Peerless Genius System Chapter 586 Discussion

Decent start, but abandons premise leading to gratuitous violence, nationalism, and r*pe.

Started as an interesting system-type, weak-to-strong contemporary Earth novel. A mysterious multidimensional system pretty gives the protagonist the ability to earn points by stimulating strong emotions in others, and spending those points to effortlessly learn any skill he wants, on top of purchasing a King of Mercenaries uber-perfect physiology (even though the protagonist continues to look like a twiggy Chinese guy in his early 2os). Martial arts, various scientific skills, driving, shooting, business, languages, etc.... you get the gist.

The story fails on a couple points, as it essentially abandons the "Genius System" except for incidental use somewhere around chapter 300-400 where...

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... the protagonist learns that he can easily earn points by being an internet troll/celebrity. Thereafter, he purchases a single wuxia cultivation technique for a few hundred thousand points and basically ignores the system, even though he ultimately is sitting on MILLIONS of points that could be used to do who knows what (author never really reveals his options, only his choices)

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Another major failing of the story is the blatant racism and nationalism.

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White people, black people, and arab people are all terrorists and back-stabbers. They are characterized as "looking down on" Chinese people. SEALs are called out explicitly (even through the author renames the country) and Japanese people are pretty much drug through the dirt as Hirohito-worshiping criminals and terrorists. Western medicine is portrayed as innefective short-term symptom treatment, compared to acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine (where bloodletting and expelling negative qui by poking needles into the brain is very healthy) can cure various maladies including cancer. So... pretty typical for a Chinese webnovel set on contemporary Earth.

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Also, over the course of the novel, the protagonist seems to lose control of himself, becoming more and more violent. His loss of restraint ultimately leads him to periodically go beerzerk and kill everyone, rather than arrest or simply avoid conflicts. He even goes on to r*pe his wife (don't worry, she's thankful later... of course) around Ch 584.

Honestly, I'm leaving this review because I logged in to see if the story had a decent ending because I'm losing interest. The story, as noted, went off track and stopped being fun around Chapter 300ish.