Cultivation Chat Group

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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.One day, Song Shuhang was suddenly added to a chat group with many seniors that suffered from chuuni disease. The people inside the group would call each other ‘Fellow Daoist’ and had all different kinds of titles: Palace Master, Cave Lord, True Monarch, Immortal Master, etc. And even the pet of the founder of the group that had run away from home was called ‘monster dog’. They would talk all day about pill refining, exploring ancient ruins, or share their experience on techniques.
However, after lurking inside the group for a while, he discovered that not all was what it seemed…
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Liaotian Qun De Richang Shenghuo (Donghua)
Tu chân nói chuyện phiếm quần
Xiu Zhen Liao Tian Qun
ปล่อยเทพเขาคุยกัน
修真聊天群
聊天群De日常生活 (Donghua)
聊天群的日常生活 (Donghua)
Liaotian Qun De Richang Shenghuo (Donghua)
Tu chân nói chuyện phiếm quần
Xiu Zhen Liao Tian Qun
ปล่อยเทพเขาคุยกัน
修真聊天群
聊天群De日常生活 (Donghua)
聊天群的日常生活 (Donghua)
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- Peak novels imo
- For the Fellow Freedom-seekers
- (NoRO) Chinese novels
- Plan to read part 2
- My personal favorites (either overall wellrounded ...
Date | Group | Release |
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10/22/17 | Wei Translation | c158 |
10/18/17 | Wei Translation | c157 |
10/14/17 | Wei Translation | c156 |
10/13/17 | Wei Translation | c155 |
10/08/17 | Wei Translation | c154 |
10/01/17 | Wei Translation | c153 |
09/30/17 | Wei Translation | c152 |
09/29/17 | Wei Translation | c151 |
09/28/17 | Wei Translation | c150 |
09/27/17 | Wei Translation | c149 |
09/23/17 | Wei Translation | c148 |
09/20/17 | Wei Translation | c147 |
09/17/17 | Wei Translation | c146 |
09/15/17 | Wei Translation | c145 |
09/10/17 | Wei Translation | c144 |
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My conclusion: If you like xianxia, read this novel. If you don't like xianxia, read this novel.
I want to start by appreciating the main character of this story. He's an honest-to-goodness good person and he treats other people like they're also good. That's such a rarity for xianxia that this novel is worth reading for that alone.
What else sets this novel apart? A cast of memorable characters, for one. Cultivators in this world have obsessions, confidence, and shamelessness (because you don't say "I'm gonna be immortal!" if you don't have those things). So everyone Song Shuhang meets is interesting. Song Shuhang himself, aside from being a Nice Guy, has the great habit of speaking/acting before thinking no matter who or what he's dealing with... With actual consequences.
Another thing the novel does well is humor. I highly recommend reading other xianxia before reading this because a lot of the jokes are based on the difference between what you'd expect from xianxia and what actually happens. It's not totally necessary because the author's pretty good at setting up jokes though.
The story itself is just the main character's path to immortality, like any xianxia. However, it's not driven by revenge and arrogant young masters and face slapping and saving beauties. If anything I'd say it's driven by adventure and exploring the mysteries of heaven. The pacing is excellent, too. It seems really fast, mainly because one thing happens right after another, but it's not skipping anything. The explanations don't feel overdone. The world is interesting enough that both Shuhang and I feel like exploring it more.
Finally, the harem.
Just kidding, there's no harem. Shuhang's a bit too busy to think about that sort of thing and the women who are interested in him... are also busy because they're not the kind of characters who stop having their own lives after they fall in love. Cultivators live a long time so there's no need for them to rush into a relationship with someone they've only known for a few months, after all. It's not completely devoid of romance, and at least one fairy maiden will go on the attack (again, something extremely rare in xianxia).I am actually reading ahead ahem actually "listening" by using Google TTS to translate the Chinese characters to read out either Mandarin or Cantonese on my Android phone. This light web novel is slow moving with light fun (have not found any harem till now) for growing adults. The MC is a goody boy who would help anyone as his motto but will kill to keep his friend and family safe. Spoilers alert: He learnt the xiuchen from his chat group via a USB device that was sent in by a flying sword. He brewed out the simplified basic alchemy formula using an electric steamboat (hotpot). He acquired a spiritual bead with a seal spiritual ghost to help him in his cultivation. The author is damn creative in applying the common sense why the spiritual masters are all using modern devices instead of spending spiritual powers to communicate. The spiritual masters are all FarmVille addicts (they would steal from the MC farm and then offer goodies or advise to him. Good reading/listening before bed.
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- Fights aren't annoying, monotonous or dragged out
- The protagonist is lucky yet not lucky or at the very least not luckiest in this novel.
- Characters have their own unique traits and aren't forgotten after a single arc related to them like in other novels and they casually appear from time to time.
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- Mysteries, if you like it there is a lot of stuff in this novel you're gonna be guessing, making theories for and in general wondering about for a long while. (at least up to 1.8k chapters there are still a lot of unanswered questions)
Cons:Evil guys (lets say non-human) are doing evil stuff Protagonist finds out that there are humans who are helping evil guys do evil stuff to other humans and MC decides to fallow him and finds out even more important stuff, he even himself knows that it would be a good idea to inform seniors in the group since he alone cant do much. he gets his phone out and notices that "human" who is helping evil guys do evil stuff crossdresses at that moment and he decides against informing seniors about crucial information because and this is what he said himself "I don't feel comfortable speaking about cross-dressing" dude wtf >.>
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- Authors "need" to ab*se protagonist/make him into a joke. At first, it was funny, but the more I read the more annoying it got in later chapters it got better (or I got used to it and started to ignore it) but this was really one of the things that got on my nerves... MC gets ability lets make it into the joke, gets the item to make it into a joke (tho most of the abilities and items got some benefits to be
looking like its less or not the joke at all later in the story)
he isn't at fault but let him be the scapegoat
and suffer for it. To be fair I know its made for comedy and maybe lot's of people found it funny... but I'm writing a review from my POV and it wasn't funny it was annoying as hell I would give some examples but most of them can be considered as spoilers.
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- Slow, it's not annoying slow where author repeats the same sentence in different words over and over again making chapter has 0 new information or story progression but still it's slow and some people might dislike it (1.8k chapters = 6months in the story)
In the end, I would recommend this novel, despite all the flaws that annoyed me it is still one of the more enjoyable reads I have read in long while. All the cons can be taken with grain and salt because as I mentioned earlier no matter how great of the story it is, the flaws will always stand out to me. P.S This review is purely my personal opinion so use it at most as a reference rather than facts. P.S p.s English isn't my native language so don't be too harsh on me for my mistakes.At some point in the story, one of the masters of the cultivator chat group tells the MC about a thread specifically created to help cultivators adapt to the modern world, since many of them would have been in closed door cultivation for centuries or decades -- suddenly coming out and finding technology and culture drastically changed. One part of the thread gives a cautionary tale of an unfortunate master cultivator, and proscribes a safety checklist in order to avoid facing a similar dilemma. Said cultivator apparently went into extended closed door cultivation, only to have the deserted area he sealed himself off in coincidentally become a nuclear testing site decades later. Even with with the ridiculous number of grandmaster-level defensive formations he had set, he barely escaped with his life -- sustaining severe injuries that required decades to recover from, and psychologically traumatizing him.
The novel is littered with well-thought little details such as the one described in the spoiler, which really attempts to answer questions as to what sorts of challenges and scenarios cultivators might face in the modern world. They also help to give us a realistic idea of how the cultivators' abilities might stack up against modern technology.
Unlike most cultivation novels, there is a is a good deal of light-hearted humor that does not rely on slapstick. Neither is there any harem building, or unrealistic ero / romance. Morover -- and this is the best part IMO -- it eschews the idea that becoming a cultivator somehow necessarily turns people into rutheless, sociopathic/psychopathic a**holes. The MC is good-natured, and though they each have their own quirks, all of seniors in the cultivation chat group are good-natured as well. That's not to say the MC is a dickless coward or a loser. Nor is he some self-righteous a holier-than-thou crusader. Rather, this goes back to how well-written he is as a character. He's a good-natured, modern university student, and acts the way a REAL ACTUAL PERSON with decent morals might act. As a complementary feature, the author seems to reject the notion that only ruthless pricks can get ahead. The MC is a decent person that will help out passers by if the opportunity presents itself. And he is often actually rewarded for it either by the recipient of his assistance, or by serendipity.
In the most recent arc, the MC is searching for the injured leader of a group that tried to kill him and steal his stuff. The leader is currently in hiding, and the MC is worried that he if gives the leader too much time to heal-up and regroup, they'll come back and harm him or his family. He's is on the subway en route to investigate a lead that one of his friends dug up for him. A little girl on a trip with her parents ends up getting attached to him and refuses to let him go -- much to the apologetic embarassment of the parents. So being the good Samaritan he is, the MC decides to stay with them until their stop instead of ripping the kid off himself and leaving. He ends up missing his station by 3 or 4 stops. As a result, he bumps into the quarry he's looking for, who actually set up the lead his friend found as a decoy, and would've actually gotten away if the MC had gotten off when he intended. At this point, the narrator all but straight up says that the idea that nice-guys don't have good things happen to them is bullshit. Amen brother, amen.
Read up to c1617, the story still ongoing. So far the plot had been advancing at rapid pace, the MC quickly reach 5th stage, due to his "Song-freeload-group-heavenly-tribulation-Shuhang, one of his many many nickname, there so much new ideas popping up along the way and most are comedic in nature. It fills with mini-arc and one of them make me laugh so hard that I thought im gonna die from it.
I can't help liking the MC despite how ridiculous the situation he falls into. In a normal xanxia story I would've drop this type of story but the way the plot inter-weave with modern society make so much sense that it look almost believable. :P
This is probably the only Xianxia where I wish every characters in the Cultivation Chat Group can show up often, I don't even mind if there is other sub-plot involving other supporting characters being the main cast.