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Perfect World
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5 | 47% (358 votes) |
4 | 15% (116 votes) |
3 | 13% (98 votes) |
2 | 10% (76 votes) |
1 | 14% (105 votes) |
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All Time Rank: #122
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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.Born into a unique world where villages fight to gain power and control, the main character, Shi Hao, is a genius blessed by the heavens born under the poorest of conditions. His clan, however, has a mysterious past. To rise up and become the genius he is meant to be, the clan goes through every effort to aid his cultivation as they battle through fanatical monsters and engage in power struggles with other clans. His journey will bring him through unknown lands until he is able to become a person that can truly shake the world.
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Thế Giới Hoàn Mỹ
Wanmei Shijie
Wan Mei Shi Jie
Wánměi Shìjiè
完美世界
Thế Giới Hoàn Mỹ
Wanmei Shijie
Wan Mei Shi Jie
Wánměi Shìjiè
完美世界
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So basically this story takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where the celestials had mostly died to demon lord’s invasion. The MC is trying to become strong so that he can change the future and the past. There are romances in this story, and several love interests later on, though the romance is pretty fast? yet kinda slow. And that’s the gist of the plot.
The reason why I like this WN:
1. The MC
The MC is an extremely brutal guy, in chapter 460 of the raws he fought against this beautiful maiden who is one of the MC’s rival. And guess what? He captured her using brute force and force her to be his......... Nah I’m not gonna spoil it for you guys. Some ppl just complain about the personality change, but well, since when was he a great guy? He was always bullying animals since young, when he was less than 10 he bashed up an entire group of villagers from a rival village. Was there a personality change? You can’t expect a kind personality from someone who grew up in a barbaric village can’t you?
2. The Plot
As the story goes on you will find that everything is not what it seems, there is a bigger plot behind of a big plot. The author reveals the big plot slowly so that readers can continuously speculate, starting from the reasons behind willow’s god appearance. 1000+ chapters down almost half mysteries still remain unsolved, in fact, there are more mysteries appearing as the story continues. This series is a plot driven novel rather than a character driven novel.
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- Loose endings are wrapped up fairly well. Practically every item or event that the MC comes into contact with that is shelved for a later date for whatever reason (inaccessibility, MC isn't strong enough etc.) ends up having a purpose and comes into play eventually. This is one thing I definitely appreciated, as many novels of this scale don't do this very well (looking at you, World of Cultivation).
- Although there is repetition within a chapter in the form of saying the same idea a few different ways, the chapters overall aren't repetitive across each other and I didn't really notice any fillers. There is a clear and constant progression throughout the novel and the author doesn't endlessly repeat content from the past just to meet chapter quotas
Bad points (there are unfortunately a lot) :Very far into the book, but an example is Yun Xi who he has a kid with. Initially, he takes hundreds to thousands of years between visiting, with nothing ever happening besides a conversation or two
The same thing is true with Qing Yi and Huo Ling'er. Technically speaking, he married all three of these girls but the amount of interaction he has with them becomes increasingly little, and there is effectively no romance between them.
So much of the book takes place within about a 20-30 year span, plenty of relationships built up etc., and this is a fairly normal amount of time from the standpoint of the human psyche. I can never understand how later on, large time periods can be considered normal and people can literally maintain the same level of emotions, picking up conversations where they previously left off after tens to hundreds of thousands of years. Or 1.6 million years in some cases. Also the loneliness aspect. I can understand the idea of cultivating for that amount of time as you can lose track of everything when you're lost in your own world thinking about something, but sometimes the MC will travel for tens of thousands of years which means he's consciously paying attention to his surroundings and is aware of the passage of time. Seems utterly ridiculous.
About halfway through the book, when the MC is traveling on some path to the nine heavens to enter another academy, the MC manages to somehow go back in time to an ancient city, meeting a bunch of cultivators there. This is the only instance where every single person he meets is polite and respectful and he builds bonds with everyone immediately. Of course, all of these people already died in the past, so it doesn't really end up mattering.
One example that endlessly annoyed me was the part where Huang is traded to the foreign side. He's in a city full of soldiers and other supreme beings, yet no one is capable of standing up for him? What happened to Ye Qingxi in this scenario? Where were the elders of the other two academies? There were a ton of elders that popped up in the final fight of that arc, but where were they?
In the 3000 provinces battle, Qin Hao is there with the MC near the later battles but despite Shi Hao slaughtering everyone from the Qin clan, he isn't mentioned. There are many instances of him specifically being ignored when he is actually crucial as the MC should be actively protecting him in this scenes
During the immortal realm battle within the 3000 provinces, where Shi Hao enters with all the other geniuses that were awakened, his identity is eventually revealed, and after slaughtering many of the hostile clans' descendants, not a single one of them take action by holding his parents hostage, even though they are right besides those clans' elders and ancestors.
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- So much useless conversation. There are two types of scenarios that bother me, which we often see. The first is where some event happens, and we suddenly will hear 10 random bystanders comment about it, saying the exact same thing 10 different ways. The second is where the MC gets into a verbal sparring match because he is either being suppressed by someone stronger or the opposite, usually once the tables have turned. In this latter case, which we'll see countless times throughout the novel, the conversation plays out almost identically, with one side talking about strength, or righteousness, or how one shouldn't bully the other, or talking about face. It's the same f*cking repetitive drivel every time, which you will also eventually learn to skim read past.
- Missed opportunities with reactions. This one is fairly minor, but I think that one of the biggest bits of fun that comes with a weak to strong genre is the peanut gallery reactions of the audience. I like to see how the people closest to the MC feel e.g. Are they dumbfounded, scared, happy etc when the MC does something big. The author tends to take moments like this in two directions: (1) Too many unimportant people will react and they all say the same thing (see the previous con) or (2) no one reacts and a heart-clenching moment is glossed over.
I mainly like to see the reactions of people closest as it shows the emotional connection between characters, especially romantic interests. They're pretty much always sidelined and end up having no screentime.
- Novel encourages skim reading and pattern recognition. Although I love me a good fight scene, I like it to be well thought out and succinct. Most cultivation novels waste words on arbitrary back and forth battles with flowery descriptions of techniques that add literally nothing to the battle. No one cares when a certain move produces a phoenix that spreads its wings and starts plowing the heavens while lotuses bloom with some profound Dao resonation that forms a path underneath the MC, especially when the move ultimately accomplishes nothing and the battle keeps continuing for a hundred more exchanges. I eventually skim these and look for commonly occurring standard CN phrases which let me know how the battle is actually going:
- X's eyes were cold and expression calm -> everything is under control, ignore anything talking about how strong the other side is
- En? X said in surprise -> Something unexpected happened, but it's likely not a game changer
- X's expression changed -> similar to above, but a bit more concerning
- X's pupil's constrict/expression pales/loses blood from some orifice -> X is in trouble
- X's expression was ugly -> time for X to pull out a trump card or GTFO
Overall, I somewhat enjoyed the journey. It was a bit refreshing to see the melancholy and the vicissitudes of time that the MC experiences, but I really wish there was some proper romance to make this a bit more realistic. The repetition, hyperbole, useless bystanders, constant ret*rded enemies, were all incredibly annoying, but I will admit the plot itself was quite decent, and the ending paves itself for the sequel, which I may or may not read if it ever gets translated. The author definitely could improve his writing quality, but I think his ability to write a story (plot, foreshadowing elements, wrapped endings) isn't bad. Although I'd give this novel a 3.5, I still enjoyed it, but you definitely have to shut off your brain for large parts of it.I would put it on the same level as ISSTH and Deolate Era, those 3 novels are best of the best for me till now. I've read fine number of novels, every work by IET, 4 or 5 from Tang Jia San Shao, Battle through the Heavens, Wu dong qian kun, Warlock of the magus world, Transcending the Nine heavens, Limitless Sword god, Spirit realm, Xian Ni, tried to read Martial god asura, Dragon marked war god, Peerless martial god, and few others, but gave up midway cause of the s*upidity and lack of writing talent.