The Mountain and River Gentleman of Qingdu
清都山水郎
- Status
- Ongoing
- Length
- 713k Words
- Genre
- Xianxia
- Subgenre
- Classical Xianxia
- Updated
- 3d ago
- English
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The protagonist illogically declares himself the founder of a sect right from the start. While the protagonist is undeniably powerful, he's only at the Qi Refining stage, perhaps equivalent to a higher realm in this world. However, the world-building isn't expanded upon. Despite plenty of exciting moments, it feels like the cliffhanger is about to suffocate you.
These authors with double standards are really strange! They allow people to kill and eat demons at will, and then call it "exorcising demons and subduing monsters!" Monsters can't eat people, but eating people is an unforgivable sin? Is that fair? If they don't eat meat, what are they supposed to eat?
The vernacular is mixed with a scholarly air, but in some places it is overdone, and some commas are used randomly, making it a hodgepodge. As for the protagonist, he became inexplicably confident after being granted the title by Heaven, and he killed indiscriminately in the territory of the demon race, leaving the cleanup to the author to forcibly resolve, right?
Why does the cover model have a tattoo on her face?
All I can say is that you're a hypocritical, fake Taoist priest. Either you fight your way through until you encounter a female swordswoman who raises man-eating foxes, capture her, and then release her.
He's a Taoist cultivator, not an immortal cultivator, and he's only been on the platform for a short time. Why are there already so many romantic subplots?
The protagonist, who has plenty of opportunities and no powerful background, is extremely arrogant. Surprisingly, no one tries to kill him or steal his opportunities. This doesn't make sense!
Well, the author's aesthetic sense might be a bit off from the mainstream. I can't imagine a celestial being wearing a white bandana (a prop that's subjectively considered female-only due to film and television), and then having large scars or birthmarks on their face. (That's the cover character.) He doesn't seem like a Taoist practitioner; he's more like a chivalrous knight-errant.
It's very disjointed; the core of a gangster-themed cultivation story is wrapped in the skin of a traditional fantasy novel.
Difficult to hold
It's a bit hard to understand why they devoted seven or eight chapters to an old steward; it's really disgusting. The steward came out from the stove. They could have just explained the source of the incense directly, but instead they had to put him in a coma and then fill so many chapters with unnecessary details. The biggest problem is the death of a servant and an apprentice.