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First of all I gotta say how much of a xianxia fan I am, cultivation novels always fascinate me, ik that it mostly has no plot and the MC it too op and there are too many face slapping scenes but that's the point of it, just for that cheap self satisfaction and gold comedy so if u don't like the genre don't read, I will be judging the novel not the genre so here is my opinion :Ok the first thing that stuck out to me would be the character writing, as I believe if u were a seasoned web novel reader u'de notice that danmei mostly has the worst character writing, weak pathetic MCs and overbearing confident ml, now I'm not talking about strength but characters, when I say "weak mc" I don't care if he achieved the final layer of heavenly level or sm I'm talking about having a weak submissive character and always depending on ML in difficult situations instead of surpassing them with his witwhich is why I was actually pleasantly surprised when I found that this novel which I haven't heard anyone talk about could have better character writing than most famous danmei, and I mean it for both MC and mlSpoiler
Like most cultivation novels MC used to be a super strong cultivation master but died and was reborn in a child's body with no cultivation, he uses knowledge from his past life and his connections to climb the cultivation ranks little by little, this point I really liked bcuz it made me feel like I was reading a proper xianxia with a normal MC and not a "gay" one, ya apparently the gender of the love interest changes ur personality and makes men go cute and feminine in danmei, luckily this one was written properly
[collapse]Back to ml, I like that his character was also explored throughly, he had a personality, likes and dislikes, and expressed emotions, he liked swords, he got surprised, he got sad and got angry Altthought he was aloof he was human, and it was shown of us, his personality wasn't based "what an interesting guy lemme just be obsessed with him" although he was curiousTheir whole relationship wasn't based on it it was the addition of all the life and death experiences they got over together
