
Cultivating Merit in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
我在聊斋修功德
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 1.2M Words
- Genre
- Xianxia Romance
- Subgenre
- Classical Xianxia
- Updated
- 2mo ago
- English
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The author's writing is so good. Don't listen to those trolls. Keep at it. Sooner or later, one day you will become a master platinum gold medal.
Having read up to chapter 33, my overall impression is very good. However, it feels quite awkward to call the mother-in-law, a woman, "Master" in the first thirty chapters; it would be better to call her "Master" or "Master's Wife."
News of your new book is known to everyone, from the many divine powers on the seventh level of Heavenly Mountain to the strange and evil creatures in the chaotic seabed!
Good evening
More in line with imagination
It's rare to see female videos writing about chatting.
It's finally here! It's a shame about the previous book, *The Trial of the Gods*. I'd been looking forward to it for so long! (`Δ')/
The sense of disconnect after becoming a god is so strong; it's like reading two different novels.
The Three Views are so righteous that most literary cultivators can ascend when they reach the immortal level. But when people ascend, it means that the world loses the energy consumed by the ascended people. If they ascend again, the world will lose again. In this way, the world will become weaker and weaker. When you talk about merit, it's very logical.
The later part, where she becomes a god, felt bland and uninteresting...
I've always had a question: how exactly is merit determined? For example, in ancient times, women were expected to adhere to the Three Obediences and Four Virtues. If the protagonist were to be instilled with many modern ideas, causing a woman to be seen as an outcast, gossiped about, or even killed, what would that be considered merit?