fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
And unfortunately for them cultivators can see though their masks with ease.yep, those women have a lot of bad experiences with cultivators. mask goes on instantly once they see one.
Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
- Thread starter yrsillar
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fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
They are tightly entwined, but not identical. The town's Red & Gold guards do not have more power than it's mortal governors; Shenhua doesn't have more power than the Prism-level Empress; a Yellow-level bodyguard doesn't have more power than the merchant who he is hired to protect. Cultivation is an important type of power, but status/backing count for a lot, as does (to a lesser extent) wealth.
In the case of the women here, they are a lot more likely to have run into derived power (e.g. officials, servants for more serious cultivators) then meaningfully powerful cultivators themselves.
- Location
- United States of America
ehh. ehh...
I mean, MNO is good... but it won't make us look like a mortal. It will make our form indistinct and hazy to those searching for it with spiritual senses, but it won't make people mistake us for a mortal.
Who?Clearly we need to ask Meizhen's Dad for a lesser version of his Stealth Art.
notanautomaton
I've got 99 quests, I've finished one
Probably someone like Boruto's dad, idk.
- Location
- earth
Cabbage vendor, obviously.
Sundancer
Always drifting~
- Location
- Germany
That was a sweet update. Someone might say it was boring or nothing happened, but honestly, this are the kinds of moments in stories I like the most.
Interacting with people important to you, and also meeting normal people and seeing their reaction and their world. With how much we interact with peers and our 'betters', I really like any glimpses we get at mortals or even 'normal' Cultivators. (Hint: A mere Green Cultivator is a reasonable big deal for most other Cultivators...)
Biyu continues to be adorable (and keeps hinting at significant talent), and Hanyi seems to go for the lowkey terrifying, but mostly adorable route. I like it.
Sixiang was great, especially his implication that mortals matter, too, and are still human. Duh! But it feels good that some said it.
It plays well with Qinge's motherly glare when the topic of the blizzard came up and Ling Qi was all smooth, distracting laugh. Nothing suspicious to see here, at all!
Ling Qi coming around to 'taking her mother' serious, and including her feels like a good, natural evolution of the recent insights and the setup of this scene. Well done, Yrs.
The servant's behaviours were fine with me. It looks pretty negative from our modern point of view, but... It seems absolutely normal for ancient Not!China, especially Cultivator land. They might get a little more comfortable with us, and less fearful but it will probably never go away and it shouldn't. It's not how that society works, and breaking that isn't helpful to anyone. It seems Ling Qi is handling this reasonable well. Behaving mostly noble like, giving the 'commoners' something known and expected to react to.
A house party... well that might be fun, or very awkward, depending on how it is received or played out. Still, guess it's better to practice and have one with Xiulan before inviting Cai Renxiang and have her hang out with Biyu!
PS:
Still wanna abduct Biyu for myself >-<!
Interacting with people important to you, and also meeting normal people and seeing their reaction and their world. With how much we interact with peers and our 'betters', I really like any glimpses we get at mortals or even 'normal' Cultivators. (Hint: A mere Green Cultivator is a reasonable big deal for most other Cultivators...)
Biyu continues to be adorable (and keeps hinting at significant talent), and Hanyi seems to go for the lowkey terrifying, but mostly adorable route. I like it.
Sixiang was great, especially his implication that mortals matter, too, and are still human. Duh! But it feels good that some said it.
It plays well with Qinge's motherly glare when the topic of the blizzard came up and Ling Qi was all smooth, distracting laugh. Nothing suspicious to see here, at all!
Ling Qi coming around to 'taking her mother' serious, and including her feels like a good, natural evolution of the recent insights and the setup of this scene. Well done, Yrs.
The servant's behaviours were fine with me. It looks pretty negative from our modern point of view, but... It seems absolutely normal for ancient Not!China, especially Cultivator land. They might get a little more comfortable with us, and less fearful but it will probably never go away and it shouldn't. It's not how that society works, and breaking that isn't helpful to anyone. It seems Ling Qi is handling this reasonable well. Behaving mostly noble like, giving the 'commoners' something known and expected to react to.
A house party... well that might be fun, or very awkward, depending on how it is received or played out. Still, guess it's better to practice and have one with Xiulan before inviting Cai Renxiang and have her hang out with Biyu!
PS:
Still wanna abduct Biyu for myself >-<!
- Location
- United States of America
Ling Qi: It may not seem like it, but I'm sure you'll quickly learn that if you have to ask that question, the answer is probably yes.
The update says she's still a mortal, so she hasn't broken through to Red yet. Still, she's close enough that another month or two is likely to see her break through.
globalwarmth
ruining the weather.
- Location
- Polar ice caps
its not entirely untrue...
we sorta-kinda are responsible for her growth and adopted her
EternalObserver
eYe Gaze baCk
- Location
- The Void
New sister for Biyu.
Also like how Ling Qi gets a brief flashback of Qingge going into parent mode towards her. She about to get introduced once again to the Qi shenanigans.
Also like how Ling Qi gets a brief flashback of Qingge going into parent mode towards her. She about to get introduced once again to the Qi shenanigans.
No, that's Sixiang.
- Location
- The Temple of the Winds
Everyone in the thread, and in-story, knows that "little brother" is Ling Qi code speak for "son".
I'll let you make the deduction what "little sister" means...
I would say that in this case it is more of Ling Qi being bad at appearing normal. And that Biyu are receptive, recognize and are comfortable with the only cultivator she know about.
With this and the whole thing earlier, the guards and servants of the other high-class households, Ling Qi is getting the panicky -incoming-VIP treatment. She had some experience with that — the whole shaman event and the lumberyard mortals, the deference from the Red and Yellow cultivators under Renxiang's council — but it still seems to be weird for her. When will she be acclimated? It's been roughly almost a year since people have been regarding her as a representative of high-class authority and power.
While I hesitate to assign magical cause to this reaction (because that's stupid, especially when the mundane explanation is much simplier), I wonder if Ling Qi simply will never be able to implicitly accept she has overwhelming power over anyone, due to how she slotted in FVM and FSS. In other words, Ling Qi carved [Once, she was nothing] into her spirit, as half of those insights; so she will never really be able to comprehend the authority of her positions in society.
Note that Domain auras are basically the cultivators' spirit let loose from their body. Here, Ling Qi isn't knocking on a door, she actually is surprise glomping her mother and sister.
On that note, I'm wondering exactly what music are Biyu and Qingge hearing from Qi's aura; the base Domain is whatever the Moon Maidens were playing in the Domain vision, probably, but now Ling Qi has slotted in FVM and FSS. What Ling Qi took from those songs are way happier than the originals, but Biyu seems to think the music is a fun and entertaining composition.
...What, Xiulan is the catty social spec of Ling Qi's friends. She can behave but she's only not the high noble of Ling Qi's social circle because her other friends are literally the people "high noble" is defined around! Suyin would be better choice as the tutorial level, since she's mortal nobility from her father's ministerial position, and cultivator nobility when she breaks through.
By which she means, Zeqing literally told Ling Qi her attitude hurts Zeqing as a mother.
- Location
- United States of America
Xiulan is certainly a better shock test or a litmus test. Suyin will be able to help point out some of the more necessary requirements, but Xiulan will notice a lot of the more subtle things that need doing and given Xiulan's upbringing she'll have a more in-depth understanding of what is required to host other cultivators.
So I could see having Suyin as an initial run to see where the obvious faults are, and then having Xiulan run through as a stress test and giving a more in-depth guide to how our household can improve.
Maybe one day we can introduce Best Snek Q_Q
What part of the insights we slotted remotely suggest this?
TimEd
Meteor maker
I cant wait for Sixiang to pile on and explain her existance to Ling Qi's mother. Maybe also have her include the Moon Rave and how Ling Qi was barely concious at some parts of it.
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
Alas, she is likely to give our peeps heart attacks.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
Not unless we get a domain power that will protect them.