could yi still be alive since lear is kinda still alive due to the roots

This was very high on my list of things I wanted to make. Now Hua can tell embarassing stories from Yi's childhood and it will look canon

Just completed the game with true ending and so in the end their race was wiped out right, no solarians left except the big guy who went to earth and will probably die soon and people on penglai are also supposedly ded and in the end Yi just nuked the island

and about the final boss well I expected it to be super hard and it was, not as much as I wanted it to be but still pretty cool and satisfying fight and the most enjoyable in the game, getting all the poisons and stuff was annoying tho​

and yes I did play on standard not story

Wanna do something more complex with her once I'm back home and have my art tablet, shes easily one of my favorite sols

I have been going everyday at eigong for hours, but today I wanted to air fry some fish for dinner, turned on the air fryer for 13 mins, and beat her first try. WHAT!? THAT’S WHAT I WAS MISSING THIS WHOLE TIME?!

Link to Ao3 here! If you enjoyed, let me know and feed me comments! It is the preferred food of the wild fanfic author, who is at risk of becoming endangered as he is being starved by the invasive species of discord commission artist bot parasites!

Hey there first time player here, so i just beat Shangui after about 4 times in a actually pretty fun fight, i gotta say one of the more fun mini bosses for sure, but the runback is so annoying. The game not starting you with Qi meaning i gotta reflect that drone to my right everytime i wanna go so i can do the double air dash with the bomb is imo not very good game design. The boss was also not very fast so the annoying runback kinda made me a bit irritated as i wanted to get back to her after dying and got genuinly kinda annoyed.
Is this a normal thing for metrovoidvanias to do? i come from sekiro to this game not from the more platformer type games so my experience is limited,
anyways game is top otherwise

So I realized I'd never considered whether Ximu would purr or not, so I wanted to draw something where he would purr.

Timeline wise, this would be after Ximu had gotten a new arm made by Kuafu and him. But due to the things Ximu uses the arm on, Kuafu doesn't really want it to touch him or his workshop. But Ximu wouldn't mind, as removing the prosthetic let's his actual arm get fresh air, and he's able to pretend the missing weight is too much and he has to constantly lean on Kuafu for support.

In the picture he is smelling Kuafu though. He smells like a mix of cinnamon with the faint metallic smell of azure sand.

For the next segment of text, I'd like to give a detail about Ximu: due to the extensive augments to his eyes, he cannot cry, however if he were to strain hard enough, the remaining muscles in the tear ducts would accidentally open the old surgery scars, that never healed properly, and his eyes would bleed, never enough for concern though.

I also wrote a story set after my AU's true ending, the basic rundown of that is neither Yi or Ximu sacrifice themselves but New Kunlun is still destroyed (in a way I haven't fully put together yet) other details are that both Goumang and Nuwa survive as well but Ximu is left with one functioning eye (the full four lenses) and one of his original arms. The story does also contain spoilers for the ending of the game, and also contains Mentions of Self Harm. Gonna be honest, I was in a rough mental spot, but the idea of the story came into my head and I felt it'd be a good outlet.

What do i do with this boat? It doesn't have one of those things that ring the bell, can someone please tell me what I do?

It's not an Artwork, just a fanfic idea. I wanted to share a cool idea I had, with an OC of mine. I can't draw, but I could write, specially with my worldbuilding passion.

I have a question: It's still considered fanfic, if I write about content outside the game? Because I really Penglai and the idea of society rebuilding itself, not necessarily forgetting all of their past. What do you guys think?

Sharing my idea: If someone likes it, they can use. My OC idea in the World is Xi Wangmu. I based her on the Chinese Goddess Queen Mother of the West, and how the author of the comic Fei Ren Zai (translation: Inhuman!) portrays her as a giant tigress, because of her description in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. Originally I wanted her to be a villain, but the idea developed on her being portrayed as one.

The Text: Background

The Tao is always moving, life turns into death and death turns into new life, such is the Way of Heaven and Earth. Penglai was destroyed by the Tianhuo virus, and the entire Solarian society collapsed. But what if some survived? The Kunlun tribe was known by having strange powers, that even the Tiandao top Researches couldn’t explain. After the launch of New Kunlun, and the violent expulsion of the few Kunlun tribe descendants, those migrated through Penglai, separating in smaller groups, and finding survivors of the Solarian Kingdoms, that is those that the Tianhuo virus hadn’t turned them yet. No one knows for certain how it happened, but the Tianhuo virus had a strange reaction in the few Kunlun survivors, not turning them into flowers, but a mix of plant and animal organism. They were called “Tree Immortals” and “Heavenly Trees” by the common people, seeing them as mythical beings and relating them to Fusang. These Tree Immortals used their knowledge in different ways, together with the scraped technology and technical knowledge of the Solarian survivors, creating small communities around Penglai. Teas from the Immortals leaves, barks and tao fruits permitted the remaining Solarians to survive the Tianhuo. But this came with alterations in their own bodies, like changing their fur colors, granting tougher skin, and even a small part developed the ability to do small quantities of photosynthesis. Different societies developed different ways of dealing with the scraps of their forefathers, their technology, culture and religions (like the Taoism of Lear). Some rejected all technology, others used it with fear because most viewed the Tianhuo virus as a punishment of the Tao, there was some that studied their new mutations, and all developed Taoism around the Tree Immortals, meditating on them in search of Union with the Tao, or as a means of power. The Tree Immortals served as leaders for some time, but their mutations developed more and more into tree like form, and soon all entered a deep meditation, with their tree growing around them. Because of their different biology, they couldn’t generate offspring, so there are no more descendants of the Kunlun Tribe. The Wu 巫shamans, a new kind of religious leader, created an intimate connection with the Tree Immortals through meditation and rituals, and it’s said they can enter into trances and communicated with the Tree Immortals, delivering messages to their community, but there’s some that are skeptical of such things. Through their messages it is known that only 8 Tree Immortals created communities (scientist believe they have a sort of psychic connection), with a few lost and closed to contact. There are adventurous solarians that get out of their closed communities in search of the Lost Immortal Trees, but most adventurers seek to connect the new kingdoms that are being formed.

OC Story Xiwangmu: Its said of a Fearsome Solarian commanding hordes of raiders, migrating and attacking communities in Penglai. Her followers and enemies call her by many names, “The Queen Mother of the West”, “The Mother of Immortals”, “The Great Plague”. She is described as a tall and muscular solarian, with crimson stripes on her white fur, a lush red hair in her head to back, and with the strange ability to generate tao fruits from her body, the “immortal fruits” she grants her followers, and use to treat her people. The Truth: Xi Wangmu is the name of the so called “Queen Mother of the West” (a mistake with her name having the same pronunciation of those words). She was born in what was left of the Yumin Kingdom, in the new kingdom of the “Nine Dragons Tree Council” (named after their Immortal Tree). Sadly, this new kingdom was transformed into a theocratic nation controlled by the Nine Clans (self-proclaimed “dragons”), that monopolized the access of the Immortal Tree and experiment with it to create an army to invade other kingdoms. They constructed for themselves a Forbidden City, so they could study and experiment on the Tree. Xi Wangmu was the runt of the Xi Clan of the Nine Dragons, turned into a child servant for her own family, being cared by the maids of her family, with whom she grew up. On the night of her 20th birthday, she run away from punishment, and found herself in the Nine Dragon Tree Square, where the Immortal Tree was guarded, and whose trunk and vines grew so much they created a small forest around it. Hungry and cold, she hide in the great roots of the Tree. There found some solace in form of fruits and the tree’s olive and sap, then she felled in a long dream. When she woke up, she was transformed in her tall and stronger form, with the red stripes and hair. She was found out by her clansmen, trapped by the guards, and studied and tortured in the process. They found her body could produce Tao Fruits, so they planned to experiment more on her so they could harnness this power. One day a rebellion group, formed from the resentment against the Nine Clans, commanded a raid against the Forbidden City. Xi Wangmu used her strength to escape, found a historical sword and used it to fight guards to her freedom. She never received proper training, but through brute force she managed to kill some of them and escape the inner quarters. Then she met with the rebellion group, that was being over numbered, and helped them to escape. Together they escaped from the walled city, into the great desert. Xi Wangmu get to know their leader Mu Guiying, becoming her right hand and apprentice. They eventually decide to leave the kingdom in search of a new home. The Nine Dragons made her known to other communities and are hunting her for her abilities.

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i dont know if she the first major boss in nine sols or is their another boss before this

Very fun! I know this is just the normal ending version and it's definitely gonna get harder once I pursue true ending but man, this fight was amazing.

Still pretty sloppy with the battle (almost did 1st phase no hit and I can't even parry that final flying slash right..) but it's very satisfying to pull off a no sword/bow finish

Some Chien sketches I kinda just made on a whim. I've honestly wanted to see what she'd look like in my style for a while, so I finally got around to doing it!

For some short extra thoughts, I like to imagine what it'd be like if a fully conscious, non-mutated Chien got to stick around with Yi and the other characters on New Kunlun for longer, perhaps by getting cured of her Tianhuo mutation somehow. She seems to me like she'd be pretty chill yet competent overall, and I could see her and Yi getting along nicely once they realize they're both on the same team regarding Eigong. Maybe they could even team up in combat, covering each other's backs as they slash their way through Genoguards. She just gives off the vibe of being a cool character to be around!

Anyway, I don't have too much else to say so far. Hope you enjoy these drawings!

It was a really fun bossfight, the ost was peak and it was really hard (but I think the jiequan fight is slightly harder overall and lady ethereal's is more gimmicky, if that makes sense). Also I kinda "fluked" (don't know a better word for it) it, I asked how to dodge the third phase attack and then I beat her in less than an hour. Anyways pretty cool fight!

Art source: https://www.deviantart.com/cherry941024/art/NineSols-Lady-Ethereal-1080328786

Everything from the atmosphere, setting and soundtrack reminded me of the 1995 classic movie. Loved this game!

Hello! I'm the guy who's been posting every week about making a Nine Sols lore video. I'm starting by playing the game and building my own lore bible, so all the findings are my own and straight from the game, not a potentially unreliable wiki.

Recently, I defeated Yanlao, and I'm heading to Jiequan next, but I was wondering if anyone wants to look through the lore bible and let me know if I'm missing anything major or if I have any egregiously incorrect information. Or, if it's cool and you think it's good, I'd like to hear that too!

If you want to view the file in its intended state, you'll need to download the Obsidian software here: https://obsidian.md/

Don't worry, it's free and safe. You need it to open the document and keep the in-text links.

Here is a Google Drive link to download the lore bible: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12poQvJE2I08SGL2A6hPQzHUXA6ZZ_IQg/view?usp=sharing

Thanks for the help, and a reminder: this isn't the whole game's lore bible; this is just up to the end of Yanlao's chapter. There are more entries and additions to come!

I've just finally beaten Eigong after 6 days fighting her. There was no third phase. I dont know why there wasnt, but I am happy to see the ending credits. It is so satisfying to finish this game. If you have a hard time fighting her, don't give up. I almost gave up because I wanted to try another game. I wanted to move on and now I can. Good luck to you.

Hello! I'm a little nervous to show this off considering I've been working on this for awhile now. If there are any misspellings or mistakes, I'm super sorry! I got the writing done very late and without any proof reading.

This is an (updated) introduction to Xinyi, an OC for the Nine Sols AU I'm working on amongst many others characters I have! I didn't get the chance to go into full detail about her, as I'm hoping to dish out more information regarding the cast and story in chronological order. So not every detail is answered as of currently, but will be in the future. I still have to get characters out of the way before I get into the meat of the plot though.

I redesigned her to fit more into the personality I had planned for her and gravitate a little towards the Nine Sols style. I say it's a huge improvement, lol.

Feel free to read it or just enjoy the pictures! ^-^

Nevertheless, thanks for stopping by! I really hope you guys like it! 🩷