Reviewing after I've read to chapter 236. The novel has an interesting premise: the MC can cultivate in a different world in his dreams, and can transfer skills and objects between worlds at the cost of depleting his soul energy. In the real world, he starts off as a poor fisherman dealing with an oppressive gang, then as he gains in cultivation, he has to resist more powerful cultivators and sects that want to steal his resources. Due to the time difference in his dreams vs the real world, he amasses more cultivation, power, influence, and knowledge in the other worlds (say thousands of years there vs decades in the real world), and uses his resources there to increase his cultivation in the real world. Pros: - there's a true sense of mystery in the real world: we don't learn anything unless the MC does, and as a rogue cultivator, he only slowly gains in knowledge even after his power level is impressive. - interesting key ability that drives his growth - he doesn't become OP in the real world very fast, instead has stable growth and there's a realistic sense of risk as he tries to grow without being noticed by cultivation sects Cons: - the pacing is slow - the systems he's cultivating don't really make much sense, are overly intricate, and the author spends way too much time going over their details instead of moving the plot forward - it's not unusual to have chapters that are nothing but info-dump on details that don't really matter and are confusing - the MC has no motivations or interests beyond becoming a stronger cultivator - the characters, including the MC, lack depth - the MC has no real meaningful relationships with other people It's a fun enough read-- to experience his growth in strength and knowledge of the cultivation world in the real world-- that I am continuing to read it. But it's so slow moving that I stack up chapters and read them like 20 in a go, so that I can see some development. I think also the tendency of the author to spend chapter info-dumping rather than moving the plot forward is increasing over time.
Liked it!
LIKE
Damn,I never noticed his rather dull character. Maybe I got used to MCs with zero personality 😔. But still it was fun to read because of his world travels.
Although the Mc indeed lack further depth he isn’t a plain mc with no personality He is In the middle with his character, personality, beliefs, and goals clear but they aren’t explained in detail the novel focus more on world building and the world itself rather than characters which while interesting feel a little empty but that doesn’t mean xu yang(I think that was his name) isn’t interesting his will is amazing to be honesty he really does everything a long as it doesn’t touch his bottom line he is a “righteous” cultivatior not the heroic but righteous he looks at the result not the process he doesn’t mind even killing inoccent people if them being alive will cause trouble he isn’t the heroic person who will never harm a single soul nor is he the demon who kill without indiscrimination although I’m still in early chapters 350+ I hope he gain further character development if there is something the story lack most in my opinion is side characters which make sense cuz travel through worlds but there is th 2 women he reincarnated so he may meet them later and we get more development
Wouldn't the awful translation be a con aswell [img=faceslap]
i will be putting it on hold as although it's interesting. it's not worth the time for now.
