treave, after facing Nie Mudan in the previous match, do we know the names of a few Huashan techniques or
qinggong as well as what they do?
Plus, if the meeting ends in our favor, we may get some protips from the Grand Taoist of Wudang about our qi.
That guy is the authority when it comes to highly mixed yin and yang.
He's definitely the authority on qi, but we aren't going to be getting any protips from the Grand Taoist any time soon. We're the disciple of Zhang Jue and we're the embodiment of chaos: the harmony of The Way is heresy to your being. Enemies can ally themselves temporarily against a greater threat - which is the appeal of C - but at the end of the day, we're still enemies and we'll have to face them. I'm still torn though, as the prospect of collaboration is a good one.
Maybe. But what he is going to do about it? Teach all of his disciple the move that counters our Chuzhan Fist that nobody had ever seen? Start mass-producing chaos wards?
No, he won't do that, because he'd have to actually see the Chuzhan Fist in action. What he'd probably do is find a way to neutralize our
neigong. Our qi relies on pure chaos, so if there's a technique that tries to momentarily rearrange our qi into a more orderly state, it could really fuck up our ability to draw our inner strength. Or at least, if I were a Wudang fighter, that's what I would do if I were fighting Jing.
We're on their turf, though, and the sectarians are none too amused by our stunts, especially the stripping of Nie Mudan. If they want anything from us, we're at a disadvantage here. Oh well, time for some quick thinking and Magnificent Bastardry.
That little trick? That's nothing. If that's the worst thing that Zhang Jue's apprentice ever does, they should breathe a sigh of relief.
Remember how Zhang Jue got his reading? He walked up to Jing, put his hands on him and channelled.
Treave has said earlier, that the only person who can read meridians and such at distance is Cao'er. The grand Taoist would have to more or less assault us to get a reading. Does that sound like something an orthodox sect leader would do? The Southern Maniac, sure. This guy's not him.
Well, there's more than one way to skin a cat. Cao'er knows about our nature thanks to her Immortal's Eyes, while Zhang Jue figured it out because of his ridiculously high reserves of qi that he channeled onto us. I don't think that it's paranoid to suggest that the greatest qi specialist in the pugilistic world would figure it out rather quickly as well. There are lots of good things with C, of course, but there are trade-offs too. And I think that this is a plausible one.
I'm not in any way suggesting that the meeting would go poorly or that the Grand Taoist would hate us just due to the fact that our qi is a manifestation of pure chaos (going to the summons would make them like us more), but rather that the guy is considered the greatest for a reason, and he'd probably learn a thing or two about us that we may not have wanted to give away. If he's the best at what he does, he'll probably figure it out.
The sole reason we believed we have found our conspirators was because we thought we recognised the Yuhua Duqing Palm. If this apparently isn't it, then we might be on a false trail altogether. This could all be a completely different conspiracy to the one we are looking into to. Ugh. We need more information on what the hell is going on, and C may be our best bet for that at this moment.
Now this is a very good observation. Based on what you stated, it could either be (1) a modified form of the Yuhua Duqing Palm, much like how our Mad Wolf Step is modified from the Ashina Shadow Step, or (2) completely unrelated to the Woman-in-Black and the people that tried to kill Shun. While you're right that (2) is possible, I still think that (1) is far more likely.
