First 100 or so chapters were decent. There is an interesting setting, somewhat, an interesting MC and a reasonable but not over powered cheat. In most cases, novels with these three elements tend to become pretty popular over time, and the same should have happened to this novel if not for the author's shitty ability to plan for the future.
Like most Chinese novels, our MC here gets a cheat, but one that is barely related to combat, or even personal growth. All it does is promote animals he captures into higher level monsters, that the people in this setting eat, to increase their stats. That's it, the promotion is done over a long period of time, and only one monster at a time, so i wouldnt even call it a cheat really, at best, its just a minor passive stat growth cheat.
We come to a point where after eating a few more higher level beasts, our MC practically starts evolving, gaining skills and talents that he didn't have originally, skills that just so happen to be required to resolve the situation. In the first 100 or so chapters, this isn't really a problem and is still within the acceptable levels like most other wuxia.
The problem comes AFTER he goes to that BlackHawk place. Nearly every single chapter after that point is complete bull crap. Random tournaments, Random sports, Random talent.
All of a sudden, a stupid sounding sport is introduced out of butt fucking nowhere. There is no foreshadowing, it was never mentioned in the past 100 chapters. Just as instantly, our normal MC, with just his base strength alone, displays "incredible" talent, for this sport, that came out of nowhere. The sport/competition or whatever isn't even complicated. to illustrate, out of nowhere, there's something called black and white boxing, but when you read the description, and if you're not a complete idiot or water army, you will realize that IT IS SIMPLY ROCK, PAPER SCISSORS. Rock Paper Scissors that HAS TOURNAMENTS, SPONSORSHIPS, worshippers etc. To make matters worse, this does not happen once. It is repeated over and over again. From "warframe" piloting, to "heavy warframe" piloting, from "ärchery" to that hand game. over and over like a stupid as hell routine.
From the brief and pointless introduction of said sports, an equally brief introduction and display of a random supposed super talented kid at said sport that again came out of nowhere all of a sudden, the usual whispers all around looking down on MC, the usual face slapping/ ego crushing when MC is suddenly a GOD at a game that neither he or the readers have ever heard of before that chapter, the sudden worship and attention from big figures, the big rewards.
At this point, I feel like it's not that the MC is super talented out of nowhere, it is just that the universe he is in, is also occupied by God level idiots.
The less said about the stiff, awkward and dumb as fuck "romance" the better.
Am i salty that this novel somehow has 4 stars and above? not really. i just makes me lose confidence in the humanity.
