Cosmic Professional Gladiator - Reviews

left this comment on the final chapter but thought i should leave it here as well, overall was quite fun and an interesting take on cultivation, i still enjoyed the earlier sections especially since I enjoy IET novels in general, but I found myself not really caring towards the end, the length of the time skips was getting out of hand and I wasn't finding myself connected to the characters as much anymore, overall definitely not among IET's better works, but i would consider this an experiment and hopes it'll give him opportunities to write better novels in the future. Can only hope his next will be more like Desolate Era or Lord Xue Ying ;-;

How do you keep doing this...?

Like I went back to check and you were on chapter 362 12 days ago, how did you finish the book 10 days ago?

Coming to the end, iet chapters get longer, so how did you read hundreds of chapters in 2 days?

It was the same d*mn thing in desolate era too... Am I just a slow reader?

His reading is slow 2 I finished 1611 chapters of I shall seal the heavens in 4 days

The secret is like for instance there is 2 long paragraphs of fillers fast read it in like 2 seconds if it’s important if not just skip it

For my part, I usually dedicate a minimum of 6 hours a day to reading and on my free days I can extend reading to 14 or 15 hours. I also take advantage of every free moment and read some chapters.

I don't usually skip chapters, I just really enjoy reading and I don't have anything I'd rather do over it.

What?! It's a real "Story" and it's even by I Eat Tomatoes. Finally, webnovel has finally posted a story that's not system isekai...............

Finally, the new novel from I Eat Tomatos is coming to webnovel. I'm looking forward to this masterpiece.

It has been a loooooooong while since we‘ve actually had a quality book in trial read that isn’t just a copy of others. In other words, this is good and you should read it.

Standard IET stuff. Honestly all his books are the same and reading one means you read them all. I see no difference between Ji Ning, Qin Yu, Xu Jingming, etc are all literally the same character. But thats fine, people who are reading IET for the first time will get something that isnt straight garbage but I have a big problem with this particular novel.

I can *feel* the nationalism when I read this. IET wasnt making it subtle whatsoever here. China #1 can be felt throughout my first 100 or so chapters, lemme explain. So the entire world is given VR technology and when they go online they can practice martial arts. After a while a ranking ranking is made with the strongest at the top and guess which nationality 2 of the top 3 are? Thats right folks, its granddaddy China with the other from Botswana. It just seems like China is naturally more talented than every other country by a wide margin. Lets not even get into the comments from the live streaming in VR, its constantly about oh man, these expert martial artists from [other country] are strong, but China is still better.

I think the funniest example is in chapter 148 when the strongest from Korea is made out to be an arrogant mf who is going around challenging the top 3 just to get more views on his live stream.

I feel like IET's recent novels have lost the magic from Desolate Era, Swallowed Star, COILING DRAGON, Stellar Transformation, etc
and part of that is the nationalism here, while in the other recent novels its been a lot more logical. In his earlier works the MC got super lucky at the start and then had to muddle through the entire universe just to be the best and in recent time the MCs dont get lucky, they were just naturally talented and got some benefits here and there that make sense. My problem is that making sense doesnt carry the same *brilliance* of a moment like in Desolate Era where Ji Ning gets the inheritance and starts his journey or when Lou Feng died fighting the Gold Dragon.

The writing is pretty solid, but the story is absurdly boring, it's really bizarre that an author of this category would write such a dull story.
I will give 1 star to balance the 5 stars the fanboys are giving

Honestly, between the inaacuracies in the way certain weapons are used in real life and the book, along with IET pretty boring tournament arc history, this book really is not that engaging.

For example, everything so far and implied for the future by the title is going to be combat tournament arcs. No offense but tournament arcs are usually the worst part of any light novel. Authors seem to stick to the formula and i cannot imagine why an author like IET would limit themselves to a story like that, especially when they describe thw characters using weapons in ways that the weapons are not used.
The best example is the Halberd scene where IET describes the warrior stabbing with the point and swinging with the bladed end. This is not how Halberds are used. Its like saying someone shooting a handgun is supposed to hold it sideways like a gangster its inproper and inaccurate.

Halberds are held with two hands and the staff end is used to parry and prod until an opening is made where the combatant can bring the axe/hammer end down.
Put it quite simply the book doesn’t seem all that intresting 42 chapters in so im dropping

This is a 2 and a 1/2 star book but I have to give two 5 stars for update stability and translation quality so tale the score as you will.

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