
Keeping My Head Down in a World of Gods and Monsters, Seeking Immortality
苟在神诡求长生
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 2.6M Words
- Genre
- Xianxia
- Subgenre
- Fantasy Cultivation
- Updated
- 2y ago
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Having read novels for so long, this is the first time I've seen a low-level cultivator have nothing to eat and be afraid of starving to death. I'm truly speechless. They're about to starve to death and still complaining about not having any spiritual rice. Are you suggesting that there are no mortals in the entire world? How do they survive?
... It starts getting nauseating in the middle. To be honest, writing this kind of low-brow, underhanded story with two women, and then failing to make it coherent, is ridiculous. It's not that the women are bad, but don't you think it's stupid when you read it yourself? If you can't write women well, don't write them at all.
It's good, well written. Some people don't like the feeling of playing with people anymore. It's unforgettable to be in the world of gods and monsters. Keep up the good work, author!
Is this what you call a "mortal cultivation" story? Other "mortal cultivation" stories have a much larger world and include some elements of ordinary human life. But yours depicts a market town where cultivators live as a slum. There's even the smell of urine and feces on the streets. Is this a cultivation story or a beggar's den?
The later parts were really boring. The borrowing from the mysterious revival was a bit too much. The cultivation of immortality lost its essence and turned into a tech tree of climbing monsters. It was utterly tasteless, so I gave up.
If someone tells you to refine elixirs, you refine elixirs; if someone asks you to prove you're not Jia Ren, you prove it. What kind of brainless person are you? If someone asks you to prove your parents are dead, are you going to take them to dig up your parents' graves?
The second novel I subscribed to was really well-written.
After chapter 150, it's basically unreadable. If you can't write female supporting characters, don't write them. You've written a bunch of toxic characters. Take that Wang something-or-other character, for example. Was he even toxic? A Foundation Establishment cultivator? Does he even have the right to compete in the world of gods and demons? Even a Golden Core cultivator gets instantly killed by the monsters.
To be honest, I really hate this useless protagonist. He trembles with fear at the slightest sound, and doesn't dare to utter a sound when bullied by cultivators of the same level or even those lower in cultivation. He earns money but doesn't use it to cultivate powerful spells; instead, he only wants to acquire low-grade, worthless items. If they were high-grade items that could save his life, it would be understandable. In short, he's a useless guy with millions in assets and a cheat code.
The later chapters got boring; I barely made it to chapter 668.