Yes the MC is an otaku (derogatory and degenerate type), as the author has wrote: the MC is very lazy (he doesn’t manage his territory into an actual territory with a government/would rather wait for his enemies to come to him rather than clean up the problem), a scumbag (doesn’t write this but his actions make him one), introvert (would rather stay in his room than socialize with real people/go to aristocratic parties), is an unproductive person who does useless/unnecessary things (too many to list), and opinion based social justice mr nice guy, etc. Basically a Otaku. But the author’s lack of vocabulary and his emphasis of the MC’s moral and good chinese traditional values, contradict and sugarcoat the real things going on or what the MC has done. Instead of just completely going along with the MC’s developments, the author ignores the changes and keeps the MC as Nice guy Otaku who isn’t a push over.

the MC spends around 3 weeks doing some trading while doing farming/leveling up his ranch and farm in the background. Even after 3 weeks the ranch and farm still haven’t leveled up. However by introducing 1 new animal and 3 new plants/seeds the ranch levels up 6 times and the farm 8 times respectively. Later on MC gets the power to get sea animals, a machine that can make anything (weapons, potions, etc), and all sorts of metal – and the author doesn’t know what to do with this. It’s really obvious since he doesn’t it at all or just gives a vague explanation and he makes the MC completely forget about it or forces him to never mention those abilities ever again until the author finds a illogical moment to re-mention it even if it creates plot holes.

The MC tries to solve the poison issue in the swamp near his territory and encounters a blood mosquito that’s a level 9 (only term used for the peak level in the continent even though there were the demons/flower girl that are higher) magic beast, and note that the MC is in the farm space so he’s safe. But the issue is that his farm management staff, which lets him us magic and some farm features like space/teleportation (which is how he traveled through the poisonous swamp), is now in front of the beast. Here the MC gets paranoid that the mosquito will take it and the MC won’t be able to use the staff as a coordinate point so he can use it to travel quicker (he can use birds to hold the staff to travel to some far away place, stay in his space, and save 1 month worth of travel) so, to prevent this, he decides to go outside and confront it because he assumes that insect is intelligent and can talk. Seems legit right? Even Grandpa Grimm/Green and the other people that came with him are bawling and crying since it’s apparently the only choice they have – to let the MC, of all people, confront that magic beast that can kill a human practitioner of the same level. He couldn’t just summon more eagles/animals, his undead army, or have Grimm go outside the space to ‘communicate’ with it to test waters or use his farm ability to try and capture, kill, or something else entirely. No. The only choice he had was to go outside, confront it, and make peace like civil people instead of the other smarter choices that the MC’s cronies could have told him instead of bawling like he’s doing the most honorable and logical thing. The lvl 9 mosquito then gets brainwashed, thanks to the farm’s power to tame animal (s), into being servile to the MC. This also happens to the higher-than-level-9 demon flower girl. Then after some time MC gets in trouble with some families and has to run away because he apparently doesn’t have the power to confront them. When in reality he doesn’t have to run away and can just brainwash the other 10+ level 9 magic beasts mentioned and are in the swamp and get the problem solved. But nope author doesn’t mention that and the characters who know about this don’t even think of that solution. And guess what? Everyone is depressed and crying because they were forced to run away since they didn’t have the power to go up against a family with five level 9s. Even though there were plenty to brainwash back at the swamp. Wow.

^This development is the starting point of completely destroying the potential of the Adumb having an epic moment of having his territory’s problems fixed, getting s*aves which could have been the territory’s people, and any plot devices mentioned like the Buda family secret techniques, revenge, and the original setting information that was telling you where this story was initially going to go. Now we don’t know what the MC is trying to do and we get no developments in the original territory wastelands other than farming, making alcohol, and merchandise related things instead of government management/services.

Also, the MC is a hypocrite, has double standards, and instead of his depiction of being a nice, loyal, and friendly guy he’s portrayed the opposite. The MC, who has destroyed thousands of acres of agriculture which will starve millions of people so that he can oppose a family and who has brainwashed intelligent magic beast to be loyal/serve him think that what the people who do things on the same level are horrible and unmoral. His father’s friend Evan who lost political power in order saved Adumb’s life, gets treated as a useless side character and unimportant in Adumbs eyes, even though Evan has a great personality being honorable, treating friends well, and the only person so far who is actually SMART and has REASONING skills. But for some reason Evan gets treated poorly by Adumb. I mean Adumb who meets total strangers he just met or are in the same loose organization tells them all his secrets, trades with them more than what Evan gets, and are overall treated better than Evan. This is also a problem the Adumb has: He has a big mouth he keeps spilling all his secrets and identity when he says he isn’t doing on purpose (lol) and doesn’t lay low when he says to lay low; he’s going covert to pass into other territories so he can go to another country. He says they have to lay low even though they F’ing don’t – they go through the same territory that he was wanted (by the big family first mentioned) in and come out as flashy suspicious person since he did the same thing before he was wanted.

He also decides to kill a bunch of bull beastmen because they used the Cattle beastmen family as a bait in order to kill them the remnant Cattle family whom the Bull family is now enemies with and want to get rid of. Even though its a normal thing that humans do and they need to do it so the cattle family can’t grow to take revenge later on, because the MC says it’s dishonorable, it’s the most vile act and which results in him killing off the bull beastmen he was just trading food, eating together, and being friends with. After that mess, he acts like he didn’t do that mess and later on kill the rest of them, who later found out that the human ‘friend’ they had (Adumb) was a spy who tricked them. To add more, the MC, later on develops the thought of wanting to brainwash the future s*aves (which he could have had earlier to develop his territory instead of wasting more than 1 year doing useless things which becomes useless later on for the story) and instill perfect loyalty into them – the adults, the beastmen, and the children. Even though he said that the light church which has been doing the same thing are inhumane, he still wants to do the same thing along with World War II propaganda.

Another situation is when Adumb goes and has trouble again with the prominent old aristocratic family that he was suppose to have some relationship/friendship with, which originates again from the issue of his good merchandise and the family wanting to control the black magicians and him being in the way of it. So Smith, who is the 2nd heir of the family and who Adumb has friendships with, tells him that his family will send a level 9 practitioner to kill him and what solution does he have to offer? To have his Megan Fox look-a-like daughter to marry him. You have to note, Megan and Zhao Hai/Adumb have never met more than 5 times prior to this and 3 of which were them greeting to each other other or small conversations. Also Megan said that Adumb was a really boring person, uninteresting, and never understood why his other 2 fiances Taylor Swift and Meg even fell in love/like the creep. But after this situation comes to play and her mother asks Megan what she thinks about Adumb and if she was okay with marrying him, she f*cking blushes and suddenly falls in love with him. I kid you not. Even her mother is surprised and doesn’t know how she fell in love or how Adumb got her to fall in love with him AND even Adumb is confused how she fell in love with him and confesses in his mind that they never interacted much or had moments to get to know each other to have the chances for love. Yeah. That. Happens. And you know what Adumb does about this situation? He accepts the damn marriage. Even when he had stated and did this said with dignity that he shall only marry those he loves and those that love him back and that he doesn’t like political marriages. First he says that he only want’s to marry Meg and only her, but then when chemistry with Laura (Taylor Swift) developed smoothly, and not BS like with Megan, he was still a romantic guy telling her all that lovey riajuu lines of I love both you and Meg, will treat you equally, and you can have freedom in our marriage. But with Megan, where no developments or any signs of the flag popping up, Adumb becomes an even bigger hypocrite and is now a full-on-ret*rd for choosing a political marriage so solve the issue even though he could have chosen other good choices like having the Shelly family (which is really powerful) or prince Charlie back him up. It doesn’t even have to be anyone backing him up, he could just use the same methods he used with the Prucell family by sabotaging or assassinating important businesses/people. But no. We get a marriage. And you know the funny part? The clan leader of the Carchi after having a face to face talk with Smith finally realizes he is wrong, even though the author has been telling you that Smith has been sending many letters to the family and reasons with why what they’re doing is bad, but he still says he won’t stop with the kill order because now his angel granddaughter, Megan, has now been betrothed to Adumb even though it all happened because he wanted to kill Adumb. Ok.

like being an wuxia protagonist, merchant, adventurer, etc while making relationships/friendship/money/harem members/development he doesn’t instead even need instead of an actual goal of being a lord who rules the world with his armies and people rather than OP farm. I mean he STILL hasn’t completely fixed his territory’s, enemy and family (clan) problems that was mentioned in the beginning he just let things sit there with no progress.

The interesting thing about Nier, who is the maid and sister (non-blood related/not adopted) of Taylor Swift (Laura), is her character development that happens later on in the story. She is first introduced and shown as an innocent and social girl that liked to talk to people. She was especially cheerful and talked to Laura every time they were together. She even talked to the MC sociably and gave the MC the impression that she was a sweet and innocent-lovely girl. But after the Laura arc ended, this girl, for some reason, no longer existed. She was the most interesting character because: at first she was this naughty child who was naive/innocent that like to tease Laura about developing love interest that is growing between the two and that she showed an actual personality with emotion was really nice. Also the main reason why I think she’s interesting is that she randomly pops up once in every few random chapters and is never mentioned again until another random sentence in a random chapter shows her name.

It’s like she encountered a monster and was trapped into a field where she then gets attacked by said monster but gets saved by someone with special powers. But now because of the event, her power of existence became nearly obsolete because of the monster, and only has a few moments left before her flame of existence burns out and no one will ever remember or know that she existed. But apparently Nier has found some sort of treasure or help because, although she still has a weak presence, she hasn’t disappeared and is still mentioned every now and then. But now, due to the recurring encounters, she has become entangled with other forces and powers therefore forcing her to create a new identity in order to accommodate the change.

Thus Nier turned into a torch who is treated like a ghost that pops up randomly in the story because she now fights to make a new world where people won’t be victims of monsters and become Torches/Ghosts who [do not exist in this world] be. And even though she is constantly ignored by other people since she has no longer has any presence, she still serves her master/sister Laura watching her from a distance. No really, she is actually traveling together when the MC, it is shown that she doesn’t talk anymore/no dialogues and can only be spotted at random chapters when her name is mentioned – like really she pops out of nowhere and gets mentioned that she has been in the MC’s party the whole time. Her being mentioned like that actually gives the most tension, epic, and interests to the story since I am actually being drawn to this Character who has the most amazing character development and background story.

See this is interesting because I really want to know what happened to this girl and if she became involved in something. I would like to know what her secret life outside her maid form that made her turn non-existent and anti-social. If the author were to ever make another book called Shakugan no Nier, I would read and follow that 5 star plot novel and see the story Nier the replicant.

The MC does develop the farming sim a bit, which is why I stuck around with the novel for so long, but then he just randomly decides to become a god and expand the farming sim into a world, which I was on board for except he then just forgets about it. He basically just ends up using his farming sim as a bag of holding or something though he sometimes uses the miscellaneous functions like the auto-brainwashing s*ave maker aspect of the sim. Also, the celebrity look alikes got super distracting after a while to the point where I was "Oh, another on**ole for the harem" whenever any woman is described as looking like a specific celebrity (it's a coincidence, the author insists) even when the MC doesn't show any overt interest or exchange any words with them.

Plus, at one point, the MC disguises himself with a mask to look like his previous self but I don't think the author kept track of whether the MC maintained the disguise so it was a bit weird for me to believe that women would fall in love with this dude when he couldn't even keep track of what face he was literally wearing. And c'mon, an European looking dude with decent looks versus a Chinese bloke who's plain looking to Asian eyes but exotic in the eyes of another world? It just enforces how bimbo-ish the women that he was collecting became. Plus, the Taylor Swift clone basically became the head wife and the author just describes the MC's growing collection of women as Laura and company instead of naming them individually because there's too many and they are all fembots.

What's worse is that even if you ignore the problematic harem that is a black hole sucking up all of the female characters of a certain age range, the side characters that the author seemed to have taken care setting up like the MC's faithful retainers all fall on the wayside. They showed up once or twice as an afterthought as if the author remembered, "Oh, they're there." The novel's been going on for so long yet the only character that you end up knowing is the MC and he's not even fully fleshed out. He's pretty much like the farming sim itself, all 1s and 0s.

The rip offs also increase too much later on. At one point, the Saint Seiya divine cloths literally make their appearance and there is a boss fight that looks like it could be ripped out of some Saint Seiya fanfiction. Really distracting and lazy writing at this point.

The 7, 000++ 14, 000 chapters has its reason. IF there is no readers, this novel would be terminated since the 2000th chapters, right? It continues to the 7, 000+ because LOT of readers still like it.

The Real Readers. Not you who read the translated English version and try to act smat by reviewing it, but the original Chinese people.

Chinese doesn't read the novel because it's just the novel. They also read idioms, meaning of single word and words, between-the-words and between-the-lines, their cultures and heritages and norms. All these are lost in almost all translation..

So if you do not know any of Ancient Chinese's culture, heritage, literature, norm..

.. you can drop it anytime without anything lost !

No cliff. No hidden/twist/highlight/cliche. Reading to pass the time. Drop when boring. Pickup again to pass time. You won't lost any of your brain cell to remeber anything in this novel

It's Qidian's novel. But as you may see, Qidian does not translate this novel itself.

• Ch374 - Lv 30 Farm
• Ch399- Fixed MC cripple with 'interesting' byproduct
• Ch401 - He became 'Magneto' (Author, what's wrong with you?)
• Ch421-422 - Add another girl to the harem, yo
• Ch432 - Buda Family is back on the hot R.A.D.A.R
• Ch500 - Another girl is added to the harem
• Ch501- and another one.... (Well, that escalated very quickly)
• Ch551 - and another....
• Ch578 - Superheroes? (Seriously, MC gets Marv**&D* costumes)
• Ch688 - and another girl to the harem (now, the rate is 1-2 girls/100ch)
• Ch756 - and viola, Xianxia cultivation system introduced
• Ch832 - TransFormers? Author, seriously?
• Ch900ish - I stopped here, it started to get very ridiculous. Saint Seiya suit, Telephone, etc. Probably we might even see some weird stuffs from Dragon Balls, Star Wars, Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Evangelion, etc later on with this kind of trends. I mean there is another 6000++ chapters from this point. I also forgot to add another girl to harem because it wasn't really explicit as well.
  
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the MC basically do genocides on almost every section of the novel. At the very beginning it was justified to some degree by authors writing but, I finally could not stand it when he wiped out a whole plane (world) of people because a sect from that plane was in league with an opponent sect to go against the sect that the MC was going to join. Note the word “going to” meaning he wasn’t even officially a part of that sect yet. The MC’s sect wanted him to prove a point to the opponents sect and guess what he wiped out the lackey sect along with the whole plane/world that the lackey sect was a part of to prove a point.

This novel started good with its own strong point. Well the strong point was farm but after that, the author seems lose the direction of its own novel. Its become generic xianxia/wuxia novel where doesn't have any strong point on its own.

The bad things about this novel:

1. The combat. The battle on this novel u can say like this: "start battle" >>>>> skip>>>>> "end battle" Did u get my meaning? Yeah, the author almost totally skipped the entire battle process.

2. Too many unnecessary conversation. Well, the author totally skipped the combat visualization but the author put so many unnecessary conversation that actually CAN BE SKIPPPEDDDDDDDDDDD.

3. Romance. Don't talk about it. It doesn't exist.

4. Cultivation. Its useless talking about this. There are no true visualization progress how the character should/can increase his cultivation. Well don't worry the author create cheating fruit/medicine that can make ordinary people skipped the progression process and directly become immortal/overpowered/ or whatever it was called.

Good things on this novel:

1. The farm, but the author decide to just tr*sh it anyway.

Well I honestly VERY disappointed with this novel. If the battle or the progress seems interesting, I would be glad to recommend this novel to become a good novel but NOT. Why the author keep so many unnecessary conversation that the result already *crystal clear*. What I mean *crystal clear* was the reader can already predict it but the author skipped the entire important things that should be exist in a wuxia/xianxia novel.

It turns into a bad Xianxia later on. The scale of the story is grand, the MC grows up to the tip-top of the world ascends once and once again to higher realms and different worlds, and it’s like there’s no limit to them. The MC advances with the help of the cheaty farm, which kinda transform into a universe by itself as it levels up and gets new things (also can analyze and produce almost anything he needs, and grow copies of almost whatever MC grabs into his world). Sounds interesting, yeah? Well, it’s what kept me going till now. But the author’s inability to get names correct and fix his typos, along with the HORRID pacing of the story finally caused me to go “Ah screw this”. Even the author admits himself that his writing isn’t the best but he is confident in his ability of imagination. Well, good imagination can only keep me this far, and I’m REAAALY patient with these things.