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If you can handle the cringelord moments, and fedora-capped romance, there's a great story here. The world building is interesting, and the mystery keeps you curious. Unfortunately progression of strength follows problem -> powerup instead of powerup -> problem which is my preferred method of tension. Overall it's still satisfying, just held back a little by the author.

This is straight up MTL. It is not humanly possible to translate even a tenth of what you've put up on this site in that timeframe, let alone the absurd amount that you've posted. This is fraud and I urge everyone to not give this 'translator' a single cent. If you want to read the MTL just go to a MTL site, it's free. Because it's MTL. This is a joke.

Huh, webnovel can't even format properly. Or let me finish my review. A billion dollar company can't do something a hobbyist at home could accomplish. As usual, my already low opinion of this company somehow falls lower every time I hop on this sight.

If IET is anything, it is consistent. He consistently delivers a good experience, but never a great one. This is a story about the struggles and sacrifices a world makes when trying to resist those stronger than them. If you enjoy the beginning, you'll enjoy the full novel. I recommend reading it, but understanding it won't be one of the greats. The ending is bad as usual but doesn't detract from the story. His stories actual endings are usually around the 70-80% mark, and everything after is to make a conclusion for his fans. If you're new to IET, there's something you should understand - to IET plot comes first, and the story setting comes last. IET uses a story's setting to further his plot and will disregard it or abandon it when convenient. It's the opposite methodology to novels like, say, Lord of The Rings. This means his Painting Dao is largely a plot device and we don't see much investment into its development. The paintings he makes, however, are beautiful and you really feel invested into them. Each of those scenes are really immersive. It's a shame that they're disregarded immediately after however. We never see them exist beyond their creation. His talent goes up and down wildly throughout the story because it's used to drive his storyline rather than follow consistent rules. When he needs more talent, he gets 'lucky'. Cultivation difficulty depends on the main character's realm. The story always begins with explaining how incredibly difficult it is to reach a realm. As he climbs higher, those 'difficult realms' become littered with enough people to leave the ants of our world in shame. While you can attribute this to the character seeing more now that he's a higher existence, it's really because without enough people at those realms it's much harder to drive plot devices. Plot first and setting last. Romance is bad as usual. Don't get me wrong - the FL is always a good character. You'll enjoy reading their romance for the most part. She's just never a real character. IET follows the traditional version of cultivation novels that are the one character storyline. Everything and everyone that appears in the novel exist or revolve around the story and progress of the main character. Because of this romance can never shine, and the FL can never develop to mean anything to the story. Which is a shame because IET's FL usually have a lot of potential as their own character. To sum it up: this is a good story. But it's a mediocre cultivation novel.

Man I hate stories that start with the ending. It's such a killjoy. There's no meaning to it. Literally remove the first half of this chapter and you have a great novel start with a lot of intrigue. Instead we get an ending that is meaningless because it has no context, and directly tells us that everyone ends up dying. Why? How do you invest into a novel that actively discourages you from investing into its characters. If it isn't the ending of the novel, then clarify that. But right now it's such a deal-breaker. I just hate novels that don't give you a chance to experience their story.

I think I'm done with this chapter. The MC miraculously getting an item that just gives him all the information really tells me how this novel is going to turn out. Without the validation of effort and intent, rewards are meaningless. I had a look at some later chapters but barely anything happens with each chapter. It just isn't interesting. I haven't spent enough time to give it a negative review despite my feelings. But yeah, I'm done. A shame as I love novels like this.

The story setting is really fun but it's a typical novel of this type. The MC doesn't have to put in any effort to learn to create cards, just automatically being able to 'tell' the best way to make them. And, of course, recipe's come just as naturally to him as breathing. No build-up or effort means no satisfaction from the result, which means you might as well remove the crafting part of the setting and just make it action. Character's don't act like people, and they don't interact like people. Conversations are stilted and unnatural with a lot of author self-inserts that cause the conversations to jump from one point to another. The way they communicate is really hard to stomach. It gives me second-hand embarrassment. It just makes it impossible to be engaged with the story. It's unfortunate. I love crafting stories. But this isn't a crafting story. If the author reads this, this would be a good story if you made the crafting something the MC worked towards consistently over the story's timeline and you improved the way characters interact and communicate. Those are the two points that are really dragging the story down.

I know people have problems with this novel and I think some of the critiques are fair, but I'm really enjoying it compared to a lot of other similar novels. It sticks to its premise well so far (CH 84) and doesn't shy away from a lot of topics. I also like the main character and feel there is some diversity to the characters. The plot progression is fun. The world is rather typical so far but still a solid foundation. It's not the best novel out there, but I personally find it very entertaining.

Yeah that could be a few different things. I have anxiety and my brain doesn't record much information when I'm out and interacting with people, so I won't remember faces and other defining features after a person has left. Even people really close to me I generally don't recall their looks. I couldn't tell you what a persons hair colour is. That might be a bit of my Aspergers as well though. There can be a lot of reasons why you struggle to remember faces. I don't think it's a big deal though, just something to keep in mind.

Any contest that is actively seeking contestants is a scam in some form or another. Because no-one runs at a loss, and scouting costs money. Usually they're the ones that have in their fine print 'any submitted work we receive we have ip over'.