Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
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If Sun Shao had lean so hard on an affiliated ducal house he would be an emperor already; I sincerely doubt he can influence the Jin to that extent and furthermore he has no reason to do so.
Shenhua showing to the tournament pregnant was a show of strength revealing that even if Renxiang fucks up Shenhua can still easily replace her. There is no benefit to fucking with Shenhua's heir from Sun Shao point of view because it will waste resources while not actually harming Shenhua all that much (and Shenhua showed that her counters were far more damaging).
Sun Liling can double down on her fight because it's a schoolyard squabble, but Sun Shao was already burned that way once and he would be wary of repeating the same mistake again.
Flexibility isnt something Whites are good at, unfortunately
Their Ways are pretty firmly set, by that point
I think it should be pointed out here that she did not say that the Jin was on the side of the Sun. She was just noting who the significant first year cultivators (in her eyes) were.
While it is true that the Jin could fall on the Sun's side, as far as we know their main interest is in maintaining the lucrative trade routes that go through their ports that the Xuan are looking at moving away from. They could be looking at trying to establish better relations with the Bai/Cai/Xuan so that they don't get shut out by the Xuan moving their trade over to Bai ports.
My feeling is that they weren't really paying attention last year, but then the Bai/Cai/Xuan stuff happened and they went "shit, we need to be there".
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Kai Merah
Hound Hearted Hedonist
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No bulli best snek
What bully? Meizhen wasn't even in this chapter.
Surely you couldn't be suggesting anyone else could be best snek?
Ling Qi is amazingly incurious when it comes to things outside her tunnel vision isn't she?
Embroidery?
I kind of wonder just how good she is at it, except Shenhua wouldn't accept less than perfect anyway.
[Anticipation]
The Zhengui Surprise never gets old.
Also Zhengui is going to outstealth basically anything a Mid Yellow could do hehehe.
Oh, that explains a bit of how Hanyi is a bunch weaker than usual. She's in the same situation as Sixiang was, incomplete breakthrough?
[Parses the image in mind]
...is that a combat maid uniform?
Ling Qi is going to spend this whole session channeling her mentors huh?
So she can sense the ambient qi being too high in Wood and Fire and put it down to a cultivation site?
Its a good habit to get into with close subordinates.
Still...she's a bit of a bludgeon isn't she?
Hmm, that'd PROBABLY lead to some really weird Domain structures, but if you don't mind the human costs I suppose it would be a good way to build a Support Domain in the Bai snakepit.
And THAT explains the trust. Bais' memory for grudges no doubt extends to their own blood kin. Which is why the giant snakepit.
And in a snakepit the one who chose NOT to fight would get appropriate rewards to keep it that way.
Being the closest confidant of a potential future Clan Head is a lot of soft power.
Hopefully she can digest that before she hits the Green threshold. It'd be interesting going forward.
And you know, something interesting about the Sect formula of putting a lot of youths gaining Insights rapidly in close contact with each other is...that insight can be contagious and reflect off each other.
Someone cultivating at home with only their elders to advise and guide them would be more molded into a known shape. The Sects put the ideas to mix where they normally wouldn't, you wouldn't have such immense variety interacting without the regimented song and dance of formal events.
Putting aside the amusing bits I think they really ARE friends of sorts.
-A Bai called him appropriately ruthless. Kind of a scary thought that.
-No hesitation in retaliating equally and in kind to a Bai Scion in sparring.
-[Interprets] I think he likes poking fun at proud nobles without the skill to back it up? Or at least being very sarcastic.
-She is aware of his interests in beverages. That says a bit more interest in him than merely a promising future minion.
The Sun are doubling down. No surprise with Liling's warning.
They lost face and now they must make it back.
Xiao Fen is in for interesting times because every single one of them will be aiming to take her down a peg.
Green cultivation resources aren't exactly highly available out there so thats a relief. Bet the Sun are running their own feeds there.
Also Shenhua continues to be playing games beyond our perception. Renxiang wouldn't HAVE that intel, and unless she had her own personal intel network before she entered the Sect, this much SHOULD come from her status as Province Heir.
i.e. Shenhua let it happen. Possibly in response to the Sun stepping up their efforts?
We're teaching Zhengui to do the hill trick as a prank to scare the shit out of people. This is great.
Thats a nice Fire site for Zhengui too!
His name is a gift that keeps on giving.
What I'm getting from this is that Ling Qi has absolutely no idea how to teach a student and is copying her past tutors.
So basically like most teachers
Not quite. Its not logical, but Sun Shao's Way and personality both demands that he support his darling granddaughter, and the way she lost last year to everyone who mattered.
That said...
Mm, yeah that makes sense on the Jin's part. The whole mess with the tournament last year kind of showed that they didn't realize the Sect has become a political battlefield, and thus missed their chance to play. They want in.
The Sun's play is in flooding the field with people from the various Sun servitor clans. THAT is their play. The big shots moved up, so now its a contest between the Bai Servant, the Cai Servant, the Han(themselves Lu servants?) and the infusion of fresh Sun Servants.
They've proven themselves as fighters. But how's their leadership?
Meanwhile, Cai Shenhua continues to keikaku everything.
Why?
Because everyone's playing on her field. Her province. Whatever happens, the next year after this is going to be packed with even more nobles sending kids to ensure they have a voice on the political junior leagues.
She wins by default. By coming here to be important at each other, they made her important. She needs to expend no additional effort to participate, most of the Sect's students are going to be Emerald Seas because thats where the Sect is. And most Emerald Seas students aren't stupid enough to outright cross their Duke.
And THAT means she gets connections. All these kids will grow up to be important persons back home. They'd have friends and vassals from Emerald Seas.
Sun Shao literally doesn't have the ability to order the Jin around, it's preposterous to suggest it; he doesn't have the ability to command other ducal houses.
@Erebeal point about the Jin sending a scion to the sect to keep abreast of what happens makes sense, but Sun Shao wouldn't interfere directly with the sect again. Not when he got schooled by Shenhua so hard the last time. Sure, he would back Liling and she can continue to clash with Renxinag, but there is no reason for him to make the same mistake again, he isn't an idiot.
From what we saw if Sun Shao we know that he is dedicated to his family, but that he also saw the sect as a training ground and ultimately a passing affair. He won't mess with Renxiang directly when Shenhua pointedly shown that she can easily relplace Renxiang and would answer every slight twofold.
Uh dude...read the whole post.
Sun Shao DID double down...with a whole bunch of his vassals. Thats a lot of double down
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Teaching is a learning experience, after all.What I'm getting from this is that Ling Qi has absolutely no idea how to teach a student and is copying her past tutors.
So basically like most teachers
Yeah. And if you think about it, them allying with the Sun would be problematic for them since it would be giving the Bai reasons to go out of their way to screw them over. It could actively help the Xuan get better trade deals from the Bai.
There are of course going to be a whole lot of other politics going on that we aren't aware of, but the Jin helping the Sun would not be my first guess.
Sun Shao doubled down on helping Liling, not on hindering Renxiang. He can't afford to take another direct action against Renxiang since it would just invite reprisal from Shenhua.
My point was that while Sun is currently aligned against the Cai, Sun Shao interest in the sect itself is limited to helping Liling (and even then not to the same extent that happened in the tournament). He can't afford being distracted by Shenhua's heir, not when Shenhua herself is his opponent (and when Shenhua made clear that Renxiang is easily replaceable).
Alphaleph
The Firstiest of First
Zhengui as a whole means Precious.
I think there were other things, but that's the main thing that makes it painful for people.
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
It also means "real turtle" iirc
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Which is additionally punny, as he is actually a tortoise-snake, not a turtle-snake.
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
ug, not the kind of precious a family member should be.
I thought the fact that it was a video of Jean Claude Van Damme dancing badly would make it obviously a joke.
Satire is dead.
Seriously though, I've met far too many people with movie-distorted ideas of what martial arts actually look like. Even if you meant it as a joke, there's definitely a possibility that other people did not, so I took it upon myself to provide clarification on a topic that I'm actually pretty knowledgeable about.
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Varder
Tired Cultist
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Can someone explain how did we get Woodwing(A) skill? It's a specialised form of basic skill Music(C) afaik. But I thought that to get an (A) skill we have to get specialised (B) skill first, and the (A) skill would be a specialised form of the (B) skill. Was I wrong?
Arkeus
Crazy cat guy
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We got Woodwind skill when we get Speciality II woodwind during Zeqing's trial week 30 of the first thread. Then on our breakthrough Woodwind got uncapped and got +1, and we then got another +1 before the tournament.