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Looks interesting. I'll definitely be keeping my eye on this one.

I wouldn't be surprised if that's where the inspiration for his character came from.

That would be elder Shouzi, the hidden elder of the sect. AKA, the Monkey God. He's the old man that was spying on women bathing in the river.

Yang Bohai is the bald muscle giant who is the second strongest elder in the sect.

If you have regeneration and high vitality, it's better to leave the black spot alone. You'll get an additional talent if you just power through without any help.

How I feel about Ai, tbh.

Author just hasn't written any romantic scenes with Tang Ruo yet. Only characters who have gotten any major developments in the story are Tigress and Mei Mei, and Ai to a lesser extent.

Are you playing the Boosty demo by any chance? If not, then MC makes some SERIOUS headway in terms of strength, so you have a lot to look forward to.

I'm not trying to argue with you, but I do want to bring attention to one thing.

If we follow the logic that even the main character himself stated as well as tang wei, these stones should make him even stronger. By now, in the story, he's found 2 stones, so absorbing the second one should at least put him at peak houtain. I'm simply pointing out the plot holes I'm seeing,

This is assuming two things:

1. That qi stones are all made equal. We don't really know this; the second qi stone may have just been less potent than the first.

2. That going from middle-Houtian to peak-Houtian takes the same amount of effort as going from mortal to middle-Houtian. It most likely isn't.

Take Tang Ruo for example. They enter early-Houtian a few days (or weeks) after entering the sect. Then they enter middle-Houtian right before the expo. This was over the course of several months. Now a 2.5-year time-skip happens, and they've only reached late-Houtian.

We know Tang Ruo never stopped training. So that could only mean the time, training, and power necessary to ascend to the next stage will take longer every "level up," so to speak.

That's it. Personally, it makes sense to me. Though, you likely know more about cultivation stories than me, and so if that runs contradictory to other xianxia tales, then that's fair criticism. Have a good day.

I think you're being unreasonably impatient when you expect them to just jump to the next major power stage in matter of weeks, as if it didn't take other people decades if not more. That'd be just silly level of player's ego stroking.

It seems to be a common sentiment for fans to question why we aren't instantly bulldozing everyone and leaving our competition in the dust. It isn't enough that we're within the top 2 of our generation, we also have to be able to beat everyone and everything without breaking a sweat. Not only that, but we also have to completely overtake Tang Ruo who's been training far longer, with better teachers, countless priceless artifacts, and has been juicing since they were a kid.

Personally, I like that not everyone can just be steamrolled. It enriches the world, provides stakes, and gives a sense of accomplishment whenever we actually fight and beat someone strong, like in the latest Boosty update.

I won't spoil what happens, but choosing to kill Mo Long doesn't strictly result in a game over later on. You can absolutely kill him if you want to for your evil play through.

Yeah, there are consequences to killing and sparing him. Did you happen to change your last name? That offers a change to the mission if you happen to do so.

Perhaps I came across as argumentative in my first response, and it seemed like I was jumping to the defense of the work like some rabid follower. Apologies, that was not my intention.

I interpreted your criticisms as less constructive as some of your grievances seemed to overlook some of the smaller details or events within the story that I felt would have addressed them otherwise. Of course, that isn't for me to presume.

As you've made clear, we all have our own opinions and I, like you, just want this story to prosper.

I can try to address most of your issues or complaints about the narrative:

1. "Another thing is that the prince/princess is always being worshipped by everyone, yet the protag, who is supposed to have this ultra divine blood, is, from a narrative perspective, sort of put into the second-place category."

 The imperial heir essentially is the leading figure in MC's generation. They have access to numerous priceless artifacts, fortune, martial arts and skills, as well as incredibly strong mentors, such as their grandfather, the current emperor and strongest martial artist in the world. Also, their aunt, the Sword Mistress, whom by Tang Ruo's account is the best sword wielder in the world. Tang Ruo is expected to become the next martial sovereign on reputation alone. Not to mention the 97% blood purity. Tang Ruo has a massive head start compared to MC, which is shown and explained when they first fight.

Meanwhile MC is the heir to a dying clan that's been having a talent drought for centuries, at least, which was only briefly broken by their father. It's even stated by the library that if nothing is done, then the Wu clan may just die off in the next hundred years. The only things going for the MC are the inherited clan martial skills and perfect blood purity. Compared to Tang Ruo, they're severely lacking in resources and experience. A mere difference of 3% blood purity isn't enough for the MC to overtake the prince/princess is a matter of months or even a few years. So, from a narrative perspective, it makes sense that Tang Ruo is going to be the more focused disciple in the martial world, for now at least.

That being said, the MC absolutely takes Ws and are a force to be reckoned with in their own right. As far as the point you are currently at, you can: beat Tang Ruo in the tournament, beat an early-Houtian for your first arena match, beat a bandit gang lead by another early-Houtian martial artist, and beat the son of the DQ who has the ability to transform, albeit partially, into Asura (most powerful transformation in the verse btw).

Also, the only things Tang Ruo has done since entering the sect was enter early-Houtian off screen, showcase their eyes of perfect replication, and then beat up Jing Guo's brother in the arena, who initially was 2 stages higher than them. It's impressive and it overshadows MC's feats by a considerable margin, but you have to remember that they have ridiculously powerful martial arts and in-born talents that the MC doesn't get due to their differences in family.

2. "Like, if Ruo is beating people in the Arena, we should be beating people in the Arena."

We do. In fact, as of current build, we have two arena fights. We haven't done an arena marathon like Tang Ruo did right before the expo, but we still get to showcase our abilities and prove ourselves to the masses.

3. Ruo copied two of our abilities with their magic eye hacks, then has not shown to use them again (on-screen at least). Besides, MC will eventually gain access to new abilities and resources that exponentially increases their power (some available in current build, in fact). Tigress gets a master before you, yes, but you eventually are recruited by an elder of the sect (again, available in current build). The protagonist is strong, it's just that the MC is constantly going up against top tiers and higher stage practitioners that you may feel otherwise.

4. "it's turned into a slog where the story doesn't make us feel like we're progressing at all - that we are always behind in a world where people are far more powerful than us, despite us apparently being born with enormous potential."

I mean, not really. MC and Tang Ruo are the top 2 of their generation, far above the likes of Ai, Tigress, and Jing Guo. MC is pretty much going against the top brass and trivializing everyone at or beneath their martial level. Literally, the only people that give the MC trouble are the ones who are at the top of peak-Houtian and above. Which makes sense, because there is absolutely no reason for MC to start clowning on people decades their senior or characters so high above their weight class.

As far as Tang Ruo goes, they do get humbled. It actually happens not that long after you left off in fact. They're still considerably stronger than you (at the point you left off), but MC quickly grows stronger, and you'll learn why.

How much of the story are you going to incorporate into your game? I just booted up the game and saw you included the pirate king's execution. It would be incredibly ambitious to include every significant event or arc in the story, so I just had to ask.

I 100% current build.

1. You can't do anything there right now.

2. No, letting Velvetia possess you doesn't do anything right now.

3. The most impact I've seen with the fox shrine is having speed drastically increased. There is a bar with the body influence levels, if you max it, it increases the speed characters have when they are possessed by the same spirit.

Take Galiene for example. Base Galiene has a speed of 129 at 90, but possessed Galiene has a max speed of 221 with a full bar.

Take note that you do not have to battle to increase the body influence levels. You can just fast forward time to increase it.

Hope that answers your questions.

2 bugs:

1. If you max level Faylen when she's possessed by Cindy, release her, then possess her as Celica, her level goes down when Cindy re-possesses her. I've seen her level get reduced from 90 to 72. This bug has been present at least for the last two updates. If you want to see proof, scroll down and you'll see a previous comment that I've made concerning this about 2 days ago. (You'll also notice the increasing speed I was talking about, ignore that. The speed increase is actually a result of increasing a spirit's body influence. Speed does have a limit.)

2. If you have Faylen wearing her lingerie set as Cindy, when she masturbates in battle, she will change into her normal attire.

I have Faylen equipped with the lingerie set, but she changes into her normal armor whenever she masturbates in battle.

Get Ceres and Faylen to max affection levels. I'm on patreon build btw, you'll have to wait until next update if you're on public.

My bad. Probably when they next update to .22 for the highest tier if I had to take a guess.

So, there's quite a few things I've noticed when level grinding.

1. Possessed Galiene doesn't have a speed limit. She is already at max level here. 

Base Galiene is also at level 90 with 129 speed. I haven't checked if base Galiene could continue to grow her speed, and I haven't bothered to see if other possessed characters (Cephrina-Evie, Cephrina-Selena, etc.) can continue to grow or not.

2. If you max level possessed Faylen, tell Cindy to release her body, then possess Faylen as Celica, her level decreases when she gets re-possessed by Cindy. Most likely averaging the levels between Celica-Faylen and Cindy-Faylen.

Before telling Cindy to release:

After possessing as Celica, then re-possessing as Cindy:

You'll notice that Faylen's speed is quite high at this level, and I imagine it will most likely surpass her previous speed of 161.

All my relationships are at their highest levels. I ask this because you usually have to tell Nel to go wherever she wants and there's a chance for her to gather a new recruit.

Would you happen to know what body influence impacts?

Yeah, originally $20, but at 50% off, so bought at $10.

How many of the current companions can be auto-recruited into the party using Nel? I only have Evie and possessed Galiene that Nel can recruit.

Also, what is the extent of body influence levels? Is that simply a measure of who has controlled which character the longest?

I'm a $10 buyer and able to download it right now.

The quest is unavoidable. If you killed the demon queen's son, it's basically submit or die.

Played the new boosty update. Will there be a way to later reconciliate with Mei Mei or maybe add a third option to stay friends if you kill the bh?

Choices right now are to either get into a "partnership" or become enemies. I'm fine with the former, but the latter is the only choice for female MCs though.

That's good to know. I figured it was a result of the relationship improving between Celica and Nel.

How can you manipulate an NPC's sexual openness? I wasn't under the impression that each character gets their own sexual openness stat.

Is this determined by Celica's lust stat?

Was there a reason for getting rid of the prestige stat?

It was bugged before, then I was able to purchase one. Though, I honestly don't know what caused it to work now when it didn't previously.

Is there a way to buy mercenaries? I keep trying to pay for one from the guild, but it's not working.

Will stat maximums be readjusted for MCs with a dragon tattoo? Dragon tattoo increases max stats by 20, but we are still capped at 1,000. Is this intentional so that we don't breach into early xiantian stats?

Oh, that's good to know. I was stat editing it on anyways.

No, the "beautiful" variable is enabled. It's not enabling the "talent_chr" variable that allows half the exp required to increase charisma.

There's a coding error when selecting the good-looking trait in the beginning. It's not enabling the "talent_chr" variable when it normally should.

On premium/boosty version. Getting an error that prevents me from raising attributes.

sect_meditation line 128: can't divide by zero

Edit: Never mind, fixed it by raising the attribute limits to 500. That being said, the dragon tattoo you get from the panda is now worthless as I cannot surpass 1,000 in any stat, when the game previously allows 520.

Hi there, I really enjoyed your game. The ending hinted to a sequel, is that currently being worked on? I know you used to have a Patreon page, but it looks like you've shut game developments down while you were still working on "Alina: Sorceress in Trouble."

Tigress is pretty much the only romance option that you can go anywhere with right now. At most, you can just flirt with the other cast members and spend time with them, but it's nothing so developed as Tigress' romance.

I hope can we get more Ai content soon. She gets quite a lot less screentime compared to the other cast members.

What happened to the little kid we save on the mission with Ai? There hasn't been any mention of him in a long time.