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Reading CSG is absolutely exhausting. Brief flashes of entertainment are overshadowed by absolutely ret*rded story, insufferable characters, and cripplingly terrible cultivation system. What little it had going for itself with the world building had collapsed in the past 200 or so chapters, and I'm not going to suffer through another 1000 chapters for MC to ascend to the 'bigger, badder world' just to see whether there's anything interesting there.I've been reading CSG for about two years now, and I had to take a break often. And I mean OFTEN. After roughly skimming through 100 chapters, I'd often find myself utterly exhausted and unable to proceed any further. Whether it's MC's absolutely placid, wooden character that's about as interesting as a wooden desk, or dick-suckage present by both the author and majority of side characters, or whether it's the nonsensical story, I always found myself unable to ignore it. What's more, the cultivation system is an absolute mess. You'll often find yourself forgetting just at what realm the MC is because the author will mainly focus on his strength rather than his actual realm. It doesn't help that, as with pretty much every xianxia, differences between realms range from mild to non-existent. And it just gets worse the further along you read.As I'm too tired to think back through the whole story and pull out forgettable events, characters and plotlines, allow me to construct a scene that perfectly sums up CSG.They are truly strong; even if I was ten times stronger, I would be unable to contend against them. But they look down on me! How dare they?! Let's ignore the difference in strength and challenge their authority, thereby endangering people I supposedly care for! It's a brilliant idea! "MC, come out to die!!" bellowed Villain McForgettable1 angrily. How truly angry he was! After all, MC sneered at him! How dare he!"I won't die! You will die!" MC angrily shouted; he was truly enraged. You'd be hard-pressed to understand why, but he truly was. His face is all wicked. He wants to kill Villain McForgettable1!**MC proceeds to kill Villain McForgettable1**Why are they chasing me and attacking me?! I merely stepped over their dignity, challenged their authority, and killed their people! How dare they?! Humph, let me escape from the entire continent for about a decade, that will show them!! **MC parents proceed to die**No! How could this happen?! It's not as though I insulted half the f*cking world during my travels!! Scum, I'll kill them all!! Oh, what's this? There's a way to revive the dead?! Brilliant! Let me delay that as much as possible, that will show them! Humph, once I get stronger, I will kill them all! How dare they do what I've been doing for the past 800 chapters?!! **MC proceeds to disappear for a long while; just as his friends are about to suffer the reciprocation of his vanity, deus-ex-machinas show up to solve that shit**What?! They dared attack my friends?! Just because I killed their people doesn't give them a right to attack people close to me!! How dare they?! Humph, let's see how they fight against me while I show off this deus-ex-machina item of mine that I obtained through absolutely fair means and not through sheer, impossible luck! Humph, I can look down at the whole continent! Eh? What's that? They have a way to break through my super-duper item?! Uncle McStrong1, save me!! What?! People from another world are invading?! The only way to prevent it is to increase the overall strength of cultivators?! The only way to do that is to refine a weird stone? And I have to increase my strength to do it?! Eh, f*ck that, let me deal with petty grievances first. Saving the world? Pfft. I've got a kill Villain McForgettable853, otherwise I can never sleep in peace!
