Seems like a cliche mediocre chinese manga so far(long rant/my thoughts so far)

Someone October 14, 2020 3:33 am

Fair warning, I've only read to chap 19 so the story may improve, i'll keep reading a bit more but just wanted to express my thoughts on it so far.

It's your cliche chinese manga, MC transmigrates into a martial arts world and his new body has average talent and is being bullied by some brats with connections. Real stereotypical setting, only props I could give it is that at least the author didn't outright say that MC's new body had trash talent and he seems to have loving parents from a big family in a city(tho being in the sect, his family practically counts for nothing rn). Then with the following events I kinda cringed, MC discovers he has a mystical couldren in his mind that helps him learn martial arts better(his cheat golden finger) that was originally a necklace he had before transmigrating. He right away breaks through a stage jumping from stage 3(forgot if he was early or late stage 3) to late stage 4. He also like not even 2 min later is able to master this 7 steps martial art(the body's original owner was only able to learn to the 6th step). So you can already see some of the MC's halo shinning with that. Not to mention, that 7 steps martial arts is supposedly one of the hardest yellow skill to master. The next sequence of events gets even more cliche with the MC going to the library to look for more skills and he bumps into the bully gang(the leader has a big bro who's an inside disciple and you can bet your ass that big bro is gonna be the next cannon fodder villain). Ofc they underestimate MC and pick a fight with him, it was so boring and predictable so I skipped the few chapters of their fight. Anyways MC wins the fight, can you guess who pops up next?.....An elderly old man with a white beard! He punishes the bullies making them hand over 300 crystals(forget what the manga called them) to MC. MC coincidentally barely has any crystals and he needs them to be able to trade for cultivational items. Now entering the library, MC ofc has to find an old thin martial arts book that no one ever looks at and finding out from the old man, it's called the mystic sword and was created by some sect elder who wanted everyone to have a chance to learn the skill(hence why MC can get the skill). It's a peak yellow skill that's powerful but is super hard and no one has learned it yet so everyone eventually gave it up, not wanting to waste time on it. MC gets it and guess what? 3 days, 3 days! That's all it took for MC to learn(not master) this supposedly hard skill. Like come on author! At least make him take a week to learn it.

Okay I went into a bit of a rant there but it's just annoying to me. Honestly like I said at the start, it's a medicore chinese manga about cultivation. It's not bad I guess but it's certainly not that good, there are tons that are better. It's just rlly cliche to me, so far there aren't any special twists nor is it all that unique. The world building so far isn't all that great either, the stages in the martial arts look rlly simple and I don't think all of it has been explained yet, so far only showing 10 stages in refining the body. The sect isn't rlly explained much and barely any details about the body's family. To be fair, this is a manga and sometimes lots of details are left out so idk if it has a novel which is better detailed.

It's kinda a waste of time reading this imho, it's ok if you're starting to get into chinese mangas or just killing time. But you shouldn't expect all that great of a story/plot, there's better novels and mangas out there with similar plotlines.

Responses
    Layla October 30, 2020 10:54 am

    Agreed! 100%... the only thing big about these characters are their egos, evrything else is minute including u know what :/

    Draeze January 14, 2021 9:06 am

    Thanks for your insight! i was actually hesitant on reading it because when i saw the art, i immediately knew that this was just your typical chinese manhwa/manhua. I didn't like dropping manhwas so i always read the comments before reading the actual manhwa/manhua.