Oooooh, we’re getting into the GOOD stuff with this volume ALREADY! Is it bad I already like it maybe more than Volume 1?!
We have a gambler’s den, Hua Cheng being the MOST FLIRTY, 800-year-old Virgin Xie Lian confirmed, Lang proving he’s NOT what I thought he was from the last chapters, and the mysterious return of bandage boy RIGHT as we end chapters 35-38?!
This series is getting SO good and we’re just getting started!
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Lewdest handholding ever! And a…dare I say it?…lesson in giving a handjob???? AHAHAHahahha! The Gamber's Den arc is fun stuff, right?
It was funny seeing you suspect Lang Qianqiu in the last episode when we know he's just a clueless, kind of stupid hothead. He made a fun toy for San Lang to play with. Of course the Wind Master got himself/herself dragged to ghost beauty parlor. And our darling Xie Lian, telling everyone he's impotent without a real care, since he's celebate anyway and that gets people to leave him alone. Don't bother showing him your fake ghost boobs – he'll just chant some sutras and go on with his day. At least, until San Lang shows up and they flirt outrageously in front of a huge crowd of crazy ghosts.
So yeah, this is Hua Cheng's true form, but since he changes all the time, only Xie Lian knows that. San Lang did promise, after all. File all that stuff about his appearance in the back of your head for later. Xie Lian (and the other two gods) is so horrified by that guy offering his daughter as a bet but San Lang must see that sort of thing all the time – it's disgusting but typical for gamblers. It's not his job to morally correct them – he'll just let them ruin themselves (and their families), if that's what they want to do. I also think HC let that guy win the first time…specifically to see what he would do next. How deep of a hole is this corrupt human willing to dig himself? Let's show everyone (readers and Xie Lian) just how awful humans can be at times. Greedy, greedy, selfish, and slimy. But…if Xie Lian wants to save someone, then, well – they get saved. But HC has to keep up appearances, so play-gambling works.
I actually think Xie Lian was quoting something he was taught, when it comes to alcohol. Whether he's had the experience of being drunk or not, I think someone who trained to be celibate would also be forbidden from drinking, with that as a likely excuse. You lose self-control when you drink, so that would be bad for someone who seems to have had a very strict training regimen.
LOL, he all but openly invited his Gege to stop by the house (Paradise Manor) but Xie Lian is like, "No, I'm here to spy on him so that wouldn't be nice." As if HC doesn't know already – he has to know, right? He always seems to know everything – and is okay with it. But now – Bandaged Boy makes an appearance! Things are about to get even weirder!
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Maybe someone already mention this, but the calamity that Shi Qingxuan fought is the Heavenly Tribulation. It's just a difference in translation, so he didn't actually fought anyone.
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Our precious deity enters the ghost city and the first and second events he encountered are terrible restaurants and courtesans trying to get a 419…not his best business trip ever, guess he needs to see the manager, I mean the city lord, to file his complaints!
We all know courtesans make their living in bed, but the woman ghost we met is willing to do it for free, just solid proof how good-looking XL is. And that excuse……sorry my dear, you've lived for 800+ years and THAT's all you can make up to refuse someone? too pure, just too pure for the world.
ALL THOSE FLIRTING in the gambler's den! Lang Qianqiu turns out to be just a hothead that doses off on important meetings right under the nose of his boss the heavenly emperor, guess you just need to be super strong to be a martial god that rules one side of the world, or he's far from qualified in my eyes……And sir, you have this VIP seat on the ceiling to witness XL and HC having their first lesson on gambling and all you do is being loud and disturbing? no wonder those female ghosts nearly pulled your pants off.
MXTX loves her cliffhanger and event-triggering people that ran off just like that only to jump back some 30+chapters later to surprise everyone dumb!
In the case of the Wind master "The Calamity " means a "natural disaster" or "Heaven's exam" not an actual ghost (again translation problem)
Someone said that Pei Ming is the only one, apart from Hua Cheng, that Xie Lian calls handsome in the novels. Which is quite interesting, considering that, at least manhua wise, Pei Ming is the one who physically resembles Hua Cheng the most. So, what do you think, Romania? Does our cinnamon bun has a type?? 😂
What's after tgcf? I'm guessing scum villain to finish off mxtx?
YESSS THE GAMBLING SCENE!! <3 the flirting game (quite literally) is so strong there I love it…Huacheng is so shameless and Xielian so clueless xD
Wind master is great I love him, he's so much fun x)
And yes Lang Qianqiu is like an impulsive child but he means good, I agree on the parallels about him and Xie Lian and that probably Xielian would be similar to him had he not been demoted and go through what he went throught, that's a good take on it. Seeing how your view of him changed so much so fast It'll be so interesting to see if your view changes on other characters and we go through.
Love hearing your theories too ^-^
Many pointed it out that Heavenly Calamity or Heavenly Tribulation has nothing to do with ghosts or monsters or actual fighting. It is a concept so widely known in Chinese culture that it never gets an explanation in novels nowadays. Heavenly Tribulation is a trial/punishment of the Heavenly Dao encountered by cultivators/gods/animal spirits at key points in their cultivation, which they must resist and ultimately transcend. This typically takes the form of a lightning storm, with extraordinarily powerful bolts of lightning raining down from the Heavens to strike at the person. When there was something that tried to surpass the constraints of the Heavenly Dao (reaching immortality or a scope of power beyond certain limitations), the Heavenly Dao would summon Heavenly Tribulation against that existence in order to exterminate/judge it. In literature it is portrayed even in famous classic Chinese novel "Journey to the West" published in the 16th century. In novel Monkey King Sun Wukong must protect himself from Three Calamities (thunder, fire, wind) sent by heaven to punish him for achieving immortality and defying his fate. Term itself likely comes from a Buddhist cosmological concept called the Three Calamities. Buddhism recognizes a measurement of time called a Kalpa, which can be many millions or even billions of years long depending on the tradition. Said traditions recognize between four and eighty kalpas. The total of these respective ranges make up a Mahakalpa, which is divided into four periods of nothingness, creation, subsistence, and finally destruction, each period being between one and twenty kalpas long. The Three Calamities in Buddhism are responsible for the destruction of each Mahakalpa. Over time under the influence of Daoism the term changed and became what it is now. Very widely used in modern Chinese fantasy literature.