
Seeking Immortality in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
我在聊斋寻长生
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 677k Words
- Genre
- Xianxia
- Subgenre
- Classical Xianxia
- Updated
- 2y ago
- English
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The Wine Feast Book List
A good work is made from a great idea and great writing. Urban fiction, creative stories, xianxia, ghosts and monsters, fantasy progression novels, survival-focused stories, tales of becoming a sage, light novels, dating-show fanfiction: I recommend books I like and books you like. There’s something here for everyone.
Mostly Lighthearted Power Fantasies, With Plenty of Fun
Not into angst and misery. Fun-loving readers, come on in!
Sci-Fi Fan Fiction, Mystery and Detective Fiction, Cultivation, and Sandbox Worldbuilding
I only recommend ongoing books that seem pretty good.
My Picks for the Myriad Worlds Genre
Most of the books here are in the myriad-worlds genre, but I’ll also recommend other types I enjoy. If you know any good books in the same vein, feel free to comment. I could use some new reads too.
A Big Pot of Everything
Some good books I've come across. A pretty eclectic mix.
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The early episodes were well-paced and quite enjoyable. However, the later episodes became increasingly violent and started exhibiting double standards, using their superior cultivation to steal people's elixirs and threatening to destroy their entire sect if they weren't given them. Ironically, this character supposedly has a "merit-based cheat" (a cheat ability based on merit points). How are their actions any different from those of the people who were killed before?
It's actually not bad, but a lot of negative reviews made me give up on this book several times.
As long as it doesn't crash, it feels like it has the potential to be a masterpiece, and it might even become a minor god-tier game!
No need to watch anymore. The protagonist kills without any reason (only men), but he wouldn't kill a single woman, and even tries to lick her boots. Dropped!
He was poisoned to death in the very first chapter. Murder is judged as good or bad? No one is born to bully the weak, and no one is born to be a dog. What kind of protagonist is someone who slaughters their own kind? Does the world itself have good and evil, and even emotions? How terrifying would that be?
Forcibly seizing other sects' spiritual herbs—this is a completely different style from before you were listed! I'm speechless.
The book started discouraging readers from practicing the Arhat Skill and achieving Hunyuan Qi right from the very first chapter, mainly because the comments section was full of criticism. It hasn't been changed yet; it's a clear case of refusing to correct mistakes.
The more I read it, the less interesting it became. The soul of the system novel is gone. After the protagonist becomes a human immortal, the system's presence diminishes. The protagonist has transformed from a passionate young man into a bureaucrat in a government agency, spending his time gardening and raising birds.
I've read up to chapter 52 of this book, and to sum it up, all the men have to be killed, and all the women, good or bad, have to be saved. It claims to be low-key, yet it insists on showing off. If this kind of plot can get good grades and make money, the author might as well go work on a construction site.
When I read the chapter about the courtesan, the sudden and intense poison completely stunned me. I promptly quit, deleted the book, and said goodbye!