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It. Waxes. Poetic. A LOT.It may seem like an unfair gripe, but tension-filled scenes are diffused REALLY quick once you're in them because the author goes all out on describing just how cool and unwavering and inhuman MC is instead of letting the action flow. Like sure, all taoists and cultivators in novels are like that, inhumanly beautiful and capable of superhuman feats of strength, but it's shown not told. Imagine this, from Chapter 54, Part 1:Spoiler
MC is fighting the false Mountain God and he's standing on the statue's head, right? And the weapon the false god is using is a spear, and he needs to dodge it. It takes THREE, THREE paragraphs of the author describing just how cool he is instead of building and releasing tension so the readers can feel the burn of the scene when he dodges the spear.
[collapse]Like, I don't expect much, but damn. Not even most BL and BG novels I've read waxes poetic so many times about how cool the MC is, so much that it saps the tension from scenes that should be tense. Even the way his clothes flutter is noted. You see what I mean?The plot is good; especially the shonen-ish horror concepts. All unique. I haven't gotten through most of it, but the celeb cast is pretty good; An Nanyuan and Bai Shuang are pretty well-rounded for side characters. The translation is ALSO top-notch save for the occasional incantations that remain untranslated and that I have to skip because I recall my Eighth Grade Syndrome Days reading it lololol!As of now, the romance between MC and ML also feel awkward. MC is very visibly prickly and does not like people that much: hopes he grows out of it, like Gu Zhisang from another Supernatural-Showbiz novel. That is a cool and collected taoist done right. The Defrosting Ice Queen trope as she grows to experience human interactions is very sweet. Hope that also happens to Yan Shixun!
