>>5501769

Or, you were, before you decided to do a good deed without compensation and repair the damages to the temple you faced the Heavenly tribulation in free of charge and without being asked. The temple which had once been the site of your hometown, where you had been born a simple and mindless white furred cat and where you had been born again as a demonic beast and where you have been reborn a third time as a Jade like beauty, able to shift between beast and human!

And while you were being so kind as to labor and work despite being royalty and nearly finished fixing the mess the gods have left on the earth, an unfamiliar daoist, a lightning struck cultivator approached you. Right as you were nearly finished and prepared to head home and show off the fruits of your success.

Of course, upon seeing such a beauty as yourself, he was immediately struck and began to praise and compliment you. But you are suspicious, for many reasons, some you cannot exactly name or put into words or explain, even if you were also very much pleased to be showered in such earnest and high praises so readily and freely. And certainly you didn't recognize his sect by the color of his uniform. You were uncertain if you could let your guard down around this boy, but he seemed honestly and innocently curious about you and the temple as well. Well, mostly innocently, at least concerning yourself. You might be young but you recognized that look in his eyes when he mustered the courage to look upon your radiant body directly and for longer than the span of a breath.

So, you saw no harm in explaining to him the history of your town. its not like he'd be able to connect your story to the truth and realize you were Huanliuxue, as distracted and enamored as he was by your talent and beauty. Admittedly more so the latter.

"I suppose you could call her a local spirit" You mused, pursing your lips and pouting as you turned around the stone head of your idol and looked into its fierce eyes as you held it by the ears "Even though she is in truth a demonic beast, she is not demonic in nature, at least if the stories told about her are true"

"Wouldn't be the first wayward sect or cult to worship a beast or devil" The boy said, hands tucked to his sides as he looked around "Certainly, this temple has an unpleasantness in the air. But, I do not think a girl as beautiful as you would worship a wretched beast. So they must not be as dangerous as most of their ilk, if they are deserving of your respect, at least"

Resisting the urge to throw the stone head at him and defend your good name by shouting at and scolding him, you accept that, in his own way, he was complimenting you rather than insulting you.

"She is. Very much so. Most beasts are less dangerous than we imagine, only against mankind for the sake of their own survival" You sigh sadly, as the boy with the lightning scars turned away in shame.
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>>5501770

Or you hoped he did, you were pressing up your chest quiet a bit with how you were leaning against the neck of your own idol

"And the cat whom this shrine was built to honor, was never against mankind to begin with, though she is hunted all the same as if she was one of the ones whom continuously prey upon humanity and only subsists on human flesh" You continue on, standing up just in case the boy was looking away bashfully rather than out of regret for his thoughtless words

"What's her name? You seem rather knowledgeable about this deified beast" The boy said, quickly turning completely around after he saw your legs and hops, unhidden by the neck of the statue. You grinded your teeth, somewhat irritated now

"Huanliuxue" You say forlornly, deciding to look towards the horizon like he now was

"What a scary name" The lighting touched cultivator remarked "Sounds barbaric, bloodthirsty even. You sure she doesn't eat people"

"Well, she ate a few, and that is why she is worshipped" You say, rolling the stone head of your statue between your hands "This temple used to be a town on the Ling-Chuan border"

"Wait...is she that guardian spirit the local nobility claim as their protector?!" The boy shouts, turning around as he smacks his fist into his open palm and manages to look into your eyes for a moment before they drift down lower

"Yes! And it is because she hunted the Ling invaders and devoured them. Not out of hunger, but for vengeance sake. People claim this burnt village had been her home, before she became a demonic beast, and it was here she first awoke as a demon" You say quietly "I do not know if its true, but, the story goes she was a kitten, once pampered and loved, drenched in the blood of innocent children shed by the cruel ambitions of Ling Meng"

"The graves behind her statue" He whispered sadly, managing to tear his eyes off of you to look upon them with sorrow and regret in his eyes "They belong to those children"

"Presumably. Before this temple was established, they were the only ones buried here. Some say she did it herself, others, early followers who traced her back to her origins. Whatever the truth is, the enmity and hatred she felt to those soldiers who cut down her caretakers, was potent enough to form a grudge" You explain, hugging your idol's stone head as you look up to the clear sky and sigh

"And that is enough to turn even a kitten into a demon' The boy said sagely, nodding his head and crossing his arms over his own chest "Still, rather grim to worship a man eater just because they ate your enemies"

"The difference between an Avenging Hero and a Vengeful villain is only who exactly is telling you about them" You bluntly remarked, rolling your eyes "And, as far as anyone knows, she only ate Ling and his Men...and maybe a few tax collectors"

"Ah, that'd explain it! Peasants abhor tax collectors more than any devil or curse" The boy laughed, throwing back his head "Where is this Huanliuxue now"
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>>5501772

"No one knows, Lord Chuan claims she follows him, some official were met with her and challenged to answer riddles by her, and some have reported seeing her stalking the city of Suiqi [雟栖, Sparrow's rest]" You say, trying not to smirk or giggle as the cultivator in green robes listened intently "and if I knew where she wandered, I'd not tell it to another cultivator"

"Most of our fellows would hunt her down to claim her core, I'd just like to ask her the truth" He said simply and humbly "I'm certainly not aggressive enough to want skin a cat, no matter how monstrous they've become. And she certainly, from your account, seems to be an oddity amongst demonic beasts. Most of them grow addicted to human flesh, as you well know"

Not really. Most who do only eat humans cause they're richer in Qi or because they were already making a habit of eating them before they become Magical Beasts. Most Intelligent Animals don't even change their diet.

"It's a testament to her good nature and righteous character" You say through your teeth

"Tell me more about Huanliuxue" The boy said cheerfully "She sounds fascinating, and I'd love to hear more of your lovely voice. So why not tell me all you know, so we can get better acquainted with one another"

Was he trying to lure you into a trap or trick you into a date? You didn't trust him one bit. He was either in rut or plotting something!

"Most of what I know is second hand at best, and at worst taken from plays, as nice as it'd be to listen to when its me saying it, you'd learn nothing more of Huanliuxue from me, besides children's stories and fictional adventures" You say cheerfully as you fit the head back on the statue and hold it in place as the glue and metal binds it to the body with your foot "Though I'm sure you'd enjoy spending time in my company, even if I was just gossiping about and insulting other girls, hmm"

"Yes" he brazenly admitted, returning your smile "I did say I wanted to hear more of your voice, did I not, sister? Perhaps, you could tell me of the monks who built this temple. They must be dear to you if you'd work on their behalf. Do they serve under your school?"

"You really are persistent. Kind of pushy to! If you want to flirt, be less aggressive. You'll scare more girls than you charm" You titter, wagging a finger

"You don't sound scared" He shoots back, lifting an eye brow

"I think its more cute than charming or frightening for that matter" You giggle, looking down at him past your nose "And at least you have the good graces to do more than flirt"

"I'm as curious of this temple and its idol as I am of you" He said with a shrug of his shoulders "and you seem to enjoy talking about what you know of it"

"Well, you'll be disappointed then" You say, hopping off the statue "The priests will know more about the temple itself, since it was also new to me"
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>>5501773
"Then, all that remains is for you to tell me about yourself. How about we start with hobbies! I enjoy gardening and..." He said, trying to sound roguish, framing his chin between his thumb and finger as you skipped past him, ignoring his attempts to look alluring entirely. Which made him nearly collapse.

"Now if you excuse me, I must return to my sect, for I have been gone for far too long and wish to see the progress my wonderful juniors have achieved in the meanwhile" You said cheerfully, smirking as you saw the devastated and desperate look on his face as you continued to walk away, backwards as you turned around to look at him with your hands behind your back.

"Wait. Wait. at least tell me which sect you belong to! I'd like to meet you again" He said pleadingly, clapping his hands together "And show you I can do more than just uh, embarrass myself in front of a pretty lady"

"If fate favors you, you may. But stating your loyalties openly is presently a rather dangerous thing to do" You snicker, hiding your mouth behind the back of your hand "I'm sure a persistent boy like you could find me anyways, if you looked hard enough"

"You're right, even though it hurts me" He sighed, shaking his head "I'll tell the monks a beauty fixed their temple up for them, I'm sure they'll be pleased, whether they know you or not. Stay safe on the road, Sister"

And with that, he walked towards your statue, turning his back to you as he stared up at it. You watched him from the entrance of the temple for awhile. Seeing him walk past the statue, and sit down to pray in front of the nine graves behind it. You shook your head and continued down the road.

'I'll take a roundabout way back home, incase he tries to follow or spy on me' You think, as you enjoy the Primordial Beast essence filling the air in your lungs, and soaking into the earth below your bare feet. The sun was high in the sky and shining bright.

'He was pretty suspicious. And even if he was genuinely just trying to court me, I don't want a simpering pup following me around. It'd only cause trouble' You thought 'I'd have to kill him, if he found out what I really was. And that'd be a chore. Despite his somewhat airheaded behavior, he felt strong. At least Foundation Establishment Stage. And his kindness felt genuine and real'

"Bah!" You shout, as your thoughts get all messed up and tangled.

How'd a doofus like that get past Qi Condensation? You pause to consider that, scrunching your face for a moment before grumbling and continuing down the road you've chosen. You might need to head to Suiqi or one of its two sister cities and then boat down back to Fu's village. The hustle and bustle of the city would make it difficult for... whoever that was to follow you.

"Wait I forgot to ask her her name!!!" You hear him shout, even though you've put quite a bit of distance between yourself and the temple
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>>5501776


You decided then, just to be safe and sure the easygoing boy doesn't follow your tracks or scent, to take a slightly longer route to Suiqi.

Unfortunately, while your trip to it was uneventful, besides a few local men begging you to become their wives and a few boys weeping as you ignored their advances when you stopped in a village to reorient yourself and make sure you weren't being trailed, it seems every time you step foot in Suiqi, you're fated to shed blood there!

You were enjoying a free meal given to you at one of the finer restaurants in the city, that you and Siwang had cleaned up marvelously! Why, you barely recognized it with how much it had changed for the better since you and that clever little owl went on a bit of a killing spree of the local filth and villainy! And so, happily, you slurped at the noodles and sweet broth you were given, enjoying the foreign flavors your human tongue could experience, while the owner of the restaurant was being scolded by his wife, he was threatening him with a pan full of oil as you were surrounded by admirers, some who had followed you from their village in the countryside to plead their case and beg you to reconsider taking them as servants if you wouldn't have them as husbands or lovers.

You didn't pay attention to them, besides when they ordered you more food, which the angry daughters working in the kitchen were all to happy to bring you as their brothers stared at you dumbly and the other patrons gossiped about your or joined the growing throng of admirers you had picked up the moment you sat down at your table. It was very enjoyable, being given tons of free food, compliments, praise and wistful affection.

Though the food was spicier than the menu would have you think, you were happy nonetheless. Until some idiots started a fight in the street. You'd thought it was one of the local boys, trying to fight tow in your approval. Until the wall of the restaurant was blasted away, and wood dust and splinters fell into your bowl of sweet broth and noodles.

That's when you realize they were cultivators. Low level Cultivators. Utter weaklings, probably only just managing to begin their cultivation this year and thus having rather big heads. And coming from rival sects, considering how fiercely they were fighting just outside of a lovely little restaurant.

You felt a vein bulge on your brow, as you looked at your ruined food and felt anger boiling up inside. Did your previous, murderous jaunts in this city condemn you to have to spill blood in it whenever you visited it? Cause you were ready to beat some sense into those two idiots for wasting the gifts you were given!
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>>5501777

What do you do, Huanliuxue?

>Apologize to the owner for the mess, grab the chair you were sitting at, and hurl it at the nearest of the two fighters' head (Accuracy/ Strength Trial. DC 40)

>Sigh and stand up and hurriedly leave. Knowing that beating some worthless trash will only draw attention. Which you don't want.

>Get angrier that the two idiots are endangering innocents and command them to leave to kill each other somewhere else. And tell them if they refuse, you'll teach them a lesson (Good karma) (Martial Trial. DC 20)

>Demand a replacement dish, and stubbornly try to keep eating as the two morons fight it out.

>Write in

>>5501779
>Get angrier that they are endagering people

Do you utter fools have no concept of the lives of others? Is honour and morality absent from both of your educations! GET!

>>5501779
Damn, I really don't wanna waste time with this trash...but we can't not do anything.

Apologize to the owner for the mess, grab the chair you were sitting at, and hurl it at the nearest of the two fighters' head (Accuracy/ Strength Trial. DC 40)
I don't even want the Karma. I just wanna put an end to their fighting and move on. We got more important things to do.

>>5501779
>Apologize to the owner for the mess, grab the chair you were sitting at, and hurl it at the nearest of the two fighters' head (Accuracy/ Strength Trial. DC 40)

>>5501779
>Get angrier that the two idiots are endangering innocents and command them to leave to kill each other somewhere else. And tell them if they refuse, you'll teach them a lesson (Good karma) (Martial Trial. DC 20)
Stupid young masters

>>5501779
>Get angrier that the two idiots are endangering innocents and command them to leave to kill each other somewhere else. And tell them if they refuse, you'll teach them a lesson (Good karma) (Martial Trial. DC 20)
If brats need taming...

>>5501779
>Get angrier that the two idiots are endangering innocents and command them to leave to kill each other somewhere else. And tell them if they refuse, you'll teach them a lesson (Good karma) (Martial Trial. DC 20)

Hotheaded boys would truly despair at being scolded by a beautiful big sister.
That said if one of them has the audacity of being a ling then he gets the harshest verbal whipping of all times, i want to see him cry so badly a chair to the face would have been a mercy.

>>5501779
>Apologize to the owner for the mess, grab the chair you were sitting at, and hurl it at the nearest of the two fighters' head (Accuracy/ Strength Trial. DC 40)

One day we will get into a serious fight with an actually skilled cultivator, but for now I will settle for feeding these two idiots a knuckle sandwich.

>>5501779
Pretty sure we still don’t have clothes. Hopefully none of them tear at our shadow.

But they disrupted our meal over their petty sect differences. I have zero chill over that.

>Get angrier that the two idiots are endangering innocents and command them to leave to kill each other somewhere else. And tell them if they refuse, you'll teach them a lesson (Good karma) (Martial Trial. DC 20)
>”Perhaps you don’t know how violent this city was. Being able to sit in a restaurant without care of someone trying to assault me brought joy to my heart. A joy you’ve ruined by blowing apart said restaurant. So let me be clear, continue this display and you’ll find support in each other after I rip your jaws off and you need help to drink soup. Now, start cleaning up.”

Zero chill.

>>5501779
Apologize to the owner for the mess, grab the chair you were sitting at, and hurl it at the nearest of the two fighters' head (Accuracy/ Strength Trial. DC 40)

>>5501779
>Apologize to the owner for the mess, grab the chair you were sitting at, and hurl it at the nearest of the two fighters' head (Accuracy/ Strength Trial. DC 40)

>>5501779
>Get angrier

>>5501779
>Apologize to the owner for the mess, grab the chair you were sitting at, and hurl it at the nearest of the two fighters' head (Accuracy/ Strength Trial. DC 40)

6 and 6, a dead split.

Though I admit I'm mostly in the scolding for the Karma, which is always useful, however I am unsure of the advantage of pissing in the cereal of two different sects by assaulting their boys.
Threats aren't actionable.

>>5502182
No one knows who we are and we're gonna split after this. Chair to the face just feels more satisfying than some grand speech, it gets the message across nice and simple.

>>5501779
>Get angrier that the two idiots are endangering innocents and command them to leave to kill each other somewhere else. And tell them if they refuse, you'll teach them a lesson (Good karma) (Martial Trial. DC 20)

>>5502229
See, I want a good old-fashioned beatdown in defense of sanity. Speech is admittedly optional for me, and we could even have it after we beat them if we’d like.

The real question I suppose I should ask is whether we’d want to consider naming our sect here if we do fight. Build a rep as defenders with the locals. Think I’d vote no unless someone comes up with more compelling reasons.

>>5501779
>Apologize to the owner for the mess, grab the chair you were sitting at, and hurl it at the nearest of the two fighters' head (Accuracy/ Strength Trial. DC 40)

>>5502256
Talking about the whole debate about fighting or not, I don't think it's something we should do because this new "persona" of Huan Human form people will know she's a cultivator, martial artist or a really ballsy woman.

Whatever it is, people are going to know and spread word. I say it's safer if we just scold these two idiots and go Home with some praises for being a mature woman putting two dumb novice cultivators on line

>>5502281
lol you think there won't be a fight with any option involved? We're dealing with two young masters pumped on testosterone here.

>>5502293
Yeah, and surely after being scolded and insulted by the same girl they like will make them choose to go and directly attack her or even attack the innocents around the place, anon

>>5502293
If there is indeed a fight anyway, why not reap the rewards of a lower DC plus a point of Karma.

>>5502281
That’s fair. And thinking over it, if a tongue lashing is enough to get them to stop and make amends to the local businesses and homes they’ve trashed, I’d accept that without a fight.

Depending on how much lip they give or if they refuse to back down at all (or only one does while the other doesn’t), I’ll probably still vote to fight. But we can cross that bridge when we come to it.

If the "stern talk" option wins, I vote we at least let some of our graveyard aura shine through. Maybe the icy breath of the restless dead will cool their hot heads.

There will be a fight as well in the command option anons, it has a martial DC, and the second part says we will teach them a lesson.
I don't know why to pick the chair throw option over it when the the other one is both easier (meaning we can succeed the roll by a larger amount), gives karma, and kicks their asses at the same time

>>5502349
I’ll back this. Go ahead and link this option alone to the vote, I guess. Easier to track this way.

>>5501779
>>5501869
Adding
>Allow the chill of your Yin Qi to seep through if they push back during your speech so they understand you are not to be trifled with.
to my vote.

Any votes linked to this are only for this option. It is not a vote to discuss with them, merely a flavor vote if it does win. Even people who voted an option that doesn’t win should be able to contribute to fun write-ins.

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Honestly, this split is such a non-choice given that everyone wants to kick their asses if they don't behave, that if I were Grandfather I would just merge the two with Huan telling them their are idiots and then beating them up.
Which is just the get angry option

>>5502353
Why are you trying to give out our dao. Which is heretical?

>>5502361
This

I won't continue with it because I already gave my opinion on the matter of what's happening and Huan human form in >>5502281

Also, something that I noted is that in the scolding option it's a martial check which makes me question if: The option it's still a diplomatic option that could end up without a fight, or just the fact that we threat those cultivators with an ass wooping is a way of using a "martial check" because we have the knowledge of it and it doesn't mean we won't end up fighting

Like idk, it makes me think that maybe we should make a write-in stating that we don't want to fight to make it a "diplomatic check"

>>5501779

>Get angrier that the two idiots are endangering innocents and command them to leave to kill each other somewhere else. And tell them if they refuse, you'll teach them a lesson (Good karma) (Martial Trial. DC 20)

>>5501779
>>Demand a replacement dish, and stubbornly try to keep eating as the two morons fight it out.

>>5502351
Huan is not very analytical and neither should we.

The way I see it we are now building our "brand", our reputation as people Huan which is unconnected to our usual rep, so we have the chance to build a second public persona. A red-haired beauty clad in shadows with an aura of death about her is just rad to me. Sure it's heretical and will draw attention, but:
-We are drawing attention already
-With that much beast Qi released in the atmosphere I'm sure there is weird shit happening everywhere
-This persona is far enough from Huans usual rep (bloodthirsty avenger, fierce protector) to somewhat obscure the connection

If anyone wants to make a connection, it will be with the legendary red-headed assassin Qiang who is rumored to have an aura of death about her. So this mysterious, powerful woman could be her teacher, or bigger sister. Or - dare I say it - mother?

>>5502497
What? I'm really confused by what you are trying to imply

>>5502524
I'm saying "this has lower DC plus we get good karma for same effect" should not really be the basis for our reasoning because it is not the way our cat thinks.

>>5502524
Wait, is the Huan not being "analytical" means that she doesn't think before acting, and therefore picking a worse option would be more in character? Because she is definitely not some berserker that rushes in, given that she is built around agility and magic instead of pure strength, and in the fights she is always commenting and analyzing her enemies' moves and weakness (although this might be because it's just a xianxia writing staple)
Huan picking the riskier options exactly because anons vote for it, not because of her personality, I doubt Grandfather would put something that is entirely different from her character as a default choice. So it's some kind of self fulfilling prophesy at best, instead of what makes more sense for the character.
But if you really want to try choose the options based on what's "more in character", then I would say that getting angrier with them and telling them they are idiots is more than throwing the chair, given how we cleaned up this city plenty of times, and her distaste for orthodox cultivators being assholes not caring about the mortal world (which was caused by our previous options, but if it counted for the chair throw, then it counts for the telling them off as well), so rubbing it in their faces is something she would like to do. Specially given her internal monologue with the lighting struck about how beast aren't demons.

>>5502351
Because I don’t especially care for karma. If we get some in the process of doing good then it’s all good, but I’m more interested in beating the tar out of these idiots who ruined our food more than I am in teaching a lesson.

>>5502531
Well, I just gave you an explainaiton.
It was not the reason, it was a bonus. It the best choice for both the mechanics and character for Huan.
I still heavily disagrees with "Huan is not very analytical". A person doesn't need to be amoral to be analytical, they just need to know which option is the most valuable one, and choose to the the right one anyway.

>>5502532
I wanna throw a chair in this kids smug face, and I can imagine Huan feeling the same. If you have a different read on her character, of course it is perfectly OK to vote for what you feel to be more appropriate. I just dislike the meta gaming reasoning. It's certainly not the way I make decisions in quests. In the end it's an interactive story, and I will vote for what I find appropriate or what might lead to interesting results.

>>5502538
That's atleast understandable

>>5502541
The atleast wasn't meant to be there, I forgot to delete while I was rewriting the post

>>5501779
Personally, I feel like both options are inadequate. The first because it says nothing and the third because they face no punishemnt. So... I'd like to
>Excuse yourself, grab the chair you were sitting at, and hurl it at the nearest of the two fighters' head then gut punch the other. After that, tell them that they should be more mindful of others so they must both pay for the damage they've caused and go kill each other elsewhere lest someone else do it for them.

Dunno if this suggestion will matter but I feel like it's a good middle ground.

>>5502531
Sounds more like metagaming than "being analytical".

>>5502563
I tried to make the option I liked look more tempting and ended up making it look worse.

>>5502582
Don't stress yourself anon, I doubt this is a very important vote.

>>5502582
I was just criticizing the way he put it.

I kind of want to do something like

> Get between both cultivators and block/deflect/neutralize all of their attacks until they're exhausted and ashamed, then go get some soup

Sort of like how we handled the insect sisters.

>>5502727
I don't think they're as worthy of consideration as the insect princesses since they're both adult humans and not young demonic beasts so they should know better and they're having their fight affect and endanger uninvolved people. That's why I argue in favor of my compromise >>5502561

>>5502729

Oh, the intent is very different here. I want to grind them into dust and shame for endangering the lives of people around them and interrupting our soup. Rendering them completely impotent seems like the most fun way to do it.

Like a cat playing with a pair of mice even.

>>5502729
For whatever it's worth, I like your compromise, it's similar to what I suggested in the tally, only in the reverse order

>>5502736
I see, damaging their ego is all good but I'd prefer it if they got physically damaged until they gave up as well. There's a good chance that, after they recover from the initial blow, one of them will try to take a swipe in retaliation so Huan could do what you're suggesting whilst doing some more physical mockery like pulling their ear and nose, poking their eyes, tripping them, putting them in holds etc.

Am I thinking too hard about this? Probably. Do I enjoy imagining it? Yes I do.

>>5502740
Thank you. The order of the actions is because I found it to be funnier that way. Just imagine that you're this hot shot cultivator fighting some asshole when suddenly the both of you get your shit pushed in by this bombshell of a woman that then tells you to pay up and then fuck off.

>>5502749
I'd rather not damage any more property. Even if it is payed for, every broken chair or shattered bowl is one less customer they can serve until it is replaced. To say nothing of the giant fucking hole in the wall. These little shits.

>>5502754
That makes think of another opportunity for a gag! I just imagine Huan asking the restaurant owner "Excuse me sir, can I use this?" while holding her chair like a stick only for the owner to agree in confusion of the whole situation.

In regard to the property thing, Im sure they won't mind losing one chair when they will both get monetary recompense and fame from being the location that this incredibly beuatiful lady cultivator completely bodied two other cultivators single handedly.

>>5502767
It's the principle that matters. We shouldn't be putting craters with these goobers' faces into the floor or splintering tables with their torsos if we're trying to tell them to stop being little assholes for doing that very same thing.

>>5502776
But they're not in the restaurant, they just blew a hole into it.

>>5501777
> Until some idiots started a fight in the street.

> considering how fiercely they were fighting just outside of a lovely little restaurant.

>>5502782
That's even worse then. Then they'd be on a much more important infrastructure, being a road or street.

>>5502811
But how is that relevant to what Im suggesting anyway? Huan won't be breaking anything.

>>5502811
>>5502825
Besides the chair that is.

>>5502825
>using a chair as a projectile
I've seen enough street fights to know the moment someone throws something, everyone else starts doing it too. We all know these morons are going to need to get slapped at least once each before they decide they should listen. It's how kids are.

>>5502830
So you think that if we throw the chair then all the spectators will start throwing objects too? Even if that were the case, throwing the chair won't be the only thing we'll be doing. I think the onlookers will be a bit too occupied watching a ruby like beauty knock some sense into two retards to start throwing shit.

>>5502832
No, only the people involved in the fight. I suppose "everyone" could have been more precise, I apologize. But that would mean shit like wagons and stalls would start getting thrown about. Because cultivators strong.

>>5502833
But the point is to give them stunning injuries so they won't be able to do that, maybe mock them more if they try to attack Huan specifically like I said in >>5502749. As Huan herself said, they're utter weaklings who've gotten big heads. There won't be a problem in stopping them without any collateral damage. Again, besides the chair.

>>5502845
Just tell them to fuck off and if they don't, immediately knock them out. So much nonsense.

Hold on a moment, if Huanliuxue hasn’t gotten an actual outfit yet, doesn’t that mean that she was out and about bumming meals while wearing nothing but her shadow?

If those Young Masters realize this, I imagine there’s going to be some hilarity.

>>5502858
And give them the chance to walk off with no repercussions? No fixing to the damage they've caused? If you want to argue, say something substance not out of hand dismissals.

>>5502863
Yes. Though they won't find out if they can't touch her.

>>5502871
If it were up to me we'd kill them outright, man. You don't fuck with people's food full stop. People can strip whatever valuables they have from their bodies when they're unconscious. Even common stuff a cultivator may carry is expensive as hell for normal folks.

Money was never the issue, it was wasting the time of these working joes that is annoying. Shit dude we could come back and pay for the damages ourselves, I wouldn't mind. I just want these clowns gone.

>Get angrier that the two idiots are endangering innocents and command them to leave to kill each other somewhere else. And tell them if they refuse, you'll teach them a lesson (Good karma) (Martial Trial. DC 20)

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Ending the vote now, tallying the result.

Get angrier that the two idiots are endangering innocents and command them to leave to kill each other somewhere else. And tell them if they refuse, you'll teach them a lesson:9

Apologize to the owner for the mess, grab the chair you were sitting at, and hurl it at the nearest of the two fighters' head:7

”Perhaps you don’t know how violent this city was. Being able to sit in a restaurant without care of someone trying to assault me brought joy to my heart...":1

Allow the chill of your Yin Qi to seep through if they push back during your speech so they understand you are not to be trifled with.:2

Demand a replacement dish, and stubbornly try to keep eating as the two morons fight it out.:1

Excuse yourself, grab the chair you were sitting at, and hurl it at the nearest of the two fighters' head then gut punch the other. After that, tell them that they should be more mindful of others so they must both pay for the damage they've caused and go kill each other elsewhere lest someone else do it for them.:1

Get between both cultivators and block/deflect/neutralize all of their attacks until they're exhausted and ashamed, then go get some soup:1

So, furious that these simpletons would endanger innocent lives with such a petty squabble, you'll command them to leave and find somewhere else to kill eachother, telling them you'll teach them a lesson if they refuse.

Namely that they are merely frogs in a well, looking up at the sky.

Update will arrive shortly


>>5502356
Thank you, Junior, for your assistance. Your Filial piety is praiseworthy

Sighing heavily, looking down at your ruined bowl of noodles and the dirtied table it now sits atop, the other dishes ordered for you spilt all over it and dribbling to the floor. All around you, there is screaming, and those unfortunate enough to be sitting close to the demolished wall have been tossed to the floor or slammed against the opposite wall from the force of the foolish novice's attack. They're battered, bruised and bleeding. None of them are dead, but one of the serving girls is unconscious, seriously injured judging from how her chest flutters as it rises and how slowly and infrequently it does. A deep cut on her brow will scar. Enough to prevent her from finding a husband. An older gentleman sits on the ground, his leg impaled by a chunk of wood separated from the wall when it was blown to pieces.

A deeper fury than the annoyance you felt from having your meal interrupted, dirtied and ruined and your flock of admirers and meal tickets scattered, arises inside of you, bubbling from the pitch black mire of the cauldron of grudges you keep in your belly, ever fermenting and rolling. The weak trod over and crushed by the strong, without a second thought or even a pitying glance. Squashed like insects and beaten without reason. Caught in the cross fire of idiots with power and strength, punished for no fault of their own, all because the proud decided a quiet street of restaurants and food stalls was the place to settle their rivalry with a fight. A fight that not only wrecked this shop, but could end up killing its patrons. That. That makes you angry. Really angry. Steaming mad even!

It'd be a different matter entirely, a much less serious matter, if the collateral victims of their squabble could defend themselves or fight back against them, but what can ordinary people due against a cultivator? Even if they're weakling trash, a world class martial artist would have to be lucky to come out on top in a fight against the lowest of Daoist Cultivators, or so supremely skilled they've probably already began to glimpse the dao of swords! Even if all of the patrons had the courage of lions and swarmed the two louts to chase them out, they'd be batted aside with a turn of their hand. And that is a story that has been heard far too often that it now it is accepted.

"The weak are prey to the strong" You hiss under your breath as you grab hold of the cup of tea you were waiting too cool so you could actually stand drinking it " the underserving and innocent are trampled by the ambitions of the proud and greedy"

You stand and drain the tea in a single gulp and set the cup carefully down, miming as if you adjusting your Qipao as you strode over the mess your so called fellow daoists have made. The cowering crowd in the shop watches you as you apporach the two duelist, eyes wide with fright. Some you see are trying to muster up the courage to stop you and drag you to safety, slapping their faces and gnashing their teeth.

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>>5504014

Some of them are already crying, excepting to see you become a beautiful corpse in the span of a single breath.

"What a load of horse manure! The weak are prey to strong? A mantra repeated by the Bloodthirsty and cruel" You say outloud, crossing your arms over...er under your chest as you march into the hole in the restaurants wall as the dust fully clears from the air "The simple and the brainless. Might makes right, this is true, but the mighty receive responsibility alongside the right to rule"

The two idiots were not pay attention to you, or your short speech as they were exchanging blows in the air, shaving off parts of the store front and sending wayward spells and Qi blasts careening through the street and up into the sky. Both of them wielded Swords, overly decorated Swords more concerned with looking pretty and elegant than being properly balanced or well honed. They were also, shouting their various techniques for all to here. Very basic, novice techniques that any cultivator and even a few martial artists would recognize from seeing their beginning motions. Rolling your eyes, you shook your head, getting angrier with each passing second.

A light cloud of grudge energy, a little tongue of black smoke, curled out of your mouth and lifted into the air

"And that duty is to be a proper, benevolent ruler. That is the purpose of strength you absolute simpletons. To Defend even the worms of the world, rather than trampling carelessly over them" You growl under your breath "Not to, as many mistake it to be, to be able and allowed to bully, abuse and take advantage of the whole world like it was your personal playground"

Still they ignored you, locking their blades as they met mid air, kept aloft by the force of their strikes.

"OY! Listen to me you! You brats with the big heads!" You shout, loosing your temper and composure at last "Can't you see destruction the two of you are causing in your clashes? Don't you realize you're both hurting people who have nothing to do with your squabble? You've shed much more innocent blood than you've spilled from your enemy! Neither of you are acting like proper Daoists! If you're so set on killing one another, go somewhere else to die. There are better gravesites than the storefront littered with the bodies of the wrongfully slain!"

Your authoritative and commanding tone, shouted loud enough to be heard over the clashing of blades and declaration of techniques and maneuvers, is enough to give pause to the two delinquent daoists who daintily, like feathers, fall back to the ground, twisting around as they go. With robes still fluttering from their spinning decent, they raise their blades to you, expecting a fight, only for the right one, dressed in pink and red robes to begin chuckling as they see who exactly is scolding them.
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>>5504017

"The battlefield is no place for a woman. Remove yourself before you are hurt" The one of the left, dressed in amber orange robes says, flicking his wrist at you "You have no place to intrude in a contest between men"

"Unless you're proposing to be the prize" Pink robes says in a rackish tone, waggling his eye brow even as you disdainfully glare at him like the walking pile of garbage he is "Fights get messy, where is the harm in that! If they didn't want to get hurt, they'd have had the sense to run away! They know the risks of watching a streetbrawl, this is Suiqi afterall!"

That would've made sense, if Suiqi hadn't been cleaned up by the hunts of two demonic beasts and most of the criminal and corrupted elements in its administration, rule and underbelly had been dragged out into the street and butchered as they deserved. Now it was actually a pleasant, peaceful place to live, not just looking pretty and fair as it once had while hiding its various diseases under its dress. But, of course, the world of cultivation is slow to notice changes in the mortal realm.

"It is regrettable, but collateral damage can't be avoided in a bout between demi gods" Amber robes laughed boldly "Now begone, before this beast in heat drags you into our disagreement. If you are wise, you'd tell the ones cowering behind you to flee as well"

"You could've just let me have your sister, I would be a caring husband" Pink robes said flippantly, pointing his finger at his opponent

"Demi gods? You little worms?" you laugh outloud, throwing your arms out "Why should these people flee, when you're the ones making a mess out of their home! They were enjoying their dinner before you two came along and wrecked the place! I'd say you have eyes but can't see mount tai, but I'm not certain you can see at all if you're this willfully ignorant of your place in the world and so proud as to scorn those with no quarrel over you!"

"What did you just call me?!" Both of them shout, their fragile pride crushed by the beauty before them laughing at them and making light of their "Serious" battle

"Little worms? Blind fools? Egotistical brats? Mere frogs in a well? Mewling Kits who think themselves tigers?" You say cutely, tapping your lips as you pout and hang your head, eyes narrowed and filled with the venom of spite "is that not what you are? Novices who think they stand atop the world and above the heavens themselves. I'll give you once chance to break up this fight, leave this street...no, Leave Suiqi, and find somewhere else to kill each other, or else I'll have to teach you two a lesson you won't soon forget"

"Please! MY beloved! See reason and come back inside where its Saaafe!" The owner of the noodle shop cries out, before a loud, ringing thud sounds, as his wife strikes him with the pan in her hands
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>>5504020

"Please spare her masters!"
"You would not be so cruel as to steal away her beauty"
"Yeah get out of here you bastards! Don't you know there's a shrine to the happy bloodshed just down the street!"
"Don't you dare lay a hand on her you brutes, she is speaking what we're all thinking, you bullies"
"Do you think our red rose is able to back up that sharp tongue of hers?"
"You're right, the air around her has changed and become deathly cold"
"I want her to look at me like that, like I was living garbage"
"What a fierce look in her eyes!"
"Surely disciples of two proud sects wouldn't beat a young woman just for telling them off"

"Will you now?" Amber orange says with a smirk "I welcome you to try, now get out of here before I get angry with you, girl"

"Huh?! Seems I have to slap some sense into the little princess here" Pink robes declared, striding ridiculously told you, mocking you with his whole demeanor and all his bearing as he lifted back his arm and raised his hand "Maybe even give you a spanking, huh?"

You shoot him a withering glare, looking down at him even though he is slightly taller than you are. His head is a queer sort of yellow, like dried summer grass. And his face reminds you of a dog's, dull and witless, handsome but less so than he imagines it to be.

"As if you'll be even able to touch a hair upon my head!" You boast, sneering as you step forward to meet the fool, while his enemy stays back, observing from behind his hanging black locks of hair with sharp, villainous looking eyes

roll 1d100. DC 20. Best out of four

Huanliuxue now has performed a total of 9 good karma actions...

Rolled 100 (1d100)

>>5504023

>>5504025
Well, they are getting absolutely demolished

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Rolled 6 (1d100)

>>5504023
>>5504025

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Rolled 11 (1d100)

>>5504023
dice~

>>5504023
>best out of four
>100 on 1
BOI

>>5504029
>>5504033
And at last, our ancestors are backing us

>>5504037
Come on anon, we got that 100 but we still have one more roll to go.

Rolled 46 (1d100)

>>5504023
LET'S GOOOO!

>>5504025
IMMENSE SUCCESS! 80 over DC and Five times DC! You achieve victory as easily as turning over your hand, utterly humiliating your opponents! Teaching them they were frogs lusting over a swan's flesh and a hundred years to early to challenge you!

Update will arrive shortly

>>5504040
Sorry anon, I couldn't carry the guilt in case I rolled a 1

It happened before irl so I knew it might happen again

>>5504052
That's understandable, but now you put the idea of a 1 happening on the fourth roll in my head
But I doubt that Grandfather would do that to us, after we got the bo4 as a bonus/upgrade. Right?

Kind of a shame that the karma option won. There’s good reasons for doing so, but I also can’t help but think back to HMQ where people would vote for options just because they gave Karma and didn’t bother with the in-character reasoning.

Admittedly, this is probably just salt on my end, but I’ve getting some serious cognitive dissonance from how voters act karma isn’t on the line compared to when is.

You do not even need to use any of your techniques, expend any of your spiritual or internal energy or cast even the simplest of spells. You simple slip to his side as he swings his arm to slap you on the cheek, crouching under the rush of air it creates that moves through the already wrecked noodle shop like a whirlwind or twister. Standing back up, unbending your legs in one smooth motion, you grab a hold of his arm at its elbow as he leans forward, stumbling from putting so much strength and force behind his slap only to strike empty air. There's a loud snapping sound, like a cracking whip, produced from the speed of his slap causing a bubble of emptiness to form in the air and then to collapse in on itself as the air rushes back to fill it. You had grabbed hold of him so fast, the sound of his open palm strike was heard after you had gripped onto both his upper and lower arms. He stares, dumbfounded, feeling your hands on his arm but unable to understand how you vanished. Maybe he thinks he reduced you to dust and regrets his murder? Or maybe he realized, in the brief moment before you start pulling at his limb and bending the bones inside of it, that he had made a grave error judgement in thinking you were just a pretty face and not at all worthy of his respect, that you were just a sassy girl to be slapped and taught a lesson.

"Please, do not scream too loud" You whisper in his ear, purring slightly as you step behind his back and pulled his arm with you, contorting it in a painful manner as you press it flat against his back.

There is a second snapping sound. Then a third. The first being his arm dislocating out of its socket, the latter being the joint in his elbow popping and then cracking as you break his arm like you would the wing of a sparrow.

He did not listen and begins wailing and screaming bloody murder, like you had just fatally wounded him. Incensed, and enraged that he couldn't follow such a simple instruction, you throw him to the ground and pull back your leg. Touching your heel to your back, you send a current of Metal Qi down your leg, channeling it in a close circuit before manifesting it as bright blue sparks crackling down from your thighs to your toes.

Then you kick him in his ass, as he slumps on the ground, bottom raised. Striking with the side of your foot, you hear a cracking sound as he screams so loud as to loose his voice and is sent bouncing into the noodle shop with a smoking, broken ass. Sparks fly out of his ears and out of his raised, golden hair, that is standing like the quills on a porcupine now. His eyes are empty, filled with tears, and he is drooling. And he is totally unconscious, the back of his robes torn away to expose his cherry red behind.

The one with the long bangs hiding his eyes, realizing you are an actual threat and the danger you pose to his well being after you defeated the foe with whom he was equally matched and struggling with, tries to proactively defend himself.
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>>5504087

By striking while your back was turned. Unfortunately for him, cats have a good spatial awareness. Though that doesn't really matter, cause the idiot was screaming as he tried to sneak up on you. It might be cowardly, but it at least showed he had enough sense to know a frontal attack would only end in his humiliation. Unfortunately, the prideful fool failed to realize that attacking your back would result in the same. His only winning move was to prostrate himself and grovel at your feet, or to simply run away. And even then, you might get into the mood to pounce on the fleeing mouse. Your blood was boiling and you had become rather excited already.

Catching the tip of his sword between your fingers, stopping it above your shoulder, you twist around on your heel and lift up his sword. He stares at you, lip and arms trembling as you offer him an innocent smile and then slam a knee into his crotch. He gasps, eyes rolling back as his legs give out from underneath him and he slumps against you. You lead him around, stepping to his side and holding him up as tears fill his eyes and he tries to fumble for a spell talisman hanging from his belt. You smile sweetly, pat his cheat, let go of him and hop back, allowing him to stumble forward.

His face meets the ground after you stomp his head down to it as he begins to fall, knocking him unconscious like his rival.

Silence fills the street, as the patrons of the noodle shop look at you with awe and amazement, and those who hid behind their stalls or in the other stores peek their heads out, looking in disbelief as two young masters from the storied and mythical schools of daoist immortals lay on the streets, having been beaten by a fairy. They remain like that, frozen, staring at you as you flick your crimson hair back and stand atop the amber robed cultivator, arms crossed and chest lifted proudly.

"That should teach you two to not make a mess in someone else's house!" You declare loudly, sneering and cackling as the silent storefront erupts into cheers and the cowed and terrified shoppers, patrons and storeowners form a crowd, some of them jeering and kicking the pink robed blondie and others surrounding you to cheer you and thank you, falling to their knees, bowing and telling you just how amazing you were to beat the two menaces so easily. All the praise and gratitude is enough to make you blush and feel lightheaded with delight

So you bask in the adoration of the masses, as the guards arrive late and stare dumbfounded, and hear several exaggerated stories of how the red haired beauty made short work of the two troublemakers and prevented further harm from befalling the city or the locals by their hands. Their faces pale under their helmets, as they realize the two ruffians are cultivators by the daoist robes they wear.
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>>5504090

They're terrified of angering them, even though one's bare ass is exposed for all to see and red like a baby's and the other is crying in the ground under your foot, holding his cracked eggs.

And they're more terrified of offending you, realizing, as anyone with any common sense would, that you are no ordinary girl if you beat them so handily. The ten or so armed men speak in hushed whispers, trying to decide if they're allowed to take cultivators into custody, if they should punish any party out of fear of reprisal, or if they should just keep their hands clean of the matter. You know this, cause you can hear their discussion as clearly as the cheers and humble gratitudes and awed exclamations uttered by the crowd that has filled the street.

Eventually, the most veteran amongst them, a man with a grey flecked beard, shuffles toward you, head bowed and eyes locked on the ground.

"We...thank you for intervening on Suiqi's behalf" He says meekly, wringing his hands "We trust you have scolded your juniors, and there will be no more trouble from them after this scolding they've received"

They don't realize all three of you belong to different sects, they just see Cultivators and violent sages.

"if it would not be troublesome, could you escort these young men back to the mountain grotos they came down from?" He asks pitifully, shivering as you smile sweetly, grinding your heel into the back of one of the "Wise sages" as he whimpers and pleads to you for forgiveness

What do you decide to do, Huanliuxue?

>Force the two idiots to compensate the noddle shop for the damages they caused, and apologize for their brutish behavior

>Laugh, and tell them their masters can pick them up after they've been properly punished, and then browbeat the local law to put them in stocks and have them pelted with rotten fruit and other filth. Maybe then they'll learn to be humble

>Wait for the two to wake up, and tell them to tell you who they are, why they were fighting, and which sects they belong to, so you can throw them in front of their gates in shame.

>Enjoy the adoration of those you've saved, then leave Suiqi and go back home to Fu's village before the two cultivators can wake up

>Act like you are their elder martial sister, then take them to the countryside and decide what to do with them there

>write in

>>5504084
What is HMG?
Anyway, I believed that this option was in-character Huan, and we have skipped good karma options before, atleast two if I remember: not giving things to the pig demon for no reason, and healing the emperor while planning on killing him instead of doing for the goodness of our heart.
I guess there could be an argument that anons chose to meditate instead of healing the brothers last thread because while it was a good option, it didn't give karma, but considering those two examples above, there is plenty of room for doubt.

>>5504092
>Force the two idiots to compensate the noddle shop for the damages they caused, and apologize for their brutish behavior
>Wait for the two to wake up, and tell them to tell you who they are, why they were fighting, and which sects they belong to, so you can throw them in front of their gates in shame.

>>5504092
>Wait for the two to wake up and tell them to reveal who they are, why they were fighting, and which sects they belong to, so you can throw them in front of their gates in shame after they compensate the noodle shop for the damages they caused and apologize for their brutish behaviour.
Is this too much? It might be too much.

>>5504101
Homeless Mutant Quest. If I remember correctly, karma points could be used to reroll nat 1s and, since the QM used a d20, there were a lot of nat 1s

>>5504110
Thanks for the reminder, it's been quite a while since I read it. I do remember the rolling like a crack bitch memes now.
RIP Crusty

>>5504110
I think it makes sense that they're combinable, it's basically interrogate+punish.

+1 cuz I don't think we should be ignorant of the sects and what they're about.

>>5504092
>>5504110
Support.

>>5504092
>Force the two idiots to compensate the noddle shop for the damages they caused, and apologize for their brutish behavior

>Wait for the two to wake up, and tell them to tell you who they are, why they were fighting, and which sects they belong to, so you can throw them in front of their gates in shame.

So long as we don’t stick around for their elders to question us, I’m fine with dumping them.

>>5504101
Homeless Mutant Quest, an oldie that used to run back before /qst/ existed. It had a karma system like this quest does, except instead of unlocking new options each point of karma was a reroll. Now, players tended to roll like shit, so those rerolls turned out to be one of the most important resources in the quest and players went out of their way to get it whenever possible. That wasn’t really a problem early game where things like the characterization was mostly blank, but as the quest marched on karma choices tended to conflict with more options and players also got more insistent on getting those sweet sweet rerolls.

Just read the quest, you’ll see what I’m talking about once you get about mid way through.

>>5504092
>Force the two idiots to compensate the noddle shop for the damages they caused, and apologize for their brutish behavior
>Wait for the two to wake up, and tell them to tell you who they are, why they were fighting, and which sects they belong to, so you can throw them in front of their gates in shame.

Did one of you archive this thread? Not complaining if you did. But I noticed it has been archived on suptg, sometime yesterday. Thankfully, with the proper tags, title and thread. If one of you did archive it, to keep it from being misarchived, thanks. Know a few quests did suffer from that a few days back.

Thou It'd be really funny if someone tried to misarchive it and cocked it up.

Anyways, here's some discussion fodder while I'm here. Fashion! What sort of outfits/ style do you want Huanliuxue to wear in her human form!

>>5504092
>Force the two idiots to compensate the noddle shop for the damages they caused, and apologize for their brutish behavior.

>Wait for the two to wake up, and tell them to tell you who they are, why they were fighting, and which sects they belong to.

>Request writing materials, and write letters explaining what happened, why you intervened, and what you will do to any daoists that seek to disrupt the peace that Suiqi has found in explicit detail. Hand these letters to the juniors after telling them you will stop by their sects later and quiz their leaders over its contents using the spare letters you’ve written for your own reference before heading off on your way.

We gave them a chance to stand down. They didn’t take it, we crit them into submission. Mission accomplished, the good karma is just a nice bonus for what I’d already have voted for.

I don’t want to eat up time traveling to their sects and getting involved in their politics. That could turn into a whole adventure in itself and I’d prefer to get real clothes first.

Send them with a letter, and threaten them with a checkup. Whether we actually do that is immaterial, they should be scared shitless of us now.

>>5504231
>Fashion! What sort of outfits/ style do you want Huanliuxue to wear in her human form!
Fingerless gloves. Nothing else.

>>5504231
>Fashion! What sort of outfits/ style do you want Huanliuxue to wear in her human form!

Honestly, I think some plain(er) robes would work. I don't think Huan would be one for ostentatious fancy outfits, instead wearing more normal clothes to better accentuate her natural beauty.

>>5504092
>Help the injured in the noodle shop
>Act like you are their elder martial sister, then take them to the countryside and decide what to do with them there

>>5504149
>>5504404
Voting for these two combined

>>5504092
>Act like you are their elder martial sister, then take them to the countryside and decide what to do with them there

while I do want to punish those fools further, I also really wanna get back home to our snug cave and avoid wasting too much time on this distraction.

>Fashion! What sort of outfits/ style do you want Huanliuxue to wear in her human form!

unlike other anons I actually picture her dressing quite flamboyantly, with long flowing bands of silk in different shades of red, and a rather excessive amount of jewelry. Maybe she would also incorporate some trophies from her conquests, like feathers from the crow king and such.

>>5504404
I also support tending to the wounded!

>>5504231
I like the Qipao. Just make it the pink that our sect is using

>>5504110
Supporting
>>5504231
Oh I can explain this, recently there’s been an odd trend of someone intentionally mislabeling threads on suptg and this thread got hit (originally the title and description was for Elin Veteran). I’m assuming the site admin fixed it which is why the description is just the title of the thread. The things people do in their free time I swear.
As for fashion, Huan has already shown to like dressing elegantly in the times we’ve possessed Yuyi as well as a slight interest in imitating Monu’s flashy style, so I’d say on the flamboyant side

>>5504092
>Force the two idiots to compensate the noddle shop for the damages they caused, and apologize for their brutish behavior

>>5504404
Support

>>5504092
>Heal the Injured
>Force them to compensate the noodle shop

>>5504092
>>5504237
Adding
>Tend to the wounded
to my vote. We need to do something while the one guy wakes up, and I’m certainly not trusting them to heal the wounded as part of their punishment either.

Although…
>Leave those with only minor wounds until the pair of frogs wake up, then have them observe basic first aid while you lecture and quiz them on what you are doing so they may assist others while they apologize.
My anger has abated, but I still feel the urge to lecture. If their sect masters are of such poor quality that they can’t even fathom how to go helping people they’ve hurt at a basic level, I do feel the need to address that shortcoming while berating them.

>>5504092
>>5504130
I would also like to add
>Tend to the wounded
to my vote. It feel more natural to heal wounded->interrogate->punish anyways.

>>5504106
Initial roundup - Phoneposting always sucks edition

>Compensation - 7
Ps8duRWO
BBG6uA2G
4qhcAtBc
dNK3Upb9
iQj6H76V
td1CsGDb
5SNdb3ZQ

>Wait for them to wake up, lecture, toss them at the gates of their sects - 9 (8?)
Ps8duRWO
j2ILJce0
Us48hf1h
JPIXfPaL
BBG6uA2G
4qhcAtBc
iQj6H76V
59xJdSMj
dNK3Upb9
>Above, but provide letters instead of delivering them to their sects - 1
dNK3Upb9

>Help the injured - 6
N80gEXH4
iQj6H76V
1K36v/lj
65P1A3Fx
dNK3Upb9
Us48hf1h
>Above, but having the fools help with minor injuries while lecturing them - 1
dNK3Upb9

>Act as elder sister - 4 (3?)
N80gEXH4
iQj6H76V (Could you clarify? Acting as their elder sister while also asking for details on their sects seems contradictory in front of the public)
1K36v/lj
65P1A3Fx

I put my write-ins in both their own section and under the main votes since they’re just slight reflavorings of the original ones.

>>5504754
Nice, I got a free (You)
Normally I also put the total votes as well because of the one less then half rule, but good work junior
>>5504106
I'll add
>Help the injured in the noodle shop
TO my vote, this way we can heal while waiting, make them pay for the damages and explain themselves, and them kick them out

Notice that one of these miscreants brazenly wears the colors we chose for our sect. Even if he didn't know, that is unforgivable.

>>5504901
Huan after raiding Monu's wardrobe

>>5504766
Ah. I’ll blame working and phoneposting for the sloppiness, even though I should have known better anyway.

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what's even the point of being a female cultivator if you don't get completely ridiculous with your wardrobe?

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>>5504231
>Fashion! What sort of outfits/ style do you want Huanliuxue to wear in her human form!
I don't see Huanliuxue wearing the coomer outfits, for one thing. she might find human desire useful but she doesn't need to show anything to use it
I can easily imagine her wearing a wide range of outfits though, with some sportier and more masculine options like magua/Tang suit, or kun trousers, simple traditional ruqun robes, and also some more elaborate flashy brocaded things like picrel, though probably sticking to animal themes of herself and her students, and sect colors more heavily emphasized (though she shouldn't be one-tone!). she might also wear stuff like black guipao, which were reserved for 'unclean' people like butchers

>>5505557
I don't know chinese fashion, but I'd honestly be fine with a large, mostly concealing one piece dress, Like Lo-Pan from big trouble in little China.

What earrings should we wear, if any?
Something ostentatious and colorful, or a muted red jade? A hinting shape of a cat or a traditional sequence of jewel/metal?
Or make a minor useful artifact to wear openly and keep people guessing?

>>5505667
Honestly I don't think she'd wear earrings. The idea of stabbing something into her ears probably very much doesn't appeal to her ever since she got a piece of one taken off as a kitten.

>>5505785
Oh excellent point, do we still have our notch? We took it from kitten form to demonic beast form to princess of the wild form so it would stand to reason we still have it in human form?

>>5505804
I think the Yin physique might have removed it, because while a notched ear on a cat is kind of cute, on a human it would be weird.

>>5505807
Grampa gave us slightly pointy ears so he's already taking some liberties there. I wouldn't mind a small notch, it's part of our brand by now like the red fur.

>>5505785
That's fair. Mostly I'm wondering what else complementary jewelry we can use as hidden or not so hidden artifacts. Rings, amulets, the works. Although they'd have to be special. I can't imagine anyone's made multi-form transforming artifacts for ten generations, a distant project for Feiqing perhaps, after the important stuff.

>>5505807
Yeah huan had become a puddle during the transmutation and then got the yin physique.
I'm not even sure when we transform back her feline form will be the same, probably regenerated completely at the least so the notched ear may actually be gone...

Ending the vote, tallying the results now.

Force the two idiots to compensate the noddle shop for the damages they caused, and apologize for their brutish behavior:10

Wait for the two to wake up, and tell them to tell you who they are, why they were fighting, and which sects they belong to, so you can throw them in front of their gates in shame.:9

Request writing materials, and write letters explaining what happened, why you intervened, and what you will do to any daoists that seek to disrupt the peace that Suiqi has found in explicit detail. Hand these letters to the juniors after telling them you will stop by their sects later and quiz their leaders over its contents using the spare letters you’ve written for your own reference before heading off on your way.:1

Help the injured in the noodle shop:8
-Leave those with only minor wounds until the pair of frogs wake up, then have them observe basic first aid while you lecture and quiz them on what you are doing so they may assist others while they apologize.: 1

Act like you are their elder martial sister, then take them to the countryside and decide what to do with them there:4

So at 14 votes, You'll Heal and tend to those injured in the two idiot novices' scuffle, who'll you'll force to compensate the noodle shop and apologize for their behavior in a suitable humiliating manner, before dragging them off to tell them who they are, why they were fighting and which sects they belong to so you can throw them in front of their gates in shame.

Update will arrive shortly

>>5504754
Once more, I must applaud the virtues of the Juniors aiding me in the effort to tally up the vote!


>>5504548
Ah, that explains it. Thanks!

>>5505804
>>5505807
>>5506147
The notch remains. It adds to Huanliuxue's scuffed charm. And is, as noted, iconic.

"Hhmph" You huff, glancing down at the trembling, old guard whose legs buckle the moment he meets your gaze "When they wake up certainly, but there's more pressing matters I must attend to besides scolding my juniors for their ill-bred and loutish behavior"

Hopping off of Amber Robes head and neck, you swagger back into the noodle shop, where the daughters and wife who previously looked at you with deadly venom in their eyes, now watch you with awe and respect nearing veneration. As you justly deserve for your heroics and should receive innately for your high status, regal birth and general magnificence in all things! Kneeling down next to the old man with the chunk of wall in his leg, you stem the flow of blood pouring out of the gaping wound with a wave of your hand. He winces, knowing what will come next, as with a delicate smile and touch, you rip the offending splinter from his thin leg. He bites down on his hand, drawing blood and turning pale, before with trembling eyes he looks down and to his amazement, sees that he is not bleeding rapidly and gushing out blood like a macabre fountain.

"A real...a real cultivator! A mystic!" He says weakly, blinking as you lift up the hem of his robe and inspect the would be lethal wound more closely.

"As if that was not already obvious, grandfather, but how perceptive you remain even into your old age" You say politely though with a little mocking to your ginger tone "It'll leave a scar, that'll surely ache, but that is certainly better than being a corpse, no?"

"This old man will have no complaints, being saved by a fairy such as yourself" He giggled, cheeks turning rosy as you used placed the scales of the Scarlet healing armor over his leg, and watched with, what would probably be deemed morbid interest as his flesh and skin reknit itself, latching on and pulling back together in a most entrancing fashion.

But the crowd didn't judge you, as they followed behind you like a bunch of kittenss or ducklings, whispering and gossiping about you as they watched you work your miracles. The grey hair guard, urged and pushed forward by his fellows stammered and tried to press the issue of you taking away the dangerous youths still laid out on the ground. But you ignored him, as you were still busy with the more pressing matters, annoyed that he was being so impatient when you told him you had work to do before you could get to scolding and punishing.

Namely saving lives that would otherwise be lost. You've found that treating wounds was about as fun as making them, and have made something of a hobby of treating the ill or wounded.

Next, you marched up to the serving girl, who was already surrounded by several of his younger sisters, who were looking at her still, blood covered face mournfully with tear filled eyes and wetted cheeks. They were trying to bid her, to rouse her to wake, the older among them clearly fearing the worst, like their elders and their mother.

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>>5506593

But, with a pat on the cheek and that creation of a patch of the Scarlet healing armor on her split open brow, the grisly scar on her forehead shrinks to be nearly imperceptible. Moments later, her eyelids lift and she looks around woozily. Smiling down at her, you pat her on the head and peak over the counter to see if her father is still alive after her mother walloped him with a pan. He's snoring peacefully on the ground, with a red mark over the whole of his face and a tooth or two missing from his smile. But besides a cloudy head, you deem he'll be perfectly fine when he wakes back up.

Quickly, you move through the rest of the shop, checking in on the patrons and rolling your eyes when your admires act more injured than they are in the hopes they'll feel your gentle touch. The worst the rest of them have suffered are bruises or minor dazing, so you take a few bowls of water and freeze them to ice with a simple Cooling Spell. Then, you trick a few of the lovestruck boys following you around to break the ice into chunks, to then be wrapped in cloth and held against their bruises and concussed heads.

Its around the time you've finished instructing them, that Amber robes begins to recover and wake from having his head stomped into the dirt, and pathetically tires to sneak away, crawling in the dirt to do so. Forgetting that cat's prefer struggling prey, you appear in front of him in a flash, and grab hold of his overly long bangs to look into his frightened eyes.

"I'm not through with you yet, brat!" You bark, as you drag him on his back into the noodle shop, where the owner's daughters have set about tying up and binding the Pink robe, who is still unconscious.

"You don't know who you're messing with!" Amber robe blusters, before being silenced with a glare as icy cold as death's own grip, shutting him up and making him behave as you find a bowl half filled with ice to pout onto Pink robes back, to wake him.

He looks up, and shrieks upon seeing you, prostrating immediately and blubbering as he smacks his head black, blue and bloody on the ground.

Looking down at him in Disgust, you shake your head, disappointed even though you expected their pride to be as fleeting as it turned out to be.

"Stand up, and kneel before the owner of this shop. Its them you should be begging for forgiveness, and pleading for absolution for your truly brutish behavior! I've met wild animals with more decorum than you two! And greater tact as well!" You spit, snarling at them and smacking their heads together as they sit side by side one another, they do not fight back our raise their voices

"It'd be a greater dishonor to our clan and our school to beg like dogs before mere mortals" Amber robes hissed under his breath

"Its beneath us to beg at all, let alone for forgiveness from some mere peasants, especially ones as ugly as the girls here" Pink robe grumbled

You pressed your heel into Pink robes crotch and shoved two fingers up amber robes nose

>>5506594

"Do I need to kick you two around some more until your robes are soiled red and brown?" You asked sweetly with pouty lips and fluttering eyes "Or will you swallow the pride you have no earned, be smart, and lower your head before you make your better truly upset? I can be a lot harsher if you'd prefer me to hold your heads down as you bow and hold your cheeks to force you to say your apologizes"

"You..you have no idea who our teachers are" Amber robe growled. So you slapped him, hard, knocking him out and one of his teeth out as well

"Hmm, don't care. But if they have any sense at all, they'll scold you just as harshly as I am, junior" You say as you force him awake with a freezing touch to his chest "Now, get up, walk up to the lovely madam running this shop, throw yourselves to the ground, and apologize"

"I think we should listen. Live to fight another day, and repay this slight against us and loss of face another day" Pink shrilly shrieked as, without thinking, you had applied more weight and pressure to his groin

"You'll rue this, red hair" Amber whimpered, his cheek now puffy and bloated

"Goood booooys" You praised, squeezing both their cheeks before grabbing them by their collars and dragging them before the owner's fat wife, who was presently plucking hairs from the largest of the warts on her nose "Now, remember your manners and etiquette lessons, and apologize to this well aged beauty, hmm? Or shall I start breaking eggs again"

Both the boys reflexively guard their crotches with their legs

"That's what I thought" You cackled sadistically as the two of them shuffled forward. Pink robe merely feel to his knees and pressed his forehead to the ground, while Amber and orange robes threw his arm over his chest while flicking the sleeve of his other hand, fell to his knees and slammed his head to the ground dramatically

"I didn't mean any harm, I was blind, ignorant and a fool. I regret my actions, please, find it in your magnanimous heart to forgive this foolish child" Pink robed said tearfully, putting on a good show of acting guilty and ashamed of himself

"It was unbecoming of one of my stature to act in such a manner, to do harm to those who have not harmed me. Vainglory clouded these eyes of mine, and I deserve no pardon for the damage I have done" Amber robes said quietly, never raising his head, unlike pink who was now clinging on the matron of the noodle shops dress, crying into it and tearing at his hair

"Words are wind" The iron maiden herself spat "My girl might be alright, and my customer might still be breathing, but what am I going to do about that wall"

"The heavens bless those who live righteous lives?" Pink robes laughed

"It could serve as an attraction, to commemorate the great battle that took place here today!" Amber robes audaciously declared
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>>5506595

"Great battle? I spanked one of you and kicked the other in his balls. you're full of yourselves and completely deluded if you think that is a great battle! Dumbasses!" You laugh outloud, causing both of them to click their tongues and turn away from you scornfully "No! You'll pay for the damages to both the shop and those inside of it"

"But you healed..." Pink robes said, his face twisting like he sucked on something sour before he saw your merciless glare and thought better of saying anything more. He turned to Amber robe, who nodded, and somberly, the two took out their wallets and offered enough for the noodle shop to not only repair their wall, but open up several new shops and keep them all stocked with imported ingredients. You and the old woman exchanged glances, sharing a look that only women who've found a good bargain in the market can make, before she milked them for all they were worth, sensing the same opportunity you had.

"That might be enough to hire the cheapest cleaners in Suiqi" She claimed boldly

The two idiots put out more taels of gold. The old woman, displaying remarkable composure, did not flinch and kept that disdainful, unsatisfied glare in her eyes, as her eldest daughters dragged their younger sisters away to keep them from spoiling her scheme and ruining her gamble

"Oh, I might be able to patch the wall with that, if I wanted to use salvaged and rotting wood" She scornfully huffed, crossing her arms

More gold, more silver, your eyes began to glitter and you felt an urge to bat the sparkly things around but held back, awed by the old woman's fortitude and self control. She must've been murder in games of dice!

"Hmm, I might be able to get the wall fixed properly, and remortared if the builders I found were more generous than buddha himself" She said, gripping the counter to keep her hand from trembling

'How far will you go grandmother?' You found yourself thinking in awe 'How bold can you be! This is marvelous!'

Spirit stones were tossed onto the pile on the ground.

Her composure and vitality failed her, and she fell backwards and fainted on the spot.

Pink reached his hands to grab a few of the stones back, but you stopped his thieving with a sustained, deathly stern glare that could freeze flame if you looked at it long enough.

"There, we've settled our debt to the mortals here, are you happy now?" Amber robes huffed, so you cuffed him on the ear and wordless pulled him and his rival out of the shop by their collars. Pink robes, had already turned to prayer, expecting you were about to kill him as you dragged them out into the street, past the jeering and taunting crowd and the very much relieved guard force and into a more remote alleyway, similar to the one where you had killed Pan Da, the mad alchemist.
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>>5506596

Tossing them on the ground, you crossed you arms and stood above them

"Who the hell do you think you are!?" Amber robes roared. You just tilted your head and grinded your heel on the cobbles, shutting him up

"You must be mad, if you think you can push the two of us around" Pink declared, with a trembling voice. You narrowed your eyes, and he covered his head and looked away, sputtering "He told me to say that"

"Worm" his rival hissed through his tightly clenched teeth

"Who the hell am I? Who the hell are you to strut around with your heads held so high?" You shout back, lifting your chin imperiously as you disdainfully look down at them

"Xia Xiaosi!" Pink robed declared "Foremost son of the Xia clan and son of its great patriarch!"

"Bastard adopted when he showed up in their latest round of recruits" The other sneered "Heard his wife made him a eunuch after that farce"

"Hah!" Xiaosi snorted, full of himself "at least I have connections, and my father remains complete. A man of his valor and renown deserves a concubine or two"

"But a Butcher's widow?" Amber robed said mockingly, shaking his head "I am Liu, of the Shīdì Clan!"

"Wetland Willow? what a terrible name" You muttered under your breath "Never heard of either of you"

Both of them deflated and seemed to shrink somewhat when you said those words, not even attempt to make you recognize them by name or deed, hanging their heads in utter defeat.

"So why were the two of you unknown novices fighting to begin with" You sigh indifferent and haughtily, tapping your egg crushing foot on the ground loudly, to emphasize the threat it still poses to their manhoods

"Oh various reasons" Xiaosi said with a smirk

"This beast pursued my sister, my blood sister" Shithead Liu said furiously "Incessantly stalking her, bothering her and offending her ears with his vile flirting and lewd propositions"

"And that is enough to kill over?" You said, somewhat amused

"Oh, we've hated eachother for years! Our sects are rivals, and this nitwit lost me the tournament that would've made me an inner disciple years ago! I'd have been two stages above him if it wasn't for that spiteful trick!" Pink robes declared

"You're still farting about that fantasy of yours? It was a fair bout, and a fair Tie!" Droopy bangs defended, seeming offended he had been accused in such a manner "It was mostly him trying to bed my sister"

"Oh You're always trying to steal my spotlight, swamp boy' Blondie huffed

"Enough of that, your voices are grating my ears and pushing me towards violence" You sweetly said, commanding them to be silence "So you're rivals, because your schools are rivals, and Xia won't leave well enough alone. Which sects do you belong to"
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>>5506597

"Oh? Starting to feel worried and regret your brazen actions against us two rising sta..." Shitty Lui tries to mock you, but you silence him with a solid stomp between his legs. He slumps over, drooling, eyes rolled back into his head and empty of anything but agony. That makes the golden haired lecher behave!

"I belong to the Heroic and loving Summer Sea Dawn Sect (夏季海黎明, Xiàjìhǎilímíng), and this haughty dog drooling like a simpleton, whose line has been assuredly ended by your righteous foot, belongs to the villainous and heartless Dusk Marsh Wolves Sect (薄暮沼泽狼, Zhǎozébómùláng), whom I'm sure my father would be happy to protect you from if you promise to stop assaulting my family jewels and mighty rod"

"No" You state plainly, making the Xia boy wheep and try to cross his legs to protect himself "Guessing that means your sect is by the coat and his is in marshlands. Certainly narrows down where the two of you came from, since I can't see either of you traveling for leagues just to kill one another in Suiqi of all places, no matter how stupid you are"

He nodded rapidly, still guarding his groin as if his life depended on it

"Good! So I know where to throw you two walking piles of trash for a proper scolding! So your sects can both no how shamelessly and shamefully you've been acting, hiding under the protection of there names" You say, which is enough to make Xia Xiaosi look as if you had just declared his execution and Shidi Lui to sit up straight, with desperation burning in his eyes

They begin begging ,pleading, falling on their legs and actually crying, as they try and make you reconsider.

You hadn't actually been planning on dragging them back to their sects after interrogating them. Since you were just after information. But with how much they were begging you not to do it, a certain cruel urge, a wisp of sadism, rouse up inside you, and you began to actually think about doing so.

Oh what to do, what to do, what to do! You certainly enjoyed watching these two worms squirm and they did deserve to be punished further, especially since they were being sassy and trying to threaten you.

You tapped your chin, relishing in their fear and desperation. Ah! It was as sweet as the smell of decay!
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>>5506598

What do you do, Huanliuxue?

>Actually drag them both back to their sects and dump them outside the gates wearing signs that read their crimes to whoever comes out to pick them up

>Fuck with them. Pretending to be ready to ruin their reputations and dirty their name with lies, slander and exaggeration, since you have dozens of witnesses who'll back up whatever you say.

>Just tell them to go back home, and if you learn they do not better themselves or try to hide their wrongdoings from their sects, you will know and you will come back for them. Then go back to your temple, certain the two idiots are fearful enough to not be an issue, at least for now.

>Promise not to tattle on them if they can open up a spot in the tournament both of their sects participate in for your sect. And no, you won't tell them the name of your sect. It'll be a surprise!

>Write in

>>5506599
>Actually drag them both back to their sects and dump them outside the gates wearing signs that read their crimes to whoever comes out to pick them up

Fuck em. They deserve it, fighting like that in a populous city.

>>5506620
+1
Fuck 'em

>>5506620
Support.

Fuck Them!

>>5506599
>Just tell them to go back home, and if you learn they do not better themselves or try to hide their wrongdoings from their sects, you will know and you will come back for them. Then go back to your temple, certain the two idiots are fearful enough to not be an issue, at least for now.

Let's go home it has been too long

>>5506554
>the notch remains
based

>>5506599
>Promise not to tattle on them if they can open up a spot in the tournament both of their sects participate in for your sect. And no, you won't tell them the name of your sect. It'll be a surprise!

>>5506599
>Just tell them to go back home, and if you learn they do not better themselves or try to hide their wrongdoings from their sects, you will know and you will come back for them. Then go back to your temple, certain the two idiots are fearful enough to not be an issue, at least for now.

>>5506599
>Actually drag them both back to their sects and dump them outside the gates wearing signs that read their crimes to whoever comes out to pick them up
Young master humiliation is a Xianxia tradition

>>5506599
What an absolutely based shopkeeper.

>Actually drag them both back to their sects and dump them outside the gates wearing signs that read their crimes to whoever comes out to pick them up

>>5506599
>Make letters explaining their deeds and punishments for them to deliver.
>Also explain you’ll have the villagers delivering variations on their letters for the next several months to ensure they don’t dispose of theirs. Those letters will mention the other ones, and lying to their sect masters isn’t wise.
>Tell them any replies can be sent to the village of Fu and Qiang. They’re both well-known enough that some couriers will know the location, and they’ll know who you are by description. They’re also good kids who won’t mind playing messenger for you, unlike these frogs.
>Idly muse that if you don’t get a reply, you could ask Fu and Qiang to share these frog’s names and humiliations with every sect, traveller, and beggar they come across for a while. Fu would find it amusing, at least, though Qiang may see it as a waste of time…
Let’s see how they react to us name-dropping Fu and Qiang as though we’re acquainted with them. Have them guess at our relationship and (eventually) have someone conclude we must be Qiang’s mother because I want this misunderstanding to start early so it can be entrenched before Huan realizes her oversight.

>>5506599
>Actually drag them both back to their sects and dump them outside the gates wearing signs that read their crimes to whoever comes out to pick them up

God I want to do a tournament, but we have a bunch of other stuff to settle with our disciples first. We've learned of two of the participating sects, so at the very least that should be enough to learn how to get in if we want a shot at whatever the current sects call legitimacy.

>>5506599
I'm gonna change >>5506636 to support >>5506701

Either they take the punishment like champs and learn there's a fate worse than Death of we spread their misconduct outside their sect and the Suiqi noodle shop.

And maybe the misunderstanding of Qiang and Huan will start spreading.

Can we use our grudge fuckery to curse them until they have done penance?

>>5506763
Too Heretic and too obvious for that.

From what we know we invented that, which means our Grudge Dao is illegal. We already used an Heretic cultivation technique by healing the people with the scarlet shield, but straight up using it in these cultivators, even if they are scared and novice, it's still means we're showing them we're heretic and words will spread

I think it's better if we keep things a secret for a while now. Eventually some asshole it's going to crash Fu's village again and any of our disciples will need to use their techniques, better if we hold on until then and reveal our sect to the world

>>5506803
Yeah I get that. I thought something along the lines of "you're free to go, but the grudges of those you wronged will haunt you in your sleep until you do penance!" But if that's too obvious it might be smarter scolding them in a more analog way for now...

>>5506845
For sure. If these two bozos have been given as much gold and spiritstones as their pridefulness warrants, each of their sects must have a strong foothold and support system in their regions.

Based on their reactions to us tattling on them, both the Dusk Marsh Wolves and the Summer Sea Dawn sect have a standard of decorum these two chose not to match in their personal matters. I feel it's a given they have Gold Cores in their ranks and they're both sects on the "righteous" side, even if they're not allies. We probably don't want to meet them directly until we have clothes and a further leg up on our own cultivation. Their sects clearly acquired enough wealth to waste handfuls of it on these two, they'll have smarter cultivators with greater senses among them.

>>5506599
>>Just tell them to go back home, and if you learn they do not better themselves or try to hide their wrongdoings from their sects, you will know and you will come back for them. Then go back to your temple, certain the two idiots are fearful enough to not be an issue, at least for now.
Huan has a pretty good track record for making lower level cultivators straighten up, looking at the one sect.
>>5506736
>God I want to do a tournament
A tourney would be sick but these sects sound kind of small potatoes. As Huan said, they wouldn't travel for leagues just to kill each other in Suiqi, so they're not far from here.
Huan should definitely sneak into a tourney or other official sect setting though. She's spent a lot of time reckoning with most of the rest of the world by now, just hiding from the sects. But now with a human(ish) form of her own suuuuurely she can get away with some more mischief

>>5506599
>Just tell them to go back home, and if you learn they do not better themselves or try to hide their wrongdoings from their sects, you will know and you will come back for them. Then go back to your temple, certain the two idiots are fearful enough to not be an issue, at least for now.
They are lucky that Huan has her own sect she must return to.

>>5506701
I would maybe back this if the replies were sent to the owner of the shop in Suiqi to be held until collection later. Fu and Qiang already bring enough attention to the town, bringing more is unwise in my opinion. Though the value in such an active effort seems unnecessary compared to just keeping an ear to the ground, waiting to see if they fulfilled their responsibilities.

>>5507097
I could back this alternative for the letters. I’m mostly trying to think of ways to get them to actually tell the truth about what happened here if we don’t drag their asses to their sects. The one sect we intervened with was a longer effort than we’ve given these chuckleheads, so I doubt they’ll stick to it.

>>5506688
Changing to
>Just tell them to go back home, and if you learn they do not better themselves or try to hide their wrongdoings from their sects, you will know and you will come back for them. Then go back to your temple, certain the two idiots are fearful enough to not be an issue, at least for now.
Remembered that we are wearing shadows, and someone that isn't a frog in a well could notice it.
And that would be hard to explain

>>5507104
Oh, that’s easy to explain. We had a bit of a disagreement with some powerful people, and our clothes were a casuality. We WERE on the way back home to get replacements since our standards are high, but we got distracted by a pair of assholes fueding and threatening to kill bystanders without deigning to even notice.

But I do agree, probably not good to keep going around wearing a shadow.

>>5506599
>Fuck with them. Pretending to be ready to ruin their reputations and dirty their name with lies, slander and exaggeration, since you have dozens of witnesses who'll back up whatever you say.
>Also ask the old lady for a bit of money so you can buy clothes.
(Since we need some clothes

>>5506599
>Promise not to tattle on them if they can open up a spot in the tournament both of their sects participate in for your sect. And no, you won't tell them the name of your sect. It'll be a surprise!

I don't trust these vipers off our leash just yet, they'll not learn any lessons if we release them immediately.
I see blackmail as the only good thing and it's what they can understand in their petty little minds.
No matter if or when we come to collect, they need a sword over their heads to behave.


>>5506969
Like this sage says, direct confrontation isn't a good idea, if they really have shameless seniors they'll turn the blame on us before admitting faults and strolling like a pinijata onto their front lawn is just asking for trouble.

>>5506599
>Actually drag them both back to their sects and dump them outside the gates wearing signs that read their crimes to whoever comes out to pick them up

>>5506701
Supporting, but also throw in >>5507481 mention of getting money for clothes.

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Ending the vote, tallying the result now. Sorry for the three day wait. Got caught up in the festivities of the holidays. My clan members have given me a number of priceless treasures, Mostly booze. I hope your Christmas was as merry and fruitful as mine was.

Actually drag them both back to their sects and dump them outside the gates wearing signs that read their crimes to whoever comes out to pick them up:5

Just tell them to go back home, and if you learn they do not better themselves or try to hide their wrongdoings from their sects, you will know and you will come back for them. Then go back to your temple, certain the two idiots are fearful enough to not be an issue, at least for now.:5

Promise not to tattle on them if they can open up a spot in the tournament both of their sects participate in for your sect. And no, you won't tell them the name of your sect. It'll be a surprise!:2

Make letters explaining their deeds and punishments for them to deliver....etc:3

Fuck with them. Pretending to be ready to ruin their reputations and dirty their name with lies, slander and exaggeration, since you have dozens of witnesses who'll back up whatever you say.:1

ask the old lady for a bit of money so you can buy clothes.:2

Oh, first tie in a while. Well to chop nails and sever iron, i'll break it with a coin flip.

1= dragging them back to their sects
2= just tell them to go home with a warning

>>5508783
Couldn't you have done a final destination vote?

>>5508783
Alright. So you'll continue the humiliation of the young masters Xia Xiaosi and Shidi Lui and drag them back home by their ears to shame them and make sure their betters are aware of their misconduct.

>>5508788
Wait where's the 5 votes for dragging them to their sects? By my count there's 3.

>>5506620
>>5506639
>>5506693
>>5506736
>>5507521
Wait no, here they are. Let me see the other ones.

>>5508785
I could've. But I didn't want to make you guys wait longer for the update. I'll kowtow and offer face if you'd like, Ties are a rare happening in this quest, so I'm not exactly adept in handling them.

>>5508789
There's five. >>5506620
>>5506639
>>5506693
>>5506736
>>5507521

There were seven, but two of them switched their votes

posting cause my last post isn't showing up

>>5508790
Goddammit, your count is right. Reminds me of how first past the post can suck so hard.

>>5508791
I'd rather wait longer than have the clearly most unpopular vote win. Hell I'd voted for the write in if I had known it would come to this.

>>5508798
If it was the most unpopular, the vote wouldn't have been tied. Anyways, focusing on writing the update now.

Also. just pointing out, if you had voted for the write in, the "Drag them to their sect" Would've won without a tie breaker because then both the write in and telling them to go home would be at 4 votes.

>>5508801
That's not how it works but im too tired to argue. Fair point on the latter half though, sleep deprived brain just thought anything but spending any more time on two bozos even if it didn't make sense.

For a moment, you thought of unhooking your claw from them. Letting them off the hook to swim away with their pride tattered, telling them to crawl home by their own power with a warning to not and try to cover up their wrongdoings, lest you track them back down and punish them even more severely than you did today. But. Buuut, while you know you need to go back home, show off your human form to your students and Mother, and find some proper clothes amongst many other things, seeing these two proud men throw themselves at your feet, begging for mercy and wetting their cheeks with fresh tears of desperation and fear. Well it awakened your sadism, sure you've been in general much kinder and gentler to those who live beneath the heavens with you and share the world that is rightfully yours, but the cruelty of your first days still existed in your heart. It was just more focused and sharpened once you had quieted the grudge that had stoked its flames into an inferno of hatred and murderous fury. After all, it was in a cat's nature to be cruel and to play with their prey. Even if you had become far more benevolent than you'd care to admit out loud, there would always be a primal glee in crushing those who oppose you without mercy or regret. Like pulling the limbs off of a shrieking mouse, or pulling the wings off a song bird as it sang or demoralizing and terrifying some up jumped beast who dared to hunt children before relishing in their, needlessly, extended demise.

That was the sensation that turned your thoughts from the logical and safe option of just going home, to actually making good of your threats. Smirking maliciously, you looked down at Xia Xiaosi and Shidi Lui and reminisced on the other foes who've given you such a wonderfully pitiful show of cowardice and supplication, tossing aside all sense of dignity and pride to beg and weep for mercy after trying to kill your seconds ago and proudly insulting the great and mighty you. And these two worms had threatened you with retribution from their masters, before they began kneeling and all but praying at under your feet when they realize you weren't so easily cowed by such vague threats as them running crying to their grandfather with a twisted version of what actually happened in the streets of Suiqi this day.

Narrowing your eyes, you realized, as you thought indulgently on indulging your often sleeping sadism, that it was actually more logical to make good of your threat to drag them by their ear to those same grandfathers they all just said they ask to kill you for the loss of face and slight against their "honor" they had suffered at your hands and feet. If they were allowed to skulk back home, wouldn't they lie to make themselves seem the victims, even after the beating they received and the threat of future retribution hanging over their heads?

Pups wouldn't learn restraint if their elders didn't pin them by their throats, once in awhile.

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>>5508846

And like that, all the cruel pleasure and sweet delight you felt at watching them squirmed turned to bitter ash on your tongue. Sure, it'd be nicer to let them off with a warning, but they'd just turn around and slap you on the back of your head the moment you looked away. Unless. Unless you made good on your first threat to drag them back to their homes, shaming them and revealing their crimes and thuggery before they could concoct some outrageous lie, that some red haired fairy attacked them for no reason while they were performing some heroic deed or another and how the beauty shamed them viciously after beating their innocent faces around until they were all bruised and bleeding.

Luckily, since you didn't have to keep hidden out of fear of drawing the attention of greedy and ambitious cultivators after your beast core now that you could appear as human as any of them, it wouldn't take you long to get them back to their sects, drag them to the gates and present them in all their indignity, make them suffer the ignominy of being scolded publicly in front of their whole sect by the same old timers whose robes they were so willing to hide under.

Except. Except. You began gnawing on the nail of your thumb, as your sense of caution joined the argument against your sense of reason and instinct of self preservation as well as the cheering sadism you had roused and woke up by enjoying their crying perhaps a little too much.

Except, their grandfathers would be strong and wise, even if these imbeciles were anything but. Just because their students were lackwits and egotistical rubes, didn't mean their teachers were the same sort of trash. With how proud they were of their sects and clans, their patrons in both must've reached a venerable position in each and while certainly Nepotism was as common as weeds in the world of cultivation, one wouldn't have survived the state of open warfare between the Sects of the Ling lands and the Sects of the Chuan lands if they were useless and dull. They must've been cunning and skilled, and if they sects had a traditional rivalry, that meant they were old or at least heir and inheritor to the powerful sort of legacy. Even if they were minor sects in the grand scheme of things, those grandfathers they threatened to sic on you couldn't be the sort of weaklings you could trample over as easily as dried leaves.

Sure, you beat the Crow King, and he was stronger than you before you killed him and gave his corpse to Monu to be refined into materials, but these teachers of theirs would have the backings of their sects, so if they decided to, on a whim or outrage upon seeing their disciples being humiliated by a stranger, to fight you, well, you wouldn't walk out unscathed.

Lifting your upper lip and turning your eyes to the sky, you imagined the debate you were having with yourself as numerous, cartoonish versions of you shouting at each other across from a table.
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>>5508847

And as you daydreamed, hoping that maybe a looser, more relaxed mind would find an answer to satisfy your urge to rub these loser's face in the dirt and tarnish their good reputation, taking all of their face away so you could revel in their despair and shame as well as your desire to remain safe and not court unnecessary danger by marching straight up to the elders of the Sea and Marsh sects and declaring their disciples to be trash and unworthy of even the slightest of respect or regard.

And all the while, the two boys kept bowing and smacking their heads on the ground, their eyes red with tears and their faces sullied with dirt and filth. Glancing back down, the looks on their faces reminded you of puppies or kittens who had done wrong. Or criminals being marched through the streets, with their crimes written on boards they have slung over their chest.

"Inspiration" You whisper, grinning ear to ear as you lift you arms up and above your head, leaning over them as your face is cast in shadowed, leaving only a terrifying silhouette of your sadistic grin and gleeful eyes showing beneath your silken scarlet hair.

"Heeeh!" Xia Xiaosi shrieks, trying to flee before you grab a hold of his ear, Shidi Lui simply keeps his head pressed to the ground, sweating and trembling all over "Please! If you must kill me, spare my face! I want to be a beautiful corpse

What an Admirable Ambition. Fortunately for them, you had know intentions of killing either of them, since it'd be a foolish thing to do even if you had an actual quarrel or grudge with them beyond them ruining your meal and shedding innocent blood without causing any lasting harm.

"Oh don't fret, boy" You say with mocking concern, as you lift Shidi up by his collar "I'm just going to make sure the two of you go home without fighting and them drop you off at the gates of your school"

"Oh so you do have kindness in your heart, after all" Shidi Lui sighs, his shoulders falling and slacking in relief

"With boards detailing exactly how you fucked up and all the wrongs you've committed, I'm sure that'll get the message across to your sectmates, without" You say, smiling as you thought 'Endangering my beautiful self on a whimsical sadistic desire' but said "Causing unnecessary strife between sects, there's a war going on already, no need to light any additional fires while I'm at it. After that, well I'll leave your elders to decided how to punish you to brutes who'd hurt old men and young girls alike"

"Oh...so you're even crueler than I thought. Your beauty hides a demon in your heart" Lui grumbles, wincing away as you glare at him and resist the urge to smack him upside the head

"Shit. Shit. Please just kill us" His rival whimpers "My old man will do far worse. Please, have humanity, be merciful, do not condemn me to such a fate!"

"Oh stop being so dramatic" You bellow, smacking their heads together as you drop them to the ground "And get up"
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>>5508848

"He really will!" Xiaosi cries out

"I'll be back to cleaning the outhouse" Lui sighs, hanging his head, as if now of all times you'll be merciful "But, the weak are prey to the strong, so I'll walk to my humiliation, as you so desire, crimson fairy"

"My father is going to string me up!" Blondie whines, shaking his head "This is terrible! Just terrible"

It is also entirely your fault.

"Now, which of your sect is closest?" You ask cutely, tilting your head and clapping your hands together

"Mine" Shidi says trembling "Unfortunately"

"At least I can see my rival get scolded" Xia cackled, as the two of them followed after you. Normally you'd be worried about being attacked from behind, but these two idiots have had the lesson of how bad of an idea it was to try and sneak up on you by the beating you had given them.

Smiling, you wave goodbye to the owner of the noodle shop, his incredible wife and loyal daughters, and the old fellow whom you had saved. And then have to tell your admirers to go away, as they volunteer to assist you in escorting the two crude immortals to whatever temple or mountain retreat they'll be punished at. Really, they just want an excuse to keep following closely behind you, and are just blustering when they offer to detain the two brutes, you can smell their fear as clearly as you see the love written on their faces.

So, leaving Suiqi, trailed by a practical parade of men of all ages and a few women who've come to bid you goodbye, you leave to travel to the southern swamps to dump Shidi at the steps of his temple in the murk and grime of the Dusk Marshes.
_

The Dusk Marshes. The poorest part of the lands ruled by the Chuan Clan, at least in the mortal realm. Dangerous and untamed, inhabited only by the outcast, desperate and poor, its story is quite different in the world of cultivation. Hell, even among martial artists, it is considered wealthy for the numerous poisonous creatures and schools hidden beside muddy hovels and constricting vines. However, judging from the number of empty and abandoned villages you pass by, it has become even dangerous as of late.

"Do you think their are demons lurking about, Big sister" Xia Xiaosi asked meekly, as you peeked your head through the window of a house in the latest abandoned village

"Probably, that or bandits" You say carefreely "Or rogue cultivators running from the war. Could be anything really, a plague, a swarm of ghosts, a stampede of monsters..."

"The wolves would've kept any apostates or devils at bay" Shidi Lui says confidently "This is my brother and sisters territory, they wouldn't allow a demonic beast or heretical cult to carry out such slaughters"

He was right about the former. While the place was thick with Primordial beast essence, and also unbearably humid, there were no sign that a beast had been the destruction of the five or so villages you had passed by

"Hmm, so you say" You mutter, turning back to see both the men glowering "What?"
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>>5508849

"Do we really need to wear these signs, the whole trip?" Blondie asks "I mean, its a great honor being seen at your side, sister, but uh...well I don't like the way I've been looked at"

"Like anyone would mistake you for her partner" His rival sneered " But, it is rather humiliating"

"That's the point. Search the village for survivors" You say, rolling your eyes as you walked forward, feeling beneath the heat of the swamp air, even as it clung and stuck to your shadow covered body.

There was a lot of Yin Qi here. Demonic beasts hadn't come through here. They were avoiding it, if you had to venture a guess. You had sensed a few kids running around the outskirts of the dusk marshes, but here? If there were any of them at all, they were hiding.

A hungry ghost perhaps? No. There'd be corpses left behind. Or purifying salt. But there wasn't. The towns were empty of life. Even livestock were gone. Except for a few, stringy cats that hid away as you approached, even the mice and insects had left these places.

It felt like the underworld. The soil was cold and lifeless, and the air still and heavy.

Something crunched under your feet. Sounding like a bundle of dried bones and stiff leather. Lifting your foot up, you found a curious little thing. A shriveled, mummified corpse, that fit in the palm of your hand.

You turned it over, frowning and furrowing your brow deeply.

Whatever happened here, was the work of a demon, a real demon. Or a demonic cultivator. Either way, you needed to get out of this swamp before they found you, or their crimes were mistaken for your own.

"Here" You say, tossing the shriveled corpse to one of the swamp cats, glancing back into the towering plantlife seeking to consume the village and feeling as if you were being watched.

Neither Xiaosi or Lui found any trace of any survivors, though you knew where they had gone. The swamp had taken them.
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"Now, walk the rest of the way up the path and kneel before the gates of your sect and say nothing unless spoken to" You command Shidi Lui, who had become reserved and frightened as the three of you passed by more and more abandoned villages. Though he didn't see any of the shriveled corpses you had found and studied to pass the time. There were traces of Wood Qi of a type in them, but you weren't familiar with the exact type, only that it was aligned to that element. And you had to admit, the mystery was beginning to unnerve even you, who found the little corpses rather cute in their own gruesome way.

"Yeah, and kiss their asses to, while you're at it, swamp boy" Xia Xiaosi says, sticking out his tongue and pulling down his eyelid as his rival marched solemnly to his punishment

"We could kill you for intruding on our turf, ya know!" He snarled back, but blondie just laughed

"Guess its just you and me now, huh" He said, wiggling an eyebrow. You stopped his flirting with a solid stomp on his foot.
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>>5508851

As you left the swamp, the abandoned cats followed you, escorting you away from the strange, plant choked villages you passed through again. And it was only then you realized you had never seen plants like the ones strangling those swamp huts. With vicious spikes and sticky leaves. They almost felt predatory. Which was a thought you stubbornly decided not to dwell upon, since the implications of it upset and distressed you greatly.
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Luckily, the trip to reach Blondie's sect wasn't long, and it was just a hop and a skip away from their rivals haunt in the marshes. And it was thankfully much more uneventful, and you knew the river than fed through both the marshes and the Coast of the Chuan lands, would lead you directly back to the heartlands of the lands of a thousand rivers and lakes.

Unfortunately, Xia Xiaosi had become so intolerable, you had half a mind to just murder him and ditch his body in the nearest body of water, since he had become bolder and more flirty now that his rival was away, and no matter how much you slapped, kneed or kicked him around, he'd bounce back up again to try his luck almost as soon as you had shoved his face into the dirt or threatened him with castration. It was almost like the freak enjoyed the abuse. And that made you want to wash your hands of him all the sooner.

"You really should visit our island! it is beautiful this time of summer, all the flowers are in bloom and the fruit of orchard dances in the slightest breeze! Oh, surely one as well traveled as yourself would know of our pride and joy, the singing reefs!" He excitedly chattered as you pushed him onto a boat with your foot, grimacing as he fell on his back and cushioned his head with his arms "And there is no better sunset than one seen from its beaches, though your red locks would certainly challenge its beauty"

"I'll pay you extra if you leave immediately and get this lustful cretin out of my hair" You whispered to the boatman, who looked at your pityingly and nodded

"For you, its for free" He said with a tip of his hat

"Oh come on, we've had some fun together, haven't we? Big sis?" He said teasingly, sneering as the boat left the dock and you glared at him as he and it vanished on the horizon

"Should've just killed him" You grumble to yourself as you stomp away "Stupid masochist"

'I need to get home, before I run into any more idiots who need correction' You thought with a huff as you walked by a stall

"Miss? Would you like to sample some of our fine fried fish? Free of charge for a beauty such as yourself"

'I'll go home after lunch' You correct yourself, as the canny fisherman lifts the lid of the wok and lifted up to waft the aroma of fresh fish slathered in spices and fruit juices. Wiping drool from your mouth, you sit down at the stall and plan your next move as the chef tries to impress you by throwing the fish high in the air from the pan and then catching it, while keeping one eye on you at all times
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>>5508852


What do you do, now that you've dragged the two morons back home to be harshly punished, Huanliuxue?

>Just head home. Even if its obvious you succeeded, Monu tends to worry and you need to see if Ping and Feiqing have come back yet

>Investigate the Dusk marshes, and search for the culprit behind the dozen vanished villages.

>Search the dusk marshes for the newly awakened Demonic beasts you sense, deciding their safety is more important than finding the monster devouring villages

>Feeling a sense of familiarity with the costal landscape, check the map of the region you found in the dimensional gourd when you first opened it (reveals several hidden locales)

>Plan how to get Huili his spine back and get Chuandapo to be at least somewhat less lazy (Can be taken with other options)

>write in

>>5508853
Fuck, I want to go home. I want to go home. I want to go home. BUUUUUUUT

>Get the new kids and bring them back to our sect.
>Plan how to get Huili his spine back and Chuandapo to be less lazy

Okay. No more after this. Get the kids, go home. Show off.

No more. Get kids. Go home. Show off.

>>5508855
+1
And for the problem in the Marshes, I say it's the best opportunity yo send some of our students there. Which one? Idk, but they need to be somewhat powerful because I don't like how things looked in that place. Maybe even send them to just scout and investigate

>>5508855
I Support this choice

>>5508868
Also this is a good suggestion, we can send some students of the advanced class to investigate since it's an overgrown swamp.
Hopefully they will not clash with the swamp sect on it's doorstep otherwise we will have to castrate somebody for real.

>>5508853
>Search the dusk marshes for the newly awakened Demonic beasts you sense, deciding their safety is more important than finding the monster devouring villages
>Investigate the Dusk marshes, and search for the culprit behind the dozen vanished villages.
Dammit, I want to go home, but the monster destroying villages is should also be killing kids, and the newly awakened are also like children.

>>5508868
Actually, that's a good point, sending our hero students to solve this would be good, since they already have the reputation.
>>5508899
Changing to
>Search the dusk marshes for the newly awakened Demonic beasts you sense, deciding their safety is more important than finding the monster devouring villages
>Return home and send Fu and his group to investigate the swamp.

>>5508853
>>5508868 +1
>Plan how to get Huili his spine back and get Chuandapo to be at least somewhat less lazy (Can be taken with other options)

Lets have those two deal with the swamp

>>5508853
>Search the dusk marshes for the newly awakened Demonic beasts you sense, deciding their safety is more important than finding the monster devouring villages
>Plan how to get Huili his spine back and get Chuandapo to be at least somewhat less lazy (Can be taken with other options)

Fuuuuck. There’s so much to do! Let’s get the kid and leave the beast to the Sect in the area.

>>5508868
Yeah, sidequest time. Give them a "oh fuck, it's a demon" talismen direct to Monu and send. . .

Hmm, Huli, Chenpdao, Swiang, and Hong to deal with it.

>>5508869
>>5508901
>>5508903
>>5508911
Actually, I've been thinking in sending some of our Human students that aren't Qiang, Fu, Ping or Feiqing over there.

You know, the chubby blind guy, Lafen and her "guard" that's skinny. But seeing how low level they are, I say maybe sending some of our Star students to watch their backs.

They need to get some field experience, and from our beastly childs only baby Chuandapao could have problem with that (unless she get's some kind of training in some Dao that let's her move easily without depending on the water).

>>5508928
Well, if we send the entirety of Fu's group (except the non-cultivators, it would be too dangerous for them), it would give them a big mix of skills.
One way or the other, i rally oppose the idea of sending send our beasts students to investigate in the backyard of a orthodox sect. Seems they aren't dealing with the problem, but you never know when they can decide to do their job and patrol the lands.

I wonder if the attacks where done by the crow queen and princess, since they used our tribulation to sneak into the mortal world, or just another demon taking the same opportunity

>>5508853
>Search the dusk marshes for the newly awakened Demonic beasts you sense, deciding their safety is more important than finding the monster devouring villages
> send our pupils here later to find the culprit

>>5508936
>Spoilers

I mean, it would be possible, but because I don't know if there's a difference between the Cultivation of Men is different to the Cultivation of Demons, it might be possible

I mean, between the mummified corpses and the Alien strange plants, it might be a Demon with weird rituals, or two Heretic Cultivators that one is a weird sadistic botanic Dao and other a Necromancer with a mummified focused Dao

>>5508948
Well, I thought of it because of this
>Whatever happened here, was the work of a demon, a real demon. Or a demonic cultivator.
So if it's a heretic, it's a demonic heretic. Probably even worse than Frankenstein brother-in-law.
Anyway, I think it's not the crows, the last thread said they were in a crow blighted mountaintop, not a swamp. So if it's an actual demon, it's another one.

>>5508853

>Investigate the Dusk marshes, and search for the culprit behind the dozen vanished villages.

We'll wander home eventually, honest!

>>5508928
We could send the heroic human students as a face and siwang for support/scouting and the recruiting of non-human hopefuls.
With his special eyes, flight and sense of justice we can trust on him for this role.

And in the meantime we give remedial lessons for our more lacking students.

>>5508995
Hey, I like that line up

>>5508995
That also works.

>>5508853
Changing my vote>>5508903 to >>5508995 +1

>>5509011
Support

>>5508853
>Search the dusk marshes for the newly awakened Demonic beasts you sense, deciding their safety is more important than finding the monster devouring villages
>Plan how to get Huili his spine back and get Chuandapo to be at least somewhat less lazy (Can be taken with other options)

>>5508995
I will also support this, low level xianxia hero troupe with big daddy owl as a backup

>>5508995
And if we really want to twist the knife or if the swamp sect drags their feet or raises their voices they could say that their senior sister with red hair saw there was demonic influence and sent them to help.

>>5508853
Backing
>Sending the heroic students + Siwang to investigate the swamp per >>5508995
We can have the students check the map when they come here. The demon could be hiding in one of the hidden locales the map would reveal anyway.
>Plan how to get Huili his spine back and get Chuandapo to be at least somewhat less lazy (Can be taken with other options)
Chuandapo may no longer eat fish as she needs. Instead, she must work with Huili to drive land animals towards her first as food, then she may eat fish for the rest of the meal. Monu can help us devise an appropriate amount for it to be considered a “pass”. Training continues intermittently for several months, eventually ramping up to whatever the local wildlife will support. All meals preferably, for at least two months.
It’s a very tall order for a wolf and a turtle, so they’ll have to be creative. Chuandapo will learn how to plan since she won’t eat if they fail, while Huili will will eventually learn to push back or Chuandapao will have him do all the work, while still working with her because having her starve will eventually incur our wrath. Should be a painful (if enlightening) experience for both.

>>5508853
>>5508995
Support'n

By the way guys, if we can all gather the descriptions of the Techniques we have access too from the archives, I'll put them in a paste bin.

Many hands make light work and all.

I've already got the Cat's Court: Spiteful Blood Legacy 猫 法院: 刻毒血遗产, Māofǎyuàn: Kèdúxuèyíchǎn. A technique that forcefully awakens the last lingering dregs of personality within the rage left behind and inherited within a single drop of blood. Can be used to enhance one's self through the rage of their ancestors, create grudge miasma within a target to "poison" them, or as an attack by briefly giving the long sleeping anger a physical form. Very versatile. A mixture of "Pure" Carmine Mysticism and Necromancy, and an evolution of Blood Refinement]

>>5509103
If we are going to archive dive, it might be good to have a list with our students and treasures as well.
And maybe important locations, characters and factions too.

>>5509109
Honestly not going to bother with the locations outside of our lair and it's upgrades.

This is a doc for Huan, not the quest in general.

>>5509124
Fair enough

>>5508853
>Search the dusk marshes for the newly awakened Demonic beasts you sense, deciding their safety is more important than finding the monster devouring villages
>Plan how to get Huili his spine back and get Chuandapo to be at least somewhat less lazy (Can be taken with other options)

>>5509103
More convenient than putting it in an image. Here's what I got.

Huānliúxuè (欢流血, Happy to shed blood)
Spiritual Roots: Death/Ghostly Qi, Metal Qi, Pure Blood Qi.

--Qinggong variation, "Specter Lightness skill" [幽灵-轻工, Yōulíng-Qīnggōng]
Makes one less corporeal and substantial, as if one is turning ghostly while remaining flesh and blood. You can move as agilely in the air as you do on the ground.
Allows running across and jumping off water, blood, and standing with lightness on even droplets of rain.

--"Phantom Cat Step" [幽灵猫步, Yōulíngmāobù]
Utilizes the field-based illusion of slowed time perception created by focusing Yōulíng-Qīnggōng's esoteric aspects for a fraction of a second to evade, dodge or strike beneath openings in one's opponent's defenses while momentum is preserved between "Blinks". Allows one to sprint without expending stamina, and go faster than their natural limits while still maintaining control over their movements.

--"Severing of the Eternal soul and Mortal vessel" [刌 永恒魂会死㿾, Cǔn-Yǒnghénghún-Huìsǐzhù]
Separate soul and flesh and walk as a true ghost. Walk unseen, traverse great distances and enter the hidden world of the dead. With soul separated from body one obtains all the abilities of ghosts, and also shares their weaknesses.

--"Dying Grudge Shield" (垂死怨怼㕹,Chuísǐyuànduìfá)
Offense and Defense combined. Qi aligned to the destructive aspect of Yin and the nature of grudges permits creating a black, smoky barrier wreathed in the miasma of resentment. The Yin of its tiles catches the force of any attack that doesn't drive through and shatter it, storing the force within where it is bathed in the essences of destruction and spite and effectively multiplied before being released upon its attacker.

--"Enmity Incarnation, Devil of Grudges" (敌意具人形, 魔鬼的恩怨, Díyì jù rénxíng, Móguǐdeēnyuàn)
By playing the part of the previous hosts of your strongest grudges you can embody them, becoming an incarnation of their enmity. Mimicking their powers, abilities and attributes.

Enmity Incarnation Grudges:

==Xiongji the Rampaging Rooster General; Extremely vocal ferocity with a tireless madness and a fiery rage against all things. A Mask of fire, berserk strength, heightened durability, and bottomless stamina.

==Monu, Mother; Not yet attempted.

-(unf)

Other Grudges:
==Grudge against Ling Meng and the Ling.

==Heaven Aimed Grudge:
A grudge against the heaven's for basically everything.

==Hell Grudge; A grudge against hell and its inhabitants formed from the disgust and fury you have felt for their wicked ways.
Potent and fierce, this resentment was directed towards the truly wicked. Those who the fools who named themselves true daoists would believe to be your allies. The evil you found at your back, as you stood against the injustices and hubris of the heavens who thought they were above the natural order of things.

-(unf)

>>5509103
--"Blood Torrent Rush" (衁急流奔,Huāngjíliúbēn)
A body reinforcing art achieved by sheathing the muscles and wrapping your heart and lungs with Blood Qi, significantly increasing speed and agility with a side effect of causing the users veins to bulge.

--"Blood Red Lightning Cat Step" (血紅色列缺猫步, Xuè hóngsèlièquēmāobù)
The Blood Torrent Rush art combined with the Phantom Cat step. The slowing effect of the Specter Lightness Skill allows you to maintain the nearly self destructive pace for longer through lightening the body and performing the Phantom Cat Step while so hastened causes its performer to move so quickly that the air around them whips into a shrieking wind.

--Ability Extension: Saturating a cloud of grudge energy with Blood Qi allows it to infect targets with furious rage or energy sapping sorrow in addition to the already present weakening effect of the resentment. Turns the black clouds crimson and condensing them enough to "weep" and turn liquid.
-->While embodying Xiongji's grudge, this interaction of Blood Qi and Grudges allows you to breath brilliant scarlet fire.

--"The Scarlet Healing Armor" (鲜红瘉铠, Xiānhóngyùkǎi)
A barrier skill of both protection and healing. A barrier accented with Blood Qi that creates scales of carmine light that can either connect together to form a linked wall or form around and cling to surfaces. The ambient presence of Blood Qi encourages the body's natural healing to the point it can match inner energy healing.
-->When enhanced with a powerful blood related cultivation item, this ability has taken the form of a superior suit of strengthened plates of armor.

--"Vein Hunting Eye" (血管猎-眼睛, Xuèguǎnliè-yǎnjing)
While active, Vein Hunting Eye dyes the world red in your sight, and you gain the ability to see the veins of living creatures, which can reveal to you alterations of their flesh and bones.

--"Blood Refinement" (血精炼, Xuèjīngliàn)
The ability to refine blood. In combination with basic principles of alchemy, it has permitted you to learn how to alter and transform blood while it is still inside of living veins. Creating poisonous deer, and turning flocks of swallows into birds of prey by activating ancestral genes within their bodies.

--"Vein Draining Fang" (血管 倾浆 獠牙, Xuèguǎnqīngjiāngliáoyá)
Can be performed with a bite or can be used as a ranged spell to drain its victims dry by forming a cutting burst of blood Qi to create an open wound. A wonderful tool for collecting blood for refinement or quickly bleeding an opponent dry while refining them.

--"Vein Draining Fang" (血管 倾浆 獠牙, Xuèguǎnqīngjiāngliáoyá)
Can be performed with a bite or can be used as a ranged spell to drain its victims dry by forming a cutting burst of blood Qi to create an open wound. A wonderful tool for collecting blood for refinement or quickly bleeding an opponent dry while refining them.

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>>5509103
Looks like there was a repeater there, whoops.

--"Red Death Scythe" (红色死亡 镰, Hóngsèsǐwánglián)
A combination of the Deathly Yin of ghosts and the Yang Blood Qi sheathed onto your claws impedes healing while aggravating and worsening wounds with each strike. Possesses an "Anti Healing" property via its destruction focused Yin. Causes sudden and severe blood loss to its victim as their life essence grows so fragile from being spilled both physically and magically.

--"Whispering Death Claw" (呢喃死亡爪子, Nínánsǐwáng zhuǎzi)
A combination of Deathly Yin and Yang Blood Qi. Allows the separation and the "Draining" of lifeforce with Yin energy alone to creates a subtle technique which tears away the life of its victims but leaves behind naught but scratches.

--"Blood Rain, Chaos Mist" (血液雨, 乱象雾, Xuèyèyǔ, Luànxiàngwù)
Demonic Art combining a grudge cloud of fury and resentment with Blood Qi. Evokes a berserk, feral rage that drives its victims mad with bloodlust. The cloud appears to almost have a will of its own in seeking targets. Showed that Blood Qi can be used to create curses that lurk in the blood itself, Hexes of a wholly physical nature. Blood carries both the passion, sorrow, and rage of life.

--"Cat's Court: Spiteful Blood Legacy" (猫 法院: 刻毒血遗产, Māofǎyuàn: Kèdúxuèyíchǎn) Secret Art unlocked by rolling 108 and remaining uninjured against Baoli-Wuyawang.
Forcefully awakens the last lingering dregs of personality within the rage left behind and inherited within a single drop of blood. Can be used to enhance one's self through the rage of their ancestors, create grudge miasma within a target to "poison" them, or as an attack by briefly giving the long sleeping anger a physical form. Very versatile. A mixture of "Pure" Carmine Mysticism and Necromancy, and an evolution of Blood Refinement.

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>>5509247
>>5509248
Now that there's a good list of Huan's techniques, now's the perfect time to ask which ones have been most useful and which ones haven't had much time to shine.
Personally, Dying Grudge Shield has been our VIP since the time we got it and Blood Rain, Chaos Mist has been kind of forgotten since it's arguably our most situational technique.

>>5509109
I don't think I have everything, but if there's anything noteworthy missing hopefully a kind anon will point it out.

MATERIAL

Pool of Refined Sinner Bone Centipede Ichor. Obtained from Arena fight in Hell.
Cultivation/etc material.
Blood rain, chaos mist pearl. Obtained from experiments with Pure Blood Qi and accidentally sowing and condensing Blood Qi "Hexed" Grudges.
Cultivation/etc material.
Divine Blood Honey Longevity Potion: Fermenting for 3+ years. Created in the Divine Blood Honey alchemy experiments in the Primordial Wilds.
Potion/Alchemy material.

Baoli's Body: Mat's project for Monu.

Seven undamaged/ whole thousand year old ginseng plants.
One uncarved block of Star Jade (Rare/ High quality cultivation Material, fell out of the rifts torn in the sky)
Two abnormally large snake fangs taken from a similarly gigantic skull.
One Flood Dragon scale.
One set of Qilin antlers.
One polished dragon turtle shell.
Five Phoenix feathers. (1 in use)
One Red Agate Idol of Huanliuxue.
White Fur Awakened Bear hide. (Water aligned, pleasantly cool)
various mundane Gemstones and Crystals.
Ghost taming seal, fly whisk.
A hundred and eight sinners' souls, forty four trapped souls, and a single pious soul.

Five herbs from the primordial wilds:

Orange Yellow Sunburst Poppies: A kind of magical opium that greatly raises the body's resistance to heat as well as heating it up to the point they'll boil water if dropped into it.
Black Orchid: Creates a powder that puts someone in a sleep so deep it resembles death, which can be cured by applying a second dose of the eternal sleep poison.
Humming Vine: Can raise ones voice drastically to the point it might as well be an attack, and if turned into a salve will cause anything its applied to to vibrate.
Silver Berries: When dried and brewed into tea, raise mental acuity and focus.
Red Thorned Nettle: Thins blood to the point it is sweated out, which is very useful for giving your blood to control and use.

4268 spirit stones. (Currency in the cultivation world, contain spiritual energy. Can be consumed to cultivate, forge magical items or power spell formations.)


MANUALS/laws/other

Diary of A Gluttonous Devourer of Souls. The Journal of one of the last heretics that practiced the reviled art of "Soul Stealing" (魂偷垒, Húntōulěi), Who was so wicked a being the Forgotten King and A Sect Elder were forced to join forces to end the threat he posed to all life. [we have currently hidden this manual from others]

Collected Accounts of Ascended Beasts, their histories and legacies left behind. A Manual that contains the secret of the creation/ awakening of Magical and demonic beasts and the methods of cultivation they followed and the lives they lead.

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Occult Treasures of the fields of the underworld, and the Alchemy of the dead. A record of Alchemical knowledge pertaining to medicines and elixirs that can only be made from herbs, minerals, and other reagents gathered from the land of the restless dead or made from the by products of corpses as well as numerous charms that can be made with the same materials.

Pine Tree Warden Record. Wood aligned Law and Hard Martial art. Combat/longevity focused. (青松舍监档案, Qīngsōngshèjiāndàng'àn)
The Night Lantern Sutra. Fire aligned Law spell/exorcism focused. (夜灯笼真经, Yèdēnglóngzhēnjīng)
The Mountain Shattering Hammer. Earth aligned law and Hard martial art. Strength/Endurance focused. (㟑震裂榔头, Bózhènlièlángtou)
The Lightning Messenger Technique. Metal aligned Law and soft martial art, Combat redirection/ counter spell focused. (列缺 信差技术, Lièquēxìnchāijìshù)
The Spring Fairy Blossom Art. Female only water aligned law, Healing/ sealing/ support spell focus. (泉天仙 花技艺, Quántiānxiān huājìyì)
A History of Imperial Tea Ceremony.

TREASURES

Bangle of the Great Forge Devil, One of the favored servants of the Demon Lord Zhìzūn-Móxīn (至尊-魔心, Supreme Devil Mind), A Supreme token of Fire Resistance.
A bangle of Enchanted Copper and Demonic Iron, hammered together to form a solid ring in the vague shape of bat wings. Blood Red and Pitch black, in glows with an inner light that casts the space around it in a deep, dark crimson shadow. Hanging from it, from a length of chain connected by what seems a rope spun from fiery red hair that almost seems to be actually aflame, sits a black knuckle bone and a curious carving of jade, the waxy colors of it mingled between brown, black and red, to form a swirl of color that has been carven into a pendant shaped like a fearsome, horned devil surrounded by flame.

Possesses magic that will allow its wearer to resist heat that could melt metal, and work a lit forge as if it there wasn't any heat at all.
Appears surrounded primarily by Fire Qi, but holds Metal Qi within.
Noted to clearly be hiding a deeper power or more complicated ability behind the appearance of "merely" fire resistance.

Amber and Pearl Prayer Beads. (Nine in total, can each seal and hold within themselves one creature, living or dead)

Crown of Trapped Sands and Caged Winds. Allows command of wind and earth when worn, able to remold the earth, conjure tornados, and create gusts of great force.

Black Horned Skull. Radiates with enough Yin Qi to curse and haunt an entire region of the mortal realm simply by being within it!

Preserved Sanguine Divine Spirit Peach. In a glass bottle, secured with talismans and corpse waxm is the Jade Sanguine Shrine's magnum opus of cultivated Pure Blood Qi. Ripe and uncorrupted, preserved in liquor.

Massive Pearl of Crystalized Primordial Beast Essence. Permits evolution of Demonic Beasts.

>>5509109
==Ghost Empress Melody (鬼皇后旋律, Guǐhuánghòuxuánlǜ)
Artifact Guqin. Created by Monu from Hei Suanzhi Rosewood, pearls, strips of rolled silver, and a bowl of bandit blood.
Its wood is as brilliantly red as your fur, its sour sent covered by the aroma of an unearthed grave's soil. Streaks of white and black pearl race along it sides, like billowing clouds and mists. Its strings are made of tarnished silver, yet shine with a strange crimson light. The instrument is gently curled, almost like a cat's tail, and one of its ends is notched like your ear.

It can;
--Levitate and become Ethereal when you perform your specter lightness skill.
--Manifest as a cutting, slicing wind that can travel some distance, and take different forms depending on the tempo of the music played.
--Soothe, summon and rouse the dead, weakening or strengthening their hold on the mortal realm as you desire.
--Create an illusionary field of scenes drawn from your thoughts, memories and dreams. A vision that radiates cold and if you will it, mortal terror!
If the scenes continue for long enough, they begin to sap and drain the warmth and life of those enchanted by them if you allow them to.
--Send out ethereal strings that can puppet corpses and bones and make them dance or perform any movement you desire. It also works on living victims, but the strings are fragile and more of them are required to control a struggling puppet.
--Heavy. Able to communicate blunt damage.
--->Create a rotating sphere of cutting wind to raise a zone of protection around yourself from all angles.

>>5509109
Unfortunately all my character info is out of date, only some of the following are still accurate.

Huānliúxuè: The Ruler of The Great Wheel's Law: Daos of Ghosts and Grudges, Dao of Blood, Foundation Establishment Stage 3 (Focuses: Ghosts, Grudges, Lifeforce, Royalty)
Death/Ghostly Qi, Metal Qi, Pure Blood Qi.

Monu: Grand Art of Nasty Drinks, Spring Fairy Blossom Art, Core Formation Rank 2 (Focuses: Poisons, Spells, Curses)
Spiritual Roots: aligned to Water and Pure Yin. The Poison Fairy (毒药-天仙, Dúyào- tiānxiān) The Toad Princess (蟾蜍 格格, Chánchúgége), The Serpent Whose Venom Could Slay A Dragon.

Disciples:

Wusheng Siwang: Self taught law following the Dao of Wind and the Dao of justice, at Qi Condensation Rank 3.

Huili: Night Lantern Sutra[Fire Aligned Excorcism Law], at Qi Condensation Rank 3 (Focus: Speed and spells)

Chuandap: Spring Fairy Blossom Art, Sacred Winter Breath Accord, at Qi Condensation rank 3 (Focus: Spells)

Fu: Self taught law following The Dao of Grudges within vengeance and retribution, at Qi Condensation rank 4. (Focus Martial: Ferocity)

Feiqing: Ancient Deity Furnace, Lightning Messenger Technique, bottleneck at Rank 6 Qi. (Focus: Make Block)
-Has made an artifact out of Old Crooked Fang's core.

Ping: Night Lantern Sutra, self taught heresy exorcist law, at Rank 6 of the Qi Condensation stage. (Focus: Exorcism)
-Possesses the Beast core of the toad king.

Qiang: Daos of Ghosts and Grudges, entered the stage of "Entering the Ghost Courtyard" at Qi Condensation Rank Rank 6 and is half a step to Rank 7. (Focus: Stealth/Assassination/)

Hong: Mountain Shattering Hammer, nears Qi Condensation Rank 4 (Focus: Perception and Endurance)
Lanfen: The Spring Fairy Blossom Art, at Qi Condensation Rank 2 (Focus: Healing)
Liu: Pine Warden Records, nears Qi Condensation Rank 3 (Focus Longevity)

Lei: Lei

Tiexingege has achieved Qi Condensation stage, Rank 1 (Focus Martial)
Jionghuagege has achieved Qi Condensation stage, Rank 1 (Focus Spells)

>>5509263
Yeah the Dying Grudge Shield is basically the best general purpose technique of our Dao, besides healing. Also one of the kinds of abilities that could obtain some of the most broken potential evolution's. We've yet to combine it with cultivation aids, or directly accent it with other abilities. For example, using Spiteful Blood Legacy on our own refined blood (either prep[ed in pearl form, or refined from bleeding during battle) and infusing that into the Dying Grudge Shield's initial formation. It would be quite interesting to see how more deeply the grudges can root and revolt within the shield when given ample and fitting fuel.

>>5509272
You forgot to put (Lei) as Lei's focus
I really want to solve his demon problem, and find out about his ancestor in hell someday
Anyway, good job with the bookeeping anon!

>>5509272
Huanliuxue is rank 4
Fu is Rank 6
Siwang is rank 4
Lanfen is rank 4
Chuandapo is rank 5
Feiqing has broken his bottle neck (as has Ping)

Also Hong has an earth aligned spirit fruit he is "Saving for later"

Besides that, this is accurate

>>5509267
Found one more for Manuals/laws
Sacred Winter Breath Accord, A water aligned (神圣 冬季 气息 协定, Shénshèngdōngjìqìxīxiédìng) A Water aspected law focused on Defensive Spells and Purifying spells.

>>5509340
Not as far off as I thought! Thank you much Grandfather.

>>5509274
I wonder if we can combine the dying grudge shield with Scarlet healing armor to create a healing armor that sends attacks back stronger

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>>5509274
>tfw the boss your fighting gets stronger the more you damage it and starts changing attack patterns with modified techniques because of copious amounts of blood

Okay, as I said, I've ignored putting our disciples and characters in there, but this is my best attempt for the early morning.

Let me know if I missed anything.

https://pastebin.com/x5rCdZpq

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>>5509245
I thank fellow disciple for assisting me in this matter, for the good of the Sect.

>>5509621
Excellent work! The tidying up is much appreciated too.

And one more item found; The Soul of Emperor Long Tiantunri.

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>>5509431
Both would be such great bullshit to pull on a haughty Golden Core. Then there may be more dangerous versions of the technique... such as condensing and swallowing the Dying Grudge Shield after it receives an attack, to imbue it with the deepest mire of spite within us before Godzilla'ing whoever fed it the attack.

Since it's a formed shield, there should be potential to apply it more wholesale as a continuous martial technique(however long we can hold it back to take in multiple attacks), or with multiple layers, or even as a subsisting trap to lie in wait.

>>5509431
With stuff like Enmity Incarnation, Spiteful Blood Legacy, and the potential of using Blood Refinement on ourselves, we’re an incredibly irritating fighter to try and counter or predict.

>>5509995
There's also the flexible qi roots, and our currently balanced qi.
Can't exactly counter our elements

>>5509761
The next thing for Dying Grudge Shield, setting aside any attempts to create a new technique with other sources of Qi, would be to fashion it into armor for our hands and feet so we can strike with it if an opponent won’t take the bait. A practical and straightforward step in our martial development.

If we can still cast our own destructive spells through a gauntlet, have it blow back on us, then reflect onto the opponent *again* because of DGS, even better!

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>>5510028
You mean make it bounce back and forth to become stronger like so?

>>5510028
delicious

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>>5510059
Guess it's time to make a magic railgun

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>>5510079
Becoming human has turned Huan into a SCIENTIST

>>5510083
>Huan already possesses a deep understanding of medicine making
Is it time for Breaking Cat?

>>5510059
I had envisioned only one or two bounces as I expected any backblast from our techniques to only occur on the initial strike and not on the DGS reflection since that’s a focused attack.

But magic railguns or layering a weaker form of DGS on an opponent before striking to really get the exponential growth is obviously better!

>>5510162
I have portents of us opening ourselves, in degrees, to the world of cultivation as the various wars and clan conflicts continue. And being able to provide medicine, even through a secretive surrogate, that nobody else can produce will truly elevate our wealth. There is plenty to buy after all, a strong sect can never have too many good cultivation items.

>>5510201
The fact that we can -casually- go to hell for rare supplies is pretty busted in medicine making. Sure all of our stuff will turn your insides into outsides if the mixture is wrong or you're a gigantic wimp but it works like nobody's business.

On the other hand, very wary or attentive cultivators could probably smell the demonic tinge of any of that kind of medicine. That might make it hard to convince them to take it. But the purely natural stuff we can whip up is super rad, too.

>>5510395
With hell and the primordial beast lands we actually have 2 treasure troves of rare shit at our disposal.

BTW I've been thinking about how we can connect our sect better with the insect kingdoms. You guys think the ants can build a supply tunnel connecting Tie's nest with our retreat?

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Loving all the discussion and planning. Anyways, ending vote, tallying the result.

Search the dusk marshes for the newly awakened Demonic beasts you sense, deciding their safety is more important than finding the monster devouring villages:8

Plan how to get Huili his spine back and get Chuandapo to be at least somewhat less lazy :7
-Send them to deal with the swamp: 0
-Hunting/ training: 1

Investigate the Dusk marshes, and search for the culprit behind the dozen vanished villages.:2


Send the heroic students+ Siwang to investigate the swap/ Recruit the non human hopefuls:8 (Counting 59nfkyjn as supporting it, though since it would still be over half the total votes if I didn't, it would've gotten into the update anyways, since it and the Huili/ Chuandapo planning can be easily combined with searching for the swamp babies. Good plan btw!)

So You'll quickly collect the beastly children that you've sensed, to protect them from whatever the hell is happening in the dusk marshes

Return with them back to your sect, plan how to give Huili his spine back and make Chuandapo less indolent

And send your heroic human students+ Siwang into the dusk marshes to investigate the swamp and find what's behind the vanishing villages and palm sized mummies, AS WELL as recruiting any other Magical beast you missed/ were unable to find/ draw out of hiding.

Which will be the first time I can use a mechanic I've been planning for sending your disciples on missions!

How exciting.

Anyways, update will arrive shortly

>>5509621
a divine tier relic! Created before this old man's eyes! Based.

>>5509431
Fighting Huanliuxue is not a good time, unless you're a freaky crow demon

Nearly finished with the update. Its probably the largest one thus far in the quest. Loved writing the Newly born Magical beasts a bit too much, And Monu's reaction to Human Huan to!

Spoiler

Frog, Bat, Pig, Cat

>>5510747
No lions, tigers, bears? Oh my.

>>5510747
CAT!? Oh jeez

>>5510749
We're in a swamp

>>5510764
One of the most dense tiger habitats in the world is swamp/marshland.

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>>5510747
>cat
oh boy
>bat
wee

Alright. Finally done. I have spat up blood from the exertion of writing this update, which made my blood flow in reverse

Final word count =9104
Final character count= 49, 700 EXACTLY
Total post count: 18! That's two nines!

Here is some music I feel fits Huanliuxe to tide you over as I begin posting this heaven's defyingly massive update!

https://youtu.be/DtKXThAkQnk

https://youtu.be/yJX3VcDun5s

https://youtu.be/RaYhi5QRlBU

You had planned on heading straight up the river, back to Fu's village and your mountain nearby, so you could at last reveal your human form to your adoring students and mother and bask in their vast adoration of you, their honored teacher and daughter. And you had been idly day dreaming of all the compliments and praise they'd shower you in, as you stood atop the curled bow of the boat that was transporting you back home free of charge, after its owner watched you having to suffer Xia Xiaosi torturous presence and upon seeing your unenviable plight, had commanded his eldest son to give you a ride on his ship free of charge while he took the annoyance off of your hands, similarly without pay. You made a mental note the repay the upstanding boater back for his kindness and generosity, but couldn't yet figure out how to without risking running into the trash you dumped into his arms a day or two prior. Which you truly wished to avoid, and would prefer having your claws pulled out with pliers, you other near cut down to your scalp and your tail plucked clean off before you'd willingly share that dolt's company again.

However, as you pondered how to repay the old man and his son, as said son was silently and diligently piloting the boat up the river, which you truly appreciated as you enjoyed his silence as much as you did the chill of the grave and company of ghosts, something on the horizon forced you to change your plans. The Dusk marshes . Of the thousands and thousands of rivers that flowed through Chuan, only one went around it, and all others that flowed south eventually wandered through its expanse. You had been thankful that one river was also the one that connected the three sister cities and Fu's own village which had become a city in its own right.

However, as you were silently carried around it, you could clearly see the swamp and all its trees, and in the dead stillness and somber silence of night, you began to think of the little children, unable to escape the confines of that hellish place, now threatened by an unknown danger that controls the very greenery of the swamp, and bids those plants to prey upon beast and man alike in an affront against the natural order of the world and the laws of the wild.

And as you thought of those poor children, trapped with those who'd hunt them and that which seeks to devour and swallow them up whole, you could almost swear to hear whimpered cries and pleading on the humid air that crawled out of the outermost reaches of the swamp. Upon the heavy mists that crawling wind carried to the river, you could imagine ghosts and lost souls drifting mournfully, never having a chance to enjoy life or reach even a fraction of their full potential. Like so many other demonic beasts had been condemned to die young, just to serve as stepping stones and raw materials for other daoists.
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>>5510775

Feeling your face contorting into an ugly sort of grimace, you bowed you head, immediately realizing your duty as ruler of all beasts to rescue those lost youths from the unfortunate circumstances of their birth and the hidden danger lurking in the shadows around them. You could sense them still, even now when you stood miles away from those dreadful swamplands. The boat rocked as you hopped from it to the shore, causing the rower to gasp and push up his straw hat in awed disbelief, even as water splashed over the sides of the little rowing boat.

"Lady! Were you going! That way's dangerous! No sane man goes into the swamp without a party and guide!" He cried out, with misplaced worry for your wellbeing rattling his otherwise stern and strong voice "Even bandits avoid those swamps and their dwellers! Its a wicked, cursed place!"

"I am aware" You giggle, as you hop towards the swamps, bouncing from rock to rock, arms held out to the side as you plotted a course to the edge of the marshes, without having to dirty your feet overly too much. Though, they'd be much more soiled when you traveled through the swamp with all the mud, insects, slime and muck inside it. Just imagining getting all that filth caught in your silken coat was enough to for you to decide not to return to your natural form.

Sure you could float above all that grime with your specter lightness skill, but it could still splash up and dirty your fur. And the thought of having to lick that nastiness off of yourself, was enough to make your stomach twist on itself and sour. Scrubbing it off skin was a much more pleasant alternative than having to taste it

"Are you crazy? That place is rotten! Its bad down to its very soil! If the muck doesn't get you, and if the beasts don't, you'll end up dead by the sickness and plague in its waters! Miss! Please listen to me" He cries out to you, but you ignore him, humming a playful little song as you continue hopping between stones. Soon, the river and the boat on it vanished from view and those shouted warnings became naught but whispers on the wind.

Whispers soon drowned out by the incessant buzzing of mosquitos and flies that gathered in clouds around the boundary of the marshlands. Easily the most unpleasant sort of welcoming party. But, you scared away the vermin before they could harry you, bite you or suck your blood by flashing your Imperial Graveyard aura. The pulse of Ghostly Yin Qi, the energy of the dead and dying, was enough to scare the vermin away or else kill them all immediately. You truly did not care for such small lives, after all. Even if you had two younger sisters who were insects themselves. They weren't vermin, after all!

Smiling happily, you continued to skip from one stone to the other, then up onto corded and curled roots that rose from the mire below, then up onto the hanging branches above, trying to keep from stepping into the muck and mud for as long as possible.
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Dirty feet might be preferable to soiled fur, but it was still unpleasant enough you'd avoid it for as long as was possible!

'Luckily, I've been through this fenceless pigsty once before' You thought as you bounded between branches nearly as wide as your natural from from shoulder to shoulder 'So I know my way, at least by landmarks. It's a good thing I was smart enough to make notes of wherever I sensed my fellow beasts, or I'd be wandering in this maze of mangroves and willows for ages!"

You shuddered, gritting your teeth and clenching your jaw as you imagined how terrible that would've been. You'd be bitten all over by bugs, hunted by leeches and certainly be so ragged, worn and covered in filth you'd seem like more like a diseased alley cat than the princess you were! Shivering all over, you shook that nightmarish vision from your thoughts, forcefully, until you got a bit dizzy to make sure it wouldn't come crawling back out of the grave you shoved it in.

And once you mind was serene and clean of unsettling sights such as a ragged, pitiful Huanliuxue, you headed immediately towards the nearest presence of Primordial Beast essence.

Which lead you to a still pond of clear water, surrounded by what seemed to your eyes to be a council of little, brightly colored frogs, singing and croaking the night away around the limpid waters. Blinking, you sat crouched on a branch of one of the trees surrounding the clearing that contained the village of frogs, and tilted your head curiously.

Closing your eyes, you returned to your true form, and hopped down onto the pale, green white grass swaying around the pound and stalked around it.

"Hmm. Hmm. You certainly have much to learn junior, if you chosen a hiding place as conspicuous as this" You criticized as you sat yourself down on the edge of the pond "Even a blind man could tell this was the lair of a demonic beast"

The water rippled, and two gem like eyes peeked out of its surface, colored like amethyst and tiger's eye, crackled and spotted, the flesh surrounding them was mottled, Turquoise and Black on the back and beneath the waters you could see their legs were bright orange, with pink webbing between their toes.

"There are other creatures that can speak?" The poison dart frog, the size of a medium sized pig croaked, sounding more amazed than cautious. What a naïve little creature he was. He spoke in an endearingly simple countryside dialect, and with rumbling, croaking accent "I tried training the others, but all they've learned how to do is sing. Ribbit, Ribbit"

"That in itself is quite the accomplishment. The only beast I know who commands his kind has only taught them to heel" You giggle, poking your nose to just above the water "Making an orchestra of frogs, is quite the talent, little brother"

"It is? Ribbit ribbit" He said, literally inflating with pride, which made you giggle again.
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