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InHisName
InHisNameLv63yr
2021-06-27 05:30

Is this a joke? Where's the ambition, the urgency - emotions even! The protagonist isn't a human. He doesn't know how to think for himself, let alone what critical thinking is. You can put a human-shaped cardboard in place of the protagonist and still have story progress in the exact same way as this has been going. Nothing the protagonist does matters, even his cultivation depends on the author's mood. He will sometimes stagnate for years on end, and other times rapidly increase in cultivation with no rhyme or reason.

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TribeOfOne
TribeOfOneLv6

I feel you bro. After reading these trial chapters, I feel like I just wasted 6 hours of my time.

Own
OwnLv12

I agree, all the characters are so boring. No emotion at all, the way he talks to people is like he isn't even a real person, something like a puppet or something. Everyone who he meets are either trying to kill him, saying the usual trope kinda things like mocking him or can't recognise mount tai. Or they're like his master with hardly any interaction at all. There isn't any world building either. Granted, I'm only 15 chapters in but it's so fkin boring to read

gutorbit
gutorbitLv2

The MC is apathetic and cultivates a legendary mental stabilizing sutra. If you are looking for drama and catastrophe, don't read a sign in novel because the whole point of one is that those elements are removed by the system. Really, cultivation novels don't really do conflict well. It's either face slapping or the MC being face slapped but somehow surviving anyway. I read sign in because the conflict tends to be so bad you may as well just cut to the power trip. Maybe sign in novels are cheesy and maybe you don't like them, but this novel is a stand out IMO because the MC is extremely consistent unlike other sign ins where his motivations are completely inconsistent. Also an actual FL is a huge plus if only because it erases the stupid CN mandatory harem tag.

raphael24
raphael24Lv4

Actually i think that's his defining trait, he is paranoid (living in the future), thinking that the only way to survive is to be strong, and what do you know? He was right. Without the strength he has gained from his system and cultivation, he would have died early, after all there is a limit to how much protection his master can do. And wasn't it explained that he has to reign his emotions, or else he will probably get a heart demon? Heart demons are quite significant in this novel and that kunlun cultivation manual actually didn't grant him full immunity (or else he would probably just looked in to the well). I'm pretty sure he is human, and he does think for himself, that's actually the thing that irritate me, he is to self centered (building up walls towards his master, even when he doesn't have a reason to do that) he has trust issues which combine with his paranoia becomes a full blown drive to become the strongest immortal (seeking power for it's own sake will never end well, but he is seeking power for self defense). Sorry for my bad English

gutorbit
gutorbitLv2

True. I don't know if the translation has reached this point yet, but he does realize rather quickly that if he isn't careful he's going to pollute his Dao with emotionlessness or apathy if he doesn't take action.

NexIzich
NexIzichLv15

Did you stop at chapter 3 or something?

Lord_Eggie
Lord_EggieLv1

"Is this a joke? Where's the ambition, the urgency - emotions even!" Ty! that alone has made me give a try to this novel. as i for one, absolutely loathe the "looming threat" genre, which unfortunately plauges the most off the novels

0_Ancient_Daoist_0
0_Ancient_Daoist_0Lv4

I've read up until the latest chapters, he does change because of his girlfriend now wife, and his master does find out about his cultivation. although it took quite some time, we do see character development.

The_great_dao1
The_great_dao1Lv4

Wait until the FL show up.... it's keep getting better from there. Funnier and much more mellow. you've got to wait for at least 180 chaps.

DeusaderVulting
DeusaderVultingLv14

"Just read to 180 and you'll be fine." Yes, waste a week of your life and you'll get something remotely enjoyable. Go away.

The_great_dao1:Wait until the FL show up.... it's keep getting better from there. Funnier and much more mellow. you've got to wait for at least 180 chaps.
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TribeOfOne
TribeOfOneLv6

This review is after reading the first 50 chapters during the trial period. All I can say is - this novel is extremely boring. First off, let me state that I'm not a big fan of Sign In novels. I've always found them to be a really boring type of system, copied from some of the worst free-to-play games. However, I went into this novel with an open mind, willing to give it a chance. The main problem with this novel isn't the Sign In system, but just that it's so incredibly boring. It's written more like a documentary about the life of an immortal, rather than a story of the events around the hero. The author has no sense of how to create tension or suspense in any scene. The MC is an almost emotionless doll that never reacts to anything around him, he's always lost in his own world. Even on the rare occasions that he gets into a fight, he has an utterly deadpan personality, and it feels like I'm seeing the author write about a walking piece of tofu rather than a human being. The fight scenes aren't completely worthless, as the MC uses a silly fighting style similar to One Punch Man, where he kills everything with a single punch, but even that just feels boring because there's no strategy to the fights. The fights get over before they've even begun, and most of the time the MC doesn't even know why the fight happened in the first place, because he's such a boring blob of tofu that he doesn't care to find out. Another serious problem with this novel is how it tries to badly ramp up the drama through scenes where the MC does an "amazing" task in front of other disciples of his sect. The problem is that the author has no idea what's actually impressive to look at through the eyes of a reader. For example, he spends several chapters talking about how "the MC dared to take one more step" in order to obtain treasures or walk on a lake, all while a crowd of background characters keeps shouting out how absolutely amazing it is that the MC can keep taking that step. It feels very artificial and forced, to the point that I want to puke just thinking about it. On the positive side, because the MC is so utterly bland, some of the side characters appear more relatable. There's a female character, a senior sister, who's actually wiling to listen to the MC's advice and words, and there's a senior brother who takes him seriously and accepts him as a rival on the path of cultivation. The problem is just that they're still incredibly shallow, up to the point I've seen. Rather than have independent personalities of their own, they feel like they were specially constructed characters created just to make the MC look better. The story tries to show us that even for a genius MC, it still takes hundreds of years to walk down the path of immortal cuktivation. While that's a nice mindset to have, the problem is when there's nothing at all happening during all those hundreds of years. TL DR : It's a boring story about an unexpressive MC doing nothing but cultivating for hundreds of years.

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