A challenge limit like "one/no spirits" could still give them a shot, but then they'd need something to counter our stealth and flight (or exclude those out of a challenge as well), and hit hard and fast enough through our soon-to-be Perfect (though expensive) defenses. So yeah probably not common at all for peers at the same cultivation level.
Yeah, as we saw with Sword-bro individuals who meet that description are gonna rely on a force multiplier of some stripe. And thatll be something we can't really plan around since those are trump-card tier deals, or will take the form of either some kind of talisman (the disposable type, as we saw with Suyin or Disciple 80-something) or a Bound Spirit.
Because it was
but sometimes, you can feel that your friend treats what you did is an abomination and either be an influence to have that someone change (fat chance with Zeqing) or said person will feel that they dont need friends who treat their act borne of necessity (everyone feels their act is a necessity) as disgusting.
Particularly in this case. She asked us if she'd fucked up because she knows her judgement is compromised.
An interesting observation is that out of all of our spirits, only Hanyi will actually have known her father. Zhengui never knew his father, Ling Qi has never known her father, and Sixiang doesn't have a father.
No can do on that front, not until Qingge breaksthrough anyway. As a mortal she would be incapable of understanding Hanyi
so? The recent vote clearpy were in favor of finding Zeqings act distasteful.
You can definitely think someone went far beyond acceptable limits and also think that person is your best friend and really like them. Those aren't contradictory, and it's easy to sympathise with someone doing something monstrous and not think that they are themselves a monster.
Questionable whether we can really consider sitting with the mannequin containing stitched together pieces of her father really "knowing" him. She sees him as Zeqing says he "should have been" so I'd say it's more like an interactive puppet show of a long gone fantasy.
I wonder if Zeqing hid that fact that Hanyi's father is a puppeted corpse was less because it would frighten Hanyi and more so that Zeqing could still pretend they were an unbroken family.
