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Huang Da got called back to his province after the war broke out. Kang Zihao, last I heard, was hanging out in some caves I think? Probably got recalled already.
Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
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Last we heard of Kang Zhao was that we saw him when we were doing our scout training in the inner. He made it into the inner sect but has been very quiet. Probably because he has very few allies in the inner sect since even Sun Lilling (technically a cousin of his) hates him.
I doubt he got recalled though, that would show cowardice and I don't think that the Kang who are imperial bodyguards would do that.
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Is the other Jun a noble? If not it's not a problem, at most he can marry into the Ling, which is only good for us, giviny us another cultivator(needless to say, the fact she showed some interest in him doesn't mean they are going to marry right away, or at all).
Caring for a few mortals and a red or two is pretty much nothing for us. It costs us much less than caring for the green Ma Jun herself. And they are commoners, so they are likely not tied to any major faction political wise. We would
It's interesting that Xia Lushen is an alchemist seemingly specialized in area effects like gases. It overlaps both Bai Meizhen's acid rain cultivation and Ling Qi's mist. He appears intended to occupy a similar narrative role as Lin Hai, a craftsman and source of interesting rewards, if of a more... Bai-ish nature.
Maybe what he'll offer will be something that complements our Mist since his own domain was described as a scentless, transparent vapor? The Hoarfrost Refrain is sort of analogous to an AoE Venom Tech which seems pretty much exactly his thing so maybe he'll offer a final Cold Talisman or instruction before FSS+. He engineered disease spirits so maybe he can offer BKSD and PLR some instruction. Consumables that lets us inject Venom as a stealth attack since we're currently lacking our own opener. Something else that also serves to help Meizhen, or some completely new Bai themed gift. The more I think about it the more he seems like the perfect person too boost our offensive suite.
Maybe what he'll offer will be something that complements our Mist since his own domain was described as a scentless, transparent vapor? The Hoarfrost Refrain is sort of analogous to an AoE Venom Tech which seems pretty much exactly his thing so maybe he'll offer a final Cold Talisman or instruction before FSS+. He engineered disease spirits so maybe he can offer BKSD and PLR some instruction. Consumables that lets us inject Venom as a stealth attack since we're currently lacking our own opener. Something else that also serves to help Meizhen, or some completely new Bai themed gift. The more I think about it the more he seems like the perfect person too boost our offensive suite.
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Yu Nuan or say Su Ling are easy cause they're solo. No hiccups to internal Ling politics becaue they'd ostensibly become martial sisters and be loyal to LQ. So their kids would grow up as "Ling" clan. Same with talented girls Qingge is recruiting. They may have mortal famikies, but their is no power structure backing them and they would be loyal / dependent on Qingge.
Ma shimai already have a family structure.
We know they're common cultivators affluent enough to afford tuition despite their family hardships. There's no explicit mention, but I bet they've got grandpa and gruncle potter, poppa and uncle potter, their cousins Harry and William Potter and the youngest generation of Jun, Lei and 6 cousins (I'm just asuming everyone has 2 kids, like Ma, Ling and Cai families. But they could be more). Jun n Lei are just the first of the family talented enough to enter the sect and reach green at a young age. Who knows if more reds and yellows are mixed in with the Ma. And that's just their father's side.
Adopting the whole family, as equal members of the Ling clan is the only reasonable way the Ma would agree. They wouldn't let baby Ling barony just steal their barony worthy superstars. And since they have baron level superstars becoming Ling vassals is a nonsensical demotion.
Point being that if we adopt the Ma into our Barony as equal Ling clan and not as subordinate vassals, Ling clan risks becoming Ma clan. Are the cultivator artisans just gonna roll over for disowned commoner, ex-prostitute, baby 1st realm Qingge without coveting that sweet Baronial power for Ma descendants?
As far as recruitment goes, Ma twins ought to be off limits.
Ma shimai already have a family structure.
We know they're common cultivators affluent enough to afford tuition despite their family hardships. There's no explicit mention, but I bet they've got grandpa and gruncle potter, poppa and uncle potter, their cousins Harry and William Potter and the youngest generation of Jun, Lei and 6 cousins (I'm just asuming everyone has 2 kids, like Ma, Ling and Cai families. But they could be more). Jun n Lei are just the first of the family talented enough to enter the sect and reach green at a young age. Who knows if more reds and yellows are mixed in with the Ma. And that's just their father's side.
Adopting the whole family, as equal members of the Ling clan is the only reasonable way the Ma would agree. They wouldn't let baby Ling barony just steal their barony worthy superstars. And since they have baron level superstars becoming Ling vassals is a nonsensical demotion.
Point being that if we adopt the Ma into our Barony as equal Ling clan and not as subordinate vassals, Ling clan risks becoming Ma clan. Are the cultivator artisans just gonna roll over for disowned commoner, ex-prostitute, baby 1st realm Qingge without coveting that sweet Baronial power for Ma descendants?
As far as recruitment goes, Ma twins ought to be off limits.
Gun Jun is sworn to GG and so if he and Ma Jun get betrothed, they will probably come with us when we leave the sect. Ma Jun is the baroness of her house, and so her immediate family will most likely follow her. That would mean CRX gets a shiny new baronial house with three Greens and a bunch of Reds and Yellows.
In the Shadow of Xiangmen I
Ancient Xiangmen stretched into the sky, its branches and leaves spreading to the horizon, its trunk a pillar of the world, dwarfing all but the mightiest mountain. Silent were the townships of the root hills and the plains. The farms stood empty, the workshops silent. Manor and hovel alike were empty.
They were come, after years of gathering wrath, they were come.
From the east, the hound lords, a great mass of riders with no bits or bridles, a mass of beasts, a mass of restlessness and dissatisfaction. At their head was a silver hound of three tails, its fur burning with the light of the moon, its eyes as suns. His tread shook the earth, splintered trees and flattened hills. His howl shook the sky and was joined by ten thousand of his kin.
From the north came the glittering host of underearth, each soldier girded with a prince's ransom. Tattered it was, great holes in its tapestry. Stone and soil came at their call, siegeworks sprouting from raw earth like weeds, its soldiers standing atop ramparts that should have taken a century to erect. At their head was the youngest Prince of Earth, his rich robe soiled, bearing a helm set with three gems of heartbreaking beauty that gleamed like the tears of the sun. Their glow was still darkened by elder's blood.
From the west came no host, but only a darkness, a mist, a shadow. Coiling among the ancient trees, cloying and grey. The strains of zithers, the piping of flutes the only sign of the wayward scions of the Labyrinth.
But from the south they came. Widows and widowers, orphans and grieving parents, the broken, the forgotten, the disdained. They came from the south, the ruined land, and their ruin gave them strength. The people of the land, the people of the cities. Soldiers and craftsmen, philosophers and clerks, priests and merchants. Their marching song was a primal howl, not of a beast, but achingly human. They called the masters of the world to account, and for the very first time, their cries did not vanish into the uncaring void. For with them walked titans, wrought of the fury which was born 'neath the cruel master's boot.
O Heavenly King of the South, The Crucible! Whose fires scourge the old, whose sword severs tradition, O furnace of war, devourer of lives and dreams alike!
O Heavenly King of the East, The Builder! Whose hands mould the land, and whose plans reshape the people, O crushing hammer which bends the world toward the future!
O Heavenly King of the West, The Orator! Whose rhetoric enflames the heart and instills the dream of the world yet to come, O harbinger of strife and breaker of kinship!
O heavenly King of the North, most precious of all, The Lover. Whose tears have brought a nation to its knees, who lives in every heart and cries out for every loss, O lady of vengeance and wrath, who will break all the world for the vision of her One!
And Lo, at their center is the Ideal, the Truth which will light the future aflame.
They were come, after years of gathering wrath, they were come.
From the east, the hound lords, a great mass of riders with no bits or bridles, a mass of beasts, a mass of restlessness and dissatisfaction. At their head was a silver hound of three tails, its fur burning with the light of the moon, its eyes as suns. His tread shook the earth, splintered trees and flattened hills. His howl shook the sky and was joined by ten thousand of his kin.
From the north came the glittering host of underearth, each soldier girded with a prince's ransom. Tattered it was, great holes in its tapestry. Stone and soil came at their call, siegeworks sprouting from raw earth like weeds, its soldiers standing atop ramparts that should have taken a century to erect. At their head was the youngest Prince of Earth, his rich robe soiled, bearing a helm set with three gems of heartbreaking beauty that gleamed like the tears of the sun. Their glow was still darkened by elder's blood.
From the west came no host, but only a darkness, a mist, a shadow. Coiling among the ancient trees, cloying and grey. The strains of zithers, the piping of flutes the only sign of the wayward scions of the Labyrinth.
But from the south they came. Widows and widowers, orphans and grieving parents, the broken, the forgotten, the disdained. They came from the south, the ruined land, and their ruin gave them strength. The people of the land, the people of the cities. Soldiers and craftsmen, philosophers and clerks, priests and merchants. Their marching song was a primal howl, not of a beast, but achingly human. They called the masters of the world to account, and for the very first time, their cries did not vanish into the uncaring void. For with them walked titans, wrought of the fury which was born 'neath the cruel master's boot.
O Heavenly King of the South, The Crucible! Whose fires scourge the old, whose sword severs tradition, O furnace of war, devourer of lives and dreams alike!
O Heavenly King of the East, The Builder! Whose hands mould the land, and whose plans reshape the people, O crushing hammer which bends the world toward the future!
O Heavenly King of the West, The Orator! Whose rhetoric enflames the heart and instills the dream of the world yet to come, O harbinger of strife and breaker of kinship!
O heavenly King of the North, most precious of all, The Lover. Whose tears have brought a nation to its knees, who lives in every heart and cries out for every loss, O lady of vengeance and wrath, who will break all the world for the vision of her One!
And Lo, at their center is the Ideal, the Truth which will light the future aflame.
This seems to be a dramatization of Shenhua's overthrow of the Hui.Ahhhhhh. So. Cool.
OMG now I can't wait to see Xiangmen's response... the big tree baddie is gonna kick some ass.
The tree isn't gonna bail those dickbags out.
This is such a cool surprise sidestory! The Hui are about to be destroyed!
From the North we've got the Bao who has obviously just finished their own civil war in the clan with the young Bao prince having slain his elders though obviously not without reprisal.
From the West we have the Meng who I must say remind me alot of Qi with the mentions of music mist and shadows.
And from the south we have the remnants of all the clans that were brutalized by the nomads and the inaction of the Hui.
I'm so excited we get to see this! I've been wanting see what shenhua actually did for so long!
So coming from the East we got the Luo who I guess weren't as neutral as it's been said here to crush the Hui.
From the North we've got the Bao who has obviously just finished their own civil war in the clan with the young Bao prince having slain his elders though obviously not without reprisal.
From the West we have the Meng who I must say remind me alot of Qi with the mentions of music mist and shadows.
And from the south we have the remnants of all the clans that were brutalized by the nomads and the inaction of the Hui.
This obviously refers to Xia Ren as she has been called the Crucible before and is a being of fire and numbers.
This must be the Wang that sided with Shenhua and got promoted to count after this.
That means that this must be the Jia? I'm unsure about this one.
And this must be Diao Linqing, the Prime Minister and Shenhua's lover.
And obviously this is Shenhua herself.
I'm so excited we get to see this! I've been wanting see what shenhua actually did for so long!
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That does make sense. The Northern host clearly maps to the Bao, the East to the Luo, the West to the Meng, and the South the various disenfranchised groups who suffered because of the Hui, from which the Jia and Wang were raised. The Diao are probably with the Southern group - were they comital prior to Shenhua's rise? I can't remember if they were raised up alongside the Jia and Wang or if they were older then that.
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Also this proves Shenhua had four heavenly kings for her take over so CRX needs to get her own complete mini boss squad. While the group we traveled to the South with might work we'll need to work together more to be true four heavenly kings
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UnlikelyAhhhhhh. So. Cool.
OMG now I can't wait to see Xiangmen's response... the big tree baddie is gonna kick some ass.
Tree does not care for such petty squabbles, Tree was here before the Empire was even an idea, Tree will still be here long afterDiscord said:
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I wonder how many wood cultivators pilgrimage to Xiangmen and are like "Teach me how to Tree O Great One". Xiangmen probably doesn't pay attention, but the cultivators might learn something just from studying the Heavenly Pillarwood.
...There's probably a lot to gain from Dreamwalking in Xiangmen as well. Lots of history there.
...There's probably a lot to gain from Dreamwalking in Xiangmen as well. Lots of history there.
For the people confused about who Shenhua's Heavenly Kings are, Lin Hai explicitly names 3 people that were instrumental to Shenhua pulling off her coup:
There's probably a lot to kill you when Dreamwalking in Xiangmen as well.
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I feel a Xiao Fen vs Gan Guangli would be more fitting for the finals.
And a good opportunity for Yrs to ask which side Ling Qi is cheering for.
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GG and LQ makes two. Three if she takes Meizhen.
#Almost there!
[Edit] a mastermind move would be to get her little sister