A Leisurely Path to Immortality

I've read up to chapter 142, stayed up all night watching it, and am a little disappointed. The following is purely my reflection after reading it. Perhaps because the author didn't want to give the female lead too many cheat abilities, he gave them all to her family members.

The family setting is heartwarming, and the other settings are quite normal. However, the female lead has a particular fondness for sword cultivation. She started practicing body cultivation from a young age, but ended up pursuing a magical cultivation path, apprenticing under a highly skilled alchemist... I've followed the latest installment, and she's spent four years mastering sword techniques.

So, this novel, in order to portray the female lead as an ordinary person cultivating immortality without many cheat-like abilities, gave all the female lead's opportunities and screen time to Shi Xing? Even the eldest sister's character is more well-developed than the female lead's. What kind of female lead is that?

This book is quite good, but it fails because the female lead is portrayed as overly unambitious in the early stages. Despite her great talent, she thinks it would be better if she didn't have spiritual roots, so she wouldn't have to cultivate immortality.

Ah Xian is so cute, I love Ah Xian so much (｡･ω･｡) The characters in this story are very well-developed and have a charmingly cute quality. They are all intelligent, and the female lead is both smart and strong, but her strength is justified and doesn't rely on any special abilities. The "golden finger" setting of Ming Jie is quite fun, and A Xian's experiences are relatable to most people. Overall, it's a light and enjoyable read. Support the author! ✺◟(∗❛ัᴗ❛ั∗)◞✺

It's too verbose, and there are so many typos. I tried it several times when I was short of books. The most I saw was the Ten Thousand Sects Test. Many of the settings in it were unreasonable and seemed quite awkward. The heroine's character was also lacking in a spirit of progress. Although she often said that she had thought clearly and woke up, she just set the flag and never saw her actually take action.

I think current cultivation novels are a bit extreme. Either they give the female lead so many cheat codes that readers question their existence, or they don't give her any benefits at all, as if they're afraid readers will accuse them of giving her cheat codes. But isn't the point of going on adventures and treasure hunts to get benefits? Of course, if the female lead gets no benefits at all, she'll seem resentful.

The author's writing style and conception are very good, but when writing a novel, there must be priorities and priorities, and there must be trade-offs. Describing everything in detail without priorities makes the reader very tired. Although the lengthy description is still better than many hydrology, I hope it can be improved and a lot of unnecessary descriptions will be deleted.

So far, I feel that Shi Xing is more like the female lead. Mu Xin and Xue Yao are all her characters. There's someone who seems to have been reborn, who knows her but not Shi Xian, meaning Shi Xian didn't exist in her previous life. Shi Xing's situation is similar to the female lead's. Although I also like harmonious families, Shi Xing has way too much screen time.

As a seasoned bookworm, I give this work a thumbs up. I've read quite a few books on the cultivation of immortality and immortality. They all boil down to the same thing: various adventures, various cheat codes, and one map after another. It's a bit like an old lady's foot binding cloth.