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As for the writing itself, it’s not very good. The translation is pretty bad itself, but there’s a lot of repetition, fawning over Mc and dump phrases and useless conversation. I still prefer that to bullied Mc but it’s still annoying.
Quite the typical xianxia but overall acceptable to pass time. Nothing great, but nothing extremely bad. There’s bullying trope in the beginning but at least it doesn’t extent half the story and always hiding his strength, typical overbearing young master and such but it’s toned down. There’s a culture of strength no matter the background so at least Mc doesn’t create a feud every 20 chapters. The pacing overall is quite to my liking with enough detailed events, but faster progression for the genre. At least in the first 200 chapters, there’s not much side scene filling the world count like enduring 5 chapters shopping inside a city that won’t bring anything good to the story except seeing stupid people doing stupid things. I like that we start with a 10 years old in his family home scheming against him and was already in a small sect and then quickly upgraded to an acceptable position inside his starting kingdom. In a typical xianxia, we would have gotten 100-200 chapters of small clan strife and then interminable travelling to a sect, then we would have to follow through multiple sect assessments without getting any good elder support with 2-3 assassination attempts in between so it’s refreshing. One great positive that is rare for a single FL romance when the girl is also talented, there’s no young prince forced engagement or sect successor interfering and making the story progress slowly. Her master is not some unreasonable old witch. Also, I suspect she has a great background because of her bloodline even maybe in a higher realm, so I just hope she won’t get taken away against her will and we won’t see her for 1000 chapters that it typical bad xianxia. Finally, I don’t know the standard in the next realm and beyond yet, but he’s kinda too OP being able to battle a full major realm higher directly in the first realm. A more structured increase after changing environment and maybe a little bit more tactic/planning could have made the story more interesting.
The devil is in the detail. While the novel seems good on the surface even if very generic, it has absolutely no dept and full of inconsciency making it torture reading more than 100 chapters in a row. All of this is mainly due to the very bad writing skills and style of the author. Cheat wise: while it seems the MC is not overly dependant on the system and not too powerful, the plot armor it provides is thicker than a nuclear bunker by always providing exactly what the Mc needs and with rewards a major realm higher than him. Specially unique resources like deduction pearl, enlightenment pill and the like which are reality breaking. Romance: While his wife is not a useless character, the constant explicit emphasis that she is as powerful as him and never falling behind is annoying. Even in the beginning of the story, just the fact that he cultivate a body tempering technique and not her should have set them apart.(also why the fu*k nobody seems to cultivate body tempering except him) Specially after ascending when she surpassed her past life so doesn’t have a cheat for herself anymore. What is worse is their actual relationship which is dryer than the Sahara desert. The way they just married out of nowhere like going to the grocery store is abject and never saw a real romantic interaction in 1000 chapters. Power system: sound kinda nice and balanced at first where there is variability inside a major realm based on multiple factor like weapon, proficiency, experience, spell and not a hard rule that a 2nd small realm could never beat a 3rd small realm, the relevance of each realm, how to develop power and certain things worked that way are only very limited surface level with no dept and originality. Also tbe MC rarely faced a challenge past fondation establishment. Finally the only redeemable grace of the novel is the MC is actually capable of getting a backing by progressing and not faced with young master faceslapping every chapter. But the way the Mc is acting always extra humble and the way he talks just wanna make me punch his face.
I agree with this a lot. Specially after they exceeded the power of her former life. It would be alright if she either was incorporated into the system or if she got her own cheat inheritance, but the attempt to not make her irrelevant in the novel is frustrating. Also, wtf is this relationship. It’s ok if everybody is focusing on cultivation, but there was never even a fucking date/romance scene in all the novel. Even their wedding felt like an administrative duty.
The only saving grace is that there isn’t a lot of young master syndrome and relatively fast story with him already in the higher tier of the power system below 400 chapters (Webnovel splitted almost every chapter so now the story is just over 300 chapters)
Other frustrating things with a lot of inconsistency are the battle when cultivator are supposed to think really fast but it takes 10 seconds for a conversation or an attack charge time that are ridiculous. What’s the worse is related to distance and the size of the world and related to time. For the first case in the novel it took the inquisitor less than an hour to reach the sect but takes months/years for other to travel. When Yang Qing travels it almost seems like he went to most of the region on the continent and can reach anywhere in a matter of hours but then supposedly it’s super massive and when he announced the verdict of the impromptu outer disciple sect case it reached 500 000km which is only the "surrounding". It was said there’s hundreds of thousand of rank 4-5 org and thousands of rank 3 and higher with corresponding territory. Finally it’s the number of member of there order that doesn’t seems to make any sense. Let’s not even talk about their unreasonable progress and resource requirement, how many people would it takes to cover the continent but they are only elites. He travelled for his evaluations and there was 3 branches for a couple of rank 3 organisations, how many would you need to cover even a small part of the continent and that’s not even considering rank 2 and rank 1. Then it was said there was the requirement to be judge, special inquisitor, prison, and spy are only for those with golden and purple core but the number who have reached that is ridiculously low. Then the promotion ceremony that involves 1/10 of rank 5 org and some of the above rank which should occurs a lot of time with the size of the continent for important even but then it’s only used twice a year. The number of people travelling is ridiculous not counting travel time for each ceremony. For example, just Yang Qing judge friends, they are 5 and most went from outer core court to outer palace. That’s 15-20 promotions ceremony and they are around 23 and some. Just them alone are taking the supposed semi-annual quota for a couple of years. I could continue rambling about things that doesn’t make any sense but yeah I am skimping through the chapters to follow the general story and interesting bits, but it’s small pieces of gold here and there in a mountain of dirt.
The martial was talked in the info package of the beggar sage around chap 1850 and the primordial was mentionned here and there but mostly when he talked about the dark age of martial art with his grandmother around chaps 2050
I think you are mixing the Martial Primordial with the Martial. The Primordial is the first master, first sage and now Transcendant. The Martial is the first Martial artist to even be born due to the Divine Doctor, the Psycher and the Beggar sage 500 years ago. We still don’t know anything much about her past yet and what realm she reached in the past
I like the idea and find it refreshing but the execution left much to be desired. Leaving aside grammar and such, there’s a huge problem of info-dumping/world padding of useless stuff that would put slide of life to shame and horrible pacing. At chapter 200, we are not even a week into the novel. And most of it doesn’t even bring anything substantial to the plot. Also, there’s a lot of inconsistency in the world building. Specially the timeline of various stuff. The MC said he’s 23 but a couple of chapters later, his senior of 2 years has been inquisitor for 15 years. Other time his team member saved treasures for multiples years to afford something. That’s just pure math but it goes deeper with the timeline established related to cultivation. With the life expectancy described, they shouldn’t be able to be at the palace stage at their age. Also, the Order only existed for about 500 years but they have a buttload of soul realm expert from who knows where when 50000 years old clan had 3 in their total history. Finally, the cultivation system and art related to it is very shallow right now and not explored very much or in a meaningful way despite a lot of mention about art but its always about grade and not detailed. Same thing about the Dao, always mentioned on a surface level without any dept. A lot of potential, but wasted as it is now.
Author, while the general story is quite good and I enjoy the Mc, you need to stop beating around the bush with description. First they are too long and feel like incessant info dump and worse, they are often repeated for no reason and sometime in the same chapter. It breaks the flow of the novel and worse, make the novel seem like a task sometime instead of enjoying it. Finally, I’m not up to date and only at chapter 800, but for the sake of god, stop making everyone doesn’t believe his cultivation foundation it’s frustrating and reminding of too much of face slapping and young master syndrome brain rot novel. It’s ok to have the manipulation of impressive backing and all the mind game he’s playing, but they are ALL stupidly following with not 1 person trying to use their brain. Specially concerning the blessed. I know they kinda are a caricature of plot armor novel, but they are too stupid and following the same pattern. Specially concerning the female attached to the blessed.