Something that was forgotten in all the DISCUSS!!!
“Whoa. Wow,” exclaims Qilin. “Wait a minute. You’re a noble?”
Your back is tense and straight as you stare ahead of you. What is Lady Jing playing at by saying this in front of others? For that matter, how does she know of your background?
“In a way, yes. You can call Xu Jing a noble. He has had a noble’s education.”
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“Look at ‘em scars, boss. Thought he was a brat of good breeding,” whispers one of the bandits loudly.
“Could be an accident,” chimes another.
“Nah.” The bandit leader shakes his jowls. “Nah. They’re from a beating. Sticks, I expect. This boy is not high-born. They wouldn’t scar one of them nobles, not like that. Found anything?”
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“Did you get it while training with Zhang Jue?”
“…no, it was already like that when I first met Jing…” says Cao’er. You certainly can’t reply anymore.
“Interesting,” muses Qilin. She flicks your back hard. “Now, Cao’er, shall we begin?”
Chi Qilin now has gotten a better glimpse into our past, no thanks to Cao'er. She probably assumed all this time that we were some sort of exiled noble, but just as the bandit at the beginning of Chapter 1 noticed, the lashes across our back indicate that we aren't high-born. Out of all the people that we know, Qilin and the Wudu Cult are the most likely to see some future profit in making some moves against the Prince if the country becomes unstable (though of course that's not the case at the moment), so the less that she knows of our loyalties, the better.
Unmasking Nameless will allow us to continue establishing some trust between us, in addition to learning about the style that the Persian fighter has. Whether that's worth ignoring the summons is debatable, but I think that they have enough info on their hands to start investigating things on their own. They definitely have information that we might not be privy to, but I would much rather try approaching the Abbess in private instead of going to a summons where the others might piece together that we're Zhang's apprentice and our unique qi. I think that we can ignore this one and hopefully discuss things with the Abbess in private: remember that she swore to keep our secret.
That being said,
treave, did Yifang tell the three sect heads
just what we told her last night, or did she also mention that we're Zhang's apprentice?
No, I want to show it so that we can find a way to do more stuff with it and get +1 to Neigong.
Well, as much as I love these powergaming fantasies, I don't see this series of events happening at all. Why would they teach us more about our qi so that we can harness our
neigong further? They know the sort of man that our Master is, and there is no way that they'd provide us with information that might lead to us getting more powerful. We might be working together, but if I were in their shoes, then I'd be sizing up Xu Jing to see just how powerful he is and what sort of person he is.
By "specific events that improve our ability to harness our inner strength" I assume that it would either involve learning more about our condition (which is what you'd hope to get with C, but I don't see happening. Maybe in the future if we establish a good relationship with Wang Zhengchong like we have with Abbess Miecao, though) or through putting ourselves in an extremely dangerous situation that forces us to push ourselves to our limits. Given that we have a time frame of a year and a lot of fighting to do, I see the latter scenario being the most likely way that we're going to improve our
neigong.