if you remember in the last few chapters they mentioned that there are 13 families, 3 of which have legend ranks and other 10 having blackgold ranks. while there are also random villages and settlements with a gold rank as their strongest paying tariffs to the 13 families closest to them so their family members dont get kidnapped. i am assuming that the silverwing family either has extremely high tariffs or straight up dont care about the bribes, so they enslave those aswell as people after their wars with others. i'd imagine to be the top dog family, with land fertile enough where trees can grow, aswell as having a blood essense stone mines, that they waged many wars and won many of them. causing 4 families to ally to barely stop the silverwing family.

not that much, think of them like islands in the middle of nowhere isolated from the main continents.

yep continueing on that. the prices of things are extremely different even in our world. for example a bottle of coke 1liter in turkey right now as of april 2nd 2024 is 100 turkish lira= €2,89. meanwhile if i were to buy 1liter of coke here in the netherlands it would only cost me: €2,29. let alone a different world with different values for different items. they cant export/import stuff and they dont have global economics. so basically its a free market anything that is fair could be a scam and anything you deem a scam could very well be legit price.

i think there is a saying about "the value lying in the eye of the beholder", which fits perfectly here.

trade? no sir this is a scam. they are being ripped off.

indeed, there are many sad things in the world. fictional or real.

before i reply to you, i will let you know i downvoted your comment because i disagree with it.

the story here is indeed not grandiose, but its honestly a good story. maybe because you have read much better stuff you feel like it is mid. but if you have read all of the best stuff you start to read stuff that is good, then once you are done with that, you read stuff that is mid, then stuff that is mediocre and then trash stories. this story although not original, the setting however is. there is cultivation, monsters, fighting and comedy. aswell as a view into the psychie of people who have different goals.

if you are reading this story only for the hot girls, then you definitely picked the wrong story my friend. i'd suggest you to go read a pornhwa or visit nhentai.

as for the rest of us who are reading this most of us are enjoying it. nie li who starts off as adorable annoying little shit, grows into pretty reliable strong leader. he not only relies on his power of luck but on his wits and battle experience. he has complex emotions, his relationship with different characters are unique for the most part. idk if i can say that about any of the other stories i would call mid. so yeah that is the reason why i and i presume many others like this story. also there are many more fun characters to come.

agreed. she has been since day1.

nah not my intention, i was figuring out how serious you are about your perception of reality and fiction. some people like to have debates about their believes, hates, likes, loves, dislikes, what is right, what is just, what is philosphy, etc. when you dont know whom you are talking with its rather hard to judge someone. there is also the issue of sarcasm and or jokes not getting through the internet as some people just see words and not the meaning behind them. so all is fair untill we go full on "politician-baby mode" and call eachother names for no reason at all. which isnt the case thankfully. so consider this just a casual convo with a total stranger who shares same hobby but different mindset.

this is not an excuse but english is my 4th language so sometimes my mind doesnt immidiately catch sarcasm.

my comedic genius knows no bounds. shout out to ITACHI, idk if you will ever see this again buddy but coming to see the old disqus comments made me lol once again. https://i.postimg.cc/hPw7Tfvj/i.png

and now it has been 8 years. yet the story is still sluggishly struggling. every chapter is being cut in 2. time passes but this story does not. what sorry sight for sore eyes.

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well that is self contradictory, you ask someone online as to why they ignored 90% of your comment and now you say that you never expected anyone to respond at all. but anyways it isnt that a serious of an issue. as to the main topic on our hand. sakura punching and it hurting. it depends on who or what gets punched, do i as my real self get punched by a 2d drawing? or does sakura with her ninja powers come to our world and punches me? if so i should be able to use all of the jutsu of their world too. or am i going to their world as me and i get punched by her ninja powers? then again i should be able to use jutsu aswell. so even if you wanna give her power to delete the universe with a single punch aka saitama punches, she would still fail to use it.

eh dont think of it as ignoring the rest its just seeing a wall of text and responding to the parts that i deem the most important. but i guess living a humaine life is fine.

also dont expect to write and wall of text and receive responses that talk about each of your sentences.

as for the balance thing. there is no real balance, what for you might be balance could for another very well be chaos.

as for the end being nigh, that is false. it is as close as it ever was and it is as far as it always will be. weither you and i shall see that is anyones guess.

so thats it? all this time spent just to get to this point?

my guess= demon king is being weakened by body in charge this whole time. since she entered truce. so she will probably reveal it when she is very weak by then shiro-chan will give her energy back maybe?

whats the point in surviving the boring and mundane world when there is so many fantasy world and realities that you can experience. hell you can even sit in darkness for infinity if you like. but just have some fun man.

talk about putting the carriage before the horse. those stupid pill companies have gone so mad over profits that they dont realise that they will be wiped out as a result. its almost like a parody of a certain eastern asian country which this manhua originates from. a little too on the nose dont you think mr author? you might get cancelled if the CCP hears of your villains plans and their conducts of actions and their likelyness to the CCP. https://i.postimg.cc/fRVkmT7B/i.jpg

you mean let sakura punch you? her punch would hurt for sure. but that is all it can do, hurt. i have watched naruto as a young lad, then naruto shippuden as a teen. throughout the years all i have seen her do: be annoying, yell "channaraaaaaaaaa" before punching someone and it dealing -1 dmg, being utterly useless&helpless and even aiding enemies by stopping her allies. so would i let her punch me? sure just like how i let a mosquito bite me even though i can easily squash it, it doesnt hurt/bother me so much that i go out of my way to dodge/kill it.

oh look guys some random npc's are going to kill the MC and his family? oh noooooooooooooooooooo mc is surely done for. surely he cant escape this inescaple DEATH.
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bro officially took over the school. only being rank5 and is commanding thousands of people and even many people stronger than him. he has succeeded in life already.