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

She said she can't enter the realm with her real body because of Tang Wei's protection.

She's also already made an Avatar from materials in the poma world which is stronger than anyone not named Yichen.

And if she wanted He Gangs body she'd just take it. She has no reason to do it in such a roundabout way.
Exactly she needs somebody that can take on Yichen, it's definitely not gonna be the mc within the next 100 years, and yeah she could take He Gang body whenever she wanted but probably not in a condition good enough to take Yichen on.

So my theory is she manipulated him into preparing his body for possession so she can use her full powers. It might also be a backup plan if the mc doesn't join her.
 
This dude isn't getting Gang's body, I won't let the explosion happen, I want to be the one that kill the bastard. I want my revenge couldn't care less about his
This is what i don't get, i'm not usually nitpicking everything the author does, but he gang should realistically be a major part of mc's motivation, your aunt died because of him, and it isn't even a rivalry between two heirs of two great clans, just look at Wu Chao's reaction when you mention He Mei, that's generational beef. Yet nicky wrote a way to have this somewhat random guy just sweep the rug of vengeance from underneath us by killing he gang first, it'd be like if Jack from AC was killed by Lost Jester.
 
This is what i don't get, i'm not usually nitpicking everything the author does, but he gang should realistically be a major part of mc's motivation, your aunt died because of him, and it isn't even a rivalry between two heirs of two great clans, just look at Wu Chao's reaction when you mention He Mei, that's generational beef. Yet nicky wrote a way to have this somewhat random guy just sweep the rug of vengeance from underneath us by killing he gang first, it'd be like if Jack from AC was killed by Lost Jester.
Real I don't care about Ruo and their ****ing rivalry he's beefing with himself. Annoying *** He Gang is a different story, this ****er just show up talk **** and cause trouble and always get away with it. In the damn 3v3 fight he's just chilling, why couldn't we just blast his *** with fire or something and try to kill him? Bum *** Wu Heir don't care weak *** mc
 
It seems like he's the new RO for Fem MC's then?

I wonder who's going to be the other one...my bet it's on Yue Fang
Yue fang's older brother the one who goes on crusade to other world I think I said this here before there will be two Cultivator Ros Yue fang's brother who will be Yue clan's representative pretty much the guy to align with for mc who doesn't wanna align with tangs or Rogues,and the other Cultivator will be woman who is supposed to a good person so would be good natured MC's.
Aligning with them makes lady butterfly think twice about doing anything.
 
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Yue fang's older brother the one who goes on crusade to other world I think I said this here before there will be two Cultivator Ros Yue fang's brother who will be Yue clan's representative pretty much the guy to align with for mc who doesn't wanna align with tangs or Rogues,and the other Cultivator will be woman who is supposed to a good person so would be good natured MC's.
Aligning with them makes lady butterfly unable to think twice about doing anything.
This is actually really cool.

More good natured RO's are always welcomed.

But I think Yue Fang's bro is actually bloodthirsty asf right?
 
My personal feeling is that MC and some of the major characters need a proper goal and motive to grow and endure rather than to 'just get stronger'. We have Ruo who is barely touched upon and us as the readers are mostly kept in the dark about him. I really loved the side story of kid Ruo with his aunt, everyone around him despising him but still putting on a good face cuz of Yichen, Ruo having his internal struggle with the dragon souls constantly cursing him, him being hammered with the context that strength is everything and only those with strength deserve anything at all. Idk why Niki decided to forgo with this, it just adds more to the characters rather than them being the single faced arrogant assholes we see in the main story. Its not necessarily lore but these are character defining events that we normally dont get access to as the MC. Only way to read them is via side stories.

See, MC had a perfectly good motive/s right from the beginning of the story, Aunty's death. The one person who actually loved MC unconditionally died cuz of the He Clan. Ofc Niki can give different flavours of why MC will enact vengeance, or have the option to have no motive at all other than getting strong for those extra evil MC's. It just feels so bland as the story goes on and the MC is swept up by the wind and wherever it takes them. MC just feels like a soulless husk who has no feelings and desires. All the best IF's and even stories have an MC with a predetermined or developed goal in mind. And here is Poma MC with none.
You pretty much touched on my biggest problem with POMA. It's not that Nicki can't write, quite the opposite. Dude is a great writer when he's actually putting in the effort.

It's just that he keeps screwing himself over trying to please the discord/his Patreon over his own ideas.

The MC in the beginning was insanely fun with an actual motivation and ideals. Then you are pretty much forced to sit and watch as everything that makes POMA fun gets stripped away in favor of a story that's blander than bland.
 
This is what i don't get, i'm not usually nitpicking everything the author does, but he gang should realistically be a major part of mc's motivation, your aunt died because of him, and it isn't even a rivalry between two heirs of two great clans, just look at Wu Chao's reaction when you mention He Mei, that's generational beef. Yet nicky wrote a way to have this somewhat random guy just sweep the rug of vengeance from underneath us by killing he gang first, it'd be like if Jack from AC was killed by Lost Jester.
The body snatching only happens if you try to fight He Gang in the 3 v 3 fight and Songjue explode
 
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honestly whats happening to He Gang makes sense once I thought about it, why was He Gang allowed to be a cultivator. The dude disrespectful, reckless and had zero focus. So I always wondered why Lady Butterfly taught him anything. After this update it makes sense, she wanted a body for herself. Let this dude gather Qi for her and prepare his own body, he's stupid and reckless enough to do everything she asks without question and BOOM takes over his body. Dude ego and lust for power was always his worst enemy.

My only issue is we cant smoke his ***. This "He Gang" in the snippet is Lady Butterfly.
Why the hell she would want to take her gang or any another man's body
That's disgusting
Even in her puppet form she is powerful enough to not to this thing .
 
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I am interested to know what people think about Ruo as a future romance option? As rivals, I do agree that they are ****ing annoying, and not in the good way. As a romance option, I honestly have no idea where the hell we are going with this. I think it was supposed to be a slow burn, and is honestly the only reason that we could have to possibly side with the emperor, but it's so damn slow that I completely lost any interest that I initially had in the character. That coupled with the random power ups that they get “just because” which seems to be there just so they can aura farm and nothing more, since it has no effect whatsoever on the story, I feel like you can rewrite most of the plot without them, and it wouldn't make a difference. It could have been a very fun rivals and lovers dynamic, but the execution was so poor, I can't see it can be salvaged.
 
It is still kinda funny dude killed and took body of he gang to take lady shu
Wouldn't it still be ntr if he ****s her with her gang's body?
I hope mc can still ntr him with shu.

Btw we are getting new cultivatior female ro right?
Can it be Lady Butterfly? Since her behaviour and conversation in forest gives that vibe.
 
This is actually really cool.

More good natured RO's are always welcomed.

But I think Yue Fang's bro is actually bloodthirsty asf right?
Can't be too sure about him yue fang isn't a credible source afterall (man lacks sense) he can also every well be ruthless but only against evil or he could be as yue fang said still better than other options we have.The woman Cultivator on the other hand is for sure the good natured one.
 
It is still kinda funny dude killed and took body of he gang to take lady shu
Wouldn't it still be ntr if he ****s her with her gang's body?
I hope mc can still ntr him with shu.

Btw we are getting new cultivatior female ro right?
Can it be Lady Butterfly? Since her behaviour and conversation in forest gives that vibe.
No it isn't LB
 
I am interested to know what people think about Ruo as a future romance option? As rivals, I do agree that they are ****ing annoying, and not in the good way. As a romance option, I honestly have no idea where the hell we are going with this. I think it was supposed to be a slow burn, and is honestly the only reason that we could have to possibly side with the emperor, but it's so damn slow that I completely lost any interest that I initially had in the character. That coupled with the random power ups that they get “just because” which seems to be there just so they can aura farm and nothing more, since it has no effect whatsoever on the story, I feel like you can rewrite most of the plot without them, and it wouldn't make a difference. It could have been a very fun rivals and lovers dynamic, but the execution was so poor, I can't see it can be salvaged.
That's because Ruo suffers from the same problem as Wu heir but in a opposite way. Both pretty much got stripped of all their personality, Ruo suffers from becoming (more of) a Gary stu. Compare early Ruo to the one we have now, dude's become a temu Sasuke without any depth.
 
That's because Ruo suffers from the same problem as Wu heir but in a opposite way. Both pretty much got stripped of all their personality, Ruo suffers from becoming (more of) a Gary stu. Compare early Ruo to the one we have now, dude's become a temu Sasuke without any depth.
I think i read sometime back that Ruo wont change even if you romance him and its something i dont like. You see when i think of changing a RO, my thoughts go back to some classic rpg games. Morrigan in DAO, Viconia in BG2, Shadowheart, Astarion, Laezel in BG3, Nyrissa in Pathfinder Kingmaker, Jack in ME2, Bastilla in Kotor (in a way), Those darkside characters based on whether youre male or female in kotor 2 (forgot their name), Sebille and the Lizard guy in Divinity OS 2, both the girls in Jade Empire who you can either fix, make worse or start a triad towards the end lmao. You even got Invisigal now in Dispatch. All these characters can be 'fixed' in one way or another by the MC throughout the game. Viconia's alignment can be shifted from neutral evil to true neutral via her romance. Nyrissa is a true 'i can fix her' fairytale romance and the best ending of the game is achieved by romancing her. Morrigan is my alltime fav romance (poor girl butchered in Veilguard along with everything else). All this adds so much depth to these characters. Ruo can essentially be one of the 'I can fix him/her' trope but idk whats going on in Niki's head.

Lmao i just realised i just turned this into a big suggestion box of 'i can fix her' romances.
 
That's because Ruo suffers from the same problem as Wu heir but in a opposite way. Both pretty much got stripped of all their personality, Ruo suffers from becoming (more of) a Gary stu. Compare early Ruo to the one we have now, dude's become a temu Sasuke without any depth.
Pretty much almost every character in this game so far has suffered somesort of downgrade. The only character that has received any sort of meaningful work and growth is ****ing mei of all people. Meanwhile ruo and mc had their personalities stripped and their development stunted. Ai's character growth was put on ice (literally) and if discord chatter are to be believed it's because niki just don't know what to do with her, which means that now he's just not interested in giving her much thought or worse he never really cared about ai to begin with. Tigress is pretty much abandoned at this point as it's been more than a year since any sort of progress has been made to her story. And then there's caihong and xiwen who has now joined guo amongst the ranks of demoted ro's. And that's just the main sidecast, i could go on about about the masters, the rest of the sect and pretty much everything else. And yet despite all that underdeveloped and abandoned content, niki's still adding more entirely new stuff. new ro's, new plot points, new mechanics without actually finishing and fleshing out what he already created. So yeah things are incredibly bleak.
 
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Pretty much almost every character in this game so far has suffered somesort of downgrade. The only character that has received any sort of meaningful work and growth is ****ing mei of all people. Meanwhile ruo and mc had their personalities stripped and their development stunted. Ai's character growth was put on ice (literally) and if discord chatter are to believed it's because niki just don't know what to do with her, which means that now he's just not interested in giving her much thought or worse he never really cared about ai to begin with. Tigress is pretty much abandoned at this point as it's been more than a year since any sort of progress has been made to her story. And then there's caihong and xiwen who has now joined guo amongst the ranks of demoted ro's. And that's just the main sidecast, i could go on about about the masters, the rest of the sect and pretty much everything else. And yet despite all that underdeveloped and abandoned content, niki's still adding more entirely new stuff. new ro's, new plot points, new mechanics without actually finishing and fleshing out what he already created. So yeah things are incredibly bleak.
Basically

Nicky needs a break from POMA and he also needs to stop listening to his discord 😂
 
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