A Record of Strange Martial Arts

What's the point of disguise if you have a tiger by your side? Anyone can tell who you are just by looking at the tiger. That's a major weakness.

Overall, it's alright, but some parts feel a bit odd. For example, the protagonist wants to build an organization more powerful than assassins and a spy network more powerful than the Royal Secret Service. His ambitions are too exaggerated for such a small territory. If he weren't the protagonist, he'd be considered an idiot by now.

It's a really good book; it was recommended by our fourth-grade class monitor.

It's quite baffling. What was the author thinking? Would anyone call you "little brother" when you're ten? Didn't a single person treat you like a child? Two people spent three years in the mountains—did they only need to eat and drink? What about clothes? After three years in the mountains, eating wild fruits and wild animals, would you even look human?

It's rare to find a novel this stupid. After reading more than 30 chapters, I found that the protagonist is completely brainless and just recklessly charges around. Does the author even think the way the events in this martial arts world are handled is reasonable?

This is utter garbage! There's no sense of chivalry or martial arts at all; it's all about the imperial court. A bunch of characters appear out of nowhere in the early stages, but are completely ignored later on. It's padded out the whole time; taking down a single character takes dozens of pages, and attacking the Floating Cloud Sect takes even more.

It's one thing that there weren't any heavily armed troops stationed in the border areas with enemy countries, but when the Later Yuan army of 500,000 men pressed in, it was actually the protagonist who organized his own forces and local martial arts factions to resist. The Great Xia court didn't even send troops to support them; they acted as if nothing had happened, not even uttering a sound. What kind of logic is this from the author?

More than a hundred chapters have passed since the protagonist appeared, and on average, there's one instance per chapter where he says he "doesn't want to reveal his identity."

It feels like most martial arts novels these days are just fantasy stories disguised as martial arts novels.

Um, why isn't the protagonist named Lin Xi or Lin Qi, but instead Lin Xiqi? And the martial arts technique might as well be called the Northern Darkness Scripture; "Darkness Ice" is such a mouthful! Although the Northern Darkness Scripture clashes with martial arts themes, they could still modify it themselves. 🌹