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The Sword Dynasty
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5 | 55% (48 votes) |
4 | 11% (10 votes) |
3 | 14% (12 votes) |
2 | 7% (6 votes) |
1 | 13% (11 votes) |
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8 volumes / 939 Chapters (Completed)
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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.After annihilating Han, Zhao and Wei empires in succession, the dynasty of Qin is ushering in an unprecedented flourishing age with powerful cultivators emerging endlessly. People take pride in being part of the Qin dynasty. However, Ding Ning, a young lad of humble origin in Changling, Qin, is determined to subvert this dynasty and kill the emperor who breaks in the Eighth Realm.
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Grudgingly giving it 4 stars,although it's probably closer to 3. Some of the plot twists are incredibly s*upid. SUMMARYA pretty standard revenge plot considering it was written in 2017.
MC Ding Ning seeks to avenge some injustice that happened to his predecessor, going after the Qin Emperor and his cabal of "traitors". Been done to death in numerous other novels, except this is a reimagining of the Qin Dynasty era, based on a cultivation world. COMMENTS
All in all it's a novel that's decently put together. Kind of like eating a Subway... you got your carbs, veggies and proteins. But nothing inspiring. (1) Stylistically similar "Way of Choices / Ze Tian Ji", but nothing unique with pointless filler
- Far behind the poetic style of Way of Choices.
As per @anon anon anon, it's just annoying filler descriptions. Characters are constantly introduced, re-introduced, re-re-introduced in pointless manners. Literally:
"Person A walks up, look beautiful/stern/imposing/carefree/etc.... oh btw it's a character we described earlier."
"Pan-shot to person B, who is posing beautiful/stern/imposing/carefree/etc... oh btw, it's STILL the same person"
... WTF? Usually this style of writing is meant to introduce DIFFERENT FACETS of a character so we can understand them better. In this novel it's basically just a change of wardrobe.
Way of Choices did it much better, describing places/people beautifully in different situations, where you're constantly catching a glimpse of their character from different angles and slowly uncovering their motivations. - Constant, rapid perspective switching is obvious annoying filler and breaks immersion
Person A does something for two paragraphs
Person B does something for two paragraphs... no purpose or insight to their character/motivations
Person C thinks about something for two paragraphs.. no purpose or insight to their character/motivations
All of this happens within a single chapter, or continues haphazardly between chapters. Even the translators have picked up on and complained about how confusing it is. (2) Ambiguous characters... to the point where I'm not rooting for anybody
As the plot unfolds and we get a glimpse into historical events that led the MC down his path of vengeance, we slowly realize that every character in this novel are just Machiavellian hypocritical as*holes, even the MC Ding Ning. Which is annoying since you'd expect at least 1 character to rise above this crap and distinguish themselves from others.
The REAL prototypical MC died long ago.
The gist from the first two volumes shows that MC's predecessor was the all-American hero *cough cough*. You know the kind. Valiant, trusting, above-board, etc, before he was schemed against by the current Emperor, Empress and whole cabal of trusted "friends". It's hinted that the predecessor did not share the opinions of those "friends" when pushing for Qin hegemony. i.e. the classic, "the ends don't justify the means".
MC being his heir/protege/incarnation (major spoiler) seeks vengeance.
Being the scheming clever youth he is, he performs subterfuge and other actions contrary to what his predecessor would do. First he's just going undercover. Then he starts making use of genuinely good people with the obvious intention to betray them. So now... "the ends DO justify the means".
i.e. MC can ONLY partner in an open, honest manner with his compatriots to achieve his goals. He's never given a moral dilemma (at least 170 chapters in), which you'd get even in the dumbest of wuxia novels. It gets even more annoying by Volume 3.
After it was set that everyone was a self-righteous Machiavellian SoB, author pointlessly contrived a way to make the Qin Emperor/Empress the major as*holes by doing completely out of character things.
Emperor/Empress were formerly strict and tough in the ruling, but were still fair and enabled prosperity for their citizens and loyalists. The mantra was "All cultivators are subjects and treasures of the Qin empire". In most other novels, the basic dilemma is whether MC should upend the peace in his quest for vengeance.
But no. In this novel, after 12 years of steady rule, after achieving major victory over other dynasties at the Deer Mountain meeting, they SUDDENLY turned into ultra despots that ruled purely on whim. The mantra suddenly changed to "All cultivators are property of the Qin empire/Holy One".
Huh??
Is this nonsensical change just to make the Emperor/Empress out to be the main bad guys, even though everyone else are also douchebags. WTF, completely out of character.
Then! Author goes on an excessively contrived plot to kill off a well-liked character close to MC, as a lame emotional pull on readers to hate on the Emperor/Empress! The point is to suddenly make them out to be unjust, diabolical, backstabbing SoBs that change their minds on a whim (despite ruling 12 years with a mostly fair hand). WTF.
The first volume was odd.
We're told MC is a scheming, clever youth. We're expecting some great scheme.
Instead, after the first 30 chapters where MC shacked up with a powerful gangster and plotted the assassination of 1 single low-level baddie, NOTHING else went according to his plan (if he even had one).
This type of development happens throughout the novel. SERIOUSLY??? So how is MC supposed to be a schemer?
Another example of AND-THEN-THIS-HAPPENED plot development.
(4) Iffy cultivation/world building
The political factions and alternative history are ok.
But the world-building is pretty iffy.
- There are A LOT of last minute power-ups and deus-ex machina situations where MC pulls some stupendous insight/skill from his a*s to save the day.
- The whole Deer Mountain meeting was a mess and completely implausible.
We're constantly told the emperors are the wiliest, most powerful men in the world. And that they are only carrying a facade of weakness.
We're also told that the Qin Emperor can't fight entire countries despite having Level 8 cultivation.
But when the Qin Emperor flexes and the cards are down for the other empires, they act like pansies, because author pulled out the "HONOR" card from his a*s and says that the empires can't unite against the Qin hegemony. Huh?
Literally, "You defeated my champion? Ok so now I have to listen to you." What the heck is this? Achilles vs Troy?
This is always the problem with novels mixing xianxia with empire building.
The former relies on the power of ONE. The latter on the power of MANY.
When the two are mixed and author fails to achieve a balance, the reasons for one hegemony over another becomes nonsensical.
- MC is filled with the world's knowledge despite his age (hint about incarnation). He can do anything/everything... going into formations he's never seen before to solve it. Everything is explained as "high comprehension abilities"... which doesn't even gel with his history.
- His Nine Death Silkworm thingy starts being able to do anything/everything. Improve cultivation, absorb other cultivator's energies, absorb material objects, absorb medicines. The list keep growing. Kinda ridiculous.
- The combat descriptions are hard to follow and quite nonsensical too, even for xianxia. Even the real-life drama had to tone it down for CG budget purposes, and quite different from how it was described since several imageries are just plain illogical.
- World doesn't revolve around MC and people have reasons for their actions.
- MC is very smart and schemes well (although he is a bit OP and wins pretty much every battle)
- Villains are done well and you can understand their thought process. There's no "hand over your treasures and kill yourself" kind of stuff.
- The women are written well and can make their own choices, a lot of them are stronger than MC.
Cons:- Slow pace just like the other novels I listed.
- A lot of politics and different factions in this novel. If you're not into that, then you won't like this novel.
Overall, great novel and well written.