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I Shall Seal the Heavens
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5 | 69% (2195 votes) |
4 | 13% (404 votes) |
3 | 8% (238 votes) |
2 | 4% (133 votes) |
1 | 6% (192 votes) |
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1613 Chapters + 3 Side Stories / 1 Afterword (Completed)
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Weekly Rank: #2000Monthly Rank: #9585
All Time Rank: #9
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Monthly Rank: #315
All Time Rank: #32
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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.“What I want, the Heavens shall not lack!”
“What I don’t want, had better not exist under the Heavens!”
This is a story that originates between the Eighth and Ninth Mountains, the world in which the strong prey upon the weak.
“My Name is Meng Hao! The Ninth Generation Demon Sealer, I shall seal the Heavens!”
Associated Names
One entry per lineCennetleri Mühürlemeliyim
Demon Sealer
ISSTH
Ngã Dục Phong Thiên
Wo Yu Feng Tian
ผนึกสวรรค์ สยบมาร สะท้านเทพ
我欲封天
Demon Sealer
ISSTH
Ngã Dục Phong Thiên
Wo Yu Feng Tian
ผนึกสวรรค์ สยบมาร สะท้านเทพ
我欲封天
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Date | Group | Release |
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08/05/15 | Wuxiaworld | c100 |
08/04/15 | Wuxiaworld | c99 |
08/04/15 | Wuxiaworld | c97 |
08/03/15 | Wuxiaworld | c96 |
08/02/15 | Wuxiaworld | c95 |
08/01/15 | Wuxiaworld | c93 |
07/31/15 | Wuxiaworld | c91 |
07/30/15 | Wuxiaworld | c89 |
07/29/15 | Wuxiaworld | c87 |
07/28/15 | Wuxiaworld | c85 |
07/27/15 | Wuxiaworld | c83 |
07/26/15 | Wuxiaworld | c82 |
07/25/15 | Wuxiaworld | c81 |
07/24/15 | Wuxiaworld | c79 |
07/23/15 | Wuxiaworld | c77 |
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This is, of course, before spirit severing cultivators become monkeys trivially slaughtered by the wave of a hand, before disappearing entirely after Meng Hao becomes an immortal, along with 100% of all sub-immortal cultivators, as if everyone and their mother just goes straight to true or false immortal after birth outside of South Heaven.
Meng Hao not only does not lose anything from these spirit severings, he gains incredibly from each one. In his first, he severs the resurrection lily, which had been plaguing him for the majority of the novel until then. For the second, he severed his perfect cultivation, or his past (nominally), in order for him to move forward from the loss of his cultivation, after which he conveniently gets an even better cultivation! Yay! He doesn't even lose a single f*cking pill through that whole process! And for his third severing, he severs his crazy genocidal urges.
This is not "spirit severing", it's *stuff* severing. He severed *stuff* that he didn't want. There was no aspect of his spirit or his soul or his past which he had to let go of, no part of himself which he resolved.
That particular part of the novel where Meng Hao is briefly crippled from having his foundation stolen away is one of the best parts (along with the story of Chen Fan). It showcases how grounded the novel can be and how the crazy world shaking battles and pill popping are unnecessary to drive the story. However, the fact that it was so abrupt, ends so dramatically and without any sense of loss whatsoever, and the fact that was *totally expected* are the kinds of things which take this novel down two notches in quality.
Otherwise, I don't believe Meng Hao's moral degeneration removes from this quality because it (along with its end) was heavily foreshadowed and was supposed to be a big aspect of his development. However, the fact that his degeneration was treated so trivially, without any sense of self-awareness or conflict did make this a weak narrative and suspect the author was simply using it as a way to make Meng Hao's cutthroat behavior more passably by him.
* The humor is great! Most of the time when I read something funny I chuckle a bit and move on. This novel however already managed to get some belly laughs out of me.
* The main character is great so far. How is it possible to not like his scheming?
* It has an interesting premise. Several things got me interested in how they will play out; family background, mirror, tower corpse.
* The writing is very good. -The negative-
* I have two major problems with this novel and the first one is the cultivation. There's no training, no understanding of anything deeper, no type of learning of any kind - just pills (and sometimes just dumb luck?). The increase in cultivation do not feel earned in any way, there's no feeling of accomplishment at all. He just locks himself up, eat a couple hundred pills and tada~.
* My second major problem is the fighting. I obviously don't know if things get better later on, but so far the fight scenes have been absolutely horrible. There's so many chase scenes. Seriously, you won't believe how many chase scenes there are. They go on and on and on and repeats close to every single time a fight is about to happen.
The fighting itself is also pretty damn bad. Nothing makes much sense and it seems like almost every fight is a treasure-off. Personal skill have extremely little to do with who wins and who loses. It's simply "who has more resources and weapons in their spatial bag". It makes the whole combat rather dull. There's no actual fighting and enemies basically just throws sh*t at each other until one have exhausted their resources. I really tried to get into this one. I heard it got good later on after a slow start, so I forced myself to read on. Then I searched around and realized that the "point were it gets good" were long past me and I still didn't think it was very good.
This will sadly be one of the very, very few novels that I drop.
The story starts off poorly for a dozen or more chapters, but then finally reaches a first segment where the MC is forced to try to survive in a sect full of sociopaths - in a desperate gamble to survive, things are good-to-great.
However, the MC never tries to leave or free himself from that psychopathic world of 'cultivators'- instead, he becomes strangely convinced that he must become the most powerful of them all, which obviously requires that he become the most extreme mu*derer, con artist and robber.
But before most people would notice this, the MC gets poisoned, which becomes another external factor that LOGICALLY forces him to get back into that world of sociopaths so that he can try to get his cure.
But once he cures himself, the MC dies and is reborn into an inhuman, mu*derous fiend who is, ironically enough, almost the polar opposite of his originally fairly reasonable Confucian scholar self.
Strategy? Who cares about that when you are in a truly foul mood: deeply unhappy people feel a powerful need and desire to make others around them suffer as well (when in fact they should be acting to solve the root of their problem: healing their wounded self).
With this MC, we see that he acts Confucian and thus moderately wise while he is weak, but once he achieves power, he uses is to destroy and hurt rather than create and heal. He primarily brings despair, desolation, envy, hatred and death upon his already crappy environment.
One could say he is the product of his environment, but I see it rather as someone who simply failed to transcend his crappy origins. Evil's first goal is to to turn you evil, so that you can be unhappy as well. But that just means losing *by choice*, since it is never too late to turn back to good, to happiness, health, symbiosis, true strength and pure fun.
I was at first laughing in slight shock when I read about all the animals exploding from their butts when the mirror was pointed towards them, and how the MC was testing this out all over the place like a scientist. (I was very curious about how that was going to get explained.)
But then I was frankly creeped out by Lord 5th, who is probably the rapiest animal sidekick I've ever seen. The thing to understand is that Lord 5th represents the author's repressed subconscious desires to brutally ass-r*pe all the chicks he meets.
The awful part is not the desire to dominate women, but rather the way chosen to do so: a man can proudly dominate by his wit, his mastery of game theory, his grace, his intelligence, etc. It is only a truly boorish man who fantasizes of so brutally dominating women - which doesn't even work at all BTW (which is perhaps why the author is so sore towards women: his smiley-rapey ways mean he is an endless failure at love and at women, whom he then resentfully wishes to harm).
Of course, this Lord 5th seems to target both sexes equally with his terrible abuse, so really the MC not only subconsciously wants to brutally ass-r*pe most women, but also most men. I guess he figures he would get less lip from them if he did so....
It's like WOW: no wonder he turned out like he did! This poor guy desperately needs to heal and get some sorely lacking mental clarity, so he can stop harming his environment (and thus finally get the love and appreciation he needs), but instead we watch him just meanly lash out at the world in anger and frustration, purposefully choosing the bloodiest path to brutal domination just because it fits his emotional mindset.
The MC was like a boss when he was moving forward in life, disregarding all the babes throwing themselves at him ('cuz the dude was busy with being poisoned and becoming King Bully).
But then the relationship with his gf around c750 is 100% lame: they spend their time freaking holding hands and all sorts of other boring, childish crap, and then she is supposed to become his raison d'être and motivation to mu*der countless people to get her reborn, just so they can go back to holding hands and being super boring together?
It's just dumb and pointlessly difficult: choose a fun babe who isn't dead, bro, and life will be a lot better!