Once Upon A Time, There Was A Spirit Sword Mountain

Great read, and a very sublime ending. Certainly deviates from the usual "rush to invincibility" commonly found in wuxia novels.

Be prepared for a lot of toilet humor!

I actually laugh out loud reading this novel~
High shameless master disciple work there.
and for 140 characters i would add the good translator work! +10 points for giving translation and notes in the end of the champ ;)

It's a good if you want to take a break from all the dramatic and exaggerated Chinese fantasy novels, however my only problem is that for some reason the translation quality regresses with each chapter. At time it really irritates me when the translator dosen't even know the difference between has,have and had

Is it worth it?

This story defies the heavens with its humor. I seriously have laughed in real life more times than I can count while reading this.

A very lighthearted cultivation story, with a shameless MC, a shameless master, a righteous sect that is actually righteous. It's all awesome, I cannot recommend this enough to those who like humorous stories.

One of two truly original CN stories I'm aware of. It absolutely should be read once you are jaded veteran, to give you that extra bit of freshness. CNs are highy repetitive, riddled with plot holes and sloppy filler spouting on deadline. Once you truly feel that irritiation of reading same plot devices
for nth time, it's time for Wang Lu, cultivator whose "cheat" actually interferes with cultivation, so he uses his brain intead of his fists. Watch him troll ******ton daoists till they don't know their own names.

This is one of the 4 novels I read in this site.This novel is super awesome and I am really enjoying reading this.It gives me some good laugh and I am really happy that it got translated by a good translator.

I don't always write reviews, but when I do, it's either because the novel is really good, or really bad. Despite all the positive reviews, in my opinion, this belongs in the latter.

First of all, the positive. The world background is unique, and certainly above average. The relationship between characters is decent.

Now, the bad things.
The most important thing, the humor. While I did chuckled once in awhile, for the most part, it's just painful to read. The author tried too hard to force the comedy.

The parts where it should be serious, the author still tried to add humor. All the Elders and Sect Leader acts like a bunch of 12 yearsold.

There are certain situations where comedy comes from surprise or the suddenness of the situation. However, the way this novel is written completely take away the surprise part and ruin the humor.

Most importantly, I don't know if it's the translator or the author, but using vulgarities to force the humor is just immature. Conversations between characters are completely devoid of witticism. Characters swore and cursed at each other is just...tasteless. Once in a blue moon, it sort of worked, but the rest of the time, it's just overdone and became vulgar instead. Sometimes, the vulgarities even ruined the part where it's actually funny.

Let me give you an example, the MC were talking with a girl about how bad his Master was. The conversation were going just fine, then he dropped a sentence along the line "you might aswell tell me to masturbate over my Master getting gang raped"....
It's not like i'm over sensitive, but it's just tasteless.

That is just pure vulgarity, not comedy.

If you want an actual humorous xanxia, try A Will Eternal. This novel is just a really bland and vulgar slapstick comedy.