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A senior disciple from a rural martial academy returns as the world's best! Drawn into a brutal political conflict, the senior disciple known as 'Hyeok Musang' vanished after the bloody war concluded. For five years, no one knew if he was alive or dead.
Upon finally returning to his hometown, he discovered that his Dragon Tiger Martial Academy had been persecuted and destroyed by a low-tier gang. He had hoped to live peacefully with his fellow members after emerging victorious from the war. However, seeing the dire state of his master and fellow disciples filled him with anger and guilt.
With the senior disciple's return, everyone initially believed things would improve, but only for a brief moment. Troubles continued to plague his hometown of Yangzhou County. Was the war truly over?
The head disciple raises his sword against the dangers threatening his Dragon Tiger Martial Academy.
Original WebNovel: Naver
Started in May 2018 and ended in April 2023 with 529 chapters (407 main chapters + 122 side stories)
Original Webtoon: Naver Webtoon, Naver Series
Official Translations: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese
It's definitely above average and generally really quite good. It does, however, have some issues. The MC was raised (during the blank period when he was missing) from incredibly skilled but still mediocre, to OP AF. Power-wise, he got a huge jump in pretty much all aspects, which is nice because he was already a badass assassin. Character wise he's pretty good (when the author isn't writing him to be dumb, which does happen occasionally). In fact, I'd go so far as to say that I really like him, and he does very little wrong, and any time something drags or is off in the plot, it's because the author is breaking character to do so. I.e., he's written well, until he's suddenly not... surprise!
I want to take a moment to talk about the Female Lead though. She's an utter riot, and I adore her face, her character, and, well, literally everything about her. Have you ever read "World's Greatest Estate Developer"? You know the Lloyd faces? Well she's almost on that level. She's a super strong and extremely well developed character, and she doesn't take shit from the MC, who at times has the emotional maturity of a 5 year old. That being said, when their romance really blossoms, it's absolutely worth the wait. Adorable, hilarious, heartwarming, and yet they're both batsh*t insane lmao.
Honestly, I really like all the side characters. Though the NPCs, the ones that are 1-step less important than side characters, are sometimes bad. Like at one point within just a few chapters we have TWO young women who had their entire families destroyed, and by happenstance became entangled with the MC. Sharp eyed readers won't have an issue telling them apart, but if you're not paying really close attention, you might be confused. (special note, no there isn't any harem. It's strictly 1 FL, rest are side characters at best).
Anyway, it's a pretty good murim style story with an OP MC. Good romance, great FL, very interesting side cast (some of the Beggar Clan, his junior disciples, etc). The only real issue with the story is that the author... hmmm... just isn't very experienced? Like the author will randomly screw up and just write a fight terribly, or force a plot point. Something that a veteran author would have better abilities to just avoid doing stupid shit lol.
Can't call the author BAD, just inexperienced and/or inconsistent.
But overall, enjoyable enough and totally worth reading for either the humor or the romance (if you're looking for either one of those things BOTH could be potential draws for you). I AM invested in where the plot is going, and it's a big '3rd party shadowy force may have cause the Great War' type of conspiracy.
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Main character is written like an immature teen who never learned communication or how to express his feelings in a forthright manner. You could almost get second hand embarrassment from how he acts like a cringe middle schooler spouting cliched one-liners and sasuke behavior of just staying stoic as an excuse to not having an actual personality 90% of the time.
If you took away all of the already-done parts of this story there would be literally nothing left. Praising the fact that the unique twist hasn't even been expanded upon is the most copium way of saying there is zero uniqueness to this slop.
MC solves problems instantly, his powers are completely vague generic hand swinging copypasta, there are no long term plot hooks. The entire story is just bad guy shows up, MC instantly solves problem. If you wondered why this series is relatively unpopular, it's because it makes zero effort to do anything unique and you can rapidly feel it heading nowhere.
If you don't like overpowered main characters, this manhwa is not for you. The main characters always has a solution to every problem, if he even considered it a problem in the first place. He has so many powers and abilities from sudden strength gain that it is actually ridiculous.
That being said, the main character is shown to have always been very good at what he does most: Be smart, strategic, courageous, and caring. Even though the mc is now overpowered, he was still really good before his strength gain -- that's what makes me like him so much.
The story itself is pretty mid, its your average murim story, with its own unique twist that hasn't even been expanded upon yet.
My favorite part about this is the romance. I am a sucker for action/romance, non-harem manga, so this one is a big hit for me. Both the ml and fl are into each other, and its wonderful to see their love bloom as the story continues.