
Playing Gods and Buddhas: Starting as Guanzizai
扮演神佛:从观自在开始
- Status
- Ongoing
- Length
- 760k Words
- Genre
- Xianxia
- Subgenre
- Mythic Cultivation
- Updated
- 2y ago
- English
- Request a translation
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I've finished reading the three golden chapters. The protagonist seems rather strange. Even when his former enemies wanted to kill him, he showed no anger or hatred, and never considered revenge or punishing evil. The protagonist looks like a woman, has shaved his head to become a monk, and his training prohibits killing. Overall, the protagonist's personality and way of thinking are unlike any human's.
There are many Bodhisattvas in Buddhism, each with different appearances, scriptures, and names. To merge them all into one, making Manjushri, Ksitigarbha, and Samantabhadra all Avalokiteshvara, is too low-class. It would be better to merge them into the "Bodhisattva" position, manifesting one's own image, with various Bodhisattva incarnations, using the scriptures of each Bodhisattva to manifest…
I'm disappointed with this book. First, it's too weak. Second, the plot is too scattered; is it intentionally written without an outline? Third, the book repeatedly states that cultivating the mind is more important than physical cultivation, but why are those with higher cultivation levels always able to do whatever they want while the protagonist is constantly resorting to explosive outbursts?
It looks great, but I have something to say. It's best not to include other systems; the Buddhist one is quite good. To be honest, most other Buddhist figures are ugly, I've seen them posted by various groups. Buddhist figures, except for Tathagata and the Future Buddha (Maitreya), are all quite good-looking.
It feels quite different from the synopsis. I thought it would be about someone wearing a disguise, spreading magic and showing off, but it turned out to be a typical monster-slaying and leveling-up story. What's with the "first, imitate Guanyin" thing? It's just imitating Guanyin; hundreds of chapters have passed, and there's still no new disguise, not even a hint of Confucianism or Taoism.
This protagonist's cultivation is progressing too slowly. He's always being treated like an ant. It's okay once or twice, but it feels really frustrating after a while.
Sigh, how did he end up as a eunuch?
The Bodhisattva chapter, taken out of context, can be considered divine among divine works.
Uh, I thought you were going to write a story where the protagonist directly becomes a powerful Arhat or Bodhisattva. Another one of those novice-to-level-up tropes!
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I used to read mostly dark novels, now I want to change things up.