LazyLazer_RSP

I'm using basic deduction, not theorizing. A country with strong military is one that has already or will soon invade another. It's deduction to assume so, not theory, to guess that spending so much resources on maintaining a strong army means they want to use it for more than keeping order. So, regression in a multiverse of cultivators makes for some easy deductions to assume are correct. The fact that all these cultivators are taking advantage of a space-time anomaly to 'ascend' to a higher realm means there is literal proof of multiversal traveling, and these chumps are using the minimum level of it that uses natural phenomena to facilitate it because they're too weak to do so on their own. A multiverse with a traveling mechanic of any degree of control means there's guaranteed to be certain factions that created some with higher fidelity of choice. Multiversal factions come in all sorts of flavors but always have one that harvests resources destructively and one that does so constructively, meaning they're at odds and must fight over worlds. This goes to reason that there will be an isolationists/conservative/neutral faction(s) that either cater to both openly, or strictly neither. The only reason Earth with a 100% hit rate for heavenly talents on a random group of random salarymen, hasn't been assimilated yet by a multiversal faction yet is simply because they're unreachable for some reason. The reasons could vary from obscurity to difficulty. No matter the case, someone managing to travel to Earth would create a trace of the path to it. Because in a series that creates bs innate gifts upon contact with qi means someone somewhere has a gift equally bs to the mc's regression that'd bypass anyone without a specific gift for hiding tracks. You also have to assume that the MC's group isn't first nor last to be transmigrated, because they didn't do anything special to cause it. Meaning whatever is keeping Earth separated is complicated enough to not be traced with just a former inhabitant. The only time basic deductions are 'wrong', would be when an author specifically retcons it. The go-to retcons like an ROB's protection, or ancient forgotten clan's bloodline would turn the series into hot garbage.

Yes a multiversal time reversing borderline triple O level innate gift that lets a mortal bypasses even time immunity. Perfectly reasonable to just assume that's what it does. If that's the go to explanation for the depth/reach of his regression than the series is garbage anyways.

No probs. Was so confused how it being ff would justify/make sense for kakashi to suddenly pull out kyuubi levels of chakra at the tail end of an exhausting fight.

Shuriken clone jutsu proves you can create illusionary clones of objects using the same base jutsu of clones. Shadow clone shuriken jutsu is a different technique altogether meant for AOE attacks, but the basic version is a confusion technique. Naruto himself also proves that you can transform into an object easily since he did so early on before even tree-walking when he turned into the fuma-shuriken to sneak attack Zabuza. Creating a single clone in the shape of a wall is likely to be easier than a fast moving object like a shuriken, since you don't care about detail but rather just a large visual obstacle/clutter.

Except the fact that FiendFyre also works and it's one of og Snape's go to dark spells, so it's not really all that hard to obtain given he's a half-blood that's barely tolerated only thanks to his academic prowess.

Doesn't he run a gym in a city though? Could've swore this random town is some third location a decent bit away from pallet town and viridian city.

It's a matter of setting the correct expectations. I heavily dislike character deaths, but it's not enough to drop a series since I usually trust an author to give that event it's proper narrative weight and pay off the 'emotional debt' at some point, like fulfilling so and so's incomplete wishes in the most fitting method that honestly surpasses anything the originator could've ever dreamed of. Guren Lagann is a good popular example, as the story wouldn't have been the same without character deaths to give the later actions more impact. The requisite though is the author would need to earn my trust to put up with that emotional baggage for long enough to reach the resolution. I've dropped good stories simply because they didn't pay enough respects to the characters. Treating your own beloved casts' deaths as if a footnote in a diary entry is just insulting. A regression story promises certain things as a matter of principle, the time reset should provide inordinate amounts of advantageous information. A story that uses timeloop as a core, should only resolve the loop once everything has been squared away and it's time to gamble on the final run or learn to accept that some things just aren't meant to be. A story that drops it's main draw half way through the story just to skip straight to permanent consequences...why should I read that? The author couldn't handle writing a true timeloop, why should I trust they'll be able to handle the bogstandard cultivation novel with any sort of novelty to justify wading through that. Without the timeloop, the story must now rely on the cultivation world more heavily, and honestly that was the weakest aspect to me in this story. Without a cheat to glitch their way into discovering potential new paths, I'll be forced to witness a talentless POS bumble his way through the standard progression that begins after a glorified starter pack gift from people I would've rather been the MC. I call him a POS because...that's what he is. He was a sheep that let himself be bullied into co-leading the demon army, and saw no fault doing so all in the name of progression for the next life as if the reset truly absolved him of sin. His greatest supporter is someone you'd think has become something like a brother to him. I don't recall him actually telling the secrets that would've let them avoid so much pain. Instead he leads him on with a carrot on a stick just to barely inch forward a few steps each loop at the cost of a friend constantly throwing themself into the blender.

Very curious indeed. Wonder how that story handled the house-elves knowing the actual source, unless this was a plan from their mc as an anti-butterfly effect maneuver...

I think even in that scenario you'd still fail. Immortality doesn't mean invincibility, so if he's ever killed or gives up during an infinite life he'd end up right back at the start again. He'd have to escape the chains of causality or something. Basically untying himself from the timeloop as he'd be unaffected by time manipulation.

That's...somehow even worse. A regression story, that drops the regression aspect...what's the point of it being in the title at that point. Had the story been upfront about this, I actually wouldn't have minded since it likely wouldn't have had to lie about a ton of shiet. The main issue I have though is the 'once bitten, twice shy'. The author already broke the promise once, and apparently doubly so via removing the REGRESSION from a regression story. The story already betrayed reader trust by breaking it's singular main draw, but what did they replace it with? Evil god, prophecy, villainous organization, etc? So much hot garbage that would need to be retrofitted sloppily just to artificially raise the stakes. For some reason I'm only now remembering that the MC would ignore some number popping up after each death. Guessing that has something to do with all this, but then...why leave the life count a mystery? The stakes would've made sense and transitioned properly if the readers had been primed for it as early as possible.