Forging The Path To Godliness

Why does this book have 380 top fans supporting it even with such crappy reviews?
Please enlighten me if you know..

I haven’t read it and am not going to after reading the reviews.

MC spent 3 years of his life as an unsuccessful blacksmith. He had done nothing notable aside from that.

Basically, he had been living like a non-entity in those 3 years. There was a girl that was in love with him for no reason, other than her having spent some time with him.

Things only came ‘alive’ after he awakened his cheat; suddenly the girl decided to be intimate with him, suddenly some mook started finding trouble with him, suddenly there were assassins targeting him.

His personality is bland. It was mentioned that he transmigrated, but he did not have the maturity and unique mindset of a person from Earth. His transmigration is probably just a set up for the existence of his cheat, nothing would really change in the plot even if he’s a native.

As for the plot, most of the time he’s forging weapons, and when he’s not forging, he’s fighting, or some characters would bother him...no problem with that, but it would get boring later because the MC has no other feature that could make him attractive to readers, aside from his cheat perhaps.

You can just treat this like a generic xianxia novel, be it the plot pattern or the MC's personality, just in a western setting.

There were better novels as options, they chose 3 from which 2 are good, but this one does not deserve to be translated. It's clear that the author didn't even bother to read about smithing, and really why would he do it when his novel can still be chosen even if it's bad as fk. Nothing is really explained in this novel, the power system is rushed with no explanation on how anything works, the world building ... don t think it has that.

Qidian encourages the style of ,,low quality work(everything works because it works no logic needed) with a lot of filler that is easy to translate but readers get bored fast" over "works where the author took his time to read about the subject he writes about, that for sure it's harder to translate but keeps readers wanting more"

They are practically killing the goose that lies eggs, because they are hungry. Short sighted 100%.

Petition to bring back 60 trial chapters and 40 free to read chapters.

Petition to bring back 60 trial chapters and 40 free to read chapters.

Petition to bring back 60 trial chapters and 40 free to read chapters.

Petition to bring back 60 trial chapters and 40 free to read chapters.

Petition to bring back 60 trial chapters and 40 free to read chapters.

petition to bring back the world of deities.........................................................................................................................

This novel is bad, not because the writing, the grammar or even the world background. The MC is way too OP, but that can be a feature, the system rewards and weapon stats are stupidly simple, mostly because it is a linear increase. The MC has no reason to increase his skill or produce more powerfull weapons. He could literally mass produce the most inferior kind and grow faster than he does in the story.

You might be used to these kinds of errors in web novels and you would be right to argue that a good story can stand above such trivialities. You might even be right.

The problem is, this story has one of the worst character designs I have ever seen, even some harem novels have side characters with better design. I am used to the usual Goddess with amazing talent, skill, wealth etc. falling in love with the seemingly useless trash MC. It is badly done here, but alright. The catastrophe starts with the fact that the MC sleeps with her, fights the major forces of his hometown for her, risks himself and his masters/adoptive fathers smithy, supports her clan and then decides to leave her behind. It is not like he is in danger, needs something to grow stronger or a friend or family member is in danger. He just doesn't seem to care anymore, he literally wasted 3 years trying to forge, but after his first success at making a 3 tier weapon he loses interest. His love, his masters legacy , the war inside the city just do not matter anymore. It is not like he is a pervert, scumbag or an evil character. He is just flat. The author decided the MC needed to change character and wasn't interested in making up a reason.
The other characters are also flat and inconsequential, so it is not like there is anything to look forward to.

2nd of 5 new novels that is trash.