Swallowed Star: Starting with the Genius Battle

The author probably just watched an anime and then started writing a book, right? Let's look at the original work. It seems like the invasion of the virtual universe in the anime is a joke. A tenth-tier secret technique? How can the Zerg invade?

This is what true fan fiction should be: using the original power-based economy system, but with new characters, events, maps, and skills. The problem with most fan fiction is that it uses old characters, events, and maps, thinking that adding a cheat code makes it fan fiction—that's naive and laughable.

This ancestor is someone no normal person would buy half of their investment in, let alone split it 50/50. The author has absolutely no understanding of the intensity of the Cosmic Genius Battle, saying that a possible immortal inheritance and a scion of a small family within the Black Dragon Mountain Empire can get you into the top 1000. Do you know how many cosmic kingdoms there are? 1008.

Although it has some flaws, I feel this book is more realistic. It truly depicts the struggles of people at the bottom of the Swallowed Star universe. While the protagonist, due to his prophetic abilities, already has a starting point 10,000 times better than ordinary cosmic beings, Luo Feng's situation is practically cheating—he enjoys the treatment of a cosmic darling.

The concept and plot are fine, but there are a few really bad parts. The first one is just "stellar class" followed by "demon king," which sounds really silly 🖊️. The second problem is the disrespect for the original work. For example, what about the Ninth Princess? Does that mean she can't live without women?

Gao Sheng won a planet by betting on Luo Feng, and Luo Feng lost to Bo Lan in the Genius Battle... This is supposed to be anime fanfiction, I thought it was novel fanfiction. 😠

Brother, the first chapter completely killed any desire to continue reading. From some unknown distance, a mere third-level apprentice tells his clan leader that he knows Luo Feng has obtained the inheritance of immortality, and asks the clan leader to place a bet. That's incredibly audacious and ruthless!

I didn't want to continue watching when I saw that the ancestor was only at the planetary level. How many generations had he lived to reach the third planetary level? He was just an ordinary commoner family on a planet. Apart from the ancestor, the others didn't even have commoner status and could afford virtual status?

The game started off a bit toxic; a level 3 apprentice, not even a citizen, and yet he's already buying gambling tickets.

The beginning is ridiculous. The protagonist's ancestor should at least be a ninth-tier stellar-level being to have any chance of becoming the patriarch of a major family on a planet. Earth is an exception; it doesn't have internet access. In places with internet access, a life-bearing planet would need at least a cosmic-level being to maintain order, followed by a large number of stellar-level beings. If a planet didn't have a cosmic-level being, it would have been enslaved long ago.