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Grand_Elder
Grand_ElderLv13yr
2021-06-25 11:18

All the world building and mysterious of the story loose its lustre because of MC. Mc is too blunt. He lacks uniqueness that makes a main character. It gets irritating when he cant even use his brain for anything. He is always like '"what do i do senior?". "should i speak senior ?" everything that he do, thinks all came from senior(sprit in the ring) I get it author said, story is slow-paced but this is too much . After reading 150 chapters i can say MC develop from naive idiot to brianless puppet

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YourNightmare1870
YourNightmare1870Lv2

Spot on. I lost interest when he still playing detective but couldn't decide on his own. 🤣 he needs opinions even on little things. (what color of underwear should I wear senior?)

Cenauge
CenaugeLv14

His master does eventually take more of a backseat, but the MC doesn't gain much more of a personality (though it is some improvement.) The thing that becomes much more annoying is how everyone around his starts singing his praises both openly and in their thoughts, in ways that go well beyond the old "he's such a young such-and-such stage." Not only is he the most handsome, but also supremely talented, the most hard worker, a natural teacher, etc, etc. Anyone who isn't his enemy seems to become his fanclub, with characters thinking things like "anyone would die to have an ally like this" which (while obviously hyperbolic) is especially dumb in a cultivation setting, where the entire point for 99.99% of cultivators' existence is not dying.

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asdasdssfLv1

Story is actually written very well as in grammar, flow and characters, plot when considered individually. But big problem is how mc and plot connects, or should I say doesn't connect. Mc just doesn't have much agency and there's not much internal motivations in story form mc to do what he does. It seems like author develops some interesting plot, and then mc is made to flow trough that plot like puppet, mc just doesn't seem to have agency. There's also the problem of mc being constantly bailed out by his ring when stuff gets even slightly hard, it's always some magical thing that bails him out, not his own intellect, skill or perseverance. This again reduces mc's agency, it's just very lame. It would not matter if it was just sometimes, but both of this things happen constantly. Good example is whole thing happening in mc's village, he was already ready to go, he didn't have any reason to stay, no friends or family, no lure of great rewards, and again he was planning to leave. But then author made the plot happen, which I do agree is great when considered in isolation, but mc just started to participate in solving this mystery and helping around and we have absolutely no idea why, and there's no internal reason in story that tells us why. He just does like some zombie because the plot is there so obviously he should somehow participate in it. He even wanted to see Lord of Hei dudes, but again, there was just no reason for that, he just wanted to because story required him to. There was no mention of potential rewards or anything that would help mc, if anything seeing mysterious strong person is just an huge threat. I would really like to give this better review, but I just can't because story till 150 has been mostly just about boat(mc) being pushed around by waves, and every time boat is about to crash into huge rock, another wave just comes in and pushes the boat to the side. I would like that boat to have some oars, sails and actual person directing it.

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