Certainly! But the folks at the Academy are also people who had pretty much given up everything they had to make a 'pilgrimage' over, which can be pretty risky in a more feudal/medieval type setting. And in the end, not all of them can cultivate. The ones we met were the lucky ones! - Pen
Perhaps it was true he could try introducing cultivation to them, but who knew what sort of aptitude they had, and if they could even successfully cultivate at such an age. The fact that he had begun cultivating at such an old body age with great success could only be attributed to the Heavenly Mandate, and folks like Old Gao and his friends back at the Academy were the exceptions, not the rule. And even then, in the Academy, the holy land of cultivation, how far had they gotten? To the Peak of the Body Tempering stage at best. It really couldn't account for much.
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I'm glad you're liking it! I wasn't quite sure how I wanted to do this arc, or if I wanted to do it at all, but ultimately decided to do it because of two things. First, I think action should have consequences. Seeing how much I've harped about opportunity and tribulation, I think it would be beyond wrong if Di Tou got away scot-free. Second, as a reader and an author, I don't really like time-skips. They're certainly necessary, as people don't become Gods and Immortals overnight, but jumping so far, it's wrong if the character is still the same, and it's also wrong if the character is too different. Letting time flow a little is rather interesting to me. After all, even a memory loss patient has a history while they're confused, and a reincarnation has a period where they don't have their memories, right? Are those stories any less meaningful? - Pen
He did! I think I might have written it and deleted it so it is no longer included, but after using it for a while, although it certainly 'worked' it was as a whole another item he purchased that was 'useful' but useless. Basically two main issues. 1) The technical issues, the gourd spat out way too much dirt at once, making it a bit of a hassle to refill/control. 2) For practicing sweeping, although he uses Void Qi and some of the contents are removed, as a whole he's not trying to 'empty' so much as he is trying to 'restore' so adding contents then removing it is somewhat poor practice. - Pen
It's certainly hard to keep track of, and I'm sure there's some inconstancy as I made mistakes in tracking, but as a whole, I think the timeline at this point looks roughly like this: After leaving the Academy, he adventured around various villages. This process was ~ half a month. Time with Wu Kong & Bei Dou ~ 4 months Wu Ya City/Following Exploration ~ 1 Month Qian Jian Shan (first time) ~ 1-2 Months Haunted Village ~ 1 & 1/2 Months Northern Continent/Escape ~ 2 Months Passing through Wu Ya City/Qian Jian Shan again ~ 1 Month Contemplations/travels in the Central Continent ~ 2-3 Months Stay outside of the Academy ~ 2 Months Do feel free to note if any of this seems incorrect, I'm basing it on notes/backreading, and a lot of it was a long time ago for me in terms of writing, haha. - Pen
Besides, it wasn't like there wasn't any precedent. The last time Di Tou had said he would be gone for a 'short' while, he had been gone for over a year. This time Di Tou couldn't even clearly say how long he would be gone as he had no idea at all, who knew how long it would be until he returned, who knew how long it would be until she got her renovations done!
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Eastern · An_Ineloquent_Pen
Oh my, I just went back. I'm so sorry! I think I know what the issue was... Sleep deprived pen + trying to use grammerly that seems to have an issue with duplicating words sometimes when taking their suggestions. I think it has something to do with highlighting? I can't say I've loved the service so far, but I'm locked in for at least a year... Sorry again! - Pen
Ah... - Pen
Dieser Absatz wurde gestrichen.
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Eastern · An_Ineloquent_Pen
That's true! Good catch! - Pen
Dieser Absatz wurde gestrichen.
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Eastern · An_Ineloquent_Pen
o_o Will do! Had no internet for a few days due to travels and had to rush quite a few chapters, so sorry if some of the quality is lacking. I'm a very sleepy pen... - Pen
That was something I had to think about for a while when I was writing. I didn't want the Void Qi to be 'darkness' because I don't think that's what it represents in this story. Neither is it the absence of light. It's nothing. And I think for humans it is intuitive to think that the absence of everything is darkness, but I don't think so. Plus, for the sake of how things follow... the Void Qi can't be seen/perceived easily. So... yep. - Pen
The next moment, Di Tou was before the ball of Void Qi. To the naked eye, there was nothing there. At most, one would feel that the spot in the air was particularly desolate, particularly sad, and particularly empty. An urge to add something, be it flowers, rainbows, or a cloud, would arise, but soon enough, it would pass.
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original The Legendary Janitor
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Most people don't choose reincarnation. Reincarnation finds their way to them. Perhaps they did something great in their life. Or maybe truck-sama wasn't looking where it was going. But without fail, those who reincarnate are destined for something great. A new life where everything changes for the better. But... Reincarnation isn't always the greatest thing. Sometimes you just draw the short end of the stick. Di Tou just happens to have drawn the shortest stick. Pulled out of his life randomly. Taken by a crazy old eccentric man not as a disciple, but as a body double?! And a janitor body double no less?! Grasping a system to find... It's a JANITOR SYSTEM!? Truly, how unlucky can one get?1408 Chs 7k Sammlungen
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No Medicine For Regret
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Regret. I regret meeting you. I regret knowing you. I regret trusting you. And most of all, I regret loving you. Deep in the swamps that lie east of the world resides a legendary witch, who from her hovel watches over the entire world. There she crafts potions of unmatched potency and nature, ones that can heal all illness, make a weak man strong, and return the dead to the realm of living. As long as one can tell a story that the witch has never heard, anything can be bought. There I will seek treatment. A medicine for my regret. A bandage for my soul. From now on, let us be strangers. You who were my world will now reside outside of it. You who were my love, will never again enter my eye. Let our fate be severed. But, I can’t help but wonder, in this world, is there really such thing as medicine for regret?70 Chs 31 Sammlungen
Hehe, there's still a lot of sweeping in Di Tou's future... - Pen
In any case, at least for now his sweeping days were over!
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Eastern · An_Ineloquent_Pen