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Yuri_Impact18hCommentedWen: "underestimating me, huh"
"This," Ao Wen said with a hint of a dark smile forming at the corner of her lips as she passed over a small jade vial. "The contents are volatile but safe to consume."- Yuri_Impact19hCommented
"young man before her" !?
"Setting aside the matter of the services you're offering," the older Alchemist said, sincerely doubting that the young man before her could do what he claimed. "For an early-stage Novice to claim that they'll take the Independent Alchemist exam within a year, don't you think you're overestimating your capabilities a bit?" - Yuri_Impact20hCommented
Ao wen can trigger that hopefully ~
"It's not that," Brother Gau said, waving off the idea. "It's just that Understudy Lau is a bastard and a stubborn mule with a mixed bloodline that makes him both brilliant and ornery. He's got the strength of a Celestial Ox and the temper of a Scarlet Magpie. He's not the best weaponsmith in Lantern City but he's the only one with any skill who will make blackened blades. If you can manage to trigger his compulsion to collect rare or precious things you'll probably be fine," he explained. - Yuri_Impact20hCommented
Maybe it's the work of some humans or any intelligent creature to create something like these scheme that is pointing the blame in the direction of the Vulture king ~
"Is someone trying to attack Lantern City with beasts?" Feng Xi asked. Spirit Beasts reproduced and matured much faster than Spirit Folk did. Whenever the local population of Spirit Beasts grew too large, an internal struggle between dominant beasts became inevitable. If the local towns were lucky, that struggle would result in the deaths of many spirit beasts and the current equilibrium between Spirit Folk and Spirit Beasts would be maintained. The thing that everyone worried about was that the conflict among Spirit Beasts would be non-lethal and that the losers would be driven from the territory of the winners. In such cases, the losing group of beasts could form an overwhelming Beast Tide as they sought to claim new territory to settle in. Such tides easily overwhelmed mortals and posed a serious threat to first and second stage cultivators. If someone was trying to provoke a Beast Tide in Lantern City then the entire town and all of the surrounding villages were in danger! - Yuri_Impact20hCommented
Interesting! Ao wen's gonna squeeze EXPs out of these opposing beasts ~
"Oh, so you didn't come because of the news?" the burly man asked. "The Lord Mayor has gone hunting with the Vulture King," he explained. "Someone is out there with a blade, notching the ears and tail feathers of beasts to imitate the mark of the Vulture King and making it look like the Vulture King is expanding his kingdom with all sorts of strange new beasts, some of which are terrifyingly powerful. The Darkwood is more dangerous now than it's been since the Lord Mayor formed a pact with the Vulture King to protect the city." - Yuri_Impact20hCommented
Oof 💨 ~
"Bai," Ao Wen said, giving Zhang Bai an intense look. "Why do I have a feeling that you picked this place for more reasons than the good food and quiet rooms?" - Yuri_Impact21hCommented
'avoid anything that causes offense' I think that's impossible ~
"Not easily," Zhang Bai said with a shake of his head. "Lord Mayor Wan doesn't enjoy as much power in Lantern City as my father does in Turning Leaf Town. She might be an Awakened Mystic but that only puts her on equal footing with the local representatives of the Loose Cultivator's Association, the Alchemy Consortium, and a number of other powers in the city," he explained. "Breaking the law in Lantern City is an easy way to die, but the law itself can be surprisingly flexible and permissive. Until you get used to the city, it's best to stay close to the inn and avoid anything that might cause offense. I have friends here so we won't have to live entirely like outsiders but you should still be careful," he warned. - Yuri_Impact21hCommented
Some young masters could abuse this ~
"That feels like it would be easy to abuse," Feng Xi said with a frown. "If the Vulture King demands more sacrifices, couldn't the Lord Mayor manufacture charges to declare a person guilty?" - Yuri_Impact21hCommented
That's kinda scary if the person were wrongly accused of doing a crime he didn't do or being framed up just because some higher ups got offended r something ~
"It's not so exaggerated as that," Zhang Bai reassured the group. "Still, that it's a Spirit Beast that can communicate and form pacts with people is already impressive. As part of the pact, lawbreakers in Lantern City are staked out as sacrifices to the Vulture King and his subjects. I'm told that it originally demanded a fresh mortal sacrifice every new moon and a cultivator sacrificed once a year, but the Lord Mayor refused to sacrifice innocents. Instead, people who commit crimes repeatedly in Lantern City are staked out as offerings." - Yuri_Impact1dCommented
V2!!!~
Chapter 136 - Interlude 3: Two Phoenixes - Yuri_Impact1dCommented
Hope her parents still okay if she comes back and if her father finds out what happened after he wakes up that she runaway~
"Then, if you'll forgive my selfishness," Ao Wen said, taking Wan Yue's cupped hands in her own and looking deeply into the other woman's eyes. "Watch over my parents. I won't be able to anymore. You don't need to tell them I asked you to, you probably shouldn't or my mother may reject your help. But, for the next fifty years or so, can you keep them safe?" - Yuri_Impact1dCommented
I think this separation between Ao wen and her parents still good in a way that her parents can't be that much of a target for the blood slaughter clan ~
Several moments later, Patriarch Zhang looked at his beloved concubine with deeply furrowed brows. "Do you think she knows about the Blood Slaughter Demon Clan? Is she leaving to draw off any attempts at revenge for Long Ma?" - Yuri_Impact1dCommented
Feng Xis's gonna soar high someday ~
"World Shaping Illusory Melodies?" Feng Xi asked, looking at the manual she'd been gifted in wonder. Her own cultivation manual was only suitable for first and second-stage cultivators but this one looked to be complete, not only with a path to becoming an Artium but it even held a section on preparing for ascension to immortality! - Yuri_Impact1dCommented
Its Ao wen's time to shine~
"Little Yu is always Little Yu," Qi Yue teased. "The person you care least about is still yourself," she chided. "I'm not saying you did wrong my love, only that you're paying the price for what you did. I can help to heal some of the damage, that's part of why I'm here after all, but the price is that I'll place a seal on your ability to reach back. You won't be able to connect with your past again for a full year, no matter how badly you think you need it," she warned. - Yuri_Impact1dCommented
The personality-shift cause by living in someone's life is more serious than it seems to the point that it can damage Ao wen's soul !!!
"Oh my poor little ember," Qi Yue said, reaching out gently and stroking Ao Wen's cheek. "No wonder your soul is cracking." - Yuri_Impact2dCommented
Soon they'll be Ao wen's EXP ~
"We bathe the world in Blood and Slaughter," the guard finished the couplet. Once, this entire region had belonged to the Blood Slaughter Demon Clan. Soon, it would again. - Yuri_Impact2dCommented
There will be no home to go back for Ao wen 😭~
"It's better this way," she told herself firmly. "Anything else she does will only bring us more bad fortune. It's better that she stays away. She stopped being our daughter anyway. Better we all stop pretending that she still is," she said to the empty kitchen, trying not to remember the crushed look in Ao Wen's eyes as she left. This was for the best, wasn't it? - Yuri_Impact2dCommented
I guess it's a fair price for the power and potential she owns and that is just the demand if she wants to survive in this cruel world that she is soon about to take depart in order for her to no be trampled by far stronger foes she'll soon be facing when the day comes where she'll leave Turning leaf town. Moreover becoming powerful enough to protect her loved ones and that incident cause by Long ma is the testament of her losing her loved ones that is if she stays weak and careless.
"Xi," Ao Wen said numbly. "Let's go." Her mother was right. This disaster had all been her fault. If not for her Dragon Core, Long Ma would never have bothered her family. Her mother wasn't wrong about how much she'd changed either. She'd doubted so many times that she was still Ao Wen, still her parent's daughter. Now she knew. She'd given up too much of herself for what she'd gained in return. She had strength and knowledge and all of the things she'd gained with her old memories, but she wasn't Hou Jia's daughter anymore. Hearing her mother recognize that, hearing her say it aloud, it confirmed all of her worst fears. She really had lost herself. - Yuri_Impact2dCommented
They both need a break ~
"Go away," Hou Jia finally managed to say. She needed to make a clean break of things. Needed to send Ao Wen back to the world of cultivators and away from her where things would only get more painful. "Don't ever come back again. Whoever you've turned into, you're not my Ao Wen," Hou Jia said firmly, saying the lines she'd practiced in her mind so many times over the past few days. It didn't feel like she'd thought it would but she had to say it anyway. "When my A'Yang wakes, we'll set a memorial tablet for our lost daughter and mourn that we ever let her go to that ceremony, so please, get away from me and never come near us again. It hurts too much to see my daughter's face on a stranger." - Yuri_Impact2dReplied to Zebuniza
I think they're just both conflicted of what's happening. The experience of Ao Wen living another on someone's life really take a heavy toll on her mentality to the point that she really won't much tell her most beloved parents besides she's also struggling with her different personality-shift cause by that experience. While her mother doesn't know anything much with her daughter currently and we know her mother is just really worried about her I mean who would feel good if they see their daughter acting or more like a different person and that also leaves them baffled because they didn't receive anything like an explanation from her which makes it look like Ao Wen didn't trust her parents. Hope it gets better soon ☺️
"You've already done more than enough to torture him," she accused sharply. "Estemed Alchemy Novice Wu Lin visits every day to tend to the wounds you inflicted on him in the name of 'healing.' He says it will be more than a month before he can wake up for more than a few minutes a day. He's barely able to take a meal and tea twice a day before he has to go back to sleep to escape the pain of what you did to him!" Hou Jia raged. She didn't understand. How could Ao Wen have done something like this to her own father? How could she inflict such horrifying wounds and then leave him in the care of a near stranger for days on end? It made no sense that her daughter would do such things but if this woman had stopped being her daughter… maybe this was all the care a cultivator had for mortals.