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*some west African kings during specific time periods and regions. African Kings got the short end of the stick for a lot of things; Arab slave trade, the Ole Columbian exchange, and terrain/society. Luck is treacherous like that, my slime
y'know, you can fire a guy without lobbing off his head....
Joe Biden.
I love how MC just rips a sick free style and they hail him as an apostle.
To cultivate is the act of defying the Heavens and Earth, through pursuit of truth and spiritual attainment. Imagine you are some Daoist Hermit in 9th Century China, sticking it to the Gods and the Emperor to snort traditional medicine, read books, and think about stuff. It's the counterculture to Imperial Chinese tradition informed by Confucianism that revolves around respect for authority, ritual propriety, family, and submitting to the will of the Heavens(aka the Son of Heaven, aka the Emperor of China). Think of it as medieval Chinese hippies dodging the draft, smoking the reefer, and sticking it to the man. Xianxia is pretty much combining that with heavily derived Chinese robinhood stories where doing all that silly stuff actually makes you immortal, and the mounted bandits are the good guys. So in summary, cultivating is sticking it to the man,( which is a controlled substance in China) and that man happens to be The Heavens themselves.
mfer strapped up now 😩
I like the idea that somehow Dutch dudes made it to South Africa before Christ, became boers, and migrated to Egypt. HiStOriCal FiCtIoN moment.
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I love the story, but I think it would stand to benefit from an editor to catch stray typos and autocorrect. It's by no means unreadable, but in most chapters I stop for a second or two to figure out what a word was supposed to be.