Liaozhai: The Silent Son
聊斋子不语
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 590k Words
- Genre
- Xianxia
- Subgenre
- Classical Xianxia
- Updated
- 4y ago
- English
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I'd like to offer a suggestion. Since this work is set in history and constantly hints that true cultivators are rare, and those with high cultivation levels are even rarer, the story should be more balanced. It could incorporate more natural disasters and man-made calamities in a historical fiction style.
Do you think the protagonist might have developed a mental illness due to the unbearable pressure of his master's death, leading to his fantasy of time travel?
I think this book went astray in the middle and later stages. Instead of focusing on cultivating immortality, seeking the Dao, and slaying demons, it insisted on veerging into a struggle for supremacy and dynasty conquest. Changing the world requires territory and power, but what was the protagonist doing later? Nothing! He had no people, no land, so what was he fighting for?
Subduing demons and monsters is hardly a meritorious deed; driving out the barbarians and restoring China is the true path and a great meritorious act. The protagonist should first accumulate people in the interior by spreading Christianity and then go abroad to invent and start companies to amass wealth. After that, raising the banner of rebellion to drive out the barbarians is the right thing to do. Otherwise, why would Heaven's gates open to a land teeming with filth?
This is morally reprehensible. The Daoist doctor has already entered the palace (a euphemism for a corrupt official), and this book seems to be nearing its end too? Last comment, book deleted, blocked, goodbye.
Could you please go even further with this medical novel? It's truly awful; the author is so bad they can't keep writing, and you won't learn anything from it. Art students who give up on sketching at the very beginning will never finish a single drawing in their lifetime, just as an author who doesn't tell a proper story will never finish a book.
This is toxic! A female ghost possesses the protagonist, drains him dry, and associates with demons, yet the protagonist develops feelings for her.
Judging from the title, I thought it was a book set in the world of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, but it turned out to be a cultivation novel set in the late Qing Dynasty, similar to The Idle Journey to the West.
I knew it, it was going to fall apart later.
Having read up to chapter 30, the plot is enjoyable, and the writing style and pacing are excellent. However, there are too many typos and grammatical errors, which greatly hinders reading. I can't remember where it is now, for example, something like: What Xiao Liu didn't expect was that this situation was unimaginable. Xiao Li raised the sharp sword high.