Cultivators are meant to protect civilians from yao and spirits.
[he begins moving to pack up his qin instead of playing further, for now -- he already has his answer. the spirits are not responding, or perhaps cannot respond. he can feel the crackle of spiritual energy in the air without even using any musical techniques, drowning out the influence of the individual entities moving through the air.
he doesn't think he'll be fighting many of what he thought about as ghosts in a land of the dead, except on a technicality.]
From the unrighteous, as well.
[and if sometimes that moniker very much included other cultivators... they'd made their choices.]
no subject
[he begins moving to pack up his qin instead of playing further, for now -- he already has his answer. the spirits are not responding, or perhaps cannot respond. he can feel the crackle of spiritual energy in the air without even using any musical techniques, drowning out the influence of the individual entities moving through the air.
he doesn't think he'll be fighting many of what he thought about as ghosts in a land of the dead, except on a technicality.]
From the unrighteous, as well.
[and if sometimes that moniker very much included other cultivators... they'd made their choices.]