The Cannon Fodder Turns His Sister Into A Soaring Phoenix Chapter 394 Discussion

It was alright, way better than a lot of other reincarnated cultivation stories I've read. However, that isn't saying much since the bar is set so low. I liked the MC this time around, he wasn't one of those annoying protagonists who tried to follow the storyline no matter what. Like those annoying MCs who reincarnated as dog-licking villains who try to self-sabotage themselves no matter what to follow the storyline. He is proactive in trying to gain advantageous positions in every plotline he becomes entangled in. As long as he comes out on top and everything is within his calculations, he doesn't care if deviations arise in the story. But my liking for the MC all came crashing down when he encountered a certain character.

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My biggest problem with the MC is the child-predatory vibes he gives off when he finally meets a girl named Xu Xiyue in Chapter 368. To give context, the MC was reincarnated into a fantasy cultivation game he used to play, which is how he knows he is cannon fodder, since the in-game version of the character he reincarnated into died. But when he was playing the game back on Earth, he was obsessed with this NPC named Xu Xiyue, who was a waiter in the Cold Sky Country of the Western Region. He was even calling her his wife even back then. That itself wasn't much of a problem to me. The problem is that once he meets her for real in Chapter 368, she is a 12-year-old girl while he is a grown man. Usually, a normal person would've probably moved on and said it wasn't meant to be, but not this MC. He doubles down and starts staring at her like some creepy stalker, tries to give her cultivation techniques to make her like him as if he's a man in a white van handing candy to unsuspecting children, and even sneaks into her room in the middle of the night when she's sleeping to transfer energy into her while also reading her personal diary. And you want to know what the worst part is? Before leaving, the creep actually proposes to her! He even admits part of the reason he came to the Cold Sky Country of the Western Region was specifically to meet her. He is even bribing her with cultivation techniques just so he looks good to her. Isn't he just trying to groom her at this point? And none of the other girls make a big deal about his behavior either. It's briefly mentioned by Xiao Yunluo how she's only 12, but then it's brushed under the rug like he isn't some weirdo. I don't know what the author was thinking with this plotline, but it's really disturbing. I can have a suspension of disbelief when it comes to the Old Loli since I know she's super old, but not with this.

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Other than that, I have no personal gripes with this story. Obviously, this a harem story and there are going to be quite a few girls. None of the girls are annoying, well maybe Xiao Yunluo is a little annoying to me with trying to constantly hide her feelings, but other than her, I really have no gripes with any of the girls, even Feng Yu Die. If you've read any reincarnated Chinese cultivation novel, this is up there with the best from what I've read.