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- Latin America
Well, at least we don't have more salsa of bandits.
Should be Humorous.
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Broken Adventure
- Thread starter theaceoffire
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But is it an act of ninja if the person manages to quote the source before it's altered? 🤔
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Good point I suppose... part of the issue is the alert letting people load the page before I can fix it. Ah well.
Fragnostic
Cheshire
- Location
- Neko City
So... the humerus shirt might be back? The bone shirt?
Just realized Adam had a shoulder loli during that encounter.
Truly, he is a Kenpachi. He had the "his reiatsu subdues his opponents" thing too!
Just realized Adam had a shoulder loli during that encounter.
Truly, he is a Kenpachi. He had the "his reiatsu subdues his opponents" thing too!
Zo-Kel
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- Location
- Meropis
Huh, you would think Binding energy would be implosive instead of explosive. Though...nukes require both fission and fusion so maybe another element is acting as the trigger.
Quixotic_being
Fulfilling every contract to the letter
Now I want to watch the two have an epic battle and be cheered on by their loli disciples in "Murder Hobo with Moral, One"
Arc 2: Who wants a pet?
- Location
- Here
Thankfully Adam had gotten little Tianshi her own spatial ring, as uh... yeah, he bought her a lot of clothing.
Both for now, as she grows, and so forth. With duplicates.
Her pout was adorable.
Anyway, the trio made their ways to the mercenary guild and prepared to enter.
Adam hummed. "Right, you two hid your rings?"
A couple of nods. The girls had necklaces to store their rings on, while Adam kept his on his finger... being targeted would theoretically keep those two safer.
He glanced to the left. "And you guys are hiding, correct?"
The ten guards looked depressed, but nodded that they were trying to hide themselves.
Adam grinned, and turned to the open doorway. "Well, let's go say hello then!"
The building was huge! A row of counters with assistants on the left, a bar on the right, further back were areas for clients to wait, spaces for people hoping to be hired, and so on. In the FAR back of the massive strucutre was another exit, with various spirit beasts being held in stable stalls to be used as beasts of burden, to pull caravans, or to act as mounts for owners or their customers.
And uh... that was a problem.
Cultivators, as Adam had noticed several times, were almost spiritually blind. Barely able to detect the energy in the air, only just able to judge someone's cultivation level. To them, A Fifth, Fourth, and Second Order Warrior had just walked into the room, the many hidden guards unnoticed.
Spirit beasts however were closer to nature, to their base instincts. They didn't judge spiritual networks to determine strength, they could detect spiritual energy directly.
When Adam stepped into the room, every beast froze. The constant buzz of whistles, roars, creaks and groans all fell silent. As one, EVERY BEAST turned to stare at the child.
Or more accurately, the power stored within Rockette.
The Elder's bird hadn't acted like this... then again, that bird had probably seen some serious stuff in the past. These creatures are unlikely to even meet a high level Xiantian Warrior, much less a Saint or whatever Adam's Shard felt like.
Conversations paused, then stopped. Arguments took a break. Men and women sweet talking each other turned to find the threat.
Adam waved. "Good morning everyone!"
Silence.
...Tough crowd.
Shrugging, Adam walked to the nearest desk, ignoring the crowds moving away from him and the slightly frantic attempts at spirit beasts to retreat further into their various stalls. "Good morning! I and my party are looking to join a Caravan, if it is heading in roughly the right direction."
The unlucky woman who didn't look busy enough in time carefully moved with caution. "I... am unsure if you will be welcome, Young Master. Caravans require beasts of burden to move their products... and you seem to have made an unfavorable impression on the ones in here."
Adam nodded, unknowingly helping the woman to relax when he didn't react badly to her opinion. "I get that, and it may be an issue... but on the other hand." He pointed at the creatures. "If TRAINED spirit beasts act like this, how do you think WILD spirit beasts will behave?"
A pause, as the many eavesdroppers considered having a child along that made beasts flee in terror instead of attacking in swarms.
Several people ran off to inform their caravan leaders... that ability alone may be WORTH the annoyance while traveling.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
The Guild Master watched from his hidden room. "Well, now we know why all the beasts have been acting odd these last few days."
One of the more powerful mercenary leaders hummed. "I can detect a few guards of high strength... which means that there are likely one or two I can NOT detect, knowing my luck." He nodded. "My people won't be accepting him. SOMETHING odd is connected with that child, and that always turns out messy in my opinion."
The Guild Master snorted. "Look at the messengers being sent out, I'm sure that group won't lack travel options. Still, no reason not to build up a bit of good will..." He waved a servent over. "Have their fees waived, and offer good service and a meal or two." He ignored the woman's bow as she exited the room. "If I don't know what is going on, I want the people involved to think nice things about me. No reason for risks."
The leader watched the stables. "Even the Stage Four and Stage Five beasts are wary of the child. I better go ensure my people don't waste their lives trying to push the kid around or something."
A fine wine was being carefully poured for the waiting Guild Master. "Better be quick, I won't have the death of your men messing up my facilities. Cleaning blood is infuriatingly tricky sometimes."
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
They were on the road!
The path to adventure, the wild expanse of nature! Clouds in the blue sky, grass everywhere!
...It was surprisingly boring.
Adam's party was on the last Caravan wagon, which had turned into a surprising boon for the entire troupe as the various beasts were VERY EAGER to go faster and escape his presence. They even had to take a few extra breaks at first to prevent injuries, but at least the animals were motivated to GET AWAY FROM THE THING BEHIND THEM.
Ahem.
Little Tianshi got bored within minutes of the actual journey starting (This was some sort of textile supply Caravan, had cloth bolts, raw materials, and tools), and Sister Quan wasn't far behind.
Because, even motivated with being followed by a Qi monster like Adam, this travel method was slow. Adam could walk faster, probably.
The main benefits was having guides that knew the local dangers and pathways, being able to relax, and having people to talk to along the way. Well, talk to if they were not convinced that Adam was secretly some high level Spirit Beast in human form. Again, this was very possible. Seventh Grade and higher Beasts got very intelligent.
That said, long stretches of watching the same terrain pass inch by inch gave plenty of free time.
Adam turned the rock with odd patterns on its side. "Nope."
Sister Quan blinked. "But it looks so mysterious!"
He sighed. "The rock itself IS old, but the carvings were all done within a month or so and then aged with chemicals to make it look ancient. If we hadn't scared that guy out of his pants I'm sure he would have pawned this off on someone for a profit, then left to go make more." Quite the clever gang leader, really.
Little Tianshi held her hands out and Adam passed it over. "It still LOOKS awesome Master!"
He nodded with a grin. "I know! I'm tempted to go back and interrogate that guy and see if he can teach me how to make squiggles look this cool without actually binding to any stray concepts. I know I am stealing this stuff the next time I add surface gibberish to Formation tools I make." Half the reason Adam didn't bother to try and recreate advanced technology here? Lots of tiny parts may invoke dozens of concepts, making most machines time bombs. Which could ALSO be useful, just not in the intended way. That this odd pattern DIDN'T attract various concepts was very interesting.
The wagon currently being ridden by the group was modified by Adam, after he bought all the contents within from the caravan. Shoved all that junk into his ring, pulled out some metal, wood, and cotton, and got to work.
The framework was now reinforced with the stronger and higher quality metal, he created a second bottom structure inside the wagon with some basic springs to reduce jostling and jolting, the inside surface and walls now had used some of the purchased cloth bolts and Adam's cotton to form protective pillows over most exposed areas and curtains to keep things (Light and bugs) out of the way.
Externally, it was visually identical to the other wagons... internally, the trio was slowly examining the random things Adam had bought from the Sect Store while the ten Guards kept an eye open outside.
Sister Quan lifted one of the spare space rings. "Why buy so many storage rings anyway?"
Adam glanced at the pile. "They are useful, and I want to tear a few apart and see if I can duplicate or improve them." 'Research' had suggested he wait till they were closer to their destination, as a few rings were going to explode in the process of study no matter WHAT he did. Best get away from witnesses. "The plants on the other hand will have to stay in storage so they won't die or something. If you notice any more seeds or saplings or whatever, let me know so I can move it all into this ring over here."
Tianshi hummed as she examined a pile of Talismans. "I've heard of some of these, but never thought I would get to touch one myself. I think this one creates a shield if someone tries to attack you?"
He glanced over. "Ah, that one creates a bubble of lightning. Meant more for close quarters offense than defense, although it would move most metallic weapons off course and could save your life."
It was... relaxing. Dump a pile of stuff, slowly sort them into various rings in a way that mostly made sense. Better than riding at the front of the wagon and watching all the various spirit beasts flee in terror and the grass just... sit there. Growing. Also, less dust in here.
As mentioned before, this Plane was BIG. Traveling at high speed in one direction could have a Cultivator spend one's entire life without finding anything, if you were unlucky. There were even spatial gates and stuff to jump massive distances when large Sect competitions occurred, or for those from more powerful areas to use when they looked for outside students to bring home. Higher Realm Cultivators could fly or even teleport of course, but he had very little data on that topic so far.
Point was, it was going to be weeks before reaching the next town. That was... just something Adam had to accept. At least until he desigined some sort of vehicle to ride or fly at higher speeds or something. Or found a spirit beast that wasn't terrified of the raw power at his disposal.
Sheesh, if creatures acted like this NOW, how badly would they react when he hit Xiantian or Saint Realm? Hopefully they would be so overwhelmed by the stored amount that it would roll over to 'Don`t Care' again. Or they would have difficulty noticing WHERE the power was stored, or maybe he could hide the energy better... or something.
Having a flying spirit beast did sound neat though. Or learn to do it himself.
Then again, what were the chances a guy with a Martial Spirit rock could fly?
'Ding.'
Adam rolled his eyes. Well, yes, EVERY Saint could abuse that space/time ability they gained to fly or float or whatever. He meant a more natural flight.
...Should he be concerned that Rockette was looking interested?
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Sister Tianshi tried to calm down on the custom cushion Da had created in the wagon. It was soft, almost TOO soft and relaxing... trying to meditate and focus on Cultivation was risking her falling over and taking a nap.
Reaching Second Order Warrior had resulted in several changes. Her Betel Nut had grown slightly in her heart... but more importantly, her roots had expanded. The older roots had several lines grow more thick and powerful, while a much thinner network of root hairs had connected her 'spiritual network' (as Da called it) even closer to her Cells.
Cultivating now made her body feel refreshed. And even when NOT cultivating, being exposed to heavy amounts of energy allowed that power to filter its way into his heart and convert into more Green energy for her use. Which was good.
She still followed the 'Essential Cultivation Method' of course... but the meridian routes were already established and being supported by her root network. Forget having to concentrate, she was COMPLETELY able to advance her foundation by just shoving energy into her body to be redirected by her Martial Spirit. Her discussions with Adam about his next creation however, the 'Houtian Realm Fourth Order Essential Cultivation Method', showed that her roots were already there too... just needing energy build up to stabilize the routes.
Then again, Da said it was fine, so it was fine. It also saved her when she went on the world's worst power high and embarrassed herself half to death. The memories were STILL randomly popping up over time.
Oh god, had she sucked her thumb back then? Please no, that would be SO not mature.
Right, back to cultivation.
She didn't have her energy circle set up, but Adam was able to just recreate the effect thanks to how strong he was now... if anything, it was easier than before as she could just open her network and pull in the raw power for her roots to work with. The downside with having so much automation to her advancement was the ease of being distracted. Or just mentally wandering away on various odd subjects.
When it got too bad Sister Tianshi spent free time walking her older Sect Member through her own attempts at applying 'Gentle Rebirth Body Cultivation Technique' (Version 2.3218), with some success. Sister Quan's progress was MUCH slower than her own, and there was a few issues where the impurities expelled almost overflowed the small tub Adam had provided (Where had he even PURCHASED that? Or was it hand made?).
Thankfully, being at the end of the caravan meant it was easy to get rid of the sludge and keep the smells away from the others.
Still, they kept Adam out of the area. It was embarrassing enough to be covered in gross slime without a guy being involved, even if Sister Quan had been there when Adam had been spewing filth everywhere.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
His eye pulsed.
...Someone WASN'T fleeing in terror. Or to be more accurate, something.
A light tap of the foot had Adam flung to the side by a dozen or so feet, his movements empowered by his Battle Qi even as he internally verified that 'Recursion' was activated. Another tap and he was further into the rocks... and at the creature.
...It was a tiny blue lizard. Very tiny. Like... pencil sized torso and a couple more long.
So. It wasn't so much a very brave monster waiting in ambush, but more a very weary, thirsty, hungry, unable to move lizard.
Aww, it had cute little whiskers.
That's it, he was gonna keep it.
Carefully lifting the thing from the odd herb it was wrapped around, Adam moved back to the still moving wagon. "Little Tianshi, could you please put some water in a small bowl? Also some food." Rockette had vanished from wherever she had been and appeared on his shoulder. Energy check... wow, that is pretty strong. Nature based energies. "Best prepare some vegetarian snacks I think."
Sister Quan blinked as he passed her. "What did you find?"
He carefully held up the lizard. "Look! He's got little whiskers!" It was a he, right? Adam didn't check.
Her eyes grew large. "It is ADORABLE! Look at those little feet!"
Adam moved into the back area of the wagon... and Tianshi was cultivating away, dead to the world. Her hair had settled down into a rich black like her Martial Spirit's roots, the lucky girl not glowing like Adam or covered in tattoos or scars. "Little Tianshi?"
She blinked. "Ah?" And sat up straight. "NO! I'm awake Da!... I mean Master." Aww, the blush.
He held his hands forward. "Look what I found! A whisker lizard!"
Her now green eyes blinked. "A what?" Then she focused. "Oh! Oh it's precious! Can I hold it?"
...But ADAM wanted to hold him! With his widdle legs and whiskers.
Damn it, he was going to have to be the mature one here, wasn't he? "Of course, girl. Now be careful, he is very weary and we need to be careful when feeding it so it doesn't hurt itself."
Maybe... sigh, maybe he should give it to her. Because he was too manly to have a cute little pet, but his girl was old enough for some responsibility. Eventually.
Halfway through carefully handing over the mostly lethargic lizard, it suddenly glowed bright green... and vanished.
...What?
Tianshi was even more confused. "Did... Did I drop it?"
Adam was... concerned. "I don't think so? Don't move for a moment." Rockette?
'Ding.'
...Huh. "Can you show me your right arm?"
The girl's confusion turned to... well even more confusion as the two examined her new bright green tattoo of a lengthy whiskered lizard that was wrapped around her right arm from her shoulder down to her wrist.
...Huh.
She blinked. "He says he is from the East. And that he wants to be my partner because I represent Spring."
Adam suddenly cursed. "Sister Quan is going to blame me for this, isn't she?"
The curtain snapped open, a suspicious Sister suddenly glaring at them. "Blame you for WHAT, exactly?"
He gave a wide, innocent smile. "I got our little Tianshi a pet! And I think it won't need to be potty trained?"
Her gaze swept the room... but was less fierce. "I assume the cute whisker lizard? Well that's not so bad. Did you set up a cage for it?"
He casually pushed Tianshi behind him. "Sort of! He won't wander away and will be easy to keep clean and I certainly didn't accidentally give a tattoo to the little one and I am going to shut up now."
Yeah, he was going to get blamed for this.
Both for now, as she grows, and so forth. With duplicates.
Her pout was adorable.
Anyway, the trio made their ways to the mercenary guild and prepared to enter.
Adam hummed. "Right, you two hid your rings?"
A couple of nods. The girls had necklaces to store their rings on, while Adam kept his on his finger... being targeted would theoretically keep those two safer.
He glanced to the left. "And you guys are hiding, correct?"
The ten guards looked depressed, but nodded that they were trying to hide themselves.
Adam grinned, and turned to the open doorway. "Well, let's go say hello then!"
The building was huge! A row of counters with assistants on the left, a bar on the right, further back were areas for clients to wait, spaces for people hoping to be hired, and so on. In the FAR back of the massive strucutre was another exit, with various spirit beasts being held in stable stalls to be used as beasts of burden, to pull caravans, or to act as mounts for owners or their customers.
And uh... that was a problem.
Cultivators, as Adam had noticed several times, were almost spiritually blind. Barely able to detect the energy in the air, only just able to judge someone's cultivation level. To them, A Fifth, Fourth, and Second Order Warrior had just walked into the room, the many hidden guards unnoticed.
Spirit beasts however were closer to nature, to their base instincts. They didn't judge spiritual networks to determine strength, they could detect spiritual energy directly.
When Adam stepped into the room, every beast froze. The constant buzz of whistles, roars, creaks and groans all fell silent. As one, EVERY BEAST turned to stare at the child.
Or more accurately, the power stored within Rockette.
The Elder's bird hadn't acted like this... then again, that bird had probably seen some serious stuff in the past. These creatures are unlikely to even meet a high level Xiantian Warrior, much less a Saint or whatever Adam's Shard felt like.
Conversations paused, then stopped. Arguments took a break. Men and women sweet talking each other turned to find the threat.
Adam waved. "Good morning everyone!"
Silence.
...Tough crowd.
Shrugging, Adam walked to the nearest desk, ignoring the crowds moving away from him and the slightly frantic attempts at spirit beasts to retreat further into their various stalls. "Good morning! I and my party are looking to join a Caravan, if it is heading in roughly the right direction."
The unlucky woman who didn't look busy enough in time carefully moved with caution. "I... am unsure if you will be welcome, Young Master. Caravans require beasts of burden to move their products... and you seem to have made an unfavorable impression on the ones in here."
Adam nodded, unknowingly helping the woman to relax when he didn't react badly to her opinion. "I get that, and it may be an issue... but on the other hand." He pointed at the creatures. "If TRAINED spirit beasts act like this, how do you think WILD spirit beasts will behave?"
A pause, as the many eavesdroppers considered having a child along that made beasts flee in terror instead of attacking in swarms.
Several people ran off to inform their caravan leaders... that ability alone may be WORTH the annoyance while traveling.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
The Guild Master watched from his hidden room. "Well, now we know why all the beasts have been acting odd these last few days."
One of the more powerful mercenary leaders hummed. "I can detect a few guards of high strength... which means that there are likely one or two I can NOT detect, knowing my luck." He nodded. "My people won't be accepting him. SOMETHING odd is connected with that child, and that always turns out messy in my opinion."
The Guild Master snorted. "Look at the messengers being sent out, I'm sure that group won't lack travel options. Still, no reason not to build up a bit of good will..." He waved a servent over. "Have their fees waived, and offer good service and a meal or two." He ignored the woman's bow as she exited the room. "If I don't know what is going on, I want the people involved to think nice things about me. No reason for risks."
The leader watched the stables. "Even the Stage Four and Stage Five beasts are wary of the child. I better go ensure my people don't waste their lives trying to push the kid around or something."
A fine wine was being carefully poured for the waiting Guild Master. "Better be quick, I won't have the death of your men messing up my facilities. Cleaning blood is infuriatingly tricky sometimes."
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
They were on the road!
The path to adventure, the wild expanse of nature! Clouds in the blue sky, grass everywhere!
...It was surprisingly boring.
Adam's party was on the last Caravan wagon, which had turned into a surprising boon for the entire troupe as the various beasts were VERY EAGER to go faster and escape his presence. They even had to take a few extra breaks at first to prevent injuries, but at least the animals were motivated to GET AWAY FROM THE THING BEHIND THEM.
Ahem.
Little Tianshi got bored within minutes of the actual journey starting (This was some sort of textile supply Caravan, had cloth bolts, raw materials, and tools), and Sister Quan wasn't far behind.
Because, even motivated with being followed by a Qi monster like Adam, this travel method was slow. Adam could walk faster, probably.
The main benefits was having guides that knew the local dangers and pathways, being able to relax, and having people to talk to along the way. Well, talk to if they were not convinced that Adam was secretly some high level Spirit Beast in human form. Again, this was very possible. Seventh Grade and higher Beasts got very intelligent.
That said, long stretches of watching the same terrain pass inch by inch gave plenty of free time.
Adam turned the rock with odd patterns on its side. "Nope."
Sister Quan blinked. "But it looks so mysterious!"
He sighed. "The rock itself IS old, but the carvings were all done within a month or so and then aged with chemicals to make it look ancient. If we hadn't scared that guy out of his pants I'm sure he would have pawned this off on someone for a profit, then left to go make more." Quite the clever gang leader, really.
Little Tianshi held her hands out and Adam passed it over. "It still LOOKS awesome Master!"
He nodded with a grin. "I know! I'm tempted to go back and interrogate that guy and see if he can teach me how to make squiggles look this cool without actually binding to any stray concepts. I know I am stealing this stuff the next time I add surface gibberish to Formation tools I make." Half the reason Adam didn't bother to try and recreate advanced technology here? Lots of tiny parts may invoke dozens of concepts, making most machines time bombs. Which could ALSO be useful, just not in the intended way. That this odd pattern DIDN'T attract various concepts was very interesting.
The wagon currently being ridden by the group was modified by Adam, after he bought all the contents within from the caravan. Shoved all that junk into his ring, pulled out some metal, wood, and cotton, and got to work.
The framework was now reinforced with the stronger and higher quality metal, he created a second bottom structure inside the wagon with some basic springs to reduce jostling and jolting, the inside surface and walls now had used some of the purchased cloth bolts and Adam's cotton to form protective pillows over most exposed areas and curtains to keep things (Light and bugs) out of the way.
Externally, it was visually identical to the other wagons... internally, the trio was slowly examining the random things Adam had bought from the Sect Store while the ten Guards kept an eye open outside.
Sister Quan lifted one of the spare space rings. "Why buy so many storage rings anyway?"
Adam glanced at the pile. "They are useful, and I want to tear a few apart and see if I can duplicate or improve them." 'Research' had suggested he wait till they were closer to their destination, as a few rings were going to explode in the process of study no matter WHAT he did. Best get away from witnesses. "The plants on the other hand will have to stay in storage so they won't die or something. If you notice any more seeds or saplings or whatever, let me know so I can move it all into this ring over here."
Tianshi hummed as she examined a pile of Talismans. "I've heard of some of these, but never thought I would get to touch one myself. I think this one creates a shield if someone tries to attack you?"
He glanced over. "Ah, that one creates a bubble of lightning. Meant more for close quarters offense than defense, although it would move most metallic weapons off course and could save your life."
It was... relaxing. Dump a pile of stuff, slowly sort them into various rings in a way that mostly made sense. Better than riding at the front of the wagon and watching all the various spirit beasts flee in terror and the grass just... sit there. Growing. Also, less dust in here.
As mentioned before, this Plane was BIG. Traveling at high speed in one direction could have a Cultivator spend one's entire life without finding anything, if you were unlucky. There were even spatial gates and stuff to jump massive distances when large Sect competitions occurred, or for those from more powerful areas to use when they looked for outside students to bring home. Higher Realm Cultivators could fly or even teleport of course, but he had very little data on that topic so far.
Point was, it was going to be weeks before reaching the next town. That was... just something Adam had to accept. At least until he desigined some sort of vehicle to ride or fly at higher speeds or something. Or found a spirit beast that wasn't terrified of the raw power at his disposal.
Sheesh, if creatures acted like this NOW, how badly would they react when he hit Xiantian or Saint Realm? Hopefully they would be so overwhelmed by the stored amount that it would roll over to 'Don`t Care' again. Or they would have difficulty noticing WHERE the power was stored, or maybe he could hide the energy better... or something.
Having a flying spirit beast did sound neat though. Or learn to do it himself.
Then again, what were the chances a guy with a Martial Spirit rock could fly?
'Ding.'
Adam rolled his eyes. Well, yes, EVERY Saint could abuse that space/time ability they gained to fly or float or whatever. He meant a more natural flight.
...Should he be concerned that Rockette was looking interested?
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Sister Tianshi tried to calm down on the custom cushion Da had created in the wagon. It was soft, almost TOO soft and relaxing... trying to meditate and focus on Cultivation was risking her falling over and taking a nap.
Reaching Second Order Warrior had resulted in several changes. Her Betel Nut had grown slightly in her heart... but more importantly, her roots had expanded. The older roots had several lines grow more thick and powerful, while a much thinner network of root hairs had connected her 'spiritual network' (as Da called it) even closer to her Cells.
Cultivating now made her body feel refreshed. And even when NOT cultivating, being exposed to heavy amounts of energy allowed that power to filter its way into his heart and convert into more Green energy for her use. Which was good.
She still followed the 'Essential Cultivation Method' of course... but the meridian routes were already established and being supported by her root network. Forget having to concentrate, she was COMPLETELY able to advance her foundation by just shoving energy into her body to be redirected by her Martial Spirit. Her discussions with Adam about his next creation however, the 'Houtian Realm Fourth Order Essential Cultivation Method', showed that her roots were already there too... just needing energy build up to stabilize the routes.
Then again, Da said it was fine, so it was fine. It also saved her when she went on the world's worst power high and embarrassed herself half to death. The memories were STILL randomly popping up over time.
Oh god, had she sucked her thumb back then? Please no, that would be SO not mature.
Right, back to cultivation.
She didn't have her energy circle set up, but Adam was able to just recreate the effect thanks to how strong he was now... if anything, it was easier than before as she could just open her network and pull in the raw power for her roots to work with. The downside with having so much automation to her advancement was the ease of being distracted. Or just mentally wandering away on various odd subjects.
When it got too bad Sister Tianshi spent free time walking her older Sect Member through her own attempts at applying 'Gentle Rebirth Body Cultivation Technique' (Version 2.3218), with some success. Sister Quan's progress was MUCH slower than her own, and there was a few issues where the impurities expelled almost overflowed the small tub Adam had provided (Where had he even PURCHASED that? Or was it hand made?).
Thankfully, being at the end of the caravan meant it was easy to get rid of the sludge and keep the smells away from the others.
Still, they kept Adam out of the area. It was embarrassing enough to be covered in gross slime without a guy being involved, even if Sister Quan had been there when Adam had been spewing filth everywhere.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
His eye pulsed.
...Someone WASN'T fleeing in terror. Or to be more accurate, something.
A light tap of the foot had Adam flung to the side by a dozen or so feet, his movements empowered by his Battle Qi even as he internally verified that 'Recursion' was activated. Another tap and he was further into the rocks... and at the creature.
...It was a tiny blue lizard. Very tiny. Like... pencil sized torso and a couple more long.
So. It wasn't so much a very brave monster waiting in ambush, but more a very weary, thirsty, hungry, unable to move lizard.
Aww, it had cute little whiskers.
That's it, he was gonna keep it.
Carefully lifting the thing from the odd herb it was wrapped around, Adam moved back to the still moving wagon. "Little Tianshi, could you please put some water in a small bowl? Also some food." Rockette had vanished from wherever she had been and appeared on his shoulder. Energy check... wow, that is pretty strong. Nature based energies. "Best prepare some vegetarian snacks I think."
Sister Quan blinked as he passed her. "What did you find?"
He carefully held up the lizard. "Look! He's got little whiskers!" It was a he, right? Adam didn't check.
Her eyes grew large. "It is ADORABLE! Look at those little feet!"
Adam moved into the back area of the wagon... and Tianshi was cultivating away, dead to the world. Her hair had settled down into a rich black like her Martial Spirit's roots, the lucky girl not glowing like Adam or covered in tattoos or scars. "Little Tianshi?"
She blinked. "Ah?" And sat up straight. "NO! I'm awake Da!... I mean Master." Aww, the blush.
He held his hands forward. "Look what I found! A whisker lizard!"
Her now green eyes blinked. "A what?" Then she focused. "Oh! Oh it's precious! Can I hold it?"
...But ADAM wanted to hold him! With his widdle legs and whiskers.
Damn it, he was going to have to be the mature one here, wasn't he? "Of course, girl. Now be careful, he is very weary and we need to be careful when feeding it so it doesn't hurt itself."
Maybe... sigh, maybe he should give it to her. Because he was too manly to have a cute little pet, but his girl was old enough for some responsibility. Eventually.
Halfway through carefully handing over the mostly lethargic lizard, it suddenly glowed bright green... and vanished.
...What?
Tianshi was even more confused. "Did... Did I drop it?"
Adam was... concerned. "I don't think so? Don't move for a moment." Rockette?
'Ding.'
...Huh. "Can you show me your right arm?"
The girl's confusion turned to... well even more confusion as the two examined her new bright green tattoo of a lengthy whiskered lizard that was wrapped around her right arm from her shoulder down to her wrist.
...Huh.
She blinked. "He says he is from the East. And that he wants to be my partner because I represent Spring."
Adam suddenly cursed. "Sister Quan is going to blame me for this, isn't she?"
The curtain snapped open, a suspicious Sister suddenly glaring at them. "Blame you for WHAT, exactly?"
He gave a wide, innocent smile. "I got our little Tianshi a pet! And I think it won't need to be potty trained?"
Her gaze swept the room... but was less fierce. "I assume the cute whisker lizard? Well that's not so bad. Did you set up a cage for it?"
He casually pushed Tianshi behind him. "Sort of! He won't wander away and will be easy to keep clean and I certainly didn't accidentally give a tattoo to the little one and I am going to shut up now."
Yeah, he was going to get blamed for this.
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Thats an interesting reason for why advanced technology would not work that makes sense and helps sell some of the differences between realms, even if its a subtle thing. Also gives a nice solid reason for what we would consider technological stagnation, as local physics would not support our version of advanced technology. Instead, they got formations/mystic items to do the bulk of what we would consider technology.
And needless to say, I'm loving how your making a modicum of common sense a part of most leaders. As well as the contrast between Adam being casually terrifying to outsiders... while adorable with his little apprentice. I'm actually curious about the lizard, and his adorable disciple represents Spring... what would some aware beast say Adam represents?
And needless to say, I'm loving how your making a modicum of common sense a part of most leaders. As well as the contrast between Adam being casually terrifying to outsiders... while adorable with his little apprentice. I'm actually curious about the lizard, and his adorable disciple represents Spring... what would some aware beast say Adam represents?
- Location
- Dhaka, Bangladesh
I was thinking more along the lines of a summoner of some type. Continuing the whole senjutsu/summons theme ala naruto
- Location
- Alabama
I would not be surprised if adam represented fire or some concept of change and refinement but what is more likely is he just represents Power, Pure Painfully Unshakable Power. Refined through brute force like a mountain made into a sledgehammer and fine tuned to as close to perfection as one can get with what it's given all with the mindset of I Will Advance I Will Improve and nothing not a damn thing will stand in my way.
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- Scotland
Did you mean thinner here?
Whisker Lizards!
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- St Joe MO
Sounds like it since it is lizard like with whiskers and came from the east.
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- USA
I would put civilization(possibly a synonym with slightly different implications) in the pot as well. Probably as a subset under power. Given he just forces improvements on places(pokemon roads, RWBY theme parks, worm everything...).
Fragnostic
Cheshire
- Location
- Neko City
So not the carrot dangling in front, but the stick raised behind?
And wow Tianshi represents Spring! Does that mean Adam needs to find three more little girls to have Summer, Fall, and Winter?
He will have to turn into a Four-Armed man to support Four Shoulder Lolis.
Tisaku
Head Chief Thinkomancer
- Location
- Here
Nope! Didn't even notice it, or wonder why something this tired, hungry, and weak was wrapped around it.
It happens. Hopefully one of the girls mentions it, because he is 100% ignoring his guards right now.
They are! Mostly. To normal people.
Rockette see's more than normal though, and is his Martial Spirit.
- Location
- Somewhere in Space
So physics dont exactly work right on this plane? I swear this place is starting to sound like the realm of the fay, where science is lesser than belief.
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