The MC POMA is in a perpetual status of a big fish in an infinite pond because no matter how strong he gets their will always be others stronger because of multiverses and Gods so I get why the author don't wanna continue after NS because the story would just keep repeating of being from the bottom and up unless the author uses time skips and just skip to when you reach Godhood.
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Path of martial arts: leaked sneak peaks, and discussing thread
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The narrative of AC is like Wuxia and Shonen (It's fueled by cliches and doesn't take itself too seriously). You can fight a godling and win and even shout the most cliche sentence in cultivation media " YOU COURT DEATH!!!". AC MC will bullshit their way to being the strongest by the power of Harem.
That would be entirely dependent on the power system at play. Not all xianxia genres have the same cultivation realms nor power systems. Some xianxia for example have the concept of eternal being(s), which typically implies the pinnacle of strength in all realms. Sometimes the authors themselves assert a rule that there can only ever be one eternal being, either due to the conditions of becoming one requiring a commodity such that there can only ever be one, or the pioneer of such a realm altering the rules of the realm to make it impossible for another to be produced (as at that point, they should be strong enough to do so as an eternal being). Xianxia isn't a strict line, it depends on the creative liberties that the authors themselves choose to exercise.
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The shouting isn't what makes it wuxia for me, though, as that is dependent on the author. It is the power system and it's focus on martial arts techniques. I saw an answer to a question "wuxia vs xianxia" somewhere that answers the question on what the semantic difference between xianxia and wuxia is. Wuxia means (literally) "Martial Heroes", whilst xianxia means "Immortal Heroes", and to me, AC is wuxia, while POMA is xianxia, therefore it would be unfair to compare their power systems.
What we were referring to in this case was the mcs' overall power in their world(s) or realm(s). Whilst POMA supposedly ends on a blank note which leaves the mcs' future up for interpretation (depending on whether niki decides to continue it or not after book 3, or give us an epilogue that tells us what happens in the future of our mc), AC supposedly ends with us being a big fish in a small pond (which as I said above, I thought implied we would be supreme in our region but not the whole world as wuxia is typically contrained to one world, not always). This is all just my understanding of it though, which could be wrong.
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@Foulwarden new sneak peak please
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I don't agree with the AC MC only being the strongest in their region by the end of the series when the MC is already out of their region in just chapter 7 of book 1, and journeying deep into the empire for Archonage (MC already meet an Archon one of the title of their strongest martial artist of there world). By the end of the series I think the MC would at least be an Archon if we really underestimate them.
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I don't think you read what I said, because it seems to me like you are agreeing with me with what you believe the MC's future will look like, but your first sentence directly states your disagreement.
Below is what I had said.
This to me seems would be inline with your belief of the MC becoming an Archon.
Okay, now I get what you meant. Since you mentioned POMA, I thought you were comparing its power system.
A while ago, the author mentioned that AC’s first book would end with a complete story. The MC wouldn’t be the strongest by the end of the first book, but they said that depending on how it goes, they might make two sequels: one with a descendant and then continue with our original MC or something like that, as far as I read. The point is that the MC won’t end up as the strongest in the first book to leave room for a possible sequel.
It’s really not that different from POMA in this sense, considering that the MC in POMA also won’t end up as the strongest in their world by the end of the first book.
If we reach Nascent Soul, we don’t get to choose whether we ascend or not, the heavens expel us from the world as soon as we reach Nascent Soul. TW already mentioned this. Of course, this could change, but for now, that’s how it is.
tbf you can say the same thing to ruo when he offers you the choice to surrender
Updated with the latest sneak peek
this update finna be peak finally a chance to use asura
Just buy alot of healing talismans and you will be ok.
regeneration + phoenix tatto + vitality perk will carry me till the end, just a little scared since i didnt invested in hp and im out of refinement points but yeah i have a ton of those talismans, maybe now its the time to use it.
Possibly next week or the week after next week
Omfg that update will be awesome. Dammnnn, i'm excited asf to use the asura on these mfs, they think they can beat my mc. It reminds, a lot of people understimate the asura transformation it seems. Bro, demon queen only became who she is bc she was carried by this transformation (incomplete) she being a shangtian doesn't have nothing to do with it, it was said that she IS one of the strongest bc of it. So yeah, mc with that **** complete is pretty much broken
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It was even said in the library books i guess, that transformations were the most powerful of martial arts, something like that even a peasant like pan lu (i forgot her name) became demon queen bc of it.