Consuming Earths, Devouring Skies

First off please DONT BELIEVE the people giving this novel horrible reviews for the below reasons. The number one complaint I've been seeing is that this mc is a *****, horny, and greedy idiot who constantly get schemed against. I can garintee you that either a.) The only read the beginning, or b.) They skimmed through the later chapters without any kind of in depth reading.

The mc in this novel does begin the story as a spoiled, *****, and sheltered kid who doesn't understand how the world works. He gets tricked, kidnapped, enslaved and damn neer killed within a short period of time. Throughout this he whines and complains like any other normal kid would under the circumstances. He lusts after woman and is to ***** to prevent anyone from scheming against him.

He isn't like your normal reincarnated/ transmigrated mc who remains calm, cool, and collected in all situations while having trump cards and backup plans. No, instead we get to see this annoying little brat grow and mature through trial after trial that gradually shapes him into a strong, competent, and intelligent young man. He still has his short comings, as it isn't like he learns all the mysteries of the world immediately, but he learns from his mistakes and grows as a very young cultivator. If there was a flaw to point out it would be in his greed for food and resources, however, I see it as more of a funny personality quirk that is similar (but not quite as bad) to the mc from novels like Overgeared  and Legendary Moonlight Sculpter at their later stages. It never gets to out hand but is included for some comic relief here and there.

I don't know about you but I'm tired of the stereotypical, scheming, all knowing and over powered protagonists that never seems to experience any growth of change in their character. This mc starts out very unpolished but gradually changes overtime due to the people he meets and situations he is unwilling thrust into. He is even presented with several deeper moral dilemmas that go beyond the typical "kill all my enemies" creed that most mc follow. No matter how he changes, however, he stays determined to never lose that part of him that was a warm and kind child.

Another complaint is his power not being more than only consuming stuff and supplying him energy.  Like being able to inherit memories of whatever he consumed. This is really a non issue because this author places allot of attention on the MC's growth in maturity and in his knowledge/awareness of the outside world. If he could inherit memories the mc would automatically know everything and would run contrary to the authors intentions of the MC's growth and discovery of the mysterious world he lives in. His cheat is powerful enough as it is. If it was any more op he would really on it to much, especially in the earlier parts of the novel.

So does this novel have it's problems? Yes it does. Sometimes stuff seems happens out of no where and the battle scenes could use some work. The typical unavoidable tropes that accompany the genre are also present. There are a number of things to complain about but nothing so big that it takes away from ones overall enjoyment of the novel. I especially like how the author mixes Eastern and Western cultures, myths and religious figures into the story by way of multiple universes. Not to mention a great love interest that is unexpected but endearing (granted, it is annoying he does need to save her later but she's still a great character). This is a suprisingly good novel, however, I realise that it's not for everyone. It can be polarizing due to the nature of the mc but if you can get past the that it can be a great read.

REALLY REALLY fun read. I read all of the available chapters in one night and could not take my eyes away. Great progression speed. great characters, great world building. I would recommend everyone give the book a try. WELL worth your time.

I love this book, it's amazing! Can be funny, but with serious parts when need. MC is a bit thick at the start, but grows more mature as the book goes along (most of the time). Great detail in fights and world building. Highly recommend

Although the main character is a bit of a disappointment in the beginning, the growth he experiences within the first 60 chapters forges him into a determined smart and likable person.

I was originally going to be brief, but this god damn 140 character requirement.

Anyhow, thank you all for reading. I sincerely hope you enjoy as I, the author, and you, the reader, traverse this path.

I love this story! It is like a typical Xianxia, but with a few twists to make it more enjoyable for a western audience. It has far less filler, with chapter 82 correlating to around chapter 400 in a typical Xianxia, and the world seems relatively well thought out, it is clear that there are more details about the world that aren't being told to avoid an overly large info dump, but it doesn't feel like the Author ever pulls things out of his ass.
There are a few downsides typical to web novels, the grammar is pretty good but not professional quality by any means, and the characters aren't really well fleshed out (still better than a typical web novel).
Ultimately I would recommend this story to anyone who likes Xianxia stories, as it feels like a well-executed no-fluff Xianxia with a western twist.

I've read quite a lot of original novel either on Webnovel or royalroadl, and this one really got good prospect.

Without much spoiler we can see there is a feeble and quite stupid MC at first with a mentality that in quite sure a lot of readers won't like, but because of his meeting with that legend and the adventures that follow, the MC experience a growth in a lot of lacking area and become in the end a MC that I'm sure every reader like to follow.

I've read till the latest chapter (111 at review time) and I'm quite surprised at how well done the characters design is, it is extremely rare in original novels to see a flawless design like that

Let me start by saying that every other review on this novel is skewed and pathetic. None of them are impactful or meaningful in any way. Most of them are people saying "good novel" "I love it" "it's so good!", no one ever bothers to go into depth about why it's good, and there is a reason for that. It's not good.

When we first start reading the novel, we're introduced to some Immortal/God type character, he's cold-hearted, ruthless and calculating. The type of character you'd expect to find in an action movie flick, kind of like if Jason Bourne met with Bruce Willis. He really had that kind of badass attitude. It saddens me to tell you that we do not get to keep him. The author kills him off in the very stereotypical way with these cultivation trope novels. There is always some form of conflict happening otherwise the plot wouldn't move forward in the beginning. The main character we end up with is a whiny, sniveling, perverted, NTR-magnet with no actual "character". The entire time during our first introduction with this character all we see them do is whine and complain about how crapy their life is.  The character moves forward and happens to stumble upon his "plot armor" which is all so very stereotypical of these cultivation novels. I'm not gonna complain about it at this point because, since when did originality matter in writing? The MC then proceeds to basically pat himself on the back by saying how amazingly awesome he is and how this was all preordained or some other nonsense. Words cannot describe my emotions as I'm reading these first 5 chapters. The character is absolute trash. Whines about how bad his life is, finds plot armor he didn't work for, calls it destiny and then proceeds to take credit for said destiny by saying he deserved it all along. Calling it self-delusion isn't enough at this point. This shows lack of effort, lack of creativity, lack of planning or even forethought on the Authors part. However, at this point, I still give the Author the benefit of the doubt, he might be able to pull this utter garbage out somehow if he's a talented enough writer and, the fact that he has over 200 chapters published on an original novel would support that idea. I was utterly wrong. I skipped ahead to the most previous updated chapter which was 255 at the time. What I found was the exact same whiny, perverted, arrogant, antagonistic, trash main character that was at chapter 5. What this tells me is that there was absolutely zero emotional or mental growth from the main character in 250 entire chapters. I think to myself that maybe I missed something, so I decide to look at the comments for the first few chapters and low and behold, I find an entire community uprising in the comment section. Scores of readers are begging the author to rewrite his novel and get rid of the horrible and trash main character that he has. This still isn't enough for me though. So I go back and pick a random chapter out of his novel and read it. What I find is not only the same horrendous main character, but I also find that every single side character in the story acts in the same exact manner as the main character. They all lack a moral compass even for a cultivation genre which is known for its ruthless storylines.

What this all sums up into are a few very obvious facts. The Author does not listen to his readers. The Author does not understand or care enough to learn how to write a character with morals. And this entire novel is basically a 12-year-olds wish-fulfillment fantasy. I am under the assumption that this entire novel is a joke and the author wrote it for the specific reason of seeing exactly how far he could push the envelope.