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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.Just as a gamer found an overpowered skill book called ‘Item Upgrade’ in the hottest virtual reality role-playing game on Earth, something happened to the game’s system, causing his soul to leave his body and go to another dimension. Common sense dictates that he would be born anew then become the greatest overlord of this world by making use of his advanced knowledge. Not in this case! He was already dead. Only some fragments of his soul and that skill book managed to get into that dimension and merge with an ordinary common youngster called Bai Yunfei.
This was the enormous Tianhun continent, where humans could be said to have no limits. There was a group of humans here who could cultivate the power of their own souls then control their bodies, the natural elements and even other people’s souls with that power! These special beings were called — soul cultivators. Come witness how the several fragments of the dead inter-dimensional traveler’s soul and that skill book, which was not governed by the laws of this plane, were going to help Bai Yunfei become a legendary soul cultivator and craftsman!
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02/17/16 | Wuxiaworld | v1c34 |
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But unlike most authors, where the super strong enemies just pops up right after the MC levels up just to give him an opponent, the strong enemies had been introduced early in the story. (Actually the same author made this mistake in his second book.. He just makes up some uber-enemies just to give the MC something the do. But in this book, everything is balanced.)
Friends and enemies has a decent intro and ending too. Even his earliest friends will play an important role in the endgame after neglecting their story for hundreds of chapters.
The author will give you a reminder one who a person was though, unlike other authors, who reintroduce a character after 1000 chapters and just expect the reader to remember who that dude was. The MC's ability plays a very important part and is never neglected. It's power evolves painfully too, making the MC more balanced. In the end, the MC does gets OP and kills his enemies with ease. This makes the ending seems rushed.
Best opening I've seen in a while. Definitely worth a read through the bandit arc. It's extremely fresh and fun to read. Cons: After the bandit arc, the thing you'll like most about the MC goes away. His actions completely contradict his previous goals. And the weirdest thing is he's totally OK with doing that. In fact, he planned to do that for some reason... It's really lame.
So here's what happened. At the beginning with the bandits, he made sure to spare no one so that his identity isn't leaked to the school behind the bandits. (The martial arts school bankrolls bandits to pillage and r*pe).
Then he tells himself to do that same with the young master Zhang that is the object of his revenge... But for some reason, he spares the dudes guards that he knocked out previously.
Then a few chapters later he starts discussing how he had planned when he would flee from where because he spared the guards. He thought they'd be after him in ten days when it took seventeen... But that's ridiculous because he shouldn't have planned to get caught in the first place!
Then after he barely escapes from Daddy Zhang whose a Sprite (one whole level above him) he goes to another city where that school who previously had lost him had planted a scene to cause him to fall in love with a girl so they can figure out how he modified his armaments...
But this girl stuff is super forced. Like the MC is all "There's a special feeling here"
Then he stays a day to flirt with her when he's fleeing for his life...
So yeah. It just gets worse from here... When he realized that the girl is a setup he goes alone to the restaurant to confront the school (the girl and the elder whose plan this was...) The absolute moronic thing is that the elder is a freaking sprite (a whole level above him AGAIN but stronger than the last dude).
His decision making after the bandit arc is tr*sh. His priorities are tr*sh. His sense of direction is tr*sh. He wants to become stronger simply to be stronger but advertising that you are basically a mu*derer when you don't need to is really weird behavior! On top of this, the author forces scenarios that frankly can't happen. I know the world seems small guys. But have you ever tried to perform a manhunt on someone in modern times with satellite tracking? There's a reason criminals are often at large for days... I know it LOOKS easy in the Lord of The Rings but how easy is it really when your opponent takes a step every 20 meters as they do in this story... This is actually my largest beef in wuxia novels. Whenever a manhunt happens the writer treats it as if a thousand miles of the backcountry is easy to search... If you dig out our old friend math you'll find that area is always far larger a number than a straight line.. To reasonably search all that territory is unlikely.
- The early chapters are not the greatest. It gets better later I personally think.
- Could do with a bit more character building for some of the side characters.
- Can be a bit slow at times.
The Good:- Great MC. It is nice to have a person that is actually sensible and reasonable as an MC in wuxia novels. Not just some idiot that goes around hiding his power as a poor excuse to let others escalate a situation until it ends in mu*der.
- Cool premise, the overall context and the MCs cheat is pretty cool. It is not totally overpowered like some other MCs cheats.
- Good world building. It feels like the author put some thought into planning his world not just randomly making stuff up as he goes.
- The novel can also be quite funny at times, at least I think so.
Allover I would recommend this novel mostly on the strength of the MC. He is likeable which is pretty rare in wuxia I feel. He doesn't always just look for an excuse to commit mu*der even though it does happen of course.if you are looking for an arrogant MC that loves showing off his power and curb stomps everyone without setbacks while bragging about "the great me" then this is not the novel for you. The MC remains about a half step ahead or behind his peers throughout most of the novel and he loses/ retreats more than once. His cheat has a lot of limitations, he's left to figure everything out without help and it's not like he can just upgrade equip infinitely, in over 1000ch the highest he's upgraded was 14. He's moderate for a cultivation MC and while he's neither a genius nor a moron, he has moments of both. He also suffers from bouts of Thrice Reckless Disease which causes occasional lapses in judgment.
also, what happened with him being part of the fate sect? He passed on the cultivation technique but kept the ring and the spear and everything else so I thought he was still a member of the fate sect. He even gets help from his seniors from the fate sect from time to time. Did joining the crafting school automatically negate his being a part of the fate sect? I wish the author would have explained that part better
yes, there are aspects of this story that will irritate anyone, especially when there's a hundred-plus ch of constant fighting to slog through, or the repetitive escalator fights every. Single. Time. The MC walks into a town/city. The author isn't talented in writing fights so I started skipping from the first page of each fight to the end. It's not a harem, (a plus), but the female lead has little personality and exists mostly to be rescued and as an accessory for the MC. The gun fu was lame and the author seems to have realized and stopped using it, other than the occasional show, after that single arc. And there are some fairly big plot holes that aren't addressed so far. But I quite liked a few of the arcs, like the soul beast forest one, and the good parts help make up for the bad ones. Since I've dropped the last few novels I tried to read by c200 and the highest they've rated was a 2, the fact that I've managed to read over 1000ch means the story is interesting enough.
I love that his soul beast is the one who levels up/ gains exp by killing monsters or people and not the MC. His only game-like ability is his upgrade skill
now about his stalker,
a big wig jr sect leader being that obsessive about some low ranked shmuck made no sense to begin with and to declare him his arch-enemy made the main villain look idiotic and foolish, not scary. All I can think is that he had some kind of love for/crush on the MC and was uncomfortable with his feelings so he decided to focus his entire life on trying to kill the low-level guy.
even the MC is confused and points out that they have no great hatred or anything once he learns who's behind all those assassins and him being set up. At that point, he doesn't even know what sect the guy belongs to or what their plans are. This obsession makes the fact that he keeps losing and running away once the MC gets stronger something funny, which I don't think the author intended. Yeah the MC hates him now but he brought it on himself by constantly seeking him out and causing problems. If he'd never bothered I doubt the MC would even remember his name by now.
so far I want to rate this at a 3.5, but the editing is terrible with mixed-up tenses, strange sentence structure and word mix-ups like 'memories' instead of 'methods' or the like. I actually counted more than a dozen misplaced words in just one chapter and it happens in just about all of them. In the end, I'm giving it a 3 for now.