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Ancient Strengthening Technique
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16 Volumes / 2492 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.A human warrior cultivating the Ancient Strengthening Technique has transcended dimensions and arrived on Kyushu. Together with twelve ravishing beauties with looks that were unmatched in their generation, will he be able to stand on the summit of this world?
This novel is about the main character, named Qing Shui, who transcended dimensions and arrived in the Kyushu continent. Storms of blood and wind, resulting in corpses and bones strewn about are extremely common here. The young warrior Qing Shui forged ahead in his path to cultivate, using 10 years to train himself, only to seek vengeance for the one who had forsaken his mother!
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Portraits of Beauty
上古强身术
美女图
Portraits of Beauty
上古强身术
美女图
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'Ancient Strengthening Technique' is terrible. NOTICE: I HAVE NOT COMPLETED THIS NOVEL AND I HAVE NOT READ THIS NOVEL IN A WHILE THEREFORE SOME THINGS CAN BE INACCURATE. Firstly, I'll suggest a few things about making novels (before I continue reviewing) to those who may desire to create a novel but don't know how to, or is afraid of what the public may say or people like me who are really critical about what we read and do not desire to see plot-holes or novels of poor quality. You'd need to first of all, plan out the basic components of what the novel is going to be, its' main segments, and you would need to keep in mind what you want the novel's 'tags' or 'genres' are going to be so that you can limit some of your lovely creativity. Once you have this sorted out, you should be fine to go, if you desire to know more about reading novels and writing them (unfortunately I am not of Asian origin and I do not know any Asian novels therefore I will limit myself to novels that I know and are not bad.), you can read these novels:
• The Lord of the Rings
• Harry Potter
• Percy Jackson & the Olympians (Novel Series) (or well, maybe you can read this webnovel since although I haven't completed reading it, it's a decent read to look at and see how the author is writing, and it is definitely clear in the 'ranking system' that most martial arts novels have; "Evil Emperor's Wild Consort".) Writing Quality - 2/5
The quality of the writing from the author is lacking for what an author should be like -- an author should always read back what they've written before and patch up as many plot-holes as possible and/or write down things that they could work on later (but not too late), if they do not do this, the story will feel weird as the readers can feel weird and/or confused about what X or Y may be (you authors do not want this, trust me). Theme - 1/5
This intertwines with what I had previously mentioned in "Writing Quality", the author hasn't (or it doesn't seem so) 'read back what they've written before and patch up as many plot-holes as possible and/or write down things that they could work on later'. As the user ZoorYuvonHeim has said in his review.
'This is proving to be an erratic story. If you see from the tags, it wants to be everything at once. However each chapter can only do a couple things at a time. The result is an erratic story that is flopping through minor arcs about relative topics. So far, its more of a Fantasy Romance Drama than an Action Martial Arts story. It does incorporate the elements listed, but it can prove to be odd at times. Either too in-depth on pointless areas, or lacking far too much on others.'
Which is correct, the theme (or themes) of the story is all over the place and where you can get away with having the base story without having these unnecessary arcs about topics that don't fit the main theme (which honestly, I have no idea what it is, any more.) Story Development 3/5
The development of the story is relatively smooth from transitioning from one thing to another (as far as I am aware since I haven't read it in a while) and I have no complaints about that, the reason why this particular section is 3/5 is because of things that are mentioned in the 'Theme' and the 'Writing Quality' sections because I don't desire to repeat myself on this review. Character Design 2/5
The protagonist's character is developed pretty well, however, the other characters aren't good at all. World Building 1/5
... yeah, not going to go down into this rabbit hole, maybe later? Pay attention to when I attempt to complete this review since this review can be considered as a rush.
- Intensive Training Periods
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- Protagonist's Mentality
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- Calculations
- Romance and Family
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These are the main points that made me take some distance from the novel. I believe with professional editorial work, this novel would have a great potential, but without it, it lacks a lot of stuff and is "OK" at best.The author sometimes spends 3~7 chapters fully on the protagonist reflexives thoughts about his training, planning and training results. That by itself isn't really a problem, but these infodump chapters aren't really much different from each other and it usually feels like you are reading the same stuff over and over again. There are also characters that disappear only to come back stronger than the protagonist even the protagonist having been training for so much time with so many cheats.
He worked so hard using so many cheats and even so Yu He went from Houtian to Martial Emperor in like 3 years where the protagonist took more than 15 years of real time, not counting the time from his training inside the Spatial Realm. The protagonist even affirmed that the Ancient Strengthening Technique was a perfect fit for him.
The author insists on the protagonist's inferiority complex even when he's already banged like 12 women that are world-class beauties. It feels really off about his personality because when he trains Nature Energy, Spirit Energy and stuff like that he always says that his personality becomes more relaxed and confident and you can clearly see that's not really happening, his mentality didn't really change since the beginning of the novel and that causes a LOT of his relationships go through troubles. If he sees a woman that looks too beautiful and not to his tastes he automatically assumes she's a sl*t and treats her like garbage. It happened more than once. He's very often a hypocrite and can't seem to get over some stuff, even everyone telling him to get over it. I don't know if these parts are the author's intention or just the author's consistency. He's also supposedly has eidetic memory (perfect memorization), but keeps forgetting stuff like abilities and items that can solve the situation really easily but never even mentions them in that moment.
I used to believe math was the same everywhere on the world and this novel seems to break this rule. The author seems insistent on using numbers to show levels of strength and time relativity. The thing is: I don't know if it is really the author's math or problems during the translation, but many times the math doesn't make any sense. Those who read until chapter 31 can already see signs of this. Later the protagonist and companions get skills and equipment that boosts their power in the % basis. However, that's not only one or two skills but more like 13 of them and without a calculator it's not really feasible to follow his calculations, which are pretty constant.
Besides what I already wrote in his mentality, there's simply way too many characters and the protagonist clearly can't really manage his lovers and family. This is really showing the protagonist starts going to other continents. A lot of people is forgotten, and not only minor characters. The way romance develops and feelings grow cold from being apart sometimes doesn't feel natural and sometimes really feels like the author forgot about someone and is just giving an excuse. He keeps getting married to girls, even thought they all start like "I won't marry to a guy that wants more than 1 woman!" they always keeping welcoming more and more woman smiling all happily because "Strong men have a lot of wives" even tough the situation is going out of control. I mean where I stopped it feels like there's more Quing Shui's women and children than there's other people from the Quing Clan.