A great novel with good focus on the MC and good character building. Great paced with very little filler, although the're a few chapter released, the world building is amazing. it's one of the better cultivation stories I've read.
I warmly recommend this novel. It is very refreshing and original. Translation Quality: Overall, I have been satisfied by the language quality. English is fine. However, assessing this particular aspect is always hard since I don't understand Chinese and i'm not a professional translator (Translation is a very peculiar exercice and requires dedication). English is not my mother tongue either. Update Stability: The team has usually kept the daily schedule. Moreover, the author has not published much more chapters so there is no point in expecting a quicker pace for the updates. Story development: The novel is one of a kind on this website. By any means, it is a Xanxia novel. Yet, the writer gives a mysterious, otherworldly mood to his story and to the characters. For once, we feel that pursuing immortality is a journey for the protagonist, that he becomes something different than the "common folk" ("similar" to the Selbstüberwindung from Nietzche perhaps). Character Design: Very satisfied. The focus is on Jing Jiu but the other characters are given enough attention to feel real. Relationships and backgrounds are rich. World Building: The world feels coherent and real: a well done typical Xanxia (Martial Sects, etc.) with a complex background, which is being developed along the story (Nothing has been dumped violently). Furthermore, the story has not fallen in this unpleasant cliché: this continent is a small backward island, there are skies beyond skies, etc.
What's the point of building up the MC's low profile personality if you're just gonna have him expose himself in the first 40 chapters!! Completely ruined the book for me!!
Read till Ch520. Sacred Ruins just gets better with every passing chapter. Chu Feng has to be the most shameless and most likable protagonist ever. He does face-smacking like no one ever does. Here is one paragraph to describe him (from the novel) :"Before he use to sell Divine Son, hunted for Saintess, and sell deity meat. Now he does the looting but also collect the protection money. This fellow is simply a feudal bully, bandit and underworld gang chief, really... Rotten to the core, is top villain, big hoodlum!”
From chapter 111 onward translation was not good.
Ok, I had previously posted a review but it got deleted by mistake,so I'll just post it again.So,this story has a unique idea of a villian fighting against the heroes or the protagonist.Although it is not that unique since there are plenty of villian protagonist novels out there but a villian protagonist obviously recieves a lot of backlash since he is both a villian and a protagonist, it's like joining two sides of the coin together.even if the protagonist enemies dies in a fair fight that would still be considered a plot hole since the enemy doesn't behaves like a hero so it is really difficult to write a satisfying story with it,however this novel mc nails it.The story has a MC one can somewhat relate to,he is not stupid but not an All knowing God either.He can only operate within his own scope of knowledge.Coming from the future gives him an advantage but his opponents weren't nearly stupid enough to tell him all their past plan's details.So he has to struggle through it.He makes mistakes and is not perfect,he sometimes acts stupidly but also tries to learn from it.Secondly,the characters are all given thought into.All characters whether it be the MC,his enemies, or mobs they all have their own motivations, stories and schemes laid out.In the early chapters,the web of schemes gives the feeling that the MC who is surrounded by the web of schemes and enemies he cannot get out of even with his background and that our Mc and his background is both useless.It quite honestly frustrates you so much that you start cursing the author and even consider dropping this but when the Mc succeeds you feel the joy multiplied by that much too,so it has it's ups and downs.World building-I will not say much about this .Again world building Is given proper thought as well.Both the future from the Mc and even facts about history is well written and they are in one way or another relevant to the story or affects the story.Update stability- The updates are frequent and regular,you normally wouldn't have to worry about when it is going to be updated,there are times when there are 4ch/day. it really speaks volumes of how hard the author works on it.But the number of updated chapters are really inconsistent it can be 1,2,3 or 4 chaps/day No one knows.It is 2chaps/day nowadays.I understand that author has his own life too but I am not really too happy about it, so a point minus for that.Overall writing style - the writing style is fluid and it Is difficult to find out plot holes though that maybe because author does not provides any heads or tails of stuff.the reader have to do it themselves.Basically based on volume 1 the story unfolds in various stages, different elements and characters are introduced to make the story more intriguing and unpredictable.Until the author says it himself.I am positive no one can predict the flow of the story,though a lucky guess is still possible,until now at least.Grammar- Let's just say this.I do not really care for grammar.As long as the basic grammar conditions like the comas,space between lines and words and the sentences make sense.I do not really care for thinks like the positioning of words and stuff.So my sense for perfect grammar might be different than others.Though in this story you probably not face such a problem.At least I did not so that's that.Overall it's a great story with well written characters, thought out world building,frequent updates and a fluid writing styles.Ask for more and you simply want a beating.I am not really a person to write a review for a novel but I am writing for this one in hopes that more people would see this and support this novel and perhaps the author would not drop this or mess this up.Its been a long time since I surfed through the internet and find a novel with such great potential.
please translate this novel 我为道祖，开创仙道！
This novel is... something else entirely. My main issue is that the author contradicts themselves continuously through the novel. The biggest example is the world. The author talks up this world where everyone is a 100x more intelligent than they are today, technology is very very advanced, and the MC is extra hard working (making him smarter than the average person). However, it's like everyone lacks common sense, especially the MC! He can remember obscure facts that he read in a book years ago, but it takes ~150 chapters and an advanced level teacher for him to think "wow maybe my skill can be used in ways that aren't described in a textbook." He is genuinely mind blown that he can use his modeling ability for things other than modeling buildings. Wtf.Also this sentence appears over and over again: "This is the age of origin ability!" I'm still reading because I hate myself, but if you're looking for a story that actually makes sense, this isn't the one you want.
The beginning was amazing. I am curious to know more about Austin and his past story about his ex-wife. Ryan and Anna are so cute. hope to see, Austin and Jenny romance soon.
why I can't open ..
And I request to the dear author to bring up the next chapter soon. Patiently waiting
Kept me gripped until the end although I twigged who the traitor was. Well worth reading