Journey to the West: Pulling a Prank on Taishang Laojun from the Start

A super simplified version of the "Heaven and Earth" principle: Local scaling 😁

I came here because there's no female lead; it's a typical male-dominated genre on Qidian, which is painful to read. 😭

The quality drops sharply from the moment the main character arrives at Fangcun Mountain; it feels like the book was written by a studio.

I haven't started reading it yet, but after glancing at the synopsis, a strong smell of pomegranate wafts over me. I hope it's not too toxic; I've been trying to find something clean in this pomegranate mess lately... But it turns out I'm like searching for a needle in a haystack, and instead of finding the needle, I've swallowed several mouthfuls of poop.

The primordial fantasy element is too strong. After all, not just Journey to the West, but all the classical myths and monsters before Huanzhu Louzhu had a basic setting: supernatural powers and magic are supernatural powers and magic, and martial arts are martial arts.

That's it? Bro, you're no good! You're a weakling, short-statured muscle-weakling! You need to update your new book with at least a hundred or two chapters so the brothers can get a taste of it!

The early chapters were well-written and interesting, but the recent chapters feel like they're just using old references for the sake of using them, with no plot advancement and just filler. It artificially lowers the overall quality of the plot and characters.

It's too similar to the low-budget Journey to the West, it's lost its appeal. The plot gets increasingly haphazard, with more and more elements, more and more powerful supernatural beings but increasingly weaker abilities, and the storytelling becomes increasingly formulaic.

1. The way an ordinary person would write it: I put the battery into the flashlight. 2. The way a normal author would write: I stuffed two size D batteries into that somewhat worn-out flashlight. 3. The Water God's Writing: Now, I have an old-fashioned flashlight in my hand. Holding it, I feel uneasy.

This kind of setting, where one day in heaven is equivalent to a year on earth, is really frustrating to watch. The protagonist was originally about the same strength as the Monkey King, but after spending ten days or so in heaven, he was surpassed and left with nothing. It would have been better if he hadn't gone to heaven at all. But this is the original setting of Journey to the West, it's really frustrating.