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Jade_Vanadium
Jade_VanadiumLv26yrJade_Vanadium

The translation quality is excellent, typically one of the bigger hurdles in translation a work is keeping cultural references intact, but I've never had any difficulty understanding them through the translation. The wording on things feels very natural, hold for one awkward sentence every thirty chapters. When this translation was previously on Wuxiaworld, the translator was able to consistently upload new chapters exactly on the hour twice a day, to the point where I would even plan when to eat with it hahah. I don't know how far the original work is through, or how close the translation is to being caught up to it, but at least for now, it's extremely consistent. The biggest criticism I could give is that, indeed, the arcs progress slowly. However, not very many chapters feel "empty". The largest reason that it feels slow is actually because a great deal of detail is added by way of character thoughts and feelings. Something that comes to mind is during the Battle Exchange arc, the pacing is actually used really well to convey the experience of a certain attack that takes 20 minutes to prepare. After that, rather than repeat the excruciating wait, the story gets to the point, but you can only remember that first time which took a dozen chapters to take place, and get the same effect. If you were to read this after it was completed, I don't think you would feel that the arcs are too long. Although the translation speed is very fast, it does make the arcs feel slow. The story also does foreshadowing and hints well enough, so even with that alone, it's better than a large chunk of other novels. The protagonist's chuuni is really not that bad, only occasionally annoying, usually it's funny. By this point I just filter "this king" out of sentences, and he reads like a normal, likable, albeit occasionally oblivious character. The other characters are all extremely well written, even the background characters, or characters which only appear for one or two chapters. They almost all feel human, and are very relatable. Even though you might form a strong bond to a particular character, you don't feel as though their prolonged absence detriments the story too much, because the character quality is consistently good.

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Jade_Vanadium
Jade_VanadiumLv2Jade_Vanadium

As an addendum, while I personally actively follow 81 continuously updating stories, 66 of which are translations, this one is my favorite.

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Daoist_Elderword
Daoist_ElderwordLv12Daoist_Elderword

How can you even manage to follow that many?? And any high quality recommendations?

Jade_Vanadium:As an addendum, while I personally actively follow 81 continuously updating stories, 66 of which are translations, this one is my favorite.
Jade_Vanadium
Jade_VanadiumLv2Jade_Vanadium

Complete disregard of mental exhaustion, and 100% of the free-time of a college math student. AC is the only wuxia story I follow (ngl it was ultimately Kali that sold it for me, she's adorable), so, keeping that in mind: "Dungeon Defense" translated by Shalvation Translations is a really good Korean novel. Their other translations are good as well, so definitely check them out if it interests you. "Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear" translated by Xant & Minions is good if you like slice of life. Not a specific recommendation, but most of the native English works I read are from Royal Road Legends, which is a website mostly for English web novels. 57 of the translations I keep up with are all manga, don't feel like picking favorites between them.

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Oracle
OracleLv5Oracle

Good construction of criticism.

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Bruny
BrunyLv2Bruny

Great story!