Romance of the Heavenly Gate

I still remember Kou Dao; the beginning of his writing was truly amazing.

It's like modern life, with an added element of spirituality, but nothing else has changed.

I hope there will be another new work similar to "Master of Taoist Arts" and "Knife Cage".

Qingxuan cultivation is fast and powerful, but it has high requirements. Tianmen cultivation is slow and has fewer buffs, but its advantage is that the techniques are more comprehensive and can assist in leveling up. As a result, the author went crazy and made the protagonist stand on the cusp of both Qingxuan and Tianmen, constantly facing life-or-death situations and having a bunch of fashionable but useless characters use cheat codes to fight life-or-death battles.

This Core Formation thing is truly baffling. It was a perfectly good milestone, which could have been a minor climax, but instead, it had to be this endless cycle of Core Formation and Rebirth, followed by this whole "no Golden Core means you've reached the mid-to-late Golden Core stage" thing. If it's formed, it's formed; if it's not formed, it's not formed. It's incredibly toxic.

Stop messing around with your cybernetic stuff. The last book was already a mess of adding settings everywhere, and this one is just too much to bear. Can you at least push the main storyline forward? Millions of chapters and you're still stuck in the Golden Core stage, and then it's going to be a terrible ending.

The opening is a bit revamped; it lacks youthful energy and comes across as a greasy, middle-aged man grinning at you. Add to that a few stale tropes like "innate civil engineering physique," and it's just awful. It's like the way a seasoned Beijing native talks—greasy and uncomfortable.

It's a mess... This problem started with Qingcheng Daoist. I keep abandoning the outline while writing. The so-called "one volume, one style" is just writing whatever comes to mind. I force myself to write when I can't continue. Qingcheng, Kou Dao, Dao Long, and this one—it's all like this.

Sigh, this realistic cultivation novel is really well-written, it has a light novel feel to it, but I still can't get into it even on my second visit.

The writing is alright, but the leveling up is too slow. I started at Foundation Establishment, then reset my stats, and now I'm at Golden Core.