Does anyone know how meng hao gets out of his latest predicament in the current chapers? especially avoiding chen fan match making attempts
There's a competition to become the next son-in-law of the Song clan, it involves going into an illusionary world with a huge tree from ancient times that exudes the qi that is not of heaven and earth (i.e. the kind that Meng Hao can absorb with his perfect dao pillars). He wins, then uses his good luck charm from the luck sect to teleport away. Then, he finds some rogue cultivators/bandits holed up in a cave with a teleport formation which happens to deposit him near the Violet Fate Sect. He uses the bandits to appease the meat jelly, the meat jelly changes into a mask for Meng Hao and alters his appearance and he joins the Violet Fate sect.
What will eccentric song do once he discovers meng?
nothing really. He actually bets on Meng Hao to win the competition, he gets a bunch of nascent soul fruit from it
*edit* forgot a detail
Song clan can't do anything to Meng Hao because the mother of the tri-color poison flower that he's infected with shows up and intimidates the [can't remember if he's the founder, but the most powerful dude of the Song clan] ancestor of Song, who's like a half-rotted skeleton and has a ridiculously high cultivation (dont remember exactly what it was but it was either really high Spirit Severing or Wen Dao).
Does anyone know how meng hao gets out of his latest predicament in the current chapers? especially avoiding chen fan match making attempts
There's a competition to become the next son-in-law of the Song clan, it involves going into an illusionary world with a huge tree from ancient times that exudes the qi that is not of heaven and earth (i.e. the kind that Meng Hao can absorb with his perfect dao pillars). He wins, then uses his good luck charm from the luck sect to teleport away. Then, he finds some rogue cultivators/bandits holed up in a cave with a teleport formation which happens to deposit him near the Violet Fate Sect. He uses the bandits to appease the meat jelly, the meat jelly changes into a mask for Meng Hao and alters his appearance and he joins the Violet Fate sect.
What will eccentric song do once he discovers meng?
nothing really. He actually bets on Meng Hao to win the competition, he gets a bunch of nascent soul fruit from it
*edit* forgot a detail
Song clan can't do anything to Meng Hao because the mother of the tri-color poison flower that he's infected with shows up and intimidates the [can't remember if he's the founder, but the most powerful dude of the Song clan] ancestor of Song, who's like a half-rotted skeleton and has a ridiculously high cultivation (dont remember exactly what it was but it was either really high Spirit Severing or Wen Dao).
Wait, mother of the tri-color poison? I dont get it
Yeah. Unless I read that chapter wrong, the mother of resurrection lily that Meng Hao is poisoned with shows up (in human form). *edit* she's also invisible to everyone except the ancestor dude.
Yeah. Unless I read that chapter wrong, the mother of resurrection lily that Meng Hao is poisoned with shows up (in human form). *edit* she's also invisible to everyone except the ancestor dude.
i guess this is where the poison will become a good thing for meng hao
So meng haos response is to eccentric song is basically "won your competition but I don't want your shitty daughter"? Does she get pissed or likes meng has?
Yeah. Unless I read that chapter wrong, the mother of resurrection lily that Meng Hao is poisoned with shows up (in human form). *edit* she's also invisible to everyone except the ancestor dude.
i guess this is where the poison will become a good thing for meng hao
Usually just skim through spoilers and forget them by the time I read the actual chapter releases but this mysterious woman really has me wanting to know that story. It's hard to believe she is only related to Meng Hao only because he has the tri-colored poison, at least not with the comments she made about him. What's the deal with her?
I read that the lady is her mother which I found surprising. Can someone shed some light on the power she possesses (cultivation level) and the power of his true family.
OK if the lady that helped him is the poisons mother shouldn't she hate meng hao cause he's trying to get rid of the poison? Or does he discover a way to let the poison flower fully bloom and separate from meng hao without damaging each other
So, basically anything in this story can be sentient and have cultivation powers. Guyiding Tri-rain was sentient despite being...rain. It's implied that the resurrection lilies are a family and their cultivation path is to consume (or be consumed) by others, a parasitic plant if you will. Even pills that are refined by Meng Hao can become sentient (it actually becomes a rather large plot point later), and pill furnaces can be sentient.
It gets sealed up before he goes to the Violet Fate sect. When he goes to that random cave with the bandits (meng hao describes them as despots/evil local lords to the meat jelly, who seems to have an obsession with correcting evil tyrants), there's an old man who seals the power of the resurrection lily and it never flares up til the point where I've been reading (chapter 330ish). It does say that the seal weakens over time so I wouldn't be surprised if it came back soon. As to the method to curing the poison, at higher cultivation levels there's a very important concept roughly meaning "the law of cause and effect" - and since outsiders cannot change the cause of the resurrection lily, they cannot change the result, there are only 3 ways for the poison to resolve: 1, it consumes Meng Hao and Meng Hao becomes the flower; 2, Meng Hao consumes it and the flower becomes him; 3, he changes the causal relationship between him and the flower. Therefore no outsiders nor outside forces can get rid of it for him, and he has to cure it by his own actions.
The old man tells him "彼岸花开七色天,花落成仙一千年,仙山之门藏因果,斩花之路莫问天……于南天星南域,为小友画" - 'On the day that the Resurrection Lily blooms the 7th color, the flower will complete the ascension to immortality of a thousand years, the gate of the mountain of immortals obscures cause-and-effect, the path to eliminating the flower none can ask the heavens....I will paint it for [you] little friend [referring to Meng Hao], here at the Southern Star's Southern Domain.
? It's pretty clear in the translation that the mother is friendly. Think of it this way, she doesn't care about Meng Hao other than being the host for her son. She leaves after ch193 and doesn't come back up to the point I've read. Also, if I interpreted it correctly, even if the resurrection lily (Lit. "flower of the other shore") were to die, it will be reincarnate later. I might be wrong but I think the name of the Resurrection lily is referencing the "far shore" of the Buddhist nirvana.
*edit* I'm wrong, it apparently refers to the paramita path of buddhism, the pursuit of perfection Here's the wiki on 'far shore'
But the cognate pāramitā, the word preferred by the Mahāyāna texts and also used by Pāli writers, is sometimes explained as pāram + ita, 'gone to the beyond,' thereby indicating the transcendental direction of these qualities." (Velthuis convention lettering replaced with Pāli diacritics.) In Buddhism, the pāramitās refer to the perfection or culmination of certain virtues. In Buddhism, these virtues are cultivated as a way of purification, purifying karma and helping the aspirant to live an unobstructed life, while reaching the goal of enlightenment.
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Wait, mother of the tri-color poison? I dont get it
The five elements: water, wood, metal, fire, earth
Wind element
Lightning element
Blood/meat/body
Yao (demon)
Total of 9
The old man tells him "彼岸花开七色天,花落成仙一千年,仙山之门藏因果,斩花之路莫问天……于南天星南域,为小友画" - 'On the day that the Resurrection Lily blooms the 7th color, the flower will complete the ascension to immortality of a thousand years, the gate of the mountain of immortals obscures cause-and-effect, the path to eliminating the flower none can ask the heavens....I will paint it for [you] little friend [referring to Meng Hao], here at the Southern Star's Southern Domain.
*edit* I'm wrong, it apparently refers to the paramita path of buddhism, the pursuit of perfection
Here's the wiki on 'far shore'
*edit* I bet it's some xianxia shit like if she looks directly at meng hao the Ji clan will become aware of him and chase him down and kill him.