This has to be one of the most chinese novels in existence. Only thing more chinese I can think of is probably Mount Hua Sect. It barely has anything inspired by the western world. I personally found it quite funny.
EIF has a unique main character (by virtue of the age at which his journey starts) and a somewhat unique world in which this character lives. Although the world isn’t as large or expansive as the worlds in some other WebNovels, it’s structured in a clear way and we always know the relationships between groups the parties in play
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This novel is a mix of Investiture of The Gods and modern xianxia. Pretty much everything in the novel is recycled from either Investiture of The Gods or modern xianxias like BTTH and honestly it does neither well, aside from the very beginning of the novel which is really good.
The plot evolves with people being captured and Gu Hai rescuing them over and over again, that or him helping them with something. There's quite literally nothing else aside from what happens in between when he's doing one of those two things — sometimes both simultaneously, believe it or not.
I didn't bother to count, but I'm pretty sure people got captured over 20 times in less than 500 chapters... Sometimes he rescues someone and they get captured again right after. No, I'm not joking.
His personality is basically "being smart" and "being good", but his "being smart" is just an overly-forced plot armor which is cool at the beginning, but gets old quite fast because it feels way too forced.
If anyone wants to read this work, read it. this is a great piece of work, don't read the comments judge for yourself. the mc is like the embodiment of the red priest. Warmonger, cruel, merciless, but he was kind to his people. the respected emperor reminds me of the roman dymirti.
this novel is perfect. the many Chinese myths really add to the mystery. MC's ability to copy songs and poetry from the earth is also amazing, especially his depictions. The moment I really liked was when MC read the opposing Empire's poetry and the moment when he read the Dao Laozi scripture. both moments gave me goosebumps. MC's struggle in bringing his wife back to life was also very touching, I often cried in several parts about the character's attachment. what I like most is mc's intelligence and manipulation. and of course MC's ability to play chess (Go). the first time he summoned a cloud monster from earth using go formation and the cloud monster came to life gave me goosebumps. then given another plotwis about the eternal horizon of yin-yang. perfect
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The plot evolves with people being captured and Gu Hai rescuing them over and over again, that or him helping them with something. There's quite literally nothing else aside from what happens in between when he's doing one of those two things — sometimes both simultaneously, believe it or not.
I didn't bother to count, but I'm pretty sure people got captured over 20 times in less than 500 chapters... Sometimes he rescues someone and they get captured again right after. No, I'm not joking.
His personality is basically "being smart" and "being good", but his "being smart" is just an overly-forced plot armor which is cool at the beginning, but gets old quite fast because it feels way too forced.