The world is flawed.It is not imperfect though, just purposefully made that way.Life is full of suffering and conflict, a race where the living fight to find meaning and solace, either by giving themselves and each other meaning, or by taking it from those weaker.An unwinnable race, a race against time, a race against “The World”.A losing battle from the moment one is born, the pure soul is slowly drained of its myriad colors, then cast away once it has been consumed.There exists a gate beyond “The World”, and past that gate is the infinite.A cold and unfeeling infinity, impartial and silent, an infinity where despite the existence of suffering, you witnessed the radiance of all souls of all ages.So you, [????], decided to bring “This World” into the infinite.Not for anyone in particular, you… don’t exactly have many people you care about to begin with, not out of resentment for the life you had to live, after all that’s just how life in this world is.Simply because you felt like things should be as they are beyond the Gate.Another five? joined you out of their own volition, together you worked for millenia to bring the world beyond The Gate, and failed.The Gatekeeper sent two away, who knows where. Another had to merge with the world and keep it from breaking apart under the immense strain from The Gate… And you’re not sure if the other two even existed.As for yourself, The Gatekeeper pushed the world away using you. Your cultivation burned away as it set the skies ablaze, your body shattered as it tore through the ocean and the world’s crust, and your soul was fragmented into infinite specks of spiritual energy, leaving nothing behind.But that doesn’t matter, you reached the gate and went beyond it. You learned things that even The Gatekeeper itself is unaware of. Your existence is perpetual, it will simply resume some indeterminate amount of time in the future. Fate is simply ABSOLUTE, and your destiny is ours "Next time... I will..."............Axle Era, Year 3266Your consciousness begins to awaken once more in a mortal’s body, who had been gazing at the stars after a long day’s work in their master’s estate.You’ll run a check on your “Body” and “Soul”.>roll a 2d20 for body and soul in that order.The body is that of>A male>A femaleYou can ask yourself a question to refresh your knowledge about something (optional)>write in//If any of the old players from last year end up here, stuff happened and I lost everything noteswise, I will be re-using a few things from that first run, but you can consider this a complete reset for the most part, I can only apologize for not properly backing things up.
Rolled 20, 16 = 36 (2d20)>>6364209>Male>Question: Who would win in a fight: a giant scorpion or a giant hornet
Rolled 5, 3 = 8 (2d20)>>6364209>A female
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Rolled 13, 16 = 29 (2d20)>>6364209>A maleGlad to see you back, will we have a chance to get our discipels again?
Locking, glad to see the heavens still smile upon your dice rolls.>>6364218We'll see.
Your body: 20The first thing you do is check your “new body”, you’ve got the goods down there, and they seem fully functional, a welcome fact.There is a sense of discomfort from the lack of true essence, but the body itself is excellent. Blood vessels, Meridians, Muscles, Bones, Nerves, everything is well suited towards physical and spiritual cultivation.Superior than your first body in every aspect.Your soul: 16It feels faint… likely due to the awakening of your consciousness, but you can already tell that your compatibility with all sorts of spells and mystic arts is excellent.“Who would win in a fight: a giant scorpion or a giant hornet?”As mere beasts within the Earth Axis? The scorpion’s armor is too thick for the hornet’s stinger to pierce.As spiritual beasts in the Earth Axis? The hornet will likely win as it is easier to reinforce the stinger with Qi, the scorpion would either need a larger amount of Qi to reproduce the same effect all over its body, or have the ability to perfectly calculate where the stinger will strike.As awakened spiritual beasts in the Heaven Axis and beyond? It will depend on which has superior spells and techniques, the terrain, authorities, and so on.You adjust your breathing and the fatigue of a mundane work day is gone in a matter of seconds, giving you time to contemplate further. The memories of this incarnation are also mundane, twenty six years that pass by in an instant. Ming Bei, the illegitimate son of the estate’s lord, who kept you and your mother around at the madam’s request, a short lived romance between you and one of the maids, who was sold off to another house when the madam found out. Menial work, menial affairs, a comfortable life all things considered.The incarnation’s ego was completely overwritten when you, Bai Hua, woke up.An illegitimate child who left his clan after being cast aside, then a rogue cultivator taught by a famous swordswoman along with your martial brother, leading a life of struggle after struggle just to stay alive in a world that had been at war since before your birth.As the centuries passed and the conflicts escalated, you became proficient in all kinds of weapons and a good amount of spells and mystic arts. After treading through the mountain range of failures and corpses that was called your life, the masses began to call you The Crimson War God among other names once you became an immortal.You were first and foremost a swordsman, your Sword Dao was the Crimson Tulip Sword passed down by your teacher, a precise and delicate style best used with a Jian, every other weapon you picked up and learned was out of convenience or necessity. On the spell side you couldn’t do much, as the quality of your soul was rather poor, which limited the extent of your abilities.
>>6364242Cultivation, the absorption of energy and knowledge to sustain and elevate one’s existence.It has always been part of “The World”, or at least long enough to have had a clearly set and mostly unchanged categorization for ages.The Earth axis: Qi gathering, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Golden CoreThe Heaven Axis: Soul Dividing, Soul Nurturing, Soul FusionThose who surpass both axes are considered immortals, the bare minimum for a being to attempt leaving “The World”.Beings will, for the most part, choose a weapon or one of the five elements to cultivate.They follow said Martial or Elemental “Dao” as the catalyst to direct energy into themselves, to seize it from the world and transform it into their own, to obtain knowledge and enlightenment.The five elements are Water, Fire, Metal, Earth and Wood. As for weapons, having lived long enough you’ve come to understand, and partially embody the idea that anything can be used as a weapon in the right hands.As a former immortal, you’re also privy to unorthodox paths that do not follow the standard methods.Spectral Dao: The practitioner cultivates the Eight Passages, and taps into the power of the underworld, they can turn their very soul into a weapon, and in the later stages, command ghosts and other spirits. All seventeen Chief Underworld Judges have followed this Dao and reached immortality.Extreme Yin/Extreme Yang: The practitioner cultivates only one of the Two Forces of Yin and Yang, and two of the Four Aspects (Great and Lesser Yin, or Great and Lesser Yang).Spells and Mystical arts of the chosen power will be greatly amplified, weapons and treasures of the opposite power are needed to achieve balance. Six Supreme Absolute Immortals have ascended through this path.Dao of Starlight: The practitioner will absorb energy directly from the stars and use it to cultivate, this stellar energy’s purity is poisonous to most living beings, and will also encroach on most weapons and treasures. It is a path that few have dared follow, no Immortals have ascended through this Dao.There are other methods in this category, but they are paths that are not open yet, if the conditions arise, you could abandon your Dao, shoulder the backlash and start over in the future.You can re-tread the Martial Dao, if you choose another weapon, your enlightenment with the sword one will carry over to some extent, cultivation will be relatively simple and safe.If you choose one of the five elements, you will face more difficulties, mainly because you didn’t have much talent for the arts, but the breakthrough and ascension rituals, as well as the cultivation formulas remain the same.Following any of the unorthodox paths will be difficult in many ways but you will be stronger than your peers.>Choose a Dao to follow (specify which)>Ruminate on a specific aspect of cultivation (free question, write up)
