
Borrowed Sword
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Explore more →Why I Dropped It
No standards, just vibes.
Romance Novels I Remember (Not a Same-Author Compilation)
This list is even more eclectic: historical romance, sci-fi, modern romance, Western fantasy, and so on. Three- or four-star ratings may be somewhat useful as a guide.
Dropped Reads
Dropped
Saved for Myself
Plot, prose, and characterization all serve the overall feel. I don't care to scrutinize the plot's logic.
I Love BG
I love BG, and BG loves me.
Female-Led Stories
Some people insist I’m licking the male lead’s boots and tell me to go back to Qidian. Why does everything have to be a battle between men and women? A female-led story doesn’t have to make every woman amazing and every man stupid to be good.
Million-Word Plot-Driven Epics
Long, million-word-plus novels I've subscribed to, mostly plot-driven and with unlimited-flow settings. Any pairing is fine: BL, BG, or no romance. All complete, and I've read most of them.
My Favorite Heroines
Female leads I love. They don't have to be beautiful or clever, and they don't even have to be good people, but they're all vivid and full of life.
Strong Female Leads
Strong female leads
Cultivation Novels with an Irresistible Female Lead
Cultivation stories with irresistible protagonists. The rating requirements are so unreasonable, they limit how I can rate. Some stars are just random ratings so I can meet the ratio and upload the list.
Outstanding Books Worth Rereading
A bit of everything, but very few stories that are purely about romance. I’m a plot person, and I like books whose writing isn’t too immature. The five-star ratings are my top recommendations.
Some of My Favorites
BG, BL, and no-CP. Fantasy, infinite-loop, school, and interstellar settings. Focused on worldbuilding and plot.
Books Worth Talking About
Books I’ve read that are worth mentioning. I have a lot to say about the ones I especially loved.
Great Reads I Keep Coming Back To
As the title says
Female-Lead-Focused Stories
Female POV, plot-driven.
Temporary List: Paid for, But Didn't Finish - 1
This list is full, but I have a second list in my column for novels I am letting accumulate chapters or have lost track of. If I ever pick them up again, there is still a chance of continuing the connection. I recommend them to everyone, since someone else may enjoy them.
My Top Picks: Great Completed Novels
Books I think you'd seriously regret not reading! Both BL and BG, all completed! I made this list in one go, so I only remember whether they were good or not. Hope it's helpful!
Books Kept After Reading, Continuously Updated
A personal list of books I keep after reading, so I can reread them when I’m out of things to read. I prefer stories with worldbuilding or strong female leads, but as long as the writing is good, I’m not picky about genre.
A Mixed Bag of Books
Books I still reread after more than ten years of reading.
Great Completed Books, All Fully Purchased
A mixed bag of novels for fans of cultivation, infinite-loop stories, and suspense
Strong Female Leads / Plot-Focused / No Romance or Barely Any
A longtime Jinjiang reader with picky tastes. The plots and logic hold up, and the worldbuilding is detailed and expansive. All kinds of genres.
Female Lead Cultivation Novels
Romance and strong female leads cultivating immortality, plus a few modern cultivation and spiritual qi revival novels.
Complete Collection of Historical Novels
I read everything from cultivation and palace intrigue to imperial exam stories. I’ll read any perspective except yuri. Most of these are ones I’ve read. Recommended with love by an 11-year veteran reader.
Finding Books Is So Hard
Why don’t you get the logic straight before serving this up? Try me :)
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It turns out that Mr. Shengyu has been alone since he was a child! The finale saw the foreshadowing of Dao Meng Tiger again, which was very satisfying. After finishing the second play, I like Wang Shengyu even more. This character is really well written and he is the most romantic and scheming character in Lang Huan Zhou Tian. Originally I thought he was also the most heroic character, but there was also Xie Yanhuan. But Wang and Xie have always been the same people. Lao Wang is the best at hiding, not competing for brilliance, but secretly growing vigorously. If you are not passionate enough, how can you practice the Tianxing Avenue in a blocked Zhoutian! If you are not passionate enough, how can you resolutely embark on another difficult road for your illusory lover! Master Chu's lineage are all lunatics, that's true, Master Wang is very crazy! Crazy is bold, unruly, and ambitious. The other side of madness is absolute rationality, never losing control, and letting everything come to me! Even the ending was written by myself. It's so crazy, so romantic, and I love it.
Let me give you my opinion. Some book friends say that there is a sense of separation in terms of levels. I feel that the biggest feature of this article is that it is actually idealism. The difference between level and level lies in the degree of understanding of the essence of the universe. The more you understand the essence, the deeper you can go on the road to seek the truth. The so-called three thousand avenues correspond to many essential rules in the universe. That's why there are people in the article who have unstable Taoist minds and have completely lost their cultivation. It's because they are shaken by the Tao they seek, and that's why they are like this. I feel that this is also where Xiangxiang's article is more interesting than some other universes of cultivating immortals. If you upgrade to the end and just become a more powerful and authoritative person, how can you embody "seeking the Tao"?
About halfway through, I didn't want to watch anymore, so I made up the ending. It's not that this book is bad, there are so many good things about it, and I was mesmerized by most of the plot in the first third. However, the pros and cons are equally clear to me. Of course, there are many advantages: the world view is complete, grand, magnificent, and self-contained (the setting of this book ranks first among all the immortal cultivation novels I have seen); the author has written the mysterious and mysterious feeling that I think cultivation of immortality should have; many plots and foreshadowings are contrasted and exciting; most of the characters are flesh and blood. As for the shortcomings, first of all, the emotional line between the male and female protagonists is unnatural. The process of the female protagonist falling in love with the male protagonist is baffling to many people, and they feel like "Huh? Why did I suddenly like this guy when there was nothing special?" Although I know that the heroine will have conflicts with the past male protagonist in the future, but as far as 50% of what I have seen, the character displayed by the male protagonist has always been unclear, erratic, exhaustive, and unrealistic. It makes people uncomfortable and I really can't like it. Secondly, there is the issue of upgrading the system. This book roughly follows the common upgrade system for cultivating immortals. The protagonist usually climbs up step by step according to the system, reaching the pinnacle in the same system. Occasionally there are means of leapfrogging, but they cannot be used every day, so readers will follow step by step. The same goes for the heroine in the first third of the book. She also progresses step by step. Her strength is not much higher than that of her peers. The golden fingers are beginning to show up and occasionally help. But after the golden elixir, the entire training system is completely useless. Anyway, you can rely on Tao Yun to get higher and higher. Anyway, every time you use the idealistic method, as long as you figure it out, you will immediately defeat the enemy. The different levels of the golden elixir seem to have no difference to the protagonist. Every time you go out and see something, your strength will increase immediately after you figure it out in your mind. It's not that the stream of consciousness cannot be used, but that the stream of consciousness is too powerful and washes away the original system to the point of being worthless, giving people a strong sense of fragmentation. Another problem with the heroine's path to becoming stronger is that she is vain. Every time I go out to practice a dungeon (and very few actual combat sessions are basically philosophical practice), I come back to retreat for xx years, and my realm improves. She really didn't encounter much of the joys and sorrows of love and hatred, the hardships of wind, frost, rain and snow. Because each copy is too fast, the heroine always suffers a loss for a few seconds and then instantly realizes the truth and fights back. There won't be the feeling of satisfaction of finally accomplishing something after a lot of hard work. Moreover, every time the article emphasizes that the heroine is the future Dao Ancestor, it is repeatedly emphasized: Anyway, you will not die. Anyway, you will get over this hurdle soon. The current small copy is always fine because the ending must be the Dao Ancestor. So starting from the golden elixir, every time the strength became stronger, even if the heroine could finally draw the sword, I didn't feel too excited. The last problem is: too much sense of fate. Everything the heroine encounters is arranged, and every action of everyone has a purpose. Cause and effect are limited to this extent. Time and space in the past and future are limited. Every step you take is destined. It's okay to do it occasionally. It's really annoying to do everything like this. As a result, the more I watched, the less fun I had in exploring the next step, because it was just one layout and arrangement after another. All in all, the author's outline is indeed complete, but the subsequent plot really compromises my reading experience. It's a pity. In the early stage, I was really fascinated and even moved by reading it (this only represents my personal opinion and does not represent the opinions of others).
I finally finished reading it. To be honest, I have read quite a few books about cultivating immortals, but this one is really great for me! Except when I was in junior high school and read Jin Yong's martial arts novels and finally realized what it felt like to be "addicted", I haven't found a similar feeling in many other novels I've read since. Especially the author's "Seeing the Rain but Not Knowing the Rain" written by the author at that time, and there are many similar plots that are unforgettable. It really made me realize the romance and freedom of the world of cultivating immortals, as well as the cruelty and game behind the jokes about life and death. I can only say that I admire Xiaoci very much and also envy Xiaoci very much. I think she can continue to pursue freedom, which is obviously impossible in reality. Due to the relationship of rights and obligations between people, she wants freedom and others also want it. In the end, she actually has to define obligations, restrain herself, and ensure relative freedom. But Xiaoci's world is different. Whether he can enjoy greater freedom depends on two factors: First, whether he knows higher-level information (thereby striving for more freedom, such as the eternal Dao Ancestor above his head). The second is your own strength (according to the setting of this article, it includes many factors, such as luck, cause and effect, etc.). No matter what the factor is, I think the core is: if you pursue freedom, you must be accustomed to paying the price. Whether it is Ruan Ci constantly losing relatives and friends in various dangerous situations, or the final martyrdom of Lang Huan Zhou Tian in the cave, in my opinion, she is paying the price for freedom, rather than willing to be the heroine and climb the ladder to heaven. I suddenly thought of the Simpson case in the United States, as described in the book "Concerns Deep in History" written by Linda. When the defense's dream team of lawyers questioned the illegality of the police's evidence collection procedures, which almost made all the strong evidence directly useless, the pain of the victims' families could be seen on TV by the entire American people. However, "there is nothing that can be done" - once the police who illegally search for evidence are lightly let go, then everyone's house will open the door to the police station. Americans have become accustomed to paying a price for freedom. It feels like the connotation of this article is somewhat similar to that of this article. This article is worth reading again and again. I am grateful to Xiangxiang for bringing me to the world, and I am also looking forward to the extra chapters! After all, I really couldn't understand it in the later stages. There was less description of many characters of Lang Huan Zhou Tian, but more descriptions of Taoist ancestors, Taoist disputes, the universe, and reality and reality. I hope the extra chapter can add some more~
Xiangxiang has already started writing the master's extra story. When will it be our turn, Wang Que'er! I'm really in a hurry!
At the end of the second playthrough, my understanding of the story is a little deeper. If you can taste this book, you will naturally be shocked by the grandeur and perfection of its structure. If you can't taste it, you can only say that the reading threshold is there, and there is nothing you can do. There is a movie called Creed, which is about reverse effects and causes. You need to understand how people who go backward in time interact with people who advance in time. After watching it, I felt that the threshold was not as high as this book.
I really couldn't stand it when I serialized it before. Now that it's finished, the experience is still very good (this kind of relatively grand article is really painful to write one chapter a day) But to be honest, I still like the feeling in the early stage. The pace is really too fast later on. I thought the top ten disciples were some important part, but it ended immediately! There are still many people whose stories have not yet been told. I look forward to the follow-up.
When will I publish another book about cultivating immortals? The author's writing about cultivating immortals really leaves a lasting impression on my lips and teeth, and has endless aftertaste.
I still haven't written about my Lao Wang. I want to see Lao Wang, so many Lao Wangs! However, Lao Wang deliberately did not reincarnate and laid a foreshadowing to give him some comfort. I like this book very much. When will Xiangxiang open the Xiuxian universe again?
I really like this article. The mysterious and mysterious feeling is completely written. Although it is tiring, it is very fulfilling. This is called cultivating immortals and cultivating Taoism. The method of induction, shuttle between reality and reality, the effect before the cause, the setting is exquisite and rigorous, and the characters are well-shaped. Well, it's all the big guys who are fighting. In comparison, those liver-level immortal writings are too crude. How can they leapfrog the level and kill them every day... The real big guys are full of tricks. No one has any cultivation level and has an empty head. It's unreasonable.