So guys, I just caught up to the thread and I realized nobody brought this up.
We know who's at the archives.
Ji Rong.
Everyone forgot a named character was specifically stated to be in there literally fighting the legal code?
It's neat seeing Ling Qi assess her targets and which one has priority. Seeing her be confident about tanking the spear user, and mostly ignore the buffer since she's killing most the beasts anyway and focus on the one with all the pouches since she didn't know what it could do was a nice touch. I do wonder if the purple acid blob and the mist coming from the spear played any part in the inspiration for AE.
Ling Qi: "Well, after you had Sun Liling chasing after you with a spear of ultimate pain and blood, this guy didn't really feel worth much"
Amazing chapter, but when the black Sludge started acting up, I couldn't help but mourn the delicious loot it ate
Look at it another way: We already looted literally everything we could carry. Suyin's whole stack of storage items and her constructs are fully loaded down through the whole battle.
And then we set whatever the ooze didn't eat on fire.
So, it seems that for a good portion of the fight, we were actually dancing and dodging on top of the corpses of these spirit beast like things. Which just brings to mind the image of creating a hill of bodies that our opponents have to climb in order to reach us.
That didn't seem to happen here, but probably because we kept moving and killing. Effectually laying down a carpet of corpses in our wake. I don't know how many of the reds and yellows we killed, but it was enough to carpet the whole area.
Appropriate moment for this:
Out of the surface of her (Durga's) forehead, fierce with frown, issued suddenly Kali of terrible countenance, armed with a sword and noose. Bearing the strange khatvanga (skull-topped staff ), decorated with a garland of skulls, clad in a tiger's skin, very appalling owing to her emaciated flesh, with gaping mouth, fearful with her tongue lolling out, having deep reddish eyes, filling the regions of the sky with her roars, falling upon impetuously and slaughtering the great asuras in that army, she devoured those hordes of the foes of the devas.
Kali consumes Raktabija and his duplicates, and dances on the corpses of the slain.
Humans have cores. You just can't eat tasty dantians without delving into a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.
From what we learned I think its less
needing a forbidden path and more that its usually behavior which leads to others killing you super dead because they can detect the traces of it and they're going to do some preemptive self defense now.
If anything, considering that humans can't consume beast cores without additional preparation, it might well be easier to eat people cores.
The goo was the muck. Area denial weapon, kill the swarm and the ooze eats the the corpses growing in strength as it goes. Considering that the trap that held our domain weapon disappeared when the support tinker died, the ooze might have started to rampage when its controller died.
Not "what it did" but more "what the fuck was that?"
Edit: and in any case. If all you wanted is flying, wouldn't it make more sense to get a dedicated art rather than something some old guy made on a whim?
That doesn't make sense, Flight is super rare in Green, thus theres not going to be dedicated flight arts in Green.
And the whim is being overemphasized. Its made at good quality, the Elder who did it just didn't consider that most Green cultivators cannot fly(dance is a lesser factor, you could learn to dance if you wanted, but no matter how you try a Green won't fly), and cultivators who've learned how to fly are so far past a Green 1 art that theres no reason to ever learn it.
Speaking as someone who finds it cute and fun, but not really an important art to focus on, it'd be a lot more productive to promote another art to learn instead with the saved AP if you want to persuade people.
