Swallowed Star: My Gifts Return a Thousandfold

Forget about loyalty and unity within Swallowed Star; it's all bullshit. True loyalty, as Luo Feng already told you in the original novel, is soul enslavement. The World Beasts are a big threat, right? Rebel? Just enslave their souls.

Why must we follow the original story exactly, or even worse, have Zi Yue act like a jerk? The beginning was a great, satisfying read, but then it completely disregards the original setting? Which book in *Swallowed Star* and *Swallowed Star 2* tells you that the God-King of the Origin Continent knew about the Perfect Divine Body?

If even the human race enslaves its own people, then what right do kings and nobles have to be born? The protagonist has a cheat code: he can select and train people from the bottom up, and he can also see their loyalty. He can also detect if others want to infiltrate his ranks. He's following Mao Zedong's strategy of encircling the cities from the countryside—the only way forward.

The original story shouldn't have included the Primal Protoss. A bunch of incompetent high-ranking humans have become immortal; they need to be wiped out and a new human race created. 🤫

It's indeed very well written. I've read *Soul Master*, which was also very enjoyable, with most battles ending in instant kills. However, it started to lose its appeal around the halfway point, and I gradually lost the desire to continue. This book gave me a fresh feeling. I wish the pacing of this book could be slower, but this is just a suggestion.

Does the protagonist's faction consist only of humans, or should they include special life forms, demons, insectoids, and mechanical races? If it's only humans, it's too monotonous. There are already enough novels with humans as the main focus. Why not include these other races as well? The Divine Eye Clan and the Skeleton Clan could also be included; all they want is transcendence. After defeating them, you can obtain these two races with maxed-out cohesion and physical abilities.

It's better than the guy next door who became Luo Feng's son-in-law; that other guy broke through to the cosmic level and was afraid of this and that.

It's strange to build a faction in Devouring. To develop a faction, you either need the strength of a universe master or you have to play it safe. It's not easy to develop a faction if you're caught up in the hype, because there are too many restrictions under the monitoring of the virtual universe.

The writing is a bit weak. Many places could have been described more concisely, but the author seems to be padding the word count by adding several adjectives to a simple sentence.

While the author's writing style isn't particularly outstanding, the plot is indeed quite well-written. These days, most Swallowed Star fanfics are unreadable; they all start on Earth and are written in a chaotic mess. The only flaw in this book is that the plot twists are too overpowered, and the pacing is too fast. At this speed, it could only manage a maximum of a million words.