This review is after reading the first 50 chapters during the trial period. All I can say is - this novel is extremely boring.
First off, let me state that I'm not a big fan of Sign In novels. I've always found them to be a really boring type of system, copied from some of the worst free-to-play games. However, I went into this novel with an open mind, willing to give it a chance.
The main problem with this novel isn't the Sign In system, but just that it's so incredibly boring. It's written more like a documentary about the life of an immortal, rather than a story of the events around the hero.
The author has no sense of how to create tension or suspense in any scene. The MC is an almost emotionless doll that never reacts to anything around him, he's always lost in his own world. Even on the rare occasions that he gets into a fight, he has an utterly deadpan personality, and it feels like I'm seeing the author write about a walking piece of tofu rather than a human being. The fight scenes aren't completely worthless, as the MC uses a silly fighting style similar to One Punch Man, where he kills everything with a single punch, but even that just feels boring because there's no strategy to the fights. The fights get over before they've even begun, and most of the time the MC doesn't even know why the fight happened in the first place, because he's such a boring blob of tofu that he doesn't care to find out.
Another serious problem with this novel is how it tries to badly ramp up the drama through scenes where the MC does an "amazing" task in front of other disciples of his sect. The problem is that the author has no idea what's actually impressive to look at through the eyes of a reader. For example, he spends several chapters talking about how "the MC dared to take one more step" in order to obtain treasures or walk on a lake, all while a crowd of background characters keeps shouting out how absolutely amazing it is that the MC can keep taking that step. It feels very artificial and forced, to the point that I want to puke just thinking about it.
On the positive side, because the MC is so utterly bland, some of the side characters appear more relatable. There's a female character, a senior sister, who's actually wiling to listen to the MC's advice and words, and there's a senior brother who takes him seriously and accepts him as a rival on the path of cultivation. The problem is just that they're still incredibly shallow, up to the point I've seen. Rather than have independent personalities of their own, they feel like they were specially constructed characters created just to make the MC look better.
The story tries to show us that even for a genius MC, it still takes hundreds of years to walk down the path of immortal cuktivation. While that's a nice mindset to have, the problem is when there's nothing at all happening during all those hundreds of years.
TL DR : It's a boring story about an unexpressive MC doing nothing but cultivating for hundreds of years.
You can tell the author put in effort and time with how the interactions between side characters, There not boring and they do build upon getting an idea on the depth of who each character is. This is one of the main points I've noticed with this novel so far that I think was done quite well. Now this isn't a problem but more of personal preference and that just has to do with me not liking the childish mentality of the main character. Never been of fan of it being used as a personality type used for adult main characters, but it is what it is who the characters are is the authors choice. Two important things I think the author can do to increase the popularity of his novel is increase the rate in which chapters are uploaded and include tags for the novel. Majority of the novels I read I've found through going through certain tags so having this novel not being able to be found under any of them probably isn't helping.
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This book is unique in its right. What I admire the most is the eccentric writing which I noticed since its in stark contrast to mine.
Writing Quality: Its great. I find myself able to follow the story and even the more specialised terminology well because its presented quite well.
Character Design: I sorta feel that it's lacking a bit, not in the sense of development but purely design. I'm heavily biased towards visualising my characters and I feel like I don't get enough of that.
Story Development: it kinda stunted for him in some of the chapters, but then went back to a great flow. Overall its good.
World Background: As far as I've read is great and keeps building up with the mechanics as well.
Overall great story that I recommend to readers.
WHY WASN'T THIS BOOK CHOSEN?! PLEASE UPDATE THE THIS BOOK AND CONTINUE TRANSLATING IT!! IT IS SUPER GOOD! (ノ｀Д´)ノ彡┻━┻ f••k. I'm so angry. D:
was pretty good at the beginning then went downhill, the MC became stupidly arrogant, there were a lot of plot holes and the translator cut out some parts.
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i like authors who can spell
i like authors who have a general grasp of the english language
i like authors who arent mentally challenged
what a great author
3/3
It's a pretty interesting novel with a concept that i recently saw in Slime Anime. The mc's character seems subpar but I am willing to give it a chance.
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A very cool world with a very unique background. The language is solid and easy to read. All in all a good story in my opinion. Keep up the good work.