Puns

NSHBA is chalk full of puns, making use of how a single sound can mean up to 100 different things in the Chinese language. This page compiles a list of puns made throughout the NSHBA series. 
== Niu ==
牛 is bull/ox/cow. Then you have 黄牛, 水牛, 牦牛, 犀牛, which are oxes, water buffalos, yaks, rhinoceroses. They all contain the character 牛. In Chinese, the word for snail, 蜗牛, is also written with 牛. 
== Jian ==
剑 Jiàn means sword. 贱 Jiàn means cheap. 贱人 can mean both slut/bitch and cheap-ass/cheap person. 剑人 means sword user. Long Chen's insult here is wordplay based on both multiple meanings as well as words with similar sounds. Furthermore, when he says no one else can compare to her sluttiness, he says 比肩, 肩 sounding like Jiān.
== Xiao ==
“Just because I said Xiao, it means I know her and colluded with her? What a huge joke. I was calling her young lady (小姐 xiaojie). What’s wrong with that? Valley master, if I call you junior brother, does that mean we’re colluding? Leader of the ancient races, if I call you a little idiot (小白痴 xiao baichi); giant fool of the Xuan Beasts, if I call you a damn brat (小牲口 xiao shengkou); Di Long, if I call you a piece of trash (小垃圾 xiao laji), would that mean that we are colluding? Fuck off. Since we’re all colluding according to your logic, why did you bring so many people to destroy my Xuantian Dao Sect? Are your heads filled with crap?”古族的盟主，我叫你一声小白痴，玄兽一族的大个子，我叫你一声小牲口，帝龙，我叫你一声小垃圾，我们是不是都有关系了？我草泥马的，一个称呼就能有关系？那咱们都有勾结了？那你们是傻逼么？干嘛带着人围攻我玄天道宗？你们脑子里装得都是特么屎么？”
* The Xiao in Yue Xiaoqian is 小, meaning small. All the following names he gave the leaders in this paragraph included the Xiao character.
== Ritian, Hao ==
“Think about it. Your name is Chang Hao. A man who dares to Hao, and Chang Hao at that. If you aren’t the Sovereign, who else could it be?” Bao Buping wiggled his eyebrows with a wretched smile.
The Hao character 昊 is composed of an upper and lower part, 日 and 天.  日天 is kind of like fuck the heavens. Very domineering. Definitely the style of a Sovereign.
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