Once Upon A Time, There Was A Spirit Sword Mountain

Hilariously addictive. Spirit Sword Mountain features an out-of-the-norm main character, who wants to cultivate inside the sect. However there are several twists, and they all come in very fun forms. The first arc is incredible and more than enough to get anyone hooked with this novel. Give it a try! It's super fun!

Good novel!

Sure, it might be another MC rise-to-power, but hey, at least it's funny, and hey, at least it avoids some of the usual cliches in these type of stories. One of the actual martial arts training stories I can actually stand to read.

Characters have depth, MC's clever scheming is fun to follow along, romance leads aren't obnoxious, you get a pass in my book.

Once Upon A Time, There Was A Spirit Sword Mountain, is not your normal
cultivation novel ie MC gets power up after power or beats other's 5 ranks above him etc as you'd normally see in this type of work, it has some great comical moments, excellent characters who will make you laugh and some of the dialog between the mc and his teach is great well worth a read

The worst story so far on this site. Shameless, raciste, oversmart MC that live in a cultivation world but has a gamer mentality. I don't recomand this story to anyone. There is much better in qidian.

This all started of fairly well with a seemingly interesting plot and an endearing main character. However after the Sect Test Arc reached the extra trial it finally revealed how garbage it truly was. The Sect Elders are all disabled overused cliche character tropes and unnecessarily small brained. It’s like a bunch of defective Korean Drama girls who try to act cute and tsundere-like, and a soft useless old man as a sect leader. The greedy 5th Martial Aunt has the same personality as a greedy rich young master type mixed in with a low-IQ, thinks she is smart, bossy girl. This has caused the novel to become straight and udder trash. It is simply unbearable. If the 5th Martial Aunt existed then I curse her whole family down nine generations to excruciating agony, unparalleled sorrow, and a life of extreme humiliation.

The story development is unique among all xianxia types I have read. These first chapters really piqued my curiosity,for example the main character seems reincarnated but it is only hinted,the author doesn't go at all into lengthy explanations how the mc only naturally could overcome this or that problem due to his past life or anything similar.
The translation is also excellent but I have to add that personally as a Chinese language learner I would like an explanation of certain idioms or language intricacies.
The characters are interesting full of common moral flaws that makes them more refreshing and easy to identify with.I have to point out that the main character seems a bit wise beyond his age,but that could be explained later on.
The world has not been unveiled as of yet so I can't really judge it,the interrelation between different social statuses is as expected in a feudal way of governing.
All in all I think it is an excellent read and I recommend it to all but younger audience.I especially appreciate the humor and feel it adds a lot to the enjoyment of the read but the jokes and perspective offered can be understood by more mature audience.

The flow of the story is neither slow nor fast. It takes the reader through different stages in a smooth manner and the story captivates the mind to the best. It is by far one of the best light novel I have been reading

No wonder the story felt somewhat familiar. It's turn out that I already read the manhua version for this novel.
If you by chance found this page, that means you are fated to read this God-made novel

This story is good. All the stories translated by subudai have been in my favourite. Subudai if you read this i want to to know what will happen to another stories. I know it is not possible to bring those stories here but i think you should translate stories like the finest servant. I dont know if its qidian story or 17k. If its qidian please translate finest servant.
Subudai best translator ever.

One of the best novels on this site. MC is intelligent, humorous and good at strategies. The side characters like the other elders from the sect are well developed, and world building is excellent. One caveat is that MC’s cultivation is slow and this can make readers impatient. From my perspective, having this aspect is great compared to many other novels where MC upgrades super-fast relying on random lucky encounters.

To me? Yes. It depends on what do you like in a book though. As I mentioned, it's not the standard rush to invincibility, more towards MC being clever on how he deals with situations. Again, toilet humour is there so if you are into classy jokes, this might be a turn off.

I can't say if i should be happy or sad after reading the ending.I hoped wang lu and wang wu would have a happy ending.