Why the f**k?

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  1. tef0

    tef0 Well-Known Member

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    Chinese main characters pulling this stupid shit with their teachers where they’re like “You trained me for a grand total of 12 hours so I will kill this cultivator vastly superior to me in cultivation to avenge you”.

    Like fucking why? They should have absolutely no emotional connection with a lot of these people so why should they even care enough to risk a very high chance of death?
     
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    Filial pity taken to an extreme... I suppose.
     
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    Ddraig Frostfire Dragon|Retired lurker|FFF|Loved by RNG

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    I would say it would count as a super extreme method of payment....
     
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  4. mmsupreme

    mmsupreme How do I change my custom title?

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    Dont even get started on nine divine cauldron loyalty. The girl is literally shipped around to be a bride of growing stronger forces. Sooner or later she will be forced to marry a god whilst mc has not physically been with her for more than a month
     
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    Same goes for friendship. Too many CN MCs swearing "brotherhood" within minutes of meeting a stranger.

    Not surprising, tho. Cultivation genre is the perfect example of an exercise in excess. There is an overdose of every kind of emotion felt.
     
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  6. Novela

    Novela Immortal Sheep

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    why not ?
     
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    Nydestroyer Special Name.

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    I think it all stems from the concept of unconditional loyalty. It seems in most novels when you acknowledge a person as your master and they accept you, you are instantly in a bond that must be respected from the get go no matter how new it is. So I guess it's sort of like a code like bushido or a knights honor, where it's the principle of the thing not necessarily the logic or emotion shared between the two. Much like how sometimes a strong master will take a weak but high potentialed student in order to protect them from some other person the student has upset in order to save their life. Because everyone knows the master is most likely bound to the master student relationship and has no choice but to defend them(after all it's not the masters fault it's the system's fault) thus allowing leeway for the person the student angered to disengage from the situation.

    Tldr: it's all a scam to save face and act within a code you have no control over as an excuse.
     
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    broken plot compass....
     
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    Daike1234 THE GUY WHO TRANSLATE WITH THE HELP OF MACHINES

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    Thats how Xianxia works
     
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    Fiction: Wherein you can make the main character do all types of sh*t, main character still won't die.

    Well most amateur authors tend to make things nonsensical. Reason and such? Nah. Plot convenience.
     
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    How about to read « Tales of Herding Gods » ?
    A certain expert crippled one of MC’s elder and attacked MC’s hometown but MC end up by respect him and befriend him.
    A novel more focused on comprehension and where one don’t need necessary to be at least at the same realm to defeat their opponent, not limited to MC.
     
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    I think it's because when the MC acknowledge's and accept's a master then they are equal to a father figure for the MC.
     
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    “One day as your teacher, like a father for a lifetime.”
     
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    Quite a few don’t even have a day lmao
     
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    It depends...

    Some of it makes no sense but from a cultural aspect. A teacher in asian culture is usually seen as the second mother or second father & at times maybe more. So, a teacher is more of a symbol... the same way, even though someone met their parents (if they were loved by their parents)... even though they spent not too long with their parents, they would still seek revenge.

    Also, losing someone does not mean erasing the past but it means also erasing the future experience & possibilities you can share with that person. The warmth & so on.
     
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  16. lucjanssens

    lucjanssens a very ¨rabbit¨ bunny

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    the same reason why those lady's fall in love in 10% of that time
    because plot reasons
     
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    probably cuz they're just homocidial maniacs :sushi_bye:
     
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    NasVersix [Natural A-hole]

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    Then just change one day to one breath. That settles it.
     
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    Mindless plot devices, the author needs to get the plot flowing. I would recommend you to stop reading those low grade novels as they are like fast food, too much of them aint good for your health.
     
  20. Saitama.sensei

    Saitama.sensei [[xiantian lifeform]]

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    If they don’t, it’ll go against their dao-heart and cause it to crumble, their dao coming to an end.. Anyway, that’s the sort of bull authors would use :whistle:
     
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