Talisman Emperor

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Chen Xi was a jinx who radiated misfortune the way a torch radiated light, and everyone around him knew it. His entire clan was annihilated when he was young, and not too long after that his parents disappeared. His marriage contract? Poof. Torn to shreds and gone up in smoke before the eyes of everyone in the city, almost humiliating his grandfather to the point of su*cide! Cultivation? No time for that, he had a family to take care of!

This is the story of Chen Xi, a youth forced to stop cultivating and instead craft talismans to pay for his younger brother’s tuition… and who, in the process, would rise to become known by all as the Talisman Emperor!

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Phù Hoàng
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Sheenius
Sheenius rated it
September 29, 2017
Status: --
Expected something totally different. I thought we would see a mortal or at least someone with a shallow cultivation drawing awesome talismans, becoming a walking talismanfortress and slapping faces left and right... but no, its the same story as always! Awesome heritage, awesome spiritmentor, super strong ancient bodycultivation... everything on a silvertablet with no way of failing
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LegitPotatoXx
LegitPotatoXx rated it
September 11, 2017
Status: c44
Talisman Emperor is a basic xuanhuan with a bit of revenge and it will remind you of desolate era and martial world ; if you've read them.

Personally I think that this is amazing and I look forward to reading more chapter in the Future!

5/5
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Ignus
Ignus rated it
September 11, 2017
Status: c43
A decent read if you just want the Xuanhua experience.

I dropped it down a star due to disappointment. Still gonna read it to prevent Xuanhua Withdrawals.

Besides the bad math and timelines that are present in many light novels... Which in this story, pushes power forward very quickly without the feeling of time and effort spent to already be stronger than most of the adults around him. ... more>>
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Like MC taking 10 days to perfect multiple top tier skills, raise his cultivation, learn amazing culinary skills, and sense world changing talismans... when before he spent multiple years not improving in anything...

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It is other areas that have lead to disappointment. Especially since the story started out so well. The below spoiler all points to the author speeding the story up and dropping the ball of plot a few to many times. Makes one wish the story played out differently. Moments when you curse because immersion was ruined.

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    1. MC gets an amazing chef to teach him spirit cooking. Gets a few hours lessons, and then told to do his own thing....
    1. MC gets some strength and a sword, and doesn't even use his talismans incorporated into his fights...
    1. MC cooks food for the 3 nobles, wanders off in fog, kills people, and returns as they finish... Who cleaned the dishes? Why would he wander around when there is a good chance to get lost, ambushed etc... Blatant author adding bad plot for action/MC = cool
    1. MC amazingly comes up with some amazing talisman designs.

      Then drops it, and the shop owner just kinda goes... Ok... No trying to convince him, no trying to learn the talisman technique, no giving MC rank 2 talisman book

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k-r-i-s
k-r-i-s rated it
September 11, 2017
Status: c131
c16

It's a basic cultivation book. The villains are one dimensional so far.

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He has some special heritage from a super powerful dead guy and he has to work 'slowly' to gain the heritage. His whole family except for him mom, brother, and dad are killed so there is no family politics which I think is a plus cause it's pretty annoying. His mom has been kidnapped so he has to save her after getting stronger. I think it could be harem though it's only cause two girls are introduced so far. That's just an assumption though.

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I think it could be a decent read if you like protagonists who don't rush into everything and are fine with tropes and cliches from other stories.

Edit: c131

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Not much romance so far. Looks like it's probably not a harem. Not sure why it's called Talisman Emporer at this point cause he hasn't used them in forever. Still looks like a basic cultivation story. But the guy has become kind of s*upid in how he reacts. He doesn't do it in a smart way anymore. He just attacks back whenever he has a chance.

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Daniel_Francolin
Daniel_Francolin
March 27, 2021
Status: Completed
I really like this story but it got ruined by some repeated sentences which is truly irritating.

”We need to annihilate this kid because he’ll definitely be a calamity/disaster in the future.”

I also got irritated by the repeated saying of the word ‘kid’. For f*cking sake, he’s too powerful for his opponents but they keep calling him ‘kid’. D*mn irritating.

... more>> As for the harem, who the hell is Xia Wei?

The harem is also f*cked up. Yan Yan was just a tag along who got included in his list of girls. She’s a merchant’s daughter who got included in the list because she tagged along with Ya Qing and Yun Na.

I believe Shentu Yanran, An Ke (Nine Radiance Sword Sect disciple and sister of An Wei), and Dian Dian should be a part of the harem because they have some thought provoking relationship with Chen Xi.

As for Xia Wei, who the hell is she? Her name is closer to An Wei if that’s what the author intended.

Basically, this novel is a good one but with some pretty f*cked up line and harem. <<less
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cloud28884
cloud28884 rated it
October 15, 2020
Status: Completed
I think the rating should be 3.5/5, because the novel is not too great but better than mediocre. Overall it's still worth reading to spend your time :)

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Pro :

    • I like the MC character (even though he always lead by other, but he stays true to the heart and loyal to his friends)
    • the pace is good, not too slow
    • the world development is good (minor world/mortal world - dark reverie - major world / immortal world - God dimension.

Con

    • The talisman in the title is not like the one that we knew. The talisman with paper wrote using blood/special ink is only available on the first 100 chapter. the rest of it mainly refers to formation master (the one that create formation and need calculation). So it's kinda misleading... Even the Emperor word on the title is misleading, because the MC doesn't get to be an emperor
    • The author is kinda indecissive and use loophole a lot and the story itself has many loophole remain. indecissive example is he says that origin energy & core will be some key during final confrontation, but it's not even mentioned. and even at final confrontation, the MC first says he knew the right way, but then it's only a coincidence and the plan is just BS. Loop hole example closely related to the MC cultivation fast pace... he always tell MC has strong foundation, but how could the foundation of merely couple years cultivation compare to the one that repressed his cultivation to 100.000 years....
    • the enemy is kinda typical and slowly getting boring and repetitive. except for the final enemy that's good on scheming, the rest just relied on back ground or higher level cultivation (no brain used)
    • the story is kinda rushed closer to the end... maybe because it's getting downhill or losing reader at the time...
    • lack of romance part
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Malicre
Malicre rated it
October 12, 2020
Status: Completed
If your interested in reading this take my advice and drop it after chapter 1966 and make up your own ending because the last few arcs go downhill fast. Get's 2 stars just because a certain arc was pretty good.

Why it goes downhill......

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So "The Quest for a New Region" arc was pretty great but the problem was that he fought someone WAY above his power level and this should have ended the novel but nope after this arc he goes back to fighting young geniuses who can apparently fight on par with him even after destroying basically a godlike being and don't even get me started with the reunion he had with his parents, that stuff will make you rage.

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karthikkong
karthikkong rated it
July 25, 2020
Status: Completed
I started following this novel somewhere at the beginning of this June and ended this novel just now I have been reading Chinese novels for the last 5 years and I have to say after reading it I have above average satisfaction. The cultivation levels are interesting. The character development is rather interesting.

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These are the following things that I found disappointing:-

1 There is average mention of talismans in the novel.

2 The ending is good but side stories fail to cover up the details like where the MC visits at the end of the novel.

These are the following things that I found good:-

1 Unlike the other novels, the Father of MC is not weak but strong and plays an important role in this novel.

2 The side characters play an interesting part.

3 There is a lot of face slapping which makes it interesting.

4 The rivalry between the Sovereign Sect and Oracle Mountain forms the crux of the story.

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It is a decent novel to read. The author and the translators have done a fine job with it. <<less
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Surumalhotra
Surumalhotra rated it
December 6, 2019
Status: --
I have read so many cultivation novel and this was my first male MC novel where I find the biggest different is their harem (from female lead) other are same boring stuffs.
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Macho
Macho rated it
November 4, 2019
Status: c511
There were some parts that were relatively alright to read, yet most of the book was absolute cheap dogsh*t fueled by damsels in distress, compulsory righteous hero behavior and overall nosy actions from the main character. Every conflict stems from someone else's actions, never from the main character's behavior. It makes the story feel like he is forced into conflict constantly. And his personality is f*cking dog shit, he is ruthless to his enemies, yet the ruthlessness doesn't bring out satisfaction when the conflicts are so cheap.

He is always helping... more>> some poor wretch or heavenly jade beauty in need even when it isn't necessary at all, f*cking annoying read. And if any random nobody f*cking smiles at him he will suddenly feel like he could give his life away to save that f*cking wasteful burden if they were to get into danger, which means the conflicts in the story are so s*upid and annoying. <<less
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pomoli
pomoli rated it
September 4, 2018
Status: c34
Interesting, then quickly boring.

Pro

    • MC is ok, he seems good natured (at least for the chapters I've read)
    • Family and friends exist.
Con

    • Copy pasta of the dozen other stories in the same genre, with the same problems: repetitions and repetitions, boring descriptions, arrogant dumb young masters, ridiculous fixation on a nobody (the mc), crazy distances measurement (5 millions km between a city and another place, more than the circumference of the Sun...).
    • Boring.
    • Boring.
    • Boring.
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zedleeftw
zedleeftw rated it
August 30, 2018
Status: c324
This novel is okay. It's a rather okay one so far, with the romance being slow and realistic and the MC being a rather morally upright person. It's a rather standard CN LN. Quality of translation is rather high too, since it's in WW, soo all in all it's pretty good. MC is having lots of fun having revenge and some might say that certain enemies die too abruptly, and that some previously minor side character is revealed to be part of a powerful family is a bit confusing but... more>> the story is good <<less
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Galooza
Galooza rated it
August 21, 2018
Status: c601
This novel deserves to be called a tragedy. Let's get this out of the way: this is likely what led to IET writing Desolate Era in such a similar way that the general sequence of events, dao system, and even their timing is almost exactly the same. The ideas and world/universe are very interesting and probably the sole reason I still read this, though it went bad like many. Overall, it's a very generic story that has a completely underutilized cultivation system and universe which I believe IET also saw... more>> the potential in. A real shame.

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Tropes - This is very similar to SOTR in that it takes one trope and makes it the main showpiece of the story. Piss off the "chosen" and slap them in the face over and over and over till you feel like your face has been drug through the mud.

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Storywriting - As stated originally, this has a bunch of interesting cultivation ideas and world that were not explained well, if at all. The places the MC goes feel completely random and then he gets into one sect, then another, and on and on. The grand daos are never explained, just that there are minor and grand daos that you come to see over time. And the daos the MC comprehend himself are never explained, he just obtains them. Again, ideas and a world with a lot of potential but no coherency at all between them.

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Cultivation - Because the author had no real idea where he wanted to go and ultimately sided with what readers wanted, we see the MC starting with some knowledge in talismans. Then, he completely abandons that and learns the main sword technique for the next several hundred chapters only to reintroduce talismans as the mainstay for this weird mashup that has no coherency. The readers simply wanted more talismans so that's what he chose.

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Translation - InVader's translations are very good, but I'm putting this here because there's one choice that doesn't jive with me personally. Likely to avoid the obvious similarity with DE, certain terms were worded differently that do not read well at all. Dao Territory = Dao Domain, Three Dimensions = Three Realms, etc.

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guy smiley
guy smiley rated it
August 7, 2018
Status: c50
Below, is my statements made about it in a Discord chat, that overall sum up my impression/experience. It's not exactly review-ish in its style, but I choose to believe that it accurately reflects my experience of reading Talisman Emperor.

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well

there was this son of an antagonist family, who bullied the MC and his brother sometimes, but kinda had this phase of being shunned by his own family cos he was weak, and trodden on by his own brother and stuff

but then we saw that really, he just wanted acknowlegement from someone, anyone really, he wanted ppl to respect him, cos he had low self-esteem

it's very relatable

and eventually, he pulled himself out of his funk, trained himself up, and was all set to challenge his brother for the heirship of the family again, he had his confidence, he had something more than just his family and his upbringing, to buoy him up, he'd become a man

then he recieved news that the MC of the story killed his brother (who was the one he really hated all along)

how was he to recieve acknowlegement now? How could he finally step out of his brother's shadow now?


^ That, is about where I dropped Talisman Emperor, cos there's this awesome setup for a rival character, but then it's completely wasted

MC burned his family to the ground, kills them all, this guy dies a mooks death, the end

wasted opportunity

other ppl also complain about it not really being about talismans, iunno, it also seems basically a generic xianxia besides my hopes for this one rival character

those are all valid reasons to dislike it in general, my reason I feel is a little more personal

also, that character was not written as well as I may have made it seem, to be fair, most of that is extrapolating from his being shunned as his brother took the stage a bit, and his reaction to his brothers death after he'd just come out of this super intense secluded training

author, if I'm honest, did less with that character overall, than I just did

which is not a point in the actual story's favor

eh, give it a try, why not, none of that is particularly far in

^ me, shitting all over it for frickin ages, but then still saying to read it :/

(but secretly I'm very curious how others might look upon said character and scenario, now that my interpretation of it has been violently thrust upon them)

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I am unsure what chapter I dropped it at, but all this takes place in the environs of the first city. The starting town, if you will, so I doubt it's much more than 50 chapters in. <<less
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prinsewa
prinsewa rated it
July 11, 2018
Status: c321
It's a good story, very similar to Desolate Era in many places. A good point is that the term Dao is not just added to stuff to sound mysterious, there's actually a weight to it. Progressing is not only done by leveling up but also by gaining combat experience which is pretty authentic. Mostly coherent (ish) up to where i've read.

The thing bugging me is the writing style, where you get those pointless praise dialogs and mini-reviews after every action the MC takes. One chapter and a dozens sentences telling... more>> how much this and that the MC is, how right people are for perceiving him that way, how wrong are the others... Feels like being invited to a banquet with the host always by your ear whispering (or even shouting) what piece of the meal you just ate taste the best. Excuse me but I can think for myself! We don't all have the same standards so having forced upon oneself what is good, bad, genius, honest, fair, justice and the likes is very annoying.

It's mostly due to CN author's tricks for word count, in my opinion. Not everything has to be explicitly stated. Once it's done one can only agree or disagree. The repetition will only accentuate that. I believe that implicitly guiding the reader to the meaning and allowing him to consider and appraise by himself is a higher way or writing that shows respect and consideration.

Once again, the story is really good and substantial. Restrain your synopsis-induced expectations and you're up for a nice experience. <<less
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dorn
dorn rated it
June 27, 2018
Status: c484
It's surprising this gets so many bad reviews. It's actually very well written. It's the same sort of story as Desolate Era and similar novels. The world is well fleshed out and the pacing is good. The characters are pretty normal for this sort of thing.

It's not a 5 star novel but it's far better than it's rating indicates. If it has a critical flaw it's that the Talisman angle draws in people looking for something new but it's not really anything new at all. If you just want... more>> another decent novel to read though it's quality work. <<less
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Vex
Vex
October 11, 2017
Status: --
The novel is neither great nor bad. Actually it's quite good. I have almost read till chapter 1000 and apart from few inconsistencies and some minor hiccups the novel is actually pretty interesting.

One major problem which irritates me like bone stuck between teeth, is despite naming it as talisman emperor the MC rarely used talismans.

His fighting style, cultivation method etc are all pretty much the usual stuff. I was expecting somethimg better. Maybe creating arrays in air and shooting it?

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Although in Ming Realm, (just below Immortal) he does uses runes to re-create his world. Later on the runes are sometime integrated into his attacks.

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The novel follows the same pattern of, competition- new world- new sect-competition-new world etc. But despite this, I still find myself interested (or maybe it's the alien language in MTL, which I always skip)

The characters are mostly two dimensional, rarely characters with well thought out motives and functions are present. But hey, this is something you get used to after reading so many Xianxias.

Can't say anything about writing style, grammar etc as MTL is quite difficult to criticize about... Too many mistakes and problems to list down -_-..

CLICHES are there, but they are not something glaring or something simply shoved on your face. It's there but well thought out.

But enemies are the same copy paste mould of each other. Zero brains, 100% percent attitude and a great sect to back them up. And they always find our MC to pick a bone with, and ofcourse get badly beaten up and killed the next time. Then it's the whole sect trying to kill him. Until now the major enemy is some Angel called Ice or something, who I really want to punch. Their are lots of hints about some realm war, so. we can expect some real fighting and power ups.

Female leads are well, female leads. Many of them, stick to MC for apparently no reasons at all and fall in love a few hours later. Fortunately, many of them are supposedly one sided. Supposedly since even I am not sure.

Their are few plot holes, which I am waiting for author to fill up before the novel ends.

Will edit soon after I finish reading it.

Edit: War has almost started with alien race. And it's boring.

Author has a penchant for introducing girls with strong and mysterious backgrounds. Then their mystical babblings, statements which make no sense currently etc. You have his senior sister, someone called AI Wei or something, then wife of some large trading firm, a restaurant owner and so on. They will help MC when he is in a fix. Waiting to see, why the f*ck are they doing so?

If it's just cuz they are feeling lucky, well goddam you author.

  1. The enemies are becoming stronger and even more s*upider.
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honglath
honglath rated it
September 10, 2017
Status: c43
With a typical xuanhuan start that we've already gotten used to by reading it so many times before, it's a joy to go through the lengthy, filler path of vengeance once more!

Our MC this time isn't an alchemist, but a cook. He's originally a talisman maker, yet due to dexterous hands from practice, practice, practice!, years of self-taught cooking due to plot inflicted poverty and enhanced mental acuity due to cheat SOUL POWA!!! increase, he's well on his way to becoming Master Chef.

But then again, cooking is a bit like... more>> alchemy as he tastes his way to immortality with energy enhanced wine and dine...

Anyway, the beginning arc is still fun, except the boring training and learning and digesting the training and learning, and you'll very much enjoy it if you're looking for some light reading, 50-100 chapters at a time.

PS to TL: Really? Stopping the mass release in the middle of a fight?... Meanie. (So yeah, ch 43 ends in the middle of a fight, in case you were wondering.)

Cheers <<less
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rubenmontez7955
rubenmontez7955 rated it
January 12, 2023
Status: --
story is alright, but the writing is too cringe at times, some of the descriptions need to be simple, goes so indept in describing the simplest sh*t to try to sound deep. Abuses the words, to the extreme, to the limit, and the phrase no reason or rhythm, so damn annoying, that's not even the phrase, the phrase is neither rhythm nor reason. If you're going to abuse a phrase, at least get it right.
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PoSunBanYi
PoSunBanYi rated it
February 9, 2022
Status: c68
Typical non-ending of people commenting this impossible then, how is it possible. Fine.

COMPLETE inconsistencies, like not even trying to sort it out (like Xiao Jinyu even forgets about fixing his f*ck ups right away himself), for example: "side-character dotes a lot on his lil bro, once he is out of seclusion...---> lil bro and side-character never had a good relationship, it was very hostile" (??????????) another is "MC and this three people have an ordinary relationship, is not like they'll see death face to face together against people his three... more>> friends don't wanna offend-----> (literally next ch) typical-dog-blood drama enemy looks back to MC three friends and starts hesitating, after all if he were to attack MC they'd jump out to aid him, after all those three and MC have an extraordinary relationship" (????????????). And, oh boy, is not even the last of them, not-even-close. Not fine.

Battle power is literally a self-laughingstock on its own, is another one where because MC can 1v1 a realm 3 lv9 at realm 3 lv1, now there'll be tons other who easily can as well, even if they just have a normal based cultivation quality of resources, while MC has literally god-like ones, amazing. Never seen before. Definitely not fine.

Any other aspect of the novel, and its superfluous-gullible- I'm all that writing makes it the best kind of dull; the why would I even bother dull type. Thank very much. Also not fine.


" there are plenty of people who are able to annihilate a 9th star Violet Palace Realm cultivator with a cultivation at the 1st star of the Violet Palace Realm. "
You lost me there, you either give me the uniqueness of a strong, solid cultivation system and MC being the MC for a reason, or you give me the struggles of someone incredible normal being able to surpass other by the MC's intellectual, cunning, high comprehension rather than just 'something that anyone else can easily comprehend it'; but here, you give me both, I'm out of here, running away from another: "MC has god-like cultivation resources vs side-disposable-characters has normal cultivation sources growing stronger at the same level"; thank you very much.

If you don't mind MGA modus operandi when it comes to battle power, cultivation and everything else, sure enjoy it. For those who don't-- WARNING it's full of that. <<less
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