It's like the author had multiple story ideas and put them into a mishmash of one.
He has two simultaneous storylines going on, for the ml and fl.
But it was soooooooooooooo arbitrary. Like the story style changes completely from the first dozen chapter.
The author tells the reader to read every other chapter if we prefer one protag over the other.
But then why even write the story that way?
I can't go on reading a story knowing I am probably going to miss half of it. I read till chapter 66, so I know if you read only every other chapter, you would miss a BUNCH of infodumps and worldbuildings.
So what's even the point of saying " If you prefer to only read one or the other lead, just read every other chapter of your preference." if the reader is missing a lot of the technical details.
And it's honestly hard to get immersed in a story where each next chapter is about another protagonist.
So rather than multiple good stories, we have a mediocre one.
Not worth the time. I gave story dev a 1 star.
The author also used 2 different time units, for usual things he uses day, minute, second, week, year etcetc but then he inserts ancient chinese time units like shi, shun, ke. Its very confusing.
The writing does improve though. but it's still very confusing.
A very good read, a bit confusing/unclear at times but i still would recommend it! Also one of the most original books on this website. Well done to the author for writing something of this standard.
I don’t know if you can see this author but I have read many novels and the impact this one has had on me is on the same level as when I first started reading cultivation novels.
Your Ideas on Dao and True Cultivation are truly novel and amazing. It has expanded my world view on what it means to be a cultivator. I guess this is an example of the saying, the Dao is Infinite.
I hope you continue writing this book someday when you are ready again as I would love to read more on your thoughts about Dao and Cultivation.
I normally abhor rating things as perfect but this story is absolutely worth it. Fascinating worldbuilding, interesting characters and a writing style that makes the combat just as engaging as the slice of life combine to form what is probably the best Xianxia novel I’ve ever read.
Writing quality: No mistakes seen so far. The use of ancient chinese in the story throws me off at times simply because i forget and too lazy to check the aux chap. (Author has explained the meanings in a chap)
Updates: The updates are stable. It's just not updated enough if you ask me. I want more but i don't want the quality to drop because of it. So i'll be content.
Story: There is a lot of development and early on it might have been a bit annoying. (Cliffhanger on ML and the next week the chap is about FL so 2 weeks before we get back to ML) I hope that at the latest chap (of the time of this review) There wil not be too many shifts again.
Char: They are well enough designed and interesting.
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He has two simultaneous storylines going on, for the ml and fl.
But it was soooooooooooooo arbitrary. Like the story style changes completely from the first dozen chapter.
The author tells the reader to read every other chapter if we prefer one protag over the other.
But then why even write the story that way?
I can't go on reading a story knowing I am probably going to miss half of it. I read till chapter 66, so I know if you read only every other chapter, you would miss a BUNCH of infodumps and worldbuildings.
So what's even the point of saying " If you prefer to only read one or the other lead, just read every other chapter of your preference." if the reader is missing a lot of the technical details.
And it's honestly hard to get immersed in a story where each next chapter is about another protagonist.
So rather than multiple good stories, we have a mediocre one.
Not worth the time. I gave story dev a 1 star.
The author also used 2 different time units, for usual things he uses day, minute, second, week, year etcetc but then he inserts ancient chinese time units like shi, shun, ke. Its very confusing.
The writing does improve though. but it's still very confusing.
Your Ideas on Dao and True Cultivation are truly novel and amazing. It has expanded my world view on what it means to be a cultivator. I guess this is an example of the saying, the Dao is Infinite.
I hope you continue writing this book someday when you are ready again as I would love to read more on your thoughts about Dao and Cultivation.
Writing quality: No mistakes seen so far. The use of ancient chinese in the story throws me off at times simply because i forget and too lazy to check the aux chap. (Author has explained the meanings in a chap)
Updates: The updates are stable. It's just not updated enough if you ask me. I want more but i don't want the quality to drop because of it. So i'll be content.
Story: There is a lot of development and early on it might have been a bit annoying. (Cliffhanger on ML and the next week the chap is about FL so 2 weeks before we get back to ML) I hope that at the latest chap (of the time of this review) There wil not be too many shifts again.
Char: They are well enough designed and interesting.
Background: Everything is good.