Mc is iffy. He works hard and studies but he's one of those loner assholes for authors who can't be bothered to maintain a cast with unique traits. He's capable and not perfect but because of loner assholes traits and the stupid hyper independent classic line , " It's got nothing to do with me. " He often feels like a do nothing so some losses and victory feel entirely unearned and unsatisfying. The shield hero alt world was shit. He basically camped studied kept his head in the sand and got any pint of victory on luck. Being an antisocial nerd ruined the possible plot. It also felt like there racism and mandates attached. The heroes were all shit with no growth, no they had negative character growth. There no philosophy, no grand vistas or cultural expansion. All the faction are shit but also extremely underdeveloped. Transient as they are mc doesn't talk brass with them. And despite having the church weapon of healing, having the church faction mission, and only one life he doesn't actually spend any serious time in the church digging into healing magic. Proceed to potion spam and struggle with healing forever it seems. I really wanted to a wizard to side with a fantasy church in an Isekai with swerve from evil. Even if ultimately the MC is the world destroying demon turning them all into programs. Edit: Evil Mage protagonist is evil. And dumb. "Not everyone is suited for fighting", he says looking at world full of pigs lied to from birth and raised to be weak. It not like the vast vast majority of people who'd do well in the game world don't die in ignorance and even the vast majority of those civilians having been actually taught from young could probably be orders of magnitudes stronger as a civilian. Why is the side character best friend more interesting?

This takes Mortal flow too seriously. In that it apes a mortals journey to immortality like bad plagiarism. A remix as it were. But I don't like the mc. Also don't really like the world. There's no magic. It's sorta feels played out. It's bland and he is bland. There's not enough time spent of building up people and connection and morals and meaning. Before shits torn away. And the writing is hollow. At time he feels like a transmigrstor commenting on things than the grandson of a local scholar exploring the world. Not that we got enough time with him as a scholar boy. How does he know he hates tedious taoist homework? What is it as a local? And why does mortal seem to equal sociopathic amoral. Seriously immediately lost all respect for him when he didn't obliterate the soul banner. Also seen to never follow up on looking for the remains of his home town after killing the bandits.

The premise is silly. Sunny hardworking and dedicated boy of old gets dumped by essentially wife for rich relatives. Gets super easy money and proves he's worth it. By going from monogamist to harem bait and murdering everything for profit. Like Why. This relationship lasted so long and they were so worth the pain why break up. Bio dad is a waste who only found you when he meeded you. Ven biodad is attempting to keep it in the family but he looks down on a poor boy who's supported her unfailingly for years. Versus feckless sociopathic rich people ? Anything his daughter can learn her man can learn. And a daughter who could dump her man would be worthless no loyalty. That would be a cool twist. Rich dude does this and dumps the daughter cause he's looking for filial piety and knows he was betrayed. Him not saying youroney is trash cause despite being rich you managed to lose Yao Yao and only now found her.

Lin Hao feels like Chinese Xianxia mc 20k than a person and yet another not demon cultivator. Ya know kills people without blinking, eat souls to cultivate their high level, raise blood sucking pets, but because he shit is special there's no backlash. Also he's an inconsistent social chameleon not like he's a social fish in water but like he has completely different personalities when dealing with different groups of unknown.

The number get so absurd they are lose all meaning. Subsequently Ye Xuan is a nothing person. He's a monster. A lustful demonic pervert with no morals seemingly peiced together from bits and pieces of other longevity familg protag. The system seems like a do anything system. The girls are baby bots the kids don't exist, and he's a demonic cultivator for no good reason.

MC isn't too bright. But he's dumb in a inconsistent way. For the drama and word count. Mc easily steal his tracking locator. But for the sake of revenge he doesn't ghost in the night and leave clones in the mine to spread out through multiple tunnels. I don't even understand why he wants to join the sect that enslaved him instead of going anywhere else. Maybe he literally can't go far enough? From the moment he can remote deploy clone he has no reason to have them near him undisguised. Or to even stay in the mine. He should literally just disappear. Leave clones as anchor points in the mine and get a job in town to explain his good living. And he's socially smart in other places to be aware. He knows about bribes and shit but never bribes the mine people or slowly increases visible income while clone stacking. Or trying to find a price to buy his way out he could get lucky and find. It's all murder murder murder incompetently. With human wave tactics. And not even poison. Edit: The author and MC have shit for patience in a cultivation story. Realistically. The mine head tells his dad. The dad reports the Mahayana technique to the dan head of his lineage and su zhan has his body stolen by chapter fifty. Cause thousands of people know he's a rebellious slave and has a treasure so hot that it's death for even the mine owner. D

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Why does Gou dao always become demon dao? Do fhese people have no respect for life or karma despite knowing all these things exist. And it's always rush rush rush despite being a farmer.

These Gou tianjiao continue to be annoying hypocritical bastards. Oh no my sense of belonging to the sect is damaged. It's not like I have shown no respect for the rules at all, don't trust law enforcement, murdered sect mates to hide treasure, never reported infiltration, didn't pay my taxes, continually pretended to be a loser while lying about my talents, and never shared our any of my sect changing discoveries that can move me up from canon fodder. Also lied repeatedly to avoid combat with fellow disciples, because and I quote " My life is prescious with my talent I don't have to take risks like you. "

A family cultivation novel where in the family is capable and competent in their own right instead of a load. Even they are often better than the cheating mc. Problem they are impossible better than cheating mc. After surpassing his effort of thousands of years in decades. Really should stop inflating those numbers. Though mc broke the base a bit. Kills a lady granddaughter for a treasure then the family extorts her inheritance from the allied jindan. Just gross. It want to dodge cliches but some cliches are what make tolerable people.