our kind should also be made to answer for the same abominable crime"
The sage, who had opened their mouth to counter Siwang's assertion, closes it silently and glares at him
"Demonic Cultivation" He says as Siwang repeats him like a chime a moment later
"Do you have any proof the cultivation technique and method my master practices in anyway breaks the laws followed by the righteous sect? She simply absorbs, refines and cultivates the ambient ghostly yin Qi produced in excess by powerful ghosts. And to remove another outrageous claim you've made, she does not devour souls. That is an easy path to power for one who practices the Dao of Ghosts, but Lady Huanliuxue is friend of the dead and does not hunt them, in fact, she once told me the practice is one of the most vile and unforgiveable forms of demonic cultivation" Siwang excitedly questions and answers, hopping around and stopping to preen his wings and give his opponent a chance to argue
"her mere existence is demonic cultivation" He plainly retorts
"Why?" Siwang snaps
"Demonic beasts are an affront to the heavens and the laws of nature" He confidently answers, arms crossed
"What proof do you have of that? When we live in harmony with the world and occur naturally" The owl gawks, taken aback and sounding a little lost and confused "You humans need to be taught to cultivate, we beasts"
"Emerge when an animal gluts themselves on human blood and fat" The sage declares mocking, eyes twinkling with malice and oozing with cockiness
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 04 Feb 2024 06:24:14 No. 5914819 Report >>5914817 "That isn't true" Siwang says, sounding irritated "But that also has nothing to do with this trial, so I shall hold my tongue and suppress the urge to correct your wild misunderstanding of how we come to be. Animals scavenging corpses is a natural occurrence, and if that is what you believe creates us, what exactly about us is demonic cultivation besides our existence being forbidden in the ancient laws you adhere to without considering why they were made"
"The supreme devil mind" The sage of the shifting sand cultivator begins after standing there silent like a moron for nearly half a minute "Lead an army of devils and demonic beasts against the world"
"So now it is your turn to use folklore in your legal argument, folklore far less recent than the true tale of my master's second birth?" Siwang asks as the man glares at him and once again reaches for his blade
"Which means there is no explanation needed for why here mere existence is enough to be guilty of demonic cultivation, and her law, do you truly understand it? It is evil to use ghost to cultivate, even if they are not destroyed or consumed in the process!" The man shouts back
"Why?" Siwang quests.
"Deathly yin and Ghostly Yin Qi can spread sickness and weakens the body, it can be lethal when it is dense enough" He stammers, looking baffled as to why that would even be questioned. Siwang pauses, looks your way and then back to the sage, saying nothing. Someone stifles a laugh in the crowd.
"Perhaps for those of lesser constitutions. So it is forbidden because it is dangerous? Which would make it a restricted technique rather than demonic cultivation. A technique my master proved capable of practicing when she was taking her first steps as a cultivator. Then there is no issue for the nature of the dao she has chosen to follow." Siwang states plainly "Ascended beasts occur naturally, without any demonic sorcery behind their appearance, and as I stated, Lady Huanliuxue does not consume souls and her Dao possesses no other unseemly qualities, unless you can provide evidence or reason for either being demonic cultivation besides ancient texts proclaiming them to be, we shall move on, unless you have proof of my master swallowing spirits to empower herself, which I highly doubt you do and as I soar through the skies, my concept of highly reaches beyond the clouds!"
The sage of sands swallows hard and rubs their throat, looking like they want to do nothing more than to pluck and roast Siwang over an open fire.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 04 Feb 2024 06:25:15 No. 5914820 Report >>5914819 "You dare to transgress against the mandates of heaven! The celestial bureaucracy, the five colors emperor, the five wise immortal sages all outlaw Demonic beasts, they are thus demonic cultivation. Thus, anything she does, even if one over looks her practicing a heretical dao, abusing ghosts to serve as cultivation fuel, she practices demonic cultivation by being a demonic beast, harboring demonic beasts, your master taking any students is leading those guileless daoists down a demonic path" The sage composes themselves and as serene as an undisturbed spring, argues against Siwang. Who grows more and more frustrated and confused as the crowd begins muttering with approval
"That" He stammers, trying to find his words "That isn't... you are falling back upon and hiding accusations behind prior rulings that have not been amended or challenged, using tradition as a shield. is that not more offensive to those same gods, to not contemplate the deeper meaning of their edicts, to not meditate upon their wisdom and simply take it all at face value!"
"I can clear up this argument" You state before the two can exchange insults, though Siwang's frustrations and outburst are good omens, he had to really think how to rebuke the nearly unassailable defense given by his opponent, as weak an argument as it was, the will of the heavens is absolute...unless you're a heretic.
"Oh can you?" The sage chuckles, amused by siwang's frustrations, hesitation and bewilderment, not realizing he's helping the fledgling grow as Siwang climbs his way through the mire of his opponent's case that is more based in emotion and tradition than fact and logic.
"Yes" You purr, nodding your head "But please, move on from the subject of if our lives and mere existences are crimes against nature, I will share my insights, once Siwang has gone through the rest of your accusations"
The sage snorts but relents and accepts your reasoning with a nod, doubtlessly thinking whatever it is you'll say will prove him right in the end.
"Becoming the disciple of a known demonic cultivator" He starts pacifibly while Siwang gasps, outraged and at his wits end
"Grand Elder Monu is only branded a heretic because she raised a de..ascended beast!" He shouts vexedly, flapping his wings in protest "If awakened beasts are proven to not be an afront to the heavens, and stricken from the catalogue of Demonic Arts, her choice of teacher and adoptive mother will similarly be tossed out like table scraps to the dogs, present a fresh accusation, rather than retreading ground to irritate me"
You never thought you'd find someone smugger than you or your mother, but there he is.
"Defiling a sacred site, plundering graves, dealing with hungry ghosts" He lists, raising up his hand to count down as Siwang's eyes cross and her trembles
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 04 Feb 2024 06:26:16 No. 5914822 Report >>5914820 "That would...those are only crimes if her cultivation law is proven to be a demonic practice. She has purified the tomb she built her temple nearby, she has taken nothing from the graves that were not freely given to her and she has calmed the hungry ghosts trapped within the" He begins, hissing each word as he struggles to control his rising rage at being presented with faulty evidence, pointless debate and twisting arguments
"Then you admit her dao is heretical, and this her every technique demonic!" The sage shouts, nearly bowling Siwang over
"What, what, what!?" Siwang roars as he rights himself, flapping his wings to maintain his balance "Where did...which of my words or explanations made the illusion of admitting guilt on my masters behalf!"
"She accepted gifts from evil natured spirits, and built her temple atop graves" He says plainly, yawning as Siwang's eyes blaze with outrage at the casual show of disrespect, this is the angriest the Eurasian Eagle owl ally of justice has ever been in his short life
"You are twisting my words and make grandiose assumptions in favor of your own case, you are disrespecting the very foundations of society by treating its laws like toys!" Siwang whispers, his words quick and sharp like whip strikes and twice as impactful "But I must not allow my personal feelings of outrage impede the debate. She, we...our temple was rebuilt from a shrine that had fallen to ruins, and the spirits in the catacombs beneath have been appeased and made languid like winter catfish"
"Defiling a shrine, demons and beasts have no business in a daoist temple, which leads me to" Siwang's opponent brashly stomps over his carefully laid rebuttal to push the trial forward and present a different assortment of crimes before Siwang was finished disproving the last batch. Your winged disciple twitches, head rolling this way and that way. His horn feathers rising and falling in sharp angles like a clock's hands, while he dry coughs and stammers, unable to speak through sheer exasperation
"Starting an unlawful cult, spreading a heretical faith urging others to apostasy, paganism, refusal and habitually breaking of the heavenly mandate, intruding into and wrongfully claiming the holdings of other sects as their territory, unlawfully establishing a daoist temple, unlawfully proclaiming her ascension as the head of a cultivation sect, creation of a false cultivation sect" He rapidly lists before Siwang can argue against a single one of it, rapidly gaining ground against your student by simply ignoring the spirit of the law and not allowing him to get a word in, not seriously debating his defenses and interpretation of the law, instead barreling over him by keeping a cool face and making him flustered by using an argument that wouldn't hold up in any court that didn't have an owl as one of the parties partaking in it.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 04 Feb 2024 06:27:17 No. 5914825 Report >>5914822 "She did not command Chuan to worship her, her uh, encounters with the Ling army made them revere her instead of you who ignored their plights and prayers" Siwang starts
"You dare accuse us, true daoists, of failing our duties and ignoring the adherents of our temples?" He, feigning insults, shouts in outrage as Siwang wobbles, clicking his beak in mounting fury as the debate becomes little more than an exchange of insults, a common tactic for when someone can't win a legal battle, they just attack the reputation and appearance of their opponent, something that would've never occurred to Siwang, who practically worships good laws and the ideal of justice. Its his first true face to face encounter with hypocrisy "You beasts have no shame, do you?"
"That is not pertinent to the trial, moving on!" Siwang spits, snarling as his blue eyes flicker green with primordial beast essence, his rising frustration and roaring rage slowly pushing him closer and closer to the second awakening. Tiexingege awoke through a similar method, Fu pissed her off and made her fear she'd be left behind by you and Jionghuagege, and she attained her human form through those strong emotions. This cocky retard is standing so proudly, unaware he's been in the palm of your hand all along
"See, the beast can't argue against it, they look down on us, think themselves our betters!" Said retarded howls, as his martial brothers and sisters lend their voices to verbally abusing Siwang and making more noise by raising their own accusations against him
"NEXT ACCUSATION!" Siwang bellows "Daoism has no heresy! Everything is in the dao! It cannot be separated, It is all and nothing! Thus she cannot be a pagan! She is daoist! The faith you claim she spread, was spread by those she saved and who saw her nobility"
"She clearly enthralled them with some beastly pheromone. I heard that Monu character you speak of is actually that Hao Liandyue, the infamous witch, the poison fairy" The sage chuckles, arms outstretched as he mocks Siwang's frustrated mannerism of flapping his wings stormily "No wonder she was able to seduce an entire province of superstitious yokels"
"You...you dare" Siwang starts before taking a sharp breath to calm and compose himself "That libelous accusation against my master and master's master, has no place in these proceedings, you are farting in the wind"
"Oh like your words have more purpose, your defense is weak and faltering, you ask for evidence but do not present any besides your words!" His opponent sneers and laughs mockingly, arms still held out at his side
"You haven't presented any evidence yourself" He remarks shaking his head "The claim of habitually breaking the laws of the heavens are meaningless, as the laws you speak of are merely those forbidding ascended beasts from cultivating or living as anything but sources of beast core for you ilk"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 04 Feb 2024 06:28:19 No. 5914827 Report >>5914825 "That is the natural order of the world, yes" The sandy sage answers contemptuously, looking down at Siwang and snorting like a bull. Siwang ignores him and his casual disregard for the value of both of your lives beyond the beast cores you have inside of you
"The temple above the catacombs were long abandoned, abandoned structures, if they are rebuilt and refurbished, can be legally claimed by whoever repaired them and cleared the grounds" Siwang says solemnly, voice cracking as he tries to remain calm and all but emotionless, failing as his debate partner mocks him by mouth his words and flapping his elbows like he was impersonating a chicken rather than an owl that preys upon deer when they aren't a magical beast "It was not claimed by any sect, nor was the mountain owned by any temple or school, cultivator or not. There are no laws laying out the proper procedure to establish a daoist temple, to found a cultivation sect, or to take a vacant leadership position outside of the traditions of individual sects and the ceremony of splitting from them form a new branch school or sever ties in pursuit of one's own destiny upon the winds of fate"
"Hmmm, no, There is. the law is, beasts cannot join or found temples, because they are not allowed to be cultivators or pursue immortality. Thus, everything you just said does not apply to your palace of natural laws, and it is thus a false temple, and charlatan sages and false priests can be tried and executed" The smug asshole snickers, grinning ear to ear with a shit eating grin as Siwang sharply inhales and tries to ignore him, but can't look away from him.
"You're making a mockery of the court and justice itself" Siwang growls "But, Lady Huanliuxue will disprove that claim once we are finished"
"Scared to leave the nest, needing your mommy to clean up your messes?" He mocks, knowing Siwang's weakness is his serious and rigid upholding of laws and veneration of the ideal of justice and the order it brings. He can't beat him in an open debate, so he's trying to make him make a fool out of himself and make a misstep that proves your guilt by way of your lawyer floundering his defense. Siwang remains stalwart and unshaken, but his defenses are breaking down and you can feel the primordial beast essence resonating within his beast core
"Next. Accusation" Siwang murderously requests.
"Well, all know how she's disrespected her betters" He begins
"Don't say it" Siwang warns
"She dares to claim herself a daoist!" He laughs, pointing at you "Dares to walk on two legs and look down at us, by using some cheap trick to rocket up the realms of cultivation. That alone should see her whipped and castigated"
"Next accusation" Siwang repeats monotonously, a strange something swirling in his eyes
"Meddling in mortal affairs, killing the son of heaven, willful and accidental corruption, her countless murders of good, virtuous daoists" He lists off
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 04 Feb 2024 06:29:23 No. 5914829 Report >>5914827 "The three Dian brothers...brothers" Siwang says, knowing damn well how they got to the emperor and being unable to lie. You aren't actually certain if he knows what a lie is, come to think of it, but he has a defiant spark in his eye, his opponent had just handed him a victory, the murders you supposedly committed, as many of your supposed victims are living quite comfortably as your prisoners "May have been assisted by Huanliuxue, but she saved the emperor's life prior to it, and it is the duty of daoists to meddle as protectors of the mortal realm, and I do not know what you are referring to when you refer to corruption, please, explain further"
Siwang's chest fluffs up with joy, as he manages to drag the mockery of trial back to resembling something worthy of respect and admiration. Until the accuser opens his mouth again
"Of course, you don't know the definition of the word, after all you grew up eating worms and were never classically trained, you were just told you were smart by an scruffy alley cat" He insults and mocks, and something in Siwang's expression snaps, his hope and cheerfulness draining away as once more his beloved justice is dragged through the mud and made a mockery of right in front of his eyes "Corruption, Dishonest or fraudulent conduct, especially by those in positions of power"
"I know what" Siwang tries to politely interrupt, a certain insanity in his voice
"The action of making someone or something morally depraved, or the state of being so themselves" He continues, ignoring the boy trying to hold a respectful trial instead of a sham that has turned into little more than bullying and disrespect"
"I know" Siwang stutters, closing his eyes as he tries to pace his breathing to calm down, circulating his Qi through his meridians in a last ditch effort to remained reserved and cling stubbornly to formality and politeness
"It can also be a byword for decay or putrefaction, which your master must know, considering how often she keeps congress with corpses" He laughs bawdily "You did say she cultivates amongst graves, these are your own..."
"Shut up" You disciple says tiredly
"Eh, you wag your tongue at your senior, Junior you dare!" the retard shouts, insulted and enraged
"Oh shut the hell up you utter simpleton, if it would not be unjust I'd have opened up your belly and spilt your bowels! It would be no over reaction for how you've insulted justice itself and made a mockery of this trial and the laws you claim to honor!!" Siwang shrieks, his opponent dumbly opens his mouth, you aren't sure if its to speak, or out of shock that his punching bag suddenly struck back with vitriol and venom "I SAID SHUT UP YOU ABSOLUTE PRAT! YOU INBRED DOG! YOU SHIT BRAINED RETARD! SHUT THE FUCK UP! I AM TRYING TO BE RESPECTFUL, BUT YOU KEEP PISSING ON ME. SHUT UP! I SAID SHUT UP"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 04 Feb 2024 06:30:24 No. 5914833 Report >>5914829 Siwang swivels his head around wildly, glaring at the whole crowd as many more jaws drop, he is manic with rage now. You'd be clapping your hands if they weren't, you know, tied behind your back.
"SHUT UP! SHUT UP DAMMIT! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL! LET ME SPEAK! LET ME PRESENT MY ARGUMENTS! LET ME PRESENT MY DEFENSE! STOP TREATING MY MASTER AND I LIKE WE'RE CLOWNS! LIKE WE'RE JOKES! EAT SHIT! CHOKE ON THAT SHIT! SHUT UP AND"
"LET"
"ME"
"FINISH"
There is a wave of emerald light, primordial beast essence explodes from him as a beam of that same light shoots into the sky
"You possess a truly terrifying intellect to set the board like this, Master" Ping remarks as Tianhua shrieks and clings to your thigh, hiding behind you. There are cries of confusion, of fear. Swords are drawn, protection spells are casts and as the light dims, standing their, simmering in frustrated rage.
Is Siwang.
Whose human form is a young teenaged boy, about as old as Fu was when you met him, his hair hanging down to his shoulders colored and speckled like his feathers, his eyebrows bushy and pointed like his feathery "horns" lifting from his face as his beak like nose scrunches with rage as he holds out his hands like talons, snapping his jaw as he hops between his feet, unaware his body has transformed, as a cloud of feathers falls around him drifting to the ground like flower petals. His bright blue eyes are big peach blossom shaped eyes, giving him the look of constant scrutiny and innocent curiosity or mirth. He's thin but not skinny, with long well defined limbs, he'll grow to be as tall as a pine tree. He's willowy, graceful and has the physique of a dancer, most of his muscles are in his legs . His ears, like yours, Jionghuagege and Tiexingege's are tapered to a point, and his face, while too round to be hawkish, is absolutely owlish. He's absolutely adorable!
However he isn't turned to you in a way to see if he has hair between his legs or not, as he lifts up his head, breathes in and swings out his arm. You can see he has tattoo like markings on his back in the shape of outstretched wings, just like Jionmg-Jiong
"As I was saying before being once more rudely interrupted" He says calmly, looking deeply relaxed like a dam inside of his has burst as the assembled cultivators stare at him, frozen in shock. Some have fainted, others are holding swords out like statues, some are peering from behind their chairs or more courageous martial siblings, but all of them are looking at the nude and clearly human Siwang, his eyebrows bouncing as he continues moving like an owl hoping on the ground.
Shi Shun and his debate partner both look oddly humiliated as he does so, eyes locked on his lower half.
"Junior Siwang" Ping says, pulling off his outer robes and covering Siwang
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 04 Feb 2024 06:31:25 No. 5914838 Report >>5914833 "I am in the middle of a debate, Senior Ping!" Siwang protests before he screws his nose, pauses, looks Ping up and down, looks himself up and down, holds out and arm, flicks his fingers and stands straight as a bamboo shoot
"Huh? What's this, what's this? Something's changed!" He chirps and coos, moving his arms in a flapping motion, trying to get used to wearing clothes as he looks himself over again "I've...I've attained human form"
"Huanliuxue" Tianhua weakly says, as if it is a question
"Good show boy" Master Su applauds, folding up his fan to clap his hands
"HAH! See there's your proof!" the summer sea disciples shouts "I told all of you they had three beasts that could take on human form"
"Huanliuxue, you claim to be an expert on the nature of demonic" Storm cloud says hastily to hide his own fear of what he doesn't understand and confusion
"Ascended beasts" You smirk back at him
"Yes, yes, explain what just happened and why your disciple Wusheng exploded and a young, naked boy took his place" He sharply replies, lips thin and hands trembling as others start demanding you to answer the question immediately, forgetting your trial.
And the fact that Siwang admitted you were complicit in assassinating the last emperor of the dynasty. The adorable little bird brain.
"I still have at least a dozen crimes to answer to, Siwang was prevented from explaining..." You begin, smirking as storm cloud slams a hand down on his knee
"Explain, now!" He roars
"Well, I guess I'll interrupt my trial to explain why most of the crimes I'm being accused of, aren't really crimes at all, because like Siwang said when he started my defense, none of you understand us Ascended Beast" You snidely snicker, motioning with your head to Ping "Ping! Please uncork my dimensional gourd and retrieve from its storage these three manuals, the Collected Accounts of Ascended Beast: their histories and legacies left behind, the Bestial edict to attain- human form, and the Beast saint doctrine! Its time for a lecture and history lessen! Fasten your asses to your seats! Or don't, either way you won't be ready for this juicy revelation! I'm going to turn your whole, tiny world upside down!"
You bite your cheek to stop there, and not yell out 'Orthodox dogs!' at the end of your proclamation.
<span class="mu-s"> Additional +50 bonus to this roll from "Proof right before their eyes </span>
<span class="mu-s"> Roll 2d100+65. Best out of five </span>
Best boy is now a real boy!
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Rolled 5, 100 = 105 (2d100) >>5914838 Let's fucking go Siwang you tell them.
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>>5914846 Sorry I forgot the +65
BUT I GOT THE NAT 100 I FUCKING KNEW IT.
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Rolled 91, 72 + 65 = 228 (2d100 + 65) >>5914838 Idk if this helps, but may I suggest a little crumb of a bonus because of our incredible trait that makes us the most brilliant teachers on this earth? We're not teaching of course, but I guess it could give us a little bonus
>Catpcha: MANNN Indeed, Siwang is a huMANNN now
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>>5914846 Oh boy...
>>5914838 btw grandfather, as is really late now, is ok if we roll again soon or you're going to pause here until people roll and you post tomorrow? Because I personally can't wait to see what the hell happens with that crit we got and for this next update
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Rolled 30, 35 = 65 (2d100) >>5914846 HUMAN
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 04 Feb 2024 07:18:58 No. 5914887 Report >>5914867 I'm chugging shou puerh, I ain't going to sleep anytime soon, junior
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Rolled 79, 46 + 65 = 190 (2d100 + 65) >>5914838 Oh my
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Rolled 83, 53 + 65 = 201 (2d100 + 65) >>5914838 Anonymous
>>5914887 I'm glad to hear that, Grandfather. But please, don't chug too much of it, I'm not a fan of tea so I don't know if drinking too much of such a concoction is going to be troublesome for your inmortal tummy
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 04 Feb 2024 07:47:18 No. 5914943 Report >>5914862 As Water recedes, the rocks appear
So at 228, you've achieved a truly profound success on the persuasion trial surpassing your natural limits, since its over the Natural maximum of your capabilities due to the bonuses!
And then you got a crit
>>5914846 due to this Junior blessed with the gift of prophecy
So yeah. Heavens are gonna be pretty salty
TURN UP THE MUSIC
https://youtu.be/yvFgNP9iqd4 Update will arrive shortly, I feel like I've been injected with chicken blood, my hands are shaking.
That might be because I've had two sessions of Gong fu today to wake up and stay up
Oh, also, Siwang ranked up to Foundation establishment Rank 3 along with becoming the fourth beast to attain human form in ten generations.
>>5914920 I follow the dao of tea, and need to consume it to keep my meridians balanced
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>>5914833 >Shi Shun and his debate partner both look oddly humiliated as he does so, eyes locked on his lower half. >mfw >>5914846 Holy shit
>>5914862 HOLY SHIT
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>>5914846 >>5914862 ...I really should sacrifice goats more often.
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>>5915015 >The Silent 'if mans being thick, whip out your dick' Death, Siwang >The Silent 'Ding dong your laws Wrong' Death, Siwang >The Silent 'This bitch before I deliver him' Death, Siwang. A new meaning to the phrase, Courting Death. I love our little owl buddy.
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>>5915067 Genuinely best bird. He is fantastic. And now mogging grown men with complete "head empty" energy. He just can't stop winning.
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>>5914812 >are there any who, who, who *wheeze*
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"The names of those scriptures sound fascinating" Master Su remarks, somehow having found stable ground to set up a tea table and begin preparing tea even though the pagoda and the ice shelf it was placed atop are still rocking from Siwang's second awakening and attainment of his human form.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 04 Feb 2024 10:16:16 No. 5915117 Report "That's a surprise" You remark with a whistle as Ping uncorks you dimensional gourd "And to answer your question Grandfather Thunder"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 04 Feb 2024 10:17:17 No. 5915119 Report >>5915117 "Precisely! And I know, everyone used to know the first of these beasts purposefully turned into a magical beast, who was forcefully awoken! Niu Bingwen! The noble and loyal oxen! The true founder and pioneer of the mountain shattering hammer law (㟑震裂榔头, Bózhènlièlángtou). Yes, that widely practiced method and its martial art was created by a "demonic beast" You excitedly explain, rocking from your toes to your heels "He was one of the first of us, and one of the greatest! I might be amazing, but it is his legacy I need to live up to, his and several other of my ancestors. Bingwen was ascended as a reward for his faithful service to his master, if you read...Ping turn to the chapter detailing raising magical beasts"
The new Xue patriarch's eyes darken
"This...Hao Lianduye practiced this exact method with the demon fox that got her branded a heretic, let it is detailed here mundanely, like a foundational technique widely practiced, basic knowledge" He says, voice trembling with dread as he looks to you "What is the meaning of this"
"Guessing mom found an incomplete version of this text somewhere, or rediscovered the magic herself" You answer with a shrug and pointed glare "Your grand"
"Father, you killed my father, I was his only son" He corrects, eyes flaring with indignity
"Oh, then papa crippled mama and murdered your younger sister for being born a snow fox" You cheerfully and bluntly explain, making sure to twist the knife as much as you can "Broke her cultivation, gouged out an eye, branded her! Because she did something that was once universally accepted, widely practiced everywhere, by every sect! If they were even slightly fond of a pet, cultivators of old used to make them intelligent, adopt them or at least take them on as disciples! Don't believe me? See how many of the sects present here once had beastily members, this manual might only list the famous and stand out examples of beastdom, but I'm confident all of you have some dark history in it, Ping, please, one at a time, show them their ancestors! You're more knowledgeable about other sects than I am"
Then you sit down, cross your legs as if in meditation and wait.
Some are outraged, some fall to their knees from sheer shock, one faints, a couple weep openly, but none accuse you of forgery or trickery or deceit. They know their schools' history better than anyone except the heads above them, and once you realize their is a gap in it or something missing or changed, it is as easy to notice as a hole through the back of your own hand.
They're silent now, meditating while standing, contemplating the soul crushing realization that the gospel they believed so deeply in, the law that had been in place since the beginning of time, that demonic beasts were always outcasts and monsters, was in fact false.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 04 Feb 2024 10:18:19 No. 5915120 Report >>5915119 "I thought I was a demon myself, before I learned better, when I was freshly awakened" You say ruefully as you hop back onto your feet, squirming against the ropes binding your arms "A few of us sided with the supreme devil mind, and somehow we all became devils, even though just as many of us remained righteous and pure hearted, and just as many humans turned to demons. Niu Bingwen even died protecting his master from that bitch's kind"
You click your tongue, stopping yourself from mentioning that bitch is also the ancestor of the entire Ling clan. You need to ease them into the truth, or else they'll reject it and start seeing it as a lie and you as a liar.
"In this manual, is his history. How he rouse from a simple beast of burden to create one of the pillars of modern cultivation, tell me, can any of you name a sect that doesn't teach a little of the mountain shattering hammers' techniques? I teach my students a bit of it, it is an amazing foundation and base on its own, but it can support any other kind of technique or martial style" You explain, suddenly feeling rather sad, as you always do when you talk or think about the buried legacy of your people and what was stolen from you, the respect, position and titles you deserve but were denied! Until now, if you play your cards right "They gave his achievements to his human student, who also died fighting true demons years after Bingwen did"
"How'd he die?" An elder of the dusk marsh wolves asks, swaggering his way to the front of the row
"Ping!" You shout "Show them the record of Niu Bingwen's heroic last stand"
He does as you command, after he wipes a few stray tears from his eyes.
The mood quickly grows depressive, and several voices swear oaths or make promises to adjust their sect's historical accounts to include Bingwen's life and its end, even some of the haughty young masters are driven to tears after hearing the honorable dusk marsh wolves read out loud the account of it written by his own disciples, the one who was wrongfully acclaimed for creating the mountain shattering hammer. It would seem his life is as inspiring to humans as it was to you, a couple years back.
"Niu Bingwen was the one who made us welcomed and he was the first to attain human form. His sacrifice, his diligence, his talent, and that of his contemporaries, The first magical beasts, it was their legacy of honor is what made adopting and creating ascended beasts such a wide spread custom. If you read a bit further, you'll see something juicy! I think all of you recognize the symbol! One of the oldest sects still kicking once had a songbird as their grandmaster, isn't that hilarious" You explain, trying to laugh at the last part of your speech, but sorrow of what was lost and denied stops you from really laughing, though you nearly manage to laugh when an elder from that most esteemed sect pushes their way forward, eyes wide and mouth agape
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 04 Feb 2024 10:19:20 No. 5915121 Report >>5915120 "If you any of you wish to read further of any beast in particular, ask. But this should more than prove that my existence is not the result of demonic cultivation, and my people are not demons. Just the first few pages would, but eh, I like being dramatic" You say with a titter, and get a few requests, namely from the elder of that ancient sect who once was headed by a songbird. You of course stand by and offer further explanation, detail what isn't readily apparent and help the elders make sense of what they're seeing. Though you're reading to adults, some of who are elderly to the point of being fossils, their energy makes it feel like you're talking to children. Your earnest and truly saddened recounting of Niu Bingwen and honest explanation of the manual and openness to share its contents, have gotten them to forget their old prejudices. Which shouldn't have been hard, considering how obvious the dissonance between what their belief of what demonic beasts were or did and what awakened beasts actually are couldn't be more blatant, but cultivators have thick skulls and tend to stop using their brains after a certain age or just prefer to be willfully ignorant
By time they tire of the collected accounts of awakened beasts, the sun has reached the middle of the sky, and the atmosphere t the assembly has turned somber and depressive. Most are silent, reeling and struggling with the revelation of the true nature of awakened beasts, some are praying, trying to reach the often silent heavens to demand answers, some have already flown away to inform the rest of their sect. Its a mix of reactions. But eventually, someone, this someone being Xue Long, who technically is your brother by way of being Monu's son, though he refuses to accept the relation between the two of you or your shared parent, raises a question.
"How, if you don't steal corpses or possess human bodies, how do beasts attain human form, because Wusheng's transformation explained nothing to us" He states, as you sit, still bound, having Fa Tang gently lift a tea cup to your mouth while Qinxin fans you, as the heat of the day is really oppressive when you can move your arms
"Oh now this is going to take awhile! Its a puzzle you see. Niu Bingwen figured it out, and left behind a guide, coded and arranged to force the reader to think outside of the box and beyond their instincts, that is the Bestial Edict to Attain-Human form" You explain quietly happily, Master Su, Tianhua and Ping listening intently, as is everyone else, who is leaning over you hanging off your every word like young girls hearing the juiciest and most trashy gossip there is to hear "I uh, well I found it, and I agonized and worked myself to the bone studying it, eventually I figured out the method, since before Niu Bingwen wrote it down, beasts just kind of randomly learned how to transform into humans. Bingwen figured it out, second awakening or true awakening. Its a form of refinement, mental training"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 04 Feb 2024 10:20:21 No. 5915122 Report >>5915121 You swish the tea around your mouth in thought
"See, to every other creature, you humans seem insane, nothing you do makes sense from our perspective" You explain thoughtfully, carefully choosing your words "Beasts awaken and become magical beasts from strong emotion or sudden though, as I explained, but to attain human form requires comprehension, it requires knowledge and understanding. This to can happen naturally but uh, its unlikely"
"Did your disciple Wusheng achieve it naturally, or was it the result of hard training and diligent study on his part" Storm cloud, whose name is literally lightning, Shandian (闪电)
"He was naturally inclined to it" You say, looking over to and nodding to Siwang, who is diligently learning to write with a brush in his hand, as he uses the break in the trial to pen a length scroll detailing exactly why you aren't guilty of anything besides being gorgeous "Comes parcel with awakening the first time due to witnessing a miscarriage of justice, Grudges are my mother and father, but cat's can harbor them naturally, so it was a bit trickier for me, especially since I, in my pride, overcomplicated things a bit. The best way to put it is, attaining human form requires understanding civilization, humanity and their common sense. sort of like cultivating a tribal mind, learning abstract thinking and deeper emotions are a big part of it. Its why the edict has so many games and puzzles, it teaches unintuitive human virtues. But, you can force it pretty regularly if you know how to spark the important comprehension"
"And that is what happened to Siwang?" Tianhua asks "You put him in circumstances that'd force him to reach a realization and attain insight of the human mind"
"Obviously, Master Lian, there is no need to ask such a question of what insight he reached" Su answers with a nod "The insight was the shocking heights stupidity and arrogance mankind can reach"
"And the limits of frustration, true anger" You snicker, as Ping diligently shows the edict around
"These are children's puzzles" One elder says in shock "this is all it takes for a beast to take human form! its common sense it require dark ritual and pacts with darker powers, that it requires the death of an innocent and...and"
"And the worst beasts, the ones hunted the most fearsomely and remorselessly, are the ones who become human" Shandian says, as dreadful realization strikes him like a hammer to the head he is now rubbing "We've been killing the ascended beasts that could've lead them back to their previous role in our society, the ones who could've undone all this damage!"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 04 Feb 2024 10:21:23 No. 5915125 Report >>5915122 "And killing innocent children who don't know any better, otherwise" You venomously add, scalding your tongue as Fa Tang does not mention Su poured fresh and hot tea into the cup, so you end up spraying the undrinkable boiling water everywhere "You better run, Fa, or you'll wish you were never born once I get out of these rope, but ah, yes that's exactly right, we've been stuck in barbarity and savageness, cause none of us are allowed to learn and grow and learn how to live amongst civilized society, all most of my kind have are our instincts in a world that hates us for being born, that abhors and spites us for no fault of our own"
"Huanliuxue, I am so, so sorry" Tianhau sniffles as the rest of the assembly digests this newest revelation and realizes exactly why you have little to no respect for them and have done the things you needed to do to just survive in this word
"We never thought to talk to them" Xue Long groans so loud its almost a wail "My father is dead because we never thought to converse with beast cultivators, my sect is in ruins! One of my sons is dead, another blinded! And its all because of some Demonic cultivator ages ago fooled the whole world of cultivation and made us forget...too much"
And how much angrier would he be if he heard it was the Ling who started the oppression and wholesale slaughter of your people, that pushed Xue Laohue to his monstrous actions and you to needing to defend yourself against the whole world.
"No, none of you did, no cultivator had until Master Su over here let me wander through his temple and steal some of his special water, also Laohue laughed when I told him the truth, he was an evil black hearted bastard" You snarl and spit grumpily, legs crossed, as Fa Tang takes advantage of your bound state to try and force more too hot tea into your face
"There is one manual left" Shandian states after he and the rest of your fellow daoist grew tired of reflecting and meditating on the oh so painful truth
"Oh, the beast saint doctrine! I kind of just added it in at the end with the other two without thinking, its a manual recording the martial and mystical arts of the awakened beasts that came before me, but it does explain how we can evolve as beasts, wildborn evolution its called, I've attained two such evolutions, but again, useless to anyone who isn't a beast" You say, as a drunken sand sage stumbles up to you, reeking of wine and slurring his words
"What'z about the the people possessed by beasts all over Chuan" He bellows, nearly spitting on your face
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 04 Feb 2024 10:22:24 No. 5915127 Report >>5915125 "Siwang" You order, and he is sent up into the air, held aloft by a sudden twister of wind "And to answer your question, I actually don't know why people started sprouting animal ears and tails and such. They either have more of a connection to nature or a beastial ancestor, but I haven't really devoted any time to figuring out the precise reasons and conditions for it. It has no drawbacks, its all benefits, unless you take offense to a cute new pair or ears, or eyes"
"like Yuyi" Ping chimes in
"Can I stop, sect head" Qinxin pants, having been fanning you for well over a quarter of the day now
"No" you cheerfully answer "But, now all of you can see most of the accusations against me are utter nonsense, since I'm just a heretical cultivator, not a monster or demon"
"You still killed a lot of cultivators, good men and women" Xue Long points out angrily
"Self defense, and that list is longer than it actually is, took most of them prisoner, and Jionghuagege, my little sister, has been taking very good care of them" You answer sweetly, swaying side to side, now very tired of being all wrapped up and constricted "and this history lesson and lecture on the nature of awakened beasts should prove that I have nothing to do with the stampede, I know how to make more of us, but I do not control or turn them into mindless, berserk animals. Though some of the charges do stick, they're overblown, basically not crimes at all anyways sooo"
"Your disciple Wusheng mentioned you assisted the Three assassins who killed the last son of heaven" Shandian suddenly speaks up
You frown.
"Yeah. Did you ever meet the dog emperor? He was disgusting and vile and unworthy of the title or any noble title for that matter. He was a stain upon the world, so I removed him from it. He would've died sooner if he didn't invite me into his palace in the first place" You answer plainly "and yes I am friends with Buddhists. Nothing wrong with it, they don't have anything against us daoists besides how arrogant we can be and how often some of us burn them alive!"
"And your rumored dealings with demons?" Long asked curiously
"I have to ask, were you just trying to blame me for every ill in the world and accuse me of every crime? My law requires me to visit the underworld for ingredients for a certain pill that can't be found anywhere else, and sure I enjoy spending time down by the yellow spring, but I am not friends with devils, well except for" You say, smiling fondly as you think about your eight legged friend "Well she isn't much of a demon to be honest, she reads romance novels and weaves clothes. What, did you think I trade in souls or something?
Technically you do, but you don't add any to the trade, so it isn't a bad thing, they were already being used as currency anyways.
"You're friends with a spider demon?" Tianhua says wincing.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 04 Feb 2024 10:23:25 No. 5915128 Report >>5915127 "She makes the uniforms for my sect, she's a famous fashion designer, I get pretty much all my clothes and outfits from her, she's a nice girl" You say plainly "Want to meet her?"
Tianhua shakes her head side to side hurriedly
"Technically that is forbidden, but we can't exactly try you after everything you've taught us" Shandian grumbles, like he's upset nothing pinned on you can stick, Long looks much less bothered. The sages of the shifting sand are all drunk now, having had their entire reality upturned. Turns out, they really, really hated demonic beasts, especially after Yujijiao accidentally became a tyrant in their turf.
"And our ignorance is what forced you down your heretical path" Tianhua sniffles, like its some great tragedy you didn't stunt your cultivation practicing an orthodox technique.
"No, I would've probably done it anyways, so does this mean I'm innocent?" You snicker, looking to Xue Long "Dear brother"
He looks at you hatefully.
"My sect can't endure the blow to reputation punishing you for all the wrong you've done to us or caused, since you've maneuvered your way into being seen as a wrongfully abused saintess and unfairly mistreated princess over the course of an afternoon" He says through his tightly clenched teeth, blood dripping from his gums "And people are already talking about having debates over the morality of beast hunting, since this isn't a secret that can be kept. I must say, I'm impressed, I see my father wasn't lying about my mother's talent at manipulating hearts and minds, if her adoptive daughter was able to make a conclave of all the righteous sects of Chuan switch from wishing her death and praying for her execution to weeping over her plight. I'll content myself with having temple's disciples returned'
"Xue Long, your sect still has to stand trial" you remind him.
The sound of shattering porcelain had never been sweater.
"Bitch" He growls as Siwang finally finish compiling his notes, only for Ping to gently inform him that it won't be necessary, since your lecture had managed to convince everyone whose opinion mattered that any wrongs you had done, you were forced to do to survive in the cruel world.
While being cleared of all charges was sweet, even after openly admitting to some of the worst of them, you were much happier that the slaughter of ascended beasts might start to decline, at least in the lands of the Chuan Province.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 04 Feb 2024 10:28:32 No. 5915136 Report >>5915128 What do you do now that you've aced your trial and opened up the minds of several dozen, important cultivators to the truth of ascended beasts, Huanliuxue?
>Put Xue Long and his sect on trial, he might've embraced the reality of your people like the rest, but the WBWS still needs to face justice. >Let Siwang give his argument, just to see what it would've sounded like and so he doesn't mope for the rest of the trip back to the temple >Strike a deal with Xue Long to drop the charges against the WBWS, and indebt him and them to you (Bad karma) >Decide to continue pushing your luck, and drop the bombshell of the supreme devil mind's true identity and relations with the five colors celestial emperor (Persuasion trial. DC variable) >Delay punishing the WBWS, to instead receive reparations from the White jade demon opposing army for Shi Shun's perverted conduct >Break the immortal binding rope and leave, pretending to wander off cause you've grown bored, just to intimidate the cultivators >Write in So the roll of over 200 DC and the Crit made even those present at the conclave who really hate Huan's guts be convinced of the true nature of Demonic Beasts and that killing them for their cores is wrong, even if they still think Huan herself is an evil, vengeful bitch. Like her brother Xue Long or the entirety of the sages of the shifting sands sect
Good job!
>>5915067 Junior please, my sides can only take so much abuse!
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>>5915136 Write-in
>Let Siwang deal with ironing out the reparations from the WBWS and dealing with Shi Shun it should make up for not being able to use his notes. >Also I want to be untied now and able to freshen up now that I am acquitted. I say we also push that any ascended beast be given disciplehood or sent our way to care for them.
And that we welcome any guest to our halls who wish to learn more about ascended beasts and trade.
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>>5915136 >Put Xue Long and his sect on trial, he might've embraced the reality of your people like the rest, but the WBWS still needs to face justice. >Write in >Ask to be untied, as since you have been cleared of all charges, the rope in no longer necessary. Of all the things I though Huanliuxue would achieve, of all the heights I though she would reach, actually convincing Orthodox cultivators of the truth was not one of them. At least, not before becoming a god.
Is there ANYTHING she cannot do? I am beginning to doubt it.
Frankly, with Xue Laohue dead and the Winter blossoming wisdom sect convinced of the truth, I don't particularly feel much enmity towards them anymore myself. They still need to stand trial, for the senseless loss of life inflicted upon the innocent people of Chuan, but perhaps there can be peace between us? Depending on whether or not they are appropriately punished and remain on their best behaviour, of course.
Also, I see no reason not to ask them to remove our binding rope. It was a ridiculous demand in the first place, surely now removing it was fine? Besides, breaking it off would be an impressive show of power, but the truest, most complete show of our victory is for the Orthodox cultivators to remove it themselves. It would be downright poetic.
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>>5915136 >Put Xue Long and his sect on trial, he might've embraced the reality of your people like the rest, but the WBWS still needs to face justice. >Make arrangements to return the imprisoned disciples to the Winter Blossoming Extra-W go to bed Grandfather Sect. Anonymous
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>>5915151 >Also, I see no reason not to ask them to remove our binding rope. It lends the entire affair an amusing absurdity. A catgirl in shibari explaining the secret history of the world while on trial for cannibalism.
Xianxia is a special kind of crack.
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>>5915136 >Let Siwang give his argument, just to see what it would've sounded like and so he doesn't mope for the rest of the trip back to the temple Anonymous
>>5915136 >Let swiang gove his argument. >Put them on trial. You all fucked up BIG TIME and we demand recompense.
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>>5915165 Oh and
>Break the rope casually to stretch. Just to flex
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>>5915166 >>5915165 Actually I want to amend this.
Let Siwang make his arguments, because he has been very good and it provides precedent.
Then qe can stand up and wiggle a bit.
>"Now hear me. I have been aquitted, my trial is over and you all know the folly you have perpetuated for generations. Now hear this. I am Huanliexue, the sovereign queen of beasts, inheritor of their legacies and Wild princess of Cats. The Ascended beasts of Chuan are under my rulership and stewardship" At this point, break the rope and make sure to address everybody.
>"I would be very thankful to have my new subjects brought to me whereever they are found. And greatly displeased should attacks upon my subjects continue. Now, to the trial of the Wonter Blossoming Wisdom sect." Honestly I think some good demands are forfeiture of lands and status as protectors of the Chuan. Along with recompense for rhe damage to our mountain and the capacity of the mortals ability to grow crops.
Willing to accept some of that compensation in cultivation laws.
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>>5915192 I'm reading infinite Dendrogram which I can definitively recommend even if it's exactly cultivation but the reason I'm bringing it up is because grudges and undead play an important part in the current arc. In fact the big bad of the arc has created an out of control undead flesh golem powered and controlled by countless grudges Anonymous
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>>5915136 >Delay punishing the WBWS, to instead receive reparations from the White jade demon opposing army for Shi Shun's perverted conduct Anonymous
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>>5915136 Oh, and
>Ask if you can be untied now, and when they move to do it, just break the rope Anonymous
>>5915210 How does this relate to the given situation?
Not being snarky, but I dont see the utility or relevance of that information as relates to this trial.
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>>5915136 I kind of expected one of the fallen gods to come and try to snipe us while we're bound but i guess if that was the case it would have already happened.
>Break the immortal binding rope Since the demon scare is no more time to remind them we are a powerhouse.
>Delay punishing the WBWS, to instead receive reparations from the White jade demon opposing army for Shi Shun's perverted conduct Now he pays.
>Put Xue Long and his sect on trial, he might've embraced the reality of your people like the rest, but the WBWS still needs to face justice. And the reason we are here, the winter idiocy sect.
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>>5915227 True I saw it more as related to the thread in general, especially since Grandpa sometimes also recommends manga but I should have though it through more. After all he is the author and not a random anon Anonymous
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>>5915136 >>Put Xue Long and his sect on trial, he might've embraced the reality of your people like the rest, but the WBWS still needs to face justice. >>Let Siwang give his argument, just to see what it would've sounded like and so he doesn't mope for the rest of the trip back to the temple Anonymous
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>>5915136 Supporting
>>5915146 . Our boy did good, and it's time to let him revel in that victory.
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>>5915298 Im not opposed to having recommendations placed in, you just linked to me and I read that as a response to my suggested course of action.
Thank you for the novel Rec anon. In turn, I suggest Martial God book 1. Its not that great but it is a sword cultivator and typical of the genre.
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>>5915136 >Let Siwang give his argument, just to see what it would've sounded like and so he doesn't mope for the rest of the trip back to the temple >"We know that my case has already been dealt with, but I still think is important for Siwang to give his arguments" >Ask if the inmortal binding rope is a special, important or an artifact with sentimental value, because in that case we ask to be unbind from it or we'll destroy it to free ourselves Even if we've planned to destroy it before I feel that it's really shitty we talked about how important the history of the Ascended Beast was to be respected because of our ancestors and then we fuck up some sect relic. Plus, they can still think of us like a trickster who's bluffing, so it leaves to a doubt if we actually can do that... If they don't unbind us (Which I doubt after such good rolls) then we show off our power.
>Put Xue Long and his sect on trial, he might've embraced the reality of your people like the rest, but the WBWS still needs to face justice. idk what the other anons think but I honestly feel like how
>>5915151 said. Our true enemy is the Ling, the WBWS got in this mess because of our true hatred towards Xue, but not the sect of their disciplines, and still they need to respond to what they did to the normal people under their past protection. I say we should ask for a light but just sentence, the lands that are under our control should be more than enough, taking into account how much of a bloody nose they have. BUT
>Offer some help to the WBWS in the efforts of either restoring the sect or how the mortals under their domain think of them, showing that there's no bad blood between us and how the Secthead feel really sorry how the last Secthead acted and the normal people were affected, because at the end he couldn't see mount Tai and was blinded in our conflicts. Surely Long will see this reasoning as an insult to make him talk like that about his father to simple mortals, but we can clarify that he can address the apology however he wants, but it's needed to gain control over his new territory again.
Also, should we mention that we killed and captured Jingyu after we're unbinded? I say that it really helps our case to look like good faith as possible with Long, we might even mention how we met that deceased WBWS disciple on the Yellow Springs and using his name to know we aren't lying, we might not followed the request of the deceased disciple to a tee, but we did caught the monster and avenged him (Or at least we're close to do it)
Or, if he's really that offended and mad, we can ask for him to talk in private and either cure his blindness (Risk of telling how we recuperated the ancient Carmine Mysticism and actually made it work this time), or meet one of our disciples to show him his cultivation techniques and how that's not an impediment at all in his cultivation or life
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>>5915136 >Let Siwang give his argument, just to see what it would've sounded like and so he doesn't mope for the rest of the trip back to the temple >Break the immortal binding rope and leave, pretending to wander off cause you've grown bored, just to intimidate the cultivators Have Siwang start btfoing the claims as we flex
Then
>Put Xue Long and his sect on trial, he might've embraced the reality of your people like the rest, but the WBWS still needs to face justice. Call WBWS gay and make them weep.
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>>5915136 >Put Xue Long and his sect on trial, he might've embraced the reality of your people like the rest, but the WBWS still needs to face justice. >Let Siwang give his argument, just to see what it would've sounded like and so he doesn't mope for the rest of the trip back to the temple I think it's more fun to just let the ropes be and then before we leave slip out of it gracefully. We are the Queen of Beasts and we should display proper refined grace.
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>>5915265 It me.
Does anybody know what happens to the beast cores used for cultivation?
Because i think i remember them getting refined, so the icicle man probably already used up Xuebai's core in some way but otherwise we could demand it back.
Unless he did the equivalent of powdering it to snort it up.
But after this is over we could go to the Ling and demand the serpent beast core, it's possible that they haven't yet used it and maybe they still have the remains of her body.
Which is possibly the only way to get them their bodies back.
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>>5915420 He used it to make his scythe, which we still have.
But using a core destroys the core.
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>>5915431 Bummer about the core, who knows if there's a way to make an artificial one?
Or at least we can probably make her a body by using the scythe, humans go on okay without a beast core.
What is on a time limit is Jujiao's remains which may still be untouched somewhere.
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>>5915136 >Put Xue Long and his sect on trial, he might've embraced the reality of your people like the rest, but the WBWS still needs to face justice. Anonymous
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>>5915136 >Put Xue Long and his sect on trial, he might've embraced the reality of your people like the rest, but the WBWS still needs to face justice. >Let Siwang give his argument, just to see what it would've sounded like and so he doesn't mope for the rest of the trip back to the temple Anonymous
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>>5915136 >Put Xue Long and his sect on trial, he might've embraced the reality of your people like the rest, but the WBWS still needs to face justice. Back to the reason we came here. Ping, read the charges.
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>>5915136 >Put Xue Long and his sect on trial, he might've embraced the reality of your people like the rest, but the WBWS still needs to face justice. >Let Siwang give his argument, just to see what it would've sounded like and so he doesn't mope for the rest of the trip back to the temple Anonymous
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>>5915136 >Put Xue Long and his sect on trial, he might've embraced the reality of your people like the rest, but the WBWS still needs to face justice. >Let Siwang give his argument, just to see what it would've sounded like and so he doesn't mope for the rest of the trip back to the temple Well this event has developed even more beautifully than I was envisioning. I wonder how much turmoil is happening up in the heavens as in an afternoon their ten thousand year deception is smashed apart so convincingly to so many influential people.
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My thoughts have been wondering, and it occurs to me that transforming into a human must be *very* confusing for poor Siwang. I'm not even gonna touch the two bug princesses, that is a whole can of worms I'm not opening.
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My thoughts have been wandering, and it occurs to me that transforming into a human must be *very* confusing for poor Siwang.
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My thoughts have been wandering, and it occurs to me that transforming into a human must be *very* confusing for poor Siwang.I'm not even gonna touch the two bug princesses, that is a whole can of worms I'm not opening.
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>>5915934 >A whole can of worms. >Not a whole can of BEEEEEES. >Not a whole can of Ants! You disappoint not only me, but yourself.
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BROTHERS! Breaking the rope is a trick we can only do once. Should we really waste it on something so trivial?
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>>5916335 I second this sentiment, which is why I did not include it in my vote. Much of our strength is in mystery, and keeping the facade that such a binding is useful against us could lure someone in the future into foolishly planning against us with that in mind, ignorant to the true scale of our strength. Besides, it just adds more to our image of helplessness and mistreatment that we've cultivated during the trial, strengthening the image we'll present when having Ping list the WBWS crimes. So altogether holding out appears to be the wiser decision when we've already gone this far.
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>>5916335 And what? should we bring the rope home and start living with it until the time is appropriate?
We reassured them of our good will and good character now they will have to recognize our strenght and demands.
Beside none of these shmucks is a danger and our real enemies, the divinities, will not use such petty tricks against us.
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>>5916335 I don't think the majority of the votes includes it
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>>5916335 Yes. Yes we do. drive home, hammer the point. We are stronger than YOU
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>>5916373 >>5916482 Breaking what is likely a valuable treasure of whatever sect provided it just to flex is very petty and will just piss everybody off.
If they were our mortal enemies who believed we are a demon who deserves nothing less then a painful death, (like when we arrived) it would be a good idea, to intimidate them and convince them that messing with us is a bad idea, demon or not.
But now? We JUST convinced that the we are a normal, if mildly heretical cultivator, like all of them. We have no reason to be confrontational with them anymore, the opportunity to pull that stunt is gone, in my opinion.
And, again, having our old enemies take the rope off themselves is a far stronger flex to our present enemies than breaking it off ourselves.
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>>5916515 There is still the reason to flex and still the reason to intimidate them.
The world is run bynthe strong. The rules decided by the strong and the strong are not bound by the rules.
So by demonstrating the strength again, we reassert that we can ask for more than we oculd before.
Frankly fuck their treasure, it belonged to Shi shan and his ass is getting tortured for 4 years and 4 months and 4 days and 4 hours. Who cares if we break his or his sects toy. They cant say shit.
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>>5915136 >Let Siwang give his argument, just to see what it would've sounded like and so he doesn't mope for the rest of the trip back to the temple Best Bird can have this, as a treat.
>Put Xue Long and his sect on trial, he might've embraced the reality of your people like the rest, but the WBWS still needs to face justice. It’s why we were here in the first place
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>>5916515 >>5916557 Frankly speaking after what rat face did and how the treasure was used if this rope was the only thing forfeited to us it wouldn't be enough.
Besides fuck them.
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>>5915136 >>Delay punishing the WBWS, to instead receive reparations from the White jade demon opposing army for Shi Shun's perverted conduct Anonymous
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>>5916596 it ISN'T enough. And we're going to take more in recompense.
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>>5914943 I forgot to mention this but Stack is kino taste Grandfather. This junior approves.
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>>5916715 I hope Grandpa finds an occasion to use Hanipaganda
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Grandfather here. Curse has struck me again, and it seems I won't have power for a couple of days, and as I am incapable of performing the profound technique of phone posting updates, it means the update will be delayed until my house is blessed with electricity again.
Anonymous
>>5917112 That old bastard Shandian betrayed us! Damn all of his grandparents!
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>>5917117 I swear the heavens like messing around with me and this quest, and hour after I'm told it'll be three days until my part of town has power, and guess what? Lights turn back on.
Seems your threat pressured Shandian into compliance, junior!
Anonymous
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>>5917189 Siwang REALLY wants to tell his speech, huh?
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>>5917112 By the grace of the heavens, you shall post this night, grandfather!
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>>5917326 It seems grandfather is undergoing tribulation afterall. We must pray for him, fellow juniors.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Tue 06 Feb 2024 05:47:04 No. 5917622 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote and tallying its result now.
Let Siwang deal with ironing out the reparations from the WBWS and dealing with Shi Shun it should make up for not being able to use his notes.:2
Let Siwang give his argument, just to see what it would've sounded like and so he doesn't mope for the rest of the trip back to the temple: 10
-We know that my case has already been dealt with:1
Ask to be untied: 4
-and break the rope before you are:1
Put Xue Long and his sect on trial, he might've embraced the reality of your people like the rest, but the WBWS still needs to face justice.:13
Make arrangements to return the imprisoned disciples to the Winter Blossoming:1
Break the rope:4
"Now hear me. I have been aquitted, my trial is over and you all know the folly you have perpetuated for generations...etc:1
"I would be very thankful to have my new subjects brought to me whereever they are found...etc:1
Delay punishing the WBWS, to instead receive reparations from the White jade demon opposing army for Shi Shun's perverted conduct:3
Ask if the inmortal binding rope is a special:1
Offer some help to the WBWS in the efforts of either restoring the sect or how the mortals under their domain think of them, showing that there's no bad blood between us and how the Secthead feel really sorry how the last Secthead acted and the normal people were affected, because at the end he couldn't see mount Tai and was blinded in our conflicts.:1
So you'll let Siwang give his argument anyways to keep him from moping, before putting the winter blossoming wisdom sect on trial
update will arrive shortly
>>5917611 Nah just needed time to recharge. Power came back on when I was heading out for the day cause sitting in a powerless house sucks. And then I needed to drink some tea.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Tue 06 Feb 2024 07:12:39 No. 5917686 Report "However" You say, glancing at Siwang as his expression dramatically falls into a look of absolute despair, his emotions very much evident on his face, he isn't used to have so expressive a face, being an owl and all "Before you and your sect trail for it's previous head's villainy and misdeeds, I would like to hear my legal experts argument, since it feels like kind of a waste to let all of his hard work go to waste just because I de-fanged most of the charges against me and my good name"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Tue 06 Feb 2024 07:13:40 No. 5917687 Report >>5917686 "That much ghostly qi, is a bad sign by the common sense of our world, that she is healthy and glowing isn't..."Shandian begins, before he turns, having heard a peal of laughter break out, turning to see a grinning Siwang standing there, in more fitting robes now since Ping took back the clothes he lent him
"Oh, he managed to come up with a loophole for your eating flesh that can't be argued, using the practice of hunting ascended beasts and twisting its purpose around" Tianhua "helpfully" explains as if you didn't just hear his argument yourself. To be fair You hadn't understood the legalese he used and spoke, but it sounded convincing "Its pretty much what he said the first time, but more refined and less flustered"
"How did he awaken" Xue Long asks as Siwang prances about, basking in the applause he gets for convincing a crowd of humans that eating human flesh can be forgiven in certain, very specific circumstances, what a terrifying ability
"His mother built their nest over another family's house" You explain, not reducing even unthinking beasts to be the lesser of man as Siwang continues on his argument, laughing mockingly at the crimes that are only on the list because of the demonizing of ascended beasts "One day, the father of the family had a spat with the wife, and stormed out to drink himself into a stupor, a thief crept in and brutalized both mother and child, leaving them as corpses for their husband and father to discover. He was found weeping over them by the other villagers, and was hanged without further inquiry. What Siwang felt at the sight of such injustice, was enough to kick start his awakening"
"Do all beasts have such sad stories?" Master Su asks, cheeks rosy, as he had started drinking when Fa Tang asked for a cup of wine to ease his own horror at the realization of just how much his world view was wrong "A kitten drenched in children's blood, and owl watching a tragedy unfold..."
"Tiexingege" You begin, perking up your ears as Siwang begins to explain in depth exactly why the accusations of your heretical law and other practices being demonic is an outlandish claim spoken from a place of ignorance, that he then blames on the stagnancy of Qi cultivation, the sects that practice it and their technique "And Jionghuagege didn't. Tie-Tie awoke out of a need to protect her sister ants from being washed away in the rain, and Jiong-Jiong as I understand her flowerly story, became a magical beast, due to the joy of bumbling through flowers with her mindless sister bees"
"That sounds like a lovely story, I'll have to ask them to tell me it themselves when I next meet them, so heroic and sweet." Tianhua remarks off handedly as she lifts her head up to listen to Siwang's rapid refutation of the charge of demonic sorcery, as several pairs of eyes glance your way, as hearing even the basics of your cultivation technique makes them realize just how talented you are.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Tue 06 Feb 2024 07:14:41 No. 5917688 Report >>5917687 "These two, they're the leader of the army of giant ants and bees you have, yes?" Shandia questions as he reclines back, smirking in quiet amazement as Siwang continues explaining how your heretical methods of cultivation can't be considered illegal even though some of what you do is specifically outlawed by the edict of the five wise immortal sages.
Since they've been told absorbing the Qi generated from death and corpses is a quick path to sickening, crippling or even killing oneself, but they never tried to absorb the still breath of ghosts and corpses to see if it would harm them, let alone make cultivating it their primary source of spiritual energy
"Yes" You answer, sending a pointed look at the cute owl boy to keep him from saying too much about your law, lest people start pestering you to teach it or worse try to steal its secrets by force "They consider themselves sisters, and are the second and third magical beasts to attain human forms. They were lucky to be born outside of the world of man, so they didn't have to worry about being poached like I did. Had to stay on my toes and stick to the shadows until I shattered the void and became strong enough to throw my weight around"
"Must've been hell" The man reeking of burnt ozone admits, glancing to the now tied, bound and gagged Shi Shun, frowning and shooting a pitying look your direction.
"and yet she still turned out to be such a good kid!" Tianhua says, unknowingly rising up several tiers in your mother's list of people she's fond off which just those few words "The thousand lotus hall is indebted to her for the heroic deed she did in our name, righteously slaying a former disciple of your sect, Master Long"
Xue Long makes a very Laohue looking face, rolling his jaw as he glares as Master Lian.
"The one who lethally wounded my father?" He asked angrily "and killed several of our best disciples, and rising stars of the latest generation"
"The very same" You say, smirking as Tianhua shoots a worried glance the way of your dimensional gourd, knowing exactly who is trapped inside of it and stuck in a jar "He also butchered two of their favored disciples"
Siwang begins detailing comprehensively the mundane and cultivation laws and concepts of land and property ownership and management. You can't help but to wonder how he'll make killing the son of heaven no longer a criminal act.
"Good riddance" is all long says in reply, but there's more behind those two words than he is letting on. He taps his fingers on the table between the five, er, six of you counting Qinxin, since Ping has wandered off somewhere
"He's really shooting through those accusations" Tianhua admires, eyes wide "That's a dangerous weapon you had hiding behind your legs, Lady Huanliuxue"
"That boy could debate a turtle to give up its shell" Shandian laughs "He's managed to turn squatting in a ruined temple into an act of charity as far as laws are concerned"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Tue 06 Feb 2024 07:15:42 No. 5917689 Report >>5917688 "Hmph If you saw I did to the place, you'd call it an act of divinity, my temple is pristine and well decorated" You shout defensively and perhaps maybe a little pridefully, head held high even though you're still roped and bound up like a hunk of salted and preserved pork
"Did he just make killing the son of heaven a merciful act of euthanasia?" Xue Long spits, covering his mouth as he sputters and coughs, blood coating his hand, eyes wild with disbelief
"Yes he did!" You shout, proud of your student and resisting the ever growing urge to sprint over and shower him with praise and a teacher's love "And if you'd laid eyes on what he'd become before I worked my magic, you'd agree! The dog emperor was practically a walking corpse, and I know my corpses! At least being cut to pieces by three angry rebel warriors has some dignity to it instead of rotting in your own filth in fine silk sheets!"
"My sect could've cured him, if we didn't distance ourselves from earthly affairs" Lian Tianhua says quietly "But from what I've heard about what lead to the state of anarchy the broken kingdom is in, we'd have had every right to refuse him"
"The three Dian Brothers did kill him partially to protect my chastity, or rather that of my friend Yuyi, who I was...borrowing" You darkly agree, nodding as Xue Long and Shandian both look at you fiercely "I practice a ghostly law, I'd be a failure of a cultivator, heretic or not, if I didn't know how to force my soul into others. Besides, she consented to it!"
"That was also how she first visited our temple openly" Master Su giggles, twirling a finger through his white hair like a little girl, clearly shitfaced now "Took on a lonely village girl as her student in medicine, and now she's married and the mother to a few daughters worshipped as divinely touched children"
"Side effects of her possession?" Tianhua presses, sounding very curious
"Enough Primordial Beast Essence in a human body tends does some curious things. Yuyi gained the ability to cultivate, but refuses to make use of her new potential, but she's a special cause in that. Most who are affected by beast essence just sprout some fresh ears and eyes" You answer cheerfully, squirming in your ropes as you forget you can't lift up your hands to mime bouncing animal ears atop your head, as Siwang, disproves most of the accusations off handedly, even though most of them have already been stricken out after your lecture on the true history of beasts and the world "But that can be "Fixed", if you know how to perform the right kind of alchemy"
Admitting to knowing how to perform blood refinement and blood alchemy would be pressing your luck and the strained acceptance these masters around you have for your heretical and untested methods.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Tue 06 Feb 2024 07:17:14 No. 5917691 Report >>5917689 "Tian Mei is still alive?" Xue Long asked with a greatly sad look, as Siwang moves onto the last set of crimes that just explaining you and every other ascendant beasts weren't demonic couldn't brush aside. There is a hopeful ring to his words. He's hoping Ming is as well.
"I killed Ming, and hope I can meet him in his next life. He earned my respect with his defiant last act. He charged through the attack that reduced Laohue to cinder and steam" You explain quietly and respectfully "just to try and drag me down to the grave with him. It was magnificent, truly magnificent. And I do not give my praise or my respect lightly. His resolve was...well there are no other words for it besides magnificent. You should've been proud to have such a lion as your son"
Long looks at you with a conflicted look in his teary eyes
"If I find whoever branded your kind as demons, I will do worse than what I swore to do to his killer" Is how he replies, gingerly lifting a hand to his eye "It would seem your disciple is nearly finished with his argument for a closed and shut case"
"Oh no, he's just getting started, Siwang is excitable and diligent to a fault" You answer off handedly, yawning as you do, ignoring that Long just openly said he does intend to seek vengeance against you for Ming's death "if it makes you feel better, the Ling Brat that was sent with him died a dog's death. Unlike Ming, who I sent to his next life with dignity and grace"
"And left no body for me to bury" Long bitterly remarks, before he to yawns "A verbose little bird, isn't he"
"He hasn't stopped to breath once" Shandian sighs
"Must be his wind aligned law" Su theorizes drunkenly, leaning against a now sleeping Fa Tang
"Lady Huanliuxue, have you ever thought about hiring out his talent's to other sect's in need of legal assitance?" Tianhua asks, all business now.
Once Siwang has finished, what do you focus on first and center your accusations around during the trial of the WBWS, Huanliuxue?
>Their carelessness and the damages it caused to the land and its people, focus primarily on the villages frozen solid and how much their magic snow storm ruined and ended lives >Make the trial mostly about their crimes against your family, since Monu and Xuebai's treatment would be criminal now in the eyes of the gathered cultivators >Give accounts of Laohue's monstrous actions against beasts and Buddhists, and how the cruel punishments of his sect created not only Monu and thus Huanliuxue, but also Jingyu! >Point out how greatly the WBWS misruled their lands and how often they were apathetic to the plight of their people, favoring their reputation to acting benevolently >just tell Siwang to do it. The kid is on a roll. (can be taken with other options) >Have Lian Tianhua lend her authority to your accusations (Can be taken with other options) >write in Anonymous
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>>5917691 >Just tell Siwang to do it. The kid is on a roll. (can be taken with other options) >Give accounts of Laohue's monstrous actions against beasts and Buddhists, and how the cruel punishments of his sect created not only Monu and thus Huanliuxue, but also Jingyu! Anonymous
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>>5917691 >Make the trial mostly about their crimes against your family, since Monu and Xuebai's treatment would be criminal now in the eyes of the gathered cultivators >just tell Siwang to do it. The kid is on a roll. (can be taken with other options) Anonymous
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>>5917691 >Their carelessness and the damages it caused to the land and its people, focus primarily on the villages frozen solid and how much their magic snow storm ruined and ended >Give accounts of Laohue's monstrous actions against beasts and Buddhists, and how the cruel punishments of his sect created not only Monu and thus Huanliuxue, but also Jingyu! >just tell Siwang to do it. The kid is on a roll. (can be taken with other options) Anonymous
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>>5917691 >Their carelessness and the damages it caused to the land and its people, focus primarily on the villages frozen solid and how much their magic snow storm ruined and ended lives We already killed Laohue for his crimes against Xuebei and Monu.
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>>5917691 >Their carelessness and the damages it caused to the land and its people, focus primarily on the villages frozen solid and how much their magic snow storm ruined and ended lives >Point out how greatly the WBWS misruled their lands and how often they were apathetic to the plight of their people, favoring their reputation to acting benevolently >just tell Siwang to do it. The kid is on a roll. (can be taken with other options) I feel like these can be combined. I really want to make this trial about the common folk, who have been ignored and mistreated by cultivators for too long. After all, being an advocate of the weak and protector of the common folk is kinda our thing.
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>>5917691 >Their carelessness and the damages it caused to the land and its people, focus primarily on the villages frozen solid and how much their magic snow storm ruined and ended lives Anonymous
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>>5917691 >Focus primarily on their carelessness >Point out their misrule. >Allow Swiang to do it. Ping can help We want to focus mostly on the twin pillars of abusing the small folk and misrule. Since these crimes allow us to press them to give up their land and holdings over to us
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>>5917691 >>Their carelessness and the damages it caused to the land and its people, focus primarily on the villages frozen solid and how much their magic snow storm ruined and ended lives >just tell Siwang to do it. The kid is on a roll. (can be taken with other options) Well, our grudges are settled with family matters. It was their stance on the war that was crappy and should be punished.
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>>5917691 >Their carelessness and the damages it caused to the land and its people, focus primarily on the villages frozen solid and how much their magic snow storm ruined and ended lives >just tell Siwang to do it. The kid is on a roll. (can be taken with other options) Anonymous
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>>5917691 I think Siwang had his fun for now, though we will keep him ready if they try to dispute us.
As I see it the grievances we have can be distinguished in two categories:
The personal sins of Laohue:
Basically anything and everything in the options really.
Which we should use to bury his memory in pigshit since he's already dead.
And the failings of the sect:
Cruel punishments, misrule of the land and indiscriminate use of the storm.
Then we should have them declare Monu cleared of all misdeeds just so we can deny her return to the sect which mistreated her so.
And finally demand they drop the "wisdom" part in their sect name until a time when they earn it back.
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>>5917691 >just tell Siwang to do it. The kid is on a roll. (can be taken with other options) >Their carelessness and the damages it caused to the land and its people, focus primarily on the villages frozen solid and how much their magic snow storm ruined and ended lives >Give accounts of Laohue's monstrous actions against beasts and Buddhists, and how the cruel punishments of his sect created not only Monu and thus Huanliuxue, but also Jingyu! Rather then mentioning their apathy, we should mention the fact it wasn't just that they didn't care about helping people, but also did care about how much they were fucking them over.
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>>5917691 >Their carelessness and the damages it caused to the land and its people, focus primarily on the villages frozen solid and how much their magic snow storm ruined and ended lives >Point out how greatly the WBWS misruled their lands and how often they were apathetic to the plight of their people, favoring their reputation to acting benevolently >just tell Siwang to do it. The kid is on a roll. (can be taken with other options) Anonymous
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>>5917691 >Their carelessness and the damages it caused to the land and its people, focus primarily on the villages frozen solid and how much their magic snow storm ruined and ended lives >Point out how greatly the WBWS misruled their lands and how often they were apathetic to the plight of their people, favoring their reputation to acting benevolently Anonymous
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>>5917691 >Point out how greatly the WBWS misruled their lands and how often they were apathetic to the plight of their people, favoring their reputation to acting benevolently >Their carelessness and the damages it caused to the land and its people, focus primarily on the villages frozen solid and how much their magic snow storm ruined and ended lives The focus should be their impact on the common people, we’ve gotten our fill by vaporizing the man who hurt our family.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Thu 08 Feb 2024 06:55:01 No. 5919978 Report Quoted By:
Had to deal with losing power again, hoping that's the last tribulation I'll face of the kind, because it is infuriating, especially when it happens multiple times in one week. Anyways, ending the vote and tallying the result now.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Thu 08 Feb 2024 09:37:44 No. 5920041 Report It was decided that before you would be allowed to list off the numerous crimes of the winter blossoming wisdom sect, that the immortal binding rope would be removed. Mostly because your blasé attitude at being roped, bound and restrained was beginning to make the assembled cultivators uncomfortable for reasons you don't understand, it wasn't like they were the ones bound and tied up with it and sapped off their strength, but for whatever reason seeing you wrapped with it made them more restless than the initial wave of excitement and horror that washed over them all when you told them the true history of the world and the actual nature of magical beasts. Part of you hoped it was because they were feeling guilt and outrage at seeing you trussed up like a common beast awaiting butchering and it was their own fears and ignorance that put you in such a sorry and pathetic looking state. But another part of you knew that some of their discomfort came from their own dirty and lurid thoughts at seeing your assets so crudely displayed and your beauty accented with the light white glow of the spider silk thin band of magical rope.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Thu 08 Feb 2024 09:38:45 No. 5920042 Report >>5920041 The White Jade Devil Opposing Army didn't like the idea of anyone else touching their toy, and they were stalled because having any of their number allowed anywhere near you to remove it wasn't a demand they could make with out a massive loss of face. A loss they couldn't afford to take unless they earned a reputation of being a perverted sect of lechers.
So instead you demonstrated your natural flexibility and slipped the rope while everyone else was arguing. Tianhua watched in astonishment as you rolled your wrists and shoulders, bent around and nearly curled up into a ball to loosen the rope and stretch and wiggle your way out of it. She turned away, covering her face with a fan as you tugged and pulled the immortal binding rope's ties and knots out before lifting it over your head.
"You could've done that at any time?" Tianhua hissed under her breath and beneath her fan, looking oddly flushed as you lift and stretch out your arms to get their feeling and limberness back
"I'm a cat, even when I look like a girl, have you ever tried to tie up a cat?" You snicker as you hold the rope up, little red lines marking your otherwise flawless and jade like skin "And I didn't until now because doing it would've sent all of these idiots into a panic, just as if I stormed in without any seals or restrictions"
"You might be right that they needed to be in a position of power over you to actually listen to and face you" Tianhua pouts angrily "But that just meant you could've torn that perverted monkey limb from limb!"
"And that would've made the assembly more comfortable with my overwhelming pressence, how?" You questioning, deciding to mess with Master Lian by demonstrating another form of flexibility by leaning your head and craning your neck back to keep matching her gaze even though you've walked past her. She represses a shiver as you grin ear to ear at her in what looks like and is a very uncomfortable position
"It would've made me feel better and not like I betrayed your trust" she huffs, poutily, closing her eyes tightly to avoid looking at you contortionist act directly "And failed you, Huanliuxue. It would've caused problems, but it would've been satisfying for any one to watch"
"What I have in store for the worm will be much more satisfying for myself" You swear with a cackle as you roll your neck, right your posture and slip behind the present elder of the demon opposing army as he angrily and exasperatedly explains just how valuable and historied that length of rope is, and only a trained sealer from their temple could be allowed to touch it let alone go through the complicated ceremony and procedure to undo its bindings.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Thu 08 Feb 2024 09:39:46 No. 5920044 Report >>5920042 "Old timer, stop wasting your breath, I got tired of waiting and slipped out from the rope by myself" You cheekily exclaims as you hop behind him, making him start and wheel around, hands raised in some esoteric stance, before he nearly slips trying to catch the rope you toss him. The other elders he was arguing with are aware and smart enough to be afraid after hearing that idle boast, since it tells them just how flimsy their illusion of safety actually was and how close a few of them, primarily from the sages of the shifting sands who you are still plotting vengeance against for their many insults, came to pissing you off enough for you to escape your bindings and wreck havoc.
After allowing that dawning realization to settle deeply in the recesses of their minds and to ferment into dread, you turn on your heel, enjoying a full range of movement to its fullest extent and cheerfully declare "Disciple Siwang has been preparing for the next trial, having re-read the lists of crimes I had prepared before calling this conclave to begin with".
"You won't be presenting the accusations yourself?" Shandian asks, stroking his beard and brushing sparks of light out of it "Knowing your familial ties and history with the winter blossoming wisdom sect, and what awoke you as a beast, I had...we had all assumed you'd pursue your vendetta with gusto"
"Then all of you old timers have misunderstood why I called this assembly" You shout, slapping your forehead and hopping to avoid tripping over the elder inspecting the rope you threw into his hands, checking it for any damages or new flaws that weren't there before you'd wiggled free from it "It wasn't ever about getting revenge or getting even with them, it was only ever about bringing them to justice. I tire of orthodox hypocrisy, in fact I've been exhausted by it since I was barely more than a frog in a well. I put them on trial so they wouldn't escape the punishment they deserved, not to get revenge. I already got all the personal retribution I needed when I trounced them in battle and removed their old head! I'm seeking retribution in place of and for those they've trampled who couldn't fight back"
"Forgive me, I was still looking at you through an outdated view, and thinking of what ends a devil would seek against the righteous" Shandian admitted with a cupped fist "But if you would delegate the responsibility to your junior, I see no fault in your decision"
"Especially since Brother Siwang has shown he can run mental circles around anyone whose put up against him" Ping chuckles, returning from wherever he went, dripping wet and rolling a strange, ancient looking coin between his fingers "Master is truly wise, putting the responsibility on his shoulder's will nip any accusations of personal bias or feelings interfering with their judgement at the bud"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Thu 08 Feb 2024 09:40:47 No. 5920045 Report >>5920044 "How astute my student is! What incredible cunning to realize my plan before I speak it" You praise, giving a beguiling titter to hide the truth that that wasn't why you pushed Siwang forward, and it was just because you were feeling kind of lazy after the ordeal and excitement of the day. That Siwang is a better choice to grill and drag the winter blossoming wisdom sect through the wringer for their crimes by actually understanding the laws they and most other cultivators hide behind, is simply a happy coincidence that allows you to relax and shift the responsibility to him instead of indulging in tearing apart their unwarranted reputation with your own two hands.
"Then it shall begin immediately" Master Su declares, clapping his hands together "Fa Tang! Fetch Xue Long and bring him to the center of the Pagoda!"
Xue Long, long white hair allowed to fall freely over his face, hiding his disturbingly Monu like face and giving him the appearance of a ragged prisoner or flea ridden bum, kneels before the assembled cultivators, while his followers kneel behind him. The sand sages are all too piss drunk to have a presence, but some kindly soul has propped them back up in their seats, where their disciples are now fanning them with big palm leaves to try and ward off the unpleasant after effects of drinking enough wine to get even your mother a little tipsy.
"Disciple Siwang of the palace of the natural laws" A now much more sober Master Su bellows, flicking his sleeve towards Siwang "Present the evidence and accusations against the Xue clan and the Winter Blossoming Wisdom Sect they lead, the venerable sages and idolized hermits gathered here have not heard of their crimes, though I myself am well aware of them, considering my personal acquaintance with the deceased patriarch, Xue Laohue"
"I am offended and in disbelief that so many could be so blind and so ignorant of what is occurring right outside of their own temple's gates" Siwang begins, righteously furious, arms lifted like he would his wings as you were too busy showing Tianhua how exactly you slipped out of the rope to teach him how to switch between his two bodies, and he was busy preparing for the trial he is now heading to fit in a quick lesson anyways "Their grand, weather changing array, has wrought unspeakable havoc upon the fair landscape of our home! Chuan has been bled and wounded, by no fault of its people! Just the carelessness of the immortals that reign over it! That ritual they organized as they marched to confront my master, was more of a catastrophic and damaging than the war that has been raging for years, the conflict between the sects of Chuan and Ling, or the storms that raged across the lands not too long ago"
Xue Long lifts up his head, eyes narrowed as the other elders mutter amongst themselves, clearly not expecting Siwang to begin the trial with an outburst. But you've already figured out his plan.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Thu 08 Feb 2024 09:41:48 No. 5920047 Report >>5920045 Simply Listing the crimes makes them abstract, distant. Speaking of them however, makes them feel real and present. Something both him and you used to make the accusations against you that stuck seem petty in the grand scheme of things, which was more the fault of the idiot who presented the statement against you. Siwang was really like a dragon amongst snakes when it came to the courtroom, Heh-heh.
"Oh the war of Ling aggression has bled the mortal realm, the sect conflict has endangered innocent lives, and the dozens of natural disasters did wrought ruination upon land and people, but one cannot blame a storm the way they can blame a careless young master or heartless, ambitious noble" Siwang continues, strutting around in front of the crowd, drawing the admiring gazes of the younger young masters who look like they are considering courting the boy after just seeing his new and freshly made face. Something you immediately decide can be allowed, and make a not to impress and uh, threaten them to not try and seduce your student by taking advantage of his naivety.
"Yes, those who have had a role in the wars between mundane and magical armies should be made to answer for them, but what Xue Laohue had done through carelessness and apathy alone, far overshadows even the crimes of long dead Ling Meng" Siwang says, as you snicker at the thought of burping at that precise moment, but decided against it since it would be unbecoming and ruin your regal, dignified image of not being a man eating monster
"Children, frozen in their mother's arms" Siwang rages, eyes wide and burning with zealous rage, spit flying from his mouth as he slams a closed fist through the air, sending a twister through the crowd as he clacks his teeth like he still had a beak "The elderly choosing to march into the blizzard to spare even a single meal for their families, entire communities forced to commit actual cannibalism or else be erased. Even the nobility burned their priceless silks and paintings to stave off the cold! I saw the result of their march to our temple's gate with my own eyes! I personally took part in the relief effort that my master ordained to save lives that had been abandoned by all others, including you who were trusted to be their guardians!"
Siwang pauses to catch his breath, as Ping shakes his head and Master Su strokes his beard. Lian Tianhua hangs her head in shame, and some of the crowded cultivators bluster and try to form excuses with their tied and stumbling tongues.
"Of all the sects in Chuan, who reached out to those stuck beneath the storm of ice and death and worked to banish away the charmed blizzard? Certainly none present here today, except for the illustrious palace of natural laws" Siwang declares, wagging his head side to side before catching his tongue and bowing his head to master Su "And the humble Five colors and Five Purities Sect"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Thu 08 Feb 2024 09:42:49 No. 5920048 Report >>5920047 Xue Long swallows hard. He's smarter than his father, whatever made Laohue so staunch in being a devil of the orthodoxy is tempered, perhaps by the bit of your mother in him. He realizes trying to defend his predecessors actions would be the worst possible thing to do, so he waits, for the chance to be actually capable of defending his sect to arise. You doubt Siwang will give it to him.
"The blizzard was unnecessary, while I am disgusted by how only we outcasts sought to shield and lend aid to our lessers, I am outraged that none present have held the winter blossoming wisdom sect for creating that enchanted snow storm and condemning, without a thought, hundreds, thousands to a death more terrible than any of you can imagine" He weeps, tears flowing freely down his cheeks
"I've been caught in a snow storm, and was only saved by Huanliuxue's timely arrival myself" Ping comments softly "It is a fear that cannot be grasped by those who have never felt a cold so fierce it corrodes the flesh and freezes the blood. How those people died, is more terrible than can be imagined"
Xue Long shoots and offended and perhaps betrayed look toward's ping, who flashes a truly wicked looking smile his way
"Huanliuxue couldn't stand to watch such suffering spread just outside of her home, so she acted, to undo the attrocity that was committed through apathy and narrowed sightedness. What did Xue Laohue condemn innocent men, women and children to a agonizing and slow death to accomplish? What was the aim that lead him to beat a war drum and devastate natural beauty in his march" Siwang demands, eyes aflame once more, and tears sparkling against his now reddened cheeks "But a grudge against a woman he had already broken and ruined! Who had done nothing! Except defend her new home and family from unwarranted aggression!"
"If you had seen what that witch had done to our!" Xue Long barks before biting his tongue and shutting his mouth with a snarl, realizing he just gave Siwang the rope to hang him with
"She entered the field only after it became clear there was no other way to protect her adopted daughter and their shared temple!" Siwang accuses "And who would not feel a pull to be cruel after not only witnessing the horrors of a blizzard without end, but being a victim of the outrageous punishment meted out to those who stray from the stringent rules of your temple! A punishment for..."
"My father...Laohue didn't know that wasn't raising a demon" Long weakly protests
"Would he have cared if he did know? Would he have done differently?" Master Su demands spitefully
Long remains silent.
"I was once friends with your father, whelp, he was a harsh man who froze his heart" Su bitterly continues "Forgive my interruption, but I would not stand for a washing of that brute's reputation, He delighted in hunting ascended beasts and brutalizing those who parted from tradition"
Shandian rubs his throat
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Thu 08 Feb 2024 09:43:50 No. 5920049 Report >>5920048 "You are pardoned" He says quietly, before turning to face Siwang and bowing his head to inform him to continue
"A crime that wasn't a crime, that he punished with a penalty of death and something far worse than being executed" Siwang shrills, eyes blazing now as he lifts his arms above his head expressively "Punishment that made Grand Elder Monu the witch you accuse her of being! The same punishment that turned a fox possessed monk into a corpse stealing monster!"
Xue Long's lips thin and his eyes roil with silent fury. The gathered cultivators whisper and gossip before one young master roars
"THAT DEMON WAS YOUR DOING!?" He cries out, tears in his eyes "HE TORE APART MY ELDER BROTHER"
"He kidnapped my little sister!" Tianhua shouts before Shandian can shout down the young master "And butchered two of our best disciples like livestock! I saw their bodies! It wasn't the work of a beast, a monster or a devil, but something far more evil! And they didn't tell any of us about Jingyu, fearful it would damage their reputation"
"I saw a village that beast rampaged through, he left a twitching pile of stitched together corpses, I..I had to put them out of their misery, they were still begging me to help them!"
"My cousin went missing before the war with the guardians started, she was a disciple of your temple! Did he kill her!?"
"Hah~! they were probably proud of their pet monster! Sure he didn't freeze an entire province of the empire solid, but that is an undertaking for an entire sect of heartless beasts, not just one mere student"
"I was afraid to accuse them of anything, My sect is young! They wiped out the villages we cherished and raised, as carelessly as if they were stepping on ants!"
"They...that storm was just to kill one woman? Not even the army of man devouring ants and man stealing bees? That..I, you should be ashamed of your heritage, Xue!"
"They probably lost those five novices that caused the mess with the Ling to that butcher, might've even lead them right to him"
"People don't leave offerings out our shrines anymore, they only go to the one's built for Huanliuxue after that snowstorm they summoned!"
"So much misery for no reason! My hands were tied, if I got in their way, who knows what they would've done to me! We all know they're mad dogs!"
Xue Long hangs his head in defeat. Siwang had created an opening all right, an opening for every young master and elder present to make excuses for why they didn't help the commoners like you did, and why they didn't confront the winter blossoming wisdom sect or Laohue alone for what he did to the lands they're supposed to be watching over. And he's also reminded them of that duty they've forgotten, and guilted them into feeling ashamed for having forgotten their responsibilities to the little people beneath them. Sure, most of them are just blowhards trying to keep from losing face, but enough of them honestly feel guilt for the anger they're showing to Xue Long to be very real
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Thu 08 Feb 2024 09:44:52 No. 5920050 Report >>5920049 They're not flashing their fangs without reason, they have to show they're as righteous as you and your temple, now that they realize you aren't monsters they don't have an easy target to point out to use as an excuse their apathy or casual cruelty.
But they do have Xue Long, and they do have the winter blossoming wisdom sect to look down at and treat like filth and vermin, and every reason to reprimand them. Not only do they make a convenient villain to rally against, but how much were their sects hurt by their careless and single minded focus to attack you and your sect for no reason.
"SILENCE!" Shandian bellows, thunder cracking as lighting flies from his now blue white lit eyes "Silence! There are too many of you too scold or punish, so I shall forgive your combined transgressions"
Tianhua winks at you, beaming with pride at having been able to help by encouraging the rest of the assembly to speak out. What a clever and cunning woman.
"Xue Long! Your defense" the storm cloud demands, lifting up his closed fan and thrusting it the way of the slumped sect head
"I have none, at least none that would be heard, except one. The array we created did cause much harm to these lands and the people living on them. Our standard punishments, with the benefit of hindsight, are unforgivably harsh and cruel, the crimes my birth mother committed no longer seem as inhuman as they once did" He says, voice dry and creaking, before he rises to his feet "But Jingyu deserved the punishment they were both given, and we did not unleash him onto the world, we scarcely realized the threat he posed before"
"HORSESHIT!" You snap, but an arc of lightning dances before your eyes, which you narrow to glare at Shandian, who has chosen that outburst to finally enforce his limp wristed no talking out of turn rule
"Before he was dealt with, by Huanliuxue, who knows more of that renegade than I or my predecessor ever did" He finishes, with a final desperate bid to redirect some of the damages to his sect's reputation onto your much less established temple's standing. But Tianhua steps forward with a calculated expression, eyes squinted like a viper's
"Huanliuxue speaks with ghosts" She says sharply, snapping her own fan closed with a click as she points it Xue Long who lets out a longer, agonized sigh "She is capable of traveling to and from the underworld, How regularly does she? We aren't aware, but we know she has traveled through the territory of the Winter blossoming wisdom sect often. Spirits of the dead denied burial, ghosts who mortal remains have been desecrated, are loud and prone to haunting and lingering, even I know this, and my sect does not raise exorcists! Your accusation is hollow and spiteful. She probably learned of Jingyu from one of his victims or perhaps"
She turns and motions to Ping and Qinxin with a flick of her fan
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Thu 08 Feb 2024 09:45:57 No. 5920051 Report >>5920050 "She became aware of him through the encounter these two had with the monster, another former disciple of the winter blossoming wisdom sect, and a former member of the Guardians of the celestial sunlight!" She declares "Master Xue's attempt to shift the blame and imply some connection between Huanliuxue and the devil his sect made, just shows how guilty they truly are"
"I'm going to send a frost to kill your gardens!" Xue Long snaps, and gets sent to the ground with a quick shock of lighting
"No more interruptions" Shandian threatens, a singler finger raised and jabbed at Xue Long "And I, for one, Agree with Master Lian, that was childish Master Xue, unbecoming of the grandmaster of a cultivation sect! But, you have only recently taken the position, so it is to be expected. I don't need to hear any more, just junior Siwang's reminder of what you all did to Chuan, is enough, the rest just made me certain of my decision"
You lean back in your chair, nearly tipping it over as one by one, the representatives of the gathered sects hastily agree with Shandian and Lian Tianhua, Master Su being the first, and the disciples of the Summer sea dawn following him shortly. The dusk marsh wolves endure, and a few other sects hold out longer than them.
The sages of the shifting sands refuse to answer, but it isn't like they can, as drunk as they are after trying to numb themselves after learning just how many innocent lives their sect has snuffed out and their prized reputation of being expert beast slayers might as well have had them boasting about being baby killers.
As such, the vote is unanimous, the Winter Blossoming Wisdom Sect and the Xue clan are guilty.
And as the leader of the conclave, their punishment falls into your hands.
As does Shi Shun's, since he isn't allowed to even whimper before a guilty sentence is slapped across his face. Literally, since it is delivered by Lian Tianhua nearly slapping out his teeth out of anger and disgust on your behalf. Which is very sweet of her.
<span class="mu-s"> double vote! </span>
What is the punishment of the WBWS
>They have to remove the wisdom part of their sect's name >They must give up the lands/ territory they own that were directly harmed with their blizzard >They must give up their Main/ primary temple/ retreat, which will be put up on auction. >They must reveal every secret of their techniques, magics, martial arts, methods and cultivation practices >They must publicly prostrate themselves before Lord Chuan and beg forgiveness >write in And what will you do to Shi Shun, Huanliuxue?
>Castration >Break his foundation and end his cultivation >Death by a thousand cuts, by your claws >Dragged to hell and tossed into a den of memory eating demons >Give him to Monu >Write in Anonymous
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>>5920051 >They have to remove the wisdom part of their sect's name >They must give up the lands/ territory they own that were directly harmed with their blizzard >They must publicly prostrate themselves before Lord Chuan and beg forgiveness >Break his foundation and end his cultivation, then turn him into a woman and sell to a brothel Anonymous
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>>5920051 >They have to remove the wisdom part of their sect's name >They must give up the lands/ territory they own that were directly harmed with their blizzard >They must give up their Main/ primary temple/ retreat, which will be put up on auction. >Break his foundation and end his cultivation, then turn him into a woman and sell to a brothel Anonymous
>>5920051 >They must give up the lands/ territory they own that were directly harmed with their blizzard >They must publicly prostrate themselves before Lord Chuan and beg forgiveness This is the punishment that makes the most sense, given their crime.
>Dragged to hell and tossed into a den of memory eating demons Over the top as it is, I think this is the one instance where it's for the best to put our foot down and make sure NO ONE gets ideas like this again.
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>>5920051 >They must give up the lands/ territory they own that were directly harmed with their blizzard >Spend 10 years helping the affected villages recover from the damages. >And our fathers legacy, be written as a fool and a great shame for generations to come. And what will you do to Shi Shun, Huanliuxue?
>Break his foundation and end his cultivation Some write in's 1 to never have another old bastard rise up again and remove beasts from cultivation.
2. Helping the villages out and rebuilding them will teach them some humility.
3. Land that they didn't care for is ours
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>>5920051 >They have to remove the wisdom part of their sect's name Until this council decides they have earned it back
>They must publicly prostrate themselves before Lord Chuan and beg forgiveness >They must assist in the rebuilding of all they have damaged. >They must give up the lands/ territory they own that were directly harmed with their blizzard Clearly they don't care about them
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>Turn him into a woman Anonymous
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>>5920051 >Public prostation before lord Chuan >Surrender their lands effected by their storm >Remove the Wisdom from their title. >Break his cultuvation, turn him into a woman and sell him to a brothel. A secure one, a busy one ideally. Anonymous
>>5920051 >They have to remove the wisdom part of their sect's name >They must give up the lands/ territory they own that were directly harmed with their blizzard Some day, hopefully they can get back the wisdom part of their name, but this should be enough of a blow to their reputation on the immortal and mortal world, hopefully it turn in the cross they need to drag until they finally made amendments and can use the "Wisdom" name again.
>Give him to Monu I feel like choosing the "Break his foundation and end his cultivation" option could be seen as hypocritical because of how we bashed the WBWS and the Xue clan because of the things they did to Monu, Jingyu, and surely a bunch of others. But still, i hope Grandfather can explain to me if that punishment the WBWS is 10x worse and unnecessary compared to the option that we have, or if it's a whole different and horrific thing they do. and if that's the case then I would change my vote
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>>5920051 >They must give up the lands/ territory they own that were directly harmed with their blizzard land grab
>They must publicly prostrate themselves before Lord Chuan and beg forgiveness reputation destruction (big PR win for us)
>They have to remove the wisdom part of their sect's name And let them never forget their mistake through their name.
I'm against turning him into a women or feeding him to demons. I find this to be the more deserved punishment. The others feel unncesarily over the top and I don't think Haun has ever done anything that bad to anyone yet so far.
>Break his foundation and end his cultivation >Castration Anonymous
>>5920051 >They have to remove the wisdom part of their sect's name until all in Chuan can say they earned it back. >They must give up the lands/ territory they own that were directly harmed with their blizzard >They must publicly prostrate themselves before Lord Chuan and beg forgiveness I'm willing to compromise so that they must send representatives but not specifically their sect heads or elders.
Leave it up to them to choose what is good enough to save face and what is little enough to cross us again.
As for ratface:
>Give him to Monu Frankly speaking i can't imagine something more horrible, and a nebulous future fate is somehow both worse and easier to ignore while haunting the crowd with morbid curiosity.
Except for Xue long who probably can vividly imagine what she's capable of.
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>>5920368 I am equally willing to leave him to Monu
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>>5920286 She was abused for having a beast kid. Rapists have NO mercy from me.
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>>5920051 People have made good points, so I will change my vote
>>5920099 regarding what to do with Shi Shun to be
>Give him to Monu Anonymous
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>>5920051 >They have to remove the wisdom part of their sect's name >They must give up the lands/ territory they own that were directly harmed with their blizzard >They must publicly prostrate themselves before Lord Chuan and beg forgiveness >Break his foundation, end his cultivation and turn him into a woman Anonymous
>5920051 >They have to remove the wisdom part of their sect's name >They must give up the lands/ territory they own that were directly harmed with their blizzard >Give him to Monu Also I like how the memory eating demons have become a canon creature
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>>5920591 >>5920051 messed that up somehow
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>>5920591 Supporting all these choices
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>>5920051 >They have to remove the wisdom part of their sect's name >They must give up the lands/ territory they own that were directly harmed with their blizzard >They must publicly prostrate themselves before Lord Chuan and beg forgiveness >Castration Anonymous
>>5920051 I also have an additional write-in
>3 prominent members of the sect (of our choosing) must live with the palace of natural laws as "guests" for 10 years Basically demanding noble hostages to ensure the peace as was custom in olden times
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>>5921241 Between Xuebai and Monu i doubt hostages are going to last, we're going quite soft on them and if mommy dearest doesn't go over to kill a few more just for spite is only because of inconvenient distance.
besides noble hostages is a tradition of medieval era Europe leftover from when romans abducted princes to Romanize them.
I never heard of Chinese doing the same, although I won't dismiss it outright.
Besides who are you going to abduct, a prodigious student? it would just be stealing students not a hostage with emotional attachment.
Anonymous
>>5921653 Though if Xue long also has a daughter (other than the son we vaporized) we could have her apprendice under Monu, that would be some sort of karmic revenge...
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>>5922514 I'll still insist on offering a hand to his Blind son so he can learn how to adapt at his condition with Hong. After all, him and the bastard of our dead father were more than capable to operate and fight without sight. Tho for me this is more of a peace offer than a revenge one.
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>>5920051 >They must give up the lands/ territory they own that were directly harmed with their blizzard >Give him to Monu >Write-In: Arrange for the release the captured WBS acolytes Feels a bit weird to be punishing Long for something that was done by Laohue, but that might just be how it is with Daoists.
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>>5922809 You punish the organisation that carried out the actions, not just the man who ordered it.
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>>5922809 Well he did watch her mother get branded a heretic and probably there's a lot of resentment on both sides as he may feel she chose a fox over him.
And now a cat too.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 11 Feb 2024 06:13:18 No. 5923122 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying the result now. Lost track of time, forgive me juniors.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 11 Feb 2024 07:07:50 No. 5923159 Report Using the specter lightness skill, and a delicate breeze churned up by the gentle waving of Siwang's wing, you float above the congregation of cultivators, being carried by the summoned wind like a dandelion seed as you drift above their heads, partially weightless and partially ethereal. Tapping your chin, pretending to be in thought, savoring the chance the act dramatically whilst looking down at the humbled Xue Long, you make a show of considering and contemplating the exact nature of his sect's punishment. But the sharpness in his eyes, tells you that at least he isn't fooled by your act of pretend pondering, neither is Master Su or Shandian, the former having advised you not long after the establishment of the Tomb, mountain and sea alliance exactly what would be considered harsh but fair punishment to the icy imbeciles.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 11 Feb 2024 07:08:51 No. 5923160 Report >>5923159 But they hold their tongues and keep their growing anger caged within themselves, rather than expressing it and losing anymore face for arguing with the punishment they deserve. And the moment you speak their second punishment, the crowd of gathered daoist's becomes a mire of greedy and calculating expressions, your fellow cultivators quick to catch onto the fact you didn't say to whom the lands would go, not openly claiming them for yourself or handing them out to sect's friendly to the palace of natural laws. This both keeps your reputation from darkening and gives off the appearance of being generous while also allowing you to take all you desire in the struggle to expand into the former territory of the Xue Clan, leaving the gristle of Chuan to them while piling the fat and meat onto the Palace of Natural law's own plate, and distract the other sects with a competition of who can press and hold the claims for these newly freed and masterless lands. Not exactly necessary, but they were all braying for your head and core not even a day ago, so it'd be wise to keep them occupied so they don't get any funny ideas of bullying the new sect in town.
And judging from the looks on all of their faces, they are already picking out their rivals and allies in taking the lands they have long coveted from their neighbor and former comrades in arms.
"Acceptable" Xue Long churlishly spits "We will prove deserving of both the wisdom we are spurned and the lands we are denied, in short order"
"Oh? Brother? You dare speak out of turn?" You giggle as you descend to land directly in front of him, the word brother alone making him look more enraged than any of the punishments you've slapped across his face "You, your children and the other elders of the winter blossoming wisdom sect, will publicly prostrate yourselves before Lord Chuan and beg for his forgiveness in place of that of all of Chuan!"
His eyes narrow
"Mortal nobility" He sighs, bowing his head and gritting his teeth as his demonic look grimace relaxes into a forlorn, almost broken expression "You'll take away all of my face and make me drag my family's reputation through the mud?"
"If it could get any filthier" You off handedly answer, inspecting your nails with more interest than you give to how Xue Long will answer
"Cat's are cruel by nature" He muses, shaking his head "Kicking us while we're down and sending us falling from our high pedestal, I suppose we deserve this for my father's arrogance and careless disregard for innocent lives. But know I shall not forgive these slights against my temple and clan, Huanliuxue, even if they are deserved"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 11 Feb 2024 07:09:52 No. 5923161 Report >>5923160 "I don't expect you to!" You declare provocatively, eyes aflame with daring as a spirited, audacious grin stretches from one ear to the other across your face, as you hold your arms out "You are my mother's son, and I relish in being the recipient of another's grudge! By all means, do as you will, rise again or aim for my throat. I've given my chastisements, you've been punished, all is right in the world"
"Hmph" Xue Long grunts, turning away, clearly annoyed that you aren't at all frightened by his bluster and threats as you skip over to Shi Shun and rub your chin in thought as the cowering, weasel faced man covers his head now that you're not bound and at his mercy.
"Hmm, now what to do to you?" You muse outload, as every cultivator, including Xue Long, waits with baited breath to see what you decided to do to the lecherous wretch. The atmosphere becomes so tense, that you could almost swear the air between you and Shi Shun was electrified.
You lean forward and grab his face roughly, rolling your jaw like you were chewing thoughtfully
"I could break your cultivation's foundation, have you banished from the world of cultivation to live out your days as a mundane pervert" You say wistfully as you mull over your choices as he trembles in your hand "I could turn you into a woman yourself, I could do both of these things, but instead, I think I'll just hand you over to my mother's tender mercies!"
He looks confused, but the tension rising in the air goes stiff and snaps. Those who know your mother realize just how cruel of a sentence you've passed, and even if they have no sympathy for the piece of shit, they can't help but to wince at the thought of what exactly the Poison Fairy is going to do to the man who groped and molested her beloved daughter. Master Su and Xue Long especially look rattled and frightened on Shi Shun's behalf
"That's all?" The idiot has to say "Maybe you weren't as unwilling as you protest that you were..."
Lowering your hand and squeezing it around his throat shuts him up, as you level a murderous glare directly into his eyes, not an inch away from his ugly rat. There is a cracking sound beneath your grip as his eyes bulge and his face flushes red, as even with a delicate throttling, he begins to lose his breath.
"The other two punishments would've been much more merciful, unfortunately for you, I have absolutely no mercy for filthy, disgusting trash like you" You purr as you toss him to the ground, dust off your hand on the ground and turn away, leaving him to gasp for air and sputter like a dying fish.
"What of the disciples of my sect that you have taken captive?" Xue Long questions with a sharp look in his eyes "We are no longer in conflict, it would be unjust for them to remain in your prisons, Huanliuxue"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 11 Feb 2024 07:10:53 No. 5923162 Report >>5923161 You click your tongue, noting how he both has the support of the gathered sects and is actually in the right. You don't, by the laws and code of conduct of cultivation sects, have any reason or excuse to keep Tian Mei and the rest of them imprisoned. How annoying. More because he's right than anything other reason.
<span class="mu-s"> Double vote </span>
How do you answer Xue Long,
>"Of course, I'll take along one of your sons to witness and make their release official" >" They will be offered a chance to sever ties with the winter blossoming Sect. If they still want anything to do with you and yours, they can hurry off to cling to your thighs for all I care" >"How much are they worth to you? I expect a ransom for each and everyone of them, Heh-Heh" (Bad karma) >"No, by your laws, I should, but I only obey my whims and march to the beat of my own drum" (Bad Karma) >write in And what do you do now that the trial is over, Huanliuxue?
>Mingle and introduce yourself to your peers and learn about your sect's closest neighbors and thus rivals. And figure out exactly what is going on with the Beast Stampede they accused you of causing a few hours ago. >Head back to the Thousand Lotus hall, and see if Lian Luli is worthy of being your student, and if she is, confront her older sister for the secret she kept from her. >Make it clear to the ambitious young masters and greedy Elders that Suiqi is yours and yours alone, and map out what you consider to be the palace of natural laws territory (Leads to another vote) >Deliver Shi Shun to Monu directly, instead of trusting his sect to do it (Can be taken with other options) >Offer to host a martial tournament so the Sects of the Chuan province can see exactly what heretical cultivators can do, >Write in Anonymous
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>>5923162 >" They will be offered a chance to sever ties with the winter blossoming Sect. If they still want anything to do with you and yours, they can hurry off to cling to your thighs for all I care" >Mingle and introduce yourself to your peers and learn about your sect's closest neighbors and thus rivals. And figure out exactly what is going on with the Beast Stampede they accused you of causing a few hours ago. Anonymous
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>>5923162 >" They will be offered a chance to sever ties with the winter blossoming Sect. If they still want anything to do with you and yours, they can hurry off to cling to your thighs for all I care" >Mingle and introduce yourself to your peers and learn about your sect's closest neighbors and thus rivals. And figure out exactly what is going on with the Beast Stampede they accused you of causing a few hours ago. All these gentle men are such royal cunts, but we need information. And lest I forget
>Deliver Shi Shun to Monu directly, instead of trusting his sect to do it (Can be taken with other options) >Bound and paraded through the affair with his own rope Anonymous
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>>5923162 >They will.be offered a chance to sever ties. >mingle with our neighbours, try and suss out those of friiendly dispositions and explain our stance on awakened beasts. OURS! >GO BACK TO thousand lotus hall. >Deliver shi shun directly. You will take seasons to expire, pathetic pervert. Then your suffering will truly begin
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Right.
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>>5923216 Add Huli, Qiang, Baifchei to that.
But not Quixin. The Ling subsidiary.
Have Feiquing make that one a sword that compliments his demon subjugating law.
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>>5923221 Lastly and finally, I suspect that the stampede is caused by or causes the appearance of that nature aspected knife that we didnt get previously.
That or five colours.thats all for now.
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>>5923162 >"Of course, I'll take along one of your sons to witness and make their release official" I had hoped to poach Tian Mei, but that was before we actually convinced every cultivator sect to turn a new leaf. Now we have to play by the rules, at least somewhat. Oh well, it's a net plus at the end of the day.
>Mingle and introduce yourself to your peers and learn about your sect's closest neighbors and thus rivals. And figure out exactly what is going on with the Beast Stampede they accused you of causing a few hours ago. >Head back to the Thousand Lotus hall, and see if Lian Luli is worthy of being your student, and if she is, confront her older sister for the secret she kept from her. >Deliver Shi Shun to Monu directly, instead of trusting his sect to do it (Can be taken with other options) Mingle with cultivators, then stop by the thousand lotus hall, then finally drop Shi Shun off, if possible.
If we are sticking with one option, then just mingling and personally dropping of Shi Shun.
With all cultivator sects present accepting that ascended beasts used to cultivate, I wonder if some of them will actually take on a few as disciples? That would be quite interesting.
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>>5923162 Shit, I'm glad my write-in didn't win. It seems in my thirst for justice I went too far.
>"Of course, I'll take along one of your sons to witness and make their release official" >" They will be offered a chance to sever ties with the winter blossoming Sect. If they still want anything to do with you and yours, they can hurry off to cling to your thighs for all I care" >Mingle and introduce yourself to your peers and learn about your sect's closest neighbors and thus rivals. And figure out exactly what is going on with the Beast Stampede they accused you of causing a few hours ago. >Deliver Shi Shun to Monu directly, instead of trusting his sect to do it (Can be taken with other options) Anonymous
>>5923162 >"Of course, I'll take along one of your sons to witness and make their release official" But
>" They will be offered a chance to sever ties with the winter blossoming Sect. >Mingle and introduce yourself to your peers and learn about your sect's closest neighbors and thus rivals. And figure out exactly what is going on with the Beast Stampede they accused you of causing a few hours ago. >Make it clear to the ambitious young masters and greedy Elders that Suiqi is yours and yours alone, and map out what you consider to be the palace of natural laws territory (Leads to another vote) We won't trust them with a city full of awakened beasts.
>>5923216 Also this anon has a good idea with the triangulation but is the Chuan capital part of the winter sect or is it maybe the ling?
Wait are there any ling here at all? I haven't seen any mention...
The rest of the options can be taken when we have finished here.
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>>5923297 The Ling rule their own province. The Chuan region is ruled by the Chuan family, and their temple is not found over the capital. I know this because we have visited before, to bully a court official
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>>5923162 >" They will be offered a chance to sever ties with the winter blossoming Sect. If they still want anything to do with you and yours, they can hurry off to cling to your thighs for all I care" >Make it clear to the ambitious young masters and greedy Elders that Suiqi is yours and yours alone, and map out what you consider to be the palace of natural laws territory (Leads to another vote) >Deliver Shi Shun to Monu directly, instead of trusting his sect to do it (Can be taken with other options) >>5923216 We need to go to hell to see who was supporting the corpse thief, and MOST IMPORTANTLY KILL THAT FUCKING GHOST KING.
Then we gotta go back to space and practice the dao of FREEDOM
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>>5923334 Kill thw ghost king first, to get the money to go shopping in hell. Then order some clothes and SMASH THE HELL RING WHILE WE WAIT! then we can go to space again.
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>>5923162 >>"How much are they worth to you? I expect a ransom for each and everyone of them, Heh-Heh" (Bad karma) >Mingle and introduce yourself to your peers and learn about your sect's closest neighbors and thus rivals. And figure out exactly what is going on with the Beast Stampede they accused you of causing a few hours ago. >Make it clear to the ambitious young masters and greedy Elders that Suiqi is yours and yours alone, and map out what you consider to be the palace of natural laws territory (Leads to another vote) Anonymous
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>>5923162 >" They will be offered a chance to sever ties with the winter blossoming Sect. If they still want anything to do with you and yours, they can hurry off to cling to your thighs for all I care" >Mingle and introduce yourself to your peers and learn about your sect's closest neighbors and thus rivals. And figure out exactly what is going on with the Beast Stampede they accused you of causing a few hours ago. >Deliver Shi Shun to Monu directly, instead of trusting his sect to do it (Can be taken with other options) We don't need to do this personally. Siwang and/or Ping can do it, both are really pissed at the guy as well and I think Siwang might appreciate a chance to get out of the spotlight and figure out his new body.
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>>5923162 >" They will be offered a chance to sever ties with the winter blossoming Sect. If they still want anything to do with you and yours, they can hurry off to cling to your thighs for all I care" >Mingle and introduce yourself to your peers and learn about your sect's closest neighbors and thus rivals. And figure out exactly what is going on with the Beast Stampede they accused you of causing a few hours ago. Anonymous
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>>5923162 Mission complete, time for the post war trial goodies.
>"Of course, I'll take along one of your sons to witness and make their release official" >" They will be offered a chance to sever ties with the winter blossoming Sect." I have a feeling several of them will want to stay (or in the case of the brother of the blood sister, has no choice in the matter)
>Mingle and introduce yourself to your peers and learn about your sect's closest neighbors and thus rivals. And figure out exactly what is going on with the Beast Stampede they accused you of causing a few hours ago. >Make it clear to the ambitious young masters and greedy Elders that Suiqi is yours and yours alone >Deliver Shi Shun to Monu directly, instead of trusting his sect to do it (Can be taken with other options) We do have limited knowledge on most of the sects gathered today, and claiming Suiqi is to protect all the changes that could be profitable to another sect.
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Ignoring the cringe vtoob and the gaudy color scheme, do the sparkles in Huan's hair look something like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYPsaPcqikM Shit popped up in my recommended and I noticed the hair and my brain started working.
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>>5923162 >" They will be offered a chance to sever ties with the winter blossoming Sect. If they still want anything to do with you and yours, they can hurry off to cling to your thighs for all I care" >Mingle and introduce yourself to your peers and learn about your sect's closest neighbors and thus rivals. And figure out exactly what is going on with the Beast Stampede they accused you of causing a few hours ago. Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
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Ending the vote and tallying the result now, an injury in the kitchen delayed me, hot oil splattered on my hand to be specific.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Tue 13 Feb 2024 18:40:13 No. 5925080 Report "They will be offered a chance to sever ties with the Winter Blossoming Sect" You answer with a courteous smile pulled across your lips, teeth peeking beneath them as you tilt your head and act as civil as you can despite how annoyed you are that he's right and isn't somehow over stepping or in the wrong for demanding the return of his sect's disciples. Sure they'll be returning to a sect that won't cripple and banish them for just realizing ascended beasts aren't monsters, at least not by birth, but for some reason having to relent to the wishes of the son of the fuck who tortured Monu and murdered Xuebai and who has made it clear he intends to reignite the feud between the two branches of this tangled family tree just seriously tics you off.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Tue 13 Feb 2024 18:41:15 No. 5925081 Report >>5925080 The Five Colors and Five purities built their temple in a remote region of Chuan, and you've gotten on the good side of the Thousand Lotus Hall but they're too far away to be considered neighbors and much too meek to be called rivals. The Sages of the shifting sand make their home far from your territory, and the White Jade Devil Opposing army are cut off by their choice to build their school within the cliffs that circle the burnt out hellhole of a wasteland Feiqing traveled to in search of meteorite iron. And they will, at least for awhile, be to busy apologizing for what Shi Shun dared to do to you to be a threat even if there wasn't a demonic qi drowned desolation between them and the quickest route to your own school. And the Winter Blossoming Sect will be so reduced from their punishment, even if Long wants to avenge his mauled pride, they can't be called much of a rival nor pose much of a threat, currently.
So you can safely ignore all of them, especially the sects whose grandmasters you are personally acquainted with, who are allied to you or else indebted to you.
So drawing on the lessons of courtly etiquette and natural regal graces, as well as a bit of Monu's tutoring, you deign to mingle with your supposed peers. The small talk is so droll and boring it takes all your willpower not to fall asleep as the old fogies they sent to represent them or die in case the "Scary demonic beast" was rabid enough to attack them, gossip, humble brag, and pester you with questions about all manners of boring things. But despite it being a struggle, you remain cordial and polite like a lazy lap pet and indulge their curiosity and share in their gossip, your good looks and charming demeanor making them all to willing to prattle on about anything that crosses their mind as the conclave turns into a social event.
Lian Tianhua and Ping stay close to your side as learn their names, the sects they hail from, and their specialties. Which is a trial in of itself, as they elders who've reached the limits of their potential seem to enjoy nothing more than praising their young selves and reminiscing of their glory days to a heretical prodigy and impious rising star, apparently seeing something of themselves in you as they mention openly as they start every mind numbing story or meandering explanation of how their sects water their spirit grass fields. They're trying to get on your good side by presenting themselves as rebels who've gone grey and long in the tooth, but their idea of a rebellious youth seems so bland and colorless that you almost want to shock and offend them with stories of your own heretical and free spirited life. But that might cause them to cough up blood and have several heart attacks in a row, so you restrain yourself and pretend they're just foggy minded elders who've mistaken you for their beloved granddaughter.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Tue 13 Feb 2024 18:42:16 No. 5925084 Report >>5925081 The closest sect, is one that claims the mountains where you found Fu and Old Crooked Fang, and seem entirely unaware that your "Luckily found first disciple" was born in their turf and also nearly eaten up their by a Magical beast they hadn't noticed. And you've already met their Sect-Head, Shandian. They're a bunch of nutjobs who like standing in thunderstorms trying to be struck by lightning to cultivate its Qi. Which explains why you hadn't met them before now, since a cultivation method like that has to kill off a lot of disciples. But according to the elder, who wastes most his breath praising Shandian and his firstborn son, like he was parading a stallion just outside of your stables, it works and they produce strong cultivators regularly. They just have to climb atop a mountain of smoldering ashes and twitching corpses to reach that level.
They call themselves the Storm Shrine Mountain (风暴圣地山 ,Fēngbàoshèngdìshān) and they invented The Lightning Messenger Technique (列缺 信差技术, Lièquēxìnchāijìshù) that Feiqing practices, which means they'd be a pain to fight one on one if they could manage to groom a disciple to reach your level, and are martially focused and inclined sect who mostly raises fighters and has to trade for most of their pills and other amenities. Which is probably because the lighting struck idiots built in one of the poorer and more desolate regions of the breadbasket of the shattered empire.
The next closet, nestled in a bit of the primordial forest of tragic lovers that wasn't owned by the winter blossoming wisdom sect, which means they'll probably be the one you'll come into conflict the most with in the years to come, are a sect of exorcists and ghost hunters, whose representative admits while stroking his beard that they had thought you were an abnormal hungry ghost rather than a ascended beast when they first heard about you. They're the Eight Heavenly Gates Sect (八天上门, Bātiānshàngmén) and apparently named themselves after the law their founder created after being visited with divine inspiration and a dream of reaching the heavens. You have to bite your tongue to keep from bragging that they should rename themselves the seven heavenly gates, as you blew one of the gates off its hinges during your mad dash through the celestial court.
The third and last of your nearest neighbors, is the female only school of the Innocent Witch Court (清白巫婆宫廷, Qīngbáiwūpó gōngtíng) Who are remarkable in not only being the inventors of the Spring Fairy blossom law, but also having the distinction of creating curses and hexes approved by the heavens and in fact specialize in them.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Tue 13 Feb 2024 18:43:17 No. 5925085 Report >>5925084 While they surely can't match up to Monu's forbidden and devilish curses, that is still an achievement that marks them as being much more dangerous than they present themselves as, with that little tidbit only being made known to you as their elder's disciples busy themselves trying to brownnose you by praising and remarking on your beauty so much that you are barely able to thank them for their compliments.
But once you've endeared yourself to and learned the names, locations and specialties of the palace of natural laws closest neighboring temples, you start steering the conversation towards a topic besides the secret breathing method to stop aching joints or how to avoid ruining your back or the treasury draining cost of youth returning and lifespan extending pills and drugs. it is a titanic effort getting these three elders to talk about something besides bitter sweet memories and boring busy work their sect head's delegate to them.
"Oh the beast stampede, oh nasty business that" The Storm Shrine Mountain elder muses, pulling on his mustache, finally getting the hint that you want to talk about that "We had believed the two geysers of Primordial beast essence, er, four, actually, considering the two that came from the depths of the Winter Blossoming Wis..sect's backyard, were the cause, but with our new understanding of De...Ascended Beasts, my austere self has realized that couldn't be the case"
"If you want to earn some easy renown and face for your sect, maybe march off to go stop those rampaging beasts, eh? You're a princess of your kind, right?" The elder of the eight heavenly gates advises, all but begging you to stop them before they can become a problem of cataclysmic proportions
"They might be mindless, if they're rampaging around, and not even be true magical beasts" You explain slowly, so they can understand you can't just flick your wrist and stop the beast wave plaguing the world like you were reprimanding a hooligan underling of yours, but as you say that, a thought sparkles to the surface of your mind, what if they are true ascended beasts like yourself?
"Or maybe, someone is controlling them, making them berserk, or has raised them to believe they are demons" You contemplate outload, rubbing your chin and pouting in deep thought as the three elders nod along, pretending to having any experience in the matter beyond what you taught them a few hours ago "They might actually be demons, disguised as beasts, where and when did this begin"
"Somewhere near the border with the Ling" The old granny witch says sweetly, nodding her head "it started not long after Xue Laohue and Ling Yongzheng called for a ceasefire, around when all those ants and bees emerged from the earth, but I can't recall if it was before or after"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Tue 13 Feb 2024 18:44:19 No. 5925086 Report >>5925085 "Oh yes, that army of yours became a nightmare for us all" The elder of the eight heavenly gates shudders "Beating back both the Snow and the Sun like that, it is a good thing their handlers are intelligent and practitioners of daoism, even if they practice a heretical form of it. Imagine if they were as wild as the true beast wave"
"Which side of the border?" You question as a mysterious uneasy and kind of queasy feeling laps its way up from your stomach. The three elders immediately turn stern faced and dour
"Well it isn't like the Ling would have a way to ignite a beast wave" The witch granny says first, with a nervous chuckle "But, I believe, Princess of the beasts, they emerged from their side of the Ling Chuan boundry"
"But there haven't been any signs of the stampede in their lands, and their mortal branch was nearly rendered extinct by the wannabee occultist leading the Chuan family" The elder of the eight heavenly gates ponders grimly, stroking his beard in deep, trouble thought
"It would be unthinkable to unleash such a thing upon not only their fellow cultivators, but the common folk of the other provinces as well" The elder beneath Shandian says quietly as you frown "For all their faults, their arrogance, their pride, their temper, the Ling clan are righteous, they lead a righteous sect"
You smile
They don't know one of their branches came to you begging for help to slip their collar, or that the Ling teaches techniques that can destroy souls.
Hmm. Maybe they'd like to know? Heh-Heh. But wait, are the Ling behind this? Sure its easy to blame them considering their aggression and dirty little secrets, but could it be some one or something else. Accusing them of starting the stampede without proof would make you seem like a vengeful little girl at best and a spiteful bitch at worse, and so would claiming that they practice what the heavens have forbidden without proof. The Ling might not be popular after bringing war to Chuan, both in the mortal realm and the world of cultivation, but they are still considered righteous and just misguided as far as you can tell from how the sects who fought them speak of them. But, the stampede did start in their territory and has apparently swept across the border into the other provinces without rampaging through the already war torn lands of the Ling.
That alone would make them the prime suspects for causing it, and they could've been desperate enough, not to mention they knew both you and their wayward daughter who murdered one of their elders was in Chuan, and causing a beast wave right after their enemies agreed to a truce to face the "Demon" in their midst would be the best way to keep standing on top after having their nose bloodied fighting the sects of Chuan and trying to grab you by your tail.
But even so, how could they have done it. Fires that burn souls to nothing is one thing, but creating a horde of rampaging monsters on the fly is another thing all together.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Tue 13 Feb 2024 18:45:21 No. 5925088 Report >>5925086 But still, it all seems a little too convenient and fortunate for the Ling, that the moment their is a lull in the fighting, and a great magical beast emerges that a beast stampede starts on their doorstep without terrorizing their lands. And if Lord Chuan hadn't rushed back to greet you, it would've emerged behind him and his armies.
A cold chill runs down your spine. It would've been a massacre and made you look like the next supreme devil mind.
It all feels a little too well timed. But, making a fool out of yourself is something you'd like to avoid, and until you find whatever magic spring or drug they have that they used to create the beast wave, any suspicions will be just that, suspicions and nothing more no matter how coincidental the circumstances behind the stampede are.
You decide its best to keep your mouth shut, until you have proof.
Unfortunately, now the old timers won't shut up about the stampede and won't quit pretending to be experts on the matter of ascended beasts and beast waves while trying to wile out actual understanding from you so they can claim they knew it as well . Fortunately, before you can lash out or die from boredome, Lian Tianhua drags you away from the now bickering elders, saving you from further torture by way of talkative old farts.
And the moment you have the chance to, after thanking Tianhua for her rescue, you take Ping, Siwang, Qinxin and Shi Shun and take your leave, but not before changing forms in sight of the pavilion to show that you aren't ashamed by what you are and are just as much of a proud beauty as a Magic Cat. But far enough away so none of them leer at you while you undress to spare your robes from being torn apart by your body growing and transforming.
Shi Shun faints the moment he sees your feline self, scared into unconsciousness at seeing two monstrous beasts appear where a beautiful girl and young man were a moment before right before his eyes.
Unfortunately he doesn't remain comatose with fear for long, and quickly is reduced to tearful blubbering and begging as you lead him away. And he doesn't stop begging and pleading for mercy until his voice becomes hoarse and raw and he has no more tears left to shed. Which means, when you bring him to the base of your temple, and Monu flies down to embrace you, he can't do much more than weakly squeak in mortal terror as you explain to your mother with tears in your eyes, exactly what he did to you as she runs her hands lovingly you through your fur.
The air goes cold, and Monu is as silent as a standing corpse as she fixates Shi Shun with a glare so venomous and murderous you're surprised the worm doesn't die of fear. And without a word, she grabs him by the collar and drags him away, a cheerful smile frozen on her face, even as her acidic aura flickers and roars with rage around her.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Tue 13 Feb 2024 18:50:24 No. 5925095 Report >>5925088 "Poor bastard" Qinxin remarks as he watches Shi Shun get dragged into the mountains by a truly enraged Monu, who went from smothering you with her usual affection to almost mechanically taking the pervert who dared to touch her beloved Huanliuxue off to a fate that even you can't imagine without shivering, and you spend a lot of time amongst the dead and regularly visit hell itself for fun.
"Can't say he doesn't deserve it, the piece of shit" Ping spits hatefully as Siwang nods "But, his death, however prolonged it will be, will increase the average IQ of cultivators everywhere"
"There are few mortal crimes that would deserve such horrible punishment, but his abuse of Lady Huanliuxue is one of them. If it wasn't the grand elder performing out his execution, I would argue that even this would not be enough to equal the awfulness of his crimes" Siwang agrees, quite verbosely as he holds his head high, a certain pride sparkling in his eyes "I should show Yinying of my latest achievement, though if you wish to make the knowledge of my attaining of human form secret until declaring it yourself, I will of course, relent to your better judgement, master~!"
"You just wanna show off, don't you?" You giggle, not tearing your eyes away from your mother dragging the soon to be dead pervert to whatever punishment she has devised for him.
Siwang's beaming and joyful eyes is all the answer you need.
What do you do now, Huanliuxue?
>Show off Siwang's achievement and reward him by personally naming his until now nameless law of Wind and Justice >Watch what sort of torture Monu is going to be Shi Shun through, to relish in the bastard's suffering and drawn out demise >Visit the Thousand Lotus Hall again, officially to trade and commission some spirit medicines and drugs from them, but actually to see if Lian Luli has done anything to impress you >Send some of your disciples out to take on some Missions to enrich the sect and build up its reputation (Which disciples and what level of danger/ difficulty?) >Travel down to hell and see exactly who thought it was a good idea to work with Jingyu >Try and track down the ogress, since she's been left to mostly run wild since Monu met and befriended her >Write in >>5924317 The demonic scripture this junior has displayed is actually strikingly close to my personal vision of what the moonglow/ star sparkles in Huan's hair and fur look like, though it looks like a night sky dyed blood red in her hair/fur, rather than rainbow road being plastered inside of her hair.
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>>5925095 >Show off Siwang's achievement and reward him by personally naming his until now nameless law of Wind and Justice >Visit the Thousand Lotus Hall again, officially to trade and commission some spirit medicines and drugs from them, but actually to see if Lian Luli has done anything to impress you >GHOST KING, IM COMING TO KILL YOU, IN THE CATACOMBS, AT YOUR THRONEROOM. IN REAL LIFE, WE ARE GOING TO STALK HIM AND BECOME OBSSED WITH HIM AND WEAR HIS MAKE UP, AND HIS DRESSES AND WEAR HIS SKIN AS A COAT AS THE ANCIENT CATS DID. Anonymous
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>>5925095 >Visit the Thousand Lotus Hall again, officially to trade and commission some spirit medicines and drugs from them, but actually to see if Lian Luli has done anything to impress you We did give her a time limit, we might as well stick to it, even with though we already gave her a little extra wiggle room.
Also, in my opinion, our next priority should be to train. Specifically, develop new techniques. The vast majority of our techniques are things we developed back when we were in foundation establishment phase, we badly need to develop some more sophisticated spells, because as it is our raw strength is the main thing we have going for us and there will be a point where that won't cut it anymore. If nothing else, considering that "stopping time" is something that is within the real of possibility for us, I just want to see all the cool shit we could come up with. It should be quite glorious.
Though for what it's worth cleaning up our mountain and making it's king kneel should not be too hard, so we could do that first.
>...what's IQ? >Intelligence Qi Anonymous
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>>5925095 >Show off Siwang's achievement and reward him by personally naming his until now nameless law of Wind and Justice >Send some of your disciples out to take on some Missions to enrich the sect and build up its reputation Send out the more sociable beast disciples, with each escorted by a human. Give them low danger missions, put priority on establishing a positive image of magical beasts
>Travel down to hell and see exactly who thought it was a good idea to work with Jingyu Anonymous
>>5925108 I'll support this vote, the ghost king has had it good for too long, bring Qiang too.
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>>5925160 >>5925095 And of course I forgot to link it.
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>>5925095 >Show off Siwang's achievement and reward him by personally naming his until now nameless law of Wind and Justice >Visit the Thousand Lotus Hall again, officially to trade and commission some spirit medicines and drugs from them, but actually to see if Lian Luli has done anything to impress you Anonymous
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>>5925084 >They're a bunch of nutjobs who like standing in thunderstorms trying to be struck by lightning to cultivate its Qi Sir Andrei?
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>>5925095 >Show off Swiangs achievements. >Go to thousand Lotus Hall. >Send Our disciples down with us to kill the ghost king. FUCK THE GHOSTS, FUCK THE FORGOTTEN! GHOST WAR NOW! Ping, Fu, Quixin, Qiang, Huli and Baichu the necromancer moth. They would all benefit from the experience
Anonymous
>>5925095 >>Show off Siwang's achievement and reward him by personally naming his until now nameless law of Wind and Justice >Also talk with Bee Sis and have her tell the captives that they are free to go and leave or region their sect. Oh right, I wanted to hand over fox boy soul to ping for safe keeping and explain why we went for his head.
>Explain to Ping why we killed Corpse boy and have crafty he turned out to be. And that when he wishes to finish his revenge and fight against the bastard he can do it at any time. 1.Then we go down the list such as visiting the lotus hall for trade. And new disiple get.
2. Kicking the Ghost kings ass to finish dealing with internal matters.
3, After disiples have rested go look into the rumors of the beast wave.
4. Go Train and get a better handle of our new abilities.
Anonymous
>>5925393 I wanna go back to SPACE :(
The dao of FREEDOM compels me...
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>>5925095 >Show off Siwang's achievement and reward him by personally naming his until now nameless law of Wind and Justice >Send some of your disciples out to take on some Missions to enrich the sect and build up its reputation (Which disciples and what level of danger/ difficulty?) >Fu, Lanfan and Yingyin and Zhurou. To the border of the Ling lands to look into this "beast stampede," if there's something that needs subduing in the area, do it by all means; but you're not here to fight the Ling. Yet. >Qiang, Yujijiao and Baifenchi down to the Catacombs to tend to the Ghost King Anon is right, too good for too long; but matters must be delegated.
>>5925095 >Visit the Thousand Lotus Hall again, officially to trade and commission some spirit medicines and drugs from them, but actually to see if Lian Luli has done anything to impress you Anonymous
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>>5925407 Worry not Anon, the dao Lian Lulli practices is similiar to our Blood Moon dao, it's therefore very very likely we're going to be taking her there as part of our mutual goal of reaching Nascent Soul.
The Dao of Freedom may yet be in your sights once again. But first, we tend to matters on Earth.
Anonymous
>>5925095 >Show off Siwang's achievement and reward him by personally naming his until now nameless law of Wind and Justice >Visit the Thousand Lotus Hall again, officially to trade and commission some spirit medicines and drugs from them, but actually to see if Lian Luli has done anything to impress you I'm also in line with getting some training done, especially since we know nothing about our Lunar Qi besides giving us homing shots and, if we extrapolate from our new knife, can induce madness.
>>5925407 While it would be nice, breaking back into the one place that has a high chance of killing us AND will probably be on higher alert on our next visit may not the wisest move at this time.
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>>5925095 >>5925108 +1
>>5925521 We can enter and leave space without visiting the heavens now that we've cultivated lunar qi.
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>>5925108 Supporting. Fucking Ghost king. Also in the near future we need to handle this beast stampede business, it's giving us a bad look and is a direct challenge to our dominion.
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>>5925549 Ah you're right, this junior forgot that bit of info.
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Voting seems to have slowed, so might as well get the count out the way>Votes:11 >Show off Siwang's achievement and reward him by personally naming his until now nameless law of Wind and Justice:10 >Visit the Thousand Lotus Hall again, officially to trade and commission some spirit medicines and drugs from them, but actually to see if Lian Luli has done anything to impress you:9 >Send some of your disciples out to take on some Missions to enrich the sect and build up its reputation:2 >>Send out the more sociable beast disciples, with each escorted by a human. Give them low danger missions, put priority on establishing a positive image of magical beasts:1 >>Send Fu, Lanfan, Yingyin, and Zhurou to investigate the stampede:1 >>Send Qiang, Yujijiao, and Baifenchi to tend to the Ghost King:1 >Travel down to hell and see exactly who thought it was a good idea to work with Jingyu:1 >Go into the Catacombs and fight the Ghost King personally:4 >>Have Ping, Fu, Quixin, Qiang, Huli and Baifenchi join us in the fight:1 >Talk with Bee Sis and have her tell the captives that they are free to go and leave or region their sect.:1 >Explain to Ping why we killed Corpse boy and have crafty he turned out to be. And that when he wishes to finish his revenge and fight against the bastard he can do it at any time.:1
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>>5926861 Ghost King Killers are at a strong third place, lets make that first.
Remember lads, mf tried shit while we were cultivating way before the sects did. We just had more urgent concerns.
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>>5925095 >Show off Siwang's achievement and reward him by personally naming his until now nameless law of Wind and Justice Anonymous
>>5925095 >GHOST KING, IM COMING TO KILL YOU, IN THE CATACOMBS, AT YOUR THRONEROOM. IN REAL LIFE, WE ARE GOING TO STALK HIM AND BECOME OBSSED WITH HIM AND WEAR HIS MAKE UP, AND HIS DRESSES AND WEAR HIS SKIN AS A COAT AS THE ANCIENT CATS DID. Anonymous
>>5926878 Also he's like a literal vermin in our basement, it annoys me to no end to have an enemy squatting below our feet. How can we claim dominion over anything if we don't even have full control over our mountain?
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>>5927440 I'm thinking we could have ping deal with it, i mean it's his dao as an exorcist and we did kill the corpse robbing bastard he wanted to have a rematch with.
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>>5927589 I have no idea how strong this guy is, since we never fought him directly. Apparently during his lifetime he was powerful enough that it took divine intervention to stop him, so he might very well be over Pings level. But we should definitely take our excorcist with us (as well as Qiang who has a chicken to pluck with the old fuck)
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>>5927654 If we want to give Qiang Laohue's eye, we should do it now
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>>5927672 We should check compatibility first.
The qi might be forigen, but it is water.
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>>5927672 I thought we already noticed that she had some oddity about her lost eye, some sort of ghost eye or something.
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>>5927672 Frankly i would rather use his eyes for something extremely petty like a nightlamp for the latrine or a joke artefact, or maybe in a necklace for mommy Monu?
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sat 17 Feb 2024 02:27:37 No. 5928121 Report Quoted By:
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>>5926861 And thank you junior for taking on the task of tallying.
And including
>>5926931 >>5927311 These two votes
You'll reward Siwang by personally bequeathing his nameless law a title before traveling to the thousand lotus hall to check on Lian Luli's results while also trading/ commissioning some pills
update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sat 17 Feb 2024 03:28:19 No. 5928154 Report Your disciple's joy is dangerously infectious, and just looking at his sparkling blue eyes drags an excited grin across your face, curling your lips and lifting your whiskers. You had been planning to reward Siwang both for his excellent defense of your character and innocence as a heretical cultivator and daoist, but now giving it to him right now without delay or toying with the poor boy was the only choice that you could make. Other plans would have to wait, the diligent and wordy boy would be given honors and praise enough to drown in. He'd receive a boon only one other has thus far received. That of having his nameless technique entitled by none other than yourself, his revered and much beloved master. An accolade as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorns horn, a point of pride that would lift up his spirits and enshrine his law as truly something special.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sat 17 Feb 2024 03:31:15 No. 5928156 Report >>5928154 "Hoh,hoh,hoh" He giddily laughs or hoots it is kind of hard to tell, lifting up a wing like a fan to hide his beak "Well I shall humbly receive this accolade, knowing it is a treasure rarely found beneath the heavens, for you, master, prefer to be praised and rarely find cause to praise others. Such are the standards that true royalty are beholden to, and I, in turn, give my solemn vow to..."
"Save it for the ceremony, Siwang" You titter fondly, stalking around him and flicking your tail as you pace around him, now in deep thought as you try to think up a good name for the boy's law, something that is befitting the path taken by a true ally of justice with a heart as pure and clear as Limpid Autumn Water. You already have a few in mind, since you had already been planning on naming his method since before you left for the assembly of immortals.
You had just planned on making him wait until after you visited the thousand lotus hall again and maybe returned with Lian Luli dressed in the pinks and reds of your sect, and maybe after wandering down beneath the earth to teach a certain moldering corpse of a ghost king that it is a very bad idea to mess with you and it is an especially stupid idea to try and strike you while your back is turned a lesson he wouldn't soon forget, no matter how crazy the bastard has gone after being locked beneath a mountain for who knows how long. It is just that after seeing the hope and innocent joy in Siwang's sparkling eyes, that you were made weak and unable to resist praising him immediately without delaying and allowing him the chance to get a taste of showing off while being showered with praise.
Who knows he might just have a taste for it like you do.
But once he'd been awarded a name for his self taught law and style, you would head immediately for the thousand lotus hall, acting as if you were interested in trading for high quality pills or commissioning some shady drugs from Tianhua and the scumbag elders of the sect while you covertly check on her little sister to see if she has what it takes to enter the Palace of Natural Laws. But there was an order to these things, and the first step was throwing a ceremony for Siwang as you gave his law a respectable and worthy name and title!
<span class="mu-s"> Double Vote </span>
And what was the name you chose to give to his law, Huanliuxue?
>Mantra of the whirlwind riding judge >Edict of the Guillotine Gale >Heavens Opposing Justice >Sutra of Silent Death >Something else (Write in) And do you give any other orders before you leave?
>Yes (What?) >No, Luli has waited long enough sorry for the short update after vanishing for three days, got burned out binge rewatching Heavens official's blessing
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>>5928156 >Sutra of Silent Death Other order
>Rest and relax while preparing do some training against the undead spirits below. Also all good.
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>>5928156 >Heavens Opposing Justice Other order
>Rest and relax while preparing to do some training against the undead spirits below. Anonymous
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>>5928156 >Mantra of the whirlwind riding judge >Go push in the ghost king's shit Anonymous
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>>5928156 >Wings of Silent Justice. >Order them to relax and prepare for training. Some against the ghost below. >Order feiquing to make an exorcists sword for Quixin. Anonymous
>>5928156 >Mantra of the whirlwind riding judge As for additional orders
>Send Senlin Zheren, Zhurou, Lanfan, and Liu to investigate the Beast Stampede >Have Chuandapo, Houmogui, and Yinying scout out the former Winter Blossoming territory for anything worthwhile. >Tell Ping, Fu, Quiang, Quixin, and Baifenchi to prepare to fight then Ghost King when we return We have too many things too look into solely by ourselves, so we do need to get comfortable with delegating tasks to our disciples.
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>>5928156 >Fairest and True judgment of Empyrean Zephyr Anonymous
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>>5928156 >>Heavens Opposing Justice > use a drop of the divine blood to refine our Carmine Mysticism. If our body becomes too gravely injured, judjing Luli using a different one should suffice. We're now openly heretical, we need to gain power quickly for defense and deterrence. Anonymous
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>>5928156 >Sutra of Silent Death >Rest and relax while preparing do some training against the undead spirits below. Anonymous
>>5928156 >Mantra of the whirlwind riding judge >Yes (What?) Recon the ghost lands for our eventual attack. patrols and census of our lands/city/people to attend to any issues that may come up.
>>>5928391 Support
we should resolve the beast stamped ourselves as there is high potential payoff to having a beast princess rein in the beasts.
>>5928211 >>5928275 >>5928275 They should not be relaxing we have too much shit going on for them to sit on their asses.
Also we owe that one sect a debt that we have to see through.
That will be not a small thing considering it'll be a Ling civil war.
Anonymous
>>5928903 See you forget that we had a big war like... 3 days ago or something along that lines.
And then you wanna throw them into another battle without proper rest after we sparten trained them before said war.
I get you wanna do things now now now, but rest and mentality is important for cultivators as it is human beings.
Once we're acquired our new disiple, we can take it easier after kicking the ghost king's ass of course.
We acquire a reasonable chunk of land and let our disciples train / we learn some new techs.
With us not seen as a war target by the nearby sects anymore they will focus on the beast wave for more honer / glory.
We'll see if it's an ascended beast/s and if so go pick them up and chill while waiting/teaching some disciples to reach core formation to make homebase safer.
Honestly, a golden time to prepare for the next disaster to hit home is upon us.
We can also make pills/ learn and hone our battle methods/ strengthen our lands and powerbase. Make the bookclub bigger / convince Yue to cultivate and maybe turn her husband into a cultivator as well.
I mean has our girl ever relaxed once? It's been survival survival survival. Let her live a little. Reeeeeeeee
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>>5929203 We owe a debt to another sect to help them with the Ling, unless you plan to renege on them.
We have two fights coming up, the ghost king will be an easy fight since even our disciples could hold him off, we can probably solo him. The Ling will be difficult but we gotta get to them at some point. Im not saying now but we need the other stuff finished up by then.
The disciples we are sending out dont really have any injuries or were wounded (they did well remember) so we can afford to make them sweat a little. They can rest for a day or two before heading out for their missions, they dont need a month off.
Part of the orders we have are in regards to said land to actually check it out for any problems or good stuff, to actually help consolidate what we've gotten thus far.
Our disciples are fully capable of what we are asking of them, baring perhaps the beast stampede which is why we are just having them investigate rather then outright solve so we can head over there after. Recon on ghost kind isn't that bad either, nor is patrolling our current lands/scouting our new ones.
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>>5928391 Supporting. No Rest for the Heterodox.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 19 Feb 2024 16:49:51 No. 5930219 Report Ending the vote and tallying its results now.
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>>5930219 Would me voting for the new orders change thing?
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>>5930226 nah, Vote closed 6 minutes prior to your post mate.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 19 Feb 2024 19:21:30 No. 5930317 Report The ceremony is much like the one you gave when you gifted Canlan Yuanquan his name and stopped him from being only known as frog. Except, taking into consideration Siwang's avian nature and the fact that Jionghuagege is attending, you decide to have the ceremony take places above ground and at the mountaintop above your temple. After recovering from the shock of what had happened to gardens and ponds that were up there and were still being cleaned up and repaired by volunteers from Fu's village and the nameless, faceless ranks of your talentless outer disciples and ordering a few new trees to be planted to make the mountaintop farms look less like they'd been pillaged or wrecked by a whirlwind, you have some of the servants of your sect bring up tables and seating for the disciples you've summoned to hear your announcement of Siwang's great achievement.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 19 Feb 2024 19:22:32 No. 5930319 Report >>5930317 That he for whatever decorates with a pair of reading glasses that he has absolutely no need for, but you have to admit they do give him a dignified and intellectual that he otherwise wouldn't have due to his youthful face.
"As you can doubtlessly perceive, I have become the fourth magical beast to achieve their second awakening, after our illustrious sect head and the kind hearted princesses, of which the lovely lady Jionghuagege is present, know that I hold absolutely no resentment to your sister for not being present this day of my commendation for this most spectacular achievement of mine!"
"Your face fits your character perfectly, Sir Wusheng" Jionghuagege marvels as she fans herself, two of her daughters buzzing happily as they attend her, improving her image as a faultless noblewoman as she sits close enough she could reach out and brush Siwang's cheek "And I'll pass on your message to Tie-Tie, though she'll probably wish to fight you to see whose human form is the strongest, knowing her"
"Congratulations little brother! But stay away from my little sister Ju, if you want to keep that handsome mug of yours!" Fu drawls, combining his praise with a threat that is only half joking as he lifts up one of his fists, bandages wrapped looser around his mangled face than they usually are
"I've already given my congratulations to you, as I was there when you attained this new body" Ping explains, hiding his mouth as he takes a sip of heat wine and downs the cup "And you'd be wise to keep an eye on this boy when he comes down to your village, brother Fu, come closer and let me tell you of a certain blessing he has..."
"SERIOUSLY!?" Fu roars, and now it sounds like the threat he made in jest will become entirely serious, though you can't imagine what Ping told him to piss him off so much
"Hah! Good work little bird!" Feiqing shouts, covered in soot, grease and with fangs glinting in his smile as he struggles to become comfortable in his chair with how much he's grown since he awoke his bloodline, a merry look on his ugly face as claps his hands together excitedly "Though I can't help but wish that at least one of you noble beasts would come out the other side of that trial looking as ugly as I do"
Lei lifts up his mask and tilts his head, but of course says nothing since he doesn't have a tongue, but apparently he "said" something rude, considering how both Feiqing and Ping clap him on his ears and he lets out a grunting laugh while Siwang and you look on in utter confusion.
"Good work" Is all Qiang says, tersely as well, but you know she meant no offense, she only says as much as she needs to.
"Keep your head held high while you can I'm going to be the fifth" Huili barks and snaps, standing up on the table, eyes literally ablaze with competitive spirit
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 19 Feb 2024 19:23:33 No. 5930320 Report >>5930319 "Sixth you mean, friend" Chuandapo chuckles tiredly "I might be content going with the flow, but I won't let the teacher's pet lord his new opposable thumbs over me, either! Watch out Siwang!"
"We'll steal away the spotlight, just you wait!" Huili declares with a howl that is joined by a number of his mindless packmates, before Jionghuagege sends one of her daughters to shut him up, not deigning to scold him herself.
"Tch, if that damn ogress didn't cut off my head, I'd have been second you know" Yujijiao sadly laments, black tears dripping from the rough face of the puppet she is uh, puppeteering, before her demeanor turns completely around as she joyously congratulates Siwang "Ssstill, that is a feat you should be proud of, squirt! Even if that smug grin of yours is kind of pissing me off!"
"If I wasn't killed I'd have been first" Xuebai yawns before giggling and adding "Still, I'm happy for the boy! and happier to see a beast swaggering about so freely in human skin, even if my little sister does it constantly and without shame, Its a new era for us beasts! Lets drink and celebrate"
"Don't have to tell me twice, Xue-xue" Monu tittlers as she begins fiddling with the cask of wine to open its top "And good work Siwang, I'll be sure to give you a nice reward later, maybe an artifact like I made for my sweet Huan?"
"Bastard! How dare you stand by my princess' side with so resplendent a human body! I can't...I can't accept this!" Yinying wails as he storms of, running off deeper into the mountains, shedding tears and curses as he goes and completely lose his usual cool attitude and composure
"Mmm, yes yes, good show, good show!" Zhurou drolly applauds "But you'll need to learn some proper posture and etiquette, you're as stiff as you were as an owl on their perch! I'll have to whip some proper decorum and manners into you, elder brother, if of course I am allowed to act beyond my station to do so, Lady Huanliuxue, as a noble myself, I should be able to ignore seniority just this once, hmm?"
"You make the palace proud, Mr Wusheng" Niu says quietly, head bowed as Mao Yue cries out happily and nearly throws herself over the table
"Wow he's so handsome, he's got that stern official look! Such a harsh, unrelenting glare!" She coos, looking like she's in heart before Lanfen pulls her back roughly
"Down girl, don't make a fool of yourself" She reprimands with a smile before turning to give her own praise to Siwang, as she tries to ignore Fu's smoldering glare, which would surely send her into heat if she looked at it from anything but the corner of her eye "And you certainly look more dignified than I imagined you'd be as a boy, Siwang, guess you just have that kind of Luck"
"I share my mistress' congratulations" Liu answers quietly, tugging on the magical collar you gifted him
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 19 Feb 2024 19:24:34 No. 5930322 Report >>5930320 "I'm sure he's a handsome devil, I just wish I could see his face myself" Hong laughs, pointing at the ribbon wrapped around where his eyes used to be
"Wow, I didn't know brother Siwang could do that" Bo laughs, eyes wide with wonder
"He only recently learned how to, Bo" Wang Wencheng mutters under his breath "And we should be congratulating him, its what is expected of us"
"Don't get a big head just cause you can give up your wings, punk!" Houmogui drawls, trying to sound threateningly "I'm going to surpass you, just you watch"
"Ribbit, ribbit, I knew you'd be the first to do it, Siwang! I'm so happy for your, ribbit, ribbit" Yuanquan Cheers with tears glittering in his gem like eyes
"Hah, my human body will be even more resplendent and handsome, boy" Youzaiwang declares proudly, which is the closest to praise he can give to anything that isn't him or you "And I won't allow you to outshine me for long"
"If it is no trouble for senior brother, this humble junior brother would ask to be taught by senior brother how to attain human form" Zheren humbly requests a moment or two after hearing Youzaiwang's boisterous bragging
"As if it wasn't obvious why she brought Wusheng along with her to the assembly of sects" Baifenchi idly comments, surrounded by Jionghuagege's curious daughters, who judging from their hurried questioning, have mistaken her for one of their numbers "Seeing a mockery of the justice he adores, was the surest way to drive him to his second awakening....You'd make a pretty corpse, Siwang"
"Rejungui, stop irritating Two axes" Qixin scolds before giving a casual compliment to Siwang "and you honor the sect with this achievement, brother Wusheng"
"Oy oy oy! What's gotten you so smug, Siwaaang! You looking down on me! I killed more enemies during the fight with those white and blue bastards! Wanna fight? Wanna fight?!" Is what Jiangliehuo has to say to Siwang, before he is quieted by being wrestled to the ground by Lei, who distracts him long enough to keep him from actually baring his fangs the other disciple.
You allow a few minutes to pass so Siwang can relish and savor the praise of his sectmates, before standing from your makeshift throne to finally make your annoucnement
"And to honor Siwang's achievement in attaining his human form, I have seen fit to reward him by naming his until now nameless cultivation technique!" You declare loud enough for any hikers down the mountain to hear, and an echo of Yinying's jealous, envious wailing echoes back from somewhere in the mountain, shrugging you continue on "From today onwards, Wusheng Siwang will be known as the founder of the Mantra of the Whirlwind Riding Judge (口头禅的这旋风骑坐 法官, Kǒutóu chán dīzhèxuànfēngqízuòfǎguān), and with any luck, the laws our ancestors created will soon be rightfully attributed to them as well"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 19 Feb 2024 19:25:36 No. 5930323 Report >>5930322 You look into Tian Mei's eyes as you say this last part, much to her and her fellow orthodox cultivator's confusion, since even though they know the true history of the world and the beast living in it, they haven't heard that at least the world of cultivation in Chuan has changed it stance on your kind. Oh what a surprise that'll be! You'd pay a king's ransom to see what sort of a reaction they have when they hear about that, and just seeing the faces they make when they learn would be something you'd pay good money to see!
"One can only hope" Monu growls, also having not heard the good news, but you can picture how she'll react and want to put a few leagues between you and her, since you can imagine she won't let you out of her arms or stop smothering you, her pride and joy, with motherly affection the moment she finds out the great victory you won without drawing an ounce of blood...er, well blood that is worth anything. Actually, for all you know, that scoundrel Shi Shun hasn't shed even a drop of his blood...
"And of course, he will begin recording the details of his law and keeping a manual containing all of its insights and techniques from today onwards" You say happily as Siwang smiles toothily, adjusts his needless glasses so they catch the sun's glare and declares quite proudly
"I have been keeping a detail record of my practice and exercises, and put to paper any spell or technique or variation of such that I discover as I train and meditate" He explains quiet happily "Justice is varied and the wind is ever changing, I am certain my law could reach and be useful to any cultivator, no matter what their talents or focuses as cultivator are, it can compliment any law or form the foundation of one's personal dao! Of this I am certain. I've gone to great efforts to make my mantra balanced and applicable to any circumstance, these winds I ride can offer succor as easily as they can cut and slice down the villains of the world"
"An all rounder law? Impressive" You say with a nod and paw on Siwang's head "Surely it the mantra of the whirlwind riding judge will stand shoulder to shoulder with the mountain shattering hammer law in the future"
Tian Mei chuckles, but doesn't say anything
"But, besides enjoying the celebration in Siwang's honor, all I command you to do while I'm off on business is to relax and rest up, and prepare for some ghost subjugating drills when I get back, though I might send some of you off on missions as well" You loudly proclaim, stamping a paw on the ground before taking your leave.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 19 Feb 2024 19:26:37 No. 5930325 Report >>5930323 You need gather what you need for you short trip, get dressed since you'll be traveling on two legs rather than four, and pick out a few medicines to take along which won't include the Crow King made pills, since you have a feeling the thousand lotus hall won't find a pill that imbues the user with the strength and ferocity of a demon to be very useful, nor will they have much interest in his blood refined into a healing drug that is one part of a two part poison. Some divine blood honey and harmonious five elements spring water should be more than enough to batter for any medicines, pills or drugs that catch your eye while you drop by to check and see if Lian Luli has proven herself capable of breaking her family's "Curse". IF she hasn't, well, that bloodline of hers might need to be cut and plucked out of her.
By time you've finished packing and preening your hair and applying some light makeup, you find that several of the winter blossoming wisdom disciples have put in applications to join the palace of natural laws. Tian Mei isn't one of them, and you know why. She and Monu can't exist beneath the same heavens let alone the same roof, and one would probably kill the other if they were forced together for much longer.
"Well, I wish you good luck in your travels and your safety on your trip back to what's left of your sect" You state cheerfully as you pass her by as she glowers at the turncoats her are nervously scratching their necks and avoiding her gaze "And say hi to my bitter brother for me when you arrive, I'm sure he's been dying to know how I've been fairing since I was wrongfully made to stand trial last night, Heh-heh"
"What?" She gawks, not understanding anything you've said after your well wishes, but it'll be funnier for her to figure out on her own, so with a teasing titter, you step around her and head off
And are soon joined by Monu and Xuebai, who is currently possessing the scythe that her core was forged into.
"What? I can go where I please" She cackles when you shoot her an annoyed glare "And I've heard some whispers between the three sworn brothers in our sect concerning what happened at that trial besides that piece of shit taking advantage of your good nature, and I want to see how much of what they said is true"
"And you, big sis?" You sigh, knowing Monu can't be dissuaded once she has made up her mind to do something
"I wanted fresh air, Jade Horn also needs to leave to practice her breath stealing technique, and I find the other ghosts around here to be either boring or annoyingly insane" She answers sweetly, ghostly fox head appear from the edge of the scythe's blade "Also, I want to see where you killed my pet, for old time's sake, even if he meant nothing to me, we still made some memories together"
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>>5930325 This time, the Thousand Lotus Hall sect was warned you were intending to visit, as you told Tianhua you were coming to see about purchasing some of their medicines or commissioning some rare cultivation pills, so you're greeted much more kindly than you were the first time you intruded into their turf.
Though the poor disciple they sent is completely caught off guard by the appearance of the poison fairy, and the appearance of her womanly assets at eye level. With his eyes captured by your mother's good looks, he doesn't say much as he's been completely enchanted and enthralled by her, to the point he doesn't notice the ghost rooting through his pockets as he escorts the three of you to the lotus hall
"My oh my, they haven't changed anything since I was a girl. I could probably find the lotus I gave to that bastard when we were kids here, or the stone that nearly broke Ol Su's knee when we went skipping across the lake a few years later" Monu chuckles, looking over the thousand lotus hall fondly "Though I'm guessing they've gone through a few grandmasters since the time I last was allowed to come here, they went through one or two even when I was welcomed anywhere and by any sect, to think I even taught them how to counter some of my earlier poisons. Say, slackjaw, do you know if they could stop a demon blood infection"
"Hwah?" the witless perv gapes, being made aware that the tits he is enamored with are beneath a head
"Figures, they also haven't improved the focus of their disciples" Monu dismissively huffs as you send the disciple in question fleeing to fetch Tianhua with a grave cold glare as you stand, arms crossed behind your mother, tapping your foot impatiently "Had them all eating out of my hand the last time I came here, got a nice discount, a very nice discount and some nice memories later that night, Heh-Heh"
Xuebai and you exchanged pained looks, but say nothing as Monu rambles on about her history with the thousand lotus hall until mercifully, Lian Tianhua and her elders welcome you into their temple, all of them looking warily towards Monu as she introduces herself and makes an off handed remark about wondering how what step of a descendant Tianhua is from the last head of the sect she met that includes a reference to mayflies. If only she knew, but her careless comment did make the elders look nervous and wonder if she knew the truth they and their predecessors have been burying for years to line their own pockets. Tianhua at least has to decency to look guilty.
"So you mentioned you wished to browse our usual wares and hear what we can make on request?" the far too curious old man asks, stroking his beard as he ushers you towards the main hall of the thousand lotus hall, while his younger counterparts are busy being sweettalked by Monu, something that has already earned her the ire of the two lady elders in the pack
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 19 Feb 2024 19:28:40 No. 5930330 Report "You take after your mother in more than a few ways" Tianhua comments under her breath as you think of how to answer the elder
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 19 Feb 2024 19:29:41 No. 5930332 Report >>5930330 "You can go ahead by yourself, I need to cool down before we can move on with our transaction, and if you intend to bring your mother the next time you visit, Master Huanliuxue, please warn me first" She says with a shaking voice, seeming to turn more and more red by the second. You frown, confused, but nod.
"She butted her way in and chose to come along herself, but next time if she, on a whim, decides to follow me here, I'll be sure to tell you so you can prepare yourself" You chuckle as Tianhua glances back to the party you've both abandoned, rubbing her bleeding knuckle "And thanks for trusting me enough to not force a minder onto me"
"I know you wouldn't hurt Luli or steal from us, even if my subordinates may" She answers, squeaking and ducking behind a passing outer disciple who was busy transporting a bushel full of flowers, as your mother notices her staring and turns with an oddly confident smile on her face.
You shrug, and decide not to question her odd behavior, and take the chance to meet with Luli alone while you can, hopping up the length of the tree they carved their temple in, tracking her by her bloodlines unique Qi signature and pulling open the windows to her private dorm open
"Hey!" You shout as she yelps and stumbles back. The poor girl's green hair has began to turn autumn colors and looks wilted, all of her does, she has exhausted bags under her eyes and looks a little pale. And there isn't a light in her room, which is oddly damp and stuffy. Pushing past the curtains, you let yourself in and sneeze. Mold and mushrooms spores surround you, lit up by the sunlight you let in
"Master Huanliuxue! Close the window" She cries out, as she stumbles almost drunkenly forward. You kick a leg back and do as she asks as she falls into her chair with a relieved sigh "Thank you..."
"You alright kid?" You ask thoughtfully, helping her sit up straight and brushing her hair out of her eyes
"Yeah..yeah, just tired" She mutters sleepily "I haven't slept since you gave me the test, I...I've been working with mushrooms, trying to see if I could..could work with them like I do with plants"
You blink and put together the pieces of the puzzle
"You mean control them with your bloodline?" You ask, glancing over to her desk which is covered with scrolls scrawled with ink and manuals opened up to pages with diagrams of the human body, and spread with all kinds of sprouting fungus including
Corpse puppet morels.
Qi Qi and Sun Cuifen's ghosts appear as you notice them
"That's right" Luli yawns "And synchronize my body with them"
"A risky maneuver that we tried to dissuade her from" Qi Qi meekly explains, trying to get the heat off his back
"The heiress has turned to demonic cultivation because of you, stray!" Sun Cuifen accuses, her ethereal form growing more bloodied and mushroom covered as she gnashes her teeth at you
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 19 Feb 2024 19:31:07 No. 5930334 Report >>5930332 "Luli, you're tired and not making any sense, explain to me what that means" You say softly, pulling a blanket from her bed to wrap her in as she blinks wearily and seems surprised to see you again.
"Well, I figured since my bloodline has doomed me to turn into a tree if I don't surpass my ancestors, and the elders won't tell me anything when I ask, and don't let me do anything but the same practices and meditations they've had me doing since I was brought into this sect" the little girl weakly explains, eyes fluttering "So I had to figure out what they were holding back from teaching me and the function of my bloodline, and when I saw the...the body of Cuifen, I had a...realization"
"Mushrooms can be cultivated on trees, you are turning into one slowly, could you extend your abilities to mushrooms by allowing them to sap your qi like they sap nutrients for corpses and roots" you guess, impressed by the kid's ingenunity as she smiles, reaches out to one of the mushrooms on the table and as you notices her pale, thin arm is covered with marks like bruises, flicks up a finger, and as if on command, the red capped mushroom hops up, sprouting little feet and begins to march, and the mycelium covering her desk begins to writhe, glowing mushrooms emerging that are producing enough Qi to be worthwhile for a Qi Condensation novice to munch and chow down on.
"Only a heretic would be so bold" You observe proudly, as she slumps in her chair and yawns, the mushrooms with legs rushing to check on her. Which means they aren't just puppets, but living creatures. That she raised and fed off her own blood and Qi. Gruesome. It had to be painful. But its also very creative and effective. But she's drained herself, if the change in her hairs' color is any indicators, weakened her lifeforce, but not irreparably so. Still it takes a lot of guts to even attempt to do what she accomplished. She deserves to be praised for her boldness and creativity, and scolded for her recklessness, and needs to be given some nutritious food to replace what she gave to the mushrooms from her body, but before you can tell her any of this, she pushes her small body up and with a child's resolve asks or rather demands
"Is this enough for me to become your student?" She asks hoarsely but assertively
How do you answer, Huanliuxue?
>By applauding her efforts and their results and telling her that they are enough, and telling her she should get some rest and good food, before finding out who let her see the ruin of Sun Cuifen's corpse >Telling her that you will take her on as your student, if Tianhua doesn't object to it, and that you can twist her sister's arm until she allows you to take her. >"This is a good start. You have until the season change to build on this foundation and truly impress me?" >Shake your head >By getting the poor girl some sunlight and water, letting her rest while you see what the thousand lotus hall is offering to sell you. >Write in Anonymous
>>5930334 >By applauding her efforts and their results and telling her that they are enough, and telling her she should get some rest and good food, before finding out who let her see the ruin of Sun Cuifen's corpse >However you forgot one detail disiple trees and mushrooms have a symbiotic relationship and the tree gives energy while the mushrooms provide water and nutrients to enrich the tree. With such a method her foundation would strengthen by leaps and bounds.
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>>5930334 >"This is a good start. You have until the season change to build on this foundation and truly impress me?" Anonymous
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>>5930360 >Support Then
>Go and Find her big sister to explain the situation. We aren't just gonna run off and spoil this alliance. But we ARE going to tell her that we can help her surpass golden Core, with the knowledge of her ancestors and our own radient presence. And that should twist her arm enough.
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>>5930334 >Telling her that you will take her on as your student, if Tianhua doesn't object to it Fungi add a ton of versatility to the base ability of manipulating and breeding spirit trees and plants. She's going to be able to make so many bullshit pills once she's fully trained-- and her personal understanding of the Dao has great potential. I'm sure that Tianhua can be convinced to see reason and let us train her, especially once we tell her we know it'll cost Luli's life to continue down her old path. It will be to her and her sister's benefit, and to her sect's benefit. There is no downside, other than the potential loss of face from letting an outsider abscond with your heir.
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>>5930334 >By getting the poor girl some sunlight and water, letting her rest while you see what the thousand lotus hall is offering to sell you Anonymous
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>>5930334 >Telling her that you will take her on as your student, if Tianhua doesn't object to it, and that you can twist her sister's arm until she allows you to take her. Our sect has always lauded innovation, what with a lot of our star students (not to mention ourselves) practising laws they devised themselves, and she has shown she is not afraid to do whack shit to discover something new. If that's not enough, little will be.
Very curious to see how this might synergize with our own newfound plant powers. We would have to actually sit down and train them for that first though.
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>>5930334 >Telling her that you will take her on as your student, if Tianhua doesn't object to it, and that you can twist her sister's arm until she allows you to take her. Anonymous
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>>5930334 >Telling her that you will take her on as your student, if Tianhua doesn't object to it, and that you can twist her sister's arm until she allows you to take her. Anonymous
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>>5930320 Poor Yinying,bro CANNOT catch a break.
Also the memory demons are still strong on some of newer disciples >>5930334 Supporting
>>5930360 Also I wonder if Baifenchi would like Luli because of her technique leaving her in a corpse like state or if she'd be let down by her fate to become a tree rather than a corpse.
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>>5930332 Genetically, Mushrooms are closer to Humans than Plants.
They're also incredible repositories of genetic information, to say nothing of how far reaching mycellae networks can reach, actual miles for some species. I'm not sure how this translates to a world of Qi and Magic but Luli is ONTO something. I'm glad we poached this girl from Jingyu.
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>>5930334 >By applauding her efforts and their results and telling her that they are enough, and telling her she should get some rest and good food, before finding out who let her see the ruin of Sun Cuifen's corpse Anonymous
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>>5931867 >They're also incredible repositories of genetic information, to say nothing of how far reaching mycellae networks can reach, actual miles for some species. I'm not sure how this translates to a world of Qi and Magic I think she can conceivably learn how to make living libraries this way. And ones that safely hide away from prying eyes and beneath a wall of earth. Which is actually pretty useful. Since if it is aware and conscious it could even dig and flee from unwanted attention. Basically a giant underground brain that can walk when it wants to.
Very cool.
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Counting time>Votes:12 >By applauding her efforts and their results and telling her that they are enough, and telling her she should get some rest and good food, before finding out who let her see the ruin of Sun Cuifen's corpse:6 >Telling her that you will take her on as your student, if Tianhua doesn't object to it, and that you can twist her sister's arm until she allows you to take her.:4 >"This is a good start. You have until the season change to build on this foundation and truly impress me?":1 >By getting the poor girl some sunlight and water, letting her rest while you see what the thousand lotus hall is offering to sell you.:1 >Go and Find her big sister to explain the situation.:1 >However you forgot one detail disiple trees and mushrooms have a symbiotic relationship and the tree gives energy while the mushrooms provide water and nutrients to enrich the tree.:5
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Thu 22 Feb 2024 23:43:58 No. 5933245 Report Slipped on some tea I spilt and hit the ground hard, while it hurt like hell, I only got bruised thankfully. Anyways, enough of this old man's troubles, ending the vote
>>5932991 A thousand gratitude to junior for tallying the vote in my stead while I rested and recovered
So You'll applaud Luli's efforts and their results, telling her they're a suitable display of skill, before mentioning the detail she forgot about trees and mushrooms and that she should rest and get some hearty food before finding out who exactly allowed a child to see a corpse so mangled as Sun Cuifen's!
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>>5933245 >while it hurt like hell, I only got bruised thankfully As long as the impact was on a shoulder and not a skull.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 23 Feb 2024 00:18:25 No. 5933260 Report Quoted By:
>>5933258 I didn't hit my head, thankfully, don't worry junior
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 23 Feb 2024 00:42:20 No. 5933272 Report If it wasn't enough, then there'd be little else beneath the heavens that could make one worthy to be taken on as your student, and you've always respected those who have the confidence and nerve to innovate and toss themselves freely into the unknown to explore new ideas in pursuit of odd and mysterious Daos. This little girl not only has spunk, she has true mettle and a boldness most of her peers have had beaten or scolded out of them, so many young cultivators are so fearful of damaging the foundations they toil ever so hard to build they don't even dare to step one foot outside of the well trodden path of inherited techniques and traditions their white haired teachers guide them along by the hand.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 23 Feb 2024 00:43:21 No. 5933273 Report >>5933272 "I don't want to be a tree either, but I..I think I understand what you mean, and the wisdom you hope to impart" She says, cheeks turning pale pink with embarrassment at having her mistake shoved in her face, even if it was her only obvious mistake "I..I need to make the mushrooms give back as well as take, to benefit me instead of draining me of spiritual essence like"
Her eyes shoot open, a second wind of energy and excitement rushing through her as you have to hold her down to keep her from jumping up and falling flat on her face as she hasn't realized her legs are wrapped up in a silken blanket
"Like when I'm practicing my breathing exercises, and cycling my meridians to cleanse the muddy Qi inside them!" She gasps jubilantly, green slowly returning to her hair and color returning to her cheeks.
"Exactly!" You praise, patting her on her head which makes her pout cutely, trying her hardest to look mature in spite of her annoyance which only makes her cuter "But please, don't push your body, rest. This stunt you pulled, while it had great results in the end, has left your body weak and exhausted. Rest, eat good, health food to replenish what your body lost, liver maybe, fish certainly"
"But...shouldn't we..you accepted me as your.." She stammers, eyes fluttering as the drawback of using one's own spiritual energy and flesh to grow mushrooms starts to affect her strongly again.
"I did, but while I can work with ghosts, we're working to have you live a long and fruitful life" You coo, as you set her back down "I'll make sure they send something hearty and nutritious to get you some of the energy you spent back. But while you wait, meditate and think on what I said, how mushrooms benefit the trees whose roots they sprout from, okay?"
After a moment of pouting, looking like she's about to start complaining, Luli nods and composes herself as best as a girl her age could, closing her eyes and either meditating upon your wise words in search of comprehension and insights on a fungal dao, or falling asleep from the strain she put her young body through trying to earn your recognition
"You're guiding her down a dark path" Sun Cuifen warns, as if she can possibly threaten you
"That...that is actually a good point, if she can form a link with uh, spirit mushrooms, then surely she would only benefit her cultivation" The less crazed Qi Qi mutters to his ghostly self while Cuifen, who died much more violently gnashes her teeth in impotent rage, already well on her way to becoming a hungry ghost.
"Watch her, make sure her pets don't try and suck any more energy from her" You command imperiously "I am a queen of the dead, so you should obey me, I can make your afterlives a living hell if I choose to. And make sure she rests and eats her fill, I need to find who the hell allowed her to see your ruined corpse, Cuifen"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 23 Feb 2024 00:44:22 No. 5933274 Report >>5933273 Cuifen tries to figure out how to be angry with you for that, but ends up just glowering at you with a burning glare while Qi Qi, nods and stands an ethereal guard over the sleeping young mistress.
It doesn't take you long at all to figure out whose fuck up that was, as despite Tianhua's assurances, one of her elder's sent a toady to listen in on your conversation with her little sister, and they quickly spill their secrets while you calmly hold them against the wall by their throat, having caught them as they tried to run back to their master and tell them what their wild and frightened imagination pieced together from what little they could hear through a solid and living wooden door.
"Didn't your parents teach you it is impolite to ease drop?" You question politely as you tilt your head to the side cutely, with a beaming smile as they tremble against the wall and their lower half of their robes darkens with wetness "And society should've taught you not to pry in the business of your betters, so, who told you to intrude on my private conversation with Little Luli, hmm"
"Autumn Master Fang Ru! The austere elder was curious of what heretical secrets you'd discuss with the heiress, forgive him for his innocent curiosity!" the boy cries, clutching at the fair hand wrapped around his throat "He admires your willfulness and renegade lifestyle you lead"
"Not so innocent trying to steal the secrets of another daoist sect, is it" You coldly remark, letting them down to the ground, not entirely believing that is the reason why he sent a spy to crouch outside the door "Now he's even less likely to learn of my spooky heretical methods, and I was just getting fond of the old fossil...say, you wouldn't happen to know how the heiress saw the mangled, plundered and defiled corpse of your senior martial sister? And who allowed it to happen"
"Spring Master Yang Yingtai! She ordered the corpses be displayed before burial, to serve as a warning for carelessness and overconfidence" He whimpers, covering his head as you almost reel back in how easily he gives up his Shizun and at the gross behavior of Yingtai, who must be one of the woman elders of the sect, you might relish in the macabre and gruesome, but publicly displaying to bodies as broken as Qi Qi and Sun Cuifen's is kind of monstrous, even if it had a point and purpose "The whole sect saw them...did..did you really kill the monster that did that to them, and what was that about mushrooms?"
"Yes, and it'd be in your best interests if you forgot anything you heard" You say with a poisonous sweetness to your voice as you step around the cowering novice "And tell the Autumn master to keep his nose out of other people's business before I bite it off for being stuck into mine!"
"Yes, Honored heretic" The boy yells, not smart enough to realize that is a bad idea, a glower makes him cover his mouth and shut up before he attracts any one else who is too curious for their own good!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 23 Feb 2024 00:45:38 No. 5933275 Report >>5933274 What do you do now, Huanliuxue?
>Tell Tianhua you intend to take Luli on as your student, going past the elders supposedly working under her, and explain its in her sister's best interests >Confront Yingtai for her stupidity! No wonder Cuifen is so close to becoming a monstrous ghost after having her remains disrespected like that! >Keep your "Stealing" of Lian Luli a secret for now, and serenely browse the medicines the thousand lotus hall is willing to sell to you >Fang Ru is a bold old man, the other elders might force Tianhua to refuse or contest your claim on Luli...but if you butter up the most senior amongst them, they'll have no choice but to fall in line and submit to your decision >Take a chance to "Corrupt" some more of their disciples by showing them the medicines and poisons you crafted yourself as you're given a guided tour of their pill storehouse. >Write in Anonymous
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>>5933275 >Fang Ru is a bold old man, the other elders might force Tianhua to refuse or contest your claim on Luli...but if you butter up the most senior amongst them, they'll have no choice but to fall in line and submit to your decision I was ready to steal Luli from the Thousand Lotus Hall Sect given that she wanted to leave with us herself, they misguided her about her prospects and I cared little about the sect, but since we are now on what seem to be very good terms, it would be a shame to damage what might be a very useful long term friendship, especially if we can avoid it.
We can likely guilt trip Tianhua into agreeing seeing as how Luli will live a short life here normally, but the elders are less likely to budge. But if the eldest among them is curious about our heretical arts, then we can likely convince them that our continued friendship will carry great rewards for them, and that this much can be allowed to slide.
If you think about it, their garden is filled with dangerous plants, so that some of their members are interested in heretical techniques makes sense, capitalising on that seems like low hanging fruit.
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>>5933275 >Tell Tianhua >Butter up Fang Ru. Time to politik. I'm willing to give the old man rope to hang himself with. Stick him with "try that again and I'll gut you" and carrot him with "I'm going to help Luli with her cultivation, but since I know how much she means to your sect, I'm sure that when she gets to my sect, some lessons can be exchanged. In the interest of helping everyone, of course"
Use our status as a great teacher. Her sister just needs it spelled out for her.
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>>5933245 Wow, the curse is hitting you a lot
>Fang Ru is a bold old man, the other elders might force Tianhua to refuse or contest your claim on Luli...but if you butter up the most senior amongst them, they'll have no choice but to fall in line and submit to your decision Anonymous
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>>5933275 >Confront Yingtai for her stupidity! No wonder Cuifen is so close to becoming a monstrous ghost after having her remains disrespected like that! As the queen of ghosts, we have to protect our subjects.
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>>5933275 >Take a chance to "Corrupt" some more of their disciples by showing them the medicines and poisons you crafted yourself as you're given a guided tour of their pill storehouse. Anonymous
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>>5933275 >Confront Yingtai for her stupidity! No wonder Cuifen is so close to becoming a monstrous ghost after having her remains disrespected like that! Anonymous
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>>5933275 >Confront Yingtai for her stupidity! No wonder Cuifen is so close to becoming a monstrous ghost after having her remains disrespected like that! Anonymous
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>>5933306 Supporting.
But we will need to tend to Cuifen and Qi Qi, maybe inviting them along since Huan just can't seem to resist collecting followers.
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>>5933275 >Confront Yingtai for her stupidity! No wonder Cuifen is so close to becoming a monstrous ghost after having her remains disrespected like that! Anonymous
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>>5933275 >>Confront Yingtai for her stupidity! No wonder Cuifen is so close to becoming a monstrous ghost after having her remains disrespected like that! changing my vote actually.
we should honor the vengeful dead as we have thus far.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 25 Feb 2024 03:16:29 No. 5935288 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying the result now.
Fang Ru is a bold old man, the other elders might force Tianhua to refuse or contest your claim on Luli...but if you butter up the most senior amongst them, they'll have no choice but to fall in line and submit to your decision:6
Tell Tianhua you intend to take Luli on as your student, going past the elders supposedly working under her, and explain its in her sister's best interests: 4
Take a chance to "Corrupt" some more of their disciples by showing them the medicines and poisons you crafted yourself as you're given a guided tour of their pill storehouse.:1
Confront Yingtai for her stupidity! No wonder Cuifen is so close to becoming a monstrous ghost after having her remains disrespected like that!: 5
So you'll try to get Fang Ru to support your claim on Lian Luli as your newest disciple, resisting the urge to immediately confront Yingtai for her careless desecration of the dead and her own former students' corpses at that.
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>>5933488 YEP!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 25 Feb 2024 04:31:16 No. 5935339 Report And the moment the eavesdropper scurries aways from you, crawling backwards and hitting his head against the floor, you have to deal with a bit of internal conflict. Since hearing how the supposed wise spring elder decided to use the corpses of their young disciples as an exhibit of the dangers of growing careless or overconfident has really well and truly pissed you of. Just the thought of it makes you livid to the point you're gnashing and grinding your teeth, silently seething. Sure you don't know which bitch amongst the thousand lotus hall's council of elders owns that name and committed the offense or desecration, but considering she is called the spring master and old Fang Ru was called the Autumn Master, you can easily assume that she isn't the old withered crone. Just picturing what she did is enraging, both because you know she'll act surprised when Sun Cuifen's earthbound spirit takes a turn for the malevolent and vicious, not even realizing that putting her mangled remains on display is what drove the specter to madness and rage but because she used her sects own disciples as a warning for the others. Which is just an utter betrayal of the relationship between teacher and student.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 25 Feb 2024 04:32:18 No. 5935340 Report >>5935339 You dislike him because of his rudeness in trying to approach and extract your personal secret cultivation methods and heretical techniques, going so far as to send a spy to pry into your private conversation with Luli, but he has a more level head than the others. Which is probably why he can make them toe the line and act appropriate of their station, even when faced by a world turning beauty like your mother. It shouldn't be too hard to separate him from the rest of the elders before they present you with the medicines they're hoping to sell to you, he must be dying to be given a chance to glimpse even a fraction of your unorthodox wisdom and heretical insights and the miraculous spring water you've offered to trade for pills will certainly help convince him if he has any reason to dither over being offered a chance to gaze into the abyss beyond the rigid and sheltered traditions of the orthodox sects.
"You are elder Fang Ru, yes?" You ask, easily tracking down the party that is now composed of only Monu and the elders, since Lian Tianhua has gone off somewhere else, probably too cool down after her first exposure with the overwhelming femininity that is your mother. A femininity that still has the three other men of the thousand lotus hall's six elders deeply enchanted and hanging off her every word, even though Xuebai has fully manifested and started spreading Hoarfrost on the ground around the cushioned couch they're both lounging in
"Oh! I realize we never introduced ourselves to you, during the excitement and terror of your first visit" He exclaims, preening at his long white beard as if he were a songbird "A slight I was desperately hoping you'd forgive, and one we shall right shortly. Is there a reason you've sought me out in particular, Master Huanliuxue? The tour of our offered products and vaunted medicines will begin after the head has regained her nerve and composed herself...however long that will take"
He glances back to your mother, who is clearly loving the attention being heaped upon her, and furrows his brow with a mixture of disdain and disappointment for his juniors.
"I hope she will quash her heart demons before a scandal can occur, I mean no offense, the blame lies solely upon my peers who are looking at your toxic fairy of a mother with so lustful, hungry eyes" He says at a some what frantic pace, scratching his arm, not realizing that not asking of Luli's well being would've exposed his spying if you hadn't stumbled on it the moment you walked out of her room.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 25 Feb 2024 04:33:19 No. 5935341 Report >>5935340 "None taken, I'm just glad you're treating her with the respect and dignity she deserves for her genius, even though she's an outcast and troublemaker" You say politely in a controlled and somewhat emotionless manner, which makes you sound an awful lot like Qiang, hm "And I decided to grace you with my attention, because I believe you and I can strike up a deal the other elders of the hall don't need to know about, that'll benefit the both of us and advance your and my ambitions"
His eyes immediately turn from the soft, doughy look of gentle natured grandfather to the razor edged and cold squint of an experienced salesmen and ruthless haggler. He lifts his shoulders, growing taller as he stops slouching and his preening of his beard becomes a dignified, sweeping brush.
"A bribe?" He asks quietly, barely more than a murmur, eyes gleaming as he knows you know what it is that can buy his loyalty, at least temporarily "My my, how audacious"
Your shrug your shoulders and whisper "When a cat like me wants something, we butter up the person we think can give it to us, before resorting to sully our claws with their blood, and I am nothing if not audacious, Autumn Elder Fang, but you yourself are rather bold, hounding me at every turn for even a fragment of heretical wisdom"
"What can I say, we make use of resources and techniques that would frighten away the other sects, even if they pride themselves as being warriors and fighters and look down on us as meek flower tenders and dithering apothecaries" He sneers with a very feline smile and expression, looking like he is carefully calculating even his smallest movements as well as the words he speaks "Tianhua, though she is lacking as a head due to the circumstances of her birth, understands this well, for we cultivate dangerous blossoms and bizarre fruit. It is just that I, understand, it is best to plan the cultivation of a herb well before it comes into your possession, and you have proven most informed on techniques I believe can enrich our "Soil" marvelously. Master Tianhua is young and still restrained by numerous world tethers and temptations"
Your own eyes sharpen, dangerously, it doesn't take a genius of your caliber to figure out what or rather who is the soil he is speaking of, the heartless piece of shit, but you bite your tongue and control the maternal instinct to protect Luli by caving in his face.
"You're talking a lot like a Buddhist, speaking about tethers and temptations" You drawl instead as he smiles pleasantly, though it doesn't reach his scheming eyes
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 25 Feb 2024 04:34:21 No. 5935343 Report >>5935341 "Gardeners come from all walks of life" He answers mysteriously, as he raises an arm to put around your shoulder, before thinking better of it as you raise you hackles and curl your lip like you were flashing fangs in his direction, choosing wisely to instead clasp his hands behind his back and guide you away from the prying and curious ears of his fellow elders, raising his voice to say "Oh I do believe you will be most impressed by the luxurious fountains we have cooling our inner gardens, their spray and mist is most relaxing"
And with an alibi made up, the two of you whisk away to an isolated workshop. Fang Ru sits down, hands arched in front of him as you lean back against the wall, and he takes the initiative to ask
"So, what is it you wish to trade that cannot be sold in front of the others, it is obvious you want me to do something on your behalf, and so you must be seeking to indebt me to yourself by buying my gratitude, and you are shrewd, as perceptive as a hawk hunting a field mouse in fact, so I do not need to state what it is you can offer to butter me up and get me on your side for...whatever designs you have upon our humble sect of healers" He excitedly rattles off, clearly having practiced this "You know you and I are of kindred spirits, our curiosity cannot be contained by the ordinary and acceptable, yes? Why else would you risk everything to practice a dangerous and untested law. You and I are both...visionaries"
He is a frog lusting after swan meat if he imagines himself to be anything like you or anywhere close to your equal, but you are trying to butter him up and win his trust and friendship so he'll back the claim you intend to make to whisk Luli away without stepping on the toes of a sect friendly with the palace of natural laws.
"That we are, if you weren't so forward and brazen in asking for them, I might have enlightened you with all manner of perilous revelations and outlawed knowledges and illicit insights, but a seeker of the truth can be pardoned a bit of rudeness in their excitement" You tempt, the lies flowing from your tongue easily as he beams and continues brushing his beard in thought, nodding his head along with everything you say "So, since you and I are alike in mind and your interest in my macabre methods pleases me, I'll be blunt and forthright, so lets cut nails and sever Iron. I want Lian Luli as my disciple"
He goes as stiff as an ancient pine tree, face frozen in a polite, pleasant smile as his eyes glaze over as he mentally retreats trying to comprehend your words
"I think I misheard, please, repeat for my old, deaf ears..."He begins
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Sun 25 Feb 2024 04:35:22 No. 5935345 Report >>5935343 "You told me what her bloodline will do to her, none of you are trying to push her to greatness, to surpass her predecessors. I cannot and will not overlook a child in need" You answer as kindly as you can, but even you can hear the fury blazing beneath the silk of your voice "and I cannot just leave her to her sorry fate of becoming a lonely tree stuck, unable to sway in the wind or bask in the midday sun"
"You" He starts, wincing as you reveal a glimpse of your graveyard aura, the air cooling and Sun Cuifen and Qi Qi's ghosts appearing through the walls, drawn by the deathly yin Qi you express "Hah, this will be a difficult demand to sell to the other elders, you must realize, as smart as you are"
"I'm an incredible teacher, and she has developed a new technique all on her own to cultivate magic mushrooms. Its a perfect match. Tianhua adores her sister, she'll agree that I am the best hope for Luli to live a long and fruitful life, to develop the incomplete hereditary techniques you have her practicing' You explain with the composure of weather worn grave marker, unmoving and unaffected by the world around you "And you must be curious what she's been up to, gathering mushrooms and spores, but she won't tell you"
"But she told you" He muttered, sounding very jealous "And you know my heart, for yours is much like mine, as a scholar of the taboo and pursuer of heterodox mysteries, we have much to gain from one another, as you so wisely pointed out. and I know that you, potentially, have secrets that would make the loss of a miraculous, heaven's defying, previously unknown spirit grass seem as slight as the hair that is lost when it is cut"
You frown. he really is making it difficult for you to not want to beat the crap out of him.
"So. In exchange for a disciple with rare potential, a secret art or two, the hidden cultivation site or a potent spell or expert technique would be a generous enough gift to make me certain you and I are alike enough to be friends!" He declares shamelessly, eyes looking suspiciously like a certain greedy pig spirit...
What do you give to Fang Ru to curry his favor, Huanliuxue?
>The core of the plant monster that haunted the dusk marshes, to do with as he pleases >Allow him to borrow one of your personal Manuals (Which one> >The chance to be inoculated with pure carmine mysticism >Rare seeds of plants that grow only in the underworld or in the space of stars beyond the heavens >Access to as much Divine Blood Honey as he desires >Something else (Write in) Anonymous
>>5935345 >The core of the plant monster that haunted the dusk marshes, to do with as he pleases If that isn't enough then
>Add in an exclusive cut on trade with Divine Blood honey. Like however much we sell to the sect he'll get a discounted price. I wouldn't inoculate him as a carmine mystic as you need a very strong dao heart to not go crazy. Don't know him well enough that he wouldn't go off the deep end.
If that isn't enough still.
>Our current Manuals we have are a no-go maybe if we made a copy. However, we could check that library down in the tomb and find something interesting. So that's a thought, could invite him to borrow a book or two found down there. Anonymous
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>>5935345 >Rare seeds of plants that grow only in the underworld or in the space of stars beyond the heavens Anonymous
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>>5935345 >Rare seeds of plants that grow only in the underworld or in the space of stars beyond the heavens Honestly, it'd be interesting to see what he can get up to with them. It's hardly our specialty. Just give us a discount on anything interesting you turn up.
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>>5935345 >Something else (Write in) >Jingyu's soul organ He wants Heresy, okay here it is.
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>>5935345 >Rare plant seeds from the underworld and the depths of space. Give em one from the depths of space. We can control the flow of that paticular herb completely.
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>>5935345 >Rare seeds of plants that grow only in the underworld or in the space of stars beyond the heavens Anonymous
>>5935345 >Access to as much Divine Blood Honey as he desires Just give him honey.
Its something we can produce and after we give him a fuckton of it, it'll spread word to other sects increasing our own trade and demand for it. He'll probably come back for more long after. No need to give him rare shit that is still kinda valuable to us, espcially from the heavens and beyond.
>>5935394 I am against giving him multiple things. We aren't a pushover and this is to smooth things over with their sect, as far as we and Lulu are concerned its a done deal.
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>>5935554 You make a valid point.
Blood honey is also a really good resource.
changing to support this from
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>>5935345 >Rare seeds of plants that grow only in the underworld or in the space of stars beyond the heavens They already grow weird shit and have a hidden place to grow weird shit, so this should go down well with them.
And for what it's worth I'm curious if they can figure out anything we couldn't regarding growing strange plants, could be an opportunity for us to learn and profit as well in the future, and put our sects on even friendlier terms.
Anything more closely related to our personal arts, I don't really want to divulge. Honey I can get behind but I feel like there is not much potential for that to do anything for us later.
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>>5935554 I don't know if he'll be satisfied with the honey since it's not particularly heretical just valuable, but we can spin it as that we won't just heap heresy on him before he shows some heretical ingenuity of his own.
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>>5935345 >Access to as much Divine Blood Honey as he desires Anonymous
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>>5935568 Main reason im pushing for it is because there will 100% be sects who look into it what they are getting form us and when they see blood honey and its benefits will probably try totrade with us as well.
Basically giving a really good deal to an early customer so we can lock down more later down the line. So it'll pay dividends over time as well.
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>>5935572 its not heretical to us, it is to him by extension. Its produced by living demonics beasts/monsters. The orthodox thing to do would be to torch the hive and take the spoils, but here he is trading with acsended beasts for things they naturally produce. It can still be considered heretical and unorthodox. Regardless, the value of the honey is its versatility as well as its potency. It should be more then sufficient once he actually gets his hands on it. It's still worth its weight in more then gold.
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>>5936099 The unpleasant question we need to ask, senior; is it worth Luli? I don't think it is; if things are left as they are the Thousand Lotus Hall will gain a new, very potent and fruitful pharmacological resource by doing nothing. We need to beat "profit by doing nothing." with this offer. You can't lowball that.
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>>5935345 >Access to as much Divine Blood Honey as he desires Anonymous
>>5935345 >Rare seeds of plants that grow only in the underworld or in the space of stars beyond the heavens Indefinite is just too much for the blood honey.
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>>5935345 >Rare seeds of plants that grow only in the underworld or in the space of stars beyond the heavens This sounds extremely fucked up, but we're effectively trading rare plants for a rare plant (person)
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>>5936483 >>5935572 I'd argue he will be.
For 1 it is on the list for a reason.
for another we may have not used much of it, but its a very powerful resource. WE know its good both for alchemy and general consumption, the possibilities of combining it with other biological componenets and herbs could make even more priceless objects, which could only be made perhaps with it at a source. We'd be giving it to him in bulk at first, but I doubt we are promising him a literal infinite supply. Just a really large amount, Provided with the possbility in securing a long time customer, it'd also allow us to expand trade networks with our sects, expanding our influence. I'm not saying we lack benefits from experimenting with the other herbs, but this is one we more directly control on the playing field.
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>>5935345 >Rare seeds of plants that grow only in the underworld or in the space of stars beyond the heavens Anonymous
>>5935345 I feel like we need a clarification on "as much as he desires", does that mean "take as much as your hands can carry" or something, basically one large shipment, that's ok. If it means "lifetime unlimited access", that's too much.
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>>5937546 that's a fair point,
Grandfather are we promising an infinite amount or just a one time fuck ton.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Wed 28 Feb 2024 01:10:14 No. 5938053 Report >>5937546 >>5937567 It isn't a promise for an infinite amount of divine blood honey, and would be given to Fang Ru directly rather than the Thousand Lotus Hall Sect
Sorry for the delay, I'll try to get the update out in a few hours/ later tonight, and if not then tomorrow, but I didn't have power (Again) Sunday and Monday! So that was FUN. But enough about my latest misfortunes juniors, I'll return soon.
Feel free to discuss why Siwang is the bestest boy under the heavens while I'm away
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>>5938053 >>5937546 In which case I remain in support of giving the honey. 1 its not a lot, and if we give it to one elder, the rest may also want to get some allowing for that increase in trade over time I was talking about earlier, and we can just hand it to em once and afterwards he will probably want more once he sees how useful it can be on large scale use for manufacturing goods which can then be sold for higher profits.
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>>5935345 >Access to as much Divine Blood Honey as he desires He can't get more without access to the bees but he could theoretically get more seeds if he manages to grow the plants.
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>>5935345 >>5936759 >Access to as much Divine Blood Honey as he desires With that clarification, this is probably the best option then, so I'm changing my vote.
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Ending and tallying the vote now.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Wed 28 Feb 2024 06:13:11 No. 5938315 Report And just thinking about Yi Zhu brings to mind the fertile fields and bountiful wilderness of the underworld and all the miraculous and incredible herbs and reagents that grow there and the fine materials that can be found or otherwise purchased there. An entire world uncharted and untouched by the orthodox sects filled with alchemical ingredients and traditions that they've never touched or have else forgotten, and with the Chuan Sects realizing a lot of their history had been buried or altered, it is likely that the aversion they'd have to the uncommon, unknown and ghoulish ingredients and the medicines, drugs, pills and poisons that could be made with them will soon lessen if not entirely vanish from the hearts of the more bold amongst them. Fang Ru, an astute business men and trained apothecary and medical alchemist, will surely see that the profit and prestige for being the first "orthodox" alchemist to plunge into that unknown world and dredge up its treasures is more than spending another sect head to create a customized and unnatural spirit grass or whatever to keep their sect standing tall and proud as one of the elite and the foremost alchemy sect within the world of cultivation.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Wed 28 Feb 2024 06:14:12 No. 5938316 Report >>5938315 "Well, in that case, if you wish to fulfill your clearly desperate desire to befriend royalty such as the majestic me" You snicker, hiding your mouth and lower jaw with the sleeves of your robe "None of those generous gift suggestions would be suitable or right, you and I are both alchemists, the only difference is"
You nip your tongue to keep it from wagging and saying what you want to say and what is the honest truth, that the only difference is that 'I am far better and more skilled than Fang Ru and you are but a novice groveling at the heel of greatness', to instead teasingly state that "I have explored arts and methods forbidden the even the most knowledgeable and refined of alchemical masters, while you have only been allowed to wistfully dream and wonder of those same methods"
"We have heard tales of the pills and capabilities of your army of alchemically refined soldiers and terrifying students" he answers genially and with a certain careless cheer to his tone, even though his words have that certain cloying sliminess that greed brings to a voice, clinging like old sugar syrup, too sweet and too lingering.
He glances behind his back, still grinning widely and excitedly, anticipating the moment you tell him exactly what you'll give him in exchange for Luli.
"Many of them, we assume, are the exaggeration of scared and confused initiates brought about by the sheer terror of your grand display of bleeding the moon" He continues on, idly stroking and pawing at his beard "But for every tall tale, there is a pellet of truthfulness. The effectiveness of the drugs your warriors chomped on like sugar candy, is of an interest to us as a whole"
"But you must be more interested in the stranger medicines I employed" You purr, removing yourself from the wall and bolt to the table, slamming your hands down on it for dramatic effect "That resemble nothing you can make, even with your rarest herbs and oldest of your musty old ginseng roots and spirit fruit pits!"
"This gift is meant for me, rather than the sect as a whole" He states as if you need to be reminded, flashing a toothy grin as his eyes flare with a autumn orange glow "To replace the veneration and respect I will lose out on on raising another, tragically short lived genius whom in their last days, with the dying embers of their life, discovered a hitherto unknown herb with miraculous medicinal and spiritual properties, while also still funding the thousand lotus hall and allowing it to maintain its status and reputation as the great peak of healers, and make our pills remain sought after and premium cultivation aids"
"Don't repeat what I already know" You temper with a scolding though not rude tone, when really you want to say 'You are one heartless piece of shit, you know that right, "Master" Fang? I've met literal demons with less crooked characters than you!'. What astounding greed and selfishness! It is almost enough to steal your breath away.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Wed 28 Feb 2024 06:15:13 No. 5938317 Report >>5938316 "So you'd offer me a replacement resource of fine and rare herbs, that other sects have no access to" he surmises what went unspoken but what was obvious from the few words you did say and when you chose to say them "More or less fill the hole left by Luli's departure by offering up reagents have the the same exclusivity and potency as the plant her noble sacrifice would've created would've had?, All that my other elders will need to be convinced on, is the safety of using the plants in our alchemy and an assurance that, one way or another, the bloodline she contains would find its way back to our halls"
You lip twitches and you flex your hands open, wishing human fingers hid claws like cats paws did.
"Though the spiritual herbs you'll give me as a gift, will have to be worthwhile and effective enough for our uses, and I will also need to be informed of their qualities" He continues on as you force a smile on your face to keep from glaring at him demonically for his casual disregard for his student and future leader of his own sect, before his eyes suddenly twinkled and he laughed "Though I wouldn't want to miss the rare chance to experiment, perhaps a few notes on what to avoid using them for or what treatments and refinement methods to not use would suffice, the thrill of it alone would be worth the exchange, in my eyes, exploring and experimenting with plants I've never even seen before...oh it is every taboo scholar's dream! Oh we truly are of the same cut of cloth, are we not, lady huanliuxue"
No, no, no, you most certainly are not, but this old fossil is so excited by being allowed to play around with toys he was forbidden from playing with all his life, that he imagines you are the same sort of careless fool he is, that you're a heretic for the same reason he aims to become one, for the thrill and adventure and the mystery, rather than necessity and simple common sense.
"Though, one must wonder where you'll source these wonderful gifts, we have found grasses that exist no where in the world that other's can find, and that in truth only sprout in our gardens" He cackles happily as he taps his nails excitedly on the table, his eyes having the look of an opium addict now "How can even one who is unafraid of the prohibited paths find rarer flowers than that, hmm?"
"Where I collected them?" You ask, as he shrugs
"Make no mistake, even if they sprout from the belly of virgin maidens or from vast corpse pits or the bile of ghosts spread across the ashes of holy men, I will not refuse them" He answers, listing off some common rumors of how plants in hell sprout. So he has done some research that would've gotten an eye plucked out, a few fingers cut off, and his cultivation base broken.
You smile
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Wed 28 Feb 2024 06:16:14 No. 5938320 Report >>5938317 "Well there's no harm in telling you, since you can't travel to where I found them, at least in this life and if the place they grow is no problem..." You say, faking amusement as you drag a hand across the table and lift in gracefully up into the air with an ethereal wave, as you pull the other one down and point a finger at the floor.
"Above the sky and the heavens above that, and below our feet, down by the streams of the yellow spring" You laugh as he nearly falls out of his chair.
"I was expecting just hell!" He shouts, too enthused for his own good "But the stars, the astral realm beyond the nine heavens! How...you...are you lying to me, princess?"
"No, would you like me to prove it?" You ask, tauntingly and with a confidence that could turn away an avalanche.
"Please" He all but begs, face ruddy with glee and sweat beading on his brow from the excitement
"Hand me that root cutting knife" You bluntly reply, snapping your fingers as he picks it up with a silk cloth and gently places it on the table with trembling hands. He watches you with the same interest as a kitten may a flame dancing and flickering in the wind, but whatever he imagines you'll do next with the knife, dragging it across your wrist wasn't it. He yelps and covers his mouth before gasping and marveling at the silver dust sparkling in your blood
"I didn't explain this to the esteemed elders who made me stand trial for nothing" You dully explain, becoming fascinated by the sparkling and flowing of your blood yourself, and nearly enchanted by it. You lift a sleeve to hide the blushing on your cheeks, since having a reputation of being a girl who gets excited when blood is spilt is something you don't want to have "But we ascended beasts can evolve, I'm sure you know this as well, but I've studied the actual process behind it and well..."
"You've touched the stars" He mutters
"And bled on the moon" You answer smugly, as you grab a nearby pail of water "And it bled into me. My nature is a little...extra-terrestrial now, Heh-Heh"
"Transmuting blood into water with a touch and expending no spiritual energy? Well, I believe you now, forgive me, fair moonlit princess, for disbelieving your claims for even a moment" He exclaims appraisingly, bowing theatrically "I think there's enough time for you to show me a sample of what you'll gift me, and explain what each part of every plant is capable of doing when turned into medicine and spirit pills?"
He looks up at you with pleading eyes, looking almost like he's having a religious experience at the mere thought of being lectured by a true heretic on the properties of magical plants and herbs he's never heard of before. And while you're growing to dislike him more every second you spend with him and with every word that leaves his lips, it wouldn't hurt to make him even more indebted to you.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Wed 28 Feb 2024 06:17:15 No. 5938322 Report >>5938320 "Sure, why the hell not" You cackle, shrugging your shoulders "Just give me a moment to collect some samples, okay~?"
He nods like a boy being told he'll be allowed to play longer if he does his chores early and sits down obediently on the table, as you do just that. Really you just need to retrieve the herbs from your dimensional gourd, but he doesn't need to know that, and if he believes you traveled to hell and the moon to get him fresh samples that's better than telling him the truth. Though you will actually need to go into space to get some random plants and what not from there, since your mania on your first visit did keep you from exploring and gathering any plants or flowers that looked pretty or useful enough to take.
Of course, you'll mostly be giving him just enough herbs and grasses to experiment with and some seeds for him to try and cultivate on his own, if he wants to receive more, he'll have to ask for them and pay for them. The same deal you would've given him if you decided to offer him Divine Blood Honey first instead of Hellish Herbs and Lunar grasses, heh-heh.
And what will you do when you're shown the spiritual medicines, drugs and cultivation pills of the Thousand Lotus Hall sect, Huanliuxue?
>Actually browse and purchase some of them (leads to another vote) >Tell Tianhua your plan to "Steal" Lian Luli, knowing it won't be hard to convince her and have Fang Ru surprise her by lending his support, but keep it under wraps until the sect has some of your cash in their pockets and thus would be in an awkward position to refuse. >Just openly state you are going to buy Luli from them, ignoring the wares they're actually offering you, mostly just to mess with them all >Make the whole idea seem like Fang Ru's, by having him bring up the idea to his fellow elders before you start shopping, so no one but him and you will know that you orchestrated the whole thing, leaving your hands spotless and perfectly clean! >Write in Anonymous
>>5938322 >Tell Tianhua of the plan. >Tell them to take the corpses of their disciple down before they get a hungry ghost. Anonymous
>>5938322 >Actually browse and purchase some of them (leads to another vote) >Tell Tianhua your plan to "Steal" Lian Luli, knowing it won't be hard to convince her and have Fang Ru surprise her by lending his support, but keep it under wraps until the sect has some of your cash in their pockets and thus would be in an awkward position to refuse. Anonymous
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>>5938322 >Actually browse and purchase some of them (leads to another vote) Anonymous
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>>5938322 >Actually browse and purchase some of them (leads to another vote) >Tell Tianhua your plan to "Steal" Lian Luli, knowing it won't be hard to convince her and have Fang Ru surprise her by lending his support, but keep it under wraps until the sect has some of your cash in their pockets and thus would be in an awkward position to refuse. Anonymous
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>>5938330 I hope the bodies aren't actually still on display and it was only an open coffin funeral instead.
Otherwise they really do have brain rot.
Anyway:
>>5938322 >Tell Tianhua your plan to "Steal" Lian Luli, knowing it won't be hard to convince her and have Fang Ru surprise her by lending his support, but keep it under wraps until the sect has some of your cash in their pockets and thus would be in an awkward position to refuse. >Actually browse and purchase some of them (leads to another vote) I'm hoping they will bring out the good shit though.
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>>5938350 Support
However we should tell Tianhua to take down the bodies after we convince her.
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>>5938322 >>Actually browse and purchase some of them (leads to another vote) >>Tell Tianhua your plan to "Steal" Lian Luli, knowing it won't be hard to convince her and have Fang Ru surprise her by lending his support, but keep it under wraps until the sect has some of your cash in their pockets and thus would be in an awkward position to refuse. Anonymous
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>>5938322 >Actually browse and purchase some of them (leads to another vote) >Make the whole idea seem like Fang Ru's, by having him bring up the idea to his fellow elders before you start shopping, so no one but him and you will know that you orchestrated the whole thing, leaving your hands spotless and perfectly clean! Obsidian !VuGN/PzwEc
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>>5938322 >Actually browse and purchase some of them (leads to another vote) Might as well check out their selection.
>Tell Tianhua your plan to "Steal" Lian Luli, knowing it won't be hard to convince her and have Fang Ru surprise her by lending his support, but keep it under wraps until the sect has some of your cash in their pockets and thus would be in an awkward position to refuse. Better rip this particular band-aid off as soon as possible, it's not going to be pretty anyway, but with any luck we will get it over with and no harm will be done.
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>>5938322 >Actually browse and purchase some of them (leads to another vote) Might as well check out their selection.
>Tell Tianhua your plan to "Steal" Lian Luli, knowing it won't be hard to convince her and have Fang Ru surprise her by lending his support, but keep it under wraps until the sect has some of your cash in their pockets and thus would be in an awkward position to refuse. Better rip this particular band-aid off as soon as possible, it's not going to be pretty anyway, but with any luck we will get it over with and no harm will be done.
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>>5938322 >Make the whole idea seem like Fang Ru's, by having him bring up the idea to his fellow elders before you start shopping, so no one but him and you will know that you orchestrated the whole thing, leaving your hands spotless and perfectly clean! The Dao of "Guys, it'd be hilarious.": compels me.
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>>5939146 Which do you reckon is stronger the Dao of "It'd be funny", "You won't", or "Fuck it We Ball"?
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>>5939152 Well thinking about it for like 30 sec.
Ranking would be
Rank 3 You Won't
Rank 2 It'd be funny
Rank 1 Fuck it we ball
You won't make yourself stronger but your opponent. With You won't.
You are seen as a crazy bastard that seek chaos and within that madness it strength. It'd be funny.
Even if I have a chance of winning I'm gonna beat the fuck out of you. Fuck it we ball.
Is my interpretation of such daos.
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>>5939152 But none can compare to the strongest technique of the drunken masters:
"Hold my beer"
Anonymous
>>5938322 >Actually browse and purchase some of them (leads to another vote) >Tell Tianhua your plan to "Steal" Lian Luli, knowing it won't be hard to convince her and have Fang Ru surprise her by lending his support, but keep it under wraps until the sect has some of your cash in their pockets and thus would be in an awkward position to refuse. >Tell them about needing to bury Cuifen before he becomes a hungry ghost Anonymous
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Ending the vote and tallying its results now.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 01 Mar 2024 10:08:10 No. 5940053 Report Fang Ru is easily distracted by the samples of the underworld and astral spirit grasses you've given him and last you had seen, he was sharpening a sprig of corpse hair bush to check it for sap and ichor, after having nearly frozen his hand stiff with a strange, crystalline tuber you found in a patch of lunar soil that has the curious property of its juices being super chilled and instantly freezing when squeezed out and both said juices and cut away parts floating as if they were in the gravity less void of open space, a spirit grass you've chosen to call a "Moon carrot" and that you and the despicable Fang Ru already have a thousand and one ideas for how to use it and the other astral plants you brought back after a quick run around the lunar surface. The gross feeling of having actually shared and exchanged ideas with filth like him and having did so jovially and excited, still stubbornly clings to you and if it weren't for your mother entertaining your hosts you would've have to endure the dirty, almost guilty filling of finding common ground with such garbage.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 01 Mar 2024 10:09:11 No. 5940054 Report >>5940053 "You are forgiven" You happily respond, head held high as you notice that she is still only covered in a towel and her skin is still flushed with heat, with steam rising from her back and shoulders, which are slackened as if she were carrying a heavy burden. And judging from how her brow is creased and furrowed, she is, at least emotionally
"Is something troubling you?" You venture, tilting your head slightly to the side, the humidity of the baths already making your fluffy mane of scarlet hair poof up and become even more untamed and wild than it tends to be. Tianhua is quiet for a breath of time, her eyes closed with a look of deep sorrow and guilt on her pretty face as she stands there, steaming and nearly as red as your hair
"My little sister, Luli" She answers after a moment and a glance around, rubbing one of her arms as she musters the courage to confide with you, who is clearly the best choice she could've made "She's usually such a cheerful child, but ever since her...horrid experience with that demonic cultivator, Jingyu, she's been withdrawn and gloomy, and when she does speak, she's often ill tempered and quick to anger. She isn't...she's changed, and I'm worried it is because, even though she was uninjured, she bares unseen wounds, in her heart and psyche. I can only imagine how scared the poor thing was, and there is nothing I can do to help her recover and I feel such immense guilt that I"
She chokes on her words, tears falling down her cheeks and sparkling like stars in the steaming air around the two of you. You frown, but say nothing, knowing exactly why Luli has been so sullen and abbrasive towards her older sister as of late.
"I just don't know what to do, I'm a failure of an older sister, I couldn't protect when it matter, and I don't know how to console her" She continues, sniffling as she opens up her heart to you and tells you her troubles, which seems to lighten the load weighing upon her back "My mother would've known what to do, but I am not her and I...don't know how to help her recover and return to her usual, cheerful self"
"I think I know the cause. She" You say slowly, carefully choosing your words so as not to upset the teary Tianhua "While she was trapped with that rabid dog, she learned of the cost of your family's bloodline, and obviously, she feels betrayed and bitter that you never told her"
"She was too young" She says weakly, as if she herself doesn't believe in that excuse "It is too great a burden for a little girl to know her life has a time limit, a tragically short one. We daoist cultivators expect to live centuries longer than other men, to know you scarcely have a handful of decades at best is something most would be unable to grapple with if it was the truth of their life, and its painful even if you can grasp it"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 01 Mar 2024 10:10:12 No. 5940057 Report >>5940054 "Especially for her older sister, who has been told to keep such a terrible secret from her beloved little sister because it would disrupt the peace and endanger the future of the sect" You sympathize with a hand on her bare shoulder, as you right your posture and lift your head up high "Or, at least that's what I imagine the elders who once served your mother said"
"It is close enough to the bitter truth of the matter" She answers, guilt and sadness intertwined in her words "But, even if I disagree, nothing can be done to extend her life. Is it not kinder to have allowed her a few carefree years of innocence free from beneath the shadow of death"
"Why fear death? it is all around us, I flourish within the shade it casts" You snicker, eyes agleam "But she doesn't have to march into the cold embrace of the grave you know"
"Huh?" Tianhua gapes, mouth open already to reprimand you for making light of the tragedy surrounding her family before your claim catches her off guard and makes her gawk with tears still wet on her face and eyes reddened with crying
"The deadline set by the blood your inherited isn't as rigid as you and your underlings believe it to be. All you have to do to avoid it, is surpass the golden core stage" You huff back smugly, revealing a glimpse of your graveyard aura that immediatly chills the air and makes the atmosphere kinda gloomy. Tianhua blinks, hearing and understanding your unspoken boast.
"Few can even form a golden core" She answers back after a moment, sounding like she's desperately trying to crush down the hope rising up in her heart
"I did it in a handful of years, didn't even take me ten" You boast, head and chest lifted as high as they'll go as Tianhuah's eyes frantically flick around as she realizes exactly what you're offering without saying it. Who knows who could be listening in to this bathside conversation
"You aren't ordinary by any measure, Lady Huanliuxue" She answers quiet as a mouse, careful not to allow herself to dare to hope
"That's true, but I progressed so far so swiftly, because of my method and habits of cultivation, cultivators as a whole are as cautious as mice nowadays, risk averse. They'll spend years making incremental increases cause the risk inherent to progressing by leaps and bounds frightens them, so they teach their students to take agonizingly long and slow means of gathering and refining Qi and cultivating it" You answer, thrilled and electrified with cheer as you give her a reason to hope "That's why my students, lesser though they are to my own shining brilliance, ascend up the ranks of cultivation so quickly"
"Nascent soul is nearly a myth its so rare" She squeaks, but the fire in her eyes and the rising of her voice tells you she is just saying that to urge you to give her one last push to trust her
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 01 Mar 2024 10:11:13 No. 5940058 Report >>5940057 "So were beasts walking around like humans do, then I showed up and suddenly they're popping up like wildflowers" Your laugh turns into a thunderous, echoing bellow as you cross your arms and flash a defiantly confident grin "I've been practically the only teacher of my sect, and I've trained the disciples of other temples alongside all of mine, I am probably the best teacher their is beneath the heavens, so I know when a student is having their potential squandered by being placed under a worthless teacher"
Especially when said teachers are grooming her to give up her life for the sect and their own ambitions, but that doesn't need to be said. No reason to make Tianhua feel even more guilty, now is there.
"But, she is the inheritor of our treasured bloodline, the oth..the elders will not let go of her easily" She stammers, shocked by just how audacious you are and the plan you've all but told her about
"Leave that obstacle to me to break down" You reply with a click of your tongue "Just give me your support and permission when I steal away Luli, and I promise I'll make her the first in your family to reach nascent soul. And if she can't, I know other ways to spare her her mother's fate"
Lian Tianhua stutters for a few moments, eyes watery with tears as she tries to find the words to voice her gratitude, before she, suddenly, so suddenly it makes you jump, throws herself onto your and wraps her arms around you in surprisingly tight and smothering hug as she cries with joy.
"You are too generous, too kind and too sublime, Huanliuxue. Even though we've just met, you've proven a true friend to me" She wails and blubbers, her towel only kept up by a miracle and the friction between her body and yours "I, I entrust Luli to you, because I know I can trust you to keep her safe and won't break the promise you've made to her and me. You're just too wonderful, Lady Huanliuxue, even if I had a dozen lifetimes to repay you, I couldn't possibly repay the debt I owe to you..."
You roll your eyes, as she continues to tearfully praise and thank you, and even though you relish in compliments and praises, being squeezed by a wet woman and having her cry into your chest quickly grows annoying, but you don't push her away until she's made her voice hoarse voicing her gratitude to you.
Sniffling, she says her goodbyes and promises to do all she can to support your claim on Luli and makes certain to ask that she'll be allowed to drop by and visit her frequently as she heads out of the bath and you head into them to relax and scrub off the lingering sliminess of Fang Ru.
And if he or the other elders are irritated that you took so long lounging and enjoying the warm waters of their bath, they don't voice any complains as you, refreshed and confident your plan will work, enter the hall they prepared to show off their finest pills and medicine.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Fri 01 Mar 2024 10:12:14 No. 5940061 Report >>5940058 Monu is also there, and she is quicker to explain what each polished ball of medicine can do and what it is made of quicker than the ones who made them are able to, which annoys the ones who aren't still enchanted by her jade like beauty and Fang Ru, who is looking like he had a puff or two on her opium pipe after you left him to get acquainted with the seeds from hell and the stars.
Each pill is arranged almost ceremoniously upon a green jade pedestal carved to resemble a blooming lotus, set upon a silk cushion, and the salves and elixirs are similarly presented and the moment after you look them over and admire their color and firmness, and once Monu is done explaining what they are, one of the elder's names their price. Tianhua herself, however, keeps her distance, nervously gnawing on her nails as she watches from a far, nervously waiting for you to spring your ploy and take away her sister. She's so nervous in fact, the flowers in her hair are wilting, the poor thing.
What, if anything, do you purchase from the thousand lotus hall sect, Huanliuxue? (The divine blood honey and Miraculous Five elements spring water you brought, will each allow you to purchase a supply of one choice for free, giving you two free choices! if you use them to trade) You have 4244 spirit stones to spend
>Everblooming Lotus Extract: The finest and most effective lifespan extending/ Longevity bolster drug that can be found and made within the restrictions placed by the heavens. Each dose adds 10 to 20 years to the users expected lifespan. (Cost per dose, 2200 spirit stones, the extract offered is of the highest quality and is guaranteed to have the maximum effectiveness) >Bone mending Bamboo Pellet. A healing pill that can mend broken bones, heal most internal injuries, and if taken quickly enough, can replace lost limbs. It can also repair minor damages to meridians or other spiritual organs (Cost per bag of four pills. 2000 spirits stones) >Strength of the mountain bending rose drug. A steroid that can permanently increase the users baseline level of strength and improve their muscles as well as a decade of physical training & cultivation (Cost per single pill. 1600 spirit stones) >Celestial Purity White Lotus Pill. A pill that can cure "All" poisons and diseases, something that Monu laughed at and remarked "Most Poisons and diseases" (Cost per bag of five pills, 1200 spirit stones) >Azure Spring Blossom Pill. A cultivation aid that is sought after and often used by rich young masters to escape the Qi condensation stage or progress through the foundation establishment without working hard. worthless to you (Cost per Pill. 1080 spirit stones) >Steelbark hide drug. A pill that alchemically alters the outermost layer of skin, turning it temporarily into a bark as hard as forged steel. Seems similar to your blood moon transformation...(Cost per bag of four. 850 spirit stones) >request or commission a specific type of pill (write in) Anonymous
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>>5940061 >A supply of Strength of the mountain bending rose. Upping our baseline strength is nice, and serves us well to gift our students.
>a supply of Azure spring blossom. Now I'm of two minds. One is that this will let us boost our disciples up ŕeally quickly. The other is that such ease might form bad habits. Still, if we give them to our proven and reliably dilligent students and have focus on them, then it is a quick and viable way to increase our strength.
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>>5940061 Nothing we truly need, as I expected since golden core is above most things already, but i see some potential for others in our sect.
So unless we want to make poor Yuji a cultivator overnight and extend her life fivefold as a joke the strenght pill and steelbark seem the most useful for our disciples, I fully believe Monu can whip up something comparable to the antidote pill on her own.
I'll hold off on voting for now to allow somebody to come up with a good alternative pill write-in
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>>5940061 >Bone Mending Bamboo Pellet for some Divine Honey I also have half an idea to buy a longevity pill and gift it to Yuyi. What do you say, anons?
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>>5940061 >Project Yuri / Just in case protection for disciples heading out. 1x Strength of the mountain bending rose drug(Trade with honey)
1x Bone Mending Bamboo Pellet - (Trade with water)
1x Azure Spring Blossom Pill (1080 SS)
1x Celestial Purity White Lotus Pill. (1200 SS)
1x Steelbark hide drug (850 SS)
Total spent = 3130 SS
It's like raising Beep in Kenshi. Something I wish to do for our girls BFF.
The other pills I'd use as protection pills for when our disciples are running missions. To give them a safety net against sudden oh god moments.
>request or commission a specific type of pill (write in) Scar removal Pill - For our Eldest Disiple since he's being self-conscious of it. I figure a good reward once he has a breakthrough into the next realm.
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>>5940076 All our students are in the FE stage or lower. The azure spring drug could boost them a lot.
Ideas for a comission though might be "use the spring water to create an elemental affinity enhancer drug"
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>>5940083 Healing drugs are something we can make in house.
I see the vakue in a supply but eehhh
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>>5940083 Supporting scar removal drug commission
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>>5940084 I see it less as "It's useful to our students" and more as "it's useful to see the exact method by which it functions". If we can find a way to recreate its effects with more potency, or subvert it and make some sort of nullifying drug, or even just throw it to the wind and convert it into some sort of other weird thing like a self-cultivating flower it would be very interesting.
Even if it's something we can cook up ourselves, to see it in another formula is to learn more nuance. Never forget that whether the lowliest of beetles or the highest of dragons, there are always lessons to be learned. Breakthroughs can come from the most unusual of places.
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>>5940086 I don't remember what we can make since it's been a while since we did any alchemy. Not since killing dog emperor.
If we can then it sure wouldn't make sense to buy. However if we don't know how right now then it would be good as a temp bandaid until we focus some efforts towards that goal.
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>>5940061 >Steelbark hide drug. A pill that alchemically alters the outermost layer of skin, turning it temporarily into a bark as hard as forged steel. Seems similar to your blood moon transformation...(Cost per bag of four. 850 spirit stones) Anything that turns Animal into Vegetable calls for inquiry.
>Bone mending Bamboo Pellet. A healing pill that can mend broken bones, heal most internal injuries, and if taken quickly enough, can replace lost limbs. It can also repair minor damages to meridians or other spiritual organs (Cost per bag of four pills. 2000 spirits stones) Just in case someone other than Fu gets torn to ribbons whenever the Ling decide to grow a spine and attack.
>Total 2850 Anonymous
>>5940061 >Bone mending Bamboo Pellet. A healing pill that can mend broken bones, heal most internal injuries, and if taken quickly enough, can replace lost limbs. It can also repair minor damages to meridians or other spiritual organs (Cost per bag of four pills. 2000 spirits stones) >Strength of the mountain bending rose drug. A steroid that can permanently increase the users baseline level of strength and improve their muscles as well as a decade of physical training & cultivation (Cost per single pill. 1600 spirit stones) >Azure Spring Blossom Pill. A cultivation aid that is sought after and often used by rich young masters to escape the Qi condensation stage or progress through the foundation establishment without working hard. worthless to you (Cost per Pill. 1080 spirit stones) (pay this one)
>>5940083 To quote something I said a long ass while ago when I first caught up.
If we wanted to remove the scars, could we not just do it ourselves with our mastery over blood and flesh?
to which I was replied to with stuff along the lines of "it builds character"
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>>5940281 To which I remember we can't heal with blood or we turn them into basically vampires.
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>>5940287 Fellow Junior, we were able to turn (regrettably) a catgirl into a non catgirl.
And as far as I know molding flesh isn't impossible for us, we did it with others no problem. Making a scar of all things dissapear should be within our power.
I am not against buying the pill, I just wanted to mention the fact that the issue of scars was brought up before.
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>>5940061 >Everblooming Lotus Extract: The finest and most effective lifespan extending/ Longevity bolster drug that can be found and made within the restrictions placed by the heavens. Each dose adds 10 to 20 years to the users expected lifespan. (Cost per dose, 2200 spirit stones, the extract offered is of the highest quality and is guaranteed to have the maximum effectiveness) >Strength of the mountain bending rose drug. A steroid that can permanently increase the users baseline level of strength and improve their muscles as well as a decade of physical training & cultivation (Cost per single pill. 1600 spirit stones) Trade for them both.
We don't really *need* longevity pills, but it seems like a really easy reward to give to an apprentice who did something good and/or need it, or alternatively it would make excellent bait for mortals. I'm sure there are plenty of nobles who would gladly lick out feet for one of those, if we feel like meddling a bit.
As for the strength, that sounds like the one pill Huanliuxue might get a use out of personally, but again, it might be good for an apprentice either as a reward, or to help a particularly scrawny apprentice get some confidence. Something like that.
And for what it's worth, even if we want none of these, which is fair given that they are nothing mind-blowing, trading will foster further goodwill with the Thousand Lotus Hall Sect, who at this point I would like to have as allies, so trading for them will help achieve that, even if we don't actually get much out of it.
>>5940082 >I also have half an idea to buy a longevity pill and gift it to Yuyi. The problem is not her lifespan, but her bloodline turning her into a tree, she would life a long life just fine without that, and thus I doubt the pill would help her. At least that is how I understand it.
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>>5940318 You're mixing up Yuyi and Luli
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>>5940394 My own idiocy never ceases to frighten me.
Please forgive this most embarrassing display
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>>5940061 >Steelbark hide drug. A pill that alchemically alters the outermost layer of skin, turning it temporarily into a bark as hard as forged steel. Seems similar to your blood moon transformation...(Cost per bag of four. 850 spirit stones) Pay for it with spirit stones.
I don't much mind whatever else is bought, but I think studying these pills could give us some insights on progressing our own blood moon transformation.
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>>5940061 >Bone mending Bamboo Pellet. A healing pill that can mend broken bones, heal most internal injuries, and if taken quickly enough, can replace lost limbs. It can also repair minor damages to meridians or other spiritual organs (Cost per bag of four pills. 2000 spirits stones) >Steelbark hide drug. A pill that alchemically alters the outermost layer of skin, turning it temporarily into a bark as hard as forged steel. Seems similar to your blood moon transformation...(Cost per bag of four. 850 spirit stones) Anonymous
>>5940394 Need to pencil in those two meeting. Sometimes between introducing them to the Carmine Mystics, JiongJiong and Baifench(?)
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>>5940701 And the reading club.
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>>5940061 >Strength of the mountain bending rose drug. Trade >Bone mending Bamboo Pellet. Trade Could be useful for the cultivation of that bone eating deer.
>Steelbark hide drug. Might be good for our blacksmith
>Celestial Purity White Lotus Pill. For the frog and his purification dao
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>>5940061 >Steelbark hide drug. Could useful for studying our transformation, if not the price is relatively low
>Bone mending Bamboo Pellet Sure we can heal with our blood shield, but this is more for our disciples who can’t exactly reattach themselves like Fu and Huan can
>>5940281 Bro has been building character for years. I still support leaving it up to him, but he has shown some signs of wanting a better outward appearance a couple times.
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>>5940061 >Everblooming Lotus Extract: The finest and most effective lifespan extending/ Longevity bolster drug that can be found and made within the restrictions placed by the heavens. Each dose adds 10 to 20 years to the users expected lifespan. (Cost per dose, 2200 spirit stones, the extract offered is of the highest quality and is guaranteed to have the maximum effectiveness) >Bone mending Bamboo Pellet. A healing pill that can mend broken bones, heal most internal injuries, and if taken quickly enough, can replace lost limbs. It can also repair minor damages to meridians or other spiritual organs (Cost per bag of four pills. 2000 spirits stones) Anonymous
>>5940061 >>Strength of the mountain bending rose drug. A steroid that can permanently increase the users baseline level of strength and improve their muscles as well as a decade of physical training & cultivation (Cost per single pill. 1600 spirit stones) >Four times (two times bought, two times traded) We and our core martial disciples need to become stronger in order to survive our next tribulation. While the other substances look nice and all, this is the only substance with direct, immediate strengthening. Our newest disciple can probably open the research-related options for us in a few months, but there is imo no super-fast way to handle this research anyways.
>Recipients of this should be: ourself, Fu, Ping, and Quiang. > We should combine this with using the divine blood to refine our Carmine Mysticism. Physical Cultivation on steroids!
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>>5941241 We are trading a supply for a supply. Not for a single dose.
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>>5941122 The price is very low, so buy it rather than trade for it.
That goes for you as well
>>5940620 Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 04 Mar 2024 04:53:14 No. 5942888 Report Ending the vote and tallying its result now. I've already archived this thread and will be making a new one. Sorry for vanishing over the weekend.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 04 Mar 2024 04:54:42 No. 5942891 Report Quoted By:
>>5942888 which will leave you with exactly 3394 spirit stones, so the character sheet can be updated to reflect that
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:I2PlzRBR Mon 04 Mar 2024 06:49:52 No. 5942953 Report Quoted By:
