Cultivation: Being Immortal Chapter 950 Discussion

it's a good read for those familiar with CN cultivation-rot. If you aren't familiar, I think the first 100 chapters are good enough to read through, having the most of the author's creativity spent there.

• Loving these:

• Nice characterization.

The MC grows over time of the story (with his lifespan exceeding a million) alongside characters I think have matured and changed significantly throughout the series (until their deaths, of course).

The villains were good enough in the first half: there's the daily threat MC faces every day that differed unique enough; and that one genius cultivator whose presence made it gripping to read.

• Plot

It's unique.

MC grows weak, even compared to others way below his age; utilizes tricks and some more for money and his life; he grows old, with new companions, gets into a sect, made friends, the sect grew and so did his friends; he left after the sect's demand between them or his family; there's a good amount of filler between all of these.

Spoiler

I especially recommend reading up until the Heavenly Dao Revival arc, it was a refreshing break from cultivation and what not. Like Frieren's Journey first chapters where we get to feel how the nigh-immortal felt when everything they knew passed away; that's how MC lived through those times, being the strongest in the non-Cultivation times and the loneliest there is among mortals. That arc was the heart strike arrow to me, breaking my last barrier making the preconceived notion of a "only tr*sh and nothing else" story become clear to me;...😭 man it was the heartbreak too.

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• Issues I see:

• Later half plot becomes... unusual. That's what I can say at least; the author didn't seem to be able to foreshadow it enough for me to expect this. At the same time, it kinda lost the grip it made impact fully as I mentioned earlier (the mortals time) in terms of emotions. Of course, the characters do still get good enough growth and new characters came In the roster; but the fights became less exciting and more frequent. Well, MC eventually reaches the peak of the universe. It's... boredom from then on out
• To me, MC at that point, lost a chunk of the depth he built up throughout his three hundred thousand years of life.

...7.4/10 in general.

6.3/10 for the later half.

8.3/10 for the first half.J

Just that arc between these two? 9.2/10.