@Blacksad the spirit is basically her 'master' I believe. He's the other Soul Controlling Sect disciple that escaped (the other being the guy who found the city then died in the cave while trying to take over Little Mo). Loyalty is a tenuous thing in cultivation. When you are trying to...
@gdach already following lol. Still, they'll leave everyone else behind in the end. The scale is simply different when you live for 10,000+ year and everyone you used to know is long gone and dead.
@gdach @letmebegin cultivation is inherently selfish. Normal humans have to cooperate in order to grow the community because an individual human cannot do everything, but a cohesive group can do wonders. Cultivators are the complete opposite, the final destination for most cultivators will be...
@shiirosagi it's not just simply tradition. In wuxia culture which is based on traditional Chinese ideals the relationship between master and apprentice is considered to be more sacred than that of parent and child. Student master relationship would be the same as parent child relationship.
@alacaelum
It's shijie/shimei for senior/junior sis, shixiong/sidi for senior junior bro, its hard to pronounce in english so most translations just do the literal. It doesn't seem to roll of the tongue like the Japanese/Korean equivalents.
The punishment is just a pretense, the bald cultivator that was cultivating prisoners had the senior sister kill them as payment for what he gave her. The death of the Patriarch basically meant the family lost their protection.
@caujin
@Gauvain
The raws are split chapters so going by our numbering they're actually at 114.
Search the Chinese name of this in Google and I think one of the first results should be free with the latest updates
@alacaelum
Historically in China in upper class society people refer to themselves in the third person when addressing someone of a different station. You see this often in Imperial court, where the Emperor his a third person title that only he alone is allowed to use to refer to himself. His...