LCD Stealing The Heavens

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  1. Feycaller

    Feycaller Well-Known Member

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    A sect has access to resources and techniques restricted from the normal population. Helping a Duke is not worth much considering the size of Great Yan and the fact that the Duke is new to the office.
     
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    IDK then. The author might want us to assume that's what happened rather than spend storytime talking about what happened to the heads of worthless enemies in an inconsequential area.
     
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    At that point in the story, it had not yet been revealed that he even needed techniques other than those he had already inherited. Even so, he's totally capable of stealing whatever techniques he might happen to want, and has done so on at least two occasions that I can think of.

    As for resources, he has far, far greater access to resources than his sect does. He is in fact, the number one source of resources for his sect. The only thing that the sect gives him is a limited amount of political power that can't really compare to what he gets from being the princess' favorite person and which has very rarely proven useful.
    They were neither worthless nor inconsequential at the time. Honestly, it was probably the hardest large scale battle the MC has fought. For any military battles that came after that, he was a side character or interloper at best, and had no control over any of the troops or tactics involved.
     
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    A cultivator appearing out of thin air, using the techniques of an established faction and somehow acquiring the resources to breakthrough is a surefire way to be hunted down.
     
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    They become worthless when Lu chengfeng has to dash to the capital of Great Yan and inherit the seat of his father. If he succeeds he will no longer think in such a small scope as to worry about how to pay the survivors for the heads of barbarians. If he loses, he dies. There is no point in him caring, and no point in Wu Qi making mention of it.
     
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    Why so many double posts?
    1. He gets the technique from Chengfeng who gets it from the imperial family or his clan as part of his rightful inheritance. This is both normal and expected.
    2. He got the manual from the talisman sect that tried to kill him repeatedly. Any objections that they might have to him practicing their techniques can be easily ignored or used to trade for a technique of similar quality if the empire is willing to act on the sect's behalf.
    3. He got the talisman skill from the Qin. This is the spoils of war with one of the empire's greatest enemies. Even if he wanted to establish a sect and distribute the skill, the empire wouldn't object and would in fact probably work hard to support him in doing so.
    4. He and Chengfeng abuse his political position to acquire techniques from powers in the West using various pretexts. This sort of thing has already been shown to be perfectly acceptable so long as it's done right.
    5. He asks the princess to help him.

    I'm sure there are other ways, but these five are already more than enough. As for resources, I've already addressed that. Chengfeng and he own so much property that supporting two cultivators would be very easy.

    How is that even a spoiler? That aside, him paying or not paying would impact his credibility as the Lord of the area. So even if the army was worthless, failing to pay the bounty he promised for killing it would still be a very bad idea.
     
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    1. I'm still new to posting.
    2. Chengfeng did not even have a complete technique until he joined a sect. The only reason the sect gave chengfeng such a good technique was because of Wu Qi's relationship and the energy veins chengfeng gave them.
    3. The talisman sect would still keep killing him if someone powerful, the sect backing him, did not speak up and stop them. Or rather they would move openly against him rather than send a small force out into the wild to hunt him.
    4. He can have skills, but some people are going to wonder where he got them. Those people would also see that he does not belong to a powerful faction and attempt to kill him, a good reason for him to join one of the only sects in the empire.
    5. Yan Dan considered Wu Qi an expendable country bumpkin until Wu Qi called him out on it. I doubt he would survive for long asking the princess to help him without a suitable title or backing. The sect provides that for him.
    6. The way I understand the only reason he joins the ship is to protect himself long enough until he can establish himself. It takes time and resources to recruit and train men loyal to him. The current empires have existed for two thousand years. They have an amount of resources and power he still has trouble imagining. Don't forget the guy is still new to the world.
    7. They need to support all the hanger-ons and followers and workers of the Duke as well. Not to mention his culitvation technique is greedy so he might as well take all the resources he can get.
     
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    So what are the cultivation ranks and levels?
     
  9. Vaner

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    Ntr in this novel too? First is Global Evolution and now Stealing The Heavens. Ntr tags everywhere
     
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    anyone read ahead? summary please
     
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    so did you read? was there really ntr? or people trolling like the one global evolution