The Investiture of the Gods of the Mystic Sect
玄门封神
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 919k Words
- Genre
- Xianxia
- Subgenre
- Fantasy Cultivation
- Updated
- 6mo ago
- English
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I was recommended this book, which was said to have a strong fantasy/martial arts feel. After reading a dozen chapters, I have to admit that people's understanding of the same term (fantasy/martial arts feel) is indeed different. I'll recommend a few books for comparison; perhaps you can get a sense of the vast differences in how different people interpret the term "fantasy/martial arts feel."
No wonder this book isn't popular. The protagonist is repeatedly bullied and his life is threatened, yet he still doesn't learn his lesson. Don't transmigrators have brains? Forget about growth or anything like that; a single life-threatening situation should teach him a lesson, especially in such a dangerous place as another world.
[Comment] I gave a small reward to comfort myself and the author.
[Fn=2_9] I've always been a reader of novels, but this is the first time I feel I've really let Zhijian down. It's so much better than those pretentious novels by so-called "great authors." Currently, I mainly read books by two authors: Banana and Zhijian. Just wondering, how much RMB does it cost to finish reading a web novel?
Before entering the palace, Zhijian was a respectable person. Let us mourn together and remember Zhijian.
5 Books, abandoned 5 times
All I want to say is that dead eunuchs deserve a terrible death.
I don't know if Zhijian ever came back to secretly read the book review, but I have to say that when I saw "Half a lifetime of cultivation unknown to anyone, one day of obtaining the Dharma that astonishes the world," it was truly shocking.
[Comment] A rare gem among Xianxia novels!
It's very well written, with a fantasy/xianxia (Chinese fantasy) feel to it! Please vote for it!
People keep saying the protagonist is cowardly and has a bad personality. Dude, he's a transmigrator, not a special forces soldier or a murderer, just an ordinary college student. It's perfectly normal to have a soft spot for him and temporary escapist thoughts, isn't it?
You all say it's good, but I've read over 20 chapters and I still don't see why it's so good. It feels quite bland and a bit depressing. I don't know where the exciting parts are. The protagonist seems like an outsider, out of place in this world.
I've read this book many times; I can rarely finish a book with a bad ending. Many people can't stand it; what's poison to one is sweet to another. That's perfectly normal. The two sentences that resonated most with me from this book are: "Half a lifetime of cultivation goes unrecognized, but one day of enlightenment is known throughout the world." The writing is insightful and leaves a deep impression.