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Chapter 258: Wine and Meat
🕑 Added 2024-02-12 11:55:00 +0000 UTC~~~
Things have escalated.
Su Daji had been powerful but not beyond his ability to deal with. That was the conclusion Liu Jin came to after their first few exchanges. Subduing her without doing any serious harm to Su An’s body had seemed, while not easy, at least somewhat feasible.
Now, Liu Jin’s aura flares violently as he produces countless snakes to fight Su Daji’s foxes. Their creations cancel each other out as multiple explosions rock the room, but the difference is made known when Su Daji bursts through the smoke. Her claws get within mere inches of his face before a burst of [Ground Contraction] carries Liu Jin to safety.
Su Daji gives chase. Their forms blur across the room as they destroy everything in their path. Floors, walls, ceiling. Not a single surface is left untouched. Scales grow over Liu Jin’s neck and take over half his face as he chains movement technique after movement technique. His right pupil is becoming narrower by the second, a sign of how much Qi Liu Jin is forcing through his body.
Even so, it is his blood, and not Su Daji’s, that keeps being spilled. While Su Daji’s power is what he could expect from someone in the Earth Realm, the Curse of the Earth Realm seems to have no hold on her.
In plain terms, she is much faster than him.
As Liu Jin is metaphorically and literally backed into a corner, his aura burns white and poisonous Qi spills forth. It spreads throughout the room, not only halting Su Daji’s attack but also forcing her to step back several paces.
“You have gotten much better with Poison Qi, Boss,” Su Daji says as she looks at the poison with wary eyes. Her aura rises, trying to force it back. “Maybe a little too much. People won’t trust you if you can make poison so easily, you know?”
“Unfortunately, I am aware of that,” Liu Jin replies, using the lull in their fight to heal his wounds. “You have also grown much since we last met.”
“I have not grown stronger. I am regaining power,” Su Daji says. “There is a difference.”
“Nevertheless, the body you are housed in belongs to Su An,” Liu Jin says. “For you to gain power, Su An’s body must grow strong. That is why it doesn’t make much sense for you to be free from the Curse of the Earth Realm.”
Su Daji leans forward. Wisps of aura above her head twitch in a manner that makes him think of ears. “Oh?”
“A child of Nuwa. That is what you call humans, right? In that case, Su An should count as one, and by default, the current you should as well. As much as you might have changed Su An’s body, your Qi does not feel demonic.”
“And you’re suddenly an expert on demons? Don’t be so presumptuous, Boss.” Su Daji crosses her arms. “Besides, that’s not what you’re really asking, right? You feel more like a demon than I do, so why am I free and you’re not. That’s what you’re really curious about, right Boss?”
Liu Jin frowns.
Su Daji smiles.
“The part of me that is Su An feels really good right now,” Su Daji informs him. “You’re usually hard to read, so it feels really nice to have the upper hand for once.”
“And what does the Su Daji side of you feel?”
“Amused that you think making time like this will help you figure out a solution,” Su Daji says as she snaps her fingers.
Purple flames appear around her and drift lazily across the air. They make a curious sound as they move. It almost sounds like wailing. As if the flames were lost souls trying to find their way.
Su Daji smirks and moves further back, but her flames move forward. Liu Jin immediately reinforces his aura in preparation for another explosion, but that is not what happens when they make contact with his poison. The purple flames merely drift through the poisonous air, no different from clouds carried by the wind.
And yet, the poison field he created around himself slowly shrinks while the purple flames grow in size.
“I see,” Liu Jin says, pouring more poison Qi into his aura. “You’re using Yin Qi fashioned to look like flames to devour my technique.”
“Foxfire,” Su Daji says proudly. “I am impressed you understood it so quickly, Boss.”
“My girlfriend encountered a technique like it before,” Liu Jin says. “Yours seems more advanced.”
“You joined with Little Xiao Shuang after Eastern Port City fell?”
“I have not.”
Su Daji stares at him.
“Boss, you have become a sinful man.”
“You are having entirely too much fun with this.”
Su Daji laughs, but not because he has actually succeeded in distracting her. That she can play along and laugh shows how comfortable she is with how the fight is going. Her flames keep eating his Poison Qi. Even if he makes more, he will only succeed in tiring himself out.
The crack of thunder wipes the smile from Su Daji’s face. White, brilliant lightning spreads throughout the room, multiple tendrils separating like the branches of a tree.
Liu Jin makes a fist.
Purple flashes.
The foxfire detonates, breaking apart the walls and bringing down the ceiling. Liu Jin creates a snake construct around himself for protection. From the beginning, Su Daji’s foxfire had been unstable. It had to be, or else it wouldn’t have been able to drain his technique so effectively. The introduction of another, stronger power had been all that was needed to tilt the balance.
“Why must you be so reckless at the oddest times?!” Su Daji shouts as she pushes a large piece of the rubble away. Her clothes are singed from the explosion, but that is the extent of the visible damage. Most likely, she has already regenerated from any injuries. “It’s always the same with you, Boss. Everyone who meets you thinks you’re so smart and mature, and then you do something stupid!”
She whistles to call forth more foxes. Their forms glow with foxfire.
“I was trying to be gentle. I was going to drain your power bit by bit.”
“Why would you want to be gentle?”
“Because I didn’t want to make you suffer!” She snaps at him. When he smiles, she sends her foxes at him. “Don’t be so happy! That was merely a preference! I can live with you suffering! I suddenly want it very much!”
The battle between the two resumes and the difference in speed makes itself known once more. Liu Jin feels his possibilities diminishing with every exchange. His mind races through his options and finds them woefully lacking.
It can only end in one way.
Su Daji’s hand plunges into Liu Jin’s chest. Her eyes widen as she realizes her attack has made contact.
Liu Jin uses that moment to catch her wrist and keep her in place.
Immediately, foxfire and poison fill the room as their auras clash for dominance. However, Liu Jin is only half paying attention. The fight against the Fleshcrafter showed him that he could detach his soul from his body much further than he’d assumed possible. Now that he’s in the Earth Realm, the process is even easier.
To save Su An, he needs to invade Su Daji’s soul with his own. Her hand is inside his body. His skin is in contact with hers. He can feel the clash of their souls as their auras war against each other. He merely needs to slip in.
Su Daji laughs.
“Are you really that stupid, Boss? Fine! I’ll welcome you!”
Su Daji’s soul rises and latches into his own. Liu Jin feels a jolt as he’s dragged into its depths and bears witness to it for the first time.
His heart breaks.
~~~
“No…”
The word is barely a whisper as it leaves his lips. The palace in front of him has seen better days. Its pools are empty. Grass and roots have broken through the cobblestone, and a thick layer of dust covers all. Still, with proper care, it can become beautiful once more.
The little house next to it is not as fortunate. The design reminds him of the buildings in the Xiao Sect, but no building in the Xiao Sect was ever in such poor shape. Tiles are missing from the roof, and the glass windows are broken. The walls on all sides are coming apart. One strong gust of wind is all it would take to bring it all down.
Su Daji and Su An.
“What did you expect?” Su Daji asks him. She looks older here. Two fox ears grow from the top of her head, and long fox tails extend behind her. “Your friend is an infant compared to me. Her body is barely a suitable vessel.”
Her soul could not hope to compete with Su Daji’s. All this time, it has been breaking under the strain. Coming here a few days early would not have mattered.
Even if he somehow removes Su Daji, Su An’s soul will shatter like glass.
“Do you understand? There is no saving her,” Su Daji tells him, a cruel smirk on her lips. Deep inside her soul, Su An’s mannerisms hold less sway, it seems. “Remove me, and she dies. Leave me be, and she dies. There are no other outcomes. You foolishly risked your own soul for nothing.”
Liu Jin wants to deny her words, but how can he when she’s merely voicing the same conclusion he just came to?
“Still, you did make it all the way here, and I do feel some leftover affection for you. I suppose I should reward you somehow.” Su Daji smiles and claps her hands together. “Ah yes, since we are here, I should be capable of this.”
Her Qi does not change, but her soul overflows. It rises and washes over him, not to attack him but to announce herself. The world is overwritten. The palace and the small house fade away, and a new truth is imposed in their place. A new order. A lush forest with leaves of a green so beautiful they almost look like emeralds. A lake with water the color of rubies.
Liu Jin first assumes the red liquid is blood, but the scent in the air reveals its true nature.
“Lake of Wine and Forest of Meat,” Su Daji says. She is seated in a boat in the middle of the lake. She grabs a golden cup and fills it with wine. “Will you drink with me?”
“I would never trust a cup offered by you.”
“A pity.” She shakes her head theatrically. “Well, if you do not wish to partake in the Lake of Wine, perhaps the Forest of Meat will be more to your taste?”
The tiger pounces on him before Liu Jin realizes it’s there. It knocks him to the ground and snarls into his face, only failing to take a bite out of him because Liu Jin manages to grab its neck in time. Liu Jin grits his teeth as he tightens his grip on the tiger’s neck. The tiger’s claws break through his robes and dig into his skin.
A crack echoes throughout the forest.
The tiger’s body falls lifelessly. Liu Jin rises to his feet. His breath comes out in heavy pants, but there is no time to rest. Multiple eyes glare at him from the depths of the forest.
A Forest of Meat. He gets it now.
He is the meat.
The tigers leap at him, but Liu Jin is ready this time. When the first one comes, Liu Jin leaves it limping with one strike. Liu Jin moves to the next one and blinds him. When another tiger tries to get him from behind, Liu Jin ducks under it and hits it where its heart should be. He feels its ribs breaking under his fist.
More tigers attack, and Liu Jin flees into the trees. The roles of prey and predator are soon changed as Liu Jin starts picking them off one by one. He turns their claws and fangs against them, using them to tear their flesh. Blood flows freely over the forest floor.
Liu Jin licks his lips.
He keeps fighting. He keeps moving. More bones break. More blood. More flesh. They howl. They scream. He gives chase. He bi…
…
What is he doing?
Liu Jin immediately blurs back, finally remembering he could have used movement techniques the entire time. Skills he’d refined for years suddenly come back to his head, and he cannot believe he’d lost sight of them.
Lightning spreads and annihilates the tigers. Liu Jin spits the chunk of flesh he’d been about to swallow and glares at the woman in the lake of wine.
“Aw, you’d noticed.” She pouts. “I guess it really is all I can do right now. Although noticing won’t help you next time.”
He senses the truth of her words. All around the forest, there are more creatures awaiting him, but they are not the problem.
It is this entire world.
“Is this meant to be a game?”
“It is meant to be a party,” Su Daji says, drinking from her cup. “You’re supposed to enjoy yourself. Indulge. As a man. As a beast. It does not matter as long as you do.”
Lake of Wine and Forest of Meat. In the forest, he fights beasts and becomes a beast. If he steps into the lake, he’ll probably lose sight of himself in a different way.
“You’re putting it together, but it is already too late, child. You are in my world,” Su Daji tells him. “Why torture yourself when I offer you release? Is that not what everyone wants? Freedom to indulge in their vices? Enter the lake and drink with me. Or don’t. Either way, the result will be the same. You will indulge and, in doing so, become a pet of mine.”
“So this is what you are,” Liu Jin says. “I wondered what sort of creature would cling to life so recklessly.”
Being such as the Storm Dragon and Nine-Headed Snake God chose to pass on, leaving behind nothing but shadows of themselves that could guide or empower those they deemed worthy. However, the spirit before him is different. She chose to cling to life so fiercely that she would take someone else’s body.
Only now that he is in her soul does Liu Jin understand how significant that choice is. Su Daji’s soul will grow strong, while Su An’s will wither and die. However, that does not mean Su Daji will return to how she was. That path is forever lost to her. She has forever changed by taking pieces of Su An’s soul into her own, effectively becoming a different person. What sort of thing could motivate someone to do that to themselves?
Liu Jin knows the answer now.
Pleasure and nothing else.
That is what Su Daji’s soul tells him. It is the unfailing principle that has guided her and given birth to the Lake of Wine and Forest of Meat. This is a place of indulgence. It is her way of life turned into a weapon. It invites him to lay down his reason and enjoy himself, attempting to overwrite all that he is until nothing remains.
“Disappointed? Spare me the lectures. I do not care for the judgment of the miserable,” Su Daji tells him.
“I am dissatisfied, not miserable,” Liu Jin says. “And I am dissatisfied because the pleasure I seek to indulge in is nowhere to be found. Not here.”
His Qi rises. He does not know if this will work, yet what else is there to do now but try?
The world quivers.
“Oh? What is this? Some last desperate attempt?”
The force of Su Daji’s soul rises, seeking to squash his own.
She recoils. A flicker of worry finally appears on her face.
“What in the world?”
The sky breaks.
Liu Jin smiles sadly.
“I am not sure. Not yet.”
“Stop it!” She yells, suddenly struggling to remain standing as fierce waves rock her boat. “Do you have any idea what you’re doing?”
The earth quakes. The beasts flee. The grass withers.
“If you do this, it won’t be just me you harm!” Su Daji yells at him. “The girl’s soul is already weak! You will break her!”
“Maybe… but at least she’ll be free of you.”
Su Daji goes for this throat, reaching the coast in the blink of an eye. She’s still not fast enough. Liu Jin digs deep into himself and focuses on a single word.
Hollow.
Su Daji’s soul drowns in blackness.
~~~
Liu Jin looks at Su Daji’s fallen form for several seconds. She is still breathing. Save for the few injuries she received during their fight, there is nothing wrong with her.
Not with her body.
Wordlessly, Liu Jin takes her in his arms.
~~~
Mini-Character List
Liu Jin: Our protagonist. Somber.
Su Daji: A spirit that has taken over Su An’s body. ???
Comments
Logan Teague
I'm not mad, I'm disappointed
WolfWithAGun
I think it's less of Su Daji, and more antithetical of MOST cultivators. Why do they cultivate, why do they gain power? For useless, personal and shortsighted gain. Nothing actually matters to them, most have no honor, no virtue, no long term goals other than getting stronger. But getting stronger for what?
Blahful
He doesn't, but it's how he defines. For example, Mei points out that he is taking over a country. Though he denied it ( he still is)
Noah
I’m pretty sure his Dao is based around Judging the Dao’s of others, so the more reprehensible he finds their reasoning the more of an advantage he receives. I wonder how he would do against someone like Mud, who didn’t even craft their own Dao. I imagine he’d actually be weaker against Mud, since he’s basically the antithesis of normal “cultivator culture” in that he willingly let someone else mould his path.
Noah
“But I would bet with you that if he could only either end the civil war or get rid of [the guy who killed his childhood home] he would choose the first” We’ve already seen him make this choice. If he was really just out to stop the people that destroyed his home and killed his father then he never would have teamed up with Murang Bang, the guy who was literally, ultimately in charge of the attack. Even if he killed Murang Bang, that still wouldn’t ultimately go against Murang Bang’s wishes since all Bang wants is combat and death. Just wanting to kill him would only lead Jin towards fulfilling Bang’s goals and Dao.
Noah
But he doesn’t “define” himself as a judge because he doesn’t truly understand his Dao yet. He may currently deny it about himself but it’s absolutely true that he’s been judging someone or something every time he’s flexed his Dao.
BlueMangoAde
Nah. Liu Jin doesn't exactly define himself as a judge.
Ryan Brudnicki
I agree, a couple of guys futher down are making a pretty good case that he has defined his dao by what he stands against rather than what he stands for but that still really fits with a dao of judgement and it fits with both times we have seen him use his dao
Blahful
I think our boy has the dao of "Ruling/Judgement.". That's why it resonates with Justice ( Big sis ). Liu Jin is thus passing his judgement of others actions as "Hollow", or meaningful
Bonifacio Mario Peña Jr.
Su Da Ji reformat successful.
Gardor
He literally said to Lei Kong "I'm going to use you as a tool to accomplish my goals, because you're more valuable to me alive than dead". Him convincing an Elder to back his play to go in and mess with Murong Bang's power base was a couple months ago. I never thought Jin was a villain or even an amoral anti hero, but reading your guy's interpretation of him has made me realize I am pretty far away from the "white knight hero mc" end of the MC alignment chart.
Jesus Volcan
At the beggining yes but after that starting motivation and seeing were the quest for revenge took his father its obvious jin has evolved from that way of thinking. He still hates murong bang but i am starting to think more as a symptom of the cultivation world and less about the man. Maybe i am wrong but thats how i being reading jin now
burning_the_paper
“I am dissatisfied, not miserable,” These are the words you never want to hear from Liu Jin, especially not if you're a cultivator.
Malphas
He want something more than killing Murong Bang and it's peace in the Storm Dragon Empire. He did not kill Lei Kong for petty revenge and will forgive for a greater ideal. That's why his dao is linked to Hollow, and our protagonist defining himslef as "not hollow"
Amelgar
oof
Dovhat
Right, the growth that was removed from Xiao Heng.
Blahful
We do have one at hand.
Ahppy
Liu Jin’s dao seems like the antithesis of Su Daji’s.
Gardor
Hey we've already established that my memory of this story is spotty at best...but I don't think you're right. He joined the Eternal Flame Clan to get some muscle to put Murong Bang down, cuz the Eternal Flame Clan was the one perpetuating the civil war so they'd allowed Murong Bang to run rampant. He chose his faction during the succession battle based on which one would support him in making decisions that would remove Murong Bang from power. The first thing he asked for once he got enough clout, or merit, or however you wanna call it, was to make sweeping changes that'd remove Murong Bang from power. I'm not saying he's willing to sacrifice anything for revenge, or that he'd turn a blind eye to people he could help, but I am saying that his macro decisions have always been made with his end goal of revenge against Murong Bang in mind.
Jesus Volcan
No man his path and all his decisions have been to make his surroundings better many times people have told him different choices that better align to his interest and he never took them (like saving all those disciples of the eternal flame clan or going to the clan itself when he could have gone to his little wife and find more support there), his purpose transcends revenge to murong bang i think he is already realizing that. How will he do it who knows as his enemy seems to be human nature itself.
Jesus Volcan
He doesnt hate cultivation, he hates the cultivators culture something very different
Jasus
Ah sad. I had hoped he had a dao of life and death.
BlueMangoAde
Hollow!
SV
Or a third option, remove Su An and give her a body that supports her soul in its current state
Gardor
No I agree, how much conviction they have in their own Dao should have an impact on how much Jin's Dao impacts them. Like, that's basically the whole point of dao battles, you weaponize your understanding of some kind of concept against one another. How deeply you've embraced your own Dao is important. If Jins Dao was just him manifesting his negative opinions about people, without them being able to resist at all...well I think that'd be pretty weird. A fire cultivator vs a water cultivator sometimes comes down to who understands whichever law of reality better. And if someone really has a bunch of knowledge about the dao of explosions, more knowledge/understanding than Jin has about his Hollow Dao, it should affect the outcome of their battle of wills.
Gardor
I'm pretty sure the whole scheme of getting the Eternal Flame Clan to try to clean up the storm dragon empire was was just a means to an end to get revenge against Muran Bang, I don't think he'd work this hard for altruistic reasons to help strangers from a homeland he's never been to. More of a byproduct than his goal, I don't see what motivation he'd have to try to fix the whole country. But I definitely see how him wanting revenge on an Emperor level cultivator would seem impossible without some serious backing and extenuating circumstances. But, that's just my opinion and I've already been reminded in this thread that my reading comprehension in this story is lacking.
Pete
"He hasn't dedicated his life to cleaning up cultivators, he's dedicated his life to...killing the guy who killed his childhood home, I guess?" Not really? I think you are misinterpreting what his plans are about a bit, not that he wouldn't kill the guy if he could but I would bet with you that if he could only either end the civil war or get rid of him he would choose the first.
Pipeman
Liu Jin can't actually imagine the kind of world he wants to exist being a thing. It's just too unrealistic to him and he has no idea how he could possibly get there. So instead of embodying the things he actually wants, he embodies the unshakable conviction that the world he is presented with and the worldviews that others champion are hollow, lacking and empty. The only thing he knows to do is to deny the world and its faults, so he denies it in its totality.
Derek Walker
He can't hollow Murang Bang's dao because Murang Bang is an emperor with a fully developed dao and a very very strong soul. He was a mere true realm cultivator with a baby dao. I don't think that is the reason he lost against Bang. As Bright Sword noted when fighting Mud, he could have just overpowered his Dao if he wanted.
Prometheus
It might not just be how much Jin dislikes that Dao. Take Murong Bang, Jin hate the general And his Dao from the depths of his being, but he's also unable to Hollow it. I think Jin's (current)Dao exploits how literally Hollow the other person's philosophy is. If the other person's conviction in their Dao is only paper thin or rooted in some emotional dependance on their Dao being right rather than actually understanding the full implications and flaws in their worldview, then it crumbles immediately the moment they realize there Are any flaws. This is why Yan and Daji were smashed by it. Bang wasn't affected because he fully understands how disturbed his own Dao is. He Knows it's wrong and he Knows the alternatives, but he still has full conviction in it. His Dao therefore isn't "Hollow" enough for Jin to exploit. Jin is going to have to fully explore his own Dao in order to unlock its other applications if he every wants to even affect Murong Bang, let alone overpower him like the others.
Dovhat
Welp, time for some emergency soul surgery I guess.
Kiwilord
Oh second thought is that Daji is going to become the food (meet and drink) that will heal su an. The hallow Dao will damage Su Dajis ego so much that it won't be able to do anything as the weaker soul eats it
Kiwilord
Yes
Kiwilord
So I think I see our MCs Dao strength and weakness now. His Dao originated from his dissatisfaction with the world, in a way his belief is around the HALLOW nature of certain things, and how hey are literally worthless, in contradiction to what the would thinks. Basically a type of anti heaven dao or a paicular brand of against the heavens. I think what that means, his Dao is primed to be a anti Dao BUT the less objectionable he finds someones Dao the worse his would counter it. Like we may have a fight were he is like "fuck, I really see where your coming from so my Dao isn't turning yours hallow and therefore like a saop bubble... I'm going to have to let my wife fight you"
Derek Walker
I doesn’t seem we got an answer about the curse of the earth realm. My suspicion is that it is fundamentally not about the body but the underlying soul. Since Lui Jin still sees himself as human and Su Daji does not, he is affected by the curse.
Jesus Volcan
Ohh i thought the lighting stayed that color when you achieved the new level, but it makes sense
Derek Walker
From the same chapter he got his Dao “Liu Jin is trying to do good by the people in his army, but he cannot say he likes any of them. In fact, had they met under different circumstances, he’d probably hate them. He can be kind to people like Rust and Nail because he’s strong. If they were equally weak, he probably wouldn’t like them. If he were weaker than them, if he were another beggar in the streets, they’d probably try to take advantage of him. That is how most people are. That is how the world is. How annoying it is that it is easier to think of what he is against than what he embodies. Then again, how could it possibly be any other way?” At its base, he hates the cultivation culture that power makes right. That weaker people are at the mercy and whims of stronger people. That’s totally antithetical to how he was raised as a doctor. His path strayed to far from a normal doctors for that to be his dao. Instead he has always lived his life, at least since the fall of Xiao sect, by opposing what he hates.
Derek Walker
I think he can control which kind he uses. When he fought Han the first time, he used blue lightening at first but then switched to white lightening. I assume higher grade lightening drains more Qi so stepped down a grade.
Pete
Risky, but I doubt she dies so the question is will something remain of the fox?
Mr R
Who is the man he respected most in the world? His father. Not the Black Dragon, not Old Jiang, not his Elder Brother, but his father. His father was not a cultivator, none of the virtues his father displayed required him to be a cultivator. Yes, that was not the whole of the man, but it was the side of him that Jin knew and idolized above all others. And that was the only person in the world he knew who was without cultivation, save for the youngest of babies.
Gardor
Is that really where it comes from? I thought Daos were supposed to be something you believe in so strongly you can supercede reality. Something you understand at such an intrinsic level that it begins to define your whole life. And you're saying that Jin hates cultivation culture so much, he developed a Dao about it? He went to day camp training at a little sect in eastern Port City, and seemed to like most of the people. He was trained by an immortal cultivator and still deeply respects the man. He snaked his way in to one of the top sects of his country, and made friends along the way. His wife is at another one of the top sects. Everyone he knows, everything he does, is as a cultivator. Really, the only time I can think of that he encountered a cultivator whose existence annoyed him was that Renegade he poisoned or whatever. He doesnt seem to care about the excess of cultivators that often, or that much, imo. He hasn't dedicated his life to cleaning up cultivators, he's dedicated his life to...killing the guy who killed his childhood home, I guess? I'd have thought he'd have a better chance at a doctor related Dao, like healing or life. Or transformation, as he's changed both himself and others. Something he actually interacts with on a fairly regular basis. Or I guess he could make a poison related Dao, and that could tangentially feed into his thoughts on the corruption of cultivator culture. Not that I think he really gives a shit about that, or spends a lot of time thinking about it. His life for the past few years has been a quest for revenge, does he think his revenge plot is hollow, is that where it comes from?
walid bennour
damn , one chapter is far too little man you're a master of your craft, and your story has a lot to offer, you should dedicate yourself to it, and ask what you are worth, and people will happily provide
Jesus Volcan
Isnt it gold lighting
Robert Mullins
Liu Jin's dao is what he is against rather than any specific ideology or concept he supports. And so far he uses it to show people what he despises about them.
Silverias
It's an expression of his view of cultivator culture. Seeking power for its own sake is a hollow pursuit, and he rejects that. He has defined himself in opposition to that.
Robert Mullins
This explanation was pointed out when it first showed up. Chapter 233: `How annoying it is that it is easier to think of what he is against than what he embodies. Then again, how could it possibly be any other way? Liu Jin did not dedicate his life to doing something he loves. He dedicated his life to stopping what he hates. `
Moonkiller24
DAO?! THAT WAS HIS FUCKING DAO WOOOO
Ryan Brudnicki
Do we know thats his dao? I thought it was something more aligned with judgment, like he judged su daji and found her hollow, same with han
Silverias
Yeah, honestly, even more than with Han, this is a perfect expression of LJ's Dao.
Gardor
I never really understood how he ended up with the Hollow / void / nothingness Dao path, it doesn't seem to relate to his character or history or techniques or profession at all.
Pineapple
Dao type advantage? Neat.
