Sky Pride Vol. 5 Chapter 46- The Arrival of Consequences
Added 2026-02-09 15:00:19 +0000 UTCComments
Honestly, I googled "Chinese traditional charcoal making" and more or less wrote what I saw.
Nonnyor Business
2026-02-10 23:25:29 +0000 UTCThe guy who was sent to give him a demeaning job found him already pushing a mop, voluntarily.
Jeremy Goldberg
2026-02-10 16:09:23 +0000 UTCThis is the fanciest charcoal burning set up in a fantasy I’ve seen yet. Charcoal burning with a brick kiln? Lux. Europeans used clamps or impromptu mud kilns, so most of the time you get one of those. Which means Tian could be digging clay himself then building the kiln from scratch for every load of charcoal.
JKlarinet
2026-02-10 10:48:35 +0000 UTCIt's clearly to further cultivate the aura of the Brokie
KageRa
2026-02-09 23:56:42 +0000 UTCYou missed the part where he thinks about killing the Elders who wronged him
fujaks
2026-02-09 23:38:24 +0000 UTCNot to be that guy but the process of manufacturing charcoal has been referred to as "burning" for centuries.
JackassofAllTrades
2026-02-09 22:29:16 +0000 UTCwarby, one minor change i do not think anyone mentioned.. this : "The strongest in the Outer Court, burning charcoal? " change burning to making. he is making the charcoal if he was burning it, there wouldn't be any to deliver :)
Len
2026-02-09 21:52:47 +0000 UTCOh elaborate
Gerald Ransom Jr
2026-02-09 21:36:31 +0000 UTC"Once he was presentable, he set off for the Wangs, an enormous load of firewood lashed to a wooden frame on his back. He got some odd looks walking through the Monastery. Some sneered, but most looked puzzled. He had a storage ring. Nobody needed firewood, especially if you had charcoal. So why?". - Why indeed? Maybe he's going to use the wood as part of his revenge, but I can't imagine how.
Zenopath (AEV)
2026-02-09 21:34:21 +0000 UTCI wonder if this is why the meeting was held without Hong? Tian might begrudgingly accept his own punishment, but I suspect he'd react slightly more strongly if it was Liren being sabotaged. That said, I'm having a hard time gauging the tone of this chapter. Tian seems more mildly irritated than truly upset, and the Wangs are just teasing him a bit so perhaps it's not that big of a deal to anyone.
Sol
2026-02-09 19:46:26 +0000 UTCI get what you mean but at the same time, spelling out the lesson isn't great. Be content in the position your betters decide, no matter how pointless it is? Don't embarrass the strong? Any way you frame it seems like they are more interested in molding an obedient Tian than a masterpiece.
LiteWvr
2026-02-09 19:31:55 +0000 UTCRestraint, dicipline, precision. Tian feeling trapped is the point and it might not even be a mean spirited lesson he is meant to learn. Tian hates feeling restricted. Physically, socially, philosophically he hates it. He will more often run from such bindings, but if he cannot run he will savagely fight. This can be right and proper, but also unhealthy. He ran from Hong for a long time, and if she tried to corner him or force the issue it would have ended badly. Once he accepted what he felt for Hong it stopped being a binding and became a support. It would not surprise me if the charcoal lesson is meant to try and teach about something similar.
Noroh
2026-02-09 17:49:06 +0000 UTCI really wish I could see the bangles. That sounds lovely.
kapo
2026-02-09 17:38:26 +0000 UTCSeriously. Like, do they think he is just going to forget this when he breaks through? When has he ever been known to be so magnanimous?
kapo
2026-02-09 17:36:59 +0000 UTCHe is showing that he doesn't give a shit. Also, that he is looking for extraordinary good looking pieces so he can ram them up the ass of certain elders. I am very interested how much an immortal asshole can take in the asshole.
FastFoodNation
2026-02-09 17:05:25 +0000 UTCI have read this a couple of times, and I’m afraid I am one of the confused faces watching Tian carry wood through the monastery. Is he doing it to demonstrate that the elders will punish you if you speak truths they don’t want to hear?
Steve Wright
2026-02-09 16:22:55 +0000 UTCLove Tian leveraging his punishment task to lean into the Way of the Brokie. His performative broke-ness is now no longer an in joke, but shared throughout the monastery
EvilLittleThing
2026-02-09 16:19:20 +0000 UTCAnd these are the selected "good" Elders.
BurnNote
2026-02-09 16:11:32 +0000 UTCI think the sabotagiest elders are probably outside the barrier
Matt DiMeo
2026-02-09 16:09:12 +0000 UTCMaking a second kiln wouldn't go against his orders, since he can do whatever he wants as long as he is doing 3 batches of coal on the first kiln. Though I think it would be more worthwhile to find other things to do in a forrest while making coal
João Vene
2026-02-09 16:07:22 +0000 UTCHmm, I don't think it's quite in his nature, but if it were me, I might modify the kiln to expand it or speed up the rate of cooling, or just make a second kiln, though that seems to go against the letter of his instructions. To make the charcoal, he's producing ash (also wood gas, but that's harder to collect), I feel like that can be refined into potash
Hakurei06
2026-02-09 15:59:54 +0000 UTCTftc! The bangle sounds beautiful
G&S Gaming
2026-02-09 15:53:57 +0000 UTCHe crafts tea sets that help show the connections to the self and the world. A lovely interation of tea services to provide a fire that blows aways the shadows of the heart.
Veridescent
2026-02-09 15:45:56 +0000 UTCOther people have already mentioned Tian might be able to get something good out of charcoal duty. Back in book 3 the elders tried to sabotage the reformer faction by taking the kids off the battlefield so they couldn't earn merits. This wound up being just the thing they needed to heal their dao hearts and keep going. Had they left them in the red sands some of them likely would have died or deserted. I wonder if this "punishment" will also backfire for the elders. Could also explain why Fu isn't interferring to prevent this, he might think it's just what Tian needs for some reason.
JackassofAllTrades
2026-02-09 15:33:21 +0000 UTCoooOOOOoooooo! Now I am!
Steve Wright
2026-02-09 15:33:05 +0000 UTCanyone else think that last statement might be a Revelation....
Len
2026-02-09 15:29:50 +0000 UTCTians get back is gonna be legendary. Every elder involved is very much a fucking idiot. Antagonizing someone everyone is pretty sure to breakthrough with enough strength he will be a future protector of the monastery
Baconwargod
2026-02-09 15:29:20 +0000 UTCOh good now Tian gets to become “the wood cutter” I always loved that archetype.
Kain
2026-02-09 15:25:17 +0000 UTCMm... not as though this is a transformation with any particular relevance to his life.
David Bailey
2026-02-09 15:19:24 +0000 UTCTftc, his broke aura is growing, soon he will break into being poor person rather than a heavenly person
Aadi Narayan
2026-02-09 15:15:43 +0000 UTCI do feel like there is something in the Dao a passive yet aggressive wood cultivator with an odd take on the fire element could take from operating a kiln.
Brandon Cleveland
2026-02-09 15:13:11 +0000 UTCAh well, if you are stuck on the mountain anyway might as well spend it in the forest poking a kiln. Heh, a lot more annoying things he could be dealing with. A good opportunity to ponder the transformation of Wood to Fire and Fire to Earth. 😉
Abhi
2026-02-09 15:12:12 +0000 UTCtftc
Samuel Sever
2026-02-09 15:09:51 +0000 UTCI must admit you got a full snort of laughter from me with the Ohoho Ojou laugh.
Veridescent
2026-02-09 15:09:32 +0000 UTCThe immediate backpedal had me rolling Tian remembers his days 'shopping' fondly, it seems TFTC!
Desert Rainbow
2026-02-09 15:07:11 +0000 UTC
