
An Earth Immortal by Jinshan Temple
金山寺旁的地仙
- Status
- Ongoing
- Length
- 744k Words
- Genre
- Xianxia
- Subgenre
- Classical Xianxia
- Updated
- 5mo ago
- English
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Unworthy of his position
An old saying goes: "If one's virtue does not match their position, disaster will surely follow." The protagonist already possesses supernatural powers to move mountains and seas, and travel through the heavens, yet he's still entangled in worldly affairs. What kind of "classical dragon king returns" is this?
After reading chapter 44, I'm quite speechless. Are aristocratic families really that concerned with appearances? You need to understand that in reality, there are sayings of thousand-year-old aristocratic families and hundred-year-old dynasties. If aristocratic families were truly as concerned with appearances as you portray them, they certainly wouldn't have lasted a thousand years.
Well
Drawn in by the Legend of the White Snake story in the synopsis, I opened this book, initially thinking it would be a decent read. After reading 20 chapters, I realized something was wrong. After another dozen or so chapters, my reading became increasingly difficult.
On one side, everyone knows who the protagonist is; on the other, no one even knows who the protagonist is. True immortals won't recognize him to his face, and those who have cultivated for many years are arrogant and conceited. The protagonist is forever looked down upon.
A good immortal cultivator who's broke will first think of tomb raiding. You could at least find some mines, but tomb raiding? As an immortal cultivator, isn't that a bit too abstract?
Building a Taoist temple right in front of a bald man's temple? It's been ten years and it's still open—what incredible luck! Even Fahai (a famous Buddhist monk) would be a living Arhat after ten years, and you're still just a nobody. Sigh, wouldn't it be better to die and be reincarnated sooner?
This book is dedicated to portraying all the Taoist traditions and deities as utterly lowbrow, and then the protagonist gets a beating from these lowlifes.
The way you write it, one chapter after another, is so inconsistent. In one chapter you say you're out of mana, and in the next you say you didn't even use your full strength. It's hard to assess your strength because it's so fluctuating.
Even with all those supernatural powers, I was bullied by that guy surnamed Zhang for the first time 🙂 and I didn't even retaliate.
The writing is excellent, but the plot is a mess.
The plot you wrote is so strange. Humanity is imperfect, and cultivation doesn't mean cultivating the mind. The protagonist's character keeps changing over 30 chapters, and despite seemingly possessing extraordinary abilities, he's constantly frustrated.