Cultivating Disciples to Breakthrough - Reviews

Interesting concept, with a mediocre execution.
The core concept of a master that has to pick and raise his disciples is fairly good. Nothing too original, but fun nonetheless.

The excessive exposition and focus on banality make this novel hard to read though. So while the core concept remains fairly is interesting and fun, you'll have to keep skimming and skipping through the text to get to the actually interesting bits.

Characters also aren't very interesting. As said above, the story is told mostly through introspection and exposition. Leaving very little room for actually interesting character interactions. There are some good/fun this here and there, but there is just too little of it. Characters all remain very flat and interactions often times don't feel quite natural.

I wouldn't recommend reading this, unless you really love stories with a lot of exposition, a very slow pace and with excessive amounts of detail. If you're into that, go for it. Otherwise skip this one.

Pro's
You can see the writing quality improving as the story continues
MC can cultivate outside of the system

Con's
I noticed many inconsistencies in the story
The story is in desperate need of more world development
The system is an almost a non-existent part of the story
Certain story points that are added for plot are illogical
Qing Yi is a bully and seems completely ungrateful to her master

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The story had great potential yet delivered an average story, however the writing has shown vast improvements as the story progresses. I still don't completely understand the reasoning behind Qing Yi having a complete personality change into the most annoying and hated character (by readers) in the story, but it is too late to change after the fact. Hopefully, she jumps ship to the other alchemist, as it would be congruent with her current personality. Overall, I look forward to the next story by the Author, as with their rate of improvement, it will likely be an exceptional work.

To be honest I like the story background but the inner writing I don't like it. Reading the first volume I think that the first disciple has no respect and gratitude for MC as her master, it's more like a casual respect not like a nascent soul stage cultivator master should have.

I want to complain because to many
"Think about it later"
"Forget it"
"Shouldn't think bout it now"
"Well,whatever"
moment in the story.
Author should get ADHD treatment

I am very sure because this novel was written in 2021 on webnovel and only has 1041 chapters, while another novel written in 2020 has 1346 raw chapters published by faloo dan and only 312 chapters have been translated by fwo group.

Are all disciples women? Need to know if men will also be included.
Edit:
Nevermind, I took a peek at one of the latest and it said 2nd and 3rd are males.
Yay, it not one of those that only took girls that will fall inlove to their master.

heyo crazy cronie here,
review on 01/09/2021 @chap 211
(released chap till date: 219)

review divided in:
Short review
Long review with ratings
CC rants.
Conclusion


SHORT REVIEW:
A slow paced SOLish where mc accepts disciples with some action & comedy.


LONG REVIEW:
writing: 9/10
Lil typo mistakes but not to the point where it hinders your reading experience... at least I didn't have any prob.


update: 10+2/10
Yeah, deserves more than the max rating... For me 7 ch/week is must for full rating for any original novels and this one releases more than 7


plot: 7/10
^ Don't get me wrong for the low ratings... There is nothing wrong with the story... The world is being slowly introduced to us which is something I really enjoy
^ the story is well connected and till now there is no plothole (nothing caught my eyes atleast.)

^ But the low rating of this section is because author-chan it seems you forgot the title~
I mean *spoiler*



it has been almost 150 chaps he din get any Disciple.



*spoiler end*
^ the system hasn't been really explained... Tho it might be done in the future.. for now i dont have any idea
I mean till now I thought it's only related to disciples but suddenly we get different side missions *spoiler*



about finding the core of the secret realm and then a survival quest.



*spoiler end* ...


characters: 8.5/10
Nothing bad... Most characters have their own quirk, but still characters could have been given a little more depth. Till now tho it's good.


pacing: 9/10
^ This is a slow paced novel. And it's really enjoyable reading this...
^ -1 maybe because i feel a little increase in pace would do good? Just my opinion


dialogues: 9.5/10
Author did a good job here. People conversing here is one of the things most likeable about this novel.


entertainment: 9/10
Welp this is a biased rating since it totally depends upon how much I enjoyed...


Overall: 4.5/5



CC rants:-
^ Well, first of all I should correct my previous review. This isn't similar to History's no. 1 founder in anyway..... This one leans more towards SOL compared to HN1F which is action packed.
^ Secondly this is for ya author-chan~
It's high time we have a disciple xD...
^ Also high time MC breakthrough next realm....
^ This is for the readers... MC is little intelligent compared to other novels so you won't get irritated by his dumbness..
^ And well... nothing else keep updating

I like the story, but the action is too slow. A typical case is a one-day test in the novel, but the author describes it in more than 40 chapters. Slow character development, unnecessary reflection and repetition.

I enjoyed the novel...                                                                                                                       .

After 550 chapters:There are some unrealistic scenarios and a little too much stories with not Mc's POV, but overall u would enjoy reading this novel

This is one of the few novels i still read, i like it because MC doesn't become OP within a 10-50 chapters. Yes it's slow paced and has few fillers in it (slice of life) but main thing for me is his golden finger isn't doing everything and at current chapter isn't used as plot armor.

Man it's just too slow story+the updates.