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

[Totenkopf]

I will do this on my own, you can all take the handouts given. Go bend the knee. Take the easy way out, I will not! I will not kiss some old corpse *** or sell my soul to appease some schizophrenic old monster just to skip the bitter cultivation! I refuse!

What’s next? Are you all are going to bark when you are commanded to? I might not get any cool manuals or anything… but I’ll have my dignity and can say I did it myself, I will have true freedom. So you all can tell your lies to yourself… I’ll do everything with just my basic punches and kicks if needed.

The worst part is you all can’t even be honest with yourselves… go ahead, feed your devil with lies. Go on and kowtow until your forehead shatters. But if you’re wondering… yes, my cultivation is truly cooked, but at least I stayed true to my own path (cope).

Watch me decimating Ruo'er lizard *** in a neutral route, trash difficult, Mei enemy, no master, no He deal, no Yue deal, no Devil Wei, no nothing. I'll show them the meaning of splendid isolationism.

I believe MC could be NS level at the peak of CF if they grind to up their foundation like Yue Yan. But that wont be a thing anymore ig considering the new sneak peek.

Not in this world, no. The point is not Wu Heir, obviously, but PoMA(Our current world) that hard cap at the "standard" CF level of the Celestial Realm, not even standard as I remember Niki saying that, if the power limit of PoMA is 100, Prime Yichen would be 90~95. Yet Prime Yichen is at best compared to a average CF of the Celestial Realm.
Even Yan will be heavily nerfed to enter PoMA because, obviously.

So in PoMA we can't really stand at NS while being a CF. In the Celestial Realm, of course, after the first breath Wu Heir makes here he'll be already Soul Metamorphosis capable of fighting Nirvana Radiance apparently. But again, I wouldn't doubt of Qi Refining/Foundation Establishment Wu Heir beating Xiantians/Shangtians too.
Mind you, Niki explained that Qi Refining Yan wouldn't touch a CF, so the biggest matter indeed is Realm Advancement for us, as Qi Refining/Gathering isn't even considered a cultivator for the reasons TW explained.

 

[Arlonb]

I agree with @God on this one. Unless it’s genuinely impossible, I’m sticking to the neutral path. I’d rather switch the difficulty from Mortal to Heavenly before choosing Empire or Rogue.

 

[AGoldenExperience]

I agree with @God on this one. Unless it’s genuinely impossible, I’m sticking to the neutral path. I’d rather switch the difficulty from Mortal to Heavenly before choosing Empire or Rogue.

Empire vs Rogue truly feels like s h i t vs excrement

 

[any name u wish]

I wonder how Nicky feels that quite a bunch of people genuinely have no interest in engaging with this civil war plot he cooked up.

What's even going to happen for you guys when the tournament is over and rogues make their attack? Do you just... leave?

 

[God]

I’m only really doing it out of spite tbh. Sometimes it feels like Niki prefers players to go down a certain direction. For instance when the game first started, I romanced Mei, everyone hated her, but the relationship felt natural. I only hopped off the route in early 2024 when it felt like Niki just started shoving her down our throats, and sped up how the relationship progressed.

Now for the war sides… I understand not everything can be even, but feels like if you are going to give three different paths, each path should get their own thing to make people want to choose the path. The way he talked about it in the past, that’s what I expected. He clearly preferred rogue path, and that’s okay… he gave the empire route a crumb and look how they started to act.

People say “they are the most popular xyz.” Of course Mei and Rogue will be most popular paths, they have the most content. I’ll happily stay neutral, it will feel good winning without any outside help, even when the author is against you. Plus, beating Ruo without outside help will be so sweet knowing how much he has had handed to him.

 

[Odinleani]

I wonder how Nicky feels that quite a bunch of people genuinely have no interest in engaging with this civil war plot he cooked up.

What's even going to happen for you guys when the tournament is over and rogues make their attack? Do you just... leave?

When someone starts to offer me a chance to go somewhere that is supposedly 10000 times better than POMA world which will help me develop so fast even the heavenly nepo baby will get jealous, and it was stated that our potential is so high that we'll surpass those strong people in a blink I'm not sure I could make myself care over the crumbs of my predecessor while I'm his living and breathing reincarnation.

 

[Xclusivegamer]

I will do this on my own, you can all take the handouts given. Go bend the knee. Take the easy way out, I will not! I will not kiss some old corpse *** or sell my soul to appease some schizophrenic old monster just to skip the bitter cultivation! I refuse!

What’s next? Are you all are going to bark when you are commanded to? I might not get any cool manuals or anything… but I’ll have my dignity and can say I did it myself, I will have true freedom. So you all can tell your lies to yourself… I’ll do everything with just my basic punches and kicks if needed.

The worst part is you all can’t even be honest with yourselves… go ahead, feed your devil with lies. Go on and kowtow until your forehead shatters. But if you’re wondering… yes, my cultivation is truly cooked, but at least I stayed true to my own path (cope).

Pretty sure yall would meet an inescapable death scene but nice sentiment

 

[Waoman21]

When someone starts to offer me a chance to go somewhere that is supposedly 10000 times better than POMA world which will help me develop so fast even the heavenly nepo baby will get jealous, and it was stated that our potential is so high that we'll surpass those strong people in a blink I'm not sure I could make myself care over the crumbs of my predecessor while I'm his living and breathing reincarnation.

Too bad that offer isn't very useful, considering that POMA's story will only end in that desert world.

 

[Shashwaty19]

I will do this on my own, you can all take the handouts given. Go bend the knee. Take the easy way out, I will not! I will not kiss some old corpse *** or sell my soul to appease some schizophrenic old monster just to skip the bitter cultivation! I refuse!

What’s next? Are you all are going to bark when you are commanded to? I might not get any cool manuals or anything… but I’ll have my dignity and can say I did it myself, I will have true freedom. So you all can tell your lies to yourself… I’ll do everything with just my basic punches and kicks if needed.

The worst part is you all can’t even be honest with yourselves… go ahead, feed your devil with lies. Go on and kowtow until your forehead shatters. But if you’re wondering… yes, my cultivation is truly cooked, but at least I stayed true to my own path (cope).

Just say you can't scheme for **** bro. The thing that matters most to me is roleplay. If the character I imagine in my mind would make a certain choice, then that's the choice wu heir is making. My character would not care about romance or beauty, So I have never romanced anyone. My character is a narcissist so he has never taken plastic surgery, only natural beauty allowed. My character is a perfectionist, so he never took the zenith manual nor will he do anything to hurt his foundation. Don't give a **** about stat increases, so never taking the empire path, LB offers things like TW's Divine tier spells and probably soul cultivation so I am taking her (Its over for her anyway so I become strong enough, no is ever gonna get away after mind controlling me). If neutralbros get unique stuff, then I will become neutral. The only one where we truly bend the knee is the empire path anyway, Rogues is just an apprenticeship, which we can renege on anytime.

 

[Shashwaty19]

beating Ruo without outside help will be so sweet knowing how much he has had handed to him.

The only thing that can make me go neutral

 

[God]

Just say you can't scheme for **** bro. The thing that matters most to me is roleplay. If the character I imagine in my mind would make a certain choice, then that's the choice wu heir is making. My character would not care about romance or beauty, So I have never romanced anyone. My character is a narcissist so he has never taken plastic surgery, only natural beauty allowed. My character is a perfectionist, so he never took the zenith manual nor will he do anything to hurt his foundation. Don't give a **** about stat increases, so never taking the empire path, LB offers things like TW's Divine tier spells and probably soul cultivation so I am taking her (Its over for her anyway so I become strong enough, no is ever gonna get away after mind controlling me). If neutralbros get unique stuff, then I will become neutral. The only one where we truly bend the knee is the empire path anyway, Rogues is just an apprenticeship, which we can renege on anytime.

It’s literally not scheming, we all know Niki won’t make any realistic consequences. Yes and I Roleplay as a Wu Heir who since the beginning has craved freedom, and I have been trying to stay out of everything, and do my own thing.

People talking about scheming, aren’t scheming ****. If this was real scheming LB would have sniffed out people trying to play both sides easily. If this was scheming LB should have plans in place in case Wu Heir tries to betray rogues.

I’ve read plenty of novels and the most shocking, and unexpected scheming was in RI Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing, when that situation happened, even as a reader I wash shocked. I just don’t see a point in scheming in Poma… makes zero sense if characters were actually smart. If LB gets outplayed by Wu Heir of all people that says more about her lol.

 

[Shashwaty19]

Too bad that offer isn't very useful, considering that POMA's story will only end in that desert world.

Why Niki why?

False equivalence man JDF means the 12 strongest dragons and heavens in AC means the society of ascended it isn't the same as poma or other Cultivation stories where you are trying to fight heavens, JDF making the deal is for their personal reasons and wanting to not leave their world just yet the story system is so different that comparing the heavens makes no sense there is no getting bitched? Lol they are actually allied if anything,hell even if you made this silly comparison it's like saying right now Wu heir gets murked by shangtians as of now.

The JDFs chose not to ascend meaning they didn't join the heavens( the realm of ascended)and were offered to reincarnate the closest thing in poma terms would be choosing to stay at CF and not going to NS and then taking a rebirth that said because AC being a much stronger verse power wise the comparison would be not becoming a god even the newly Ascended in AC by their mere presence destroy Worlds in xianxia you reach that stage after going through so many stages and even then the upper ends of immortals would be able to do something like this and you are still not really a god or Immortal as you still need Qi.

As for soloing their own verse Wu heir isn't doing that either lol are we just saying anything now? Tw isn't beating 2 gods at once while wu heir story isn't making past NS.SLM slams Sovergien and all gods are still relative to him even though Tang wei arts are better and he can do things other cannot in the end fighting wise there is no soloing the Verse going on.

While in AC the JDFs who Ascend will leave the others in dust JDF remains the mist talented beings in the verse of AC ,only some are able to contend with them talent wise and anyone who ascended on their own is a winner still no one is AC is soloing their own Verse either because they have people on par and even though Ac gods are so much stronger than anything in poma and they don't need chi/qi or how ascended grow stronger passively as they are actually like gods unlike anything in poma verse the comparison is just funny heavens is sort of entity in Poma while in AC it's the society of gods.

Calling wu heir More talented when he is in a weaker verse where the style of Cultivation and everything is different where his body and talents wouldn't be having any serious carry over.

As for jack talent JDF mc is still slightly above jack tho jack is close talent wise and he gets obsessed to grow stronger even more with JDF mc existing he is still going to be slightly behind. All 12 JDFs are the most talented people in the verse even though some of the gods who are old as hell have around the same level of talent.h


Wu heir deffo is more unique to his verse but in the end fighting power wise all of these gods are capping around similar levels and they are all relative in power only SLM is actually above them.All talk about this and that for Wu heir is so hollow when story is only till NS and Niki clearly made all gods relative wu heir even if he reaches god stage in a future story where we play as someone else he still isn't gonna be someone who solos anything simply because of how the power structure is made .Also all the wu heir potential talk when story ends at NS makes me think of this. Ns aren't even mountain busters
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It's about being second to none in terms of talent in lore, just for roleplay purposes. Sovereign is 500000 times TW's age, yet he still loses to TW with prep time and TW might as well be a bum compared to us. Jdfs are 12 with some olds gods with equal talent, wu heir is 1 with no true equals in talent (not even Ruo and sovereign). It's not about Powerscaling, It's about ingame lore and how jdf mc and wu heir are treated there and what they symbolise. It's not a direct comparison of their strengths cause wu heir is way weaker than jdf mc currently.

 

[Shashwaty19]

It’s literally not scheming, we all know Niki won’t make any realistic consequences. Yes and I Roleplay as a Wu Heir who since the beginning has craved freedom, and I have been trying to stay out of everything, and do my own thing.

People talking about scheming, aren’t scheming ****. If this was real scheming LB would have sniffed out people trying to play both sides easily. If this was scheming LB should have plans in place in case Wu Heir tries to betray rogues.

I’ve read plenty of novels and the most shocking, and unexpected scheming was in RI Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing, when that situation happened, even as a reader I wash shocked. I just don’t see a point in scheming in Poma… makes zero sense if characters were actually smart. If LB gets outplayed by Wu Heir of all people that says more about her lol.

Fair enough, wish we could at least try to scheme. FY is 500 years old and yet was still outplayed by BNB, why can't we do the same to LB? Unlike FY, LB's mental state is very exploitable. Who knows? Wu heir might just be holding back his intelligence and will do the equivalent of Refining fixed immortal travel and cuck both LB and Yichen. But considering that Niki is writing the story, you would be lucky to not get jumped by the verse and then die a humiliating death or be enslaved. I also roleplay as a Wu heir that craves freedom but believes that if you aren't literally omnipotent you not free, he doesn't think exploiting LB is really bending the knee, it's just mutual benefits deal similar to the yue deal. We are a god, why would we ever bend to anyone, even another god.

 

[Raidou]

SMH, martial brothers nowadays spurned their own fortuitous meetings and has the gall to then turn around and ask the Heavens why they don't get anything.

 

[Shashwaty19]

SMH, martial brothers nowadays spurned their own fortuitous meetings and has the gall to then turn around and ask the Heavens why they don't get anything.

Man the heavens are like our greatest opp, like they hate us specifically just because we got the goat physique.

 

[Shashwaty19]

Too bad that offer isn't very useful, considering that POMA's story will only end in that desert world.

NS Wu heir beats SLM trust

 

[Pierrot-P]

i know i aint supposed to be asking this here and ill ask in the actual ac thread later but does aView attachment 39202nyone know the code to make this tian fang scene accessible and also to increase the amount of days before the trial?

Hasn't been implemented yet. You can get with Fang later on tho, during the... the trial that goes after the snake trial in the desert, if you two are close enough you'll get the chance to entice her with some pupetts, be wary you need some skill in those hands if you want to

 

[Waoman21]

We are a god, why would we ever bend to anyone, even another god.

Mm, no. Wu Heir isn't a god, and whether you like it or not, you have to bend the knee to become a god anyway, considering that you need the permission of the other gods in order to become a god yourself. It seems like a stupid system to me, but that's how it is. In any case, we won't get to see that happen since the story ends in NS.

 

[Shashwaty19]

Mm, no. Wu Heir isn't a god, and whether you like it or not, you have to bend the knee to become a god anyway, considering that you need the permission of the other gods in order to become a god yourself. It seems like a stupid system to me, but that's how it is. In any case, we won't get to see that happen since the story ends in NS.

Don't worry, We won't need the permission of those frauds to become a god. It's not like the process inherently requires their permission, they will just jump you and kill you if you do it without permission. They probably keep tabs on all the cultivators close to godhood. Niki is the retcon monarch, how can you trust anything he says? (We are basically a god trust me bro)

 

[Arlonb]

This whole "god" thing is just pathetic, in my opinion. Not because the concept is bad, but because I can't remember a single time it wasn't used to mock and ridicule the MC.