Yeah probably mixing it up with somethng else
Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
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It could turn around. You don't know.
Sounds to me like a Muay Thai based Jyuken where instead of tapping the target to inject crippling qi, you kick them in the balls AND inflict crippling qi with that
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I was only explaining how it works, I wasn't saying to push it for later
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@yrsillar I loved this arc and how it showed our insights at work. AM insight is about judging people over how truthfull they are and our advanced insight is about taking in account the other part of our relationships.
Both combined led us to apply AM insight to ourselves and thus revealing our other members of our familly.
Edit: our advanced insight was also visible in us thinking about Cai now that I re read the update.
[x] Xuan Shi: For once, the odd boy has called in your offered favor. He wishes for your aid in penetrating the interior of an odd little temple full of traps and puzzles.
Both combined led us to apply AM insight to ourselves and thus revealing our other members of our familly.
Edit: our advanced insight was also visible in us thinking about Cai now that I re read the update.
[x] Xuan Shi: For once, the odd boy has called in your offered favor. He wishes for your aid in penetrating the interior of an odd little temple full of traps and puzzles.
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[X] Xuan Shi: For once, the odd boy has called in your offered favor. He wishes for your aid in penetrating the interior of an odd little temple full of traps and puzzles.
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You know, perhaps we can outsource training Zhengui to Xuan Shi?
He should be good for raising up lik bro's base stats and skills, which should help all around.
He should be good for raising up lik bro's base stats and skills, which should help all around.
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mmmm...maybe. It's not a bad idea, though I think that requires higher level of bond.
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We are just going exploring with him.
Trading in favors like these is multually beneficial and the exploration and shenanigans are good to read, and also profitable in and of themselves.
Gotta start building that SL some way or another. "Lil Bro's Personal Trainer" might as well be it.
Ling Qi also digs formations a fair bit.
For reference, these are some authentic videos of what Muay Thai looks like:
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makes me die inside
tons of martial arts do that, especially the authentic ones. hard/soft isn't always going to tell you which style is going for the brutal ultraviolence, either. karate, at least as I know it, is as hard as hard gets but originally incorporated tons of eye stabs and joint manipulation
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[X] Shen Hu: The taciturn boy has approached you for once. He has found the abandoned lair of an underworld dragon, but is not confident that he can face the scavengers that fill it unopposed.
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I mean if you want jyuken there's baguazhang, the Chinese martial art that jyuken is based off of (quite literally since baguazhang translates to "eight trigrams palm"). Its considered a comparatively "softer" marital art in the lexicon of Chinese kungfu. Lots of circlely and flowy movements.
Temple Treasure 2
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Part 2 of Temple Treasure
Just what is this treasure they were looking for? Just what is it that Xuan Shi wants in this temple so badly that he would seek assistance from Cai's retainer, Ling Qi? Now....for the reveal we are all waiting for...
Yep, Tales of Yu Long has returned. Now in its sequel, Emerald Escapades. Yes, @Orkus Majorkus you were right, it is indeed a trashy romance novel
@yrsillar here's the sequel, enjoy
Just what is this treasure they were looking for? Just what is it that Xuan Shi wants in this temple so badly that he would seek assistance from Cai's retainer, Ling Qi? Now....for the reveal we are all waiting for...
Yep, Tales of Yu Long has returned. Now in its sequel, Emerald Escapades. Yes, @Orkus Majorkus you were right, it is indeed a trashy romance novel
@yrsillar here's the sequel, enjoy
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Until you get to the very top reaches of cultivation it's the latter, though it's more like there's a slow reduction in the parts that 'matter'
That said once your reaching the point where your organs stop mattering much you have to worry about direct attacks on your dantian and the meridian system you've carved for yourself, so it's more like ones vulnerabilities change rather than disappear.
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Snakemaid style sounds to me as mix of Silat and one of the 'softer' kungfu styles.
That is not Muay Thai. Not in the slightest. It's a crude distorted imagining of what Hollywood thinks Muay Thai is. It's wildly inaccurate, crude and, to me, frankly distasteful.
This is what authentic Muay Thai looks like:
Or perhaps this, which is a beautiful yet brutal display of Muay Khao, a close ranged style focusing on knees and elbows:
For something more recent, perhaps this, featuring Saenchai playing with his food. You may need to skip a bit into the video to get to the start of the fight:
Miss me with that Hollywood bullshit. This is proper Muay Thai.
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See my post above.
Modern Muay Thai is very much a hard striking art, though there is extensive joint manipulation in the clinch. It's straightforward and simple at its core, eschuewing most flashy or impractical strikes in favour of brutal effectiveness, yet at the highest level becomes a beautiful and subtle interplay of rhythm, balance and sheer mental grit to shrug off even the most painful strikes with a smile.
Muay Boran, the older style from which Muay Thai was derived before it became a codified sport in the 40s (and similarly, Lert Rit, the military style), was more lethal, featuring bone breaking off joint locks and strikes mean to permanent cripple or that would be considered unsporting today. Boran fighters used to wrap their wrists and hands in hemp rope, dip them in resin and then shards of broken glass, and would fight until one fighter conceded, was knocked out, or died. Many of these old techniques have been lost, and Boran today is mostly a demonstration art form, though in more rural areas of Thailand you might still find styles closer to it today. Lert Rit is still practiced, but finding a teacher outside of the Thai military is exceedingly hard.
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