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After the bloody first contest of the Core Formation Stage of The Palace of Natural Laws sect's (宫殿的野生彝宪, Gōngdiàndīyěshēngyíxiàn) first tournament, the victor who overcame the most terrifying and vicious stellar monsters you could capture, Xie'e Mowangzi (Evil Devil Prince, 邪恶 魔王子) lays before you, recovering from his wounds and waiting to hear what virtuous deeds you expect him to perform to be allowed to enter through the gates of your shrine and join your heretical yet oft kindly sect.
As the reborn demons behavior and acts would reflect not only upon the Palace of Natural laws, but also its master, (欢流血, Happy Bloodshed/ Happy to Shed Blood), your very own illustrious self, and you don't want to welcome a heartless devil into your sect and give them free reign to terrorize the lands and people under your protection and rule, you need to give him a test that'll prove that he is capable of doing good and acting respectfully and won't meander off one day to slaughter and refine a village or go hunting his fellow daoists for sport without a good reason or excuse. Fortunately, you know exactly how to see if he is capable of acting right mindedly or not. A variation of the journey Magical beasts under go to attain their human for, except to see if the reincarnated demon is able to show empathy, mercy or any other quality deemed a virtue by wider society.
"Charity won't prove your heart is capable of containing something besides malice and bloodthrist" You sweetly tell him, wearing an imperious, domineering expression that is completely opposite to your ginger and silken voice "Even a miser can do charity work, if they think it'll make them wealthy, and demons I know can pretend to love someone until they've matured and fattened enough to their tastes"
"Aren't you friends with a spider demon?" He asks plainly, frowning and stroking his chin in thought
"One who is more human natured than demonic" You cackle "And I have nothing against demons living as they desire, until they piss me off, bother me or try to eat me. But, lets not get sidetracked. You need to prove your heart is, if not human, than not corroded by and controlled solely by malice. That you're a devil with at least a little nobility, enough to coexist with my subjects and other students"
"And how should I prove that I am not the most vicious of devils?" He asked, sounding genuinely curious
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Sat 21 Jun 2025 22:11:36 No. 6262879 Report >>6262878 "Simple. Leave, travel Chuan Kingdom and make a difference. Or at least try to. It is a test of your sense of morality, or your ability to care. Go out and do good deeds in my name. What that means, is for you to show to me that you understand the assignment I'm giving you" You tell him, tittering as he wrinkles his brow, deeply contemplating his mission
"I shall depart as soon as I've recovered. I won't disappoint. I may be a demon, but I understand more than you know about the common sense and views of mortals!' He declares, and you nod, not fully believing him or trusting his confidence as you leave him to heal and plod away to speak with your fellow sect heads
Su Zhe'xínglǚ [哲' 行旅, Wise Vagabond), Xia Jīnsè-shāyú (金色 -鲨鱼, Golden Shark) and Lian Tianhua (莲 天花, Lotus Heavenly flower) are the first grandmasters you meet, a privledge they have as the fellow heads of the Tomb, The Mountain, The Sea and The Garden Alliance.
"Unfortunately, we'll have to skip the random team battles" You say and all three of them nod sagely, understanding immediately why that contest couldn't be part of the Core Formation Stage, but you explain anyways "Though about including Ghosts, but I realized that that much potent ghostly and deathly Yin Qi would negatively effect the contestants in many ways and cause other problems, so it just wouldn't be worth it in the long run"
"A wise choice, then the tournament will proceed to the one on one fights?" Lord Xia asks, sipping at his rice wine
"Of course, we'll need to inform the other sects first" You answer with a nod and flutter of your eyelashes as you lean across the table and snatch a rice cake from Tianhua;s fingers "And explain my reasoning, since they might not understand it at first"
"It doesn't concern the Thousand Lotus Hall if a martial contest is skipped, to us gentle gardeners, it'd make no difference if all of them were" Tianhua titters, and grabs a spoon filled with honey and takes another rice cake, amused by your food theft more than anything
"Yes, but some Daoists are blinded by greed and ambition, more so since Huanliuxue has shown them just how vast the world truly is" Master Su chuckles and fills the cups across the table with white tea, and from the aroma you can tell it is the sweet, honey tasting leaf that you enjoy "They may take offense or raise a fuss"
"I think the commoners and nobles who aren't part of the world of cultivation would complain louder" Xia hummed
"They literally worship me" You snort and roll your eyes
"And even if they don't, most of the mortals of Chuan adore Huan, for reasons that should be obvious" Tianhua agrees "They might grumble, but she is the object of worship of the newly crowned royal clan and a folkhero of sorts"
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Sat 21 Jun 2025 22:12:36 No. 6262880 Report >>6262879 "Yes, its the other cultivators we must be concerned about, if they think Huanliuxue is denying them a chance of fame, glory and wealth, they might cause a ruckus. If they're witless enough to court death in such a manner." Master Su added, wagging a finger before loudly slurping his tea, golden droplets clinging to his grey and white beard
"I've got them all scared to death of me. No, more likley they'd just be a pain in the ass later if they think I've cheated them out of potential prizes and face. I was just going to have the other sect heads sit beside me to show there's no hard feelings and to soothe their egos a little." You hum, before a light of an idea dance across the eyes of the playboy golden shark
"What if we split the one on one fights into male and female brackets?" He suggests "Then no one can claim you're denying them their treasures or cutting down their renown"
What do you do, Huanliuxue
>Tell Xia that's a stupid idea and go forward with your plan and make sure the other sect heads are comfortable before starting the 1 v 1 matches >Declare you're going through with your idea, then make sure Yuanquan and Aodasheng haven't unearthed any ancient evil before starting the matches >Let Su, Lian and Xia discuss it, and get Monu to help you start making the Lunar Gu Organ you promised Qiang (Alchemical trial. DC Variable Higher result = better foundation for the Gu organ) >Agree with Xia's idea and decide to have there be a third final round where the winners of the two brackets face of for the grandest of prizes >Write in The google docs needs a bit of updating
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>>6262880 >Agree with Xia's idea canny.
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>>6262880 Fixed Fu, Qiang, Fequing, Ping's and monu's levels to their correct ones.
not adding Mowangzi until he joins the sect properly.
Not adding baby rabbits until they join a cultivation rank.
I think that's msot of everything unless I forgot about one of our bet items we won.
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>>6262880 >>Agree with Xia's idea and decide to have there be a third final round where the winners of the two brackets face of for the grandest of prizes Clever, sir. Clever.
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>>6262880 >Agree with Xia's idea and decide to have there be a third final round where the winners of the two brackets face of for the grandest of prizes Anonymous
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>>6262880 >>Tell Xia that's a stupid idea and go forward with your plan and make sure the other sect heads are comfortable before starting the 1 v 1 matches Anonymous
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>>6262880 >Let Su, Lian and Xia discuss it, and get Monu to help you start making the Lunar Gu Organ you promised Qiang (Alchemical trial. DC Variable Higher result = better foundation for the Gu organ) Anonymous
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>>6262880 >Let Su, Lian and Xia discuss it, and get Monu to help you start making the Lunar Gu Organ you promised Qiang (Alchemical trial. DC Variable Higher result = better foundation for the Gu organ) give me that special eye
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Tue 24 Jun 2025 01:00:49 No. 6264251 Report Meant to update today but I right as I was about to I get called and reminded of some obligations I have to my clan. I beg you juniors for your forgiveness. I'll try to end the vote and tally its result tomorrow where I'll hopefully not be as busy
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>>6264251 I can at least get the tally portion out of the way
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Unfortunately, I'm still busy with sect obligations. So I probably won't be able to update today, despite saying I would. I'll undergo whatever penance juniors deem fitting
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>>6264857 Make Monu's Monus bigger.
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>>6264934 Any bigger and they might become too much for the heavens to handle
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>>6265090 Then we shall overthrow the heavens!
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Thu 26 Jun 2025 00:05:38 No. 6265289 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote now. Sorry about that, but filial duties take precedence to all other matters
>>6264516 Thank you junior
So you'll agree with Xia's plan and move on with the tournament, splitting the 1 v1 matches into gendered brackets, with a third finale of the two winners facing off against eachother.
Update will arrive shortly
>>6264934 Junior incites a cataclysm, asking me to break an already broken void
>>6265090 Junior's wisdom is clear as autumnal waters
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Thu 26 Jun 2025 00:39:54 No. 6265309 Report Your lips part and your mouth opens to reprimand Jinse-Shayu almost on a reflex before your mind catches up and you considered the lord of the summer sea's suggestion. Gender doesn't determine how strong a cultivator can get, that falls to their innate talent and good fortune to be given a chance to be rewarded for their efforts, like you taking the tomb as your temple and nest and finding you had a peerless affinity for ghostly yin Qi. However, just because lady cultivators can equal their masculine counterparts, doesn't mean that human culture have realized this, despite such terrors as your magnificent self, your honored mother and the ogress causing havoc and staking bodies higher than any man.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Thu 26 Jun 2025 00:40:55 No. 6265312 Report >>6265309 "Well none of my disciples will be fighting" Tianhua hummed, tapping her fingers on the edge of her tea cup "But I do suppose it would prevent anyone from raising their voices in complaint or calling Huan here a miser, so I'll support it as well. Meaning all four heads of our alliance are in agreement"
"Usually we are" You answer and Su smirks
"Mostly because she and I have similar views, I feel, and Lord Xia is quick to roll over when the master of the tomb applies the slightest bit of pressure" He laughs
"Its called having a well honed survival instinct, little uncle" Xia brushes off, a flicker of his aura wrapping around the around him like a riptide shaped like a shark, but despite being a full realm lower than him Su just smirks
"He just knows how a subordinate should act" You cackle, grinning as you rise and pat the older cultivator on his back "And you should get ready for your matches, Uncle Zhe"
"I should, I should" He agrees, nodding as he turns to Tianhua and flashes a smirk that reminds you he has a trickster side underneath his grandfatherly and sagely exterior "Oh, and Lady Lian, I will be facing some of your sects meddling elders. They signed for the martial contest at the last second"
Tianhua's eyes sharpen
"I didn't have anything to do with it" You say, shocked that the alchemists and herb peddlers would risk their necks like that, even though a few of them had argued against becoming the Palace of natural laws' allies
"I may have incited them to, after a brief argument after the thousand lotus hall joined our alliance official" Su admits with a wry smile "I suppose they thought me the weak link"
"And had just enough sense to not approach Huanliuxue or make demands, now that they're under her protection" Xia snickered as Tianhua shook her head, looking neither amused nor outraged, with a truly neutral and apathetic expression "And worry you not, Lady Lotus, they haven't overstepped and wagered increasing their responsibilities to the alliance or to otherwise alter the hall's charter"
"Su, beat some sense into them" Tianhua hisses through her teeth
"I will not bully the weak" He answers with a shake of his head "But I will cool our disagreements in the ring, if possible. I am not without fault in this, but I think you may be surprised by the sharpness of your advisors fangs"
And you can't help but hope that bitch Yingtai got muscled into joining the fighting, so Monu has a chance to so her how easily a thorny flower wilts under poisonous air.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Thu 26 Jun 2025 00:42:08 No. 6265315 Report >>6265312 And what do you do now that the 1 v 1 fights are starting, Huanliuxue?
>Have the other alliance heads commentate on the fights by your side, and watch all of them excitedly >Take Tianhua aside and ask how her husband hunting is going, before your obligations force you to attend the contests >Find the elders of the lotus hall that are competing, and ask if they've suddenly gone suicidal and what they were arguing with master Su about >Decide to let some ghosts compete in the matches as well, just to make sure both brackets are the same size >write in Anonymous
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>>6265315 >Ask her how the husband hunting goes. Hmm. I'm sure we can suggest someone from. . Somewhere. I dunno, does she like nobles? We know a lot of nobles.
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>>6265315 >>Take Tianhua aside and ask how her husband hunting is going, before your obligations force you to attend the contests Does he have a broad beard or a long beard? Or, oh my, clean shaven?
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>>6265315 >Decide to let some ghosts compete in the matches as well, just to make sure both brackets are the same size Anonymous
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>>6265315 >Take Tianhua aside and ask how her husband hunting is going, before your obligations force you to attend the contests Anonymous
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>>6265315 >>Decide to let some ghosts compete in the matches as well, just to make sure both brackets are the same size we rule The living and the dead. we should give some rep to our less mortal fellows.
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>>6265315 >Have the other alliance heads commentate on the fights by your side, and watch all of them excitedly Oh yeah, have we mentioned the Red Dust Revival technique to Xuebai yet? Maybe get that out of the way so we can get an estimate on her strength.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Sat 28 Jun 2025 06:54:48 No. 6266644 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying its result now.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Sat 28 Jun 2025 07:34:52 No. 6266656 Report After the brief meeting, you ambush Lian Tianhua and drag her aside to one of the many currently unoccupied buildings of your second temple. Pulling her along is as easy as plucking a flower, though the ones in her hair are reacting strangely to the thick and heady Blood Qi in the air and the thick current of Primordial Beast Essence coursing through the Garden you'd built in the center of these ancient woods.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Sat 28 Jun 2025 07:35:53 No. 6266657 Report >>6266656 "Come on, I want to know!' You whine and shake her by her shoulders
"Why are you suddenly so interested in girl talk!" She loudly complains, trying to beat a retreat, but you blink to the door with the Phantom Cat's step and block her escape route "Do you want me to tell you about my childhood crushes, or hear me prattle about what clans would be open to an alliance by marriage, and which doors have been shut because of your and I's friendship"
"Yes" You answer monotonously and she groans and covers her face
"Even if that list includes some of your nephews from Xue?" She asks with a voice as delicate as a lily petal but as cutting as a honed blade
"EH?!" You shout and stomp towards her as she unfolds a fan from her sleeve and looks at you smugly
"Xue clan might be reduced and defanged, and have lost much of their good reputation, but one can't argue that their bloodline isn't impressive. Even you were impressed by them, considering how highly you talk about Xue Ming" She tells you "I saw how you praised his son, Xue Li"
"Aren't most of Long's brats married?" You ask
"He has a lot of sons" She says "He is your mother's child, even if he was raised away from her"
"Hey, only I'm allowed to make light of my mothers gluttony when it comes to lovers" You snap, poking her chest
"She does it herself" She reflects and you recoil and hiss, arcing your shoulders and back despite being in a human body "And I've also reluctantly considered a match with the Xia and the Shidi. The Shi are also on the table. As are the Disi-Ling and Mi and every other established and trustworthy Clan or family in Chuan"
"Sages of the shifting sands?"
"I said trustworthy' She giggles, and that makes you smirk'
What do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Try and dissuade Tianhua from looking for a Xue Husband, because you find the thought of it icky. >Decide to be a pest and bring up the matter to your "brother" Xue Long >Ask why she is only considering humans. Since beasts can obtain human forms, and powerful ghosts, devils, dragons...etc can to >Drop the subject, before Tianhua can ask you the same question, and just watch the fights >Write in Anonymous
>>6266657 She just said why she is only considering humans. Beasts lack any backing or bloodline of renown unless they appropriate those of a similar species as their own.
I think the Xue are a good idea though. It may go a way to pacifying our brother's sect by giving them a scrap of face to cling to.
and with their incredibly recent slam dunking, the political cost of the marriage is cheap!
>bring it up to long >Maybe try and push it along by giving him the first heads up Anonymous
>>6266657 >Jockingly suggest she borrow Luli's technique and grow herself a mushroom husband Anonymous
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>>6266674 That's funny. Her husband is full of shit.
>Add to >>6266661 Anonymous
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>>6266657 >Drop the subject, before Tianhua can ask you the same question, and just watch the fights Her sect is one of the most universally respected, so going for the very recently disgraced Winter Blossoming Sect sounds like it'd cause a loss of face. But also I can't think of a better alternative at the moment.
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>>6266657 >Drop the subject, before Tianhua can ask you the same question, and just watch the fights we can let her find her own husband or return to help her once she is more sure.
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>>6266657 >>Ask why she is only considering humans. Since beasts can obtain human forms, and powerful ghosts, devils, dragons...etc can to Anonymous
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>>6266657 I previously jokingly suggested Huan could grow a mushroom herself with blood sorcery but it doesn't seem Tianhua is that infatuated with Huan so there's no need for this.
I think I'll support whichever she chooses, even the Xue would be a decent match given it would normalize the relations between us and show we aren't out to destroy them further.
>Decide to be a pest and bring up the matter to your "brother" Xue Long ...Doesn't mean we can't rib the Xue about it though.
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>>6266657 >Drop the subject, before Tianhua can ask you the same question, and just watch the fights Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t
Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Tue 01 Jul 2025 14:41:12 No. 6268349 Report Ending the vote tallying its result now. Not feeling too well today, so the update may be a little short. Consider yourselves forewarned, Juniors
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Tue 01 Jul 2025 14:42:50 No. 6268350 Report Quoted By:
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Ask why she is only considering humans. Since beasts can obtain human forms, and powerful ghosts, devils, dragons...etc can to: 1
Part of the vote. Only noticed it was missing when I hit post
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Tue 01 Jul 2025 15:18:47 No. 6268361 Report However, as the smile curls on your lips, you receive a terrifying vision as you realize that if you keep pestering Lady Lian about her love light, she may retaliate by asking you the same question. Which would be embarrassing, more embarrassing than any of your other blunders and mistakes and while you don't think Tianhua has the guts to bully you, the risk of someone, somehow overhearing the conversation that would be sure to follow is far to high for you to gamble testing her patience and tolerance for your teasing and mischief.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Tue 01 Jul 2025 15:19:48 No. 6268363 Report >>6268361 "I am not going to ask how exactly you did that, Huan" She says, with all the severity of a sage delivering some great and lofty wisdom.
None of the attending sects raise any complaints when you send messengers to their heads and grandmaster explaining the change in schedule and the splitting of the brackets. They barely seem to care and at most ask for more time for their Core Formation level contestants time to separately prepare and practice before their matches, after asking which of the two gendered brackets would start first. Well, they're apathetic until your messengers bring up the ultimate final match and the promise of an even greater reward to be won besides what is expected to be given to the victor of either individual bracket. Then they start to train my more intensely and there are a few requests from panicked elders who, thinking they have a shot at being the strongest of their realm in chuan or perhaps blinded by avarice and the possibilities of what the grand prize could possibly, plead to be allowed more time to prepare and improve their odds.
And all the discussions between the sects turn to what sorts of magical tools, artifacts, weapons, talismans and other battle and cultivation aids the elders of the sects will bring into the contest to try and weigh the chances in their favor. For whatever reason, aiming to get a shot to win the very last match has really excited the Core Formation experts and has them scrambling to strengthen and refine themselves as much as possible right before their matches to get even a sliver of a better chance to win.
Except for Monu, who you tell this to when you find her resting after the monster slaying contests, covered in medicinal salved soaked bandages and a few splotches of unseemly looking curatives, sipping at a bottle of her favorite brand of paint thinner, kaoliang wine and smoking the opium she mixes crushed spirit stones into
"Is there a reason for me to panic?" She asks languidly, leaning against Chuandapo's shell as the girl naps in the shade, probably knocked out from either the wine or the smoke rising from your mother's silver pipe "I'm being supported by both of my daughters, Heh-Heh-Heh, That Gu you've fed me has made me feel stronger than I have in decades and I'm sure its potent enough to be a dragon killer. And Xuebai's body has been cut to a razor's edged blade, that has a particular affinity for the ice sorcery I practice alongside my poisoner arts, Heh-Heh-Heh. With both on my side, I'm a shoe in to get the biggest prize!"
"Are you disappointed that our mother isn't frantic, little Huan?" The ghost of your elder sister yawned, at her most adorable looking like a little snow fox kit "Mama has no reason to panic and every reason to be confident, she's right that she has an advantage. Poisoners are a rarity and few cultivators expect to run into one of her level. Its why she had so many scary epithets when she was younger"
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Tue 01 Jul 2025 15:20:49 No. 6268364 Report >>6268363 "Besides, I might have time to sober up if some of the sects find something to bribe you with, to get you to delay the matches a little. I could perform alchemy while shitfaced, if you do bend to bribery, My sweet Huan, Heh-Heh-Heh" She cackles, breathing out a cloud of fragrant smoke from her nostrils, her eyes glimmering "Besides, if I lose, I'll at least deny my opponent their shot at first place. Such is the danger when handling a poisonous toad like my beautiful self, Heh-Heh-Heh"
What do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Ignore the pleas of the contestants and push the 1 v 1 fights to start immediately, after placing a few bets on your honored mother, of course >Takes Xuebai aside and tell her about the red dust revival and use the excuse of considering the pleas of the contestants to work towards giving her a second shot of life, as a surprise for Monu after Core Formation level Martial contest ends >Openly ask for bribes to convince you if you should switch the martial arts contest with a different one to let the fighters get some more last minute training in >Decide that for the crime of daring to think they can demand you to do anything, the beggars will be the first in the ring and you'll have the two brackets going side by side to make certain none of them weasel away to do a bit of training >Write in Anonymous
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>>6268364 >Ignore the pleas of the contestants and push the 1 v 1 fights to start immediately, after placing a few bets on your honored mother, of course Anonymous
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>>6268364 >Ignore the pleas. We are gonna heal her anyway. And it would deprive monu of her weapon.
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>>6268364 >Take Xuebai aside and tell her about the red dust revival and use the excuse of considering the pleas of the contestants to work towards giving her a second shot of life, as a surprise for Monu after Core Formation level Martial contest ends. Nothing is impossible in the world of cultivation!
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>>6268364 >Takes Xuebai aside and tell her about the red dust revival and use the excuse of considering the pleas of the contestants to work towards giving her a second shot of life, as a surprise for Monu after Core Formation level Martial contest ends Anonymous
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>>6268364 >>Takes Xuebai aside and tell her about the red dust revival and use the excuse of considering the pleas of the contestants to work towards giving her a second shot of life, as a surprise for Monu after Core Formation level Martial contest ends be grateful juniors, we are granting you the time it takes to finish a cup of tea and for incense to burn before we test your might.
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>>6268364 >Takes Xuebai aside and tell her about the red dust revival and use the excuse of considering the pleas of the contestants to work towards giving her a second shot of life, as a surprise for Monu after Core Formation level Martial contest ends I'm sure Monu and Feiqing can make something equivalent to the scythe similarly to how she made Ghost Empress Melody from our whiskers. That and I imagine having her daughter alive would be a perfect reward.
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>>6268364 >>6268364 #>Takes Xuebai aside and tell her about the red dust revival and use the excuse of considering the pleas of the contestants to work towards giving her a second shot of life, as a surprise for Monu after Core Formation level Martial contest ends What level was the fox anyways? Foundation?
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 04 Jul 2025 18:47:05 No. 6269820 Report Quoted By:
Ending the Vote, tallying its result now.
Ignore the pleas of the contestants and push the 1 v 1 fights to start immediately, after placing a few bets on your honored mother, of course: 2
Takes Xuebai aside and tell her about the red dust revival and use the excuse of considering the pleas of the contestants to work towards giving her a second shot of life, as a surprise for Monu after Core Formation level Martial contest ends:5
Alright, so you'll take your Late elder sister aside and tell her about the red dust revival ritual and begin work towards giving her a second chance at life
update will arrive shortly
>>6268544 Thanks for the well wishes, Junior, but I'm still not feeling better unfortunately,
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 04 Jul 2025 19:58:05 No. 6269840 Report "As treacherous as ever, aren't you mother. Dangerous as a toxic lotus blossom" You titter and praise, flicking your tail and nodding your head, as you shoot Xuebai's got a mischievous look that's sure to lure her spirit away from your mother's side as she sips at the uncorked bottle of Kaoliang wine she's holding by the neck. Xuebai's fox ears perk up and her spiritual form distorts, multiple orange red eyes sprouting along her neck as her tails flicker and dance like the last flames licking at bones upon a funerary pyre.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 04 Jul 2025 19:59:06 No. 6269842 Report >>6269840 "Jingyu's madness was your own doing" You point out "But I didn't bring you here to mock you"
"Of course, we're here to play a prank, a art I need to teach you the finer points of. You should've seen the sort of mischief I got up to when I was alive" She cackles, swirling around you, half frigid mist and half monsterous fox demon as you yawn and stretch out your fore and back paws "So, whose the target you have in mind? The Xue might've rolled over and showed their bellies, but we can still kick them while they're down. Or we can make life hell for those mangy mutts in the marsh, make the little fishes swimming behind you happy or..."
"Oh, we're playing a trick, not a prank. And a life and afterlife long trickster like yourself should know the difference. Elder sister" You dully remark, licking the back of your paw idly, and now you had her full attention
"Oh~?" She asked, creeping along the ground, looking more like she must have had in life "Something a bit more impactful than throwing some stuffy monks and self righteous daoists into disorder and chaos? Something like the fun I got up to once I'd gotten a bit of strength and additional tails?"
"Perhaps. I want to perform a Heathen ritual that'd even the maniac heretics attending this festival of talent may balk at" You explain and Xuebai yips and laughs excitedly
"Heh-Heh-Heh! And here I was worried you'd gotten to many self inflicted responsibilities to be fun, Sister" She cheers "Oh do explain further, what sort of wicked rite shall we perform, to remind the worlds for as sweet and kindly as you can be, you are still a witch by the name of bloodshed!"
"Well, it is a complete perversion of Daoist scripture, Buddhist beliefs and other faiths surely. Invented by that most foul villain, that monstrous eater of souls" You begin, as your elder sister listens with rapt attention "An affront to the natural laws I consider myself a follower of. The ritual to truly cheat death"
"Oh~?" She snickers, catching on quickly "I should've known you had such a potent sorcery up your sleeve, sister, considering the name you'd given your cultivation law"
"I learned it later, half a vision and half a nightmare gave me the insight to perform the ritual" You explain, wagging a paw in the air, idly trying to catch a butterfly or a moth "It is a most offensive and profane incantation, a rite unknown to all but the most wretched. I didn't wish to learn it, but the knowledge of it was perhaps drawn to me, as the cultivator most apt to perform the rite"
"Of course you who wallows in blood and corpses alike would have good affinity with such a ritual" Xuebai reflects "Oh stop drawing this out and taunting me, what is the road to get my body back? I'd walk it if even if it was paved by the corpses of nine generations"
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 04 Jul 2025 20:00:07 No. 6269843 Report >>6269842 "It is unique for each case" You explain, liking the mental image of such a gruesome road if nothing else "A necromantic array must be established and fortified, a portion of the soon to be resurrected must be transformed into an divine idol and enshrined, turned into a vessel of both prayers and curses, blessings and maledictions. The enshrined remains must be from their original body, the corpse they left behind"
"Hmm, but the biggest piece of me left is currently in our mother's hands and serving her well as a cruel blade" She points out "It'd be distasteful to take her weapon from her hand, right before she flies into a fight"
"Tch, Mom doesn't fight hand to hand unless she can't avoid it. She relies mostly on spells, curses and poisons" You scoff "The only issue is that I'd prefer to keep this hush hush, to make it a surprise for her'
"Oh so that's the trick we're playing" Xuebai, understanding now, titters like you were playing to buy your mother a gift rather than wrench the great wheel of transmigration and force it to turn backwards
"Yes, we must force the stars to flee the sky, which I alone am capable of" You boast, and sit up, sneering wickedly as you haven't done since you got a taste for good deeds and selfless acts "and choke out the winds until they fall still. When there is no light to weaken the darkness, and even the crickets and crows have become mute..."
"Yes, Yes" Your sister urges, growing more impatient by the second
You groan and bare your teeth, thoroughly annoyed
"The enshrined corpse must be presented a sacrifice as great as it was in life. But that's enough, certain treasures must also be present, to cheat the gods of death, Fool king yama and twist the wheel of life back to return a single life" You explain "I don't know the stage you reached before you died..."
"I've grown stronger in death, will that complicate this rebirth?" She asks
"It might" You answer, as post mortem refinements may make the soul a bit more rowdy and difficult to fit back into its body, now that you think about it "But I've never performed this ritual before, it is an afront the natural order of life and death"
"And I am truly touched you'd go against your principles for my benefit, little sister" Xuebai chirps sweetly
You smile gently, and continue to explain "But to make the mortal red dust you were reduced to sprout life anew, we need earthly treasures, divine artifacts, and demonic & cursed tools alike and things much more vile. To force the divine and demonic to meet, to paint with yin and yang through the abomination of the performance, to celebrate the life we deny King Yama from judging "
You pause, as for a split second, you were standing in the place of the wretched soul eater, standing before the gagged and bound jade beauty they explained this rite to before sacrificing her, hearing his voice as your own. But the day dream is banished with a jolt and shake of your head
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 04 Jul 2025 20:01:20 No. 6269844 Report >>6269843 "The sacrifice is a bribe, of both material and spiritual wealth, to prevent transmigration" You say and suddenly your sister's expression turns grave and frightened "I know how souls are bartered, and roughly what makes one equivalent in worth to another. We'll swap one soul for yours upon Yama's scales, and steal you back to this flawed, injustice mortal world. But first, we must stand on the threshhold between life and death, and create a boundary or force it to appear, it isn't clear to me yet. But to make it appear or to bring it about, we must first create a gate..."
<span class="mu-s"> Yes....We must. Will you be the teacher or the student? Are you the gate I saw that day, or was that vision naught but an illusion of a sickened mind? </span>
And though it is leagues away, and buried beneath miles of grave soil, funerary stones and warding talismans and arrays, the soul eater's diary whispers reach your ears and sends a chill down your spine
"We must create a gate" You repeat, steeling yourself "To blur the boundaries between day and night, death and life, melt them like frost meeting light. Only then can The Great King Yama be cheated and the wheel turned back, for a single"
<span class="mu-s"> Pitiful, Fleeting </span>
"Soul" You answer, and notice your sister seems less enthused, her ears flat against her skull, which is half revealed through her transluscent, ethereal "flesh"
"...Maybe" She meekly starts "I'm just saying, that this is sounding a little too grievous and severe, all a bit too serious and dangerous. It took less for me to be branded a demon"
"Birth" You snap and she winces and shies away "Your birth was all it took, Xuebai, as it would have for me. It was an injustice for you to die, even if you spent most of your life troubling others and causing mayhem to amuse yourself. If it takes an injustice to right that wrong, than I have less than no regrets"
"I'm just saying, little sister, it feels like we're dabbling in something beyond...well, something that is great...Something that you...we don't understand" She meekly squeaks and you frown
"And? It is in a cat's nature to be proud! Don't mince words, you think this is beyond me! That the Hóngchénfùxīng (Red Dust Revival 红尘复兴), is of a realm out of my reach! Hah, if the shitty devourer of souls could come up with it, I can refine and perform it!" You declare loudly, and remember Aodasheng and Five colors' words of wisdom as you defiantly draw your line in the sand "Any technique, any art is acceptable, so long as I deem it to be so! The path in life I walk is only defined by the lines I refuse to cross, and bending the laws of life and death to suit my own needs, hah! It isn't as awful as consuming or destroying souls, as unnatural and perverse of a rite as it is! And it'll prove to all, on heaven and earth and in hell that I! Huanliuxue! Am the true ruler of the great wheel and show that the name of my method is no idle boast"
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 04 Jul 2025 20:02:37 No. 6269845 Report >>6269844 "....Well, I...I guess that makes sense" Xuebai says weakly "W...where do we start"
"Good question elder sister. And besides getting you a spine and some courage?" You, still irritated by her doubts and second guessing "I suppose we should..."
Where do you start the preparations for Xuebai's Red Dust Revival, Huanliuxue?
>The collection of Divine artifacts/relics/ Tools. Luckily, there should be one in the center of Chuan, dropped in the middle of a great lake >The Gathering of Demonic and Cursed Tools and Treasures. Fortunately, you have a map that shows hidden grotos, Ao is a graverobber, and if those two ways fail, you can always take a trip down to the yellow springs >The finding of earthly treasures and the other ritual materials. It won't be hard to find corpse fat and bones, but the more profrane substances will be a bit more trying to find. And you can always barter for treasures from other sects, or steel them >Finding a suitable live sacrifice. Xuebai was in life, late foundation establishment stage and while she's grown stronger in death, she hasn't transcend to the core formation realm yet >Creating and preparing the ritual site and creating the necromantic array the ritual will be empowered by >Write in Anonymous
>>6269845 >>The finding of earthly treasures and the other ritual materials. It won't be hard to find corpse fat and bones, but the more profrane substances will be a bit more trying to find. And you can always barter for treasures from other sects, or steel them I feel like this one will draw the least attention. No demons to feel the draw of evil gubbins. No divine aura to attract the gaze of the gods. No heeby jeebies at suddenly having a horrific ritual site in your backyard.
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>>6269845 >Earthly treasures. Her timidity is amusing, and a sign of what seperates her from greatness.
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>>6269845 >The finding of earthly treasures and the other ritual materials. It won't be hard to find corpse fat and bones, but the more profrane substances will be a bit more trying to find. And you can always barter for treasures from other sects, or steel them Finding the sacrifice should be the last step, because otherwise we would have to hold a late foundation establishment cultivator prisoner for an unknown amount of time
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>>6269845 >The finding of earthly treasures >>6269846 I guess starting from the more normal ritual ingredients shouldn't draw too much attention. So you have my support on this vote.
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>>6269845 >>Write in Traveling to the underworld so that we may also learn how Yama and his denizens may even observe the living from the position of the dead, allowing us to know where his gaze falls so that our work may be best hidden. (we were planning on going to hell anyway, the best way to know how to use slight of hand against the judge of all the dead is to make sure we understand how his eyes and ears work within the realm he rules over, and the destination of the soul we would send his way in our deception.)
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>>6269993 Not a bad idea at all!
We could probably combine it with the cursed treasures too since we're there.
>>6269845 I'll change my vote
>>6269945 To scouting out in hell.
(Also lol, my post is off one number from grampa's post)
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>>6269845 Would the guy who mishandled us before our trial still alive? The last time I remember of him, he was given special treatment by Monu. Would he qualify as a suitable sacrifice?
>>6269993 supporting
>Traveling to the underworld so that we may also learn how Yama and his denizens may even observe the living from the position of the dead, allowing us to know where his gaze falls so that our work may be best hidden. (we were planning on going to hell anyway, the best way to know how to use slight of hand against the judge of all the dead is to make sure we understand how his eyes and ears work within the realm he rules over, and the destination of the soul we would send his way in our deception.) this should be combined with
>Creating and preparing the ritual site and creating the necromantic array the ritual will be empowered by Would the place in the underworld of the "not"-necromancers who gave Ping special training be suitable? Maybe they find the ritual interesting and help us out.
We should shift our worst actions to the Underworld: the things considered "natural" can be different there. Especially when it comes to utilising souls as a good to trade with. And if things go bad, the chances of accidentally injuring someone with good Karma is extremely low.
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>>6269845 >>6269993 +1
This trip will be well worthwhile. I wonder if we'll meet a second Baoli down there this time, or even meet the crow himself down there!
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A little spooked by the book speaking to our mind from kilometers away, but fuck it we ball for our sister.
>>6269845 >The finding of earthly treasures and the other ritual materials. It won't be hard to find corpse fat and bones, but the more profrane substances will be a bit more trying to find. And you can always barter for treasures from other sects, or steel them >>6270538 I imagine the fool is being kept in some stay bordering between life and death, but yeah good call for checking him as a sacrifice.
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Ending the vote, tallying its result now. Starting to feel better.
The finding of earthly treasures and the other ritual materials. It won't be hard to find corpse fat and bones, but the more profrane substances will be a bit more trying to find. And you can always barter for treasures from other sects, or steal them: 4
Traveling to the underworld so that we may also learn how Yama and his denizens may even observe the living from the position of the dead, allowing us to know where his gaze falls so that our work may be best hidden: 5
Creating and preparing the ritual site and creating the necromantic array the ritual will be empowered by:1
Narrow victory to travel to the underworld and try to learn King Yama and his servant's secrets to observing the living to see where his gaze doesn't reach to best do the work in secret
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Pretty sure this is the first time since Huan will have traveled to hell since unlocking the Karmic wheel/ attaining positive Karma. Which will be interesting, considering that one of the effects of that is making her flesh a delicacy to demons
>>6270769 There is a reason Huan put it under so many protections, that diary is probably the most cursed artifact in the palace of natural law's possession
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Tue 08 Jul 2025 01:33:44 No. 6271508 Report "By going to hell of course, my dear elder sister" You snicker as she tilts her head, confused for a moment before a look of realization flashes across her eyes
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Tue 08 Jul 2025 01:34:45 No. 6271510 Report >>6271508 and you're able to appear in the dreary, grey skied hell, right outside of the gates of the city you spend most of your time and usually visit when you take a trip to hell. But, you notice immediately that something is different about the atmosphere, the marrow chilling air, thick with deathly yin Qi, is the same as it's always been, and the sights, scents and tastes in the air are still as soothing to the soul as they've always been for you. No, its the way the denizens of hell, the hungry ghosts, tormented spirits and conniving demons look at and act around you that's changed.
And you know why that is. Ever since you've formed your flawless golden core and become widely worshipped as a benevolent deity, something inside of your flesh has become like catnip for devils. The good karma you've accumulated, probably has turned your meat into something like a saint or a buddhas. And those are delicacy for demons, even one who'd been one in a past life thought you smelled tasty.
But, that's nothing for you to be concerned about. You're leagues above the strongest of demons here! There's nothing for you to fear at all. They might slaver over getting a bite out of you, but, just like in the world of the living above, none of them are worthy of the body of Huanliuxue. Smiling smugly, you flick your hair out of your eyes, wearing one of your favorite pieces of underworld fashion.
The long sashed dress patterned with spider webs and bleeding bones. Not the most daring or revealing assemble in your underworld wardrobe, but, while you're certain you can beat off any demon stupid enough to think to make a meal of the mighty happy bloodshed, that doesn't mean you've encourage them by showing off all of the meat on your bones. Even if the idea of being salivated over by demons and long dead ghosts does have a certain charm to it there's no reason to shower yourself in onions sauce before leaping into a lion's den, after all. Besides, if you want to revel in attention, you can always switch to one of your more bold outfits later.
"Sister..." Xuebai mutters cautiously "They're looking at you like a meat pie"
"And how is that any different from how men and plenty of girls look at me in the world of the living?" You titter
"They want to rut with you, not eat you and pick their teeth with your bones" She hisses, eyes flaring bright blue and searing like the open sky after a winter storm
"Hmm, how best do you think my corpse would be prepared? I think sliced up thin and raw, with the bones roasted and the offal fried in fragant chili oil, Heh-Heh" You tease her as you saunter elegantly down the street, which clears before you as you hear whispers of Wuyashashou (Crow Killer 乌鸦杀手) But they're also calling you Shèngtú Wuyashashou (Saint Crow Killer, 圣徒 乌鸦杀手) and Youlingmaogege (Specter Cat Princess, 幽灵 猫 格格), which are pleasing to your ears.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Tue 08 Jul 2025 01:35:46 No. 6271511 Report >>6271510 Though more trouble than the hungry stares of the demons, thrown your eyes from the lowest of goblins and imps to the gentry and nobles walking amongst the slums, those who look almost human except for a few tells and deformities, is how many of the pitiful dead throw themselves like supplicants at your feet, the ghostly lower class awaiting reincarnation clinging to your legs and clawing at your feet as they cry and beg you to show them way to their next life or the heavens, some going so far as to try and lift up your bare feet to kiss them or wheeping into the hems of your dress or showing you stones carved in the shape of still borns to try and sway your heart.
And unsettlingly, their pleas do reach your heart and give you pause as they swarm around you, a sea of the mournful dead and rotting corpses, weeping and begging and swearing oaths and promises to do better in their next life and the urge to help them slows you down more than having to wade through the mob of them does.
"Lady Crow killer" A somewhat familiar voice rasps, and you frown and turn to see a familiarish face, one of the countless siblings of your favorite tailor and weaver Anjing-Yinshi (安靜-隐士, Quiet Hermit), Heizhizhu (黑蜘蛛, Dark Spider) Bāmóushā (八谋杀 , Eight Murders), her elder brother if you recall correctly "You've only grown bolder since you've leapt over the dragon's gate"
"Hah, I'm no carp! And I wasn't expecting to see you, still have the arms I tore off of you in storage you know" You greet him jubilantly, bouncing over to him as Xuebai curls around your neck protectively like a fur scar "Say, say, no one's put a bounty on my head, have they? Surely you can see I'm much too strong for you to rematch me now, as you are now at least, at least if you'd want any of a chance of winning"
"No" He answer simply to both of your questions "But, you've attracted more attention than you usually do, and you must know why"
"I look quite the treat don't I?" You ask with a mocking flirtatious tone and he shuts his eight red eyes narrow "A delicacy as prized as jade, Heh-Heh"
"You do realize, that old monsters still dwell in hell, unlike your peaceable mortal realm? That we've not grown indulgent and complacent like the heavens? Even if the strongest have kept us from taking advantage of the era of weakness?" He asks softly
"Figured there were, why I came here because I wanted to know more about the one sitting at the tippy top of this everyman against every one else hierarchy" You answer chipperly, as you shuffle closer to him and lean close enough so the warmth of your living breath will wash over his face, just to see how he'd react
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Tue 08 Jul 2025 01:36:47 No. 6271512 Report >>6271511 "You should think about finding some protection" He warns, averting all eight of his eyes as you push up your chest with your arms, as he miraculously maintains focus and composure, retaining his etiquette and gentlemanly bearing" You've gotten strong, but down here, we have more than memories of when the mightiest made the heavens tremble"
"Well, let them try to sink their teeth in me, see how I compare to the monsters of old" You huff and sneer "Eight murders, you should know I don't turn tail and run away easily, its why I'm called crow killer"
"And why, I imagine, the Crow Demon Clan flew back to roost after slipping up into the world of mortals" He adds, sounding truly impressed "And why they've been cawing about being in the employ of the Bloody Moon Spirit, Huanliuxue"
"Need to pluck a few birds I see~" You purr as you hop away from him, getting bored of testing his self control and tormenting him with your scent and good looks
"You need to hire bodyguards" He replies, hand reaching for his sword "I've got stronger siblings, and our mother is feeling generous today. I'm confident she'd be no miser in negotiations if you'd asked for a few blades of the spider demon clan"
"Oh?" You asks innocently, tilting your head to the side and smiling, turning your teeth into jugular tearing fangs "Do you really think I need protection that badly, old eight murders?"
"Yes. The elders like to allow their juniors to play and struggle against eachother, rarely rising to act themselves or doing more than flicking their sleeve to deal with would be usurpers, but, when a prize such as yourself, rich in treasures and Qi, from the hair on your head to the marrow inside of your bones, they take notice and rouse themselves" He answers with a harsh, barking tone "And, among all daoist saints, you are a particularly sought after delicacy, on the road to the divinity, suffused with faith and prayers, radiating with rare Qi and generating spiritual powers, with mysterious treasures gained from places no devil has ever reached. I'm sure you'd win if one of the beasts more brawn than brains tried to claim you, but the truly cunning would simply sit back and observe, waiting for their chance to strike. And they've had centuries to perfect themselves as schemers"
"My my, how scaaaary~~ If only I was an easily frigthened girl, rather than a lethal threat myself, Heh...Heh " You titter, to hide the fact that Eight murders incessantness about you finding guards and the danger of waltzing around like you own the place starts to make you worry and feel something you haven't felt in a while, fear for yourself and doubt about your safety and supremacy
"We're offering a discount for our usual services, Lady Crow Killer" He reminds you, both about his family's offer and his nature as a demon, despite how he outwardly acts with honor and chivalry.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Tue 08 Jul 2025 01:37:49 No. 6271514 Report >>6271512 "How much of a discount, could we lower it further, since there's two of us here?" Xuebai asks meekly
"Crow Killer is known to be wealthy in souls" He answers with a miser's sneer "The discount is in terms of the rates we ask of our wealthiest customers"
Slimy son of a bitch!
<span class="mu-s"> Double Vote </span>
Do you listen to Eight Murders' warnings?
>Yes, and take him up on the Spider Demon Clan's offer for discounted hiring rates, and meet their matriarch >Yes, but instead of paying for protection, Call Aodasheng and his "surviving" officers, and take full advantage of your status as their Master >No, but suppress your Qi and spiritual presence signifigantly and disguise yourself with Chimeric transformation (QI Control trial. DC 145) >Laugh and despite being somewhat frightened, brag loudly that anything that tried to make a meal of you would become yours instead! And how do you try and investigate King Yama's blindspot, Huanliuxue?
>By simply observing new souls as they arrive and watching how they're taken to the seat of his thrown (Perception trial. DC 94) >By asking the society of undying alchemists who trained Ping to share what they know about Yama. >By brushing shoulders with the underworld elite and simply asking them about it directly (Cunning Trial. DC 130) >By seeking out one of his aids/ servants and seeing if you could trick or beat the information out of them >Write in Anonymous
Offhand when was the last time the mc tried personally cultivating?
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>>6271514 >>Yes, and take him up on the Spider Demon Clan's offer for discounted hiring rates, and meet their matriarch Allies in hell?
The Crows and Spiders are macabre enough for us indeed.
>By simply observing new souls as they arrive and watching how they're taken to the seat of his thrown (Perception trial. DC 94) the easiest, and most direct, and important part of the process. The soul we slip in would be coming in the exact same way, so this is what we wish to see the most.
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>>6271534 Rank/ stage advancing cultivation? Quite a while ago. Juniors are building up their bonus for the roll, its gotten quite big
For technique refinement/ new abilities, a few threads ago when Huan invented a new healing art bases off of mingling ghostly and blood qis
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>>6271514 >Yes, and take him up on the Spider Demon Clan's offer for discounted hiring rates, and meet their matriarch By simply observing new souls as they arrive and watching how they're taken to the seat of his thrown (Perception trial. DC 94)
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>>6271514 >Yes, and take him up on the Spider Demon Clan's offer for discounted hiring rates, and meet their matriarch It might just be a trap to get first pick at us by drawing Huan to wander into the spiderweb herself so I would exercise caution.
But also it's best not to risk being without protection, and calling Ao and the others here while we want to observe Yama might risk them being judged next I fear.
>By asking the society of undying alchemists who trained Ping to share what they know about Yama. They might be focused only on alchemy but surely they also remember when they met judgement and how it went.
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>>6271514 >Yes, and take him up on the Spider Demon Clan's offer for discounted hiring rates, and meet their matriarch I doubt he himself can do much to harm us as we beat him when we were two stages lower
>By simply observing new souls as they arrive and watching how they're taken to the seat of his thrown (Perception trial. DC 94) >>6271534 Last time I believe was when we went all out and jumped up to Golden Core which was maybe 15 threads ago. Though we have developed some new techniques in the interim (also got a whole new qi type and temple with built in goodies we haven’t fully looked into yet). Plus we will get some personal training done for the Golden Core tournament fights and later our war with the Ling, I still recall how close our fight with Ao was so we do need some more experience.
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>>6271514 >No, but suppress your Qi and spiritual presence signifigantly and disguise yourself with Chimeric transformation (QI Control trial. DC 145) We're going spying, after all
>By seeking out one of his aids/ servants and seeing if you could trick or beat the information out of them Anonymous
>>6271549 >>6271874 actually very good point, we will be in deep in Yama's grounds, we don't want to attract attention. Changing my first vote to this.
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>>6271874 >>6272092 Given that we're going to see Yama the judge of souls I wonder if it's wise to try and get in with a disguised form that doesn't resemble our soul.
Wouldn't it be really obvious that we're up to something? (And demons can sniff out good karma so no disguise is going to hide that, though it might impede them from ID us as Huan or our cultivation level so it still has it's merits).
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Ending and tallying the vote now.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 11 Jul 2025 04:15:25 No. 6273215 Report But you bite down on and hold your tongue, stopping it from lashing and showing your displeasure at the blatant greed of the brother of one of your treasured friends. Instead, composing yourself and training you expression into one of regal geniality, you smile softly and hold your arms out straight, hands flat and stiff like a corpse's in rigor mortis, and dip down in a quick bow which is all your pride will allow.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 11 Jul 2025 04:16:26 No. 6273216 Report >>6273215 A few seem to recognize you, and you imagine that's because they'd seen you killing other devils as practice or from your slaughter of their more loutish younger siblings who'd been bullying poor Anjing-Yinshi. And you hear a few whispered "looks tasty" as you're guided into the heart of the spider demons communal web.
"These are the original weavings of the Heizhizhu family" Bamousha explains, stopping atop a crumbling stone tower held up by golden threads, where a fat bodied spider demoness with a starved human body sprouting from where her eyes should be watches a dozen blood red threads
"Anjing-Yinshi's cat friend?" She rasps "What are you doing, bringing her to our palace, Little brother"
"She's a paying customer, Guiding Thread" He answer, bowing and showing submission to his sister
"She hasn't paid yet" She huffs, as one of the strings she's watching starts to jump and wobble "Tch, very well, take her to the center, one of our clients has gotten themselves into trouble"
"The red strings are for our elite customers" Bamousha explains as the demoness clambers down the tower "They are tethered to their body, usually the finger or throat, but if they pay extra the heart. With a twitch of the finger, a halting of breath or a raised heart beat, they summon their hired guards who'll arrive in an instant"
"A sales pitch, right before I start negotiating?" You as, now more amused than offended
"Mother doesn't like to waste her breath one needless words" He explains, as you follow him off of the tower and into a garden strangled by webs, with still living demons and souls thrashing and struggling in great cocoons as demons with completely human bodies move between them, revealing long fangs before biting down and slurping loudly as they draw out the partially liquidfied meat and life force from their imprisoned snacks. Spider Demons with a human form, are beautifully pale and have black eyes by solid white hair. And besides their pointed ears, their long fangs are the only sign that they're anything but human. You watched, transfixed, as they have their feast.
"You are welcome to join us in our meals, once you've signed a contract" Bamousha says with a wink of four of his eyes, as the ground shifts beneath your feet "Ah, the matriarch is awake! That means you'll be able to negotiate with her directly"
You nod, Xuebai's souls hiding in the sleeve of your robes, trembling as you walk through the halls of a palace that is more a ruin than anything else and you can sense a ancient grudge soaked into its foundations. The Dark Spider Clan must've stolen it from its previous owner, that can be the only explanation for why the walls themselves weep with resentment.
"None of us come this deep, when our matriarch is resting" Bamousha explains quietly "She has a habit of cannibalizing her young when she is asleep, such is her gluttony. A trait which was passed down to many of my siblings, many of them prefer to live as animals but..."
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 11 Jul 2025 04:17:27 No. 6273217 Report >>6273216 "Little Bamou" A sultry, tired voice reverberates through the ground, and thickens in the air and you have to give yourself a jolt of adrenaline by gripping your heart with the blood inside of it as you feel a demonic magic in the voice begin to slip into your brain from your ears, lulling and soothing your brain. Strings begin to wiggle and draw closer to your escort
"Mother, I'm here on business" He answers sternly, and they retract, and the floors and walls peel back, held together only be a string so fine that even your sharp eyes can barely perceive it as existing yet that you can tell are stronger than any spider demon silk you'd passed in coming to the lair of what your martial and animal and ghostly instincts are screaming is an apex predator. You nearly crush your own heart, your chest fluttering, as you catch sight of eight eyes that before you seem to rival the size of the full moon in the sky, vermillion and burning. And you understand, for a brief moment of awe and horror, that the matriarch of the Heizhizhu Clan is so ginormous that her body holds up the entirety of their palace.
Before the entire palace slackens and sinks downwards so suddenly you're thrown to the floor and yowl as you claw at the ground, regretting showing up as a human before partially transforming your arms and legs into paws and claws to hang on, sprouting a tail, cat ears and whiskers to assist with keeping balanced as the ground collapses into a sink hold that could swallow all of Suiqi including the primordial tree you grew in the middle of it.
And, as you hang onto a collapsing, drooping wall held up only by tiny strings, a long legged woman with flowing white hair covering her body that you can only tell isn't bare from the flashes of black silk as she swaggers forward. A beauty to rival your own, despite the eight languid, lazy looking eyes on her face and the fangs peeking out over her plush, pink lips. And her figure certainly is matronly.
"Ah, is that the whelp that Baby Anjing hired to kill some of her clutch mates?" She drawls, and you feel a rising pressure as your spiritual senses fill your mind's eye with the mental image and sensation of a thousand tiny spiders crawling over, drowning and then crushing you as she speaks, tapping a finger to her lips "Didn't we make peace with her, after you lost your little arms to her"
You blink, suppressing the flight or fight instinct down as you, beneath the incredible pressure and aura of menace that the spider queen projects, sense that she is a realm above you through the torrents of sticky and clingy Qi radiating from her body. She is at least the equivalent of a Nascent Soul realm cultivator
"Hmm, she smells like wild grass and fresh blood" She hums as she saunters up to you and leans over you, a shadow of a gigantic spider's head looming behind her as you refuse to duck or cower
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 11 Jul 2025 04:18:28 No. 6273218 Report >>6273217 "Wuyashashou is in need of our protection services, Mama" Bamousha says as she kneels down and starts flicking your notched ear while you stand as firm and stoically as you can "Lady Wuyashashou, this is the first of the Dark Spider Clan, the original. Heizhizhu herself. The devourer of the Duchess of Torment, underling of the late Supreme Devil Mind. Sole brood mother of Spider Demons, after she consumed all the rest. The unifier of our species, and the underworld assassination rings."
"Ah, that's right, little beasties like her got mistaken for demons, is that why she's so comfortable down here, Bamou?" She asks, now pulling on your intact ear
"I just like the sight of the dead" You answer, staring straight into the eyes of a remnant of the old, pre five wise immortal sage's world
"Cute" She says softly, and stands to her full height, standing a full head higher than you "So, you need protection, cause you're a cute little snack, with strong spirit roots, Qi rich flesh and profound cultivation, Yes? And everyone wants a taste of you. I suppose that would be frightening to a little baby like you"
Your eye twitches
"Actually, I was wondering how I'd be prepared, if I was made a meal" You answer back without thinking, to preserve your pride and try to get Heizhizhu to at least show you a little respect
"Whole and alive" She answers with a pleasant smile
"Ah" You gasp
"Though, fermented in memory eater bile would also be nice, with some strong liquor" She adds
"I think I'd be better savored in pieces" You reply
"Too much of a hassle" She answers "Most demons who could actually make a meal of you, kitty, would think the same. Only babies like yourself would waste time, if they're aiming for the power your meat contains. Bamou, fetch your elder brother, have him bring refreshments to my chamber, and some blood for this fledgling Carmine Mystic"
Then she sweeps away "I prefer to do business in comfort, you see, walk with me, kitty. There's three things I need to know before I can give you a price, and its best we figure them out before we start haggling"
You walk behind her, as she holds up one finger
"First, how long is the contract you'll need, will it be temporary or permanent. Second, the strength of the body guards you'll require. And third" She says, pausing and turning around to tap a finger above your heart "Where' we'll tie our life line to you. My threads can follow you from the depths of hell to the highest peak of heaven, but those are only for our highest paying customers, most likely, you'll be tethered by one of my older daughters"
"Highest paying?" You asked
"Ask the fourth sage" She said softly and you froze for a moment, as you realized she was talking about one of the five wise immortal sages "or was it the third. Honestly, I can't remember. Sure I've tied more threads to naughty gods besides him, hard to remember when I'm just waking up however"
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 11 Jul 2025 04:19:41 No. 6273219 Report >>6273218 She yawned, and pouted
"So, kitten. What are your three needs. How long will you be under our web, how strong will your guardian need to be, and where shall we put our string?" She coos "If you can't afford what you'll need, we'll figure out what is in your budget. And you can always pay in installments~"
<span class="mu-s"> Triple Vote </span>
Duration of the Contract
> Just this visit (Cheapest) >For a year >For a decade >For a century >Permanent (Premium/ most expensive) Power of the protection
>Core Formation (Cheapest offered to you) >Golden Core >Nascent Soul >Heizhizhu (Premium/ Most expensive) Location of the string
>Finger (Cheapest) >Throat >Heart >Soul (Most expensive) Anonymous
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>>6273219 >For a decade >Golden Core >Finger (Cheapest) Anonymous
>>6273219 >> Just this visit (Cheapest) Realistically we should only need them for this visit. The only things that could possibly kill us outside of the Yellow Springs are things we probably can't afford a bodyguard strong enough to stop.
>Golden Core And being prudent, we just need a distraction to escape, not to help fight a horrific foe that is far beyond us. A couple of golden cores would still be a threat to most. At least enough to risk wounding them and weakening them against their rivals. And all good predators know that a feast is only worth it if it can't get you killed on the way back home.
>Finger (Cheapest) I WOULD say throat, but we're probably going to have some pretty strong reactions to the members of Yama's court. Close calls raising our blood pressure and perhaps a familiar face or two in line to be judged. Wouldn't want any false positives.
Also, no collar, even in spirit. Freedom! Anonymous
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>>6273239 >Support So this is the kinda pressure we will be feeling from our foe when we assault the nascent soul bastard.
Delightful.
We only need this trip I reckon. Our next trip we have bodyguards already arranged.
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>>6273219 I would say...
>Next two visits We're planning a safari to stir up trouble so if a nascent soul beast catches wind of our little group it's not guaranteed we can escape in time.
>Nascent Soul This is probably the highest level of troublemaker interested in us, doubt the old monsters would bother to move unless we conveniently fall in their mouth (actually we should ask baomusha who lives where so we don't misstep on our next visit!)
>Finger (Cheapest) I am confident we can react in time for this to be the only needed safeguard.
I don't feel like paying for golden core protection will be worth it because:
A- we are already at this level and the only thing this will save us is the annoyance to win a fight ourselves.
B- no guarantee if a nascent soul shows up the spider bodyguards would be willing to delay them on our behalf (and that's the kind of threat that once you feel it coming it's already too late like the guardian god, whom we only escaped from thanks to the fact he stayed his hand long enough for us to activate a technique that worked well).
C- next time we will chaperone a group of ducklings and it's going to be very important for our reputation that nobody goes missing (and that includes Huan since we're the only one capable of ferrying them out!)
(Ugh, what a wall of text)
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>>6273219 > Just this visit (Cheapest) I-it's not like we actually need her protection, we were just humoring Eight Murders, totally
>Golden Core >Finger (Cheapest) Anonymous
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>>6273218 "underling of the late Supreme Devil Mind"
holy shit
> Just this visit and the next(Cheapest) >Nascent Soul Remember, if we are in hell what we are worried about is facing monsters that are far beyond us
>Finger (Cheapest) The finger and the this visit are our cheapest compromises, But we shouldn't compromise for the power. we can run away from a golden core ourselves, but a golden core wouldn't be able to buy us time against a nascent soul that wanted us, we should have the ability to summon a power house if need be.
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Ah, this is what we've missed, something to fear and something to aspire to overcome. Also I cannot even imagine what level of MILF she's on with how long she's lived and how many generations of children she's had if she was under SDM
>>6273219 >Our next two visits Mostly because I'm not sure when we'll go on our next trip, could be right after the final tournament or sometime after the Ling War.
>Nascent Soul Because what we need protection from is this level, but hiring big mama herself is spooky.
>Finger (Cheapest) Anonymous
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>>6273609 She's older than Ao, right? GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGILF hours for sure.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Mon 14 Jul 2025 10:34:31 No. 6274609 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying its results now.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Mon 14 Jul 2025 11:09:43 No. 6274612 Report "Hmmm" You thoughtfully consider for a moment "I should only need protection for one or two trips down to hell"
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Mon 14 Jul 2025 11:10:44 No. 6274613 Report >>6274612 "I can ask for no less than a Pious soul. And that is if we're only dealing in souls. Most demons do. But, as the saying goes, in the corpse pile, nothing is more reviled than the spider fattened on its own kind" She giggles, rolling back over as you stop yourself from clicking your tongue by nearly biting it in half
one pious soul!? You've only ever owned one. And know that they're each worth a fortune in hell.
"Of course, those little tasty crows were cawing about quite the treasure they'd found" She says, creeping towards you, scooting on her legs, eyes relaxed but her expression one of hunger you can't even compared to the specter starvation curse "A bribe they'd been given, a truly repugnant soul, only worth while because who it belonged to was the last in a heavens appointed dynasty"
"Dog ass licking emperor's soul?" You ask, and the spider matron blinks slowly and titters behind her hands
"Yes!' She exclaims "Your name down here is as often Crow Killer as it is Happy Bloodshed, is it not? If that soul traded hands, again, we can upgrade your plan's quality of protection and duration. Thoooough, if I recall, those little boys have made your kind an affront to the heavens. A few cultivators souls, of the righteous rather than self righteous sort preferably, could also see an improvement to your contract. And that's only dealing with souls"
She's slips off the couch of bones, and rapidly advances on you, swinging her shoulders and hips
"Blood, can also become a currency. as well as meat. And amongst royalty, aren't children a standard trade? Marriages...hostages...meals" She says, making your hackles raise "Oh, shouldn't have said children. I've heard you have a strong maternal instinct. You'll be a good mama someday. Hmm, descendants. Of course, I also accept cash and spirit stones. Buuuut unless you're hiding a dimensional storage ring, you can't carry the weight of cash and stones I'd ask for. And, of course these are all only material payments"
She walks her fingers up your chest and taps you heart
"We also deal in less tangible and more esoteric payment options" She purrs as she hops away, pulled back by threads of golden silk "But, I can smell that you can pay with souls, I never forget the aroma of a piously lived life. And I sense you're in a bit of rush from the perfume of your sweat"
"I'd have preferred if you talked about the anything but my sweat" You say, forcing a pleasant, genial smile on your face
"Like the pace of your heart or coolness of breath?" She asks and you shrug
"Better than sweat" You admit as she trapezes through the air, shadows cast and revealing her true titanic body
"So, do we have a deal?" she asks sweetly "Or do you want to bargain down, or change the terms of the contract. I can wait for you to collect payment, but...I think you're in a rush"
Damn family of penny pinchers!
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Mon 14 Jul 2025 11:12:30 No. 6274614 Report >>6274613 What do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Accept the terms and get on with your day (spend 1 pious soul. Current pious souls owned, 1) >try to pay with an alternate currency, since that pious soul represents the majority of your underworld wealth (Cash, Spirit stones, or blood/ Meat) >Ask questions, ranging from what she means by using descendants as payment plans, the esoteric currencies ...etc...etc >Decide to snatch back the dog emperor's soul, since, you are called Crow Killer and demons should expect betrayal. >Bargain down and adjust your contract >Write in Anonymous
>>6274614 Ya know, we are a delicacy.
We could, in theory, cut off out arm, regrow it, sell the flesh again.
Deglove it to the bones, then begin anew.
Just a thought for fund raising.
If nobody else is interested,
>use a pious soul Anonymous
>>6274614 I do kinda want to get an estimate on how much one of our god blood vials are worth down here, but I know it'd get strong pushback.
>>6274619 I'll support your idea, an appropriately heretical way to get out of paying
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>>6274639 The question is "sell directs to the spiders" or "fund reaise from the public"
Because the spiders might ask more, since it is a renewable method of sustainance.
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>>6274614 >Bargain down and adjust your contract Anonymous
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>>6274614 >>Bargain down and adjust your contract Anonymous
>>6274641 I'd imagine our flesh would be considered higher quality. Though if they want a long term investment, surely giving them a god to infinitely munch on with our new healing techniques would be acceptable.
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>>6274976 Godsblood is too valuable to take out at this junction.
But you are probably right, save that we are missing actual flesh to grow and saintly flesh at that.
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>>6275551 Oh I more meant either offering them one of the fallen five gods or when we reach divinity just plucking one from the corrupt heavens. Wait there’s a non-zero chance we could just sever an arm during the tournament and use that
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>>6274976 >>6275571 We are far from ready for taking on even lesser deities ...
>>6275551 Speaking of which: with spidery protection in hell, we might finally be protected well enough to risk some vulnerability and utilise the divine blood to boost our Carmine Mysticism. It's also probably the most fitting place to commit such a deed.
>>6274614 >>Accept the terms and get on with your day (spend 1 pious soul. Current pious souls owned, 1) Enough side questing imho ... I'm not mad if you dont share my opinion though
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>>6275763 Maybe before we leave the hell.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 18 Jul 2025 11:38:00 No. 6276473 Report Ending and tallying the vote now. Grandfather's weakness to grinding was awakened, since a supposed sworn brother of mine introduced me to the devilish scripture called Umamusume by describing it as horse girl cultivation
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>>6276473 We lost another to the horse races.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 18 Jul 2025 12:16:04 No. 6276487 Report "Say, say, Mother Spider" You say, playing up your natural cuteness, since while seeing you as a prospective meal the Dark Spider also thinks of you as a child. Well, an infant, but how couldn't she when she's lived for at least ten generations of the heavens turning and the golden bowl of cultivation being poured and washed out "How much would the flesh of the divine beast who has soared amongst the stars and bled herself on the moon's own desolate plains sell for down here, considering how much positive Karma I've soaked into this body of mine"
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 18 Jul 2025 12:17:05 No. 6276488 Report >>6276487 Still, you'd be an idiot to overlook one flaw in the plan besides the innate humiliation of having parts of you turned into a meal.
"And once the underworld has a taste for me, I'll need more even more protection until I'm strong enough to go trampling through even King Yama's chrysanthemum garden" You shrewdly point out "And you'd also benefit from that"
"I'm greedy, not stupid, child. I protect my investments. Its why the eight fangs of my clan exist, to pursuit offenders against not only my children but also the buisness we've caught in our web" She explains "Oh, if it gets too intense, we'd have to charge. But, a certain level of protection would be expected for such a rare and reusable luxury"
"It's like you're trying to convince me not to offer you my beating heart, Mother Spider" You chuckle
"Mortal flesh tastes better when steeped in negative emotions. Most demons prefer the heady intoxication of positive and good feelings, but I've got a taste for the negative" She titters, covering her mouth, which is still drooling like a leaking dam
"Is that why you eat other demons?" You ask
"Tch, cannibalism is the norm down here, child. I just have a particular taste for my fellow demon. And cause I like my meals tough, I've gotten a bad reputation for devouring the shining stars and high ranking devils" She tells you
"And your children just eat and eat and eat" You cackle
"Yes. They have healthy appetites. So do you judging by just how much blood you've condensed into your body" She replies, tapping a finger on her saliva wetted chin "Say, how about...a free trial for one night in hell, of the terms we've agreed to, to allow you to consider the offer you yourself made, since I find the turmoil between ruthless pragmatism and noble pride within you adorable. The original contract will come into effect, when you've made up your mind, whether you pay with flesh or soul or something of equal value to either"
"So I'll have three visits worth of protection, effectively" You hum and the smile since considering costs you nothing "Fine, we have a deal"
"Excellent" She says as she plucks a small red string from the air and delicately wraps it around your finger "Snap it if you get into danger, then you'll meet one Little Eight Murders' Senior brothers, who will kill anything and everything within four leagues of where you stand. And, then he'll retie the string"
"What amazing service" You laugh, still feeling cold sweat trickle down your back "So I could test your claim"
"He'd even kill his own siblings" She says with an inciting look "If you are so skeptical of my boy's hardened heart"
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 18 Jul 2025 12:18:15 No. 6276489 Report >>6276488 Now that you have protection, Huanliuxue, what is your next move?
>Do what you planned to do already and just watch newly dead souls and how they reach the seat of Yama's throne, to find his blindspot (Same DC as before (94). Medium Danger. Low exposure risk. Likely to encounter, starved and desperate demons) >Bully the crow clan into helping you find Yama's blind spots (DC lowered by 22, new DC 72. Medium Danger. Medium Exposure risk. Likely to encounter: Healthy, hale and cunning devils) >Test the spider demon's protection and create a distraction (DC increased by 22, New DC 116. Low Danger. High exposure risk. Likely to encounter: Stragglers of the slaughter/ things strong enough to survive the fight) >Decide to take a more aggressive approach and start plucking out and eating eyes, using Baoli-Wuyawang's technique of the eye stealing grasp to find the answer you're looking for (Trial type changed to Martial/ Stealth Trial. DC Increased by 44. New DC 138. High Danger. Low exposure risk. Likely to encounter: Worthy prey/ predators) >Write in >>6276485 Vodka
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>>6276489 >Just watch souls I mean. Any reason to go after the bigger prey? Not like we want their organs
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>>6276489 >Do what you planned to do already and just watch newly dead souls and how they reach the seat of Yama's throne, to find his blindspot (Same DC as before (94). Medium Danger. Low exposure risk. Likely to encounter, starved and desperate demons) At the same time we can take note of some potential targets for eye-plucking, if it comes to that
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>>6276473 All those horses already attained human form. They're cheating. They must be.
>>6276489 >>Do what you planned to do already and just watch newly dead souls and how they reach the seat of Yama's throne, to find his blindspot (Same DC as before (94). Medium Danger. Low exposure risk. Likely to encounter, starved and desperate demons) It's not JUST the procession of souls we'd be watching. But also the going abouts of hellish constabulary and divinities. There's plenty of insights to find from this outing. We might even see some strange techniques if some dumb demon decides to try and get some souls from the line. And without any outside help it'd seem more like mischief and curiosity from a cat than a predator stealing secrets if we did get noticed and caught by the dudes in charge down here.
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>>6276489 >>Bully the crow clan into helping you find Yama's blind spots (DC lowered by 22, new DC 72. Medium Danger. Medium Exposure risk. Likely to encounter: Healthy, hale and cunning devils) Anonymous
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>>6276489 >Do what you planned to do already and just watch newly dead souls and how they reach the seat of Yama's throne, to find his blindspot (Same DC as before (94). Medium Danger. Low exposure risk. Likely to encounter, starved and desperate demons) Anonymous
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>>6276489 >Decide to take a more aggressive approach and start plucking out and eating eyes, using Baoli-Wuyawang's technique of the eye stealing grasp to find the answer you're looking for (Trial type changed to Martial/ Stealth Trial. DC Increased by 44. New DC 138. High Danger. Low exposure risk. Likely to encounter: Worthy prey/ predators) I think this could be a great exercise for us, and is a pretty good cover for what we're actually aiming to do down here. What soul in hell would think we're eating eyes just to see how they were judged?
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>>6276489 >Do what you planned to do already and just watch newly dead souls and how they reach the seat of Yama's throne, to find his blindspot (Same DC as before (94). Medium Danger. Low exposure risk. Likely to encounter, starved and desperate demons) But don't be shy to pluck a few eyes of those that would impede the way of our chosen souls...
(Wonder if we'll meet the soul of somebody we know?)
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>>6276489 >Decide to take a more aggressive approach and start plucking out and eating eyes, using Baoli-Wuyawang's technique of the eye stealing grasp to find the answer you're looking for (Trial type changed to Martial/ Stealth Trial. DC Increased by 44. New DC 138. High Danger. Low exposure risk. Likely to encounter: Worthy prey/ predators) Anonymous
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>>6276489 >Decide to take a more aggressive approach and start plucking out and eating eyes, using Baoli-Wuyawang's technique of the eye stealing grasp to find the answer you're looking for (Trial type changed to Martial/ Stealth Trial. DC Increased by 44. New DC 138. High Danger. Low exposure risk. Likely to encounter: Worthy prey/ predators) Anonymous
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>>6276489 >>Do what you planned to do already and just watch newly dead souls and how they reach the seat of Yama's throne, to find his blindspot (Same DC as before (94). Medium Danger. Low exposure risk. Likely to encounter, starved and desperate demons) Anonymous
>>6276489 >>Decide to take a more aggressive approach and start plucking out and eating eyes, using Baoli-Wuyawang's technique of the eye stealing grasp to find the answer you're looking for (Trial type changed to Martial/ Stealth Trial. DC Increased by 44. New DC 138. High Danger. Low exposure risk. Likely to encounter: Worthy prey/ predators) That's the fun way. When in hell, we should behave appropriately ... Where else can we use as many of our more exotic abilities without putting innocents into harm's way?
As a reminder, here I repeat the chances of failure per DC with 2d100, best of five:
Failure % - DC
5 - 106
10 - 115
15 - 122
20 - 127
25 - 131
30 - 136
35 - 140
40 - 143
45 - 147
50 - 150
55 - 154
60 - 157
65 - 160
70 - 164
75 - 168
80 - 171
85 - 176
90 - 181
95 - 187
100 - 200
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Rolled 91, 34, 65, 84, 88, 91, 20, 22, 24, 44 = 563 (10d100) >>6277199 The dice care not for chances, only funni
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Sat 19 Jul 2025 23:38:39 No. 6277384 Report Quoted By:
Ending and tallying the vote now.
Just watch the arriving souls:6
Get the crow clan to cause a ruckus:1
Take a more aggressive approach:4
Alright, so you'll go with your original plan of just watching to find King yama's blind spot
Intermediate update will arrive shortly
>>6276594 The nefariousness of the horse clan truly knows no bounds
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Sun 20 Jul 2025 00:03:53 No. 6277406 Report You're given an escort out of the manse of the spider queen's manor, not by eight murders or any spider demon but from a bone devil that apparently made a bad deal with the clan, but who is a pleasant enough conversation partner despite their gloomy disposition, but that may just be because he too has an attraction and fascination towards the macabre and grisly much like yourself. You don't get his name though, before you reach the edge of the Dark Spider Clan's claimed territory, which is marked by a deep red street smeared with rotting corpse fat, bone ash and a few chunks of fresh meat or traces of souls that had been rent apart and abused to steal their vitality and essence.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Sun 20 Jul 2025 00:04:53 No. 6277407 Report >>6277406 <span class="mu-s"> Roll 2d100. Best of Five. DC 94 </span>
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Rolled 11, 2 = 13 (2d100) >>6277407 Double 68s here.
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Rolled 59, 14 = 73 (2d100) >>6277407 Anonymous
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Rolled 87, 8 = 95 (2d100) >>6277406 Anonymous
Rolled 61, 84 = 145 (2d100) >>6277407 I am rolling again, for I am
>>6277416 And it has been 2 hours.
Concerningly, nobody met the dc yet
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Rolled 49, 77 = 126 (2d100) >>6277468 I did, but good job well exceeding it!
I guess I'll also give another roll to get this show on the road.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Sun 20 Jul 2025 02:50:32 No. 6277501 Report >>6277468 Fantastic success! 51 over the DC. Update will arrive shortly. Sorry for arriving late, Juniors. I was busy stuffing my face with seafood
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>>6277501 I see food sometimes too.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Sun 20 Jul 2025 03:30:23 No. 6277515 Report It is easy leaving the city. Most of its people, the formerly living, the demons and the natural spirits, are far too meek to challenge or attempt to make a meal of you. And the few who have more than a snowflake's chance in summer, are far too prudent it seems to swoop down on you like an owl does a door mouse or perhaps more terrifyingly are so far beyond your current self that they simply don't care. You're sure there are devils with more ambitions than brains and plentiful bravado in place of wisdom who might try to make you their prey, but maybe the memory of your gruesome execution of the crow king who was stronger, faster and more refined than you were when you battled him, has made them hesitant to try and fight a Huanliuxue who skipped an entire stage of cultivation through intense closed door meditation
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Sun 20 Jul 2025 03:31:24 No. 6277517 Report And it doesn't take long for you to sus out the ways you can sense them. And its through the familiar that you notice them. Yama's servant's in charge of collection...Aren't quite like ghosts, not entirely kin to demons, nor are they lacking in divinity. They are...Well, they smell like decay, incense offering and the very mud of the yellow springs. All things you are very intimately familiar with. They're...somethings. And if you had to call the Qi withing them, the spiritual energy coursing through their bodies, it has a feeling closest to Primordial Beast Essence.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Sun 20 Jul 2025 03:32:25 No. 6277518 Report >>6277517 And once the shock of celebrity wears off, your remember the blindspot you found. If the Shepard who brings horseface or ox head their flock, can snatch up a newly arrived spirit faster than you can notice without actually forcing the near stagnant stream of time in hell to crawl to a complete stop, then the trick to slip Yama the wrong soul with a bribe, is to swap the resurrected and the sacrificed places immediately. Not fast as lighting, or rapid as wildfire, or quick as death or even as swiftly as light. Instantly.
Luckily. You can stop time. And by time Horseface or Ox-head or the King yama notices the swap, it'll be too late and the scales will be balanced anyways.
Now that you've figured out one of the trick's behind Red Dust Revival, what do you do, Huanliuxue?
>Kill two birds with one stone and use this trip to find the Demonic and Cursed treasures that are necessary to perform Red Dust Revival >Go back to the land of the living, and start the 1 v 1 bouts of the Core formation contests >Go back, but give the contestants time to prepare like a few of them have begged for. >Break the string on your finger and ask the spider demon who shows up, exactly what it is you saw and were chasing. >Having watched the soul collectors for sometime, and knowing how to slice through space, see if you couldn't replicate some of their innate mysticisms... [Magical/ ghostly instinct Training. DC 256. Current training/ cultivation bonus, +1801] >Write in 256 is 4 x 4 x 4 x 4. btw
>>6277506 I'll admit, you got a chuckle out of me
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>>6277518 >>Having watched the soul collectors for sometime, and knowing how to slice through space, see if you couldn't replicate some of their innate mysticisms... [Magical/ ghostly instinct Training. DC 256. Current training/ cultivation bonus, +1801] Perhaps by figuring some of it out, we can figure out how to alter the ritual a little. Make is less likely to piss off some big shots. Or just easier to perform. Even if we don't, there's sure to be something interesting to learn how to apply from this.
Also, Horseface, heyyy bud. How's the brother? How's the saw? Still torturing those who've earned it? Say hi to the wife for me. kek
>chuckle out of me Dad jokes
and bad jokes will never go out of style!
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>>6277518 >Having watched the soul collectors for sometime, and knowing how to slice through space, see if you couldn't replicate some of their innate mysticisms... [Magical/ ghostly instinct Training. DC 256. Current training/ cultivation bonus, +1801] I'm suggesting about 200 of our bonus.
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>>6277518 >Having watched the soul collectors for sometime, and knowing how to slice through space, see if you couldn't replicate some of their innate mysticisms... [Magical/ ghostly instinct Training. DC 256. Current training/ cultivation bonus, +1801] if we do this, we will have a better time succeeding at our space time manipulation.
it seems the other juniors reflect my thoughts.
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>>6277515 I wonder what absorbing some of those "embers" or that Malevolence will do for our cultivation. Taking one of the bodies of Yama's servants to turn into materials could also get us something nice
>>6277518 >Having watched the soul collectors for sometime, and knowing how to slice through space, see if you couldn't replicate some of their innate mysticisms... [Magical/ ghostly instinct Training. DC 256. Current training/ cultivation bonus, +1801] Anonymous
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>>6277572 Yama is probably the only god I would categorically refuse to fuck with. Even if he isn't as scary as his reputation suggests, he does have a very important job making sure souls get judged properly. But there are demons in hell which are strong enough to wage war against the heavens, the fact they haven't taken the big cheese out has to mean something. Speaks to either Yama's cunning or terrifying power in this domain.
Course, if one of these veiled dudes finds and fucks with us, then yeah, let's rock.
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>>6277518 >Try and mimic the soul collectors it's gonna cost us some training but. . . While I'm still wanting to keep it for actual cultivation, we want to leap realms fighting the bitch ass Ling. This is as good a use as any.
4 dos is what I'm wagering
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>>6277518 >Having watched the soul collectors for sometime, and knowing how to slice through space, see if you couldn't replicate some of their innate mysticisms... [Magical/ ghostly instinct Training. DC 256. Current training/ cultivation bonus, +1801] It's a chance we shouldn't let pass us by, though for the cultivation bonus to burn for it I will defer to the vote with the most agreed upon auspicious number.
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>>6277518 >>Having watched the soul collectors for sometime, and knowing how to slice through space, see if you couldn't replicate some of their innate mysticisms... [Magical/ ghostly instinct Training. DC 256. Current training/ cultivation bonus, +1801] If we face a bad roll, we might forego wasting too much of our bonus...
If our roll is adequate, we might consider superseding the roll by 256, which would be 512 (or also 8x8x8).
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>>6277518 I always forget his name is just Horseface and not some unfortunate title given to him.
>Having watched the soul collectors for sometime, and knowing how to slice through space, see if you couldn't replicate some of their innate mysticisms... [Magical/ ghostly instinct Training. DC 256. Current training/ cultivation bonus, +1801] been way too long since we've trained and inspiration this good is rare. Plus we can probable recoup some by training our students before the war to get them to the level we need.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Mon 21 Jul 2025 23:33:10 No. 6278504 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying its result now
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Mon 21 Jul 2025 23:55:17 No. 6278516 Report However, before you make your next move, whether that is stealing some artifact so steeped in malevolence and deathly yin Qi that even demons would see it sealed and buried, or returning to the bright and lively world above to resume your tournament in style, a sudden whimsy strikes you. A stray thought, a flicker of confidence. Of certainty that you could mimic and replicate the mystic abilities you witnessed the soul collectors make good use of they were acting as Horseface's errand boys. It wouldn't be difficult, you've already some experience tearing and slicing through the fabric of space like the sheets of paper screens, treating distance and the emptiness that occupies it like your own personal scratching post
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Mon 21 Jul 2025 23:59:23 No. 6278518 Report >>6278516 <span class="mu-s"> ROB DEATH ITSELF OF ITS MYSTERIES AND TAKE THEIR INSIGHTS FOR YOUR OWN, OH MAIDEN OF BONES, BLOOD AND MOON CLAIM YOUR RIGHT AS PRINCESS OF A KINGDOM OF GRAVES OR JOIN YOUR MEMORIAL TO THE ORCHARD OF GRAVESTONES </span>
https://youtu.be/ExTWRaJlWEs <span class="mu-s"> Roll 2d100. Best of five. Partial or full bonus available </span>
We'll vote on the bonus to be applied after, juniors.
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Rolled 19, 8 = 27 (2d100) >>6278518 Anonymous
Rolled 66, 70 = 136 (2d100) >>6278518 Hope I brought my lucky dice
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Rolled 51, 27 = 78 (2d100) >>6278518 Anonymous
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Rolled 57, 52 = 109 (2d100) >>6278518 >>6278522 You did indeed. Mind if I borrow them?
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Rolled 59, 94 = 153 (2d100) >>6278518 It's not looking like tol much a cost yet.
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>>6278541 So 103 bonus needed to reach the dc.
Anyone feel like pushing it?
103 for basic success
512 -153 = 359 to get "8x8x8" but I don't think that has enough mystic power.
Can add 203 for 10 dos, which is our usual degree of Bullshit that's plainly impossible to most.
Or we can do 4 dos because death, 8 dos for fortune.
I'm inclined towards 143, 4 dos for fairly obvious reasons and keeping a lot of the bonus for next cultivation roll.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Tue 22 Jul 2025 00:36:45 No. 6278550 Report >>6278541 And you'd be right.
The minimum for success would be 103. Which, if you add up the numbers there, you get 4...Bit spooky
So!
<span class="mu-s"> Bonus Vote </span>
>Minimum for success (103), result 256, bonus remaining 1698 >203, result, 356, Bonus remaining, 1598 >303, result, 456, bonus remaining 1498 >403, result, 556, bonus remainig 1398 >Half (900), Result 1053, Bonus remaining , 901 >A thousand, Result 1154, bonus remaining, 801 >MAX Result, 1954, Bonus remaining N/A >Custom >Accept the failure (BAD IDEA) going to let this vote go for a day or two
>>6278548 Junior has wisdom beyond his years!
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Tue 22 Jul 2025 00:42:57 No. 6278554 Report Quoted By:
>>6278550 Realized I messed up some of the values while moving them around
half should have a result of 1003
thousand, 1103
and max, 1904
My bad!
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>>6278550 >143 Give us 4 DoS
to the dc whcih is 4 by 4 by 4 by 4.
with numbers adding to 4 and 4 again.
which is 7 4's, the perfect number
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>>6278581 support
don't want to spend too much, we will need to save many of our points for when we traverse realms.
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>>6278550 >>6278581 Lucky Number Svour? Fovn? Whatever, let's do it kek
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>>6278550 >>6278581 Alright, count me in support of 143 too!
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>>6278581 Supporting, trust in the lucky numbers
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>>6278550 359 (103+256)
This would mean we supersede the DC by 256 (4x4x4x4, four being a number associated with death) and reach a total DC of 512 (8x8x8, eight being a number associated with luck).
We got a great chance for insight about a topic closely aligned to our Dao; we should do high quality cultivation. I suspect it should synergise with what we already have, so let's not get the budget version of it.
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>>6278581 >>6278696 >>6278913 Alright, different lucky numbers, go!
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>>6278603 >>6278913 Shiiiieeeet I guess I gotta change to this one, too. Fugg man.
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>>6278913 Same poster, saying again in different terms why we should put in more bonus.
Dont forget that each Qi cultivation through a stage probably comes with a tribulation that can also put our followers and innocents into harm's way. Thus, we need to delay Qi cultivation anyways and find ways to punch above our weight class.
This technique here looks ideal for mobility/retreats (while being close to our Dao and having possible benefits in this and future ressourrection-heists).
If we want to face isolated lesser deities e.g. when we reach Nascent Soul, this could very well become our lifeline. Let's get the real thing, not an imitation thereof!
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>>6278913 I'll support this one
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>>6278913 This is
>>6278810 , I’ll switch to support this.
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>>6279385 4 is already exceptional.
It is the real thing. It is very good.
You want to do. . 25 dos.
My dude.
25. With special conditions triggering.
This isn't "authentic", this is overkill.
10 met us with a goddess of the moon and 4 goodies.
There isn't anything wrong with not spending 400 bonus and "only" spending about 200
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>>6279501 To me it seems like quintessential Huanliuxue. I don't really understand how there can be any "overkill" here, when we only gain more from each layer of success.
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>>6279511 I wanted to preserve enough to easily reclaim 2000 for our next breakthrough. But. . . I. Guess. This is pretty much as you say, the most perfectly distilled Huan gets without imitating King Yama himself.
I change my vote
>>6278581 To
>>6278913 We are spending so much. . But. . Grrr just do it. Bonuses exist to be spent.
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>>6279385 What we can do to prevent that loss is have a training arc and preparation phase for before we cultivate to prepare them. Us becoming stronger does not correlate to them being more powerful, we need to invest in them and their skills in order for them to sufficiently handle themselves while we are away, plus doing so would grant us greater point total for our cultivation. We can't give them our skills in mobility/retreats when we are dormant and they lack the threshold needed to use our power. They aren't going to be able to use anywhere near our level of space manipulation. and if the sect itself is under attack, many of them would rather fight to the last before running away from the home base.
Besides, once we cultivate to the next level, if we make sure our nascent soul is of the highest level, we won't need to run from the isolated lesser deities, we'd already be able to beat them.
>>6279524 we can very easily preserve out count for later, there isn't a need to spend so much now. We are already going to have a great success. We need to save up because our score now is what got us the golden core we have, and it'll only be harder to go up the next level. We are looking at the short term by overspending here.
>>6279511 we've had multiple times where we could choose to spend points but didn't go too far in. We've already reached success by multiple degrees of success, spending hundreds like this for one skill is way more then we've done before. we are more then able to succeed with what we have and still get a powerful skill out of it.
keeping mine on 143, went from 6 votes to 3 vs 6, but other votes may change their minds.
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>>6279573 It isn't just about getting a skill, the revelations and opportunities that open by having a massive success are just as much an important part in traversing realms successfully.
One nascent soul cultivator could just erase our sect without too much trouble at the moment, and we still have an imminent match with such an opponent upcoming. Anything will help us in that fight specifically, and holding back on learning just seems unwise.
We just witnessed something really profound, who knows what Huan can figure out once she really goes into it? I think it's completely worth it to use some more points to get a better foundation.
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Same poster as
>>6278913 and
>>6279385 .
>>6279501 But look at the scale implied in the suggested answers in
>>6278550 . 40 is basically nothing on this scale.
>>6279573 Normal cultivation without special circumstances wont help us push above our weight class. I agree that we should train our sect more, which would help accummulate a greater bonus (extra cool if we strengthen people whose grudge we can channel).
Fighting isolated deities with "just" a high tier Nascent Soul is very risky. We dont know yet if there are intermediate stages between Nascent Soul and divinity.
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>>6279637 4 degrees of success is not "nothing".
It is exceptional.the bonus is a representation of our knowledgebase and insight, to understand and see beyond. It's part of what makes us such a genius, and a big part of what justifies being a sect leader.
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>>6279577 my point is in regards to foundation as well. There is nothing that will better suit building our foundation then ensuring we are able to have the smoothest and most promising transition from one stage to another.
>>6279637 40 is nowhere near nothing as the other anon said. I am not saying we are just using normal cultivation, we are still learning this skill after all to a successful degree, but there is a difference between advancing our skills and over spending on diminishing returns.
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>>6279637 same poster.>>6279875 >>6279859 Dont you think that there are at least two pre-made, moderately useful suggested answers? Without explicit warnings, I tend to assume that there should be at most very rare hidden traps that soft-lock the campaign. This GM is no noob.
Below, I explicitly list hints that
>>6278550 implies the ordinary spacing (which was introduced to 1d100 Bo3; no cultivation bonus and extended to the upgraded 2d100 Bo5; no cultivation bonus) to not be applicable here. Without this spacing, which is closely related to the concept of DoS with a basis of ten, the answer of 40 does not factorise to potencies of four as there is are additional factors of two and five included.
>Minimum for success (103), result 256, bonus remaining 1698 A high DC, higher than any ordinary non-cultivation test that we ever tried. It is 106 higher than the median expected roll with 2d100 Bo5.
>203, result, 356, Bonus remaining, 1598 The next suggested answer is 100 higher than that. 100 is a much larger number than 40. Calling 40 compared to 100 "nothing" is at most slightly imprecise. It is really a much smaller number.
>303, result, 456, bonus remaining 1498 The next suggested answer is a further hundred larger than the previous suggested answers.
>403, result, 556, bonus remainig 1398 A further hundred.
>Half (900), Result 1053, Bonus remaining , 901 A step of 497 between answers.
>A thousand, Result 1154, bonus remaining, 801 A step of one hundred.
>MAX Result, 1954, Bonus remaining N/A A step of 800.
>Custom A playground for numerology. Arbitrary steps.
>Accept the failure (BAD IDEA) A step of negative 103 from the first answer.
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>>6279932 Or, and hear me out here.
It goes naturally of "hit the dc, hit 100 above, or 200 above, or 300 above or use half your resources or all of em"
because human brains work well with sets. 10, 10, 10 and half works nicely in our brains.
also, the hell are you on about "assuming there should be hidden traps that soft lock us" We are incredibly firm in our foundations and have an unprecedented future with a perfect golden core.
And you can't soft lock a cultivation story, a type of story where everything can be overcome given time and knowledge.
And introducing a shitty trap to sabotage your own story is the mark of a noob, the thing you claim Grandfather isn't. what the sam hell are you on?
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>>6279937 I think "sabotage" is a big misnomer here. Though I don't know if soft-locking the campaign is quite the right word either, but something like a huge setback/tragedy? I could totally see that. That's just normal cultivation. We've been really blessed so far not to piss off the wrong people/group at the wrong time, but there's nothing saying that'll continue to be the case forever. We already know the "orthodox" cultivators actually use heretical techniques abundantly, just named em something else. Who knows what other monsters are just hiding out.
Most of our fortune in this arena I feel has come from our decision early on to hide out while we were much more vulnerable, keeping our name a myth, and just getting stronger. Although we've outed ourselves on a scale we haven't done so far, everyone's still just scared of us. If they learned all our weaknesses then there'd be many more bold challengers. If we ever come across someone like a diviner who really wants us dead, or someone who -thoroughly- dissects their opponents, then we'll be in really big trouble.
All this to say that I don't think we're just gonna meditate for a week and break through to nascent soul, so cultivating a high-tier technique to an extremely refined degree, along with all the other goodies we get from a high dos, seems like a better investment than just saving up and keeping the xp in the bank.
It's not quite the same thing, but hoarding elixirs does tend to result in a game over a few times until the boss is actually beaten without their use... but then what's the point of the elixirs?
I can't speak overly on the numerology, but picking good numbers = special conditions, almost universally, and bigger number = funner time.
I personally find the outcomes of these equations favorable.
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Ending and tallying the vote now. I've escaped from the horse tribe to write this update, and see that discussion got pretty intense while I meditated at the racetrack.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 25 Jul 2025 07:17:24 No. 6280056 Report And you realize that you've a similar, though weaker technique in your wheelhouse already. Cat's court: Phantom Cat Waltz (猫 法院: 幽灵猫圆舞曲, Māofǎyuàn: Yōulíngmāoyuánwǔ qǔ). But rather than performing the switch via transferring the location of one's vitality, lifeforce and yang energies with the Yin Qi used to form false ghost lights, the shepherds of souls are using Yin Qi to reach Yin Qi. Tethering together two ghostly energies and then shortening the distance instantly. The tunnels they're making aren't tears in space. They're cuts through time! The trick to their immediately appearing before the recently deceased souls, is that they're using the odd quality of ghostly yin Qi, as seen with some of your techniques like Specter Lightness skill [幽灵-轻工, Yōulíng-Qīnggōng] and True Specter Lightness Skill: Broken Clock (真实-幽灵-轻工:破 钟 , Zhēnshí-Yōulíng-Qīnggōng: Pòzhōng, to slow or even stop time or the perception of it, to travel incalculably long distances in an instant with as much effort as it takes to breath.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 25 Jul 2025 07:18:25 No. 6280057 Report >>6280056 Amongst the techniques you've managed to replicate from them, is the ability to appear before the dying or within graves or other places saturated with Deathly Yin Qi. The first successful use of, finds you appearing before an aged minister of some demon clan, whose demise was hastened by the excitement of the sudden appearance of a death defying beauty such as yourself. Which is where you also learn that you've learned, through training to mimic the soul collectors powers, the ability to view something's remaining lifespan and how much lifeforce remains within their mortal shell.
The first new technique you play around with for awhile, hopping around hell and interrupting murders for laughs, to try and figure out how to make it as precise as what you saw the soul shepherds do. But, it and the new found visualizing technique to see lifespan, are worth in of themselves of being made into name techniques.
Rapid Coffin Journey (Jíjùlíngjiùlǚchéng, 急剧灵柩旅程) and Vitality Seeking Eye (Shēngmìng lì-xúnqiú-yǎnjing, 生命力 寻求眼睛)
And your attempts to capture the true essence of the mystical power of the soul collectors power, leads to several techniques that are evolutions to or cousins of these two techniques
You learn that by expressing killing or murderous intent, and shortening one's expected life span through the serious intent to harm or kill them, that you're able to perform a Rapid Coffin Journey towards someone who you hold enough enmity towards to want to kill them, this you've decide should be called the Rancor Gallop (Yuānchóuchíchěng, 冤仇驰骋) and you also realize that since focusing killing intent actually effects the lifespan you can see, that you're able to, if they're near, immediately spot and track whatever your murderous intent is sent in the direction of, which is a neat trick you dub the Killer's eye (Shāshǒude- yǎnjing, 杀手的 眼睛), both of which will certainly benefit Qiang when she reaches a level where she can perceive and wield such spiritual energies safely.
You also learn that you can also sense the presence of killers who've subdued and suppressed their killing intent by how it effects the lifespan of others around them, including your own. And, using the new found ability to perceive, vaguely, how much time one has left that you're able to more or less accurately gauge and measure how much time one has left in their natural lifespan. And while visiting some aged spirit monks to see how accurate it is, you also realize, entirely by accident, that you're able to switch around a couple of years and vitality, and only through Lively Death Qi! Which gets you distracted for awhile as you try and figure out what else Lively Death Qi can do, but results in several new techniques
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 25 Jul 2025 07:19:27 No. 6280059 Report >>6280057 The first being Demon Art: Cradle to Grave (Yáolándàofénmù, 摇篮到坟墓) the aforementioned ability to steal lifespan or years from someone and grant them to someone else, which, you call a demonic technique because of how much it goes against the natural order and perverts it, but despite your own beliefs you recognize how damn useful such a trick would be. And you also learn or rather create a curse that is based off of Cradle to Grave and allows you to forcefully age someone, and make it temporary. Which you use on a monk who is enraged about you "stealing" back the years you'd accidentally taken from one of his fellow disciples and given to there then dead master. And you learn its temporary when he suddenly regains his youth by obeying you and apologizing.
You call this curse the Passing Century Curse (Shìqùbǎiniánmózhòu, 逝去百年魔咒), which can be read as the Dying Century curse and can be turned fatal, which you prove to yourself by uttering it on a few rapists and abusers you find while skulking through uh...some city in the underworld. Its easy to get lost through rapid coffin journeying everywhere and digging themselves out of graves fresh and old alike. It probably wasn't in Chuan's portion of hell though, since you didn't recognize the dialect spoken there.
And, you also learn, while taking a quick nap in a grave, that you can revert the decay of corpse and preserve them through your breath when it is filled with lively death qi, which is an ability you call Salting Breath (Yānqìxī, 腌气息). And also that Lively Death Qi can raise corpses similar to jiangshi that are driven purely by instinct if misused, creating "rogue" jiangshi without a smidgen of personality that act by muscle memory, but with some ghosts, you learn a neat trick. A false life, not a true resurrection, but a facsimile of it that only lasts as long as the body takes to rot. Which in combination with Yanqixi, can be quite a long time. You decide to keep this trick in mind and name it Muddy Revival (Nínìngfùhuó, 泥泞复活).
And while lazily escaping from some desperate demons not worth the Spider Demon, that being able to measure lifespans and learning how to interact with and make use of them, opens up several methods for you to instantly kill anything that is below a certain threshold of power, spiritually or physically, that is too weak to resist your sudden tugging, cutting or simply stealing of their lifespan. These, you collectively dub as the Four Sudden Deaths (Sìtūránsǐ, 四突然 死), since to anyone without the ability to witness the slight of hand you're using to tear out their years or directly attack their lifeforce with deathly yin qi, it simply looks as if the target of one of the forms of Situransi stopped and fell over dead instantly.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 25 Jul 2025 07:20:41 No. 6280062 Report >>6280059 But after remembering what you were trying to teach yourself initially, and with all the new insights and experiences playing around with the life and impending demise of demons and spirits who ticked you off enough to be categorized under the list of deserving targets, you're able to copy the movement/ transmission technique of the soul collectors flawlessly. And even improve on it, by adding a bit of Lunar Qi or Primordial Beast Essence, or swapping out the ghostly yin qi for Lively Death Qi!
You decide to call what the Soul Collectors do, to instantly arrive at the moment of death or transport themselves to any suitably powerful ghost or being suffused with the energies of death as Mortal Tax Collector's thousand li leap (Huìsǐshuìlìdīqiānlǐyuè, 会死税吏的千哩跃 ), the variation that allows you to simply appear before a dying stars and sun and presumably other cosmic sites of destruction that you haven't tested as you still need to pay up to the Dark Spider family, the Dark Sun Mourning (Yīn'àntàiyangāidào, 阴暗太阳哀悼), the variation from primordial beast energy that allows you to do the same with great sources of primordial beast energy, in theory, like the primordial tree in Suiqi or other landmarks or even dragons, Beast Court Summons (Yěshòugōngtíngzhào, 野兽宫廷召), and the last and fourth form, using Lively Death Qi that allows you to appear before sites of impending massacres or cataclysms, instantly and without delay as the Ill Omen Herald(Xiōngzhàoxiānshēng, 凶兆先声 )
<span class="mu-s"> Special Condition met. succeed a trial by exactly 4 to the power of 4 while in hell/ practicing ghostly Cultivation or ghost fueled techniques </span>
However, all this experimenting and heavy usage of Deathly Yin and Ghostly Yin Qi while wandering deeper and further into hell than you've ever dared to before tests even your resistance to the life sapping energies and the malaise of the dead, you've spent and absorbed so much rotten Qi that its starting to change something inside you. Physically and spiritually and fatefully. Finding a secluded cave, you crawl inside, pained and feverish from managing to overcome your immunity to the air of the underworld and the negative effects of the ghostly yin Qi you cultivate, to purge yourself of the filthy and poisonous Qi you fell back on absorbing and handling while training yourself to master the art of instantly appearing before the dead and dying. Like a poisoner who needs to sweat out the venom and toxins they ingested to increase their resilience and become truly immune, you sit and mediate and suffer through the potent energies of death trying their best to tear apart their new master from within!
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 25 Jul 2025 07:22:20 No. 6280065 Report >>6280062 And what reward do your receive from enduring such an onslaught from within your own body and soul, Huanliuxue?
>The Creation of your own ghost bloodline/ bloodline technique, the dawn of a lineage of ghost cat cultivator >The immediate attainment of a ghostly stage of magical beast evolution (Crypt Sorcerer) >Expanding the ghostly transformations of Cat's Court: Dancing across the border between life and death and attaining your first ghostly evolution through it >A third charge of Cat's Court: One of nine lives >A visit to the death bed of historical figure long dead >King Yama's attention and a job offer. For those keeping track, Huan just got 13 new tricks up her sleeve.
And Cradle to the Grave/ stealing the lifespan of others can be used as a self heal as well as to just increase Huan's already pretty ridiculous lifespan
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>>6280062 >huan can now inexplicably (to the unaware) appear with no prior warning in all sorts of places I'm sure just knowing that she could do such a thing could give the more skittish daoists heart attacks. But the ability to just -know- where bad shit is going to happen has some interesting implications. I wonder if she'll try to change fate or just prepare for it. She's like the damn mothman. Mothcat. Crazy stuff. Now we just have to invent some techniques that burn lifeforce as fuel and use the fact we can straight up yoink that shit to not have it be a real downside. Maybe even start bartering with the time people have left. Truly harrowing thoughts. What a terrifying woman.
>>6280065 These are all super cool. But I am struck with choice paralysis lmao. Could you kindly remind us what the limits of everything are? I can't recall how many evolutions we have left, or how many bloodlines we can take, etc.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 25 Jul 2025 07:41:18 No. 6280074 Report >>6280070 Huan is currently a tier 2 Magical beast, having two levels of evolution, split between the primordial beast line and the Cosmic beast line.
The most evolution levels a magical beast has reach is 8, but its theorized that 9 is the actual limit. Ghost evolution is similar but more obscure and Huan has zero of those. Bloodlines are only limited by inheritance and chance, and any new bloodlines Huan might create would become "Branches" of her first/ main one in essence
Also yeah, Huan as a Blood moon Cosmic Beast is a herald of misfortune and that's why her usual Aura (as seen when she fought Ao), is set to Ill Omen
She is legit bad luck and already has the ability to worsen the luck/ fortunes of others. She just hasn't used that ability yet
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>>6280065 Aside from these 13 tricks, We also figured out one of the foundational secrets of timetravel.
>>6280070 Don't know about bloodlines, I think you get one but we can mix and mutated it further down the line.
We only get 9 total magical beast evolutions, which we have. . 2 of right now?
I'll wait on Grandfather to confirm but currently I am leaning on
>Bloodline Since I want to expand this later.
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>>6280065 >King Yama's attention and a job offer. Anonymous
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>>6280074 Yeah I'm fine making this her primary bloodline.
But damn, Yama is a tempting prospect that I just can't really justify taking
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>>6280074 Thank you very much, Grandpa.
>>6280077 And thank you, anon.
Now I'm just wondering what the implications of the last two options are. Working for Yama will probably have huge benefits, even if it is an unpaid internship to make up for the fact that we shouldn't be here kek. But the historical figure long dead could be anyone. Could be Ao when he's still alive, but just before that mountain drops on him, we might be able to get a literal piece of him or some secret treasure. Or it could be the great Ox we all owe a debt to for his book and efforts. Or maybe someone we know nothing about, some great sage or ancient king. Maybe even the last vestiges of a to-be god when they were still mortal. It's very, very open ended.
These things really pique my interest.
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>>6280062 Very nice new powers. So much shenanigans we can do now...
>>6280065 Considering bloodlines could be bought two for one, if we find the correct combination, I vote for
>Expanding the ghostly transformations of Cat's Court: Dancing across the border between life and death and attaining your first ghostly evolution through it . Crypt Sorcerer sounds nice and strong, though.
Grandfather, is Crypt Sorcerer compatible with a ghoulish evolution?
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>>6280105 Screw crypt sorcerer, we should double and triple down on cosmic beasts
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>>6280065 >>A visit to the death bed of historical figure long dead Devil mind, grant us your wisdom.
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>>6280121 With the blood moon aspect, we already have the best parts of the cosmic beast evolutions. Most other aspects wouldn't really synergise with our Dao or our Carmine Mysticism. However, there might be some further non-moon based evolutions (e.g. void- or destrucion-themed) that we havent seen yet in detail and that fit together with what we already have.
>>6280081 If we meet the original Carmine Mystics before their inevitable fall (ourselves stealing their fruit), we could sneakily enhance the fruit with our distilled blood directly before it is stolen. This would enhance our past selves, strengthening our present selves to give a stronger boost to the blood peach - repeated infinitely. (Not a totally serious suggestion, even though Cultivators tend to be extreme power gamers. This inevitable fall also might not count as a proper death bed.)
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>>6280186 I want sun killer. We can deepen our bad luck moon evolution.
There are SO MANY possibilities and going for such low brow an evolution as "crypt sorcerer" is a waste of incredibly limited resources.
Not to mention we can artificially generate the condition needed to advance as a magical beast, the option is a waste.
Visting the past is valuable but it's also something we can choose to do twice.
A bloodline apparently only triggers with momentous occasions, since the last one was a primal beast bloodline when we formed the GC.
Yama may not be to our liking, but. . It's also a big chance.
Ergo sum totalium, my rationale favours bloodline as a direct power increase that's hard to recreate and Yama for the opportunity it opens at cost of greater risk.
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>>6280191 And as a last point. We know how to advance as a ghost, we gave best danger noodle a technique on how to do exactly that.
And we had the chance when we refined our spirit in hell the first time, in the cage match.
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>>6280191 >I want sun killer. Can you please elaborate how sun killer interacts with the rest of our abilities?
Sun Killer is indeed strong, but I don't see it really contribute to our play style. It seems more like something for Quiang so that she has a few ranged assassination options and to situationally counter her squishiness. Monu might also benefit from it for similar reason, even though she could poison her arrows in addition. A further issue with this is that we have already used the arrow one time and I don't know if it is useable by us again.
I voted for spiritual evolution also in order to not block bloodline slots. I would prefer the two-for-one options disclosed at the picking phase for our second evolution, before we charged through the heavens.
However, time travel seems way more limited than bloodline slots. It comes with it's own risks however (especially when creating closed time-like curves).
King Yama will do his best to remain a king. We would be in servitude. This is an especially bad option as he's extremely strong and can exert a lot of pressure.
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>>6280062 I fucking love how the techniques are based on each other, especially the ones based on creative use of the lifespan sight. I kneel before Grandfather.
>>6280065 >Expanding the ghostly transformations of Cat's Court: Dancing across the border between life and death and attaining your first ghostly evolution through it Anonymous
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>>6280213 I don't want to go for King Yama's offer, since we're doing our own thing and don't need additional responsibilities
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>>6280065 Grandfather, are there limits on ghostly evolution, as there are for bloodline and beastly evolutions? I know we haven't ever picked a spiritual evolution, but I think it's worth asking.
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>>6280208 Strengthens our Eclipsed Yang Physique, which if you have forgotten and are forgiven if you did, Is the yang energy that we can use to enhance our Yin, as well as seamlessly swap between our usual deathly splendor and the very actively murderous Yang aura.
Our Dao is ghosts and grudges.
We adopted Blood as a secondary support to the main dao.
We have build Huan so that she consistently takes contradictory concepts and forces them to empower eachother; Yin then Yang Physique, Death and blood, Lively death Qi, our crossing the boundary of life and death technique, ect ect.
But just ignoring how this fits in fine with our toolkit, it gives us access to fire immunity and dead sun qi. This is the thing we can use to empower our carmine mysticism further STELLAR VAMPIRES.
The eyesight and Archery are just tertiary benefits, but nice gravy to have with the main attractions.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Sat 26 Jul 2025 03:41:58 No. 6280476 Report >>6280105 Yes, because it is a ghost aligned magical beast evolution and not a ghost evolution
>>6280213 >>6280105 Thanks for your kind words juniors! Was hoping those techniques would get this sort of reaction
>>6280219 Already answered this junior. But to explain in detail
Bloodlines, as I said are only limited due to inheritance/ chance. Huan, if she's capable, can create a tangled web of a bloodline that her decendants would get portions of while she'd have the whole tree. Cause she started the tree, how many "branches" it has solely depends on how many she can form/ complete
And in the same post I answered that,
>>6280074 I said ghost evolution does work like magical beast evolution, its just that in universe its more obscure/ less documented.
Loving all the discussion btw
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>>6280476 On the topic of bloodlines.
Aside from the cute pair our resident catastrophe ghost and danger cat make, we have the Fu clan and potentially Yuri clan that can become long time tributaries to the sect.
Do we want to start prep and practices for their longevity?
I am personally in favour of making the bloodline merit based inheritance, sealing any advanced skills in any kids we have and leaving a few places where the tribulants need to demonstrate exceptional abilities to gain the inheritance.
Because we were born [again] with 2 advantages, transient roots and being Huanliexiue.
Anyone claiming our inheritance Should follow our example.
Likewise our potential kids/inheritors can have a few helpful boosts at base but need to challenge the test of our trials for a full inheretence
Anonymous
>>6280476 AI fanart for the quest (please do not hold me responsible for what nonsensical gibberish it might have included as the artist signature)
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>>6280065 Further time travel shenanigans, which is not too serious and doesnt even receive my own vote unless people are crazily excited:
1. travel to the past
2. let our spirit leave our body and only our body returns to our body
3. Our spirit spends centuries/millennia cultivating
4. as soon as our young self is born, we self-possess without actually exerting control
5. at this point in time (now) our body has two Huan-spirits.
6. Repeat often
7. stop when we have 444 spirits with large amounts of experience and cultivation
Maybe combinable with the lower part of
>>6280186 , if that is allowable.
>>6280074 A further question: could in the far future when we run out of slots the evolutions be evolved/refined/replaced without taking up additional slots? I think we deserve only the most exquisite and rare evolutions ...
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>>6280607 Have you seen this cat? (also AI)
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Sorry for the stream of self-referential posts. Sorry also for the late write-in.
>>6280615 Should long-term-soul duplication be beyond this quest choice, having a spirit with a huge amount of time for experiences, spriritual cultivation, the teaching of other, younger Huan-souls, the covert gathering of knowledge is too great. I switch my vote (
>>6280105 ) to:
>>6280065 >>A visit to the death bed of historical figure long dead 1. travel to the past
2. let our spirit leave our body and only our body returns to this present
3. Our spirit spends centuries/millennia cultivating and studying
4. as soon as our young self is born, we self-possess without actually exerting control
5. At this point in time (now) our body has two Huan-spirits. The older can now teach the younger, gathering bonus points for teaching while retroactively boosting itself.
6. We reach again this present point in time and repeat point 1. Often.
7. Some time loops later, we have have 444 spirits with large amounts of experience and cultivation. The oldest spirit no longer partakes the time loop, by just waiting for the body to re-appear and is now the 'normal' Huan.
Out of these time loops, only one has not been trained while infinitely many will have been trained by older versions of themselves, if self-training doesn't work retroactively.
Maybe combine this with the lower part of
>>6280186 (a similar closed, time-like curve for blood-peach-compatible Qi), if that is allowable.
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>>6280628 Oh that's a nice cat
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>>6280065 So I’d say trying to escape Huan is now impossible with Rapid Coffin Journey and Rancor Leap, but really nice how every thing feeds into each other with this batch of techniques and that most of them are utility/not immediately combat related.
All of our Cat’s Court techniques seem to be some of our most effective, so giving it a boost that also gives an evolution that doesn’t take one of our beast slots. But really all of these are great so I wouldn’t be hurt if something else won.
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>>6280065 So I’d say trying to escape Huan is now impossible with Rapid Coffin Journey and Rancor Leap, but really nice how every thing feeds into each other with this batch of techniques and that most of them are utility/not immediately combat related.
>Expanding the ghostly transformations of Cat's Court: Dancing across the border between life and death and attaining your first ghostly evolution through it All of our Cat’s Court techniques seem to be some of our most effective, so giving it a boost that also gives an evolution that doesn’t take one of our beast slots. But really all of these are great so I wouldn’t be hurt if something else won
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>>6280065 >>A third charge of Cat's Court: One of nine lives Anonymous
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>>6280065 >The Creation of your own ghost bloodline/ bloodline technique, the dawn of a lineage of ghost cat cultivator This should be a great leap forward for our cultivation, combining both our yin qi and our blood qi knowledge to create a bloodline.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Tue 29 Jul 2025 07:05:00 No. 6281861 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying its results now
The Creation of your own ghost bloodline/ bloodline technique, the dawn of a lineage of ghost cat cultivator:2
Expanding the ghostly transformations of Cat's Court: Dancing across the border between life and death and attaining your first ghostly evolution through it .:3
A visit to the death bed of historical figure long dead:2
King Yama's attention and a job offer: 1
A third charge of Cat's Court: One of nine lives:1
Alright, you'll expand your ghostly transformation techniques and attain your true first ghost evolution as well
Update will arrive shortly
>>6280615 No.
>>6280607 >>6280628 Very nice. thanks for these gifts, junior
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You're accustomed to waltzing down the boundary between life and death, but this brush with passing over to the other side and teetering towards the grave is different. You can feel your soul mutating and transforming, as the mixed ghostly essences of the underworld infuse and steep into it like dried tea leaves in hot water. Its like a killing chill mixed with a deadly fever, sweltering internal heat and bone snapping cold fighting inside of the marrow of your bones and your organs, your balanced yin and yang energies being the only thing holding your mortal body together as the soul inside of it grows, expands and refines through a war it wages against itself. Your spirit is rabid, clawing and biting at itself as it thrashes around its mortal vessel as it is refined through the the sheer amount of ghostly yin qi and underworld spiritual energies you've been absorbing and filling your merdians and cultivation base with.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Tue 29 Jul 2025 07:52:10 No. 6281869 Report what sort of ghost has you evolved into, Huanliuxue?>Curse Princess. The royalty of the dead, underworld nobility who command the lesser and newly deceased. Increases your ghostly presence/ deathly yin Qi, empowers supernatural/ ghostly powers, and makes weaker/ lesser ghosts and spirits naturally subservient to you. >Hunger Incarnate. Ghosts born of and causing famine, who spread misery where they walk. Giving power over famine and starvation, able to turn ghosts into hungry ghosts and curse others with unusual hungers, as well as allowing you to "Devour" Qi, Breath and Life Force (Among other things). >Serene Demise [Unlocked via Good Karma]. Embodying the acceptance of death and peaceful passing, those near these ghosts find their pains lessened and their hearts comforted, receiving benefits and powers through those they escort delicately to the afterlife, and the ability to absorb pain, poisons and illnesses. Strengthened in hallowed and holy ground. >Bloodied Corpse. The spirits of murder victims and murderers, these ghost spread violence and bloodshed and thrive upon it. Create murderous feelings and anger in others, draw power through violence and have an easier time possessing those who've dirtied their hands with killing, and get stronger while soaked in blood Produce spectral weapons naturally, and are resistant to Discorporation/ dismemberment >Drowned Wraith. The ghosts of the drowned and lost at sea, these ghosts ride storms and waves. Improve Water aligned techniques and a natural tie to storms and the ability to upset and turn even calm pools deadly and hungry. Possess The ability to drag and pin others down in water, and increased magical power while standing at least up to your ankles in water. >Victim of the Forest. The ghosts of those vanished into the wilderness, these ghosts control the trees that have grown over their bones. Improved Wood aligned techniques and the ability to "curse" and soak living plants with ghostly essence and turn them into living puppets and the ability to baffle and mislead the living anywhere plants grow proud and wild. Abilities improve the further they are from civilization. >Sin Eater [Unlocked Via good Karma]. The natural predators of demons and evil natured spirits alike, these ghosts are feared throughout hell. Anti Demon/ Positive Karmic techniques improved, the ability to purify Demonic Qi and absorb it more efficiently, immunity or resistance to demon poisons/ demonic sorcery as well as the power to consume demon flesh without injury, and the ability to devour sin in living hearts. >Stillborn's Nursemaid . The protectors and guardians of the stillborn and those who died especially young. Draws the ghost of infants and children to your protection, greatly empowered while guarding and defending the young, the ability to influence the rebirth of the souls under their watch's reincarnations. The power to immediately appear before children threatened with / facing mortal peril
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>>6281869 Sin Eater looks interesting. Finding a use for Demonic Qi without risking impurity, devouring sins in living hearts, cool flavour...
Would the "consume demon flesh without injury" of Sin Eater also extend to enhancing Carmine Mysticism with demonic blood?
Judging on pure combat strength, Bloodied Corpse is probably the strongest, especially as our fur is permanently dyed red by blood. The appearing before threatened children of Stillborn's Nursemaid looks extremely neat at first glance, but might not be needed as we have Rapid Coffin Journey. The reincarnation based powers however might be very useful.
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>>6281869 You did it again. I am torn between options. In the short term I can see the Forest ghost being beneficial to helping the lil shroom, which is fun. The Bloody ghost is peak Huan, and since she is made out of ten times the amount of blood a body should be able to hold, she can get quite the claret going. the Serene ghost being the perfect contrast of Ao further leans into the good and evil dichotomy that Huan embodies in her daily life and it's something she's known to do, if not necessarily for solely altruistic reasons. The Sin ghost is just based as shit, Fuck you, Hell, we'll be ready for Baoli 2: Demon King Boogaloo. And the Stillborn ghost is just, very sweet, and also Huan's biggest drive, it's hard to turn down in good conscience.
I also have to wonder if Huan ever considers her sect as her "children", some of them at least, if she could just show up when they're in danger. Or if it's solely an age thing and not a "status" thing. Also Curse ghost is very amusing. Makes the whole "Empress of All" thing more official. I'm tempted to nab that one for that reason alone.
>tfw huan goes missing for an hour or two and comes back with wacky new powers and seemingly impossible changes Can I put a vote down for Either/Or for the Good Karma ones? I can see the extreme value in both for different reasons. Dealing with the Heavens would be easier with Serene Demise, but dealing with Hell would be easier with Sin Eater. Both are actually kind of pressing issues, since I am sure the demons are going to get more and more riled up since the world is in turmoil and the heavens are being challenged. If I can't put in a split decision vote I can just flip a coin to make things easier. You spoil us too well, Gramps! kek
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>>6281869 >Sin eater I really like stillborn nurse maid, and I do dearly want the teleport power but Sin eater is just the better option.
We don't have many or any positive karmic techniques, but we do have stuff that we can slap positive karma on
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>>6281869 Bloodied corpse seems like it can induce grudges in others, which would strengthen us in the end. The ultimate trolling power
I think sin eater might turn all of hell against us, even the spiders might not be so affable if we suddenly turn up as an anti-demon entity.
With curse princess we might be able to empower Ao too which isn't a small thing...
The nursemaid might become our full time job, though it might be interesting to become a worldwide boogieman for abusers... so I'll vote for it.
>Stillborn nursemaid. It might also be a way to develop divinity since we would basically be answering prayers.
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>>6281869 >Stillborn's Nursemaid . The protectors and guardians of the stillborn and those who died especially young. Draws the ghost of infants and children to your protection, greatly empowered while guarding and defending the young, the ability to influence the rebirth of the souls under their watch's reincarnations. The power to immediately appear before children threatened with / facing mortal peril I gotta double-down on Huan's core here. I feel that it fits really well with "Ruler of the Great Wheel's Law", our self-named cultivation technique.
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>>6281892 fear of power is a natural and expected part of hell. It wouldn't turn them against us, just wary.
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>>6281869 >Curse Princess. The royalty of the dead, underworld nobility who command the lesser and newly deceased. Increases your ghostly presence/ deathly yin Qi, empowers supernatural/ ghostly powers, and makes weaker/ lesser ghosts and spirits naturally subservient to you. Anonymous
>>6281895 Not quite, demons are often proud of being demonic and being confronted with something being specifically targeted against them is a bit more than simple strength which they respect. It's a threat, and in huan's case where if you look away for two hours she gains a bloodline and bullshit cheat powers? That is beyond scary.
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>>6281869 >Sin Eater [Unlocked Via good Karma]. The natural predators of demons and evil natured spirits alike, these ghosts are feared throughout hell. Anti Demon/ Positive Karmic techniques improved, the ability to purify Demonic Qi and absorb it more efficiently, immunity or resistance to demon poisons/ demonic sorcery as well as the power to consume demon flesh without injury, and the ability to devour sin in living hearts. Anonymous
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>>6281875 Voting now.
>>6281869 >>Sin Eater [Unlocked Via good Karma]. The natural predators of demons and evil natured spirits alike, these ghosts are feared throughout hell. Anti Demon/ Positive Karmic techniques improved, the ability to purify Demonic Qi and absorb it more efficiently, immunity or resistance to demon poisons/ demonic sorcery as well as the power to consume demon flesh without injury, and the ability to devour sin in living hearts. It gives us access to things I assume are cultivation materials (demon flesh, purified Demonic Qi, sins), strong resistance to the next upcoming enemies (which we will also have to handle in the future), and it is only accessible to a select few with the correct Karmic balance, reducing the chances of having to see a distasteful person with it.
Imagine seeing a negative psychopomp deity that has Stillborn's Nursemaid but saves children (e.g. young magical beast) only to kill them themselves in a way that reincarnates them differently (e.g. human). Sharing aspects with psychopomp-deities/beings can be so shameful! (I won't be salty though if precisely that happens)
We have been relatively good at protecting children anyways and I will of course vote to continue doing that in the future.
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>>6281869 >Sin Eater [Unlocked Via good Karma]. The natural predators of demons and evil natured spirits alike, these ghosts are feared throughout hell. Anti Demon/ Positive Karmic techniques improved, the ability to purify Demonic Qi and absorb it more efficiently, immunity or resistance to demon poisons/ demonic sorcery as well as the power to consume demon flesh without injury, and the ability to devour sin in living hearts. Anonymous
>>6281915 a double edged sword in the hands of a demon makes it a terrible threat of a rival.
A double edged sword without any affiliation is a threat to your whole kind.
see my meaning? We're already in with the crows and the spiders, and we are a known patron of the arena's. They will value us more for our lethality and everyone else will fear them by proximity to us.
Anonymous
>>6281938 You're not weighting it against them being labeled race traitors and collaborationist, besides I doubt they would delude themselves that Huan will come to protect them or that she will let them use her as a threat against other demons.
Thinking they will be ok with it is naive I fear, or setting ourselves up for betrayal.
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>>6281869 If recall Xuebai's been hiding in our sleeve for a while now, poor girl will be the only witness to our evolution.
>Serene Demise [Unlocked via Good Karma]. Embodying the acceptance of death and peaceful passing, those near these ghosts find their pains lessened and their hearts comforted, receiving benefits and powers through those they escort delicately to the afterlife, and the ability to absorb pain, poisons and illnesses. Strengthened in hallowed and holy ground. Too many good choices, HELP.
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>>6281945 I would be more afraid if devils had a concept of "race unity". They don't.
they are backstabbing, conniving, untrustworthy, mutually sabotaging bastards who rule over the weak and meek who don't have the wits or will to be a backstabbing conniving ect ect devil.
See if they thought they were going to be one nation under a leader again, maybe they would have reservations.
But seeing as they don't, and they prioritise ambition and power over "silly" concepts like propriety and deals, we are just a new and dangerious tool to try and wield. the skillful will have a great weapon, the inept will be cut by it, either way benefits one demon over another.
Besides, Sin eaters are a known and feared quantity in the underworld, until they do a genocide of a type of ghosts, we don't have to worry about it. My evidence;
Why would some craven cur try and kill a sin eater? what do they gain out of it that isn't better had by someone else going and killing one? Public service isnt big in hell
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>>6281945 Do you really expect the demons to -not- betray /target us in the future if we don't take Sin Eater? They're demons. Most of them are kind of like that. So far the only demons I wouldn't expect to betray Huan is specifically our spider book-buddy and the Pig, wherever he is, because he's bitchmade like that kek. Which is perfectly understandable, if a talking ox sized housecat strode up and said I was its new pack mule I'd not want to die either.
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>>6281967 >demons don't follow racial unity. You sure? because I seem to recall that they flock into groups like the spider demons and the crow demons.
Also the spider demon matriarch seems to be very about honoring deals to me.
>>6282018 Demons will try to betray us anyway but they don't need a motivation to band together in a witch hunt. Sure, there may be lots of other Sin-eaters but once in a millennia geniuses on the path to godhood and with our kind of karma?
If those slumbering leviathans had any ambition to become the next demon king they would squash us first.
You do not understand that hatred for a cheater unifies even the worst of the worst scum. And becoming a sin-eater is probably the most abhorrent thing to them, possibly even more than soul eating because it targets THEM specifically.
I want you to imagine you're in a city of people allergic to peanuts and this guy who usually carries a pocket knife now suddenly showing up one day also covered in peanut butter and flinging peanuts left and right, how would you feel?
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>>6282035 Yeah. Exactly. Spider demons, Crow demons, forge demons, ect ect ect. Notice how they aren't "Demon clan" or "the united demon front"
they are types of demons, they are not all "demons". they have their own sides and they will use them against "ally" as well as enemy.
The matriarch is offering a bodyguard service, they need to cultivate a certain reputation to do business. She honours hers because it benefits her, if it didn't she would break it in a moment.
The crows aren't that reliable and nor are her none-bodyguard kids.
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>>6282035 That's not a good analogy, because it adds intent and action on top of implicit threat. A better analogy would be everyone in a city have an unspoken agreement to only ever have fistfights and some day a guy shows up with a gun. He isn't using it, but he still has it.
But still, if conflict is inevitable then why not pick an advantage? If I know I'm going to get into a fight with someone who is deathly allergic to shellfish why -wouldn't- I keep a pocket full of shrimp to throw at him? And either way, since Huan is planning on bringing an entire gaggle of DEMON HUNTERS into the Springs explicitly to kill a bunch of demons, I think the ship of "She's going to be a problem" will sail whether we take it or not.
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>>6281869 >Curse Princess. The royalty of the dead, underworld nobility who command the lesser and newly deceased. Increases your ghostly presence/ deathly yin Qi, empowers supernatural/ ghostly powers, and makes weaker/ lesser ghosts and spirits naturally subservient to you. >Sin Eater [Unlocked Via good Karma]. The natural predators of demons and evil natured spirits alike, these ghosts are feared throughout hell. Anti Demon/ Positive Karmic techniques improved, the ability to purify Demonic Qi and absorb it more efficiently, immunity or resistance to demon poisons/ demonic sorcery as well as the power to consume demon flesh without injury, and the ability to devour sin in living hearts. >Stillborn's Nursemaid . The protectors and guardians of the stillborn and those who died especially young. Draws the ghost of infants and children to your protection, greatly empowered while guarding and defending the young, the ability to influence the rebirth of the souls under their watch's reincarnations. The power to immediately appear before children threatened with / facing mortal peril any of these
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>>6282037 You're saying that horrible people can't mob against a thing that scares them when it's probably their own favorite pastime, and if the partnership with Huan were to cut into the business the spider matriarch might cut us off instead.
Not that we would need her help forever either and she knows it well.
>>6282038 Your analogy implies that Huan wouldn't use her "gun" liberally and without remorse at the first chance she gets against the very thing they are supposed to be great against? Delusional.
And you fail to consider it's both fear AND envy of those powers that will make her hated. From an outsider to someone very clearly anathema to them:
>NATURAL PREDATOR... FEARED THROUGH HELL... Did you two not read the prompt?
She will become resistant to their tricks, a veritable thorn in their side!
But whatever, believe what you want. If it wins I'll vote to take the spider seamstress with us so the fuckers can't use her against us at least and trust grampa for the rest.
Not saying it wouldn't be fun but it will close a lot of doors and make all demons sworn enemies from what I see.
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>>6282132 I didn't say they can't mob against a thing thst scares them.
I did say that demons play fast and loose. We are very hard to kill and very dangerious to anger. Already.
Making ourselves their natural predator makes us more dangerious, but a canny demon would try and turn that on another clan. Either we kill the clan so aimed, or we die and they don't lose any of their own men or need to pay us. Win win.
Is Huan a bloody minded crusader out to kill demons? Not really.
Are we already a tempting target to kill? Yes.
Is there any reason for a demon of sufficient power to be concerned with to believe that we are such a threat that we need to be taken out ASAP. No.
So their options are to try and bring the pain, alone, and lose men and resources for the glory of our corpse.
Or trust their fellow beings who's primary pass time is betrayal and anarchy in taking down a genius who fights above her stage and makes all your luck vanish and share the corpse.
Rational and cunning actors do not see us as sin eaters being an existential threat.
We'd need to make actual, tangible evidence we are going to wipe out demonkind, rather than continue to use them for the benefits they give us.
Oh, and yeah, if we fuck with the matriarchal buissness and don't have the capital [political or economic] to offset the cost, she will drop us like hot rocks.
>As if Huan won't use it liberally and without remorse Again, depends on the demons we fuck with. By being in talks and agreements with two clans, we are an insider part of the underworld city. A dangerious member with fearsome abilities, but not the strongest and currently with a vested interest in a city uncorrupted by the 5 fuckers continuing its maintainance.
Nobody cares if we kill street thugs who fuck with us, they only care when we are too powerful for a single clan to stop and we want to threaten everyone.
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>>6282132 >Your analogy implies that Huan wouldn't use her "gun" liberally and without remorse at the first chance she gets against the very thing they are supposed to be great against? Delusional. Huan doesn't live in the city, she isn't there to play by their rules and if someone fucks with her she is going to use her gun. That is a normal and natural response. The fact that Huan is a veritable saintess already puts her in the crosshairs, the fact that she has a memorable name and appearance has put her in the crosshairs, the fact that she has feats that are spoken of puts her in the crosshairs. She has been accosted by demons -outside- of hell that knew her specifically. This will only get worse as time goes on until she becomes so obscenely powerful that it is literally impossible for a demon to beat her (fat chance that, demons are built different) or she has some kind of tool or trick which makes them very much NOT want to fuck with her.
A sword keeps another in its sheath as the saying goes. Huan is already by her very existence and nature opposed to the common denizens of hell. And she's going to make that even worse when she kicks that hornets nest as we have already planned to do. Your entire argument is "It will make them upsetti, let's not" as if Huan isn't already intending on doing that. "But it's different! It's not just stabbing them but turning into a soul nuke!" doesn't really matter. The intensity of the threat doesn't change that it is a threat. It is equally as valuable to pick it BECAUSE it gives us more tools against them despite the fact it might agitate them as it is to NOT pick it to avoid antagonizing them.
The demons are 100% going to be Huan's enemy some day. As are the heavens. A tool against either of them is a good choice. That's all. I'm not going to hamstring Huan just for public opinion. She goes where she chooses and lives as she pleases. If the masses don't like that it's their problem. Hellish or otherwise.
But like I said earlier, I really can't choose because I do like all the options. Even if I can rationalize which ones are more "useful".
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In regards to the Sin Eater debate, I think it's relevant to mention that part of Huan's ultimate goal is to overthrow Heaven, and the council of gods that rule it-- which will also effect Hell. Cultivation, in itself, is an act of defiance of the established order of the world-- which is also why all cultivators face tribulation once they get above a certain rank, regardless of alignment. At its most basic level, the pursuit of immortality is not something that cowardly or weak-willed people can accomplish; trying to do so without making waves is what the Orthodox sects do, which directly caused the stagnation of the world. If Huan restricted her own cultivation based on fear of others' opinions, she wouldn't have ever gotten off the ground as a Heretic. It's not her style, and it's against the premise of the quest.
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I just think we should lean more into our life/death dichotomy and get more insight into manipulating the wheel of transmigration. Knowing more on that should make our own ascension to Nascent Soul much more potent given such insights.
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>>6281947 On a second thought, I think I prefer
>Stillborn's Nursemaid Feels more fitting for the evolution of our soul to be born from one of our core desires and drives. But still I think they're all good fits (except for Drowned Wraith which is out of left field for our vibe and powerset)
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Might as well get the counting done since the discussions have calmed down>Votes:10 >Curse Princess:1(2) >Serene Demise:0(1) >Sin Eater:4(6) >Stillborn's Nursemaid:3(4)
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>>6283445 I remember counting four raw votes for sin eater before when not counting split votes, so it seems legit to me.
>captcha: MXXXM Weird.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Sat 02 Aug 2025 02:42:17 No. 6283524 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote now
>>6283445 And this does appear to be accurate after a quick double check. Thanks for undertaking the tribulation of tallying in my place, Junior
So your first ghostly evolution is Sin Eater, remember you can get more so you can still pick up the others later.
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>>6283462 But what does it mean
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Sat 02 Aug 2025 03:11:27 No. 6283548 Report And then, suddenly it stops, shuddering and freezing in place as the shadows you cast from the dim, cold fire light cast by Xuebai's bobbing soul stiffen and darken, deepening before they congeal together and form together in a shifting collection of feathered wings that surround you like a white silk cocoon before they spread and flutter, the almost painfully white feathers fading into motes of light around you as you yawn and bite down on a substance that you first mistook for grudge energy, feeling peckish and needing the biting sourness of enmity to remind your body it is still alive. But you pause, as Xuebai peeks and uncurls herself, turning from a ghost flame into her usual spectral self as you gnaw and chew on the stuff you absentmindedly stuffed into your maw and are now crushing between your jaws curiously.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Sat 02 Aug 2025 03:12:28 No. 6283550 Report >>6283548 "Are you alright?" Xuebai asks quietly as you stand up, and get a few stretches in by rapidly switching between your human and feline bodies, and give your body one last big tensing by performing a chimeric transformation before you "Poof" back to your natural state and stretch out from the tip of your tail to the tips of your ears and flop down on your side
"Hurt, exhausted, but triumphant" You brag, smirking as you wiggle your notched ear and yawn, cleaning the back of your paw "That was unexpected, but I wouldn't be Huanliuxue if I...wait, when did you get here? Weren't you off playing while I was chasing ghosts"
"I heard you yowling and thought I should keep an eye on you, as a big sister should when their little siblings are doing something stupid" She answers with a cackle that the two of you inherited from Monu "And, I think your creepy obsession with the macabre and grisly rubbed off on me, cause I couldn't look away even as your body seemed intent on snapping and breaking itself apart, what exactly..."
"Accidentally refined me soul and underwent ghostly evolution, practically, my soul ascended to a stage of an advance or monstrous ghost, like you or Yujijiao, a mature hungry ghost. The sort that has completely forsaken their mortality more or less" You explain to her as best as you can when you want to take a nap "And if you were watching me suffer, how could you keep guard of this little sanctuary I crawled into, Xue-Xue?"
Your older sister stares wide eyed like she'd been caught in a chicken coop by the farmer. And she'd have reason to look scared if it was Ho who caught her. But as you wonder if that chicken farmer could whip your sister in a fight, what you were worried about happens as you sense a swell of demonic Qi that either belongs to a small gang of tough demons or one singular devil that could give you a work out in a fight. You narrow your eyes and Xuebai shrinks back into a ghost flame and whines apologetically as you glower beyond the cave entrance.
"What a pain in the ass" You drawl, still flopped on your side, though you were honestly surprised this hadn't happened earlier. Then again, demons are by natures opportunists, and you must've certainly looked weaker while your soul rebelled and thrashed around in its growing pains.
"If it didn't look like you might've been dying I swear I'd have been a better body guard!" Xuebai swears, reappearing as the monstrous, ghostly fox form she favored when she was mostly insane while hanging around with that putrid corpse thief.
What do you do Huanliuxue?
>Snap the string and tell the bodyguard you were assigned to either chase off whatever you're sensing, or buy you time to catch your breath. >try to use one of your new techniques to just blink away, grabbing Xuebai before you do so as not to leave her behind >Confront the demons trying to hunt you, aiming to murder them all >"AODASHENG!" >Write in Anonymous
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>>6283550 >>Snap the string and tell the bodyguard you were assigned to either chase off whatever you're sensing, or buy you time to catch your breath. We paid for it, might as well use it. I wonder if the spider monitoring the thread has had a heart attack from the various random teleports Huan has been doing.
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>>6283550 >Snap the string and tell the bodyguard you were assigned to either chase off whatever you're sensing, or buy you time to catch your breath. Anonymous
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>>6283550 >try to use one of your new techniques to just blink away, grabbing Xuebai before you do so as not to leave her behind Test the new stuff. We always can summon the bodyguard if this fails
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>>6283550 >try to use one of your new techniques to just blink away, grabbing Xuebai before you do so as not to leave her behind Not going to test out how a spider would react from our suddenly becoming a sin eater, and I don't want Ao to enter hell where his soul might be important enough to get snatched by a reaper.
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>>6283550 >Snap the bodyguards string Use what ya got.
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>>6283550 >>try to use one of your new techniques to just blink away, grabbing Xuebai before you do so as not to leave her behind Time to learn
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>>6283550 >try to use one of your new techniques to just blink away, grabbing Xuebai before you do so as not to leave her behind Gramps, don't tempt me with our equivalent to the King of Frauds calling for help.
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>>6283550 >>Confront the demons trying to hunt you, aiming to murder them all We want their flesh, hearts, blood, and Qi.
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Ending and tallying the vote now!
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Tue 05 Aug 2025 03:38:46 No. 6285249 Report "Oh there's no reason to look so frightened, elder sister, nor is there any reason to apologize" You coo, patting your older sister on the top of her spectral head, tittering from behind another of your paws "If I was so easily cornered, I'd be a failure of a cat and couldn't peacock and strut around calling myself the empress of all felines. As a fox, you should know difficult it is to pen and trap shifty little beasts like we, Heh-Heh-Heh"
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Tue 05 Aug 2025 03:39:46 No. 6285251 Report >>6285249 "So how exactly are you planning on escape this-YIP!" Xuebai tries to ask, but is interrupted by the surprised and hurt squeak she makes as you bite down on the scruff of her neck and instantly move her and yourself and untold distance away from the cavern a pack of ravenous devils had picked out to be your grave. The sheer arrogance to think that had the right to ordain where it is your bones would rest and molder down to red dust! Heh-Heh-Heh
Xuebai is still shrieking when you arrive at your destination, and crash into a mountain of bleach bones. You let go of her and tumble down the side of the wall of the pile of corpses that reaches a baleful red mimic of the sun that weeps above it, and let yourself roll until you can orient yourself and wince as the fall bruises you and breaking bones stab and cut you. Eventually your momentum stops enough for you to get back up onto all fours and lets you shake your head until the world stops spinning. And you find that you're standing before a mountain range of bones. Animal bones. Magical beast bones of all sizes. That are dusted and scattered with a thousand shards of a broken and drained beast cores.
It is a mass grave. And your hackles raise and your furs stands on end as you recognize which even created this grave. It was the betrayal of ten generations prior! Where the five wise immortal sages forcefully cut ties with your kind and massacred your ancestors and the other gods of their age to usurp the rule of the heaven and reshape the world of cultivation to their whim. Grudge miasma pours out from your every pour as the sight before you enrages you beyond words, the enmity you feel being almost equal as the resentment you felt when you first awoke as a magical beast. When you fur, once brilliant and cloudy white, was first stained red with the blood of the children you adored and who adored you.
What do you do, Huanliuxue, having successfully escaped a fight via one of your newly attained techniques?
>Explore the grave of the last generation of magical beasts, in quiet contemplation of their bones and broken beast cores, and look for a place to meditate amongst them >Grab Xuebai, and find your way back to the Spider Demon clan and tell them your decision regarding payment for the protection you've negotiated for >Give into resentment sweet temptation and rampage around for awhile, to vent the anger and frustration caused by the physical proof of your species near extinction >Create a "target" so you can return here later, then leave to find a good "test" for your assigned body guard, to know if they're worth what you're going to be paying them for, before making up your mind about what you're going to pay their clan with >Write in Anonymous
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>>6285251 >>Create a "target" so you can return here later, then leave to find a good "test" for your assigned body guard, to know if they're worth what you're going to be paying them for, before making up your mind about what you're going to pay their clan with We'll be back. With flowers. Or at least a fucking headstone. Damn. Fuck the heavens. Once we calm down by watching a spider murdering something we should have a clear enough head to pick a proper payment plan.
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>>6285251 >Create a "target" so you can return here later, then leave to find a good "test" for your assigned body guard, to know if they're worth what you're going to be paying them for, before making up your mind about what you're going to pay their clan with Anonymous
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>>6285251 >>Create a "target" so you can return here later This is an interesting spot, we should return here later
>Explore the grave of the last generation of magical beasts, in quiet contemplation of their bones and broken beast cores This place might be an appropriate ritual site to ressurrect our sister. We might need to purify any demonic qi though...
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>>6285251 >Explore the grave of the last generation of magical beasts, in quiet contemplation of their bones and broken beast cores, and look for a place to meditate amongst them Anonymous
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>>6285251 While I like marking the spot, I also wanna explore.
So to make it a dead heat
>Explore the graveyard Anonymous
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>>6285251 As I read it I thought about this perhaps being the resting spot of the devil mind but this is also a very meaningful place.
Perhaps when we will eventually cultivate further we could pick this spot to meditate...
But first we need to field test our sticky lifeline.
>Create a "target" so you can return here later, then leave to find a good "test" for your assigned body guard, to know if they're worth what you're going to be paying them for, before making up your mind about what you're going to pay their clan with Anonymous
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>>6285251 >>Explore the grave of the last generation of magical beasts, in quiet contemplation of their bones and broken beast cores, and look for a place to meditate amongst them Anonymous
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>>6285251 >Explore the grave of the last generation of magical beasts, in quiet contemplation of their bones and broken beast cores, and look for a place to meditate amongst them At least to show some respect to those who came before us.
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>>6287001 >a deep slumber after eating a bit too much sushi These fish demons are strong.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 08 Aug 2025 07:02:19 No. 6287015 Report In a contemplative mood, looking up from the starlight sparkling in the fur of your crimson paw, you saunter deeper into the graveyard where the mortal remains of the ancestors who were sacrificed for the ambitions of a mere five men, whose legacies have been piled up on your back for you to carry and surpass. The bones are all ancient, yellowed with age and bearing marks and damages that tell you how they were slain. And as you pause to study and examine and pay your respects to each identifiably complete carcass, you try and imagine their stories from birth, to second birth, to the final battle where they were slaughtered alongside the majority of the old, ruthless world of cultivation you've been recreating from simply being your excellent self.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 08 Aug 2025 07:03:20 No. 6287016 Report >>6287015 But the longer you linger here, the more that sense of tranquility is upset and twisted into a sensation you haven't felt in awhile, the quiet sort of unease people normal feel around death and the dead. For even one who delights in the macabre and ghostly as much as yourself, there is a certain something...off about this place, that makes your heart tighten and beat a little faster as you wander through the tunnels and paths cut through the boneyards paths, leaving tracks of blood from the cuts on the pads of your paws. Your tail puffs out and your ears flatten against the side of your skull, as your eyes dart at every passing shadow and your claws extend with every quiet clink of bones rubbing against or tumbling down their neighbors.
This is more than a graveyard, something is clearly wrong about this place. Supernaturally so. It is, you realize now that you're deeper inside of it, truly curse. A natural occurring curse born of the dying grudges and lingering resentments and regrets of untold thousands of Magical beasts and the human cultivators who died beside and were buried along within them in this bleak plain somewhere deep in the belly of hell. But even knowing this, even if just being here frightens you, the sense of inner peace and finality that you've felt since you began to pay your respects to and contemplate the remains of the prior generation of Ascended beasts remains, strong and defiant like a lantern burning bright in the face of a world shattering storm. And realizing this and clinging close to that sense of peace that surpasses even that of the grave, you brave deeper into the open grave.
And more than visiting the bones of your nameless predecessors and the victims of the first truly unjustifiable and outright evil act of the heavens that birthed the stagnant orthodoxy of cultivation, you realize you're seeking something more than old remains picked clean by scavengers and the empty and broken beast cores your ancestors have left behind. Instinctually, driven both by cultivator and ghostly instincts, and lured deeper by the appreciation and attraction you have to what most find frightening and scary, you've started to look for a point inside of the vast graveyard to meditate in, despite know that an ancient and potent curse hangs in the air like the miasma that rises from corpses to foul and pollute the air.
And as if guiding you to your destination, the remains of the fallen heroes of the end of the last era of Magical Beasts seem to direct you towards a suitable place to meditate upon their demise and the corpses they left behind. Xuebai, despite being a ghost, pesters you to turn tail and run away, retreating from the grave, frightened terribly despite being in her element, Heh-Heh-Heh-Heh.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 08 Aug 2025 07:04:20 No. 6287017 Report >>6287016 <span class="mu-s"> The cursed air of the mass grave of the last generation blots and obscures your spiritual senses as you wander through the boneyard like a child lost in the woods. ALL DCs/trial types/ and outcomes are hidden in the beast graveyard, until they are avenged </span>
Where do you meditate, Huanliuxue?
>Where the curse and resentment of the dead is at its most thick and potent >Where the combined primordial beast essence of the dead has congealed and persisted the strongest >Amongst those beasts who died last, defiant and standing to the last hour, with drops of dried blood staining their teeth and claws >You hear a mewling. A familiar cry. A memory of the one who granted you their inheritance across time. The Housecat that was raised by the supreme devil mind herself! >Write in Anonymous
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>>6287017 >>Write in >Here. Nowhere in particular but nonetheless at the ephemeral heart of the tragedy. For the entirety of this place is a memorial of true injustice. Those Buddhists may be a little funny, and who knows if they are right, but at this place and in this moment we are the Karmic correction to the megalomania of the so-called gods. It's more than a grudge. It's retribution.
Even if I really really want to give our thanks personally to that cat. Next time, buddy. Next time. Anonymous
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>>6287017 >You hear a mewling. A familiar cry. A memory of the one who granted you their inheritance across time. The Housecat that was raised by the supreme devil mind herself! Anonymous
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>>6287017 >A familiar cry Benefactor!
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>>6287017 >Amongst those beasts who died last, defiant and standing to the last hour, with drops of dried blood staining their teeth and claws >You hear a mewling. A familiar cry. A memory of the one who granted you their inheritance across time. The Housecat that was raised by the supreme devil mind herself! The one who stood the longest, and the one who stood for us.
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>>6287017 >Amongst those beasts who died last, defiant and standing to the last hour, with drops of dried blood staining their teeth and claws Anonymous
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>>6287017 >>You hear a mewling. A familiar cry. A memory of the one who granted you their inheritance across time. The Housecat that was raised by the supreme devil mind herself! Even though the thickest resentment also sounds nice, especially if we are capable of reproducing Fu's or if we can channel this resentment.
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Ending and tallying the vote now. Hope the weekend treated you well, Juniors
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Hark, what is that your ears hear upon the still wind whispering out from the jaws of bones long gone still? What is that noise, so familiar yet so distance, reaching across the distance of time? Is that your weak, pathetic mewling when the air filled with some and the rain churned up a bloody mist on the day you were born a second time? No, but it is nearly as familiar as the crying of the cat you had once been. You've heard it before, and wept when you heard it. It is a cry, a wailing that is as familiar to you as your own meow, yet you've never met the cat whose made this mewl. But you know them. Oh do you know them. They had granted you gifts and blessing across the uncaring rivers of passing time.
The cry you hear, murmuring like the rustling of leaves above a forgotten graveyard, is nothing more than the cry of the first of the betrayed, reaching across history to you, the heiress of the true history of the world. Just like then, when you happened across her will and inheritance. Once again, the two house cats that had stood at turning points in history, shall cross paths. One as a ghost and one as flame still raging against the night that seeks to snuff her out. Driven more by instinct, you follow the mewling cry, remembering the last moments and precious memory she had trusted to you without knowing your name or your face, but knowing the destiny that awaited you, to the place her remains had been discarded like the bones of a meal picked clean of skin and flesh.
Stalwart, determined, and leaving behind Xuebai upon safer grounds, you march straight through a cloud of grudge energy intense even to one as powerful, mighty and with flesh and soul as steeped in resentment as yourself. It is a maelstrom of enmity and spite, the congealed grudges and dying curses of an entire generation of cultivators, not just magical beasts like yourself. It is the bitter sorrow and end of an era and a world. One that was suitable for you, that every step you take brings closer to the surface, closer to bringing back the true form of cultivation and a world in balance with the rules of nature. It is like wading through a flooded river turned rapid, like marching through a blizzard, or charging through a sea of flames to only then scale a mountain of blades.
No other being, even other cultivators walking down the Dao of grudges, could even attempt to reach the spot you seek. But, of all of the creatures beneath heaven, above even men, there is nothing that knows vengeance and resentment as strongly as the house cat. Small, yet knowing as a feline, they are apex predators, even if the inhabit a world too large for them to view their destiny. A destiny you've realized and soared further beyond.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Mon 11 Aug 2025 14:24:15 No. 6288757 Report >>6288756 Of all beasts, it is the cat that is the most proud, and of all cats, it is the house cat that has the most pride and ego, tiny and weak, often pampered, yet knowing and resenting the potential they could reach...if they were only a bit bigger. And it is that resenting of their position in the world, that same sort of resentment that drove you to survive, struggle and thrive despite being a taboo existence, that has allowed you to make a difference. And it is that defiance against station and stature and the beliefs of others and reality of the world that allows you to pierce through the storm, like a cat slipping between the legs of passersby, to reach the point you must reach. To find the source of that mewling cry.
And that is why, perhaps, then and now, at the turning points of destiny at the crossroad of fate, it was two house cats at their center. The first victim of five villains coup of the heavens, and the girl who saw their works mighty and declared it all as trash far beneath her and sought to turn back the wheel and bring back a world where her kind could flourish and find acceptance. The same acceptance she had known, before that fateful day.
You have no idea how long you've defied the grudges and resentment of the ancestors, how long you confronted and were buffeted and tossed around by their dying curses, but suddenly, the screeching in your ear and electrifying presence of their enmity fades and as suddenly as a stormy sky clears to blue, the surroundings turn serene and tranquil. As peaceful as the repose of a corpse prepared for its burial
You open your eyes, burdened and stinging from walking through such thick and dense grudge energy, and find...a grove. A memory reinforced and displayed on the world. A secret realm only accessible by the heir of the primordial legacy, a hidden groto only you could find the path to, and your ambition to create a world suitable for beasts like yourself acting as the key.
It is, a moment in time, captured like an insect in amber. The last breaths of the first of the betrayed. She is, for her corpse has not decayed, magnificent, flawless in everyway. Perfect. A feline beauty like yourself. Her fur, is black as pitch, as a winter night, with a single shock of white surrounding the point where five color's spear, wielded by his shitty son, struck her through. She looks as if she has fallen asleep, despite the steaming blood bubbling out from her pierced heart, curled up on the ground, her pristine fur dirtied with soot and heavy with ash and smoke. Her eyes are shut, and she looks as if she is dreaming.
And you know the dream that comforted her dying mind, that fought back to the terror she felt after she penned her will to you, whose fur has been died by the blood of the innocent and betrayed. When she was nothing more than a spoiled kitten, mewling at the lap of her owner. The wife of Ling Wucai. The Demon Empress Zhìzūn-Móxīn (至尊-魔心, Supreme Devil Mind).
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Mon 11 Aug 2025 14:25:15 No. 6288758 Report >>6288757 Their earliest memory, and the one they had sought sanctuary in as they died, confused, scared and alone. Your ears tear up as you look her over, rings of silver and azure flame wrapped around her paws and tail, long saber like fangs and Qilin like horns sprouting from her brow, clouds of silver surrounding her like a halo. Her teeth and claws her off black jade, and her black fur was marked with mantras and scriptures. She was, in death, beautiful. Primordial. Holy. The sort of feral beauty that graced the world of cultivation of ten generations past. She was also, huge! Gigantic. A titan of a cat! Large enough to chase dragons and bat them out of the sky. Yet, here she was, curled up like a common lap warmer, around a corpse just as beautiful as her own
"So you're the supreme devil mind" You ask the sad looking woman, with long raven hair and horns growing from her skin that has turned red and bloody, tusks and fangs poking out of her plump lips, black replacing the whites of her eyes and inhuman silver replacing whatever color they once held. Her nails were talons, and she had a lashing tail and great leathery wings. And she looked...well, regretful. Between her breasts, there was a hole. Where the spear of her husband struck her heart and killed her. The same spear, then abandoned, that was taken up by her own son and used to strike down their own comrades.
And your blood began to boil, as a scene started to piece itself together in your mind. The first of the betrayed, wasn't even allowed to defend herself, was she? She'd been struck from behind, as she mourned the same villain, the same devil that Wucai had. They'd wept for the demon empress. Or, maybe she wasn't, and she'd managed to fight back and in her last moments had crawled to seek comfort from the mother she once knew, unable to summon the strength besides to drag her body to become a corpse next to her. Somehow, you couldn't decided which offended and enraged you more.
So, feeling like a kitten for the first time in a long time, you stood before the empty vessels and mortal remains of a deified house cat and the demon who had raised her, frozen in a moment of time, as daughter nuzzled up against the cooling corpse of her mother, her life bleeding out of her as she sought any kind of comfort in her dying moments.
The moments, where across the great gulf of time and passing of eras, she saw you. Is it your imagination, or are her eyes slightly open? How fierce must you glare be...was this the you she saw, so many centuries ago?
When she declared you their retribution, their avenger, their vengeance of made manifest, and the dying curse of all the slain ascended beasts made flesh. Somehow, now that you're looking at her in the flesh, you can't help but wonder if her words then...
Did they make you?
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Mon 11 Aug 2025 14:26:16 No. 6288759 Report >>6288758 You pout, and discard the thought. No. You made you. She merely thrust her hopes upon you, gambled on a fellow feline. You'd have done the same. Its just common sense to bet on a house cat, when the contest is one of survival! But still, you can't help but wonder, if that dying curse didn't have some...No. Not worth considering. You're Huanliuxue, and all you are is the result of your own effort and talent. She may have declared you as the inheritor of all of their will and fury, but the life you've lived and the path you walked is your own
"Senior, excuse this cheeky brat's intrusion in your moment of eternal repose" You mutter, strutting up to sit beneath the shadow the corpse of the first betrayed casts over the field of burnt grass and broken arrows and spears, leaning closer and against her fur and keeping the corpse of the supreme devil mind out of your sight, sensing that its trouble even centuries after her death and knowing to keep well enough away from and out of it as you retrieve the scripture she'd entrusted to you, the Beast Saint Doctrine (野兽圣教理, Yěshòushèngjiàolǐ) from your dimensional gourd treasure, and begin to contemplate and mediate upon it in the moment of the first of the betrayed's demise, the mewling of her kitten self surrounding you as the blood that flowed from her wound and the dirtied fur on her hide, were motionless upon the ground and in the stilled breeze.
<span class="mu-s"> Roll 2d100. Best of five. Partial or full bonus available </span>
And there'll be a vote on how much of the bonus, if any, will be applied after the rolls come in
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Rolled 76, 78 = 154 (2d100) >>6288759 Give me lucky dice (or at least someone decent ones)
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Rolled 23, 21 = 44 (2d100) >>6288759 Well this should be interesting...
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Rolled 50, 72 = 122 (2d100) >>6288759 Anonymous
Rolled 97, 26 = 123 (2d100) >>6288759 Anonymous
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>>6288808 setting 30 minute timer for another to join us!
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Rolled 87, 5 = 92 (2d100) >>6288759 Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t
Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Mon 11 Aug 2025 17:42:40 No. 6288823 Report >>6288784 A nice, some would say profound, roll of 154. Result ???
<span class="mu-s"> Bonus Vote </span>
total training/ cultivation bonus remaining: 1442
>100, result, 254, remaining bonus 1342 >200, result 354, remaining bonus, 1242 >300, result 454, remaining bonus, 1142 >400, result 554, remaining bonus, 1042 >Half (721), result 875, remaining bonus 721 >A thousand, result 1154, remaining bonus, 442 >MAX, result 1596, remaining bonus N/A >Custom >Don't spend any of your cultivation/ training bonus Anonymous
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>>6288823 >Don't spend any of your cultivation/ training bonus Anonymous
>>6288823 150 isn't thst bad.
Let it be.
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>>6288828 I must clarify myself.
Don't spend any. What we have is enough.
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>>6288823 >Custom >>95 , result, 249, remaining bonus 1347I just want our remaining bonus to sit on 1347. That's when the Black Death had just begun killing everyone in Europe. And I think that would be an awesome number to spend on our next big training roll.
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>>6288756 gotta love stack
>>6288823 >100, result, 254, remaining bonus 1342 imma sound hypocritical considering I argued against spending any points last time.
But I value the teachings of our direct senior in our direct primordial cat arts from the era in which we could contend with the heavens SIGNFICANTLY more then just viewing a ball of light yama sent to collect a soul. Before Grudges, Ghosts, and Ghouls...we were a house cat.
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>>6288934 We can contend with the heavens in this era.
The thing is that we are practicing the old way of cultivation. No matter the age we enter, we can and would rise to the heavens.
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>>6288823 > Custom >102, result 256, remaining bonus 1340 We already had 256 (4x4x4x4) over the DC, but this DC-less roll might be slightly different.
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>>6288934 supporting, mostly because I wouldn't be shocked if the DC was higher
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>>6288823 Supporting
>>6289032 , for funsies.
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>>6288823 >400, result 554, remaining bonus, 1042 I'm inclined to spend a good amount here. It's been pointed out multiple times as we made our way here that it wasn't an easy journey even for our own skill level, and the DC is hidden. I'd rather be safe than have a failed DC.
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>>6289032 can be down for this as well
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>>6289032 switching to this, it's a two point difference so effectively nothing is lost.
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>>6288823 Guess I'll switch over from
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>>6289032 I really hope it's enough to beat the DC.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Thu 14 Aug 2025 07:50:42 No. 6290170 Report Ending the vote, tallying the result now
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>>6290170 >256 We in a ZOOM call with the dead now boys.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Thu 14 Aug 2025 08:40:55 No. 6290183 Report <span class="mu-s"> Trial type: Martial/ Magic training + Beastly Bodily Refinement </span>
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Thu 14 Aug 2025 08:42:05 No. 6290184 Report >>6290183 But, as you read through and contemplate the scriptures, and continue to idly cultivate the Qi and other spiritual energies surrounding you, you also can feel your beast core inching closer to a new transformation inside of you, you can feel it in the marrow of your bones and the cells of your blood. If you tried to, you could probably attain another beastly evolution, right now, from simply meditating deeply on the text in front of you, within this secret realm and frozen moment of time where the Primordial Beast Essence is as thick in the air as the sent of the blood ever pouring out of yet never moving from the corpse of the First of the betrayed.
<span class="mu-s"> Special condition met: Pass a trial in hell/ while practicing ghostly Cultivation or ghost fueled techniques with a result of exactly 4 to the power of 4 (256) </span>
However that was just an option you had, you COULD refine your body and spirit to become a more mature and impressive magical beast, what you couldn't choose to refuse, was a second impending ghostly evolution. Seems your soul wasn't done with its rebellious phase or its growing phase, and just sliding up close to the body of the first beast cut down in the slaughter of ten generations prior, has infused more ghostly yin Qi into your just evolved and transformed soul as you've been showered by and washed over with her slowly exhaled dying breath! So slowly you had barely been aware you were wading through it until you felt that sickening and bowel turning pain that you felt when you had accidentally refined your soul trying to steal the techniques of HorseFace's lackies, the sensation of your soul attempting to outgrow and surge outside of its vessel. It isn't as agonizing or life threatening feeling, barely more than an annoyance, certainly not as disabling as the accidental refinement you underwent just...was it even a few hours ago!? Hah! People would proudly proclaim your genius when you went back to tell the contestants if they would be given a chance to prepare for the next part of the tournament or not, not realizing that you'd stumbled and tripped your way into two ghostly evolutions in one day, simply because of the places you've wandered and how much of the Underworld's Qi you had to absorb and refine just to keep your reserves topped off!
Though, maybe...you could redivert the ghostly energy and use the forces powering the would be second stage evolution to some other end? Since you aren't half mad and wracked by mind numbing pain this time, you could channel the potential energy elsewhere and to other ends. After all, you are a once in ten generations genius prodigy and know more about ghosts and the nature and existence of souls than any besides King Yama himself, Heh-Heh-Heh-Heh. Such a challenge would be a mere trifle to the ever regal and prepared Huanliuxue!
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Thu 14 Aug 2025 08:43:06 No. 6290185 Report >>6290184 <span class="mu-s"> Double Vote! </span>
What is the result of your contemplations of the Beast Saint Doctrine
>Your third Magical Beast Evolution >More adept/ refined control and use of Primordial Beast Essence + a few techniques to make use of the energy >Improvement/ evolution of your ghostly feline martial arts to both further specialize it and to expand the options of attack and defense >Adopting a style of spell slinging/ Martial arts, a second style to complement your self taught style, that focuses on aggressive movements and lethal strikes, focused on claws and fangs sheathed with Qi/ wrapped with sorcery and mixing spells with close combat >write in And what do you do with the energy of death effecting your soul, again, Huanliuxue
>Undergo ghost evolution twice in one day! >Expel the energy forcefully and let it take whatever shape it will, outside of you >Contain it within Moon collapse or Ghost empress melody (which?) >Mingle it with the enmity in the air to create a new, lethal curse >Write in Anonymous
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>>6290185 >Improve and evolve the ghostly feline martial arts >Second ghostly evolution Do it for the lols.
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>>6290185 >>More adept/ refined control and use of Primordial Beast Essence + a few techniques to make use of the energy More options? More options.
>Contain it within Ghost empress melody I wonder if this will allow our favorite instrument to create a sound so goddamn sad it will literally stop a heart without actually attacking someone with it.
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>>6290185 >More adept/ refined control and use of Primordial Beast Essence + a few techniques to make use of the energy >Contain it within Moon collapse Anonymous
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>>6290185 >Improvement/ evolution of your ghostly feline martial arts to both further specialize it and to expand the options of attack and defense >Contain it within Ghost Empress Melody Upgrades to some of our oldest stuff. But really GEM has been overdue for an upgrade since we passed over making it a living tool
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>>6290185 We recently got a lot of utility, mobility, and ways to gather Qi/ressources. However, we really should build some raw strength so that we can soonish fight/survive a lesser deity. We also went strongly into the Death side of things and might want to balance it with Blood-related things.
>>Your third Magical Beast Evolution The Ghoulish, special evolution sounds very good.
>Undergo ghost evolution twice in one day! What could possibly go wrong? We should consider Sanguine Predator. We are permanently "covered in blood" already.
Speaking of blood.... there is a lot of old but high-quality blood around and we havent really done much with our Carmine Mysticism on the consumtion side of things yet...
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>>6290185 >More adept/ refined control and use of Primordial Beast Essence + a few techniques to make use of the energy Anonymous
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>Undergo ghost evolution twice in one day! Anonymous
>>6290265 Continuing, but constantly having to hop IPs.
Should the refinement of our Carmine Mysticism with the remaining blood in this region gain traction, we might want to consider using our Sin Eater ability to purify any Demonic Qi contamination that maybe has crept in over the last centuries. We don't want to spoil our perfected Carmine Mysticism.
Looting this holy place for blood is only slightly sacrilegious - the good dead here are probably OK with helping us avenge them.
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>>6290329 We absolutely should use the Blood around here
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>>6290185 >>More adept/ refined control and use of Primordial Beast Essence + a few techniques to make use of the energy This one relates most to the core of our being
>Contain it within Moon collapse or Ghost empress melody (which?) Moon Collapse, our first encounter with her was on the moon.
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>>6290185 >Adopting a style of spell slinging/ Martial arts, a second style to complement your self taught style, that focuses on aggressive movements and lethal strikes, focused on claws and fangs sheathed with Qi/ wrapped with sorcery and mixing spells with close combat >Contain it within Ghost Empress Melody Needs an upgrade and this feels right.
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>>6290329 Same poster
"Containing" does not seem to imply upgrading anything. We have stored so many things that we never ever use, especially not to upgrade anything (looking at the Divine Blood, which is ideally suited to upgrade our Cultivation and our Carmine Mysticism).
If we store it now, my estimate is that no upgrade will be done with it any time soon. Moreover, we would only access it at a time in which we have stronger options available.
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>>6290329 Why not, I'll back using whatever blood we can scrounge up. However
>>6290726 I'll argue that unlike the divine blood, dropping a shit ton of energy into an artifact is almost guaranteed to enhance it (especially Ghost Empress Melody which can already channel deathly qi).
But also I don't want to vote on a second evolution right after the first one, I want to see what other materials we can get for the ritual down here first. Anonymous
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>>6290185 >Your third Magical Beast >Undergo ghost evolution twice in one day!
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>>6290790 I'm totally behind any direct strength boost, especially any kind we can use in the upcoming rounds of the tournament.
However, "storage" implies thay the Qi is intended to be used later, not now. A direct enhancement of our artifacts would arguably use this Qi up at least partially, contradicting "storage". If it is a temporary enhancement that only works while the Qi is stored, it's probably not as efficient as a permanent one.
My logic might not apply here however, as there miiight be some fiction/fantasy in this setting ^^
I like the "upgrade our artifacts"-idea. We might just store it now and later ask our favourite NOT-forge-demon to remove any inefficiencies/ make the enhancement permanent.
On a side note: we are way less likely to ever lose Moon Collapse than we are to lose Ghost Empress Melody, as we can telepathically move it. It also self-regenerates when shattered.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Mon 18 Aug 2025 13:21:09 No. 6292565 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying the result now. Sorry to vanish over the weekened.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Mon 18 Aug 2025 14:14:34 No. 6292578 Report While you try to decide if you should let nature take its course and accept the prestige and power of a second ghostly evolution and transformation or if you should defy yourself and put the potential energy and power to use somewhere else, you reflect on the results of your meditation and study of the Beast Saint Doctrine.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Mon 18 Aug 2025 14:15:35 No. 6292579 Report >>6292578 Its more of an art than a single spell or technique, and could probably, if you stopped focusing on expanding and refining your original self made law of the Ruler of the Great Wheel's law, turn it into a cultivation technique and method in of itself. You could probably sell it to the Thousand Lotus Hall, if they grew some backbone and abandoned their pacifistic ways.
You call this collection of mystic arts and spells, this undefined and unrealized law, Predatory Gardening (掠食园艺, Lüèshíyuányì), and define the individual spells and techniques with more elegant and cute sounding epithets.
Like the spell, where you combine your ability to remotely move and manipulate your veins and extend it via burrowing seeds of thirsty rose bush into them to make lashing tendrils that can wrap and parasitize and root themselves on what they strike, Crimson Bouquet of flowers (Shēnhóng yīshù huā, 深红 一束花 ). And the self armoring ability you've made, just in case you ever break your spider silk battle regalia or for some reason can use the Dying Grudge Shield (垂死怨怼㕹,Chuísǐyuànduìfá) or The Scarlet Healing Armor! (鲜红瘉铠, Xiānhóngyùkǎi), where you cover yourself with living bark from nearby trees that you've strengthened to become steel hard, Tree Bark Hide Armor (树皮兽皮盔甲, Shùpíshòupíkuījiǎ), and the creation of a "seed"/"Core" of Primordial Beast Essence that can be planted or stuck into a plant to turn it into a monster, you give the disarmingly harmless sounding title of Cinnabar Ginseng Elixir (朱砂人参仙丹, Zhūshārénshēnxiāndān)! Which can also be used to revitalize and repair infertile and lifeless soil! And those are just three of Predatory Gardening's spells!
And That new, aggressive kind of Gardening, isn't the only expression of Primordial Beast Essence you've come up with in your brief meditations. Learning how to turn it into a Qi blast/ basic offensive spell, creates Wild Wind Volley (野生风齐射, Yěshēngfēngqíshè), which takes the shape of, when you use it, a mob of cats made out of the green light of Primordial Essence, that charge, pounce and swarm the target, before clawing and biting them all over!, And focusing the Wild Wind Volley into a single shape, when you do it, leads to the Tremendous Cat Magic (巨大猫 魔法, Jùdàmāomófǎ), which creates a gigantic house cat made out of Primordial Beast Essence, that can be controlled and guided like a puppet, or let loose to act on its instincts, and using the natural properties of beast essence to strengthen and bring good health to beasts like yourself,
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Mon 18 Aug 2025 14:17:28 No. 6292580 Report >>6292579 you've come up with the twin techniques of Wild Spirit Steroid (野生精神类固醇, Yěshēngjīngshenlèi gùchún), which is a bodily strengthening and physical refinement technique that improves your body and allows you to go beyoned its natural limits of strength, stamina, speed...everything really, at the cost of also strengthening and falling into the sway of your natural instincts. A double edged sword.
While its twin technique, is entirely passive, Natural Saint Hibernation (自然的 圣人 冬眠, Zìrán de shèngrén dōngmián), which might be your ultimate healing/ survival technique, as using it puts your body into a recuperative hibernation and into stasis, untouched by times, illness or poison, and hastens the healing process of even the most dire and surely lethal wounds. And the one downside, that you have to maintain the state to heal/ recover naturally, means less than a pile of dog shit to you, cause you can just step out of your body as a ghost and carry one while it patches itself together Heh-Heh-Heh.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Mon 18 Aug 2025 14:18:29 No. 6292581 Report >>6292580 And after reflecting on the initial techniques you've made that harness Primordial Beast Essence to its full potential, you decide, considering that you're going to declare war in winter, against one of the largest sects beneath the heavens, that you should become a stronger ghost, if only because you may need to go into Hibernation before the end of the war, considering you'll be your factions main weapon unless your students and allies all surprise you by leaping up several realms of cultivation like you had done when you formed your flawless golden core.
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How do you evolve as a ghost
>Push Sin Eater to its 2nd stage/ tier 2 >Random Tier 2 >Stillborn's Nursemaid . The protectors and guardians of the stillborn and those who died especially young. Draws the ghost of infants and children to your protection, greatly empowered while guarding and defending the young, the ability to influence the rebirth of the souls under their watch's reincarnations. The power to immediately appear before children threatened with / facing mortal peril >Serene Demise [Unlocked via Good Karma]. Embodying the acceptance of death and peaceful passing, those near these ghosts find their pains lessened and their hearts comforted, receiving benefits and powers through those they escort delicately to the afterlife, and the ability to absorb pain, poisons and illnesses. Strengthened in hallowed and holy ground. >Curse Princess. The royalty of the dead, underworld nobility who command the lesser and newly deceased. Increases your ghostly presence/ deathly yin Qi, empowers supernatural/ ghostly powers, and makes weaker/ lesser ghosts and spirits naturally subservient to you. >Hunger Incarnate. Ghosts born of and causing famine, who spread misery where they walk. Giving power over famine and starvation, able to turn ghosts into hungry ghosts and curse others with unusual hungers, as well as allowing you to "Devour" Qi, Breath and Life Force (Among other things). >Bloodied Corpse. The spirits of murder victims and murderers, these ghost spread violence and bloodshed and thrive upon it. Create murderous feelings and anger in others, draw power through violence and have an easier time possessing those who've dirtied their hands with killing, and get stronger while soaked in blood Produce spectral weapons naturally, and are resistant to Discorporation/ dismemberment >Random Tier 1 And how do you pay the spiders, Huanliuxue?
>With the Saintly soul you own >With your own flesh and blood >With an artifact/ soul of equal value >Summon your bodyguard, and decide the worth of the protection by having them kill something >Write in option Huan is gaining a lot of new tricks this thread, pastebin will need updating soon lol
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Mon 18 Aug 2025 14:19:51 No. 6292583 Report >>6292580 And after reflecting on the initial techniques you've made that harness Primordial Beast Essence to its full potential, you decide, considering that you're going to declare war in winter, against one of the largest sects beneath the heavens, that you should become a stronger ghost, if only because you may need to go into Hibernation before the end of the war, considering you'll be your factions main weapon unless your students and allies all surprise you by leaping up several realms of cultivation like you had done when you formed your flawless golden core.
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How do you evolve as a ghost
>Push Sin Eater to its 2nd stage/ tier 2 >Random Tier 2 >Stillborn's Nursemaid . The protectors and guardians of the stillborn and those who died especially young. Draws the ghost of infants and children to your protection, greatly empowered while guarding and defending the young, the ability to influence the rebirth of the souls under their watch's reincarnations. The power to immediately appear before children threatened with / facing mortal peril >Serene Demise [Unlocked via Good Karma]. Embodying the acceptance of death and peaceful passing, those near these ghosts find their pains lessened and their hearts comforted, receiving benefits and powers through those they escort delicately to the afterlife, and the ability to absorb pain, poisons and illnesses. Strengthened in hallowed and holy ground. >Curse Princess. The royalty of the dead, underworld nobility who command the lesser and newly deceased. Increases your ghostly presence/ deathly yin Qi, empowers supernatural/ ghostly powers, and makes weaker/ lesser ghosts and spirits naturally subservient to you. >Hunger Incarnate. Ghosts born of and causing famine, who spread misery where they walk. Giving power over famine and starvation, able to turn ghosts into hungry ghosts and curse others with unusual hungers, as well as allowing you to "Devour" Qi, Breath and Life Force (Among other things). >Bloodied Corpse. The spirits of murder victims and murderers, these ghost spread violence and bloodshed and thrive upon it. Create murderous feelings and anger in others, draw power through violence and have an easier time possessing those who've dirtied their hands with killing, and get stronger while soaked in blood Produce spectral weapons naturally, and are resistant to Discorporation/ dismemberment >Random Tier 1 And how do you pay the spiders, Huanliuxue?
>With the Saintly soul you own >With your own flesh and blood >With an artifact/ soul of equal value >Summon your bodyguard, and decide the worth of the protection by having them kill something >Write in Huan is gaining a lot of new tricks this thread, pastebin will need updating soon lol
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>>6292581 >Random Tier 2 >With your own flesh and blood I think we should dip into our treasury and use it to develop some of our students when we go back
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>>6292583 >Random Tier 2 >With your own flesh and blood I think we should dip into our treasury and use it to develop some of our students when we go back
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>>6292583 >Stillborn's Nursemaid . The protectors and guardians of the stillborn and those who died especially young. Draws the ghost of infants and children to your protection, greatly empowered while guarding and defending the young, the ability to influence the rebirth of the souls under their watch's reincarnations. The power to immediately appear before children threatened with / facing mortal peril >With your own flesh and blood Anonymous
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>>6292583 >Stillborn's Nursemaid . The protectors and guardians of the stillborn and those who died especially young. Draws the ghost of infants and children to your protection, greatly empowered while guarding and defending the young, the ability to influence the rebirth of the souls under their watch's reincarnations. The power to immediately appear before children threatened with / facing mortal peril >With your own flesh and blood Anonymous
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>>6292583 >>Curse Princess. The royalty of the dead, underworld nobility who command the lesser and newly deceased. Increases your ghostly presence/ deathly yin Qi, empowers supernatural/ ghostly powers, and makes weaker/ lesser ghosts and spirits naturally subservient to you. look we got the good karma option last time, but we gotta rep our royal court.
>With an artifact/ soul of equal value I don't trust demons with our blood. who knows what dark pact they might use it to bind us with.
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>>6292583 >Sin eater to stage 2 Come ooooooon.
It's this or curse princess, and I really like the idea of Sin eater.
>Own flesh Anonymous
>>6292580 >Natural Saint Hibernation That is huge! After using the divine blood to enhance oue Carmine Mysticism, we can just cast this on ourselves to heal up again.
>>6292583 >>Bloodied Corpse This is so good as we are constantly covered in blood. It will probably also make our Spirit resistant to deeper hits of soul-attacking techniques (like swords carried by a Ling and covered in their soul-searing fire).
>With the Saintly soul you own Anonymous
>>6292583 >>Serene Demise [Unlocked via Good Karma]. Embodying the acceptance of death and peaceful passing, those near these ghosts find their pains lessened and their hearts comforted, receiving benefits and powers through those they escort delicately to the afterlife, and the ability to absorb pain, poisons and illnesses. Strengthened in hallowed and holy ground. I just can't help myself. The jump from tier 1 to tier 2 is pretty significant based off of what I remember from previous beastly evolution but the buff from holy ground is too enticing. Especially if the entirety of the heavens are considered consecrated lands from top to bottom. Which would mean we'd get stronger from just being there.
Even if I want to do Sin Eater for the more substantial buff, or Curse Princess to show off to Ao and further subjugate the catacombs, or Bloodied Corpse because that's literally Us! kek
>>6292659 >take blood >get turbo brittle bone disease because that shit is BEYOND spicy even for Huan >enter sleeping beauty coma for a month to fix it That is a really cool spell/ability. It seems at this point anything that doesn't -instantly- kill Huan's body might as well not even try. She's somehow become an HP tank as well as a dodge tank. What a frustrating woman to fight.
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>>6292665 >What styleof fighter are you? >Annoying >You seem very personable to me >Smash cut to regenerating, counter attacking, aoe dodging, self buffing, duplicating rebuff inducing crowd control and stage altering hell Anonymous
>>6292685 >fifteen minutes later after finally exhausting the health bar >special meter counts as health and it also regenerates Anonymous
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Okay, summoning either a bunch of cats or a giant cat summon is cool, but Wild Spirit Steroid combined with Cat's Court: Dancing across the border between life and death is probably our ultimate final gambit (though we might become need someone who can bring us down if we go too feral)
>>6292583 >Stillborn's Nursemaid . The protectors and guardians of the stillborn and those who died especially young. Draws the ghost of infants and children to your protection, greatly empowered while guarding and defending the young, the ability to influence the rebirth of the souls under their watch's reincarnations. The power to immediately appear before children threatened with / facing mortal peril >Summon your bodyguard, and decide the worth of the protection by having them kill something Still need to know what we are paying for.
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>>6292583 >>6292665 Shit I just noticed this was a double vote. My bad.
>Summon your bodyguard, and decide the worth of the protection by having them kill something Do some math or something, spiderguard. We like subtraction. But division is also cool.
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>>6292659 Same poster
>>6292583 As it seems to not gain traction, switching from Bloodied Corpse to
>Stillborn's Nursemaid At least its a combat boost for important situations even though it's not that useful for the upcoming round of the tournament.
The ability to influence reincarnations might have EXTREMELY strong applications if we powergame it (and powergaming is a must in every cultivation story). Rebirth also is a remaining mystery of our Dao (the Great Wheel features rebirth).
The ability to appear in front of endangered children is a slightly redundant utility as we have other, similar powers.
Sin Eater or random Tier 2 would also be fine with me. We recently gained sorcerous and mobility powers. What we need now is raw combat power, which Stillborn's Nursemaid seems to give in situations that are really important (many of our recently new students are really young).
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>>6292995 Speaking of tournaments(ignoring the beast bracket which is more for judging which of our students will need the most focus before the war and how the other sects are handling their new pupils), who among the few Golden Cores should we be the most concerned about? Outside of the five gods, I’d say maybe Disi-Ling Huofeng if he also has the main branch’s techniques that can actually damage the soul and Shengzhanshi because dude is a fighting autist.
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>>6293115 Disi-Ling Huofeng is struggling to save/restore face despite his former association. I guess he won't do anything as drastic as attacking souls in this type of fight (unless he is secretly a Nascent-Soul-level spy sent to kill us in a more or less socially acceptable way - but I dont think so). I expect a clean, conventional, fire-based fighting style from him in this fight with at most a tiny bit of cheeky backhandedness (he more or less turned his back on his family - maybe he isnt the most trustworthy guy around).
The five former gods maybe grew up too pampered to actually be able to use their remaining power efficiently. Maybe that makes them tire quickly? On the other hand, they might still have some higher-tier gimmicks/tricks that they surely want to show off in public. I expect them to be one-trick ponies without persistence (I could be wrong, though).
Bai Shengzhanshi WILL be tough.
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>>6292583 >Push Sin Eater to its 2nd stage/ tier 2 The Ling are descendants of demons; I think it stands to reason that they'd also be vulnerable to Sin Eater shenanigans.
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>>6293684 Even barring the demon fuckery, those high ups tend to be such assholes they probably have bad juju it can exploit. Maybe the next level up it can directly target bad karma in addition to evil creatures from the other world.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 22 Aug 2025 17:48:59 No. 6294583 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying its result now
Happy to see the new techniques have had the impact I was hoping they would
Random tier 2:1
Stillborn's Nursemaid: 4
Curse Princess:1
Sin eater tier 2:2
Bloodied corpse:0
Serene Demise:1
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With your own flesh and blood:4
With an artifact/ soul of equal value:1
With a saintly soul of your own:1
Summon your bodyguard and decide the worth of the protection:2
Alright, So you'll become a Stillborn Nursemaid ghost in addition to a Sin Eater, and you'll pay the Spider's price with your own flesh and blood
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>>6292665 >>6292685 >>6292706 I've always said Huan would be a royal pain in the ass to fight. Don't forget she also has 2 charges of "Cat's Court: One of nine lives"
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 22 Aug 2025 18:34:35 No. 6294600 Report Quoted By:
While you can't see the changes to your soul's appearance, and won't know how your second evolution has transformed it "Physically" compared to the first transfiguration it has undergone today, since you haven't left your body to admire your spectral beauty since you've evolved as a fierce and untamed spirit you can immediately sense, just like your transformation into a Sin Eater, the new instincts and powers granted by this ghostly evolution. Just like you found you could perceive and devour Demonic Qi and Malevolence and Sin itself along with some predatory urges towards the demons and evil spirits who assuredly feel the same towards you, now you can feel a comforting warmth radiating from within your soul, that of a mother's fur and milk, delicate and cloying all at once. The protection and love promised to all children in the world, that so many are so cruelly denied.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 22 Aug 2025 18:35:36 No. 6294602 Report "I'm glad we met when you were already strong enough to trample and charge off wherever you want" She sighed heavily, patting your head with a paw as you hop up and with a theatric and unnecessary swirl, transform back into your human form, nude at the moment, so you sit down to retrieve one of your spare robes from your Dimensional Gourd while your elder sister lightly scolds you
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 22 Aug 2025 18:36:37 No. 6294603 Report >>6294602 Xuebai snarls
"Rather than trade a soul that accounts for most of my Underworld wealth, or being made into a toady to fetch some artifact or go Crow hunting to retrieve a soul I'd fairly traded to them to get them to buzz off and stop making a mess right outside of my turf!' You declare with a flippant flick of your wrist "And you should know, I rarely change my mind or direction once I've set a course. Like you said, I trample and Charge wherever and whenever I please"
"Sometimes I wonder if your heads gotten too big, despite all your power and authority. Just because you can create a sun in miniature with someone else's still flowing blood..."She begins, and you know she's seriously concerned from you because she isn't making light of the matter or joking around
"Hey hey, my confidence is...rarely, misplaced. I carefully consider the danger around me, I'm overly cautious...usually, to the point I've sometimes wondered if I might be a bit paranoid. I know what I'm doing, and all that will be damaged is my pride" You answer with a snicker, before wagging a finger and grabbing your sister's snout playfully "And ah, what you and the mother spider both have overlooked, that while it is humiliating to be treated like a cut of meat, I..."
"Are the incredibly rare kind of freak who nearly goes into heat when she imagines herself a rotting corpse" She answer grouchily and makes your cheeks flush and burn
"Tch, you exaggerate, sister! Watch that tongue of yours! Just because I know and appreciate that my beauty is so great it would endure through decay and grisly maiming both, doesn't mean I've got a...tch" You, incensed, angrily scold her as she snickers "At least I didn't teach a crazy person to staple corpses to themselves, it isn't like I fantasize about...shut up Xuebai"
"Sure sure" She says with a shake of her head and titter "You just jumped at the chance to be served to a house of demons, like most girls your age would to be introduced to a fine, strapping young bachelor"
Well I already know a few, you off handedly think, and stop yourself from considering who you'd meant by that when that thought crossed your mind, despite a familiar face beginning to emerge in your mind's eye before you cut that train of thought down before you can fully visualize who it is you're thinking of.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Fri 22 Aug 2025 18:37:38 No. 6294604 Report >>6294603 And how do you go about making your payment of a "few pounds of flesh", to the Dark Spider Family, Huanliuxue?
>Partially to annoy Xuebai, as theatrically and ritualistically as possible, flaunting yourself and displaying the parts you're paying with >Simply like you were trading any other meat, drain the blood then slice the choice cuts of meats off and preserving them in salt or oil before transporting them >Make it an auction amongst your friend's sibling/ family and have them bid on who gets the right of first taste for each organ and limb >Be a bit of a bitch, and advertise the fact you're selling your body (Literally) to the Spider Demons, to piss off the other devils. For no real reason beside it sounds funny >Write in Anonymous
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>>6294604 >Make it an auction. >As if our pride can be damaged by being torn apart, make a show of the fine pieces and cut them off like a particularly theatrical butcher You ever been to those places where they make the food in front of you, spin eggs and shit before cracking them?
Yeah, do that.
You can't dunk on a woman who looks you in the eye with a smile while cutting off their own arm.
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>>6294604 >Simply like you were trading any other meat, drain the blood then slice the choice cuts of meats off and preserving them in salt or oil before transporting them Anonymous
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>>6294604 >Partially to annoy Xuebai, as theatrically and ritualistically as possible, flaunting yourself and displaying the parts you're paying with ...Doesn't this mean that we're basically poisoning all these clan members with our own blood? How long would that state last for, a few hours? Several years while they absorb our energies?
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>>6294604 >Simply like you were trading any other meat, drain the blood then slice the choice cuts of meats off and preserving them in salt or oil before transporting them Anonymous
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>>6294604 >>Partially to annoy Xuebai, as theatrically and ritualistically as possible, flaunting yourself and displaying the parts you're paying with It's gory but imagine what people will think when they see us cut and cook our own breasts
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>>6294603 >Simply like you were trading any other meat, drain the blood, then slice the choice cuts of meat off and preserve them in salt or oil before transporting them. >"Sister what is pride before family? A few pounds mean nothing if I can make you and mom happy." Also
>You know so much about blood magic. Why not just grow meat like a fruit and pluck it. You turned into a tree for a bit already, why not do that? You could perhaps create that one fruit you ate! Magic/ blood trial?
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>>6294604 >Partially to annoy Xuebai, as theatrically and ritualistically as possible, flaunting yourself and displaying the parts you're paying with Anonymous
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>>6294803 that's a weird and niche tactic. . .
Fuck it, do that. We ain't even selling flesh now, we're selling divine karma fruit!
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>>6294604 >Partially to annoy Xuebai, as theatrically and ritualistically as possible, flaunting yourself and displaying the parts you're paying with >Make it an auction amongst your friend's sibling/ family and have them bid on who gets the right of first taste for each organ and limb Anonymous
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>>6294803 That's sounds so crazy it just might work. supporting
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>>6294604 >>6294803 I like this idea, less overtly gruesome to grow a fruit
(Also between ip bans and captcha I couldn't participate in the last month)
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>>6294604 >Partially to annoy Xuebai, as theatrically and ritualistically as possible, flaunting yourself and displaying the parts you're paying with Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t
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Forgive me for my tardiness, juniors, couldn't find the time to sit down and write over the last few days, but I do now, so I am ending and tallying the vote while I can
Make it an auction amongst your friend's sibling/ family and have them bid on who gets the right of first taste for each organ and limb:2
- As if our pride can be damaged by being torn apart, make a show of the fine pieces and cut them off like a particularly theatrical butcher:1
Simply like you were trading any other meat, drain the blood then slice the choice cuts of meats off and preserving them in salt or oil before transporting them:7
-Meat fruit plan: 5
-"Sister what is pride before family?"...etc:5
Partially to annoy Xuebai, as theatrically and ritualistically as possible, flaunting yourself and displaying the parts you're paying with: 5
Alright, but of a wild vote this time
But in the end, you'll simply trade your flesh like any other butchered meat, telling xuebai "Sister what is pride before family? A few pounds mean nothing if I can make you and mom happy." And attempt to grow a meat fruit while you're chopping yourself up.
Update will arrive shortly
>>6295572 Sorry to hear of your misfortunes, Junior, glad to have you back
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Wed 27 Aug 2025 06:23:29 No. 6297068 Report And once you shake the unfinished mental image out of your head, you have a little more than half a mind to parade yourself and make a real show of theatrically and ritualistically flaying and butchering yourself and showing off the finer and more decadent cuts of meat as you flaunt them and your body, just to annoy Xuebai as a little sister. And you might still do that, it does sound like it'd leave quite the impression on your customers and the other denizens of hell, but in this instance, since you know Spider Demons are by nature gluttons who care more about quantity than quality and that such an extravagant display would be wasted on most of them. Why put on a show when all they care about is that the meat is still so fresh its twitching, rather than the quality, clarity and smoothness of the skin, the taught tightness and refined sculpting of the muscles, the marbling and succulence of what little fat clings to your bones, or really the fairness and beauty of your body and the parts of it you're selling off and chopping up before regrowing.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Wed 27 Aug 2025 06:24:29 No. 6297069 Report >>6297068 "Sister what is pride before family?" You ask her, throwing your arms around her neck and rubbing your cheek around her fluffy cheek...or pretending to, considering she isn't exactly completely tangible, being a icy ghost and all "A few pounds mean nothing if I can make you and mom happy."
"I don't see how this will make either of us happy" She growls, nipping at your face as you titter and pull away
"You both worry about me" You answer and realization dawns of your elder sister's face
"Ah. And so a "Few pounds of flesh", our worries will be eased, for at least two of your trips down to Hell" She snickers "That sort of logic is a bit twisted, but...I think I understand it. You're worrying in your own way. Its just that your solution is"
"Rather grotesque isn't it?" You snicker and flick one of her ears as you lay over her back, grinning ear to ear "But when have I ever shied away from the gruesome or grisly, hm"
"Just don't expect me to help you maim yourself or watch your self butchery, Sister" Xuebai snaps as you slide off her back "I'll stay close, but I'm not going to lift a paw or snout to help you demean yourself"
"Fine by me" You purr, as you force a smile on your face as you call Moon Collapse into your hand and change it into it's cleaver form with a flick of your wrist, pausing and plastering a confident grin on your face as you raise it up to sever your left arm at shoulder as you hold it rigid and straight to your side, and decide it is best to not focus on what you're about to do to yourself but instead try and think up how you can make it so you only have to do the bare minimum of cutting and slicing to take as few pounds of flesh off of yourself as possible. And the best way that presents itself, remains being finding away to grow meat and flesh like a fruit one way or another.
You teeth clack as bone severs and twitching meat hits the ground, blood spraying from the stump of your shoulder as you expend hurriedly heal the wound and regrow the limb that you just cut off yourself, requiring no small effort or amount of life force and blood qi to successfully fix the damage you'd done to your own body. This was going to be arduous. Which is why it was vital for you to find an out, so you only had to tire yourself out healing grievous wounds a handful of times.
With new found clarity due to the pain and numbness from the dismemberment and rapid healing of it, you begin to remove the veins from the arm you cut off and drain them of blood as you cut it into segments and scour the flawless skin to make for easier peeling or seasoning, your discarded flesh still twitching and tensing under your touch, even as you move to remove the smaller bones in the hand to be dried and salted to be served as a side dish...
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Wed 27 Aug 2025 06:25:30 No. 6297070 Report >>6297069 And how do you try and learn how to sprout a Fruit of Meat, flesh and bone, Huanliuxue?
>Through necessity and desperation! Attempt to do it through guts and instinct and by turning back into a Red Eyed Jiangshi ! (Transformation Magic/ Instinct trial. DC 85. DC greatly reduced through Living Source: Primordial Beast Essence, Living Source: Primordial Beast Essence and Pure Carmine Mysticism) >Ask the dead alchemists society for some pointers and guidance. >Sneak into a few demons gardens to search for inspirations and some lessons from their gardeners >Try and track and capture a dead carmine mystic, to strong arm them into helping >Write in option Anonymous
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>>6297070 >Try and track and capture a dead carmine mystic, to strong arm them into helping Anonymous
>>6297070 >Through necessity and desperation! Attempt to do it through guts and instinct and by turning back into a Red Eyed Jiangshi ! (Transformation Magic/ Instinct trial. DC 85. DC greatly reduced through Living Source: Primordial Beast Essence, Living Source: Primordial Beast Essence and Pure Carmine Mysticism) Anonymous
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>>6297070 >Through necessity and desperation Anonymous
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>>6297070 >Sneak into a few demons gardens to search for inspirations and some lessons from their gardeners Anonymous
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>>6297070 >>Through necessity and desperation! Attempt to do it through guts and instinct and by turning back into a Red Eyed Jiangshi ! (Transformation Magic/ Instinct trial. DC 85. DC greatly reduced through Living Source: Primordial Beast Essence, Living Source: Primordial Beast Essence and Pure Carmine Mysticism) We are already in a side quest (pillage hell) within a side quest (resurrect Xuebai). Let's not put a further side quest into it.
I also auto-vote options with the Carmine Mysticism in them as if it were Phasing from Homeless Mutant Quest XD
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>>6297070 >Through necessity and desperation! Attempt to do it through guts and instinct and by turning back into a Red Eyed Jiangshi ! (Transformation Magic/ Instinct trial. DC 85. DC greatly reduced through Living Source: Primordial Beast Essence, Living Source: Primordial Beast Essence and Pure Carmine Mysticism) Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t
Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Sat 30 Aug 2025 12:42:53 No. 6298643 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying the result now. Internet was being unreliable the last few days, but it seems to have fixed itself, so lets get this show back on the road.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Sat 30 Aug 2025 12:53:50 No. 6298646 Report And as you continue to prepare your own flesh and get it ready for preservation and transportation, you find yourself unusually squeamish at handling your own flesh, blood and bones. Normally you'd have no difficulties at all flaying the skin from a limb you hacked off, but cutting it up and preparing it to be served as someone's dinner makes your guts twist themselves into a knot. You're sure most people would've fainted or vomited up blood or something outrageous, trying to do what you're doing, so it speaks to the strength of your will and determination that all you feel is a little nauseous and uncomfortable.
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Rolled 15, 95 = 110 (2d100) >>6298646 Anonymous
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Rolled 16, 81 = 97 (2d100) >>6298646 Already passed, so we can only go up from here
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Rolled 40, 29 = 69 (2d100) >>6298646 Anonymous
Rolled 75, 100 = 175 (2d100) >>6298646 Berry!
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Rolled 76, 61 = 137 (2d100) >>6298646 Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t
Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Sat 30 Aug 2025 15:15:28 No. 6298697 Report >>6298679 90 over the DC and a critical success as well, turning this into a Triumphant, heavens overturning success!
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>>6298697 I wonder what'll happen if we ever get the elusive double crit?
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https://youtu.be/_Hdi2yuYoU0> ;
There is blood all around you, soaked and caked into this arid grave soil. It is weeping, crying and singing out, reaching out towards the blood boiling in your own veins, resonating with the primal energies coursing through it, making the moondust inside of it chime and the bones around you rattle and creak. It runs hot, blazing hot, beyond boiling, it feels like your body has become filled with steam. It is an oddly pleasant sensation after preparing a few, very important part of yourselves for a spider's kitchen table. A raw, primal sensation as it feels like you're being broiled from the inside out.
The ground here is red, because it has been dyed like the moon you painted in your lifeforce and scent. Painted in the steaming blood of the betrayed, suckled on their dying curses and grudges, suffused with the essence of wild beast and untamed nature. And it is screaming out to the enchanted blood you've carefully cultivated, and in reply your blood bellows back, roaring as you do, throwing back and whipping your head around as you sit, in the lotus position, upon the dried ground that had once long ago been muddy with the blood soaked inside of it.
It is JUST like when you'd performed the transformation technique during your and Monu's fight against Xue Laohue. But deeper, more primordial and...right. It feels natural, beyond natural. Destined. Like this was a moment that always should've been and the blood slick ground, wets once again as from the wounds of your severed parts and the still healing cuts on your body, more blood than your veins contain comes pouring out, more condescended and radiant with Blood Qi and Primordial Beast essence that's possible. The very vapor in the air is transmuting into blood rich with the power of Beasts, and turns into a carmine mist that sweeps through the open grave made ten generations past.
You're in your perfect environment. Calling it an element would be a disservice to the prime location you've chosen to sprout your roots and become a thorny, blood drinking rose once again. Behind your eyes, blood sloshed and flowed into them as the blood transmuted from the air and made fresh in the soil is drawn towards and into your body as your veins burst from your skin, thorned and wriggling as they drank up the blood and crawled over and within your body like parasitic roots searching for good flesh to make into their bed and you start howling with laughter as that familiar intoxicated feeling of blood doping hits you like a mountain ripped from the ground and tossed down from the heavens!
And that Lucious and exhilarating feeling just grows more potent and powerful as one of your veins crawls up your spines like a gentle, petting hand, before piercing through the base of your skull and into your brain, creating a direct line of ultra rich moonlight and primordial beast essence infused blood directly from your strong, throbbing heart!
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Sat 30 Aug 2025 16:13:49 No. 6298727 Report >>6298726 They wrap around your spine from within, your veins, and they crawl down your legs, lifting you up from your seated position and burrowing deep under the ground, rooting you there as they seek out the bled out essence of long dead magical beasts made fresh and crimson once again!
You shiver, tremble and blossom as your throw up your arms, reaching a further state of transformation as you once more become a red eyed jiangshi, but at a higher and more profound stage as you absorb the blood and Qi in the air and soil and relish in it like an opium addict, drooling out pure blood and giggling drunkenly as you lean back and go limp, arms hanging and swaying in the air like two overwatered flowers. What a pleasure! What a high! Your crimson hair went wilder, sticking out like petals and leaves as you sway in the air, delighting the heady sensation of drinking in so much blood so readily, and what a rich vintage it is! Overflowing with Primordial beast essence and all the energies of hell, that should be wilting your vines and shriveling your roots, but instead flows into them like Moon Dew! Sweet and Delectable! You think you could devour your way through the slums and munch up a few gangs of devils and demons, and still be leagues away from reaching this sheer thrill of consuming and purify so much demonic Qi that is just trickling in with the gallons and lakes of blood your slurping up
And despite yourself, you once again found yourself "Dancing" out of sheer joy and pleasure, swaying and frolicking in the heady bloody rain falling over you and the dreary, grey dead light of the underworld's "Moon" surround by thick mists and thicker miasmas.
Rocking back up and stiffening your back, you groan out in delight, your eyes glowing blood red as you wipe the drool from your mouth, finding it to smell nectar and bloody sweet, before dragging your fingers through your hair that flows and dances in the stagnant air of hell as you titter and giggle, trembling from the top of your head to your toes as you dive deeply into the pleasurable sensation of drowning yourself in such powerful, decadent blood!
But through the almost drugged up haze, you remember that, while this was already a great success and worth celebrating via guzzling up as much blood as you could, that you weren't just trying to remember and learn how to become this beautiful, bloodsoaked rose, that resembled more a flower demon than your Magical House Cat self. And as you opened your eyes, you realized you'd grown. A little...a Lot. So pumped full of blood, so bloated, you'd grown to the size of a tree. You doubted that'd be permanent, but you felt your roots had not only grown deep but far. Your "body" covered quite the vast distance, so soon after you began gulping down and absorbing so much old blood made fresh and steaming again, as you once more became a plant like red eyed Jiangshi.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Sat 30 Aug 2025 16:14:50 No. 6298728 Report >>6298727 But one that was closer to a man eating tree than a blood drinking rose bush, like you had been the first time you'd taken this form. But unlike that time, it wasn't something in the air. It was something in the soil, or rather, the quality of the soil making up your seed bed itself. It was fertilized and made rich by the blood that had soaked into it ten generations back, and the juices and Qi that soaked into it when the bodies stacked atop it rotted and decayed
And besides becoming a giantess who could probably gobble up most demons whole due to the high quality of this soil, its also granted you supreme authority as far as your roots reach and given you a brief, but an incredible boost to your Verdant Carmine Mysticism as well. And so much more besides that. You could force so many bleeding and meaty fruits to sprout, from the soil or from your arms our hair, that you half the Spider Demons alive now could eat until their stomachs burst! But you could do so much more with all this power and blood, you were capable of so much more than creating just a few bushels of Huan Fruit!
You'd already tamed and mastered the Verdant form of Red Eyed Jiangshi, and knew you could enter it as easily as you did your human or hybrid forms. But that was but a trifle of what you were, for as long as you could contain all this blood and reawakened life energy and primordial beast essence, you could create and reshape the ground touched by your roots and enforce your will upon it! You felt like a goddess!
Petals of scarlet, crimson, carmine and deep, rich blood red dance around you as you bare your fangs to the dead sky of hell and cackle like a witch as you revel in the power high and blood drunkenness and above all else the intoxicating aroma of the ancient blood you're sipping and gulping down so gluttonously!
"In heaven, hell and the in-between there is no flower as magnificent and beautiful as I! Nor as mighty and all powerful!" You giddily and boisterously proclaim, throwing out your arms, upon which great red flowers bloom and throwing back your hair which spreads like a wisteria's canopy through the air, oozing blood and moonlight as ruby like bark crawls from your shoulders down.
Yes! Yes! Yes! Though as brief as a flower blooms, for but one night, this peak you've reached deserve not only celebration, but memorialization! Your body and twin cores, golden and beast, couldn't contain this power for long, you might just burst like a bloody sack if you tried, which meant you were free and in fact had an obligation to be as wasteful and flashy with all of it as you could...once you've grown enough flowers for Heizhizhu to stuff her face with and grow fatter than she already was! Heh-Heh-Heh-Heh!
"if I can sprout like this but for one, glorious, blood soaked night! Then let me usher in the dawn with my own hands and drag it to its birth, screaming and wailing! Let me scar hell itself with my glory, strength and peerless beauty!"
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Sat 30 Aug 2025 16:15:51 No. 6298729 Report >>6298728 <span class="mu-s"> Double vote </span>
<span class="mu-r"> Besides permanently attaining the ability to shift into the Verdant Path form of a red eyed Jiangshi, you've also opened and attained the Verdant path of carmine mysticism, and unlocked its first stage spells and abilities and gained a free Carmine mystic upgrade </span>
How, goddess of within the blood soaked tree, do you memorialize the flower that blossomed brilliantly for but one blood drenched night?
>By creating a forest of trees, grown upon the blood of the long dead magical beasts and touched by your essence, to turn this graveyard into a wilderness memorializing those long dead! A wild place where even demons and devils would fear to tread! A permanent territory for you down in hell! >Devour all of the blood you can and take it into yourself, and refine it to the extent of your abilities, compressing it extremely and creating a drop of Sanguine Divinity as you subsume the heady and beastly blood of the dead and take on traces of their power. >Take the lifeforce and blood of the dead and the bloody vapors of hell, and create a very special fruit. A one of a kind fetus peach and darling baby! A second heir to the legacy of magical beasts, born from your blood and power alone! >....as an insurance for the impossible worse case scenario of something or someone actually managing to best and kill you, create a replacement body, buried deep under the ground out of blood drinking plants and grave dirt, allowing you to cheat death and be reborn in a new body! >Create a sea of blood poisonous to demons and gods alike, denying anyone else from reaching this point and ensuring the dead rest forevermore in peaceful slumber >Write in And what is the bonus Carmine Mystic upgrade you take?
>Attain the Blood Mist Form transformation art (Which can be used as a movement/ avoidance technique) >Attain the basic Transformation arts of baseline carmine mysticism (Wings, rending claws, lashing tongue, monstrous fangs) >Unlock a second stage Verdant Path spell or ability (leads to another vote) >Attain a 2nd stage Verdant Path Transformation Art/ Permanent transformation (leads to another vote) >Define the Lunar Path/ School of Carmine mysticism. Creating the first stage of Carmine Mysticism: Lunar spells and abilities (leads to a second vote) >Even Further refined blood control (No longer requiring the blood to be infused with your blood Qi, and increases the intricacy of what you're able to shape out of blood, as well as expanding your blood alchemy tricks) >Advance one of your basic carmine mystic to a 2nd tier (Hypnotic eyes (Already have 1 2nd tier version, Lunatic eyes), Healing Blood, paralyzing bite, or Consume Knowledge) Anonymous
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>>6298729 >Devour all of the blood you can and take it into yourself, and refine it to the extent of your abilities, compressing it extremely and creating a drop of Sanguine Divinity as you subsume the heady and beastly blood of the dead and take on traces of their power. >Attain the basic Transformation arts of baseline carmine mysticism (Wings, rending claws, lashing tongue, monstrous fangs) Anonymous
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>>6298729 >Creating a forest of trees I want personal realestate.
>Even further refined blood control. This is fun. and importantly doesn't make another vote.
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>>6298729 >Devour all of the blood you can and take it into yourself, and refine it to the extent of your abilities, compressing it extremely and creating a drop of Sanguine Divinity as you subsume the heady and beastly blood of the dead and take on traces of their power. We're fighting a 6th stage cultivator soon. Having our own divinity to draw on seems like a necessity.
>Advance one of your basic carmine mystic to a 2nd tier (Hypnotic eyes (Already have 1 2nd tier version, Lunatic eyes), Healing Blood, paralyzing bite, or Consume Knowledge) Consuming knowledge. I wonder if we could actually pop this before we start to refine the blood, just for more gains.
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>>6298829 It's gods blood, like the shit we already have.
We already have the divinity of others already
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>>6298729 >Devour all of the blood you can and take it into yourself, and refine it to the extent of your abilities, compressing it extremely and creating a drop of Sanguine Divinity as you subsume the heady and beastly blood of the dead and take on traces of their power. >Unlock a second stage Verdant Path spell or ability (leads to another vote) Anonymous
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>>6298729 >>By creating a forest of trees, grown upon the blood of the long dead magical beasts and touched by your essence, to turn this graveyard into a wilderness memorializing those long dead! A wild place where even demons and devils would fear to tread! A permanent territory for you down in hell! We stake our claim in hell.
>Define the Lunar Path/ School of Carmine mysticism. Creating the first stage of Carmine Mysticism: Lunar spells and abilities (leads to a second vote) allows us to mix our space stuff with our blood stuff
allowing us to BECOME the cosmic horror.
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>>6298729 >>Take the lifeforce and blood of the dead and the bloody vapors of hell, and create a very special fruit. A one of a kind fetus peach and darling baby! A second heir to the legacy of magical beasts, born from your blood and power alone! >It is I Devil Mind Reborn! I shall have vengeance, mother! :3
>Define the Lunar Path/ School of Carmine mysticism. Creating the first stage of Carmine Mysticism: Lunar spells and abilities (leads to a second vote) Anonymous
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>>6298829 Supporting, but modifying with a write in
>Write-in >immediately follow this Carmine Mystic evolution with consuming a drop of divine blood to enhance our Carmine Mysticism even further. The Sanguine Divinity might be helpful in giving us the capability to hold divine blood in our Carmine Mysticisim. Gaining knowledge from consumed blood is especially great when you are about to consume blood of a very old, experienced person. Think of all the techniques a martial deity should know!
>>6298729 >>Devour all of the blood >Advance one of your basic carmine mystic abilities Anonymous
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>>6298729 >....as an insurance for the impossible worse case scenario of something or someone actually managing to best and kill you, create a replacement body, buried deep under the ground out of blood drinking plants and grave dirt, allowing you to cheat death and be reborn in a new body! >Even Further refined blood control (No longer requiring the blood to be infused with your blood Qi, and increases the intricacy of what you're able to shape out of blood, as well as expanding your blood alchemy tricks) Lets make a second body. Even if we don't get killed, having a backup body for use just seems handy.
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>>6298729 >Devour all of the blood you can and take it into yourself, and refine it to the extent of your abilities, compressing it extremely and creating a drop of Sanguine Divinity as you subsume the heady and beastly blood of the dead and take on traces of their power. >Even Further refined blood control (No longer requiring the blood to be infused with your blood Qi, and increases the intricacy of what you're able to shape out of blood, as well as expanding your blood alchemy tricks) Just bloodmaxxing
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Wed 03 Sep 2025 20:34:00 No. 6301206 Report Quoted By:
Ending the vote, tallying its result now.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Wed 03 Sep 2025 21:08:04 No. 6301214 Report And what better way to immortalize this triumph by using it to strengthen and refine your foundations, improving your baseline level of power forevermore by claiming as much of this ancient blood for yourself as you can! Why only blossom for one night, when you can become a living memorial of the night and a walking promise to regain this level of power permanently!? Aiming to devouring as much blood as your veins can contain and your body can withstand and with it more Qi than your Meridians and Cores could bear without cracking, you command the blood flowing into you to soak deeper and pierce into the center of your being.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Wed 03 Sep 2025 21:09:04 No. 6301216 Report >>6301214 Well it will probably explode, or one of both of your cores with detonate spectacularly. And a destroyed beast core...probably would be fatal. A exploded golden core, usually spells an end to one's cultivation, whether that be because it destroys any potential to cultivate or because it is outright lethal.
And, you realize, as you condense and join together the blood of a thousand beasts within yourself, using your body like a living, breathing Gu Container, you realize that the drop it is slowly being reduced down to isn't being naturally absorbed into the lining of your veins and incorporated into your own compressed and peerlessly refined supply of blood.
Looking inwards, you immediately realize why, even through the dense fog of spine shaking delight and blood intoxication. It is turning into the dew of immortality! A treasure beyond words or compare! A ember of divinity, so rarely granted by the heavens and even more rarely obtained through the most profound cultivation and practice. A shard of godhood, a single pearl of immortality that all cultivators seek to claim in defiance of the heavens. The beginning of it, the seed that if nurtured and tended to, can ascend one to true divinity and place them amongst the stars and gods in the nine heavens.
Well, in your case, it is a single drop of blood. Representing, more than even a genius such as yourself can comprehend. The first step in a long road to fulfilling your promise to five color. Another rung on the ladder of your ambition to return all three realms to the laws of the natural and primordial world, to reinstate the existence of magical beasts and avenge your ancestors and every awakened animal that was put down and declared a soulless, heartless and mindless demon!
But, before you grasp it, you pause. Or rather, are held back. By your sense of self preservation. Setting down on the road to the divinity, would always have invited reprisal from the heavens, they'd have never accepted you in their current, unjust state and thus never offered you a quest like the red star general who crushed Ao beneath a mountain to earn and attain godhood. You can't imagine, beast or no, that the heavens. Or rather, the five wise immortal sages, would ever tolerate someone even beginning the process of refining and hallowing their body, sanctifying it into a temple to receive divinity. Even if all you do is play host to a single ember of immortality, that stray drop of holiness, that seed of divinity yet to sprout.
You'd all but be inviting them to strike you down, all but beckoning a heavenly tribulation more extreme than the two you've survived thus far. Once through five colors direct intervention. And you don't know if Five Colors can travel to hell so freely. And if the spider you were going to be feeding soon wasn't exaggerating, the gods, or at least the five wise immortal sages could.
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Our-Grandfather !!6YlJK70pl9t ID:2rhfvPOM Wed 03 Sep 2025 21:10:05 No. 6301217 Report >>6301216 but leaving the Dew of Sanguine Divinity inert and contained within your body, dormant and unclaimed, could let you sneak away with it in your hands, until you're ready to embrace it. You could alter, adjust and transform it, take it out of your body and store it.
Or, you can make trouble and spit in the eyes of those fucking bastards and make a declaration only they and all of hell would hear
Hmmm, decisions decisions.
What to do, Huanliuxue?
>Fuck consequence! Try and kill me you holier than though bastards! (Gain the potential to attain immortality/ godhood, if you survive the tribulation to come) >Keep the ember of potential divinity sealed and inert inside your body, until you're ready to make a sprint for immortality/godhood >Rip out the drop of divine blood, and contain it somewhere else besides your body. >Decide to hide the divinity by launching it above the heavens and deep into the void of space >Write in Anonymous
>>6301217 >Fuck consequence! Try and kill me you holier than though bastards! (Gain the potential to attain immortality/ godhood, if you survive the tribulation to come) I bet on yama.
Hell is a domain where they do not rule.
this or we sneak it out inert in our body.
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>>6301217 >Fuck consequence! Try and kill me you holier than though bastards! (Gain the potential to attain immortality/ godhood, if you survive the tribulation to come) Probably the safest place for us to do this at the moment... and gives us a good use for our free trial?
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>>6301217 >Fuck consequence! Try and kill me you holier than though bastards! (Gain the potential to attain immortality/ godhood, if you survive the tribulation to come) I believe we can draw on the grudges, beast essence and blood of this place to survive, so it can actually be an ideal place for a tribulation.
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>>6301217 >Keep the ember of potential divinity sealed and inert inside your body, until you're ready to make a sprint for immortality/godhood We need to prepare and line up a few other steps of the divinity ladder and likely have 5 colors on overwatch.
>>6301240 Yama could surely put them in their place while in hell, but would he interfere? Maybe if we took an offer of employment but as it stands I think he would remain neutral unless they decided to destroy our soul or something of that nature... the most likely interference would be the ancient slumbering demons I suspect, and I do not feel they would be favorable to Huan.
>>6301241 >Free trial No such thing, we owe a pound of flesh and it's protection for golden core level threats.
>Against 5 top of their pantheon gods Good joke
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>>6301347 Yes we owe them for getting their protection, but did you forget that we got a sample protection thrown in free along with our two protections that we're paying for? We still haven't used it yet, and I think it'll go away once we pay, so this would be the best time to use it down here.
Though you bring up a point with the gods not being golden core. However, they'd be a threat to us and we're at golden core... maybe there's some room there for something.
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>>6301347 it has no bearing about caring for us at all.
But the world of the dead and the world of the living are separate. The heavens would never tolerate hell leaking into the living world, why would yama tolerate the heaven's entering his? To come into his realm and think they can lay down law that should only apply to their world in his is nothing more but a slap to face. These juniors may court death. Literally.
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>>6301217 >>Fuck consequence! Try and kill me you holier than though bastards! (Gain the potential to attain immortality/ godhood, if you survive the tribulation to come) We promised to aim for godhood. Our chances wont become much better than right here and now, fully transformed and with a large amount of evasive techniques. I also do hope that we marked a handful of spots for our marked teleportation.
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>>6301365 Huan being a living thing is thecnically heaven's jurisdiction though, she is the one trespassing into hell.
>>6301349 I forgot that she actually did offer that, but it's not with spidermom directly but one of her senior children which while amazing and maybe even a possible match with a low tier god I doubt he could save us...
Though perhaps I am being a tad too pessimist as it will likely be "only" a tribulation, possibly around of the level of attacks of the guy who cut off our arms in heaven but not the head honchos directly... And that might be something mother spider can shield us from, if only to make us owe her even more...
(Or perhaps the auspiciousness of the site we're in and the lingering grudge against the heavens might react in our favor too?)
