Updated the tally.
Wait,
treave, was this Xuxian guy a Shaolin monk or just a servant that worked there? I mean, before he found the manual, of course. If he wasn't a pugilist before, but he managed to become strong enough to injure the Abbot and develop a
neigong as powerful as the likes of Vairya and Master Zhang even with only part of the Nine Yang Divine Skill manual (!), then this thing is absolutely fucking nuts.
He was a monk, the temple has no servants to do the dishes. He wasn't, or wouldn't have been strong enough to be part of the representatives for the Young Tiger Tournament two years ago, that's for sure. After the Burning Librarian Monk Incident monks were segregated by martial ability and restricted in the techniques they have access to, but you'll hear more about that if/when you get there.
edit: Also, I realize that I mentioned him in the same breath as Vairya and Zhang Jue, but that's because the ones most approximate to Xuxian's
neigong level are dead. From what Jing could gauge, it's quite likely that Xuxian has
neigong approaching the level of Wang Zhengchong or pre-timeskip Ahura, though his skills don't come anywhere near close.
treave, has Xiahou Yu found his family's killers yet, or are they still on the run? Attending this conference might give us a chance to finally find out who did it.
As far as you know, he hasn't.
treave How secret are our ties with Shun still? Manxing knows, is it common knowledge in imperial court circles? Liuwu also knows. But has this knowledge found it's way to some of other orthodox sects?
In Imperial circles they know that before ascending to the throne the prince once had a childhood playmate that was sent into exile. Your continued connection to him is not common knowledge. The orthodox sects would not really know unless someone blabs.
Hey
treave, if we go 1A, could we use our 4 Scholarly Knowledge and 2 Artistic Skill to write a quick martial arts manual for the rest of the kicks? I imagine it would be a crappy manual, but Qi Liuwu's understanding of martial arts, scholarly knowledge, and artistic skill should be high enough that he could figure it out.
As long as he has had experience with the prior moves that could work, but it might take long enough that he hasn't made much headway the next time you meet. But it would help. Yeah, you could write one.
Anyway,
treave could we hear of the rationale behind the girls picking the moves that they did? I understand Cao'er going with Reikan for maximizing her broken perception stat as well as the diving eagle grip to put to use those pressure point skills, as well as Song opting for the No-Effort Sword Song, but I'm not sure why Yifang would want to know Jing's underwhelming self-style moves (except maybe to understand his counter better so as shore up her Qingcheng stab against it, but that doesn't tell us why she picked up the pine-felling lunge move, too) or Qilin to pick up the first step of the Mad Claws instead of Reikan or the Kuanglang Step or something.
This is just what they start off learning, so they're picking what's easiest for them to understand, to begin with.
Yifang is interested in your personal philosophy and thinks both moves would add repertoire to her swordplay, particularly the second one. She is talented enough to devise variants of it on her own through further practice and her experience with Emei's style.
Qilin needed some fighting moves to work with, she already has good
qinggong that is hard to improve by picking up more, and claw instruction gets rather physical with you guiding her arm movements from behind, so she enjoyed the intimacy. Also, she's not as studious as Cao'er and can't pick up two separate techniques that fast.
because only Qi Liuwu could use it.
