“Don’t hit him with flowers. He is the master of the Nine Heavens.” Born as an illegitimate child, six-year-old Yeon Jeok has endured various violence and torment from his stepmother and half-siblings. When his father dies from illness, his stepmother locks Yeon Jeok in the warehouse. Isolated from the world, he spends ten years confined. After learning martial arts, he escapes into the world!
“I regard the Yeon Family with great bitterness.”
The unyielding journey of Yeon Jeok, the sole inheritor of the Nine Heavenly Swords, has just begun!
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The overall plot of the novel is great, but the storytelling is extremely poorly executed. The novel is filled with monotonous filler, and interesting events in the story are short-lived. Extremely important events or developments are somehow reduced to a few paragraphs, with almost zero emphasis on how they should have affected the main character (MC). I honestly don't know what the author is trying to focus on in this story.
**Character Development:** The MC somehow has minimal character development, and his dialogue still comes across as childish. In any argument, he seems to turn into a 5-year-old throwing a tantrum, but of course, he wins because he's overpowered (OP). Things that should accelerate his growth as a person seem to have minimal impact.
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> He goes to a non-partisan shaman school, yet he doesn't get smarter or more mature. He gets married but still calls his wife "sister." He just never seems to mature because, in the Murim world, might equals right.
Honestly, extras and side characters have more interesting character development in a few chapters than the MC does in over 600.
**Murim/Martial Arts:** I don't really see this as a martial arts novel, even though it's supposed to be. Martial arts aren't really explained, and training is skipped over. There won't be any training arcs involving inner ki, nor martial art techniques being systematically passed down through schools. Most techniques just somehow happen, or they occur through some sort of epiphany. If you're into martial arts novels, this isn't it.
**Romance:** At least up to this point, there is no harem (thank god), but the romance is kind of cringe and feels extremely wrong.
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> He, of course, marries the girl from the Namgung Clan, but it doesn't seem to be a natural romance. He still calls her "sister" after marriage, and their relationship continues to feel like a mother offering advice to her son who lacks empathy and inductive reasoning.
**Action:** The MC is way too neutral in the wrong ways for this to be an exciting action Murim novel.
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> His father's corpse is desecrated—no action. His wife's family is massacred by the famous cult—no action. His wife is almost killed by the famous cult—he releases the cult members without killing them. His wife is sacrificed by the famous cult—no retribution, no cult members die, and he's able to have a peaceful conversation with the cult leader. On the other hand, he travels with a merchant family who treats him kindly and with respect. He has an argument with the daughter of the merchant family, then proceeds to poke and argue with her until the family intervenes. He pokes more—family retaliates—subdues family—resulting in a chain of events where the entire family gets massacred, and he feels no guilt. Mind you, the MC "hates killing people."
I dropped this novel after the 2nd arc; I just can't read another 300 chapters of pointless character interactions that have zero effect on the overall plot.
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