tfw an insolent junior addresses me with a cis-normative pronoun
You dare? Kowtow 50 times and destroy your cultivation if you want to live!
Tfw an insolent junior addresses me with a cis-normative pronoun
There are mountains beyond mountains and heavens above heaven, foolish frog in a well. My body cultivation has reached such extremities that even the weight of a trillion barves cannot move me
What are some good introductory books to this kind of story?
This 'cultivation' stuff has to come from somewhere, please recommend me some kino chink power fantasies. (I think they're called Wuxia but I'm not sure).
Wuxia is martial arts and adventuring. Pretty much Chinese D&D. A good game here is Hero's Adventure - Road to Passion.
Xianxia is people powering up to super saiyan god and beyond. There are no good games here that aren't ultrajank or unfinished. Maybe try Tale of Immortal.
I'd say 'A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality' is a pretty good introduction.
Books with cultivation boos are usually Xianxia. Wuxia usually a lot lower powerlevel.
Why are chinese webnovels so based compared to the western ones? In xianxia, for example, a character is mostly alone going from one adventure to the next, slowly progressing along his path and probably trying to uncover some mysteries of life. Western webnovels with a lone protagonist inexplicably turns into murderhobo garbage. The progression isn't emphasized (there are exceptions of course), and most webnovels are based around the traditional book format with an arc that ends in couple dozen chapters, there's this sense of needing everything needing some sort of payoff, no "wasted" writing
Are western webnovels really more murderhobo than wiping out entire sects and families just because the protagonist offended 1 (one) arrogant young master 200 chapters ago?
Also if you like more fantasy style Xuanhuan I'd say the soul Land series is really good.
And "Star Odyssey" which is SciFi cultivation in space
Wuxia is TMNT and xianxia is.. I don't really know a western equivalent
No, but that's kind of my point (and question). At least in the chinese webnovel there's 200 chapters of other shit in between the events. I guess it comes down to the more slice-of-life feeling that's missing in a lot of western ones that I really enjoy
Western webnovels with a lone protagonist inexplicably turns into murderhobo garbage.
This is literally all Chink LNs though
Also it's a manhua, but I recommend "Cultivator Against Hero Society" it features a very high level cultivator accidentally ending up in a MHA/OPM world.
Post the veterinarian one
I don't necessarily dig all the Chinese tropes, but cultivation itself is imo peak RPG design. Your power curve is based on absorbing natural energies and achieving philosophical breakthroughs, not "kill goblins, level up". It's a good idea, is what I'm saying.
Against the gods, Martial god asura and Sage monarch if you're looking for what the actual memes are about. Classic xianxia where the protag engages in familial extermination aren't as common as reddit would have you believe. There's like ten out of a thousand at best
Underrail has an optional XP system that is basically cultivation. You collect "oddities" and level up based on that instead of getting combat XP.
Martial God Asura was my first.
Im a 8th circle nazi shitlord with a supreme white supremacy physique and can defeat any with just a flick of my wrist
racist chants and antisemitic meme edicts literally appear around me as cultivate
The only cultivation novels I've ever enjoyed were:
Record of a mortal's journey to immortality- a pretty straightforward cultivation story that's most interesting when the main character has something in theory useful (a scripture to control puppets) without something else necessary to use it (say the ability to produce those puppets) so he's mashing random disparate magic together trying his best to survive, hiding under the ground holding his breath and hoping the people he's pissed off will get tired of looking for him
World of cultivation- short for the genre, and one of the few times humor ever landed for me in these kind of stories, a very lazy MC who just wants to have an easy life gets pulled into a war and rapidly discovers that the best way to win a fight is to have way more guys than the other side, and that stuff like logistics and training are very very important. Interesting supernatural races with some cool twists like the fact that the main bad guys are so dangerous is that they actually give a shit about their people and ensure a minimum level of competence before shoving them into the meat grinder (they have free public education)
Reverend Insanity- At first it seems like it has a bunch going against it, unfinished, isekai, time travel plot. But it's all in service of telling the chinese government and modern chinese society to fuck themselves over and over. Like seriously, the main character is from earth entirely so he can quote ancient chinese poetry and subtlety talk shit about the party. Otherwise it never helps him out.
Kind of a subversion of the genre in a couple ways but the MC is pretty entertaining and the time travel plot device ends up being an asset, because it lets the main character completely fuck up, get out-thought, make mistakes. So there's actual tension as to if a plan will work
Give those a fair shot, they're some of the best for me
Will his novel ever be unbanned and finished?
I won't be able to die in peace if it doesn't happen, this is my biggest regret in life.
It's never getting finished, apparently his new novel Mysteries of the Immortal Puppet Master is pretty good
unbanned
It's been banned?
CCP didn't like the depictions of homosexuality in it so have banned it indefinitely.
is this wuxia?
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I would suggest Beyond the Timescape
Junior... cease your cultivation and take a shit. Now. Go to the bathroom and take a shit! I can sense your foul Qi! You are like the frog in the well, sitting in its shit and thinking its ass is clean!
Junior, you DARE?
This 'cultivation' stuff has to come from somewhere
I think it just comes from chinese esotericism. Look up "internal alchemy"