>>4558507
>Pick your cultivation:
>>Extremely talented mid Core Formation: You start much weaker than the other options but your growth potential (read: you have a +20 buff to personal cultivation) is extremely high. Rather than start as regional power, you start as a minor power that must pay tribute to a regional power.
Pick one boon:
>Strong: You are much stronger than normal for someone of your cultivation. This could be due to talent, experience, etc. (write in what you want the reason to be). You fight as if you are 1 minor stage higher than you normally are.
The patriarch has the blood of demons running through his veins. His superhuman heritage gives him power beyond his circumstances.
Pick one bane:
>Demonic Sect: You are the patriarch of a sect of demonic cultivators, one of many heterodox sects which defy the will of the heavens. Your own vassals will seek to undermine you if they sense even a hint of weakness, the cult to which you pay tribute will not hesitate to crush you if it fears your growing might, and all righteous cultivators abhor your way of life. You and your followers are unmistakably evil.

>>4558507
>Extremely talented mid Core Formation: You start much weaker than the other options but your growth potential (read: you have a +20 buff to personal cultivation) is extremely high. Rather than start as regional power, you start as a minor power that must pay tribute to a regional power.
>Strong: You are much stronger than normal for someone of your cultivation. This could be due to talent, experience, etc. (write in what you want the reason to be). You fight as if you are 1 minor stage higher than you normally are.
>Cannot see Mt Tai: You pissed off a lot of people you shouldn’t have with your arrogance, you start with all relations in your local region at strained and suffer a massive personal diplomacy debuff.
The generic Xianxia novel MC build.

>>4558507
>>Extremely talented mid Core Formation: You start much weaker than the other options but your growth potential (read: you have a +20 buff to personal cultivation) is extremely high. Rather than start as regional power, you start as a minor power that must pay tribute to a regional power.
>Lucky: You are much luckier than most and crit succeed on 90-100 instead of only on 100.
>Lecherous: You are quite the pervert and instead of choosing disciples by such factors such as talent or loyalty, you instead choose to focus resources on disciples with a pretty face. Moderate reduction in disciple loyalty and talent.
We shall have a harem.

>>4558507
Cultivation:
>Extremely talented mid Core Formation: You start much weaker than the other options but your growth potential (read: you have a +20 buff to personal cultivation) is extremely high. Rather than start as regional power, you start as a minor power that must pay tribute to a regional power.
Boon:
>Lucky: You are much luckier than most and crit succeed on 90-100 instead of only on 100.
Bane:
>Lecherous: You are quite the pervert and instead of choosing disciples by such factors such as talent or loyalty, you instead choose to focus resources on disciples with a pretty face. Moderate reduction in disciple loyalty and talent.

>>4558507
>Pick your cultivation:
>>Extremely talented mid Core Formation: You start much weaker than the other options but your growth potential (read: you have a +20 buff to personal cultivation) is extremely high. Rather than start as regional power, you start as a minor power that must pay tribute to a regional power.
Pick one boon:
>Strong: You are much stronger than normal for someone of your cultivation. This could be due to talent, experience, etc. (write in what you want the reason to be). You fight as if you are 1 minor stage higher than you normally are.
You are actually a expert in human physiology and used this knowledge to craft the perfect body.
Pick one bane:
>Hate of DYELs: you absolute hate people that don't proprely train the body, you have massive diplomacy debuff agaist people that don't cultive they bodies.

>>4558507
>Extremely talented mid Core Formation: You start much weaker than the other options but your growth potential (read: you have a +20 buff to personal cultivation) is extremely high. Rather than start as regional power, you start as a minor power that must pay tribute to a regional power.

>Lucky: You are much luckier than most and crit succeed on 90-100 instead of only on 100.

>Bottleneck: You are stuck with a hard bottleneck in your current stage and cannot progress. Unless you are extremely lucky (read: roll 100), you will never progress beyond your current stage.

Rolled 2 (1d2)

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>>4558576
Its been an hour and the winning choices are:
- Extremely talented mid Core Formation
- Strong or lucky (1d2, 1 luck, 2 strong)
- Lecherous
- Choices made mean the dao is: The Harem King, a dao purer than lust and infinitely more complex than simple love. You desire to sleep with countless woman and build a massive harem filled with women who love you. You gain enlightenment on your dao whenever your harem increases in size.

There are many reasons for one to walk the path of the infinite dao, yours however is one of absolute simplicity and purity. You want hot chicks. You really really want hot chicks. And if you have to become a god damn cultivator for the hottest chicks (cultivator females have access to pills that improve their looks so every female cultivator is a "jade like beauty") than that's what you'll do.

Your teacher (who has now long passed the mortal coil) was astounded by your dedication and your amazing talent but you couldn't care less about any of that. No you had always set your sights on your goal of becoming the harem king. It is to that purpose your Loving Hearts sect was founded, a purely female sect where members are chosen for their beauty.

Whilst it was a fully female sect outside you, that's not the only thing special about it, what your sect's focus and specialty?

>Sole Weapon (Write in a weapon or we can vote for it after): Sect is specialised in a certain weapon and almost everyone in the sect develops a dao focusing on that specific weapon. This makes your sect predictable to your enemies with experience (i.e. weaker vs enemies that have fought your sect before) but on the upside, massively improves speed of cultivation for all your sect members.

>Countless Techniques: Your sect has a focus on having as wide range of techniques for your sect as possible so that each individual has their own tailored technique. This makes your sect members skill level vary extremely (aka pray to the dice gods), your sect members are just as likely to win vs someone a major stage ahead as they are to lose to someone a major stage below.

>Pill making: Your clan focuses on making pills that have many varied effects not the least of which is to increase cultivation speed. Due to their consumable nature, pill making is expensive but provides significant boosts to cultivation speed as well as other benefits.

>Artifact crafting: Your clan focuses on making magical artifacts that have many different applications. This will drastically increase the power of your sect members when they have their artifacts with them but due to your sect members relying on their artifacts, they are much weaker than normal without them. Artifacts are in general disallowed from tournaments or when “giving pointers”.

>Write in (I’m sure I’m missing other possible xianxia choices so feel free to suggest some, make sure suggestions have both a positive and a negative)

>>4558593
>>Pill making: Your clan focuses on making pills that have many varied effects not the least of which is to increase cultivation speed. Due to their consumable nature, pill making is expensive but provides significant boosts to cultivation speed as well as other benefits.

>>4558593
>>Pill making: Your clan focuses on making pills that have many varied effects not the least of which is to increase cultivation speed. Due to their consumable nature, pill making is expensive but provides significant boosts to cultivation speed as well as other benefits.

>>4558593
>Pill making: Your clan focuses on making pills that have many varied effects not the least of which is to increase cultivation speed. Due to their consumable nature, pill making is expensive but provides significant boosts to cultivation speed as well as other benefits.

>>4558593
>harem dao
oh dear
>Formation building: Your sect focuses on directing the flow of qi and the power of the five elements in order to create powerful formations. This is perfect for creating traps and building infrastructure, but doesn't lend itself well to sudden battles.

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>>4558622
Its been an hour and the winning choice is:
- Pill making

Your sect was one focused on the creation of pills, an expensive process due to the consumable nature of pills as well as the many possibilities of failure when creating pills. Of course as patriarch of a pill creation focused clan, your pill making skills are unparalleled within the region.

What region was this by the way? Your sect resides in the:
>Fertile Fields (the left side of the map): A popular region with many regional powers both righteous and demonic. Outside the occasional barbarian raid from the north, this region rarely faces external problems. Instead its constantly filled with internal threats as the clans and sects within the region constantly scheme and war amongst one another. Tribute will be primarily wealth.

>Hellish Plains (the right side of the map): An immensely unpopular region due to the frequent raids by the demons from the Demon Lands. Between the conscription for The Twins, the endless demonic raids and even the occasional unintelligent dragon looking for a snack, this region is hell. Luckily due to the above, resources are plenty and conflict between factions rare. Tribute will be primarily your cultivators and yourself.

>Serpent Spine Mountains: A region with no clear leaders or powers for a good reason. The serpent Spine Mountains are filled with monstrous beasts and your clan will face constant attacks. In addition, the demi-humans that live here are unlikely to accept your sect unless you provide many benefits for them at a cost to yourself. On the upside the constant combat and danger means your sect members are in general significantly more powerful. The many beast cores harvested from the monstrous beasts also provide a moderate profit which you won’t even need to share as theres no-one else insane enough to choose this place (i.e. no tribute).

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>>4558678
Many pill makers within the region would often try and contact you for pointers. You have enough tact that you have no intention of ever revealing the truth that your renown pill making skills were only due to the fact you spent decades creating the Everlasting Beauty pill, a secret pill only you can make that grants effective immortality to its consumers. The immortality was only a “minor” side effect, the true and more important effect of the pill was that it enhanced the consumer’s beauty drastically and prevented the loss of the beauty.

You yourself consumed it a couple hundred years back and unlucky it did not work on men like it did on women. Instead of giving beauty and immortality, it instead drastically improved your power such that you’ve never lost afterwards against anyone of the same minor realm.

Of course you made sure to also test it on a woman just in case. You still remember your first disciple that you took 50 years ago, she was the first other person and so far the only other person you’ve trusted enough to provide the Everlasting Beauty to. Luckily the pill worked this time just like you expected and she is both immortal and beautiful.

This is your “backup” character in case you die and your only competent “elder” who does not have a minus mod on their rolls. The other unchosen all suffer from your lecherous bane.

>She was a “jade like beauty” of Foundation Establishment that controlled your administrative

>She was a “jade like beauty” of Foundation Establishment that controlled your sect intrigue

>She was a “jade like beauty” of Foundation Establishment that controlled your sect military

>>4558678

>Hellish Plains (the right side of the map): An immensely unpopular region due to the frequent raids by the demons from the Demon Lands. Between the conscription for The Twins, the endless demonic raids and even the occasional unintelligent dragon looking for a snack, this region is hell. Luckily due to the above, resources are plenty and conflict between factions rare. Tribute will be primarily your cultivators and yourself.

>She was a “jade like beauty” of Foundation Establishment that controlled your sect intrigue

>>4558681
>Fertile Fields (the left side of the map): A popular region with many regional powers both righteous and demonic. Outside the occasional barbarian raid from the north, this region rarely faces external problems. Instead its constantly filled with internal threats as the clans and sects within the region constantly scheme and war amongst one another. Tribute will be primarily wealth.
Let's play to our strengths.
>She was a “jade like beauty” of Foundation Establishment that controlled your sect intrigue
Intrigue is one thing we'll excel in, as long as we don't accidentally cuck a rising young master and get ourselves obliterated.

>Fertile Fields (the left side of the map): A popular region with many regional powers both righteous and demonic. Outside the occasional barbarian raid from the north, this region rarely faces external problems. Instead its constantly filled with internal threats as the clans and sects within the region constantly scheme and war amongst one another. Tribute will be primarily wealth.
>administrative

Administrative would also be good to maximize our pill trading, I just think we'd have an easier time focusing on intrigue given our lechery. I would've preferred a less-coom inclined MC but that's a genre convention so there's no problems there.

>>4558678
>Fertile Fields (the left side of the map): A popular region with many regional powers both righteous and demonic. Outside the occasional barbarian raid from the north, this region rarely faces external problems. Instead its constantly filled with internal threats as the clans and sects within the region constantly scheme and war amongst one another. Tribute will be primarily wealth.
>>4558681
>She was a “jade like beauty” of Foundation Establishment that controlled your administrative

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>>4558737
Never write whilst drunk. Sorry anons, I fell asleep. Next update tomorrow.

You are located in the Fertile Fields region, an area filled with factions much more powerful than your newly found sect. Most of these factions are controlled by a nascent soul patriarch which means any of them can easily crush your Loving Hearts sect. You currently pay tribute of half your income per turn to the:

>Golden Merchant Alliance: An alliance of countless sects and organisations focused on accruing spirit stones and other forms of wealth. The Golden Merchant Alliance controls almost all auction houses within the Fertile Fields region as well as the only port to The Narrows. On the upside the Golden Merchant Alliance are unreliable so it’s much easier to break free, on the downside the Golden Merchant Alliance is unreliable so any protection offered is heavily variable.

>Fang Clan: A righteous sword clan with a powerful metal elemental bloodline that makes their members fight as if half a small realm above their ability. The Fang Clan mostly relies on tariffs and taxes on trade from the other powers passing through their territory. Unfortunately for the Fang Clan and fortunately for you, the Fang Clan is constantly at war with one side or another due to its central location sharing borders with all the other powers. This means a betrayal at the correct moment could easily ensure your freedom. On the downside there’s always the possibility of being caught up in one of the Fang Clan conflicts.

>Shu clan: A clan focused almost solely on killing monstrous beasts from the Serpent Spine Mountains as their cultivation method is based on absorbing beast cores. The Shu clan cares little if at all about its tributaries and are unlikely to bother protecting them without benefits. On the upside the Shu clan cares so little about its tributaries that outside the wealth tribute, they are unlikely to ever ask for anything else.

>Eternal Hate Sect: A demonic sect that practices a cultivation method that involves manipulating and torturing souls. The only reason this sect still exists is that it is by far the most powerful of the factions within the Fertile Fields region, the Eternal Hate Sect has 3 nascent soul elders and a near dead spirit severing patriarch. Tributaries are often abused and must humiliate themselves on top of the wealth given. Mortal kingdoms within the region are often barely functioning (so reduced tax and recruitment) due to widespread wanton slaughter of mortals. This is very hard mode however on the upside, you do not need to deal with any major powers outside the Eternal Hate Sect.

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>>4559085
Your main sect hall and elders council room was sorely lacking in any kind of grandeur, you feel slightly depressed just looking upon the barren room that fails to compliment the beauty of the women within. Hopefully with time, you will have a proper sect hall and elders council room that will properly accentuate the beauty of its ladies.

Xing Xiaochen is an early foundation establishment elder responsible for your administration. To her fell the tasks of managing your many wealth incomes such as spirit stone mines, herb fields or taxes from weak mortal kingdoms. She was the first disciple that you took and the one you trust the most. Originally an accountant when mortal, Xing Xiaochen combat ability is extremely poor even for a pill creation clan however her administration skills are exemplary. She is generally calm and collected in her reports.

“Master, our current wealth sits at 10 with an income of 2 (base 10 minus 5 for tribute and minus 3 for pill creation clan).

Our mines and herb fields are well in order however the mortal Bao Kingdom under our control refuses to pay its taxes as they refer to us as “upstarts led by a dimwit who thinks with his micropenis”. It is likely this is some kind of ploy by some faction to test how you treat mortal kingdoms as you’ve already demonstrated your power as a Core Creation expert and its unlikely the Bao Kingdom is this stupid.

Internally I suggest spending wealth to create a Contribution Board that tracks the achievements of all disciples within the sect and rewards them based on how much they benefit the sect. This will likely cost 10 wealth but the loyalty boost would be worth it. ”

Biyu Tang is an early qi condensation elder responsible for your intrigue, espionage and information gathering. Whilst she’s generally proven useless in most her tasks, you’ve kept her around as shes managed to “convince” you with her charms and flesh. Plus some eye candy was always nice as she had a nice ass. She thinks of herself as some kind of master schemer and manipulator but in reality all you see her as a flamboyant child eager to show off.

“Patriarch, last night was wonderful was it not?” An obvious powerplay to showcase she has your favour, sigh. If she was any less skilled in bed, you’d have thrown her away and hired someone more competent for the role.

“Move on with the report on intrigue please Biyu”

“I heard some rumours from my sources that the barbarians may start another invasion soon.” You note that she doesn’t mention in how many years or any more concrete information.

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>>4559087
Finally there was Chen Chenhau a late qi condensation elder who was responsible for your military matters which mostly meant the recruitment and training of your sect members and leading them during wars. She had the most massive breasts you’ve seen in all your years and blonde hair like the barbarians. You even suspect she used to be a barbarian if not for the fact that she speaks the Fertile Field tongue as if she was a native. Unlike Biyu, Chen was shy and refused to do anything with you in bed and of course you’d never force one of your sect members. Additionally Chen suffered from stage fright and can never lead your members in wars.

“W-we have 1000 qi condensation members, 1 foundation establishment elder and 1 core creation patriarch.

U-ummm s-sorry recruitment has been slow. Your reputation patriarch of being the sole male and founding a female o-only sect is causing i-issues. Most of the newbies are entering with resigned beliefs that they will be sex slaves in return for cultivation lessons.

What’s w-worse patriarchs policy of focusing on beauty means the newbies and juniors who do willingly join are g-gold diggers who we can’t really trust.

Additionally talent wise its generally significantly below average for a sect of our size however on the upside, our pills means that we are keeping parity cultivation realm wise with the standard even if the foundations of our members are mostly below average meaning they often lose to those in the same stage.”

As stated this is a civ quest, it will use 10 year per turn format. You may pick one choice for the clan and one choice for yourself.

Clan action:
>Focus on wealth
>Construct something (write in, price varies)
>Focus on intrigue (write in target)
>Focus on recruitment (more qi condensation members)
>Focus on training disciples (low chance for members to increase a major realm)
>Write in

Your own action:
>Aid clan action (provides +10 mod to that roll)
>Improve cultivation
>Interact with (write in)
>Deal with the Bao Kingdom (write in approach)
>Write in

>>4559085
>Golden Merchant Alliance: An alliance of countless sects and organisations focused on accruing spirit stones and other forms of wealth. The Golden Merchant Alliance controls almost all auction houses within the Fertile Fields region as well as the only port to The Narrows. On the upside the Golden Merchant Alliance are unreliable so it’s much easier to break free, on the downside the Golden Merchant Alliance is unreliable so any protection offered is heavily variable.
>>4559089
>Create a Contribution Board
>Deal with the Bao Kingdom (Try a mix of diplomacy with a hint of intimidation since we're strong)

I take back my complaining about us being a coombrain earlier, this is great.

>>4559085
>Golden Merchant Alliance: An alliance of countless sects and organisations focused on accruing spirit stones and other forms of wealth. The Golden Merchant Alliance controls almost all auction houses within the Fertile Fields region as well as the only port to The Narrows. On the upside the Golden Merchant Alliance are unreliable so it’s much easier to break free, on the downside the Golden Merchant Alliance is unreliable so any protection offered is heavily variable.
The Golden Merchant Alliance would protect a steady source of high-end pills like ourselves, but aren't united enough to hold us down. A very solid choice given that we aren't combat focused.

>>4559089
>Create a Contribution Board
The earlier we get this the more genuine it's going to seem, and we don't need wealth right now so we should make the investment.
>Deal with the Bao Kingdom
For our approach to the Bao, be friendly and find humor in their claims but don't be a limp floormat about it, and find a method to demonstrate our strength if we can.

>>4559107
+1

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>>4559353
>Contribution board
>Diplomatic intimidation (which means you fall into the trap)
You decide first things first, you need to deal with the substandard level of loyalty of your juniors. Deciding to trust your disciple Xing Xiaochen, you give orders to invest in a contribution board. A mere 10 wealth to create a magical contribution board that fairly distributes missions, rewards and more is a bargain.

Secondly you decide to deal with the Bao Kingdom with a bit of diplomatic intimidation, no need to kill anyone if not necessary. You quickly begin flying towards the Bao Kingdom palace yet as you land upon the palace landing pad, you notice a trap being sprung.

It seems to be an poisonous array trap composed of 7 layers and 7 different poisons which you note has enough power to even injure a core creation cultivator. You make a note to interrogate the Bao Kingdom monarch as you casually walk through the array. A calming ice pill to counter a burning toxin, a soul nourishment pill to counter a soul consuming poison and so on and so forth.

Whoever created this array obviously had no real information about you as everyone knows poisons are completely worthless against pill masters who always have dozens of pills on hand to counter whatever poison is utilised.

As you pass the seventh layer of the poisonous array, you’re attacked by 5 foundation establishment cultivators who clearly expected you to be weakened by the array. You casually kill them with your Pill Forging Flames, a low level technique made to heat up your pill cauldrons. There’s no way you’ll fight seriously against mere foundation establishment juniors. Its unfortunate there was no beauties amongst the 5 as you would’ve likely spared them and invited them to be an elder within your sect.

You slaughter your way past the qi condensation royal guards and enter the throne room where the fat Bao Kingdom king Shao-Didi Bao is quivering in his seat. You note with a hint of condensation that the king hasn’t even reached foundation establishment, the standard for most mortal kingdoms.

“h-how? this is impossible, impossible, impossible. 5 foundation establishment mercenaries and the array from THAT person yet you’re unharmed? IMPOSSIBLE” he rants like a pig.
You easily capture the king however now you need to deal with the rest of the Bao Kingdom royalty:

>Out by the roots: Wipe out the Bao Kingdom royal family to ensure no future complications. Kill them all, children and their family pet too. (Patriarch trait: ruthless)
>For the Dao: Kill all the males but spare the women, you’ll even sponsor one of the beauties as new queen (Patriarch trait: “gentleman”)
>Kindness: Spare the whole royal family outside king Shao-Didi Bao (Patriarch trait: kind)
>Write in (Note: You are deciding your patriarch’s general response towards enemies with this choice so write a personality trait with your choice)

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>>4560548
You arrive home with your prisoner and make a note to get him interrogated sooner or later. Normally you’d leave this to your intrigue elder but you have a feeling she will probably mess it up if you do. Whilst you did easily break past the trap, the stress of what would’ve happened if it was not a poison trap stresses you.

The first thing you do once home is enjoy yourself with a couple of your disciples who have been making flirtations at you. This helps relieve almost all your stress (the lecherous patriarch has massive stress reduction due to sex sex and more sex).

10 years pass as you deal with many matters both minor and major, the contribution board is now complete and you note with a smile that your disciples have much improved in their loyalty to the sect.

Xing Xiaochen is an early foundation establishment elder responsible for your administration. She is generally SKILLED in administration.

“Master, our current wealth sits at 2 with an income of 2 (base 10 minus 5 for tribute and minus 3 for pill creation clan).

We are seriously underfunded and if something comes up which needs our wealth, we may very well fail due to lacking funds. I suggest to spend some time improving our funds.

The many auction houses within the Golden Merchant Alliance would happily auction your pills if you focused on making pills. Of course focusing on making pills would mean you can’t do anything else.”

Biyu Tang is an early qi condensation elder responsible for your intrigue, espionage and information gathering. She is generally INCOMPETENT in intrigue.

“Patriarch, I have a suggestion for the new contribution board. Perhaps our bed service may be worth contribution points? This will heavily incentivise disciples to service you patriarch.” Whilst clearly this was a ploy by Biyu to gain more power, you do note that this would help further your Dao of Harem King.

>Accept, contribution points are now rewarded for sexual services (+Dao, +Biyu relationship, -Disciple power, -Disciple loyalty)
>Deny, contribution points are only for services that help the sect (no bonuses or detriments)

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>>4560551
Chen Chenhau a great circle qi condensation elder who was responsible for your military matters which mostly meant the recruitment and training of your sect members and leading them during wars.

You note that Chen Chenhau has improved her cultivation in these past 10 years, maybe soon your sect will have another foundation establishment elder.

She is generally BELOW AVERAGE at recruitment and training. She CANNOT lead your forces in a war.

“W-we have 1200 qi condensation members, 1 foundation establishment elder and 1 core creation patriarch.

Recruitment, t-training and loyalty has improved these past 10 years due to the contribution board since prospective members and current members feel like the sect is more than just your p-personal h-harem.” She blushes as she speaks the last bit.

“Talent wise, there has been no changes however, our disciples are still below average compared to other sects our size. We are only keeping up in cultivation realms due to pills. Our disciples foundations are still r-really bad. There’s news that in 20 years there will be a cultivator competition within the Golden Merchant Alliance so we really should improve our disciples before than to prevent loss of f-face.”

Last turn was the tutorial so you auto succeeded every roll, now rolls decide everything, good luck anons.

Clan action:
>Focus on wealth
>Construct something (write in, price varies)
>Focus on intrigue (write in target)
>Focus on recruitment (more qi condensation members)
>Focus on training disciples (low chance for members to increase a major realm)
>Write in

Your own action:
>Aid clan action (provides +10 mod to that roll)
>Improve cultivation
>Interact with (write in)
>Interrogate Shao-Didi Bao
>Focus on making pills
>Write in

Known future events:
Barbarian invasion in ? turns
Golden Merchant Alliance cultivator tournament in 2 turns

>>4560548
>Feed Bao a special soul-cracking pill and wait for him to beg you for mercy. Allow him to live by feeding him an antidote, but only after he has told you his motives and sworn to pay the Loving Hearts tribute from now on. In exchange, we will of course offer them our protection. (Sense of "Fairness")
>>4560551
>Deny, contribution points are only for services that help the sect (no bonuses or detriments)
A Harem means nothing if it is not of its own volition.
>>4560554
>Focus on wealth
>Focus on making pills
Once we have 6 Wealth we can relax and focus on training our members. Doesn't matter how many Qi Condensation members we have if we're the only Core Creation tier member.

>>4560548
>For the Dao: Kill all the males but spare the women, you’ll even sponsor one of the beauties as new queen (Patriarch trait: “gentleman”)
>Deny, contribution points are only for services that help the sect (no bonuses or detriments)
Clan action:
>Focus on wealth
Your own action:
>Focus on making pills

>>4560554
>For the Dao: Kill all the males but spare the women, you’ll even sponsor one of the beauties as new queen (Patriarch trait: “gentleman”)
>Deny, contribution points are only for services that help the sect (no bonuses or detriments)

Of course anons chose the harem option right out of the gate.

I think we should try to get influential within the Golden Merchant Alliance. The Loving Hearts are weak in combat and not numerous at all, but happen to be masters of pill creation and if we can get an influx of wealth, we can compensate for our weakness, if not grow stronger. Do you guys think we should try to start a dynasty with our harem members so we can have some extremely loyal and relatively more talented members to use as a core for our sect? The problem with that is we would have sons, but encouraging them to start their own harems could be a good way to get more subsects, and of course marrying our daughters off to other sects is a foolproof method of spying and getting wealth or even minor artifacts. Some of them are bound to go their own path but that's fine, as long as we give them a foundation to build on, they'll improve our standing as they gain fame.

No update until much later today but heres some cultivation realm information. If it wasn't obvious, this quest uses a simplified version of the I Shall Seal The Heavens cultivation system.

If theres any terms you don't understand than refer to: https://immortalmountain.wordpress.com/glossary/wuxia-xianxia-xuanhuan-terms/.

Each major realm is split up into early, mid, late and great circle. Each stage is significantly stronger than the last.

The cultivation stages are:

Qi Condensation (Lifespan 200 years): Cultivators condense the Qi in nature into a Core Sea and can use their core sea qi for many techniques and powers. Around 1 in 1000 mortals have the TALENT (whether bloodline or natural) to reach Qi Condensation naturally. Almost all of your disciples in the Loving Hearts sect DO NOT have this talent and are only advancing due to pills that boost cultivation. This leads to almost all of your disciples having poor foundations.

Foundation Establishment (Lifespan 400 years): The Core Sea of Qi Condensation stage condenses into a Dao Pillar. As you progress, a total of 9 Dao Pillars are created. Most mortal kingdoms (which total around a few million people each) are ruled by someone who has reached Foundation Establishment. Foundation Establishment is necessary to fly naturally without magical artefacts. Around 1 in 1000 qi condensation cultivators have enough talent to reach Foundation Establishment naturally. It is very difficult to breakthrough from Qi Condensation to Foundation Establishment. Your only disciple Xing Xiaochen who has average talent only reached Foundation Establishment after you spent around 10 wealth worth of resources and 30 years personally assisting her breakthrough. Meanwhile you yourself took a mere 3 years to break through to Foundation Establishment and it only took that long because you kept being distracted by women.

Core Creation (Lifespan around 800 years): The pillars formed in Foundation Establishment melt and become a core. It is here in Core Creation that one must choose a Dao to follow. Your Dao is a fundamental truth that encapsulates you as an individual. Most minor clans and sects are ruled by a Core Creation expert. Around 1 in 1000 foundation establishment cultivators have enough talent to reach Core Creation naturally (if you've been keeping track that's 1 in 1 billion chance for a mortal to reach core creation naturally which is why most mortal kingdoms only have Foundation Establishment at best). You are one of the youngest to reach Core Creation due to extreme talent, massive amount of pills and an extremely focused + stable Dao.

Nascent Soul (Lifespan around 1600): You don't know too much about this stage but it involves a Dao Spirit created inside your Core breaking out. Each major regional power (i.e. those written on the map in OP) has 1 or more Nascent Soul patriach/elders.

Spirit Severing and above: Whilst you know they exist, its unlikely to matter until near the end of the quest.

>>4560855
This is the coolest premise for a civquest I've seen in years. Thank you for running and not bailing Unnamed Patriarch. I'm already subconsciously minmaxing our future expansion based on what information we have now and it's been a blast. Since our sect members have no talent whatsoever but we have extreme talent, could we make a bloodline of average talent to reinforce our sect's currently abysmal competence?

>>4560548
>For the Dao: Kill all the males but spare the women, you’ll even sponsor one of the beauties as new queen (Patriarch trait: “gentleman”)
>>4560551
>Deny, contribution points are only for services that help the sect (no bonuses or detriments)
>>4560554
>Focus on wealth
gotta improve our gains
>Interrogate Shao-Didi Bao

>>4560881
If you wish to create a bloodline it'd be a roll like most things that aren't 100% certain. Either your heaven defying extreme talent creates a bloodline (which anons can customise) or it fails and your kids are average mortals (which means they have standard 1/1000 chance to become a cultivator). If you're willing to spend alot of time and/or wealth than the chances for successful bloodline creation goes up drastically.
>>4560612
>>4560711
>>4560761
>>4560904
>For the Dao: Kill all the males but spare the women, you’ll even sponsor one of the beauties as new queen (Patriarch trait: “gentleman”)
>Deny, contribution points are only for services that help the sect (no bonuses or detriments)
>Focus on wealth
>Focus on making pills

Can I get 3 rolls of 2d100, first is for clan action, second is for personal action. Best of 3.
I'm still unsure if I should reveal possible results but I'll do so for the first roll (focus on wealth) so you have an idea of the DC. Crits have priority over normal rolls.

1: Crit fail and you lose 5 wealth possibly becoming in debt and having to pay interest
2-10: Drastic fail and you lose 3 wealth
11-25: Very bad fail You lose 1 wealth
26-49: Fail so you gain zero wealth
50-74: Success so you gain 5 wealth
75-99: Very good success so you gain 10 wealth
100: Crit success so you gain 10 wealth and your income increases by 1

Story update will be in couple hours at earliest.

Rolled 20, 47 = 67 (2d100)

>>4560935
We Shall Sunder the Heavens With Our Schlong!

Rolled 66, 22 = 88 (2d100)

>>4560935

>>4560935
That makes sense, it just seems inefficient to be a once in a generation cultivating savant with a harem in a world where bloodlines are insanely powerful and have a problem with that harem being weak at cultivation, and then not doing anything with it. We should try to turn our Lechery into a strength. Probably won't be able to keep track of all or even most of our kids but that's okay, as long as a handful have Foundation Establishment potential we'll be in the clear. Even then, untalented ones can help with pill creation and so on.

Rolled 3, 81 = 84 (2d100)

>>4560935

>>4560974
The heavens gave retribution lol

>>4560977
There can be no doubt we are a heavens-surpassing pill maker. That's probably why we were allowed into the Golden Merchant Alliance despite having almost no power as a sect, our pills are that damned great.

Rolled 26, 63 = 89 (2d100)

>>4560935
>>4560940
>>4560974
god speed anons, 66 and 81

>>4560939
>>4560940
>>4560974
>Clan action: 66
>Personal action: 81 (LOL)
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The Bao Kingdom is a mighty kingdom ruling over a population of 3 million people and with over 100 qi condensation masters. You are Ruo Bao, formerly the 9th princess of the Bao Kingdom and now the queen of the Bao Kingdom.

To be honest you really hate your fucking job. You were previously expecting to be married off to somewhere you could laze about all day.

Too bad all of a sudden your father pisses of a core creation cultivator. As if that’s not bad enough the “great” cultivator randomly chose you to rule the kingdom because “your wild beauty is evermore brilliant than the most bewitching flower”.

The fuck does that shit even mean?

You’d like to say you know what the fuck you’re doing but in reality you have almost no training for the role of queen at all.

Normally you’d become a figurehead or something but since everyone is scared of the cultivator you’re actually stuck with the shitty role of ruling.

You swear on your (probably) dead father that you will slap that idiotic cultivator the next time you meet them.
---

“Achoo” You sneeze, geez was someone talking about you behind your back? Whatever, you give out the orders to focus on wealth generation and that you yourself will focus on pill creation.

Of course that means leaving the job of slowly torturing that fat pig Shao-Didi Bao to your “intrigue division”, a division that has so far proven themselves excessively incompetent. You’d think beauties would easily be able to garner information just from looks alone but nope, they’re all excessively useless. Maybe you can train them in the future or something.

Your sect quickly works to squeeze as much extra wealth out of whatever incomes there are, whether it be the spirit stone mines, the herb gardens, the taxes of the mortal kingdoms, the pills made or etc.

To put it as frankly as possible, your sect’s measures work mostly due to the competence and administration skills of your disciple Xing Xiaochen who tirelessly works to ensure every bit of wealth that can be squeezed out is squeezed.

You do however note another smaller factor in the success could be attributed to the drastically lower corruption within the sect after the contribution board was created. Whatever the case, you have earned 5 additional wealth this turn.

1/2

>>4561783
Taking the advice of your disciple and administration elder Xing Xiaochen to heart, you too decide to actually bother to make a couple batches of pills to sell.

Normal pill alchemists who’ve dedicated their lives to pill making have a success rate of 70-80% whilst their apprentices have a success rate of anywhere between 20-50%.

A pill master such as yourself? You have 100% success rate whenever you actually can be bothered to focus on making pills and aren’t distracted by women.

These couple years was quite fortunate for the clan (and less fortunate for your libido) as you actually knuckle downed and focused on pill creation.

From mundane pills such as Appetite Control pills to heavenly pills such as the Sunspirit pill, you make all kinds of pills with an air of boredom.

Whilst you were renowned for your pill making skills, you were completely bored with pill making now that you’ve already completed your magnum opus, the Everlasting Beauty pill.

A few years of solitary pill making and you finally have had enough, you bed almost a 100 women within the same night to relieve the boredom.

Afterwards you travel with the short distance to the Golden Dragon Pavilion, one of the many auction houses of the Golden Merchant Alliance.

You are greeted by reverence and immense respect by the auction staff, apparently they still remember that time 30 years back when you last visited (you needed spirit stones at the time for your disciple’s breaking through) to sell one of your half assed prototypes of what would one day be the Everlasting Beauty pill. Something about most spirit stones ever earned in a single sale or some such, you can’t remember much of the details anymore.

Unlike last time, your sales this time caused less trouble however you still made a massive sum of 10 wealth from the sale of your pills.

You were invited to stay at the auction and to purchase but did you purchase anything from the auction? You currently have 15 wealth. You may go into debt but there will be interest.

>Yes you purchased the:

>>Life-saving treasure for yourself (-5 wealth)

>>Many artefacts for your juniors (-1 wealth per 100 sets of equipment that makes your qi condensation fight as if 1 minor stage higher)

>>A defensive array (-4 wealth for moderately powerful array that can defend vs core creation for awhile, -12 wealth for very powerful array that can defend vs nascent soul for awhile)

>>A phantasmal training palace (-10 wealth and your juniors foundations and power are all significantly improved)

>>An one time use artefact that is said to significantly increase the chance to create a bloodline (-15 wealth, 100% chance to create a bloodline)

>No you just sold your pills and left

>>4561784
>>A phantasmal training palace (-10 wealth and your juniors foundations and power are all significantly improved)
I'm TEMPTED to get that bloodline artifact but we need to improve our subordinate's training my any means we can, and that's more important immediately.

>>4561784
>A phantasmal training palace (-10 wealth and your juniors foundations and power are all significantly improved)

Besides, we seek the Dao of the Harem King. It would be tragic if we couldn't make a bloodline on our own.

>>4561784
>>>A phantasmal training palace (-10 wealth and your juniors foundations and power are all significantly improved)
are we going to roll for this?

>>4561802
>are we going to roll for this?
Nope lol. Whilst theres variability for how much each individual qi condensation sect member improves from it, its not going to require rolls. Remember this isn't about a single one or two exceptional sect members, this is about managing thousands.

>>4561805
ah, alrightie.

>>4561784
Fun update op
>>A phantasmal training palace (-10 wealth and your juniors foundations and power are all significantly improved)
We need to prepare for that tournament

>>4561788
>>4561794
>>4561802
>>4561876
>A phantasmal training palace (-10 wealth and your juniors foundations and power are all significantly improved)

You decide that before anything else you need to address your disciples horrid foundations and weaknesses. Whilst it’s expected for pill focused clans/sects to be weaker than martial focused clans/sects, its currently ridiculous how weak your disciples are. Not only do they lose against someone within the same minor stage as them, they’re also likely to go barely even with someone a minor stage below them.

It is to these ends that you purchase the expensive Phantasmal Training Palace: Qi Condensation Version. It looked like a small dollhouse however you knew its true power as a powerful artefact.

The phantasmal training palace will allow your disciples within Qi Condensation to train themselves without risk as it will draw their minds into the palace where they will need to climb floors filled with ever more powerful enemies (e.g. first floor is early qi condensation, second floor is mid, etc).

Time passes at 1/100 the rate within the Phantasmal Training Palace so even mere days spent inside by disciples would lead to massive gains.

Also being able to safely practice their combat abilities without risk should help improve their capabilities significantly.

Best of all, you could even link usage of the Phantasmal Training Palace to the Contribution Board once your disciples realise how useful it is.

10 years pass as you deal with many matters both minor and major, you note that the Phantasmal Training Palace has been a huge success as many disciples work endlessly for contribution points so they can use it to enter the Phantasmal Training Palace.

Xing Xiaochen is an early foundation establishment elder responsible for your administration. She is generally SKILLED in administration.

“Master, our current wealth sits at 8 with an income of 1 (base 10 minus 5 for tribute and minus 3 for pill creation clan minus 1 because Bao Kingdom tax inefficiency).

The Bao Kingdom administration is currently tax inefficient and are sending less than their normal tax however it’s unlikely to require your personal intervention as it will resolve itself within 50 years (5 turns).

Alternatively you could choose to personally intervene if you feel the income lost is necessary in which case I suggest you intervene as early as possible.”

1/3

>>4561910
Biyu Tang is an early qi condensation elder responsible for your intrigue, espionage and information gathering. She is generally INCOMPETENT in intrigue.

“Patriarch, some of my useless followers tortured and otherwise interrogated Shao-Didi Bao however he refused to answer any questions even after extensive torture. Those followers have tried everything from Truthtelling pills to Soul-Cracking pills however all they’ve managed to accomplish is to drive the man mad. I’ll make sure to discipline the followers responsible for the failure. If I was personally there than theres no way such failure could occur.”

You resist the urge to sigh at the childish avoidance of responsibility. Biyu is useless as usual in her role but… shes just too damn good with all her techniques like that one which involved her tongue last night.

You wave at her to get on with her report.

“Also I’ve found out through my countless sources that there will be a war soon between the Shu and Fang clans over tariffs on beast cores.” She looks at you as if you should praise her for this information however without accurate dates of when “soon” is, you’re unlikely to be able to utilise this information.

“Finally I have information on all the participants in the Golden Merchant Alliance tournament. The tournament will be between qi condensation disciples. The tournament will feature all direct tributaries of the Golden Merchant Alliance”

Wait what? She actually had useful information? You stare at her wide eyed like some kind of stranger had replaced your useless intrigue elder. Biyu glares back at you with annoyance as she continues.

“The ones involved will be the Xu Clan, One Heaven Church, The Thousand Sword Empire and obviously our Loving Hearts Sect. The Xu clan focuses artefact creation, the One Heaven Church focuses on illusion techniques whilst the Thousand Sword Empire focuses on obviously swords.”

Whilst it is unlikely you will win the tournament, you do note the need to retain face and make a showcasing of strength so the other tributaries don’t see your sect as a weakness they can exploit.

2/3

>>4561911
Chen Chenhau a great circle qi condensation elder who was responsible for your military matters which mostly meant the recruitment and training of your sect members and leading them during wars.

She is generally BELOW AVERAGE at recruitment and training. She CANNOT lead your forces in a war.

“W-we have 1400 qi condensation members, 1 foundation establishment elder and 1 core creation patriarch.

S-strength wise our disciples’ power have improved enough that they can fight evenly with someone of the same minor stage as they are. A massive improvement from before.

I’m really sorry but I-I need a personal favour, I’m so close to Foundation Establishment but I just can’t break past. Can p-patriarch h-help me break past it?”

Clan action:
>Focus on wealth
>Construct something (write in, price varies)
>Focus on intrigue (write in target)
>Focus on recruitment (more qi condensation members)
>Focus on training disciples (low chance for members to increase a major realm)
>Write in

Your own action:
>Aid clan action (provides +10 mod to that roll)
>Improve cultivation
>Interact with (write in)
> Fix the Bao Kingdom issues
> Help Chen Chenhau break through to Foundation Establishment
>Create your own bloodline
>Write in

Known future events:
Barbarian invasion in ? turns
Shu vs Fang clan war in ? turns
Golden Merchant Alliance cultivator tournament in 1 turns
Bao Kingdom tax inefficiency ends in 5 turns

>>4561913
Clan action:
>Focus on training disciples (low chance for members to increase a major realm)
Your own action:
>Help Chen Chenhau break through to Foundation Establishment
The clan action is to avoid the sect jobbing in the tournament and the personal is because probably a war is going the break out and another foundation establishment is going to be useful

>>4561916
+1

>>4561916
+1
>"Of course my oh-so-delectable peach, how ever could I deny your affections?"
We're a pill making monster. Imagine how dangerous our sect would be if we weren't brute-forcing no-talent randoms into proper cultivation.

Also we can't ignore our own cultivation. Once we have some breathing room we need to start pounding pills until we're at the Nascent Soul stage. Falling into complacency is a dangerous trap for any cultivator, especially one that seeks the way of the Harem King.

>>4562036
The only thing that could break him out of that is if he meets someone that threatens his desires.

for objectives, i have training our espionage meister and making our commander less shy and capable of leading our forces

>>4562064
>when the Eternal Hate sect's Spirit Severing elder is impressed
>>4562078
We definitely need to get Biyu Tang some proper training. Our pills have us in an advantageous position in regard to warfare because nobody wants to be on our bad side when we've got the pills but the incompetence at intrigue is absolutely killing us.

>>4561916
+1
we should probably make plans on what we'll do for the next turn now.

i support getting BT(Biyu Tang) proper training, and getting better financial support for the next turn. Then we can relax and cultivate our dao and focus on training our disciples(specifically the talented ones)

>>4561916
Support

So im gonna do a quick analyses, hopefully im not retarded in this:

Objectives:
-Get better intrigue advisor/improve our current one (important, but not the most important)
-Get better war advisor/improve our current (VERY important as a war is on the horizon + barb invasion + she's gonna break through probably, making her a pillar of the sect.)
-Break through to nascent soul (important, we are a minor power we lose 5 wealth a turn just in tribute, this would improve everything, a nascent soul draws more disciples as well, theres just too many advantages too this.)
-get more talented disciples (no rush for this i think)
-Build more important buildings such as a technique repository or a library or orgy house.

>>4562838
+1

I'll also add making a system that makes the disciples more loyal(and hard working). Personally, I want to also build our personal spy network because I want to make a ruthless paranoid murderhobo MC

>>4561916
>>4562019
>>4562036
>>4562064
>>4562078
>>4562104
>>4562753
>>4562838
>Focus on training disciples (low chance for members to increase a major realm)
>Help Chen Chenhau break through to Foundation Establishment

Can I get 2d100 for how successful both are please.

Update much later when I'm not so busy. I don't want to ruin an update due to being rushed as I want to create a proper update for the tournament. In the meantime heres some additional information about your local region.

The Golden Merchant Alliance is made up of countless merchant companies, sects and clans however in reality its only held together by the leader. The greedy grand patriarch Yuan Renminbi who is a mid stage Nascent Soul elder controls the many companies/sects/clans of the Golden Merchant Alliance. Generally speaking, most factions within the Golden Merchant Alliance are allowed to have free reign to do as they wish so long as tribute is paid. Whenever Yuan Renminbi interferes in the Golden Merchant Alliance, its almost always an excuse to force people to give him wealth. Tournaments held by Yuan Renminbi are famed for being nothing but an excuse to squeeze wealth and its likely the losers of the tournament will face heavy loss of wealth.

The Golden Merchant Alliance has 4 direct tributaries which are generally given free reign to do as they wish. To become a direct tributary, you must have at least a Core Creation patriarch and be able to provide some kind of bonus to the wealth generation of the area you rule over. The 4 direct tributaries are The Xu clan, One Heaven Church, Thousand Sword Empire and the Loving Hearts Sect.

1/2

>>4562971
The Xu clan is a clan focused on artefact creation and its members even possess the Metal elemental bloodline that much improves their crafts. Whilst the most powerful of the 4 tributaries in actual battles, the Xu clan is the weakest in tournaments and when "exchanging pointers" due to artefacts being disallowed in such settings. You have no real information beyond the basics of this clan however you do know they only have 1 core creation cultivator at the late stage. They rule over 2 mortal kingdoms and countless minor sects/clans.

One Heaven Church are known to be a bunch of crazed zealots. They worship an immortal known as the "One Heaven" who they believe is the sole true god. Luckily this immortal is long gone into the Starry Skies however the One Heaven Church still possesses fragments of this immortals techniques. They are tolerated by the Golden Merchant Alliance mostly because no-one can remove them even when their presence negatively affects wealth generation. Their illusionary arrays are unbreakable for those below spirit severing and whilst their members are average in combat, they are specialists in escape due to their many illusionary techniques. They rule over a single mortal kingdom and their patriarch is known to be in the great circle of core creation.

The Thousand Sword Empire is an ascended mortal kingdom where its original king, sword cultivator Ran Yuan reached Core Creation yet refused to found a sect or clan. Instead the king made his kingdom into an empire after absorbing the surrounding kingoms. The Golden Merchant Alliance tolerates this empire mostly because Ran Yuan is distantly related to the Golden Merchant Alliance patriarch. It directly rules over around 10 mortal kingdoms and its patriarch is in early core creation.

The Loving Hearts Sect is the weakest of the 4 direct vassals and is mostly tolerated due to the existence of its patriarch who is well known to be a master pill refiner. It is rumored that the Loving Hearts patriarch could even be a grandmaster pill refiner however most think of this rumour as a lie. In truth you actually aren't a grandmaster due to the fact that your Dao does not suit pill refining and neither does your personality. However you reached grandmaster level temporarily when you crafted the Everlasting Beauty pill even if its unlikely you will ever reach that level of enlightenment again.

Rolled 69, 67 = 136 (2d100)

>>4562971
>Yuan
>RMB
lol

Rolled 96, 60 = 156 (2d100)

>>4562971
HI YAAAAH

>>4562978
>96
Ffffuck yeah

>>4562978
>96
Good anon

>>4563005
I think we need another roll but a 96 is very good. Even if we only improve our Qi Condensation members to a competent standard we'll be saving face in the tournament.

Rolled 71, 70 = 141 (2d100)

>>4562973

>>4562971
>Update much later when I'm not so busy. I don't want to ruin an update due to being rushed as I want to create a proper update for the tournament. In the meantime heres some additional information about your local region.
Righteous. This has been a great civ quest OP, thank you for running.

>>4563013
>70
Noice.

Rolled 90, 50 = 140 (2d100)

>>4562971

>>4562838
Sees good
>>4562971
Qm what type of action we need to improve the advisers, a personal or a clan action?

>>4563150
Presumably that 96 will find us a replacement for intrigue among the fresh new rookies.

>>4563649
Or a Foundation Establishment member from someone that had lingering talent the palace awakened. Anything would be good for us.

>>4562976
>>4562978
>>4563013
>Clan action: 96
>Personal action: 70

Today marked the 123rd day since Yue Shijian’s died in the Starry Skies against the Thousand Sun Cult. Today marked the 123rd day since she’s been reborn in a body not her own.

On the first day. After she inexplicably found herself in a young girl’s body she thought she was going mad. However as the days worn on she was beginning to think that this was no dream or inner demon tribulation.

She had lost her cultivation but her mind was as sharp as ever. This was real. The body she was in lacked even the smallest miniscule drop of talent yet was remarkably pretty like every other disciple of the sect she was in for some reason.

When she found out more about her “harem” sect and its “lustful patriarch”, she couldn’t resist harrumphing in disrespect, she’s lived over 10,000 years but it’s the first time she’s ever been involved in such a worthless sect.

She was debating escaping the sect at first but quickly realised that the possible benefits outweighed the detriments especially as for some reason, the trash sect had above average pills and even a phantasmal training palace.

With the focus of the sect on training disciples and Yue Shijian’s own Stellar Eternity Art, she quickly reached Foundation Establishment despite her body’s non-existent talent. The fact she had felt a slight resistance to enter mere Foundation Establishment almost made her spit out blood in anger.

Hero unit: Early Foundation Establishment disciple Yue Shijian is unlocked (Talent: Non-existent but her cultivation method means her effective cultivation speed is high, Power: Heaven defying, Loyalty: Non-existent).

A hero unit is like your elders in that they have an actual name, personality and background.

1/?

>>4563867
You and Chen Chenhau are isolated within a cultivation cave as you slowly push pulse after pulse of qi from your palm into the small of Chen’s back. These pulses of qi help push her ever closer to breaking through to Foundation Establishment.

“U-umm d-do I really have to be n-naked to do this?” asks your disciple with a blush.

"Of course my oh-so-delectable peach this is an absolute necessity.” you explain with your “super serious old master” look.

Of course there was no real reason, you’re talented and experienced enough to easily pulse qi to her even with clothes in between you HOWEVER A NAKED WOMAN WAS A MAN’S ROMANCE. That and you probably won’t be able to concentrate due to the boredom if she was clothed.

It took around 7 years of nonstop focus from the two of you as well as countless pills however finally she forcibly broke through however you note with a grimace that Chen Chenhau is unlikely to ever break past Foundation Establishment without serious fortunate encounters.

To be honest Chen Chenhau’s talent was only average at best and it was unlikely for her to break into Foundation Establishment, even with your help, you could only help her barely break through at the cost of her future possibilities. Maybe in the future you can create a pill or find an artefact to help assist Chen Chenhau but for now she’s forever stuck at Foundation Establishment.

“T-thank you patriarch *sniffle*, i-it always my d-dream to one day achieve Foundation Establishment so even i-if I never reach c-core creation, t-this is o-okay” Chen Chenhau says between sniffles and tears. She was a horrible liar, she’s clearly immensely saddened that her future was cut short. What thanking you? You don’t deserve her thanks at all.

70 which was 5 under DC which meant yes she broke through but she fucked her future prospects doing so
2/?

>>4563868
It is finally the time for the tournament between the direct tributaries of the Golden Merchant Alliance, hopefully these last 10 years you’ve dedicated resources to training disciples should be enough that your sect doesn’t humiliate itself too bad. Whilst you had no expectations to win, you knew it was just as unlikely for your sect to lose horribly.

You glance at a report, your sect now has 3 Foundation Establishment elders, it seems luck is with you as one of your disciples you didn’t even pay attention to randomly rose from Early Qi Condensation to Foundation Establishment in a mere 2 years. You of course quickly inducted her as an elder within the sect however you note that the beautiful flower was of a particularly venomous and condescending sort.

The tournament platform was made of solid gold with countless jewels embedded in the edges. 4 great towers surrounded the tournament platform, each tower was stunningly brilliant. A mechanical tower that walked on its own legs for the Xu clan, a tower formed from countless interlocked blades for the Thousand Sword Empire, a tower that endlessly changed shape due to countless illusions for the One Heaven Church and finally a tower decorated with countless heart shaped flowers for the Loving Hearts Sect.

A seemingly ordinary old man floated in the sky above the platform. Compared to the splendour all around him, this ordinary old man didn’t seem to fit at all yet with a single word he commanded the fates of all present.

“Attention. Welcome my delightful piggy banks to the Golden Merchant Alliance Tournament. To be quite frank, we have information that those accursed barbarians will be invading within the next ten years. Of course this should come as no surprise to all of you as anyone with a half decent intrigue division should’ve realised this from the barbarian movements.” Explains nascent soul grand patriarch Yuan Renminbi with an air of boredom.

You resist the urge to strangle Biyu as you glare at her and for once Biyu seems suitably ashamed as she refuses to meet your eyes. When this is all over, that girl is totally getting a spanking.
3/?

>>4563870
“As such we will be levying a war tax to help in the defence against the barbarian invasion. Of course those who are more useful in the war will be required to pay less so that’s why the exact war tax is different depending on your tournament placement.

No matter what you place, the patriarch of each clan/sect/etc. will be expected to assist in the defence vs the barbarians.

1st place: 0 wealth war tax and you must provide 500 Qi condensation and 1 foundation establishment troops. As the prize for winning, you’re provided a jade slip which can contact Yuan Renminbi for a one time assistance.

2nd place: 5 wealth war tax and you must provide 500 Qi condensation and 1 foundation establishment troops

3rd place: 10 wealth war tax and you must provide 1000 Qi condensation and 1 foundation establishment troops

4th place: Be glad you will face no war tax, instead your lands will be the bait we use against the vile barbarians. Know that your sacrifice will be remembered.

As many of you know barbarian invasions are major crisis so even if we must lose your production capabilities, it is a necessary sacrifice to ensure the prosperity of all within the Golden Merchant Alliance”

Shit, the stakes have just increased immensely, this went from a somewhat friendly competition to one where your literal sect can possibly be at stake.

Almost immediately after the words, the patriarch of the Thousand Swords Empire flies towards your sect’s tower as he demands in a booming voice
“Let us exchange pointers, patriarch of the Loving Hearts sect, let’s help give our juniors some encouragements before they compete.”

You’re no fool, obviously the Thousand Swords Empire patriarch Ran Yuan thinks that he can easily defeat you as a morale boost for his disciples. This would normally be true as a sword cultivator far surpasses a pill refiner cultivator in combat however you are not an ordinary pill refiner cultivator.

You note that Ran Yuan has recently reached mid nascent soul meaning the two of you are equal in minor stage. If you win you’ll give your sect a much needed morale boost whilst if you lose your sect will receive a significant morale loss.

How did your exchange of pointers turn out?

And how did your disciples do in the tournament?

2d100, best of 3. Just so everyone knows, your disciples need a 100 or higher to come first place as well as a 50 or higher not to come last place. I

Rolled 52, 23 = 75 (2d100)

>>4563872
Well, let's give it a shot. inb4 1,1

Rolled 9, 29 = 38 (2d100)

>>4563872

>>4563150
>Qm what type of action we need to improve the advisers, a personal or a clan action?
Personal to improve the advisor, clan to improve everyone involved.
(e.g. personal would be to help Chen Chenhau get over her shyness, clan would be to train your disciples for war)
>>4563876
>>4563910
These rolls...

You're barely winning the personal combat pointer exchange and are losing the tournament even with the morale boost from winning the pointer exchange.

Whoever rolls third better roll well or else theres a pretty decent chance the sect is wiped out during the barbarian invasion.

Rolled 55, 45 = 100 (2d100)

>>4563872

>>4563927
Uh... does that morale boost help them pull through?

>>4563927
>>4563933
Barely, you're like 2 wealth in debt but at least you're not stuck as the bait for the barbarians. Anons made some decent choices focusing on training + buying the phantasmal training palace. The original DC was like 80 to not come last because your disciples were so shit.


Update sometime tomorrow, I'm off to bed.

>>4563868
>70 which was 5 under DC which meant yes she broke through but she fucked her future prospects doing so
Can you explain this my man ?

>>4563920
So I would say that your next action should be
Personal action:
>Help chenhau get over her stage fright(this is basically a top priority action)
Clan action:
>Focus on training disciples (low chance for members to increase a major realm)
Or
>Focus on wealth
After all I am guessing if we get too much in debt is going to trigger a game over event


>3rd place: 10 wealth war tax and you must provide 1000 Qi condensation and 1 foundation establishment troops

We should select our new unit for the obligatory foundation stablishment troop, she probably has some ridiculous martial skill's.

>>4563985
She has no loyalty so she wouldn’t be that wise a choice.

>>4563969
Chen Chenhau didn't have the talent to naturally reach the Foundation Establishment stage so our MC made some shortcuts so she could breakthrough at the cost of crippling her long-term advancement, but the odds of her being able to advance long-term without our assistance was negligible. Calling it a bottleneck is generous, unless we bust our ass researching she's going to stay where she is and I'm not sure she's worth the effort to improve.

>>4563985
Backing,
>Help chenhau get over her stage fright
>Focus on wealth
After this we should focus on getting to know the heavens-defying genius in our sect and getting her to teach us the Stellar Eternity Art.

>>4564259
>unless we bust our ass researching she's going to stay where she is and I'm not sure she's worth the effort to improve.
The research might might be worth it but not for her sake. A pill that helps with advancement is always valuable.

>>4564264
Of course, if we can find a way to consistently break through the bottleneck we caused, we might be able to brute force members into Foundation Establishment.

>>4564259
>After this we should focus on getting to know the heavens-defying genius in our sect and getting her to teach us the Stellar Eternity Art.
An important thing to note she considers the MC and sect to be trash. She isn’t going to stop unless we improve the sect/MC massively.

>>4564327
The worst part is that she isn't wrong. Maybe we should focus on our own cultivation before doing anything else. If we reach Nascent Soul that might impress her enough to tolerate the sect until we can eke an understanding out of her.

Are corpses ever used in pill making? I was wondering if being the bait could be turned into a profit.

We should invest in healing and scar removal pills too.

>>4563876
>>4563910
>>4563927
>55: bare success only because you have the boon Strong
>45: only a bare success because of the morale boost from the first roll

You calmly agree to the exchange of pointers as you wave your hands forward sending a phoenix made of scarlet flame in a greeting. The Thousand Sword Empire patriarch Ran Yuan answers your greeting as his Sword Dao creates a thousand blades of qi which form together into a dragon. The dragon made of sword qi crashes against your phoenix and both the dragon and phoenix breaks apart.

Whilst you didn’t expect to succeed with the first attack, the fact that your exchange was completely equal was a surprise to you. After all you had power that was sufficient for you to fight a minor real above yourself yet you were barely even. Your surprise is mirrored by Ran Yuan who clearly did not expect a mere pill refiner to be equal to a sword cultivator when both are equal in major and minor realm.

With that as the impetus, both of you start taking the battle more seriously as a hundred different techniques are exchanged between the two of you. Ran Yuan’s techniques radiated forceful tyranny whilst yours radiated soft calmness. Sometimes the forceful tyranny crushed the soft yet other times the soft calmness breezed past the forceful tyranny.

A hundred different exchanges yet neither of the two of you could find an edge. However whilst you were still calm, Ran Yuan was enraged and with every exchange in which the two of you were equal, did that rage increase.

“How could a mere pill refiner ever fight equally with a sword cultivator? How am I not overpowering this idiot who spends all his time focused on women? This is clearly impossible. I refuse to accept this.”

These thoughts and others like it raged endlessly within Ran Yuan so it was no surprise that after the 137th exchange that Ran Yuan made a mistake. A mistake which you easily capitalised on to end the exchange with your victory.

From the hatred filled glare of Ran Yuan, it is likely you’ve made an enemy today however you ignore it for now and instead bask in the cheers of your sect as well as the silence of the Thousand Sword Empire.

1/?

>>4564944
Emboldened by your success your disciples fight with a fervour normally unseen in your sect. However unfortunately the heavens care nought of their feelings as your disciples are crushed easily by the other participants.

Sure you’ve spent time and wealth training + purchasing a Phantasmal Training Palace but the other clans/sects/etc. have also done the same not to mention the fact that they’ve done it for much longer.

Your sect disciples simply could not keep up with the other faction’s disciples even after all the time and wealth you’ve invested in them.

Whilst the heavens did not smile on you today, it smiled even less on the Xu clan. The Xu clan’s focus on artefacts meant they were weak in tournaments where artefacts were banned so it is with no surprise that they performed poorly.

Meanwhile everyone expected the Thousand Sword Empire to easily come first however the morale loss of watching their patriarch lose to “a mere pill refiner” ruined their performance.

The tournament results were
1st place: One Heaven Church
2nd place: Thousand Sword Empire
3rd place: Loving Hearts Sect
4th place: Xu Clan

2/?

Xing Xiaochen is an early foundation establishment elder responsible for your administration. She is generally SKILLED in administration.

“Master, our current wealth sits at -2 with an income of 0 (base 10 minus 5 for tribute and minus 3 for pill creation clan, minus 1 because Bao Kingdom tax inefficiency, minus 1 interest).

We desperately need to make wealth however we may not have the time for that. The barbarians will be invading soon and we will likely need defensive arrays and fortifications in case anything goes wrong with the “bait” plan.

Alternatively if you trust in the plan’s success I recommend we focus on making wealth. The interest payments will disappear after we are above 0 wealth.”

Biyu Tang is an early qi condensation elder responsible for your intrigue, espionage and information gathering. She is generally INCOMPETENT in intrigue.

Biyu Tang squirms in her seat as her butt is probably still heavily bruised from the massive spanking you gave her.

“Patriarch I’m focusing all my efforts on learning more about the barbarians, you can expect a report sometime soon. Otherwise I’ve had no choice but to give up on information gathering elsewhere due to the crisis of the barbarians taking precedence” As useless as always it seems, you really do need to train her and the intrigue division when you have time.

Chen Chenhau an early Foundation Establishment elder who was responsible for your military matters which mostly meant the recruitment and training of your sect members and leading them during wars.

She is generally BELOW AVERAGE at recruitment and training. She CANNOT lead your forces in a war. Her cultivation progress has completely stalled to the point it’s unlikely for her to ever progress beyond early Foundation Establishment.

“W-we have 1600 qi condensation members, 3 foundation establishment elder and 1 core creation patriarch.

We must send 1000 qi condensation members and 1 foundation establishment elder. Who do we send?”

>Send Xing Xiaochen
>Send Chen Chenhau
>Send Yue Shijian

Clan action:
>Focus on wealth
>Construct something (write in, price varies)
>Focus on intrigue (write in target)
>Focus on recruitment (more qi condensation members)
>Focus on training disciples (low chance for members to increase a major realm)
>Write in

Your own action:
>Aid clan action (provides +10 mod to that roll)
>Improve cultivation
>Interact with (write in)
>Fix the Bao Kingdom issues
>Create your own bloodline
>Train your intrigue elder Biyu Tang
>Write in

Known future events:
Barbarian invasion in 1 turns
Shu vs Fang clan war in ? turns
Bao Kingdom tax inefficiency ends in 4 turns

>>4564958
Damn... this is a hard one.
>Send Chen Chenhau
She has to learn somehow. Can we roll for this QM?

>Focus on wealth
>Improve cultivation

>>4565038
+1
She gotta stop with her stage fright soon

>>4564958
>Send Yue Shijian
Clan action:
>Focus on wealth
Your own action:
>Improve cultivation
My reasoning: I decided to send yue instead of Chen because is show multiple times in the updates that she cannot lead, so the for the DC for war is going to rise for something ridiculous, the only other away out is to train her, but if we fail the training action we are completely fucked.
In other hand yue has probably thousand years of experience in combat and wars, I am gambling in fact that I think is not going to be beneficial for her to betray us during the war

>>4565038
>>4565057
The DC is probably is going to rise for something ridiculous like 90+, if we send someone that by qm words:
>She CANNOT lead your forces in a war

>>4565062
He’s right you know.

>>4564958
>Send Yue Shijian
She's honestly the only one remotely qualified to lead. Those 10000 years of life experience must be good for something.
>Focus on wealth
gotta get out of debt
>Improve cultivation
gotta keep ahead of everyone else

>>4565068
The thing is she isn’t loyal to us yet so it’s risky

>>4565038
>>4565057
>>4565058
>>4565068
Focus on wealth and improve cultivation seems to be clear winners.
I'll provide some additional information to help anons choose.

Yue Shijian:
+Large bonus to percent of your forces that survive if you succeed
-Nonexistent loyalty means high chance she ditches the sect or worst case scenario betrays sect if you fail the roll

Chen Chenhau:
+Large chance the "shy and cannot lead" debuff is removed if you succeed
-Good luck with the DC, its like 80ish at the lowest success

I'll lock in votes and ask for dice rolls in 1 hour. If tied than I'll roll 1d2 to choose between the two.

>>4565078
Qm can you give a approximately DC for the yue shijian roll ?

>>4565075
I would say that is less risky, because there is actually consequences in betraying someone during a war.
If we survive she is going to be hunted down, maybe even the alliance is going to help after all nobody like desertion.
So what I am saying is she is probably not going to leave us in the war, because is too risky.

>>4565079
Around 75 for complete success. 50 so she doesn't actually betray (51-74 would be she just leaves). Her roll is less about "success of the plan" and more "does she betray you or not".

Theres no correct option, all three possible choices are all equally good and bad in their own ways.

>>4565081
Think about it from her perspective, she reached foundation establishment in less than a years time even with her body's shit talent. All she needs to do is spend 10-20 years uninterrupted and she can probably reach nascent soul and be untouchable by everyone in the region.

With the war against the barbarian invasion, she can safely progress whilst everyone is busy dealing with it so it becomes a cost benefit analysis as she doesn't fear reprisal for betrayal. What has more benefits, staying with a weak sect or betraying it for benefits? Staying with a weak sect whilst being forced to "waste time" leading a war force or just leaving? The possible benefits of loot from the barbarians vs the time wasted leading an army? etc. etc.

Frankly Yue Shijian sees leading the army for a couple years in a war as a waste of time she could spend cultivating so it all comes down to whether she decides it worth it or not based on the above cost-benefit analysis.

>>4564958
This suggestion is going to be pretty out there. I wanted to send Biyu but apparently she's still qi condensation after all this time wow. She's going to die of old age at this rate.

>Send Chen Chenhau
>Focus on Wealth

>Go to Xu Clan's lands offering to assist with pills. Bring Yue Shijian to gather the wounded and heal them yourself. Once you're out of pills, capture any barbarians to your liking and return to restock, rinse and repeat.

>>4565088
The only thing we have to offer is a pill that grant immortality (which is usually the realm of ascended cultivators meaning it’s an immortal tier pill).

>>4565090
No-one knows about your immortal tier pill outside Xing Xiaochen but yes you could use it as a bribe to ensure her loyalty if you're willing to reveal that secret.
>>4565089
Biyu is both lazy and untalented. She not only is still in Qi condensation, SHE HAS NOT IMPROVED A SINGLE MINOR STAGE IN 40 YEARS. She's only an elder because she's great in the bed.

>>4565038
I agree, sending Yue Shijian is a very serious risk because if she leaves us, we'll lose a potentially extremely valuable asset.

>>4565094
I'm not sure if we should reveal ourselves but we should continue cultivating to be sure we don't get overwhelmed by the heavens-defying talent in our midst.

>>4565038
>>4565057
>>4565058
>>4565068
>>4565089
3-2 Chen Chenhau wins
>Send Chen Chenhau
>Focus on Wealth
>Improve cultivation

Can I get 3 rolls of 4d100.
1st 1d100 is Chen Chenhau's fate.
2nd 1d100 is how well the war goes
3rd 1d100 is on wealth accumulation
4th 1d100 is on improving cultivation

Update sometime tomorrow, I'm off to bed.

Honestly I don’t get why we’re getting a sect level off the bat instead of something reasonable like bandits or why there are no events that have benefits instead of constantly throwing problems our (the ones the involving rolling don’t count since randomness is awful for the players). Even the hero unit isn’t a benefit because the very fact it has no loyalty makes it liability.
The reason this is a problem is because this is suppose to be Xianxia. There are suppose to be silver linings after a disaster, good things are suppose to bring problems, and just like Yin and Yang there is always good and bad in everything.

Rolled 9, 21, 11, 44 = 85 (4d100)

>>4565108

>>4565115
Well that's why I'm trying to just spend time with Yue, maybe something happens that will change her opinion on MC.

Chen on the otherhand is building up to break through on her own quest. Maybe in the war, maybe in a completely different way.

It'd be pretty cool if it turns out she's way better at Intrigue and switches over, for example.

Rolled 64, 95, 70, 72 = 301 (4d100)

>>4565108
HERE WE GO

>>4565115
That's because we chose Hard Mode for our sect, if they had talent we would be annihilating right now.

Rolled 61, 89, 53, 11 = 214 (4d100)

>>4565108
Pls an over 80 first roll pretty pls

>>4565123
>>4565135
>>4565141
>64 for Chen Chenhau
>95 for how the war goes
>70 for accumulating wealth
>72 for improving cultivation
Not bad, not bad at all.

>>4565146
indeed, but i'm said my 89 was wasted

>>4565150
It wasn't wasted anon, it just didn't have the chance to shine.

>>4565135
We aren’t on hard mode.

>>4565172
We aren't in Hard Mode for our location but we are for our Sect. The Loving Hearts are essentially one master pillcrafter forcing a thousand mortals with no-talent into cultivating. The fact that we were able to make 3rd place in the tournament is insane.

>>4565174
spekaing of our bane, i looked again at our options and actually i don't think i'd choose anything else. the weak one would just negate our strengh and the other ones seemed harsher than the pervy penalty but soon we'll be on our way to the sex cult of professional mistresses and hookers

>>4565212
I thought Untalented Late Nascent Soul + Strong + Bottleneck could've been interesting but I'm content with what we have

>>4565241
I don't think bottleneck would be a good idea, altough the +20 would help us alot

>>4565248
The thing about Bottleneck is that it's a classic Xianxia barrier for a sect master and makes sense with an Untalented Late Nascent Soul. It's also the only bane that can be recovered from.

>>4565123
>>4565135
>>4565141
>64 for Chen Chenhau
>95 for how the war goes: LOL
>70 for accumulating wealth
>72 for improving cultivation: 92 with bonus so you’re at 92/150 to reach Late core creation.

just realised I’ve been writing clan instead of sect in the prompts, sorry QM is retarded

Grand Knight John Smith looked upon the worthless fools in his army who had been chosen to die in this year’s Grand Crusade.

It was the 9th Grand Crusade, a crusade ostensibly to teach “yellow monkeys” the holiness of the one true God however in reality it was simply a method for the nobility to get rid of their 3rd or 4th sons to reduce possible inheritance disputes.

The only reason he was stuck on this pointless excursion was because he pissed off too many important priests within the capital. The priests had been quick to pronounce a “divine message” for him to go get himself killed fighting worthless yellow monkeys in this worthless crusade.

A single grand knight (what the yellow monkeys often called Nascent Soul), 5 master knights (core creation), 25 advanced knights (foundation establishment), 10,000 knights (qi condensation) and 100,000 mortal soldiers was a joke of a force.

Grand Knight John Smith was already making plans to fake his own death and disappear as he had no intention to die with the rest of the “dues vult” screaming fools.

Of the 5 master knights that had been forced to come on this pointless excursion, he knew that 3 of them were already planning to fake their deaths and desert like he was.

Who knew how many of the smarter lower ranked knights had the same thoughts.

This crusade army was like a pile of sand which could collapse at any moment.

--------------

Chen Chenhau was shivering in fright as she flew at the front of her army. Some may think she was frightened of the “barbarians” but no she was scared of something much much worse.

The endless stares of expectations from the disciples was like a weight on her shoulders. She had fled from her homeland across The Narrows to avoid those expectations but somehow once again she was in this situation.

‘A broken spear, a shattered core and a bloody sun’

She remembered what happened last time people put faith in her, what happened to people who trusted in her and who believed she would protect them. Puke crawled up her throat as she desperately struggled not to vomit at the memory.

No she wasn’t that person anymore, she could do this, she could lead and win and and…

‘a laughing man radiating the brilliant glow of the sun yet almost in contrast, his hands were covered in blood and guts of what was once a child, a child that was her ******’.

No she can’t, not again.

Not ever.

1/2

>>4565995
fuck word limit, no space for options

You had spent several years in secluded meditation focused on advancing your cultivation. You feel that you’ve halfway broken through to the late stage and would only need a bit more effort.

The most problematic thing you’ve noticed about your cultivation is that your pills are having less and less of an impact on your cultivation speed. You suspect the fact you’ve taken so many over the years has caused your body to start building some kind of resistance to pills that increase cultivation speed.

Whatever the case, you take a short break from cultivation to find one of the reports left at the entrance of your cave. As usual, her reports are perfectly precise and concise as a result of her accountant background.

You find out that your sect has managed to make a nice 5 wealth in the years you were secluded due to the sects focus on wealth generation. Most likely the war helped increase wealth gains immensely due to the fact everyone was mass buying pills to improve themselves.

Of course other reasons were also possible but whatever the reason, what matters is that now your sect is no longer in debt and your income is back to positive.

You have 3 wealth with an income of 1 (base 10 minus 5 for tribute and minus 3 for pill creation clan minus 1 because Bao Kingdom tax inefficiency).

Meanwhile the report about the war from Biyu left you stunned, what the fuck the war is already over?

As you read the report you find out that the barbarians fell to internal issues once their nascent soul and many of their core creation died extremely early on in the war. Apparently Yuan Renmibi had easily slaughtered them one-sidedly. If this report is accurate than you’ll need to raise your fear of the Golden Merchant Alliance grand patriarch.

Of course since the report is by Biyu, you have some doubts on the accuracy but surely she wouldn’t mishandle information as crucial as this?

In other news, you find out your attempt to get Chen Chenhau to step out of her shell and be less shy was a complete failure.

Making her the leader of your army was a mistake as Chen Chenhau had a massive breakdown to the point she actually deserted the army and returned to the sect.

Luckily the war still turned out to be resounding success with only 200 of your qi condensation members dying even when they lacked a leader. Apparently the leaderless barbarians had walked into every trap presented to them.

The Golden Merchant Alliance threatens to put a bounty on Chen Chenhau (for deserting) unless you pay them 10 wealth but you know with a bit of negotiation the actual price to ensure theres no bounty would be much lower.

Alternatively you could not waste years in negotiation and just accept the 10 wealth price so you can focus your efforts elsewhere.

2/3

>>4565996

Sect action:
>Focus on wealth
>Construct something (write in, price varies)
>Focus on intrigue (write in target)
>Focus on recruitment (more qi condensation members)
>Focus on training disciples (low chance for members to increase a major realm)
>Recruit Barbarian deserters (very very low chance of a core creation or foundation establishment elder)
>Write in

Your own action:
>Aid clan action (provides +10 mod to that roll)
>Improve cultivation
>Interact with (write in)
>Fix the Bao Kingdom issues
>Create your own bloodline
>Train your intrigue elder Biyu Tang
>Negotiate cost of removing Chen Chenhau bounty
>Write in

Known future events:
Shu vs Fang clan war in ? turns
Bao Kingdom tax inefficiency ends in 3 turns

>>4565998
>Recruit Barbarian deserters
We only have asian pussy apparently, we want a more diverse harem

>>4565998
>Negotiate cost of removing Chen Chenhau bounty
I mean we have too, 10 wealth will cripple us, definetly have to punish chen though

>>4565998
>Recruit Barbarian deserters (very very low chance of a core creation or foundation establishment elder)

>Negotiate cost of removing Chen Chenhau bounty

>>4565998
>Recruit Barbarian deserters (very very low chance of a core creation or foundation establishment elder)
>Negotiate cost of removing Chen Chenhau bounty

>>4565998
fuck me even, with a 64 the fail was deserting. what's the worst that could've happened op ?

>>4566057
Sub 50 she's crippled permanently because her memories act up as she's fighting.
Crit fail (1) and she dies.

>>4566067
40+ year trauma, this is starting to sound like we should hire barbarians for mental care facilities.

>>4566039
>>4566042
>>4566055
Seems pretty landslide.
>Recruit Barbarian deserters (very very low chance of a core creation or foundation establishment elder)
>Negotiate cost of removing Chen Chenhau bounty

Give me 2d100, 3 rolls.

Rolled 41, 65 = 106 (2d100)

>>4566140
I have nothing to say here.

Rolled 54, 43 = 97 (2d100)

>>4566140

Rolled 39, 85 = 124 (2d100)

>>4566140
For fuck's sake, we need another military commander.

>>4566146
>>4566159
>>4566209
>Sect action: 54, fail
>Personal: 85, very good success

Hearing news of the many barbarian deserts, you decide to recruit a few to shore up the disciple losses from the war as well as to have access to more varied beauties. The chances of possible foundation establishment or core creation elders only make it even more enticing. Unfortunately your sect's ill repute works against you here as the few deserters of the barbarian who are willing to join "yellow monkey factions" mostly avoid your sect. Those who are willing all turn out to be males and you have no use for males. Maybe if your sect reputation was less poor or you were willing to accept male disciples it would be different but as is no barbarians joined your sect.

Whilst your sect recruitment of deserters didn't your negotiations which took over 6 years finally ended with a resounding success. You managed to convince the Golden Merchant Alliance representatives to lower the cost of removing Chen Chenhau's bounty down to 2 wealth. A massive drop compared to before which you attribute mostly due to the fact the desertion didn't really cause too much trouble as the war was won one-sidedly. Of course you make sure to punish Chen Chenhau anyways for the wealth loss by forcing her into isolated cultivation for 10 years.

1/2

>>4567337
Xing Xiaochen is an mid foundation establishment elder responsible for your administration.

She is generally SKILLED in administration. You note with pride that she has improved her cultivation.

“Master, our current wealth sits at 2 with an income of 1 (base 10 minus 5 for tribute and minus 3 for pill creation clan minus 1 because Bao Kingdom tax inefficiency).

I have nothing else to report."

Biyu Tang is an mid qi condensation elder responsible for your intrigue, espionage and information gathering.

She is generally INCOMPETENT in intrigue. You note with some consternation that she finally improved a minor stage. At this rate of cultivation progress you'll either have to sneak her a Everlasting Beauty pill without telling her or accept her eventual death.

"Patriarch the Thousand Sword Empire armies has been showing suspicious movements near our borders however despite my valiant efforts I've failed to find out anything concrete.

In other news I hear that over the Serpent Spine Mountains that another Human-Demon Annihilation War has begun. Thank the heavens we're not stuck on that side."

Yue Shijian is your temporary elder responsible for your military matters due to Chen Chenhau's isolated cultivation punishment. You note with wonder that she has already reached mid foundation establishment so fast, you're even somewhat suspicious how she does so. Shes generally venomous and condescending in her interactions with you and the rest of the sect.

You have no idea on her capabilities but as far as you can tell she's absolutely AVERAGE however you have suspicions she's not trying her best at all.

"1400 qi condensation, 3 foundation establishment, 1 core creation... what a joke." she disparages. You note she makes no suggestions or offers at all as if she couldn't care less.

Sect action:
>Focus on wealth
>Construct something (write in, price varies)
>Focus on intrigue (write in target)
>Focus on recruitment (more qi condensation members)
>Focus on training disciples (low chance for members to increase a major realm)
>Write in

Your own action:
>Aid clan action (provides +10 mod to that roll)
>Improve cultivation
>Interact with (write in)
>Fix the Bao Kingdom issues
>Create your own bloodline
>Train your intrigue elder Biyu Tang
>Write in

Known future events:
Shu vs Fang clan war in ? turns
Some kind of conflict with Thousand Sword Empire in ? turns
Bao Kingdom tax inefficiency ends in 2 turns

>>4567337
wasn't 54 a sucess ? or it failed because it was a very low chance ?
>>4567339
>Focus on training disciples (low chance for members to increase a major realm)
>Train your intrigue elder Biyu Tang
We need better reports from the ma'am

>>4567346
>very very low chance of a core creation or foundation establishment elder
I did say.

I cbfed opening sect modifier sheet but the dc was like 65ish to even get qi condensation because your sect reputation sucks. it was like 85 for foundation establishment and crit success (100) for core creation

>>4567339
>Focus on training disciples (low chance for members to increase a major realm)
>Train your intrigue elder Biyu Tang
She needs to prove she's worth the EB pill.

>>4567339
>Sect action:
>>Focus on training disciples (low chance for members to increase a major realm)

>Your own action:
>>Improve cultivation

let's reach late core already, we just need a 60.

>>4567339
>Focus on training disciples (low chance for members to increase a major realm)
>Improve Cultivation
I'm not certain Biyu is worth continuing to train.

>>4567339
>Focus on training disciples
>Train your intrigue elder Biyu Tang
We actually made the harem, how enjoyable!

>>4567449
+1, maybe if we roll well we'll get a better intrigue elder. If we do, we can put BT as figurehead since MC just doesn't wanna part with her

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>4567346
>>4567379
>>4567449
>>4567513
>>4568091
>>4568939
Everyone agrees on training disciples but its 3-3 Training Biyu Tang vs Improve cultivation.

1: train biyu
2: improve cultivation

Can I get 3 rolls of 2d100 please bois. Update in 2 hours or so.

>>4568984
I missed the vote, but look at that, the choice I wanted won.
I think it might be time to cut out Biyu Tang and replace her with a more qualified haremette. Harem King Dao or no, she's been a terrible spymistress and if we train her she might get the idea to use her talents against us. Then again, I could be wrong.

Rolled 39, 89 = 128 (2d100)

>>4569005
huh

Rolled 100, 29 = 129 (2d100)

>>4568984

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>>4569044

Rolled 93, 94 = 187 (2d100)

>>4568984

>>4569006
>>4569044
>>4569142
>Sect action: 100 crit
>Personal action: 94 with bonus means you're 150/150 late and 56/150 great circle

Biyu Tang was hard at work within her room where she was elegantly sprawled across her enormous bed. Every so often, she would elegantly roll from one side to the other, going all the way until she was at the very edge. Elegantly in this case was obviously a euphemism for her being a lazy degenerate. Biyu was truly enjoying her position, her parents had called her useless outside her pretty face but look whos laughing now. She's still alive enjoying the easy life of power without effort whilst her hardworking farmer parents were dead without achieving anything. Truly to elegantly laze about and let others do all the work is the Dao. Her elegant reminiscing is broken when one of her attendants rushes towards her

"Urgent news elder. Apparently the Phantasmal Training Palace had a hidden legacy that was unlocked due to one of the qi condensation disciple's great combat skills and now the sect has a foundation establishment elder".

Than not even 5 seconds after that

"Urgent news elder. One of the qi condensation disciples unlocked their bloodline and soared to foundation establishment"
Almost immediately after that

"Urgent news elder. One of the great circle qi condensation disciples who was near the end of their lifespan broke through to foundation establishment."

Please stop already with all the extra work. Just let me elegantly rest in peace.

Pick a hero unit out of your 3 new foundation establishment elders, those unchosen become generic foundation establishment elders:
>Powerful elder who's strong for his stage and has alot of battle experience
>Talented elder who cultivates fast and has a powerful bloodline
>Extremely loyal and hard working elder who is otherwise average

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After endless years of secluded cultivation you feel a change in your body as your core increases in size drastically. Finally you've reached the late stage of core creation and you even feel like you're somewhat along the way to reach great circle. The recent war against the barbarians had made you realize the necessity of strength to protect your future harem so for once you were actually pretty dedicated in your cultivation. With actual sustained effort combined with your monstrous talent, you made massive progress.

1/2

>>4569044
>>4569045
oh look, maybe this time we get someone loyal.

Although actually if Xiaochen improves that'd be cool.

>>4569229
Xing Xiaochen is an mid foundation establishment elder responsible for your administration.

She is generally SKILLED in administration.

“Master congratulations on progressing on the long road of cultivation. Master, our current wealth sits at 3 with an income of 1 (base 10 minus 5 for tribute and minus 3 for pill creation clan minus 1 because Bao Kingdom tax inefficiency). At least the Bao Kingdom tax inefficiency is almost over."

"Our massive increase in foundation establishment elders has resulted in countless different new factions forming internally within the Loving Hearts Sect. I suggest to either encourage the factions or try to prevent them. Encouraging factions will lead to increased competitiveness and therefore increased cultivation speed and general power of disciples. Discouraging factions would result in a small increase in loyalty overall."

Biyu Tang is an mid qi condensation elder responsible for your intrigue, espionage and information gathering. She has massive bags under her eyes as if she hasn't slept in days.

She is generally INCOMPETENT in intrigue.

"Patriarch I've been so focused on dealing with all the new factions due to the new elders that I've had no time to focus on anything else. Currently there are 3 new factions, one formed for each of the new foundation establishment elders."

Chen Chenhau an early Foundation Establishment elder who was responsible for your military matters which mostly meant the recruitment and training of your sect members and leading them during wars.

She is generally BELOW AVERAGE at recruitment and training. She CANNOT lead your forces in a war. Her cultivation progress has completely stalled to the point it’s unlikely for her to ever progress beyond early Foundation Establishment.

"Congratulations on t-the y-you k-know." stutters Chen Chenhau.
"A-anyway we have 1400 qi condensation, 6 foundation establishment elder and 1 core creation patriarch. We've been having recruitment issues lately because theres been alot of bad rumours about the sect coming from the Thousand Sword Empire. "

Sect action:
>Focus on wealth
>Construct something (write in, price varies)
>Focus on intrigue (write in target)
>Focus on recruitment (more qi condensation members)
>Focus on training disciples (low chance for members to increase a major realm)
>Write in

Your own action:
>Aid clan action (provides +10 mod to that roll)
>Improve cultivation
>Interact with (write in)
>Create your own bloodline
>Train your intrigue elder Biyu Tang
>Write in


Known future events:
Some kind of conflict with Thousand Sword Empire in ? turns
Bao Kingdom tax inefficiency ends in 1 turns
Some kind of conflict with Thousand Sword Empire in ? turns

>>4569229

>Extremely loyal and hard working elder who is otherwise average

>>4569231
You do know the whole point of variable loyalty is to get players to interact with those individuals if they want to increase that loyalty right? That and its more realistic not everyone is 100% loyal and will do whatever you say like a slave.

>>4569229
>Talented elder who cultivates fast and has a powerful bloodline
Hear me out, if we get a stable bloodline we don't get only one Foundation Elder, we get a dynasty.

>>4569259
>Focus on wealth
>Improve cultivation
The Nascent Soul will be ours.

>>4569229
>Extremely loyal and hard working elder who is otherwise average
Sect action:
>Focus on intrigue (Thousand Sword Empire)
Your own action:
>Train your intrigue elder Biyu Tang

As for the issue of factions... maybe we could encourage a few large factions rather than completely discouraging factions or permitting the factions to continue as they are. There'd be a degree of unity, and they would still be competitive.

>>4569259
Sect action:
>Focus on wealth
Your own action:
>Train someone in intrigue(Extremely loyal and hard working elder who is otherwise average)

serious lets not waste actions training biyu when there is someone clearly better

>>4569229
>Talented elder who cultivates fast and has a powerful bloodline
>>4569259
>Focus on wealth
>Train your intrigue elder Biyu Tang
She's close to late condensation and can reach foundation if she stops being a lazy ass

The reason I want to get the talented elder who has a powerful bloodline is that we could potentially improve the bloodline with our own talent. Extremely loyalty is good but they're only average with less long-term benefits which has me hesitant.

>>4569266
I was too late to attempt that

>>4569229
>Talented elder who cultivates fast and has a powerful bloodline
>Create a bulk order with Wu clan to supply equipment. Low volume, not particularly high standard, but consistent orders over a long period of time.
Giving them stable revenue as they pick themselves back together is good for making allies.

>Interact with the new Hero and train in Intrigue

>>4569259
>Talented elder who cultivates fast and has a powerful bloodline
>Train your intrigue elder Biyu Tang
Also the bulk order from >>4569393.

Changing my vote from >>4569262
>>4569289 to this >>4569393

>>4569266
Then give people more than one action every ten years.

>>4569695
Its mean to be a trade off. Do you want to focus on increasing a character's loyalty or focus on your own cultivation or etc. Also this is a cultivation quest, even at core creation your lifespan is around 800 years much less nascent soul which is 1600 years. 10 year turns are nothing.
>>4569268
>>4569278
>>4569295
>>4569393
>>4569563
>>4569619
This was confusing as fuck to tally up but okay I think this is accurate.
>Talented elder (Wen Zhu) who cultivates fast and has a powerful bloodline
>Create a bulk order with Xu clan to supply equipment. Low volume, not particularly high standard, but consistent orders over a long period of time.
>Train your intrigue elder Biyu Tang

Give me 3d100 best of 3. First is sect action, second is personal action, third is counter intrigue against Thousand Sword Empire. Writing will commence whenever the rolls are done.

>>4570325
I would say that improving loyalty of just one person for 10 years is kinda weird, and the possibility of failure is even weirder.

Id say its not realistic when spending 10 years, but cultivators hold their petty grudges for damn long times.

Rolled 38, 53, 30 = 121 (3d100)

>>4570325

Rolled 18, 85, 82 = 185 (3d100)

>>4570325

Rolled 9, 97, 99 = 205 (3d100)

>>4570325

>>4570353
Good anon

>>4570361
Was Biyu worth a 97 tho?

>>4570325
One action per fucking ten years is really stupid. No competent civilization game does this because it’s a stupid way of handling the action economy. You can’t convince me that talking to someone requires the same dedication cultivation does nor do you have to actually lock yourself in a room and isolate yourself when you cultivate (close door cultivation wouldn’t even make sense for the MC since he wants to be a “Harem master” thus it would make more sense for him to be a dual cultivator and require constant contact with women). Seriously what’s your excuse?

>>4570337
>>4570351
>>4570365
>Sect action: failure
>Personal action: significant success
>Counter intrigue: significant success It was originally something else but I decided to combine it with the Xu clan trade interaction failure because it flowed better when writing.

With the Xu clan still recovering from being the bait in the barbarian war, you decide that now would be a perfect time to establish friendly relationships with the clan. Especially with the Thousand Sword Empire making suspicious moves at your borders, you need every ally you can get. Once you tell your idea to our personal disciple and administration elder Xing Xiaochen, shes quick to work out the details to maximise potential friendships.

Your Loving Hearts sect makes a large bulk order of artefacts from the Xu clan. Your sect makes sure to order low volume, not particularly high standard, but consistent orders over a long period of time. This way our sect could help assist the Xu clan with stable revenues as they recover from the damage wrought in the war against the barbarians.

At first your sects attempts at diplomacy and relationship building works out stunningly. In the first couple years, there was much talk between your elders and theirs about a potential alliance or favourable trade agreements.
However everything goes wrong in the last few years of the trade deal as your trade caravans are repeatedly attacked by “bandits” along the way. It got so bad that it even required foundation establishment elders from both sides watching over the trade to ensure its success.

It was only with much effort from your elders that you found out that the bandits involved belonged to the Thousand Sword Empire. Whilst the Xu clan is still grateful for your attempt at building relationships, this soured things as the Xu clan had no intention of being involved in a possible conflict between you and the Thousand Sword Empire, especially when the Xu clan was still recovering from the barbarian war. On the upside all relations between the Xu clan and the Thousand Sword Empire has turned strained with increases in tariffs between the two.

You have suspicions that the Thousand Sword Empire bandits allowed themselves to be purposely caught to ensure that no alliance formal or informal is built between your sect and the Xu clan. You grit your teeth in annoyance at the schemes of Ran Yuan however at least you now know without a doubt that the Thousand Sword Empire regards your sect as an enemy. You are much more prepared for any further schemes and tricks.

1/3

>>4570386
With the possible of future intrigue conflicts with the Thousand Sword Empire, you dedicate time to train Biyu into being a proper intrigue elder. Your many years of following the Dao of the Harem King allows you much insights into intrigue which you slowly and by slowly I mean VERY VERY SLOWLY drill into the useless Biyu’s head.

“Intrigue is a like a game of Xiangqi (Chinese chess). Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a chariot or a soldier rather than a king or general. Do you understand Biyu?” you explain to Biyu.

“*snore*” she answers.

“*Whack* Wake up! I swear the next time you fall asleep I will force you to go into secluded cultivation for 50 years.” You rage as your temper gets the best of you.

She looks up at you with puppy dog eyes as she leans on you with her massive breasts.

Sigh. In the end you lose out to her charms and end up not punishing her beyond besides a few smacks whenever she fell asleep.

However whilst she proved as lazy as ever and learned slowly, Biyu was surprisingly effective when you actually conducted any tests with her.

By the end of your 10 years training her in intrigue, Biyu reached at least an AVERAGE level of intrigue skill. A massive improvement since she raised from INCOMPETENT and skipped BELOW AVERAGE straight to AVERAGE.

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Wen Zhu had always been talentless. Even through she tried her best and did exactly what everyone else in her family did, she simply failed to achieve the same results. Her father had always pointed out life isn't fair but is it so wrong to want to stand on the same starting point as everyone else? Why was life so unfair?

Almost as if to prove her beliefs on the unfairness of her life, one day she was kicked out of her clan because "she didn't put in enough effort and lacked the clan dragon-fire bloodline". Exiled from her clan, she travelled far to the east past the Serpent Spine Mountains to the region known as the Fertile Fields. Countless times in her journey she almost died but luckily her kind mother had at least given a few artefacts for her to protect herself as a parting gift which she had promptly spent surviving the Serpent Spine Mountains many dangers.

She had aimed to join one of the major sects of the Fertile Fields however each had refused her due to her lacking "tenacity, talent or anything of worth". She had raged for days and left with no other choice joined the only sect which would take her. The Loving Hearts sect yet in an act of absolute irony, her bloodline ignited within a year of joining. She was sure any of the other major sects and even her own high and mighty clan would accept her now but she refused. No she was going to show everyone by making this lowly Loving Hearts Sect the most powerful sect.

>>4570376
>Been crying nonstop for last couple posts
Calm down and enjoy the quest anon. If you're not having fun you can always drop it. No-ones forcing you to play.
Also dual cultivation is between equals you know? Main character is the only core creation in the sect.
>>4570389
>travelled far to the east past
QM had a brain derp, that should be west.

Xing Xiaochen is an mid foundation establishment elder responsible for your administration.

She is generally SKILLED in administration.

“Master congratulations on progressing on the long road of cultivation. Master, our current wealth sits at 4 with an income of 2 (base 10 minus 5 for tribute and minus 3 for pill creation clan ).

Our factions having neither received your blessing or naysay are starting to cause many issues internally. It's come time to choose whether to allow the factions or deny them.

>Allow factions
>Deny factions

With our deteriorating relationships with the Thousand Sword Empire I suggest we concentrate some actions on them for now. Whether we want to increase our defenses near their borders, attack them openly (which would need sufficient bribes to the Golden Merchant Alliance for allowing it), raid them discreetly or even negotiate with them.

In somewhat better news, Yue Shijian has reached great circle of foundation establishment. Maybe master will want to focus some time on befriending her as its likely at her pace to reach core creation. Its unlikely she will stay with our sect if she reaches core creation currently."

Biyu Tang is an mid qi condensation elder responsible for your intrigue, espionage and information gathering.

She is generally AVERAGE in intrigue.

"I've heard word that the Shu and Fang clan will begin war within the next 10 years. Also the Human-Demon Annihilation War to the east pf the Serpent Spine Mountains has ended in a stalemate as usual. "

Chen Chenhau an early Foundation Establishment elder who was responsible for your military matters which mostly meant the recruitment and training of your sect members and leading them during wars.

She is generally BELOW AVERAGE at recruitment and training. She CANNOT lead your forces in a war. Her cultivation progress has completely stalled to the point it’s unlikely for her to ever progress beyond early Foundation Establishment.

"W-we have 1500 qi condensation members, 6 foundation establishment elders and 1 core creation patriarch.

U-umm if theres an open war between us and The Thousand Sword empire, its currently looking like an ASSURED LOSS. We're outnumbered 3 to 1 qi condensation wise and 2 to 1 foundation establishment wise."

Sect action
>write in

Personal action
>write in

FUCK WORD LIMIT

>>4570399
>Allow factions
let's give our blessings to them

>Increase defenses on our borders with the 1K sword empire
>Befriend Yue Shijian

>>4570399
>Deny factions
Sect action
>Focus in recruitment
Personal action
>Befriend Yue Shijian
Reasoning: denying factions give us a minor loyalty boost that we need. For the clan action is best to focus in recruitment after all the sword sect outnumber us in 3 to 1 qi condensation wise and 2 to 1 foundation establishment wise. The yue action is because someone that is near core and extreme martial skill is going to be useful in a war.

>>4570399
>Create a test to be acknowledged by yourself as a faction
something leadership oriented

Sect action
>Improve relations with our mortal kingdoms
Place defenses, uphold justice, improve roads/infrastructure. An attack from thousand sword will do a lot of collateral, better make sure they like us before that.

Personal
>Befriend Yue Shijian

>>4570399
>Allow factions

Sect
>Focus on training disciples
I get that more disciples is good, but in this scenario > quality > quantity

Personal
>Cultivate
Befriending Yue is definetly a good option, but think of it like this: we fought the 1K emperor/bossdude to a standstill on equal cultivation stages. We have broken through, but he might have as well, as he seems to be talented to reach as far as he has as a "normal" mortal cultivator, if we roll decently this turn and cultivate next turn as well we'll break through putting us at an solid advantage in combat against him, which will decide a LOT

>>4571010
>I get that more disciples is good, but in this scenario > quality > quantity
I got it, the problem is our base is outnumbered 3 to 1 so might wanna reduce this a little

>>4571024
The difference is gonna be in the higher echelons though, we could probably solo hundreds if not thousands qi cultivators. So i think if we can come out on top in the high tier battles, we could turn that higher stage power to the thousands of weaklings and break their morale pretty easily.
This is pure speculation though, based on my experience with xianxia's

>>4571076
>we could probably solo hundreds qi cultivators
Don't want to give concrete numbers but yeah around there. If no interference you can probably kill hundreds of qi condensation cultivators.
>>4570406
>>4570424
>>4570578
>>4571010
>Allow factions
>Build defenses within mortal kingdoms
>Befriend Yue Shijian
Can I get 3 rolls of 2d100 to see how everything goes. Writing once rolls complete.

Rolled 48, 13 = 61 (2d100)

>>4571603
see me fuck this up

Rolled 99, 86 = 185 (2d100)

>>4571603

>>4571659
Lol its okay anon this >>4571678 anon has your back it seems.
Inb4 third roller does even better and rolls a 100 crit for the Yue Shijian scene which makes the scene basically "you made her wet as fuck and she wants to fuck you"

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>>4571678

Rolled 54, 56 = 110 (2d100)

>>4571603

>>4571678
>>4571690
wtf my rolls are usually terrible.

My bloodline of dice luck is aligned to xianxia of all things.

>>4571659
>>4571678
>>4571699
>Sect action: massive success
>Personal action: moderate success

With the suspicious moves of the Thousand Sword Empire, you make a point to properly prepare for a defensive war. QM is presuming that since anons chose to create defenses that they would want a defensive war over a offensive one. Correct me if I'm wrong.

The most crucial step of this is to deal with your mortal kingdoms you rule over. You rule over 3 moderately sized mortal kingdoms. The moderately sized ones contain a couple million people each.

The 3 mortal kingdoms you rule over are the Bao kingdom, Xiaochen kingdom and Shu kingdom.

Bao kingdom is a mortal kingdom formed approx 700 years ago by a core creation cultivator who discovered a minor spirit stone mine within the country. It is currently ruled over by a queen called Ruo Bao who was forcibly installed by yourself. They are responsible for around 20% of your income (i.e. 2 income) in spirit stone tributes. Your current relations with this kingdom are EXTREMELY POOR after what you did to their king.

The second kingdom you rule over is the Xiaochen kingdom which was formed 90 years ago when you forcibly installed Xing Xiaochen's sister Ling Xiaochen to the throne after wiping out the previous lineage. Just remembering what happened 90 years ago pisses you off and you'd love to never go near the place but unfortunately its responsible for 10% of your income in the form of its many rare spiritual herbs as tributes. Both you and Xing Xiaochen originate from this area. Your current relations with this kingdom are POOR mostly due to both you and elder Xiaochen's immense dislike of the place resulting in constant social faux pas and disrespect.

The final kingdom you rule over is the Shu kingdom formed by an exiled Shu clan core creation cultivator 1200 years ago. They are responsible for around 40% of your income in beast cores as well as providing the majority of your disciples. They are the most powerful mortal kingdom under your rule but luckily the kingdom focuses almost completely on hunting down monstrous beasts and expeditions to the Serpent Spine Mountains. Their ruler is the hotblooded king Li Shu. Your current relations with them are VERY GOOD as they like the fact you only recruit beautiful women as disciples instead of taking the individuals with actual talent.

Whilst building fortifications and defensive arrays, your diplomats and other sect members managed to heavily impress and befriend one of these kingdoms. Which is it?

>Bao Kingdom
>Xiaochen Kingdom
>Shu Kingdom

This looked like as good as time as any to go into more detail about your vassal mortal kingdoms. Sorry about the loredump. Short post today because I'm really tired. I'll stay around for another couple hours so feel free to ask any questions. No more updates today however.

>>4571783
>Bao Kingdom
xianxia worlds are densely populated, wow.

If the Shu kingdom is tough enough for Sepent Spine, then they can take care of themselves. A warning and perhaps allowing disciples who hail from that region to help defend should be enough.

They might target the herbs because we're pill makers, but that's an acceptable loss and they're not working so well for MC anymore anyway.

That leaves the spirit stones. Can spirit stones and beast cores be used in pill making?

>>4571795
>Can spirit stones and beast cores be used in pill making?
No spirit stones and beast cores are mostly used to improve cultivation or to craft artefacts.

>>4571783
>Bao Kingdom

>>4571783
>Bao Kingdom

Question for the qm, can you give us a scale for the relations? Is VERY GOOD the best it can be? Does it become harder to improve already high relations? Or some info along these lines.

>>4571863
HATED ENEMY>EXTREMELY POOR>POOR>AVERAGE>GOOD>VERY GOOD>TRUE FRIENDS

I spent like 5 mins trying to decide if this knowledge would be OOC or not but decided with Biyu's improvements that this information would be known IC.

Choosing Bao Kingdom would move them from extremely poor to poor and make them much less likely to betray you during the inevitable conflict between your sect and the thousand sword empire.

Choosing Xiaochen kingdom would move them from poor to average which would completely remove any chances of them betraying you and increase likelihood of them sending any help in the war instead of just watching safely from the sidelines. Of course this is a moot point if their kingdom becomes the battlefield as than their full force would assist either way.

Choosing Shu kingdom would push them from VERY GOOD to TRUE FRIENDS which means rather than them being willing to provide you a tribute of manpower, they would instead fully invest themselves in the war. Of course this is a moot point if their kingdom becomes the battlefield as than their full force would assist either way.

Note relations normally don't improve just from one action, you rolled a 99 to get this benefit.

>>4571783
>Bao Kingdom

>>4571783
>Bao Kingdom

>>4571880
This almost makes me wanna vote xiaochen kingdom, so we know we're secure in 2 of our 3 vassals and we're ready for betrayal in our last one

OP where are you ?

>>4572870
It hasn't even been a day yet anon.

>>4571795
>>4571817
>>4571863
>>4571907
>>4571919
>>4571795
>>4571817
>>4571863
>>4571907
>>4571919
>>4572157
>Bao Kingdom
Whilst your sect constructs many defensive arrays and fortifications throughout your vassal kingdoms, none of them equal the Star Fortress that is constructed within the Bao Kingdom. The Star Fortress is a magnificent work of art with countless layered arrays of defenses both magical and mundane with a focus on poisonous qi attacks.

Your sect had created it after altering the 7 layered poisonous array the Bao Kingdom once attempted to use against you. Your sect's knowledge of poisons (since what kind of pill sect doesn't know about poisons) had enhanced the original array significantly such that the poisonous defenses are incredibly debilitating and deadly

One of the key features of the Star Fortress is that its defenses are so powerful it can even resist core creation cultivators for hours much less foundation establishment cultivators which it can defend against for decades even with a numerical disadvantage. Those that attempt to ignore the fortress and fly past it will suffer constant homing qi arrows filled deadly poisons,

The Bao Kingdom was of course much enthused by your sect's focus on their land's defenses although the truth was you had constructed the fortress in such a way that's its defensible both for and against the Bao Kingdom since you didn't trust them not to betray you. It was simply a nice misunderstanding that they thought your sect particularly cared about their kingdom.

They even held a massive party to thank your sect for its "focus on their safety" however the event left you and most of your sect extremely confused. At the event, almost as soon as the queen Ruo Bao had seen you she had slapped you across the face much to the chagrin of everyone else there. Normally when you're slapped by a woman, its because you had left them on a one night stand or had slept with one of their daughters yet you're sure you've not done either to Ruo Bao.

On the upside you were able to gain 1 wealth as an apology from the Bao Kingdom.

1/3

>>4573090
Huh, how did that happen.


Yue Shijian, your great circle of foundation establishment elder whose cultivation speed is probably the highest within your sect by far and whose combat ability is apparently unmatched within the sect.

You’ve always wonder what kind of secrets she has but you’re not normally one to pry into the secrets of your disciples. Almost all of your elders has their own story and hidden past but you’ve always believed in never pushing or prying secrets from your beauties.

However with the possible war between your Loving Hearts Sect and the Thousand Sword Empire in the near future you’re left without a choice. Yue Shijian is too powerful for you to ignore her and so even through it’s not in your nature you must pry.

At first your attempts to get closer to Yue Shijian fail due to the sheer condescending tone Yue treats you with. You’d think that Yue wasn’t just a foundation establishment cultivator from how much she looks down on you however you aren’t one who pursues the Harem King Dao for nothing.

You start with flattery but she scornfully points out “flattery is like chewing gum, enjoy but never swallow it”. However you do note that whilst she won’t “swallow” your flattery, she still very much enjoys it.

Over the course of a few years of playful pursuit and flattery you’ve managed to worm you way into the heart of Yue Shijian. Think of the dance of light seduction between you and her like a board game of xianqi. She knew how the pieces moved and could even be called somewhat competent however you were a grandmaster of the pursuit and seduction of women. You knew when to attack with a flattery and when to attack with gifts, you knew when to retreat and when it’s okay to advance and you knew thousands upon thousands of schemes and strategies to sway her.

You quickly discovered over the past few years of pursuit that she was clearly far above you in worldly experience and knowledge however for all her experience, she still could do nothing against a master seducer such as yourself for you far surpassed her in the dance between genders.

Whilst she refused to tell you her many secrets, she did seem much more friendly by the end of your 10 years of swaying her. With your immense knowledge of woman and Dao of Harem King, you’d say Yue Shijian somewhat likes you although you’re pretty sure she still completely looks down on you and your sect.

At the very least she’s unlikely to leave your sect unless she far surpasses you in cultivation and even than she would remain on friendly terms with you personally.
2/3

>>4573092
You spend time over the last couple of years ensuring the successful founding of many different factions amongst your sect members. You do overt acts like directly giving your blessing and creating a yearly team based tournament to help push the factions into competition. You also do many more subtle acts such as purposely overlooking minor acts of bullying as well as sowing seeds of discontent between the different factions. Hopefully this will push your sect disciples into constant competition and rivalry which will result in much increased cultivation speed and overall power.

Xing Xiaochen is a mid foundation establishment elder responsible for your administration.

She is generally SKILLED in administration.

“Master, our current wealth sits at 7 with an income of 2 (base 10 minus 5 for tribute and minus 3 for pill creation clan ).

With our current wealth, maybe we can hire some foundation establishment mercenaries for the upcoming conflict between our sect and the Thousand Sword Empire? I predict it'll cost around 1 wealth per early-mid foundation establishment or 3 wealth per late-great circle foundation establishment.

Any wealth "spent" will be reserved for purchasing mercenaries when/if war breaks out. On the upside this will bridge the gap between our sect and the Thousand Sword Empire, on the downside thats wealth reserved we can't use elsewhere."

Purchase foundation establishment mercenaries?
>Yes (write in how many)
>No

Biyu Tang is an late qi condensation elder responsible for your intrigue, espionage and information gathering. Huh Biyu improved? At this rate she may make foundation establishment before the end of her life.

She is generally AVERAGE in intrigue.

"The Shu and Fang clan war has erupted over tariffs. The Fang clan are offering 10 wealth for Core Creation cultivator mercenaries. Maybe patriarch can become a mercenary for them? On the one hand its a massive wealth for us on top of any loot taken from battle, on the other hand Thousand Sword Empire may act whilst you're busy and being a mercenary has personal risk.

Additionally one of my super lucky spy informs me that the Xu clan patriach has found the tomb of a spirit severing cultivator in their lands. No-one besides us and the Xu clan knows currently. Do we want to do anything about this? If nothing is done its highly likely the Xu clan will dramatically increase in power and their patriarch may even reach nascent soul."

3/4 Biyu rolled a 100 btw if it wasn't obvious

>>4573102
Chen Chenhau an early Foundation Establishment elder who was responsible for your military matters which mostly meant the recruitment and training of your sect members and leading them during wars.

She is generally BELOW AVERAGE at recruitment and training. She CANNOT lead your forces in a war. Her cultivation progress has completely stalled to the point it’s unlikely for her to ever progress beyond early Foundation Establishment.

"W-we have 1600 qi condensation members, 6 foundation establishment elders and 1 core creation patriarch.

O-our new fortifications mean we'd have a small chance to actually win the war if we fight purely defensively and waste enough of the Thousand Sword Empire resources that they q-quit due to cost being too high."

Sect action:
>Focus on wealth
>Construct something (write in, price varies)
>Focus on intrigue (write in target)
>Focus on recruitment (more qi condensation members)
>Focus on training disciples (low chance for members to increase a major realm)
>Write in

Your own action:
>Aid clan action (provides +10 mod to that roll)
>Improve cultivation
>Interact with (write in)
>Create your own bloodline
>Write in


Known future events:
War with Thousand Sword Empire in ? turns

>>4573105
Sect action:
>Explore tomb of the spirit severing cultivator try to get a mutual agreement with the xu clan to share the rewards to avoid conflict.
Your own action:
>Improve cultivation

>>4573106
dude, there's no way they'd agree to that. They'd have to critfail and die to traps and beasts inside before they'd be willing to split in thanks for bailing them out.

>>4573105
screwit, let's do this

Sect
>Purchase/Construct farms for hallucinogenic perfumes/poisons from One Heaven Church
>Mention that Thousand Sword Empire is preoccupied with us

Even if they don't exploit the vulnerability, maybe we can use the poisons as an alternate challenge to push for cultivation.

Personal
>Take Yue Shijian to plunder the Xu tomb.
Wow harem king stronk. Should we just like, seduce the fuck out of all the mortals?

>>4573189
>dude, there's no way they'd agree to that. They'd have to critfail and die to traps and beasts inside before they'd be willing to split in thanks for bailing them out.
Ehh it'd be a roll to get them to agree, the information you have is blackmail worthy (i.e. let us split the spoils or we'll reveal your tomb).

But if you did fail or only barely succeed the roll DC than your relations with Xu clan would plummet like no tomorrow which could lead to another Thousand Sword Empire situation once the Xu clan fully recovers from the barbarian war after effects. It leads to the scenario of how much players care about the possible tomb rewards.

>Wow harem king stronk. Should we just like, seduce the fuck out of all the mortals?
Yeah you have massive bonuses from your personality and dao vs women in social settings lol.

>>4573212
Qm what happens if we try to ridden the tomb without an agreement with the xu clan, our relation is going to fall automatically or we are still gonna for it ?

>>4573219
>or we are still gonna roll for it ?

>>4573212
Are we stealthy enough to loot the tomb without them noticing us?

If we "only" piss them off I guess we just write off any chance of alliance, but having them declare way would be kinda bad.

>>4573219
You'd need an agreement with Xu clan or you'd need to fight them for access. They have the only entrance closely guarded.

You're not stealth focused (hell you're not even combat focused) so attempting to sneak in would end pretty damn badly. Attacking and forcibly entering is actual sect suicide since you'll be at war with two different factions at once on top of the wealth bribe to the Golden Merchant Alliance.

Honestly unless you're confident in a 100, you'd need to negotiate. This would be different if you had a stealth focused dao instead of harem king dao.

>>4573237
Okay, I'll change my vote then

>>4573189
> try to get a mutual agreement with the xu clan to share the rewards to avoid conflict.
>Tell Yue of the Xu tomb
>If she can reveal any secrets or knowledge that would be handy for a leverage in negotiating, she can come with us.
>Otherwise, we bring Xing Xiaochen
wonder if Yue can pose as some sort of trap specialist.

>>4573230
There is almost zero chance of them declaring offensive war against you. Any offensive wars need to bribe the Golden Merchant Alliance and the Xu clan just don't have the wealth for that after having their territories ravaged by the barbarians in the barbarian war recently.

Worst case scenario would lead to Xu clan taking intrigue actions or small raids against you.

>>4573102
>Yes (2 early-mid)
gotta close that gap a little
>>4573102
>Biyu rolled a 100 btw if it wasn't obvious
wait a minute, she rolls as well ?
>>4573105
>Purchase/Construct farms for hallucinogenic perfumes/poisons from One Heaven Church
>Train Chen Chenhau to get her rid of her impediment on leading troops
We need this, specially since we need all of our top dogs in case of a war

>>4573290
>wait a minute, she rolls as well ?
I'm rolling in the background for all hero units and all major regional factions on the left side of the map. I'm also rolling for the 4 minor factions within the Golden Merchant Alliance.

You didn't think the other factions were just sitting on their ass waiting for you right?

Admittedly its only 1 roll for each of them instead of your 3 rolls but players should have some kind of advantage over the non-player factions.

>>4573300
>You didn't think the other factions were just sitting on their ass waiting for you right?
no, but i didn't expect them to roll kek

>>4573106
Complement to my vote
>Yes(3 early-mid foundation establishment)

QM can we subtly leak the info of the Xu clans findings to the 1k empire, stoking conflict and preventing an agreement, then when theyve gotten the treasures from the tomb, ambush them? As the mantis stalks the cincada, the fisherman reaps the rewards or something like that

>>4573799
Yes, you can leak the information to the Thousand Sword Empire but if they found out you were responsible than Xu clan would hate you. All options (besides sneak in and frontal attack) anons mentioned so far including this one are viable choices.

>>4573799
>>4574040
An interesting suggestion, though I'm not certain it's any better than agreeing to split the loot between ourselves, The Xu clan would make a dangerous foe.

>>4573106
Support but also hire a great circle foundation establishment, for inscurance

>>4573106
>>4573241
>>4573290
>>4574306
>Sect action: Make agreement + explore tomb with Xu clan
>Own action: Improve cultivation

Almost fucked this up than realised one of the anons changed their vote.

Please give me 3 rolls of 3d100, first for convincing Xu clan, second for improving cultivation, third for counter intrigue vs Golden Merchant Alliance.

Will start writing once rolls complete.