Pursuing Immortality

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Meet Gu Yu—a college dropout and a talented incense maker, and at the same time, the rather stoic protagonist of this story. Despite his somewhat introverted manner, he has a tendency to make sarcastic remarks in his thoughts. One day, after saving a squirrel, a windfall (metaphorically and literally) dropped into his lap. Stumbling into the cultivation world with little help, he was not turned into Superman overnight (as he would like). Apparently, becoming a cultivator would not make your life easier, at least in the beginning.

Somewhere along the road, he ran into Jiang Xiaozhai, a young woman whose got the brains, the beauty, and maybe one or two secrets of her own. As it turned out, the two made a perfect team—Mulder-and-Scully style. Motivated by many unanswered questions, they had been running up and down the country, getting into all kinds of trouble, and learning more of the modern cultivation world, which is by no means the same as in the ages long past…

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顾道长生
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01/15/19 Webnovel c410
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Gsichtselfmeter
Gsichtselfmeter rated it
August 22, 2019
Status: c410
Imagine this: All the old magic, wizardry and cultivation powers are real, just temporarily asleep. And now they awaken and form the lands again. But we are in the modern times. How do the people react to the resurgence of immortals. What will the gouvernment do? How will they try and keep their power? This is exactly what this novel is about: The mix of modern times and old magic. The MC and his companion are lucky youngsters that find themselves at the lead of the times, grasping the stars... more>> whilst everyone runs behind. The novel is slow-paced and witty, describing the transformation of the MC and the world, where each come to terms with the new times. As the MC strives for immortality he slowly begins to stand above the common folk, experiencing time in years, shedding his human self.

Of course this goes not without flaws. What bothered me are that things that are foreshadowed or even very much in the focus of the novel
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Essence making, the fat squirrel, the tree fruits, the peach essence

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are just forgotten and get mentioned hundreds of chapters later. This can be explained by the transformation from human to immortal, but I think those things deserve a real end. Also the MC is described as detached, selfish and willful, and he really actually acts that way;, but sometimes he also acts as a chinese nationalist without any reason and this doesnt fit his description as "standing above the world and detached from human emotions". Furthermore the novel is full of mentions of ancient chinese people, places and sagas and it is very hard to follow them. (Obviously I am a western reader, and the novel was not written for the western market)

Despite the flaws I had a blast reading this and give it 5*. I especially liked the authors witty style, adding some s*xual innuendos here and there. Very refreshing and fun to read. <<less
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shuiko
shuiko rated it
January 27, 2019
Status: c410
Truly a properly well written Book like story about cultivation, with a proper romance, that helps build the characters and the plot. Good relationship, no bullshit, no random forced problems.

Fights are interesting, power levels are cool, and the worlds building is unique and pretty amazing.
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write
write rated it
November 30, 2022
Status: c68
Unclassic in the sense that the MC stumbles into mysterious world that changes nothing. This is actually a plus, there is no mysterious teacher, no hidden manuals. MC stumbles into cultivation world with emphasize on stumbles. If we ignore the lack of any character development besides suddenly waking up on the right side of the bed and understanding everything, as fantasy has ten commandments of cultivation, so it makes sense he knows everything and can understand and explain everything happening to him. Ignoring those parts the slice of life is... more>> real and as someone that hates most slice of life can tell you its not that bad.

The slow pace slice of life, ignoring horrible parts that just don't make any or very little sense, but enjoying the stubborn tenacity of a man just living. But this all changes, and from 0 to was always a hero the MC somehow becomes this hero that feels almost like he was always been but suddenly the world got the memo and everything is different. What we read before is not true and we're just dumb for not realizing there was no 0 to hero because MC was always a hero.

Finally side slice comes in and shes perfect. So we again realize MC is not a hero still a 0 so we stumble through the whiplash and return. Then she goes away and the hero is back and once you get through that second dose of whiplash you realize everything that made you read in the beginning is gone and all that is left is the parts that were forced on you to shove the story forward. Those are the parts that are either not explained or well thought out or just info dumped to the point you skim or skip and might as well not be there anyways. Those just replace everything in the hook that made you read the story in the first place. <<less
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