Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)

Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
[X] Grab the ghost-child-whatever, grab the young spirit and run (50% success, injury to party based on degree of failure. Additional benefits for Su Ling on success.)
 
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[] Grab the ghost-child-whatever, grab the young spirit and run (50% success, injury to party based on degree of failure. Additional benefits for Su Ling on success.)

Ling Qi's Child Collection Protection Agency to the rescue!
 
[ ] Grab the ghost-child-whatever, grab the young spirit and run (50% success, injury to party based on degree of failure. Additional benefits for Su Ling on success.)

We can't not risk it for the cute little biscuit.
 
[X] Grab the ghost-child-whatever, grab the young spirit and run (50% success, injury to party based on degree of failure. Additional benefits for Su Ling on success.)

Ling Qi, Professional Kidnapper, from the Cai's Child Protection Services.
 
That's what we're for, she takes what she's owed and gives back the prettiest gifts! But they give us back. We're all sacrifice. And it makes her strong."
Oh, so that's how she gamed the system. An old god denied their old rites (because the Hui are bastards) changes over to predating on the populace, the Ministries established by An should have hunted her down already, because there's no way she could continue growing with her hunts. But this, this cheats the means of sacrifice and would allow her to maintain a significant growth curve, meaning that unless the Ministry of Spiritual Affairs had a high level cultivator to deploy for the hunt to completely lock her down, the fox would be capable of escaping at the very least, and couldn't be assured to remain of a static rank.
 
The little cut bled, and the trail looked not unlike a crescent.
Hm, The bloody moon sends their regards.

The outcome of this vote is clear as day. I would vote to try and steal adopt save the child even if it would only be a 10 % Chance with the "only" risk beeing injury.

[X] Grab the ghost-child-whatever, grab the young spirit and run (50% success, injury to party based on degree of failure. Additional benefits for Su Ling on success.)
 
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Ultimately I think this update really shows us where LQ and Su Ling's ideals come together.

It's not really about whether or not they succeed. It's about whether or not they want to be the kind of people who try to be better.
 
Also lol just realized Su Ling was a crop that was planted to be harvested. Like raising spirit cattle or leaving boar populations at a point where you can hunt them for materials every year. Once you hit third realm there isn't much a difference. God the implication of cultivation always deliver.
 
[] Grab the ghost-child-whatever, grab the young spirit and run (50% success, injury to party based on degree of failure. Additional benefits for Su Ling on success.)
 
Can someone tell me if I have Omake points? I think I have 1 but no idea how to check.

Anyways, if I do have 1, then I'll spend it here.
 
Can someone explain the mechanism here? Mama fox hunts but technically fulfils her spirit pact by giving away her children as due recompense knowing that those children will be rejected so she gets to consume them. She's having her cake and eating it right?
 
Mmm, tying back to the previous update, this suggests further things about the kind of spirit Su Ling's mother is?

Why would children being abused and mistreated work as metaphorical sacrifices to her? Presumably the villagers aren't offering them up in hope she'll take them and leave them alone. Instead they're lashing out, punishing them, attacking the demon. And this works as a sacrifice, perhaps recalling the betrayal and destruction of the old fox goddess? She grows stronger from their persecution, from their disavowal of the relationship between fox and man, from betrayal of family...

At the same time, her children are also their children, so she is performing an ironic inversion of the persecution, making it so as they persecute her, they persecute themselves...

🤔
 
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