We were told that awakening early's benefits were mainly in training arts to get a head start in building your foundation weren't we? I think it was in the context of han jian being a slacker.
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Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
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Wow, it's like you haven't been following the thread at all.
The primary purpose of awakening early isn't to push her cultivation level. It's to help her ramp up her mundane skills, and make her less likely to fall ill and die from a cold in a time period without mundane antibiotics.
Also, it gives them more time to round out a few arts.
Cultivators learn mundane skills at a rate that blows mortal learning rates out of the water. To reiterate my previous example, Qigge spends decades with the flute and never reaches peak human. Ling Qi goes from less skill than her mom, to superhuman levels of playing in a few months.
It's a deathworld. It goes without saying that it's dangerous.
Also, isnt it lucky that we have a friend that makes a meridian opening aid that leeches half that crud out? In fact, possessing such a thing seems pretty feasible.
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Found the quote!
Aside from that, I found something else.
I wonder what Emerald seas is stereotyped as? Tree hugging tea drinkers?
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Westerners are viscous barbarians, nothing at all like us slick easterners
We're southerners though.
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I'm just trying to make puns man why you gotta bring the facts like this
Problem solved. Ling Qi not interested.
Time to find something else to riot about!
This really doesn't solve the problem. It just kicks it down the road for a few years.
Like stereotypes! In hindsight Sun Liling really didn't help her province image with how she behaved in the Sect so far, huh? I mean, she was always a rough house princess but I thought she was going against the image of the formal noble princess. With this it kinda feels more like she was playing up a western caricature.
Her position is pretty weak due to her being just a green and sent outside of her native region. Playing up the stereotype could ensure people from her region stay loyal to her.
We have no idea. For some reason Cultivatior Clans usually don't have their children awaken early. They probably have a reason; we should find out what it is.
People from her region have to stay loyal or get murdered by the Bai anyway.
She wanted to stand out with authority I think. Which meant she had two approaches to image:
1) Contest these inner province girls in their area of expertise, potentially lose to those super ladylike girls who grew up on courtly intrigue and look a country bumpkin.
2) Don't play the game, in fact, ham up how much you are beyond such dumb games because you are a such certified badass.
Then it turns out Renxiang plays the game, but doesn't much look the part. Meizhen looks the part but doesn't play the game.
Liling probably could have straight outprincessed them both. But Meizhen out badassed her.
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Liling and Meizhen are like equally badass. Liling is bananas good and lost because of an information game more than anything else. She also has way cooler aesthetics.
But Meizhen is cooler!
Liling is hotter!
Lies.
DAMN LIES.
As for Liling. Honestly, her playing up the barbarian angle lead to people underestimating her a few times.
Liling was mentioned to be ah...top heavy. Meizhen is smol, white and slim(ilya?)
But yes, people see the raging barbarian they keep forgetting she's also taught strategy, if a little impulse driven
Ideals of feminine beauty can vary wildly.
Hell, Renren has attracted a lot of attention in that department.
And I think that's enough said on this subject, as most of the cast is fourteen-fifteen.
It was mostly for the memes anyway.
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Gold. Bronze is Physical Cultivation's equivalent to Green.
1) The Bais aren't the only province of the empire 2) My point was that her minions could have abandonned her to focus on cultivating, which is pretty different from abandonning the Suns.
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Stop with that. Empire does a lot to ensure that it's cities are not that much of a deathworld and a city within a Sect's zone of influence? Oh boy, only the dumbest spirits would try their shit there.
Arkeus
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@yrsillar has forgotten to add them to the tutorial, yes
Cultivation stages are as follows
Spiritual
Mortal->Red->Yellow->Green->Cyan->Indigo->Violet->Prism->White
Physical
Mortal->Gold->Silver->Bronze->Iron->Steel->Adamant->Orichalcum->Divine
Green Stages:
Early, Appraisal, Foundation, Threshold, Framing, Formation, Fortification, Completion
EDIT: Sun Liling, Bai Meizhen and Cai Renxiang are in Appraisal