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Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)

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Like Xin said, it is not malevolent and like LQ said, it is her choice to take the lessons in or discard them. So cool your jets with the whole being "careful". It does not help at all.
 
I think the end result in regards to Jiao would have been similar in the broad strokes if we picked formation rather than politics. I am sad for Boundary. It has been snubbed yet again.
 
Ling Qi still being Xin's best tool to knock them into paths that she wants.
yrsillar said:
"There wasn't any way for Zeqing and Hanyi to continue the way they had forever, then," Ling Qi replied, brushing her fingers through Hanyi's hair.

"Yes," Xin replied sadly. "Your appearance is what gave me the opportunity to help my friend, it worked as well as could be expected, for everyone involved."

Ling Qi wondered if she should feel resentful at the manipulation, but quickly dismissed the notion. That Xin could more clearly see the outcomes of her actions did not change their character.

"If it makes you feel any better, predicting the future is just a matter of gambling with the odds visible, as I understand," Sixiang murmured.

"As my niece said. Though a wise diviner knows how to weight the die, as it were," she said with a slight smile. "But in the end the world is not a Xianqqi board. The pieces move themselves and there are no players. No diviner can have full certainty in their predictions, and the belief that one can has lead many to ruin..."
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Zeqing was just practice!
 
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Gaol by itself was fine, until we decided to use Huisheng's Qi as our weapon in the tribulation. That's when lessons within his souls tuff unfurled themselves.
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Vanguard_D said:
Like Xin said, it is not malevolent and like LQ said, it is her choice to take the lessons in or discard them. So cool your jets with the whole being "careful". It does not help at all.
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She also said that good intentions only amount to so much.
I'm not saying that we stop going to the Gaol altogether. I just wanted to point out that the next visit is definitely going to be different. And that the inherent, explicitly stated danger of cultivating in the Gaol will likely be even greater.
There will be a moment when Ling Qi has to decide to what extent she wants to continue her relationship with Huiseng in the future, and that moment isn't all that far away.
 
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Vanguard_D said:
Like Xin said, it is not malevolent and like LQ said, it is her choice to take the lessons in or discard them. So cool your jets with the whole being "careful". It does not help at all.
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The mentor/mentee relationship is, itself, dangerous in Forgeverse, and deserves to be treated with care. It was dangerous with Zeqing, and Dreaming, and it is with Skeluncle too. LQ has been getting a lot of reminders about this kind of danger pretty much throughout the story, including in this chapter.
We don't have to be paranoid, but we can't just ignore the danger either.
 
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I mean, Huisheng will definitely be our third advanced insight tribulation. But I think avoiding is not a solution. We are too similar yet different for us to not delve deeper.
 
ReignTorrential said:
The mentor/mentee relationship is, itself, dangerous in Forgeverse, and deserves to be treated with care. It was dangerous with Zeqing, and Dreaming, and it is with Skeluncle too. LQ has been getting a lot of reminders about this kind of danger pretty much throughout the story, including in this chapter.
We don't have to be paranoid, but we can't just ignore the danger either.
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Having one monstrous mentor is a problem for you, having six monstrous mentors is a problem for them :V
 
Once we have trained under every dangerous yet semi sociable creature in the Emerald Seas, i say we go and see if we can get adopted by Granny Snek as well. :V
 
ReignTorrential said:
The mentor/mentee relationship is, itself, dangerous in Forgeverse, and deserves to be treated with care. It was dangerous with Zeqing, and Dreaming, and it is with Skeluncle too. LQ has been getting a lot of reminders about this kind of danger pretty much throughout the story, including in this chapter.
We don't have to be paranoid, but we can't just ignore the danger either.
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Heh the mentore/mentee relationship isn't that dangerous! We only gave Sixiang some anxiety from our second Tribulation which is a lot better than blowing up Zequing! Maybe my the time we're done with Skelly Uncle he'll be intact enough for to mentor someone else!
 
I want to see Huisheng again largely just to see what his reaction is. On one hand, Dreamwalking is required to get to him at all, so the fact "donning his mantle" (Mantle?) with just his Qi would probably only work in Dream isn't that much of an impediment; on the other hand, even among those sympathetic to his Way, it feels like you'd have to be going fairly deep into an Empathy or Understanding or Communication Way to do what Ling Qi did. Sure, if you had Acting or Lying or Deceit or the like as a pillar of your Way, you could probably still use another's Qi to put on an act, but I don't think it'd leave a lingering mark like Ling Qi did. It's the difference between briefly adopting a face as your own and just wearing a mask.

So rather than him steepling his fingers and thinking, "Just as planned," I'm thinking his reaction may be more along the lines of, "oh, that's interesting." I'd like to see him at least a little surprised!
 
This is among the most impactful and best chapters yet in this quest. LQ has been through a lot, grown a lot and this conversation with Elder Jiao feels like a long-awaited affirmation of how far she's come from that uncertain, scared girl who just arrived at the Outer Sect.
 
Eastern Calculus said:
This is among the most impactful and best chapters yet in this quest. LQ has been through a lot, grown a lot and this conversation with Elder Jiao feels like a long-awaited affirmation of how far she's come from that uncertain, scared girl who just arrived at the Outer Sect.
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It's a really good chapter. It does a lot to draw together a lot of the philosophical threads the story has been juggling and is an excellent mirror to the first lessons with Elder Jiao where we didn't know what we wanted or where we were going.
 
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