Family Cultivation: Ascending to Immortality Chapter 209 Discussion

The novel starts well, I really felt like it was going to be a fresh take on the cultivation genre about family and building up a strong clan, but the story lets itself down failing to find fresh new ideas to match the type of story it's trying to tell. It falls back on the common wuxia tropes pretty quickly,

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it forgets clan members that were introduced and their designated to character worth one or two sentences to catch up when they were teased to be like his adventure group, He only cares about his immediate family when it's pretty clear the rest of his family care about the clan, and literally the first time he properly leaves the clan on a mission in the early chapters he hasn't been back for over 120 chapters, we only get his thoughts about how something he's found might help them, but then find some other unnecessary reason to continue his adventure. The romance is weird, but it's the typical damsel in distress type of wuxia with a supposed ice princess type vibe that the MC melts.

and the worst part about all of this, is that it could have been a good story if the MC just went back to the clan after the secret realm. At that point he has the OP cultivation technique for himself, and if the writer wanted he could have included techniques for his family in that inheritance. By that point he has all the ingreadients to provide infinite pills for his family to breakthrough the next two major realms and the story could have actually started a clan building arc that would be way more unique than this typical wuxia type thins it's gone down.

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The story also has major issues writing chapter that do a whole lotta nothing, I think we spent like 10 chapters on a flying boat ride were he just goes to the market at every stop. And there's more pacing issues.

For some reason the world is Sexist, I'm pretty sure in the 200 chapters I have read I can count on 1 hand how many female cultivators that have fought, even in the clan, we haven't met a single female elder and not a single member that goes on the demon beast hunting team is female. And when the m encounters bandits, if you're a girl he will probably keep you as a Bonafede s*ave while rationalizing it as some form of mercy in his head because he lets them cultivate still, but chances are if you're a male bandit, he'll torture you, cripple yore cultivation, and still kill you if he feels like it.

anyway this is just a rant at this point, the story can be enjoyed if you just want a typical wuxia story with an extremely lucky protagonist, like 70% of the story is him being lucky, then you might like the story.