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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.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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Sundering Nature (2)Immortal Becomes a Stay-at-home Dad After Return (1)
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The Sacred Ruins (1)
Hunting for a Delicious Wife (After) (1)
Major General Spoils his Soul-guiding Wife (1)
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In the genre of modern cultivation novels, there are novels with better comedy aspects than this novel, but this one has much better world building than any other novel I have read. You actually get a full picture of the world (specially, China) in a modern setting where aura (spiritual energy, etc.) returns to the world. This with all the good and bad things that gradually become possible - you can get a pill that cures cancer but you can also get a ghost attached to you. Anyway, this novel has done this spectacularly so far.
The chatacters are done well, and so far I didn't have to think too much in order to recognize different characters - they are mostly well drawn out. Of course, the main characters are the most developed. When things start to get big in the story, some characters inevitably get pushed to their stereotypical role, like general daoist A or government official B, but there are still core characters that aren't forgotten, and overall most characters do remain in the story and aren't thrown aside.
This novel is one of the most realistic modern cultivation novels out there. You follow Gu Yu and his partners, colleagues, enemies and friends as they adapt to the new reality of the world. There is no System, no hidden chat groups, no Grandpa, no heavenly luck- only some ancient books, some relics and a new environment. Of course, the starting process involve some luck, but what drives the story forward is the MCs' effort to seek that luck. There is the normal killing style from xianxia novels, but even after becoming Immortal (which actually happens here for a change...), the MC still has to work with the government - our world cannot get so lawless even in such circumstances. Another nice thing is that in the story's world, other countries aside from China actually exist - and they have their own heritage of magic, alchemy, shamanism etc.
I tried to give a general review of the story without spoiling too much. I warmly recommend you to read this, it is truly a great novel.
The awful English name and picture truly do not do justice to this novel. In every xianxia novel out there people pursue immortality so it really doesn't represent anything special and became a general title you skip after reading. And regarding the picture, after 460 chapters I can tell you certainly that there are no such characters in the story. And if you want to show a couple of male and female in a picture, there is not much point - even though there is romance in the story it is only on the sidelines and not the main thing there. Xiaozhai's character doesn't speak much about herself (and her development takes a lot of time, for a long time she is simply there, without much about what she thinks about) so most of the time they simply move as a couple (of friends). The main thing in the story is the process of learning about the world, not about each other... Though that happens too, of course.
- A mysterious mountain valley.
- Established sects that have lost their inheritance.
- Animals and insects that are growing bigger and stronger as the worlds atmosphere changes
- Incense that the MC creates starts to have mystic effects
All plot points that either get forgotten about, or ended in the... more>>Now thousands years later, what have been long forgotten will rise once again alongside the rising of the Spiritual Energy of the world!
As the old will wept for they are born too early too witness a new legend, the young shall welcome a new era!
A young man who discovered a remnant legacy of illusion.
A young woman who succeeded a remnant legacy of beast taming.
Follow the adventure of Gu Yu and Jiang Xiaozhai solving mystery all around China to complete their legacy!
tech tree
1. Illusion
2. Spiritual Beast
3. Talisman/Fu
4. Chinese Zombie/Jiangshi
5. Pleasure Technique
especially the totalitarian Chinese gov would give them zero face and 100% imprison them and all their potential friends to prevent spreading information and certainly not gift them a mountain not wanting to get more information out of them
the couple of MC and gf begin teaching precious cultivation resources that require discipline and a steady focused mind to the cousin/sister of MC's gf, a kind of wastrel that only knows how to party and hook up guys and can't get anything done + she is even more obnoxious than MC's gf
He's the most powerful cultivator ever since he started cultivating, but hes not THAT ahead.
Also, since cultivation became available not too long ago, as the most powerful cultivator he has to figure spells and sh*t out himself. Ok now for my pros and cons :
Pros :
- Unlike other xianxia bimbos, his girlfriend is actually a person and not a dumb brainless naive weak piece of sh*t of a person that happens to be a woman. You'll see what I mean if you pick this up.
- The MCs and his girlfriends life are not in danger 24/7 like some other ridiculous novels, its more relaxed, but there are still dangerous moments, especially pre chapter 300.
3. Him and his girlfriend have similar thought processes, they're very Neutral to Neutral-Evil, which are my hopes for them in the future. 4. Cultivation realms actually mater, you can't fight above realms with some bullsh*t cheat treasure, and you don't level up in 1 day, or even month. 5. They're both smart, not 300 IQ, but smart. Example : they knew about 3-4 areas that have the highest energy for cultivation, and they picked one whole region for them that was the second best, but not that far off from number one. As they didn't want problems with the government at that time and #2 is close to their homes. Cons : 1. (I guess i'll put this in here) I didn't like 1 scenario where the MC didn't have to help but he felt like he should because he owed it to the people, his girlfriend told him to do what he wants to do, but pointed out that this is out of character for him, since he'd never do this.While it was only because of him being in a cultivation bottleneck that this happened, I don't like it non the less. 2. After he became _____ in chapter 340 +, he still hasn't become Neutral twords the government. Not that he's not neutral already, but for example - He's doing a speech in a couple of days, and government ask if they can hop on, he says yes. After he became _____, he can dodge Nukes, and if not dodge, resist them, so without killing millions civils, they can't kill him or do shit, but he still doesn't declare his stance so they can stop annoying him, and he also doesn't claim 50% of their spiritual stone mine that he found and gave them but only received less that 1% because he wasn't a threat at the time. Other than that, definitely in my top 2 novels ever read in my 3 years of reading.