A world where might makes right. A world of Jade and Gold, of Phoenix and Dragons, of Pills and Talismans, of Martial and Spiritual arts.A world where diligent training yield strength, meaning freedom. A world where loneliness means death, meaning social chains.A world still unfair, as the ones reaching the heavens are most likely born rich - be it political riches of the aristocrats, power of secret knowledges and hidden realms of clans, or lucky enough to be born one-in-a-thousand genius.This was not the case of Quiet Word - that is, (You).Your current skill level is on par with other genius of your age. But where they were graced with secret techniques and special care, you just had lucky encounters leveraged to the best and a knack for navigating social situations.You own a trove of techniques and treasures for such a young cultivator - more than you can study efficiently, but your strength lies in the impressive amount of Bonded Spiritual Beasts - A Phoenix spirit, a Horse spirit, a Snake spirit and a Wolf spirit.Speaking of that last one, you didn't told a world about him to anybody. As a scion of the Primordial Wolf spirit, its father warned you of its worth and how people could want to rip it away from you. Especially in such a ruthless and public environment than, say, a townwide cultivator tournament.Previously mentionned worth comes from its ability to Fuse without restriction - fusion being a secret of the higher ranking of your sect, secret you have almost completely rediscovered on your own, and freely shared with your sect-siblings (but not your masters). Alright, the Primordial Wolf might have helped you on that "figuring it out by yourself" point.Recently, you chased some precious treasures in the Stormwood rare event, and delayed a breakthrough for helping your little sect-siblings. Right now, You are in a succesfull seclusion.
Tamers of Hundred Beasts(You), Quiet Word, 9 year old. Second Stage, working on opening your Claw Tail Dantian.Dhundan Kepa, peerless genius. You've witnessed him yell a tiger, a shot arrow, and even the sun to compliance. Although this never worked on Ai.Ai, peerless genius. Can speak and calm all thing (except Dhundan)Three "lesser genius but still genius" kids - Sin Din, skilled Horse cultivator. Man Din, bounded with a precious spirit. Yi Norm, Monkey Cultivator.Kyo Ko (nicknamed Kyo Kyo), 14 year old Second-Stage cultivator. Extremely secretive of her techniques.Gro Ta, 16 year old Second-Stage cultivator. Whale Cultivator.Bathias, 19 year old Third-Stage cultivator. Current Hawk Master, really liked by women to his dismayBoyd, 17 year old Third-Stage Crane-cultivator. Martial oriented, wanna be Fuckboy, bit jealous of Bathias' success.Ryota. Boar cultivator, Branch Master.Maya Tao, that you know more as Snake MistressWei Ball, young brother that won his age's tournamentWang Zi, Nu Shou, Tau Ryel, Sheng Seng : High-potential new disciples you paid for (that didn't do much yet)Watchful River, Snowflake, Ji Lu, YiChen, Kui Ting, Feken Doshi, Nettle : average disciples dragged up by the previous one and your efforts (accomplished more than previous line ones)Other Stable Lotus Harbor City cultivatorsVenerable Stable Lotus, local's bigwig.Young Mistress LienWen YanEr, his sole daughter, your age. And she is a good friend. Daddy issues getting better.Young Mistress LienWen JiaLin : ambitious cousin of YanEr - starting to respect you despite haughtyness.Medicine Master Soulgaze : Uncle of YanEr. Pill crafter expert.Sovereign All Learner's Teacher, Master of Versatile Harmony Quest.Ping Jun, student of Versatile Harmony Quest, bounded with Golden Talismanic Horse Spirit. And he's a good friend.Meiying Youling - Ant-burning mentally unstable young mistress of Death Harvester CultSter Ling, unsuferable Genius boy of the Stable Harbor Military YouthXiao Niar, Death-seeking unskilled boy of the Stable Harbor Military YouthInborn Tanuki's Lantern ; Loose cultivator that saved Bathias life.Marketer Golden Eye, Silver Tongue - All-selling Merchant Alliance highest rank cultivator.Mama Watermelons, Prolific Valley ample-bosomed Sect Master.Moss, a Prolific Valley cultivator - sect of Plant Specialist. Steward of your World-Tree Immortal Cave.Camelia, PomegranateProlific Valley Crossbreeder and Archer/Fruit-yield SpecialistOld Jiang - Owner of the town's spiritual technique bookstore.
Golden Skystone VillageDaoist Golden Skystone Patriarch, Village leader. After plotting with Gilded Waters, seems loyal. Almost put a kid in the belly of Maya Tao.Man Cong, eldest son, 18. Bounded with Golden-scale Stellar Snake. Second stage.Dan Rol, second son, 14. Bounded with Golden-scale Stellar Snake. Last step of First stage, studied in the main sect for a few months.Daughter (unnamed), 7. Bounded with Golden-scale Stellar Snake. A bit haughty. Working on opening her Heart Aperture.A harem of domestics, probably still jealous of Maya Tao and the Patriarch's... closeness.Luo Bin, the nicest highwayman you know of.Fist of the Green DragonQuicksteel Aris, Master at armsFuran Cheska, Niece of Aris. Pretty, strong, really disliked you ignoring her on her visit. Quiet Word still think how pretty she was from time to time.Bul Aiz, The guy that one-punched a 6th-realm KaijuCapital CityThe Empress, daughter of the dead emperor. Her "low" level of 5th stage at the age of 15 made her use the "Empress' mandate" to ban all travel among towns, the time for her power to stabilize.Archive : https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?searchall=Normal+Cultivator+QuestArchivebro review : https://pastebin.com/Es9KmW3C
Quest Log :>Main Quest :Survive and thrive.>Side objectives :Understanding Inner Gates : There are four gates to break through to rise a level in second stage. You have to gather Qi, and then spent the gathered Percentage to break through.10 is not enough for first gate. 12 is enough with Improved Phoenix-Qi bonus. 20 wastes Qi.20 wastes more Qi for the second gate than it waste for first. 14 wastes Qi.33 is not enough for third gate; it becomes enough with your Phoenix-Qi bonus, before all upgrades. 37 wastes Qi.44 is the "golden number" for fourth gate.Keep the Wei Ball rolling : your pupil Wei Ball seized two ingots of stormiron. If he doesn't craft a strong weapon pair in the next two years, this opportunity will go to waste.Self Made Man : You found a way to increase your energy efficiency in the form of Phoenix Qi. You're close to turn it into your own Spiritual Art style.Mechanic : each Breakthrough on Phoenix-related technique can increase your soon-to-be spiritual art. You can also work on it and make steady progress on the side. Supply Issue : your sect needs Spiritual Beads with Transplanhumance comming back as their already low reserves are stretching thin and thinnger. Good thing you found a way to reamwalk in the Astral PlanStormwood Bow : you have a fine piece of wood, ready to be turned into some weaponryRising Chicks : you have a cost-effective method to send kids in growth realm - and talented kids in town that might be interrested.Second Stage Fusion : Improve your spirit with a fusion while you're second stage - 1/4 fused; 2 fusion candidatesCultivate your Garden : With the help of Moss and your Treasured Wandering World Tree, you want to develop your Immortal Cave [great progress so far]A companion on the Way : The Phoenix Ascendancy poem mentions three potential worthy mates for the Phoenix : the Lotus, the Qirin and the Dragon. Secret of the Phoenix Ascendancy : The old text seems to be some kind of map pointing to a place between Stable Lotus Harbor City and Desert's Crystaline Haven [the town where the kid with the Steel-Thunder-Growth Map and Southern Branch of Tamers of Hundred Beasts] . However, with the current travel ban, investigation is impossible.>Debt :2 Tea Debt Bathias1 Realmwalk Bathias1 Realmwalk [Tau Ryel, Nettle, Snowflake, Feken Doshi]1 Tea Debt Boyd1 Fusion to Boyd>Debt ownedFlight lessons from Boyd
Inventory : Artifact : The "Quiet Banner" [Other ignore it when called this way, saying the name sucks ball and ass]Treasures :The Mysterious Teapot obtained in Growth RealmGrowth Weapon : The Jade Rising Star-PhoenixHemomancer's profound BloodstoreItems :The finely crafted, 33 beasts painted, half-transparent medicine jug containing : 0 generic Qi and Blood pill. 14 Qi and Blood Pills [Astral Self][Fighting Intent] 2 Qi and Blood Pills [Growth][Phoenix] 6 Qi and Blood Pills [Silk][Divination] 8 Qi and Blood Pills [Poison][Spiritual Strength] 3 Qi and Blood Pills [Astral Self][Strength] 5 Qi and Blood Pills [Metal][Truefire] 7 Qi and Blood Pills [Jade][Wolf] 4 Spiritual Energy Pills (Restore Soul for damaged bounded spirit/Astral Self) 2 Fertility Pills [Rising Phoenix]14 Spiritual Beads1 Spiritual Bead holding a Gold-Storm-Snake1 Spiritual Bead holding a Stormwood WolfBook : The true Story of Gar Ruk, Realm WandererFeathers : Jade Hawk Feather 4 Rising Phoenix Feather (2nd Stage)Piece of [Storm, Wood, Eye] for crafting a Bow [4th Stage].Ingredients : Elemental Stormwood, Obsidian StormwoodCash : Two "Dragon Head" worth of coin-ropes.Books : The true Story of Gar Ruk, Realm WandererScroll of the Phoenix' AscendancyCash :Two "Dragon Head" worth of coin-ropes.
Twin insights : The storm that almost broke you is now a very part of you, by the link to your bounded Phoenix (Just... Don't think this isn't a real beast but like the soulless ghost of the Hawk you sacrified and heavily modded to fit your needs...)This part is taken, unravelled, analyzed, until you are confident in how to mix the wildly different, high level, concepts of Phoenix and Storm, fiddling a bit with your inner Phoenix Qi-Construct.In your dantian, turmoils as your breakthrough-helping Phoenix Qi Construct also reflect the changes - surely, it had grew stronger. Significantly so. Probably have something to do with the amount of Storm-related energy nearby this year.>Found one of the two "Mystery box" related to your Phoenix Qi ConstructThen, for the insight regarding your poem and your understanding of Phoenix, the solution is quite simple.Phoenix is related to your Growth as a cultivator. Growth is linked to the Phoenix, able to rise over everything else.>Phoenix evolved into Rising PhoenixThis change is insignificant. Infinily profound. You were born a mundane kid. No family. No fortune. No fate. No bloodline. Shit-poor Dantian-gate split.Granted, you always felt like you didn't really belonged. Not like Dhundan or Ai. That your achievements were normal - Sin Din, Man Din and Yi Norm caught back to you, right?This were some delusion. You're good. You're great. You're worthy of the title of Young Genius. Of great fighter. You just have to take things at your speed.There is no emergency to break through - this is just some far-pissing contest. You have to progress and lay the foundation for the future, which you're already doing : you should take time to find spirits to bind while you're second stage, maybe craft your bow before the turnament, and keep doing what you're doing.After all, if Dhundan, LienWen YanEr and JiaLin, Ping Jun outgrows you in raw power because they're better than you on that aspect, you just have to create perfect counter to win. That seems doable : even if you lose this year, the next three... Growth Skills will avoid bottleneck in foundation as you've witnessed in Golden Skystone village. Then, their supposedly strong ramp will let you overcome even more advanced foes.Ironic it is : what was holding you back to the ground all this time was yourself. Now? The sky seems the limit. Nah. You can go further - you've already been to space after all.>Mental Health topped.4th week of seclusion : No breakthrough this time. Just paced Qi accumulation - another tenth of your Dantian is filled.You can't help but smile at how regular your progress went. This seclusion let you benefit strongly. Time to go back to your sect.
Leisurely walking, you cycle through what needs to be done. There's your teapot tingling, for once. The pills for Snake mistress. And all those other things.Heading home, you were mentally prepared for your siblings have horrifically performed while you were meditating...>HORRENDOUS roll array for Dhundan, Ai, Yi, Sin Din, Man Din.QW : "What do you mean, one tenth of a Dantian in one month? I filled 4 of them, starting empty!Dhundan : - Tryharder. And you hoarded the Banner all for yourself.QW - That's... my soulbound item?Dhundan : - I wasn't done using it."Wait, you've caught back? Thanks Heaven for seclusion.It's been 4 years and 3 months since you've joined the Eastern Branch of Tamers of Hundred Beasts.This month, you will...>Try hard. Doesn't matter what kind of soft, cope feeling you got, you have an unique chance of catching back to Dhundan and Ai, breaking through before them.>Take it slow. Just work on your foundation and sort all simple sect business.This includes giving pills and talking to Wolf Mistress, settling a tea ceremony [who for? Do you aim to trade anything?], discuss with people that have fusion to take care of, and all that stuff you were too stressed to handle with a cool head
>>6308349>Take it slowWe are back in buissness. Okay. . . Lets think.Breakthrough is a time for Evening out our techniques, We should practice our meteor hammer skill and our bow skill to put them on our level.I think this month is the tourniment? No, 3 month period is transhumance, so 3 months. Uhhhh>Talk to Ryota to sell a tea ceremony/Growth realm visit, We want ingredients for our Bow and Wei ball's gear, but he is the political operator, where's the biggest bang for our buck that helps the sect.We have 3 tea debts to expunge, that leaves like. . . 3 tea?Realms walk is an issue but we can expunge 4 debts like that with the growth trip.
>>6308367Yes, you have 3 months
>>6308349>Take it slow. Just work on your foundation and sort all simple sect business.Let's settle all manner of debts here and now.
>>6308349>>6308367Let's go caught back up.>Take it slow. Just work on your foundation and sort all simple sect business.The order of business not in any order.Do all the binding. (Talk with Ryota when we do tea and ask if he wants to do a fusion with his boar)Craft the bow.Give pills to the snake mistressTraining Tau Ryel in the astral arts.Sending kids to the growth realm, I'd say call around the various sects that wants to chip in / pay us in money. Throw on getting some time on the growth banner.>talking to Wolf Mistress (for what I forget)Pay tea debt. call upon level 99 Aris and his niece and give tea for somethin.Craft Wei Balls Weapons.
>>6308414I'm pretty sure he means the Snake mistress for her pills.So lets order some of these that we can do first.Tea debt [we get 6 slots], 3 are owed to people but one guy has 2. So we can operate under assumption of 3 slots to use/sell.Golden eye? In exchange for materials but cash money is good too.Ryota for shit for Tau?Giving it to the Snake mistress would also let us knock out "give her the pills" in a single action.growth realm walk takes 10 people, we have 4 people we owe a run who can benefit, but it isn't a garrenteed move. So tell them that this does absolve our debt but they might not travel to the best first realm realm. that leaves 6 places to sell.We can rake the town for coals over that. [Reminded that these bastards said that the chance to do so was worth a first tier and second tier reward from the entire town's budget.] We just have to aim slightly lower than that market price.Cash is preferable here.Bindings take a while, what can we reasonably charge from our fellows. . . Favours? Favours feels like a valid currency that isn't extremely expensive, but it's expensive enough to be worthwhile exerting social power over the sect.Bow and Wei ball weapons need to be last on our list while we gather a few more items.
>>6308423for tea favours. . .2 of our spare, I think YanEr and Ping Jun make just sense. Maybe Moss, Moss is second stage now and only recently at that. So it's now of good use.
>>6308349>Take it slow. Just work on your foundation and sort all simple sect business.
Oh yah I figure the other mystery box will be an ichor breakthrough.Ichor Phoenix Storm
>>6308576That's not that one.
>>6308594Well. uh. I honestly have no idea what it could be then. I'm guessing a different affinity maybe.
>>6308612But I had an idea how to shape this Phoenix Qi Construct. We shape it into wings. To carry Word forward. That would be so dope.The wings are like a cloak as well. Dope as fuck.
>>6308612It's one of those you guys identified in the poem. Won't say more.
>>6308616Animal - Beast, Tiger, dragon, scales, bear, fox, roc, Leviathan, qilinBody - Eye, strength, turtle, wolf, roc, balance, wide, beauty, enduring(?), might(?), fight(?), wing, boundlessMind - Wisdom, cunning, soul, spirit, harmony, song(?), spiritElement - Earth, shadow, time and space, mist, lotus, moonlight(Maybe? has moon), sun(meaning we could use that one hammer style), wind, light, ocean(?), life and death, ashes (?), celestial , night(?) stars(?), sky(?), jadeOther - Army, Buddha, Demons, fate(?),And Gm clarifications>AnimalValid : Beast, Tiger, bear, fox, turtle, wolf,Valid "Adjacent" : dragon Leviathan, qilin, rocUnvalid : Scales>Body -Valid : Eye, strength, balance, beauty, enduring(Stamina), fight(Fighting Intent)Unvalid : boundless, Wing.Mind -Valid : Song (Music), Shrewd (Wisdom, cunning)Unvalid spirit, harmony,>ElementValid : Earth, shadow, time and space, mist, soul, wind, light, life and death, jadeAdjacent : lotus, moon, sun, ocean, skyUnvalid : ashes, celestial , night starsOther :Adjacent - Army, Buddha, DemonsUnvalid - fateSo this should cool it down.
>>6308751Now I'm gonna make a case that it's Wolf.The rules of the world base on our understanding, remember in a previous thread how the QM said that if we got that polearm skill we could have fused our weapons together.Words have as much effect against another word as people's understanding applies.And wolf is a bit we have kept an important part with. . . Though we don't really focus on the wolf to make sure we don't accidently reveal it.If not wolf then Shrewd, because that's the first augmentation we made to the soul of the Hawk. Which we didn't name did we.We should name the pendants.
>>6308751>>6308753Thanks for the copy paste.Let's see, including yours, I think there could be a few others. It'll have to be a high affinity. Cause only when two high-affinity items mix do we get interesting results, such as phoenix ichor for phoenix tears.This rules out a few on the list. And I think it isn't an element except time and space. Also, the body, except for fighting intent. I think it could be dragon, qilin, sky, fighting intent, life, time, and space also. And of those, the sky is the most likely, as it deals with storms and the phoenix.The question would be to consider how to test these theories.
>>6308781I mean it could be dragon, ties into the whole thread link we made with the monarch lady and Royal Phoenix has a nice ring to it.
>>6308781It's not sky or life or time.We have not practiced any of them, and we lack any strong theme to them.Remember that the ability was made before we knew about our storm affinity. Hmm. . Jade and Shadow are in the meteor hammer style and the jade is in the hammer. So Jade may be an idea. Fighting intent is a maybe
