Path to Immortality, Beginning with the Life-Prolonging Lamp
从延命灯开始的长生路
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- Ongoing
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- 1.2M Words
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- Xianxia
- Subgenre
- Classical Xianxia
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The biggest problem lies in the inadequate foreshadowing of this organization. The author's attempt to force the protagonist into joining suggests a significant role for them later, but two issues remain unresolved. Regardless of their future importance, they haven't been shown yet. Based on the current content, this organization is essentially a nobody.
He started writing nonsense as soon as it was released. First, an organization inexplicably appeared and tried to recruit him, sending him a token. Then the organization robbed his house. Finally, the protagonist is exiled by the author to a new map. Seriously, this is a tactic from 20 years ago. Is your organization called Akatsuki? Just give out a ring already.
The first thirty chapters are so excellent
Why did it explode in popularity right before it was released? At first, they said how terrifying the Ghost Mother was, but then they stopped pretending and just called her the Ghost Mother when they couldn't beat her. Why don't they just live off her? Other novels usually release chapters with minor plot twists or climaxes, but you just dumped a huge mess.
The conflict with that Lin guy was too abrupt. If it really came to the point of murder to silence him, at least the details of how the protagonist was humiliated should have been described. Otherwise, to suddenly turn on the sect and kill someone in just a few words shows a really poor character.
I suggest you quit reading this book. The plot development is like a joke; don't you find it abrupt? Did you even have an outline? I won't even mention the assassination attempt by the Ghost Taoist around chapter 50, but the sudden appearance of some Heavenly Palace in chapter 55 is even more ridiculous.
The constant writer's block is a clear sign of a severe lack of literary talent. The quality of authors these days is really low, yet they try to show off their literary skills. Unlike the early years of online literature, with established authors like Meng Ru Shen Ji, who clearly had extensive reading experience and consistently updated with high-quality content.
Confuse
Logically speaking, this isn't the author's first time writing a book, but the plot twists—from the pre-release conflict involving the Ghostly Taoist to the protagonist being kidnapped and taken on a trip just a few chapters after release—are just too abrupt, so I'm really puzzled... Let's nurture the book and wait for what happens next; hopefully it won't die...
To be honest, I feel the protagonist would have been better off becoming a ghost cultivator under the Ghost Mother's guidance from the start. What he's practicing now seems no different from what ghost cultivators practice, and his temperament and behavior are somewhat extreme, almost like a demonic cultivator.
If I were to describe what this damned old lady did in a different gender, I bet everyone would be furious! An older, terrifying ghost forced a young, beautiful girl into marriage, placing a curse on her to hasten her death. The girl refused to marry him and didn't want to die, so she went alone to Tiannan Shangguan to cultivate, hoping to break the curse and live.
The Daoist military system can't be abandoned, but the book title isn't very appealing and won't immediately attract those who like supernatural tales...