
Borrowed Sword
借剑
- Status
- Ongoing
- Length
- 1.4M Words
- Genre
- Cultivation
- Subgenre
- Fantasy Cultivation
- Updated
- 1mo ago
- Source
- Qidian
Synopsis
Honours
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400 Chapters in 3 days reading experience
After participating in the event, I chose to fully subscribe. From the beginning of the book, which was acceptable, to the later chapters of more than 400 chapters, the overall experience gradually became disappointing. The problem is not at a certain point, but at the overall level of looseness and imbalance. The most intuitive thing is that the text is heavily watered. A large number of chapters neither advance the plot nor deepen the characters, but simply regurgitate low-value information. There is no excitement, no emotional tension, and no effective emotional pull. It reads more like an elongated draft than a polished novel. The character creation is also weak. The whole show shows an obvious tendency to make faces, the characters speak in the same way, and the behavioral logic is single. The large amount of psychological descriptions not only fail to add layers, but instead appear childish and redundant. They are more like repeated explanations of existing content rather than true characterization. This directly results in the reader being unable to have a real emotional connection with any of the characters. The problem at the setting level is even more fatal. The novel introduces key mechanisms such as "contribution points" and "experience points", but it hardly forms a complete system. How to obtain contribution points, how to consume them, and what the exchange ratio is are all vague. Originally there was a setting of "Use the natal magic weapon Tao Sheng to refine an elixir in exchange for contribution points and support your family", and even mentioned "100% success, 24-hour automatic elixir refining". It seemed to be a very important production system, but it disappeared immediately after just one word. As the plot progresses, it seems that "direct disciples no longer need to contribute points." So what is the significance of the entire set of settings? It's not that these settings don't exist, but they stay at the "proposing concept" stage and have never been truly constructed. What is more serious is the complete distortion of the numerical system. As a work with an obvious tendency of "upgrade flow" and "system flow", the most basic numerical feedback is completely missing: • How much experience is required to upgrade each level is unknown • The growth curve between levels does not exist • The advanced consumption of the "Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang" skill system is unclear • The contribution points obtained each time are often in the millions or tens of millions, but there is no reference standard All values are in a "floating state" - existing, but meaningless. Readers neither know "how many resources are needed to upgrade from level 30 to level 31", nor do they know "whether the current reward is too much or too little." Everything becomes the author's one-way discretion: "If I say you can upgrade, you can upgrade." This directly destroys the core source of pleasure in the upgrade flow - predictable growth and feedback. Compared with mature system-flow works, the numerical system is usually clear, perceptible, and can even be deduced by readers. However, "Borrowing the Sword" completely abandons this point, resulting in a lack of realism and participation in reading. In terms of specific plots, the problem is equally obvious. The "seizing of one's body" section in the Moon Kingdom chapter has been repeatedly stretched out. It is known that the protagonist cannot be taken away, but the space continues to be consumed. This is a typical "fake suspense delay". The death of the master's uncle, a node that should have become an emotional climax, was handled extremely lightly, lacking foreshadowing and accumulation, and had almost no emotional impact. After reading this, you will even feel a sense of separation - does the protagonist regard the master as an "NPC in the game", or as a teacher in the real world? The text itself does not provide any convincing emotional underpinnings. The plot of the cult setting up an ambush is even more obviously untenable logically. Since it was an organized and premeditated siege, and an ambush was set up near the Taoist gate, it should have been a "lion versus rabbit" situation. But the actual performance was extremely childish. The villains almost collectively fell in love and sent them off one by one. If some reasonable arrangements were made, it would be impossible for the protagonist to escape based on his strength at the time. This treatment not only weakens the tension, but also directly undermines the credibility of the worldview. Taken together, the problem of "Borrowing the Sword" can be summed up in one sentence: There is a shadow of a frame, but there is no ability to complete the frame. It looks like a complete upgrade work, but it is still in a "semi-finished" state in key dimensions such as text, characters, settings and numerical system. Lack of polish and lack of self-consistency. As far as personal experience is concerned, it is not recommended to invest time - it will only make you more annoyed as you read.
The author is too keen on interacting with readers. In my opinion, this is a loss of pride as a literary creator! A literati who does not have the character of a literati is not worthy of having people click on your works. So, I chose to remove this book from the bookshelf, not because I don't like it, but because the author doesn't love himself enough, which makes people lament it.
Have you ever borrowed a sword? Some things are scribbled and taken for granted.
Han Shuangjiang. Leng Yan
Full of feeling like a royal sister#Borrowing the Sword#
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Ox
If the author is awesome, he will be honest. I won't scold you again.
If it really doesn't work, I will integrate the books with good data into the database in the future. If you dare to eunuch, you will be compensated for the liquidated damages. Who knows how to keep books for a while and come back and read 10 eunuchs and get 78 eunuchs. . . . . .
Interesting fairy tales
From the beginning to the time when I go to the Secret Realm of Origin, this novel is quite good. It may be criticized for being a bit hydrographic, but in general, the structure is reasonable, the characters are basically okay, and the story frame, narrative, rhythm, language, and plot are all pretty good. It's quite cool, the romantic plot of the city is also well written, and the bit of romance is well expressed. There are also humorous moments. The key suspense is always well grasped, and the plot of the story is one after another. Although there is some hydrology, it is not boring to watch. It always promotes the development of the plot, and the links are connected. It is much better than some novels that only know the ambush, and it is smoother and more comfortable to read. The author has a unique aesthetic, or a complex that is rare in the Internet literary circle. Maybe you can see romance in female videos, but it's still rare to combine it in fairy tales and novels. One drawback of Xian Xia's refreshing novels is that they blindly pursue a sense of satisfaction and ignore the shaping of the characters' inner emotions, which leads to the characters' emotions easily going to extremes, either being decisive and cold-blooded, or being sloppy and pretentious. It can be said that almost all the protagonists in Xianxia novels have become facial makeup. They all have the same "face" appearing in worlds with different settings, doing very different things. They only rely on plot to distinguish each other, so many cool novels tend to become more and more difficult to write after the novelty of the setting wears off in the middle and later stages, and the writing becomes more and more clumsy. This is because the characters have lost their flesh and blood, and the novel operates and develops like a machine. It's boring to read, and the forced lyricism is even more embarrassing. Especially when it comes to the emotional line, it will either have a harem and become cliché, or people will accuse the heroine of being unlikable, or there will be no heroine. You can still see some moving parts in this book. Through the emotional line of the single heroine, it has opened up the author's lyrical space, making the novel more life-like and the characters more flesh-and-blood instead of becoming a program that only knows how to upgrade. Each supporting character has his own past, and they are not black and white. The author strives to make the characters more vivid and three-dimensional. Through various contradictions, readers can love and hate the characters, thereby creating deeper emotions. And the characters are all changing, or growing, some from the past to the present, and some from the present to the future. It can be said that the author is quite careful in character creation. Then is what I want to say most. Why is it said to be a fairy tale with a human touch? The human touch is not only reflected in the vivid characters, but also in the fact that the world is more real and more in line with the true heart. In terms of settings, there is nothing much to say about the soul-piercing NPC, system, and invincible flow. They have all been done before, but writing new things in the existing settings does not rely on the freshness of the settings to show deep internal skills. That is what the author is thinking. If I have to talk about the innovative setting, it is that practitioners do not have a long life. This setting is very bold and can almost be said to be the rebellion of current fairy tales. But through this setting, the author has well demonstrated the core theme he wants to express, and his critical reflection on the clichéd and dregs of fairy tales has a bit of sublimation. What is a fairy? Can he fill mountains and move seas, have magical power reaching the sky, live as long as the sky, or even go against the sky? Is he an immortal? It seems that the current Internet articles about immortals are very vast, but in fact they are very narrow. It reminds people of Sun Wukong who somersaulted thousands of miles but could only reach the Tathagata's fingertips. It seems that immortality is an expression of an ideal state of unrestrained freedom, but in the end it turns into an unbridled and indulgent fantasy. If it were not for the constraints of the environment and if one were to let go of writing, the image of the immortal might be even more despicable in the modern online writing environment. To put it bluntly, the image of a fairy has no spiritual core and no value pursuit. The existence of this image is meaningless, and its actions only conform to basic desires. Therefore, the world of online fairy tales is full of predators of the weak, wanton robbery, contempt for life, and fear of the strong bullying the weak. When this novel reveals the truth about Chu's secret realm, it can be seen that the author wants to express something. He uses Jiang's mouth to criticize the worldview of traditional online novels about cultivating immortals. It has humanistic feelings and a human touch. What I want to say is that from the perspective of writing skills, the author is also quite good, but from the perspective of the novel's theme, the author has reached a higher level.
Viewing thoughts
I haven't read much of this book so far, about 1/3. The biggest feeling so far is that the writing is a bit petty. I feel that the author is not capable of grand narrative. I can't get a glimpse of the corner of the world from the author's writing and feel the vastness of the world. Overall, there is no human world, only the protagonist and the things around the protagonist. Of course, pettyness is not a derogatory meaning for some books, but an advantage, but for this book it is not OK, because there is a setting of the Great Tribulation hanging in the background. Although I have not seen any movement about the Great Tribulation from the current content, it is conceivable that if it is written in this way, the Great Tribulation will definitely appear to be relatively trivial. It is not difficult to understand that I have also seen the book circle talking about whether there will be eunuchs. First, it has a criminal record, and second, this kind of writing is not suitable for some long stories. The world is not fully laid out in the early stage, so it will be more difficult to write later.
Damn, how about you end it at the speed of light and let me finish the activity?