Problem with Ruo is that he become so strong out of nowhere. He train for eleven months to be beaten by 4 rogues transformed and to battle 2 ph to standstill. Then half a year later he suddenly get 100+ stats. How? The only answer I see is retcon. Which itself become Nicky biggest bullshit ever, he retcon something every month or two. And it would be at least acceptable if Nicky retcon only his statement on discord or tumblr (though it still make Nicky attempts on worldbuilding meaningless), but it affect even writen story.
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Path of martial arts: leaked sneak peaks, and discussing thread
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Saint so very High morals but culls the ones who are evil there are many people who are above her level rn so she ain't doing as much culling and can only do for people on par and below her will deffo be more evil people culled as she gets stronger.
"Ruo himself grows stronger beyond any logic or reason"
-Butterfly referring dao child physique perks
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Tbh all clans have ****ed up things,the clan is way too big moon goddess is indeed good and also yue fang's mom is indeed crazy but the people she killed the ones who talked **** with their son at first said no to apologising not justifying what she did but all these Immortals and gods are not right in the head especially not Yue fang's mom ,Moon goddess has to worry about fighting another god all the time who she is constant battling apparently.So yeah for poma standards she is indeed good and once again even if you are good when your clan is so large people are like that.
No it just means that there is a story reason why you can't use use math to track his strength progression like ok we know in 5 months he went from this to that strength so the next 5 months should be the same level of progression. Just like you can't use it with mc
Sure all clans have ****ed up people and it might be impossible for Moon Goddess to keep watch on every case, but Yue Fang's mom isn't some nobody, nor did she do that **** in secret and away from Moon Goddess' eyes. It doesn't really help their case that they advertise themselves as a supposedly righteous clan.
When we meet Moon Goddess she gives an entire speech about how much she detests and fights against evil, and yet someone high ranking in her clan not only has the nerve to murder an entire clan, but it's also over one single childish insult. She doesn't even get punished for it at all, and the worst part is that Moon Goddess is a god, she should be a supreme authority that only the most insane people in her clan would ever think to cross.
The Moon Goddess fighting another god thing is unclear. Even if she is I doubt she can't assert her authority over the Clan, if she asks the other Immortals to deal with Yue Fang's mom they'd listen.
This entire thing makes it so she's only a slightly better version of the empire and nothing else. The empire also has rules against killing people and even protecting the peasant class as a whole to some extent, but nobles or people with power can disregard them to various extents without facing punishment.
(Low-key I'm kinda yapping so I wouldn't blame you if you ain't reading all that.)
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There's too much missing information to come to conclusions like you have. Maybe Yue Fang's mom was punished, Maybe the Moon goddess is not as righteous as you claim, Maybe she doesnt want to punish a powerfull immortal of her clan who contributes to her prosperiety? Its not that big of a deal too. Good MC's who fight to protect the two MA's against those havoc sect members when close to death is blessed by her despite MC being the reincarnation of TW, a god hated for his atrocities. We dont have enough information about any god except TW and probably dream god to judge them.
We do know that Yue Fang mom is still one of the Elders of the Yue Clan so she clearly didn't get any serious punishment. And TW is stated to have had good relations with every single god including presumably her by extension.
On the other hand you lose Moon Goddess blessing once you get below 80% Saint and you can only use her full blessing at 100%
She definitely wasn't punished, made clear by what Yue Fang says in the Q&A.
Her not wanting to punish a powerful Immortal of her Clan just goes back to her not being as good as she claims. She's a God, people should be bending the knee for her ideals not the other way around, the clan needs her more then she need them and especially more than one singular Immortal Emperor.
I don't see how someone in her Clan commiting genocide over someone calling her son a jerk(which he is) isn't a big deal, at the very least it should be for someone who claims to be righteousness and despises evil.
And yet MC isn't Tang Wei, her being able to make the distinction and choosing to bless MC based on who he is at the moment instead of on who Tang Wei was doesn't really mean much in relation to Yue Fang's mom. Not to mention the gods respected Tang Wei since he didn't **** off any of them including her.
When you guys think about it, Ruo is loved by most of the Empire and will be loved outside poma cuz he's a child of the heavens. Whereas with MC, they will be hated by most of the empire if their rogue heritage and TW secret gets out and will definitely be hated and hunted outside poma cuz they are TW's clone. Its like the sage said, MC is fated for a life surrounded by death and lot of hatred whereas Ruo is treasured by the heavens itself. The fact that MC can even try to make an alliance with a big clan like the Yue and get potentially get a blessing from a goddess is very coincidental and lucky. Imo it should be very op on MC's part to keep up with Ruo when so many outside factors wants to kill, control, and manipulate MC. Ruo has no opposition apart from the very occasional Rogue attempts on his life. Clans and god's outside poma will probably rush to take him in just to earn good karma with the heavens. Niki is just doing a bad job of writing Ruo.
How do I get the Tri Dao option i agreed to help Lady Butterfly but I didn't get it?also i remember previously we could buy items containing qi but now I can't find any option for it?..and also what is the dao option in the meditation..
Tbh the good relation with most not all and even that means he has decent relationship with most meaning they aren't beefing while his only real friend is Dream weaver others are okay with him he was enemies with no one ,so with most he was simply netural to a decent relationship ,as far as I remember the god who moon goddess has beef with is actually more evil than TW ,TW had a reason for being evil atleast doesn't justify it but the other god is just evil because he can be .
Then again could be all theories maybe she was talking in general we know too little about these gods.
Correct me if I am wrong but wasn't it only low members of that clan and people related to him not actually a genocide, I get what you mean tho doesn't justify it but a genocide is something leaps and bounds bigger.Then again maybe the clan was bigger than I assumed again we don't have info on how big the clan was.Should still be a massacre levels.
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Tbh my problems with Ruo have been decreasing ever since the new updates.
Before my problem was not that he was super strong for his stage and age (it makes sense because of all the buffs, alchemy, dragon souls, dao child etc.), it was the fact that the MC was repeatedly stated to be on the same level if not higher, and definitely has higher potential and ceiling, all the while Niki just kept disrespecting the MC, not allowing us to do anything to prove those statements directly.
But now with all the crit checks, new writing style, and events, the MC seems to actually be a serious threat or even stronger than him potentially.
The biggest example is the latest update and the 3v3. The sneak attack he does on you can easily be avoided or parried by your Dao, and then you even get the option to aurafarm and just knock his *** into the wall. And unlike all previous similar events, Ruo actually gets serious if you beat the 90 checks, and it even says that his usual spiel about it being a test sounds off and his voice is unsure.
And now Niki is at least admitting that the only reason we still aren’t considered the undisputed number 1 is because of his name, reputation, and the fact that we were in a coma for at least half of our short time in the sect.
With the next update having the POVs and the Wu Chao sparring match, I’m hopeful that it will continue getting better. As even this update had us dunking on Ruo in certain parts, especially in the Yang Gan checks where you can hold him down and just tank his retaliation blow with no damage and taking 3 steps back, while Ruo has to activate his dragon form to just hold him down, and even then when he’s hit by him, his chest caves in and he is blown back.
And yeah, as Ruo likes to say “I haven’t even used 20% of my power yet.” but bro come on, if the MC can casually do this with no prep, and Ruo has to activate the myriad of hax before he can replicate it, it really should make us think.
Who is stronger? The guy who is always like this, and if needed can power up with infusions, perks, artifacts or whatever else, or the guy who HAS to do it, or otherwise he’s consigned to being almost one shotted by all the other top tiers.
Hell, even his speed, which is his main attribute, is not all that in the latest update, where you can outspeed him multiple times on different occasions. And in one of them he even tilts a little if you take out more Yang goons than him.
Before my problem was not that he was super strong for his stage and age (it makes sense because of all the buffs, alchemy, dragon souls, dao child etc.), it was the fact that the MC was repeatedly stated to be on the same level if not higher, and definitely has higher potential and ceiling, all the while Niki just kept disrespecting the MC, not allowing us to do anything to prove those statements directly.
But now with all the crit checks, new writing style, and events, the MC seems to actually be a serious threat or even stronger than him potentially.
The biggest example is the latest update and the 3v3. The sneak attack he does on you can easily be avoided or parried by your Dao, and then you even get the option to aurafarm and just knock his *** into the wall. And unlike all previous similar events, Ruo actually gets serious if you beat the 90 checks, and it even says that his usual spiel about it being a test sounds off and his voice is unsure.
And now Niki is at least admitting that the only reason we still aren’t considered the undisputed number 1 is because of his name, reputation, and the fact that we were in a coma for at least half of our short time in the sect.
With the next update having the POVs and the Wu Chao sparring match, I’m hopeful that it will continue getting better. As even this update had us dunking on Ruo in certain parts, especially in the Yang Gan checks where you can hold him down and just tank his retaliation blow with no damage and taking 3 steps back, while Ruo has to activate his dragon form to just hold him down, and even then when he’s hit by him, his chest caves in and he is blown back.
And yeah, as Ruo likes to say “I haven’t even used 20% of my power yet.” but bro come on, if the MC can casually do this with no prep, and Ruo has to activate the myriad of hax before he can replicate it, it really should make us think.
Who is stronger? The guy who is always like this, and if needed can power up with infusions, perks, artifacts or whatever else, or the guy who HAS to do it, or otherwise he’s consigned to being almost one shotted by all the other top tiers.
Hell, even his speed, which is his main attribute, is not all that in the latest update, where you can outspeed him multiple times on different occasions. And in one of them he even tilts a little if you take out more Yang goons than him.
Ruo has always been weaker in durability compared to mc. His strengths lie firstly in martial arts, speed and control(flawless techniques honed through his aunty's ig)
While in the beginning the mc had only raw strength and durability as a direct advantage (talking about fully buffed narrative mc)
Then slowly mc got stronger spells, then control(former gs) and in the last update we've got a slight advantage in speed, and control. Hopefully fighting chao would bridge the gap of "experience" with fighting truly superior opponents
I mean, there's still the argument that Ruo is still an LH. But it doesn't really make sense to consider future power as “not using everything you HAVE.”
I said before recently, MC and Ruo are equals atm. The progression of strength between Ruo and MC is very different. He follows poma progression with a higher ceiling and we following cultivation progression with a higher ceiling. Evidently, MC is stronger mentally compared to Ruo seeing we can resist Yuan Fangs mind arts. MC can be slightly faster than Ruo in base, MC has way better control over their dao and it's output, MC can be stronger and more durable than Ruo even in dragon form. So I'm not bothered with the Ruo comparisons. I think Niki did good in the latest update showing Ruo's flaws. I just hope he does this occasionally to show MC can still keep up or even overpower Ruo at times. Not to mention, MC did get a W over Ruo after beating the twins and one of the strongest PHs. Idk if fatigue counts into the stats but narratively it's very impressive to react to a sneak attack after doing all that and pulling off a hit at the same time. And like you stated, Ruo is unsure when boasting about his strength.
I think that hated by heavens and loved by heavens thing is bullshit.
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