The main character is basically worthless. Just follows around random women. Has no backbone. Story starts of well. MC has decent goals. The bam nothing but a Simp.
I love the story and the adventure it is telling. I wish the updates were more regular. People no longer can rely on the updates and when they are supposed to come. There have been no notice of why the updates are not coming.
The dialogue in this section is one of its strongest assets, and I want to highlight how each character's voice is distinct. Xu Yifan's dialogue is lazy, sharp, and deliberately provocative. When he says, 'Don't even know your own damn father's name, and you'll go on chattering for half a day, kind of unprofessional, don't you think?' that is not just an insult; that is a complete personality reveal in one sentence. He is mocking Gu Qingyun's entire posture of superiority. And the way he delivers it—'Xu Yifan said' with no additional action tag, just the words landing like a blade—is perfect. Gu Qingyun's dialogue, by contrast, is polished and performative. 'May I ask how to address you, Junior Martial Brother?' He is always performing gentleness, always maintaining the mask of the jade-like gentleman. Even when his face darkens, he suppresses his anger and says, 'Please don't take it to heart, Junior Martial Brother.' The dialogue here tells us everything about his character: he is used to getting his way, used to people deferring to him, and deeply unsettled when someone refuses to play along. The gossiping disciples have their own collective voice too. 'With only three spiritual roots, he's not even fit to carry your shoes, Senior Martial Brother.' That is the voice of sycophants, people who measure worth in cultivation levels and spiritual root quality. And then there is the Sixth Elder and Seventh Elder's banter, which is pure comedy gold. 'Well, he really is chubby.' 'You're chubby too! Do you enjoy it when people call you fat?' This dialogue does double duty: it entertains, but it also humanizes two characters who could have been generic elder archetypes. The narrative voice itself is also worth discussing. It is third-person limited, mostly following Xu Yifan's perspective, but it occasionally dips into other characters' thoughts, like when we get Xian Qinglin's internal self-mockery. The tone shifts between comedic, romantic, and dramatic without ever feeling inconsistent because the narrative voice adapts to match each scene's emotional register.
Is this novel going to be like the strongest system?I am guessing this will be a good read based on other system based novels I have read. How many chapters does the raws have right now? I will make another review once I have actually read the novel
reincarnated into his young self: checkwas super cultivator in past life: checkhas super cultivation technique that his past self didnt practice: checkis poor: checkhas grievances in past life: checkhas saved super rich grampa/girl/kid with his awesome medical skills: checkhas saved kidnapped girl: checkracism/nationalism: checkstopped reading: checkoverall so full of cliches that i was going to give it 2. until they started with korean character that goes like: taekwando best, china martial arts crap. if there is something i detest more than lazy cliche writing, it is racism/nationalism inside chinese novels. it is done so badly and one dimensionally that it just portrays authors indoctrinated hatred towards certain nationalities without any validity.
Awesome novel. It's worth reading. I want more!!!.....................................................................................................
A heads-up before my review, I only read a fair amount of the translation. Most of it was in the raws. The reason for my low score is due to quality drop in the untranslated portion. An important note is that the translator is splitting up chapters, as seems to be common on WebNovel nowadays. So expect the chapter count of anything I mention to be at least double in the translation. The story starts off fairly slow and uncreative. However, as more characters are introduced, and they start new simulations, the story improves a lot. It's fairly interesting to see how the characters change the timeline, as well as how their actions influence each other.There is a downside to this though, as the author likes to repeat a lot of the things that happened on previous attempts. It's obviously just padding/filler. He also drags on when talking about the rewards characters get for completing the simulations.At this point, I'd still give the novel a good ol' 4 stars (which is a good score).Unfortunately, after around 210 chapters (raw), the author suddenly had what appears to be writer's block. For a while, I thought he dropped the novel entirely, but he just released chapters sparsely. It would have been better if he went on hiatus.I got to a little over 240 chapters before giving up. It was over 30 (non-split up) chapters of tens of thousands of year time skips in the simulation with no explanations of any story events going on, rewards are exaggerated, presented in a troll-like way, and outright skipped, and basically everything in the real world is people being amazed at the various characters group.This isn't an exaggeration like people like to do about cultivation novels. This is LITERALLY ALL that happens during those 30 chapters. Absolutely nothing about the simulation world is explained in that time, just literally "several thousand years later, she broke through. Several thousand more years later, she was surrounded and killed". No names are even mentioned in the simulation aside from their real names. Rewards say things like, "an insane, insane, insane amount of spirit stones. Amounts beyond all belief. Amounts that would make an entire city of people satisfied for generations. A city, do you know just how much that is!?" In the real world, nobody past Nascent Soul has been seen or heard of, so once everyone reaches those levels, along with their rewards, there is no threat. The author doesn't bother to introduce any either, so nobody dares to do anything aside from marvel at their growth.Even worse, it doesn't seem like this would change anytime soon. It deserves absolutely only 1 star at that point. So giving this story 3.0 for a good first arc seems more than fair. Maybe even a little generous for people who prefer ratings to represent the entire novel.
a wonderful new idea executed in a uniqie way that as long as it is not dropped lools to be on the way to becoming even better than it has been so far
It starts off well, but decays at a dizzying pace. Bad end arc, no conclusion of the romance that hinted, lost the initial goal of resurrecting the parents, only to be resurrected later in the last chapter without preparation or anything, he had great xenophobic tendencies, besides that in the middle of the story because he had many ''pets'' and they ended up having poor development in some cases, plus some if you take away from the story it literally doesn't change anything.
There's this one image that won't leave me—the bright red blooming in the clear stream water, washing away and repeating over and over. Xie Chenzhou's hands are covered in blood from killing that demonic beast, and he's just staring at his own reflection while the red keeps dispersing. It's such a simple moment but it feels loaded with meaning. Blood as guilt, as violence, as something that stains and yet keeps flowing away. And then Sang Nian is doing the same thing to herself, frantically scrubbing her face like she needs to peel off the layer of skin that touched the gore. The water motif continues throughout—she falls into the stream, he pulls her out only to drop her back in, and then the octopus demon literally emerges FROM the water. Water as purification, water as danger, water as the space where these two characters are forced to confront each other. There's something almost biblical about the washing imagery, except it's completely undercut by the fact that the octopus demon appears right after and starts talking about joining them in the water. I also can't ignore the blood-red cheeks when Sang Nian is scrubbing her face. She's literally marking herself with the same color as the violence they've just witnessed. And then she wipes HIS hands clean with her brocade handkerchief. The transfer of contamination, the intimacy of care between two people who should probably be enemies—there's so much happening beneath the surface of these seemingly simple actions. The novel keeps layering these symbolic moments into what could easily be just a comedic adventure story.
Come on. Science is not this cult of crazy ancestors. Even if you bring back the original authors, that doesn't make them good teachers. In fact, science largely arises from criticism of the original authors and the worst, most of the time, the absence of modern tools and the absence of processing hid better scientists than those cited. At best, magic should invoke "Teachers" and they would be given the names the author prefers. Didactics alone is a bigger challenge than most people suppose, Qidian is the biggest example of this, if everyone learned Chinese easily what the need for translators is. And worse if it is so easy to learn how to write about something, why thousands reading other people's books without publishing anything decent?
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