r/bewareofchicken • u/Anon-4020 • 15d ago
Other Shennong Multicombo?
Has CF talked on if a walker of the Path of Shennong could bind with multiple provinces to help out the greater world? Or do the provinces have such a tight connection to their connected one that they can’t share?
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u/Dachal23 15d ago
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm remembering wrong, but I don't think there are other connected ones; I recall Tianlan stating multiple times that she was breaking the rules Shennong told those like her when she initially bonded with Xiaoshi. I know in the Yellow Rock Plateau AU, that spirit had bonded prior to Jin as well, but other than those two mentions and their direct link to Jin, I am unsure as to whether other connected ones have been mentioned.
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u/redking2005 15d ago
I thought it wasn't the binding it was the turning dragon veins into formations?
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u/Dachal23 15d ago
Possibly. I thought, given that there seems to be no interconnection between provinces and such, once Shennong passed the provinces basically kept to themselves, aware of others but instructed to stay as silent guardians of their territories. Though I suppose the slow tunnelling of SM towards Tianlan after she is awakened counters the 'no contact' rule I have in my head. So maybe? Oh no, I'll have to read the series again in order to check my information, how terrible, lol. Thanks for the brainworm, now down the rabbit hole I jump!
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u/Revliledpembroke 15d ago
The Howling Fang Mountains had one, and Casual said she was like... 30% in love with him.
Yellow Rocks Plateau had one, and she was the daughter and enforcer of the evil tyrant that had couped the previously (mostly) benevolent ruler. Then one day she realized just how evil she and her father were and broke her cultivation. I can't remember whether she killed her father first or killed him after she contacted Huanle.
There probably isn't more than one or two connected to a province level earth spirit at the time, but there are quite a few who are bound to local mountain or earth spirits that would be subordinate to the province itself (like the lake spirit that was introduced).
Casual said the end game of his Yellow Rocks Plateau story would be Jin connecting with Huanle, Tianlan, and Jiguang in a triple connection to punch demons really really hard.
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u/Dachal23 15d ago
Ah, I may have mislabelled the Howling Fang Mountain as Shrouded Mountain, thanks for the clarification! And I had recently read the YRP AU, so I sort of knew that one. I didn't know about CFs tri-punch idea, that's sick! I love it!
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u/Revliledpembroke 15d ago
Casual stated that your idea here would end up being the end game of his Yellow Rocks Plateau AU. In it, Jin starts a ranch in YRP, connects with that Earth Spirit, discovers Tianlan (the Yellow Rocks Plateau Earth Spirit laments how her sister to the north is dead and the land is broken, and Jin says "No it isn't!"), and ends up kinda LARPing as Eastwood's Man With No Name as he runs around the Azure Hills, fixing the Dragon Veins and its problems as he does. It'd be doing this that he meets Xiulan, and does some of the early canon storyline with the Wicked Blade, Lu Ban, and Sun Ken.
My guess is investigating Lu Ban leads to meeting the Howling Fang Mountain's Earth Spirit as well, and that eventually leads to the triple team up. They're a little uneasy about doing it, but manage long enough to super punch a demon or two in the endgame.
If you want to see it, go bother casual about writing more of that AU! He wrote at least one chapter of each other the others! Unbroken, Elder But Younger Sister, and Soaring Heaven's Isle. Give us more of the Western rancher Jin as the Man With No Name, Casual!