Journeying Through the Heavens, Starting with The Smiling, Proud Wanderer

After reading a dozen chapters and flipping through the table of contents, I even subscribed to a new subscription and have to say, this book is absolutely toxic. The protagonist transmigrates and watches the tragedy of the Huashan Sect repeat itself—what's the point of transmigrating in the first place? The only purpose of the protagonist is to retrace Linghu Chong's steps; is this insane?!

This is truly outrageous. I could hold my own for the first dozen or so chapters, but then he maxed out several sword techniques and Huashan internal energy, reaching the pinnacle of transcendence, and even learned the Dugu Nine Swords and the Zixia Divine Skill. He was then ambushed and knocked unconscious by Yu Canghai.

The writing style masks the plot's absurdity; the character is essentially a Linghu Chong plus, possessing superior martial arts skills, greater problem-solving abilities, a deeper understanding of information and situations, and near-prophetic advantages as a transmigrator—and then witnessing all the things that the original Linghu Chong was powerless to do unfold before his very eyes.

This book only changed Linghu Cong's name slightly... Linghu Cong becomes sworn brothers with the heretical sect leader, while the protagonist develops feelings for him. Then, the granddaughter of a sect elder arrives at Mount Hua, causing a ruckus and relentlessly demanding to marry him, to which the protagonist protects her…

The combat power was overwhelmingly suppressed. The protagonist initially learned all the martial arts skills to the highest level, but he was still overwhelmed by others (whose martial arts were probably not even up to the level of a Great Chengdu expert), and even vomited blood two or three times before fleeing in defeat, hahaha!!!

The novel *The Smiling, Proud Wanderer* is really bad; the protagonist is even worse than Linghu Chong. I don't want to read the later parts at all.

This is really toxic and pretentious. If you didn't intend to do anything to Yue Lingshan in the first place, then don't write it so ambiguously. After hugging and cuddling, you ignore her and then have Yue Lingshan get together with Lin Pingzhi. Is this some kind of pretentious, artsy writing?

Think about how you were when you first came up the mountain, and think about how Lao Yue treated you in the book. I hope you won't hurt Lao Yue again. If these transmigrated protagonists had any conscience, they would have used Lao Yue to learn his Zixia Kung Fu, so why couldn't they have managed Mount Hua properly and fulfilled Lao Yue's lifelong pursuit? Really, only if Mount Hua recovers will Old Yue still pursue the Evil-Repelling Sword Manual?

The first few chapters were alright, but he died from poison after saving Qu Feiyan! If you can't write about emotions, you could at least write about how to bring glory to your sect! They raised you, taught you martial arts, and you still dare to disobey your master? A traitorous disciple!

Maintain a good pace and keep your passion for writing; finishing the book is a victory in itself. Even if you feel it might fall apart halfway through, it's fine to end it. Writing skills and techniques are honed through practice. Looking back later, you'll have something to be proud of, instead of being seen as an abandoned project by others.