Lord Xue Ying
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Author:
I Eat Tomatoes
- Status： Completed
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Views : 7.60 million
Rating : 7.9(1421)
Chapters : 1398
Status : completed
Word count : 3.60 million
author rank : platinum
my favorite work by IET.
hopefully they are continuing the old translation and not starting from scratch.
My biggest problems with the story are pacing, followed by poor world building and one dimensional characters.
Mentioning a city with tens of millions of people, how many thousands of cities, provinces, worlds and star systems there are do not equat to world building. You have to show that the world around you matters. Did your mc lost his flying bison in a city and it's so vast you can't find it? If not, than it doesn't matter how many hundreds of millions of people are in the city, they are but numbers and irrelevant and GOD, is the entire world in this story so irrelevant! It seems like nothing is happening in the world unless the mc is interacting with it. There are no sense of realism there. Mc lives in a castle, goes to some other castle, kills someone as a mission, comes back, mopes around in his castle because that's how you run a city, and voila he's the strongest in the world and goes to some place and...
God the story lacks pacing and so many poorly done time skips. Show that passing of time matters before you do a time skip, not just when you need a powerup and can't find a way to engage your readers. ISSTH did a hundred year skip and I wasn't mad because before that I was with the mc on his day to day adventure, learning how important a day can be. And god the time skips in this story are so lame. He basically goes from zero to hevean rank in a few dozon chapters and heaven to legend in a couple more and by a hundred he achieves transcendence, the level that author introduced to be strongest at the start of the story. How do you keep writing once you've done that? Why, do a dbz twist, introduce a few more levels.And do you know how many interesting things happen to his life in the time he gets op as fk? You can count them on one finger, that's four if you are lazy, and god this story is so lazily written!
You know, you can still feed on a lazily written, poorly paced story in a vacuum world, if the characters and their banters make up for it, and believe it or not, author fks that up really spectacularly. The characters have no depth, no complexity, no autonomy, no agency. They just exist to fill up a space. The two loving parents that got in trouble to motivate the mc, the cute lil bro to motivate the mc, the backstabbing gal to motivate the mc and hype the mysogonist fan base, none of them serves any other purpose and once you realise how utterly robotic and dull the characters are, how do you connect with them in any way? At least make up for their lack of personality with quips or humor but no, it's a serious story. A seriously dull story.
And fk this Alice trope. When you have less personality than a side character with no dialogue, you don't get the girl, deal with with.
It is a great story,fab world setting.
Please release faster
Plz pickup from where it was
Plz pickup from where it was
Plz pickup from where it was
Plz pickup from where it was
Plz pickup from where it was
But at least the TLer is still the same.
Anyways time for the actual review.
If you've read any of IET's other novels before it's kind of the same, the MC starts off in a mortal world in the first part of a novel and then cultivates himself into outerspace (or something similar). In novel however, I felt he ascended rather quickly which was a shame because I rather enjoyed the mortal world. If you've enjoyed IETs novels then you'll like this one.
But altogether it's a really good book just like all the rest of I Eat Tomatoes' books(the author)
The MC doesn't has a chat-like cultivation or absurd abilities, which would allow him to be the overlord everywhere. He only has his 'mad' training and his heaven defying talent (something has to make him the MC^^).
The story doesn't seem to have so many different confusing realms, which MC will have to climb one after another and when he becomes the best of one realm there doesn't appear out of blue a new realm. The different worlds where quite soon introduced and it didn't change, yet^^.
Of course the MC is absolute OP (but that is what we expect^^), but his power is ... coherent?^^ without too much of face slapping or wrong placed arrogance.
The development of the story is understandable, makes sense and really enjoyable.
An another point is the romance, there is no harem, but only one female 'MC', which isn't just a doll or just a side character. Of course the MC has much more screen time but it's still alright. By the way, a really good thing is that in this book the author breaks boring cliches about the heroine, which I really hated.
There is much more to write about this book, but time and space is in this moment limited, so my advice is, just read it!
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