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

[Totenkopf]

Wasn't it something she injected?

Yes, actually. I confused it because when meeting him after he says that Mei send him a earring to force him to meet her under the pretext of giving the other.

He's the first one to suggest LC gives up rather than rushing and dealing the finishing blow, so even if Ruo didn't straight up forfeit, it's hard to imagine him agreeing to it. With his technique no less.

Yet he asks if LC at his state could survive to one of his attacks. I visualise as the narrative portraying that, although it wasn't the primary result Xiwen wanted, he indeed was willing to kill LC here.
And this willingness would probably change once LC admitted his plan to something more pragmatic since Xiwen would understand that there's no other method.

Of course all that is just speculation, after all nothing of this happened in the book leading to a understanding that it couldn't.

Is Wu heir in a better position after tanking LC's explosion? I don't know, I was under the impression only Xiwen is in fighting state. Though Ruo heals quite fast

Most likely. If anything depends if Wu Heir defeated LC with the GS or with the 99,999 failures, since with the latter Wu Heir seems to still in great form, meanwhile with the former we are in the epicenter of LC's mantra so it leaves some ponder.
I'd say that in any scenario Wu Heir is in better form because Ruo is said to "barely be able to stay awake" or something(Quite delusional of Ruo saying that Xiwen couldn't finish LC without her help).

But by fight I mean a later one, for the love of the game. A mid-book fight between Ruo and Wu Heir would be interesting, specially in the exposition.
Both start equals, Wu Heir uses the GS to gain advantage, Ruo transforms and physically overwhelm us with we winning in the end through outlasting or maybe with a Devil Breakout.

 

[any name u wish]

But by fight I mean a later one, for the love for the game. A mid-book fight between Ruo and Wu Heir would be interesting, specially in the exposition.

I wonder how things would be if the entirety of book 1 was just the danger zone. Shame we have chronic passing out syndrome.

Ruo transforms and physically overwhelm us with we winning in the end through outlasting or maybe with a Devil Breakout.

Ruo transformed is closer to LC than he is to Wu heir right? Since we couldn't join their fight without the pill that accelerates thought speed, I don't see us outlasting him.

Though I do admit a devil breakout would make things VERY interesting.

 

[Shashwaty19]

Ruo is the first person to accept defeat... He legit saw it as a loss right then and there.

That's because she is a bum and dumb, though I was more so saying that Ruo sees torture as a valid method to get information and wouldn't be averse to it.

 

[Totenkopf]

Ruo transformed is closer to LC than he is to Wu heir right? Since we couldn't join their fight without the pill that accelerates thought speed, I don't see us outlasting him.

It's 1 minute, well, if we consider Story Mode talents as the baseline and that Martial Sovereign negates the fatigue from using GS maybe Wu Heir could. Spamming the hell out of Celestial Shells and teleports.

Though I do admit a devil breakout would make things VERY interesting.

Yes, as the Devil was already foreshadowed against Jia Tianguang. Although I visualise we gaining only the "basic bonuses" of a average breakout, as the massive Physical Prowess increase and Regenerative capacity, rather than a Sukuna 2.0 coming out and running a gauntlet.

 

[Arlonb]

Yeah. Like I said before, it’s just a dumb scene. The whole thing is just meant to glorify LC—a character who has no relevance for the rest of the book—and give Ruo a “moment of maturity,” but neither of those things works. It just ends up feeling like an anticlimactic ending that doesn’t affect a damn thing and makes the “winners” of the battle look like idiots who can’t even be bothered to think for a second. I believe it would have been much better if, at the end, there had at least been some reflection from the MC, showing some development and a hard-learned lesson—something like “winning a battle doesn’t always guarantee victory” or something along those lines.

 

[Odinleani]

Yeah. Like I said before, it’s just a dumb scene. The whole thing is just meant to glorify LC—a character who has no relevance for the rest of the book—and give Ruo a “moment of maturity,” but neither of those things works. It just ends up feeling like an anticlimactic ending that doesn’t affect a damn thing and makes the “winners” of the battle look like idiots who can’t even be bothered to think for a second. I believe it would have been much better if, at the end, there had at least been some reflection from the MC, showing some development and a hard-learned lesson—something like “winning a battle doesn’t always guarantee victory” or something along those lines.

I mean if to be fair, in general POMA would be a million times better in my opinion if wu heir had any sort of character development that would actually stay prominent throughout the book (aka just not be a blank sheet of paper). The most character development I think we got is when we're asking ourselves why we want to join the sect at the beginning of the game (never comes up again), and when we wake up from the coma and wonder about what TW told us (never comes up again also).

I mean obviously I don't think Nicky really wants to make POMA with characters of the same depth as fallen hero for example, but story wise some of the plot points could make a million times more sense if wu heir had even the most minor of character development or pre-established beliefs and arrogance that he could grow out of as the story progresses.

 

[Shashwaty19]

I mean if to be fair, in general POMA would be a million times better in my opinion if wu heir had any sort of character development that would actually stay prominent throughout the book (aka just not be a blank sheet of paper). The most character development I think we got is when we're asking ourselves why we want to join the sect at the beginning of the game (never comes up again), and when we wake up from the coma and wonder about what TW told us (never comes up again also).

I mean obviously I don't think Nicky really wants to make POMA with characters of the same depth as fallen hero for example, but story wise some of the plot points could make a million times more sense if wu heir had even the most minor of character development or pre-established beliefs and arrogance that he could grow out of as the story progresses.

A majority of this can be solved if your internal thoughts and actions were consistent with your morality and the personality you established through previous choices. My Wu Heir is an Egomaniacal Psychopath right up there with Judge Holden and Eric Cartman, basically Cultivation Satan, I wish that every choice has a slight variation depending on this established personality, for example: Not feeling or even vehemently crushing feelings of fear for extremely arrogant wu heirs, thinking of ulterior motives when doing a good deed for evil wu heirs etc. I wish we got to play a genius wu heir that can outsmart people or overcome situations through natural intelligence, something like no game no life, usogui, or death note. Man I desperately want to feel what I felt during 3 Kings Inheritance with FY refining FIT Gu.

 

[any name u wish]

the very slight chance they find the stone a mh mc is competiting with dragon ruo and ph xiwen

Just my thoughts, but I think both Xiwen and Ruo would've actually accepted it as our win. Ruo was the one who joined us after his defeat, and Xiwen already said he's on our team.

 

[GrahamGaunt]

Who wins between Current Wu Heir and Current Yang Gan?

Gan probably statmogs even more so if he still has access to Incomplete Asura

BUT the Wu Heir's forte has always been hax and Current Gan probably can't use his Buddha arts anymore. We take it mid to high diff

Fair enough. One Thing we can both agree on though is Long Chen gets his assh*le ripped open and washed by both wu heir and yang gan. Like how bro? This guy couldn't handle a weak peak Houtian and two middle houtians while we can battle 5 peak houtians with perfect teamwork with artefacts and skill designed specifically to counter us at the same time. We can also battle 3 top 10 peak houtians in addition to a wisp and Ruo and wash all of them to the point of humiliation. Yang Gan can genuinely put belt to a*s on the publically recognized top 2 of houtians (Tang Ruo and Tang Bo). How is bumass fraudass Short Cuck supposed to even come close to rivalling us? That girl that Yang Gan erased from reality by punching her into blood mist was probably stronger than LC. You just know we absolutely wash EX LC.

I mean we gotta be fair Xiwen is the top 1 of ascension and both him and Ruo were juiced up to the gills on artifacts which are way more broken than even the blings that Yichen gave to Imperial Wu Heir.

Which makes his beef with the Spear Twins lowkey odd

 

[any name u wish]

Besides, current Yang Gan is a vegetable

Also Xiwen is a big disappointment considering his connection to our grandfather. I wonder if he'll be sidelined or expanded at all. Then again I don't really are about him so can't complain much.

 

[Totenkopf]

I mean we gotta be fair Xiwen is the top 1 of ascension

Xiwen is from Heavenly Judgement and not close to be the strongest at all, since Niki himself said it(That to what regards strength the Heavenly Judgement had better cards, but to what regard their objective Xiwen was the best option).
He was send as the Judgement representative because the objective was more related to Wu Heir rather than winning the Exposition. For example he doesn't have a transformation.

In theory the strongest Judgement Disciples are First and Second but we obviously don't consider them. As we don't know anything about the Heavenly Judgement regarding their strongest Houtians I'd say that Mo Qiqiang(DES leader) would be a fair bet if he has a transformation.

Gan probably statmogs even more so if he still has access to Incomplete Asura

Imagine current YG with Full Asura. Base YG can outstrength Full Asura Wu Heir powered by the Body Dao, imagine this freak with a Full Asura...

 

[Odinleani]

Do you guys think a full Asura wu heir using RAF on half Asura YG could kill him? I feel like it'll either be really close or he'll at least get fu*ked up by it. And I'm asking since in a full blown 1v1 to the death it seems like RAF might be our only option at beating him (that or the devil)

 

[any name u wish]

Do you guys think a full Asura wu heir using RAF on half Asura YG could kill him? I feel like it'll either be really close or he'll at least get fu*ked up by it. And I'm asking since in a full blown 1v1 to the death it seems like RAF might be our only option at beating him (that or the devil)

I've been unsure about the effectiveness of RAF since Su De survived it to be honest. I think Yang Gan wouldn't die to one.

 

[Arlonb]

I've been unsure about the effectiveness of RAF since Su De survived it to be honest. I think Yang Gan wouldn't die to one.

I mean, she was 100% focused on defense, transformed and amplifying her power; in that state, her defense was probably higher than the 116 the MC demonstrated, and even so, she was nearly obliterated. To put it generously, I’d say that even if Buddhist Yang survived, he wouldn’t have been in any condition to fight right after that.

I might be wrong here, but I think RAF definitively kills Muchen even if he has a resurrection treasure.

 

[any name u wish]

I mean, she was 100% focused on defense, transformed and amplifying her power; in that state, her defense was probably higher than the 116 the MC demonstrated, and even so, she was nearly obliterated. To put it generously, I’d say that even if Buddhist Yang survived, he wouldn’t have been in any condition to fight right after that.

I might be wrong here, but I think RAF definitively kills Muchen even if he has a resurrection treasure.

I know she used every defense at her disposal, but I was hoping it still wouldn't be enough. The move kind of lost its charm for me.

 

[sevyrex]

I know she used every defense at her disposal, but I was hoping it still wouldn't be enough. The move kind of lost its charm for me.

IIRC, Wu Heir was also holding back his RAF after warning Su De to give her all on defense.

 

[Arlonb]

I know she used every defense at her disposal, but I was hoping it still wouldn't be enough. The move kind of lost its charm for me.

Someone who deliberately tries to kill Su De...

 

[Totenkopf]

I mean, she was 100% focused on defense, transformed and amplifying her power; in that state, her defense was probably higher than the 116 the MC demonstrated, and even so, she was nearly obliterated.

Doubtful her defenses were greater than 116 CON.
I could agree if it was Su De in the Tyrant Form "augmented by the ancestral spear"(Niki has something with these names) that has stats on the range of 90, yet we can produce a spell whose output is so monstrous that all her defenses combined(Tenfold Amplification) only managed to reduce half of its power.
Meanwhile RAF one-shots just Su De in the Tyrant Form whose stats were in the range of 70.
As for Muchen he survives the RAF apparently. At least. He still exists, his POV and the tea party mentions him, although the narrative consider the "absorb the wisp" end.

And honestly, I see even base YG surviving a RAF. (By YG I always means First)

 

[any name u wish]

Someone who deliberately tries to kill Su De...

Those twins have no chill button bro. They were stabbing at me with everything they had and tag teaming my ***. The one time they let me catch my breath, they were charging up a super kill move. **** those guys, wish Long Chen put them in a dress before he left.

Doubtful her defenses were greater than 116 CON.
I could agree if it was Su De in the Tyrant Form "augmented by the ancestral spear"(Niki has something with these names) that has stats on the range of 90, yet we can produce a spell whose output is so monstrous that all her defenses combined(Tenfold Amplification) only managed to reduce half of its power.
Meanwhile RAF one-shots just Su De in the Tyrant Form whose stats were in the range of 70.
As for Muchen he survives the RAF apparently. At least. He still exists, his POV and the tea party mentions him, although the narrative consider the "absorb the wisp" end.

And honestly, I see even base YG surviving a RAF. (By YG I always means First)

I also don't see Su De tanking her own strongest move powered also by her sister.

And muchen surviving is yet another stain on RAF...

 

[Totenkopf]

And muchen surviving is yet another stain on RAF...

True. Given it's one of TW ultimate spells and a Immortal Magic I'd expect it to at least pulverise a EX and our own body in the process, even though we have a low understanding of it.
Devil is just HIM in Dao comprehension and yet couldn't kill a EX with it.

Then we have more interesting feats with raw Dao Manifestation than with RAF(Wu Heir matching near half the power of a MX in a spell contest).