XKARNATION

Now that Ashlock needs to spread his forest to every corner of the nine realms do the members of the cult that use the eternal realms to cultivate have orders to plant a tree?

I wouldn’t think so because the eternal realms are pocket realms

I am confused why they treat Soul Fire cultivators as usable in war. In 9th layer the gap between realms was way too high for them to be relevant when Star Core were present. Not to mention Monarch Realm cultivators.

Does higher Qi density and Qi crystals change the equation?

No
Remember the first book?
Soul fire realm were still fighting when the star core elders were fighting in the air

They matter that way,

Monarchs do not fight in sect wars, they protect the island, that is why Ferrin fighting is a big deal and will change the equation, as he believes that the island would be protected

It is just elders and hundreds of disciples around them

They measure the sect’s power roughly by the number of cultivators.

Even if Monarch guards the island, you have 6 Nascent Souls elders and likely dozens of Star Cores.

In the first book Soul Fire cultivators were fighting because number of Star Core was very small among the weak noble families.

Sounds like they should also start upgrading the mystical realm and taking seeds with them and planting them in different realms. They visit as they train.

Here it is different
Similar to a tower defence game

It is not a all out brawl
I assume they fight like an actual army with elders as commanders
Soul fire have their own duties
They might follow a star core realm or Nascent soul realm elders and help with qi

Or formations
Artifacts

Perhaps sneak in a d destroy the opponent reserves
Perhaps just cannon fodder to waste the opponent’s qi

These people seems to have ‘oil’
No one noticed it but elder’s were talking about taking their share of oil and going

So there might be more than just magic cultivator fighting going on

And if u notice

They did say that just a 3rd are soul fire
And they say it like a negative things

So we can also assume that normally soul fire realms are not very important in the fight and star core realms are the main force

3rd soul fire youth, rest greybreads that won’t listen.
The other sect rides beasts that are equal to our youth.
Peak NS elder is useless cause affinity gems are missing.

Nothing here seem to make sense unless Soul Fire cultivators here are far more valuable.

They have no artifacts. Not even storage rings.
They measure sect strength in cultivators’ number, not in number of formations.

“oil” is surely resource they use to fly the airship.

But that’s exactly the point
Theie sect is the weakest and have no chance of winning

They never counted on the soul fire realm members
They were talking all these things as negative, not something that was useful

That’s not the point. They state them as weakest because they have the fewest cultivators. Not because they lack enough powerful cultivators.

When war is fought with tanks you count the tanks. Not spears and horses.

Alright someone said that turn him into a tree
And i think that is genius

Im just waiting till he gets another odd summon and gives it a menial task like mailman for the empire

It looks obvious to me. He made a lot of money for celestial empire. But now the money is worthless as the empire is gone. So the debt is zero. Kill him, grow an ent from his corpse and have it produce coins at an amazing rate?

I just reread the thing

And i think what they meant was
Only 600 Cultivators
That’s the first blow
A third are soul fire realm
That’s the second blow
And rest are greybeards who won’t listen

That’s the third blow

These are three negative points
It’s not like first is the negative points, the number
And rest are just stats

All three are said negatively

We don’t need a summon for that

Just get one of those Nascent soul realm spatial affinity offspring

They can create portals throughout the root network, like they do for Diana and other headquarters

A few of them can be responsible for mails
Though I don’t know how many would be enough to handle all those mails, empire has a large population

Just a question I had but is the system upgradable like any other skill ashlock has? Upgrade system to mainframe would be cool idea and have it become more A.I.ish

I think the “system” is the origin or rebirth itself so can’t really be upgraded.

It did “upgrade” when ashlock ascended to nascent soul and gained the Devine stock market, but he can’t “spend tokens to upgrade” from my understanding, but it can and has been upgraded

I was gonna say the same thing also I think its part of his things as an origin but I think him have the piece of divinity he got from Senior lee may have upgraded it when he hit nascent soul

Long time since Ash lernt a technique (not a skill from the system) but a technique like the portals, spacial blades or smth. Or isn’t it necessary anymore cause he can do all there is cause of his Dao comprehension?

He ought to learn desolation techniques. So far it is the basic: desolation aura. It needs a lot of Law & Dao comprehension to be effective.
Indeee, what could the next technique be?

Desolation pulse that breaks artifacts would be cool

Dense Desolation Shot:
Ultra high compressed desolation KI very strong in penetrating shields, stucks to the soul and eating slowly away can be stackable. (Basically Poison for souls / inner Worlds)
Can be destroyed by flooding the dense point with your own ki.