small and angry but mostly small

And I have thoughts about Qifrey as a master that I will put under a cut for WHA manga spoilers bc I am including various manga panels

Pursuit

「香、満ちたようでございます。」

Xie Lian's cultivation path is religious; he's a devote daoist and meditation and following its tenants bring him power.

Hua Cheng's cultivation path is just as religious, but his religion is literally Xie Lian. That's where he gets his power. There is a trope in Wuxia & related genres (these are gods so not technically Wuxia I think but I don't remember the specific name) where someone cultivates and meditates as a hermit in a cave until becoming a master. The Cave of Ten Thousand Gods, the Kiln... Hua Cheng did that, and we can tell what he was doing in there was worshiping Xie Lian.

And with that... He literally gets power from Xie Lian in a more obvious sense. He & his spiritual weapons get stronger when kissed and complimented, since they're being blessed by his god. The butterflies swarming when XL tells them good job. E'ming being able to grow to normal size after having shrunken due to XL praising him and giving him a kiss (which people keep acting like is a blowjob metaphor as if that wouldn't imply HC is a grower and not a shower which I think would be dumb), HC himself being able to heal and start getting bigger when XL gives him a kiss, too.

This is the 2nd person to say this and while I understand the concept of 'two things can be true,' in this case it is not true.

That scene literally had no actual sexual innuendo. E'ming was functionally a child in the same way Hua Cheng at that point was a child. He grew from being a child to being average sized by being complimented in cutesy, PG ways that Xie Lian complimented Hua Cheng's butterflies (which also gave them a powerup). Pei Ming had long since clocked that Hua Cheng loved Xie Lian and so of course he could tell a kiss would seal the deal and bring him back to his normal size. A peck on the lips. A blowjob is not a peck on the lips unless you are a virgin.

No licking. No making out. No 'what a sin!'. No sword swallowing. Compliments and a quick peck of a kiss. That is in no conceivable way a blowjob innuendo and the only people who think its a blowjob innuendo are people who blindly believe every other rando fan who insists it's a blowjob innuendo, the same sort of fans who will lie about the 'top, bottom, what does it matter?' not being an innuendo ('ohhh Chinese go by 0 and 1, not top bottom' - they go by both), the same sort of fans who don't know who killed Jian Lan, the same sort of fans who never picked up on the fact He Xuan is Hua Cheng's spy in the heavens somehow, the same sort of fans who never clocked that Hua Cheng was quoting himself when he told Xie Lian that story about being kicked out by his parents on the ox cart - ie fans who can't read and just know the story via a game of telephone with other fans who also can't read.