Martial Arts Longevity: Starting with the Spirit Beast Atlas

The comments section is full of people praising this book. Did they get paid for it? The book starts by poisoning the reader's mind in the very first chapter. When the character is at their weakest, they refuse to accept the spirit of a pig and instead try to absorb the spirit of a dog to improve their sense of smell. Isn't a pig's sense of smell much better than a dog's? They refuse to accept the spirits of other beasts and are picky about what they can get. How can this book be any good?

The story of killing the beast and encountering the bearded man is riddled with flaws. Why would a bandit like that, who would have been killed with a single word, reason with you? Knowing it was a hunter, why not arrest all the hunters within a ten-mile radius? That's the kind of behavior typical of bandits in chaotic times – better to kill the innocent than let the guilty go free.

Every time I see a chapter like this, I feel like the brain has opened the door for itself, and the brain has arrived home. No way, do you think this is modern civilized society? Do I need a reason to kill you? And what's this alibi? Besides, he's a bandit, and what are you? You're not even a martial artist; you're just someone from the very bottom of society. Where do you get your confidence to try and prove something to him? It's ridiculous.

Having read up to Chapter 44 😂, I'm really confused. How is this bandit so powerful? A few low-level henchmen died, yet he tracked them down for over three months, managed to find them, assassinate them, and even dared to openly kill disciples of the Six Harmonies Sect. And the bandit is only at the Qi Realm level, while the sect leader is a whole realm higher than the bandit leader.

Seeing that he became a constable to avoid trouble is ridiculous. Shouldn't his priority be practicing his martial arts relentlessly? He just killed Ruthless Pillar, has money on him, and the bandits dare not enter the city, yet he insists on becoming a constable. His master is at the third level of the Blood Realm; killing a Qi Realm cultivator is as easy as killing an ant.

Having read over forty chapters, the bandits' plight felt like forced filler, and then it just kept going on and on, with no end in sight. It's unclear how long this saga will last. The bandits, having left the city, operate almost openly outside, yet they claim the authorities can never catch them—what kind of logic is that? The writing and characters are fine, but the plot needs to be more rigorous.

Wow, that's incredible. You write without thinking. How can bandits be so audacious, blocking the gates and even daring to kill people in the city?

I was looking for something to read to kill time, but it just got worse and worse, so I gave up. In my opinion, it's a typical trope of a time-traveling protagonist with a cheat code and a martial arts school, but the character development and psychological descriptions are overly focused on survival, yet the protagonist can't actually survive. It makes the protagonist seem like a fool.

The writing is good, but the plot in the beginning is too stiff. I still don't understand why a group of bandits would relentlessly pursue a few dead people, and you even portrayed them as having the ability of a government official investigating a case. It's not like a single bandit could be so capable; if these bandits are so powerful, what's the point of the government? If there's an explanation later, then never mind. I'm outta here.

The bandits in a small county town were so well-organized and disciplined that they were incredibly powerful, even more so than an army.