Forge of Destiny(Xianxia Quest)

But man, we seriously need to dedicate an action to investigating those tokens at some point... We got them from Zhou's test right? Think they might help with Silver breakthrough or physical cultivation in general?
 
Now I am a bit worried that we somehow missed a chance for +1 talent. Maybe high enough Qi+More masteries...
 
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Now I am a bit worried that we somehow missed a chance for +1 talent somehow. Maybe high enough Qi+More masteries...

Probably.

To be fair, the only way to be reasonably sure to get everything was waiting another month and going for another "tea turn", and it would have been very risky to do.

It is also possible that were we to go for a double breakthrough and succeeded, we would have gotten a bonus as well.
 
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...I think it is winning pretty decisively so far anyway?

Idc what wins honestly, I'm just annoyed that some people seem to be voting with the idea that wings+carry is the friend focused choice. Actually, It's the self focus choice that includes friends.

The roots choices are the friend focus choices. However they do so at the cost of some of our own freedom.
 
I feel like... this is probably just my guilt justifying it, but I feel like if we'd been there, we'd have fed into Suyin's self-loathing since we'd have undoubtedly been doing the most in the fight.
Its just the guilt. there is no way us being there would have made things worse
Now I am a bit worried that we somehow missed a chance for +1 talent. Maybe high enough Qi+More masteries...
Yea, I wish we were patient enough to do things right. We should aim at maxing out the Qi bonus from argent soul before next breakthrough
 
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Idc what wins honestly, I'm just annoyed that some people seem to be voting with the idea that wings+carry is the friend focused choice. Actually, It's the self focus choice that includes friends.

The roots choices are the friend focus choices. However they do so at the cost of some of our own freedom.

I had two posts where I talked about the different choices. They both have a good number of likes. People know.
 
The only thing I dislike about Arkeus's plan is cultivating Forgotten Vale Melody. While that's a great art to learn, we've had those tokens for nearly 2 months now and we're going to be incredible foolish if they would have been of great help.

They're clearly relevant given we have an action to study them, and they should be of use given they were the rewards for completing Zhou's test. Or on another note, perhaps they weren't a reward, it was just the nature of the test only allowed us to take them back given we got the Jade Slip and pills as well, which would still make them valuable.

Either way we should definitely do them, particularly as they are celestial tokens, and we have a moon spirit interested in us. And I'd prefer they were done this turn.
 
Now I am a bit worried that we somehow missed a chance for +1 talent. Maybe high enough Qi+More masteries...
Nah. +1 Talent is a BIG DEAL. It's apparently not obtainable so easily at all.
Precisely. Now let's see if anyone can be bothered to listen.
Perspective. You say it's about being strong enough not be burdened by our friendship, I say it's about having strong enough wings to lift up our friendships.
Either way we should definitely do them, particularly as they are celestial tokens, and we have a moon spirit interested in us. And I'd prefer they were done this turn.
I'm not sure we can delete the cultivation alone action... and I don't think we should have so little cultivation actions in any single turn. 2 is already quite small especially as one is half social, having 1 would be yikes.

People are talking (elsewhere) of replacing Gu Xiulan action with sun and moon token though, so I'm expecting someone to post such a vote :(
 
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The only thing I dislike about Arkeus's plan is cultivating Forgotten Vale Melody. While that's a great art to learn, we've had those tokens for nearly 2 months now and we're going to be incredible foolish if they would have been of great help.

They're clearly relevant given we have an action to study them, and they should be of use given they were the rewards for completing Zhou's test. Or on another note, perhaps they weren't a reward, it was just the nature of the test only allowed us to take them back given we got the Jade Slip and pills as well, which would still make them valuable.

Either way we should definitely do them, particularly as they are celestial tokens, and we have a moon spirit interested in us. And I'd prefer they were done this turn.
The FVM action is to fulfill the "the sixth action must be a personal training action" though?
 
So, thoughts going forward.

We can get a spirit beast through AS, but I'm really not sure how this works with swapping to EPC? If the spirit pet slot isn't a permanent bonus, wouldn't we lose it on swapping? And getting stuck without access to our most powerful/specialest skill is a bit worrisome, particularly as the free version we have now will probably cap at either peak yellow or early green. In other words, we should not even think about pets until we max Argent Soul.
In regards to spirit beasts. We can bind multiple spirits, but probably there are limits there.

Binding a spirit gives us bonuses. both direct bonuses and cultivation rate bonuses for certain things. While our strength is a bonus to the spirit's growth rate (and unlock it).

I think our first spirit should either be one with really high growth rate so that they would be relevant in future tiers as they level up.
Or it should be one that gives the most suitable cultivation bonuses to us.

Of course if we are super lucky like that one emperor who found a freaking DRAGON to bind as a spirit we should go for it. Epic beasts are epic.
 
Nah. +1 Talent is a BIG DEAL. It's apparently not obtainable so easily at all.

Perspective. You say it's about being strong enough not be burdened by our friendship, I say it's about having strong enough wings to lift up our friendships.

Except that doesn't fit with the metaphor. Worldly desires (past and present.) and friends are both referred to the same way. As shackles. Shackles and roots are interchangeable. It would be the same as saying that carrying our roots elevates our worldly desires, which seems to run counter with the way the metaphor is stated.
 
[X][breakthrough] To ensure that her wings could carry as much weight as she wished
[X] Manipulation

[X] Plan: Break On Through to the Other Side
-[X] Resources Used: 2 Red Stones, Buy an Argent Accumulation Pill (2 Red Stones) and use it. Equip Hawk Talon Armguards
-[X] Breakthrough to Silver
--[X] Breakthrough Again if successful: Else, buy an Argent Elixir (10 stones) and Cultivate Physical
-[X] Help Suyin train and cultivate at the vent
--[X] Argent Soul
-[X] Go along with Meizhen to this meeting Cai Renxiang is calling.
-[X] Spend some time with Gu Xiulan, to celebrate your breakthrough, and see if she might be willing to tone things down in regards to Li Suyin
-[X] If Breakthrough Fails, Cultivate Physical
--[X]If Breakthrough Succeeds: Spend some time with Su Ling, perhaps you can learn a little bit of hunting tactics from her
 
Except that doesn't fit with the metaphor. Worldly desires (past and present.) and friends are both referred to the same way. As shackles. Shackles and roots are interchangeable. It would be the same as saying that carrying our roots elevates our worldly desires, which seems to run counter with the way the metaphor is stated.
Not really? It's the only one talking about wings. Wings are, in this metaphor, the ability to fly as well as the ability to make our new home in the sky. It's about bringing what we care into freedom.
 
Huh, well that is one update to wake up to.

Are those missions like the wolf one time-limited?
Post #8386 is the first post after the 2 hour moratorium has passed. the votes before it don't count. Current tally
Vote Tally : Original - Fantasy - Forge of Destiny(Xianxia Quest) | Page 336 | Sufficient Velocity
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[X] Plan Bread and Butter.
No. of Votes: 9
[X] Plan: Break On Through to the Other Side
-[X] Resources Used: 2 Red Stones, Buy an Argent Accumulation Pill (2 Red Stones) and use it. Equip Hawk Talon Armguards
-[X] Breakthrough to Silver
--[X] Breakthrough Again if successful: Else, buy an Argent Elixir (10 stones) and Cultivate Physical
-[X] Help Suyin train and cultivate at the vent
--[X] Argent Soul
-[X] Go along with Meizhen to this meeting Cai Renxiang is calling.
-[X] Spend some time with Gu Xiulan, to celebrate your breakthrough, and see if she might be willing to tone things down in regards to Li Suyin
-[X] If Breakthrough Fails, Cultivate Physical
--[X]If Breakthrough Succeeds: Spend some time with Su Ling, perhaps you can learn a little bit of hunting tactics from her
No. of Votes: 2

——————————————————————————————————————————————Task: breakthrough
[X][breakthrough] To ensure that her wings could carry as much weight as she wished
No. of Votes: 12
[X][breakthrough] To ensure that none would dare strike at her or her roots in the first place
No. of Votes: 1

——————————————————————————————————————————————Task: Stat
[X][Stat]Manipulation
No. of Votes: 10
Total No. of Voters: 14
 
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The FVM action is to fulfill the "the sixth action must be a personal training action" though?
Yes but look into the reason why the author wanted it, and that was because he didn't want action bloat that required him to write a lot of things. And breakthrough counts as a personal training action anyway, so I'm not sure what your point is?
 
Want to go to Moon Fill next week if possible.
Honestly, once we get to Silver I think we should do one quest a turn unless we are going full on drug. The quests seems a lot of fun, and they probably push us into 'event time'.

Main issue seems to be we lack ability to investigate things well so far... We need that wind head meridian sensory art :)
 
Not really? It's the only one talking about wings. Wings are, in this metaphor, the ability to fly as well as the ability to make our new home in the sky. It's about bringing what we care into freedom.

Because our home is guilt?. The struggle we have with other students?. Both of these are refereed to as shackles.

Our desire to gain strength is also referred to as a shackle.

Shackles=roots.


Freedom in this case is more in the zen Buddhist sense than the western sense. At least as I understand such things, limited thought that understanding is.
 
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[X][breakthrough] To ensure that her wings could carry as much weight as she wished
[X]Manipulation

[X] Plan Bread and Butter.
 
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