A great story with an interesting premise while having a plus of a fast paced storytelling like our MC, the MC doesn't go around offending everyone he comes across, nor does every girl falls in love with him, the author used a great tool to make his story engaging and keep you interested, the story beings with our Cliche'd trash MC outcast-ed in the family, there is a good uncle, evil elder, snobbish aunts, etc which is pretty generic in CN now-a-days.
But the story takes a turn when the MC's cheat is introduced, he needs to give up a large part of his life and his own personality to gain only the potential of power, not the power itself. He still needs to work hard and climb the ladders of those in power.
THe author has taken the usual cliche's of CN's and turned them over their head, as each power is fleshed out and described properly(Through science), there is no gaining understanding of mountain and using its image to fight, nor does it contain paintings with immortals souls in it. It is outright close combat fights at superhuman levels, which is pretty exhilarating and often times ends faster than most of the fights when compared to other novels(which take in the least 3 chapters to conclude).
The world is filled with different characters with their own aspirations and goals that they want to achieve, some try to befriend Mc and use him and some are trying to force him to obey him, the MC always strives for more profit and prone to tilt toward the side that gives him more resources.
There are people saying that the MC creates a Hero kind of personality, but that is wrong, I can't go into spoiler territory, but the MC only eliminates those he deems evil(Even if they are good to others doesn't matter to him) and will not go out to help out the weak and poor nor will he cry over his death, instead he welcomes it so that he may get more angry and progress in his cultivation(He is one f@cked up MC), while he kills those who killed the weak and poor.
If you guessed that this novel is another generic cultivation novel, well dingalingling, youve won, and the prize is that you dont have to suffer the horrors brought upon me by reading this book.
The only redeeming quality is it had potential. The premise was a bit interesting Too bad the author is utterly incapable of any meaningful story building.
The fact this had potential made my experience worse due to the fact that everytime i was forced to read some bull**** reason the guy down the street hates or despises the mc, i couldnt help but think about how reading this could of brought me an emotion other than dread and exasperation.
The only thing worse than this novel is the readers. Reading the comments made me consider that genocide may be a viable answer to some problems, if that problem was retarded fanboys who read self insert novels just to experience what its like to be a man. Too bad their idea of being a man entails breaking some poor ****ers kneecaps cause the author made the mcs iq equivalent to a toddler trying to crawl into an oven.
The absolute number of comments saying "if you dont enjoy it then dont read" made me want to strangle the nearest thing to me. Thank god my little brother was in the other room. Even if he was, i bet i could present this novel as evidence in court and i would have a good chance of getting off scott free.
Do you want to know how far i read? 458. Thats the chapter i stopped at. When i began this novel, i thought it had 400 chapters. There is over 1100. When i realized my error, i cried. I'm not even ashamed to admit it. This novel broke me. I've read so much worse, yet is this subpar piece of garbage some try to call a novel.
Why? The MC is soooo bad. I hate him. ATG, MGA, the mcs in these novels are universally hated, but this dickhead somehow is worse. Never in my life did i think any person could be so incapable of self reflection.
I'm not gonna list the problems this novel has. Every problem other novels have, it has too.
If you're looking for a story where the only romance is between a man and his sword... wait... something doesn't sound quite right with that statement... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Xingjian has given up all of his “good” emotions for revenge, which makes it sound like he will be very 1 dimensional, but he is definitely more complex than that. It has plenty of well written and translated fight scenes, courtroom dramas and delicious sounding food. I think that the cultivation system is much easier to understand then some other stories and the plots that he is encountering when he is powering up are interesting and lots of fun.
Anyway, this is one of my favourite translations due to the quality of the translation and the story in general
Good:
- Firt 20 chapters.
Bad:
- Give up to 72 year of his life and the majors emotion for crap
- the story declin and decom boring and the MC lost his personality.
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But the story takes a turn when the MC's cheat is introduced, he needs to give up a large part of his life and his own personality to gain only the potential of power, not the power itself. He still needs to work hard and climb the ladders of those in power.
THe author has taken the usual cliche's of CN's and turned them over their head, as each power is fleshed out and described properly(Through science), there is no gaining understanding of mountain and using its image to fight, nor does it contain paintings with immortals souls in it. It is outright close combat fights at superhuman levels, which is pretty exhilarating and often times ends faster than most of the fights when compared to other novels(which take in the least 3 chapters to conclude).
The world is filled with different characters with their own aspirations and goals that they want to achieve, some try to befriend Mc and use him and some are trying to force him to obey him, the MC always strives for more profit and prone to tilt toward the side that gives him more resources.
There are people saying that the MC creates a Hero kind of personality, but that is wrong, I can't go into spoiler territory, but the MC only eliminates those he deems evil(Even if they are good to others doesn't matter to him) and will not go out to help out the weak and poor nor will he cry over his death, instead he welcomes it so that he may get more angry and progress in his cultivation(He is one f@cked up MC), while he kills those who killed the weak and poor.
At this point, I wish I could make up for the time spent reading this garbage. Sounds like it was written by s third grader.
The only redeeming quality is it had potential. The premise was a bit interesting Too bad the author is utterly incapable of any meaningful story building.
The fact this had potential made my experience worse due to the fact that everytime i was forced to read some bull**** reason the guy down the street hates or despises the mc, i couldnt help but think about how reading this could of brought me an emotion other than dread and exasperation.
The only thing worse than this novel is the readers. Reading the comments made me consider that genocide may be a viable answer to some problems, if that problem was retarded fanboys who read self insert novels just to experience what its like to be a man. Too bad their idea of being a man entails breaking some poor ****ers kneecaps cause the author made the mcs iq equivalent to a toddler trying to crawl into an oven.
The absolute number of comments saying "if you dont enjoy it then dont read" made me want to strangle the nearest thing to me. Thank god my little brother was in the other room. Even if he was, i bet i could present this novel as evidence in court and i would have a good chance of getting off scott free.
Do you want to know how far i read? 458. Thats the chapter i stopped at. When i began this novel, i thought it had 400 chapters. There is over 1100. When i realized my error, i cried. I'm not even ashamed to admit it. This novel broke me. I've read so much worse, yet is this subpar piece of garbage some try to call a novel.
Why? The MC is soooo bad. I hate him. ATG, MGA, the mcs in these novels are universally hated, but this dickhead somehow is worse. Never in my life did i think any person could be so incapable of self reflection.
I'm not gonna list the problems this novel has. Every problem other novels have, it has too.
Xingjian has given up all of his “good” emotions for revenge, which makes it sound like he will be very 1 dimensional, but he is definitely more complex than that. It has plenty of well written and translated fight scenes, courtroom dramas and delicious sounding food. I think that the cultivation system is much easier to understand then some other stories and the plots that he is encountering when he is powering up are interesting and lots of fun.
Anyway, this is one of my favourite translations due to the quality of the translation and the story in general
Views : 1.48 million
Rating : 7.8(122)
Chapters : 1182
Status : completed
Word count : 2.60 million
author rank : lv5
- Firt 20 chapters.
Bad:
- Give up to 72 year of his life and the majors emotion for crap
- the story declin and decom boring and the MC lost his personality.
That what I think about this novel in short.