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Path of martial arts: leaked sneak peaks, and discussing thread

KratosTheTrueGod

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Jorgoe said:
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.
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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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KratosTheTrueGod said:
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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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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KratosTheTrueGod

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Jorgoe said:
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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.
My understanding of what they meant when they had said we would be a big fish in a small pond was that we would a supreme in our region, but not in the world as a whole, i.e. there would be other powerhouses with the same strength or greater strength than our MC
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This to me seems would be inline with your belief of the MC becoming an Archon.
 
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KratosTheTrueGod said:
That is not what I meant. My understanding of what they meant when they had said we would be a big fish in a small pond was that we would a supreme in our region, but not in the world as a whole, i.e. there would be other powerhouses with the same strength or greater strength than our MC. I understand the difference between xianxia and wuxia, where one focuses on there being many realms (some of which for transcendents only), while the other is focused more on a singular realm. I was not expecting xianxia from AC because it is pretty evident with how the story is going and the power system that it would align more with wuxia (it may change, but that would be at the whims of the author).
That was what I had assumed was meant.
As for POMA, I would not know. I know that there will be 3 books, but this is the first that I hear that we would end at Nascent Realm, so if that is the case, then yes, we would still be a big fish in a small pond, but that pond would be bigger.
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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.
 
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KratosTheTrueGod said:
I just went to the thread and saw someone else's post that said "Yes we’re meant to reach Qi Sea by book 1 end, core formation maybe by the end of book 2 and optional nascent soul at book 3.". I assume this means that book 1, book 2, and book 3 will take place in the same world, and the end of book three is when we will be leaving the world (that would possibly be the time we would have to choose how we ascend). if this is where the book ends, unless someone chooses not to ascend (which would cut off their path of improvement), that would mean the book ends in an open note. We could die after we ascend, succeed in becoming a supreme (and possibly eternal), or remain a lackey, but we wouldn't know unless Niki explicitly states what we become in the epilogue, or chooses to write more books.
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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.
 
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Jorgoe said:
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.
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tbf you can say the same thing to ruo when he offers you the choice to surrender
 
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damn evil wu´s are about to get some righteous retribution, also 11k health and still geting beaten? i dont like where this is going.
 
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Waoman21 said:
Just buy alot of healing talismans and you will be ok.
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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.
 
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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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Kamisama said:
Omfg that update will be awesome. Dammnnn, i'm excited asf to use the asure 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.
 
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Kamisama said:
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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Kamisama said:
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.
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The transformation might indeed be quite powerful, but I think you’re underestimating the DQ a lot. If that transformation alone were what made her so strong, Yang Bohai would be stronger than the Monkey God, and as far as we know, he isn’t. For the DQ to be the second strongest, it’s definitely because of much more than just the transformation.

I’m also a bit excited to try out the transformation. I don’t usually play YB’s route, so I might use the console to unlock the transformation, Iron Will talent and change my saint status to demon just to see that scene and check it out. I have some expectations, but I’m keeping them at a normal level since I wouldn’t be surprised if, for one reason or another, the transformation ran out mid-fight due to lack of training or something like that.
 
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