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While you consider if the general and grandmaster of the White Jade Devil Opposing Army (白玉魔鬼抗击军队, Báiyùmóguǐkàngjījūnduì), the foremost experts of hunting, fighting, subjugating and killing demons in amongst the sects of Chuan, the giant and somewhat peculiar Bai Shengzhanshi and your bodyguard and advisor, the fierce ghost and namesake forgotten king of the your catacombs Àodàshèng (Proud Great Sage, 傲大圣) would get along and could perhaps become friends, the unbelievably tall and muscular demon slayer continues to excitedly list off every species of devil still known in the orthodox world of cultivation, as he tries to guess which you'll be pursuing to slaughter on your adventures down by the yellow spring. Which he has taken your suggestion of as already being fact and a promise all but sealed in blood and spoken oaths. Its kind of endearing how enthusiastic he is to mercilessly murder evil, speaking of the act the same way a child might their favorite game.
Shandian, the head of the Storm Shrine Mountain Sect (风暴圣地山 ,Fēngbàoshèngdìshān), has put down his drink to watch the free for all melee with extreme and total attention, allowing for no distractions to draw it away from the brawl between the best mortal fighters the lands of Chuan have to offer, who have gotten really competitive in what to them must seem like their last chance to enter your service and be granted to supreme privilege of being the student of a teacher as worldly, traveled and experienced as yourself. Not to mention that you're also the most kindly of mentors as well, of course. However, as you play a little personal game of trying to put faces and racial features to the ever growing number of devils that Shengzhanshi speaks the names of to see if you have a reaction that'll be a tell to show him what exactly you'll be teaching him and his students how to battle and kill as swiftly as you would a mouse with a single smack of your paw, a thought worms its way into your head, like a corpse eating beetle gnawing its way into a casket.
"You know, the cycle of reincarnation, is a great wheel that constantly rotates without a care for what gets crushed in its way" You interrupt, stopping him by lifting a single finger delicately, stopping him as he began to list demon lords you are almost certain died of old age generations ago, since you've never heard about them even though you've gone stomping around hell many more times than the "Sane" would care to risk.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Fri 18 Oct 2024 05:32:19 No. 6125064 Report >>6125063 "Of course. All souls must go through the same process to transmigrate and be born anew, memories washed away, into a new life" He answers, voice resounding but hard to read "What are you getting at, master of ghosts?"
"Well, since even the most righteous of the dead aren't immediately reincarnated" You say, choosing your words carefully so as not to offend the man with legs larger around than your whole body, at least when you're in human form "So it stands to reason, that there could still be some ancestors of your sect down there, doing what they've been taught to do, and continuing their good work"
"I am certain they would be swiftly reborn, no matter their vices or eccentricities" He answers bluntly, but not angrily, at least you don't think so, its hard to tell when his voice can just be describe as thunderously loud and he's wearing a mask that covers all of his face
"They could've chosen to delay their next life to protect the innocent dead, or had been taken captive by vengeful demons" You suggest off handedly, giving reasons why you might find a white jade devil opposing army member still trapped down in the underworld, without saying the probable reason that the unbiased cycle of death and rebirth did not care that they thought they were hunting devils when they were actually slaughtering innocent magical beast children, no matter if the heavens would've applauded them for their massacres being populated by as many cruel divine bastards as they are.
Shengzhanshi's shoulders droop, and the air at him warms as a quick wave of Qi flows out of him, searing the air before he regains control of himself. At least that's what you assumed cause the sudden burst of spiritual energy, that the suggestion of demons harassing his predecessors was enough to piss him off, even if you can't see it on his face because again, he's wearing a mask over it.
"I will admit, you present two possibilities that may proven to be fact" He answers slowly, clenching and unclenching one of his hands, which are vast enough to wrap around your head right now, into a fist "In the case of the former, I would assist them in the self-less duty, in the latter, I would die to see them freed. I know little of hell itself, so I must defer to your expertise, Crow Killer"
"Well, I don't know for certain if that is what's happening, but I have ran into other daoists down by the yellow springs, even a few cultivators" You answer truthfully, folding your hands together and nodding your head sagely "Even had a few train my disciple Ping"
"The ghost armed exorcist?" He asked and you were happy one of your earliest students had some renown and face of his own already, even if it was paltry compared to your own reputation
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Fri 18 Oct 2024 05:33:20 No. 6125066 Report >>6125064 "Yes. So, I brought up the possibility of your ancestors being in hell, for one reason or another, a sense of duty or you know, horrible unending torture" You continue casually, smirking as Shengzhanshi made another reflexive burst of spiritual energy when you said the second one "Since I had a sudden, fanciful thought that, maybe, you and I"
"And my students" He adds before you can finish taking a breath
"And any of your students who can survive down there" You correct "Can go looking for these hell bound ancestors of yours, and see what they have learned in the decades and centuries they've spent battling against all of hell's denizens?"
Shengzhanshi bows his head, and you hope that means he's deep in thought and meditating on your suggestion, and not having suddenly fallen asleep mid conversation. It is really hard to tell.
"And assist them in their struggle, of course" You add, to see if that's the push he needs to come over to the idea "Or hell, smuggle them out of hell, so there isn't a risk of their wisdom and insights being lost because, say, someone pays a spider demon a few souls to slice their ethereal throat"
"You have a talent for conjuring the most disturbing of mental images, Madam Huanliuxue" He grunts before nodding once "And the more you speak, the more nightmarish visions assail me. We must go to the underworld, not just to train, but to search for these imprisoned masters"
"Or masters having the time of their death clashing with demonic armies" You cheerfully reply, playfully flicking your sleeve up as Shandian glanced your way
"The thought process of heretics is truly frightening to behold. Want to earn favor with another sect, take their students on a trip to the underworld, search for their venerated dead and pester them into revealing their secrets and the mysteries they keep" He chortles, shaking his head "I'm surprised you haven't told the giant you'll find him a clothier down there to make robes that fit his frame!"
You pull back the immediate paranoid voice in your head wondering frantically if Shandian somehow knows of your friendship with Anjing, because while keeping cautious and on guard for threats is wise, indulging in nonsense like that is just acting overly paranoid, since there is no way Shandian knows anything about the underworld and your adventures in it. Hell, he'd probably not be able to tell a forked tongue devil from a split tongue corpse!
"She sees the world from a different perspective, thus her insights, though contorted from our perspective, are most valuable. Especially when concerning martial matters" Shengzhanshi answers simply, and...did he just come to your defense? You weren't even offended by what old storm cloud had said, since it was entirely true.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Fri 18 Oct 2024 05:34:21 No. 6125067 Report >>6125066 But as you're wondering if he was just making a statement or taking offense on your behalf, you notice the crowd and sounds of fighting had quieted down. And looking up, see that the seething mass of fighters has been reduced to just for still standing, as Giant Honey Bees dart through the moonlight carrying the wounded off of the field, which is now soaked with blood and overflowing with its rich, almost intoxicating aroma.
The last four are Ho, Chuanmao and his brother Haimao, and some Buddhist whose twirling around a sickle attached to a chain which it shares with a rope dart.
Ho is looking incredibly fierce, the brothers are standing together, and the Buddhist is hoping foot to foot and....Wait is that Xiang? The flying monk? He has to be, judging from the grudge miasma pouring out of him as he locks eyes with the Chicken farmer, who beat him soundly in the Martial Arts leg of the pre Qi condensation tournament.
You look away from the three way stand off, to see a few other familiar faces being tended to by Jionghuagege and her kids, including Jia Li and Chuan Huan, and Yu Ye, the boar like man who courted death by just entering the arena opposite of Ju while her brother was present in the audience.
Shandian's grey eyes light up like a lightning flashed, as he wordlessly flashes a handful of very large and very high quality spirit gems, trying to entice you into gambling with him.
<span class="mu-s"> Double vote! </span>
Do you take Shandian's bait
>Yes, Bet on Ho >Yes, bet on Xiang >Yes, bet on Boat and Sea Cat >No, you lost last time you bet, even if you also won And, what do you do once the victor is decided, Huanliuxue?
>Congratulate the victor, whoever they may be, and announce the Secret, final contest without telling anyone what it entails! >Tell Shengzhanshi the exact requirements for a mortal to survive a trip to the yellow springs, in terms of Physique and cultivation >See why that one Seven Slaughtering Swords Maniac picked a fight with that other lunatic Xie'e Mowangzi, >Go spend some quality time and play with the Moon Rabbits >Actually go see the returned Youzaiwang and congratulate him on obtaining his human form >write in Anonymous
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>>6125067 >>Yes, bet on Boat and Sea Cat I expect the two of them to work together to take out Ho and Xiang as they have their grudge match because Xiang is probably big mad and will tunnel vision. Then the brothers will do another showdown exhibition, this time for keeps.
>See why that one Seven Slaughtering Swords Maniac picked a fight with that other lunatic Xie'e Mowangzi, Don't need this to be a recurring issue if any of them want to skulk around our territory.
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>>6125067 >Sea cat and boat cat. >Tell them the exact requirements for surviving hell. >Announce we will see then all in the final test Anonymous
>>6125063 I'm getting some serious autistic person talking about their special interest vibes from the general.
>>6125067 >Yes, Bet on Ho >Tell Shengzhanshi the exact requirements for a mortal to survive a trip to the yellow springs, in terms of Physique and cultivation Anonymous
>>6125151 This is honestly a pretty good thing. Makes him easier to understand.
Though I have been thinking recently that cultivators are inherently childish creatures due to the lack of restraints put on them that they can't break. They will demand things because they can take them and cry for their elders when they get the shit kicked out of them for overestimating themselves.
Just. . a very strange lack of maturity
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>>6125067 >>No, you lost last time you bet, even if you also won >No, you lost last time you bet, even if you also won >Congratulate the victor, whoever they may be, and announce the Secret, final contest without telling anyone what it entails! Anonymous
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Is anybody thinking about what competitions and brackets we should partake in?
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>>6125166 Oh yeah, I never meant to imply it was bad or anything, in fact it's extremely relatable to me
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>>6125067 >Yes, Bet on Ho >Tell Shengzhanshi the exact requirements for a mortal to survive a trip to the yellow springs, in terms of Physique and cultivation Anonymous
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>>6125067 >Yes, bet on Boat and Sea Cat >Congratulate the victor, whoever they may be, and announce the Secret, final contest without telling anyone what it entails! Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
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Ending and tallying the vote now. Didn't have means to drink tea, so I was basically useless the last two days until I was able to drink a few cups of it just now. That is the reason for my tardiness, juniors
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sun 20 Oct 2024 08:26:44 No. 6126201 Report You think about rolling your eyes and wordlessly refusing, but the glitter of the spirit stones in the false ghost light and true moonlight ignites something inside of you, awakening the gambler inside of you that is usually subdued by your far greater sense of self preservation and sensible caution. Somehow, the air is sweet and the atmosphere is right for it, like when you placed bet after bet in the hall of Baoliwuyawang before killing him. The cloying aroma of blood and sour stench of sweat, the perfume of pitched battle touched by the smell of soiled and dirtied blade, invigorates and excites you, and since you can't join the brawl yourself or go springing around the stands surrounding it, the best way to expel and burn off this now rapidly growing sense of energy that's becoming a fever everyone whose played dice knows, is to place a harmless bet.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sun 20 Oct 2024 08:27:45 No. 6126203 Report >>6126201 Snickering and hiding the distastefully smug grin behind the sleeve of your robe, you look to Shengzhanshi, who is, like a statue, watching the brawl between the four, which is going about as you expect, with Xiang aiming for Ho, and one of the brothers each attacking the monk and the chicken farmer as they try to have their rematch clean and fairly, turning the brawl between the four almost as chaotic as the melee between a thousand
Snapping your fingers to get his attention, and doing it a few times so he turns to you, so you can be certain you have it.
"Shengzanshi, I should probably inform you about what is required for a mortal to survive a trip down to hell" You state solemnly, speaking regally and with utmost authority "The whole place is, of course, absolutely saturated with Deathly Yin Qi denser and purer than anywhere else. Only cultivators who are practitioners of laws that make heavy use of the breath of corpses can safely travel to the plains of the underworld without negative effects. Like myself, who built up an extreme resistance to Pure Ghostly Yin Qi early on. But it should also be possible if the cultivator is remarkably powerful or born with a body natural resistance to the so called cursed energy of the dead"
He nods once, showing he is listening and understands at least most of what you say, so you continue without pause.
"An impressive formidable body, trained endurance and stamina, anything that increases your life forces and raises your vitality" You explain, flipping over your open hand, watching as Xiang uses Chuanmao's back as a stepping stone to launch themselves at Ho, who is presently fighting off Heimao and his trident "Would help to endure the chilling air of the yellow springs, but that sort of Hale physique would be rare even amongst purely physical cultivators. Fortunately, you don't need to be blessed from birth with a strong body or a master of heretical arts and ghostly laws like myself. I smuggled my direct disciple, Quickdraw Qiang, well before she had trained resistance enough to travel there alone"
Another Nod, Ho catches Xiang by the leg with his chain, and with a brute's below, uses the monk's body as the head of an improvised meteor hammer as the buddhist tries to flail free before he's slammed hard into Chuanmao, who remarkably, manages to only be brought to one knee in spite of being struck by an entire other person's body.
"And that is a highly precise regimen of medicines only my sect knows how to create, to prepare the body for the energies hell. Done several days before the planned trip" You explain, sneakily making it clear that only you can grant safe passage to the underworld, since that might be a good buisness later, once your fellow daoists become bold enough to explore the ghostly realm themselves "Then there also has to be training to build up their mental resilience, in Qiang's case, we fed her hallucinogenic poisons"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sun 20 Oct 2024 08:28:45 No. 6126205 Report >>6126203 "...Your method of teaching sounds frightful" Shengzhanshi says quietly, as Shandian, with wide eyes, nods in agreement, as he to is now listening with rapt attention
"And then had her meditate under a waterfall while experiencing a horrific waking nightmare. The specific poison were made from the back of toads, crushed beetle shell and black thistles" You explain, rolling your wrist as you try to remember exactly how Monu made the poisons Qiang ate "But any mental exercises or simple resistance to the nightmarish and ghastly sights of hell, will suffice. Qiang also had the benefit of cultivating pure ghostly yin Qi, which prepared her body better, but that'd be dangerous to your students, since they don't know how to entreat ghosts for their essence or care for themselves while absorbing and refining, so we can skip that, but then, right before they enter the realm of the dead, unless you want to be jumped and attacked by every demon and ghost in hell, you'll want to take specific spirit medicines in a specific order to disguise yourself as a living corpse, that is so common down in hell"
"No wonder all your students throw themselves into life or death battle without hesitation, they've experienced worse odds just learning under you" Shandian says, a little pale around the cheeks, being an utter hypocrite since you know his Sect has a terrible ratio of living to dead disciples, since they cultivate by getting struck by lightning. repeatedly! If you know how to calm mad spirits and hungry ghosts and don't take in too much of their breath too quickly, Cultivating ghostly and deathly yin qi is perfectly safe! Unlike being struck by lightning, asshole!
But you keep your mouth shut and stay polite and nice, even if you struggle not to yell all of that at Shandian's face.
"Because living human are quiet the commodity in hell" Shengzhanshi points out rather pointedly
"Heh-Heh-Heh, like a ripe peach singing about how much it wants to be eaten. Unless you have a resistance to Yin energies or a have enough Yang to resist or enough Yin energies to be immune to the ghostly air, then this precaution is only necessary for Qi Condensation stage cultivators as a disguise, since you have a bigger problem if demons strong enough to beat and drag off a foundation establishment or, worse, a core formation cultivator to grind up into drugs or meal for their daily gruel. My mother could waltz to the wine houses and opium dens of hell without a problem, because she and I both possess strong Yin physiques" You add, noting that your supreme Yin Physique hides your equally impressive Eclipsed Yang Physique and that the easiest and best way to go to hell is just to use Severing of the Eternal soul and Mortal vessel [刌 永恒魂会死㿾, Cǔn-Yǒnghénghún-Huìsǐzhù] so as not to risk your body at all. "And thus are naturally resistant to the life sapping winds. Otherwise, its still wise to prepare your organs and take stamina increasing drugs"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sun 20 Oct 2024 08:29:46 No. 6126207 Report >>6126205 "I believe I know of drugs that will make myself and my students ready. Few of us practice Yin techniques. Which is why most of our sect are men" Shengzhanshi answers "But I will hand out any pills you give me for the journey, to make certain the well being and health of my disciples down in hell"
"That is a crazy thing to say, master white jade" Shandian snorts "The way Huanliuxue talks about it, you need to purposefully cultivate or be blessed with a body that can survive exposure to such potent deathly yin Qi naturally, to have a chance of entering the underworld alive, without her direct oversight. I'd demand a high price for that service"
"Why? This is to be a journey to be taught and to learn what has been forgotten, and to spread mercy to those tortured souls still enduring their durance before rebirth" The larger man asks, sounding honestly confused why someone would sell such a rare service at the premium, when most dealing with the thousand lotus hall know that they're getting spirit herbs that only grow in the underworld and stranger places from somewhere, and it wouldn't take a rare genius to figure out who is bringing them those herbs from that somewhere.
"Ah, my brother daoist, your view is that of a general fighting and leading armies for a cause. Temples and shrines like her and mine, have far more selfish ambitions and aims. I'm sure our host is already counting up costs to indebt you to her for this service, unless she is just happy to drag other cultivators down to hell for the experience alone" He snickers, shaking his head,
"It is quite fun seeing how others react to the sights and scenes of hell I find amusing or transfixing in their beauty" You cackle, looking back to the field. And see that Xiang is already out, having cut Ho's chain and judging from the bruises over his body, got focused on by both boat and sea cat who left Ho alone to take out the weaker combatant.
And despite his crude ability to instinctively channel Qi into his limbs to strengthen them, Ho's body is much smaller than the brothers' are and they're fighting two against one. Shandian winces, gulping nervously of his liquor as you lean forward in your seat, with a predatory smile on your lips, your shadow twisting and transforming into that of a half cat half human creature as your eyes glow scarlet with delight.
Ho's usual tactic of tackling and tying down his opponent like one of his chickens or making use of his longer legs to evade them until he finds an opening to take advantage of with his longer arms is completely nullified, as is his rudimentary use of spiritual energy, by the brotherly bond and teamwork of Chuanmao and Haimao, who are fighting with the net they made in the crafting trials and the same anchor they used in the martial trial, while Ho just has Xiang's discarded scythe blade and meteor hammer connected to a chain, a weapon he is unused to using, unlike a rope, chain or knife.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sun 20 Oct 2024 08:30:47 No. 6126208 Report >>6126207 But despite this disadvantage, Ho makes them work for their victory, and nearly wins, and only gets broughten down when he, unaware of the net's properties, doesn't tear it off of himself, and is drained of stamina and spiritual energy, weakening him enough for the brothers to best and overcome him with a flurry of hard, ground shaking punches as he is caught between their barrages.
Which they don't stop even as he's knocked unconscious, continuing their assault on the other, with grimaces and bared teeth as blood flies from their knuckles and split lips as they pound each other with the ferocity of rapid, starving beasts.
Sighing heavily and with great disappointment, Shandian slips you a pouch of gently glowing spirit stones, which you start counting as the brothers continue beating the hell out of each other. And have to bite your tongue to stop from shouting in surprise and delight. Judging from the size and quality of the spirit stones you just won, you've won a small fortune off this one bet. Shandian must've been making truly outrageous gambles to be able to carelessly toss away this much cash without cursing your name or seething in the center of a newly born cloud of grudges.
<span class="mu-s"> gained 1000 spirit stones. Total in sect treasury/ Huan's pockets 3506 </span>
It takes awhile, but eventually one brother wins over the other, and as they collapse to their knees, kneeling in front of the unconscious bodies of both their brother and Ho, and you can only tell who is who by the tattoos on their bare arms, since they've beaten eachothers faces to the point of being entirely unrecognizable.
Just like last time they fought, Chuanmao beat his brother Haimao, after a truly vicious and brutal exchanges of punches and headbutts.
"Congratulations, Chuanmao, out of a thousand, you proved yourself the strongest and most vicious of fighters" You declare, delightedly lifting up and dropping the large sized spirit stones just to watch them fall and glitter, before you set the pouch down and leap down to the fighting ground, and frown as your worshipper doesn't acknowledge his win.
You frown, and tell him again that he's won, leaning close and
"He's unconscious!" You laugh out loud, throwing your head back as you tip him over with a push of your foot "He couldn't stay standing or awake after all that fighting! Its almost like a standing death! How amusing! And how disapointing! I was hoping to see his reaction to hearing there is one last contest in the Pre Qi Condensation bracket!"
"What?!" Shandian's voice booms over the others as the crowd begins chattering and muttering about this revelation
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sun 20 Oct 2024 08:31:48 No. 6126209 Report >>6126208 "Another contest, what could possibly be left to test?!"
"Hah! I love the Palace of natural laws, never seen a martial tournament as exciting as this in all my years"
"She really is just doing whatever the hell she wants, isn't she?"
"Do you think this was planned, or she came up with a new game while watching the other trials?"
"Perhaps it is to measure compatibility with magical beasts? Or wilderness know how? You know, survival skills?"
"Maybe its just a death game? She may be pretty and seem nice, but she is still a heretic"
"Who can give the most donations?"
"Oh I got it, it is an etiquette test!"
"Some kind of occult ritual..."
"Maybe its just who can amuse her? She does act like she's a princess"
"Could be...."
"Can't be....."
You just smirk, confident in knowing no one could possibly guess what the final contest of this bracket would be. That being a simple test of luck!
<span class="mu-s"> Double vote! </span>
How do you declare the free for all brawl match
>Simply and strictly. Chuanmao was the last standing, so he's the sole winner > Be kind and don't separate the brothers, and say they both fainted around the same time, like you did with scratching post and the gorilla >Greedily declare the brothers and Ho the winner, so no one has a chance to snatch up the cock farmer except the palace of natural laws >By declaring that you'll sponsor the skillful losers to found the palace of natural laws first official subordinate in the mortal world, by creating a martial arts school >Write in And how exactly do you plan on testing Luck, Huanliuxue?
>Through a lottery, handing out slips to anyone who joins randomly, with only one of them being a winner >Having them run through your orchard of man eating plants, and whoever is the least injured at the end, wins >Making them take an examine of what you like and dislike, with you deciding the answers yourself on the fly. >have them all play games of chance, like dice, with them placing paw print seals on their wagers, and whoever has the most at the end being the winner >Write in Anonymous
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>>6126209 >Simply and strictly. Chuanmao was the last standing, so he's the sole winner >have them all play games of chance, like dice, with them placing paw print seals on their wagers, and whoever has the most at the end being the winner But have them win smaller prizes on the way, to keep things more exciting.
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>>6126209 >Simply and strictly. Chuanmao was the last standing, so he's the sole winner I feel like if we took one brother, the other would still just kinda hang around and stuff. So it's a package deal either way. It's not like he has to take up others on an offer they make him. And it's not like we wouldn't teach him if he just showed up with his brother anyway.
>have them all play games of chance, like dice, with them placing paw print seals on their wagers, and whoever has the most at the end being the winner Real luck is made through daring. For he who doesn't try can never win. I fully expect contestants to try to cheat. The point of gambling is to win after all, otherwise it's just charity.
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>>6126209 >Strictly and simply. Hmm. So how do you guys feel about a mortal subordinate branch? I don't see much benefit to be had in terms of materials or power projections.
But I guess some benefit is a filter for skilled xia to enter, a network of intelligence agents, and the capacity to exert mundane influence. Maybe guards for the temple or the family Chuan?
>Wagers Cheating is encouraged, just don't get caught.
>Addendum, if someone finds a red jade pawprint [which they have to gamble away if someone challenges them for it] then they can trade it in for a reward. Possibly two winners or rewarding one. Anonymous
>>6126209 > Be kind and don't separate the brothers, and say they both fainted around the same time, like you did with scratching post and the gorilla Chuanmao clearly won but can it be said Haimao lost when his brother can't continue without him?
Clearly they are so close they might as well be considered as one.
(If we also declared for Ho I expect we would have to give back the stones won in the bet for fairness.)
>have them all play games of chance, like dice, with them placing paw print seals on their wagers, and whoever has the most at the end being the winner. But the prizes are things we like or dislike and at the end they have to present what they won hoping it's enough for a true win?
That certainly would confuse everybody.
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>>6126209 >> Be kind and don't separate the brothers, and say they both fainted around the same time, like you did with scratching post and the gorilla >have them all play games of chance, like dice, with them placing paw print seals on their wagers, and whoever has the most at the end being the winner Anonymous
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>>6126209 >Simply and strictly. Chuanmao was the last standing, so he's the sole winner >Making them take an examine of what you like and dislike, with you deciding the answers yourself on the fly. Anonymous
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>>6126209 >Simply and strictly. Chuanmao was the last standing, so he's the sole winner We gotta get Ho though. Being silber medalist in all contests gotta count for something!
>Having them run through your orchard of man eating plants, and whoever is the least injured at the end, wins Anonymous
>>6126209 >Simply and strictly. Chuanmao was the last standing, so he's the sole winner >have them all play games of chance, like dice, with them placing paw print seals on their wagers, and whoever has the most at the end being the winner Anonymous
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>>6126209 >Simply and strictly. Chuanmao was the last standing, so he's the sole winner >Making them take an examine of what you like and dislike, with you deciding the answers yourself on the fly. Anonymous
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>>6126236 Delightfully devious.
We are a capricious cat.
On second brush, I don't see a value to a martial school.
We have our cult and lord Chuan's support. We don't need anything else. What would we even teach them? Our disciples skills?
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>>6126424 Support
Watch the chicken farmer win.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Tue 22 Oct 2024 12:32:15 No. 6127331 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote and tallying its result now!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Tue 22 Oct 2024 13:16:17 No. 6127348 Report And what better way to measure one's luck than through simple games of chance? The delight of gamblers of all ages and rungs in society from the dirt poor farmer to the emperor who has everything. And while games of chance can be cheated in many ways and weighed to favor one player over another, isn't cheating just creating your own luck? And anyone audacious enough to cheat in your tournament, well, boldness is also a trait your favor is it not? Though you also greatly doubt there exist any con artists or swindlers beneath the heavens or rotting in their graves that could are actually skilled enough to try their hand at and succeed in cheating their way past the gate of your sect and into membership, but you won't be concerned if you're wrong about that. Luck or boldness, either are qualities you'd be happy to see in your disciples.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Tue 22 Oct 2024 13:17:18 No. 6127350 Report >>6127348 You kicked a rock and sent it out of sight, pondering what to do now that the winner of the melee had been decided. Watching other people gamble isn't any fun at all, not unless their lives might be on the line, but that's something that only happens in the demon realm and would be completely too uncouth to be done within your territory and sight. Even if there is something...quaint about the idea of gambling one's own life, it isn't something you'd permit to happen in your garden and certainly isn't something you'd risk personally.
Of course, fighting life or death battles and betting on yourself to win is something completely different than that! Since while your life may be at some risk, only an idiot fights battles they can't win. And what are you if not a rare genius in the world? Certainly your fighting intuition and survival instinct are far sharper than even the other denizens of the world of cultivation.
'Probably, because, unlike them, I've lived my life dangerously and they only started to know real threats against their own when the Ling kick started a war rather than admit their fuck up and lose a little face' you reflect, thinking to yourself as you stretch and transform into your feline self, out of sight when you undress to save you prized robe, since it is one of the ones Anjing sewed for you and it is too fine a material to stretch and tear thoughtlessly.
Yawning, you extend your claws, idly honing them on one of the spirit woods that can take the abuse, as you try and figure out what to do with yourself while the gambling games begin. It is expected for you to be in attendance, even if you aren't paying any real attention to them, but you could probably get away with being a little late. A cat is expected to be tardy and royalty is privileged to follow their own schedule. And besides, skipping the whole test of luck shouldn't cause a scandal or disgrace. And really, who'd blame you for not wanting to sit around and watch dice clatter on tables until the sun rises?
The air is sweet and the night young. Now be the perfect hour to get up to some feline mischief or indulge in a few whims and passing fancies...Hm, hmm~
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Tue 22 Oct 2024 13:18:18 No. 6127352 Report >>6127350 What do you decided to do, Huanliuxue?
>Bah, you've got to keep up appearances, just day dream while the test of luck is carried out, and make sure to invite Xia Jinse-Shayu to join you this time, so your underling doesn't get to offended for being passed over for the rest of the contests >Play with the Jade rabbits and give them and the gorilla good names while you wait for the first bracket of the tournament to come to an end. >Relax in the Pool of primordial origin, and congratulate yourself for how well the tournament has gone so far (Invite anyone to join you?) >Summon Aodasheng and ask him if he's found any threat or danger you should know about, before you get complacent and lower your guard >Go for a walk around your garden, and immerse yourself in the festivities and see what trouble or mischief you can get up to >Talk to some of your fellow awakened house cats and entreat with the wandering ghosts and spirits gathered here, being a good ruler of felinekind and the dead >Tell the seven slaughtering swords to not pick any more fights, and make it clear to the other rogue and heretical cultivators that you're the only bloodshed allowed in this temple >Find and Congratulate the tiger Youzaiwang for obtaining his human form, and ask him why he's playing nice with the shitty sand sages >write in Anonymous
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>>6127352 >>Play with the Jade rabbits and give them and the gorilla good names while you wait for the first bracket of the tournament to come to an end. >Summon Aodasheng and ask him if he's found any threat or danger you should know about, before you get complacent and lower your guard >Find and Congratulate the tiger Youzaiwang for obtaining his human form, and ask him why he's playing nice with the shitty sand sages First two are more important
third would be neat
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>>6127352 >Summon Aodasheng and ask him if he's found any threat or danger you should know about, before you get complacent and lower your guard Anonymous
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>>6127352 >Bah, Daydream. >Summon our bodyguard. They can be introduced and briefed.
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>>6127352 >Play with the Jade rabbits and give them and the gorilla good names while you wait for the first bracket of the tournament to come to an end. >Find and Congratulate the tiger Youzaiwang for obtaining his human form, and ask him why he's playing nice with the shitty sand sages Anonymous
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>>6127352 >Play with the Jade rabbits and give them and the gorilla good names while you wait for the first bracket of the tournament to come to an end. I'll reiterate my choices of names for the gorilla if this vote wins.
>Summon Aodasheng and ask him if he's found any threat or danger you should know about, before you get complacent and lower your guard Best to know what is going on behind the scene before it causes one.
Wonder what dear sister and Ju are up to.
(I really want to thoughtlessly invite all the sect leaders for a soak in the pool just for the chaos of it... can you imagine? None of them would refuse as it's a very rare chance and none of them will like it.)
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>>6127352 >Bah, you've got to keep up appearances, just day dream while the test of luck is carried out, and make sure to invite Xia Jinse-Shayu to join you this time, so your underling doesn't get to offended for being passed over for the rest of the contests Anonymous
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>>6128055 >>6127352 >Find and Congratulate the tiger Youzaiwang for obtaining his human form, and ask him why he's playing nice with the shitty sand sages He's the 9th beast to attain human form right? That's a big deal
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>>6127352 >>Relax in the Pool of primordial origin, and congratulate yourself for how well the tournament has gone so far (Invite anyone to join you?) Anonymous
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>>6127352 >Find and Congratulate the tiger Youzaiwang for obtaining his human form, and ask him why he's playing nice with the shitty sand sages Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 24 Oct 2024 22:55:15 No. 6128771 Report Bad news juniors. I have a pretty bad ache in my neck for whatever reason today, so the vote is going to remain open for a bit longer while I rest it and hope it goes away quickly.
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>>6128771 Have you tried hanging from the neck? Like a decompressor harness?
As for names, uh. How about "Peach-flowering Champion"? There's a tree with pink flowering bodies that is called a double peach flowering tree or something. I'm not very well vested in my knowledge of trees. And certainly not ones out of Asia that have pink to them. Aside from the Japanese ones. But that's a copout and obviously not Chinese enough. The Chinese love peaches though, right? They got immortal peach trees and shit. I just figure a name relating to trees, his coloration and his achievement would be nice, if a bit on the nose. Depending on the type of gorilla he is, he probably would nest in trees to sleep rather than making beds of brush on the ground. I don't know what brands of gorillas they have in China.
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>>6128773 Good point there, apparently gorillas live only in Africa... (though if the kung fu panda movie can have them then why not here?)
>>6128771 Keep the area heated up with clothes or a heating blanket and relaxed.
Anyway I've already suggested "honored by his name" sometimes back.
While the coloration is very much eyecatching I can't quite figure out a way to sneak it in so I'll drop a few things I picked up:
A little search revealed to me that pink is also used as a noun to mean perfection and to be in top form.
Amaranthus is a plant that sometimes has pink flowers and is edible and eaten in china. The "dubius" variety instead becomes fully red and is also called chinese red spinach or "xiancai".
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>>6128771 Hope you have some kind of heating pad or a good massager for your neck.
As for names, based on his somewhat meek personality that contrasts his raw strength, maybe something like Silent Mountain (寂靜山,
Jìjìng shān) or, if you want to focus on his achievements, Reborn through Glory(榮耀重生, Róngyào chóngshēng) could work. Though I'd like to hear how he became an awakened beast in the first place to maybe inform his name better.
Onto tournament business, should we just keep the event order we set for the Mortal tournament or mix up the order in some way?
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>>6128861 Keep.it . the order is full of perfectly sequenced events.
We do need to do something for Xia.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sat 26 Oct 2024 19:11:11 No. 6129734 Report Quoted By:
Rejoice, for I am healed! So I will end the vote and tally its results now before something else can impede me.
Play with the Jade rabbits and give them and the gorilla good names while you wait for the first bracket of the tournament to come to an end.:3
Summon Aodasheng and ask him if he's found any threat or danger you should know about, before you get complacent and lower your guard:4
Find and Congratulate the tiger Youzaiwang for obtaining his human form, and ask him why he's playing nice with the shitty sand sages:4
Bah, you've got to keep up appearances, just day dream while the test of luck is carried out, and make sure to invite Xia Jinse-Shayu to join you this time, so your underling doesn't get to offended for being passed over for the rest of the contests:2
Relax in the Pool of primordial origin, and congratulate yourself for how well the tournament has gone so far:1
So you will congratulate Youzaiwang and ask him why he's playing nice with the sages of the shifting sands, and summon Aodasheng and ask him if there's any danger a foot and his report on the five mystery golden core cultivators.
Update will arrive shortly
>>6128773 >>6128824 >>6128861 I am truly thankful for this advice, since it really did help out a ton. You're all lifesavers
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sat 26 Oct 2024 20:35:26 No. 6129788 Report It has come to your attention, or rather, you suddenly remember that Youzaiwang, the oft humbled and humiliated prince proud enough to still carry the name king around in your presence, had returned from his journey of self enlightenment and from the gossip you've picked up on with twitching ears, heroism. And had done what you thought impossible with a character like his, and made a friend. A thought you of course, never voiced, because Youzaiwang found new and exciting ways to be humbled, often by no fault of his own Heh-Heh. Still, he had more than earned back his tiger's pride, succeeding in becoming the signifigantly numbered Ninth Magical beast to attain human form. And before you forget about his triumphant return because something more interesting caught your eye and demanded your attention, it would do to congratulate and praise him properly and justly.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sat 26 Oct 2024 20:36:27 No. 6129790 Report >>6129788 But for all his flaunting and peacocking, you weren't at all as entranced and drawn to the beauty of his human form. You were tempted to hurl him back out the door for attempting to seduce you like that, but knew you utter lack of interest would hurt him more than pavement.
"Were you selling your self on the street, dressed like that?" You mock, and his relaxed expression sharpens with pique, as the insult slaps him across the face
"Master" he says through gritted teeth
"I must say, that is a fine body you've attained, no finer than your beastial self of course, but such is true for all ascended beasts" You snicker, delighting in his offence as you prance up to him, arms held out to your side as you bob and duck around him, inspecting it thoroughly, like you would regalia on display as he lifts up his chest, still glowering at your snide comment "Curious that you look more like one of those desert nomads rather than a marshlander, wonder what that's about"
"Hrn" He grunts, face twitching as he tries to force a smug smile out, to act as if you off handed remark hadn't effected him or your lack of lust towards him, which judging from the blush on his cheeks, he was already used to human bitches throwing themselves at his feet "I don't know, but my transformation and revelation both occurred in the sands they travel, and I found a comaderie with the local sect'
"Ah, the shitty shifty sages" You say, and his shoulders arch, as a low growl escapes his throat. Oh? Youzaiwang being offended on another's behalf, and more upset about it than being called a prostitute and a slut to his face? Interesting~ "
"A member of the sages of the shifting sands assisted me in their trials, a true man of noble character" He said, eyes narrowed as he growled out the words "His name is Ribao"
"Well, I'm sure he only played a small role in your achievement, this triumph of yours" You say, patting his shoulder and watch his fierce expression melt as your praise touched his heart and made it swell with pride as he lifted his head and bare chest a little higher, a little prouder "But I appreciate what little help he gave to you attaining this fine human form, also, for loaning you a set of robes, even if you barely cared to wear them"
"Why master, I am just following your example! You often undress and transform without concern, and a lot of your outfits leave little the imagination" He teases, lips curled into a feline smirk, and you freeze, and turn on your heel, hand lifted to slap him and send him flying across the throne room until he adds, rubbing his chin "After all, denying the rest of the world sights as beautiful as our bodies, would be a true shame, a transgression even"
"Eh" you forgive with a shrug, lowering your hand as he nearly collapses as he sighs in relief "You have a point, though, your playing nice with those shitty shifty sages...I have to wonder, why?"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sat 26 Oct 2024 20:37:28 No. 6129791 Report >>6129790 "Well, besides recognizing my own magnificence, they were quite cordial to me, and healed me of my wounds, and fair Ribao, dropped the enmity shared between our sects the moment he heard I was traveling through their lands to save taken children" He answers, brushing a lock of his silvery hair off of his chest, smiling still as you circled him still
"Well maybe he isn't so bad, if he could take his head out of the sand to help you save those kids" You grumble, twirling a lock of your crimson hair around your finger "And I'm guessing, they did you more kindness than simply patching up your cuts and lending you that ugly robe?"
Youzaiwang flashed a cocky and victorious grin.
"I've sown my seed in their fertile fields' He says with a wiggle of his eye brow. You groan and roll your eyes.
"As expected of a tiger" You dismissively wave away his pride at rutting some naive oasis dwelling fairies "Though, I guess it is only in your nature, you did awaken because you heard men praising the size of your harem"
"Hah! Fairies? They were as fierce as the tigresses I left behind in bed" He remarks, grin turning slimy and gross "But i overcame them with a technique that"
"If you even suggest of demonstrating to me, I will rip off your rod and feed it to my flowerbed" You say with venomous sweetness, cutting his chin with one of your nails "You're faaaaar beneath the requirements I'm looking for in a mate, boy"
"Tch, it was worth a shot, your highness" He chuckles, to hide the tremors of fear in his hands "If I was serious, I'd probably have to kill Yinying to earn the right to court you anyways, and I like the man too much, as simpering as he can be in your presence at times"
"Hm? Why'd you have to do that?" You ask as you find your way back to your throne and lay back over it, seeing how Youzaiwang's eyes follow your long legs as you kick one in the air before resting it over the other as you let your head and hair hang over the other arm of your throne. He just smiles and represses a laugh
"So, I know, being the ninth beast to attain a human form is a quite the milestone, but, I wonder, why did you summon me to this chamber? I'd have enjoyed receiving your rare praise in public, and showing off my new mates and introducing you to my new buddy, Ribao, instead of....meeting you in this honestly rather creepy throne room" He asks as he walks up and moves to stand beside your throne, stopping midstep to await your permission, which you give him with a nod
"Because you are the ninth beast to achieve that feat, and have tried so hard for so long to do it, that I thought rewarding you my praise and congratulations at the foot of my throne was the best, instead of granting you my approval in front of the faceless masses. Also, I don't care about who you're sleeping with, or your out of sect friend" You answer bluntly, looking up at him as he chews on your words thoughtfully, grinding his teeth
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sat 26 Oct 2024 20:38:28 No. 6129792 Report >>6129791 "You like Qinxin, Ping's friend" He says grouchily
"He isn't a shitty shifty sage, and is a rare orthodox cultivator with his head outside of his own asshole" You answer with a titter
"You like Xia, Lian and Su" He sneers
"They're also of that rare breed of cultivator, born with that rare quality of having common sense and a reasonable attitude" You snicker back, pushing yourself to sit up right "And besides wanting to give your applause with suitable pomp and regality, I figured there'd be no harm in you sitting in on my next audience. And if someone comes snooping, let them find me speaking with one of Chuan's own boogeymen and see him in my service and under my heel, in the perfect location for it! That's why I called you here to praise you, isn't the atmosphere perfect for such a meeting? A throne room lit with blood red moonlight, empty except for its empress and her servants?"
He nodded slowly, finally understanding, while you wondered why the mental image of Ao wearing a collar and you holding a leash came to mind as you said that.
"That would be suitably dramatic, and make any skittering mouse think they're seeing a demon queen on the rise, how funny" He laughs before yowling and, like a kitten sprinting behind your throne as Aodasheng makes his terrifying entrance, his black aura filling the chamber and drowning it in his always present malevolence
"Huan, you have need of me?" Ao asks casually, swaggering up to your throne, lips curling into a playful smile as he sets his eyes on the cowering Youzaiwang, his thin mustache lifting as his red and black eyes squint with the delight of, funnily enough, a cat playing with a torturing a mouse
"Oh don't mind him, I was just congratulating him, come closer my friend" You happily reply, beckoning him to come closer, which he does by vanishing and appearing again with a ghastly, ghostly wail, his ethereal image flickering as he kneels before you "Have you finished with the spying I asked you to do, of our five unusual guests?"
"I have, and I am certain now, they aren't blessed by the gods or descended by them. See, the presence of heavenly spiritual energy, true celestial Qi, which, despite the turn of phrase of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, is nearly unheard of outside of the nine heavens' He begins, as Youzaiwang stares at him, cowed just by the air around the corpse king "Except for rare cases, such as direct descendants of earthly deities, and those on the road to ascended to immortality. But the Qi present within them is too faint and wispy for them to be either, and much too pure and clear for them to have found a secret realm or treasure containing some lingering celestial Qi"
"So" You ask, to hurry him along, rolling your wrist "Does that mean what I think it does"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sat 26 Oct 2024 20:39:28 No. 6129793 Report >>6129792 "Yes. Astute as ever, Lady Huan" He says with a truly murderous and manic look smirk "The Qi has the appearance of spiritual energy, essence that was torn and ripped out suddenly and violently. I know well what such an injury looks like, I'd inflicted it on my enemies countless times before, you see. Very tell tale mark, the sign of power and in this case, divinity stolen, sealed away. They were once gods, as you suspected, fallen from grace. How delightful, isn't it? We could kill gods and spit in the eyes of the nine heavens. That is, if you care to or give me the command, My master"
Youzaiwang stares wordlessly at you, jaw dropped open and eyes wide with barely concealed terror, both at Ao's overwhelming pressure, and what he just heard him say.
"How would you rate the threat they pose to us, to me?" You question, flicking your sleeve as you lean back in your throne "And have you found any other dangers?"
"Besides the reincarnate demon, myself and my underlings? None worthy of your concern, princess" He answers excitedly "But, I think those gods will only take the chance to take your head if you give to them, they seem out of depth, frantic, and just going where the winds blow them, or in this case, doing whatever the loudest of them at any given moment says they should do. Which is, why they're here"
You arch an eyebrow
"And how do you know that?" You ask. He shrugs
"Possessed a passing cultivator, used their body to ask. Don't worry, they didn't die, they will however be greatly ill, as I was careful to only possess them briefly, so as not to destroy their health with my deathly yin Qi" He answers giddily, relishing in the audacity of his actions "They told me, they want to make a name for themselves, and...oh this is too funny, they didn't realize YOU were hosting the tournament until your grand entrance"
"That's hilarious" You cackle
"I know right! I'm glad one thing hasn't changed in the world, that being the foolishness of gods" Ao laughs with you "But, if this changes, and some hidden threat emerges, I will deal with it personally, so you do not have to exert any energy in handling it, my friend"
"Is that the devil?" Youzaiwang asks suddenly, and you giggle, covering your mouth as you shake your head.
But before you can explain, or Ao can start raving about himself and trying to frighten the poor tiger to death, Jionghuagege flutters in.
Or rather the flower petal puppet she left behind, which is her exact copy, does, since she was worried her daughters would be lonely without their mother when she left with Tie Tie, the Fa twins, Qiang, Huili, Siwang, Baifenchi and your mother to investigate the beast stampede. The not Jionghuagege, who fooled everyone who didn't know she was gone, flutters over to you, as Ao watches her flight with a scholar's fascination.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sat 26 Oct 2024 20:40:29 No. 6129794 Report >>6129793 "Huaaaaaaan!" She cries out loudly "Bad news! We...Uh, the real me I mean, and the rest, were helping defend the furthermost fortress in the...whatever province just north of Chuan, since, that's what we've been doing, helping the sects their push back against the beast stampede and"
"Any casualties?" Ao asks politely and completely out of turn and too calmly for what Jiong's puppet is telling you
"N...no we're all still alive, but that could change" Jiong Jiong says frantically, the illusion spell over her puppet starting to fail "B...because, Granny Monu and Tie-Tie kind of did too good of a job repelling the latest attack and well
She smiles painedly, as you can hear the real Jionghuagege taking a deep breath many leagues away
"Well, they pushed it back, Siwang managed to convince the army we somehow started leading that Tie Tie's soldiers that she smuggled underground and Bai-Bai's literal army of corpses, were not of greater concern than the stampede that kept increasing that was slamming against the fort, and well, everyone got caught up in the excitement, our disguises were intact. Then Monu started....well" She continues breathlessly
"Showboating?" you ask
She nods
"And a very scary warrior in a jade mask showed up" She says, as Ao's smile turns into a grin too large for his face, literally, as it contorts and stretches grossly as sometimes happens to deranged ghosts like him "I think they heard her boasting through the beasts, and well, He's said he isn't letting anyone leave the fortress alive, Monu is confident we can win buuuut"
"You're worried, because unlike Tie-Tie, you have more than muscle in that head of yours?" You ask and once again she demurely nods "And why is my mother certain she can beat them?"
"She said something about them being a new replacement for someone a friend of her's murdered?" She says and you nod, knowing she's talking about the ogress "And that's when they actually started attacking the fortress instead of yelling accusations at Monu and the rest of us of being demons and devil worshipers, which, just confused the nice people we were fighting alongside"
"Doesn't really make sense, does it, accusing one of being of demonic nature, but also a worshiper of demons?" Ao muses as you crack and roll your roll your knuckles, deep in thought and trying to keep the worry and panic you feel from showing on your face.
"Big sis?" Jionghuagege asks through her puppet "Should...what should we do? You always know what to do, but I'm really scared right now"
Your eyes flick over to Aodasheng, who looks like he's about to explode from just the thought of flying out to fight whoever is attacking your mother, little sisters and other students
"Hmm" you sigh through your nose, heart pounding and racing faster and faster the longer you think about it, thoughts spiraling as you try and fail not to worry more and more about what you've just been told.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sat 26 Oct 2024 20:41:30 No. 6129795 Report >>6129794 What do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Let Ao off of his leash and tell him to kill that Ling bastard before he can cut a hair from your mother's head >Drop everything and fly to join the fight, unable to stop yourself from doing so out of concern and worry for your disciples >Trust Monu to be able to win, and tell Jionghuagege just to keep her head down while she fights >Grab Xia Jinse-Shayu and tell him he has a chance to earn your favor in a big way.... >Write in Anonymous
>>6129795 >Grab Xia and tell him that he has a shot to earn our favour in a big way. >Further clarified; Any big request he wants we will satisfy it if we can. Explain that his purpose is to kill the Ling bastard and keep him from killing our disciples. "But the reason we send you is because we want you to sell the illusion of a united Chuan to the survivors of the beast wave, as well as clear up that the Chuan are not infact overrun with heretics And you are both charismatic and cunning enough to let them propagate the news across the Ling region.
Killing the ling bastard is very preferable to not. If he escapes you might be drawn into our war against the main clan, so disguise yourself until he is dead. Or don't, either is fine to me."
See my plan?
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>>6129817 Examples of big favours include; a large shipment of underworld or rare plants, Inducting any of his juniors that meet our criteria into our blood school, us personally going somewhere to pay back a similar service, alchemy assistance, teaching a guest session at his sect, ect ect.
Touching stuff in our cultivation chamber is a no.
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>>6129792 >while you wondered why the mental image of Ao wearing a collar and you holding a leash came to mind as you said that. Ao would either love or hate the idea, there is no inbetween. Goodness. Huan. Pls.
>>6129795 Oof this is a tough one. I'd really like to keep Ao in our back pocket since no one outside of our sect truly knows he's who he is and free of his prison. I'd love to just go up there, too, but we'd lose a ton of face just vanishing before the tournament ends. I also want to trust Monu, but the more you can stack a deck in your favor the better. And finally, asking Xia to go do it means basically asking him to possibly lose out on prominent recruits from the tournament and giving him a vague promise of being nice to him later, effectively a favor.
Damn.
>Grab Xia Jinse-Shayu and tell him he has a chance to earn your favor in a big way.... The lesser of evils. He'll probably only ask for something stupid anyway. Like a date with Monu. I'd really rather not slight all of the masters we invited here otherwise I'd vote to go ourselves.
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>>6129795 >Grab Xia Jinse-Shayu and tell him he has a chance to earn your favor in a big way.... Anonymous
>>6129794 Write-in
>Confront the fallen gods with Ao and ask them if they know the true history. Or were they fed false information? Also if the bow guy is there use him as a seat for making your trip to heaven troublesome. Other then that do tell them true history. >They can join the tourney if they don't cause trouble. We don't care or we'll use them as foot stools and make them do hard labor like farming. Gasp. >After dealing with the most troublesome party, send Ao to help out the mother. If they are having trouble, then show yourself if they got it handled. Hide. Provide a security blanket for anyone about to die, then return with any needed information. >If he's a golden core capture him we can use the ritual to bring back Ao alive. Anonymous
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>>6129795 >Grab Xia Jinse-Shayu and tell him he has a chance to earn your favor in a big way.... I would give him a few booster pills for good measure though. You can never go wrong with those.
Something for his stamina so he can run there and back as quick as possible, plus maybe another boost at random.
>>6129913 I'll support cowing the fallen gods with Ao, keeps him entertained and also we get to bully them too.
(I wonder if a fallen god is good enough for the red dust ritual and resurrect Ao...)
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>>6129795 >Grab Xia Jinse-Shayu and tell him he has a chance to earn your favor in a big way.... Leave Ao here for fallen god and reincarnated demon bullshit. Sending a cultivator to help monu will help them look more legit.
We need to be here, and I rather not confront the gods because...
This is a tournament, and I think (if they place) they can join our sect :)
Yeah we could kill em and all, but how much of a bigger flex would it be if we got some to change sides. They will experience the tournament, find everything contrary to their beliefs, see our behavior and uncompromising beliefs in contrast to theirs despite us knowing what they are.
Humans and beasts, demons and gods, ghosts and heretics, all are welcome at our festival of tournaments.
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>>6129795 >>Grab Xia Jinse-Shayu and tell him he has a chance to earn your favor in a big way.... Who is Xia again?
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>>6129795 >Grab Xia Jinse-Shayu and tell him he has a chance to earn your favor in a big way.... Also supporting sliding him some drugs to give him a boost just in case
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>>6129795 >>Grab Xia Jinse-Shayu and tell him he has a chance to earn your favor in a big way.... Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Tue 29 Oct 2024 19:42:55 No. 6131586 Report Ending the vote, tallying its result now.
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>>6131586 >This rope is a true treasure, one that would take a century to replace, capable of sealing away all but the most powerful of masters >huan: Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Tue 29 Oct 2024 20:42:27 No. 6131635 Report For all that your heart roars for you to rise from your throne and fly off like a beam of bleeding moonlight to rip and tear apart the dog who dares to threaten not just your treasured students but your own beloved and much honored mother, that overwhelming incredible instinct is balmed and abated by your always healthy sense of caution. Only the sects in the Chuan kingdom know you're no demon and accept beasts as fellow daoist and brother cultivators, and your particular brand of heretical cultivation certainly appears demonic at a glance even by the most informed of eyes. Now, you wouldn't care about the whining and accusations of worms, but the exact circumstances of this potentially lethal predicament complicates things to the point you fear if you arrive on scene to sort out the mess and play the hero, things will just get worse for everyone involved. Especially you and your sect.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Tue 29 Oct 2024 20:43:28 No. 6131636 Report >>6131635 'But, there is another pretty strong cultivator you can boss and order around' you remind yourself as you tent your fingers and lean back in your thrown, frustrated snarl turning to a delight grin as you find the answer to the gut twisting problem in front of you, as if it were a sun rising over the sea. Relaxing immediately, the frantic puppet Jionghuagege stiffs as you hear the real her yelp through it and that is all it takes to spur you on and give your orders as quickly as possible
"Summon to me my servant, Lord Xia" You bark, eyes fierce as you slam a fist on the arm of your throne "Tell him to don his armor and sharpen his trident, he'll be given a chance to prove his worth and earn my favor in the chaos of battle, and tell him, tell him this exactly, do not delay or dally or it will be me whose anger he'll have to confront"
The swiftness of which your subordinate sect head appears to you, outside the halls of the main temple of your garden, is astonishing, even if he is your willing underling. That his huge, whale tossing wife, accompanies him, along with several of his sons, including red shark, also surprise you. But knowing Jinse-Shayu's womanizing habits and disloyal tendencies, his lawful wife attending and escorting him when the most beautiful maiden of all beneath the heavens summoned him to her suddenly is understandable. And the sons? Well, you did say this was a chance to earn your favor, and Xia has shown just how much he is willing to do to impress you as the new liege of his clan and sect.
"Impressive" You do not lie, smiling kindly as you observe the almost professional formation of Xia's disciple, comparing it to the regiments of daughters The geges commands and finding it not entirely a shambles compared to the march of the ants and bees, but that makes sense, since they did fight back against the winter blossoming sect, so these have to be battle hardened veterans! "I only asked for you, Jinse-Shayu, but you brought seemingly every worthwhile of your sect attending the tournament"
"You commanded sounded urgent, Lady Huanliuxue" He answers back from behind a steel mask adorned with sharks teeth gilded with a metal that looks like gold but is far too rich with Qi to be just gold "And you ordered me to prepare for battle, and Laohue taught me through pain and frostbite that one warrior is not enough to win a battle waged between us cultivators"
"Oh-ho-ho, so you to have come to possess that rare gem of wisdom?" You sneer delightedly, as you hope up to him, his wife Yanyu tightens the chains wrapped around her arms webbed white with scars and shark bites "And brought nearly the whole clan"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Tue 29 Oct 2024 20:44:29 No. 6131639 Report >>6131636 "We are honored to serve her highness" Xia respectfully answers, head tipping in a subtle bow "And to repay the trust you showed in allowing us to butcher that rare monster you hunted. Others might fear we'd steal its internal treasures yourself, but not the ever beneficent Huanliuexue! Hearing how worried my honored liege was, how could I not gather all of the strength in my sect present to answer her call of distress"
"Not distressed" You snap curtly, even though that is a lie "But I appreciate the sentiment none the less, but only those of you who can leap the span of the Chuan Kingdom in one bound, are needed"
"It is that urgent a duty?" Jinse Shayu asks, eyes narrowing, with his shark toothed mask making him look supremely confident even if you can't see his true expression
"My husband and I, and our eldest sons and veteran disciples can perform the feat, through flight or wave surfing" Yanyu answers almost distractedly, as she, bows and acts the role of the demure and slight princess despite...well being large and muscled enough to toss a whale clear over the horizon. How Jinse-Shayu routinely cheats on a woman as frightful and strong armed as her and still lives to walk around and continue picking flowers and trampling grass, is the most amazing thing about your underling.
"Good, the rest will be given precendence in the games to come" You reply, thankfulness and gratitude warming your words as you, with all courtly ettiquette, cup your fist and bow as deeply as your pride will allow "The mission I entrust to you, is to fly off and do battle with an elder of the Ling clan, to reinforce and rescue the disciples I sent to investigate the beast wave and protect them from Ling aggression and rabid beasts alike. They're fighting both alongside sects unknown to me"
"And me, I don't go so far from the sea to wander the other provinces, Chuan Women are of the fairest jade, after all" Jinse-Shayu answers cheerfully "And....if it is just one elder, a golden core, no doubt, or perhaps a late stage core formation expert, if fortune favors me, I will only need myself to fulfill this duty and save your treasured disciples, my lady"
"I am going. I've seen this one's mother. and know she isn't around. Logically, she was sent over the border, as befits her role as grand elder of the palace of natural laws" Yanyu says sternly "And we will take all of our available, flight capable disciples, for insurance"
"Smart woman" You praise, clapping as high as you can on her, mentally comparing her to the kindly demon hunter Shengzhanshi and trying to figure out which one between them is taller "My mother makes sport hunting men like Xia"
"I'd hope she'd have better taste than that" She replies with a whisper of vitrol beneath her humorous words, eyes glaring at her womanizing husband
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Tue 29 Oct 2024 20:45:29 No. 6131641 Report >>6131639 "Well, I hope he isn't her type, but the idea of asking her what she likes in men and women terrifies me more than any tomb scouring ghoul or howling phantom" you joke back with a cackle "Don't flirt with my mother, Master Xia"
"I am not so prone to courting death to make light of a master poisoner who overcame the shattering of her meridians, this empty head of mine has some sense" He answers back, completely shameless as he rolls his shoulders, his golden hair tied into a loose, messy horse tail bun "But I shall be away, and will return swiftly, with your enemies head in hand and the wellbeing of your mother and students assured"
"After he indulges in the gratitude of the locals, of course. I assume, you are not going, so as to hide your true power and appearance for awhile longer, and present a more obviously unified Chuan to the world?" Yanyu asks as her husband starts grabbing cultivators out of the formation and barking orders to them. You blink rapidly, stunned by the keenness of her observations like it was a slap to your face
"How aren't you the sect head of the summer sea dawn" You purr back "Those are my exact thoughts, more or less. Impressive that you could see clearly into a mind as deep as mine"
She just smiles softly and bows her head, accepting the compliment
"Perhaps it is because I've combed the depths of the sea, I can perceive deeper into what others may see as murky and incomprehensible" She answers with a slightly more delighted smile "And thank you, for not protesting and allowing me to accompany my husband"
"He needs an escort if he's to be near my mother" You sneer, and she agrees with a nod before she, slouched, stalks after her disloyal husband as they select two other cultivators from all that had been gathered there, and before he can fly off, you shout at him down the formation "And I'll be sure to reward you for this and show you the depth of my appreciation, Jinse! Just"
You words catch and tangle your tongue, as your head gets all confused
"Makes sure Jionghuagege, Monu, and the rest are alright, and calm my little sister down, if she's still frightened" You manage to blurt out, after untangling the threads of your emotions and thought. You can see the smile in the eyes of the patriarch and matriarch of the Xia clan, as the former says his farewells with a casual two finger salute
They vanish into the pink hued dawn sky with passing current of sea air, leaving you standing before the rest of the cultivators he had rallied to your command. They're still in formation, wondering what to do now that they're left behind while you try not to think about that verbal stumble you made just a second ago and how it went against your regal image. But no reason for you to worry about reputation when lives are on the line, especially because your underlings won't gossip about your brief loss of composure if they know what's good for them.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Tue 29 Oct 2024 20:46:30 No. 6131642 Report >>6131641 What do you do now, Huanliuxue?
>Hurry to catch the last few gambles of the luck trial and see who wins. >Ask Red shark why his mother tolerates his father's complete lack of loyalty? >Approach the fallen five martial gods and have a conversation with them >Play with the moon hares and come up with names for them and the gorilla, now that he and the other pre-Qi condensation tournament winners are soon to be officially welcomed into your sect >See if you couldn't give Xia a bit more back up by asking a favor of one of the other sect masters present... >Start preparing the next bracket of the tournament beyond the Pre Qi Condensation stage contests (Which will be...?) >Calm your heart by meditating in the hot springs of your garden >Write in >>6131594 lol
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>>6131642 >>Hurry to catch the last few gambles of the luck trial and see who wins. Come on, Ho!
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>>6131642 >Catch the last gamble. >Bring Red shark with us, to ask why his mother puts up with her husband. And why is she not the official sect head? I imagine it's something to do with Jinse just being THAT much a wily fucker he can sink an emotional hook deep into her dao heart. Probably an open romantic too, possibly with Yanyu also using him as cover to focus on cultivation without needing to do official sect head crap. He's not an idiot, and clearly a capable diplomat and fighter, his wife just being competent as well doesn't mean she is automatically more suited. A true enigma.
>Give orders to prepare for the Foundation establishment bracket. I think FE makes for a good bracket next. Keep the order of proceedings so we don't have to spend time voting on it.
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>>6131642 >Ask Red shark why his mother tolerates his father's complete lack of loyalty? Anonymous
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>>6131642 >Hurry to catch the last few gambles of the luck trial and see who wins. Anonymous
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>>6131642 >Catch the last gamble. >Bring Red shark with us, to ask why his mother puts up with her husband. And why is she not the official sect head? Anonymous
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>>6131642 >Hurry to catch the last few gambles of the luck trial and see who wins. >Ask Red shark why his mother tolerates his father's complete lack of loyalty? Anonymous
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>>6131642 >>Hurry to catch the last few gambles of the luck trial and see who wins. Anonymous
>>6131642 Does Jinse-Shayu's wife look anything like picrelated?
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>>6131642 >Hurry to catch the last few gambles of the luck trial and see who wins. >Ask Red shark why his mother tolerates his father's complete lack of loyalty? >>6132851 I remember their being a pretty good description of her when we visited to hunt the big fish, but Suptg being down and archivemoe being nigh unusable prevents me from checking.
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>>6131642 >Bring Red shark with us, to ask why his mother puts up with her husband. And why is she not the official sect head? >>6132851 That's a woman?!
>>6132923 Oh it is down again.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sat 02 Nov 2024 04:14:41 No. 6133733 Report Forgive me for my brief absence, Juniors. I was occupied drinking wine and watching horror movies yesterday, spent most of this day hung over, and the day before halloween gathering the necessary spirits to enjoy while watching Hocus Pocus.
Anyways, Ending and tallying the vote now.
Hurry to catch the last few gambles of the luck trial and see who wins.: 7
Bring Red shark with us, to ask why his mother puts up with her husband. And why is she not the official sect head?:6
Give orders to prepare for the Foundation establishment bracket:1
So You will hurry to catch the last few gambles, having Red Shark come along to observe as well and ask him why his mother puts up with his father and isn't the sect head instead.
Update will arrive shortly
>>6132851 The expression certainly fits!
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>>6133733 >Hocus Pocus. Bretty based taste, sect-head.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sat 02 Nov 2024 05:48:42 No. 6133768 Report Come to think of it, these three audiences didn't take as long to outlast the luck contest leg of the mortal portion of the tournament. If you hurried you could probably catch the actually exciting last few gambles, when the air is thick with excitement and those without the natural luck or cunning to keep enough seals to stay in the game have dropped out and culled from the games. Now that actually sounds like it might be a little entertaining, enough to stave off boredom at least. But as you move to glide out of the innermost sanctum of the palace in your gardens, past the still at attention summer sea dawn disciples, you notice that, among their number, someone you'd thought had been taken along with Lord and Lady Xia in their heroic flight was left behind. Red Shark, the only not bastard son of Jinse-Shayu that you're acquainted with and know to exist. He boggles and straightens his back until its as stiff as an iron rod when your eyes meet his and your attention becomes fixed on him.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sat 02 Nov 2024 05:49:43 No. 6133770 Report >>6133768 "The luck contest?" He asks, eyes opening fully as he is caught unprepared by your offer "Why, I'd be honored. I imagine I am standing in place of my father"
"Does it matter? You're the highest ranked of your sect still trampling through my garden right now, aren't you? And there is more I have to ask you personally" You chirp cheerily as you lead him away, as he awkwardly tries to match your bouncing pace
"And what is it, if I may ask?" he asks as you follow the sounds of cheers, jeers and cries of despair to the gambling hall being hosted in one of the larger buildings, which will be a shared dining space once your gardens are filled to the brim with the best and brightest students you can find and add to the membership of the palace of natural laws
"Well, the two that come to mind" you say quietly, tilting your head in his direction, even if its unlikely your conversation will be overheard by anyone watch the games of chance "First, is why does your mother, clearly willful woman who could bend her mate..er, husband into a knot, tolerate your father's infidelity"
He winces, cringing and clutching his brow, looking to be in such pain as if his blood had started to flow in reverse. You observe with fascination, sensing through the pulse of his shoulder that his heart is actually affected by the mental attack of you asking of his parents relationship and his papa's love life. Hiding a curious smile, you wait his answer, just outside of the dining hall turned gambler's den
"My father....shares his lusts generously, but is much more...selective in spreading his love. My mother knows this, and they get along well, you saw how they acted after the display they put on during your last official visit to the port we control" He says slowly, slurring and practically vomiting out the words as you feel gooseflesh spread across his shivering shoulder, a shiver you then share as you recall vividly how they showed their passion in the sea, uncaring they had a crowd to watch their...coupling. And people still have trouble accepting there is no difference between mankind and all the other beasts of the world, Heh.
"And that works out?" You ask, not buying his claim
"They're happily married, and when he gets a little too close to other women or spreads his lusts a little too far, Mother beats him senseless. She is the stronger between the two of them, though, neither of them like that being widely known. Not that its a well kept secret, you've seen my mother more than once" He continues on quickly, some color returning to his face as you pout, still not understanding several things and trying very hard to not let it show on your face.
"I see, I see. I knew his bastard Xiaosi appearing and entering your sect had your father whipped" you say, though you don't get it at all
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sat 02 Nov 2024 05:50:43 No. 6133771 Report >>6133770 "What happened when that...creature, presented himself, would've been called attempted murder elsewhere, but Xia are hard to drown. It was harsher punishment than usual, because father actually welcomed the bastard with open arms. And now he acts more beast than....not that being more beastly natured is in anyway a bad thing" Red shark begins, before hurriedly covering his ass, thinking he might've offended you
"He smells and rarely bathes. We cats are fastidious creatures" You explain, tipping over your hand "But if your mother is stronger than him, beats and pushes him around, and has a better head on her shoulders"
"Why isn't she the sect head? Well, Physically, she's stronger, and she'll usually win any time they spar, but my father is much more skill-full in his technique and with his spear or trident. She is a wave, he is a riptide, is how they both describe themselves. And he has more affinity with our sect's cultivation methods, laws and techniques and" He lists off reason after reason
"And he was the son of the previous head?" You push between one reason and the next, flicking your eyes in his direction as he winces and clenches his teeth
"Yes" He answers "Besides, Mother is surprisingly domestic, and father took to his role as the seat of the summer sea dawn temple like a fish to a stream. They're both where they want to be, and take it from their own son, my father finds creative solutions while my mother looks for the direct ones"
"And she has just as much authority over the sect without any of the responsibilities of actually holding the office and title of grandmaster" You titter
"You know my mother so well, after speaking to her, what, once?" Red shark laughs "Where one is lacking, the other makes up for it. It works, just their marriage"
"Somehow" You mutter, knowing red shark would hear it as he moves to open the door for you. But he leaps back when instead, you step forward, and plant your foot on the door, only not kicking it off the wall because you built it and know its literally rooted and connected to the wall, but still, blood and sap trickled from its edge as you enter the gambling hall boisterously.
Silence falls as Red shark picks him off from the ground, brushing off dust from his bare chest, cursing under his breath as he falls in behind you as you saunter through the parting crowd as you approach the last table, where four gamblers, your lucky number, are gathered around.
They're sweating. Except for Ho, who seems bored, frowning as he leans against the table. Their is a peasant who looks to have gone bandit, some noble who may be of the Chuan family, and Jia Li. The Bandit looking fellow is the one sweating the most, and seeing how his eyes keep shooting your way, you can guess why. He's a dirty cheat, you can tell just from a glance, such is the sharpness of your feline intuition, Heh-Heh.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sat 02 Nov 2024 05:51:44 No. 6133772 Report >>6133771 The other three had to have gotten to this point legitimately. And you can catch a few familiar face in the crowd, clutching a few of the special colored seals you threw into the mix for fun, including some of the pack of tacticians and herd of scholars who entered your sect's service but not its roster. Seems they had a bit of excess luck.
Kicking a chair out from an observer who was too slow or dumbstruck by seeing you up close to relinquish it to you, you sit down, hearing mutters from some of the looser lipped and lacking of wits of the crowd that they didn't think you'd make an appearance. None of the cultivators watching are dull-witted enough to say a thing about your absence or your sudden arrival.
No one says a thing as Red shark is given a seat and slouches in it in the same confident way his dad sits when he isn't talking to you directly, legs spread apart and shoulders slack, like a drunk dropped onto the ground.
"Well?" You scoff, seeing that the game had paused mid dice roll "Carry on!"
They do, and much more politely without any of the drunken commotion or uncouth behavior you'd heard from even a few rings of your garden away.
The game of dice resumes, in silence except for the sound of the dice shaking in the cup and hitting the table after being thrown out. The risks the four take can't really be called as such. The wagers they place conservative and overly cautious. Except for Ho, who seems to be in higher spirits and happy to see you again as he seemingly without counting, pushes pile of his mound of seals forward without much or probably any thought. You doubt much goes on behind his naive looking eyes.
The bandit looking fellow is the first to loose, after losing his cool and being unable to sell a bluff that see his winnings taken by Jia Li. The noble then falls out, since he bets everything and asks for you, instead of an actual god of gamblers, to bless his dice.
He gets nearly the worst roll possible. And then its between Jia Li and Ho, and there two way game is actually rather intense, with the two of them exchanging seals and rolling dice quicker than any street urchin or drunk could, even career dice rollers would have difficulty matching the blistering pace of wagers place and dice rolled that they set.
And, they nearly continue you after its decided, with a loud ringing gong.
You have to smack a hand on the table to get them out of their gambling trance.
"Ho" You say quietly, tipping your head in the direction of his winnings "I've counted both of your seals, unless someone in the crowd hid a pile of their own, you've won by one. Exactly one seal"
Jia Li, good natured in defeat and almost jollily, throws his head back and slaps his forehead as he laughs, breaking the tension as all the heads turn to the chicken farmer who'd won the hearts and surprised even cultivators with his range of talents and skills
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sat 02 Nov 2024 05:53:27 No. 6133773 Report >>6133772 "Huh?" He dumbly grunts, looking around rapidly, looking almost like he lost and was watching out for loan collectors armed with iron rods and bad tempers
"DAMMIT!" A voice you recognize as the usually calm and polite old master of the eight heavenly gates sect roars, and you're pretty sure you hear your supposed brother Xue Long growl through his teeth, and see several elders and even sect heads besides those two grimace or straight up palm their faces in despair.
Seems all of them were aiming to take Ho home with them.
You sneer, delighted in having stolen him away from all of their crummy temples and schools.
"I won?" He asks again, in his yokel's dialect, blinking as he jabs both of his hands at himself
You nod.
And then he faints, scattering his seals everywhere as you, whip your hair with a flick of your wrist and roll of your neck, and take your leaving of your own establishment, as Red shark laughs and claps his hands, clearly having more fun watching others gamble than you did.
And you nearly run into someone who reeks of blood and death outside
"Ah, Grand heretic!" The creep wearing a skull for a mask and ragged hooded cloak, with a knife that looks cursed and is seething with malevolent Qi and grudges in his hand, greets politely
"Seven slaughtering swords?" You huff through your nose, looking down it at him as he nods
"Seeking to reclaim the blade taken from the corpse of my brethren" He purrs back, flicking his tongue over the yellowed teeth of his mask
Ah an idiot! A corpse is standing in front of you! And it seems that Feiqing's new friend still has troublesome pests to deal with after killing one to warn the rest.
<span class="mu-s"> Double Vote! </span>
What is the next bracket of the tournament
>Magical beast only >Qi Condensation >Foundation establishment >Core formation >Golden Core And what do you do while you wait for it to begin, Huanliuxue?
>Spend sometime with one or more of your disciples or a particular quest (Who and what do you do) >Explore the groves and orchards of your garden and maybe bring along some back up in case the plants get bitey >Against your better judgement, try to save the Seven slaughtering sword member from himself (Unlocked via good karma) (Good karma) >Take a little walk through hell and visit some of your friends/ toadies down there >Decide to humor Yinying and meet the "Honor guard" he's made for you out of Chuan's awakened house cat population >Write in >>6133758 The second one isn't good. For reasons I think Huan would agree with me with, since they try to redeem the child killing witches and make them out to be victims
Fuck that. And fuck that movie. First one is a classic though.
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>>6133773 >Fuck that. And fuck that movie. First one is a classic though. There are others beside the original? Perish the thought. There is only one!
>Qi Condensation I want to do beginners next. Then magical beasts. Magical beasts should be slightly more interesting than entry level cultivators owing to their wacky and different inherent qualities and powers.
>Explore the groves and orchards of your garden and maybe bring along some back up in case the plants get bitey I want to save the Seven Stupor Sword guy, I really do, but this is exactly what his people do. It's their thing. Can we really tell him not to? Fish need to swim, cats need to sleep, and sword-manic fools need to get absolutely bodied in fights above their pay grade.
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>>6133773 >Qi condensation. >Try and save him from himself. It costs us little and rewards us karma.
>Go and collect some are clothes from Anji for our foundation establishment disciples We only collected Fu's so far. The others deserve their hellish fashion when they return. Can also tell pig to organise the tourjiment for when we next visit.
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>>6133773 >Qi Condensation >Decide to humor Yinying and meet the "Honor guard" he's made for you out of Chuan's awakened house cat population. I'm actually genuinely curious about the other cats. I guess we could just state "you're going to die" as it is a fact to sword guy but beyond that I don't feel much simpathy for that sect.
If the words of Huan don't make him reconsider then he deserves his fate.
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>>6133811 I'll add
>humour yinying To my vote. But I think we could possibly make it mandate for our priests to keep an eye and ear primed for newly awakened beasts. Especially cats.
They ought have more eyes than us immortals.
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>>6133773 >Magical beast only >Decide to humor Yinying and meet the "Honor guard" he's made for you out of Chuan's awakened house cat population I don't like the sword idiots.
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>>6133773 >Qi Condensation Next up is Qi condensation
>>Against your better judgement, try to save the Seven slaughtering sword member from himself (Unlocked via good karma) (Good karma) Karma, always
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>>6133773 >Qi Condensation >Decide to humor Yinying and meet the "Honor guard" he's made for you out of Chuan's awakened house cat population Anonymous
>>6133773 >Qi Condensation >Explore the groves and orchards of your garden and maybe bring along some back up in case the plants get bitey. >Decide to humor Yinying and meet the "Honor guard" he's made for you out of Chuan's awakened house cat population. These two fit well together.
Do not pick the karma option just because it gives us good girl points, the fool doesn't deserve consideration.
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>>6134128 Good girl points are very helpful and I also want to see the next milestone it unlocks.
Refusing to pick an option because it gives us karma is foolish. If he still chooses to not listen, then we kill him and still get our rewards plus whatever he has on him.
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>>6134161 >Good girl points are very helpful and I also want to see the next milestone it unlocks. And doing it just for that reason is powergaming.
>Refusing to pick an option because it gives us karma is foolish. Im not rebuking it because it gives karma, Im rebuking it because that's the only reason to choose it. Like I said, this imbecil does not deserve consideration.
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>>6134167 Power gaming isnt a sin, it's pragmatism.
A penny for a pound is a great bargain, since it doesn't conflict with the rest of our moral compass.
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>>6134167 It's not really powergaming, it's just getting another point. Also, there should be techniques specifically tailored to counter people with high good karma, so it's not like it's only a benefit.
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>>6134128 >>6134167 I am picking it because this choice is ONLY avaiable to use because we have good karma. If we didn't we couldn't even do this. So I am expecting unique and special results.
if he deserves death or not is up to us. And its around time to reign in the heretics to know better.
>picking something because its good is powergaming anon we are a cultivator, everything we do is powergaming.
Going into the plants though? no real reason, power gaming or not, compared to the rest of the options available.
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>>6133773 >Qi Condensation >Against your better judgement, try to save the Seven slaughtering sword member from himself (Unlocked via good karma) (Good karma) Anonymous
>>6134241 >everything we do is powergaming. I dunno, wanting to make Ao bark for us doesn't seem like powergaming.
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>>6134256 That's because you can't see mount Tai.
Making Ao bark is an exercise of our royal pride, making one of our few true peers bark like a mutt, exerting power over an equal which reinforces our royal mandate and flatters our swollen ego.
But this isn't power anon!
Yes it is! It is directly related to the concept of Dao heart, our determination and sense of self. Our pride is one of the defining parts of how and why we cultivate and through several checks and options in the past has been relevant to our success. That's not also pointing out the several instances where failure has damaged that heart and pride, which normally only occurs at dof 3 or lower. Examples to look up, stealing snow tigers ice storm from him, failing to activate our Gu poison against Xue Ming, continued grudge against statues, when we ascended to golden core and spoke with Dao.
All this to say, we really need to walk Ao on a leash and make him bark like a puppy, it's important to the Dao, it is minmaxing, we really should do it more.
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>>6134287 >t. least horny schizo cultivator I have no choice but to bow my head to your superior wisdom, senior!
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>>6134236 >>6134239 >>6134241 Two of you didn't really read what I said.
Powergaming is when you do certain actions in character for the sake of meta benefits and meta benefits ALONE. I still have yet to hear why we should give this guy the time of day.
>anon we are a cultivator, everything we do is powergaming. Then you don't know what powergaming means.
>Going into the plants though? no real reason, power gaming or not, compared to the rest of the options available. To analyse the plants and perhaps collect ingredients? Seems like a good enough reason.
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>>6134312 I'm honestly curious what Huan will try to do to get him to not be a walking corpse anymore, personally.
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>>6134313 Now that's a better reason, I still disagree but I can respect it.
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>>6134312 Study plants and collect ingredients? sounds like your trying to powergame the botany meta baka.
jokes aside thats no better reason then
Do good and accumulate good. as we have done and continue to do which spits in the face of gods that accuse us of being otherwise.
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>>6134354 But this guy doesn't deserve Huan being so considerate to him. Same could be said of the "eradication" of the crow demons but I wasn't there to argue the case...
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>>6134312 Aight. I am open and honest that the karma gained for very little effort is my primary motive, but here's hoping that I can produce a reason to convince you.
I shall center my argumentation on three prongs, though it may behoove you to mind that this is justification and will be written as such.
The first prong is enacting the peace of our kingdom, ensuring that by dissuading the sword maniac in a way that they don't usually expect [threats of death/execution] there is a higher likelihood that they stop causing trouble in our house, at risk of spurning our good graces and at the gain of having a more definite time to get their hands on their intended targets.
Second, the weakest reasoning especially given our write in explicitly says it is against better judgement, is the strong's duty to rule and guide the weak. Depending on proficiency we could manage to realign or outargue this moron into a cannier or more cunning form of fight autism, producing a better class of heretic and someone with whom we have rapport inside that sect of wacko's and blood fetishists.
The third is achieving the above two aims in a public setting, improving our image or acting as the great balancing mediator.
900 seconds? The fuck 4chan? I would have clicked verify when I started writing if you're gonna make me wait 15 fucking minutes.
>basedvv fuck you
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>>6134356 If he deserves it or not is subjective.
If we vote for it, he deserves it.
If we don't. He did not.
arguing if they deserve it or not simply because of what they are is the same logic the orthodox used when slaughtering Divine Beasts. Junior I could understand asking why we should spare, I am not impressed with the answer as to why we shouldn't.
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Does anyone want to organise an assassination of Fang Ru and Yai yingtai the Autum and summer masters.
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>>6133773 >Qi Condensation >Decide to humor Yinying and meet the "Honor guard" he's made for you out of Chuan's awakened house cat population Cats are cute plus whipping them into shape helps.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 04 Nov 2024 22:56:13 No. 6135742 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote and tallying now, let it go for a little longer since you juniors were having a bit of a debate.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Tue 05 Nov 2024 00:00:28 No. 6135788 Report For a brief moment, an impulse to stop the soon to be corpse from walking directly to his death flares in your heart, but like the spark of whimsy it is, it fades as quickly as it was felt. It was nearly reflexive, trying to stop some fool from ending their day and lives a head shorter than they started both, but you crinkle your nose and frown after wincing away the swell of compassion and draw of merciful benevolence. You don't really like the seven slaughtering swords, they're lunatics and give heretics like you a bad name and seem to have a habit of charging into their graves, it'd be practically going against the laws of nature and the natural order to intercede and try to save this one's life. Or at least, you think it would be. If they want to live by the sword, they certainly are prepared to die by it and that is probably the only respectable thing about their misbegotten sect.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Tue 05 Nov 2024 00:01:29 No. 6135790 Report >>6135788 But another is humoring the ever loyal and diligent Yinying, by at least deign to meet the royal guards he hired for you.
Well Hired is a strong word. To your understanding, he just picked up a bunch of strays, ferals and street alley cats, and since all cats adore you as their rightful liege and queen, it wasn't hard to convince them of the honor in serving you and giving their lives to protect yours. You imagine they're all good natured children, playing at being heroes and following their elder around and trying to make him proud. Maybe most of them think it is more of a game, but that doesn't matter, they are your subjects, people, and juniors and if they're at all serious. And knowing Yinying, he certainly is, then they'll eventually become real bodyguards and true royal guards, after some growing up, learning and maturing.
So it'd behoove you to meet them, to encourage them and show them their leader truly does care for them. And to make Yinying's month by showing you approval of his selection of royal guards and rewarding his efforts for a task he made up for himself. At the very least, his initiative should be praised. Free thinking and independence are useful traits to have, even if you're sure most of your fellow grandmasters would disagree somewhat firmly with.
Adopting your feline form after safely removing your fine robes and jewelry to keep them from being torn, snapped or otherwise broken, you track down the cat that calls himself your shadow and find him with no great effort, as he has taken it upon himself out of all your students present at the tournament to patrol the temple from vantage points and heights few humans ever so much think to lift their head to look at.
He is leading a squad of house cats, who are trying to look fierce as they slink around though none of them pampered lap warmers or indolent house pets, unlike the usual entourage of magical beasts you find yourself surround by whenever you so much as approach a city, town or village. Which you can tell at a glance, your notched ear twitching as you see their own souvenirs of their hard living and the harsh lives they've lead. A bent, crooked tail there, a scar that weighs down an eyelid there, a missing fang there, frayed and frazzled whiskers to spare. And their hides are all different colors and patterns than yours and Yinying, giving a wonderful display of the variation and vividness of magical beasts wherever they go.
Though that spoiled lap warmer from the martial tournament is also trailing behind them, gossiping with one of the girls, a thin, long legged desert cat with eyes that are wide and peering like she's gotten a face full of opium dust.
Yinying spots you first, as you sit on your haunches, back lit by the rising sun, on one of the spires reaching up towards the heaven from your garden.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Tue 05 Nov 2024 00:02:30 No. 6135791 Report >>6135790 He immediately lifts his head, eyes wide and joyous as he sees his mistress, and then immediately kneels paws forward, bowing and stretching out, as his gaggle of proteges pause, look around, their noses sniffing and lips parted as they try to catch a scent, before they are hit by your imperial radiance, and quickly follow the example of their older and larger leader.
"Lady Huanliuxue!" Yinying shouts in the way a general would when addressing their employer "I was just taking your newly employed royal guard out on a patrol, since doubtlessly their are many who'd seek to do you beneficent and kindly self harm among the smiling faces of the festival! I was not expecting to encounter our empress in our rounds through the temple"
"Hey! Hey! We met at Suiqi! Remember, you walked by me when I got this big and my fur got all weird and colorful, like I fell in a dye vat!" The boy with a crooked tail chirps excitedly, and you recall you do remember him. He was stuck in a hole in fencing, being scolded by the restaurant owner whose braised fish he'd snatched moments before the primordial tree sprouted in the city and washed it in primordial beast essence. His is a bright, sky blue coat with cream markings
"She does have a notched ear, like all the two legs say she does! She's like me, master Yinying!" A faint voiced girl with an entire ear missing and watery eyes nearly cries, trembling from tail to paw, showing the bite and claw marks beneath her fart. Her fur is a mottle of warm oranges, yellows and pinks
"Oh! She really is as large as an ox, and so mysterious" The wide eyed desert dweller coos, staring at the traits you picked up from your lunar evolution, the moonlight shimmering in your coat and the starlight glittering in your eyes, the length and finer taper of your ears and crescent moon curve of your fangs, and the lunar phase patterns in the markings of your fur, particularly the crescents beneath your eyes and the full and half moons dotting your back and sides "Is she from a different world than us?"
"She smells bad, like death" The largest and roughest, meanest looking and mangiest of your guards whimpers, his bulky, fluffy coat standing on end "Like after a fight. I didn't know princesses were so scary!"
"Oh! She can be human and a kitty cat!" The pampered pet exclaims as she wobbles to the front, gazing at you with sparkling, amazed eyes "She really is incredible, our queen, and so regal looking! Is that her favorite sunning sport, Chivalrous Sir?"
Yinying's face is scrunched with obvious annoyance, that has to be because his charges and selected royal guard are speaking out of turn, even if it is to admire you.
Yeah, they have a long way until they become bodyguards capable of defending you, or even just skilled fighters capable of protecting themselves, but they are adorable, with their big round, curious eyes.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Tue 05 Nov 2024 00:03:31 No. 6135792 Report >>6135791 And, seeing those eyes and the innocence filling them with such brightness, a realization strikes you. One that nearly brings you to tears.
'These are the first generation of children who were born and welcomed into the world, instead of being fled from and hunted, of course their eyes are so sweet and innocent'
And, you also, as you soak in that realization you just made, you also notice, since you didn't pay them much mind before when Yinying lead them around, that his hand picked personal guard, are all those who were without a home or family, human or not to care for them. The strays, the abandoned, and the feral, the ones who had scars and pieces of themselves missing or some other cosmetic defect. Those without a home or place to call their own.
Seems Yinying's taken after his master, and learned from the charity and acts of mercy you've performed, and given these orphans without anything or anyone something to look forward to and strive towards, giving them friends, family and a place to be! Excellent. You've never been more proud of him than now.
"Lady Huanliuxue?" He asks, noticing the tear twinkling like a falling star on your cheek "Is something the matter, have these children done something to offend you"
"No, no. I am just overjoyed and brought to tears to see such fine young heroes in my service" You say with a wavering voice, smiling proudly as you look down on those bright eyed kids who haven't known the fear and hardship you went through to get to where you are now, at the pinnacle of the world, who never had to worry about being found and hunted for their organs and beast core.
Yinying purrs in contentment at your words, tail flicking once and curling behind his head
"You've truly found and brought together the finest of house cats, I've never beheld creatures so near to my own peerless beauty and excellence" You praise as you stalk down the spire and approach the wolf size cats, the pampered cat following around your personal guard puffing out her chest, but all you can think as you look at her fluffy face is how pathetic her display in the tournament was. But no reason to ruin the girls day, so you don't bring it up
"Do you truly mean it, my princess?" Yinying asks, choking on his words, as you look over the scuffed and scruffy cats in front of you, seeing much of yourself in their imperfections, making sure to show them all your notched ear as he plods up to your side, slinking low.
"Of course" You cheerfully and honestly answer, and hear a chorus of rumbling, loud and rough sounding purrs from the magical cats that were probably kicked around for being mangy strays in their previous lives.
Oh they're just too adorable and innocent! You should introduce them to Piao Tuzi and Yewushi, and the four other rabbits. Who still need names, before someone gives them stupid ones like Ao did with Yewushi. And the gorilla to, since you did promise him a name as a reward.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Tue 05 Nov 2024 00:04:32 No. 6135793 Report >>6135792 What do you do with your Honor guard in training, Huanliuxue?
>ask them their names and of their backgrounds, and praise them for their peculiarities and resilience as house cats >Take them on a stroll and indulge yourself by talking about the simple pleasures of being a cat, like catching fish or napping on a warm rock >Let them show off what Yinying has trained them to do, and have them "Escort you" as you think up good names for the moon hares and gorilla, who you will also pull into your entorage. >Show them the heights a house cat can leap to, and for their eyes only, show off some of the moves of your martial arts and a few of your techniques and spells >write in Anonymous
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>>6135793 >Grant permission for Yinying to use additional resources of the sect to rear this guard initiative of his. >Show them the height that a Housecat can leap too They will need to be warriors if they are to be guards. And let this motivate them.
>Let them show off what Yinying has trained them to do But don't ask their names. I, ooc, don't want to dedicate more memory to names before they are at least in the foundation establishment stage.
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>>6135793 >Show them the heights a house cat can leap to, and for their eyes only, show off some of the moves of your martial arts and a few of your techniques and spells. They need to see to understand since they have not know the hunger for power of proper cultivators yet.
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>>6135793 >ask them their names and of their backgrounds, and praise them for their peculiarities and resilience as house cats Let's get to know these cute kittens
>Show them the heights a house cat can leap to, and for their eyes only, show off some of the moves of your martial arts and a few of your techniques and spells And want to inspire and give them a goal to reach, to give themselves the fire they need to grow strong.
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>>6135793 >ask them their names and of their backgrounds, and praise them for their peculiarities and resilience as house cats >Show them the heights a house cat can leap to, and for their eyes only, show off some of the moves of your martial arts and a few of your techniques and spells Anonymous
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>>6135793 >Let them show off what Yinying has trained them to do, and have them "Escort you" as you think up good names for the moon hares and gorilla, who you will also pull into your entorage. >Show them the heights a house cat can leap to, and for their eyes only, show off some of the moves of your martial arts and a few of your techniques and spells. After they show off and before their heads get too big, humble them with a show of force to demonstrate that they have a long way to go before they can even walk in our world. We wouldn't want them thinking cultivation isn't a dangerous business after all.
I also don't want to know their names because Im already struggling to remember all the characters.
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>bros need a cheat sheet for names
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>>6135857 Don't be cruel, the memory demons feast upon unprepared juniors.
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>>6135861 Hey man I can't remember them all either sometimes Anonymous
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>>6135793 >Let them show off what Yinying has trained them to do, and have them "Escort you" as you think up good names for the moon hares and gorilla, who you will also pull into your entourage. Anonymous
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>>6135793 >Show them the heights a house cat can leap to, and for their eyes only, show off some of the moves of your martial arts and a few of your techniques and spells Anonymous
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>>6135793 >>Let them show off what Yinying has trained them to do, and have them "Escort you" as you think up good names for the moon hares and gorilla, who you will also pull into your entorage. Time to name the gorilla, we owe it to him.
>Show them the heights a house cat can leap to, and for their eyes only, show off some of the moves of your martial arts and a few of your techniques and spells we had little legacy as we were alone, but this new generation has grown in a place of our kind, they need not go through the same hurdles we did, instead they should rise to take on new challenges. We shall impart upon them some of our ways to serve as a foundation for the royal guard as they grow and establish their foundations.
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>>6135793 >Let them show off what Yinying has trained them to do, and have them "Escort you" as you think up good names for the moon hares and gorilla, who you will also pull into your entorage. >Show them the heights a house cat can leap to, and for their eyes only, show off some of the moves of your martial arts and a few of your techniques and spells Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 07 Nov 2024 23:52:25 No. 6137374 Report Quoted By:
Ending and tallying the vote now. Was catching up on some reading, forgive me, juniors.
Grant permission for Yinying to use additional resources of the sect to rear this guard initiative of his.:1
Show them the heights a house cat can leap to, and for their eyes only, show off some of the moves of your martial arts and a few of your techniques and spells:8
Let them show off what Yinying has trained them to do, and have them "Escort you" as you think up good names for the moon hares and gorilla, who you will also pull into your entourage.:5
ask them their names and of their backgrounds, and praise them for their peculiarities and resilience as house cats:2
So you'll let them show off what Yinying has trained them to do, before showing them the heights a house cat can leap to and perform some of the moves of your self taught style and cultivation techniques and spells, before allowing them to escort you while you try to think up a good name for the newly earthbound jade rabbits and the pink furred gorilla
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>>6135861 The dastardly fiends!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Fri 08 Nov 2024 01:10:30 No. 6137423 Report Stifling the titter perfectly befitting of an elder sister, you listen to your juniors among ascended house cats speak out of turn, equally to admire your beautiful and opposing self and to have the meandering, directionless discussions children usually have when they're around their friends. Yinying doesn't enjoy their lack of poise and sense of strictness , and you can imagine he's spent many hours and tiresome early mornings and late nights trying to herd these youngster into something resembling a professional guard force. And while their childish antics are endearing and a little amusing, you can see why they'd irk their trainer and leader who devoted so much time to honing their manners and imparting how to act austerely and respectfully. But you also don't see why it is bothering him so much like they've broken rank to go run around and play in the cattails. Their patrol formation wasn't at all clumsy and they all kept the pace he set, and they even knew to bow when they noticed your approach.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Fri 08 Nov 2024 01:11:32 No. 6137424 Report >>6137423 And as they pair off, and the spoiled girl who was tagging along with their patrol, slinks over to where you're laying down and paws at the roof tiles, awkwardly trying to see if you'd allow her to lay so close to you, you see that Yinying was somewhat exagerating. You recognize it before they fight even begins, you recognize that floaty, light footed stance anywhere! That's your soft style! Your feline martial arts, your ghost inspired technique! Subtle, stealthy, and defensive and while there stances are really sloppy compared to your own masterful form, you are impressed by how solid theirs already are and how clearly experienced they've become fighting other users of it.
"You learned from watching me practice?" You snicker, sneering as Yinying tries to not look proud of himself and put on a guilty face
"And fight. I would be remiss to not learn my princess' every movement and mannerism, thus is the duty of a sworn shield such as my humble self" His humble self preens smugly, watching the performative bouts, which at this point are mostly the younger guards slinking around each other, or grappling with fangs and claws trying to be the one to come out on top after a sequence of redirected strikes, spinning on the ground or in the air briefly from the sheer amount of momentum generated by their attempts to slam the other to the ground.
The youngsters are yowling and spitting, pouncing and running around, smacking each other while keeping their claws sheathed, and using their tails, limbs and head to try and trip or knock over each other, but since each of them knows the basic principles of soft martial arts, you style, and fighting another practitioner of it with it and know when their duel partners are feinting or baiting them to land a surprise head but, the six duos are pretty much equally matched and in a stalemate. They might not be, if they weren't holding their claws back and softening their blows, but that they're all of pretty much equal skill is a testament to the quality Yinying's instruction
Of course you could still do better and turn this clowder of novices into exemplary students of your style. Qiang probably could to, if she had paws instead of hands and the sword often held in them. And, you notice, other awakened house cats and other kinds of magical beast, sneaking along the rooftops to watch the matches from a distance.
"Well?" Yinying asks expectingly, after the guard he's trained for you tire themselves out and start panting and lying down, totally exhausted from their performance "What are your thoughts, my lady, has their performance pleased you
"An excellent start" You declare, just to see their smiles and hear their purrs "They're all around the same level of skill, and certainly have a good grasp of the basic and foundational moves of my style, but they're far from its peak"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Fri 08 Nov 2024 01:12:32 No. 6137426 Report >>6137424 He frowns slightly, but nods, agreeing with your assessment as you saunter over to the tired squad, and exhaling a breath rich in blood Qi and primordial beast essence, give them a little pick me up, before flicking your tail and ordering them to follow you.
"I began with the foundationals, and their martial arts, if I am given permission, I'll begin teaching them how to cultivate Qi and open their meridians' Yinying answers briskly as her gallops to catch up to and match your longer stride "May I ask where you are leading us?"
"I've decided, in all my beneficence and wisdom, to show them just how high a cat can leap" You answer jovially, flicking your tail again "and grant them the privilege of witnessing some of the more advance moves of my style and some techniques and spells no one still alive has witnessed"
"Aodasheng has seen them then?" Yinying asks bitterly, fur standing on end, and it is only then that it occurs to you the formerly forgotten king, as your bodyguard, outranks Yinying since you gave him the position rather than just allowing them to assume it, though you can't imagine Ao to be a bossy superior. Annoying maybe, considering his tendency to ramble and his astonishing talent to hold a one sided conversation
"You'd have to ask Ao himself, fighting him did make me come up with a few in the heat of the fight" You answer under your breath, so the talkative kids won't over hear and spread gossip that you have a pet calamity you've been keeping hidden from the rest of the Chuan sects
"Oh! Are you going to blow up the sun! Big bro Yinying says you can do that!" The sky blue coated boy asks
"He was just giving an example! Clearly she's going to leap up to the moon and drag it back down, like a little bird" The girl with the missing ear chirps, sounding entirely confident you could fit the moon in your mouth
"She's going to kill something terrible, its going to be scary" The oddly cowardly, long furred and largest of the dozen whines, as the girl from the northern desert hums
"She is going to display powers from realms beyond our knowledge" She says dreamily, looking at you with eyes that are both piercing and distant looking
"Maybe she is just going to show off ordinary martials arts and safe sorcery" The pampered girl who seems to have made friends with your personal guard in training hums, but you decide not to chase her off since, really, who is she going to tell what she saw besides her old owner?
"No she's going to shoot lasers out of her eyes!" Another of the guard, with the biggest ears you've ever seen on a cat, trills excitedly
"Nuh-uh! She's going to turn into a ghost god and give the two...humans a scare they won't soon forget"
"She's going to swat a star from the sky, the moon is too big"
"No! Its small, you've seen it in the night sky, haven't you"
"Maybe she'll play us a song, she has a magical guqin doesn't she?"
"Oh! She'll play some deadly music and kill that man who stepped on my tail earlier!"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Fri 08 Nov 2024 01:13:33 No. 6137427 Report >>6137426 Unconsciously, you realized you'd started to walk towards where Piao Tuzi, Yewushi and the other children of the moon are playing, instead of the courtyard of the main castle of your garden, which is where you'd meant to go to show off your technique with at least a little privacy. Since not having your abilities and moves widely known is the one of the biggest advantages you can have in a fight. The element of surprise is something that can't be easily found again after being lost, after all.
Well, they can watch the performance as well, you probably started walking towards them since you were quietly thinking up names for the four rabbits you rescued from the moon after Tuzi and Wushi. And the gorilla as well, who you promised to give a name, who is already been a little annoying trying to convince you to give him that name quicker. But only those seven, since this spectacle is intended for your fellow housecats, to show them the pinnacle they ought to strive towards and just how great they can become. Which is just one of your responsibilities as a just ruler, providing and standing as an example of the excellence your people can achieve with the proper guidance, namely yours.
Oh this is going to be so fun. You can't wait to see the awe in their young eyes and hear all they have to say to praise your talented self!
<span class="mu-s"> Double vote </span>
What do you do after you're done showing off to your royal guard in training
>Gather the winners of the pre qi condensation tournament, and with much pomp and ceremony, present them with their sect robes and officially induct them into your sect, before beginning the Qi Condensation bracket with a bang >Wait for Xia Jinse-Shayu to return from the job you sent on him, and find something to keep your nerves from fraying worrying about its outcome, maybe some writing to occupy your mind? >Fired up from the exhibition you gave your guards to be, challenge one of the other sect heads to a friendly spar, to first blood or surrender! (Who?) >Mingle with those overlooked by the rest, the commoners who traveled across the kingdom, and the sect less rogues hoping to join your sect >Meditate on some of your numerous insights in your hotspring while the Qi Condensation bracket is prepared and the qualifying rounds are started (Mental/ spiritual training. DC/ results dependent on what insight you meditate upon. Total unspent training/ cultivation bonus. 1708) >Write in And what do you name the gorilla and the four other moon rabbits, Huanliuxue?
>Write in Next update will start with a snippet of Huan showing off to the kittens
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>>6137427 >>Meditate on some of your numerous insights in your hotspring while the Qi Condensation bracket is prepared and the qualifying rounds are started (Mental/ spiritual training. DC/ results dependent on what insight you meditate upon. Total unspent training/ cultivation bonus. 1708) Anonymous
>>6137427 >Meditate on some of your numerous insights in your hotspring while the Qi Condensation bracket is prepared and the qualifying rounds are started (Mental/ spiritual training. DC/ results dependent on what insight you meditate upon. Total unspent training/ cultivation bonus. 1708) A refresher of our abilities and a meditation on what we can improve sounds logical, besides we need some new tricks against fire.
For the names I guess the gorilla can be called "renowned blooming valor" or something, dunno how it may sound in chinese.
For the rabbits since they are four we can just call them like the four cardinal points but in chinese, or four different winds perhaps...
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>>6137427 >>Meditate on some of your numerous insights in your hotspring while the Qi Condensation bracket is prepared and the qualifying rounds are started (Mental/ spiritual training. DC/ results dependent on what insight you meditate upon. Total unspent training/ cultivation bonus. 1708) Anonymous
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>>6137469 >>6137493 >>6137555 Guys remember the next traij9ngnhas to be blood or medical training for double results.
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>>6137427 >Meditate on the insights you have Forgot to vooote.
I don't really have a stake in the names of the others.
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Now that I have woken up properly.
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>>6137427 >Mingle with those overlooked by the rest, the commoners who traveled across the kingdom, and the sect less rogues hoping to join your sect >Names For the gorilla, I still promote Fen Kong
For the rabbits,
Inaba One, Inaba Two, Inaba Three and Inaba Four Seriously though, we know nothing about them, so I'll go with a thematic naming of 北兔, 南兔,东兔 and 西兔
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>>6137427 >>Meditate on some of your numerous insights in your hotspring while the Qi Condensation bracket is prepared and the qualifying rounds are started (Mental/ spiritual training. DC/ results dependent on what insight you meditate upon. Total unspent training/ cultivation bonus. 1708) Anonymous
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>>6137427 >Gather the winners of the pre qi condensation tournament, and with much pomp and ceremony, present them with their sect robes and officially induct them into your sect, before beginning the Qi Condensation bracket with a bang >Gorilla name I'll bring up the names I mentioned in
>>6128861 again.
>Rabbit names Since we haven't spent any real time with them to get a grasp on personalities and quirks, I'm just gonna shoot with 铃仙 (Líng xiān/Little Bell Immortal) and 清蘭 (Qīng lán/Clear Orchid) for the Does, while I'm gonna steal a page from
>>6137736 with 北新月 (Běixīn yuè/ Northern Crescent) and 南凸月 (Nán tú yuè/Southern Gibbous) for the bucks.
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>>6137427 >Meditate on some of your numerous insights in your hotspring while the Qi Condensation bracket is prepared and the qualifying rounds are started (Mental/ spiritual training. DC/ results dependent on what insight you meditate upon. Total unspent training/ cultivation bonus. 1708) Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 11 Nov 2024 10:29:51 No. 6139342 Report Quoted By:
Ending and tallying the vote now. I was briefly afflicted by the loathsome heart demon known as writer's block, but have bested it.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 11 Nov 2024 11:43:29 No. 6139382 Report It was more than just fun, showing off your skills to the youngsters, it was liberating. You never really had the chance to display your peerless prowess and towering talents outside of a fight or as something besides a threat to browbeat your lessers into not causing trouble or picking a fight. It was a simple, mundane thing, most other cultivators are used to doing freely to amaze the denizens of the mortal realm and dazzle the ordinary commoners into donating and giving tithes to their temples or to fool them serving them for a spot they simply couldn't occupy since they were not blessed by birth with the potential to cultivate Qi to begin with.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 11 Nov 2024 11:44:30 No. 6139383 Report >>6139382 The ethereal music, rather than mournful, was unearthly but merry, as the illusionary painting it put over the dawn sky created after images of every move you performed, and others you haven't, revealing the inheritance of techniques left behind by the prior generation of beast cultivators, as you went through the motions of showing how a cat may copy them. Mock stars clashed with destructive yin spheres, creating fields of stardust behind you, as tendrils of blood splattered on the the mirror like surface of the turbulent rivers of moonlight drawn around you.
Lightning, charged by metal Qi launched from your ears, was cut in half by the various techiques that made use of your claws, including of course the whispering death claw and its evolution of the red death scythe, but also the simplest coating of destructive yin Qi. Dying grudge shields bounced Vein draining fangs between them, as you moved between the shooting gallery of vein emptying Qi darts with the phantom cat waltz, using each teleportation between your false ghost flames to perform a different move taken from your feline fighting style, even shifting between your cat and human bodies with a little careful application of the original form of the specter lightness kill, the illusion of slowed time letting you seamlessly seem to appear between points already changed.
Yinying gasped in awe, as you showed off your chimeric transformations for them, making the best use of feline and human physiques to fight mock battles with a shadow of yourself you've cast with a careful pulling of the darkness aspect of Yin Qi. You only kept your most secret, powerful and dangerous techniques hidden to the second generation of ascended house cats in this modern era.
Since it'd be sheer stupidity to unleash something like the one technique of yours you consider to be actually demonic cultivation and unleash the blood rain, chaos mist, just to show off to children. Children the technique would endanger if you didn't corral it flawlessly.
And others you don't perform, because the untrained eyes of the other cats would make showing them off kind of pointless. Like moving as a ghost outside of your body, or strengthen it internally with body strengthening techniques like the blood torrent rush or other forms self blood manipulation.
But even locking and sealing away the pinnacle of your cultivation, the performance still lasts for several hours, until the morning had fully arrived, and all of Yinying's understudies and a few other of your students, who joined the audience as you moved through complex strings of strikes and counters through a shroud of bloody fog generated by mingling the red hot spiritual energy of life with cool water Qi like your mother uses within a few temperature altering spells, have exhausted themselves cheering and clapping their hands together.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 11 Nov 2024 11:45:31 No. 6139385 Report >>6139383 Descending back to earth, and seeing some familiar faces of your allied sects also on the rooftops now, nodding respectfully as you take your bow and gracefully take your leave, feeling curiously more light on your feet as your heart felt fluttery and a serenity and calm you associated more with graveside meditation settled over you.
And still having sometime before the next stage of the tournament began, you decided, after scrubbing the rust off of some of your more obscure techniques and making sure the skills with moves and spells you were more practiced with were as sharp as ever, to take a chance to meditate briefly.
And to name the moon rabbits and the gorilla, who you had Yingying and Fu collect for you as you sauntered to the springs of your garden, shadowed by the now very excited youngsters, who were bounding after you and all but pouncing on your tail as they enthused about how amazing you were and praised you as was deserved of a genius prodigy and loving queen should be.
And, while you dip your toes into the hot water of the spring overflowing with primordial beast energy, the energizing effect making the kittens even more playful than they already were, and that had attracted other magical beasts to the waters, who dared not to step into it since they knew it belonged to you.
"Master" Fu said, covering his eyes as you turned to face him, completely nude expect for where your hair covered, hands on your hips "I've brought the jade rabbits"
"Oh? Are we going swimming, Mama? " Piao Tuzi asked, peeking her head out from Fu's collar, as she turned from moon rabbit to rabbit eared girl, and crawled out of his arms while Yewushi stomped his foot and glared at the other ascended house cats, grinding his teeth as he threatened them the way hares would.
And you paid attention to the other four hares you'd saved from the moon and brought to keep those two company. One of the doe's, with a cut in one of her ears, and shorter hair than Tuzi, was right next to Yewushi, stomping her foot as well, arms crossed and glowering, and using naughty words you certainly didn't teach her.
"Swim?" the other doe asked, clinging onto Fu's robes, eyes covered by both her hair and her drooping ears, passively looking around, with a sort of naive calmness that told you she wouldn't have lived long on the earth alone. A hawk would've snatched her away with how demure and relaxed she looked "What is?"
"Scary" one of the bucks , with ears bent at their half way point and drooping muttered, gnawing at a piece of moon grass as he hid behind Yewushi and the tomboy of a doe "Long fangs, big mouths. Nowhere to hide"
"Red!" the other buck, with an idiot's glee in his eyes declares, jabbing a tubby finger at you as you tilt your head.
"Red" You agree with a nod as Yinying leads the pink furred gorilla forward
"Fight me!" Yewushi barked at the very confused kittens at your heels
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 11 Nov 2024 11:46:32 No. 6139386 Report >>6139385 "No me! I'm stronger!" The tomboy snorted, glaring at Yewushi, and pushing him with her little foot
"Don't" Piao tuzi pouted "You always start fights, Yewushi! Mama wanted to play with us, don't cause her trouble! Stop"
Yewushi and the boyish doe were already throwing fists and biting at eachother.
"Eh? She doesn't look like Mama I remember" The droopy eared doe muttered, carelessly toddling up to you, a finger on her chin
"She caught us!" The chicken blooded boy hissed "The air is hot! We're going to be cooked! Need to run"
"Really red!" The playful buck laughed
"Never seen this part of the temple before" The gorilla muttered, lumbering forward on his knuckles "The air is rich, like the top of the mountains, but not thin. There is a quality to it, familiar yet not. Ah, Master, is this where I shall be given my name"
"Name?" The Tomboy who had been kicking Yewushi as he got her in a choke hold asked curiously
"Ah, the thing they have" The droopy eared doe chirped "That we don't. The funny noises they taught us to make, yes?"
"No help me, this is scary!" The buck now held up by Fu wailed, as the man himself did his best to not look at your unclothed beauty head on "The air is hot! It shouldn't be hot! Stuffy!"
"Eh, is that a new game you're playing?" The playful one asked Fu, as the moon rabbit in his hand tried to escape by changing shape
"They're weird" one of the kittens who would be your personal guard one day snickered.
"Once I've chosen one for you and them" You answered, smiling as you crouched down and poked the nose of the droopy eared jade rabbit, parting her hair gently. She squinted and frowned
"Don't smell like mama" She said sadly, huffing and staring at Piao Tuzi, who had already started climbing up your back, pointing at her accusingly "Liar!"
"She smells like blood" The bucktoothed, playful buck said, while Fu set down the other boy with bent ears, urging him forward with a gentle pat
"No. Like home" He said slowly, nose twitching "And blood, which is scary"
"They aren't breathing" the gorilla says, concern clear in his voice
"They technically don't need to breath air" You explain "But must if they want to talk, but, I don't know who..."
"I did!" Piao Tuzi declared triumphantly "And the aunties helped me! They're nice!"
"Idiots needed help" Yewushi sneered, forgetting he didn't know how to talk until you taught him
"Is that water?" the droopy eared girl asked, tugging on your hand, as she looked at the springs, as Yewushi stomped towards it with the boyish doe still trying to fight him, followed by the playful buck, while the scared one stayed close to her, tuzi, you and Fu
"Fu, teach them how to swim" You groan, remembering just how fascinated the little rabbits were of water
"I will!" Yewushi declares, despite not being a strong swimmer himself and still struggling to keep his head over the water
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 11 Nov 2024 11:47:33 No. 6139387 Report >>6139386 You smile and hold back a exasperated sight. Rearing children was hard! Especially when one of them had a temper and confidence like Yewushi does!
"What curious creatures" The gorilla hooted, before frowning as he looked at you and tilted his head "Where are your drapings"
"Why would I wear them now?" You ask, as he furrowed his brow and rubbed his chin thoughtfully
"I thought humans would have more fur beneath them" He said, as he stared at the water cautiously as you waded into it, carrying Piao Tuzi on your shoulders, and realizing just how little of a sense of caution the rabbit with droopy ears had, as she let you pick her up without even squeaking or squirming, and simply stared up at you curiously as you lifted her above the water, as Fu shouted and cursed as he tried to keep Yewushi, the girl you felt was already his rival, and the buck toothed one from going too deep into the spring.
"Some do" You snicker as you set Tuzi and her new sister on a large lily pad, large enough to support their weight as you wetted your hair and sought out the deepest part of the pools so you could swim down to it and mediate there while doing your best impression of a drowned corpse.
"Ah! She's gone!" You hear the droopy eared girl yelp as Tuzi peers over the lily pad, shaking her head
"She just went under the surface, see?" She explained the alien concept of water to her, by slapping her hand on the surface of the water.
You smirked and surfaced, wet hair clinging to your face, shoulders and neck as you saw the cowardly buck trembling on the shore
"Its just water, it didn't eat me!" You shout back at him, and the other magical cats, who seemed nearly as amazed that you've purposefully dove into water as they were by the moves and magics you showed them "You can swim through it if you know how to, it isn't scary, try dipping your toes in it, and don't cause Fu trouble"
And then, taking a breath, you doved back down
"Hah? Why was her hair like that when she came back up?" Droopy ears asked tilting her head "Does water do that, Twozee?"
"Tuzi!" Tuzi pouts
"Names are funny"
<span class="mu-s"> Double vote </span>
What do you actually meditate on, at the bottom of the spring
>Blood, and the nature of carmine mysticism and living as a practitioner of it and its many mysteries ( DC 145. Result is doubled) >Healing, medicine and surgical and folk treatments, all the ways a wound or illness could be treated (DC 165. Result is doubled) >Dying and being a ghost, and particularly the temporary ghostly evolution you underwent while fighting Ao (DC 120) >The nature of nobility and the responsibilities of royalty such as yourself and what you've learned of being a ruler (DC 125) >Write in And what do you name the gorilla, Huanliuxue?
>Fen Kong. >Pink Blossom monk >Silent mountain >Reborn through glory >Scholarly rambling fist >renowned blooming valor" >Something else, also the rabbits should be called...(write in) Anonymous
>>6139387 >Blood. Want to smash some records, and for that we need a decent roll.
145 is pretty difficult to match already.
>Fen Kong >Reborn through glory Why not.
Alright extras, you also get names.
>tomboy: River Daughter. Because River Bastard makes me want to use Rivers as a euphemism for rowdy behavior.
>chicken blood boy: meo yen Sounding like a Meow of surprise.
>Hawk bait: trusting soul. >playful buck: Blessed courage For obvious reasons.
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>>6139387 >>Healing, medicine and surgical and folk treatments, all the ways a wound or illness could be treated (DC 165. Result is doubled) We got a lot of points stored to and doubled the result.
Maybe we can treat all the scars on Fu then.
>Scholary Mountain or Shū xiāngshān Anonymous
>>6139387 >>The nature of nobility and the responsibilities of royalty such as yourself and what you've learned of being a ruler (DC 125) We are a leader, what is the nature of leaders in this world.
We've never pondered this too much.
>Scholarly rambling fist >Something else, also the rabbits should be called...(write in) Rabbit 1
Rabbit 2
Rabbit 3
Rabb- nah im fucking with you.
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>>6139425 If you do nobility, we are wasting the one and only "double results". It is for our NEXT training only.
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>>6139387 >Healing, medicine and surgical and folk treatments, all the ways a wound or illness could be treated (DC 165. Result is doubled) Take this domain fro mthe Heavens, and one of their strongest holds on humans will crumble
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>>6139387 >Blood, and the nature of carmine mysticism and living as a practitioner of it and its many mysteries ( DC 145. Result is doubled) >Fen Kong. Anonymous
>>6139463 Was it like that or is it for our next training roll in those disciplines?
Because there's quite the difference there.
>>6139387 >Healing, medicine and surgical and folk treatments, all the ways a wound or illness could be treated (DC 165. Result is doubled) With our bonuses and a doubled result I feel like we can just tackle even the highest dc.
As for the gorilla name (what did Fen Kong even mean?) I'm going to offer the name:
>blooming mountain peak, or just Blossoming mountain. For the rabbit's names
>>6139409 These are ok I feel.
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>>6139463 Where does it say it stacks for next training? its only for the current results of THIS training.
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>>6139562 When we got it, the effect said NEXT training which is THIS training. Not NEXT BLOOD OR HEALING training.
Hence, nobility is a wasted choice here.
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>>6139387 >Healing, medicine and surgical and folk treatments, all the ways a wound or illness could be treated (DC 165. Result is doubled) >Silent mountain Anonymous
>>6139387 A little lost on if this counts as a training or not for the bonus and if it'll actually be lost so for now:
>Healing, medicine and surgical and folk treatments, all the ways a wound or illness could be treated (DC 165. Result is doubled) I'm far more interested in meditating on our ghostly side if the bonus won't vanish though.
>Reborn through glory >>6139484 Looking at the last thread "Fen Kong" apparently means "Pink Air"
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>>6139646 Well if that's the case then I'll change to,
>>6139387 >>6139604 >Fen Kong. Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Fri 15 Nov 2024 08:16:11 No. 6141699 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying the result now. Didn't mean to take so long to do it, but I couldn't find time to write the last few days.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Fri 15 Nov 2024 08:39:41 No. 6141715 Report Crossing your arms over your chest, beneath your generous bosom, you stare through the shimmering water over your head, feeling it warm as the sun crawls higher and higher in the sky, watching the surface ripple and bubbles burst as you slow your breathing and heart beat until you would be indistinguishable from any sunken corpse. With your back on mud and water smoothed stone, and your mane of crimson hair flowing around you like spilt blood, you close your eyes and empty your mind of everything besides the focus of your meditation. Gathering all you know and have learned about healing and medicine, from advance surgical techniques and mystical medicines, to the common folk remedies and herbal medicines used across the land or unique to a single riverside village, you ponder and contemplate all of it from the most basic and ineffective to the most advance and effective of treatments, ranging from the ordinary and mundane to the mystical and heavenly.
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Rolled 62, 23 = 85 (2d100) >>6141715 Anonymous
Rolled 2, 13 = 15 (2d100) >>6141715 Nat two hundo
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Rolled 22, 46 = 68 (2d100) >>6141715 The lack of blood offends me.
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Rolled 2, 29 = 31 (2d100) >>6141715 Inb4 shit rolls
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Rolled 86, 33 = 119 (2d100) >>6141715 Anonymous
Rolled 59, 55 = 114 (2d100) >>6141715 We're barely passing with doubled dice, the fuck is going on
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Fri 15 Nov 2024 12:39:07 No. 6141773 Report >>6141769 Alright! So that'd be 238, 70 over DC and an already profound success.
But, before we carry on, lets have a quick vote!
Would you like to spend any of your cultivation/ training bonus? (current total 1708)
>Yes, spend 7, to reach 240/ 80 over DC >Yes Spend 17, to reach 255 and 90 over dc >Yes Spend 27, to reach 265 and 100 over dc >Yes Spend 107, to reach 345 and 180 over DC >Yes, Custom amount >NO, Just get writing, grandfather. And I am off to read some divine scriptures, while you vote on this.
>>6141772 The dice serve the heavens, no doubt
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>>6141773 >Yes, spend 7, to reach 240/ 80 over DC Anonymous
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>>6141773 >Yes, spend 7, to reach 240/ 80 over DC Anonymous
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>>6141773 >Yes Spend 27, to reach 265 and 100 over dc 27 isn't a huge expenditure, out of the 1700+ points we've got stored up-- and I kind of want to see what the extra DoS gives up as a bonus.
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>>6141773 >Spend 127 for 200 over dc. Guys. 20 degrees of success. A NEW RECORD.
And a benchmark number too.
Let's go BIG
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>>6141773 >>Yes Spend 27, to reach 265 and 100 over dc Anonymous
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>>6141773 >Yes Spend 27, to reach 265 and 100 over dc Going over 100 dc is a massive success, if we do this we will be growing by leaps and bounds, the increase in is significantly more for the investment we give it.
I think we shouldn't go over that amount tho. Save all of our other extra points for ascending to the next stage, we WILL need it. at least for now.
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>>6141773 >Yes Spend 27, to reach 265 and 100 over dc Anonymous
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>>6141773 >Yes Spend 27, to reach 265 and 100 over dc Big Heal.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Fri 15 Nov 2024 17:10:29 No. 6141863 Report Quoted By:
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Fri 15 Nov 2024 18:20:04 No. 6141909 Report How a seed of flesh, watered with truly transcendentally spiritually potent and Qi rich blood can be used to recover from even the most grievous and mangling of wounds. How truly refined blood, sufficiently condensed, could serve to turn a piece of borrow meat into a functional limb, strong and dexterous enough to replace the one that was lost and become a alchemical catalyst for healing of a grisly sort. You already know this is possible, you ran through every step mentally, and with your carmine mysticism, mastery of blood control, and knowledge of the Red Dust Revival (红尘复兴, Hóngchénfùxīng), the price of the regrowing even a powerful cultivators limb would be made a pittance, achieving a feat that would take lesser rogues and remorseless and standardless heretics have to depopulate half a kingdom to achieve. Blood carries memories as well as emotions, after all
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Fri 15 Nov 2024 18:21:05 No. 6141911 Report >>6141909 Chimeric transformation. The act of purposefully altering fur, hair, skin, flesh, blood and bone and changing its shape and adapting it, rather than switching it wholly to one state to another. Blood control allows you to move your veins as easily and agilely as you do your fingers.
It all comes back to blood. And the unique beastly powers bequeathed onto you for being such an exemplar of magical beastdom. Combine the principles of blood alchemy, internal and external, meld them with certain sorcerous diagrams and mystical arrays, and toss in folk medicine techniques and the knowledge being raised and taught by a master poisoner has imparted onto you by necessity. What circumstances and influences will cause an organ to rot and fail, what climate will heal that same damage, and how the blood flowing through viscera, bowels and guts can be transmuted to take the place of herbal remedies and ordinary healing pills and droughts. Qi, you know, can be used to cleanse the body and rid it of toxins and heal injuries, as life force and internal energies can do the same in a pinch and great enough quantities. Blood Qi has a natural and passive healing property that doesn't need any special training to activate and make use of, it doesn't need to be formed and used in a complex spell, like other sources of Qi must to achieve the same.
And through your gradual, ponderous and carefully guided evolution as a carmine mystic, you've imbued that same capability into your blood, making it about as effective as a fine healing pill, which is why it is what you're going to use to get Huofeng his arm back. But it isn't enough to just rub your steaming blood in an open wound, pour it into a cup and serve it like catnip tea, or forcefully inject it into their veins...especially since that last one might be mistaken for how you forcefully turn some poor sap's still living body into your puppet or attack them from within their own veins, as the alchemist who could've been Ruolan and Renshu's carmine sibling found out when he thought he could spit in your face and run off with your blessing of perfected carmine mysticism, which is why you made him pop and took back the blood you entrusted to him.
Ideally, you want someone who isn't able to use blood control to take the foundation you build and use it to treat illnesses and clean cuts. And reflecting and gathering together all of you know about veins, organs, nerves and the like, and how Blood and Qi of any kind can interact, already you can envision several entirely new and never before used healing techniques and spells and come to understand the nature of carmine mysticism at a deeper, more profound level.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Fri 15 Nov 2024 18:22:06 No. 6141915 Report >>6141911 How to use the reviled practice of blood refinement to heal instead of turning blood into a potent cultivation material, how to attack infections and poisons with blood cells, and use blood alchemy to recreate the effects of pills taken that have long since run dry only using blood itself as material to do so. And that's just scratching the surface of what you come to understand as you trace the flow of every drop of blood through your veins, condensing and refining it as you mentally sort through every part of your body and the organs inside of it, tracing them out in your mind and memorizing every detail of them. You even get a good look at your spiritual root while you're at it and see just how magnificent they are at an extremely personal and up close level. If you wanted to, you could draw a diagram of every layer of your body and put it up for display, it'd surely become a national treasure, Heh-Heh.
But the simple, basic stuff, that really, even a simpleton with your powers and abilities could eventually stumble upon, doesn't really matter. Sure, uncovering a dozen or so different ways you can use various expressions of blood Qi and the skills and techniques that can only function and be used with it, would astonish any cultivator worth their salt. But here at the palace of natural laws, excelling and excellence are just the beginning of what is expected and as its grandmaster and head, you must go further.
Treatments to speed up natural healing to rival the effects of scarlet healing armor, and making it the baseline, natural function of the body, and reducing the caloric and metabolic strain so whoever gets give the treatment and goes through the ritual to attain it doesn't starve to death or feel like they got visited by specter starvation's meaner and hungrier cousin. Hell, with a large enough cultivation base, couldn't that treatment be used to recover almost instantaneously from wounds that'd be grievous not just for cultivators but gods as well? And you wouldn't even need to do anything rash or expensive, materially and morally to figure out how to do that. Its the same basic concept of red dust revival and the method of limb regrowing Huofeng will be the first official recipient of, since you're going to test it on smaller subjects first, like you did with blood alchemy when you made those venomous birds and carnivorous deer. All that will be different is the strength, suddenness of it and the fact it'll be constantly active.
Hmm, well, making it constant, will require a lot more preparation than just regrowing an arm, inside of the body to receive the treatment, but you literally leak blood Qi everywhere you go, so lot of the requirements it'd take to refine a living body to...say, regrow a few fingers that got blasted a way during a struggle, would be greatly lessened for you, but still, even reducing the impact on the body.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Fri 15 Nov 2024 18:23:07 No. 6141917 Report >>6141915 it'll still take a lot of Qi to activate the intense, rapid healing, but wouldn't it be worth it just to see the sheer looks of terror on the faces of whoever is unfortunate enough to face you after you've figured out and smoothed out the wrinkles and kinks of the procedure. Since it is just stupid to use one's self as a lab rat.
But even creating a medical procedure that could make allow some one to shrug off a storm of blades or a sea of fire and emerge without a scar or burn on the other side, is not enough. You're nothing if not ambitious. And as more and more techniques pile up inside your head, building on the foundations of the blood based healing arts and defining its techniques and spells in numerous ways. How to boost someone's life force that they could easily walk into the bottom of the catacombs or depths of hell itself without being overwhelmed and overcome by the deathly yin Qi there. How to treat curses like illnesses or common poisons. How to turn any blood in a healing elixir as potent as your own, how to use it to spread blood Qi and create carmine spiritual herbs and grasses, subtle stitching and knife techniques using raw Qi in the place of string and scalpel to fix wounds. The same Qi Scalpel technique, a sharpening of a shroud or sheath of Qi on fingers or claws, that could be turned into a hidden weapon or made so small you could poison someone with ghostly yin Qi without the cut being noticed, unlike say, injecting someone forcefully with your blood Qi
Hell, thinking about it, Ghostly yin Qi can be quite the effective poison to the living and the dead. And the only difference between medicine and poison is quantities, and you know more netherworld alchemy than anyone that can be counted amongst the living. And what about, say, Cosmic and Lunar Qi? Its nature is mysterious and mostly unknown to you, but you feel it to can be used to heal instead of how you tend to use most of your cultivation base, to destroy or blast away anything or one that gets in your way.
All three of the Qi's you've dyed your spiritual roots can be medicine. Anything in you, well except the internal gu you've been tending of sinner bone centipede venom, could be medicine. A Living body is a jade mine of medicine! And there are so many ways it all can be used, from meridians to veins, from hair to marrow.
But all of this new found medical knowledge and bodily understanding and know how, isn't satisfactory. Sure, you could use it to bully the thousand lotus hall and steal their seat as the premiere healers of Chuan Kingdom and the wider world of cultivation, or play games with Monu and challenge her to find a poison you couldn't counter with just your blood healing arts, but that isn't enough to satisfy you.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Fri 15 Nov 2024 18:24:57 No. 6141919 Report >>6141917 And you can feel it, deep in your bowels, there is enlightenment beyond all this that you've learned in a flash with all the patch work and scattered medical, healing and physiological insights, esoteric or not. A technique or method to be truly prized. A Red Jade dug out from your own veins, like ore from the earth. A secret art to place next to the other's you've come to possess. That will be the pinnacle of the new school of healing and medicine you've put together, piece by piece, at a speed ridiculous even by your own outrageous standards
And what shape does this red jade technique take, Huanliuxue?
>A two sided healing spell, that will be able to rapidly age or de-age someone or yourself, through an extreme expenditure of lifeforce and Qi, or do so partially and temporarily for much less of a cost >A gory bodily refinement that removes many of the weak points and lethal vulnerabilities of a body, something that would let you be disassembled like a doll and still survive in pieces >A purely physical form of possession, and a very bloody one, an extreme last resort survival technique to bounce back from, by replacing someone else's blood with your own. Or refine someone else into sapient blood, to heal lethal wounds or seal them away. >A combination of your healing techniques and spells and Primordial beast essence to forcefully inflict what happened to Yuyi and others, or just trap them in animal bodies, extending your swapping between feline and human form and chimeric transformations to others >"Lively Yin Qi", a true fusing of Ghostly yin and Blood Qi, worthless in anyone else's hands, but you know how Yin and Yang can coexist like the moon eclipsing the sun.... >Write in Though the level of success has given Huan more than just this capstone technique. I listed some of what she picked up in this meditation in the update
Oh
and the total bonus remaining is now 1681
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>>6141919 >>"Lively Yin Qi", a true fusing of Ghostly yin and Blood Qi, worthless in anyone else's hands, but you know how Yin and Yang can coexist like the moon eclipsing the sun.... This one right here.
We have both, they are opposing each other, yet we are a living wellspring of both.
Controlling age is one thing, removing our body of weaknesses is also powerful.
Being able to come back with just our blood, or make others shift between their forms. Yet none of these are a true representation of both our bloodshed and our grudge like combining the dao of ghosts and the dao of blood.
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>>6141919 >A gory bodily refinement that removes many of the weak points and lethal vulnerabilities of a body, something that would let you be disassembled like a doll and still survive in pieces Anonymous
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>>6141919 >"Lively Yin Qi", a true fusing of Ghostly yin and Blood Qi, worthless in anyone else's hands, but you know how Yin and Yang can coexist like the moon eclipsing the sun.... A technique that none except us can use even if they stole it? This is the pinnacle of secret arts.
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>>6141919 >>"Lively Yin Qi", a true fusing of Ghostly yin and Blood Qi, worthless in anyone else's hands, but you know how Yin and Yang can coexist like the moon eclipsing the sun.... Damn, these are really fucking good. But I'm gonna have to pick the opposing forces one. It's a bit selfish to pick since it would be super difficult if not impossible to teach anyone but it's gotta be strong. When harmony between Yin and Yang is found, the truest expressions of power lie. Balance holds strengths just as great as the highest exemplars or either side of the coin.
Maybe some day in the future we can master other techniques. Or maybe not. The future is ever unclear!
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>>6141919 >lively yin I prefer body refinement.
But it is said true luxury is having something nobody else can have.
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>>6141919 >"Lively Yin Qi", a true fusing of Ghostly yin and Blood Qi, worthless in anyone else's hands, but you know how Yin and Yang can coexist like the moon eclipsing the sun.... Having unknown or unique Qi types is nutty-- and I suspect that this will also have other knock-on effects, due to our existing 'eclipse' physique. I wonder what happens when we reverse polarity; have we also unlocked Ghostly Blood Qi, or does this count as a true fusion?
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>>6141919 >A gory bodily refinement that removes many of the weak points and lethal vulnerabilities of a body, something that would let you be disassembled like a doll and still survive in pieces Anonymous
>>6142011 >Lively Yin Qi, a true Fusing of ghost and blood >Hey, is this a true fusion? Yes junior brother Anon, it's a true fusion.
Also, we get another point in "Huan's bullshit impossible tricks to pull out of nowhere in a fight" counter.
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>>6141919 >>"Lively Yin Qi", a true fusing of Ghostly yin and Blood Qi, worthless in anyone else's hands, but you know how Yin and Yang can coexist like the moon eclipsing the sun.... Though I still say we should one day look into rearranging our merdians and spiritual roots so they are as effective as possible
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>>6141919 >"Lively Yin Qi", a true fusing of Ghostly yin and Blood Qi, worthless in anyone else's hands, but you know how Yin and Yang can coexist like the moon eclipsing the sun.... Go big or go home.
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This is supposed to be the cornerstone of our school of healing arts right? If we pick the Lively Yin Qi option, then the only person who'd be able to use it for the forseeable future would only be us, we'd have nobody to pass it down to.
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>>6141919 >"Lively Yin Qi", a true fusing of Ghostly yin and Blood Qi, worthless in anyone else's hands, but you know how Yin and Yang can coexist like the moon eclipsing the sun.... >>6142175 Granpa wrote capstone not cornerstone so this technique would be the very pinnacle that only Huan at the moment would be able to use, all the other stuff can be taught to others.
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>>6142198 Ah, you're right. Well, then this is probably the choice with the most flexibility out of all of them.
>>6141919 >"Lively Yin Qi", a true fusing of Ghostly yin and Blood Qi, worthless in anyone else's hands, but you know how Yin and Yang can coexist like the moon eclipsing the sun.... Anonymous
>>6141919 >A gory bodily refinement that removes many of the weak points and lethal vulnerabilities of a body, something that would let you be disassembled like a doll and still survive in pieces I REALLY like the Qi fusion, but if this is supposed to be the signature technique of an entire school of cultivation, its strengths are balanced by the extremely high barrier of entry. Also would be fun to join Fu in the "People who don't die when they're killed" crew
>>6142024 >Also, we get another point in "Huan's bullshit impossible tricks to pull out of nowhere in a fight" counter. How many flavors of complete BS do we have under our sleeves at this point?
>Slow down or, with enough effort, stop time for a brief period >Cause an astrological event for a power boost >Currently 4 flavors of complete moveset swaps (I wonder if we're familiar with Aodasheng to make it 5) >Giving physical form to the grudges surrounding someone, which can impede even a god >Grows stronger when near death to make comebacks >At least one reload if things go absolutely pear shaped And the scariest part is that most of these haven't been mastered or improved upon yet. That's something I want to look into before our Ling invasion, building upon our base moves like Dying Grudge Shield, Phantom Cat Step, or Vein Draining Fang and seeing what we can cook up (plus FINALLY finding out how to incorporate cosmic qi into our repertoire beyond homing qi shots)
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>>6142201 >Also would be fun to join Fu in the "People who don't die when they're killed" crew That would just encourage smutty writers to produce more strange fiction about headless head-getting.
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>>6141919 >A gory bodily refinement that removes many of the weak points and lethal vulnerabilities of a body, something that would let you be disassembled like a doll and still survive in pieces Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 18 Nov 2024 17:24:09 No. 6143706 Report Ending the vote, tallying its result now. A weekend spent "studying" divine scripture has revitalized me, juniors!
Lively Yin Qi:9
Gory bodily refinement:4
So, Creating Lively Yin Qi, a true combination blood and Ghostly yin qi, is the winner! You'll have other chances to learn/ invent the other options later, of course.
Update will arrive shortly
>>6142201 Huan is just overall a bitch to fight, and a bigger one to actually beat/ put down.
>>6142207 Huan's fondness of the macabre would only encourage them to be fair, if you recall how she's reacted to some of her more grievous wounds across the quest and her sense of aesthetics, like keeping sealed ghosts around for ambience, keeping cursed skulls around as decor and her using false ghost lights and stuff
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>>6143706 >huan encourages the monmusu dullahan school of attraction and mate-seeking oh lawd
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 18 Nov 2024 19:07:26 No. 6143736 Report You use each new invented technique and freshly designed spell to build stairs up the towering mental peak that you've placed in front of yourself, finding the one path forward from a thousand that will reach the true peak of the mountain of this new school of healing you've envisioned and chosen to create, that is sure to revolutionize the medical field across the world of cultivation and trickle down improvements to its lesser reflection in the mundane world of mortals and taxes.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 18 Nov 2024 19:08:27 No. 6143738 Report >>6143736 But, it isn't a boundary, not a true one, though from either side of it, it does appear as such. Only by leaping over it constantly, does it begin to look less like a wall and more like a line drawn in the ground, an imaginary fence. And when it comes to spiritual energy, to Qi, there are no lines drawn through it. When a pure strain of one type of Qi meets another, the spiritual energy in the air and soil adapts and becomes a mingling of both. Its why you sought the depths of the catacombs for Pure Ghostly Yin Qi and the wild places free of heavens' intervention for raw blood qi, and graced the stars themselves with your presence to become a cosmic beast.
Truly pure Qi, especially of the rare sorts you like to cultivate, is only found in places isolated from all other influences. So a co mingling of Qi produced by living bodies and Qi produced by decaying corpses an the like should be everywhere. You should've sensed it through your spiritual senses, just by walking through any old patch of trees or graves once its perceptions became sharp and delicate enough. So why haven't you? Why hasn't anyone? Blood Qi is usually in too minute qualities to be sensed, and is always polluted by something in the air or food or just the Qi people are naturally born with. And ghostly and deathly yin Qi, are very hard to notice until they're present in concentrated and large quantities.
And that explains it. Because the Qi you're seeking, to use to cap off this brand new school of healing techniques and spells and peculiar medicines, is actually, like all Qi, everywhere! Just in so small quantities that it is overlooked, and when it rarely arises in force, it is buried beneath an avalanche of ghostly and deathly energies or shrouded by the burning life force fighting off the weakness and ailing effects of a living body being inflicted with such.
And
And to anyone who doesn't make use of both the rawest energies of life and death, this Qi is utterly useless! A byproduct to be cast aside, a symptom to be treated, a sign of ghostly possession or an effort to raise the dead. Trash Qi with no use, that reveals when something is decaying from within. Like mushrooms. It is just the first by product of the meeting between life and death, and is treated like filth because in the eyes of any sensible cultivator it would be!
But in the hands of a heretic, who has soaked them long and often in the blood of corpses and the warm flesh of the living, it is jewel waiting to be cut and polished! It is almost hilarious how obvious it is when you realize it, in hindsight, considering how truly valuable this "Lively Yin Qi" or "Ghostly Blood Qi" is in the proper hands! Even if its useless in everyone else's.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 18 Nov 2024 19:09:46 No. 6143740 Report >>6143738 Someone practicing the ruler of the great wheel's law, or at least able to make use of both ghostly and blood qi, would find it a most worthy tool. By bridging the gap between ghost and blood, which techniques like the red death scythe approached but didn't truly accomplish, an entirely new realm of possibilities opens up to you! By standing atop this peak, an untrodden, unexplored crypt reveals itself!
If one can use ghostly qi as one does blood qi, then a patient nearing death could be brought back to peak fitness with a single chant and one spell written into his skin! If one could use blood qi as one does ghostly yin, a spirit's earthly tethers can be strengthened and curses more easily transmitted through blood, or cures for them can be injected like a drug! And those are just the first two possibilities that can come to mind, and as you step off the metaphorical mount, enlightenment of the Lively Ghost Breath washes over you like a chill wind.
What exists solely between life and death? Eternity. Everything. Stasis. Your understanding of the dao grows as you ponder this. In the grey light that separates the hot blood of living life and the cool breath of ghosts, where the two are truly balanced between yin and yang, negative and positive, there is Consistence. Like the earth between the sun and moon. Like the circle of life. Life leading to death leading to life. Perhaps, the stasis aligned portion of this grey Qi, the intermingling of yin and Yang, could freeze a a disease in its tracts, or keep a body young or fresh long past time for it to age or rot. And like Mushrooms do with nutrients, like Lian Luli did with her body to create her little mushroom mobs, then it could exchange spiritual energy from what is living to what is dead and vice versa.
With this Lively Yin Qi, you could use the miasma of corpses to treat wounds or use lifeforce in place of deathly yin Qi to make a man frail or strike them dead. With one hand healing with poison and with the other killing with medicine. An law of inversed balances, of irregular sensibilities, that strays from the common sense that all that lives must die to pursue the idea that all that dies must live! A Qi suited for only those who can see the exact line in the sand between life and death and comfortably enjoy the benefits of both states, who have the mindset of realizing blood is a sign of life rather than death, and mushrooms are a herald of regrowth more so than decay.
Like you. Or Qiang. or Luli!
And with all these fresh insights, creating a handful of lively yin Qi is as easy as channeling blood and ghost qi into the palm of your hands and mixing them through the meridians running down your arm.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 18 Nov 2024 19:11:12 No. 6143743 Report >>6143740 The resulting spiritual energy is dim, dreary and grey, and as you thought, very much resembles the waste left behind from possessions or recently clean battlefields, the lingering scent of death as well as the last bit of light in a corpse's eyes. Magnificent. And it looks so trashy and only someone who has studied both blood and ghostly qi as rigorously as you will realize its true properties and proper use. You'd only believe Ao would be able to sus out exactly what you were using this Lively Yin Qi for if you used it in a spell or technique, and even then, that sharpwitted fighting technician would be given a longer pause than any of the tricks you showed him in that allegedly friendly spar and power struggle the two of you titans undertook when you first met!
Satisfied, and mentally exhausted from the strain of wholesale creating a new branch of medicine and school of healing in one meditation, while also holding your breath, and feeling your lungs burning, you push yourself to the surface of the springs with a single kick.
And the moment you open your eyes as you head breaches the surface, you see some people whom you hadn't invited to enjoy the waters standing on their edge.
"See" Fu growls, in a bad temper and clearly exhausted, as Yinying watches over the napping rabbits and the sleeping guards in training he is raising, as Lian Tianhua (莲 天花, Lotus Heavenly flower) stares at you with a rather frog like expression of shock as you peek over the water, red hair flowing around you "I told you she was fine. Ghostly Yin Qi has that most peculiar property of allowing its uses to ignore most things lethal, I'd offer to demonstrate, but my master would actually rip my head off again if I did"
Tianhua, still wearing that same stunned expression, turns and gawks at Fu, who rubs the fresher scar around his neck as he scowls.
"Of course she could" A relieved looking red shark says with a grin you don't entirely trust "She is the overlord of my own sect and clan, of course she wouldn't be able to drown easily. Just wouldn't be sensible"
"I told you, youngster, you were worrying too greatly for our shared friend" Master Su chuckles as he sits on the edge of the pools, rubbing his feet and massaging the warm waters into his soles "A little thing like exphixation couldn't possibly kill Huanliuxue, even if I admit, her appearance under the water did look rather"
"LIKE A DROWNED CORPSE!?" Tianhua snaps, gnashing her teeth as the flowers in her hair unfurl as Red shark and Su both nod
"You've never seen her deep in meditation, she's looked a corpse for most of the time I spent as her student, her meditations are deep and...yeah, corpse like" Fu says with a smile "Guess it'd be frightening to someone who isn't used to, well, the common place sights of our temple"
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>>6143743 "Which is why I used this newly constructed one instead of our main branch, it'd be uninviting to everyone but us, since what I find charming others find gloomy and grim, for some reason" You snicker as you swim closer to shore, seeing Tianhua pout as you apporach, cheeks bright red probably from the embarrassment of making a scene over nothing "And a few hours of holding my breath is nothing"
"Been a few days" Fu snorts
"Shit" You curse, and Tianhua smirks and covers her mouth as Red shark snickers and Su smiles, as you regretfully remember how easily you lose track of time
"That was a lie, it has only been a few hours" Fu sneers, and you have to stop yourself from dragging him down into the hot water to try and drown him for being such a cheeky little shit "See? there was nothing to worry about, master doesn't need to breath as often as others, just like I can survive longer than most without a head"
"Even for a cultivator, that is ridiculous" Tianhua pouts as you shrug, and lower your head so no one can see you're sighing in relief as you get out of the springs "Your kind of frightening, Huan"
"Kind of?" You pout, feigning hurt
"I've only seen your cuter side" She titters back from behind her fan, as you take the robes Fu offers you and dress yourself on the shore, looking from Lady Lian and Fu, to red shark and Su.
"And, what are you two doing here?Since clearly you didn't put too much of an effort into calmly Lady Lian" You bluntly demand as the old master of the five colors and five purities bows his head
"I was admiring the scenic view of these springs, and telling Fu how well the tournament was going, this young master burst in not long after this young miss was kept from diving in after you by your disciple, excitedly looking for you to tell you good news" He answers serenely, smiling gently
"The mission was a success!" The son of Xia Jinse-Shayu declares "Most of the squad sent over the border, remain their to clean up the mess left behind and assist in getting your disciples back home, but a messenger was sent, the enemy had been felled and the latest of the waves of the stampede repelled"
"That is good news!" Tianhua shouts "What a noble, heroic deed, I must offer my approval and respect"
"And?" You press
"And that's all I was told, I am sure my father is withholding information to make himself seem bigger and more valiant" He answers and you can only stare and blink, stunned by his honesty
"That is..." Tianhua mutters
"Believable for the third head of the Tomb, Mountain and sea alliance" Su snorts "Didn't even say if my two star pupils are alright"
"If his wife doesn't kick his ass for me, I will beat him half to death" You snarl, very, very displeased at not being told if your mother and priceless disciples are all right, especially since they include your little sisters by adoption and the only student of your self taught law
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 18 Nov 2024 19:14:08 No. 6143748 Report "He deserves it, but isn't it the way of us cultivators to scrounge for every scrap of face and glory we can grasp" Red shark says with a smile, as you growl and shake your head
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 18 Nov 2024 19:15:48 No. 6143751 Report >>6143748 "She is" Fu states calmly "I've seen her...well fight isn't the right word for it, humor my little sister Ju. She is going to give anyone who makes the assumption a little girl is an easy win, very much regret that thought"
"How so, I haven't heard exactly what your master has taught her" Tianhua asks, tugging on the sleeves of her robes nervously, as you wring the last of the water out of your hair, as Xingrenhun clambers onto your lap and mimics doing the same with her own, bone dry, hair while Piao Tuzi leans against you and falls back asleep "Huanliuxue? If it isn't overstepping bounds, may I ask, what sort of training you've given my Luli"
You can feel her hovering over your shoulder, and can picture the smile she's wearing.
"She's going to run roughshod over most of the competition" You snicker, not wanting to spoil the surprise, or shock about the martial arts you've taught her or the fact she's taken to mushrooms rather to flowers, like her big sisters "That girl has a rare talent"
"Seems most of those you take as students do" Tianhua sighs, disapointed, and you look at Fu and Yinying
"I have high standards, what else can I say" You brag "So, have the contests been organized yet? They better be considering how long I was under the water for"
"The other sects have requested more time to get some last minute formation training, since they heard the Qi condensation and higher tacticians tourney will be a bit different from the one Ju conquered" Fu answers immediately, pride for his sister shining through his tone "And, everyone has been not so subtly, asking us to try and get you to put the fighting side of the tournament before it and the scholarly exams"
"The hot blooded fools want bloodshed, after watching how the peak of martial artists fight" Tianhua grumbled "And I've heard a few ask if the sorcery contest will include fighting, considering the sorts of spells and magic most sects teach their students"
"They've got grudges to settle, lost bets and mortal underlings who got trounced in the first bracket" Fu answers "At I know your sister wants to make that same request of my master"
"Luli?!' She gasp as you smile, knowing exactly why she does. She really wants to show off how she's flourished outside of the shadow of the elders who have been using her family for so long, and to show her sister she is doing alright for herself away from home.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 18 Nov 2024 19:16:54 No. 6143752 Report >>6143751 What do you decide to do, Huanliuxue?
>start the tacticians tournament of the Qi condensation bracket immediately, since in a real battle, you wouldn't have time to brush up on organization and formation techniques >Switch the martial contest and the strategy places, since the rogue cultivators partaking will need some time to familiarize themselves with their partners before the qualifying rounds >Show off your newly created medical techniques and brand of healing and see if Tianhua and other healers of the cultivator world can figure any of it out >Drill Luli to make sure she's at the top of her game before her round starts (Training trial. DC variable. Higher results = better outcome) >write in Huan did the thing cats do when they look dead while they're sleeping
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>>6143752 >>Drill Luli to make sure she's at the top of her game before her round starts (Training trial. DC variable. Higher results = better outcome) I mean if the other masters want to take a minute to talk to their students, we should do the same with ours. Show them all the folly of requesting more time instead of getting right into the thick of it. You should be prepared at all times for action, as when you delay so too does your opposition have time to prepare.
They will regret giving the greatest teacher of this era even two seconds to enlighten.
>Huan did the thing cats do when they look dead while they're sleeping >most cultivator story magical beasts: majestic, supernatural, wise beyond comprehension >our magical beasts: majestic, super natural, wise beyond (human) comprehension Happy kitty is sleeping kitty
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>>6143752 >Drill Luli to make sure she's at the top of her game before her round starts (Training trial. DC variable. Higher results = better outcome) It's not a real wuxia fight unless you embarrass all of your competitors, their schools, their clans, and the rest.
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>>6143752 >>Switch the martial contest and the strategy places, since the rogue cultivators partaking will need some time to familiarize themselves with their partners before the qualifying rounds Make em thankful.
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>>6143752 >>Drill Luli to make sure she's at the top of her game before her round starts (Training trial. DC variable. Higher results = better outcome) Anonymous
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>>6143752 >>Show off your newly created medical techniques and brand of healing and see if Tianhua and other healers of the cultivator world can figure any of it out Anonymous
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>>6143752 >Drill Luli to make sure she's at the top of her game before her round starts (Training trial. DC variable. Higher results = better outcome) Anonymous
>>6143752 >Drill Luli to make sure she's at the top of her game before her round starts (Training trial. DC variable. Higher results = better outcome) I wonder if that core would make a good reward for her if when she win
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>>6143752 >Start Lians brush up training. >Make a bet that she is going to win her brackets, with betting 10 jade's that entitle their holders to a healing by Huanlixue to as close to full health as she can. Use this as a debut of our healing talents and advertising, plus an easy way to scam everyone else out of their money when she wins. We should rake in thousands. Anonymous
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>>6143752 >Drill Luli to make sure she's at the top of her game before her round starts (Training trial. DC variable. Higher results = better outcome) Grinding Never Ends.
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>>6143752 >Drill Luli to make sure she's at the top of her game before her round starts (Training trial. DC variable. Higher results = better outcome) Giving an opponent prep time is the height of folly.
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>>6143800 Meant to say that plant core
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>>6143752 >>Drill Luli to make sure she's at the top of her game before her round starts (Training trial. DC variable. Higher results = better outcome) You all fucked up, you should've just went into the fight
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 21 Nov 2024 17:07:31 No. 6145206 Report Ending the vote now, tallying the result. Was prevented from doing so earlier because of a storm knocked out my power, surely the work of celestial tampering with the fate of mortals
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>>6145206 I'm going to keep pushing the bet.
This is the closest thing to a sure victory as we have.
Let's quadruple out sect savings.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 21 Nov 2024 18:05:13 No. 6145225 Report Well, if Luli wants to impress her sister and show her just how far she's already come and that she doesn't need her to worry about her, since she can handle and protect herself, then isn't it your duty as her teacher and master to ensure she puts on the best display of her improvement possible for her sister and former sect. Heh, and all the rest of the cultivators of Chuan, as well?! As it is said, a teacher for a day, a father for life! It is your duty to make sure Luli, as your student, is at top form when she participates in these contests, more so than your other disciples who are joining in on the fun, since her success under your wings will be a wonderful way to spite those bastards who were so ready to sell off her life to improve their own station and make their purses grow fatter.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 21 Nov 2024 18:06:14 No. 6145226 Report >>6145225 "Well, if you're going to be curdling your stomach and guts with concern anyways, why not tag along and watch as Luli and I get in some last minute exercise? If the other sects want to prepare for the wrong contest and sharpen up their teamworks, well, they'll get crushed into a finer powder by someone who focused on the correct game to be played" You offer blithely, smile brightening as you held up the droopy eared Xinrenhun "Besides, there'll already be an audience of these youngsters, so it isn't like your presence would be changing anything"
"I think I will take you up on that offer!" She exclaims joyfully, seeming to relax a little as...there was suddenly a large splash and a yell.
You narrowed your eyes, and turned to see Red Shark wrestling with Yewushi, Jiangnan, and Xingfu Yongqi, in the shallow part of the springs, having been a little too quick to toss off his shirt and wade into the pool to roughhouse with the little jade rabbits. Yinying is observing nearby, having woken up his guards to patrol the springs, keeping a close eye on the heir of the summer sea dawn sect
"Don't be too rough, Red Shark" You drawl, narrowing your eyes to impress the danger of so much as bruising one of those children with careless play. Red shark simply smiles and salutes, before he pretends to get put in a choke hold by Yewushi as Jiangnan "Pins" his arm with her weak hands
Tianhua and you both smile at the sight of it, before taking your leave of the springs.
And quickly finding Luli, as apparently she decided to meditate in orchard of verdant predators, which means you have to hand off Tuzi and Xinrenhun to Lanfen before you go looking for her. Thankfully in the outskirts of the territory of those man eating, bloodsucking plants, and with Feiqing close by acting as both bodyguard and baby sitter. And with Xie'e Mowangzi admiring the bloom of a creeping vine that he has been dribbling blood in from the edge of a blade with a surface like black oil, cooing as the flower spread out its petals. You frowned, wondering for a moment if that blood belonged to that foolhardy idiot you ran into after the Qi Condensation bracket ended, or the senior he had been aiming to avenge. Mowangzi didn't have so much as a scratch on him
"Ah, I recognize that delectable scent anywhere! Brother Furnace! The Nine lives defiant master approaches!" He chirped, red eyes sparkling as he turns to face you, twirling his blade and wiping it clean of blood with the sleeve of his robe "I'd almost given up hope I'd have another encounter with you, Crow Eater! This festival you're throwing has been the most fun I've had in this lacking mortal body! So many interesting faces to meet, and arrogant weaklings to squash beneath my foot! Truly, the tamer of calamities knows how to host the most magnificent of parties"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 21 Nov 2024 18:07:15 No. 6145228 Report >>6145226 "Master, I brought him here to stop him from going on a killing spree" Feiqing groaned, sounding as if he was in great pain as Tianhua hid behind you as she saw Mowangzi, and realized, as anyone with a ounce of common sense would, he was bad news "And Lei and Ping and Qinxin are, somewhere around here so don't worry about this pest"
"Hah, Furnace! I've told you, I'd do no harm to the young lady, she is practicing techniques of the like that were rarely seen even during the halcyon days of earthly cultivation, when all manners of pioneers and madmen roamed, oh weren't those the best years, when righteous hermits would descend to our lairs and pits and seek us out as masters" Mowangzi sweetly answers, as Luli, surrounded by a ring of mushrooms, and with spores floating down from her verdant green hair, the mark on her forehead faintly glowing, ignored him and simply opened of her eyes
"Master! And....sister?" She shouts as she uncross her legs and stumbles over the ring of mushrooms, but catches herself before Tianhua can
"Luli, what are you doing hanging around such a dangerous looking man?" Tianhua asked, shooting a glare at the exhausted Feiqing
"He's just loud and talkative" Luli pouts, as little girls are won't to do when they're met with unwanted coddling"At least when Brother Feiqing is around, I've heard he...did kill someone, but he's been almost a gentlemen in my company"
"I've been on my best behavior. And that killing was justified. If you live by the sword, you should expect to die by it, I'm sure that wanbabe sword maniac must've realized it if he was so gaudily wearing his murderous intentions on his sleeve" Mowangzi defends himself, a hand placed where his heart should be
"You gutted just outside one the spots the guest chose as a place to gather and drink tea" Feiqing scoffs in disbelief and offense
"A little bloodshed sweetens a tea liquor" The reborn demon excuses with a shrug, as Tianhua and Luli look at him, horrified, even though you know what he just said is true.
"Feiqing, crazy bastard, go find Lei, Ping and Qinxin, I'll take over watching Luli" You order, and Feiqing, without further command, grabs the reincarnated devil and drags him off as he continues rambling about a certain tea that can only be cultivated in soil anointed by the blood of a saintly monk
"What a weirdo" Tianhua says with a shiver "I could barely breath in the presence of such malevolence. How could you be so calm around him?"
'Well, he's nothing compared to Aodasheng when he's serious' you think but you say "Because I could crush him in an instant?"
"Because she could crush him in an instant?" Luli answered as well, pointing at you, making you realize Tianhua was asking that of both of you
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 21 Nov 2024 18:08:15 No. 6145229 Report >>6145228 "Well, I'll have to make sure to avoid him in the future, I felt like a blade was pressed against my neck whenever he looked my way" She demurely pouted, looking fearfully in the direction Feiqing dragged him "So, what sort of exercise do you have in mind for her, if I may be so impertinent to ask, Huanliuxue?"
Luli perked up when she heard that and looked to you expectingly
"Whatever it is, I'll do it! I don't want to let down my master in the first tournament hosted by the palace of natural laws!" She exclaimed excitedly, before glancing her sisters way "And I need to show the world the Lian clan isn't a bunch of harmless Lotus flowers"
Tianhua smiled faintly, as you smirked and sneakily lifted your foot to raise it and adopt the stance of your ghostly martial arts style , she reacted by gliding out of the way of a kick you'd consider to be ponderous and clumsy, but to the eyes of a cultivator of her level, would've been like a whip crack, moving around it like a leaf in the wind, barely avoiding getting struck directly on her chin
<span class="mu-s"> roll 2d100. Best out of five. Higher result= better outcome </span>
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Rolled 76, 46 = 122 (2d100) >>6145229 Anonymous
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Rolled 38, 69 = 107 (2d100) >>6145229 Aight so basically, just don't lose.
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Rolled 95, 75 = 170 (2d100) >>6145229 Anonymous
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Rolled 5, 30 = 35 (2d100) >>6145229 Okay, we're already sitting pretty with that 170
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Rolled 47, 82 = 129 (2d100) >>6145229 I command a funny number
>>6145240 BEST TEACHER
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Rolled 7, 85 = 92 (2d100) >>6145229 Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 21 Nov 2024 19:23:18 No. 6145271 Report >>6145240 170. A truly peerless and profound result on its on, but When combined with Huan's [Elite Teacher] Perk, the results are even further magnified!
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>>6145271 We gonna make bank when we go all in on this girl. Should we perhaps spread our bets through proxies so as to not scare off the competition?
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>>6145275 The fun part is if we let her big sis into our gambling scheme or let her be surprised
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Please accept this AI Luli because I can't draw for shit
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 21 Nov 2024 20:53:02 No. 6145297 Report And you do not relent or give her time to recover. With a twitch of both of your hands, you transmute them both partially in claws, extending, sharpening and hardening your nails as you advance upon Luli, as the look in her eyes switches from shocked to a look of thrill that uncomfortably reminds you of a certain ogress. You lash, slash and swing your claws about, lurching and lunging forward without steady pace or rhythm but far quicker than any girl Luli's age could react to, most level foundation establishment cultivators would struggle to keep up with your blows, but Luli, at the upper limit of Qi Condensation manages to keep up with and adjust swiftly to the unreasonably swift swings of your arms and slices of your claws. Relaxing her body fully, she enters something like a trance, swaying and drifting as she moves in sync with the gusts of air churned up by your wild flurry of attacks, impressive gliding under and away from your claws as you bring them down to bare on her, and swerving side to side between them as your strikes become more cohesive and frequent. Its like trying to catch a blade of grass blowing on the wind, and she impressively manages to continue to evade your increasingly aggressive strikes as you push her deeper into the orchard.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 21 Nov 2024 20:54:03 No. 6145298 Report >>6145297 Surprisingly, neither vine nor tree attempt to make a meal out of her as she uses the former as a tether and swings around the latter to land back on her feet.
She's clenching and baring her teeth, on edge and breathing quickly, and you can smell the adrenaline surging through her veins. Shaking her head, she tugs and pulls the vine free, wrapping it around her arm as she adopts that sturdy yet swaying stance of her style, moving in time with the trees of the orchard gently swaying in the wind and the currents of air you've thrown about with every wild, devastating sword swing
"Nice flexibility and fluidity, thinking on your toes and improvising in the moment, good instinct" you say as you glance over and see Tianhua biting on the back of her knuckle and drawing blood as she watches. You smile perkily and wave at her, before backstepping and hoping to avoid Luli's first offensive move in your training spar.
But, the choice to use the vine as a whip, only results in her losing her weapon as you slice it cleanly down the middle, and flick out your tongue sample the blood infused nectar that sprays out of it
"Tasty!" You exclaim as she presses a hand to the trunk of the tree, her eyes flicking here and there looking for any advantage she can use to stave off your perhaps a little overly aggressive teaching, but there's no better way to prepare for a contest than to be pushed to one's utmost limits. The best learning is on hands experience, and Luli, as talented and hard working as she is, hasn't tasted true combat. So, you've chosen to give her a sampler, and see if her diligence and dogged nature will persist when she isn't just fighting against the limits of her body and pushing past them.
She doesn't flinch when she breaks half the bones in her hands during hand strengthening exercises, so her drills need to be especially harsh and demanding.
And as you reflect on all this, and try to convince yourself you aren't being mean and a bully to the young girl, her eyes sharpen and she starts the exercise back up, as suddenly, the ground between the two of your trembles and puffs upwards, as clouds of pink and plum hued spores cloud your vision. Covering your mouth with your unbloodied sleeve, you rush into the blinding haze and lazily swing around your blood formed sword, shrinking it down to fit easily in one hand as you expel the excess blood to the sides, knowing it is not inoculated with Luli's specially raised fungus.
The most adorable type of which is throwing itself at you as you clear the spore cloud away with each slash of the now shortened blade in your hand, as from the ground and out of the trees and the mushroom ring that had sprouted at her feet as she created her smokescreen, comes a wave of her legged mushroom puppets, that try to swarm over you in defense of their master.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 21 Nov 2024 20:55:04 No. 6145299 Report >>6145298 Of course, they're easily dealt with and exterminated with a flick of your finger, as you send a spatial rift of cosmic Qi cutting through them, tearing them to pieces as the newly created space within their own bodies expands and then violently collapses, and the ones you miss are easily blown apart with pearl sized destructive yin spheres, launched from the same finger as you gracefully bound toward Luli and
Pause mid swing
"A copy?" you gasp, impressed by her cunning as you knock over the puff ball mass vaguely shaped like a Luli and, activating you vein hunting eye (血管猎-眼睛, Xuèguǎnliè-yǎnjing), track her movement to see she's ran up and hidden inside the treetops of the orchard, and suppressed her relative to your own miniscule aura to hide from your spiritual sense "And you've hidden your Qi! Has Qiang been teaching you when I've not been paying attention, unfortunately for you, I can feel the pulse of your frantic heart in the air"
She runs, jumping between branches as you hop up and turn the sword in your hand into a crescent arc of razor sharp blood and toss it at her, clipping down the tops of several of the blood thirsty trees and clearing a path to her, revealing her and.
"How do you grow these so quickly?" You ask thoughtfully, as a slightly larger group of walking mushrooms skip towards you across the tunnel of torn and cut apart branches and vines, that you easily bat and knock away, like how you would knock a bird out of the air or redirect a punch thrown at you with a brush of the back of your hand.
But Luli makes it clear she isn't going to just passively take your somewhat abusive, hands on teaching, and runs to the side, as she breathes out a cloud of toxic green spores from a bundle she pulled out of the sleeve of her robe, burning your eyes as you turn to face her. And instead of trying to escape, she charges you, sliding and swaying as she moves with the surprising swiftness of a leaf picked up by a sudden breeze and, with a hand wrapped in a thorny, hardened vine, swings for your face.
Blinking, teary eyed, you grab her by the wrist and swing her over your head, as you use your other hand to try and rub the irritating spores out of your eyes. But rather than allow herself to be thrown and tossed away, Luli, grabs hold of your arm and clings on to it desperately!
"OW!" You roar, as you toss her off and send her flying, wincing and snarling as you scratch and tear at the place she touched, wincing as you pull out tiny, mycelium strings and spiny roots she shot out from her finger tips and palm, having gather both fungus and mushroom in her open hand, as she wrapped the other one in a thick, wooden layer of nail sized thorns.
Now thoroughly ticked off and annoyed, you swing your open palm through the air like a blade, and send an arc of lightning through the air, burning away the spores she smeared on your arm with the current of metal qi you used to generate the attack.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 21 Nov 2024 20:56:05 No. 6145300 Report >>6145299 Luli blinks, and uses several of her cute mushroom minions as lightning rods, avoiding the brunt of the attack by using them and a nearby tree as a shield, though she still stumbles and gets enough of a shock for her grass green hair to stand up on end as she leans against the split in half, lightning struck tree whose branch she is standing on, trying to find the ground beneath her feet and catch her breath.
"Sneaky" You applaud her through strained teeth, a tear rolling down your cheek "Nothing wrong with fighting dirty, allow me, your master, to demonstrate"
And Luli barely has time to turn and face you as you set up and use the Cat's court: Phantom Cat Waltz (猫 法院: 幽灵猫圆舞曲, Māofǎyuàn: Yōulíngmāoyuánwǔ qǔ) in an instant and appear behind her, backhanding her and striking her back to the orchard floor.
You frown as you hop down after her as she covers her cheek, you heart aching as you see her scramble to her feet, blood dribbling between her fingers from where your sharpened and claw cut nails struck her. But the guilt vanishes and is replaced with a teacher's joy as you see she, on the fly or having come up with the technique on her own when you were away, clots and stems the small cuts on her cheek by sprouting several small mushrooms in the wound, using the principle of symbiosis you taught her to keep her from burning out her body as a mushroom farm, to not only stop the bleeding, but also speed up her body's natural healing response, while producing ammunition in the form of Qi and Lifeforce rich mushrooms.
"Was that to get back at me for the agonizing touch I gave you?" She asks wearily, eye above the cuts squinted as the skin around the mushroom filled wounds discolors and bruises
"Agonizing? For a lesser cultivator, it might be, but I've had these arms of mine cut right off without so much as shedding a tear, no, you were hit as hard as you were because you lowered your guard" You answer truthfully, trying very hard to not let any of the crushing guilt you're feeling for hitting a girl of her age show in your speech "While you're a good listener and a better student, I don't think you understand yet that this is a sample of real life battle, stop being distracted by my praise or your own success, like now"
You phantom cat step close to her, catching her inside the illusion of slowed time briefly as you raise up your hand to slap her and wince and pull back your hand.
"Qi infused leaf, turned into a cutting knife. I think I've seen something like that before" you remark as she, listening to your scolding hops back, with several, spore covered leaves held between her fingers, each given a razors edges as she shakes her other arm, and fills the air surrounding her with a different type of spore and, wait, there's more Qi in this leaf than just the spell she used to turn it into a knife,
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 21 Nov 2024 20:57:15 No. 6145302 Report >>6145300 You flip it over and smile as you see an ignition spell drawn into its back with a few drops of her own blood and realize the reason she made a cloud of spores
"Impressive" you remark as you toss it away and hop away from the resulting explosion, catching the hail of knife sharp leafs she tosses at you through it and
"Oh, time out!" You shout as you land right beside a fainted Tianhua, who must've passed out from shock at seeing some part of your spar with her little sister. You gently pick her up and set her against one of the not carnivorous trees of the orchard, as Luli peeks her head out from behind a tree, covered in an armor of bark and mushroom caps tethered together by a woven string of roots and mycelium
You raise hand, showing Tianhua is fine, and then, without saying to resume, use the Hare Foot Change (兔子脚 改变, Tùzijiǎogǎibiàn) and shatter the massive tree she thought she was safe behind with a single flying kick
"Why are you able to do that all of a sudden!" She shrieks as she scrambles away and throws a few more leaves at you that you avoid, before a toothed, walking mushrooms charges at tries to bite into the meat of your rabbit like legs while you were dodging the little cutting blades she was tossing at you
"I'm always growing ya...oh" You answer, before catching a glimpse of more leaf talismans hidden in her barrage and sigh, having made the same mistake she did earlier as you catch a glimpse of a very huanliuxue esc smug smirk on Luli's lips as the forest around you, saturated with super flammable spores and more of the freshly made talismans, that you recognize as bearing signs to contain destructive yin Qi bursts with in, ignites and becomes a conflagration around you.
That you escape from with a combination of the hare foot change and Blood Red Lightning Cat Step (血紅色列缺猫步, Xuè hóngsèlièquēmāobù), removing several branches and bushels of leaves as the air around you is whipped into a shrieking wind, the sheer speed of your sprint up to her sending Luli bowling over and under, but her tumble is eventually stopped by the emergence and sudden growth of a big mushroom that pushes its way out of the soil and gentle stops her fall.
"Get up, we still have plenty of time to train until the tournament starts back up!" You bark as you close the distance in a single bound and catch her leg as she performs and impressive flick kick aimed at your head, that goes over her own head. But she rolls through the air as you brush her aside, landing on her feet, the ramshackle bark and mushroom armor covering her tightening around her and covering her fully except for a slit for her eyes.
She nods, and wordlessly adopts a defensive stance, with her arms held up in front of her face
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 21 Nov 2024 20:58:16 No. 6145303 Report >>6145302 "Good, I expect you to last until I'm satisfied" You purr as you kick up your own leg and gather a vortex of ghostly yin qi in ball of it, and create a radius of death around yourself, so Luli isn't able to take advantage of the plantlife or mushrooms she's spread all around herself, leaving only you, her and the armor she's crafted around herself alive in a small patch of the orchard "Now, show me that what I taught you will work in a fight, that your style, without any Qi or tricks, can carry you through a fight"
She charges, leaping across the space of dead yellow grass and drooping branches as you observe her every movement, proud of her progress and courage, but as you had said there was a plenty of time to train and Luli had proved she could endure the training you intended to give to her.
Oh those poor bastards who'd meet her in the ring didn't know what they were going to face, once you'd finished giving Luli her work out.
Especially since, you had a plan to awaken a power in her that even she was unaware she possessed. She was a quick learner, and had already shown she could, in a pinch, come up with new techniques in the heat of danger, and use ones that were risky to pull off with utmost confidence.
And, while you were holding back, landing a second blow was proving difficult as she drifted and swayed away from every strike you threw her way, as if she were a leaf being blown away by the force of each one. And you feel what Monu must've felt when she first met you, recognition of a prodigious talent, though you already knew Luli was the same sort of rare breed of genius as yourself, considering how quickly she's gone through the levels of Qi condensation and adopted the dao of mushrooms and mastered the style you'd made just for her.
You click your tongue, as she managed to scrape the back of your hand as you casually blocked and deflected her combination of high and swinging, dance like kicks and repeated, darting punches as she put everything she had into keeping up with and avoiding your own attacks, reminding you that kittens still have claws.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 21 Nov 2024 21:03:00 No. 6145304 Report >>6145303 What is power you'll force to awaken inside of Luli through your sparring, Huanliuxue? <span class="mu-s"> This is in addition to the other results of the intense but extremely successful bout of last minute training you're putting through, the result of which will be revealed after this vote, which include a new disciple trait for her among other benefits </span>
>A movement technique, combining her trained "drifting leaf" form of dodging and her use of mushroom spores to evade attacks at the last moment and infect her attackers with the mushrooms themselves, by disappearing in a puff of spores. Movement techniques are rare in modern cultivation, especially ones like this >Turn her graceful movements and talent at avoiding being hit into an instinct via the wild beast disorder, like the trance she entered when the sparring started, except one she can activate on command and perform consciously, further increasing her defenses. >She's shown a remarkable talent for slight of hand and misdirection so build off that and make use of her talent in utilizing and weaponizing mushrooms to create some incredible dastardly tricks and techniques that no one will see coming. >Deepen her bond with her mushrooms and make it so that blood clotting/ healing mushroom she used wouldn't need to be applied, nor would the ones she used in her agonizing grip, by having her create a safe balance inside her body between various types of fungi inside her blood stream and beneath her skin >Another talent worthy of being called a secret art (Write in) As you may have noticed, and Huan certainly did, fighting Luli in a forest is a real pain in the ass considering her close connection to nature and plant life through her bloodline + partly awakened plant like physique and the quality of her wood aligned spirit roots
>>6145291 Oh wow! That looks amazing! I am greatly and deeply touched by this gift junior. Especially since that looks very close to my mental image of Luli. You even remembered the muscles she got from Huan's earlier training!
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>>6145304 >She's shown a remarkable talent for slight of hand and misdirection so build off that and make use of her talent in utilizing and weaponizing mushrooms to create some incredible dastardly tricks and techniques that no one will see coming. Tricky fighters are hard bastards to put down, very good for luli.
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>>6145304 >A movement technique, combining her trained "drifting leaf" form of dodging and her use of mushroom spores to evade attacks at the last moment and infect her attackers with the mushrooms themselves, by disappearing in a puff of spores. Movement techniques are rare in modern cultivation, especially ones like this Anonymous
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>>6145304 >>A movement technique, combining her trained "drifting leaf" form of dodging and her use of mushroom spores to evade attacks at the last moment and infect her attackers with the mushrooms themselves, by disappearing in a puff of spores. Movement techniques are rare in modern cultivation, especially ones like this Anonymous
>>6145304 I am humbled and honored by your praise
>Deepen her bond with her mushrooms and make it so that blood clotting/ healing mushroom she used wouldn't need to be applied, nor would the ones she used in her agonizing grip, by having her create a safe balance inside her body between various types of fungi inside her blood stream and beneath her skin I think this one will ultimately help her to avoid turning into a tree, since her sect's Dao was originally based on carmine mysticism.
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>>6145304 >>Deepen her bond with her mushrooms and make it so that blood clotting/ healing mushroom she used wouldn't need to be applied, nor would the ones she used in her agonizing grip, by having her create a safe balance inside her body between various types of fungi inside her blood stream and beneath her skin Anonymous
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>>6145304 >Movement technique. You know, if we can ever get the heart for it, we can teach her the Unbreakable trait.
Throw her at Fu, Throw her at Monu then against Adosheng to fight until she can't anymore.
We can't be involved because the guilt might kill us. But being beaten half to death thrice. . . She is determined enough for it.
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>>6145304 >>A movement technique, combining her trained "drifting leaf" form of dodging and her use of mushroom spores to evade attacks at the last moment and infect her attackers with the mushrooms themselves, by disappearing in a puff of spores. Movement techniques are rare in modern cultivation, especially ones like this Anonymous
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>>6145304 >Deepen her bond with her mushrooms and make it so that blood clotting/ healing mushroom she used wouldn't need to be applied, nor would the ones she used in her agonizing grip, by having her create a safe balance inside her body between various types of fungi inside her blood stream and beneath her skin. Anonymous
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>>6145304 >>A movement technique, combining her trained "drifting leaf" form of dodging and her use of mushroom spores to evade attacks at the last moment and infect her attackers with the mushrooms themselves, by disappearing in a puff of spores. Movement techniques are rare in modern cultivation, especially ones like this Anonymous
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>>6145304 >Deepen her bond with her mushrooms and make it so that blood clotting/ healing mushroom she used wouldn't need to be applied, nor would the ones she used in her agonizing grip, by having her create a safe balance inside her body between various types of fungi inside her blood stream and beneath her skin. Movement techniques are all well and good to run away from incredible danger which has been very useful for Huan.
But I think she is a bit too hot blooded to just cut and run so a few dirty tricks to punch above her weight would benefit her more than even a deeper communion with mushrooms.
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>>6145322 Actually a really good point, switching to this.
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>>6145304 >Deepen her bond with her mushrooms and make it so that blood clotting/ healing mushroom she used wouldn't need to be applied, nor would the ones she used in her agonizing grip, by having her create a safe balance inside her body between various types of fungi inside her blood stream and beneath her skin Anonymous
>>6145322 What will avoid treedom is surpassing golden core stage. That is the only cure.
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>>6145644 While on the topic, I sincerely believe we should start, heh, sowing seeds of a coup of the thousand lotus hall leadership.
The present elders are disloyal snakes, the sect head and the Lian clan are puppets and commodities.
Have Tian begin to raise her chosen successors carefully and with their loyalties to her and her alone, then when Luli is at the GC realm, we can commence a night of purging and assassination, wipe their hierarchy out by the roots and start anew.
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>>6145645 We don't need to be doing all that.
The elders are easily manpulated, we were able to take their heir already, and the head and the other influential elder are in good standing with us, we basically have strong relations with them. Further unneeded meddling (to the degree of a coup) is doing too much.
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>>6145645 If Luli surpasses Golden Core, there will be no need of a coup. She alone would constitute 99.9999% of the sect's fighting power.
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>>6145304 >>Deepen her bond with her mushrooms and make it so that blood clotting/ healing mushroom she used wouldn't need to be applied, nor would the ones she used in her agonizing grip, by having her create a safe balance inside her body between various types of fungi inside her blood stream and beneath her skin Healing factor is the coolest power. It allows pushing harder and training more Movement also sounds cool but only helps during fights and not contributing that much for quests, asceticism, or extended acts of crafting.
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>>6145304 >A movement technique, combining her trained "drifting leaf" form of dodging and her use of mushroom spores to evade attacks at the last moment and infect her attackers with the mushrooms themselves, by disappearing in a puff of spores. Movement techniques are rare in modern cultivation, especially ones like this Question: Does this allow her to freely control the components of her body so as to enable her to dodge most attacks like, say, Monsoon from MGR:Revengeance? Because that mental image is what's making me choose this.
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>>6145304 >A movement technique, combining her trained "drifting leaf" form of dodging and her use of mushroom spores to evade attacks at the last moment and infect her attackers with the mushrooms themselves, by disappearing in a puff of spores. Movement techniques are rare in modern cultivation, especially ones like this Anonymous
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>>6145304 >Deepen her bond with her mushrooms and make it so that blood clotting/ healing mushroom she used wouldn't need to be applied, nor would the ones she used in her agonizing grip, by having her create a safe balance inside her body between various types of fungi inside her blood stream and beneath her skin Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 25 Nov 2024 00:21:25 No. 6146893 Report Ending the vote, tallying its result now. Waited a bit since this was a very close round of voting
She's shown a remarkable talent for slight of hand and misdirection so build off that and make use of her talent in utilizing and weaponizing mushrooms to create some incredible dastardly tricks and techniques that no one will see coming.:1
A movement technique, combining her trained "drifting leaf" form of dodging and her use of mushroom spores to evade attacks at the last moment and infect her attackers with the mushrooms themselves, by disappearing in a puff of spores. Movement techniques are rare in modern cultivation, especially ones like this:6
Deepen her bond with her mushrooms and make it so that blood clotting/ healing mushroom she used wouldn't need to be applied, nor would the ones she used in her agonizing grip, by having her create a safe balance inside her body between various types of fungi inside her blood stream and beneath her skin: 8
So the power you'll awaken in Luli will be deepening of her bound with mushrooms, by way of creating a careful symbiosis between her body and them inside of her bloodstream
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>>6145694 The thousand lotus hall doesn't raise fighters, after all
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>>6146893 >So the power you'll awaken in Luli will be deepening of her bound with mushrooms, by way of creating a careful symbiosis between her body and them inside of her bloodstream WAAAAAAGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 25 Nov 2024 01:41:11 No. 6146974 Report Of course even a budding prodigy like Luli can be forgiven for not being able to notice the hidden potential buried within herself. Since it is connected to a bloodline technique her clan has left incomplete and the origins of their cultivation method and law that has been purposefully forgotten. Original Strain Carmine Mysticism, that black stain on the background of the Lian clan and the whole of the thousand lotus hall sect but also one of the greatest deeds of their original ancestor and founder, to break away and deny that which was repugnant and distasteful, to make a stand for his own beliefs and virtues when offered easy power on an easier path. Honestly, that old tree's choice to become a hunter of his degenerated former sect mates is something you admire, even if he did stumble and die before he could finish the technique his descendants inherited, and his choice of ensuring the survival of his knowledge to turn himself into tree caused a heap of problems for his less talented and ambitious clan mates.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 25 Nov 2024 01:42:11 No. 6146975 Report >>6146974 The drive to reach the peak of cultivation, the desperation to survive, the unique physique and bloodline of she was born blessed with, and her strongly wooden spiritual roots. All together, this makes the little girl uniquely primed to unlock a technique that would take anyone who is confident or reckless enough to use their own veins and skin as a seedbed for Qi and Life Hungry mushrooms severe and careful days of planning and far longer of suffering the effects of not getting the mushrooms inside them perfectly and exactly balanced with their body's needs, in the few short hours you have to train her and prepare her for her entrance in the tournament.
You just have to harden your heart, and fight back your tears as you make your own student believe you are actually trying to kill her, to forcefully and suddenly deepen the bond she has with her mushrooms and bind them into her bloodstream in away that she can call upon and make them grow as easily as she channels and moves Qi through her meridians.
So...the next part of this exercise is going to be just as hard on you emotionally as it will be physically for poor Luli.
Breathing out, you see her recognize the shifting of the winds, her bright green eyes widen with realization and dread as you exhale a potent gale of Deathly Yin Qi
"Cause if I'm not satisfied, you'll get to experience just what hovering between the boundary between life and death is like" You warn, heart twinging as you wince at just having the words leave your own mouth while resisting biting down on your tongue for speaking them. Thankfully Tianhua isn't awake to hear that, or see what you're about to do to her beloved sister to push and shove her hard into the depths of true, real desperation and force the often hushed survival instincts of mankind roaring to the surface.
'Its for her own good, and her progress' You console yourself, as she dips her hand into her sleeve, reaching for some poisonous toadstool and mushroom with an odd quality as you rush towards her, and switch fully to your feline form as you use the phantom cat step to "blink" towards her, before she can react.
And just as she throws out a cloud of spores from both her sleeves, wincing as they sting her finger tips and cause welts to rise from the undersides of her arms, as small sparks of electricity fire off between the spores, you leap and pounce at her.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 25 Nov 2024 01:43:12 No. 6146976 Report >>6146975 <span class="mu-s"> Luli has achieved and created a yet unnamed secret art body refinement, her veins and meridians are now host to a variety of spiritual, medicinal and enchanted varieties of mushrooms, allowing her to produce them within her own body and make use of their effects immediately. This body refinement interacts with her plant-like physique and wood spirit roots, empowering the effects of the mushrooms, altering others, creating new ones wholesale, as well as increasing her body's natural vitality, speed of healing and resistance to sickness and poisons, and causing her to absorb poisons derived from mushrooms instead, and will cause any physical training she undertakes to be more effective! And this is just the Qi condensation form of this refinement... </span>
<span class="mu-s"> Luli has earned disciple talent "Little Tiger", Luli is capable of, if not matching, then at least holding her ground against stronger and higher realm opponents, and is capable of wounding her opponents even if they are far stronger than she is, and can survive otherwise lethal, higher realm attacks with serious injuries instead...Like pupil, like teacher! </span>
<span class="mu-s"> Luli has attained Qi Condensation stage rank 9 and is incredibly prepared to breakthrough the bottleneck to foundation establishment, and is likely to ascended several ranks of that stage upon her breakthrough </span>
<span class="mu-s"> Luli's bloodline now extends to mushrooms as totally as it does plants, mundane and spiritual, increasing and improving her abilities and spells making use of them along with granting her innate knowledge of them </span>
<span class="mu-s"> Luli's combat abilities and fighting sense have been increased by an equivalent of having been sent on several successful & intense combat missions </span>
<span class="mu-s"> Luli has learned how to cultivate and make use of Ghostly/ Deathly yin qi, Blood Qi and Primordial beast essence after intensely sparring with Huanliuxue! </span>
<span class="mu-s"> Like a garden's flower and their keeper, as a student flourishes and learns, so to does their teacher. +15 added to your cultivation training bonus, total +1696 </span>
"Haaah....haaah" You pant, holding out your open palm, robes torn to shreds from how often you transformed and some cheeky moves Luli pulled off, a small scratch above your eye trickling blood down the side of your face as Luli stands, snarling, arms limply hanging in front of herself as she stands half slumped over, covered in bruises and claw mark scratches, as well as bushels and shelves of mushrooms both common, rare and that even your well traveled self has never seen before in her life. Her veins are visible, grey purple, surging with spores, as her meridians, whose flow has been improved by an internal web of mushroom mycelium connecting to, refining and transporting the Qi which they feed on. Every haggard, exhausted breath she takes, when she exhales, is a small cloud of spores
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 25 Nov 2024 01:44:13 No. 6146977 Report >>6146976 "Magnificent!" You praise, clapping your hands together as she blinks wearily, too deep in the rush of battle and adrenaline to not be confused by its sudden, and abrupt end "You've achieved it! Something that'd take years of careful study and planning, in just a few spare hours! You've absorbed and incorporated living mushrooms into your own body, and on pure instinct and talent, established a stable balance between them and your own lifeforce and body's needs! Magnificent! Truly magnificent! And here I was confident I'd never find a talent that could equal my own Luli! I almost want to cry at the sight of it! What a magnificent self refinement! Oh how beautiful you are, standing there, struggling to stand, to even breath, having reached a peak none could imagine and if they did, they'd be too scared shitless to start climbing towards it! TRULY, YOU ARE MAGNIFICENT LULI!
"Huh?" She grunts weakly as you hop to her, and start to pluck off the unsightly, sprouted mushroom
"This was a test, did you think I was trying to kill your or something ridiculous as that? Some skills can only be taught through harsh conditioning and desperate circumstances. Its how I taught myself all my most marvelous and heavens defying techniques and magics, you know" You joyfully explain as you sit her down, and roll a few healing divine blood honey medicines into her trembling palm "See, I sensed a hidden power, lurking within you, but, well, describing and telling you about it, wouldn't have awakened it, you needed to reach deep inside yourself and, instinctively, make use of it"
"I still...don't understand, what did I do, I don't...feel different" She groggily asks, as she chomps down on and crunches the pills you gave her, having snuck in a tireless stamina drug into the mix. You sit down, and hear her older sister snoring, and with a few flowers from your orchard greeting and poking at the ones growing in her hair
"That's because you performed a body refinement in the midst of our spar, which in of itself, is an achievement not to be scoffed at and thought lightly off" You explain, smiling as you pat her head and pick a few more mushrooms off of her, marveling at out spotless the skin beneath is, leaving not so much as a bruise or minor discoloration behind, as her veins fade and return to their natural color where they can be seen "More or less, I knew something about this unique body of yours, and the history of your bloodline, a hidden, dirty little secret, that not even your ancestors were aware of, that I knew you could make use of and create an entirely new sort of physical cultivation, creating an internal symbiosis with several strains of Qi imbued mushrooms, only possible because of your physique and history of your blood"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 25 Nov 2024 01:45:14 No. 6146978 Report >>6146977 "...my clan seems to have a lot of unpleasant secrets" She pouts as she rolls her eyes and shakes her head, holding out her hand for more medicinal pills, as you preen and groom her from of the last few mushrooms "And you could've explain that, instead of making me think I was about to die"
"Wouldn't have worked, like I told you, blood contains memory, and carries emotion. You needed to unconsciously tap into that with strong emotions, and activate an ancestral quality of your blood, to fuse it and your meridians with the mushrooms you've been using as weapons and reagents. And besides that feat of instinctual mastery, you managed to absorb, cleanse and make use some traces of my own favorite types of Qi, in a couple of your more desperate spells and attacks, you little thieving brat" You explain and praise, as you rub your knuckles into the top of her head as a sort of faux scolding
"Every day, it seems more and more like I'm actually going to survive and do what is impossible for most" She says, brightening up and cheerfully smiling as the pills you hand her help her recover from her training. You smile fondly and pat her head again, and pull your arm back before she can push it away
"Of all the palace of natural laws' denizens, you and I have the best shot of reaching that pinnacle of the world, the realm of nascent soul" You confidently say, as if it were already a fact
"I don't think any other teacher but you would give me a chance to reach so far and high" Luli replies, as her smile grows ever more bright and with a bashful blush on her cheeks "I also don't think I'd be so sore so often, if I had any other teacher"
"Other teachers are soft hearted wimps, this is real training and real cultivation" You remind her with a flick to her ear "This is what it should be"
"I'd be real upset with you about it if I didn't know you didn't train just as hard, master, and that...well, it works, really well. And I am truly thankful you put so much effort into my training, Shifu" She laughs, pushing away your hand as Tianhua finally wakes up, luckily, before she could see you kicking and tossing around her little sister like a rubber ball!
What do you do now that Luli's been prepped and trained for her fights, Huanliuxue?
>Excitedly push/ carry her to the arena, so you can see the results of her training as immediately as possible, pushing the martial contests in front of the formations and sorcery ones >Observe some of the other sects training and smugly watch in silence as they peacock about their effectiveness of their own, pretty lackluster training exercises >Freak Tianhua out by having Luli demonstrate her new, wholly unique form of physical cultivation off to her >Celebrate the supreme success of your training and how great of a teacher you are, by treating Luli and her sister to a fancy meal >write in Anonymous
>>6146978 >Observe some of the other sects training and smugly watch in silence as they peacock about their effectiveness of their own, pretty lackluster training exercises. >Excitedly push/ carry her to the arena, so you can see the results of her training as immediately as possible, pushing the martial contests in front of the formations and sorcery ones. I can't resist an opportunity to be smug but I don't want to get too sidetracked otherwise this tournament arc will never end.
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>>6146976 >Luli has learned how to cultivate and make use of Ghostly/ Deathly yin qi, Blood Qi and Primordial beast essence after intensely sparring with Huanliuxue! Behold! Luli the Autumnal Princess. Proud of this little sprout.
>>6146978 >>Observe some of the other sects training and smugly watch in silence as they peacock about their effectiveness of their own, pretty lackluster training exercises Seeing how not to teach is as valuable as seeing how to. Learn from their mistakes and you will make fewer of your own.
Gotta learn your ABGs, kids. Always Be Grinding. Hey you, boy in the back, stop snickering.
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>>6146978 >Observe the other sects masters and their ineffectual training. >MAKE BETS WITH ANYBODY THAT LULI COMES OUT ON TOP. BET EVERYTHING ON LULI. >rush martial contests Hmm, little tiger trait.
Wonder if the Unbreakable trait would make her truly unstoppable.
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>>6146978 >Observe some of the other sects training and smugly watch in silence as they peacock about their effectiveness of their own, pretty lackluster training exercises >Celebrate the supreme success of your training and how great of a teacher you are, by treating Luli and her sister to a fancy meal Don't get me wrong now, she's stronger and can take the competititon, but she needs to rest a little after fighting US of all people. just a short break.
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>>6146978 >Celebrate the supreme success of your training and how great of a teacher you are, by treating Luli and her sister to a fancy meal Anonymous
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>>6146978 >Observe some of the other sects training and smugly watch in silence as they peacock about their effectiveness of their own, pretty lackluster training exercises >Celebrate the supreme success of your training and how great of a teacher you are, by treating Luli and her sister to a fancy meal Anonymous
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>>6146978 >Observe some of the other sects training and smugly watch in silence as they peacock about their effectiveness of their own, pretty lackluster training exercises. >Excitedly push/ carry her to the arena, so you can see the results of her training as immediately as possible, pushing the martial contests in front of the formations and sorcery ones. All shall fear the Big Shroom.
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>>6146978 >Observe some of the other sects training and smugly watch in silence as they peacock about their effectiveness of their own, pretty lackluster training exercises Anonymous
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>>6146978 >>Excitedly push/ carry her to the arena, so you can see the results of her training as immediately as possible, pushing the martial contests in front of the formations and sorcery ones >>Observe some of the other sects training and smugly watch in silence as they peacock about their effectiveness of their own, pretty lackluster training exercises Anonymous
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>>6146978 >Observe some of the other sects training and smugly watch in silence as they peacock about their effectiveness of their own, pretty lackluster training exercises >And offer offhandedly insights that could make them fight better, if Luli is to showoff she needs them to resist long enough for it to happen. Besides you already did something equivalent with the alchemists too. I'll offer my own write-in.
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>>6146978 >>6147002 >>6147026 I'll add the robbing them blind with bets to my vote, I hope Grandfather just does it without requiring more votes. Unless everybody votes for it too?
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>>6146978 Ah a future candidate for Lively Yin, alongside Qiang since I swear Huan brought up wanting to teach our martial daughter blood Qi at some point earlier.
>Observe some of the other sects training and smugly watch in silence as they peacock about their effectiveness of their own, pretty lackluster training exercises >Bet on Luli Also who to have sit by us for the tournament? Tianhua for sure so we can enjoy her reaction to what we've grown her sister into, Shidi I think is the only sect head besides our "brother" who we haven't invited yet, and I'm torn on whether to flex one of are greener (heh) pupils to Xue Long or Shidi who'd probably have more to say in a martial arts category.
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>>6146978 >Observe some of the other sects training and smugly watch in silence as they peacock about their effectiveness of their own, pretty lackluster training exercises Anonymous
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>>6147721 I'm in favour of Shidi and huo the fire man.
Foundation establishment troops are the start of elite troops in this realm. Core formation are forces unto themselves and golden Cores are reserved WMDs.
Demonstrating a Junior about to enter Foundation establishment, with skills to fight above her realm, will do much to Assange him.
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>>6146978 Honored grandpa, did we see Yujijao's bodily remains somewhere or have I recalled a dream?
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>>6147781 I think her bones are either in the desert still or we put them in the gourd which we acquired on that excursion.
Except for the skull which was paraded around (and is probably gathering dust in a trophy room of the fire sect) and her beast core which by now the ogress most likely consumed for herself.
But don't take my word as certain because I didn't go read the archive and my memory could be wrong.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 28 Nov 2024 00:51:33 No. 6148674 Report Quoted By:
Ending and tallying the vote now. Suffered a minor burn to my hand, which was irritating me when I was trying to write the last day or so, but its heal now.
Observe some of the other sects training and smugly watch in silence as they peacock about their effectiveness of their own, pretty lackluster training exercises.:11
-And offer offhandedly insights that could make them fight better:1
Excitedly push/ carry her to the arena, so you can see the results of her training as immediately as possible, pushing the martial contests in front of the formations and sorcery ones.:4
Bet on Luli: 3
Celebrate the supreme success of your training and how great of a teacher you are, by treating Luli and her sister to a fancy meal:3
So you and Luli will silently and smugly watch the other sects practice, as they brag about the training that is leagues beneath what you put the little flower through
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>>6147781 >>6147894 Her skull is indeed in the possession of the Guardians of celestial sunlight sect/ the ling clan.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 28 Nov 2024 02:22:42 No. 6148717 Report And once you've brought the elder of the Lian sisters to someplace she can rest and recuperate from the shock of seeing your rough and very much hands on training of the younger, and have Luli assure her she's alright and isn't hurt a dozen times, you leave Tianhua to recover from her fainting spell with a handful of Qi rich honey candy, and drag the still sweaty and fatigued Luli around to visit the other parts of your garden that you've allowed the competing sects partaking in your tournament to temporarily claim as their own private, personal training grounds. All of which, you notice, are far away from the inner parts and center of your second temple, near the outskirts and fallow farms that will one day be tended by the many hands of the outer disciples who will be brought here someday. Places where any late comers or curious attendees who are blind to Qi and the more mystical aspects of the world, can come and observe the sagely "immortals" and venerable mountain "hermits" train their "Celestial" powers and "Peerless" martial arts.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 28 Nov 2024 02:23:42 No. 6148719 Report >>6148717 And while their moves impress the traveling martial artists and nobles who don't know any better, you don't need to waste breath pointing out how they're lacking for Luli to realize just how far beneath her her competition truly is. Though, admittedly, part of the reason for the sorry performance of Long's students, could be that they are utterly terrified of you and are moving as stiff as if you'd already turned them into corpses for some offense they had yet to commit. They're as nervous and fretful as mice with you watching, but even their betters are disappointing, since even with no pulled punches and declaring they'd be showing off the results of their body refinement exercises, they do it by hitting each other after showing off that they can shatter clay pots full of sand or break stone slabs with a swift chop! Which just means they can not crumple from getting his by someone whose strength equals their own. Unlike your Luli! Who managed to get back up on her feet after you kicked her into a tree, even if she was wobbling and barely able to stay standing after that!
'I have half a mind to just bring Fu down here and show just how resilient a properly raised cultivator can be' you think to yourself, rolling your eyes as Long narrows his, after you shook your head at seeing one of his apparent favorite young disciples shrug off and break a few flimsy swords on his back and shoulders. Or maybe he was annoyed you yawned when another broad, ox backed young man had to grunt and wheeze his way through dragging an amount of weight you had Luli carry up the mountain passes once hiking the trail stopped being a challenge for her, and that Fu could sling over one arm and lift with the same ease as a bushel of rice.
or maybe what's gotten him so upset is that Luli keeps tilting her head and looking dumbstruck and confused that everyone is making a commotion about her fellow daoists doing things that, compared to the training regimens demanded by the palace of natural laws and hers in particular, are not at all impressive and certainly do not measure up to the sparring session that made her glimpse the other side. You can almost hear her thinking "Why are they sweating and looking so exhausted after just that much, and why aren't they fighting with all they've got"
"I've seen enough" You declare, when the much reduced sect brings out a few tubs of ice water and Long orders the red faced and panting contestants who have already been wrung of all they have, before, cheekily deciding to prod the already seething Sect head by adding a cheerfully mocking " "Brother" " as you stride away through the crowd, who are murmuring and trying to figure out what they missed that had so disappointed you
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 28 Nov 2024 02:24:43 No. 6148721 Report >>6148719 "I..I'm really only going to have my sect mates as obstacles, aren't I?" Luli whispers smugly into your notched ear, after pausing to look back and make sure no one can hear her boast that would surely be taken as an insult, even if the Winter blossoming sect had more than proven to her that they won't be a threat if she meets them in the matches "I didn't realize...really, just how far ahead of my peers I'd gotten since I started my training under you, master"
"Your old sect doesn't teaching fighting techniques, so you didn't have anything to measure your own abilities against, besides the other members of our temple, who of course, like you have just noticed about yourself, are leagues ahead of their so called equals" you snicker, not bothering to hush your voice to a whisper "But, give the other sects of Chuan the benefit of doubt, Luli'er, That sorry bunch of snowmen have lost most of their number, much of their territory, and pretty much had their pockets shaken out for loose cash after they made the mistake of picking a fight with me"
"And, I noticed, they no longer have the trust or reverence of the people, like the other sects do" She adds with a contemplative look on her face "And certainly none of them are shown anywhere near the amount of love you receive"
"I am an idol, after all, and those idiots back there used up all the good will they'd cultivated over generations trying to put me in the ground, you see" You snicker and Luli titters, as the two of you approach the five colors and five purities training ground as the still morning air is pierced by a shrill, girlish wail as several cultivators are dunked into freezing cold water somewhere behind you
And see that they and the Summer sea dawn sect are practicing their formations together, creating a much less chaotic version of a real pitched battle by lining up on opposite sides of the fields and sparring against the other side as a group.
Red Shark and one of his brothers is standing next to old master Su, all three of who notice your presence before you appear from the crowd as it readily and swiftly parts before you. Since, even as adored as you are, the common sense of commoners dictates that when an Ox sized house cat suddenly appears, you give it a wide berth and get out of its way.
"Ah, Lady Huanliuxue!" Red shark greets you "And Young Lady Luli! Welcome, have you come to admire our joint exercise? or are you here to demand if my father has sent any more details about that secret undertaking?"
The crowd looks very intrigued, and so do even a few of the cultivators on the field
"This started because I couldn't squeeze anything out of the messenger that came back, not even if my Jin and Tang are safe" Su grumbles, far grouchier than you've ever seen him before, and for good reason "So I decided to take my mind off my worries, and assist our fellow alliance member to prepare for the formation combat bracket"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 28 Nov 2024 02:25:43 No. 6148723 Report >>6148721 You say nothing and simply lay down on your side, with Luli kneeling by your tail. Su and Red Shark both immediately understand, that you're not hear to gossip, and resume their practice, both of them giving some last minute advice to their disciples on the field and in formation, and after a few quick swaps of who is where in the formation and one or two replacement picks, the fighting starts.
And it is much less pitiful than the winter blossoming sect's display, and almost a little exciting to watch as the cultivators of both sects fight like they're facing down a real threat and sworn enemies instead of a sect they're allied with and using as training partners. And everything is going well
Until Luli, who, apparently frustrated about something rises to her feet with fire in her eyes
"What is this! Is no one taking this tournament seriously but us!?" She rages as you hold back a cackle as Su shakes his head and Red Shark grinds his teeth, as the fighting stops and a few of their cultivators look ready to spank her for interrupting them with an insul that might've been heard on the other side of the forest
"Master! Why aren't you insulted, they're barely putting in an effort! This would only be straining for an ordinary person!" She asks, sounding her as she looks down at you
"It is just practice, little girl" Su answers, sounding completely unoffended as he bows his head "To sharpen their skills with formations"
"We aren't trying to kill each other" Red shark adds, rubbing his neck, but before he can finish his thought, someone on the field makes the incredibly poor choice to speak out of turn
and then proceeds to do something even dumber.
"What would you know about effort, brat!? We're veterans of the blizzard's death! You still smell like your mother's milk, just because the bloodshed is your teacher, doesn't make you a master, little brat! You think you can say whatever you want because you have her backing, huuuh?! Let me guess, the hardest thing you've done in life is plucking weeds to earn commendations, or maybe some of your senior's pretend to seriously spar with you"
You lift up your ears, more amazed that someone so stupid to insult one of your students in ear shot of you actually exists, as Red Shark, mouth still open and jaw dropping turns to face the owner of the voice as Su winces and face palms
"Wasn't one of mine!" Red shark howls with laughter as Su looks like either his blood is flowing in reverse or he has just developed a painful ulcer as the cultivators practicing together all turn to face one of the formerly lazy disciples whom you had sneakily disciplined at the start of your cultivation career
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 28 Nov 2024 02:26:44 No. 6148724 Report >>6148723 And while they look at him, you turn to see Luli, practically shaking with anger as she clenches her hands into fists, green eyes blazing as she grinds her teeth. And seeing her so furious, you realize just how masterful that weakling who called her out was in picking the exact worse words to say to her, without knowing a thing about her or her life's circumstances. It is nearly as astonishing as his sheer stupidity was.
"Master~?" Luli asks you sweetly, smiling demurely as a noble girl of her age should as she bows her head in your direction, sounding more like her sister until she adds "Can I stomp that loudmouth's head into the dirt~", in a tone that sounds much more like Monu or yourself
"Hah?!" Said loud mouth effectively digs his grave deeper with just that gasp of disbelief, but then he gets on his hands and knees, and starts digging deeper and deeper "You really must be delusional! You know nothing of the harsh realities of the world beyond your crib and walled garden"
"Please...please, grandson of mine, shut up, before you draw the ire of the teacher as well" Su says weakly, but you can see his knuckles whitening as he clenches his walking stick so hard it begins to bend and crack
"No...No! Keep going" Red Shark snickers, revealing the side of himself that he got from his father "She's insulted you and your sects honor, this is the right minded thing to do, isn't that right, Master Su?"
He has to know what he's doing. Luli is looking up at you with a cheerful grin hiding a rage already sharpened with killing intent
"Maybe this isn't such a good idea brother, we all know what Lady Bloodshed is capable of, and you know, grandfather said one of her first students survived being decapitated twice, once by her own hands" The former addict you helped cure meekly advises, wringing their hands as they throw a few frantic glances Luli's and your way
"She and him are different! Two Axe Fu made a name for himself before becoming her student, what's this little milk stinking brat done but get her robes covered in cat fur?!" Says that idiot with a death wish, very nearly making you as angry as Luli is with that last remark, but you quell your rising annoyance by thinking how it'd be more accurate that Luli's gotten her robes more covered in blood, sweat and tears than any of your fur
Luli tugs on your fur, still wearing that same, eerily fake grin on her face, and making you remember she asked you a question and asked permission to avenge the slight against her.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 28 Nov 2024 02:27:49 No. 6148726 Report >>6148724 <span class="mu-s"> Double vote </span>
And, what do you tell her,?
>Just laugh and tell her and the jackass to wait for their chance in the arena, and make certain to tamper with the pool to ensure they fight each other first, then stop by a few more sects' training sessions before beginning the martial contests >"Sorry Master Su, but a loss of face of one of my students might as well be a loss of face for me. I was hoping to keep this a secret but...Yeah, go ahead, give him what all loudmouthed idiots deserve, Luli" >"Calm down. You'll have your chance later, and vengeance is sweeter when its been allowed to ferment a little" And then walk away and tell Luli that most cultivators lack the drive and raw talent that she has. >"My, my, one of my disciples has been insulted! Red Shark! Have your juniors avenge this slight for me. It is beneath my students to soil their hands with garbage like him" >Write in And who do you invite to your side for the first contest of the Qi Condensation stage of the tournament, Huanliuxue? [Choose two]
> Su Zhe'xínglǚ, the sect head of the five colors and five purities. >Red Shark, Xia Jinse Shayu's eldest son and Heir >Lian Tianhua, Lian Luli's sister and the matriarch of the Lian clan and the head of the thousand lotus hall >Shidi Xiudao, the sect head of the dusk marsh wolves and the rival of Xia Jinse-Shayu >Shandian, the storm shrine's sect head >Disi-Ling Huofeng, the head of the temple of celestial fire >The current Weiwupo of the innocent witch court >The head of the white jade devil opposing army >Xue Long, your brother, just too lord over him the superiority of the Palace of Natural laws >Fu >Ping >Feiqing >Lei >Yujijiao >Xuebai >Yinying >The Buddhist Master Shoushan, >Disi-Ling Huofeng, the head of the temple of celestial fire >The Current Weiwupo of the innocent witch court sect >Shi Tangmushi, the head priest of the faith surrounding you >The Winners of the Pre-Qi Condensation tournaments contests >Shandian, the head of the storm shrine mountain sect >Xue Long, The current head of the Winter blossoming sect, and Monu's son >Shengzhanshi, the head of the white jade devil opposing army > Mì Shèngdào, the head of the eight heavenly gates sect >Use the chance to meet some of the sects that aren't neighbors to The palace of natural laws >Invite some of the local nobility to be graced by your presence >Write in Anonymous
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>>6148726 >Just laugh and tell her and the jackass to wait for their chance in the arena, and make certain to tamper with the pool to ensure they fight each other first, then stop by a few more sects' training sessions before beginning the martial contests SAVE IT FOR THE ARENA.
>Use the chance to meet some of the sects that aren't neighbors to The palace of natural laws Let's take a look at how outside of Chaun looks, it'd be interesting to see their views.
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>>6148726 >Just laugh and tell her and the jackass to wait for their chance in the arena, and make certain to tamper with the pool to ensure they fight each other first, then stop by a few more sects' training sessions before beginning the martial contests. Luli should make a bet with him right now though.
>Lian Tianhua, Lian Luli's sister and the matriarch of the Lian clan and the head of the thousand lotus hall >Xue Long, The current head of the Winter blossoming sect, Monu's son and your brother. Anonymous
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>>6148726 >Just laugh and tell her and the jackass to wait for their chance in the arena, and make certain to tamper with the pool to ensure they fight each other first, then stop by a few more sects' training sessions before beginning the martial contests >Xue Long, The current head of the Winter blossoming sect, and Monu's son >Invite some of the local nobility to be graced by your presence Anonymous
>>6148726 >Just laugh and tell her and the jackass to wait for their chance in the arena, and make certain to tamper with the pool to ensure they fight each other first, then stop by a few more sects' training sessions before beginning the martial contests. >Afterwards pull Luli away as this is a teachable lesson. The right time and place to beat/kill someone. Some you just got to beat them. Others you give them unusual punishments that tickle your fancy. Some people need to die without weighing the pros and cons.. Others need to get beaten for Master Su we do him a favor you beating his grandsons ass. Talk of his flaws in combat and mock him for not taking Master Su's teachings seriously. It'll help save face for him while you can beat his grandson up. It's the way of getting what you want while allowing other parties to accept what you do as reasonable even if they don't like it. If he still talks shit afterwards tho use him as a foot rest. If he refuses beat him up. Anonymous
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>>6148726 >>6148802 Support this, since if really is a teachable moment.
>Shidi of the dusk wolves >Mi of the 8 gates Anonymous
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>>6148726 >>6148802 +1 to lesson.
We went way out of our way to kill the Emperor how we did for personal growth, I'm sure that'll be a fun story.
> Mì Shèngdào, the head of the eight heavenly gates sect >Use the chance to meet some of the sects that aren't neighbors to The palace of natural laws Let's get some of the wider sects in here, they'll have a more unique opinion of the going's on than our immediate neighbors.
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Oh wow. I am shocked that someone with balls this big but a brain this small has survived this long without a truly legendary skill and power to back him up. Incredible. This has to be some kind of medical miracle.
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>>6148726 >Just laugh and tell her and the jackass to wait for their chance in the arena, and make certain to tamper with the pool to ensure they fight each other first, then stop by a few more sects' training sessions before beginning the martial contests >Xue Long, your brother, just too lord over him the superiority of the Palace of Natural laws >Use the chance to meet some of the sects that aren't neighbors to The palace of natural laws Anonymous
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>>6148726 >Just laugh and tell her and the jackass to wait for their chance in the arena, and make certain to tamper with the pool to ensure they fight each other first, then stop by a few more sects' training sessions before beginning the martial contests >Lian Tianhua, Lian Luli's sister and the matriarch of the Lian clan and the head of the thousand lotus hall >Xue Long, your brother, just too lord over him the superiority of the Palace of Natural laws Anonymous
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>>6148726 >Just laugh and tell her and the jackass to wait for their chance in the arena, and make certain to tamper with the pool to ensure they fight each other first, then stop by a few more sects' training sessions before beginning the martial contests >Xue Long, The current head of the Winter blossoming sect, and Monu's son >Invite some of the local nobility to be graced by your presence Young Masters neven learn.
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>>6148726 Ahh a young master courting death, this will be fun. Also hope anyone who celebrates had a good Thanksgiving.
>>6148802 +1, everything in life and dao, probably, is about timing.
>Lian Tianhua >Use the chance to meet some of the sects that aren't neighbors to The palace of natural laws Gotta get our name out farther, also new people are fun.
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>>6148726 >Just laugh and tell her and the jackass to wait for their chance in the arena, and make certain to tamper with the pool to ensure they fight each other first, then stop by a few more sects' training sessions before beginning the martial contests >Xue Long, The current head of the Winter blossoming sect, and Monu's son >Invite some of the local nobility to be graced by your presence Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sun 01 Dec 2024 08:41:26 No. 6150527 Report Quoted By:
Last track of time, forgive me juniors! Anyways, Ending the vote, tallying its result now.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sun 01 Dec 2024 10:59:04 No. 6150557 Report However, rather than giving her the go ahead to smear the fool across the manicured fields of your garden, you throw your head back and laugh uproariously, in a manner perhaps unbecoming of royalty such as yourself. But you can't help yourself, it is just too funny! You've traveled far and met with many big headed fools with a death wish, but you've never met a man with a death wish quite as large as this young masters! Forget courting death, this arrogant moron has proposed and started raving about the blissful domestic life they will share with each other! How can he have lived this long and gotten this far with a brain this small but with such courage and audacity! It is just too much, like a great cosmic joke that has been building across to lifetimes, your magnificent one and his clearly blessed one, to land on the punchline in this precise moment. Luli takes a step back, Master Su recoils like you struck him and Red Shark's howls of laughter synchronize with your own as you cackle and guffaw yourself into doubling over.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sun 01 Dec 2024 11:00:05 No. 6150558 Report >>6150557 "Hey don't look so gloomy and morose! I'm giving you a golden opportunity to humiliate that jackass! Imagine how much face he'll lose, and how huge of an ass he'll look like when a girl of your age beats him in the ring " You pester her as the two of you walk side by side, wearing a pout of your own
"If we meet in the tournament" She mutters under her breath, nose wrinkled and cute face unpleasantly bitter
"Junior! You forget whose hosting these games, and how fickle a cat's whims can be! You'll get your chance, and sooner than you expect! Trust me, victory will be sweeter if there are more witness to watch his beating"
That cheers her up a little, and some brightness and kindness returns to her eyes and a smile replaces her glower, but she's still clearly fuming about having been insulted and spoken down to by someone she could probably defeat with a finger, and also maybe you laughing instead of properly scolding the one who did the speaking down and making him regret his words, so she isn't much for conversation as you quietly grace a few of the other sects with your presence and deign to watch their disciples' training sessions, which for the most part, aren't anywhere near as demanding as what you put Luli through earlier or match the exercises you put most of your students through most of the time.
But there are exceptions, namely the White Jade Devil Opposing army. Who, actually brought out a few lesser, weakling demons out for their students to fight to death. Nothing deadly or dangerous enough for their presence in your garden to be a cause for concern, but certainly enough to frighten and fill the mortal audience watching their lethal bouts with awe, as the demons are practically marched out to slaughter.
"Wonder where they got them" You ponder outload, as Luli winces and covers her eyes, but still peeks between her fingers as one, pretty unfortunate one horned imp is cut from crotch to brow
"Ah" Shengzhanshi, suddenly at your side, taking your rhetorical question at face value "Well, besides our reserves of sealed devils meant for practice, more and more demons have escaped the yellow springs in years of late. You should be aware, considering you ended one of these unusually sized excursions personally, a deed of which we are still ingratiated to you towards"
You sigh, as the crowd's awe turn towards you and several stories about how exactly Huanliuxue must've fended off an invasion from hell itself begin to be made up, and even Luli looks amazed despite knowing exactly how strong you are and how ferocious you can be. And not wanting attention, or feeling a need to further encourage the imaginations of the people or tell a story that won't earn you some cash on the side, you decide then is the time to retreat, and pat Luli on the back a few times, before pushing her into the cells under the arena of your garden to get ready for her fight, giving her a few words of encouragement as you leave her to her own company.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sun 01 Dec 2024 11:01:05 No. 6150559 Report >>6150558 And you are surprised, as you ascended to your private viewing box, to actually see Xue Long, waiting for you there rather stoically with Yinying and Fu staring at him suspiciously, while a small gaggle of sect heads from lesser or simply far away sects from Chuan or just beyond the official borders claimed by the newly independent kingdom, standing awkwardly away from the current head of the Xue clan and the greatly shamed and reduced Winter Blossoming Sect
"Heh-Heh-Heh, You actually came! I was wondering if you'd show your face when I invited you to sit at my side for these next couple of matches, Big brother" You sneer as you swagger up to him, swaying your hips and grinning ear to ear as he cringes and sighs heavily
"My sect and clan cannot afford to lose any more face, Huanliuxue, you had me in a corner. Either I spurn your invitation and dig the hole my people have stumbled into since that sham of a trial, or I accept it, swallow my pride and personal grudges, and appear beside the woman who killed my father and one of my sons" He bitterly answers, as you sway and bounce playfully and energetically on your heels, meeting his scowl with a innocent cat's smile "Meanwhile, you either get to announce I refused such a sought after privilege of a public appearance with the all but deified you and turned down this quiet offer of forgiveness, or I accept and you get to delight in rubbing your "Superiority" in my face and parading me around to show off just how truly untouchable you are, you freak of nature"
"Wow! That's quiet a lot of hot air you just blue in my face, Long!" You cackle, leaning closer to him and flashing a smile that could overturn the heavens and certainly capture most men's heart "You really put a lot of thought into something I did on a whim, can you still practice your cultivation method with an overheated brain like yours, Hm?"
His scowl intensifies, and Fu reaches for a hatchet strapped to his side while the heads or representatives from sects that are still strangers to you watch on with barely disguised horror. Then, suddenly, his grimace turns to a wince and he groans and breaks away from your little staring contest before sparks can fly. Does he know cats pick fights through eye contact?
"You know, your behavior is reminding me of the few times my late father spoke of your mother" he explains, still cringing "When he wished to teach me a morale lesson, or the rare occasion he was forced by etiquette to drink. Even your laugh is the same as hers, its eerie"
"I'm fond of the eerie" You snicker as you step around him, giggling into your sleeve "And the macabre, and all that is morbid. And of course I'm similar to OUR mother, I was raised by her after all, an honor that you sadly did not receive"
He rubs his temple and groans as he pauses outside of the entrance to terrace
"This is going to be a tribulation" He remarks as he lurches his way inside after a moment of hesitation
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sun 01 Dec 2024 11:02:06 No. 6150560 Report >>6150559 "Ah...ah!" one of the bolder of your other invitees stammers, as he hurries to stop you before he sits "Madam Huanliuxue! I just wished to tell you that we've been trying to reorganize our sect's records and genealogy, since word reached us of the...revelations of the true place magical beasts hold in the world and..."
"And that the history we knew was false, among with other unpleasant realities that created a generation of rogue cultivators who refused to bend to the new status quo enforced by way of "Huanliuxue can kill anyone or anything as far as we're aware"?" Xue Long interrupts, looking up as he continues to massage his temple "Or the fact that several sects found themselves with new heads, when, outraged by the deceit of ten generations, the disciples revolted and successfully overthrew and replace once respected grandmasters?"
"Oh it wasn't nearly as violent as you claim" A woman with eyes made for crying murmurs as she slinks into the box, rubbing the back of her hands "I know the eight heavenly gates parted amicably with their former disciples and"
"My sect, already thrashed, had its back broken and lost nearly as many members after hearing my father was remorseless of his slaughter of, what in effect, were naive children, then it did fighting this monster and her temple of unusual talents" Xue long says, and you can tell by his tone "Unusual talents" is standing in for something more like "Terrifying freaks with too much potential"
"And lost the good part of your name" The first, more confident sect head snorts, smirking as he boldly claims the seat directly next to you, on the side Xue Long didn't take "All the result of your own or predecessors own mistakes, unlike we of the Nine Clouds Pavilion!"
"Aren't you a sect from the provinces of Bǎo" Long asks, smirking smugly as he noticed the expression you made when the other guest name dropped his temple
"Yes, near enough to Chuan to be aware of its happenings and often drawn into its messes" He answers "I am elder He Ping, and I have lead the disciples of the grandmaster of the nine clouds who have chosen to watch or partake in this most luxurious of tournaments"
"A..and I am an elder from the urm, young temple of" The meek girl tries to introduce herself, before the two other representatives declare their sects and names first.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sun 01 Dec 2024 11:03:07 No. 6150561 Report >>6150560 Besides He Ping of the Nine Clouds pavilion who through small talk you learn is a mystically inclined temple with a focus on sealing and divination, you and Xue Long are joined by Miss Ehuang from the Autumn Swan Lake School which had recently turned from a martial arts school to a real sect after a few of its member realized they could cultivate on their own, which explains why Ehuang who doesn't have a family name is so meekly natured, and the nomadic sect of the Star Breaking Fists, whose mustachioed head by the name of Liao Gang is the one sitting beside you who certainly has the "Aroma" of one who lives on the road to your displeasure, and the last of the four sects who until today were unknown to you is the Serene Temple of Merciful Springs, which weirdly seems more Buddhist than Daoist and rather isolated from the world of cultivation and its politics and something about the mask they wear is...oddly familiar to you. But you can't quite place where you've seen it before. Maybe Lei wore a similar one once for a day or two?
"Now that we're all introduced, could our most magnanimous host declare the beginning of the martial arts tournament" Xue Long says, clearly not enjoying being talked down to and ignored by daoists he'd have considered far beneath and lesser to him and the sect he now leads not even a year ago, and to be considered the equal of a sec that is younger than the palace of natural laws, and one that holds no territory and another that keeps to itself so much that its representative who forgoes a name had to explain that, no, the Serene temple did not go extinct sometime in their grandfathers' era
"Who are you to demand such things, Xue?" He Ping snickers "You and us are on equal standing, and I was quite entertained by our most charismatic host's stories"
You'd been talking about a perfectly boring day of trying to find a nice place to nap, just to annoy Xue Long more.
"Well, I suppose I should" You snicker, as you lift up your hand to signal the start of the first contest, and Xue Long whistles
"Ah, I'd heard rumors of that, but didn't think them more than hearsay, so you really purloined the thousand lotus hall of the inheritor of their ancestral bloodlines and heir to temple and clan" He says, sounding as impressed as he is vexed
"Oh...oh, mistress Huan" Ehuang says, tugging nervously on a braid of her hair "Isn't that a child? Is it really safe for her to participate? Isn't there an age limit? How'd she get through the qualifiers and tests?"
"Quiet junior, that brat is packing some serious fighting instinct, see how she walks? That isn't swagger, its precise, fluid movement to adopt a stance or dodge a sucker punch, that lil green haired girl your student? Well I'm impressed that you hammered in such a technique into one so young!" Liao Gang bellows, arms crossed and legs kicked up
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sun 01 Dec 2024 11:04:08 No. 6150562 Report >>6150561 "Surely she must've passed them, junior" He Ping says nervously "Looks are often deceiving, and surely our benevolent host would not allow a child into harm's way, even if her opponent does seem....older"
"He's not nothing impressive" Liao Gang snorts with a shake of his head "Cocksure, overly certain, he's mistaken her small size for weakness, but forgets that, if she's standing across from him, they must be on equal footing"
Not entirely true. From your best guess, that jackass down there is, while a late stage Qi condensation cultivator, a step or two behind Luli and certainly trailing far behind her in terms of raw talent and excellence.
"Yes, Huanliuxue would never endanger a child" Xue Long says sharply, eyes narrowed "And I've met that girl before, she's different than she was before, different than her docile sister was. Something about how she holds herself is...Oh, you made her like yourself!"
You smile audaciously as Xue Long realizes exactly what changed the scared little girl Luli used to be into the determined and defiant one standing in front of them now.
The other four all gasp, even the oddly silent Serene Temple cultivator, and look to you and Long for an explanation
"Do you really need it laid out for you? Huanliuxue is a heretic, whose incredible power and lethality is in part due to the fact she pursues avenues of refinement and Daos that no sane or righteous minded cultivator would dare so much as dabble in. She's been teaching Lian Luli, for at least since she made friends with their elder sister. Obviously, like her new teacher before her, she's rapidly gained power and increased her strength!" Xue Long explains, like he was talking to a particularly dull child "Because she isn't an Orthodox cultivator anymore, her improvement has been soaring, and none of us, except our host, know exactly what she's capable of. That same unknown quality is what got my son and father killed by her"
"Oh! So much praise! Finally you're acting brotherly" You titter from behind a fan as Luli, instead of showboating or announcing herself, quietly stretches out her legs and arms and cracks her knuckles as she keeps limber, swaying as her eyes remain intensely focused on the other side of the ring.
As her opponent, does everything she doesn't, marching out with a fast paced theme being banged out on drums and string instruments as he swaggers onto the field, ignoring that much of the crowd seems in disbelief a grown man is about to fight a little girl and looking as proud as he is that he's about to do it.
But as he enters the ring, throwing up his hands and relishing every moment of it, Luli turns and looks up at you, your eyes meeting despite the distance as a pulse of bloodthirst reaches you from her as her hard, focused and murderous looking eyes meet your own, calm eyes.
And while her prey introduces himself and states the epithets he's earned and deeds she's done, she scrapes and kicks her heels in the sand.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sun 01 Dec 2024 11:05:09 No. 6150563 Report >>6150562 The gong is rung.
"Don't worry, this Ye will go easy on!" Ye, Luli's target, begins, before, moving like a snake through grass, she rushes across the arena at him, and mid step, kicks up and swings her leg heigh at his head. He yelps and blocks, and regrets that decision immediately, as a handful of seeds she dropped as she ran, sprout into thorny vines that wrapped around her leg after a little encouragement by way of her always lively wood Qi
Blood spurts from his arm as he rips it away, and Luli, who put so much momentum into her kick, had to handstand to stop from falling over, gracefully flips back onto the tips of her toes and lunges at him, her fists already wrapped with the vines that crawled up her leg and now have become something like spiked gauntlets cover her hand.
Xue Long nods, watching calmly as He ping and Ehuang watch in stunned silence and Liao Gang barks with laughter, but the nameless fourth merely tilts his head, as the cocky Ye is pushed further and further from the center of the ring, desperately trying to fend off Luli's rapid assault of punches and spinning kicks, as she moves around and towards him like a leaf whipping in the wind swaying and seeming to be pushed around and guided by an external force as she lays into him with her knuckles and heels and vents every ounce of frustration that had been building up inside her since he called her a milk stinking brat!
The whole of the stadium is silent, as you can almost see all of the audiences eyes widening until they almost drop out of their skulls as the shorter, younger Luli, makes a complete fool out of the taller, broader and more muscled Ye, who is only now able to even try to fight back after she spent the opening seconds of the match whaling on him and forcing him so far back he nearly tripled out of the arena.
However, with the subtle swaying, like a branches of a tree or blade of grass, she swerves and sidesteps his first series of strikes, and when he moves to try and unsheathe his blade, she press her heel down on the pommel as she closes in on him, with a purposefully wobbling gait. And strikes him again across the jaw with an uppercut, and while Ye lands his first and second blow of the match with a desperate kick to her stomach and rising slash of his now unsheathed blade, Luli simply leans back and absorbs the impact.
And Ye shrieks like a little girl as he sees the small cut he made across her cheek, with only a smear of blood under it, has filled with freshly sprouted mushrooms as she recovers and closes the distance again as he recoils in horror. And judging from the noises coming from the rest of the stands, so to is anyone close enough to see the mushrooms sprouting out of Luli's young face.
And, feeling like you're being watched, you glance to the side and see a horrified Xue Long
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sun 01 Dec 2024 11:06:09 No. 6150564 Report >>6150563 "What is wrong with you? Teaching someone a technique like that?" He shrilly balks, looking pale as Ehuang covers her mouth, looking ill and He Ping scratches his cheek and Liao Gang tries to not look like he's about to throw up
"Stop running from me!" Luli roars, as Ye falls backwards, somehow not dropping his sword as she stomps towards him. Crying out, he tries to leap up and thrust out his blade, just to keep Luli away from him, but, far too fast for him to keep up with, Luli blocks and deflects the thrust with the bottom of her palm, lunges up to him, and uses what might be her signature finisher against men and boys
A loud, pop sounds, as Ye's terrified cries become suddenly much higher pitched, as Luli, holding onto his arm for leverage, stomps as hard as she possibly can directly onto his crotch. And then repeats the action, at least half a dozen times, not giving the poor guy a chance to breath as she stomps him into the ground, leaving an impression shaped like him in the sand, solely through stomping on his most vulnerable area.
"She used her heel" Liao Gang says, sounding sicker than he did before
"Mushrooms, why mushrooms!" Ehuang wails as He Ping is...well frozen
And since no one has the guts to or wants to stop Luli, she continues this brutality well after her match of thirty seconds comes to an end, having beaten Ye, despite being unarmed while he fought with a sword, and only receiving a cut she's already healed while he has...well, besides getting enough kicks and punches to the face to bruise it for a month or more, has probably made him effectively eunuch unless he goes to a really, really good healer.
"I'm not done with him yet, wake him up! Let go of me! What he said was unforgiveable! Just let me hit him a few more times! He deserves it" Luli yells as, eventually, Fen Kong, gently guides her out of the ring, as Ye curls up into a ball, and a dark red stain spreads across the bottom half of his robe as he weeps impotently into the sand
"She took her time with him" you fondly remark as your guests all stare at you in disbelief
"That was taking her time with him?" Ehuang coughs, eyes watering
"Yeah, she only used one spell and spent most of her energy dodging, she only landed a few hits before he fell over" You answer with a sagely nod "She was playing with him until..."
"She scared the piss out of him by having a tiny cut burst with mushrooms" Xue Long interupts
"Is she still alive? is that a sickness, is it contagious?" He Ping as warily and frantically
"Heretics are scary huh?" Liao gang laughs nervously, and winces as Luli almost breaks out of Fen Kong's grip, causing Ye to shriek and cover his head, crying as he is carried out of the ring, his face already discoloring and bloating from the internal bleeding her whipping kicks and flurry of thorn covered punches caused.
"What did you teach her" Xue Long says quietly as Luli shouts her own...very colorful, insults at the retreating Ye
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sun 01 Dec 2024 11:07:31 No. 6150565 Report >>6150564 "Well, I didn't teach her that, but that's his fault for pissing her off just prior to their match" You say and Xue Long makes a disgusted look, as if he guessed that you slightly adjusted both Luli and Ye's placement to make sure she got her shot at him
"You really are shameless" He says with a shake of his head
"Oh! And next up is a Dusk Marsh Wolf versus a Summer Sea Dawn Disciple!" You shout excitedly, not having tampered with the placements of those two fighters at all, but, you're pretty sure Long suspects you did from the expression he's making now
And as the martial arts tournament continues, what do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Explain exactly what you taught Luli and what is "wrong" with you to Xue Long and the rest as she continues to thrash her competition >Just tell them enough to keep them from thinking Luli is some kind of mushroom piloted Jiangshi, and cheer on her and her sect mates whenever they enter the ring >ask the four other guests about their sects and try to figure out why they out of the ones you asked showed up >Visit Luli between the rounds, and encourage her to show off her skills and moves in her upcoming matches, instead of trying to end them as swiftly as possible. >Apologize to Long for killing Ming, and mention that he actually impressed you in his last moments >Try and figure out what is the deal with the mask wearing member of the serene temple of the merciful springs >Write in Anonymous
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>>6150565 >Figure out the masks. Fuck, there goes.our chances of placing bets to wipe them clean.
Fucking wasted opportunity. Nobody is going to bet against her with favorable odds now.
Fuck!
>Try placing bets anyway. We already apologised for Ming. I'm not doing it again.
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Damn the lesson write-in didn't get enough votes.
>>6150565 >Explain exactly what you taught Luli and what is "wrong" with you to Xue Long and the rest as she continues to thrash her competition >Try and figure out what is the deal with the mask wearing member of the serene temple of the merciful springs Anonymous
>>6150565 >Explain exactly what you taught Luli and what is "wrong" with you to Xue Long and the rest as she continues to thrash her competition Time to r flexing our Teaching methods :)
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>>6150565 >Try and figure out what is the deal with the mask wearing member of the serene temple of the merciful springs Anonymous
>>6150565 >>Apologize to Long for killing Ming, and mention that he actually impressed you in his last moments Anonymous
>>6150559 "This is going to be a tribulation" He remarks
im dying lmao
>>6150565 >Explain exactly what you taught Luli and what is "wrong" with you to Xue Long and the rest as she continues to thrash her competition >ask the four other guests about their sects and try to figure out why they out of the ones you asked showed up So let em know being unorthodox is based,
and also why are they here? does it have to do with what was going on from where they are coming from?
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>>6150565 Seconding
>>6150644 . Better to keep personal grudges to a minimum, since we're about to start another (potentially) long campaign against the Ling.
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Are you all ALERGIC TO MONEY!
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>>6150675 A single word in harmony outweighs a hundred coins in haste. Remember Fellow Junior, before us are fellow sect heads from beyond just our home.The jade of understanding is carved through conversation, not struck by fleeting wagers. The brush of shared wisdom paints a brighter path than the dice of fleeting fortune.
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>>6150675 I doubt many people would bet against Luli after that highly dominant first bout. We can bet on the formations round instead
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>>6150688 That's a big wisdom you got there brother. Be careful, you might hurt someone with that.
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>>6150565 >Explain exactly what you taught Luli and what is "wrong" with you to Xue Long and the rest as she continues to thrash her competition Anonymous
i thought a golden rule of cultivation is not to tell people your tricks. dont spoil them for luli. people can be scared of how much better she is on their own. we dont need to kill her hype.
>>6150565 >Apologize to Long for killing Ming, and mention that he actually impressed you in his last moments Anonymous
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>>6150565 >Just tell them enough to keep them from thinking Luli is some kind of mushroom piloted Jiangshi, and cheer on her and her sect mates whenever they enter the ring >Apologize to Long for killing Ming, and mention that he actually impressed you in his last moments Assauge them so we don't get a bad rep on the outer fringes of Chuan, then give Long some face in front of them to bolster their opinion of us.
Sharing secrets is #1 bad nono, it's one of the things that's kept us alive for so long.
Is the arrogance finally starting to seep into the votes as well?
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>>6150565 >>Just tell them enough to keep them from thinking Luli is some kind of mushroom piloted Jiangshi, and cheer on her and her sect mates whenever they enter the ring >Try and figure out what is the deal with the mask wearing member of the serene temple of the merciful springs There are already going to be untoward rumors about us and Luli, let's at least make it so no one thinks she's a walking mushroom and not actually a little girl. But telling A Xue - ick- any secrets is bad. He's a dick.
I am more curious about this guy's deal though. Did anyone care before he put on the mask?
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>>6150578 Support.
It's a symbiotic system nothing really wrong with it in fact. It's pretty tame all things considered.
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>>6151049 You're right it is tame. They don't know that, and the more they don't know the weaker they'll be, which means we don't have to worry about them as much.
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>>6150798 They're going to see them regardless since this is basically a show off competition, rather by the same time next week she'll have a completely new bag of even deadlier tricks and be two stages higher in cultivation. Whatever enemies she makes now won't be able to touch her anyway.
(Though I still wouldn't speak of the weaknessess of such techniques, nor would I talk of her symbiosis since it's inseparable to her now but we kind of need to make it known she's not a new type of monster.)
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>>6150728 That's why I wanted to bet on her BEFORE the demonstration, shit fuck crap bitch fuck peice of Xue's wiggly entrails motherfucker penniless Grub!
Wanted to storm cloud him out of even more money. But nobody is stupid enough to go against our ultimate bet now and we no longer have any arrested wins.
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>>6150565 >>Try and figure out what is the deal with the mask wearing member of the serene temple of the merciful springs Anonymous
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>>6150565 >Just tell them enough to keep them from thinking Luli is some kind of mushroom piloted Jiangshi, and cheer on her and her sect mates whenever they enter the ring >Apologize to Long for killing Ming, and mention that he actually impressed you in his last moments >"I can't bring him back, but I can tell you how glorious our fight was, and how he has being the only person I felt some remorse to taking their lives since I started my cultivation journey" Anonymous
>>6150829 Telling them she's a zombie is not gonna make the rumors go away. That's the last thing I'd want to tell the foreign sect heads because it'd make the worst impression.
>>6150652 Changing mine to also support
>Apologize to Long for killing Ming, and mention that he actually impressed you in his last moments >Try and figure out what is the deal with the mask wearing member of the serene temple of the merciful springs I didn't think we've not want to explain our creed to the foreign sects so they have a better understanding, but at the very least there are the other choices.
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>>6151976 >Telling them she's a zombie is not gonna make the rumors go away. That's the last thing I'd want to tell the foreign sect heads because it'd make the worst impression. I didn't say that at all, though?
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>>6151979 ...Junior, you do know what Jiangshi is right? The thing you voted for?
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>>6151979 You are correct, I misread the vote.
This junior gives his apologies.
>>6151976 No long supporting the two here.
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>>6150565 >Try and figure out what is the deal with the mask wearing member of the serene temple of the merciful springs Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Wed 04 Dec 2024 12:09:08 No. 6152258 Report Going to keep the vote open a bit longer. Holiday shopping has kept me busy the last two days, which wasn't helped by my local scroll repository moving around its sections and confusing me and a small crisis concerning the dwindling supply of my stock of tea. I will try to tally up the vote later today, but if I am unable to keep that promise, juniors, then I will certainly do it tomorrow
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>>6152258 This young junior will pray for your successful tea tribulations.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 05 Dec 2024 07:37:11 No. 6152721 Report Quoted By:
A thousand pardons I plead, juniors! I really thought I'd get a chance to sit down and write earlier today, but now that I can, I'll end and tally the vote.
Try and figure out what is the deal with the mask wearing member of the serene temple of the merciful springs:6
Place bets anyways:1
Explain exactly what you taught Luli and what is "wrong" with you to Xue Long and the rest as she continues to thrash her competition:5
Apologize to Long for killing Ming, and mention that he actually impressed you in his last moments:5
-I can't bring him back..etc:1
ask the four other guests about their sects and try to figure out why they out of the ones you asked showed up:1
Just tell them enough to keep them from thinking Luli is some kind of mushroom piloted Jiangshi, and cheer on her and her sect mates whenever they enter the ring:3
So you'll try and figure out whats the deal with the Serene temple of the merciful springs and their masked Rep while the Qi condensation Martial arts tournament continues
very close vote!
Update will arrive shortly
>>6152284 All I have left is Puerh, but at least I have some Sheng and Shou rather than just one or the other.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 05 Dec 2024 08:34:05 No. 6152738 Report Well, unless someone accuses you of turning her into a Jiangshi or tries to purify her body to release her "trapped soul", what's the problem with the monkeys being scared back up their trees by a young girl whose only been given proper training by a teacher who doesn't balk at effective methods simply because some old fucks centuries ago named them forbidden or branded them as a demonic practice. Especially when those old fucks are your mortal enemies who you will one day cast out of the nine heavens or at least mercilessly beat until they can no longer stand and stumble their weary bones into the great wheel of transmigration.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 05 Dec 2024 08:35:05 No. 6152739 Report >>6152738 The Dusk marsh wolf he's fighting, however, doesn't see what you see, and takes the mud he's wearing as an insult. Xiaosi deftly dodges his first, ring splitting strike as his opponent flies at him and slams down his horse cleaving saber where he had been standing a moment ago. An move that stuns and wows He Ping and Ehuang enough to get them to shut up with their annoying questions about what Luli is, when it should be obvious she's just a spunky young lady with prodigious talent to back up her determined personality! Liao Gang meanwhile, idly praises Xiaosi while Xue Long makes a comment about his style being unusual for his school, an observation you made the moment the young man with a crush on you walked into the ring!
But, only one person in your company doesn't have a thing to say. The austerely silent mask wearer from the Serene Temple of Merciful springs. You rub your chin, feeling that something is off about him, a feeling you started to feel earlier but that reared its head again when he had nothing to say about Xiaosi's odd, shabby dress and strange fighting style. Turning his way, frowning and pouting, you squint your eyes and put him in your eyes as the arena shakes with cheers as Xiaosi deflects another saber swing by batting the flat of the barbaric blade away like a cat would with a cat tail being wagged in their face.
He doesn't move or acknowledge you, simply sitting as stiffly as a stuffed corpse as Ehuang and He Ping clap and cheer loudly on either side of him, close enough that if you were in his place, you'd slap them both across their faces. But he remains unmoved like all the shouting in his ears doesn't reach him, like he's separate from the rest of the masters and elders in the box beside him. That he's out of place.
Instinctually, you sensed that he was, that he didn't belong with the others, but not in the same way Ehuang was awkward as a member of newly formed sect, or He Ping and Liao Gang were as non natives to Chuan. Even with their differences, all of the other cultivators sitting beside you fit together, they gaze off the same sort of air, even if their postures and ways of holding themselves were all unique and different from one another. They shared the same basic presence and scent. That of an Ordinary cultivator, something that couldn't be scrubbed off or changed no matter what sect they hailed from or form of orthodox cultivation they practiced. Every other heretic you've and your own students, all have a different feeling compared to "normal cultivators", A sense of danger, a sense of caution. Other heretics and your students have been taught to keep on their toes and ready for a deadly fight to break out at any moment, something that even after a few years of intersect warfare and fighting, that the Orthodox sects of Chuan have yet to obtain, the instinctive and healthy sense of caution, keeping their eyes and ears open for ambushes or unseen threats to their lives.
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 05 Dec 2024 08:36:07 No. 6152740 Report >>6152739 And you realize, this mask wearer is also, unconsciously, keeping his guard up and sitting so rigidly, because subconsciously, intuitively, he expects a bloody brawl to break out, for someone to unsheathe their swords and come after his neck. Like a wild animal. Either he was raised by beasts, is one himself or he is a pampered orthodox cultivator who only recently got a taste for actual combat.
And you sense no primordial beast essence lingering around him, and no beast core in his chest. And that swirly mask he wears looks more familiar to you by the second. You lean closer, and he lifts up his chin, and only grows more rigid. But the way his muscle tense, and the way his bloodflow increases, isn't a sign of fear or desire at have such a beauty draw closer to him. He's anticipating defending him. To draw his own blade in response to you flashing claws and bearing teeth.
He isn't who he says he is. A sect, even one as remote and self contained as the serene temple of the merciful lakes supposedly was in the past, don't just vanish for two generations or so to reappear without fanfare or dramatics. If a sect vanishes, they're either in hiding or have been returned to red dust. But the Serene temple didn't supposedly vanish. As far as everyone but you, whose never cared much for Human history, and Ehuang, who has only recently been inducted to the world of cultivation, knew, the Serene temple went extinct. Something about being unable to find students and being so far remote they couldn't pay to maintain their temple or even buy cultivation materials. A slow, boring kind of destruction, they simply faded away and passed into memory, an unremarkable temple from beginning to end, a school with no legacy or impact on the world.
A sect not worth remembering, and certainly not deserving of preserving its teachings for two generations in silence. Its members joined other sects when they disbanded, any heritage they carried got absorbed by their new schools. Could he be a rogue who never joined another sect and still considered himself a member of the serene temple? No, he doesn't smell so old, even if his cultivation stage is about what you'd expect for someone whose lived that long ploddingly and ponderously cultivation in the lines drawn by the mandate of the heavens. Or, someone who is much younger, and who has been using methods that are, officially or not, outlawed by the wider world of cultivation.
Heretics can't get into tournaments easily, even if the Seven Slaughtering Swords have made themselves at home in yours and there are packs of rogue cultivators sneering at their sect bound counterparts in every crowd you pass by seemingly. And this man has the presence and guard of a heretic, a proper one, not simply a rebellious junior dabbling in forbidden arts just because your excellence has encouraged them and given them an example to point at when their master's speak of danger and recklessness
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 05 Dec 2024 08:37:08 No. 6152741 Report >>6152740 This man is a heretic. Not a rogue or remnant or secret heir to a forgotten school. And, cleverly, he picked a sect no one cared enough to know more about than the fact they once existed to be his cover. A disguise just believable enough to stop others from asking questions, and you'd doubt he was from Chuan. Save for one detail
The mask
You remember where you saw it before. Lei did wear one like it, once. But so did that deranged cult of sun worshippers who had tied him, Feiqing and Ping to a pyre in their desperation to halt the enchanted blizzard that had fallen over the primordial forest of the tragic lovers at the time.
And if that isn't a coincidence, if he didn't just go to the same wood carver to buy it as the cult did which is to put it lightly, very unlikely, then he was a member of their or at least had a hand in inspiring their particular flavor of lunacy.
So likely, this guy isn't who he says he is. The serene temple of the miraculous springs went extinct, not simply shrank and went unnoticed, and he didn't give a name, simply the sect he supposedly hailed from. And he is wearing a mask donned by a cult of human sacrificers, and his holding himself like your students or the seven slaughtering swords or that bitch ogre do. Expecting a fight. Expecting an ambush. Anticipating a life or death encounter even in pleasant and peaceable company. He is cautious in the same way you tend to be.
He is a heretic. There is nothing else he could be. But the question remains. Is he the kind of heretic you are, or the sort of baby eating psychopath that give heretics like you a bad reputation?
"Is something about my attire intriguing to you?" the nameless mask wearer asks with a dry voice, glancing your way at last "You've been staring intensely my way, for two entire matches"
"Perhaps you forgot you were carrying silvervine, or are unfortunate enough to be her type" Xue Long remarks with a smirk "And, before you ask, the bastard of Xia one his match, the third wasn't anywhere as gripping as the two that proceeded it"
"Hieeee!, how can you be so calm, I was worried we'd be witness to a bloodbath with how intensely she's be looking your way, haven't you heard the things she's capable of" He Ping shrilling shrieks through his teeth
"She's been studying you" Liao Gang snorts "But if its because you're holding a nice smelling herb or she wants to eat you, as I've heard she has a habit of, I do not know
"Sorry, What's going on between you two, I was entranced by the swordsmanship of all these wonderful contestants" Ehuang airily remarks, bashfully covering her face with her sleeves
The mask wearer tips his head and narrows the one eyes you can see in the center of the mask's spiral.
"One of your disciples is fighting next, Mao Yue, I believe" He says slowly and silk soft "It'd behoove you, as their teacher, to watch their match with greater interest than whatever it is about my person that has so entranced you"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 05 Dec 2024 08:39:03 No. 6152744 Report >>6152741 What do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Pick apart the mask wearers disguise, to see what he'll do when his cover is being threatened >Just declare him a fellow heretic, without evidence or trying to force apart his disguise >Signal to him with gestures that you know what he is, and if he wants to explain himself, to wait until after the martial contests are through >Incensed by Long's remark, defend yourself and state that the mask wearing freak is not at all your type, few people are, as you have very high standards for a mate! >Mess with him and ask him questions he's probably hasn't thought about when coming up with his disguise. >Be generous to your fellow heretic, and change the subject to Mao Yue and Luli, and vaguely allude to their abilities, in case the others are starting to suspect him do to your interest in him >Write in Anonymous
>>6152744 >Pick apart the mask wearers disguise, to see what he'll do when his cover is being threatened >"Speaking of my wondrous and fantastical students, perhaps there is one you are interested to see? Or perhaps three?" I'm surprised any burny boys are left.
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>>6152744 >Signal to him with gestures that you know what he is, and if he wants to explain himself, to wait until after the martial contests are through Anonymous
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>>6152759 Support some ways to pick him apart below.
>>6152744 >Smile, "I'm quite interested. You're not who you say you are. I've seen that mask before, and how you carry yourself isn't of orthodox standards. Your sect doesn't exist anymore on the records being considered extinct." "So Ghost, why have you come for a visit? Assassination? Marry making? Sightseeing? Making a name for yourself? No if it wasn't Assassination you'd seek protection. So what's the plot Ghost?"
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>>6152744 >Signal that we know what he is, but talk later >Make a joke that our type cannot be found in any generation, for none are as supreme as we. Anonymous
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>>6152744 >Mess with him and ask him questions he's probably hasn't thought about when coming up with his disguise. Anonymous
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>>6152744 >Mess with him and ask him questions he's probably hasn't thought about when coming up with his disguise. It's funny.
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>>6152744 >Signal to him with gestures that you know what he is, and if he wants to explain himself, to wait until after the martial contests are through God I want to snap back at Long and bring up his son crushing on a Ling in before he died, but can't think of a good way to word it
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>>6152744 >Signal to him with gestures that you know what he is, and if he wants to explain himself, to wait until after the martial contests are through Anonymous
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>>6152744 >>Signal to him with gestures that you know what he is, and if he wants to explain himself, to wait until after the martial contests are through Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sun 08 Dec 2024 10:27:56 No. 6154222 Report Ill news, juniors. One of my clan's cats have fallen ill. Not dangerously so, it currently seems and they appear to be recovering quickly, but it is still creating heart demons for me to contend with out of worry for the little guy, since seeing them in such a sorry state has made my blood flow in reverse. I'll end and tally the vote as soon as I'm not fretting about the well being of the small, non magical beast I share my temple's grounds with
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>>6154222 Hey man no worries, take care of your cat.
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>>6154222 Take care of your furry junior, grandpa
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 09 Dec 2024 17:04:50 No. 6154843 Report Quoted By:
Fantastic news juniors, after filling my heart with concern and causing me to nearly undergo Qi Deviation, the little fur child has recovered, just as suddenly as they fell ill. And the fact that none of us, his two legged serfs, know what caused it, is still pretty scary. But the boy is eating, drinking and energetic and affectionate again, so I'll just be happy for that.
>>6154231 >>6154237 Thank you for being understanding juniors!
Anyways, ending and tallying the vote now.
Pick apart the mask wearers disguise, to see what he'll do when his cover is being threatened:2
-Speaking of...Etc:1
-Smile, "I'm quite interested...etc":1
Signal to him with gestures that you know what he is, and if he wants to explain himself, to wait until after the martial contests are through:5
-Make a joke that our type cannot be found in any generation, for none are as supreme as we.:1
Mess with him and ask him questions he's probably hasn't thought about when coming up with his disguise.:2
so you'll signal to the faker that you know what he is, and that if he cares to explain himself that it can wait until the martial contests are through
Update will arrive shortly
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 09 Dec 2024 18:30:44 No. 6154885 Report "Hah~?" You drawl, glancing his way as you place a hand against the side of your head and lounge back, exuding a relaxed yet charmingly confident aura as the mask wearing faker keeps his own attention fully set on you "As if I'd miss one of my treasured students, my cherished disciples, in their match. Even if its one of the eh, lets say, less impressive of my litter, hmmm~?"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 09 Dec 2024 18:31:44 No. 6154888 Report >>6154885 And despite the difference in their builds and Mao Yue not being much of a fighter, her still mostly formless self taught law of Bliss and Laughter, is enough to carry her through the fight. Though she isn't looking too pretty by the end of it, since she, not really having fighting instinct, doesn't put forth much effort to dodge or guard. However, it seems, on her own, she figured out a pretty crude technique. Basically, she doped herself with her own living blood, altering it just enough to become a narcotic and transmit joy, overpowering the pain of being battered and bruised by two hammers the size of her head. And her drugged out laughter, unnerves her opponent, as does her stumbling, dance like gait as, even though she isn't feeling the blows that probably cracked a few of her ribs, her body certainly is taking the damage.
Then, the rogues defeat is simply a matter of her having a moment of clarity long enough and a pause in his increasingly frustrated and slightly terrified strikes, as he has been treating her like she was a hide drum, for her to inflict the same bloodborne spell she used to simply stay standing, onto him. And, well, seems Yue may have picked up an addiction to flooding her veins with raw, unfiltered bliss, as the moment she injects her blood qi into the man pounding her, he shakes all over, his concerned face, splattered with Miss Mao's blood and sweat, contorts into a painful looking expression that is half grin and half grimace. And then, by just the standard rules of these kinds of tournament, Mao Yue just needs to endure a few more laughter weakened strikes before he is overcome by his own guffaws and collapses, clutching his muscled gut.
Mao Yue stays swaying for several seconds, having actually managed to dodge a few of his attacks, and then, to win the match, makes a show of pinning her high opponent to the ground, and then she lays, arms still wrapped around him, laughing infectiously with him
"Huh, did Hao teach her? Her cultivation seems to be based off intoxication, to my eyes" Xue Long says, politely using intoxication instead of "doping" "Though I have no idea what she did to...overcome her opponent, or remain standing"
"She is no fighter" Liao Gang rumbles "Though it is impertinent, her win is undeserved, it was only through the odd spell she used at the end she won. It was secrecy that won her match, not any sort of skill"
"It does seem rather unsporting" He Ping says under his breath, emboldened by Liao Gang's complaint
"But she didn't use any hand signs or mantra" Ehuang gawks, showing her to be a meat head or her sect not yet figuring out the greater subtleties of casting spells yet
"It wasn't a spell, it was poison. The grand elder of the palace of natural laws, is perhaps the most esteemed poisoner in the modern era" The faker says "Am I correct, madame Huanliuxue?"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 09 Dec 2024 18:32:45 No. 6154889 Report >>6154888 "On technicality. All she did was manipulate something inside of her opponent, the same way she shrugged off all that pain she must be feeling" You snicker and grin as you see another of your lesser disciples walking into the ring...and Another "Oh! That's bad luck. Bo and Wang Wencheng are fighting! This earlier in the contest, oh how sad!"
"Who do you think will go forward?" He Ping asks excitedly
"That Wang looks flushed, he's a drunk, Drunken boxers are tricky" Liao Gang snorts, rubbing the whiskers atop his lip "But that Bo, has a nice build"
"I'd say, even if cultivating Qi has brought me back a bit of youth" Ehuang lewdly comments, flicking her tongue across her teeth "He is a piece of meat I'd be happy with...er, forgive me, elder, I forgot the company I was in!"
"Eh, you live with Monu, you learn to gloss over that kind of lewd comment" You titter, shaking your hand forgivingly her way
"I do not know about our host, but I suspect Bo will win" The mask wearing phony comments off handedly
And he's right, but it was a near thing. Bo and Wang are usually paired up to spar and train together, as they joined your temple at the same time, and Yue and Niu both aren't martially inclined, so they both know the ins and outs of the other's martial arts and the moves they personally came up with. And both have a nice affinity with the fighting styles packaged into their cultivation method. It is by far the longest fight, longer than Mao Yue's and she spent a good few minutes getting pummeled and pounded. By the end of it, both of them have worn themselves ragged and weary, with more bruises than clear skin and several cuts and tears across their chests and faces.
However. Bo, simpleminded as he is, focuses on defense. And like the ox who made the Mountain Shattering law he follows, he is just stubborn enough to outlast the more light footed and evasive Wang, even as he spews booze and spits poisons into his eyes and cuts. The last move is a chokehold, with Bo toughening the muscles he uses in the lock with both internal energy and Qi. Wang passes out before he taps out, and vomits across the sand as the younger man release him and throws up his hands with a victorious bellow
And the crowd goes wild with cheering and applause, as it seems all of your fellow cultivators and the ordinary folk in the audience delighted in seeing two of your disciples bloody eachother in the ring. And you have to admit, it was a pretty exciting match to watch, since they were equally matched and unlike Yue, neither of them had the advantage of surprise!
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 09 Dec 2024 18:33:46 No. 6154890 Report >>6154889 The next match is the exact opposite. Even though preparation takes the longest, since you need to personally go down and place paper talismans and seals to allow the normal people in the coliseum to actually see one of the competitors. That being Yujijiao, who decides to shock the crowd by appearing as hungry ghosts often due when they're haunting, her ethereal form disjointed, bloodied and rotting as she slithers into the ring, her ghostly body flickering as she rises up, black blood oozing from the point her head is stapled and stitched onto her body, before crashing back down, "Ripping" off her own head to "Swallow" her tail, and turning into a cloud of black, dreary mist, before she emerges, as the form she made up, of what she imagines her human form would have looked like, attached to her snake body at the hips
Completely undressed except for blood stained funeary garbs as she claws at her eyes and shrieks.
You have to stand and hold up a hand to calm the cultivators in the crowd from leaping down to exterminate her
"She's just being dramatic. Yujijiao is, usually, sound of mind, she just wanted to give you all a scare! I get the same urge sometimes" You laugh, projecting your voice so all can hear it "Jade horn! Don't be a show off! Its unbecoming of a princess, even a dead one! Shape up and be serious!"
"What a cruel fate, clinging to life while in such a state" Xue Long says quietly as Ehuang clings to Liao Gang and He Ping tries to hide that he had reached for the bow at his side before you explained that Yujijiao was just playing up her monstrosity and madness "By the name of your law, shouldn't you lead her to her next life, instead of permitting her too..."
"Tch, death can be as fulfilling and joyful as life. Yujijiao has passed to hell, found it not to her taste, and came back up here" You bark back, offended "Besides, she has unsettled buisness with her killer, and who am I to object!"
"Hmm, that is quite the evolved pet ghost you have" The fake jubliantly exults, leaning closer "A Jī'èhuàshēn (Hunger incarnate, 饥饿化身,) as well as a Mózhòugége (魔咒格格, Curse princess)! What a frighteningly strong spirit for one so recently deceased"
"Huanliuxue, is she safe to keep unchained?" Xue Long asks seriously, knuckles white as he grips the rests of his seat "That kind of phantom would ordinarily required the combined effort of several exorcists to contain, let alone banish and return to the wheel of life. If she emerged without you, she'd be a localized calamity"
"Yeah, what of it?" You ask calmly as the very unconfident opponent is pushed towards the ring, shivering from the sheer abundance of deathly and ghostly yin Qi "Many of my disciples would be, and Chuan is filled with a parade of phantoms, its properly a paradise for them since I stepped onto the scene"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 09 Dec 2024 18:34:47 No. 6154892 Report >>6154890 "I surren-" The opponent begins, but, he said it after the gong was struck. And in the fraction of a second it took him to open his mouth and try to forfeit the match, Yujijiao parted her lips, two ghostly hands pushing against her upper and lower jaw and tearing it open down to her chest as she sucked in, both his Qi and Life force, devouring it swiftly. He collapses, fainted and already near death just from the sudden robbing of his essences.
Then Yujijiao, turning into a ghost flame, leaves the arena, bobbing like a lantern in the night. Xue Long's stare is piercing as the faker stands up and applauds her
"Oh, what a frightening display! That kind of hungry ghost can't be found, it has to be made" He declares as He Ping rubs his chin uncomfortably and Ehuang trembles as Liao Gang glowers.
And for once, the crowd has nothing to say, trying to forget the paranormal event they had just witnessed
"What can beat a monster like that?" Liao Gang snorts as the next match begins, rather uncomfortably
'Lian Luli' you think to yourself, smirking. Yujijiao is strong for a ghost of her age. But Luli has a quality she can never possess, being a ghost as she is. And that is the fear of death, and the drive to overcome it.
But instead you say
"There are sects who are dedicated to fighting ghosts, temples that teach nothing but exorcism. Yujijiao is strong against those who have never fought a hungry ghost" You sternly answer, cowing the nomad with a glare as Xue Long brightens
"That is true. I can think of several competing schools who have specialized schools just for combating the undead" He remarks "But still, it feels reckless to allow her to enter this competition. Didn't you say she only usually has a grip on her sanity?"
'To be fair, I didn't check if she had enter, and of course the preliminaries and qualifiers wouldn't challenge a ghost at all' you reflect , hands tented as you lean back 'I'd bet my undamaged ear that the last match will be Luli against Yujijiao"
And as Mao Yue is beaten by her next opponent, who is, coincidentally, a rogue cultivator who uses a weird snake inspired style and hides scales growing along his arms, and Bo drops out on his third, when he gets he runs into the natural counter of his style, namely an extremely aggressive Xiaosi, who had won his second round by biting, they end up being the last two of your competing disciples to make it to the latter half of the contests.
And one by one, the two of them tear through their opponents. There was a question of if they'd get to the finales, but Luli just managed to beat Xiaosi, who seemed to get more and more savage as he climbed higher in the ranks and Yujijiao nearly killed the White jade devil opposing soldier who she fought, but not before nearly being beaten as he purified her of excess ghostly yin qi.
"How surprising" Xue Long droles, sighing before continuing "Its these two facing off, who could've anticipated this"
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Mon 09 Dec 2024 18:35:48 No. 6154893 Report >>6154892 "Just because it was expected, doesn't mean it isn't exciting, stop being so depressive, snowball" Liao Gang, now a few bottles of wine down sneers as Ehuang chews her nails, eyes bloodshot from the sheer thrill of the more intense matches of the tournament, particularly the last two, while He Ping nods
"And the crowd is going wild, its fitting for two of the strongest to meet, even if by happenstance, they hail from the host's own sect" He says as Xue Long frowns and throws a suspicious glower your way
"Happenstance, right?" He mutters, even though you in no way tampered with the brackets
"Two most heretical practitioners meet" the mask wearer says, barely repressing his bloodlust as both of the two martial sisters, both children compared to all of their opponents they utterly crushed, thrashed and humiliated, enter the ring and smile
"So, its the little flower" Yujijiao purrs in delight, winding and wrapping around Luli, whose bloodline, training and plant like physique combined allow her to withstand the life sapping aura of her ghostly presence "I was rooting for you every round you know, little bud. I was hoping I could've gotten the chance to fight a few more of our sectmates but"
"Most of the ones close to our level signed up for the beast only contests" Luli pleasantly replies, smirking "And your last match did make me worried, but I never doubted you before then, Elder Sister Yujijiao. You know, I've never actually faced a ghost before, even if I've become acquainted with several since I joined the palace of natural laws"
"You practice a cultivation technique that relies on and makes use heavily of life force" The ghostly serpent snickers "Besides that churl I fought last round, your my natural enemy in these contests"
"as you are mine, ghosts like you wilt flowers you know" Luli says with a pout, before her eyes flash and she beats her fist into her flat chest "But, unfortunately, when a tree decays, mushrooms sprout!"
"Even mushrooms can die off" Yujijiao boasts "But, I'll be sure not to hurt you too badly"
"I'd say the same, but you can't be hurt like us living things can be" Luli answers
"I appreciate the sentiment" She replies as they part and move to opposite sides of the arena "Nothing left to do but fight"
"Mhmm!" Luli cheerfully hums
And as the final round of the Qi condensation martial arts contest begins, what do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Simply watch and observe, on the edge of your seat and VERY curious which of them will emerge victorious >Cheer on Luli >Cheer on Yujijiao >Cheer on whoever is losing currently, switching sides when they rally >Give a passionate and fiery commentary for the match >Make it clear you didn't tamper with the brackets, besides for Luli's first match >Write in Anonymous
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>>6154893 >Simply watch and observe, on the edge of your seat and VERY curious which of them will emerge victorious Anonymous
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>>6154893 >>Simply watch and observe, on the edge of your seat and VERY curious which of them will emerge victorious Talk about nurture or nature, folks. Well, I guess both of them have been nurtured, of a sorts. Even if they both embody their respective natures.
I wonder how many other horrific problems the Ogress has made with her killing crusade.
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>>6154893 >Give a passionate and fiery commentary for the match Anonymous
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>>6154893 >Simply watch and observe, on the edge of your seat and VERY curious which of them will emerge victorious This will be interesting.
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>>6154893 >Give a passionate and fiery commentary for the match I like being the hype man.
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>>6154893 >Give a passionate and fiery commentary for the match Anonymous
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>>6154893 >>Give a passionate and fiery commentary for the match Anonymous
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>>6154893 >Give a commentary. Haun has a new epitaph, Cat of the Collusieum.
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>>6154893 >Give a passionate and fiery commentary for the match MC Bloodshed in the building. Also glad to hear your cat was okay, fickle even with health
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>>6154893 >Cheer on whoever is losing currently, switching sides when they rally Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q
Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Thu 12 Dec 2024 04:15:24 No. 6156291 Report Meant to end the vote today, but I just slipped in the shower and am in too much pain at the moment to focus & write. Could've been a worse fall (There are a lot of hard corners in that death trap), but the stumble I took still banged me up pretty badly.
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>>6156291 You need to place lucky charms throughout your house I swear kek. Damn. Stay safe bossman.
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>>6156291 Heal up, Grandfather.
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>>6156291 The curse is hitting you hard
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>>6156291 Must have been a bad feng-shui placement!
Surely a dastardly modification enacted in the past by a jealous old master whom foresaw or divined your meteoric rise!
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>>6156291 Oh man you're going through it recently, heal up Gramps
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Fri 13 Dec 2024 03:38:01 No. 6156781 Report Quoted By:
Unfortunately juniors, I'm still hurting and only just now woke up. I'll try again tomorrow, see if I can't get one of my clan members to fetch me the miraculous elixir called aspirin in the morning.
>>6156310 I really should, and thank you.
>>6156314 Thanks, I'll try to.
>>6156348 It is a true tribulation
>>6156434 That must be it, but curse you for making me laugh, it hurt. And I'll have to double check my rooms feng shui
>>6156632 And thank you as well. I appreciate all of the concern you, my most pious juniors, have shown me
But I'm going to go lay down and get some fresh icepacks now
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sat 14 Dec 2024 06:15:15 No. 6157448 Report Ending the vote, tallying it, making a new thread, archived this one. Still a bit sore and, get this juniors, nearly slipped in the shower again just now!
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>>6157448 >Still a bit sore and, get this juniors, nearly slipped in the shower again just now! brb, on my way to thrash the upstart fools in the ever ignorant and unjust heavens
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Our-Grandfather !!x2Y5mWD7k6q ID:DnMqvwn3 Sat 14 Dec 2024 06:54:36 No. 6157477 Report Quoted By:
>>6157472 New thread here>>6157455 And I shall buy a better shower mat
