Rising Steadily in a Top Sect
苟在顶级宗门平步青云
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- Ongoing
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- 1.5M Words
- Genre
- Xianxia
- Subgenre
- Cultivation Civilization
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The plot: The protagonist gets into Tsinghua University, but a neighboring character who only scored 300 points blocks the protagonist at the entrance of the residential compound, demanding that the protagonist take a test on the spot to compare scores, otherwise he won't be allowed to enter. Then a bunch of older, supporting characters stir things up.
This novel has shattered my worldview. The protagonist's cultivation is only briefly mentioned, and his innate talent is barely even described—no explanation of how to improve it is given. The rest of the novel is filled with trivial matters and characters looking down on each other. I'm dropping it.
The author is exceptionally gifted at writing female-oriented novels.
I'm speechless. Dude, I came for the title, for the quest for a cultivation-based immortality story. But it's chapter 45, and we still haven't entered a sect—six or seven years of plot have already passed. It's all just mundane family drama; is this some kind of romantic comedy? I might as well read some other fantasy novels by renowned authors.
Speechless. What kind of garbage is this? A cultivation-themed version of "A Courtyard Full of Beasts"? It's been rambling on and on for ages, and the protagonist hasn't even gotten any power-ups or become stronger. It's just a bunch of people gossiping about their families. What use are these people to the protagonist? Just padding the numbers.
The first few chapters of this book are about birds filling the courtyard. I read until the protagonist went to an assassin organization to hire assassins to kill the people in the courtyard, and he died from poisoning. If it were just a simple hiring, I could have kept reading with my eyes closed.
I didn't see him rise to prominence; all I saw was a spineless coward and a doormat.
This is a verbose novel, starting with a bunch of mundane things. If you like writing about the common people so much, why bother with cultivation novels? Why do so many novels these days start with a bunch of mundane things? Western fantasy, Xianxia, Xuanhuan novels all start with mundane things.
The advanced, more verbose version of "Love in the Courtyard".
It's all about trivial family matters and gossip.