This really is my favorite novel by far yes the starting is very generic and mostly mid but the story gets a lot better as it progresses the thing I love the most is futians character development his playboy and arrogance traits although are annoying but hey what do you expect from a teenager? He doesn't know sh*t and very early in the story we are told that he is destined to be the emperor of the world and the importance of the title is known much much later in... more>> the story and futian really needs to go through trial by fire this really is the legend of futian honestly it keeps getting better and better and I feel like it won't disappoint me going forward it's definitely a 5/5 for me <<less

Gotta love the chinese authors that try to not make a harem by making the MC loyal to the fMC but at the same time can't hold his lonely horny ass from making almost every special character:

• • female

• • peerless beauty

• • have slight attraction to the MC that eventually turns to a full on attraction

• • stronger than all friendly male characters

• • and for someone reason they are always single despite the fact that a bunch of young master chase that girl and it just so happen that not even one of them is good enough to be with her or she just for some reason doesn't ever like anyone but mc

For the remaining characters:

• • Arrogant male enemies

• • friendly but weak male ally that MC never really cares about

MC are always:

• • attractive to every female characters that he comes across despite the author always trying to downplay his looks by saying "he is not good looking but he has (insert some long ass description about how good looking he is)

• • feels like he needs to be full of himself when facing male characters

• • can't stop himself from helping every female characters because well there is no male characters to help (shame, not his fault that there never a special male character)

Such an unrealistic world where if there was no MC then this world would probably have 1000000 peerless virgin saint beauty

Overall, pretty damn good, too much bad reviews though which is sad. Warm and is sure to please you with some ass-kicking, face slapping, and good ol romance. Very noice.

Cliched done right. A lot of things in this novel is very cliched but it is fascinating to see that the cliches are making this novel shine.

The story is okay-ish since the plot sometimes moves too fast for my liking yet slow just as I want them to.
Harem, well... the Futian is still loyal to the Fairy so that's... more>> a plus, but I dunno about the future though.

All the main cast feels alive, especially our good pal Ye Futian.
-He's the definition of [I'm a dangerous man with some talents in my pocket] and [Arrogant yet justifiable]. He alone made all the cliches works, though there's a lot of hate at the start of the novel towards him.

-Let's not forget about our good love interest, the fairy beauty Hua Jieyu. Her character is also a unique one, not cardboard cutout at all.

-Yu Sheng, aka [ehh... this relationship is fishy] best friends with the MC and can keep up with his growth, saw someone complaining that he is just a servant to the MC and I have to say no. He's special.

-The side cast, especially the Professor/Father-in-Law, he's basically the older version of Ye Futian. Funny guy. <<less

Not really a fan of the author's other works so this review is mostly for others that wanted to see if anything changed or are unfamiliar. None of the spoilers should come as anything too surprising as it is pretty copy and paste to other Chinese novels so far.

PLOT
Everything has really just fallen out of the sky for MC. The issue with his cultivation which caused everyone to look down on him was solved nonchalantly. The strongest master in the city takes him under his wing. He has the... more>> strongest cultivation potential. He shocks everyone by taking first place effortlessly. Girl he likes has to leave him because of family problems. He has a "shocking" background that puts him above the masses.

This author really tried to cram as many cliches into the first 30 chapters as possible.

STORY TELLING
I'll be blunt and just say it feels like I'm reading about someone in middle school. Think about how awkward and embarrassing you were in middle school then put that into a writing style. Everything is written in a way that just sets up the MC to shock and surprise everyone with his talent. Everyone is sneering and looking down on him while the female characters put up with his shameless behavior and give him attention. As the name suggests, the story revolves around the MC.

CHARACTERS
The characters in story all feel like support characters for the MC. No interesting characters yet.

The beautiful childhood friend who has to put up with MC's embarrassing bragging despite never never making progress in his cultivation is immediately thrown into the role of falling from grace. The author presents a character in constant regret of her decision to distance herself from MC. A female friend introduces the childhood sweetheart to her brother who later turns out to be an antagonist. He father is used to remind her multiple times of what she will miss out on by distancing herself from MC. The author throws in an awkward meeting between the two families where everyone of course assumes they're going to get together. Really messed up in my opinion.

Close male friend that is the most talented in the school before MC shows his strength. Always loyal the MC. Doesn't think for himself. Beats up the second most powerful enemy before MC takes the stage. Definitely never a threat to attract any beautiful females that are in the story. Turns out his father wants him to serve the MC for life and he's all on board with it himself.

The strongest love interest in the story is of course the strongest in the school. First in the exams before the MC usurps her and gets her attention. Her father is the strongest expert in the city and teaches him the hottest profession in the world. Actually an okay character by the standards of the story.

You shouldn't need a description of the MC at this point. Rather than saying the MC is shameless, it may be more accurate to say he lives in his own world. <<less

I just read 1 to 30 really quickly. Honestly I think it's great and warm to have a novel where MC finally has a loving family that likes each other and not trying to kill each other at the start (despite his underachievement). Also, I'm not going to spoil what happened; but the first love of MC is so awkward and cute, that's really how a teenager first love should be, at least it was dumb, funny but very heartwarming. The rivals so far are not really hateful, which is surprising, you can clearly tell it's just some teenagers trying to be better than another not the usual type killing or crippling each other. It actually almost felt like they are really student in a school

About the long term friendship breaking :

So far there is nothing that hints clearly MC is related to the legendary figure stated on the description yet, however I just like the interactions between the characters. And I specially like characters that stay true to themselves and I hope MC and other character will stay how they are currently.

The progression is going smoothly, you can tell it's going to be a novel with adventure

Finally the novel is still on going. It has one of the highest rating I had seen on Chinese website so I have a high expectation of it (mostly being above 9). I will update if I change my mind !

Very, VERY similar to Ancient Godly Monarch.

The Emperor bloodline trend for the MC, the pure and naive romance at the start that ends up with the girl being dragged up higher and higher.

Pretty much author's other works in a new skin.

Was hoping that with the interesting-ish beginning, perhaps things would be different this time, but much like every other one of this author's novels, the beginning setup is by far the most interesting part and then everything conforms to basic Xianxia tropes.

Nothing particularly special here so a more honest review would be 3 stars, but due to the author squandering what I feel is an interesting beginning, docking another star for that. (In this case, super young super strong special class of... more>> cultivator, by chapter 60, at least 2 others of the "super rare" class have shown up as antagonists and one has basically disappeared from the story entirely. What was the point of hyping up protagonist's rarity if there's a whole bunch of them so soon in the story?) <<less

I figured this wouldn't be in my interest zone when the very first chapter started talking about breast size but I did try to give it a chance. It seems like the author wanted to cater to the harem crowd while not actually making a harem so that he could cater to the no harem group too. It doesn't work out well. Lots of heaving chests and peerless beauties and innuendos. The MC is a huge flirt and this story is more aimed towards relationships and what passes for romance... more>> at the writer's hands rather than the cultivation storyline. I know some people like that but I'm not one of them.

I was going to wait until I hit ch50 to write a review but I couldn't take anymore "hey beautiful" lines from the MC and was starting to get really irritated. Not my cup of tea. <<less

Ignore the reviews by people who only read a few dozen chapters. This is decently translated with mostly minor punctuation and grammar mistakes. It's an average novel without anything special to make it stand out from the rest. I kept waiting for something interesting to happen throughout my 1000+ chapter journey but everything remains the same.

MC continuously goes to new realms to get stronger and then kick everyone's butt. There's always Genius A, B, C with super beautiful Maiden D, E, F, and exploring a hidden realm X, Y, Z.... more>> You figure that it's natural for the MC to meet new geniuses in new realms, right? Well, you're getting a punch in the gut because the author talks about how awesome Genius A is in Realm 123 and no one can beat him but then another Genius B pops out and is actually greater than Genius A. Then Genius C pops out later and is actually much greater than A and B combined. And so on and so on. There's going to be at least 100 - 200 names thrown at you so good luck remembering who is who.

It's so repetitive that it gets rather annoying to me. That's why I only gave it a 3 star rating and I don't understand why it's so highly ranked in webnovel. <<less

Still reading, but my biggest issue is that the world exists for the MC. It doesn't feel like a natural world where things happen, nor that the MC is taking opportunities as they arise. No, the MC goes to a place, and he is somehow uniquely qualified to benefit from it. The forces in the world either exist to be future allies or antagonists. The characters are the same. Every location exists for the sake of the MC's next power up, and often that isn't even permanent, it's something like... more>> "ah yes the MC is so special he can control the god tier powers of this location to kill the enemy he shouldn't be able to."

I wish the author spent more time actually world building and developing characters, rather than just building set pieces to discard later on. Maybe with a compelling main character it'd be a bit more interesting, but Ye Futian is literally just a Gary Sue; attractive, witty, smart, strong, and the world is literally designed for him and him alone. That's not very interesting.

EDIT: It got a little better, cause the MC got a little more complex and was less of the forefront of every fight. Probably 3 stars still though. <<less

I'm not sure what most commentators expected from the novel... but I personally wanted to read about OP underestimated MC who is faceslapping his enemies and fastly grows in power while gathering beauties. Too bad, but it seems most reviewers lied. There is no harem here and I hate this fact with everything I have. A lot of cute girls who are interested in MC, but they are all friendzoned because "I already have a gf and I'm loyal to her! I still flirt with you girls and c*ckblock the... more>> reader". I should have checked the tags. As about "faceslapping"? Even the smallest clan which is against MC in the first 50 chapters has people in the 4th cultivation realm and MC will be strong enough to crush them easily only in 350+ chapters. So the MC is forced to rely on other people until then and slowly gaining his force while fighting a younger generation of losers which pose no real challenge to him unless they are few small realms above him AND MC is forced to hide his full strength. It was 70 chapters, but MC is yet to use his full power because he was told to hide it. In fact, he never used even 50% of his abilities yet... People complained about things I wanted to see in the novel, only for it to be different, lol. <<less

So I am writing reveiw in response to the large amount of negative reviews that havent even got past 30 chapters of the book. That is actually around 11% of the currently CHAPTER COUNT IN ORIGINAL LANGUAGE!

Lets get into the review now.

Ok. The Legend of Futian is a book about a person known as Ye Futian as his journey to basically acheive his fate and the expectations of his family and Godfather. The book is a nice balance of the western habit of character focus and the eastern habits of... more>> face-slapping and powers.

Story:

The story in TLoF, as of right now, is great. Apart from one sudden powerup (which was the awakening of his bloodline), the book has a nice lack of sudden boosts. The main character is very unique among books due to his arrogance actually being 1. Reasonable and 2. Usually hidden unless he is provoked. Provocations/rivalrys are much more tame and realistic than most books. An example is one particular enemy trys to force him into submission due to someones fate being misinterpretted to be the downfall of a nation (simply, actually way more complicated but whatevs). Overall, the book has a very big focus on Fate and brotherhood. With some pleasurable face slapping thrown in.

Characters:

The characters are where this book really shines. Each one is unique and evolves as the book goes on. It is interesting to see how the characters have matured over the ~2 years of time the book has covered. The relationships between characters are amazing as well. None of them are the same. Ye Futian's relationship with his love interest is completely different to Yu Sheng's. Speaking of the twin devils. Those two have probably the most well made relationship in a book that I have read in a long time. Yu Sheng has his problems and so does Ye Futian. They have such a close bond throughout the book and even though it is toned down after Yu Sheng's love interest appears, it is still evident in many different scenes.

I would talk about the cultivation system but although it is interesting, it is a bit more meh when compared to AGM also by this author I believe which was slightly more interesting.

I will spare a few words for the Natal/Life Spirits however. These things are what some people are naturally born with and they give a boost to the power of particular elements depending on the spirit. Eg: A Roc would give a boost to Wind + Metal (?) and a Pheonix to Fire + Wind (?). These spirits allow the user a boost to their sorcery and martial arts. Usually their Natal Spirit also gives them the highest level talent for that element as well, but that doesnt matter if they are a full-attribute sorceror like Ye Futian who has highest level talent in EVERY POSSIBLE CATEGORY! So Mandate Sorcerors are simply people who have a particular element or elements (there are some bi-elemental spirits around. Not sure about tri-elemental though atm) boosted and are stronger in that element or elements that the other ones they can use. Now the spoiler tag explains Ye Futian's powers because tbh, half the reviewers and readers are dumb and cant understand how his power works.

Spoiler

Ok so it is simple. Ye Futian's Natal Spirit is the Ancient Tree which is apparently very powerful. I believe it is like Yu Sheng's Natal spirit (yes he has one it is just forbidden to be shown like with Ye Futian's Tree) in that it evolves and unlocks different elements. I believe that given the hype it was given and what was shown, his Natal Spirit has the ability to switch to any element Ye Futian needs it to.

Now his cultivation technique, The Freedom Meditation. This cultivation technique focuses on observation and comprehension. It basically allows Ye Futian to do two things when it is used. 1. Drastically increase his comprehension abilities (which are already insane haha) and 2. In special circumstances (usually some form of enlightenment and meditation over subject) , this technique allows the creation of Life Spirits (for the sake of convenience, I call Ye Futian's original Spirit his Natal Spirit and the rest his Life Spirits since natal spirit can mean birth spirit and life spirits mean spirits he has gained throughout his life) of the elements relevant to that spirit. For example, Ye Futian created a Life Spirit of the Sun after observing the sun with the Freedom Meditation.

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I assume the boosts of Life Spirits stack because Ye Futian (mild spoiler) has more than 1 Life Spirit with the Spirit element. Although they do different things.

Anyway, I would recommend, but to decide if you really enjoy the book, at least get to the end of the Nandou Nation Arcs please. Thats when the story really begins just so you know <<less

This is a classical Jing Wu Hen novel. He's also written PMG and AGM. His style is lots of romance/ intimacy wrapped in a unique cultivation system. MC's are classically handsome, strong and impulsive. It's his interactions between MC and love interests that make his novels different from most CN authors.

LoF is an evolved version of PMG and AGM where he tightens up the romantic interests but keeps his usual quirks such as teasing, intimacy, arrogant young masters and separations for other love potentials to come along. Novel is ONGOING... more>> so we don't know if it will be a harem ending but there's a 50% chance. Currently only one love interest. If it is a harem, it won't be large.

The support cast is solid, especially the silent best friend Yu Sheng, while the plot is solid and entertaining enough. This isn't a classic novel, its just good fun for those who like romance + cultivation.

However, it does have the major Jing Wu Hen flaws such as an awkward cultivation system (sometimes 1 is highest at one level, but next level 9 is highest), lots of girl teasing despite trying to make the MC a loyal love interest and tons of tropes (arrogant young masters, rashness by MC).

Translations are OK but some unsual choices are made which most English readers wouldn't use e.g.

Saintess -> Virgin

Holy Son -> Son

Madman/ Lunatic -> Fanatic

Left is what most novels use, right is what translator chose. So Saintess of sects are called Virgins and there's a lot of dialogue calling a Saintess 'Virgin'. Virgin is an archaic term used by catholic church but in modern English, virgin has different connotations. Its the same as not using the word 'gay' to describe someone happy these days. Its the same for when translator uses son and fanatic. Fanatic may seem its fine but contextually fanatic implies a political ideal whilst in the novel where its used, it just refers to someone crazy so it wasn't the best choice.

The novel also has no editor which means many grammar and spelling errors.

So why have I given this 5 stars? Because it's like the popcorn blockbuster I watch every Summer. It may not be the most intellectual story but it delivers on romance, action and story telling. If you are familiar with Jing Wu hen's works, this is just a combination of previous two stories (you'll notice a lot of similarities) with tighter writing. Hopefully he'll be able to deliver a better ending than PMG but I'm optimistic so far. <<less

If there was build up, and proper pacing, even with all the clichés this could have been a good read. However the pacing and build up suck, and the world and characters are all rush and poorly developed. Nothing is expanded apon in the beginning and everything just reads flat. Its a 2d world with 2d characters. If you want a half decent story go read "A will eternal" instead.

Above average. Unlike some other readers, I care nothing about cultivation levels. In fact, this novel is great for me because it doesn't drown itself in explaining the nitty gritty or telling us how the MC going into seclusion for years and years. In short, the time-scale used in the story is 'believable' as you read about the MC growing up.

What really differentiates this novel from other thousand long novels is the MC. Others have the stoic, ruthless, vengeful, merciless and single-minded which are very common. The lighter-hearted and self-confident... more>> ones like Xiao Yan of BTTH are rarer. Fortunately, this novel featured the later type.

As a reader, I never got the sense of being bogged down. The story proceeds quite smoothly and quickly. The face-slapping and powering up are easily digested, the battles adequately described and the dialogue is more substantial than other novels due to the fact that the MC is silver-tongued. Fans of the genre who feel jaded of the usual might find this novel a little lightweight, but it is quite decent and fast paced. Cultivation levels are not really important, after all it's a novel about a guy and his friends who can easily challenge and defeat those who are higher planes than them. Just roll with it and focus on the interactions instead of the minutia and it could be an enjoyable read. <<less

I just started reading this, only 50 chapters in. I will come back to properly review it in the future, but first impressions are very good. For me dialogue can make or break a novel, specially in cultivation novels, because realistically the story is not going to be original, so the enjoyment for me comes from how the story is told rather then the main plot points.

So far the dialogue is fluid and witty and there is just the right amount of it. Not saying dialogue is the only thing... more>> that matters to me, not at all, is just one of the things you notice right away, unlike character development, story pace, content to filler ratio, etc, those things take time to poke their nose out. I'm only looking for an above average cultivation story, hopefully this novel will not disappoint me.

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Edit (ch 2173) :

I caught up to the translation. The novel is slightly above average, so if you are looking for a cultivation novel to kill time with I would recommend it.

The Good:

• The dialogue, as I mentioned before, is witty and charming, more so in the early chapters, the later chapters are a bit more dry and repetitive.
• No r*pe powder, or s*x poison, or anything of the sort. Kind of sad that this has to be counted as a merit, but if you read enough cultivation novels you will understand.
• The brotherhood is awesome, some of my favorite moments are moments of brotherhood. There are a handful of brothers that follow the MC across arcs, 1 in particular, and their relationship makes me envious.
• The main love interest, the only true love interest so far, developed really well. Their relationship felt organic, their banter, their flirting, etc.

The Bad:

• The editing, if there is any, is terrible, a lot of issues that should be caught by an editor, or a careful translator are present everywhere, I dont mind the spelling mistakes or crap like that, im terrible at it myself and probably wouldn't even notice it, the thing that annoyed me was the lack of consistency... is that new character's name Chen or Sheng or Chang or Xen, take your pick... it is crazy how many different ways names are spelled, often in the same paragraph. Titles are even worse... is it the starry general? the brilliant commander? the bright chief?... Many times I almost rage quit out of sheer frustration with the editing.
• Like many long cultivation novels, the repetition is heavy here, the story essentially boils down to the MC starts off on the first floor, somehow pisses off the boss on that floor, then travels to the second floor to train so he can come back to the first floor after outleveling the zone, but while he is on the second floor he joins a group and inherits whatever beef they are on, or finds his own beef, so now before he has even sorted out the first floor, he has to go to the 3rd floor to repeat the cycle. He eventually does go sort things out on the first floor. This cycle repeats over and over, there are a couple of exceptions, but this pattern is the core, just replace floor with continent, or region, or realm, or whatever.
• Some characters are forgotten
• The name reuse is unreal, this is common in long novels, but never seen occur as often as it does here. Just when you think a forgotten character made a comback it turns out to be some random person with the same name.
• Too many girls fall for MC. I'm still not sure if this will have harem, the possibility is left open for a couple of the female characters, but for now there is only one. I do wish MC didnt go around breaking so many hearts, is not necessary for all the girls to go googly eyes over MC.
• There is a lot of musical cultivation that I find boring, a lot of it sounds like a hillbilly pretending to be fancy talking about "artistic conception". least it read that way to me anyways.

I've listed a lot of negatives, but I still consider this one to be a bit above average <<less

Ok, It's not bad, it's a common novel, with so many tr*sh novels being translated, this can be considered "good".

The major problem with this novel is the pace, it's waaaaaaaaay too slow. It's like it was made to be a novel with more than 4000 chaps pretty easy.

So, I kinda dislike when the MC is in a much lower realm when compared to his enemies. He needs dozens of years and everything is done in months, this means that he has to rely in seniors to survive. Even so, It's... more>> good, there's not harem "yet" and even If it turn to be an harem, It would be MUCH better than 99% of harems, because the only girl besides his wife, is very well made.

I like but once you get close to finish all the chaps translated, turn to be boring, that why I gave a 3 stars. <<less

MC uses staff/rod and spells for the entire 500 chapter, then it says that his title is sword emperor in later chapters. He was so arrogant and prideful, but feels fine becoming an attendant to a little girl just because of some reason that only makes sense to him and the author, then he doesn't want to join a force or clan anymore, but in the end joined because of reasons. Inconsistent.

Rated 3S

In the beginning, the story was great there was some character development some interesting mysteries and the brotherhood between the MC and Yu Shang was great, Then after that, the novel started blending with the usual CN novel type it became more focusing on face-slapping and you know the rest, so I'm gonna resume it in this :

Pros :

• Good character development
• most characters won't get abandoned
• Cute romance between MC and FMC
• Brotherhood
• Righteous Mc

Cons :

• Too much face-slapping
• The author just can't stop repeating how the MC is handsome and it seems like in this world if you are not good looking you aren't worth sh*t and oh beauties the mc's GF remains the most supreme beauty no matter where
• Worldbuilding is okay-ish I can't say that I got immersed in it
• Villains are s*upid most of the time they fall for the MC verbal tactics every time.
• Sometimes The MC becomes a hypocrite

I don't know what to say it started well then it became all about how beautiful/handsome she/he is, proposals and sh*t it's still okay to read if you can bear what I mentioned above.

Although this story has the harem tag, the male lead so far has stayed loyal to the female lead. Classification of a harem novel could just mean many females like the male lead, however, the male lead doesn't have to show interest in them. So far the story is pretty good, the only thing I wish for is that the female lead shows up more. I think the story lacks interaction between the female and male lead.

Barely reach 4star as my respect to the authors work. I almost like everything except the rotation of the stort. This is like MGA. The MC has to conquer every place he goes and then go to stronger world get stronger again and go to stronger place then get stronger again and then go to another world 9realms and get stronger again but was almost killed and the super absolute plot armor activated get teleported to another place barely save his life and get stronger from that place again. I... more>> dont know when is this gonna end tho and im already sick with this. Barely able to read the mtl cuz its getting boring waiting for the translation but nothing special happens everything is predictable. Sigh~

5star to 4star <<less