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Eastern Fantasy

Cultivation, primarily.

Ranking is simply the order in which I added to the list, which may be organised at a later date. Only novels that I have either finished or read the majority of will be added.

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Created: Apr 3rd, 2020, Updated: Dec 29th, 2022

Created Apr 3rd, 2020

Updated Dec 29th, 2022

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CN (4.1)

#1History’s Strongest Senior Brother

1757 Chapters Every 38.9 Day(s) 13881 Readers 147 Reviews 10-25-2022

Completed Action Adventure Fantasy Xuanhuan

3/5... more>>

CN (4.1)

#2Martial World

103 Chapters Every 622.3 Day(s) 17778 Readers 196 Reviews 04-24-2019

Completed Action Adventure Fantasy Harem Mature Xuanhuan

3/5... more>>

CN (3.7)

#3Night Ranger

40 Chapters Every 269.3 Day(s) 6988 Readers 63 Reviews 11-02-2017

Completed Action Adventure Fantasy

3/5... more>>

CN (3.9)

#4Rebirth of the Thief Who Roamed The World

50 Chapters Every 190.1 Day(s) 13610 Readers 145 Reviews 08-18-2016

Completed Action Adventure Fantasy Supernatural

3/5... more>>

CN (3.2)

#5Reincarnation Of The Strongest Sword God

949 Chapters Every 1 Day(s) 7292 Readers 226 Reviews 05-10-2024

Action Adventure Fantasy Mystery Sci-fi

3/5... more>>

TL;DR execution is sh*t but setting and story are good enough to pass

Alright. This novel. Here we go.

In terms of the execution and what the author has actually written this novel is absolutely no better than 2/5. Probably even 1/5 for the garbage that it is. The characters I can only describe as one-dimensional, and the story is just a never-ending loop of underestimating the protagonist. This 'underestimating-the-protagonist' issue is particularly noticeable when after 2000 chapters, people continue to assume it's just an ant when they (MC and co) have lost exactly zero confrontations against similarly strong opponents.

This brings us back to the characters. They're all one-dimensional. The only emotions they are capable of expressing are scorn followed by shock, while the MC is only ever calm. Not that it needs to be mentioned, as it's a trademark of CN novels, but every woman is also incredibly beautiful.

Additionally, the fact that the MC can keep up the Black Flame identity at this point is sheer nonsense and insulting to peoples intelligence. To name a few methods, their gear (though some might argue "but different colours") are the same, their skills (in-game) are the same, their proficiency are the same, they've never appeared together, the only verification of identity was once on Ye Feng, by a single person. Of course, I'm only highlighting these things in particular to point out that it's incredibly hard to believe anyone has yet to put two and two together here.

And these are just the more glaring problems.

So why, despite these issues, do I rate this novel as ? Well, gentlemen, because if you can kill your brain and ignore the blatant plot-holes, 1D characters, and incredibly repetitive plot, then it's actually pretty good. And I know we're all capable of this if you spend long enough here.
Among the VR-based novels I've read, the setting in RSSG is undoubtedly the best so far. I can't help but find myself in a loop of dropping the novel then reading another hundred chapters or so (until I'm up-to-date) because I really do enjoy the novel. I just can't read it for too long because it's just too braindead.
EDIT: The last 100 chapters (start to) address some of the more apparent problems I've had with this novel. Great! Just that the novel is on indefinite hiatus. Not so great. <<less