A surprisingly great novel! The MC is funny and likable, the author writes the system in a unique and entertaining way that doesn’t make it into a carbon copy of other novels, and the translation quality is very great with almost no mistakes that I could notice! Highly recommend this fast paced and lighthearted read.
Honestly, at first I thought this was a good novel. But after reading a few pages I realized that this novel was too classic, and the plot was predictable. I'm slowly getting bored. When I was in my tens I didn't really want to read any more, this oath was really bad.
The story is good and mc is not stupid and the system is not broken until the eighth chapter, when parkour started, he no longer needs the worker now when he started parkour and he won in ten minutes 100 “ingots”, meaning he has more than one hundred million copper coins, and I know that he needs one hundred thousand To upgrade any skill or ability
The ultimate problem with this story is that the system is too all-encompassing and intrusive. There are many moments where something urgent is happening RIGHT NOW in front of the MCs face, but then there will be paragraphs of digression because of the system. The feeling that the MC is just standing and staring slack-jawed off into space (interacting with his system) while important plot events happen around him appears just a few too many times for my taste.
Moreover, the system really just has too many features (just like a real pay-to-win shop). There's a section for MCs cultivation, techniques, and body tempering, there's a section for mounts, for battle pets, for random daily events like parkour, for a "trial tower" he can climb for rewards, for an instance space where he can fight "bosses" he's met in the real world(daily), for a gold farming space, for his personal equipment which he collects by killing monsters and getting "drops", for "synthesis" which can combine pills, techniques, or equipment to make them stronger/higher-grade, for a "gem" sub-section which includes a gem dungeon he can run daily to accumulate gems which can be socketed into his equipment for minor stat increases, for a daily sign-in reward, for a shop that sells items and limited-time gift-bags and not one, not two, but THREE separate currencies to make the whole thing run.
And you know what all that stuff actually is? That's word count bayyybeeee~
Seriously, so much of the word count is just MC interacting with the system to get stronger, and so much of the plot just IS the system. The plot feels at once both rushed and like it's dragging because the MC gets stronger so quickly using the system (making it feel rushed) but "quickly" is only relative to time passing in-universe, we readers have to read chapter after chapter of system nonsense to justify his speedy power-ups (making it feel like the story is dragging).
At least, that was my impression. The few good points of the story (like MC's bond with his two friends from the sect, which was actually written surprisingly well for a cultivation novel) all get drowned out by a torrent of different system-related shenanigans and its ever-increasing feature creep.
Ight so this story is bad don’t waste your time everything is written like a funny parody without the funny the mc lived for five years saving money so he could activate the system but as soon as he activated it he instantly became a wasteful idiot. I had high hopes but all I received was endless cringe and dumb characters
In my opinion, if the translation and updates section were removed, this story would only get a 3.0 rating.
Why?
Well, for starters, although the world background looks well thought out, it isn't that great, in my opinion - at least at the beginning, since we don't know much about the wider scope. All we know is the sect - I mean, come on, at least tell us what's beyond the sect and it's scope of influence at the beginning, so we know what we're dealing with and how much to sympathize with the travel and influence systems of the MC's world.
Next, let's take a look at character design. All I have to say for this is that there's nothing riveting about the character design. Also, I have a hundred different impressions of the MC because of this storytelling.
Speaking of which, the storytelling. I have to say, the plot idea of the author was amazing, but his storytelling was not quite up to mark. He seems to be trying to speed up and breeze through everything, but if you're gonna explain, try and explain everything.
Also, if you read my books and think I'm a hypocrite, you're free to think so - it's because I contracted Author's Disease - the disease where suddenly every book other than yours is more interesting to you, so you read them and don't write yours.
I used to write review for no reason so I will do this once more-----
so the premise has broken through the heavenly mind blowing realm but if the execution will be shallow then it cannot survive the heavenly lightning tribulations of fellow daoist readers.
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The system is overly complicated to the point of not needing a cheat sheet. The mechanics behind everything is even worse.
The MC is so dumb I feel like I am less intelligent for having any insight into his thoughts.
The cliches are ridiculous without being funny.
This is a few hours of my life I will never get back and I am mad about it
Moreover, the system really just has too many features (just like a real pay-to-win shop). There's a section for MCs cultivation, techniques, and body tempering, there's a section for mounts, for battle pets, for random daily events like parkour, for a "trial tower" he can climb for rewards, for an instance space where he can fight "bosses" he's met in the real world(daily), for a gold farming space, for his personal equipment which he collects by killing monsters and getting "drops", for "synthesis" which can combine pills, techniques, or equipment to make them stronger/higher-grade, for a "gem" sub-section which includes a gem dungeon he can run daily to accumulate gems which can be socketed into his equipment for minor stat increases, for a daily sign-in reward, for a shop that sells items and limited-time gift-bags and not one, not two, but THREE separate currencies to make the whole thing run.
And you know what all that stuff actually is? That's word count bayyybeeee~
Seriously, so much of the word count is just MC interacting with the system to get stronger, and so much of the plot just IS the system. The plot feels at once both rushed and like it's dragging because the MC gets stronger so quickly using the system (making it feel rushed) but "quickly" is only relative to time passing in-universe, we readers have to read chapter after chapter of system nonsense to justify his speedy power-ups (making it feel like the story is dragging).
At least, that was my impression. The few good points of the story (like MC's bond with his two friends from the sect, which was actually written surprisingly well for a cultivation novel) all get drowned out by a torrent of different system-related shenanigans and its ever-increasing feature creep.
Why?
Well, for starters, although the world background looks well thought out, it isn't that great, in my opinion - at least at the beginning, since we don't know much about the wider scope. All we know is the sect - I mean, come on, at least tell us what's beyond the sect and it's scope of influence at the beginning, so we know what we're dealing with and how much to sympathize with the travel and influence systems of the MC's world.
Next, let's take a look at character design. All I have to say for this is that there's nothing riveting about the character design. Also, I have a hundred different impressions of the MC because of this storytelling.
Speaking of which, the storytelling. I have to say, the plot idea of the author was amazing, but his storytelling was not quite up to mark. He seems to be trying to speed up and breeze through everything, but if you're gonna explain, try and explain everything.
Also, if you read my books and think I'm a hypocrite, you're free to think so - it's because I contracted Author's Disease - the disease where suddenly every book other than yours is more interesting to you, so you read them and don't write yours.
so the premise has broken through the heavenly mind blowing realm but if the execution will be shallow then it cannot survive the heavenly lightning tribulations of fellow daoist readers.
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