Moonlight_Drake

Exile, they can tunnel. You live on a mountain. Good lord, man!

I am just now catching back up on the content here since your hiatus, and I too am happy to see you back in a steady rhythm! I had my doubts, but truly this is the return of the king.

Did you have to ask, Amari? I mean, you wrote the title! I love his playfully degrading honesty. Anyone with the wisdom and patience to withstand it stands to gain a lot from him.

I believe it takes more than faith to be an oracle. Look at Allyce, she swore a vow to Exile and kissed him. The kiss was a neccessary part: physical contact, direct touch of the divine. If your god is dead, no amount of faith is going to make you their Oracle.

Hey, thank you for the reply. It's good hearing that you're alright after all. I've just returned to webnovel today after a long hiatus and was pleasantly surprised to see many more chapters in this story! I will continue to support you and be an honest voice in the comments as I did before. Cheers, Antihero! 🥂

Patrick Henry, Demon Slayer

The word magic is the problem. Magic is very hand-wavey for us: We have no experience with magic IRL, so we don't have a sense of it's limits or it's rules. The people who live in this fantasy world have a lot of experience, and that is why they are comfortable making assumptions. Having lived for so long and seen so many people and magical items, you get a grounding in what you believe is and isn't possible, even if your antecdotal evidence doesn't actually paint a complete picture. Yes, there will always be those who assume the more successful are cheating, but it is also human nature to explain away things that they cannot explain by filling in the blanks with what makes sense to them. By their experience and the cultivation world's standard, Wei Wuyin is CERTAINLY not cultivating alchemic qi. That is asking too much of a magic item in their experience, so they don't assume it. From that angle, it does make sense that they wouldn't hop at the idea.

It only seems stupid from the reader's perspective. We see and know what the other characters do not. They have several generations of information and experience to lean on, and even the legends born in recorded history were unable to throw off this limit. Meanwhile, Wei Wuyin was only able to get here thanks to an impossibly-rare combination of the unperfected technique used to form more than one core, the ability to see souls at the core formation realm (which is unheard of at such an early stage), and the inspiration to alter this technique in an unexplored way using the fact that you can see the soul. Mix in the fact that the clan who created the technique were passing it out like candy due to unique personal circumstances (these are usually closely-guarded secrets) and the unique tree of eden and it's qualities taken by such strange circumstances involving a cultivator healing from brain damage (which could have resulted in a lot more consequences than the specific ones he received that allowed him to function in the Eden sect), and what you have is a purely unique and frankly unfollowable handbook for how to learn alchemy like Wei Wuyin and retain your combat prowess. Thus, is it any wonder the rest of the world thinks it isn't possible to be well versed in both?