Heh.
<Sacred Family> Alright, we'll use some subtle political maneuvering to retake some of the standing we've lost lately, and also downplay the whole 'one of our playboy members got beaten up by a girl' thing by publicly shaming her. It'll work great!
<Nie Li> Naaaaaaah, I don't feel like political games today. Duan Jian?
<Duan Jian> *knuckle crack*
<Nie Lie> Oh, and don't actually kill them.
<Duan Jian> Kay. *initiates Physical Combat while everyone else is doing Social* *It's SUPER EFFECTIVE!*
Edit:
@plasma1492 eh, I think I remember what they're talking about. I seem to recall reading the original novel an age ago, and it kinda turned into Tales of Endless Escalation and Old Currency Exchange.
Like, every time they find a SUPER AWESOME MEGA PILL/REFINEMENT REAGENT, they find out when they get to the next area that oh, pffft, NOBODY uses MegaSuperUltra Pills anymore, that's for /noob/ cultivators. You need EXTRA MEGA SUPER DUPER DELUXE Pills to be anybody. Rinse and repeat.
Admittedly, been ages since I actually read that, so I could be misremembering or mixing it up with other stories (It's hardly a unique problem in cultivation stories), and the manga versions can differ a good deal from the novels, so we'll see what happens when they get there.