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 found a way to ream-walk to the Astral Plane by leveraging the Hidden Legacy of the Herculean Magus, where you picked a supply of spiritual beads. Supply vastly shared to your sectmates, and heavily solicited on in your latest endeavor; a ruin exploration where you caught Spiritual Plant-Beasts.
Right now, you are waiting for the town's master to charter you back, the Gang of Four Seasons sect-defining artifact in the hand of your good friend LienWen YanEr : an elaborated ploy to grant all of you what you desire. LienWen will get her so-desired fatherly approval, while you will come back with Ping Jun to beg for the Orb of the Seasons to be given to his Versatile Harmony Sect.

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Tamers of Hundred Beasts
(You), Quiet Word, 8 year old. Second Stage, working on opening your Dragon 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), 13 year old Second-Stage cultivator. Extremely secretive of her techniques.
Gro Ta, 15 year old Second-Stage cultivator. Whale Cultivator.
Bathias, 18 year old Third-Stage cultivator. Current Hawk Master
Ryota. Boar cultivator, Branch Master.
Maya Tao, that you know more as Snake Mistress
Wei Ball, young brother that won his age's tournament
Wang 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 cultivators
Venerable Stable Lotus, local's bigwig.
Young Mistress LienWen YanEr, his sole daughter, your age. And she is a good friend, although struggling with daddy issues.
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 Cult
Ster Ling, unsuferable Genius boy of the Stable Harbor Military Youth
Xiao Niar, Death-seeking unskilled boy of the Stable Harbor Military Youth
Inborn Tanuki's Lantern ; Loose cultivator that saved Bathias life.
Marketer Golden Eye, Silver Tongue - All-selling Merchant Alliance highest rank cultivator.
Moss, a Prolific Valley cultivator - sect of Plant Specialist. Wants to become the Steward of your World-Tree Immortal Cave.
Old Jiang - Owner of the town's spiritual technique bookstore.

Golden Skystone Village
Daoist 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 Dragon
Quicksteel Aris, Master at arms
Furan 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 - Bul Aiz : The guy that one-punched a 6th-realm Kaiju

Capital City
The 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.

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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. 20 wastes Qi.
20 wastes more Qi for the second gate than it waste for first.
33 is not enough for third gate; it becomes enough with your Phoenix-Qi bonus.
44 is the "golden number" for fourth gate.
Keep the Wei Ball rolling : your pupil Wei Ball seized two ingots of stormiron. If he don't craft a strong weapon pair in the next two years, this opportunity will go to waste.
Second Stage Fusion : Improve your spirit with a fusion while you're second stage - 0/4 fused
Cultivate your Garden : With the help of Moss and your Treasured Wandering World Tree, you want to develop your Immortal Cave.
Old Jiang's tutoring : The owner of the town's bookstore have took a liking to you, and he thinks you're ripe for a new technique... If you can find a way to pay for it.
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.

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 Realm
Growth Weapon : The Jade Rising Star-Phoenix
Hemomancer's profound Bloodstore
Items :
The finely crafted, 33 beasts painted, half-transparent medicine jug containing :
0 generic Qi and Blood pill.
3 Qi and Blood Pills [Astral Self][Fighting Intent]
6 Qi and Blood Pills [Silk][Divination]
2 Qi and Blood Pills [Leg][Space]
5 Qi and Blood Pills [Growth][Phoenix]
9 Qi and Blood Pills [Poison][Spiritual Strength]
10 Qi and Blood Pills [Astral Self][Strength]
9 Qi and Blood Pills [Metal][Truefire]
0 Spiritual Energy Pill (Restore Soul for damaged bounded spirit/Astral Self)
1 Month worth of Seclusion Pills (Fasting + Qi and Blood).
9 Spiritual Beads
Feathers :
Jade Hawk Feather
Light Hawk Feather
Mist Hawk Feather
10 Rising Phoenix Feather (2nd Stage)
Books :
The true Story of Gar Ruk, Realm Wanderer
Martial Scroll : Silver grounded Horserider Stance (Unarmed Fighting, Silver, Earth)
Scroll of the Phoenix' Ascendancy
Cash :
Three "Dragon Head" worth of coin-ropes.

The wait was of short duration. Your master dives down on his cart, with Venerable Stable Lotus and Sovereign All Learner's Teacher sitting back. LienWen one step ahead of Ping Jun and (You), holding the legacy you just found with a smug smile. It's really not hard at all for Ping Jun and (You) to look envious of the incredible reward in her hands. Her father nods, acknowledging the feat. Things are coming together. With no event in the foreseeable future, you...

Combine a Foundation, chose 2, pick (or don't) an additional social action [picking 4th social action increase DC of other action taken]

Foundation
>Body [Rising Phoenix Wide Ballet]
>Body [Golden Scales of the Skystone Snake]
>Body [Secret Self of Herculean Magus]
>Meditation [Way of the Spiritual Beast Boundfighter Wanderer] [Pills available]
>Meditation [Poem of the Rising Phoenix]
>Meditation [Poisonner's Ultimate Selftrial]
>Meditation [Grounded Phoenix's Amethyst's Cry]
Social
>Go beg like a dog Stable Lotus Patriarch.
>Get some blood from LienWen YanEr [allow to pick working on a Blood Skill]
>Request some custom pills to uncle Soulgaze [What?] [cost a bit less than 1/3 of your money]
>Work on combined skills with Ping Jun and LienWen YanEr
>Change Squad Formation
>Reflect on your archetype [Write-in]
>Hang out with [Write-in]
Potential
>Maybe one specific technique of yours should be improved? [Choose in addition to said technique. More chances of breakthrough]
>Keep playing with your Qi to improve your chances of Breakthrough!
Other
>Work on your Unlimited Rising Star Kick [Pills available]
>Work again on the Horse Realm martial scroll
>Reflect on dueling strategy [Write-in]
Weapon skills
>Work on your Unarmed Style : Metal-melting Truefire
>Work on your Windy Cavalier's Halberd
>Work on your Spear style : Blood-Shadow Wolf Painful Assault
>Work on your Mounted Archer’s Wind-Gliding Phoenix's Venom Arrow
>Work on your Meteor Hammer Style : Silk Tiger Sun-Seer [Pills available]
>Work on your Jade Phoenix's Concealed Meteor Swarm [Benefit from Aris Pointers x3]
Spiritual Arts Technique
>Work on your Crimson tides of life Ichor [Requires to pick YanEr social action]
Spiritual Beasts
>Investigate on the talking Spiritual Beasts
>Focus on Body Shifting with your Spiritual Animals
The sect [You currently have Favor]
>Ask the masters for skills allowing survival in extreme environments!
>Ask for something else [What?]
>Ask Ryota for a Mission!
Strengthening the Jar
>Take care of the spiritual Hawks
>Gardening time : Look for spiritual plants
>Maybe you can Improve your Immortal Cave [write-in how]
>Slack off [It will be bad for your mental health]

>>6238646
Well, let's do some upkeep/ shopping.
>Body [Secret Self of Herculean Magus][Pills available]
>Meditation [Way of the Spiritual Beast Boundfighter Wanderer] [Pills available]

>Maybe you can Improve your Immortal Cave [write-in how]
Garden write-in: Talk with Moss and Ryota about the spiritual plant beasts acquired. See if you can't make some spiritual pens for them. Our tree should be higher on the pecking order.
Pay some money or a phoenix feather to do so.

>Go beg like a dog Stable Lotus Patriarch. To get this over with and do our boy a solid.

>Social Ai see how she is doing also if she did anything with that grass. Figure we touch base with everyone in the coming months.

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Next month I suggest we hit up
>Old Jiang's tutoring to acquire a polearm skill use a phoenix feather for trade.
>And do some trade with the merchant guild to acquire plants for cave and materials for Wei Balls weapon and shield.

>>6238646
>Body [Secret Self of Herculean Magus]
>Meditation [Poisoner's Ultimate Selftrial]
>Go beg like a dog Stable Lotus Patriarch.
>Social Ai see how she is doing also if she did anything with that grass. Figure we touch base with everyone in the coming months.

>>6238651
Same guy just out and about.
I suggest also we go shopping for a plant realm formation to go hop to for more plants and push moss to 2nd realm. Since we're rich in Phoenix feathers.

Didn't we agree to wait a couple months before begging? I think it may be better to do it next turn then literally the turn right after.

>Body [Secret Self of Herculean Magus][Pills available]
>Meditation [Way of the Spiritual Beast Boundfighter Wanderer] [Pills available]

>Social Ai see how she is doing also if she did anything with that grass. Figure we touch base with everyone in the coming months.

>>6238651
also +1 to the immortal cave idea.

>>6238651
+1

>>6238644
fuck other people, The Quiet Banner is a great name and screw them.

>>6238646
>Secret body of the magnus
>Way of the spiritual beastbound fighter

>Improve immortal cave idea>>6238651

>Touch base with Ai

We need to wait a month or two for the begging.

>>6238651
>>6238947
Remove my begging and go with this.

So I was bored while studying. And did some matching for breakthrough on qi levels.

1. 10 to little
2. ? less then 20
3. 33 to little
4. 44 locked
=97
Looking at it and remembering previous talks when we try to break through. We test the first level.
12-14-16. Now this a bit of a problem. As if we consider 2 to = 10 then that means 3 qi is remaining.
Meaning number 2 could be less then 10.
For 1 + 3 + 4 = 89 (if we add 1 qi for 1 and 3) leaving 11 qi remaining that is unknown how to spend between. The three.

>>6239801
Counting 2 as 10 for the first math breakdown.

>>6239801
>>6239803
With that in mind the second gate can be found within 30 qi.
2/4/6/8/10 Which is based on if the first gate is 11 qi or higher.
Meaning our first gate will tell us the remaining 2nd gate and solve the third.

>>6239812
>>6238641 says the second gate needs less chi than the first one but that 33 is not enough for the third

Alright, locking
>Secret body of the magnus
>Way of the spiritual beastbound fighter
>Improve immortal cave idea>>6238651
>Touch base with Ai

>>6239801
I already ran into that issue and suspect, plainly, that it requires more than 100 to break through. which nececcitates that the user be able to make some sort of breakthrough skill.

also remember that 2nd gate was shattered with 22 energy. And stated "You wasted more energy than you did breaking the first gate with 20"

so the bound for error is 9. 2nd gate is at most 12 or as little as 20

So in the best case, it's 11, 12, 33+ and 44 which adds to 100+ already. Luckily our skill is enough to make 33 hit the golden number, so we may have an actual perfect amount needed with no waste. BUT this is ONLY the best case.

>Foundation
Things have calmed down. Meaning you have now time for working on your foundation. The bulk of your day is spent sitting crossed-leg in front of your Quiet Banner while your buddies fuss and run all around you.
This time, your Foundation work is a smooth ride. Your pill consumption is minimal; not enough to reach enlightenment though. Your Astral-Self/Fighting Intent pill supply is running low; enough for one month at best, more likely half of one. Your Strength rise, bolstered by the secret legacy you found - not at your apex yet. However, your Way of the Spiritual Beast Boundfighter Wanderer reached its apex. In the end, you gathered a twentieth of your full Dantian, bringing it to one third full.

>Touch base with Ai
It's been a good while since you've properly taken time to discuss with your treasured sister Ai.
"... And that's it for those ruin exploration.
- It's cool you've settled things without violence with the plants. But the Draugr thing... couldn't you make friend with it?
- I'm pretty sure you would had sorted it out. Wouldn't had worked for me. What about you? What's up?
- Oh, things are going well. Close to minor realm breakthrough."
FALLING BEHIND! FALLING BEHIND! FALLING BEHIND!
you shush the voice yelling in your head. Plaster a smile upon your face.
"That's great! Good job!
- Anyway, I was thinking of your story book lately... Could you lend it to me?"
On one hand, that won't cost you much. On the other... there's the risk of even more falling behind.
>Give the book to Ai
>Decline

>Improve immortal cave idea
Then, there is the whole matter of spiritual plants. As soon as you come back, you write a letter to Moss, requesting him to come as soon as possible.
Asking Ryota to build some kind of Pen suitable to hold a Spiritual Beast-Plant, here's his answer.
"Definitely doable. And a good opportunity for you to learn the Penship Formation, which is an advanced version of your already known Restraining Formation.
However, this formation is harder, have to be tuned to each beast-spirit, and require a good amount of ressources."
With your current cash, you can build 3 of such "Pens" in your world tree. Each Pen have to be fitted to a Spiritual Beast kind [Animal kind, not exact combination]
This might not be too bad of an idea. You feel the containment of the Whale Spirit weakening over the course of the week. It will give, the only question is how long it will take.
With the improvement on-the-fly of your work-in-progress Formation, the beast captured last should hold longer than those captured first. Speaking of, you take a mental note that masters might help you with the formation-tuning.
In the middle of the week, the green-hair of your Prolific Valley steward shows at the head of the sect.
"Hello young Lord. You mandated your steward; an insightful decision according to...
- My recent gains mentionned in the letter?
- ... I was thinking of the harvest of your Yuzus. But if there's more, we can have a look together."
You detail the trial and rewards on the way to your Immortal Cave.
"I'd be eager to graft the spirits to the tree. However, I'm a bit... Lacking... to do so. Grafting the Yuzu on your tree should be enough to let me breakthrough, and then we can work on the spirit beasts.
- Any reason not to pluck the Yuzus here and now?
- Those have to be consumed fast after plucking. You can hold on them for a couple more weeks, then they'll fall and spoil."
>Pluck the 2 Yuzus. Write-in what you do with them. This will make Moss reach 2nd stage.
>Hold on the Yuzu harvest, just the time to arrange a better use for them.

>>6241258
>Give the book to Ai

>>6241259
>Pluck the 2 Yuzus. Write-in what you do with them. This will make Moss reach 2nd stage.

Can we dry the leaves and use in combination with the tea from our teapot?

>>6241259
>Give book
>Hold off

>>6241262
>Dry the leaves
Hazardous according to Moss as he wants to use the excessive energy given to the fruits to make the graft work and this would be a great way to kill the small Yuzu-tree.

And forgot to put to vote :
>Build Spirit Beast Pen? [Which animals?]

>>6241258
>Give her the book

>>6241259
>Give the book to Ai
>Pluck the Manus Yuzu:

My brothers, Most cunning!
Use the Magnus fruit with Uncle soul gaze to produce magnus/Pheonix medicine and the other to mesh with the tree.

Moss can almost immediately start work On the spirit plant at his new stage, I hope.
But if we dont need the plant for our world tree, we can trade it against a master helping refine our formation.

Magnus key word is spell casting, spiritual strength. There is a lot to do with that.

Also! 33/100! Nice.
We are already over the hard part.

>>6241279
>Build whale

It will cost a dragon head, and the other act will cost a dragon head, so 2/3rds of our savings gone.
But we are gaining a lot out of each.

OP this might interest you
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>>6241283
>https://bsky.app/profile/testamentenjoyment.net/post/3lp4faxtgf22z
Maybe. Don't have Bluesky, could you screen it for me?

>Give the book to Ai - however any insights she has she tells us about them. also when training under the book to do it near us(could we use banner if she opens up a portal?)
>Pens whale, dolphin, lobster in that order
>>6241259
>Pluck the 2 Yuzus. Write-in what you do with them. This will make Moss reach 2nd stage.
>Take one and crush the fruit into juice and use it to brew fruit juice tea for the growth pot share with various people you know, we could consider exchanging it for favor to build the pens if the first one does well. Thinking using two money and the others to help out.
The other fruit depends on if the first is very effective if so do the same process. If not go contact uncle soul gaze to make pills out of it. In fact making tea out of it and into pills wouldn't be a bad idea. Using one to see the effects via brewing and stalling the second one to be made into pills.
Also how many seeds?

>>6241303
>Seeds
Moss tells you you need to take the whole fruit if you prefer to plant it and create a new tree; else it's much more work and require materials/treasure/techniques/service cost exceed the worth of your fruit.

>>6241277
>>6241262
No using the leaves then, switching to >>6241303's idea of using the juice of one fruit
>>6241279
Build Spirit Beast Pen?
> Yes, whale

>>6241294
here I catboxed it for you
https://files.catbox.moe/vshtsx.mp4

>>6241328
Thanks.
>>6241283
What's this game? I don't speak chinese; is that something legit or just an animation of what a wuxia JRPG would look like?
I want to play the game with that amount of animations for the most basic attack skills.

>>6241330
I googled "Taiwanese DOS RPG 1995" and the first thing was a reddit link saying it was "Chivalrous Heroes 3"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-AhRwr88tY
And a youtube comment on this video led me to this guy who played all of it on-stream
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1782563354
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1782563692
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1782564278

>>6241303
>>6241307
Btw what does ryota/moss think about turning the fruit into tea and then into pills?

>>6241340
>Turning the Fruit into tea
Quiet Word is the one knowing most about his teapot. And I don't recall you guys playing much with Tea before. So trial and errors.
>Turning it into pills.
Moss would say that those fruits are definitely good to eat as-is. And would be better in the end of an Immortal Chief than those of an Alchemist, despite a skilled later able to outperform a neophyte former.

>>6241341
Well we did use the bamboo once in the teapot I think it enhanced it?
Hmm finding a chef would be tough tho.

>>6241259
>Give book
>Pluck the 2 Yuzus.
Don't really got any ideas so i'm fine with
>>6241303
idea.

>Pen whale

I wish we got that plant pretending to be a bird that insulted us before flying off, we need more comic relief around here!

Thinkin we do a shop turn next.
I wanna aquire some plants, restock pills, sell some banner spots, spiritual soil for plants/ tree. Get contact info on a spiritual cook, get Wei Ball weapons materials in order. Get a formation to dive into the plant realm and the materials to sacrifice.

Anything I miss guys?

>>6241341
Oh right does AI have that grass still? I'd offer to plant it in the garden if it's still alive/pay for it.

>>6241401
The grass blades found in Astral Realm? Dead as plucked and given to the sect as materials in the common stockpile (where you usually get ingredients for binding/fusing)

>>6241259

Are there any items in need of spiritual strength? Other than that, our portal technique is spiritual. We could share them with someone before pushing to pass into one of the realms.

>give book
>only build a pen for the whale
>bind Dolphin to Wang Zi
>Ask Ai if she wants to marry this lobster into her Rainbow Lobster to enchance them both. Don't tell her this, but if she's not into it then I'm betting this lobster would taste good paired with Yuzu.

>>6241762
>supporting all this

lol lmao eat spirit lobster

>>6241762
The lobster is a burning-leaf topiary art, so not sure about the taste

>>6241947
SMOKED LOBSTER?!

>>6241762
Supportin, cept eating the topiary art

Can i get a quick 1d100 for how much of the Spirit Beast Pen Formation QW grasped?

Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>6242655
So uh question can we harvest from the spiritual plant beasts such as fruits or leafs?

>>6242661
In beads? No.
Once planted in a garden? That's the point.
The "choice" of your Prolific Valley helper was related. Moss can Graft to the World-Tree ensuring scaling of the grafts on the long term and overall better plant survival. Pomegranate would have improved the yields of recolts while Camelia knows how to cross-pollinate to create new "Hybrid" plants, at a cost and low chance of success.

>>6242663
All things considered grafting is better as apple trees get better yields and fruit from the practice

In the end, you gave Ai your book without a second thought.
You wondered for a couple seconds if you could fuse the lobster plant to her Nimble Mantis Shrimp; but like Wang Zi dolphin the element mismatch is too wide for the fusion to work.
Same for the thought of eating the lobster with Yuzu : it's made of burning leaves for one, and second, you'd have to break the spiritual bead and maybe kill it. Clearly not worth.

You elected to pluck the Yuzu, letting Moss work on the graft.
You decide to experiment with the first one : surely, using its juice in the teapot could maximize its yield?
>Never worked with Immortal Cooking
This had chances to work. However, you just wasted one Yuzu as you heated the juice. You try not to take it bad, and cope by telling yourself this was a matter of luck as you're pretty sure there was a way to use smartly the Yuzu with your teapot. Way you don't see - however, you feel you could really take an interrest into how Immortal Cooking works.
To avoid any kind of issue, you simply eat the second fruit. Surely, its energy will help you on your cultivation.

Then, there's the whole "Whale-Pen-Building thing.
>Learned formation : Beasttamer Pen Formation!
>Takes 2 days to build, 2 days of Ritual. Need a physical pen of materials at least as strong as the spirit to hold, and element of spirit stronger than the one to bind.
Weaving together branches and foliage near the basis of the tree to create a head-sized ball on the outside, large enough for whale inside. The tricky part is filling it with saltWater, according to the instructions that were given (you're not trusting anyone except Moss to that precious tree of yours).
"This steward remains Young Lord that according to his tale, the acquired Whale -
- ... doesn't need Water.
- ... You understand fast, once you've been longly explained things. And isn't your World-Tree Wandering?"
In case the Whale Bead breaks, you now have a failsafe. And a Pen remains a boon for a BeastTamer.

Combine a Foundation, chose 2, pick (or don't) an additional social action [picking 4th social action increase DC of other action taken]

Foundation
>Body [Rising Phoenix Wide Ballet]
>Body [Golden Scales of the Skystone Snake]
>Body [Secret Self of Herculean Magus]
>Meditation [Way of the Spiritual Beast Boundfighter Wanderer] [Pills available]
>Meditation [Poem of the Rising Phoenix]
>Meditation [Poisonner's Ultimate Selftrial]
>Meditation [Grounded Phoenix's Amethyst's Cry]
Social
>Go beg like a dog Stable Lotus Patriarch.
>Get some blood from LienWen YanEr [allow to pick working on a Blood Skill]
>Request some custom pills to uncle Soulgaze [What?] [cost a bit less than 1/2 of your money]
>Change Squad Formation
>Reflect on your archetype [Write-in]
>Hang out with [Write-in]
Potential
>Maybe one specific technique of yours should be improved? [Choose in addition to said technique. More chances of breakthrough]
>Keep playing with your Qi to improve your chances of Breakthrough!
Other
>Work on your Unlimited Rising Star Kick [Pills available]
>Work again on the Horse Realm martial scroll
>Reflect on dueling strategy [Write-in]
Weapon skills
>Work on your Unarmed Style : Metal-melting Truefire
>Work on your Windy Cavalier's Halberd
>Work on your Spear style : Blood-Shadow Wolf Painful Assault
>Work on your Mounted Archer’s Wind-Gliding Phoenix's Venom Arrow
>Work on your Meteor Hammer Style : Silk Tiger Sun-Seer [Pills available]
>Work on your Jade Phoenix's Concealed Meteor Swarm [Benefit from Aris Pointers x3]
Spiritual Arts Technique
>Work on your Crimson tides of life Ichor
Spiritual Beasts
>Investigate on the talking Spiritual Beasts
>Focus on Body Shifting with your Spiritual Animals
The sect [You currently have Favor]
>Ask the masters to help you improve the Spiritual Plant-Beast Formation!
>Ask the masters for skills allowing survival in extreme environments!
>Ask for something else [What?]
>Ask Ryota for a Mission!
Strengthening the Jar
>Take care of the spiritual Hawks
>Gardening time : Make Moss work on grafting the caught beasts! [Which one?]
>Maybe you can Improve your Immortal Cave [write-in how]
>Slack off [It will be bad for your mental health]
And, as always...
>Write-in allowed!

>>6242694

>Foundation
>Body [Secret Self of Herculean Magus]
>Meditation [Poisonner's Ultimate Selftrial]

>Go Shopping with Moss and put the word out for spots under your banner for income. Payment will be phoenix feathers as we got a lot and profit from the banner effects.
>1.Sell banner spots for a monthly cost; if someone sells their banner spot before, the previous person needs to pay the same cost. No monk sannagains .
>2. Acquire Items to craft Wei Bai Weapons. Take him along to figure out his affinities.
>3. Go plant shopping with Moss for grafting plants we got/potential later grafts.
>4. Book on immortal cooking starting out to maximize fruits.
>5. Formatons to jump to other realms see what they got in store. Also, buy plants to acquire renewable items to sacrifice like the growth realm formation.
>6.(if I can fold pills into this I would if not another turn.)

Last action goes to whatever is in the lead that makes sense such as begging.

>>6242694
>Secret Body of The Magnus
>Pheonix cry

Up our mental defences.
>Do the shopping list of >>6242745
Sell the spots for THIS MONTH and at a dragon head, Dragon neck if we can manage it.

>Train true fire martial arts

Next turn we go begging like a dog, so the slots need to be free next month.
And the body of the Magnus ties into fist/leg shit. So let's get our stuff in order there.

>>6242694
>>6242745 +1

>>6242745
+1 if legal and for extra action
>Investigate on the talking Spiritual Beasts
Is personally my vote.

Also ya guys think we should eventually ask the masters to help improve our Spiritual Plant-Beast Formation or go with the allowing survival in extreme environments?

>>6242693
>>5976996
Rainbow Lobster, not Nimble Shrimp. Different spirit.

>Body [Secret Self of the Herculean Magus]
>Meditation [Way of the Spiritual Beast Boundfighter Wanderer]

>Work again on the Horse Realm martial scroll
>Work on your Mounted Archer's Wind Cliding Phoenix's Venom Arror (it seems like there is little reason to choose the Cavalier's Halberd other than buffing halberd? I guess it might have an easier DC because it is simple).

Goal here is to break into Horse Realm and snag ourselves a Horse upgrade.

We have four spirit beasts who could use an upgrade. However, we don't have any snake techniques. We should ask Snake Mistress to teach us one at some point.

No social action because I'm trying to get into Horse realm.

>Catching up with the other kids
Over the course of the week, you take time to catch up with each and every of your friends - separately, for quality time to each and every of them.
Dhundan's run in Stable Lotus Realm was even more desastrous than your own : his team was made of Ster Ling and a wuss of Stable Lotus Harmony.
The Stable Lotus disciple failed early on, then Dhundan and Ster Ling fought - both being immensely skilled in the art of diplomacy and such social butterflies, such an issue was, in hindsight, unavoidable - and fall.
"And your eye Aperture? Did you get an innate skill?
- Of course I do! But I won't reveal my trumps like that!"
Yi Norm had a more expected run : a lot of kid over him, he went sideways, and found a couple precious materials.
The twins, however, had fortuitous encounter. Symetry being a part of Stability, both of them had the same insight, stopped and meditated on mirror positions.
Their cultivation rised sharply, bringing the twins on the verge of opening their Eye Apertures.

But the most impressive one is Ai : She stumble upon a Spirit Beast - she show you her Hare, made of Crystal. Then, she found a rainbow-colored lobster spirit in the Stable Lotus secret realm - and as she could keep it, it means she helped the stable lotus disciple to catch an even juicer prize.
"Also, since I opened the Eye aperture, I'm seeing more things!
- more... things?
- Yeah. Nothing crazy I think, it haven't been really relevent. But I'm seeing Shiny Wiggly lines under ground and stuff."
You wonder what this is, but have no decisive answer

>>6244118
I agree that we need to track down spirits. So we should track down realm hoping formations from shopping/from the sect. I know the snake mistress has the snake realm formation.
Prob nab realm formations for Royta/ Masters/

>>6244238
We should prioritize a wolf spirit IMHO, I'm worried about ours being taken away by its parent if we don't empower it fast enough

>>6244426
True since Qm took our ability to use realm hopping meditation to get our spirits. We'll need to acquire formations to realm hop over. Probably talk with masters to get said realms. Could use favor to learn them.

>>6244477
Who would have thought that not using BeastTamer technique would make you worst as Beast Taming?

>>6244477
it's not hard, all we have to do is use a technic with the keyword animal we want.

What IS hard is getting the right technics.
Only really missing snake, but we have horse and pheonix in one.

>>6244772
Or, you know, ask the Masters of your sect for Beast-related techniques.
You have a Wolf related one too.

>>6244118
Her Mantis Shrimp is written as this in my notes :
Nimble Mantis Shrimp (Stable, Void, Arm, Crayfish, Mantis)
I might have writen it as a Rainbow Lobster, but this is what i have in my beancounting txt file. And seeing what you quoted next : i'm adamant about the infrormation i'm giving right now.

Anyway, four way tie between
>Martial art : Metal melting truefire
>Work on your Mounted Archer’s Wind-Gliding Phoenix's Venom Arrow
>Investigate on the talking Spiritual Beasts
>Horse scroll

>>6242745
>>6245295
Support metal melting truefire.

>>6244780
Also noted. Can we get that as a monthly action?
Is shopping action legit?

>>6245304
Shopping action is as legit as it gets and will open its own can of worm as a mid-biweekly action

>Biggest roll of the turn : 29
Oh my. Rarely seen such a bad array

>>6245664
Oof

Sorry guys.
Blocking a bit on what I want to write, plus slightly sick and other projects eating up time... I'll try to shake it and get back to writing but it doesn't flow for now.

>>6246251
The QM curse strikes again

>>6246251
Happens my dude. We'll be chillin here no pressure.

This week is greatly disapointing : Hawk shit on your face during daily duties, Dhundan and Ai broke through their minor realm - confirming your loss of speed.
The existential dread of Falling Behind worsen : Sin Din, Man Din and Yi Norm have overtaken you too. At least, you're pretty sure of it, not that you know how to peak in someone else's dantian.
Worst : the pressure makes you go harder on your cultivation. Too hard. On the flip side, Secret self of the Herculean Magus went fine despite the horrible mindset you're in. However, your meditation made you quite sick, once again.
All in all, it wasn't that bad in terms of gathered Qi - one twentieth of a dantian, bringing you to 38 over 100. Maybe the Yuzu you ate had some effects?
However, your Metal-melting Truefire practice resulted only in wasted pills, time and effort.

Moss comes back later in the week - now second stage. First order of business is letting him work his magic. He chosed to work on the Lobster Spirit. In a few hours only, the mass of burning foliage somehow got accepted as part of the whole Mythical Growth-realm Tree.
Timing is not half bad : the Lobster's bead turned to astral-blue dust as soon as you released it - and the one holding the Whale gave the day before Moss' visit. Looks like the investment was necessary after all. You wonder if you should build more pens : it'll be safer, for sure. However, if Moss is close by, you'll have a way to deal with containment breaches.
Last, there is the matter of shopping. Leveraging Moss' visit, you will look for grafts, Immortal Cooking, and ressources to work on Wei Ball's to-be Weapon.
Your eyes wide open in front of the wares...
"Bunch of crap. Tell you what... The masters would be interrested by whatever you'll sell. And our lowly sect would be outpriced in a fingersnap.
- What do you mean exactly?
- Come one week or too at our compound. Let a few kids train under your fabled banner. And see what Prolific Valley can do for you.
- And what weight have those words?
- The masters thoroughly gave me talks and permissions for such a thing. Two weeks of your time. Profound opportunity."

>It's been 3 years and ten months since you joined the Tamers of Hundred Beasts.

>Would you take Moss' offer and spend next turn at Prolific Valley?
>Or decline and proceed with a "shopping" action?

>>6247313
>Accept Moss' offer

>>6247313
>>Accept

>>6247313
>Accept the offer.

I like Moss. Let's help his standing a bit.
They are a sect of farmers, they have to be good at cooking as a branch off.

>>6247313
>Accept Moss' offer
With everything cut off due to imperial decree, it pays to make friends with our local farmers.

>>6247313
Oh right we still doing the other things like looking for Wei balls mats and formations?

>>6247313
>Accept

>>6247400
Not if you accept. You need to keep bargaining power.
However, each Spirit-Plant you graft in your world tree will give you yearly harvestables

>>6247413
I mean, we got 10 phoenix feathers which, if I remember right,t have growth as well.

Phoenix as a myth had what 3 points usually for our item creation. So 30 money + 2 on hand + banner spots. We're semi rich right now.

>>6247313
>Accept
WE ARE FALLING BEHIND!!!
WE NEED TO GO IN ON OUR FOUNDATION!!!

As fast as this is told, you shake Moss' hand and walk back to your own compound. Gathering your thing, you soon leave toward south-west, inlands.
Their compounds are nested in a valley. Buildings are shorter and smaller than the already-modest Beasttamer compound. Not surprising, since so much of your mutual practice takes place outside.
Moss walks you to your quarters, while Ryota is taken to discuss a bit with the farmland's master. Still feeling a bit dizzy from your Poisonner's recent malpractice, you don't push on staying : there will be plenty of time and opportunity to get to know the important members of this farming community, right?

Pick One Banner Action + 2 other. This time, picking a "Social" in addition will have an heavier toll than usual.
Banner action
>Work on your Foundation [you know the drill for that one]. Anything else feel you'll be even more "Falling Behind"
Or you can instead spend time monitoring... [This can be Banner action/Social action]
>Moss. His weakness and lack of Combat practice will be an issue sooner or later.
>Camelia. The straightforward girl explicitly stated she likes money - building a relationship could net her to sell her services?
>Pomegranate. She's an archer, so are you. And she's pretty. If she owe you one, maybe she can help with next year's harvest?
>That Wooden Pipe kid, Muzhi Yandou, who won Triad algonside with Wang Zi

While you're at a sect of Spiritual Plant Expert...
>Learn some Spiritual Plant technique for a chance to Realm-walk there in the future
>Maybe there are formations to bind to a spirit plant akin to the one binding you to spiritual beast? This might help with the World-Tree...
>Try to improve your Spiritual Plant Restraining formation with the help of their experts
>Learn the basis of Immortal Cooking
>Maybe they know a way to track and find that Hawk Plant Spirit?
>Go trade directly some of your Phoenix Feathers to the sect's coffers

>>6248569
>Pomegranate. She's an archer, so are you. And she's pretty. If she owe you one, maybe she can help with next year's harvest?
>Maybe there are formations to bind to a spirit plant akin to the one binding you to spiritual beast? This might help with the World-Tree...

>>6248575
Pick One Banner Action + 2 other. This time, picking a "Social" in addition will have an heavier toll than usual.
Meaning I expect you to pick 3 or 4

>>6248569
>Secret self magnus
>Bound fighter meditation
>Our growth movement technique

I'm torn between Moss, the safe bet and pomegranate the archer who expands our network. How to deal with a jealous YanEr

>Learn the basis of Immortal cooking.
>Trade 3 feathers in
>Get a plant technique.

Let's see if the training and trading can get us a technique, knowledge and some items for Wei ball.

In that order of importance.

>>6248576
Oh sorry
>>6248575
>Meditation [Way of the Spiritual Beast Boundfighter Wanderer] [Pills available]
>Body [Rising Phoenix Wide Ballet]
>Pomegranate. She's an archer, so are you. And she's pretty. If she owe you one, maybe she can help with next year's harvest?
>Maybe there are formations to bind to a spirit plant akin to the one binding you to spiritual beast? This might help with the World-Tree...

>>6248592
This method is shit I'm scrapping.

>Pheonix waltz
>rising pheonix poem
We want our qi to go up. And this basically ensures we will increase our stores.

>Immortal cook
>plant technique
>Trade feathers in.

Just buissness.

>>6248606
>Immortal cook
>plant technique
>Trade feathers in.
None of those are "social" actions.

>>6248569
>Phoenix waltz
>Rising phoenix poem
and
>Maybe there are formations to bind to a spirit plant akin to the one binding you to spiritual beast? This might help with the World-Tree...
>Learn the basis of Immortal Cooking

Will say though learning a spiritual plant technique is really tempting. Also I really appreciate the call back to the hawk plant spirit and while I almost feel tempted to vote for it on principle there are just way too many other really good options. Maybe some other day funny plant bird thing.

>>6248628
I'm so glad the 2 hours spent to draw that art where not wasted.

>>6248569
>Phoenix waltz
>Rising phoenix poem
>Pomegranate. She's an archer, so are you. And she's pretty. If she owe you one, maybe she can help with next year's harvest?
>Maybe there are formations to bind to a spirit plant akin to the one binding you to spiritual beast? This might help with the World-Tree...
>Go trade directly some of your Phoenix Feathers to the sect's coffers

>>6248569
>Rising Phoenix Wide Ballet
>Way of the Spiritual Beast Boundfighter Wanderer
>Learn Spiritual Plant Restraining
>Maybe they know a way to track and find that Hawk Plant Spirit?

>>6248569
>Work on your Foundation [Rising Phoenix Wide Ballet] + [Poem of the Rising Phoenix]
>Learn the basis of Immortal Cooking
>Try to improve your Spiritual Plant Restraining formation with the help of their experts

This seems to be the leading combination, without a "fourth" social action

Foundation locked, buyer remorse's round.

>>6249410
Sigh. Guess we'll buy from them another turn The main reason for this turn was to get stuff. Ya know for plant fusion/formations to enter plant realm/ aka list above.
Kind of disappointed that half the buy plan is ignored.

>>6249424
At this point why even go to the plant sect.

>>6249425
I'll say one last thing and drop the subject moving forward.
Why even have a vote since we're there to buy stuff. And then not even buy the things we're there for. Then cutting up the buy list to make it take more turns to get the stuff we could've done in one.
At most add a social action or two instead of what happened.
Sorry for the short rant is just retarded not to do the thing we wanted at the merchant guild then not even do it here in the valley sect.

>>6249427
It's delicious for me anyway.
Don't fret, there is still plenty of time. And a "fun" event incoming.

>>6249432
Don't do this again please. I ask you. As a player that's been in this quest for quite awhile.

>>6249434
Dutifylly noted.

>>6249424
I don't think you voted mate.

So adding another vote to direct trade and "Improve the plant restraining formation" puts that at 3, which gives us 4 objectives achievable.
those being binding techniques [that we didn't come for but could be useful], immortal cooking skill and direct trade vs their coffers of materials or spirit stones.

>>6249456
Regarding "objectives" you can get 3 in addition to foundation if one of them is a "social" action.

>>6248697
>>6249456
My vote as usual I'm out an about so ID changes. As I'm out right now.

Alright, locking.

So real life keeps taking its toll.
I might not have told you yet... I might update my moniker to DaddyDrDragonfagQM near the end of the year.
As you might understand, this means a few changes regarding planning, which in turn eat my /Qst/ alloted time. I'm not forgetting you guys though. Update will come out in a few days.

>>6250592
All good, I also have good news finally got my contractor's license. Now I can I work towards saving money for my 2 main goals.

Opening a maid cafe and making a questing website.

>>6250603
Congrats ContractorAnon!
Did you, by chance, happened to run a certain quest involving Dungeon, Banshees and Chadaklin the Hobgoblin?

>>6250606
Nay I ran quests on fiction.live, and posted on Royal Road before that.
I just want the tools to run a complex story alas, they don't exist. Hopefully, make bank and fund some programmers to do it for me.

>>6250637
Drop in /qtg/
DungeonQM is currently making such a website and is looking for user/features needed

May I get a few d100's?

>>6250892
Like all anon are granted 1d100. (You) are gifted tea leaves for your Immortal Tea practice. Thanks to picking the "Formation" there is an hidden GETS from that specific combination (didn't thought it would get picked, yet here we are).
Long story short : you might have a few gets of [Spiritual Plants, Food : Tea]. You can specify with your roll one more Keyword. Regarding the chosen keyword, you'll get either a few dried leaves or some live sample that Moss will succesfully graft regarding the roll.

Rolled 46 (1d100)

>>6250892
Okay but don't spend them all at the same place.

>>6250910
o dpbt 46 is enough for gets, but I would probably put it on. . . .Snake.

this is to keep my honest.

Rolled 47 (1d100)

>>6250892
Rolling

Rolled 50 (1d100)

>>6250893

Rolled 80 (1d100)

>>6250893
>>6250836
I'll check it out.

>>6251018
Hats a get.

What word ya want pal?
I say snake since we only have 1 technique for it but wolf could do with some love too.

>>6251018
>>6251026
Say wolf as we should build onto that aspect.

>>6250836
Holy shit the picture he showed is the idea I wrote down for the concept of the website. Yah I gotta get in contact with him.
Once I'm making money I'll fund him if I can be a partner.

Rolled 14 (1d100)

>>6250893
Lets go gambling!

>>6251039
Aww dangit!

>>6250836
Sent him a DM hopefully we can become partners, I'll fund and bankroll this site one way or another.

>>6251018
>>6250980
>>6250934
You guys need a Keyword with that. Try to put it "WITH" the roll, although I might allow exception for 95+

Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>6250893

>>6251102
Would you prefer we just roll again, or just pick keywords now? If not, I'll pick [Snake] for mine >>6250980.

>>6251144
just pick

Rolled 10 (1d100)

>>6250893
Wolf

Rolled 39 (1d100)

>>6250892
SNAKE

Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>6250893
Poison!

Rolled 98 (1d100)

>>6251121

Sudoku & Sunday Comics

>>6252504
Looks like RNG loves puzzles.

>>6252504
The Dao of Puzzles has favored us. QW shall be the smartest boy.

>>6252504
>>6252582
How the hell do i put that in TEA of all things?

Serves me right to lack time to update and thus putting the quest in "watch a 8year old grow in real time" category.

With the stupid-high roll I want to create a "Puzzle" Mythical keyword.
Now, what should we put inside?

>>6252741
Well first and most obvious is Shrewd. Deception/stealth/misdirection? An intelligence boost, and since this is a tea, and you would drink it while doing a newspaper, Material word paper/bamboo slip

>>6252741
[Shrewd] is a good starting point, as is [Paper] as a material component. Not sure if there's a [Logic/Reasoning] or [Mystery] keyword, but either of those could work in addition, to fit with the intelligence boost. [Curious] [Perceptive] or [Insightful] keywords could also work, since being able to perceive the nature of the puzzle is just as important as solving it. Maybe a boost to the 5 senses?

>>6252779
I think its funnier that by including paper, there is a near certainty of a sect of grumpy old masters Sat with their tea doing crosswords while their excitable juniors play where's Waldo-san

>>6252784
>>6252779
I can sell to you a combination of Shrewd, Paper, and Break Formation

>>6252785
Now, that is a combination I really didn't expect.

Yes please!

>>6252785
No objections from me, though it may be worth waiting on the anon that rolled it >>6252504.

>>6252785
That sounds dope. And yah wonder when he'll come around to confirm that.

Other then that, we're begging next turn right? What else is on the menu? Rest of the shopping list?

>>6250836
Another thing found his discord account, sent him a dm but he hasn't got back to me. Shrug.

>>6252785
Sounds good. I'm in favor of being a shrewd lad.

Prolific Valley is a chill place, where time flows in a blink while each day stretch in undescriptible lengths. You don't bother to give pointer to any of their promising disciples training under your Quiet Banner - not after they made fun of the name, gibing that a banner is expecting to be quiet and would have been nameworthy only if dimming nearby sounds or able to blast noise. Nevertheless, the time spent focusing on your foundation let you stockpile a fair share of Qi in your dantian, letting you three few under half-full.

In the end, you spend most of your time with the sect's owner, a middle-age third-stage voluptuous woman whom Daoist name is Mama Watermelons - you suspect she chose it to emphasize her massive pair of jugs. The matriarch almost immediately took you under her wing.
"Truly fantastic to have a pupil gifted in so many domains.
- It's too much honor to treat me as your pupil, Mama.
- Don't get me to laugh. With how things currently are, power dynamic changed tremendously and profoundly. Before the mandate impacting the major actors, people's loyalty usually go to themself, their sect, their country, then their town. Haven't you noticed? Here, at least, rivalry subdued heavily. With the good gestion of Patriarch Stable Lotus, we all put Stable Lotus Harbor interrest before our own sect - to prepare to whatever will come after the mandate is lifted. Really, it's not what's happening everywhere. Making your generation as strong as possible as fast as possible is a great way to rise our small town's status. Now, what can I teach you?
- Are there ways to bind to a spiritual plant akin to the ones to bind to a spiritual beast?
- That's not how it works... However, if you spin your True Qi like this..."
>Learned : Spirit Plant Qi-Touch - Communicate remotely to a linked a Spiritual Plant!
You can't wait to try - at the point you ride your horse toward your cave immediately after, to try your newfound knowledge immediately.
It's like a new part of your body opens. Feeling the world by haptic means : no sight, smell or hearing - but an exact sense of location.
You move a couple kilometers away, and focus again. You feel the World-tree - and you feel your own echo by your link, faintly pinging. You follow your guts, and send a Qi impulse by your link.
You feel tremors. Wind in your branches. Grass and pebbles give way to tender, delicious soil while you follow the immaterial thread to where other-you summoned you.
>Your Wandering World Tree is now truly Wandering.
You ride back to the Prolific Valley with a smile on your lips. Parking the tree nearby, you won't have to spend precious time with Moss to let him work on the grafts.
[By this link you feel the tree getting enlarged by the addition of the Winter-Ice Dolphin Spiritual Plant]

Then, the rest of the week is spent assembling and sampling tea.
>Rules of Tea-Making :
They are roughly the same as rules of Craft. You start with Tea leaves as a basis, then can bind any NOT TEA craft material with the [FOOD] Keyword.
You can then add ONE non-food element sharing a keyword with your basis.
The effect of tea is akin to pills with 2 keywords, then get stronger as you keep assembling relevant keywords

Finally, you end the week with a fair share of gifts : a few dry leaves, to try your hand and tea-making; and even the promise of getting a few crop; personnal cuttings from Mama Watermelons - including an extremely elusive one.

>Obtained leaves :
Spiritual Plant, Food [Tea], Snake
Spiritual Plant, Food [Tea], Wolf

>To Graft to the World-Tree :
Spiritual Plant, Food [Tea], Puzzle
Spiritual Plant, Food [Tea], Poison
Spiritual Plant, Food [Tea], Snake
Spiritual Plant, Food [Tea], Wolf

Combine a Foundation, chose 2, pick (or don't) an additional social action [picking 4th social action increase DC of other action taken]

Foundation
>Body [Rising Phoenix Wide Ballet]
>Body [Golden Scales of the Skystone Snake]
>Body [Secret Self of Herculean Magus]
>Meditation [Way of the Spiritual Beast Boundfighter Wanderer] [Pills available]
>Meditation [Poem of the Rising Phoenix]
>Meditation [Poisonner's Ultimate Selftrial]
>Meditation [Grounded Phoenix's Amethyst's Cry]
Social
>Go beg like a dog Stable Lotus Patriarch.
>Get some blood from LienWen YanEr [allow to pick working on a Blood Skill]
>Request some custom pills to uncle Soulgaze [What?] [cost a bit less than 1/2 of your money]
>Change Squad Formation
>Reflect on your archetype [Write-in]
>Hang out with [Write-in]
Potential
>Maybe one specific technique of yours should be improved? [Choose in addition to said technique. More chances of breakthrough]
>Keep playing with your Qi to improve your chances of Breakthrough!
Other
>Work on your Unlimited Rising Star Kick [Pills available]
>Work again on the Horse Realm martial scroll
>Reflect on dueling strategy [Write-in]
Weapon skills
>Work on your Unarmed Style : Metal-melting Truefire
>Work on your Windy Cavalier's Halberd
>Work on your Spear style : Blood-Shadow Wolf Painful Assault
>Work on your Mounted Archer’s Wind-Gliding Phoenix's Venom Arrow
>Work on your Meteor Hammer Style : Silk Tiger Sun-Seer [Pills available]
>Work on your Jade Phoenix's Concealed Meteor Swarm [Benefit from Aris Pointers x3]
Spiritual Arts Technique
>Work on your Crimson tides of life Ichor
Spiritual Beasts
>Investigate on the talking Spiritual Beasts
>Focus on Body Shifting with your Spiritual Animals
The sect [You currently have Favor]
>Ask the masters to help you improve the Spiritual Plant-Beast Formation!
>Ask the masters for skills allowing survival in extreme environments!
>Ask for something else [What?]
>Ask Ryota for a Mission!
Strengthening the Jar
>Take care of the spiritual Hawks
>Gardening time : Look for spiritual plants
>Maybe you can Improve your Immortal Cave [write-in how]
>Slack off [It will be bad for your mental health]
And, as always...
>Write-in allowed!

>>6253742
>Body [Golden Scales of the Skystone Snake]
>Meditation [Way of the Spiritual Beast Boundfighter Wanderer] [Pills available]
>Gardening time : Look for spiritual plants

>>6253742
>Secret self
>wanderer meditation

>true fire martial art.
>unlimited rising kick

>Go beg like a dog.

It's time to finish our deal.

>>6253776
+1 Support
Figure next few months we do phoenix maxing though. And finish the rest of the shopping.

We still getting bi weekly actions?

>>6253776
+1 except replacing
>unlimited rising kick
with
>Gardening time : Look for spiritual plants

>>6253794
The reason for unlimited rising is because of the leg keyword, which ties into the body keyword of secret self.
secret self + martial arts + rising kick should combo to improve our output.

we are presently at 47/100 in our danitan. this should help us with cultivation as well as skills

>>6254206
Fine but we should go gardening next turn.

>>6253794
Retracting this just a normal +1 to
>>6253776
Now.

>>6253741
So about making tea

So Tea base + food such as the fruit and then something that isn't food but has a bridge word to be allowed.

Such as
Spiritual Plant, Food [Tea], Snake [Base]
Yuzu fruit [Spiritual strength, Food[Fruit], other stuff?]
Then the non food one Snake Flaming Poison to create.

= Spiritual Plant, Food [Tea], Food[Fruit], Snake, Spiritual Strength, other stuff, flame, poison. Or are we getting only one keyword each item added.

Lastly can we speak with or tree, and if so, can we ask what it wants to bind with?

I want to hire pomegranate to increase our tea leaf supply.
Lastly, would we get more tea by adding to our tree or planting them solo?

>>6255104
One keyord each item added.
For now, the wolf tea + yuzu grants gets for your spear style for what it's worth.
Also, regarding leaf, you'll get by default 1 yearly harvest.

>>6255104
>>6255120
Gotcha and if combined with the tree is it the same timeline of harvest and amount if they weren't.
I'm just wondering since I don't know the limit of the tree can be hybridized.

>>6253742
Supporting >>6253776.

>>6255127
Name of the tree : "World-Tree".
Ambition of Moss : turning it into some Evergarden. So you can safely assume that if there is a limit, it is very, very high.
>timeline of harvest/amount
Quiet Word doesn't know that.

>>6255433
Noted. Thanks for the info Dr.

Alright. Locking this >>6253776

This weak was great in term of progress of stockpiled energy : you reached a sliver above six-tenth of dantians; according to your past experience, this is where the cultivation speed of a given realm peaks. This was at the cost of your last Way of the Spiritual Beast Boundfighter pills though, without any mythical door in sight.
Regarding Metal Melting Truefire, the technique is a true trove of insight about various metals - unlike Unlimited Rising Star Kick, which still feels incredibly good to train. However, it seemed you reached Apex of that one skill, so unless you're looking for a breakthrough there is not much use training it - doubly so as you finished the pills tuned to this practice.

However, one remarkable thing happened before your departure to Stable Lotus Harbor in order to finish the deal you concluded with Ping Jun and LienWen YanEr : you reached deeper insight in your relentless work of the hidden Astral-realm legacy.

Breakthrough of your Bullshit body technique! Chose among :
>Spellmight - burn your Qi to bolster your strength.
It is quite expensive in terms of energy, however this let you temporally replace your low strength affinity by your extremely-high Spiritual Strength affinity.
Assuming you have Spiritual Energy pills or some other high-energy source, this can even be done while picking a "training" action.
Picking this means that your Strength limit becomes your Spiritual Strength limit while working this skill (jumping it from Bad to Exceptional). However, your Body will still limit you and require bottleneck-smashing.
>Powerfist - your Astral Self deliver a harsh punch. Works even if your body is incapacited.
>Mirror-self of the Magus - Summon your Astral Self in place. It can fling one spell at an enemy before dissipating.
>Technique Advancement - create a new technique based on this one. You can add or replace one keyword in the technique
Advised : Pain [Evolve into Complete Secret self of the Herculean Magus, letting use Spiritual/Mental/Body replace each other with Spellmight]
Spiritual exhaustion is the easiest/most expected. Almost no consequence.
Mental exhaustion increase all DC until taking slacking off
Body exhaustion increase critfail DC until taking slacking off
Advised : Fighting Intent [Evolve into Secret self of the Juggernaut Magus; Your spells can Terrify]

Alright. Seeing how I struggle with finding time to work that quest, I'll split this turn in two, letting you decide and vote on the breakthrough while I write the "begging" part

>>6256680
so we reached 61/100 Perfect. Once we've reached upper 90s we can conduct our experiment. This should be fine.

I want to add a word to this technique. it gives more qi when we train it. It's a good move, it can do a lot.
but I just- I just can't get the image out of our head of some dickhead like Dhundan locking his saber with our spear and so certain he has us trapped. . . And our double just fucking suckerpunching him.

>Powerfist
It's so fucking hillarious. Also potentially combo's with true flame martial arts.
>Doppo
thanks captcha

>>6256680
>Technique Advancement - create a new technique based on this one. You can add or replace one keyword in the technique
>Fighting Intent [Evolve into Secret self of the Juggernaut Magus; Your spells can Terrify]
I'm kind of tempted toward the [Pain] evolution, since it seems way more versatile-- but it also seems like it'd add a lot of complications for our mental health since QW is utterly terrified of time off and slacking. This evolution just gives us more straight gains and lets us practice Intent without Dhundan.

>>6256680
>Technique Advancement Fighting Intent [Evolve into Secret self of the Juggernaut Magus

Is my personal vote. Having a One Punch Man King aura on our spells sounds funny.

>>6256729
you read it wrong, which don't feel sad I did too.

Pain would let us use 2 other pools to fuel Spellmight, which is another advancement.
So if we just add pain, we can't do anything YET but the NEXT advancement chance if we pick spell might it would be very versatile.

also we can practice intent anyway, it's our mental technique, and training with dhundan increased our resistence which we have Pheonix's amythest cry to do.

Wait, if we add fighting intent to it then it harmonisess with our plane walking technique which would boost them both if taken together.
Which we will always take together.

>CHANGE TO FIGHTING INTENT
>>6256712

>>6256680
I pick
>Spellmight as it should combo with crimson ichor with the spiritual strength tag. Using as a fuel source and allowing staying power in large conflicts.

Question about below

>Advised : Pain [Evolve into Complete Secret self of the Herculean Magus, letting use Spiritual/Mental/Body replace each other with Spellmight]

Does this mean that if we use spiritual strength we get no adverse effects but all the benefits?

If that's the case doesn't it do the same as Spellmight? If so I'd just switch my vote for
>Advised : Pain

>>6256740
Misread
>>6256739
Going with Fighting intent.

>>6256680
>Spellmight - burn your Qi to bolster your strength
Simple but incredibly OP

So, they are all good options I thinked about when I created the technique first. You have time to debate and chose.

>>6256765
So I had a think on this.
Spellmight will become one of our core skills. Once pain is added.

As it'll combo off our Crimson tides of life Ichor which will act as fuel.
(Which we will need a way to stockpile blood massively)
When we add Fighting Internet in play, Crimson tides should be activated, which means a constant fear aura around Quite Word, Debuffing those around him while buffing him.

This could also stun those around him while he's healing. Giving him breathing room.

Mirror-self of the magus is interesting as if read loosely fling one spell. You COULD fling ichor at an ally and heal them from range. If that would be allowed.

No matter what we pick we should grab all these upgrades as it'll be a force muti.

Powerfist will be great for traveling. As it's a I assume, detection ability so if he was sleeping, Word could punch someone trying to cause harm.

>>6256805
>(Which we will need a way to stockpile blood massively)
Good thing you have a broken growth treasure for that purpose.

>>6256806
is the Helomancer's orb a growth treasure?

>>6256680
>Fighting Intent [Evolve into Secret self of the Juggernaut Magus; Your spells can Terrify]

>Hemomancer's profound Bloodstore
(Growth, Blood, Bead, Spritual Strength)
A bead that can charge in blood while maintaining its spiritual art capacity. Capacity grows with levels
Remember that a high-level cultivator blood is extremeley potent.
Requires full capacity to act as a supply for normal cultivation.
For a first stage, a drop is enough to fuel a technique. Second stage spells require a glass of blood; etc. with the quantity scaling up kinda stupidly (a big limit to high-tier blood mages as the amount of blood required becomes fastly something stupid)

>>6257032
Huh. Didn't know it was a growth treasure. Well. Yah it works. Word's gonna go star platinum on THE WORLD. Full of punches.

I wonder if growth treasures can get more keywords. :/

Hidden in the secret legacy of the Herculean Magus is a way to project massively Fighting Intent while using spell techniques. Of course, you immediately tinker with it in the wild.
Turns out it seems to create a burst of pressure upon both the summoning of a Blood-Shadow Wolf as well as the Blood Burst skill - hey, two for one! - and, funny enough, your use of the healing skill Crimson Tides of Life Ichor. Too bad for your involved friend, they'll have to grit their teeth. This seems like a good idea to work on your Blood-skills in the near future, looking for more breakthroughs to increase the synergy - and using your full Hemomancer Profound Bloodstore.

By your link with the Wandering World-Tree, you feel Moss' work - he grafted the Spring-Earth Crab Spiritual Plant. He even left the bead holding it in your cave. Your root feels its still smooth enough and with crack ignorable for one reuse. As discussed, Moss will then graft the Whale Spirit, before starting to work on the various Tea gifted by the Prolific Valley sect. For now the tree remains near him, but whenever you'll need it you can summon it to its original position, do what you want, and send it away again.

Then there is the whole deal with Stable Lotus and Versatile Harmony. You join with Ryota, Sovereign All Learner's Teacher and his Dao Companion Fairy Rui Fen, and Ping Jun.
You don't want to delve much on the kowtow, begging, imploring, and the whole farce designed to give face to LienWen YanEr - chastised lightly by her father for her greediness. All the partaker knows its for show, as the discourse about how the ruler's responsability is to allow all to thrive under the protection is paternalizing and more oriented toward the two lower rank masters than the three kids. You end up leaving with the Sovereign's carrying the precious orb.
"So, about my payment...
- I reached some Arrangement with Old Jiang - striken one day I was tuned to memory seal, making me edit my own memory to forget about the details and only knowing it is something fair."
Good thing the library is right here and there. You say your goodbye to the Versatile Harmony cultivators, and step in the dust-ridden bookstore hiding treasures of knowledge.

>What kind of technique do you want to ask Old Jiang about?

>>6259863
>Hey old Jiang, Got a deal for you!
I think the old man will be happy at the chance to scam annother cultivator.

So we have a lot of techniques here.
3 body and 4 meditations, and most of those techniques involve like. . . legacy shit.

our combat techniques are mostly melee shit, but we also have a peak archery style.

So my suggestions are we either learn a spiritual art, or we try and get some body shifting technique rather than just practice bodyshifting as it's own seperate deal.

Do tell him that our affinity is pheonix and ichor and true fire. Here is his previous list of "cool words"
The technique MUST include Leviathan, Phoenix, Army, Dragon, Raiju, Demon, Buddha, Lotus, Giant, Roc, Banshee, Kyubi, Tanuki, Yeti, Hydra, Ouroboros, Moon, Kappa, Sun, Kirin
Don't bother with sun, we have a terrible affinity for it.

Guys, guys, we can train a spiritual art about the snake and Pheonix?
common throughline is revival and changing forms?

>>6259863
Crowd Control!!! I have some ideas

>Archer's Mighty Pull: With the archer's proficiency, if he lands his next arrow on the target while doing this spell, the Herculean Might of the caster will literally drag his objective towards him, no matter how far he is, it will leave the target at a medium length the caster and them
If they wanna get free from the technique then it turns into a tug-of-war or until QW just leave the spell

>Earth Shattering Cleave: With a melee attack, the caster summons all his strength into a mighty strike, capable of splitting anything that strikes. It works as a defensive and aggressive technique: If a cultivator used their sword or shield to block the attack, either the object get destroyed, or if it's made with great materials, the object and then the cultivator absorb the force of the strike. One way or the other the damage will be dealt

>Exalted Fighting Intent: The caster focuses their Fighting Intent and then summons, giving a physical form on top of the caster's body, making him look intimidating and in some cases frightening. If other Cultivators don't count with enough mental fortitude, they'll believe that they'll be in danger, but if they do, they see the illusion

>The Great Embodiment of the Aspect of the Warrior: The Cultivator now can summon their different techniques on the exterior and done it as a symbol of power. More of an illusion than a fighting technique, the cultivators use this technique to peacock around their cultivation. A cultivator that specializes on Fire can now appear as if there's fire weaved on the silk of their robes, or look like a gorgeous snake slithers around them. It's basically wearing their cultivation and power. It won't trigger an specific effect on people, but if they're intimidated by some cultivation technique, it depends on them if they feel intimidating or not
Imagine QW just outright wearing the most normal looking clothes and then making some beautiful Blood Shadow Wolf fur coat with his eyes glowing in the dark

>>6259863
>Cavalier's, weapon master(if not allowed polearm), Ouroboros, spiritual strength(strength might be better if Magnus scales it),(if anyone has other ideas I'm down for keywords ideas thinking fire and ichor for affinity if Ouroboros doesn't work out it'll save the skill.)

The idea of this skill is to use any weapon or just polearm on horseback to deadly effect. While empowering our strikes with spiritual strength or strength.

Thoughts of how to use weapon master.

I figure we fuse a spirit to our snake to allow it to shift shape to other weapons or temporary fuse with treasure weapons to make It more versatile.

And remember we wanted a mounted polearm skill. Next on the agenda we can grab a crowd control skill.

>>6259901
What you propose are more breakthrough rewards than the techniques Old Jiang could give you
>>6259940
Polearm unallowed.
Strength will turn it into a martial technique; Spiritual Strength in something that can give spells. Astral self could synergize well with it.

>>6259940
Oroborous?
Well I want to train snake, so that fits pretty fuckin' good.

Oroborous Snake, Halberd, spiritual strengthm astral self.
this seems good.

>>6259990
>>6260035
>>6260035
>>6259990
Well I'm down to drop halberd and go spear. I figured polearm to fit both spear and halberd if there isn't a way. Spear works just as well.
Oroborous would be the mythical word, spear, spiritual strength, astral self, and horse for mounted combat.

6th slot can be something else. Does the tag weapon master exist?

>>6260106
I will allow horse in my vote, But we need a technique for our gosh dang Snake.

>>6260113
We can ask Dragon if Ouroboros covers snake. Reasoning why I added it. If we got a good affinity with it. We could upgrade our golden sky stone body meditation after we track down how to upgrade our snake.
>Looks at the problem with what happened with phoenix.

In other ideas that escape me we should learn some techniques from the sect from the masters. Sometimes soonish as dragon recommend us. Use that favor up.

>>6260118
Lastly could we make our own formations based off what we learned? Or would we need more study. Thinkin we create an astral sea formation. Need more astral balls.

>>6260118
Well. . If it does link snake to Oroborous. . . That's fine I guess.

Hope it has a decent affinity.

>>6260118
Ouroboros is a mythical keyword encompassing snake.

However, he won't have "exactly" the technique you might want with 6 keywords and stuff
so keep spitballing ideas and i'll roll on the side

>>6260473
I think the order of importance is the technique have
>Oroborous
which he should have.
>Mounted
Because of horse.

And third most importance, I propose that this one is a free for all between spears, halberds, bo staffs OR a meteorhammer
we could use any of them and by having a mounted and a dismounted style, we should be at our most versatile

4th most important is astral self, to combo with our secret self. then two free spaces.

OR hear me out.

Oroborous, astral self, Bow, dance.
a style for ground based firing, who's deal isn't range but volume of fire.

>>6260535
Army, astral self, spiritual strength, Dance/music/Sound?

spiritual art of union, allows for strategic deployment of "echo" of the user, across the field. while they can only unleash one attack they could also be used to relay instructions across great distance.

>>6260560
Let's not add dance into the technique. We're pretty bad at it.
If we can't get oroborous drop it and acquire
Snake, Cavalier, Spear, Spiritual strength as core and astral self + whatever would fit for the last two.

>>6260571
Yeah we are bad at it, but it also gives us serious.buffs in 1 vs many combat.

We also have the key word trained up to apex of our current rank.
Honestly it's an idea to put dance into our understanding of Pheonix. We have so many idea I know but still.

Anyway, this was another idea to improve our squad cohesion.
What other gaps do we have in our toolkit?

>>6260571
This priority is also wrong.

Oroborous is a mythic word. It's value.surpasses the rest.

Calvery is just a conjunction between horse and halberd, two mundane words.
Astral self and spiritual strength are more important words, given that one combos with 2 of our cultivation methods and both are very rare.
Compared with one word things that we have to spend a single rare breakthrough to input.

>>6260585
That's fair except we were recommended to drop dance when we had a breakthrough.

So instead of Cavalier we use Lancer?

So Oroborous, Lancer, Astral self, and Spiritual Strength

>>6260613
I raise another counter, this new technique could break the bottleneck and give us plenty of time to fuse Dance into Pheonix, which makes the affinity reach "near perfect".
If "army" gives similar benefits to dueling, then maybe we should consider it, but for now I think Dance gives best return of investment.

I don't know what you mean by lancer.
please allow me to elaborate

>Snake, Cavalier, Spear, Spiritual strength as core and astral self + whatever would fit for the last two.

is not actually 5 words plus whatever.
it is 6 words.
Snake, Horse, Halberd, Spear, Spiritual strength as core and astral self.

the technique, Wind, Halberd, Horse is called Windy Cavalier's Halberd.
Cavalier and Lancer are not mythic words, they are catchy names given to techniques.

just so, Oroborous, Lancer, Astral self, and Spiritual Strength would be Oroborous, Horse, Spear, astral self, spirit strength. and the technique probably something like Self propelling spiritual Lancer or something.

>>6260634
Was out yah lancer to describe spear and horse. And yah then the last part you suggested should be it.

>>6260786
We aren't gonna get a perfect 6 word technic, since the QM is rolling some of them.
So pick your priorities as they align with you.

>>6260791
That's five keywords. If need be drop astral self or spirit strength and we'll add them later.
At least it needs to be horse and spear.

Clarification : I don't expect you guys to come as an hive mind with one and only idea.
I had more in mind a few of you proposing a "funny" keyword combination that I'll put into proper vote (seeing how lucky you'll be with what part of the technique i'll roll)

>>6261270
Alrighty I'll come up with some random ideas later today.

Rolled 89 (1d100)

>>6259863
Would accurate work as a keyword

>>6261826
Now it can, as something designed to be less powerful but a counter to "evasion" skills

>>6261834
Alright I've come up with a few. I will say I did use chat gpt to generate the techniques. Because I lack brain power right now after formatting a contract to my tastes. (Aka for 4 hours)

Wolf Fang Spiral
Keywords: Wolf, Unarmed Fighting, Pain, Mental Energy

Snake Silk Grasp
Keywords: Snake, Silk, Poison, Strategy

Horse Wind Piercer
Keywords: Horse, Spear, Wind, Distance

Phoenix Serpent Bloom
Phoenix, Snake, Poison, Wood

Astral Pulse Spear
Astral Self, Spear, Spiritual Strength, Wide

Spiritual Snake Vein
Snake, Spiritual Strength, Poison, Jade

Horse Shadow Descent
Horse, Shadow, Unarmed Fighting, Mist

Snake-Spear Sprial point
Snake, Spear, Distance, Strategy

I've also generated a few mythical techniques if you wish to see.

>>6261856
Ok nvm I will add one that sounds dope.
Kirin Step of Jade Thunder

>>6261856
> I've also generated a few mythical techniques if you wish to see.
Well, Old Jiang thing is that its a mythical technique bookstore

>>6261863
Alright
Hydra Vein Shatter Style
Hydra, Snake, Poison, Wood

Demon Fang Spiral
Demon, Wolf, Unarmed Fighting, Poison

Moonblade Reflection Cut
Moon, Saber, Shadow, Mist

Dragon Lance Skyfall
Dragon, Spear, Fighting Intent, Gold

Buddha’s Distant Eye
Buddha , Distance, Divination, Social

Kyubi Whisper Blade
Kyubi, Shadow, Silk, Saber

Demon Spider Silk Strangulation
Demon, Spider, Silk, Hands

Want a few more?

So i'm taking the weekend off.
Feel free to react on >>6261867 or to make proposals on your own

>>6259863
The Namekian Unlock: Plant, Spiritual Strength, Mental Strength, Physical Strength, Strategy, Growth: Unlocks someone's potential. Originally developed to unlock the potential of plant people.

Happy Kitten's Charisma: Cat; Blood; Social; Spiritual Strength; Physical Strength - Used to bind others to your cause through blood magic.

The 6 Divines: Gold, Iron, War, Social, Illusion, Life. A deceptively simple but incomplete technique involving an 8 pointed star which hungers for two additional techniques, one of which is Death and the other Chaos.

The Devouring Wolf: Wolf, Blood, Pain, Life, Hunger - Used to drain another's blood and lifeforce to fuel your own powers.

I admit, some of these are silly. Na na na na na na na na Dende.

>>6259863

> Unbreakable Dragon Mirror: Dragon, Shield, Reflect.
Creates a shield that reflects nonphysical attacks.
>Fiery Falcon Fist: Falcon, Fire, Fighting Intent.
Boosts the power of a punch by having a falcon made of fire surround your fist, yelling out the attack's name at the top of lungs is advised.
>Heavenly Fire Star: Fire, Star.
The user creates and throws a star shaped mass of fire.
>Phoenix Trap Arrow: Phoenix, Movement, Release.
An arrow that stays in place until the creator wants it to be fired from it's spot.
>Phoenix Inferno dash: Phoenix, Fire, Movement.
This technique coats the user in flames, the user then disappears when the flame goes out and reappears in a different location of their choosing
>Phoenix Feather Tempest: Phoenix, Feather, Healing.
The user summons flaming feathers which fall down from the sky covering a large area and healing the injuries of whoever they land on.
>Hidden Wild Shadow Snakes: Ground, Snake, Shadow.
The user summons a large amount of snakes that emerge from underground to attack a target.
?Lightning Piercer Extending Spear: Lightning, Spear, Expansion. Solid lightning erupts from the tip of a spear to temporarily from a much longer spear
Lightning Wolf Hunting Pack: Lightning, Wolf, Spear.
Similar to Blood-Shadow Wolf Painful Assault but with wolfs made from lightning instead.
>Lightning Dragon Strike: Lightning, Dragon, Shape.
The user releases lightning in the from of a dragon's head from their hands.
>Destructive Twin Dragon Fists: Dragon, Fist, Shape.
The user shapes the qi in both hands into brilliant green chinese dragon-shaped shrouds. Doing so magnifies the destructive power of their punches and strikes
>Diamond Locking Wall: Diamond, Ground, Shield.
The user slams their palms onto the ground sending out Diamon Qi. Then diamond pillars emerge from the ground and form a dome with the caster in the middle.
>Dragon God of the Four Seas: Dragon, Water
The user forms the water in the air into a dragon and sends it towards the opponent.

>>6263936
I really like those ones.

I'll roll and lock.

>>6263939
I can't take full credit, some of those are edited fan made jutsu for Naruto

"Don't say anything. I set aside a little something for you..."
The old man give you a small wooden box, and bow. You respectfully bow back and low, lower. It's time to get back to your sect. It's time to resume training, after all.

>It's been 3 years and eleven months since you joined the Tamers of Hundred Beasts.

In the box, there is...

>Echo-cycle of the repeating astral meteor-hammer blows
A spiritual art letting you sample and loop an attack, turning it into an Astral echo. (Ouroboros, Meteor-Hammer, Astral Self, Spiritual Strength)
>Dragon's reflective scales
A spiritual art letting you summon a scale-like shield that can reflect incoming attacks (Dragon, Spiritual Resistance, Spiritual Strength)
>Phoenix's Blazing Nest
A spiritual art letting you release fire around you. This Area-Of-Effect attack also let you disappear and reappear anywhere in the blaze. (Phoenix, [Fire], Evasion, Spiritual Strength)
>Phoenix's delayed Spearshot
A spiritual art letting you summon a Spear-Phoenix Qi-Construct, then release the shot later (Phoenix, Spear, Spiritual Strength, Time)

All those technique would require to be worked on and breakthrough to get the related trumps.

Foundation
>Body [Rising Phoenix Wide Ballet]
>Body [Golden Scales of the Skystone Snake]
>Body [Secret Self of Herculean Magus] [Pills available]
>Meditation [Way of the Spiritual Beast Boundfighter Wanderer]
>Meditation [Poem of the Rising Phoenix] [Pills available]
>Meditation [Poisonner's Ultimate Selftrial]
>Meditation [Grounded Phoenix's Amethyst's Cry]
Social
>Go beg like a dog Stable Lotus Patriarch.
>Get some blood from LienWen YanEr [allow to pick working on a Blood Skill]
>Request some custom pills to uncle Soulgaze [What?] [cost a bit less than 1/2 of your money]
>Change Squad Formation
>Reflect on your archetype [Write-in]
>Hang out with [Write-in]
Potential
>Maybe one specific technique of yours should be improved? [Choose in addition to said technique. More chances of breakthrough]
>Keep playing with your Qi to improve your chances of Breakthrough!
Other
>Work on your Unlimited Rising Star Kick
>Work again on the Horse Realm martial scroll
>Reflect on dueling strategy [Write-in]
Weapon skills
>Work on your Unarmed Style : Metal-melting Truefire [Pills available]
>Work on your Windy Cavalier's Halberd
>Work on your Spear style : Blood-Shadow Wolf Painful Assault
>Work on your Mounted Archer’s Wind-Gliding Phoenix's Venom Arrow
>Work on your Meteor Hammer Style : Silk Tiger Sun-Seer [Pills available]
>Work on your Jade Phoenix's Concealed Meteor Swarm [Benefit from Aris Pointers x3]
Spiritual Arts Technique
>Work on your Crimson tides of life Ichor
>Work on your technique obtained from Old Jiang!
Spiritual Beasts
>Investigate on the talking Spiritual Beasts
>Focus on Body Shifting with your Spiritual Animals
The sect [You currently have Favor]
>Ask the masters to help you improve the Spiritual Plant-Beast Formation!
>Ask the masters for skills allowing survival in extreme environments!
>Ask for something else [What?]
>Ask Ryota for a Mission!
Strengthening the Jar
>Take care of the spiritual Hawks
>Gardening time : Look for spiritual plants
>Maybe you can Improve your Immortal Cave [write-in how]
>Slack off [It will be bad for your mental health]
And, as always...
>Write-in allowed!

>>6263961
>Dragon's reflective scales

>Body [Secret Self of Herculean Magus] [Pills available]
>Meditation [Grounded Phoenix's Amethyst's Cry]
>Work on your technique obtained from Old Jiang!
>Work on your Jade Phoenix's Concealed Meteor Swarm [Benefit from Aris Pointers x3]

I realize that the quest rhythm slowed down from "watch a kid grow in fast forward" to "watch a kid grow in slow-motion"

Sorry about that.

>>6263961
>Echo cycle

>>6263965
Support this layout of the things to do but trade Grounded pheonix for
>Poem of ascending pheonix
Because it has pills.

Because two metoer hammers, astral self on two things. Pheonix on two things. With Oroboroous we are gonna rocket our snake affinity too.

Like man. We are going to get a lot of energy, and rocket up like mad.

>>6263966
To quote the novels "it is good you know".
Things are progressing, so it's all fine.

Next month is intake of new students. Offer our aid maybe for an advance against some pills.

>>6263961
>Echo-cycle of the repeating astral meteor-hammer blows
While Dragon's reflective scales sounds great on the surface the more I think about it the less confident I am that it would actually be that useful in dealing with most enemies outside of glass cannons.

>Body [Secret Self of Herculean Magus] [Pills available]
>Meditation [Poem of the Rising Phoenix] [Pills available]
>Gardening time : Look for spiritual plants
>Work on your Jade Phoenix's Concealed Meteor Swarm [Benefit from Aris Pointers x3]

Also shouldn't the go beg like a dog social action be removed now?

>>6263963
>Phoenix's Blazing Nest
A spiritual art letting you release fire around you. This Area-Of-Effect attack also let you disappear and reappear anywhere in the blaze. (Phoenix, [Fire], Evasion, Spiritual Strength)

I thought about it and this makes the most sense, we're missing an aoe skill and it's a movement skill on the battlefield. Win. win.

>Body [Secret Self of Herculean Magus] [Pills available]
>Meditation [Poem of the Rising Phoenix] [Pills available]

>Request some custom pills to uncle Soulgaze [What?] [cost a bit less than 1/2 of your money]
Restock on pills (leave it up to the qm on whats important(Trade pheonix feathers for it.
>Return to the Valley and get some trading down for Wei Balls Weapon and for yourself such as tea leafs to boost your training.

>Social
>Talk with Dhundan and Catch up been a bit and this is a econ turn.

I ask for one more econ turn then go aultist training.

My basic throghts for the next few turns -
Current Apex trained
>Meditation [Way of the Spiritual Beast Boundfighter Wanderer]
>Unlimited Rising Star Kick

Marital order -
Order of what we should learn/apex list imo?
1.>Body [Secret Self of Herculean Magus] [Pills available] for unlocks
2. >Work on your Jade Phoenix's Concealed Meteor Swarm [Benefit from Aris Pointers x3] to apex
3.>Work on your Crimson tides of life Ichor for unlocks
4. >Afterwards Bow Skills or Spear or Metal-melting Truefire to round us out.

Unkeep order
>1. Pills to keep our training moving forward.
>2. Spirit upgrades remember to hunt ourselves some nice beasts this time around.
>3. Treasures such as new Bow/Armor Lacking bow needs to be filled.

To do List.
1. Go buy materials for Wei Ball Axe and tea leafs for training.
2. Talk with masters learning some skills from the sext(Qm reccomended this.) Such as formations to ender beast realms and other techniques ask Ryota what he'd recommend and also what we want to learn.
3. (Imo) Body technique for wolf.
4. Horse spear technique (Maybe create ourself maybe ask one of the masters)
5. Hire Pomegranate for more yeilds.

Lastly QM question could we create our own formations? Since we got some mastery over them.

>>6264125
>Also shouldn't the go beg like a dog social action be removed now?
Nice catch.

>>6264139
>Lastly QM question could we create our own formations? Since we got some mastery over them.
yes. QW is not that good on that subject yet, but this is a great skill to have and introduce.

>>6264139
>>6264166
This guy off moving around.
Cool then I'll add it to the list. Also did we sell banner spots?

As of the turn before this one? That's just money on he table we're not grabbing while meditating.
And you were talking about bi weekly actions being introduced.

>>6264139
I counter that an AOE move isn't what we need right now.
We need a skill that links with our astral body training and we need to put our nose to the grindstone so we aren't FALLING BEHIND FALLING BEHIND FALLING BEHIND
As we are now.

And the echo art enhances our existing skills while boosting a whole slew of new affinities with oroboeous including our neglected snake affinity AND keys off several channels we have worked on and have a massive affinity for.

We will pick it up like lightning and it will in turn make spirit walking easier.

>>6264139
>>6264201
Ok you make a compelling statement I'll change my choice to echo. However I wanna get some pills. And finish up Wei Balls. weapon

>>6264193
we are already on a bi-weekly format.
About banner, it is well used : you "sold" two weeks to Prolific Valley recently and you're lending the spot frequently to sect-mates

If you're lurkin
don't forget to be votin
it's not everyday QW fish for Mythical tier techniques so it might turn in a big part of his future kit.

Locked.

>>6265051
Echoncycle wins! Who rah!

So I had to restart the router due to storm. Checking if I retained formating rights...

"I'm afraid I don't have any other Firebird-related techniques, Rising Phoenix. A shame, truly. Maybe this one would prove fruitful to you?"

Of course, first thing you do is work on your new toy-skill. On the bad part : your Ouroboros affinity is bad. Not as bad as your Water affinity, but on the Ballpark of your horrendous potential for Sun techniques. Of course, this means even though you feel some kind of obvious link between the circular symbol, snake and time, there's no way you benefit from that concept like you do for Truefire, Metal, Ichor and Phoenix.
On the good part : your excellent affinity with Meteor-Hammer, Spiritual Strength and Astral self more than make for it. On the bad part : you're already halfway to bottlenecking your poor Ouroboros affinity.
Speaking of Meteor-Hammer practice : you delve back on your custom style, tailored by Quicksteel Aris. Maybe thanks to the other technique giving you another angle to apprehend the complex weapon, your understanding deepened - deepening to your Apex. Deepening your understanding of Shadows. Instead of snippets and scraps of Shadow, you can now...
>Unlocked : Shadow Shroud : Fighting with meteor hammer let you spin your Qi in a shadowy area, concealing the blows origin! (Rank : 1)

Last, but not least, is your foundation. No breakthrough on that side, even though Apex of your Poem of the Rising Phoenix is reached. The remarkable part is the amount of Qi stockpiled this weak : a whole fifth of dantian, rising your stockpile to 81%
Now, what would be the best strategy?
>Attempt a partial Breakthrough! [Will eat your "Foundation Action"]
If you don't, there's still your leads with
>Keep playing with your Qi to improve your chances of Breakthrough.
If you pick that one, I advise you to write about what you can try on that matter.

Foundation
>Body [Rising Phoenix Wide Ballet]
>Body [Golden Scales of the Skystone Snake]
>Body [Secret Self of Herculean Magus] [Pills available]
>Meditation [Way of the Spiritual Beast Boundfighter Wanderer]
>Meditation [Poem of the Rising Phoenix] [Pills available]
>Meditation [Poisonner's Ultimate Selftrial] [Pills available]
>Meditation [Grounded Phoenix's Amethyst's Cry]
Social
>Get some blood from LienWen YanEr [allow to pick working on a Blood Skill]
>Request some custom pills to uncle Soulgaze [What?] [cost a bit less than 1/2 of your money]
>Change Squad Formation
>Reflect on your archetype [Write-in]
>Hang out with [Write-in]
Potential
>Maybe one specific technique of yours should be improved? [Choose in addition to said technique. More chances of breakthrough]
>Keep playing with your Qi to improve your chances of Breakthrough!
Other
>Work on your Unlimited Rising Star Kick
>Work again on the Horse Realm martial scroll
>Reflect on dueling strategy [Write-in]
Weapon skills
>Work on your Unarmed Style : Metal-melting Truefire [Pills available]
>Work on your Windy Cavalier's Halberd
>Work on your Spear style : Blood-Shadow Wolf Painful Assault
>Work on your Mounted Archer’s Wind-Gliding Phoenix's Venom Arrow
>Work on your Meteor Hammer Style : Silk Tiger Sun-Seer [Pills available]
>Work on your Jade Phoenix's Concealed Meteor Swarm [Benefit from Aris Pointers x2]
Spiritual Arts Technique
>Work on your Crimson tides of life Ichor
>Work on your Echo-cycle of the repeating astral meteor-hammer blows
Spiritual Beasts
>Investigate on the talking Spiritual Beasts
>Focus on Body Shifting with your Spiritual Animals
The sect [You currently have Favor]
>Ask the masters to help you improve the Spiritual Plant-Beast Formation!
>Ask the masters for skills allowing survival in extreme environments!
>Ask for something else [What?]
>Ask Ryota for a Mission!
Strengthening the Jar
>Take care of the spiritual Hawks
>Gardening time : Look for spiritual plants
>Maybe you can Improve your Immortal Cave [write-in how]
>Slack off [It will be bad for your mental health]
And, as always...
>Write-in allowed!

Damn. Those "simple" crunch turn are SO MUCH SIMPLE to write than visiting a whole sect with their own things going on and creating a bunch of mythical bullshit techniques on the fly

>>6265551

Current Apex trained
>Meditation [Way of the Spiritual Beast Boundfighter Wanderer]
>Unlimited Rising Star Kick
>Meditaiton Poem of the Rising Phoenix
>Jade Phoenix's Concealed Meteor Swarm
>Meditation [Way of the Spiritual Beast Boundfighter Wanderer] (I believe this is apex as well)
>Body [Golden Scales of the Skystone Snake](I believe this is apex as well)

Leaving us with I'd say
Foundation
>Body [Secret Self of Herculean Magus] [Pills available]
>Meditation [Grounded Phoenix's Amethyst's Cry]

>The Sect
>Learn a Body foundational skill for Wolf.

>Aquire pills from Uncle Soulgaze trade in Phoenix feathers. Restock pills, get some for ichor, and if we snag a wolf body skill that as well. Drink some tea with him as well from your tea stash. As an apology from last time.

>Social Catch up with Royta and ask what he thinks we should learn from the sect arcives(Dragon suggested we learn some things from the sect since we haven't learned much in it.)

I suggest next turn along with breakthough testing, to make Wei Balls weapon.

>>6265569
>>Body [Golden Scales of the Skystone Snake](I believe this is apex as well)
This one is not anymore as you've augmented your threshhold since.

>>6265550
Our partial breakthrough attempt requires a completely filled Danitan.
And we jumped 20 in a month!

This month is bi weekly, I think, so next turn is bringing new students in.
So best strategy for this round is to max out our danitan to do our partial breakthrough next turn. 12, 14 and such to get the sweet spot for the first barrier.

>Hawk dance
>Pheonix's cry

>get a wolf body skill
>Shadow meteor hammer

I am sad about the low affinity. On the upside it is only snake+ time

>>6265595
>Our partial breakthrough attempt requires a completely filled Danitan.
Nah. You can break a layer or two, and go back to stockpile.

>>6265599
okay it doesn't NEED it but it's better to do 12, 14, together, which is 26 and keeps up above 60 and in prime regen territory.
adding 16 would make 41, but I'm fairly sure would get us our answer.

>>6265615
I can remind you :
>Unlocked : Phoenix-Qi. Once per Breakthrough attempt, this will give an [Undisclosed] bonus I'll allocate in the best way for you, turning a fail into a success.
That might be relevant for your strategy.

>>6265619
it IS relevant to the strat, in that it turns 33 into a success where it otherwise wouldn't be.

We want to know clearly and finely how much it takes to break though the first gate. it's the cheapest gate to break and provides us good info on the second. . .

hmm, maybe it's worth spending another lot to trigger phoenix to see if that pushes us over the second gate. It'll make future calculations on the bonus easier.

but the next breakthrough isn't [just] to advance, it's to give us knowledge to make future planning easier

>>6265623
for reference

1st gate: 11 to 20
2nd gate: ??? < 22 but wasted more than the first gate when we used 20
3rd gate: 33<x
4th gate: 44 confirmed.

12, 14, let the Pheonix trigger if we haven't already crossed it.
if we get our answer though, use 10 to try and force the second gate.

As by knowing the 1st gate, we can get a rough zone of where the second gate is.
for arguments sake, gate 1 is 15. the waste is 5. the upper bounds of gate 2 would then be 17
which would give us a hint as to the pheonix's bountry

>>6265595
Thinkin about it we could check Hydra or Dragon affinites. As snake could evo into an Imugi into Dragon or go Hydra

>>6265551
>Meditation [Grounded Phoenix's Amethyst's Cry]
>Body [Golden Scales of the Skystone Snake]
>Learn a Body foundational skill for Wolf.
>Keep playing with your Qi to improve your chances of Breakthrough!

I felt like I killed a good part of the interest.
And I can only blame my slow pace for that.

>>6266156
You didn't, honestly you shouldn't worry about it.
Qst ain't known for reliable output, we deal with it.

>>6265595
>Body [Secret Self of Herculean Magus] [Pills available]
>Meditation [Grounded Phoenix's Amethyst's Cry]
>Gardening time : Look for spiritual plants
>That wolf thing everyone else is talking about

Say it with me gardening! Gardening! Wooo!

>>6266156
Outside of moments where GETS are on the line and participation seems to suspiciously double i'd say interest has been pretty consistent throughout the quest personally, personally I just avoid participating in some of the more DIY turns usually cause im lazy.

>>6266156
I'm too brainlet to understand what's going on in most turns, so I'm content just to lurk and only participate in DIY or enigmas or things of the sort. But I'm always happy to read the new updates!

>>6266394
>>6266395
Good to read, guys, good to read.
No time to write before sunday though.

>>6266394
Hmm.

So want to make a deal friend?
My desire is to max out our danitan.

I'm willing to swap wolf body skill for gardening.
And uh, You overly attached to your meditation practices?

>>6266452
Nope frankly I just want to garden-max for a turn, if you make a post that has gardening in it ill happily switch my vote to it.

>>6266882
(Saying nope to the last question btw i'm more than happy to make a deal)

>>6265595
>Swap wolf skill to gardening.

>>6266882
So it is done.

Alright.
This one is not that simple to tally...
I think the winning combination should be :
>Body : Wide Ballet
>Meditation : Phoenix's cry
>Get a Wolf Skill
>Gardenmaxing

I let you guys roll 1d100 and write what kind of funnygrass you're looking for.

Rolled 86 (1d100)

>>6267279
Either snake plant or poison plant.

Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>6267279
How about something wolf related?

Rolled 11 (1d100)

>>6267279
Idk Astral Plum Tree?
Is Ai accompanying us? She's got that cool vision.

Rolled 90 (1d100)

>>6267279
Can we get a Phoenix plant? Is that rollable?

Rolled 43 (1d100)

>>6267279
What about blood plant? Nothing ever goes wrong with blood plants!

>>6267394
I think 90 is the threshold for gets

>>6267394
Could this be the return of the Hawk plant spirit?!?!

>>6267396
Also darn.

>>6267394
That's rollable. Now, if 90 is high enough...

Rolled 24 (1d100)

>>6266156
For my part, it is now summer and I spend less time on qst this time of year.

>>6267279
>Ichor herb, to charge our ichor

>>6267400
>>6267503
Ah, and FYI...
If you haven't rolled yet you can use an already-proposed keyword.

Rolled 74 (1d100)

>>6267279
Uhhh let's go with some Blood-related tea leaves.

Alright; locking. Will try to update today.

The end of the year comes with a few surprises. Your last Rising Phoenix pill paid itself at least twice : the constant stream of attuned Qi letted you work hard, hard and even harder.
Your constant work paid of nicely : first, you brought your Phoenix Wide Ballet to its current Apex. Then, you made correct progress on your Gemstone channel as well as your Mental Resistance. Last, energy trickled in your dantian, and trickled again until it went full to the brim.
>Qi held by Dantian : 98%
On the bad side, your trustful Phoenix Wide Ballet technique reached its bottleneck. All is not lost, as your banner and teapot can each give a chance to smash said bottleneck.
Then, there is the training with the sect. The Wolf Mistress grant you immediately your request, and takes the required time to teach you a Body Foundation - once that was on the table, long ago...
>Learned new Body Foundation : Wolf's Jade Body!
This technique is a versatile body foundation skill. With your understanding way deeper than four year ago, you now know it's extremely good to have. With means to smash bottlenecks, this will help you overcome your naturally meek constitution once you'll inevitably start getting limited by your poor endowment.
Last, there is the time you're taking for yourself totally not strolling in the wild but definitely looking for precious materials. The fact you're strolling the lush hills between Prolific Valley and the Beast Tamer sect is definitely not for how crisp the green is but for a good chance of finding an escaped offshot Plant-Beast thing...
>Biggest Roll according a get : 86 - Either snake plant or poison plant.
"Nailed it".
With just a thought, you summon your World tree, disregarding whatever Moss is currently doing in the tree itself - you felt the new connection after all. While the tree's coming, you take the opportunity to cultivate a tad more.
>Qi held by Dantian : 99%
"Master. The care I was admonishing was utterly critical for the wellbeing of the latest graft and I have to let you know that interrupting me was...
- Cut it. I feel it was over and you were just monitoring. Anyway, thought about this one?
- Great find. While we're together, here's what have been done on the world-tree..."

Current ressources harvestable :
>Puzzle Tea (1st month - no peremption as part of the World Tree)
>Spring-Earth Crab Spiritual Plant (3rd month - no peremption as part of the World Tree)
>Lobster-Fire leaves plucking (6th month - no peremption as part of the World Tree)
>Autumn-Wind Whale Spiritual Plant (9th month - no peremption as part of the World Tree)
>Yuzu plucking (9th month - no peremption as part of the World Tree)
>Growth-Astral Branch plucking (10th month - no peremption as part of the World Tree)
>Winter-Ice Dolphin Spiritual Plant (12th month - no peremption as part of the World Tree)
With the grafts, you don't have to worry about missing a window of harvesting by one or two weeks. Of course, the best is to harvest thing just when you need (or sell) them but before the tree renew them.

You're getting closer to the new year - and maybe help the sect with new kid sieving? Just five more hours of cultivations - and that's when enlightenment strikes.
>Qi held by Dantian : 100%
Rising Phoenix Wide Ballet Breakthrough!
>Improve Further your Phoenix-Qi construct - This increase the boon it gives for Minor Realm Breakthrough, as well as almost becoming its own Spiritual Art!
>Phoenix's fiery dance : You can leave behind a trailing fire effect while in fight.
>Gliding Waltz - Movement Technique using a weak spacial effect to affect crossed terrain on an apparently slow normal movement
>Technique Advancement : you can Add, Remove, Replace a keyword of the Technique (Phoenix + Space + Dance + Growth); eligible candidate for replacement of Dance are Body/Strength/Physical Resistance/Stamina/Balance/Legs/Arms/Attractiveness

It's been 4 years since you joined the Tamers of Hundred Beasts. And already your attention is demanded by three irreconciliable matter...
>Sieve through the new kids!
>According to Ryota, a StormWood is brewing - an opportunity to gather high-value materials, plants or beasts!
>Not breaking through as soon as you can means FALLING BEHIND! So you'll do that.

>>6268455
Okay. Okay. Alright.So I'm pretty sure Stormwood is the best use of our time here.

breakthrough demands us spend [waste] time stabalising, and the current stratergy is

12, 14, 16 to trigger the first wall then spend the remaining qi to trigger the second gate and our Qi gift.
this isn't a PROPER breakthrough so delaying it a month is fine. it sets us at qi 58 and the last 2 gates can be bypassed with 77.
that's a single months cultivation, which means given 3 months [to test, then recover, then do again] we will be next stage and with a much better view of the world.

Woodstorm is a none repeatable event.

>Replace dance with Body
I hate to do it, but I guess we gotta

>>6268469
wait, which word do we have the highest affinity for our of the viable replacements?

>>6268469
If we trigger it on 12, we would be at 88, and using 14 we might hit the second nail on the head. which puts us at 74.
which. . . really leaves us with the question of if our qi can push up a 3 difference from where we know it can.

but anyway, if we get it right first go, then boom, we can hit 2 places with 74 danitan full.

>>6268455
>Improve Further your Phoenix-Qi construct - This increase the boon it gives for Minor Realm Breakthrough, as well as almost becoming its own Spiritual Art!
>According to Ryota, a StormWood is brewing - an opportunity to gather high-value materials, plants or beasts!

>>6268455
>Attractiveness
Lmao

Regardless
>Improve Further your Phoenix-Qi construct - This increase the boon it gives for Minor Realm Breakthrough, as well as almost becoming its own Spiritual Art!
and
>According to Ryota, a StormWood is brewing - an opportunity to gather high-value materials, plants or beasts!

Id rather waste time stabilizing then miss out on whatever boon this gives.

>>6268455
Let's see I believe body and or strength is terrible. Uhh Qm can you give us a ranking for the affinities please?

>According to Ryota, a StormWood is brewing - an opportunity to gather high-value materials, plants or beasts!

We have to do this. No debate rare mats and spiritual beasts are great.

We don't need to recruit any juniors as we got a nice batch last year.

And breakthrough can wait next month. It sucks but those resources will pay dividends especially since we're still locked.

Also for the keyword switch I'm thinking balance as we could slap time into the technique. But wanna see the affinity list word believes he has.

>>6268584
What QW knows :
Body and Strength are both meek. However, Strength can be alleviated with Spellmight once your understanding of Herculean Magus improve, and Body is overall never a bad choice; think jack of all trade in body-related matters. Physical Resistance, trained by Golden Scales, is nothing to scoff at. No clue about Stamina, Arm or Attractiveness (although the latter certainly is inferior to Bathias' innate Chadness)
Balance is bad, else Stable Lotus would have proposed to recruit you; legs is quite good with your Unlimited Rising Star Kick practice and all.

>>6268455
>Technique Advancement Replace dance with Body
>StormWood

>>6268584
>>6268793
So The question is if to double down, pick a general tag or go for an unknown.

I'd say we go for an unknown an go stamina or arms.

As bows/ martial art using our fists use a lot of arm strength and stamina means more battle staying power.

I'll vote stamina

>>6268904
Also Wolf Jade Body is a score and a half huge gain. Very strong foundation for QW to practice.

>>6268905
Yeah, random gave you an insane good option really early on, that you didn't picked because of a lack of meta knowledge - which is good and lead to the current Rising Phoenix schtick that I really like.
I don't know why you guys don't want to make your own dope phoenix spiritual art technique like Genius should but oh well

>>6268948
a slight frustration that I'd then have to recalculate our gains.

that's it really. I'll support it. . . later

For now, Body looks like the proper replacement

>>6268948
>>6268905

>Well I remember you saying that danse is a bad affinity for us meaning this technique will be harder for us to breakthrough.

If we change it for a better affinity it'll have an easier breakthrough. After that we can fill the goodies

>>6268455
>Improve Phoenix-Qi construct.
>Breakthrough. Not that spiritwood is bad, and we do want some spirits to alloy in, but I don't like sitting on full Qi. As far as recruits, we aren't doing much with the ones we already have.

Tally time :
Danse replacers :
>>6268469 and >>6268802 Body
>>6268904 Stamina

Phoenix Qi : >>6268538 >>6268583 >>6269088

Stormwood : all except one

Feels a bit unfair to say "LMAO ya bodyfag should have regrouped" so this remains open a tad more.
Lurkers, get of the wood to vote! there is no good or bad, only "wanna make your own shit?" vs "change a character-defining technique for the better"

>>6269408
YOU KNOW WHAT. WE SHOULD HAVE REGROUPED.

>Change >>6268469 from body to Pheonix qi

OVERWHELMING SUPERIORITY OR DESTRUCTION!

I think this is as good of a stopping point as any. Will archive and launch new thread soon-ish

>>6269689
By soon-ish I mean somewhere undisclosed between now and when the thread falls of board; not a couple hours

New thread
>>>6270154