History's Most Mediocre Cultivator (Xianxia Quest)
- Thread starter Timewinders
- Start date
- Original Fantasy
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- United States
Well, the next update will include the negotiations with Hou Lian which will wrap up the second week.
We've formed a clique and our friends are pretty strong girls. People may be wary of offending the Princess...or go straight for her to prove some point of theirs.
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- Canada
It does seem like things go her way too often. I like her character but it's concerning how easy things are for her.
She has the Fortune Smiles upon her(probably dragged lady luck into her harem) trait of the Young Master dating sim protagonist!
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- Middle of Nowhere
I keep making mental comparisons to Haruhi Suzumiya. A lot of times success is the result of being confident and at the very least pretending you know what you're doing, even if what you're doing is weird.
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- United States
She's a highly talented cultivator and destined to govern a province so that's a given. Socially, her approach doesn't work on everyone but she hasn't been interacting with those people in the story much so far. For example, Liu Shuren and Hou Lian wouldn't be impressed and while Xu Kuo doesn't have any issues with her beyond her status, he's not particularly fond of her either.
That's a good comparison. People are drawn to that kind of charisma. Shaohuo prefers a more conservative approach - he might not be as charismatic as Xiaoli is with her peers, but he is good at avoiding giving offense and he is better at dealing with social superiors.
Basically Xiaoli finds it easy to make close friends with peers and inferiors, but would be playing high stakes offense games with superiors and those who believe strongly in decorum.
Shaohuo on the other hand finds it harder to make close friends, but he's almost never going to accidentally make an enemy
Shaohuo on the other hand finds it harder to make close friends, but he's almost never going to accidentally make an enemy
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- California
Err.....
It's late over here in California, but could you or someone else elaborate on that. Maybe, not right now, but like tomorrow?
Atelier game protagonist is along the lines of Rorona/Mana Khemia, etc, alchemy games, craft stuff, outfit your friends, make mad bank selling endgame tier weapons and drugs to protagonists.
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- St. Petersburg
There is Wang Shen, Suyin's unwanted suitor.
There were calls for resolving the situation - or at least for looking into where we stand - before the truce is lifted, but I suppose the single interaction we've had with him didn't endear him to us. Since talking to friends is more pleasant than talking to potential enemies, and our social actions are limited, I am not sure we'd get to do it.
He is the only one here who has any kind of negative history with us, though. Between our allies, we might be able to manage.
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- Middle of Nowhere
Yeah, pretty much. We've been heading in this direction to shore up our average cultivation ability, it might not be a bad idea to go whole hog into it.
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- The United States
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- He/They
Aaaaaaaaaand now I'm finishing Atelier Sophie
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- Middle of Nowhere
Abyssal Spirits are Dolphin Spirit Beasts? I've been rereading the quest, and the fact that they like to hunt sharks has me drawing the connection.
EDIT: We should probably talk to Xu Kuo sometime about Spirit herb cultivation. He comes a farming family, so he might know something. Even if its as tedious as we read about, there might be some poor man's alternative to spirit herbs that might be easier to grow
EDIT: We should probably talk to Xu Kuo sometime about Spirit herb cultivation. He comes a farming family, so he might know something. Even if its as tedious as we read about, there might be some poor man's alternative to spirit herbs that might be easier to grow
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Could be giant squid
- Location
- Vicksburg, MS
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- NZ
Forge of Destiny by Yrsillar. It's let down by lack of yuri. It's Wuxia too except the MC is extremely talented peasant-come-immortal.
I wish there were more of these cultivator quests, there's one on QQ too.
Being Mediocre is fun at times, though getting only 2/30 successes sucks.
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- United States
Good catch. Orcas, to be precise.
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- Vicksburg, MS
Oh. I'm more familiar with that falling under the FoD acronym. A shame, I thought that there might be another one out there.
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- United States
Well, Even Further Beyond is another Xianxia quest but it's quite different from this one and FoD. There's also Lanterns of Safety which is a civilization quest in a wuxia setting.
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- Middle of Nowhere
I remember reading a Xianxia quest where the protagonist was a white collar worker who either died, or managed to stumble into a low-ranking spot in the Celestial Bureaucracy. Had some Xianxia elements, but I lost track of it, and I can't remember the name.
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- Tír fo Thuinn
It's literally called White Collar Cultivator.
Edit: There's also In a Cultivation World with a Cheat System.
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- Vicksburg, MS
Great. I got hooked on wuxia-ish CYOAs by treave so I'm always on the lookout to fill in a part of the hole his work's completion left.