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Cultivation Nerd: Chapter 191
🕑 Added 2024-09-11 21:20:13 +0000 UTCChapter 191 - A Crack in the Dam
Xing Ju stood atop the outer sect wall, her figure silhouetted against the fading light of the setting sun. Her gaze stretched far into the distance, yet her heart was heavy, weighed down by the burdens of time and memories long past. The cool evening breeze shivered through her weary bones, carrying an unsettling sense of unease.
Where was Ye An?
After abandoning Song Song, her granddaughter, she chose Ye An as her new disciple. Ye An was supposed to fulfill everyone's expectations. Yet, she hadn't returned from the expedition.
Many within the faction had already lost hope. Xing Ju was the last to lose hope.
The incompetent Core Elders who had escorted the group remained silent! How could a mere Foundation Establishment cultivator have slipped through their notice?
A part of her hoped the immortal tomb had taken Ye An, perhaps as a disciple under its will. Even though that meant Ye An would no longer need their support, it was better than her being dead.
But now, who else could compete with Song Song? That wild girl was growing stronger by the day, and Xing Ju could feel it—everyone could.
Song Song's Qi sharpened daily, and soon she would reach the four-star Foundation Establishment. In only a handful of years, she could reach their level!
It hadn't even been a year since she broke through! Everyone knew of her talent, but Foundation Establishment required not just talent but also comprehension of one's chosen element. No matter how gifted, many cultivators were stuck in this stage for a lifetime. They simply couldn't advance because they couldn't comprehend their element.
Yet Song Song's compatibility with her blood element was incomprehensible. The records showed that even the current sect leader hadn't progressed through Foundation Establishment so swiftly!
For some strange reason, Ye An had managed to keep up with her.
Rumors whispered she might have an Extreme Physique like Song Song's mother, though nothing had been confirmed. There were plans to investigate once she returned—assuming she ever did. Some even schemed to dig into her background to see if she had any connection to the Ye Clan of the Azure Frost Sect or if her name was just a coincidence.
"Ye An, where are you?" Xing Ju muttered under her breath.
A new recipe had even surfaced from one of the outer elders. The sect's Alchemist Grand Elder was on the verge of discovering replacements for extinct ingredients, allowing them to craft a pill that could restore Ye An's crippled form and beauty. But without her, these plans were nothing more than dreams.
Two paths remained: they could try to approach Song Song and beg for forgiveness. But few were willing to take that risk—Song Song might simply kill them.
The second option was to find someone else to replace Ye An. But who could possibly keep up with Song Song?
There was a reason the sect tolerated Song Song's reckless behavior. She had the highest chance of becoming a Nascent Soul cultivator in the last thousand years. Many would prefer to see her fail, but the Song Clan leader wasn't someone anyone wanted to cross. Death would be the best outcome if someone made an enemy of him.
Xing Ju knew her son didn't harbor any familial loyalty or love. But if hypothetically, there was anyone he might care for, it would undoubtedly be Song Song—maybe because she was the one closest to him in personality.
The reason why he cared about her mattered little. But what was important was that no matter what Song Song did, she would get no punishment or minimum sentence at worst.
The hot summer wind brushed against her ashen hair, and Xing Ju knew that holding on to hope was a fool's errand. What she needed now were answers about Ye An—and a replacement.
She already had someone in mind who could provide both.
Turning, she leaped from the outer sect wall. Before her feet touched the ground, the wind around her picked up like a hurricane. An invisible tornado wrapped around her, propelling her forward like a bullet, the air bending in her wake. She became a red streak across the sky with nothing to slow her momentum.
She stood above a humble home within the Song Clan grounds in less than fifteen breaths. The only hint of luxury in the house was the well-built walls surrounding the residence. There was also a small pond in the yard, with a tree next to it.
Xing Ju landed silently on the grassy ground.
A dark-cloaked figure with a marble mask appeared before she could even breathe. The man was a five-star Foundation Establishment cultivator. However, his cultivation was hidden—masked by the enigmatic technique used by the Sect Leader's secret division.
"I'm here to meet Song San. Call him out," she said to the masked guard.
The white, expressionless porcelain mask gave no response, but something in the air shifted. Moments later, the door to the yard swung open, and Song San emerged, dressed in a dark robe. His green hair spilled down like a river of grass, and his eyes gleamed with the depth of dark emeralds.
Upon seeing Xing Ju, he didn't bother with the usual formalities. Instead, he smiled—a sharp, unfriendly grin that revealed his teeth. "What do you want, you old hag?"
Despite the insult, his smile remained cordial. It was clear that something had soured the young man's mood. He was usually much more subtle with his feelings.
Xing Ju's thoughts flickered to her former lover, the previous Song Clan leader. He had been a man of volatile emotions—friendly one moment, wrathful the next. The smallest slight could ignite his temper, and those around him often bore the brunt of it. More often than not, he directed his frustration at his young son.
Song San had inherited enough of his grandfather's temperament, yet Song San was different. Though he carried his grandfather's anger, he had also inherited his father's cold, calculating calmness. It was a strange, unsettling balance of fire and ice.
Xing Ju's gaze shifted to the guard's porcelain mask. As a Core Formation cultivator, she easily saw through minor covers like masks. What lay behind the mask was grotesque, twisted by the scars of countless tortures. Still, she recognized him as one of the ex-members of the Sect Leader's secret unit.
"How did they let you go?" she asked, her tone casually rude, matching Song San's earlier insult. "Did the cold hearts of those assassins finally soften enough to let you look after your nephew? You must have been worried, thinking poor Song San had no one left after his mother's death."
Xing Ju knew the whole story as a Core Elder closely involved with the Song Clan. But it never hurt to play ignorant once in a while.
The masked man turned toward her, though he remained silent. His gaze was fixed on his master as if awaiting orders.
The disfigurement behind the mask, she knew, was the punishment meted out by the Sect Leader's secret squad for betraying them—he had taught their techniques to an outsider, Song San. And this was the price he paid.
Usually, those who betrayed the Sect Leader’s secret squad were killed after enduring their torture. Still, there had been some leniency in this case. The man was Song San’s uncle, and Song San had roots in the Blazing Sun Sect. He had come to try to be a paternal figure in his nephew’s life. Yet Xing Ju couldn’t fathom how much of a role he could play when he could no longer speak, and his mind and cultivation had both deteriorated from the torture.
It was strange. Xing Ju had always assumed that those in the secret squad had no emotions, that they were born to serve and died fulfilling that duty. Even Song San’s mother had been a peculiar woman. Her relationship with the Song Clan Leader had been more transactional than affectionate. When she was tortured to death in the Melting Tower, it was said she hadn’t uttered a single sound, simply succumbing to the injuries caused by the torture.
“Are you here to jest, or do you have something to ask of me, granny?” Song San’s tone regained its usual calm, and his emotions were now reined in as expected.
Xing Ju chuckled softly, the sound like that of a harmless old grandmother. She walked toward Song San, knowing full well what her grandson was like. Unlike Song Song, who would rather break than bend, he was more adaptable. He would learn when it was a poor idea to call someone “granny” or “old hag.”
She was already in an irritable moon with Ye An missing. Why should she, as a Core Formation cultivator, bear the insults of some snotty brat?
With each deliberate step, Xing Ju unleashed her Qi, sending ripples of invisible pressure coursing through the air. The sheer force of her power radiated outward, causing the ground beneath her to fracture, cracks spiderwebbing across the earth with every footfall.
The once sturdy walls of the house trembled violently, fissures tearing through stone and mortar as if gripped by the tremors of an unseen earthquake. The surrounding area shook under the weight of her presence.
The porcelain-masked man attempted to intervene, but Xing Ju quickly created a dense barrier of Qi. The razor-like energy sliced into his palms like he had tried to grasp a handful of razors.
“You were one of the few who knew how important Ye An was to me and many others. Several Core Elders were watching over her, yet she vanished during the expedition. I hope this isn’t your idea of a joke,” she said, her voice hard as steel, the weight of her Qi pressing down without mercy. “Ye An has reached Foundation Establishment. Even Song Song wouldn’t have been able to kill her without causing a ruckus, and we specifically warned Ye An to be careful.”
Song San, undeterred by the crushing pressure, simply smiled wider. “I have no idea what happened to her. But she’s probably dead. We both know I have no reason to fight with your group.”
Xing Ju flinched at those words, and the pressure eased. “So, Song Song…”
The rest of her sentence was left unspoken. They were still within the Song Clan compound, and everyone knew the Song Clan Leader had ears everywhere. He was a notoriously paranoid man—he would surely be listening after the ruckus she caused.
“Not likely,” Song San replied, shaking his head with a smile as if privy to some hidden joke. “I kept my eyes on my sweet sister the entire time. She had no chance to kill the girl who was clearly using you. But for the one pulling the strings behind her… that’s another story.”
Xing Ju frowned. What did he mean by “the girl who was using them”? Did he mean Ye An? Of course, Ye An was using them—they had been tempering her for their future needs and giving her any required resources. But Song San wouldn’t have mentioned it without a deeper meaning. Now wasn’t the time to dwell on such things; more pressing matters were at hand.
"Liu Feng?" Xing Ju questioned, recalling the boy she had once questioned in prison. She had even advised him on a Mortal Grade technique at one point. Back then, it had been nothing more than a whim—a favor for the teacher of a girl from the Liu Clan.
Liu Feng seemed sharp for his age, but that was all.
There were many clever people in the world, yet their intelligence often amounted to nothing if they lacked talent. They still died, and all their brilliance was wasted.
"Do you know the technique the Sect Leader's secret squad uses?" Song San asked rhetorically. "The one that's been around since the founding of the Blazing Sun Sect, once used by the Blazing Sun Immortal himself? It might not be a Sky Grade technique, but it's one of the finest Earth Grade techniques."
"So?" Xing Ju was confused by the sudden tangent.
What did this have to do with anything?
"Liu Feng saw through that technique," Song San stated plainly.
"And?" Xing Ju's confusion deepened.
Sure, the technique was excellent for concealment. Still, if it were truly flawless, every Core Elder would have mastered it by now and become invincible. Like all techniques, it had its limitations.
"Ten Thousand Steps of Invisibility may be an Earth Grade technique, but it was created by an immortal and refined over millennia by the sect's stealth division," Song San explained, his eyes narrowing. "Yet, some unwashed farmer from the middle of fuck nowhere cracked it and sensed me. Do you understand? It hasn't even been two years since Liu Feng entered the Blazing Sun Sect. The only reason we aren't dealing with another Song Song is because Liu Feng has garbage talent."
"When did you start getting intimidated by every shadow on the wall?" Xing Ju frowned.
She might not be particularly close to her grandchildren, but the idea of them fearing some nobody was ridiculous.
Also, the notion that Liu Feng could defeat someone like Ye An was absurd. Ye An was not only a Foundation Establishment cultivator but could fight well beyond her level.
However, she wasn't about to call her grandson stupid in front of his face. Not when she had come here with intentions to invite him. Perhaps changing the conversation would be better.
"Anyway, now that Ye An is missing, some people are looking for a new figurehead to lead my faction—someone from the next generation." Xing Ju's voice softened, attempting to sweeten the offer for Song San, though she knew the reality of the role she was suggesting.
What she received in response was a mocking smile. "Yeah, sure. Give me half a million spirit stones and access to your treasuries. I'm sure there are some nice things you old folks have hoarded in your long, mediocre lives."
It was as Xing Ju feared. Song San made demands, offered a half-hearted promise, and left her with no real assurances.
She nodded, though she knew he was an unreliable ally, and this was not a deal she could accept. Song San couldn't be controlled. They'd be nothing more than dogs with him holding the leash if he were in charge.
It was perhaps better than being brutally killed by Song Song—but not by much.
Xing Ju felt like a cornered animal, with the younger generation advancing so fast and taking their positions of power. This generation had an extra number of monsters. Xing Ju felt like her generation would soon be unneeded and become playthings of this new generation of monsters.
As Xing Ju thought of what she could do next, an unorthodox idea came to mind. This generation was lost, but perhaps the next one... but this one needed to be out of the way...
It may be time to eliminate these arrogant youngsters altogether.
The more she thought about it, the more it seemed like this was the perfect time—the sect was heading toward another calamity, and the Sect Leader and Song Clan Head would be too preoccupied to notice the smaller pieces.
Xing Ju hadn't come here with murderous intent, but now, after being treated like a nuisance by Song Song and mocked by her brother, she was reconsidering.
Since when did the powerful allow themselves to be mocked by the weak? It was about time these foolish descendants of hers learned a lesson.
After a lengthy exchange of false pleasantries, Xing Ju walked away, irritation gnawing at her. She was tired of being treated like a nobody by a pack of useless bastards.
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A/N: “spiderwebbing” is that even a word? Sometimes I go through wild words when trying to write prose, usually I delete the shittier ones, but this one sounded right for some reason.
Comments
Wilson
"Xing Ju walked away, irritation gnawing at her. She was tired of being treated like a nobody by a pack of useless bastards." This is more like it...I have always wondered why the young brats are tolerated to such extent just for their potential.
Wilson
Just wondering...did Hu Jin's sky grade technique and other techniques fall into Ye An's hands.. I wonder how much use it will be for her since her element is ice.
PatronTurtle
For a second I thought she was gonna try to recruit our boy out from under Song Song
marlassett
Lady, out with the old, in with the new. Don't you know the law of change. Song San was doing her a big favor with that warning
Gardor
I think comparing the Hogwarts setting to the Blazing Sun setting was the least important part of that analogy, I wasn't suggesting classes cuz "Hogwarts" I was suggesting classes cuz "Sect". But ok you might have a point that this version of a sect is set up more like a labor camp. Despite every other iteration of a sect being essentially a school, and how the MCs other worldly knowledge of xianxia tropes is proven accurate at every turn. So it'd be strange if there was suddenly a genre breaking definition of what a sect was, especially since no one has commented on it. The daily schedule of sect members is still blank, you're just changing which information we're unaware of. Instead of their school schedules we don't know the disciples work detail. Still, if these disciples are just a trapped workforce, and thus classes aren't a viable method to get other young characters to interact, I guess make Liu Feng do some work? Have mandatory mining expeditions or whatever, make groups of disciples mow the lawn together. Before or during his Song Song team up. I am suggesting CHANGES to the story. And YES, I'm aware that Song Song being isolated is well supported within the text, I'm saying it's a mistake. I'm saying that their antagonist being Song Song's master rather than a bully in history class is a mistake. I'm saying not having a chance to interact with characters at their own level is a mistake. I'm saying not depicting this sect as a wide ecosystem full of vibrant characters with their own motivations is a mistake. Hell, I'm even saying that Liu Feng's pretty rapid descent into Song Song support is a mistake. Or, if not a mistake, at least poorly written, for that last one. As an aside, here's the recent evolution of the Song Song relationship: 1) Get invited to join her for the beast wave, decline cuz she's a psychopath. 2) find out Hu Jin is gonna be somewhere, decide that to get away from him you need to join Song Song's crew, (because joining the psychopath is better than just...going with anyone else). 3) draw up a plan for Song that involves being alone for months, go protect a town alone for months. 4) have Song show up and need protection while she advances, put your life on the line defending her. 5) get healed by Song, expose yourself to the sect leader, irrevocably tie yourself to her faction, make enemies of her enemies, snub the core elder who's asking you to moderate her (which you want to do anyway), move in together, visibly become her Chancellor/Chamberlain/Grand Vizier. Did I skip anything of importance? Did I miss when Song Song won over our MC with a creepy smile, and he decided he'd be unshakably loyal?
Gremlin Jack
You realize the reason we never interact much with other disciples is because of Song Song? It's well established that her personality has left her completely isolated within the sect. And Liu Feng has joined her in her excommunication. Your problem is you are comparing the sect to Hogwarts, a school. It is NOT a school. It's a black company. The disciples are exploited for their labor so the elders have the time and resources to pursue higher realms of cultivation, with any spare resources going to their own kids and favored disciples. Everyone else are just wage slaves, with only the smart and lucky managing to scrape their way into management.
Conrad Manaugh
A mere core formation cultivator….
Gardor
Shit you're right, I guess my dismissive language when I talked about the ghost Hu Jin met was unwarranted.
Isiah Debarros
I mean we have seen one sky grade techniques from the sect and it is a fire one
Gardor
Oddly enough, I don't think "Liu Feng avoids the exceptional" and "Song Song is the most exceptional person in the sect, of course she has few contemporaries, who else would Liu Feng pick to support" are good rebuttals to my "give them younger enemies with comparable power levels so they aren't beefing with 300 year old elders." point. How many people are in this sect? We met three students in the outer, and now only one of those students is still in the inner sect. Two faculty, and one of them is now in the inner (and the other is secretly the founder or whatever). Of those 4 other clans, are none of them scheming against Song Song? Her only adversaries are internal Song clan jerks? No one except her grandma is worried about the super talented cannibal with a hair trigger murder habit growing too strong? There was just a big tournament, I assume more than just Song Song, Song San and Ye An fought for the Blazing Sun, right? The one who died or killed someone might have been blazing sun too, so each sect contributed four people? They showed up with hundreds right? To be clear, I'm not advocating for high school teen drama plot lines, nor did I want a longer, more detailed tournament arc. I just think the world is a little bare bones, and doesn't really seem populated by a thousand other cultivators. This could be solved both by giving Song Song rivals, and by introducing fuggin classes. Classes are ready made forced periods of time where you need to interact with your "grade", and can also showcase some of the Sect's underlying culture/mindset. Plus it's an excuse to exposit about the mechanics of cultivation. PLUS it would formalize what it means to be a member of the Blazing Sun sect, rather than this Lord of the Flies type stuff we've got going on now. Surely there's someone in charge of the dorms, and the cafeteria, and the quest board and the market. Someone is teaching the kids farming and fighting and forging and fishing and the thousand other things you do as a cultivator. Like, there's definitely an array focused curriculum, right? Alchemy? Liu Feng learned everything himself, but they definitely put outer disciples though introductory courses to see their aptitude. Liu Feng hasn't been to one lecture, no elder has taught him a thing, he walked into the library and got a part time job, during which he reads. Sorry, bit off track. If there's a better way to organically introduce more characters, I don't know what it is. This is more of a "second pass through" kind of edit tho, you can't just add them in after 200 chapters. It's honestly as if Hermione said, "fuck going to school, I'm gonna make Draco Malfoy the next Headmaster". And then Draco started picking fights with Professors, and they never met another student, and we didn't learn about Hogwarts or magic. And every time Hermione describes him in her internal monologue, Draco is "super handsome with a great ass and nice pecs". But she's totally not into him and in fact doesn't even care that he's hot. In this case, tho, we haven't even established that Liu Feng is skipping "school" cuz the daily life of a sect member is just blank. Oof, that's a devastatingly accurate comparison, imo. Not the main character, very intelligent and loves books, can be savage = Hermione = Liu Feng Evil kid from evil nobility, with a huge leg up on people due to resources, knowledge and inherent talent = Malfoy = Song Song Leader of a regional organization that teaches magical children, a position primarily based on strength = Headmaster = Sect Leader. Spooky.
Thunderhoof
Would be funny if this Core Elder granny banished Liu Feng and Song Song, then Liu Feng returns earlier and stronger, then kills everyone himself before Song2. Like "Fine, I'll do it myself."
SirWins
Liu feng whole principle is to avoid such figures. I am not surprised we have not come across such figures as often. Song Song is a nascent soul seed. Which is mythical level rare, obviously her peers are going to be few in number.
Gardor
Definitely an option! If there's nothing in my whining you think could improve the writing, if nothing I say has merit beyond my own subjective opinion, sucks to be me. I'll just keep yelling into the void.
Brian
Author ignore all of this and keep doing your thing
Gardor
Just cuz I wanna keep harping about stuff I don't like, I think it's wack that there aren't any antagonists who are "peers" to either Song Song or Liu Feng. Ye An was mostly an antagonist-of-opportunity, she just seemed to show up at the worst time before getting defeated, only because one of Ye An's tertiary goals was killing Song Song (for revenge, cuz Song Song beat her once?). Killing Song Song isn't even a priority for Ye An, and she's the closest we have to a long term antagonist. Not really a lot of meat on that bone, especially since Song Song kept her around on a whim. Otherwise, Song Song's most definitive enemies are her former master, who is both a Core Elder and her grandmother, and her older brother, who is a sort of unreliable ally. Liu Feng's main antagonist is... cultivator society? And Fate in general? None of which can be beaten, or even appreciably inconvenienced, if they decided to just kill our main character(s). I think you should have introduced more student-y characters, and given those characters both the means and the motive to oppose the two. Isn't the Song clan one of five clans within the blazing sun sect? So there should be at least four other sect factions with members of a similar age and with similar skills and privileges as Song Song. Make her fight those kids, and work her way up to Elders. (Also, it's hard since the main character has seemingly arbitrarily decided to become Song Song's right hand man, so her enemies are his enemies, so when deciding on an antagonist it pretty much HAS to be Song Song's antagonist. Because he avoids the hassle, and has sacrificed some agency to refocus on her priorities. But I'm not really sure what skin he has in the game. Betray her and get yourself some books, who gives a shit? She's a cannibal psycho, he didn't even shop around for someone with better aligned ideals before choosing to make her the Sect Leader.) This kind of relates to my other complaint about the lack of sect activities, because there isn't an excuse for anyone to interact with each other. I guess the reason most of the sect drama in other stories stems from a student in a class being a dickhead, is because without that structure you just have characters picking fights with core elders, and never meeting anyone their own age. Just to put a name to it, I'd call this a symptom of shallow world building.
Undead Writer
Thanks for the chapter! Like our MC said! Get the heck out of the sect!
StarBat
...Song San is accepting bribes. Not surprising. I also expect him to inform Liu Feng because 50/50 we have no idea what's going on in that head of his.
Darkarma
It's the providence of authors to make new words. It's the providence of language professors to grudgingly accept them. Great chapter. I half expected Song San to die right then and there.
Waifu-glasses
Well, With that last line of thoughts she sealed her fate.
Thunderhoof
Ye An took Hu Jin, she must've kept him alive to fix her. She's using him as a dual cultivation tool.
Gardor
Another point of whining, based on my "Azure Frost sect focuses on ice" comment: every other sect follows a theme based on their name, where's all the fire for the blazing sun sect? Azure Frost has ice based techniques, Titanic Blade is big sword, Void Piercing is weird shadowy spatial stuff. I don't think we've seen one fire technique from anybody in blazing sun, unless you count the ghost Hu Jin met making his grave hot. Oh yeah, some of the elders on the expedition left behind embers after using their movement techniques. I think those may be literally the only fire based things we've seen from the Blazing Sun sect. Song clan seems poison and shadow themed, with this chapter's Core Elder being wind focused. There was the drunk boozy elder, and Hu Jin's elder is... muscly. I guess they could be "light" aspected, but we haven't seen that either. Is anyone ever taught in this sect? What are classes like? It mostly seems like people come to the sect and then get part time jobs. Before Song Song, before becoming an inner disciple, what did Liu Feng do everyday besides working in the library and self study? I guess he's too wrapped up in Song Song now to go to normal sect activities, but are other Inner Disciples going to seminars and taking electives?
Bunny Waffles
If Ye An HAS actually decided to just fuck off away from the sect now that she has the fruit that can prevent/stave off her inevitable death from her physique, then she made a REAL smart call. It was the perfect time too, since it was probably the only chance she was gonna get to escape from the Song Clan drama and certain demise when pitted against the Song prodigies. Also she currently has the Heaven's Chosen in her grasp and he is currently REAL fucked up without his ghost grandpa to bail him out.
Hugo Nuef
I became addict to outsiders talking about Liu Feng and slowly seeing the monster behind the shadow of song song! Tftc
Gardor
Sure it's fine if they can't just Google her Wikipedia page, but "here's an incredible talent out of nowhere with the ice affinity named Ye An" seems a bit too much for them to dismiss as a coincidence. Because they know about the Ye clan, and obviously the Azure FROST sect specializes in ice stuff. If Song Song tested into one of the other sects, no one would have any questions? A Core Elder could make her a disciple with absolutely zero background checks?
JellyNix
I’m addicted to this book. Binged everything in a couple days. I love the characters they feel so alive compared to other things I’ve read.
LAG
Interesting that Ye An is still MIA, perhaps she was smart enough to realize that she needed to keep any information of the fruit being in her possession from getting out, especially to the murder-hobo Song clan. The Granny is about to make her third stupid decision of the story.
Holy Mouse
They definitely took their time with this. But investigating certain things isn't as easy as snapping their fingers. Azure Frost Sect is another big sect. (There is more I would like to say, as it would add more details into the situation, but I'm afraid that would spoil the story. It will be better explained in the story.) I always try and respond to longer comments, because I know they went through the effort, lol. Unless it is extreme spoiler territory.
Jairo Enrique Quevedo
Welp, seems like things are coming to a head. Will this be the "end of the beginning"? Will we see Feng move on to greener pasturers? Will Song Song be along for the journey? Assuming they survive whatever event that is about to destroy the Sect.
Gardor
"Some even schemed to dig into her background to see if she had any connection to the Ye Clan of the Azure Frost Sect or if her name was just a coincidence." Are you saying...this faction of the blazing sun sect hasn't investigated their new figurehead, who they're pinning all their hopes on, to see if the ice technique protege with the same name as their rival sect's leading clan is related to that rival sect? That's really dumb. I mean, I thought it was silly they immediately raised her to such an influential level, given her obvious ties to the Azure Frost sect, but now you're saying they didn't even consider those ties. And also, somehow never noticed her freeze-burning alive every full moon, since they're not sure if she's got an extreme physique.
maldita
tftc
Holy Mouse
Daym, "spiderwebbing" is actually a word: verb (used with object) , spi·der·webbed, spi·der·web·bing. to cover with a spider web or fine lines resembling a spider web. I for sure thought I was wrong in that one.
