Dragon-Marked War God

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The once greatest Saint underneath the heavens has been reborn after one hundred years. He cultivates with mighty skills, and he fights to once again reach the top of the world!

Don’t compete with me when it comes to concocting pills, 100% effectiveness means nothing to me.

Don’t compete with me when it comes to cultivation speed, I won’t be responsible when you die from embarrassment.

Don’t compete with me when it comes to experience, as I’m an ancient ancestor.

The existence of Jiang Chen is destined to ridicule thousands of geniuses……

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DMWG
Dragon Marked War God
Long Văn Chiến Thần
Long Wen Zhan Shen
龙纹战神
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Nana (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧
Fast paced, glorious adventure series! No need for shinkansen anymore, just read and feel the speed.

The plot is almost non-existent, MC just go and rake up villain to kill anywhere he went.
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regimeswitch
regimeswitch rated it
February 28, 2021
Status: c565
Whew this one's a stinker. Closer to a 1/5 than a 3/5.

Story is completely on rails. The formula is pretty simple:

Group 1 is offended by MC for some s*upid/evil/greedy reason

MC is slightly too weak to kill them all right away

MC powers up and kills them but someone happens to be involved from Group 2.

Group 2 is now offended by MC for some s*upid/evil/greedy reason

MC is slightly too weak to kill them all right away

...

Repeat for 4000 chapters, shifting regions each time.
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Ao Ryu
Ao Ryu rated it
January 18, 2019
Status: c1200
I wanted to give 2 but gave 3 for fast faced story.

Author goes on repeating same thing, after 1000 chapters it seems copy pasting same thing.

The MC is toooooo righteous, it makes loose interrest.

There is no romanace, HAREM tag is complete watse.

Story fails when MC knows everything in next relam, there are new hearbs but knows how concout pills.

This novel fails only because of MC

U CAN ENJOY THE DOG AND MONK IN THIS NOVEL
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beddedOtaku
beddedOtaku rated it
January 22, 2018
Status: c870
Overall: 2.5

I enjoy DMWG quite a lot actually despite the grade I've given it. It many comes from the fact that I'm kind of desensitized to the standard xn tropes, so I'm able to either ignore or skip blatant bullshit. However, that's just me personally, and doesn't apply to everyone which is why I better be honest with this review.

If I could summarize DMWG in one word it would be 'repetitive'. Repetitive to the point of absolute insanity. For instance, 2 major arcs are EXACTLY the same WITH THE EXACTLY... more>> THE SAME VILLAIN. I'm not even shitting you here. That's right: two arcs, MAJOR ones, are basically identical.

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If you are confused, here's how it goes: MC enters a bigger world or whatever. He immediately offends half the 'powers' there while 'befriending' the other half. In the end, arc becomes the major 'war' between these two sides where MC obviously saves everyone. Both arcs have exactly the same villain, who does exactly the same things, says exactly the same shit, and gets beaten exactly the same.

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Beyond that, we have the same repeated 'MC's girl is obviously a heaven-defying beauty that inspires bad people to have bad thoughts about her and MC clearly needs to purify them of those thoughts', we have MC strolling along the road of arrogance and absolutely no compromise which is shrugged off by a simple 'he can't live in peace' or 'path of cultivation is made up of thousands of corpses'.

Then we have nth degree of bullsh*t when it comes to his friends and other cultivators, because there's no f*cking way anyone can keep up with his leveling up speed, but they have to of course. This, in turn, makes it seem as MC has the absolute shittiest luck in all of goddamn worlds, as his first girlfriend is exactly the same realm as he is, yet she basically NEVER FOUGHT. Yeah, that's right. Our MC has been finding items, killing fools, getting shitf*ck of resources, but he can't break away from any of his friends. Yeah, the 'super duper bloodline, special body' whatever sh*t 'explains' that, but no.

Then we have the tired usage of exact same things to inspire conflict: arrogant, prideful characters. From the very first 'villain', to the 'villains' of the current arc, not a single damn thing is different. MC always says that his current villain (s) have right to be prideful because they're sons of whatevers. There are no decent people in this novel. Everyone's either a mass mu*derer, rapist or a combination of both. It is something that plagues every xn novel and it always makes me wonder how the flying f*ck hasn't the world collapsed under its own feet with these types of people inhabiting it.

MC instigates conflicts left and right for absolutely no reason outside the fact that he was the 'greatestest saint ever and he obviously cannot compromise with these lower beings', but don't fret because he always gets the exact item he needs in order to resolve whatever the current issue is. He's of course the most talented thing that has ever been born as he can fight, concoct pills, make weapons, draw formations, make his own f*cking martial arts and heaven knows what else. He never suffers a setback because even when he's beaten black and blue, he comes out of it ten times stronger due to the benefits.

The novel also suffers because of the major power creep as is the case with other xn novels. Past a certain point, there's no distinguishing factors beyond the name of the realm. For instance, for the life of me I can't figure out what's the difference between Combat King and Combat Emperor outside the fact that they have different names. All battles are the same, and we can never objectively gauge the strength of the 'superpowers' because the only factor that makes a difference is that they're in the higher realm. At earlier stages, it was at least explained; for instance, Heavenly Core realm is when he was able to fly, Combat King realm is when he can travel through space etc. But now? F*ck me if I know what's the difference between a Minor Saint and a Great Saint except that the latter is stronger because we are told so.

Outside from that, we also have your standard list of everyday xn stuff we're all familiar with. People treat MC like tr*sh because he's ALWAYS, and I mean ALWAYS on the lower side of a realm whenever he encounters a bad guy. He's never, ever fought against people who are exactly his own strength. In addition to that, MC is of course the only one that can skip realms as he pleases and fight whoever he wants. He always has a solution and, when he doesn't, someone will show up to protect him until he's strong enough to wipe everyone who as much as looked at him wrongly, let alone anything else.

All his companions are c*ckroaches that contribute absolutely nothing to him outside of that damn dog which brings more trouble than anything else. Author clearly doesn't want to abandon them so he keeps stringing them along and giving them sh*t left and right in order for them to keep up with MC, yet the only constrain on MC's speed of cultivation - foundation - doesn't seem to matter sh*t to them. It's clear that he just can't abandon them at this point, so he has to keep making sh*t up to make them however little relevant to the concurrent struggles.

Writing style is just annoying, with every special effect you can think of introduced, and some that you can't even swallow. Then we have our beloved sideways commentators ALL THE DAMN TIME who keep saying that MC will lose only to be slapped right back and start saying how MC is absolute god in terms of everything. Instead of trying to make friends with a guy who's obviously ten f*cking billion degrees above everyone else in talent, everyone and their mother does their damn best to provoke him for no reason just so he can have enemy to slaughter later on. He nigh commits a f*cking race genocide because those 'people' used 'dark energy' to cultivate or whatever, and we're still supposed to like him? F*ck off.

Considering my complaints, perhaps 3 star rating seems a bit off, but it's because, as I said, I enjoy this novel. It has decent humor from time to time, it's a decent power-trip fantasy, and as long as you can skip quite a lot of stuff, there's enough enjoyment here to be had. Of course, don't except to like anyone here, because everyone's batsh*t insane. <<less
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Queen of Sheba
Queen of Sheba rated it
September 6, 2017
Status: --
The average story of self-righteous protagonist upholding Justice wherever he goes. Add to that, nonsensical conflict with groups due to random females he meets, you have a story that lasts for thousands of chapters without inciting even a spark of interest.

Furthermore, the protagonist is reincarnated, yet he behaves as if he truly is a teenager. It's truly difficult to fathom. There's little to nothing of value in this story, and furthermore, the translator for this story is a truly awful chap. With a tendency to flame his patreons, and readers.
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Seregosa
Seregosa rated it
March 5, 2017
Status: c580
Well, I'm mainly here for the comedy and ass-kicking, and this novel really delivers on those parts. I wouldn't say it's perfect, but it sure as hell is one of the better novels out there in my opinion. My main annoyance with this novel is the fact that the author likes to use his fiancé as a plot device to lure in h**ny young masters to try and lay their hands on her because of her beauty (that she can never learn to cover up with a veil or something),... more>> especially when he's not there, so that he'll kill them and provoke the bigger power behind them, which results in serious rage and slaughter. This may also cause her to be seriously damaged or endangered... But other than that, I liked most parts of this, but I don't find it to be one of those "super serious" novel, it's fairly casual, he's going on his path merrily kicking everyones ass.

The first few chapters made me drop this once because I really hated the writing style that the author used during those chapters... Seriously mentioning "because I was the greatest saint in my past life" dozens of times each chapter to justify his actions and his extremely brutal approach and stuck-up attitude that we hadn't learned to accept yet made me royally pissed. It tones down after a few chapters though, so try to at least read 10-20 chapters before deciding to drop it, the chapters aren't extremely long. Oh, and one more thing, turn off your modern morals and sympathy, especially in the first 20-30+ chapters... I'm serious, just stop thinking deeply about his actions and enjoy the ride, don't take this novel too seriously, especially not at the beginning.
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The dude freaking killed off his big brother (admittedly that's okay, he was a douche) and then he delivered his corpse in a chest to the one who was supposed to marry him when they came to pick him up in one of those large wedding processions, although that girl was extremely grotesquely ugly, she didn't really deserve that, but I laughed as I turned off my morals. He also castrated some people for being a bit arrogant in front of him and crushed all their limbs before throwing them back to their family. Note that he still goes on killing sprees later on, but the beginning had a lot of unjustified killings, which doesn't happen later on. So if you really hate when the MC doesn't have a proper reason to kill someone, just wait, because it will get better later on and he will just about never kill people that didn't want to kill him first then and everything will be somewhat reasonable.

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Edit:

Okay, read this again, and it's utter garbage. What the hell. I've rarely seen a novel that is this bad. The author is clearly a freaking nutcase that doesn't have any motivation to write a proper story.

This novel... It repeats itself ALL THE TIME. The author ran out of proper content and ideas after 200-250 chapters. The stuff that happens is IDENTICAL, every single fight, every single event... It was interesting at first, but quickly turned to garbage after started repeating the same old stuff again and again.

Let's look at the side-characters, the relationships. The MC is a 1000+ year old guy, the once greatest saint. He acts like an emotional teenager with mental issues. He treats his reincarnated body's father as his real father, and says his life is as important as his own, which is s*upid. The first harem member is ridiculous, the once greatest saint fell in love with her, a 13-14 year old girl that he hadn't even met before, the moment he laid his eyes upon her, it was INSTANT, no development at all, every relationship in this novel works like an on/off button, they're just switched on and BOOM, they're at the ultimate level of relationship, no need for anything like proper development, it just happens because the author says so. His brothers are also similarly shallow, he meets them, they help him with something minor, and BOOM, they're brothers for life and their lives are worth as much as his own. We, the readers, also never get to see any real interactions between them, they might as well be talking rocks, no spirit or personality at all and we don't even really know them, yet we have to accept them as the mc's brothers or wives.

I never thought I would say something this scary, but this novel makes MGA look good, even the romance in MGA is better. Oh, when talking about MGA, the companions are kinda similar, soulless ornaments that exist only to kiss the mc's arse and bring trouble and be protected. They will also somehow all be special and somehow advance by leaps and bounds to keep up with the MC, they get everything for free without working for it, the MC usually gets stuff for them, and if they lag behind, they get huge cultivation boosts that goes against the laws of cultivation to catch up with the MC.

The comedy in this novel is subpar. It was kinda funny at first, but it is later on re-used all the time, the author never thinks up new jokes, so he just keeps on repeating the same ones all the time, never any difference. When we got to the next big continent, the divine continent, everything pretty much replays like in the first continent.

Oh, and there's an insane number of coincidences in this novel, imagine the MC having impossible plot armor and things happening that should be completely impossible, it's like he's buying a few hundred lottery tickets where there's a top prize and only one in a million can win it, but he wins it every time he scratches a card, despite the fact that there should also only be a single prize. It's just ridiculous. He always arrives at the last second and sh*t, but usually it's far more crap than that and coincidences that really is completely and utterly impossible, not even a 0, 00000001 chance of it happening.

Okay, I don't want to complain much more about this trainwreck and this author that doesn't care about writing a good novel, but I feel like I have to mention the ridiculous amount of plot holes and contradictions in this novel. The author incessantly contradicts himself and creates plot holes EVERYWHERE, it's one of the worst cases I've seen, it's as if he's trying to insult our intelligence and pretends we're ret*rded.

Really, avoid this novel, or at least stop reading when they enter the island of ice after 200+ chapters, because that's when the author completely ran out of material and started the endless repetition. I don't usually feel this way, but I truly look down on the author, he's a really bad one and he should just stop writing, because he has no talent for it, or at least he doesn't have any proper motivation for it, he doesn't want it to be a good novel, he just wants money by writing easy sh*t and repeating himself all the time. Contemptible.

I'll give this 2/5 stars simply because it was slightly enjoyable for around 200 chapters and then it turned to crap. So, the start was 3/5, or almost 4/5 stars, but it quickly, after just 100-200 chapters, turned into sh*t and only deserves a 1/5 at most. So, 2/5 it is, but remember that it turns into a 1/5 after 100-200 chapters.

Edit 2:

A good while passed and had nothing to read so decided to give it another shot where I left off as I had forgotten most of it anyway. Enjoyed it enough to keep on reading, got a little bit less repetitive and read 80 chapters, however I have to say that even just 80 chapters after such a long time since I read this last time made me feel a bit tired because it's truly just way too repetitive. It's literally written in the way that the MC runs to one place after another to take revenge or rescue people, being mad for nothing, that's all of his motivation and it gets old fast. I would've kept on reading though because I wasn't quite tired yet but around chapter 570 the translator changed. Sadly, the new translator doesn't know proper english, the flow is horrible, the grammar is sh*t and it all reads like it was written by an immature teenager who simply doesn't know how to put together sentences and paragraphs properly. No proper editor to change it either. It became cringeworthy to read, ruining any fun I had reading it, seems it doesn't get much better after a few hundred more chapters so I simply decided to drop it. One HAS to LOVE these damn translators who are subpar and doesn't have proper editors yet decide to translate novels. Contrary to common belief, one shouldn't be thankful for their effort, one should be mad at them for not doing a good job. They're ruining your reading experience and insulting the author's effort. The entire novel is destroyed and people won't ever translate it properly because it's "already translated". Bad translators or translators that doesn't know english that well yet doesn't have a competent editor to fix the mistakes and change the text should stop ruining novels. It's incredibly rude, both towards the readers and the authors. <<less
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makenai89
makenai89 rated it
May 28, 2016
Status: c95
Reviewed at 95 chapters, rated 4

Like around half a dozen other xuanhuan novels, Dragon-Marked War God brought forth an MC who was a superior being but somehow died and took the physical body of a good-for-nothing young master. However, in DMWG the MC showed his superiority and arrogance appropriately, instead of hid his skills or disguised himself as weakling. The Author also smartly put an annoying monster sidekick to counter-balance him. The two (along with a somewhat obscure beautiful girl) made DMWG stood out among the crowd.

On the other hand,... more>> the Author seemed to take a lot of shortcut in other elements of the novel. Such as MC cultivation that is (so far) clearly more simple than in other novels. The separation with families and friends that lacked feelings of any kind. Action sequences were also narrated crudely. These kinds of world construct and narrative might suit the taste of some people, but might also invoke distaste for some others. As for me though, DMWG so far is in the right balance, especially the pace at which the story is being told. <<less
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NaM
NaM rated it
May 18, 2016
Status: c88
One of ths best read for me so far (in the genre of simple xuanhuan novel that is)

Good story flow.. Thats what made me so hook to this novel.

Its True that this do have a simple plot and always about ruthlessness and stuff. However, if you look at it closely, the badass ruthless personality of the MC is what really bring life and flavor to this story. True that he was indeed ruthless (not deep down ruthless but only pride originated ruthlessness) but not to the point... more>> that its too cringy like what happen to those ruthless other mc's (ruthless to the point that they narrate their own righteous POV to gain the trust of the masses) who in the end was flooded by revenge enemy because they are always look down upon (ex. PMG, MGS, DME).

So in the End of the day, if you made me choose from a ruthless yet Op MC (DMWG) over a ruthless yet on their own accord MC (PMG, DME, MGS), Then ill still pick the former. Nothing good come upon to those righteous tyrant MC. They are always so cliche that its getting to cringy. <<less
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RayanArcadia
RayanArcadia rated it
November 16, 2021
Status: c1120
The whole damn plot is repeated every 50 chapters. I'll summarize it for you all in simple words:

MC kills people for some reason. He offends like everyone out there. They try to kill him. He gets a powerup and kills everyone back. Then, He goes to a new place and repeats the same process.

He's got super talent and gets stronger at a very fast pace. His friends who can't catch up just get some op item hidden in the middle of nowhere which is practically meant for them. They... more>> take it and get stronger by about 5 levels and catch up without doing anything. Girls like him cause he treated them and took off their hood but no development ever happens other than holding hands after 10 years. Everyone in the world thinks he's weak and can't fight the random guy XYZ but end up getting shocked. Then they think he can't beat the next guy who comes.

He saves people only once and they act like he's the god of everything and he knows everything. Hardly anybody questions how he knows so much things despite his family being like one of the weakest in the whole world.

Only God Knows Why I read over 1.1k chaps and why I'm continuing to do so.. <<less
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BlueBarrow
BlueBarrow rated it
September 30, 2020
Status: c+3000
This novel was already very good, I had a lot of fun reading it. But after chapter 2000 the novel changed completely, yes, literally, I even found it strange, thinking that they changed authors.

The MC's personality changed completely, from a man who valued relationships and hardly added any women to the harem... more>>
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(so much so that 2000 chapters passed and he only had 3 women in the harem, the 3rd had not even been officially accepted)

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to one who he finds some pretty woman and fights desperately to win her heart.

Seriously, there were suddenly many women in the harem, and the first 2 women in the harem? In the shit.

In addition, the MC seems to have lost his brain. He started to act like any arrogant young master, with silly comments and attitudes.

Anyway, this novel was already wonderful, clearly it was one of the 5 best ones I've read until today, but after chapter 2000 the novel seemed to have lost its meaning.

A person who lived more than 1000 years and reincarnated should have a great maturity, and this was seen until chapter 2000,
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when he went to the divine kingdom, I think the tribulation took some cognitive functions from his brain, poor boy.

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ReviewObtainer
ReviewObtainer rated it
July 30, 2019
Status: c547
I made an account to give an accurate description of this series and what it's actually about so that the newer readers won't have to be disappointed.

This story isn't good. By even cultivation novel standards, the story is a bounce between insulting arrogant people and attempted r*pes on the MC's female companions. It really grinds you down as you read because its a cycle of the exact same thing.

It mentions how intelligent, merciless and wise he is then he proceeds to create trouble, forgives someone (ironic because of how often... more>> it reiterates the point of his mercilessness) then he just happens to get a crazy power up or solves the problem because 'he was the greatest saint and knows literally everything'. The number of inconsistencies in this story is mind-boggling and it hurts to read. Even spending more than 5 minutes on the review is an insult to my intelligence.

If you want a story that's just "What/??? HOw Did he do that??? I'm a genius, therefore it's impossible for someone to be more genius than me !.!!!" *Dies* go ahead and enjoy. It has a sorta cool premise and some castration but it just sorta falls off the wagon after about 30 chaps in. <<less
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UsernameJ
UsernameJ rated it
May 16, 2016
Status: c87
Entertaining and amusing novel. The author understands the ridiculousness of the Xianxia genre and uses it to write a story. What makes this novel good, isn't that the character is ridiculously over-the-top. He has the best everything: the best knowledge, the best skills, the best tactics. What makes this novel good is that it realizes the character is just completely overpowered and that's the whole point.

The other good thing about this novel, and the thing that makes it distinct from others. Is that there is no more of this: "The... more>> MC is super smart and ruthless when he needs to be and nice otherwise. Oh what's that? This arrogant young master tried to r*pe the MC's sister and now that the MC has beaten him in a life-or-death duel, the MC is going to laugh at him and let him live? His shame is enough punishment?"

No f*ck that, in this story the arrogant young master gets his head exploded with a fist.

The details in the setting in the world are decent, the cultivation path is kind of interesting. I don't think the setting is particularly creative like in World of Cultivation or ISSTH. However the frankness of the OP MC and the humour make this story roughly on par with ATG and TDG. Definitely a decent and amusing read. <<less
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MarkofWisdom
MarkofWisdom rated it
September 5, 2018
Status: c3100
3-4 * for starting and second major arcs (~2.5k chapters or so), 1-2 star for 3rd major arc (~2500+)

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I enjoyed the story for the most part through the Saint world and immortal world, though there were ups and downs, but the story took a definite nose-dive after JC reached the divine world (3rd tier realm). He's basically stopped using most of his old stuff aside from spamming the dragon moves, he "feels something wrong" and doesn't use his divination/future reading technique anymore (from immortal world, was extremely useful for him). One of his newest spam techniques is fusing heaven thunder into a bomb to try and wreck everything, and every time he uses it people go "there's no way he can use it" etc. Add in all the other complaints from other people giving poor reviews and you get a picture of the divine world arcs.

I stopped at 3100 because I got tired of the author just making almost everything go wrong for JC for "drama" or whatever reason he has, and he's actually noted the story is less popular recently which as some of the commenters put-people usually don't enjoy reading about a character they like continually getting crapped on for s*upid reasons or no reason at all, and for most of his work to keep getting undone-see friends and allies keep vanishing/getting possessed/kidnapped

JC basically gets shoehorned repeatedly into being against just about *everyone* in the local region, often times for reasons that are utterly absurd, and he keeps losing his allies/friends/wives that either wander off (best outcome) or are possessed/kidnapped/betray him for the umpteenth time-the 3rd wife of his Qingcheng (beautiful woman) -that's how the lmntl pages keep calling her and I saw someone make a quip of "Qingcheng (useless woman) " and it's fitting-she has been possessed and attacked him at this point no less than 5 times, including getting cured and then repossessed by something else shortly afterwards. There was one point where he reunited with QC and Wu Ningzhu (badly injured from... something) and actually stayed together with them and the monkey he became friends with even after the arc ended and they were moving on. I had snarked at the end I was surprised he still had anyone around. Cue 3 chapters later-monkey wanders off to train, QC gets possessed yet again and runs off after taking a few pot shots at JC, Wu Ningzhu gets kidnapped by.... someone and JC is chasing after her before a****** #8945894 comes out of nowhere to attack him a few times and block him long enough for Wu Ningzhu's kidnapper to get away, and JC is once more by himself. He's also spent quite a few chapters just being attacked in succession by endless morons from random regions.

JC now has the habit often going extremely far to get treasures that he himself needs before a friend pops up with an injury or just wanting it, and he'll give them the best stuff that he himself also needs. It's nice that he cares and helps his friends/family, but he goes too far with it to the point where it hinders his own progress.

JC's also developed the bad habit of being exceedingly/s*upidly forgiving of even random women that backstab him and either let's the go for whatever reason or actually helps them even after they tried killing him. The one woman who he *should* be friends with or stay around more though he's left behind in some random sect somewhere before he left, and he's run into other women he's come into conflict with many times repeatedly and at least one time helped save one woman's clan from outside invaders before leaving-though at least in that case he was more helping the woman's sister that he didn't know was related, and the sister was a cool character (widow with kid, so off limits to JC) that was sane and reasonable.

All of this aside the *single worst part* of the story for me was the arc where the new c*ckroach Xuanyuan Canglan is introduced (Nanbei Chao is finished off near end of immortal world, JC lets him survive in a new reincarnation after wiping his memories, and it's implied that NBC will pop up again at some point as an ally to JC since they were noted as being similar and if they weren't enemies from the start, they would have been good friends). Canglan is the epitome of all that is wrong with this novel-a****** who should have died 1000 chapters ago, keeps getting bailed out by diabolus ex machinas and absolutely s*upid "allies", keeps showing up just to harass JC and complicate things and escaping barely while swearing "I'll get you if it's the last thing I do -Gadget- Jiang Chen!", and adds nothing to the story but sure takes a lot away from it. During his initial arc Canglan was big evil mastermind of the area and had set up what was apparently 10x reincarnations over 70k years to resurrect "some big demon thing" that ended up being the Taotie so he could get power. Lots of plotting, arrogance, mu*der, etc. and JC meets a "friendly enemy" from the same group as Canglan that ends up being a pig teammate and getting Canglan to gun after JC for his treasures after JC saved the friend since the friend is nice but Canglan is a greedy a******, who teaches the "friend" the lesson of "what I want, I get, cause I'm stronger than them" and the friend is sad but accepts it-this also comes up later when JC is off doing other things while the other groups of people are being attacked by monster hordes and the friend+canglan could save JC's friends, but Canglan says to leave them to die and just steal their stuff-the "friend" accepts this too even though he is "sad" about it. Towards the end of the arc where everything is going sideways and most of the people are dead, the Taotie appears, starts killing everyone and backstabs Canglan, before JC appears and saves everyone, including killing the Taotie. Cue Canglan pulling out magic plot BS #434 and absorbing the now near-dead Taotie and getting a big power boost and then he goes on to try and eat everyone. JC saves the day yet again and destroys the physical body of Canglan/taotie and is about to finish Canglan off (actual permanent killing him, not just "he's dead but not really" like NBC before) before... out pops "friend"! To... save Canglan! Despite knowing Canglan is evil and against him, and was planning on killing him too, "friend"/pig teammate blocks JC's lethal blow and Canglan then backstabs him and absorbs him while "friend" asks JC to let Canglan off despite knowing all of Canglan's crimes... and that Canglan even literally backstabbed and mu*dered him to try and get stronger and get away. Cue JC being angry at Canglan backstabbing his ally and trying to kill him again before the sealed world they're in goes to hell and Canglan gets to get away alive. This would be bad enough, but tolerable since it isn't the first c*ckroach around to escape. No, what makes *this* the worst part in the entire story is after Canglan gets saved repeatedly by bulls*** so he can get away to harass again another day, he pulls some mass brainwash move out of his ass so that everyone thinks JC was the evil b******* who was killing everyone and that Canglan was the hero. This came out of *nowhere*, was never hinted at or mentioned or used again, and happened *just* so JC would be forced to be hated by everyone again when he seriously deserved to at least get either some recognition or at least *not* be a manhunt target for once. This ends up with the *entire* province wanting him dead because of his "crimes" that they used as justification to attack him and when he killed those that attacked him, that led to more people trying to hunt him down as revenge for that. He is of course forced to abandon the sect he was in so they didn't get brought down too, and then had to go on the run *once again*. As far as I know, Canglan is still alive and pops up from time to time just to be a pain in the ass-he is even worse than NBC.

At this point I'm waiting for JC to find and reunite with Chenyu again (ice girl he met first) and actually *keep* her around rather than having her run off, backstab him, or get possessed. Or for the story to end and just read recaps of the remaining chapters to see what happened afterwards

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Wakashii
Wakashii rated it
July 30, 2018
Status: c1800
Okay, this novel was my love for many months, but when you read above 1400 chapter it's hard to still love.

The problem is not all the cliche, but three main things:

1- Everything is repetitive, the MC always gonna mess with Young Masters/Sects and goes to another realm. Its incredible repetitive how this happened over 6 times in the period I read the novel.

2- The fact that his friends always had lucky encounters and breakthough a lot of realms THAT NEVER SURPASS THE MC, NEVER. This is too much bullsh*t for... more>> me. His girls, his friends, everyone in his live acompanies him always close his strengh and we cannot forget that the MC is a fuc*ng superb genius. They disappear and when we see them again... guess? They have a strengh close to the MC (this happens a lot)

3- Now, this is the most bullsh*t I think I ever read in a novel. He goes to another realm and he already can concoct pills of this realm. A thing that was supposed to be unbelievable hard, he could do it easily without even the author saying before that he trained or something like that. Come on, wtf. This is like you leaving the school with high grades and goes to the college, never attends the lessons and get A++++++ in everything.

I give it 3.0 because I enjoyed the first 1k chapters, but It could be 2.0 or 1.0 easily. <<less
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qull
qull rated it
March 23, 2018
Status: c3373
Don't be blinded by synopsis. The actual story is different from description. The people who commented on this as a good reading never really read to latest chapters. The author only cares about milking the plot, and he will reuse (or forced reuse) plots.

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For example, his underdog story. For example, his wives being brainwashed or kidnapped or disappeared are used for over several times. I do not exaggerated this

  1. He found out his wife is brainwashed.
  2. He spent 500 chapters to find a way to save her
  3. His wife reunion for a brief scene
  4. The mastermind pops out and reapply brainwash

It's been... around 2k chapters since we first discovers her. She has been cured and rebrainwashed for at least 3 times. As of ch3373, she is still in brainwashed state and can't recalled MC. MC is still trying to find a cure for her.

This is an example of many plot being repeated.

Other than that, wife disappearing. When she is found, she was forced to disappear by some random reason within hundred chapters after she is found. Now they are still missing..

MC is always underdog, even if his cultivation is the same as enemy. He will always be in backfoot, even though all "heavenly defying" techniques he has. For example, some guy of same realm as him can mindcontrol his wife from miles away, while he can't do anything about it and is subjected to his overwhelming power.

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Ksitigarbha
Ksitigarbha rated it
November 5, 2017
Status: c386
This thing doesn't even deserve to be called a novel.

99% of the people MC meets are arrogant pricks who think they stand above the heavens bc of their clan/sect and anyone else can just be killed by them.

Not that this is not enough our MC basically offends everyone he meets because he is just as equally arrogant.

At first is is great to see a really ruthless MC, but sadly it gets old very quickly because this novel seems to have at most 50 chapters of plot which are copy pasted... more>> over and over again, with the only change being the name of the sect or person which is trying to kill our MC.

Also you can tell what is going to happen/ who is going to be the next villain tens of chapters beforehand. If a character is introduced as having great talent or a superior cultivation then you can bet your ass they are going to be someone who wants our MC dead.

Would rate 0/5 but sadly thats not possible. <<less
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Little Big House
Little Big House rated it
July 12, 2016
Status: c68
Great novel, fun to read. Worth reading if you're searching for a kind of funny xianxia. MC is reincarnated with his memories as the son of the mayor. MC just took over the body so there's no "childhood" arc. Just like the novel TDG (Tales of Demons and Gods), the MC was one of the most powerful beings before he died. MC is really confident in his plans and his knowledge so others think of him as a rich arrogant kid who doesn't know the difference between heaven and earth.

Personally I've read until the chapter 68 in one go and appreciated these chapters a lot. It's just really fun to read. For now I'm waiting until the chapters 350 approx. To continue my reading.

As for why..

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since from the chapt. 68 a new arc begins (the trio goes around the world). Apparently in the chapters 140 or 150, the girl goes in a coma and only comes out of it in the chapters 300 something.

I prefer to read the translation in one go and/or skip some parts 'cause those arcs where the author just put aside one of the MC puts me in an incomfortable position just like in MGA (martial god Asura).

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JakeRay
JakeRay rated it
November 15, 2019
Status: c354
I really wanted to like this novel. It had great premise, interesting world-building, and the writing seemed fun..

Unfortunately it suffers from a deadly case of the s*upids. The MC is supposed to be a smart, reincarnated warrior, but all we get is someone who is (arguably justifiably) arrogant because of the, almost literal, plot-armor that saves him every time it's needed. Which is often. He seems clever, but I've yet to see any strategy other than "Hey, I'm faster than you, so good luck chasing me because I made you... more>> angry, I'm gonna hide for a short time while I conveniently get a major boost in cultivation to be able to defeat you very soon".

That's it really, I don't remember anything else.

His companions are also just serve as tools to help MC on his journey, or force him to save them from coma - from which they conveniently get a boost in cultivation after doing f*ck-all so they can continue by his side - or they are just empty decoration like his "girlfriend" who he, for no apparent reason, vows to not have s*x with before she reaches the highest cultivation realm on the continent. So yeah, she's just decoration.

So far, for 350 chapters, it's all been: Offend one-dimensional Bad Guys™ -> Cultivation Power-up Journey-> Kill and Offend more Bad Guys™ -> Miraculous Instant Cultivation Power-up -> Save Side-Characters -> Offend more Bad Guys™ -> I give up.

I really wanted to like it. <<less
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Doxkid
Doxkid rated it
September 8, 2019
Status: --
MC and his crew cultivate to the limit of the low-tier world they were born in. MC and crew move up to a higher level world that considers their current strength/skill/knowledge insignificant.

They still vastly outstrip everyone and everything with their cultivation experience, quickly surpassing even the enemies that specifically use lesser world as practice arenas. No one else is allowed to have anything nice; the MC takes literally every good thing mentioned in the story OR makes something better OR that good thing is actually poison and he lets other... more>> people have it.

Classic Shameless-Pet that is actually a half-god. World destroying, peerless, unmatched beauties are constantly backflipping onto his dong, but he will never give in to lust. MC is never wrong and he will never be defeated. No one in MCs crew ever dies, no one gets r*ped despite every female in the group being threatened with that twice per breath, no one ever fails in cultivation.

The story is good for mindless reading, but that's it. <<less
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xiin
xiin rated it
October 26, 2017
Status: c2000
one of the first xuanhuan novels I ever picked up and it's still one of my favorites. The first arc starts a bit weird with

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a strange fixation on castration and gruesome gory retribution

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but afterwards the story and writing smoothens out and becomes a lot more enjoyable. I'm guessing that the author is/was gaining experience as he went along because subsequent arcs get sooo much better.

the character development is there, and the relationships between the characters (his gang of bros and his -surprisingly- small harem) are portrayed really well.

so to sum it up, for those of you who got turned off by the beginning, push through! It's worth it. <<less
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