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"Ave Xia Rem Y" is an original work made by Mat Haz (otherwise known as [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/members/redhazard.304704/ Red Hazard]]), and is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin (well, almost). It can be found on [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/ave-xia-rem-y-a-very-cliche-xianxia-story.589587/ spacebattles.com]], and is also on [[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/15193/ave-xia-rem-y Royal Road]]. Mat Haz also has a [[https://www.patreon.com/user?u=23356351 Patreon for the story]], where he releases chapters early (along with some other stuff).

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"Ave Xia Rem Y" is an original work made by Mat Haz (otherwise known as [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/members/redhazard.304704/ Red Hazard]]), and is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin (well, almost). It can be found on [[https://forums.Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom ([[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/ave-xia-rem-y-a-very-cliche-xianxia-story.589587/ spacebattles.com]], here]]), and is also on [[https://www.Website/RoyalRoad ([[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/15193/ave-xia-rem-y Royal Road]].here]]). Mat Haz also has a [[https://www.patreon.com/user?u=23356351 Patreon for the story]], where he releases chapters early (along with some other stuff).
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This story also has a [[https://ave-xia-rem-y.fandom.com/wiki/Ave_Xia_Rem_Y_Wiki wikia]] and also a [[https://discord.gg/6andnhW5 discord.]]

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This story also has a [[https://ave-xia-rem-y.fandom.com/wiki/Ave_Xia_Rem_Y_Wiki wikia]] Wiki]] and also a [[https://discord.gg/6andnhW5 discord.Discord.]]

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%% * ElementalMotifs: The Four Great Sects of the Crimson Cloud Empire are each associated with an element. The Eternal Flame Clan is fire, the Divine Frozen Palace is water, the Infinite Mountain Sect is earth, and the Eternal Raging Valley is wind.



* FourElementEnsemble: The Four Great Sects of the Crimson Cloud Empire are each associated with an element. The Eternal Flame Clan is fire, the Divine Frozen Palace is water, the Infinite Mountain Sect is earth, and the Eternal Raging Valley is wind.
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* BladeOnAStick: Liu Jin takes up the spear before he joined the Eternal Fame Clan. He considers it to be a part of his Qing Jin disguise.

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** Xiao Nan is an aversion to this, he isn;t aloof at all to his cousin Fang and jin.



** Feng Zhi to his cousin Feng Zhou and his little brother Feng Hao. As both of them are much much more talented then him. (even if hao isn't currently on zhi's level).

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** Feng Zhi to his cousin Feng Zhou and his little brother Feng Hao. As both of them are much much, much more talented then him. (even if hao isn't currently on zhi's level).
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* AbsurdCuttingPower: The severing palm of the yun sect at high levels can be used to cut space apart.

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* AbsurdCuttingPower: The severing palm Severing Palm of the yun Yun sect at high levels can be used to cut space apart.

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* AbsurdCuttingPower: severing palm of the gun sect.

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** Feng Zhi to his cousin Feng Zhou and his little brother Feng Hao. As both of them are much much more talented then him. (even if hao isn't currently on zhi's level).


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** Haung Shing and Yi Jiao were to be married. As the match was because of their families and a union of their clans and both of them were friends it should have worked out. But Feng zhi came in and took Yi Jiao away leading Shing to chase after him. [[spoiler: we find out later in story that jiao has never wanted to be married to Shing and that her getting kidnapped by Zhi was by choice. Also Jiao is in a romantic relationship with Zhi now.]]


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** Making such things is an actual job and art practiced by those that call themselves ''spatial artists''.
** the Sacred Bottomless Pearl is a multitude above everything we have seen from the rest. Being compared by the author to be phd math to the rests middle school math.
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* OrderVsChaos: The basis of the conflict between [[PrincelingRivalry Feng Shang and Feng Gui.]] Shang is cautious and favours stability and steady growth while Gui is reckless and wants to take risks like fixing the Eternal Flame for the chance of greater power.

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* OrderVsChaos: The basis of the conflict between [[PrincelingRivalry Feng Shang and Feng Gui.]] Shang is cautious and favours stability and steady growth growth, while Gui is reckless and wants to take risks like fixing the Eternal Flame for the chance of greater power.



** Feng Shang’s ability to actually keep things stable is questionable, given his actions in the conflict. The recreation of the [[StateSec Internal Force]] and especially the release of [[ForTheEvulz Xun Huwen]] have caused far more chaos than anything Feng Gui has done and made those like [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility Elder Chang]] rethink their loyalties.Shang’s side is also revealed to be infested with traitors to the Eternal Flame Clan.

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** Feng Shang’s ability to actually keep things stable is questionable, given his actions in the conflict. The recreation of the [[StateSec Internal Force]] and especially the release of [[ForTheEvulz Xun Huwen]] have caused far more chaos than anything Feng Gui has done done, and made those like [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility Elder Chang]] rethink their loyalties.loyalties. Shang’s side is also revealed to be infested with traitors to the Eternal Flame Clan.
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* AbsurdCuttingPower: severing palm of the gun sect.


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*ActionGirl: we have several examples of such from our mei to fan bingbing and more.

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** Jin himself has over the course of the story into an ace himself. Though he always was amazing at the medical field now he is respected/worshipped by quite a lot of people.
** in general you can count on anyone in the emperor realm to be an ace of some kind, especially the high level emperors. not to mention the divine realm cultivators.



** Jin has started to teach lu mei that very Same technique. We still don't know to what degree she can use it though.



* ArtificialLimbs: Lei Kong has a prosthetic arm made of steel that he can manipulate with his Qi.

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* ArtificialLimbs: Lei Kong has a prosthetic arm made of steel that he can manipulate with his Qi. Now averted because he has been heal of this condition by jin.
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This story also has a [[https://ave-xia-rem-y.fandom.com/wiki/Ave_Xia_Rem_Y_Wiki wikia]] and also a discord.

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[[https://discord.gg/6andnhW5 discord.]]

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* RageQuit: Meng Yue pulls the classic [[FlippingTheTable “throw the board out the window”]] move, when Bai Lianshi effortlessly wins their game of Go.

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* RageQuit: Meng Yue pulls the classic [[FlippingTheTable “throw the board out the window”]] move, when Bai Lianshi effortlessly wins their game of Go.''TabletopGame/{{Go}}''.
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* SternOldJudge: The very old and ''very'' [[TeamSwitzerland neutral]] Elder Xun presides over Elder Cheung’s trial and he has no patience for any CourtroomAntics tried by either side.

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* SternOldJudge: The very old and ''very'' [[TeamSwitzerland neutral]] Elder Xun presides over Elder Cheung’s trial and he has no patience for any CourtroomAntics UnconventionalCourtroomTactics tried by either side.

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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatHotness: Su An’s possession by [[{{Kitsune}} Daji]] transformed her original fairly attractive appearance into a serious contender for the title of WorldsMostBeautifulWoman.
** Generally, the higher a person’s cultivation, the more attractive they become. It’s outright impossible for a powerful cultivator to be ugly.

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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatHotness: Su An’s An's possession by [[{{Kitsune}} [[AsianFoxSpirit Daji]] transformed her original fairly attractive appearance into a serious contender for the title of WorldsMostBeautifulWoman.
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WorldsMostBeautifulWoman. Generally, the higher a person’s person's cultivation, the more attractive they become. It’s It's outright impossible for a powerful cultivator to be ugly.

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* IllBoy: Xiao Heng was born with a blockage in his lungs, actually his parasitic twin, which caused him chronic pain and greatly hampered his cultivation. Liu Jin healed him by feeding him a pill which made him cough the thing up.



* TheUnfavorite: [[IllBoy Xiao Heng]] is this to Xiao Ding, due to his disability. Xiao Ding does the best he can to hide him, out of shame.

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* CryCute: Liu Jin normally wouldn’t allow a bird to sit in a nest that it built on his head. But he found his eagle’s crying whenever he tried to remove the nest very convincing.



* HeadPet: Newly hatched Black-Winged Imperial Eagles build nests on top of their parent’s/owner’s head. Liu Jin initially tried to take the nest off but that made the eagle [[CryCute start crying.]]

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* HeadPet: Newly hatched Black-Winged Imperial Eagles build nests on top of their parent’s/owner’s head. Liu Jin initially tried to take the nest off but that made the eagle [[CryCute start crying.]]

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* JerkWithAHartOfGold: Bei Duyi’s antagonism to Bei Hong and his friends was actually Bei Duyi trying to look out for them. Knowing how easily his cousin made enemies, Bei Duyi took a leadership position among the disciples with a grudge against them, so things wouldn’t get out of hand. He had nothing to do with the fight at the Spring of Clear Insight, which was done by disciples who were annoyed at Bei Duyi’s lack of action.

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* JerkWithAHartOfGold: JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Bei Duyi’s antagonism to Bei Hong and his friends was actually Bei Duyi trying to look out for them. Knowing how easily his cousin made enemies, Bei Duyi took a leadership position among the disciples with a grudge against them, so things wouldn’t get out of hand. He had nothing to do with the fight at the Spring of Clear Insight, which was done by disciples who were annoyed at Bei Duyi’s lack of action.



* MasterArcher: Qu Rou is an archer capable of hitting targets that are miles away and is completely stunned when he once misses (his bow was damaged). He is insufferably prideful about and is infuriated if he is ever forced to fight in melee.



* MightyGlacier: Due to the massively increased gravity that Earth Realm Cultivators have to deal with, their speed is greatly reduced. Though this is [[DownplayedTrope only in comparison]] to their strength and toughness, a lower Realm cultivator trying to fight them would still get promptly [[SpeedBlitz speed blitzed.]]



** There are a great many moles within Feng Shang’s faction. High ranking core disciples have become disillusioned with his leadership and have betrayed the Eternal Flame Clan in some deal with the [[{{Necromancer}} Death Fashioning Scripture.]]



* MusicalAssassin / InstrumentOfMurder: An unnamed disciple of the Eternal Flame Clan is apparently “quite lethal with the pipa,” though they’ve only been seen playing it normally.

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* MusicalAssassin / InstrumentOfMurder: Fan Bingbing fights with a guqin that she uses to fire sound blades. An unnamed disciple of the Eternal Flame Clan is apparently “quite lethal with the pipa,” though they’ve only been seen playing it normally.



* {{Necromancer}}: Members of the Death Fashioning Scripture can raise giant hordes of dead cultivators and spirit beasts to fight for them and can [[{{Biomanipulation}} mold the corpses like clay.]]



* NightmareFetishist: Liu Jin is particularly intrigued by horrifying things like Xiao Heng’s parasitic twin, Wong Shou’s Heart Devil ability and the Fleshcrafters flesh buds. People tend to get rather disturbed when listening to him talk about them.



** By the standards of the main branch of the Feng Clan, Feng Zhi isn’t much to write home about, his talent being greatly overshadowed by his cousin and especially by his younger brother. By the standards of almost anywhere else, being in the Earth Realm at 16 is completely unheard of and people look upon Feng Zhi with awe.
* NotTheIntendedUse: The Bei Clan’s [[ChromeChampion Goldforged Body]] technique isn’t supposed to be used to improve defence, since gold is a soft, flimsy metal. But Bei Hong wants to use it that way and won’t let something like common sense stop him.



* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The first time we see of Huang Shing in the Dead Plains, he has just killed a dragon, more than a Realm stronger than him, in a fight that lasted several days. The second time we see him, he’s [[TookALevelInBadass grown an entire Realm in power]] in a couple of weeks.



* OneHeroHoldTheWeaksauce: The elixir that Liu Jin helped Luo develop, nullifies the [[ArtificialGravity curse of the]] [[MightyGlacier Earth Realm]] and allows Guo Xuesheng to effortlessly out speed and [[CurbStompBattle curbstomp]] Xi Mou, despite their equal levels of advancement.



** Feng Shang’s ability to actually keep things stable is questionable, given his actions in the conflict. The recreation of the [[StateSec Internal Force]] and especially the release of [[ForTheEvulz Xun Huwen]] have caused far more chaos than anything Feng Gui has done and made those like [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility Elder Chang]] rethink their loyalties.

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** Feng Shang’s ability to actually keep things stable is questionable, given his actions in the conflict. The recreation of the [[StateSec Internal Force]] and especially the release of [[ForTheEvulz Xun Huwen]] have caused far more chaos than anything Feng Gui has done and made those like [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility Elder Chang]] rethink their loyalties.Shang’s side is also revealed to be infested with traitors to the Eternal Flame Clan.



* OutrunTheFireball: Liu Jin and the other disciples desperately run deeper into the temple to try and escape the explosive arrow Qu Rou fired at them. Three of them don’t make it.
* ParentalNeglect: If Feng Gui’s children aren’t powerful enough to be useful to him, he doesn’t give a damn about them. Feng Hao is his favourite child and Feng Gui still never spends time with him.
* PeninsulaOfPowerLeveling: The extremely Qi-rich environment of the Dead Plains, combined with the constant danger from spirit beasts and more Core Disciples makes it an excellent place for cultivation. The disciples make months of progress in a few weeks. Liu Jin [[SuperEmpowering unlocking their meridians]] helped even further.



* PerpetualStorm: The Grand Storm is a massive thunderstorm surrounds the Palace of the Storm Dragon. It is a manifestation of the power of the [[GuardianEntity Divine Storm Dragon]] and acts as an impenetrable defense for the Emperor.



* PoorMansSubstitute: Su Daji has the prince of the Storm Dragon Empire wrapped around her finger but refuses actually try and become princess because the vestiges of Su An keep comparing the prince to his cousin Liu Jin and find the prince lacking in every aspect.



** Eating the flesh of powerful spirit beasts is highly beneficial for cultivation. Dragon meat is the best kind but also the most dangerous. Dragon body parts don’t like being turned into things that aren’t dragons and violently resist being digested.



* PuppetKing: The current Storm Dragon Emperor is a good man but lacks the power to enforce his will in any way. The empire is still in total chaos, fifteen years after he took the throne, and most sects and clans don’t even pretend to be loyal to him instead of one of the Three Heavenly Generals.

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* PuppetKing: The current Storm Dragon Emperor is a good man but lacks the power to enforce his will in any way. The empire is still in total chaos, fifteen years after he took the throne, and most sects and clans don’t even pretend to be loyal to him instead of one of the Three Heavenly Generals. The only reason he’s still on the throne is because the [[GuardianEntity Divine Storm Dragon]] protects his palace, which is as far as the Emperor’s power extends.



* ReallyGetsAround: Feng Gui makes a point of having as many children as he can. He does this to spread the [[SuperPowerfulGenetics Feng bloodline]] as wide as he can to stop it dying out and to increase the odds of him having a child talented enough to be useful to his ambitions.



* RedShirt: Inner Disciples have no business going to the Dead Plains. Liu Jin starts off with a group of 70 and by the time they get to the temple, due to a combination of betrayal, spirit beasts and Core Disciples lying in ambush, 90% are dead. The survivors are the only ones whose names Jin ever learns.
* RefuseToRescueTheDisliked: Huang Shing refuses to go back and help Feng Zhi against Xi Mou because he doesn’t like Feng Zhi or care if he gets hurt. Huang Shing also tells Feng Hao that if he did go back and try and help then he and Feng Zhi would immediately attack each other, so he’d just make the situation worse. Huang Shing admits he’s being petty but says, given how petty the leaders of the Eternal Flame Clan have shown themselves to be, he doesn’t see why he should be the bigger man.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Qu Rou is determined to kill as many disciples of Feng Gui’s faction as he can, to take revenge for his brother, who died during the Crimson Cloud Tournament. Feng Gui’s faction took over the Medical Pavilion during the tournament and withheld medical supplies to sabotage the competitors, resulting in Qu Rou’s brother dying from his injuries. Qu Rou is told that the Inner Disciples he’s killing were powerless to affect any of this and most aren’t even members of the Medical Pavilion, but Qu Rou doesn’t care. When he learns that one of the disciples he’s after is Liu Jin, who was instrumental in all this happening, he goes completely berserk.



* SandWorm: All-Devouring Worms reside in the Dead Plains. They are hundreds of feet long and spend most of their time eating minerals. If one attacks you the safest thing to do is to let it eat you and [[KillItThroughItsStomach fight your way out from inside.]]



* SecretRoom: The temple in the Dead Plains has a section of wall that slides back when a certain tile on the floor is pressed. The room contains the temples defense mechanism, and the room can only be found by a wielder of the Eternal Flame, sensing the weapon inside.
* SemanticSuperpower: Sufficiently powerful cultivators can learn and develop a Dao, the core expression of who they are as a human being, which allows them to perform actions related to a certain concept. For example, Feng Gui’s Dao of Destruction lets him do things like [[TimeMaster destroy the time]] it takes for his attacks to connect with his target and have [[PlayingWithFire great control over fire,]] since fire burns things and thus destroys. Daos are capable of being extremely nuanced, the Eternal Flame Clan 47 recorded types of Destruction Dao and 119 more theoretical ones.



** Everyone connected to the Eternal Flame can sense its presence in other people. Since there are only three people in the Dead Plains with the ability to use it, this allows Lu Mei to track down Feng Hao and Feng Zhi from hundreds of miles away.



** Meng Yue’s favourite method of training Xiao Shuang is to kidnap her in the middle of the night and abandon her in monster-infested wilderness with no supplies, or something equally life-threatening. The other elders always yell at Meng Yue for this, but that does nothing to stop her.



* StartMyOwn: Having been shown just how expendable the Eternal Flame Clan thinks they are, some disciples aren’t keen on returning after the mission to the Dead Plains. Ten Zichun is of the firm opinion that they should form their own sect, with Liu Jin as its leader. Jin tries to keep Ten close at hand, so he won’t be able talk anyone else into it. Unfortunately, this lets Ten see more of Jin doing incredible things, making him all the more convinced that this is a good idea.



* StockShonenHero: Huang Shing and Bei Hong both have shades of this. Shing is a HotBlooded IdiotHero with an extremely powerful [[TheDragonslayer fighting style,]] that lets his cultivation advance incredibly quickly. He even has a PrivilegedRival in Feng Zhi, though unusually the cause for their antagonism, and Shing’s driving motivation, is a girl. Bei Hong is a BoisterousBruiser BloodKnight with little interest in anything that isn’t fighting and getting stronger. Bei Hong has complete disregard for social etiquette and only shows respect to those who’ve proven their strength to him, and he has a far-reaching reputation as the Bei clan’s ‘problem child’.



** Liu Jin learns how to do this himself, though is also careful not to let other people learn of it. He discreetly uses it on the other disciples in the Dead Plains, when they need to grow in strength as quickly as possible, but only Fan Bingbing is skilled enough to realise. The others attribute it to the environment of the Dead Plains.



* TallPoppySyndrome: Lei Kong was once the greatest prodigy the Lei Clan had seen in generations and the one who would restore the clan to its former glory after the damage they had suffered at the hands of Qing Jianguo and the empire’s subsequent civil wars. However, Lei Kong’s success would mean certain factions within the clan would lose what little power they still had, so they chose to cripple him in a “training accident”, rather than give it up for the greater good of the clan.
** Bei Hong and Bei Duyi are branch members of the Bei Clan and were born in possession of far more talent than the main branch. They were taught from a young age that it was unwise for them to outshine members of the main family and they should keep their heads down and be respectful. Bei Duyi listened, Bei Hong did not. Fearing for his cousin’s safety, Bei Duyi took it upon himself to keep Bei Hong down, to prevent someone with more power and less mercy deciding to do it. Bei Duyi was not strong enough to succeed.



* {{Telepathy}}: Cultivators can project their thoughts into other people’s heads. Liu Jin likens it to using Qi to project your voice without actually speaking. It’s a useful skill for holding conversations you don’t want overheard.

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* {{Telepathy}}: Cultivators can project their thoughts into other people’s heads. Liu Jin likens it to using Qi to project your voice without actually speaking. It’s a useful skill for holding conversations you don’t want overheard.overheard or when you’re travelling faster than sound, and no one could hear you speak.
* TempleOfDoom: The temple in the Eye of the Dead Plains has been picked clean of treasure for centuries and all that remains in it now are monsters and [[BoobyTrap Booby Traps.]] It still manages to be the safest place in the [[DeathWorld Dead Plains.]]


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* TheoryOfNarrativeCausality: Xun Huwen believes in a version of this. In his view there are a finite number of opportunities (i.e. [[IncitingIncident Inciting Incidents]]) in the world and they will inevitably happen to a select few individuals with ''"weight"''. This happens through [[PlotMagnet no action or effort]] on the weighted individual’s part, they are just always in position to take advantage of the opportunities and gain power, wealth, or connections. The universe will also not allow weighty people to die against unimportant people and they will either triumph against all odds or events will conspire to save them. To prove his point, Xun Huwen tries to murder Liu Jin, who he has concluded is also a person with weight. Jin’s life is saved ''three times,'' the last of which is the culmination of a series of extremely unlikely coincidences and circumstances completely unique to Jin.
* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: Or at least low-level cultivators weren’t meant to know yet. When the Feng brothers properly clash, their techniques are so powerful that reality starts breaking down. Liu Jin’s mind starts disintegrating from witnessing it at long distance, but he can’t make himself to look away until Mud forcibly turns his head. Many other disciples weren’t as lucky and it’s not clear what happened to them.


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* ThinkingUpPortals: Patriarch Feng transports the 198 disciples to the Dead Plains by waving his hand and creating a massive transfer circle to teleport them. The circle separates the disciples into groups and Liu Jin’s finds themselves about a mile up in the sky.
* ThinkNothingOfIt: When Liu Jin thanks Mud for saving him and Feng Hao from Xun Huwen, Mud tells him that thanks are unnecessary, as he was just following Elder Xun’s orders. Though Mud admits that he wasn’t explicitly told to stand guard over Liu Jin while he healed from his injuries.


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* TooImportantToWalk: Shen Mi, the disciple of the Divine Frozen Palace sent to assist Xiao Fang is carried everywhere in a palanquin. She claims she needs to stay in there to look after the injured Elder Gang.


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* TheUsurper: After Xiao Zheng is killed and the main branch of the Xiao Sect is destroyed, Xiao Fang must deal with multiple ambitious Branch Master’s wanting to take over while he’s still young and weak. Xiao Yifan nearly succeeds in luring Xiao Fang and his group into a trap, with a fake offer of support, but Big Nose Li’s brother warns them in time, and they escape into the Great Red Plains.


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* VillainExitStageLeft: When the Fleshcrafter’s army is wiped out and the Duke arrives to protect Liu Jin, Xun Huwen declares that he no longer has any reason to stay and will leave for the other side of the Dead Plains. The Duke considers this to be practically suicide and lets him go, since killing him might result in Xun Huwen [[TakingYouWithMe killing everyone else there in his final moments.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: The Fleshcrafter doesn’t take Liu Jin stealing control of his monsters and being far better at creating undead than him, despite Jin being much weaker and having [[InstantExpert no prior knowledge of the techniques that took the Fleshcrafter years to master,]] with much grace. Xun Huwen is very amused.
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* VillainTeamUp: When he sees how much trouble Liu Jin is giving the Fleshcrafter, Xun Huwen decides it would be more interesting to join forces with him. This is very bad news as the only one capable of fighting either of them is Mud, and the Fleshcrafter occupies him so Xun Huwen can attack the temple unopposed.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: General He Bin presents himself as the TokenGoodTeammate of the Three Heavenly Generals, who is truly loyal to the Qing dynasty and the Storm Dragon Empire and is seen as a hero by the imperial court. Su Daji saw through him instantly and tries hard to not be alone with him.


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* WeaksauceWeakness: Due to the [[ArtificialGravity massively increased gravity]] they have to deal with, Earth Realm cultivators have a very limited jumping ability. So, if you have some method of flight, you’re safe from them, assuming you have a safe place to land. Liu Jin used Lu Mei’s FlyingCarpet to rescue Feng Hao and Huang Shing from a pair of Earth Realm Core Disciples.
* WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife: Liu Jin feels very angry and guilty about all the lives he takes in the Dead Plains. They were all members of the same sect and shouldn’t have had any reason to fight each other but were forced to because of the petty squabbling of the Feng brothers. Jin feels even more guilty that he values his personal goals enough that he’s willing to keep killing people and potentially spend the lives of disciples who’ve placed their trust in him.


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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatHotness: Su An’s possession by [[{{Kitsune}} Daji]] transformed her original fairly attractive appearance into a serious contender for the title of WorldsMostBeautifulWoman.
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: The Four Great Sects are utterly without peer in the Crimson Cloud Empire and its neighbouring nations but on the other side of the Dead Plains there are three factions that none of the sects would stand a chance against. Outside of the barrier protecting the Vermillion Continent there are even greater dangers.



*AntiRegeneration: Guo Xuesheng deals with a captive Xi Mou’s regeneration in the rather direct way of re-snapping his spine, the instant Xi Mou shows a hint of recovery.



** The curse of the Earth Realm massively increases the effect of gravity upon cultivators, to such a degree that after reaching the first level, some cultivators are rendered unable to move for several days, until they acclimate and relearn how to walk. The effect gets worse and worse the further you advance.



* AsianFoxSpirit: Su An is possessed by a fox spirit named Daji. Similar to the original Daji she makes her way to the Storm Dragon Emperor’s palace and effortlessly seduces the prince. Though she refuses to let him marry her as the remnants of Su An see the prince as an [[PoorMansSubstitute inferior version of Liu Jin.]]



** Liu Jin figures out how to do it in the Spirit Realm, when he needs to communicate with [[MasterArcher Qu Rou]] from a safe distance. The process is incredibly painful at that early stage of soul awareness.



* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: Feng Shang and Feng Gui directly fighting one another, forces their father to finally get involved in their civil war. Patriarch Feng immediately stops their fight, tells them how [[DisappointedInYou disappointed he is]] in their conduct and makes them participate in a contest to settle which of them will succeed him.



* BackstabBackfire: Yuan Yi tries to attack Liu Jin from behind after they break out of the [[SandWorm All-Devouring Worm.]] Liu Jin kills him instantly.



*** When punishing his sons, Patriarch Feng decides that since they’ve been so cavalier with the lives of the sect’s disciples, his successor will be decided by which set of disciples from each brother’s faction can best complete a mission, with the brothers unable to interfere. This is due to the Patriarch wanting the punishment to be ironic rather than any sense of morality, especially since the mission is to the [[{{Mordor}} Dead Plains,]] which for most Inner Disciples is as good as a SuicideMission.
* TheBait: The Divine Storm Dragon knows exactly what Su Daji is, but it allows her to stay in the palace because the dragon wants Liu Jin to [[RightfulKingReturns come to the palace]] and Daji’s presence guarantees he will, when he learns of her.



* BigDamnHeroes: Mud makes a habit of doing these in a rather understated way. Mud appears out of nowhere, stops whatever terrible thing Xun Huwen was about to do and apologizes to everyone for the inconvenience.
** There are multiple instances in the Dead Plains. Huang Shing saves Feng Hao by obliterating one of the undead spirit beasts chasing him. Liu Jin then saves them from the traitorous Core Disciples. The Duke and Lei Kong arrive in the nick of time to save Liu Jin and the others from Xun Huwen and force him to leave for the other side of the Dead Plains.



* {{Biomanipulation}}: Members of the [[{{Necromancer}} Death Fashioning Scripture]] can freely manipulate the corpses they control. Doing anything from knitting nearly destroyed bodies back together, growing extra limbs and head for surprise attacks or fusing two bodies together.



* BlindedByRage: Qu Rou is so laser-focused on murdering Liu Jin for his (very indirect) role in Qu Rou’s brother’s death that he fails to notice every trap in the temple and doesn’t even realise that he ''can’t breathe''. Liu Jin’s plan to kill him works perfectly and Qu Rou can’t lay a hand on him until Jin deals the final blow.



* BoldExplorer: Fan Bingbing and the rest of the Eternal Flame Clan’s Exploration Division are this. Sending expeditions to uncharted regions like the Dead Plains and exploring ancient tombs in search of treasure. Feng Shang’s insular policies would limit them from doing this, so the division sides with Feng Gui in the civil war.



* BoomHeadshot: The [[RedShirt bald disciple]] gets an arrow to the head, courtesy of [[MasterArcher Qu Rou.]] The arrow is flying far too fast and hard for any of the other disciples to stop it and all they can do is run for dear life into the temple.
* BreakingSpeech: Xun Huwen’s Dao even extends to destroying people emotionally. He can just look at a person and know exactly what the most damaging words to say to them will be.



* ChromeChampion: Bei Hong’s Goldforged Body technique coats his entire body in gold, making him almost indestructible.

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* ChromeChampion: Bei Hong’s Goldforged Body technique coats his entire body in gold, making him almost indestructible. [[NotTheIntendedUse This isn’t actually what the technique is for,]] but Bei Hong doesn’t care.



** Bai Wen’s mission into the Storm Dragon Empire is to investigate the major factions there, but Bai Wen finds herself saving every village she comes across from the endless bandit gangs, despite this drawing attention to her and making her mission more difficult. She’s aware of this, but proudly declares that that’s just the kind of person she is.



** Liu Jin’s plan to kill Qu Rou is to drown him in a tidal wave of spirit beasts while he and his companions destroy the oxygen in the upper levels of the temple with fire techniques, so he can’t breathe. This causes Qu Rou to be constantly suffering and regenerating from more damage than he thought, rapidly draining his Qi reserves, and exhausting his soul. Leaving him weakened enough for Liu Jin to finish him off with one of his poisoned dragon bone needles.



** When Bei Hong joins up with Liu Jin’s group at the temple in the Dead Plains, he happily prepares to fight everybody there. Jin offers him the alternative of a one-on-one fight with Bei Duyi, where Bei Hong will submit to being their prisoner if he loses. Bei Hong happily accepts and Bei Duyi yells at him for his idiocy and points out that Bei Hong forgot to set any terms for his victory. Bei Hong ponders this for a moment, then turns and compliments Liu Jin on his cunning.



* DisappointedInYou: Patriarch Feng Zhang tells his sons that he is not impressed by their inability to resolve which one of him will be his successor. The Patriarch is disappointed in Feng Shang for trying to have Feng Hao killed and in Feng Gui for attacking Shang for this, as that implies Gui thought the Patriarch wouldn’t intervene at that point. The Patriarch finds this lack of faith almost as bad as the attempted child murder.



* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Liu Jin denies wanting to take over the Storm Dragon Empire. Lu Mei asks him how his plan of overthrowing the Empire’s current leadership and reshaping the country to his liking has any practical differences to taking it over. Jin admits it doesn’t.



* DoubleKnockout: Bei Hong and Bei Duyi’s fight ends in them agreeing to call it a draw and passing out. This was after several hours of determinedly beating the living daylights out of each other and for the last hour they both barely had the strength to lift their arms.
* TheDragonslayer: Huang Shing’s Nine Dragon Slaying Palms are well named. He manages to kill a dragon that’s more than an entire Realm stronger than he is, which is a power gap that no amount of skill can overcome and a fight that should have ended in a few seconds.



* EmbarrassingRescue: Feng Zhi is not pleased about needing to be saved from his fight with Xi Mou. Four separate people, including a still alive Xi Mou, knowing it happened makes it even worse.
* EmotionlessGirl: Fan Bingbing is a tiny, doll-like girl who’s even more stoic than Liu Jin. The only thing that seems to excite her is [[AdventurerArchaeologist exploring dangerous, ancient ruins.]]
* EncounterBait: The first trap Liu Jin lures Qu Rou into inside the temple was a wave of acid, laced with a scent to attract the [[GiantSpider spiders]] infesting the temple. Qu Rou thought it was normal acid, that was insufficient to harm him and so let himself get covered in it.



* FourElementEnsemble: The Four Great Sects of the Crimson Cloud Empire are each associated with an element. The Eternal Flame Clan is fire, the Divine Frozen Palace is water, the Infinite Mountain Sect is earth, and the Eternal Raging Valley is wind.



* FriendOrIdolDecision: Patriarch Feng gives Feng Gui a guaranteed way to become his successor: let Gui’s favourite son Feng Hao die during the mission to the Dead Plains.



* GetARoom: When Liu Jin and Lu Mei are reunited in the Dead Plains she immediately leaps into his arms and starts kissing him. ''"And keeps kissing him. And kissing him. And kissing him."'' When they’re done Bei Hong asks if they’d like him to get them a bed roll.
* GettingEatenIsHarmless: Getting eaten by an [[SandWorm All-Devouring Worm]] is temporarily non-fatal. The worm’s main diet is rocks so being eaten puts you in a massive cave network inside the worm, rather than an acid filled stomach. Eventually the worm’s digestive system will crush the rock tunnels and by extension the person in them.



* GuardianEntity: Liu Jin’s life is saved from a group of Murong Bang’s soldiers by a fragment of Xiao Nan’s soul that had hidden in Jin’s shadow for over a year.

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* HairTriggerTemper: All [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity Renegades]] have this. Everyone who meets the Duke treats him like a bomb that might go off if they so much as breathe the wrong way.


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* HeroicRROD: Feng Hao temporarily cripples himself the first time he uses the Eternal Flame. The Eternal Flame lingering presence in his body completely overwhelms all other types of fire and causes Feng Hao debilitating pain if he tries to use any techniques.


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* HijackingCthulhu: When the Fleshcrafter’s army can no longer be held back, Liu Jin touches one of the zombies, severs the controller’s connection and takes the creature over, rebuilding it into a far more efficient form. Jin’s monsters then attack the rest of the horde to create even more of themselves. The Fleshcrafter [[VillainousBreakdown doesn’t take this well.]]


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* {{Hypocrite}}: Patriarch Feng is angry at his sons for fighting about Feng Shang trying to kill Feng Gui’s son Feng Hao, saying that there are lines that must never be crossed when it comes to family. As punishment the Patriarch puts Feng Hao on a mission where he’ll be in mortal danger and declares that if Feng Hao dies, Feng Shang’s son will be killed as well.


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* ICanStillFight: After Feng Zhi is rescued from his fight with Xi Mou, Pan Qiu offers to carry Feng Zhi so he doesn’t aggravate his injuries. Feng Zhi refuses and insists on walking, though he privately admits that this isn’t due to pride but because his wounds are so bad that if he relaxes for an instant, he’ll pass out.


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** The Dead Plains are much, much worse. A barren wasteland filled with powerful spirit beasts and all attempts to establish settlements have ended in disaster, with everyone vanishing without a trace. The most dangerous part, however, is the cultivators there. The Plains are where failed [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity Renegades]] go to die.


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* ImmortalProcreationClause: Due to the effects of cultivation, the average human lifespan is far longer than it is on Earth, but people don’t appear to have higher numbers of children. For example, Xiao Zheng has multiple wives and is, presumably, several centuries old, but only has two children, born a year apart. One of the reasons for this is that the more powerful a cultivator is the [[LamarckWasRight more talented their children will be,]] so most people wait until they hit their peak before procreating.
** A massive [[AvertedTrope aversion]] is Feng Gui, who has ''"more illegitimate children than there are stars in the sky”''.


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* ImplausibleDeniability: Lu Mei keeps denying everything about her having the Eternal Flame when Feng Hao talks about it, despite having used it in front of him and multiple other witnesses.


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* InnocentInnuendo: Meng Yue doesn’t like Feng Gui because ''“He is a man who cannot satisfy a woman.”'' By which, of course, she means that Feng Gui wasn’t [[BloodKnight interested in fighting her]] for more than a brief spar.


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* InstantExpert: It takes disciples of the [[{{Necromancer}} Death Fashioning Scripture]] years of dedicated study to create a functional zombie. All Liu Jin needs to do is briefly examines a flesh bud to work how to subvert control of the undead and then he learns how to remake them into far superior monsters on the fly. The Fleshcrafter is equal parts incredulous and livid.


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* JerkWithAHartOfGold: Bei Duyi’s antagonism to Bei Hong and his friends was actually Bei Duyi trying to look out for them. Knowing how easily his cousin made enemies, Bei Duyi took a leadership position among the disciples with a grudge against them, so things wouldn’t get out of hand. He had nothing to do with the fight at the Spring of Clear Insight, which was done by disciples who were annoyed at Bei Duyi’s lack of action.
* JustFollowingOrders: Yuan Yi attempts to backstab Liu Jin, just after they escape the All-Devouring Worm. Yuan Yi knew his chances of success weren’t good, but he and the rest of the disciples from Feng Shang’s faction had been given orders. [[BackStabBackfire Liu Jin and his side kill them all in seconds.]]


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* KillItThroughItsStomach: This is the best way to kill an [[SandWorm All-Devouring Worm.]] They’re far too fast and stealthy to evade and once swallowed you end up in a cave made of the rocks it’s eaten rather than its actual stomach. From there’s it’s possible to break through the rock and escape by swimming through the worm and killing the creatures that live inside it to help its digestion, until you reach the worm’s core.


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* LamarckWasRight: The more powerful a cultivator is, the greater their children’s aptitude for cultivation will be. Which is why most cultivators [[ImmortalProcreationClause wait so long to have children]] and why Liu Jin didn’t seem particularly exceptional as a child, despite his [[SuperpowerfulGenetics royal blood.]] Jianguo crippling himself prevented Jin from gaining the initial benefits of his heritage.


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** Su Daji can remember her past and motivations in very general terms but trying to remember the specific details about anything causes the memories to slip away from her.


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* LiterallyShatteredLives: Bai Wen of the Divine Frozen Palace kills a group of bandits who were attacking a village by freezing them in blocks of ice and shattering them into a thousand pieces.
* LivingMacguffin: Feng Hao is a ChildProdigy of nearly unprecedented talent and provides one of the best reasons for why Feng Gui should be made the next Patriarch. As a result, Feng Shang’s faction want him dead and Feng Gui’s faction want him protected at all costs. For all of Feng Hao’s talent, he’s still one of the weakest people in the Eternal Flame Clan and completely unable to impact any of this. He absolutely hates it and spends his entire time in the Dead Plains trying to find some way to contribute. He finally finds a way when he discovers the defenses in the temple and helps activate them to destroy the Fleshcrafters army.


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** Liu Jin didn’t realise most of his flesh was annihilated by Xun Huwen’s attack and his body is completely mangled until it was pointed out to him. Jin had no visible reaction and just substituted Qi snakes for muscles, so he could move again.
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* GenreSavvy: Khong Hu figures out how the Internal Force is shutting down the bracelets and refrains from his initial impulse to immediately run and tell Elder Xue about it since that’s the sort of thing that would see him get mysteriously murdered. He decides to [[SpotOfTea have some tea]] and wait until morning, bringing a large group of other disciples with him in case of an attack.

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* GenreSavvy: Khong Hu figures out how the Internal Force is shutting down the bracelets and refrains from his initial impulse to immediately run and tell Elder Xue about it since that’s the sort of thing that would see him get mysteriously murdered. He decides to [[SpotOfTea have some tea]] tea and wait until morning, bringing a large group of other disciples with him in case of an attack.

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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: This world’s hair and eye colours vary more than they do in real life. Wong Shou and his father both have naturally blue hair.



* ZergRush: Wong Shou’s Heart Devils have nothing in the way of tactics or coordination, they just attack in a hundreds-strong tide and can endlessly replenish their numbers. Liu Jin and his friends, might have eventually been [[VictoryByEndurance worn down and killed]], if Feng Zhi hadn’t killed Wong Shou.

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* ZergRush: Wong Shou’s Heart Devils have nothing in the way of tactics or coordination, they just attack in a hundreds-strong tide and can endlessly replenish their numbers. Liu Jin and his friends, might have eventually been [[VictoryByEndurance worn down and killed]], if Feng Zhi hadn’t killed Wong Shou.Shou.
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** feng zhou is the ace of the young generation of the eternal flame clan, a person that has achieved heaven 5th at the young age of 24. he makes his cousin feng zhi feel so inadque that for him and his family it is shameful.

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** feng zhou Feng Zhou is the ace of the young generation of the eternal flame Eternal Flame clan, a person that has achieved heaven Heaven 5th Realm at the young age of 24. he He makes his cousin feng zhi Feng Zhi feel so inadque inadequate that for him and his family it is shameful.



* DyeOrDie: Liu Jin dyes his hair red when he joins the Eternal Flame Clan to make himself harder to recognise. Though it’s doubtful the Eternal Flame Clan would care that much if they learned who he was.

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* DyeOrDie: Liu Jin dyes his hair red when he joins the Eternal Flame Clan to make himself harder to recognise.recognize. Though it’s doubtful the Eternal Flame Clan would care that much if they learned who he was.



* FingerPokeOfDoom: When Xun Huwen gets bored of talking to Liu Jin, he flicks him with his finger. If Jin hadn’t perfectly blocked the strike with his Qi snakes, he’d have been killed instantly. Instead he's just knocked unconcious with severe internal damage.

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* FingerPokeOfDoom: When Xun Huwen gets bored of talking to Liu Jin, he flicks him with his finger. If Jin hadn’t perfectly blocked the strike with his Qi snakes, he’d have been killed instantly. Instead he's just knocked unconcious unconscious with severe internal damage.
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** feng zhou is the ace of the young generation of the eternal flame clan, a person that has achieved heaven 5th at the young age of 24. he makes his cousin feng zhi feel so inadque that for him and his family it is shameful.
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* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: Divine inheritances can only be used can only be used by those the god or the inheritance itself deems worthy, like Liu Jin passing the Nine-Headed Snake God’s trial. The Eternal Flame is unique in that it has been split in half with the Eternal Flame Clan holding one half and the Crimson Cloud royal family holding the other. Anyone can use it and it can be passed down through bloodlines. The biggest division in the Eternal Flame Clan is whether or not to fix the Eternal Flame for the chance of access to far greater power, running the risk that the Eternal Flame might judge everyone unworthy, and the Clan would lose access to it entirely.

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* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: Divine inheritances can only be used can only be used by those the god or the inheritance itself deems worthy, like Liu Jin passing the Nine-Headed Snake God’s trial. The Eternal Flame is unique in that it has been split in half half; with the Eternal Flame Clan holding one half and the Crimson Cloud royal imperial family holding the other. Anyone can use it and it can be passed down through bloodlines. The biggest division in the Eternal Flame Clan is whether or not to fix the Eternal Flame for the chance of access to far greater power, running the risk that the Eternal Flame might judge everyone unworthy, and the Clan would lose access to it entirely.
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* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: And the tape play you would play that tape first and how long it would be before you played it. Old Jiang’s first words when Liu Jin uses the first [[MemoryJar memory jade]] is telling Jin how predicable he is, preemptively state that Jiang obviously can’t hear him, explain that Jin is so methodical that Jiang knew he’d play the jade at the far right of the box first and correctly estimate that he’s been dead for at least a year before Jin used the jade.

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* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: And the tape play knew you would play that tape first ''that tape'' first, and how long it would be before you played it. Old Jiang’s first words when Liu Jin uses the first [[MemoryJar memory jade]] is telling Jin how predicable predictable he is, preemptively state that Jiang obviously can’t hear him, explain that Jin is so methodical that Jiang knew he’d play the jade at the far right of the box first and correctly estimate that he’s been dead for at least a year before Jin used the jade.
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* SternOldJudge: The very old and ‘’very’’ [[TeamSwitzerland neutral]] Elder Xun presides over Elder Cheung’s trial and he has no patience for any CourtroomAntics tried by either side.

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* SternOldJudge: The very old and ‘’very’’ ''very'' [[TeamSwitzerland neutral]] Elder Xun presides over Elder Cheung’s trial and he has no patience for any CourtroomAntics tried by either side.

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