53 BORN TO CONQUER (2/2)
”That would be true… if the Wang Protectors were part of a brainless, random mob.” Wang Fuyin sighed.
”Mm?” The golden-eyed youth was intrigued.
”Indeed. Unfortunately, they're spread in a very precise manner. The further one reaches in, the greater their technique and coordination in the usage of their ability, even at the same cultivation base. It eventually reaches the point where even if they are outnumbered ten to one, I still cannot break through their ranks by simply fighting strategy with numbers. And even then, if I somehow manage to get past through sheer numbers, there is still the risk of alerting the higher cultivation mannequins. I experienced it once by sheer chance and I almost immediately died.”
Fuyin pulled his robe aside to reveal a particularly recent gash on his lean chest.
”The higher rank Wang Protectors were like a hot knife cutting through butter, them being the scalding blade and my army being the soft butter. The difference in cultivation between the warriors was simply too much. The moment they employed behead-the-leader tactics, I died. By dying I lost all my army, and with it, my cultivation…”
”Cultivation?” Cheng Hao's eyes widened, actually shocked for once as he came to a frightening realization, ”You mean…-”
”Yes, it is as you have guessed just now, and my cultivation is based on the amount and quality of the soldiers under my command!”
”The way we of the main Wang bloodline cultivate places emphasis on the ability of one to command their troops, and the greater that is, the more their cultivation will experience a meteoric rise.” The azure-eyed youth smiled as his demeanor shifted slightly. Without concealing the pride in his eyes, he laughed and proclaimed, ”There are many ways to approach cultivation, and there are just as many paths and Daos. My Clan threads the path of the commander, the ruler, the king of the battlefield, and as such is named Wang, the 'King'!”
”Just as our surname suggests, we of Wang were born meant to rule the world-”
”And yet here you are, a washed-up fish in the beach of this measly Plane of Existence, an arrogant Basic Stage brat that couldn't even protect himself, let alone rule the world.” Cheng Hao raised an eyebrow in annoyance. ”Just tell me which formations you are having problems breaching and maybe I will help out.”
”…yes Master.”
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Author's Note:
[1] just a quick reminder that the character ”Wáng” (Fuyin's surname) literally means King. Also a bit of trivia: it's the most common surname in China (and in the world too, maybe? That, I'm not quite sure about).
I remember my father telling me once that he was working through a list of guests for a conference and he lost it when out of the 200-ish people (from many universities all over the world) there were like more than 30 named Wang. That clearly got confusing pretty quickly.
Well, that got a good laugh out of me at the time and it still does now whenever I happen to remember it.
[2] Well, now there's an explanation to Fuyin's scars! Also, one might ask, what if he kept traveling alongside the sun around the world so that midnight never strikes, what would happen? That's easy!
Well...
Uh...
Actually, gimme a sec...
*Wipes away perspiration*
Uh, how about he can just do that and that will become a main plot point in the future?
[3] There's the thing about cultivation levels too: why do Fuyin and Lu appear to have different stages and realms (I recall sneaking that in a conversation/monologue between the two a few chaps back, when they first meet our MC) yet seem to show the same level distinctions?
Well, that goes back to the discussion Cheng Hao and Xiao Wu had the first night. At that time, MC illustrated how, no matter how many changes one might make to their path of cultivation, such as forging the Qi and Spiritual Energy into cores, satellites and whatnot, shifting those around and so on, there will only be a constant among all those; the 'density' of the Qi at each stage.
Spiritual Energy is the same for every stage, the only thing that differentiates cultivation bases is the amount of Qi one wields, and with it how much units of SE one can use at once. The higher the quality and 'density' of the Qi, the smaller the size of a single unit. Like so, the higher one's cultivation, the more they can unleash more energy into less space, allowing one to stack more effective units than those with a lower stage than them.
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Finally, the number of 'concentrations' of Qi will always be fifteen, and that is absolute in all Planes of Existence, Planary Sistems, and even in the 'outside' that Wang Fuyin and Wang Lu come from. That is because the various Qi are strands made up of the the most basic laws making up reality, and as such are the same all throughout existence.
As for the so-called 'Realms', they aren't as strict.
If we take the Planes of Existence in the Nine Heavens' Planary System, then there are three of them, with six, five and four stages each. In different systems they might have a different number of stages each, or even be overall more or less, although in that case the final benefits would be either spread out or condensed respectively (overall upgrades would be the same). That is because ascending to a higher Realm can only be accomplished by completing the task required to summon the worldly laws (such as breaking through a certain stage), and those tasks set by the worldly laws might not necessarily be the same for every 'world'.
Back to Fuyin's case, as right now he is in a Plane of Existence in the Nine Heavens' Planary System, he would have three Realms just like everyone else, in accordance to the worldly laws currently encompassing him. If there were another world somewhere else outside of the jurisdiction of the Nine Heavens and someone from the Nine Heavens were to go there, then his whole being would be revamped to match the worldly laws (Every boon foreign to the planary system would be cleansed and they would undergo whatever realm ascension available at that time).
There are very specific reasons for all this and there are some convoluted and vague clues as for why that would be, but most likely still nowhere near enough material to figure out yet. As teh story progresses, more would eventually come up for all to discuss.
Of course if someone just up and guesses the right reason, then I can only cry.
(In short: different names, yet same number of stages and maybe different realms.)
Cya ^^/
~ Cookie