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Is there will be a sequel for mo dao zu shi?

I’m not sure where the donghua is, but there is no sequel to the novel, so once the story ends that’s it unless the author decides to write more.

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hiii, could you please tell me if the donghua has any inappropriate/explicit scenes? I wanted to watch it during my free time at school, where I'm surrounded by people so I wanted to check first haha, thanks!

It doesn’t have sex scenes, but it should have some violence/potential gore. I’m not sure to what degree made it in the donghua though since I have never watched past the first few episodes.

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thanks for the input!

Hi I hope this isn’t a dumb question but I saw that you answered another question about the meaning of er-gege and I was wondering if gege was like oppa in that it’s normally women who say it to older men or is it normal for guys to also say it?

Hi! No worries, it’s a bit confusing. I don’t understand the ins and outs of it myself, I think women would normally only say it to older guys if they have a more intimate relationship (or maybe on the internet, fans might use it?). Either way, it’s a cutesy term of address. I think usually women call their older male friends ge or surname-ge.

I don’t think it’s a term guys generally use? I could be wrong. I did once see a video of two musical actors reading each other’s fan letters and they got embarrassed reading gege out loud since it’s not something they’d call each other even though they’re good friends.

(of course, it’s an actual kinship term for ‘older brother’ as well, so anyone would use it to say ‘i have an older brother/two older brothers etc)

pls correct me if i’m wrong. when I was young, I used to call everyone 哥哥 and 姐姐 (in cantonese), but I’m pretty sure that’s bc I don’t actually know cantonese (also they were way older, I was like 10 lol). I know a weird mix of set phrases and some ‘baby talk’ language lol so take what I say with a grain of salt.

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Hi I hope this isn’t a dumb question but I saw that you answered another question about the meaning of er-gege and I was wondering if gege was like oppa in that it’s normally women who say it to older men or is it normal for guys to also say it?

Hi! No worries, it’s a bit confusing. I don’t understand the ins and outs of it myself, I think women would normally only say it to older guys if they have a more intimate relationship (or maybe on the internet, fans might use it?). Either way, it’s a cutesy term of address. I think usually women call their older male friends ge or surname-ge.

I don’t think it’s a term guys generally use? I could be wrong. I did once see a video of two musical actors reading each other’s fan letters and they got embarrassed reading gege out loud since it’s not something they’d call each other even though they’re good friends.

(of course, it’s an actual kinship term for ‘older brother’ as well, so anyone would use it to say ‘i have an older brother/two older brothers etc)

pls correct me if i’m wrong. when I was young, I used to call everyone 哥哥 and 姐姐 (in cantonese), but I’m pretty sure that’s bc I don’t actually know cantonese (also they were way older, I was like 10 lol). I know a weird mix of set phrases and some ‘baby talk’ language lol so take what I say with a grain of salt.

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The beauty of the apricot forest manga

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Bisakah saya menterjemahkan manhua mo Dao Zu shi kedalam bahasa Indonesia

I’m not the one who translates the manhua, you’d have to ask that team for permission, I can’t do that for you.

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Jingshi

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Is the mo dao zu shi manhua in english completed? If yes where can I find it....?

I have a feeling it’s not complete yet? You can find it if you look on google, it might be listed as ‘Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation’. I know ExR was translating it originally, but idk if they’re still the ones on the project.

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do you have the link of Mo Dao Zu Shi in Chinese? the original one

I think it’s locked on the original platform? You can buy the physical books online. Other than that, you’d have to look for it on your own, I can’t read chinese so I can’t look it up.

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Hey! Do we know the traveling time between the cloud recess and gusu?

The Cloud Recesses are in Gusu, my memory is fuzzy but I think Gusu can map onto modern day Suzhou?

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Is the grandmaster of demonic cultivation completed

Yup!

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hi i so hate to bother you, i read your post about their speculated/actual ages, and i’ve been trying to wrack my brain to remember how old jiang cheng was when he became sect leader. like i know he was probably 17-20 but for some reason i cannot think of his exact age (whether it’s my memory or it was never outright said i do not and i am horrible with time progression) , so i was wondering if you happened to know

I no longer have any idea what’s going on with the timeline of this novel haha, sorry. I’ve been mia for so long and I never had a good grasp on the ages except what was explicitly stated in the text. it wasn’t really outright stated, like many of the ages in this book, you just have to extrapolate.

I think the text does state what age they are when Xuanwu thing happens, and you can kind of base the rest off how much time passes between that event and the sunshot campaign.

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UGH Zhou Shen sang Huang Cheng Du again and I’m dying. After watching one of the singing shows he was on (Super Vocal), I have an extreme bias for live singing over OSTs loool. I think this performance sounds better than the recorded track. Dayu/Big Fish will always be my favorite from him, but his ethereal voice really sums up the tragedy of the Yi City arc.

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Heaven Official’s Blessing Liveblog

Chapter 4: Discussion Between Three Fools In The Ju Yang Temple At Night (I)

Another loooong piece of exposition about the ghost bridegroom. Little urban legends, folktales, and rumors like these can be fun in a novel if you go into this story knowing it’s going to take its time to set the world up and eases into the action and main plot. I honestly skipped some of it the first time around, but now I can appreciate the worldbuilding it delivers. It’s stuff like this that makes a world feel real and lived in, not just a set piece used to tell the reader about some awesome main characters and the stuff they end up doing.

I really do like how all of these scenarios are so realistic. A few missing brides and their attendants out of how many thousands don’t get snatched up by a ghost on their wedding day? Why should the bigshots in heaven do something? To them, those brides are tiny fish in a big sea. It takes a wealthy man’s daughter going missing for them to finally do something about it, which is, well. It’s how the world works. Those other brides’ families had to have been just as upset, it’s only that this family was able to raise a fuss large enough to attract attention. 

It’s so relatable, almost no matter what culture you come from, and it definitely makes sense for the time period. That’s how you make a reader feel connected to a fantasy world. I could go on, because that’s just how much I’ve been irked by other fantasies I’ve read in the past few years, but I’ll move on now. :p

We launch into some investigative work and wow, does MXTX like this sort of thing haha. MDZS is also basically a detective plotline. 

[“Your Highness the Crown Prince, how did you decide that the ghost is a bridegroom? That can’t be certain. No one has ever seen it before. How can you tell if it’s a man or a woman, if it’s old or young? Are you thinking of things too simply?”] The fact that Nan Feng thought of this is neat. Yup, assumptions are...well, everyone knows what they are.

[“Fu Yao, why are you rolling your eyes again?”] Xie Lian should probably stop asking this to save his breath.

[Don’t mention how their own mothers wouldn’t recognize them, there were some Heavenly Officials who couldn’t even recognize their own Godly statues.] Lol some more realism thrown in there. Makes sense. It gives the narrative a good excuse to be humorous which is honestly necessary for stories set in rather bleak times in human history. I’ve said this about MDZS before. The one thing I really liked about it is that Wei Wuxian’s narrative kept things light-hearted or at least had gallows humor, to contrast with the absolute angst-fest that was the events of that novel. Striking that balance between serious and humorous is important. To me, at least.

So, Fu Yao is super fastidious. One way to distinguish him from Nan Feng.

[Unfortunately, who would have thought that Fu Yao would choose to leisurely speak up now. “I know what you wanted to ask. You must have been wondering, out of so many believers who had come here today, why were there such a large amount women, right?”] He’s also a little shit, isn’t he lol.

[It was clear you could no longer count on him. Thus, Xie Lian had no alternatives other than doing something himself.] If you want a job done right, do it yourself! Xie Lian’s narrative is so frank it’s great.

It’s also interesting to note that even though he’s definitely matured since his early days of Bad Decision Making, it hasn’t entirely faded. Back then, even though people told him what the consequences of his actions were, we see he didn’t believe them and did it anyways. Now, even though he’s more mature, when he goes to help Little Ying he doesn’t really think of how she will react to seeing him half undressed lol.

When it comes to doing the right thing, he’ll do it without hesitation. But he doesn’t always think of the consequences, whether that’s because the possibility just never occurs to him or he doesn’t think things will turn out like that. It’s a character flaw, but for once this flaw doesn’t annoy me lol.

[The moment his voice faded, Nan Feng pointed at him before asking, “You… Did your wound open?”] So Fu Yao is the asshole, Nan Feng can indeed show concern for others (possibly those he is actually acquainted with only). But also, is it possible for a heavenly official to be wounded so badly and not be recovered from it? Maybe he thought it was a recent thing. Or maybe Xie Lian not having his powers has to do with it.

[They were the wounds he had accumulated as he rolled down from the Heavens.] Which begs the question...he fell from heaven a while ago, so are they still wounds? Scars? 

[A black collar encircled his snow-white neck.] More of these markings?

Alas, that shall be answered on another day, because that is the end of the chapter.

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[mihanada]

Did Lan Zhan stop wearing his headband after he got together with Wei Wuxian?

Does he ever stop wearing his headband? I didn’t think so, but I last read the novel a few years ago and I never finished the later chapters so I don’t really know.

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the jjwxc link is not available. is there another link to read the original jjwxc version?

I don’t know where you can read the novel online (in Chinese) anymore since the novel was locked by the platform, ironic considering both an animation and live action were produced based off the novel. So aside from physical copies, I’m not sure where to read the original.