From Carp to Great Dragon God

The pacing is alright; it gives me a feeling of reading a celestial official's story. This kind of pacing still has a market. There's no need to go into the traditional fighting and killing of fantasy novels.

He talked about breaking through to the ninth rank, mentioning opening trade routes and fortuitous opportunities, but he still didn't succeed 😅. If breaking through to the ninth rank is this difficult, how difficult must the subsequent stages be? He claims to want to become a sword immortal, but he's always acting nonsensically. Don't sword immortals practice swordsmanship? He's probably cultivating some kind of fish demon immortal named "Sword," isn't he? 🤔

First, the system is too vague. It keeps mentioning nine ranks, but the specifics are unclear, and the description of past lives is also vague. Second, the worldview is unclear. Is it similar to the Immortal Gourd's view of primordial spirit immortality and the myriad worlds, or is it based on the Heavenly Court ascension? This needs clarification.

It was okay at first, but it got more and more complicated as I practiced. Isn't it tiring to practice so many things? There's no focus on anything. And he also likes to get involved in big events. I don't understand why worldly affairs can affect someone who's only taken three or four steps on the path of cultivation. They can't do without him.

You could say the protagonist is the protagonist. He hasn't even graduated kindergarten, and he's already worrying about the Middle East situation.

This book is set in a world that begins in the Middle Thousand Worlds, so the pace is relatively slow. Whenever the book mentions becoming an immortal, it refers to reaching the fifth rank of cultivation and obtaining a blessed land to reside in, which is also the standard for ascension in ordinary Lesser Thousand Worlds.

1. The story of a carp-born sword cultivator is difficult to maintain; it uses the gimmick of a carp transforming into a dragon to write the same old sword cultivator trope. 2. The character design is too difficult to maintain and is not likable at all. The protagonist is a native who is reborn 🙂 and has a high opinion of himself after being reborn. He insults his parents and his own clan elders.

Why write about the overused and outdated sword cultivator theme, which clashes with my own personality, when the premise of a lucky koi carp is so good?

The protagonist is like a good-for-nothing, not cut out for cultivation at all. He's just a lowly loser from the bottom of society, yet he acts like a big shot who cares about everything from family and country to his own cultivation. Theoretically, his cultivation is passable in the book, but the writing makes it feel like that. In reality, the protagonist is indeed incompetent.

As shown in the figure.