Currently at chapter 700. I will update this review as i get further in if i don't drop it.
edit: It keeps getting worse, will no longer update or else this will end up with a negative score.
Summary:
[edit: just walk away, do yourself a favor]
This novel has low quality writing with a lot of cringe worthy dialogue and a poorly written plot. The quality of the writing is very similar to Martial God Asura, as in a lot of it feels like filler, a bunch of crap you need to get through before the next short interesting bit, with the difference being that in MGA the good bits are some of the battles and in this novel the good bits seems to be the Harem aspect, which is refreshing, tho could get tiring if it continues at the current pace [edit: i'm tired of it, zero creativity]. Another flaw that the two novels share, but that is more prevalent here, is how everything seems to fall from the sky for the MC, a lot of gains with minimal or zero effort, which makes the story dull [edit: he even trips over pussy by accident].
The Good:
- The Harem: I see a lot of people calling it "romance" tho is more male fantasy than romance, still i am a male so i enjoy it, even if i need to suspend my disbelief. There is a lot of sex and a lot of slice of life content, but I personally enjoy that because it is a bit different from other cultivation novels i've read where the harem only gets a bit of screen time every couple hundred chapters.
[edit: This gets tiring quickly, there is zero challenge in his conquest and the set up is childish in most cases. Like everything else, the hookups are repetitive and do not happen organically, as if the author thought: he hasnt fucked a new girl in 10 chapters, lets give this female character a sickness that can only be cured with the MC's penis, and let have the MC trip and fall on this girl]
The Bad:
-everything else...
-Progress: This novel has a lot word vomit, there is just so much boring crap in-between the interesting bits. Redundant or unnecessary poorly written descriptions. The power ups are so underwhelming because he gets them without putting in any effort. It is worse than using ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → A B START on a konami game.
In the blink of an eye he becomes a doctor, a chef, a blacksmith, etc. simply because he had sex with someone and powered up or some bullshit. Like leveling up in an mmo and getting skills added to your bar without even having to go to the trainer. Filthy casual.
-The Dialogue: Most of what is said is cringe worthy ass kissing from the crowd, random passerby, or side characters, or illogical justifications to try and cover up dumb decision making.
-The Fighting: The fight descriptions are terrible, they are really short, yet hard to follow due to poor transition between fight actions, to the point that I sometimes felt like a paragraph was missing because the fighting simply suddenly stopped. Later fights are longer, but they are boring. The MC forgets moves that he has learned, not the move itself, but the facts that he knows the move, and then when the fight is going badly he goes: "oh how could i have forgotten about XYZ punch".
-The Plot: The story is full of inconsistencies. The MC is constantly described as mature but acts immaturely. He pursues "mature" women yet these women act like teenage girls with zero experience around him. He makes a lot of questionable choices, but none of them seems to ever have any negative consequences. The plot armor is strong with this one. As mentioned in the Progress section there is a lot of plot armor and the mc is literally tripping over new pussy and new treasures which hurts what ever little plot there is. The MC does have goals, besides building a harem, the chapters where he achieves said goals can be very satisfying, I just wish the journey to get there wasn't so shitty.
-The Math: If you know elementary school math then you know more then the writer, and unfortunately he uses it in almost every fight, with dumb percentages being mentioned often. The numbers contradict each other all the time.
-The Herem: it got tiring and repetitive, no challenge.
RECOMMENDATION
So far my favorite cultivation novel has been Peerless Martial God. It is not perfect, it suffers from some of the same flaws most cultivation novels have, but the flaws are far fewer and smaller than this one. PMG has a mediocre start, but it does get a lot better after the first quarter if you stick with it. The writing has a lot less cringe and i find the story (after first quarter) much more interesting. it is 1700/2500 translated and 40 new chapters are translated per week.
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