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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.Just as a gamer found an overpowered skill book called ‘Item Upgrade’ in the hottest virtual reality role-playing game on Earth, something happened to the game’s system, causing his soul to leave his body and go to another dimension. Common sense dictates that he would be born anew then become the greatest overlord of this world by making use of his advanced knowledge. Not in this case! He was already dead. Only some fragments of his soul and that skill book managed to get into that dimension and merge with an ordinary common youngster called Bai Yunfei.
This was the enormous Tianhun continent, where humans could be said to have no limits. There was a group of humans here who could cultivate the power of their own souls then control their bodies, the natural elements and even other people’s souls with that power! These special beings were called — soul cultivators. Come witness how the several fragments of the dead inter-dimensional traveler’s soul and that skill book, which was not governed by the laws of this plane, were going to help Bai Yunfei become a legendary soul cultivator and craftsman!
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The MC, a poverty-stricken teenager in a cultivation world, accidentally gets a video game cheat skill that lets him upgrade items. More specifically, from the shredded remnants of a gamer's soul from an parallel universe (you lose if you mind it). And so the adventure begins. Pros:
- Initial fight scenes are the most detailed of any Xianxia story I've read so far. It actually feels like a story about martial arts instead of quasi-spell casters or a video game. Every punch and kick is described and there's no garbage like rubberneckers constantly showing up and making half-assed rank vs rank fight commentary, higher-levelled people insta-gibbing lower-level opponents with a glance, or just straight up skipping fights/events completely by summing them up in a single sentence.
- MC's power isn't OP as soon as he gets it, allowing room for growth throughout the story. Unfortunately (IMO) for a game-related power it doesn't have much depth. Upgrade power/stone origin isn't fully unveiled by the end (other than the vague "Great Dao" or "from space" explanations).
- Power system doesn't extend into Dragonball Z level territory (blowing up mountains at most by the end), so power inflation issues aren't too glaring. Initial fights have a lot of CQC nuance, but later on the MC relies more heavily on rotating item effects (read using a questionable MTL so I may be mistaken on this).
- No space arc. Story ends before ascending to the god plane. Cons:
- Upgrading/crafting (the main hook) isn't as fulfilling as it ought to be. Demon's Diary did a better job of this IMO. The MC doesn't really go hunting for treasures, scouring dungeons and crafting epic items. Most of the story is just PVP; long stretches of fighting arrogant/schemy douches above his current power level and getting their items, separated by scarce short bouts of item upgrading.
- MC's personality is rather vanilla. Template good-natured MC; doesn't turn into a mu*derous psychopath. Romance is also rather forgettable. Not a lot of depth here.
- Slow translation updates (seems to have been resolved). Recommendation:
Okay time killer.
Simple and bland story. It is as average and uninteresting as it gets. I like the concept of giving the MC a upgrade ability like in RPGs but author just can't pull it off.
Not much foreshadowing to keep readers in suspense nor plot reversals to keep things interesting. As mentioned before, the story is pretty much straightforward. It does get too repetitive quite often, author just can't come up with interesting ideas.
MC is "meh". Personally I don't really like his character. He is naive, careless, not very intelligent and has a strong sense of justice. He gets OP with all the upgrade gear he equips and pretty much wins fights though a few were close calls.
The battles themselves aren't very creative. Its your typically shounen styled battle (i.e One Piece, Bleach). Exchange a few moves, MC on the losing side, then final 1 hit K.O. Showdown and win.
Romance wise, its pretty flat, don't expect too much from it. MC is monogamy guy though. What annoys me the most is how an entire 2 volumes are spent on MC trying to save his kidnapped girlfriend. Extremely boring and excruciating to read. Its like the villains are too s*upid and can only think of 1 way to attack the MC and that's by kidnapping his girl, using the same strategy repeatedly. Add to the fact the the MC's companions are incompetent and can't protect a single girl. Novel has 8 volumes so literally 1/4 of the novel is about saving the princess cinderella.
On the flip side, the only reason this novel is worth reading is because its quite short around 1300 chapters.
This is probably my favorite Xianxia novel, it is horribly underrated sadly, but it has a lot more to offer than it is given credit for, the one thing that this novel does that sooooo many others don't, is have a positive outlook on humanity. The people in the world of upgrade specialist are real, they aren't the contrived a**holes of most Xianxia, their are an equal or greater number of good people as compared to the number of self absorbed a**holes, not everyone in this world is out for number one, and ordinary people aren't just ants underfoot.
The writing style of this novel is a tad different to most Xianxia, it reads more like a Japanese fantasy webnovel at times with its heavy references to online gaming and general gaming culture, the unique situation that the protagonist is in lends to the comedy as sometimes he makes references to things he doesn't understand out of reflex due to the memories he has gained from the failed world hopper.
The characters of this novel are many and interesting, they do fill tropes at times but never in an obnoxiously horrible way. The fact that a character that is introduced in the first 10 chapters doesn't come into the limelight until volume 5 shows the forethought and story boarding this series' author went to.
The combat in this series is leaps and bounds better than I have seen in basically any other novel, western or eastern, the fights are well thought out letting our MC use all of his varied abilities and peculiar upgrade affects to their best potential. The fights are described below by blow right down to the emotional reactions of the characters, and there is very little of the peanut gallery mouthing off on the side as is common in Xianxia.
The upgrade technique itself is worth mentioning, the way it creatively blends game like affects into weapons and items being used by real people makes you really think about some of the uses for the items, one example being a dapper that does double damage if attract the same place twice, and double again for a third attack etc. This isn't something that would work in a video game as you don't have that kind of fine control in games, but in real life that kind of cheat like affects would be insane, especially considering poepl don't have health bars and damage basically directly correlated to the amount of pain the enemy feels.
This is a great novel and I can't explain how awesome it is here, go read it!
the very first chapter. Drop any reason out, accept whathappen-is-whathappen, and enjoy the rest.
1) Some 'fate' schools elder gets some hints about the MC power, You would expect that this being Xianxia, the elder will try to probe in more about the power, but he doesn't do s*** and even helps out the MC.
2) The MC takes in a subordinate from a village attacked by bandits and seems to trust his a lot for no good reason.
3) There are tons more things that I find wrong with this. The MC is hot headed and push over. He doesn't appreciate the help of that elder who gave him cultivation sizz and plans to join some other sect. So ungrateful.
I will be honest, this is alike a JP Light Novel with it's character development elements (childlike/naive)... I hate them. The power and world setup is good and unique, but the plot build up for his enemies is just poor as he gets them in ways that can only be explained by plot armor
#1: MC bumps into a girl liked by this spoiled rich kid and the rich kid tries to kill him for that, the girl is displeased and stops the rich kid and MC is saved.
Rich kid then sends people later on in the night after him, kidnaps then throws him into this 'last man standing' underground arena.
In there MC meets this old man with a typical sad story and he gets emotionally attached in that short instant.
Then when they get in the arena and start running from their opponent at the last moment when the opponent wants to kill the MC the old man jumps and sacrifices his life to save with his last cliche words were like "keep a good conscience"
MC takes it to heart then wailed aloud with blood tears and after that kills the guy, who trained martial arts and has been in many life and death situations in his life, with a brick and no skill (i don't care how powerful that brick is, but couldn't the opponent dodge at all even after him also getting a power up?)... yh that spells a lot for me.