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mxtxfanatic · 2 years

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Love that Wei Wuxian takes the time to teach the juniors a lesson about the ingenuity of the non-cultivator civilians in Yi City:

“You see?” Wei Wuxian said. “Don’t laugh—this is an example of the cleverness of common people. Sure, it’s crude and looks trivial, but it is indeed effective at defending against low level corpses. If the corpse trips over the threshold and falls to the floor, it won’t be able to crawl back up for a while because its limbs are still stiff. By the time it can get up, either the sun is about to rise and the rooster is about to start crowing, or the coffin house guard has discovered it. The fact that ordinary people without any background in cultivation thought of a method like this is pretty amazing.”

–Chapt. 38: Flora VI, fanyiyi

Because the way that the kids (mostly but not exclusively Jin Ling) have been shitting on the commoners, on their “stupid” cultural practices or their protection rituals that are meant to deter evil because god forbid the actual cultivators do so they’re “too lazy” to do for themselves... Idk how anyone can read this book and not see how pervasive the classism is in this world.

#human reads mdzs: take 2 #have not forgotten jin ling saying the villagers of fojiao were 'lazy'#and 'stupid' for praying to a stone statue #when they can just 'do things for themselves'#meanwhile he's being an active threat to commoners who had learned to cultivate in order to 'do for themselves'#literally a no-win situation when a spoiled rich kid gets it in his head that it's everyone else's fault that #a situation is bad

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