What do Cultivators in Wuxia/Xianxia/Xuanhuan even do for fun? Do they even have hobbies?

WingsOfPhantasy

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No, seriously.
What do these people even do for fun? For entertainment? For their hobbies?
Like, sitting on your ass secluded from others, chugging pills and drugs, very cool mystical pills, and killing can't be the only thing to do in one of those worlds, right?
So what do they do when they're not 'challenging the great dao and heavens'?
 

NotaNuffian

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No, seriously.
What do these people even do for fun? For entertainment? For their hobbies?
Like, sitting on your ass secluded from others, chugging pills and drugs, very cool mystical pills, and killing can't be the only thing to do in one of those worlds, right?
So what do they do when they're not 'challenging the great dao and heavens'?
Apparently with quick google, they just have the same shit as us. Drawing, carving sculptures, drinking and poetry.

They also visit gambling dens, brothels, tea houses and pubs as well as auction houses and parties.

Ps. They are humans too, with the addition of God Complex and the power to boot.
 

TheEldritchGod

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FUN???

There is no place for FUN. This is the quest for perfection. Cultivators are Alpha chads. No...
They are SIGMA MEGA CHADS

SMCs meditate for a thousand days chopping wood or under a waterfall while surviving by eating AIR. FUN? Pft.
You wanna know what they do for fun?

They walk into a bar and DRINK IT.
They start a fight with the SUN and the concept of SORROW and WIN.
They cut loose by making use of a truly staggering number of whores, all of them being YOUR MOTHER.
They go out and buy drugs and take them. How many?

YES.

And they charge every last one on your credit card.
Lots of Go playing, and some occasional polo.
They Play Go using Pebbles Worn smooth in the RIVER OF SOULS.
They play polo With the head of the last GOD that offended them, riding on a horse made from pure orgasm harvested from the last woman they banged, who either exploded or transcended this world from pleasure. It's hard to tell, since the outcome is virtually the same to the untrained eye.
It shoots loads of dopamine right up their buttholes and they love it.
They Piss Dopamine.
Drawing, carving sculptures, drinking and poetry.
If you mean they draw something so realistic it becomes reality.
That they carve new worlds cold hewn from the bones of still born gods.
(I already talked about the drinking)
And, they do meditate about poetry. ALL OF IT AT THE SAME TIME.

ALL THE POETRY. EVERYWHERE. THAT EVER WAS AND WILL BE.
 
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WingsOfPhantasy

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FUN???

There is no place for FUN. This is the quest for perfection. Cultivators are Alpha chads. No...
They are SIGMA MEGA CHADS

SMCs meditate for a thousand days chopping wood or under a waterfall while surviving by eating AIR. FUN? Pft.
You wanna know what they do for fun?

They walk into a bar and DRINK IT.
They start a fight with the SUN and the concept of SORROW and WIN.
They cut loose by making use of a truly staggering number of whores, all of them being YOUR MOTHER.
They go out and buy drugs and take them. How many?

YES.

And they charge every last one on your credit card.

They Play Go using Pebbles Worn smooth in the RIVER OF SOULS.
They play polo With the head of the last GOD that offended them, riding on a horse made from pure orgasm harvested from the last woman they banged, who either exploded or transcended this word from pleasure. It's hard to tell, since the outcome is virtually the same to the untrained eye.

They Piss Dopamine.

If you mean they draw something so realistic it becomes reality.
That they carve new worlds cold hewn from the bones of still born gods.
(I already talked about the drinking)
And, they do meditate about poetry. ALL OF IT AT THE SAME TIME.
Damn. Just Damn.
 

TheEldritchGod

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Damn. Just Damn.
I'm being a tad bit humorous, but the point is, the stories are pure power fantasies. Any fun they have would have to be equally over the top. I was reading this one where a Cultivator goes to a world where the world is full of superheroes and he just hovers there in the air, and for some reason everyone attacks him.

Finally someone talks to him and apparently he was tricked into letting down his guard so the people on his old world cast him into some sort of trap then made a million FAKE WORLDS to nest the trap inside, one after another, just so it would take him A FEW YEARS TO FIND HIS WAY BACK.

So to pass the time he decides to restart his old school on this new world and train new cultivators. One girl he defeats by touching her and she orgasms into submission. I might be getting the story mixed up, I skipped around a lot as I got colossally bored.

But having fun? No. They don't have fun. They can't have fun. THEY HAVE TO BE BORED AND JADED WITH EVERYTHING. Because, you know, when you fight people by USING UNIVERSES AS AMMUNITION, that is what happens to you.

It's part of the trope. If you are powerful enough to destroy everything with a thought and you always win, the only way the cosmos can exist is if you are too bored to bother destroying it. If someone is a successful Cultivator, they don't have fun. EVER. They can't. Because if they have fun, they are human and less than perfect. (And neither can the reader, btw. Ultimately, MCs that can't lose are boring as fuck.)
 

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No, seriously.
What do these people even do for fun? For entertainment? For their hobbies?
Like, sitting on your ass secluded from others, chugging pills and drugs, very cool mystical pills, and killing can't be the only thing to do in one of those worlds, right?
So what do they do when they're not 'challenging the great dao and heavens'?
Well, your ideas of fun and hobbies are probably wrong, and your ideas on human psychology are also wrong.
 

BearlyAlive

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They... cultivate. No, seriously. They don't have any hobbies, or a life for that matter, outside of chasing the next pretentiously-renamed-bootleg-level up.

Of the few stories I forced myself to read (the mangwhat) nobody ever had the idea to cultivate cultivation weed and shrooms. The only thing remotely looking like a hobby for those would be genocide and rapenings.
 
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