Wasn't the whole point of the arc we just did that Ling Qi is starting to act like a responsible adult?
I really liked this section of the chapter. It's always neat to see Ling Qi use her talent in music for more than simple combat but to also try and communicate and appease a spirit that is lashing out against everything around it. Ling Qi's stealth ability also seems to have helped here because she can 'disappear' and leave only the song on the wind, soothing and calming the pain and hurt.As she rose on a spiral of heated air from a plume of fiery gas, she hit upon her theme. As she soared back down, she began to play. It was a slow song, and a sad song, but most of all it was a peaceful song. With her music, she wove a spiritual tapestry, and in her mind's eye, she could see it. A vision of little hills rising from a sea of mist, and a peaceful river valley. A song of stars and sun passing over a landscape largely unchanged for a thousand years. Of rough edges worn smooth by wind, and little hills growing with centuries of sediment, one speck of dust and dirt at a time.
It was a song of mountains and earth, a song of how things should be, and as she suppressed her own qi, leaving only the ripples created by her song, she felt the beast react. It let out a keening double throated wail, full of anguish and grief. The earth shook as the hill itself did, thrashing limbs drumming against the earth as it shook its heads crazily, like an ox bothered by flies. Yet, all the same, while she continued playing, building a new verse even as she finished the first, she felt the warm and cool qi of mountain and earth increasing just a little, and the toxic aura of corruption weaken
I'd rather not have Ling Qi enhance the view any more than she already has that she's the one who does fun stuff whilst Qingge does the boring stuff.
Okay skills and attribute xp is updated. Beast handling and spirit ken both received an extra +2 for the moon sequence that I forgot to give xp for
Obviously you need to grind your perception friend, it was there all alongThe vanishing skill must be more powerful than I imagined, because it seems to have disappeared off the specialised skill list
Yeah, but let's not go crazy hereWasn't the whole point of the arc we just did that Ling Qi is starting to act like a responsible adult?
Honestly, I'm not worried about exposing Biyu to blood and guts.
It's probably safe to assume that most spirit beast have decent senses. I can't imagine most things on this mountain would willingly approach LQ when she isn't trying to be sneaky.
*cough* blood snowflakesI don't see much likelihood of Biyu seeing blood even if she sees combat. The results from Ling Qi fighting something would be less 'gore explosion' and more 'suddenly an ice sculpture'.
I don't see much likelihood of Biyu seeing blood even if she sees combat. The results from Ling Qi fighting something would be less 'gore explosion' and more 'suddenly an ice sculpture'.
Assuming that there isn't an all-obscuring mist meaning Biyu can't see anything anyway.
There's prob corpses around from natural predation ofc, but LQs senses should be far in excess of what would be needed to steer the two away from such things before they ever become visible.
Tbh I doubt we'll even be going that far into the wilderness for it to be an issue, more likely is just a stroll barely off the roads with a few grade one birds and squirrels around, and a few whispers to Biyu from the wind and plants.