The Long Road to Immortality in Strange Tales

The protagonist has warped values; he's over thirty and still a mama's boy, greedy, a thief, and a bully who preys on the weak. A complete loser! He doesn't care about his daughter after the divorce, but spends all his time having sex with a teenage country maid. If you don't practice the proper Taoist practices diligently, you'll end up learning a bunch of unorthodox methods.

I didn't notice the oddity with the monthly pass system and thought it was a really good book. At the beginning, I felt the protagonist's personality was problematic, but I thought it would change later. However, the more I read, the more something seemed off. A weak personality is acceptable; hardship can help change it.

Beautiful! A proper ordained Taoist priest raising a ghost child. Truly worthy of being called a Taoist priest; your ancestral temple worships a fox spirit next to Wang Lingguan, and here you are, raising a ghost child! Great! Excellent! The ancestral master was truly merciful; he didn't kill it.

A modern person, and an adult who has experienced family changes, is not young at thirty. I admit that several hundred thousand is not a small amount of money, but that's precisely why we should know what money is right to take and what money is wrong to take, as it's a hot potato. He always gives in whenever the other party launches a money-spending offensive.

Seriously, I'm speechless. I already thought it was strange enough that the protagonist, with his inherited Taoist skills and a bunch of orthodox Taoist magic on his phone, wasn't practicing them but instead raising ghosts. I held back and kept reading, but then he encountered a resurrected corpse and started raising more corpses. I'm outta here!

I forced myself to read over 70 chapters, and I really want to ask a question: how did those who praise this book so much manage to finish it?

This book might have been considered good ten years ago, but not now. Whether the protagonist's values ​​are skewed or not isn't the issue; people are different, and the protagonist isn't necessarily a righteous character. As long as the novel's character settings and overall logic are sound, it's acceptable.

I saw it was available for purchase and then gave up. I felt it wasn't worth continuing and would affect my mindset; it didn't align with my values. The cross-dimensional travel and various spells were well-written, but the protagonist's character was problematic. He started out as honest and loyal, but later in the story, he became selfish, violent, and his writing reeked of malice.

I died from poisoning at number 51. Fellow Daoists, where did you die? 😒

I really admire Xu Xiujun. He seems to think that his poor performance is because there is not enough publicity and exposure, which is why no one watches his work. The root cause is that it's poorly written; even the most basic punctuation marks are used incorrectly, making it impossible to read.