"Lu Guan is a less clear-cut case, but he can still explore both myth and concept."
"The abilities of the white bone sequence were apparent from the very beginning. Mental attacks, mental power shields, ghostfire that burns flesh and blood-have you ever seen a skeleton with abilities like those?"
"If it were white bone as a concept, its abilities should be related to bones, not mental power and ghostfire."
"The nature of An Xi's, Qingqing's, and Lu Guan's sequences was evident in their initial abilities."
"Zhu Qing is a lot like Lu Guan. His sequence could lean toward either myth or concept, but his initial abilities didn't display any of the abilities of mythical giants."
"From beginning to end, Zhu Qing's abilities have been increases in strength, endurance, and recovery."
"Those aspects became even more pronounced as his body grew larger."
Chu Sheng paused at that point, jumped off An Xi's back, and headed toward the cab.
Seeing this, An Xi returned to human form and followed him, though she kept the pair of tiger ears on her head, which twitched as she moved.
As he approached the cab, Chu Sheng glanced at Captain Hui, who lay in the passenger seat like a dead dog. With a thought, he summoned the Butcher, which bound Captain Hui and carried him to the bedroom.
In one corner of the bedroom stood a small bed with stone legs and wooden planks for its base. That was his bed.
Chu Sheng sat down and glanced at An Xi in the other seat. Seeing her flushed face, he made no comment and simply continued, "Although I don't know much about mythical giants..."
"I do know a little. Forging, control over nature, enhanced wisdom, corrupting curses, for example."
"All of those appear in novels, films, and