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Killing them is a preposterous notion unless you vote C anyway. Right now what matters is skills. If she's good enough, she's good enough. It's that simple.

 

I noticed that we can copy skills from folks with the same neigong as Xu Jing now, does anyone recall if that was the case before?

 

It is not her skills that concern me. It is what she is willing to do with them.

When we first encountered her she was useless in a serious fight.

It has been a couple years. We have seen her fight in a nonlethal barfight against opponents weaker than her. We have read about her aiding the constables in apprehending criminals but again she was not fighting to kill and her opponents would be weaker than her.

In this case we will be up against strong opponents that will have no real problem killing her or us. I want someone that will hold absolutely nothing back.

Edit:
Essentially what Kipeci said.

We can't know that until we see how the battle plays out. We have never fought them, we have never seen them fight, we have a very poor idea of their approximate strength and abilities. That is all.

Killing them may be a possible and/or desirable outcome based on a number of factors we are unaware of.

 

We know enough to know that

1. They are sword masters.
2. They have legendary swords (and are presumably better than the average master).
3. They specialize in helping each other.
4. They would sooner back off than fight to the end.

I think holding out for the possibility of killing them is rather far-fetched unless you intend on doing C.

No, it sounds to me that they do have a problem with killing us. Are you going to keep ignoring the many hints we've gotten that they don't actually like the idea?

 

Well, Jing has already used Wuxiang Qiankun against a team formation, and he could mimic the technique better than Manxing's guards could even execute it:

Not sure if this logic would apply to a fight against these two, though, considering that they are about a million times tougher than the chumps Manxing had as bodyguards. Then again, the sheer brokenness of Wuxiang Qiankun should allow us to be just as effective as they are together once we mimic the flow of their qi.

As for Yifang, I disagree with Fangshi:

She's matured and lost a bit of her naivete, so I'm pretty sure that she'll perform when it's crunch time. However, I think this battle needs to be couple vs couple, so Yunzi is the only choice that makes sense for me if we don't do this solo.

 

Not going for relationship points with Yifang?

Besides, Yifang knows our swordsmanship the best, and we are very familiar with Emei swordsmanship too. So I'm quite sure we would partner well with her.

 

Not ignoring, no. I have said it is quite likely that they do not want to kill us. It is unlikely that we have done anything to them to warrant an attempt by them on our life.

They do however show every intention of killing us. They even go so far as to warn us that they will kill our friends to get to us. These people strike me as very serious about this.

We know that they have had 'troubles' and we know that they think of this fight as only 'business' but we don't really know much more than that.

They are a couple right? Well maybe they went into seclusion because they had a child. Maybe someone stole that child and told them that if they want the child back unharmed they have to kill Jing, that sort of thing. Or maybe they are just being blackmailed with something they can not afford to let the world know about.

If their motivations are along those lines then I would expect them to hold nothing back and we have seen nothing from them that suggests they will retreat if we provide sufficient resistance. Intent may matter as much or more than skills in such a situation.

Certainly possible. But from my perspective all we have is her word on that. She is still an untempered blade as far as we know, I would rather she not bend.

I acknowledge she could very well get the job done. People do change but if given the choice I would rather take someone that I am sure will kill over someone that may have reservations into a duel to the death.

Also this... it will be so romantic...

 

Reluctance is a thing. They'd do it, but their heart isn't in it.

They really don't strike me as a mercenary couple.

Also the restaurant brawl in Youxia City of all places plus the criminal arrests. That's a far cry from the girl who was scared of using her sword on a few bandits.

 

C

 

B6+Wuxiang Qianku

Guys, don't listen to Absinthe, this is another case of "Bai is a total bro, he wouldn't kill us if we hold back."
Those two want to kill us, no matter how reluctantly.

 

You've quite a way of misconstruing my arguments, Kz3r0, but just for that, I may as well ask treave: What would have happened if we didn't use Wuxiang Qiankun against Bai Jiutian?

 

So Zhang is Like Jason, he just keeps coming back. Btw would be interesting to know what was the beast who had moved in. With our luck he/she will activate his super syan mode and when we meet him next time. he wont be a pushover. So hes to be our nemesis, eh.

D way of the open palm.

Im hazarding a guess that daughter/son is held hostage. But yeah we wont want to kill them, more like redirect their murderous intent.
We want Qilin to talk to them about rethinking their contract.

Lastly I have a sinking feeling times is critical here and we really should be talking to the monk before he reaches the monastery . This fight might just prevent that.

 

B3

 

Same is from 2 lv.

 

Am i only one who thinks that beast is a certain former secret prisoner and father of our master? I can see Zhang not so great training under him to eye of tiger music and ending dead after few days. Course the Lu Bu of this setting can have a trick or two to save him to become our antithesis. Actually it sound quite interesting hope it will become canon.

 

manxing has an ungodly constitution, so if anyone can survive Crazy Yang's training, it's him. Ean help us all.

 

You're right, I hadn't noticed that it'd actually leveled up but I was suspicious about the same neigong thing. Well, that's neat!

 

The both of you get injured because you get even more aggressive to find an opening, but it ends in Bai's victory after a more intense fight and she has you at swordpoint. Zhang still attempts to run and escapes successfully thanks to his druggy ways. Bai is still hit with it.

 

So she's just rank 8? I thought she might have been higher given that her Qingcheng Stab was already 8 back at the tournament and the update recently described her skill as perfect.

What I'm saying is, I'm still a bit confused.

 

B3>B6>A1, though I may swap those first two around.

 

Eh, I think this sword duel was made for Yifang to show off her extensive skills, so I think B3 is best.

 

I'm also pleased we got a Wudang rep boost, even if we didn't go there.

 

We also got a huge (+45) Yuhua Hall rep boost. Looks like Zhang Manxing personally earned himself a terrible reputation there on top of the Zhang family's bad rep.

I also notice we got +15 to Youxia City rep for killing Zhang family members. I guess by the end of this plot they're going to love us.

 

B3

This is Yifang's time to shine, boys and girls. That girl is a sword-fighting monster and I think that at purely swordly matters she's better than Jing. Think about it.
Is Wuxiang Quankun a separate choice?

 

Nope. It's only an option for A.

Wuxiang Qiankun is unnecessary if we pick the right partner for B.