I didn't say there wasn't a pattern. But there is no bases to say that the author needs to keep the genders even. That if you add one you need to add the other.

Not what the word "couple" means.

Also "couple" in common vernacular means two people in a romantic relationship. The base meaning "couple" is to combine. Like a "coupling" where two pipes are combined. No part of common or original meaning of "couple" is "keeping a even number with genders"

You mean you think the author needs to keep the genders even? I see no evidence that the author puts any stock in your theory.

Regardless I also don't see any reason to think the comic would stop adding secondary characters here and there, it's not like they are in all battles

They didn't give much time for MC to respond to this sudden demand before pointing weapons.

"everyone is in a couple" no...

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Latter LD is called the only successor, what's this "joint successor" thing about? Mistranslation?

Experience can tell you what moves opponents might use in the real world and how to deal with those moves, how to kill if you need to, how to deal with basic needs in the wild when you are pursuing or being pursued and many other such.

What real combat experience is unlikely to give is to tell you how to do more powerful moves and such. When you are in danger you go to what will best give you victory at the time, but if a special move requires lots of basics to build upon that aren't that useful on their own, you wouldn't likely use it in a dangerous fight till you have it down.

A lava being being hit by their own fire attack would probably not do much damage to it

Seems impossibly to fight then. Regardless those people could have been grabbed and taken out of range to safety perhaps

Could they really not have prevented all those poor innocent soldiers from being consumed by that black magic slime?

Dead people don't plead with you to save em, that person was alive at the time.

Seems like LD feels they can't say no though for some reason.

I'm judging by actions. The first thing MC did after taking over this persons body was to suck out the life and cultivation of a allie of the body MC took over. A presumably innocent person murdered to quickly regain power.

Then MC tried to leave more innocent people and allies of the body taken over.

These are evil actions and indicate a evil person. How evil? Definitely not good, definitely not the actions of a human with a human heart. This "demon heart" is forcing our demonic (as in evil) MC to be good. So in fact it's a human heart anchoring a demonic soul, not visa versa.

I get what you are saying regarding cultivation terminology, but you seem to be missing my point.

So how did they get a "clone" to be loyal and go against the main and could it happen again once the presumably loyal clone becomes the main and makes their own clones?

How can they even know that this clone is trustworthy?

Why are they thinking of MC as a lunatic?

Well Little Dragon could say no.

What would have been the smarter move then?

What did they do that was so dumb?

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Why not kill Nergui now? It will take time to go around and stop the war. meanwhile you'd leave Nergui to do whatever they want?