Broken Adventure
- Thread starter theaceoffire
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- Crossover
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RageMage
Sir "Shitshow in the making"
- Location
- Vienna
Jojo is one of the most bullshit realms in existence because of their hax abilities. It has several characters capable of manipulating time (three can stop it, one can loop it, another can erase it, etc.), a universal resetter which only "God" can keep up with, a Stand that manipulates causality and can exist even when time is erased, an ability that, when perfectly used, produces infinite damage, pierce through dimensional walls/realms plus ignore durability and space-time manipulations, and many more.
Utter Bulls**t. And all of that is soulpowerd wich means that thanks through soulrefinement Adams Stand would be even stronger.
Tisaku
Head Chief Thinkomancer
recovery
Well, the village might not like him, but the Sect would be mighty curious about the self-taught tech that he just invented to heal himself.
It shouldn't take more than a very casual conversation with the villagers to find out that they only taught the kid the most minor of basics. That means anything and everything he is doing is likely an instinctive improvement on them. There is no way that basic tech should have this sort of healing effect.
When the Sect discovers his energy control abilities, they'll secretly think that his village was utter morons. They'll have no clue how that relates to glass, but perfect energy control is hax enough for them to take notice. I can also see Adam paying the Sect back with like a few months of honest specialist work that only he could do.
The only reason that I say a few months rather than weeks is that he is taking things slow all things considered.
It shouldn't take more than a very casual conversation with the villagers to find out that they only taught the kid the most minor of basics. That means anything and everything he is doing is likely an instinctive improvement on them. There is no way that basic tech should have this sort of healing effect.
When the Sect discovers his energy control abilities, they'll secretly think that his village was utter morons. They'll have no clue how that relates to glass, but perfect energy control is hax enough for them to take notice. I can also see Adam paying the Sect back with like a few months of honest specialist work that only he could do.
The only reason that I say a few months rather than weeks is that he is taking things slow all things considered.
Okay. I'm just going to say this. Adam, based on his past behavior and how his chosen powers work? I would not be surprised if he would be able to refine cultivation methods like the Arrogant Young Master.... and due to the fact that he is a generous sort with those that help him out/are nice to him? Even if he would not be showcasing massive amounts of growth that would have his former village frothing at the mouth (largely because he seems to be a late bloomer), the ability to refine the power generating methods of the Sect?
Now, the closest comparison would be that a talent like that would be worth your weight in philosophers stones. If he can replicate and share the Shard Harmonic Purification Method? He is freaking lucky that the Sect is a righteous one because there may be a good chance of them bending over backwards and making adjustments for the kind of power potential that could give them. Also something they would need to keep secret, because hot diggity damn, that kind of thing pretty much says 'important asset/core treasure of a major sect'.
I'm looking forward to seeing how the interactions go ^-^
Now, the closest comparison would be that a talent like that would be worth your weight in philosophers stones. If he can replicate and share the Shard Harmonic Purification Method? He is freaking lucky that the Sect is a righteous one because there may be a good chance of them bending over backwards and making adjustments for the kind of power potential that could give them. Also something they would need to keep secret, because hot diggity damn, that kind of thing pretty much says 'important asset/core treasure of a major sect'.
I'm looking forward to seeing how the interactions go ^-^
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Now, I wouldn't exactly call myself a Worm expert, but that doesn't make much sense. Ultimately, the purpose of every single Shard is to figure out new abilities that could be useful for an Entity, yeah? So the idea that Stranger/Master/Thinker powers work in large part due to some sort of backdoor doesn't make much sense because that just isn't what they were made for. And it might actually be harder for them to do it that way, too. Shards are all about specialization, figuring out the most effective method they are capable of to solve a certain problem. Expending time and resources to figure out two different methods of solving a problem rather than just choosing one and achieving maximum efficiency with that method doesn't exactly fit that design philosophy. (then again, most Shards are just clusters of smaller Shards so that might not actually be an accurate statement)
To be fair, Shards do vary quite a bit, in both methodology and function. So the idea that some Stranger/Master/Thinker powers are designed to use a Shard network backdoor is more than likely(like Broadcast), but the idea that that is a standard or even common theme runs counter to the entire point of The Cycle.
Arc 2: Good Progress Forces Boredom.
- Location
- Here
Adam sighed as he forced his body to twitch as much as he could.
Boredom had hit him like a brick.
Again, he checked his Shard, 'Purification' humming away. Nope. Not enough.
His Shard's ability was as weak as HE was, at the moment. It was not even converting the various world spiritual energies into something usable, just filtering and sorting what was there. This being the 'Burning Sword' Sect, that mostly involved a lot of flame energies, sword spirit power, and movement ki.
All useless to him, as he had no cultivation base.
Beyond that was the various 'impurities', which... well, he had learned a lot of truth during this healing process.
First of all, most if not ALL cultivation techniques actually induced so-called 'impurities' into the body. Yeah, that sounded backwards... but the NEW impurities were much smaller, easier to work with, and were used to push out the much more dangerous and damaging impurities already within the Cultivator, from eating worldly food and drinking worldly beverages.
Just breathing the air contaminated the body, and cultivation would reduce the severity by a large margin. The higher tier cultivation techniques would generate far less contamination and impurities, would gather far more compatible energy streams, and be able to rebuild the host's body to be way more compatible with what was available.
Long story short, Adam's trick of purifying the world spiritual energy before absorption? A massive cheat.
The downside was that the pure, untainted worldly spiritual energy was minute. Now that his internals were becoming more and more healthy, the limiting factor for his recovery was not his ability to manipulate energy wisps but generating that white power in the first place.
Only by restricting his Shard to a thin vertical column of a domain could he reach high enough into the sky that the high winds could expose him to more of the good stuff. Otherwise he was stuck with the small fragments of usable stuff that swirled in the mess down here.
Forcing his slowly repairing muscles to flex and get worked in, Adam observed his translucent Shard as it filtered the various energies, finding the smallest wisps of pure power to work with. So little. And it took so long.
He reviewed the most recent data from 'Research'. His organs were not only fully recovered, but enhanced. Not quite up to First Order Warrior tier, but above peak human easily. These last few days, ESPECIALLY before running out of purified energy, had vastly improved his blood quality, organ efficiency, and even a bit of his muscle density.
And it showed. His body may be scarred, but internally Adam had recovered so much that his control over energy wisps had increased by leaps and bounds! It made each recovery cycle easier to handle, the wisps larger and more condensed before following the meridian route.
The down side? Being able to control more of that energy meant his supply ran out.
Now he had to wait three hours to gather enough energy to work with for ten minutes.
His recovery speed hadn't slowed though, because he wasn't using LESS power, just more of it more efficiently. His system was even using the new wisps with better effects, as the improvement of his body was actively improving how well 'Research' and 'Purification' could operate. And 'Growth', presumably... still too dangerous to activate that one.
It still meant he had two hours and fifty minutes of boredom between each healing session.
In this square, white walled room.
If TV existed in this Realm, he had no evidence of it. Radio didn't exist either. Books were difficult to make and didn't last long (Not even a thousand years!), so were rare. People COULD use something called 'Jade Slips' to share information, as it was similar to a three dimensional memory storage device... but those were fairly valuable and tended to be used to share battle skills, which were like martial arts and didn't require a specific talent level of Martial Spirit to use. Battle skills really only required physical dedication and the ability to comprehend advanced concepts, and people stuck in their cultivation progression focused on them heavily.
So... no trashy romance novels or whatever to distract him from the boring room and horrible smells his body would create.
Adam grinned as best he could as he twitched his unmaimed right leg. THAT was the biggest deal. Being able to move and clean himself was his personal goal today, or at least this week... everything else would come later.
Because as bad as his generated impurities were NOW, it would get worse. Much worse. Because he was expelling junk from his wounds and injuries, he hadn't even touched the natural impurities held within the flesh, tendons, bones and so forth of the civilian body.
The medical care was speeding up this process many fold, one had to note. He COULD have recovered without assistance, 'Purification' and 'Research' had amazing synergy like that... but the Healer had been providing healthy soups, very basic medicine, and clean bandages to prevent further infections. It freed up his energies by a significant margin by not having to use heavenly power to save his insides from malnutrition and necrosis.
When he regained some little movement, he eventually could begin to attempt communication. Maybe even ask for some form of entertainment or whatever. Find out how long he would be under supervision, what he would have to do to gain some form of living quarters, what his options for employment would be.
His crooked smile twitched as his right foot shifted. Pain aside, he felt he was making pretty good progress!
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Xiao Quan paced. "No, I am sure it is a sign of recovery."
Healer Jin frowned. "The boy has expelled nearly twice his body weight in impurities by this stage, I am shocked he hasn't died from exhaustion or starvation by this point. Even tripling the amount of food and water we've provided him doesn't account for the sheer mass of material lost."
Quan sighed. "You heard what his people called him?"
The Healer sighed. "Cánfèi? You mean he wasn't called that due to his... most recent injuries?"
She nodded. "Asked a round a bit, and a few guys were more open to questioning." And staring at her boobs. "The boy had a rough life and unlocked a very unusual Martial Spirit."
Jin leaned back in her chair. "Unusual? I suppose it was one of the more rare ones then. Maybe a plant or weapon... something elemental? I've met a guy with an Ice martial spirit before."
Quan shook her head. "It was unknown. Looked like glass... but he was unable to cultivate and didn't show any special affinities to working in a forge or with sand or crystals. The whole village washed their hands of him."
The Healer frowned. "You think the trauma of his injury jump started his martial spirit? It has happened before... especially if no one attempted to stimulate his spirit in the past."
Xiao Quan sighed. "As you may expect, they abandoned him completely. No supplied stimulants or cultivation pills, no rare herbs or fruits... they didn't even bother to help him learn how to meditate. Gave him the most basic Cultivation Technique they had access to, just to avoid external criticism outside the village itself... And just ignored him at best. The comments from the boys were pretty vile, even if they eventually admitted that he helped them escape from the Spirit Beast."
The Healer's wince was obvious. "Well... considering how many low level medicines we forced him to consume, it isn't much of a surprise that it would help provoke his abilities. And if his innate talents helped him extract the most from the potions, pills, and food possible... that could explain the massive amounts of impurities produced."
She nodded confidently. "I am willing to stake my cultivation quota that these most recent changes are positive and not a sign of his body catastrophically collapsing. If we could risk using our detection skills on his body without damage, I'm sure the data would back me up."
Healer Jin tapped the table... and nodded. "I'll risk it. Some outside forces are trying to pressure us to resolve this situation, but I agree that his improvement over the last few weeks is significant enough for us to attempt the use of higher level recovery pills."
Quan held back her grin as best she could. Days of argument and campaigning, and it payed off! She was SURE that the boy's improvement rate meant his body could safely use the more dangerous cultivation recovery pills. After all, he had not only easily handled her watered down cultivation orange juice but had seemed to drastically improve from the energy exposure!
With a skip in her step she went to help him clean the most recent mess. Any day now, the child would surely show stronger signs of recovery!
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
TOO BORED.
Frustrated, Adam slammed on 'Research' and began manipulating the strand of world energy through the newest designed meridian route. Honestly, the meridians acted like dots and the route was a squiggly line connecting them like connect-the-dots. Some paths would enhance the materials passed through, others would erode the body to allow spiritual or conceptual changes to his system. Only the constant testing and prodding by 'Research' ensured that Adam didn't accidentally gain the ability to melt his own skin or something.
As precious time slipped by his energies followed the best theoretical route through his body. A thin river of energy that enhanced the weak routes and reinforced the strained meridians passed, the pure white power faded rapidly as Adam's torn system devoured it hungrily.
Still, it was enough for this most recent attempt... one that 'Research' only had vague suggestions to assist with.
With a harsh focus, he directed the white energy to surround one of his many damaged meridians. This one was mostly intact, but would hopefully provide information about how to repair the many far more damaged points in his system.
Adam winced as raw pain and a strange tension flooded his system. Even with the assistance of his Shard, the energy did NOT want to modify his slightly torn meridian. Seconds passed as the white spiritual energies forced a spiritual point in his body to shift even as it was devoured as a source of fuel by that same target. Enough energy to cycle dozens of times through his system was seemingly wasted as it funneled into the open wound.
His mentality was sharp and rigid as changes rapidly occurred, 'Research' carefully recording every moment even as most of the provided power leaked from his body through the spiritually damaged point exposed by his meridian. Thankfully, most of that lost energy was caught by his Shard, filtered, and sent right back in to continue the process.
Cautiously, he tried various modifications to his random actions as 'Research' took notes.
Forcing more energy than a certain rate? Damaged the meridian further.
Too little? Risked the node collapsing.
Twisting the energies seemed to help encourage stability... but only if twisted in specific patterns at specific flow rates. Something similar to a heartbeat, bursts if tight twisted energies followed by lowered rates where the meridian could 'recover' from the impact... it was slow, and very energy intensive, but it WAS improving and growing closer to a 'healthy' state.
He was distracted as he heard clapping. The assistant was back in the room. "Oh! You've managed to move your right foot! I know someone's earned a little more juice! Let me just clean up a bit and I'll tell you about the new medication we've managed to get approved. It won't taste good, but I think you will improve at an even faster rate!"
He let her cheerful monologue relax the room while he focused mainly on the slow recovery of a single meridian, hundreds more damaged waiting to see if his newly developed techniques could recover or (in a few unfortunate cases) regrow the spiritual points in his system.
Even if Adam couldn't talk, having someone this pleasant just to act as company was a lovely change of pace. As long as he ignored how embarrassing the cleaning process was. At least he had less and less filth as the healing process advanced, surely that was a sign of advancement.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Clean and alone again, he reviewed the notes gathered.
If the meridian was originally 93% undamaged, the testing brought it down to 74% or lower and the tricks and techniques developed recovered it back up to 86%. So a net loss overall, but only if one focused on the actual recovery amounts accomplished.
More important than the damage caused was the information 'Research' gained! Right now it was mostly a massive list of 'DO NOT DO THIS!' gathered, but that alone made testing more safe and the results more profound.
Burned through his available energy like a bitch, though. He was confident that if he had enough available and pure energy, eventually that meridian point would have completely recovered! Probably.
More valuable than the actual techniques for healing and manipulating meridian points though was the various sensing techniques he had to develop. Because 'Research' was very helpful and determining the effects of experimentation, but an even MORE valuable decision was to detect the state of his meridian points BEFORE trying to fix them. Once he saw how improved 'Research' became during tests, he used up the remainder of his available world spiritual energies having 'Research' develop as many methods of detection, target modeling, and environmental sensing that he could.
It cut his session short, but there was a saying of 'It doesn`t waste time to sharpen one`s ax'... in other words, preparation could save more time than attempting to skip said step. And Adam felt this would pay off highly! Already, his various sensing tricks were being used automatically by 'Research', determining and redesigning what strange shape the 'Purification' domain should take to increase the gathering rate of purified energy during cultivation.
Hopefully soon he could design a solid method for meridian repair, a vital step if he ever wanted to rebuild the lost nodes in his missing hand. At the moment, even if he somehow regrew the damn thing... well, without meridian nodes it would be unable to ever grow as strong as the rest of his body. Not to mention that his theoretically atypical meridian paths would force him to use 'Research' to modify EVERY Cultivation Technique found in the future to accommodate his deformity. Which would be annoying.
As his Shard organized the free energies, Adam began messing with the dross normally tossed out of the way of his gathering domain. It may be worthless compared to pure, untouched heavenly power... but to normal cultivators, this was the stuff they fought over. Well, parts of it. A flame cultivator would actively repel these fluid energies, for example. Except for possibly those liquid flame essences.
Out of raw boredom, he began sorting the energies on the roof above his recovery room. His Shard twisted them, having the various flavors of power filter apart, sort into energy swirls, condense into something approaching a liquid... basically Adam was drawing shapes in the world like a child marking fog on a window. Even made a smiley face!
His attention perked up though when he felt more pure energy than expected gather with his Shard. By forcing the dross to gather out of the way, it seemed the resulting vacuum was pulling more of the untouched energy fields directly into his domain's processing range! Very useful.
Adam glanced upwards at the unseen slowly swirling energy pools. Not really visible to anyone really, besides Martial Spirits. Still, he would need to get rid of these at some point.
Still lacking entertainment, he spent the rest of the evening trying to force the different power fields to stick to each other, to fuse with the material of the building, to solidify into something stable... even made a few attempts to launch them into the distance like a projectile.
He didn't make much progress, but at least it was entertaining.
Boredom had hit him like a brick.
Again, he checked his Shard, 'Purification' humming away. Nope. Not enough.
His Shard's ability was as weak as HE was, at the moment. It was not even converting the various world spiritual energies into something usable, just filtering and sorting what was there. This being the 'Burning Sword' Sect, that mostly involved a lot of flame energies, sword spirit power, and movement ki.
All useless to him, as he had no cultivation base.
Beyond that was the various 'impurities', which... well, he had learned a lot of truth during this healing process.
First of all, most if not ALL cultivation techniques actually induced so-called 'impurities' into the body. Yeah, that sounded backwards... but the NEW impurities were much smaller, easier to work with, and were used to push out the much more dangerous and damaging impurities already within the Cultivator, from eating worldly food and drinking worldly beverages.
Just breathing the air contaminated the body, and cultivation would reduce the severity by a large margin. The higher tier cultivation techniques would generate far less contamination and impurities, would gather far more compatible energy streams, and be able to rebuild the host's body to be way more compatible with what was available.
Long story short, Adam's trick of purifying the world spiritual energy before absorption? A massive cheat.
The downside was that the pure, untainted worldly spiritual energy was minute. Now that his internals were becoming more and more healthy, the limiting factor for his recovery was not his ability to manipulate energy wisps but generating that white power in the first place.
Only by restricting his Shard to a thin vertical column of a domain could he reach high enough into the sky that the high winds could expose him to more of the good stuff. Otherwise he was stuck with the small fragments of usable stuff that swirled in the mess down here.
Forcing his slowly repairing muscles to flex and get worked in, Adam observed his translucent Shard as it filtered the various energies, finding the smallest wisps of pure power to work with. So little. And it took so long.
He reviewed the most recent data from 'Research'. His organs were not only fully recovered, but enhanced. Not quite up to First Order Warrior tier, but above peak human easily. These last few days, ESPECIALLY before running out of purified energy, had vastly improved his blood quality, organ efficiency, and even a bit of his muscle density.
And it showed. His body may be scarred, but internally Adam had recovered so much that his control over energy wisps had increased by leaps and bounds! It made each recovery cycle easier to handle, the wisps larger and more condensed before following the meridian route.
The down side? Being able to control more of that energy meant his supply ran out.
Now he had to wait three hours to gather enough energy to work with for ten minutes.
His recovery speed hadn't slowed though, because he wasn't using LESS power, just more of it more efficiently. His system was even using the new wisps with better effects, as the improvement of his body was actively improving how well 'Research' and 'Purification' could operate. And 'Growth', presumably... still too dangerous to activate that one.
It still meant he had two hours and fifty minutes of boredom between each healing session.
In this square, white walled room.
If TV existed in this Realm, he had no evidence of it. Radio didn't exist either. Books were difficult to make and didn't last long (Not even a thousand years!), so were rare. People COULD use something called 'Jade Slips' to share information, as it was similar to a three dimensional memory storage device... but those were fairly valuable and tended to be used to share battle skills, which were like martial arts and didn't require a specific talent level of Martial Spirit to use. Battle skills really only required physical dedication and the ability to comprehend advanced concepts, and people stuck in their cultivation progression focused on them heavily.
So... no trashy romance novels or whatever to distract him from the boring room and horrible smells his body would create.
Adam grinned as best he could as he twitched his unmaimed right leg. THAT was the biggest deal. Being able to move and clean himself was his personal goal today, or at least this week... everything else would come later.
Because as bad as his generated impurities were NOW, it would get worse. Much worse. Because he was expelling junk from his wounds and injuries, he hadn't even touched the natural impurities held within the flesh, tendons, bones and so forth of the civilian body.
The medical care was speeding up this process many fold, one had to note. He COULD have recovered without assistance, 'Purification' and 'Research' had amazing synergy like that... but the Healer had been providing healthy soups, very basic medicine, and clean bandages to prevent further infections. It freed up his energies by a significant margin by not having to use heavenly power to save his insides from malnutrition and necrosis.
When he regained some little movement, he eventually could begin to attempt communication. Maybe even ask for some form of entertainment or whatever. Find out how long he would be under supervision, what he would have to do to gain some form of living quarters, what his options for employment would be.
His crooked smile twitched as his right foot shifted. Pain aside, he felt he was making pretty good progress!
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Xiao Quan paced. "No, I am sure it is a sign of recovery."
Healer Jin frowned. "The boy has expelled nearly twice his body weight in impurities by this stage, I am shocked he hasn't died from exhaustion or starvation by this point. Even tripling the amount of food and water we've provided him doesn't account for the sheer mass of material lost."
Quan sighed. "You heard what his people called him?"
The Healer sighed. "Cánfèi? You mean he wasn't called that due to his... most recent injuries?"
She nodded. "Asked a round a bit, and a few guys were more open to questioning." And staring at her boobs. "The boy had a rough life and unlocked a very unusual Martial Spirit."
Jin leaned back in her chair. "Unusual? I suppose it was one of the more rare ones then. Maybe a plant or weapon... something elemental? I've met a guy with an Ice martial spirit before."
Quan shook her head. "It was unknown. Looked like glass... but he was unable to cultivate and didn't show any special affinities to working in a forge or with sand or crystals. The whole village washed their hands of him."
The Healer frowned. "You think the trauma of his injury jump started his martial spirit? It has happened before... especially if no one attempted to stimulate his spirit in the past."
Xiao Quan sighed. "As you may expect, they abandoned him completely. No supplied stimulants or cultivation pills, no rare herbs or fruits... they didn't even bother to help him learn how to meditate. Gave him the most basic Cultivation Technique they had access to, just to avoid external criticism outside the village itself... And just ignored him at best. The comments from the boys were pretty vile, even if they eventually admitted that he helped them escape from the Spirit Beast."
The Healer's wince was obvious. "Well... considering how many low level medicines we forced him to consume, it isn't much of a surprise that it would help provoke his abilities. And if his innate talents helped him extract the most from the potions, pills, and food possible... that could explain the massive amounts of impurities produced."
She nodded confidently. "I am willing to stake my cultivation quota that these most recent changes are positive and not a sign of his body catastrophically collapsing. If we could risk using our detection skills on his body without damage, I'm sure the data would back me up."
Healer Jin tapped the table... and nodded. "I'll risk it. Some outside forces are trying to pressure us to resolve this situation, but I agree that his improvement over the last few weeks is significant enough for us to attempt the use of higher level recovery pills."
Quan held back her grin as best she could. Days of argument and campaigning, and it payed off! She was SURE that the boy's improvement rate meant his body could safely use the more dangerous cultivation recovery pills. After all, he had not only easily handled her watered down cultivation orange juice but had seemed to drastically improve from the energy exposure!
With a skip in her step she went to help him clean the most recent mess. Any day now, the child would surely show stronger signs of recovery!
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
TOO BORED.
Frustrated, Adam slammed on 'Research' and began manipulating the strand of world energy through the newest designed meridian route. Honestly, the meridians acted like dots and the route was a squiggly line connecting them like connect-the-dots. Some paths would enhance the materials passed through, others would erode the body to allow spiritual or conceptual changes to his system. Only the constant testing and prodding by 'Research' ensured that Adam didn't accidentally gain the ability to melt his own skin or something.
As precious time slipped by his energies followed the best theoretical route through his body. A thin river of energy that enhanced the weak routes and reinforced the strained meridians passed, the pure white power faded rapidly as Adam's torn system devoured it hungrily.
Still, it was enough for this most recent attempt... one that 'Research' only had vague suggestions to assist with.
With a harsh focus, he directed the white energy to surround one of his many damaged meridians. This one was mostly intact, but would hopefully provide information about how to repair the many far more damaged points in his system.
Adam winced as raw pain and a strange tension flooded his system. Even with the assistance of his Shard, the energy did NOT want to modify his slightly torn meridian. Seconds passed as the white spiritual energies forced a spiritual point in his body to shift even as it was devoured as a source of fuel by that same target. Enough energy to cycle dozens of times through his system was seemingly wasted as it funneled into the open wound.
His mentality was sharp and rigid as changes rapidly occurred, 'Research' carefully recording every moment even as most of the provided power leaked from his body through the spiritually damaged point exposed by his meridian. Thankfully, most of that lost energy was caught by his Shard, filtered, and sent right back in to continue the process.
Cautiously, he tried various modifications to his random actions as 'Research' took notes.
Forcing more energy than a certain rate? Damaged the meridian further.
Too little? Risked the node collapsing.
Twisting the energies seemed to help encourage stability... but only if twisted in specific patterns at specific flow rates. Something similar to a heartbeat, bursts if tight twisted energies followed by lowered rates where the meridian could 'recover' from the impact... it was slow, and very energy intensive, but it WAS improving and growing closer to a 'healthy' state.
He was distracted as he heard clapping. The assistant was back in the room. "Oh! You've managed to move your right foot! I know someone's earned a little more juice! Let me just clean up a bit and I'll tell you about the new medication we've managed to get approved. It won't taste good, but I think you will improve at an even faster rate!"
He let her cheerful monologue relax the room while he focused mainly on the slow recovery of a single meridian, hundreds more damaged waiting to see if his newly developed techniques could recover or (in a few unfortunate cases) regrow the spiritual points in his system.
Even if Adam couldn't talk, having someone this pleasant just to act as company was a lovely change of pace. As long as he ignored how embarrassing the cleaning process was. At least he had less and less filth as the healing process advanced, surely that was a sign of advancement.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Clean and alone again, he reviewed the notes gathered.
If the meridian was originally 93% undamaged, the testing brought it down to 74% or lower and the tricks and techniques developed recovered it back up to 86%. So a net loss overall, but only if one focused on the actual recovery amounts accomplished.
More important than the damage caused was the information 'Research' gained! Right now it was mostly a massive list of 'DO NOT DO THIS!' gathered, but that alone made testing more safe and the results more profound.
Burned through his available energy like a bitch, though. He was confident that if he had enough available and pure energy, eventually that meridian point would have completely recovered! Probably.
More valuable than the actual techniques for healing and manipulating meridian points though was the various sensing techniques he had to develop. Because 'Research' was very helpful and determining the effects of experimentation, but an even MORE valuable decision was to detect the state of his meridian points BEFORE trying to fix them. Once he saw how improved 'Research' became during tests, he used up the remainder of his available world spiritual energies having 'Research' develop as many methods of detection, target modeling, and environmental sensing that he could.
It cut his session short, but there was a saying of 'It doesn`t waste time to sharpen one`s ax'... in other words, preparation could save more time than attempting to skip said step. And Adam felt this would pay off highly! Already, his various sensing tricks were being used automatically by 'Research', determining and redesigning what strange shape the 'Purification' domain should take to increase the gathering rate of purified energy during cultivation.
Hopefully soon he could design a solid method for meridian repair, a vital step if he ever wanted to rebuild the lost nodes in his missing hand. At the moment, even if he somehow regrew the damn thing... well, without meridian nodes it would be unable to ever grow as strong as the rest of his body. Not to mention that his theoretically atypical meridian paths would force him to use 'Research' to modify EVERY Cultivation Technique found in the future to accommodate his deformity. Which would be annoying.
As his Shard organized the free energies, Adam began messing with the dross normally tossed out of the way of his gathering domain. It may be worthless compared to pure, untouched heavenly power... but to normal cultivators, this was the stuff they fought over. Well, parts of it. A flame cultivator would actively repel these fluid energies, for example. Except for possibly those liquid flame essences.
Out of raw boredom, he began sorting the energies on the roof above his recovery room. His Shard twisted them, having the various flavors of power filter apart, sort into energy swirls, condense into something approaching a liquid... basically Adam was drawing shapes in the world like a child marking fog on a window. Even made a smiley face!
His attention perked up though when he felt more pure energy than expected gather with his Shard. By forcing the dross to gather out of the way, it seemed the resulting vacuum was pulling more of the untouched energy fields directly into his domain's processing range! Very useful.
Adam glanced upwards at the unseen slowly swirling energy pools. Not really visible to anyone really, besides Martial Spirits. Still, he would need to get rid of these at some point.
Still lacking entertainment, he spent the rest of the evening trying to force the different power fields to stick to each other, to fuse with the material of the building, to solidify into something stable... even made a few attempts to launch them into the distance like a projectile.
He didn't make much progress, but at least it was entertaining.
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Adam... he's doing something really outrageous isn't he. Wow, I do not pity the evil sects future.
I love this story. I'm not really all that familiar with this cultivator setting, I think I remember a story with Taylor being like a reincarnated Cultivator or something, but doesn't really set me up with a full understanding of the terms and mechanics, but still sounds pretty neat.
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- England
If you take a peek at a dictionary, you'll find that you meant peak.
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- UK
To be fair, in a normal Xianxia world, 90% of people will be enemies due to sheer cuntishness.
Yeah, that's fair.
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- Home
The mechanics can vary a lot between novel to novel.
But the basics usually go as:
Run-of-the-mill mortal, usually starting at a young age to train/cultivate.
Said Mortal uses a found/given/created cultivation process, most of the times they are aimed to improve the body in some way, usually in stages.
As seen in this fic, he's trying to remove the mortal impurities of his body to achieve a pure immortal form.
In most Xianxia novels there's stages of mortal (nothing important)-> trainee(actively working, stronger and longer lived but not that much more)-> warrior (achieved some major thing like can fly by himself or has some kind of supernatural power) -> Immortal (has shed all the mortal qualities, will not die of natural causes) -> Immortal warrior (same thing but in a new plane of existence) -> etc
Usually each stage has levels that may be completely metaphorical or have some kind of repercussion, maybe it's a level for each part of the body purified or achieved some kind of milestone.
There's also the bottlenecks, basically spots in the milestones and levels that present something that's just harder or needs an outside help to pass.
Or the Tribulations, basically nature/world says fuck you, you can't be an immortal unless you survive this, they tend to be lighting strikes or something like that.
Of course there's a lot more, but you can check some of the names here. Usually, a cultivation process can be read as an idle game
it's just the same thing over and over again, just a bit more complex each time it goes a circle around.He is very good at being subtle, again.
Oh God, he is already infected isn't he?, at this rate he is going to go around saving Face, insulting Elders and seducing Auction Ladies all around the world.
Jonn Wolfe
(Verified Sarcastic) (Not a Wolf)
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- Beyond Sanity Since 1971
I can almost see Adam facepalming at what Avatar!Adam is doing.
While it probably won't happen part of my mind is amused by the idea that there may be a moment of incorrect inspiration when they notice what is happening near to Cánfèi (aka Adam). They'd see the apparently split energies (keeping in mind that the 'pure energies' are such a small fraction that their absence may not be noticed), remember that he supposed has a 'piece of glass' as a Martial Spirit, then suddenly 'realise' that obvious it is a form of tool spirit.
Possibly a lens, but more likely a prism.
(Of course there was nothing when he worked with a forge or glass or crystal, they'd say. Obviously he should have been given the chance to work around light, out in the sun, or in an area with mixed energies...)
Possibly a lens, but more likely a prism.
(Of course there was nothing when he worked with a forge or glass or crystal, they'd say. Obviously he should have been given the chance to work around light, out in the sun, or in an area with mixed energies...)
Fragnostic
Cheshire
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- Neko City
And get impolite with Young Masters. And gain a sidekick named Fatty who will be a loyal coward.
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- UK
Don't think he's anywhere near strong enough to do the things you guys are suggesting. Still a ways to go for that.
I would like to think his current power would be something like Library of the Heavens Path with the refinement of the cultivation methods and purification of qi.
I would like to think his current power would be something like Library of the Heavens Path with the refinement of the cultivation methods and purification of qi.
Link please?
I do wonder how long this arc will be, if everything that was before this was arc 1, looking forward to it!
Your not looking at it properly. Raw power? Sure, thats nice and all but I would not be surprised if his Research Power is what makes him valuable, largely because these worlds operate on a longer timescale than we are used to in some ways. If he can reliably develop/refine cultivation methods to take 3-5% less time and or/resources? That would be an asset that would be labeled as 'capture or deny' for most sects. If he can develop the efficiency again, increasing that small percentage point advantage that would have made them go nuts beforehand?
In this world knowledge is power and you don't need to be able to break mountains in half yourself if you can develop your allies to cultivate much more quickly themselves. Which again, is less a matter of raw brute force and more applying knowledge. Finesse as opposed to power.
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