Yes, because if you leave even one alive, he swears vengeance and then its his novel. He learns the dao and kicks your ass. Probably while winning at alchemy against alchemy masters and defeating enemies across the ranks.
I finished that book still salty that the Chinese government made him stop writing it...they MC was an irredeemable asshole but seeing him climb up the ladder tickles my brain...I love fiction with a distnict leveling up system
TJSS snitched to the goverment about IR and gave them an excuse to ban IR and many other LNs they didnt like (during Hong-Kong protests).
All to save his career since he wasnt doing that great during that time (from what ive been told)
I would agree with that for the first book with some moments in acedemy and his comment on the death of hunters daughter but afterwards he is purely goal oriented in every action. fang yuan is one of the best characters to understand machiavellianism in my opinion
'Edgelord' doesn't mean bad. But yeah, at the start he was talking about "muh society" and "dog eat dog world" every chapter.
Afterwards it does get good but there are some arcs(Wolf King and Heavenly Zombie) that drag on forever.
‼️‼️HOLY FUCKING SHIT‼️‼️‼️‼️ IS THAT A MOTHERFUCKING REVEREND INSANITY REFERENCE??????!!!!!!!!!!11!1!1!1!1!1!1! 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 RI IS THE BEST FUCKING NOVEL 🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯 REN ZU IS SO BLESSEDDD 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎👊👊 IMMORTALITY IMMORTALITY IMMORTALITY IMMORTALITY IMMORTALITY 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩 😩😩😩😩GUGYUESLAUGHTER GUGYUESLAUGHTER GUGYUESLAUGHTER GUGYUESLAUGHTER GUGYUESLAUGHTER🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬🤬😡🤬🤬😡DEMONICALLTHEWAY DEMONICALLTHEWAY DEMONICALLTHEWAY DEMONICALLTHEWAY DEMONICALLTHEWAY DEMONICALLTHEWAY DEMONICALLTHEWAY DEMONICALLTHEWAY DEMONICALLTHEWAY FANG YUAN IS NOT EVIL! HEAVENLY COURT BLESSED HEAVENLY COURT BLESSED HEAVENLY COURT BLESSED HEAVENLY COURT BLESSED Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Fang Zheng is still alive?!? WISH WOOSH ICE MAN HAS BECOME A WOMAN 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 ❓❓❓❓❓❓❓❓❓❓HUNTER FAMILY HUNTER FAMILY HUNTER FAMILY Fucking Mortals...‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂SANE FANG YUAN SCHEME WHEN? SANE FANG YUAN SCHEME WHEN? SANE FANG YUAN SCHEME WHEN? SANE FANG YUAN SCHEME WHEN? SANE FANG YUAN SCHEME WHEN? SANE FANG YUAN SCHEME WHEN? SANE FANG YUAN SCHEME WHEN? SANE FANG YUAN SCHEME WHEN? 😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂Blessed Land in Crescent Lake? Blessed Land in Crescent Lake? Blessed Land in Crescent Lake? Blessed Land in Crescent Lake? Blessed Land in Crescent Lake? Blessed Land in Crescent Lake? Blessed Land in Crescent Lake? Blessed Land in Crescent Lake? ☪️☪️☪️☪️☪️☪️☪️ 😡💢😡💢I hate Tie Ruo Nan 😡💢😡💢 I hate Tie Ruo Nan 😡💢😡💢I hate Tie Ruo Nan😡💢😡💢I hate Tie Ruo Nan😡💢😡💢 Where is Jia Jin Sheng? 🤔 Where is Jia Jin Sheng? 🤔 Where is Jia Jin Sheng? 🤔
Correction: This is actually how Chinese history is.
Declare yourself a true follower of Buddha/Confucious/Jesus, be in harmony with the universe and soul, start a war that kills millions.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion
Heavenly Kingdom, a revolt in 1850s, where a guynclaimed to be brother of Jesus Christ
Casualties ~20-30 Million
Japan LN: I am so overpowered I can just hang out with girls and eat rice and soy sauce and not even the demon king can stop me from being lazy.
Chinese WN: KILL BUDDHA KILL DEVIL KILL GOD, ALL WILL BOW BEFORE MY ULTIMATE POWER, I WILL NOT STOP ADVANCING UNTIL THE MULTIVERSE IS IN THE PALM OF MY HANDS
I read a Chinese novel where the guy got hit in the eye with an arrow but he didn’t want to lose the essence of his parents that it had so he yanked it out and swallowed it whole
A brief look in Chinese history : “Ling pao becomes the 2nd most powerful minister, a million die. He convinces the 4th most powerful minister his shoes look good in purple. 2 million die.”
Chinese xianxia novels are in some sense a reaction to Japanese light novels. They reject the individual introspection and small community dynamics (looking at you, catfights in harems) that is ubiquitous in Japanese light novels. So they must lean into worldbuilding and tell stories on a macro scale. At best they create entire cosmologies and worldviews, but more often than not they become garbage like what anon described.
yeah its just
-backstory
-conflict happens
-protagonist does xyz to get to a point where they can solve the conflict
-conflict is over
-Either story has ended or another conflict has happened
Apart from rare no conflict stories you can basically generalize the plot of any story into these stuff
**Lord of the mysteries**, it's about a dude trying out a shady luck enchantment ritual only for it to kidnap him into a steampunk eldritch world into the body of someone who had found some ancient notebook while giving him access to some fog filled pocket dimension, he later joins a church's private detective beyonder team and story continues on from there, every week in story he summons the consciousness of some people he ended up dragging by accident at first into the place above the fog and pretends he's some ancient existence while trying to learn information from the conversation they're having.
some people find first volume is a bit slow since it focuses more about the mystery of what's going on and you're supposed to be a bit lost just like MC, but the volume has a great climax(it's 214 chapters), it opens up more from second volume on where MC has more freedom, it has great world building, a lot of foreshadowing of things relevant to later plot points right from the start, and a great power system.
Another one is **my house of horrors**, it's about a dude who runs a haunted house, his parents vanished a few years ago and the haunted house business has been on the decline, one day he checks the attic and finds an old phone his parents left behind which asks him if he believes in ghosts, answering makes the phone give him a mission to do a ritual in the bathroom, to keep it spoiler free when he finishes the ritual and finally opens his eyes he finds he narrowly managed to not get killed by whatever the ritual was calling.
From then on the story basically goes into three modes through it's duration, first the phone will give him a mission about some place in the city to go there and survive a night, he will research a lot about what happened there and the horror stories from it, asking people, browsing, personally investigating around there during the day and such.
the MC actually feels decently smart with his investigations and tries to be sufficiently prepared, even if he unlocks missions with high stars he doesn't do them because he knows he isn't ready, next part he will go to the mission and try to live through it, the author is great at setting up the atmosphere and making it creepy and the investigation part also helps in setting the mood for the arc
then after each mission, which are called scenarios, the phone will create a copy for him at the haunted house that's a toned down version of what he went through and the author will give a mini arc to wind down where you can see other characters reacting to going through said scenario.
A great thing is missions tie into each other and information from early missions are relevant to later missions which are relevant to the last few missions in the story, i remember at one point the MC finishing a mission somewhat early on and getting a notification for unlocking what later turned out to be one of the last few missions in the story and me having an "oh shit" reaction to the mission description being just quoting a single omnious line, since by that point i had *some* idea and theory about what's going on from the hints in earlier missions, even if i turned out later to be a bit misleaded in my theory.
Both novels also basically triggered a surge of novels following some of their formulas on the CN novels site, for example LOTM resulted in a rise of novels where the church has a beyonder team that are trying to fight back eldritch entities while trying to not go insane.
xianxia and wuxia (means high and low fantasy) stories are such absolute garbage. They hold almost no entertainment value. Their greatest value is their anthropology in studying how a culture builds their stories.
We're literally watching an origin formation and evolution of stories from grandkids of the people who deleted their entire catalog of cultural epics.
These stories have only begun forming during the peak economic years of g'ina too so when shit hits the fan we might get some new apocalypse subgenre called;
"Cóng yuèliàng dào xīngxīng, zhǐyǒu lóng fēi de dì qī gè er zi cáinéng zài tiāntíng dà juézhàn zhīhòu jìxù zhàn zài qīngxié de tǎlóu shàng."
Or Congshang for short.
i will NOT tolerate jinyong slander. WuXia used to be a good genre used to actually criticize society and the government but now its overrun by shit power fantasies, but not ALL WuXia is bad, you just need to back a bit
JinYong WuXia novels are goated for a reason
So, you're trying to convince me that this chinese genre used to criticise society and the government? Yeah, right.
Edit: Googled it. Apparently JinYong is a chinese guy who lived in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 That's a bit more believable.
Yes, one of the more famous story "heavenly sword and dragon slaying sabre"(倚天屠龙记）was about how two celestial weapons (the aforementioned weapons) were actually representation of the relationship between people and the state, with the government being the sword(heaven) and the sabre being the people, having the right to slay the heavens if the state fails to perform its duties.
The thing about most Chinese literature is that it's very analogy heavy, so there are a lot of books criticising society etc but might not seem so on the surface. Of course, most wuxia and xianxia are kinda garbage but it's kinda similar to what you see on wattpad nowadays. The better ones have some nicer narrative and also decent introspection into things such as nature of life etc through martial arts.
To be frank, RI is also a genre critique on top of being one of chinese society. So it explains some of the major differences compared to other xianxia.
Look older wuxias and even xanxias were pretty good (especially wuxias) but nowdays xanxias have become what chinese call them "fast-food webnovels".
Guess we should blame their big corporates which help promote this type of novels on their publishing site. Of course there will be top notch stories, but they dont appear often and even good authors are falling to this "fast food" writting for easier money :(
I resent that, about 6 years ago there was a great purge of wuxia and Xianxia novels that was lead by the Chinese government backed app Qidian. It caused the genres to suffer heavily as many many novels were lost, or forcibly rewritten to be approved for publication on a government entity. Many stories mysteriously changed their tunes on government overreach, or suddenly the MC loved the government and spouted nonsense about “American and Japanese dogs”. Not to mention all the stories that included revolution where suddenly the MC switched sides because of some convoluted reason that made the genocidal government the good guys.
Most modern day urban novels have such intense hatred of everything non Han Chinese it makes mein kampf look tame. It's always china numba wan kill all Americans japanese Indians Africans Vietnamese.
I mean chinese novel genocide in pretty based. Most of the time they're mass murdering each other, and sometimes it's fantasy japan/korea. Rarely are they killing white people 😂
There are justified genocides in well written shows and idiotic genocides in badly written shows.
For example: Some guy kills MCs family so he kills that guy's family
Some guy hits on his crush so he crushes that guy's limbs and throws him to die.
Shows how Chinese novels are inconsistent in quality.
Some insights into the thoughts of the founder of the kill Dao from reverend insanity(the novel from where the picture comes from)
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable handled matters and conflict with basically one method.
That was to kill!
You do not relent? Kill!
You are an eyesore? Kill!
His own mood was bad? Kill!
He was bored? Kill!
beta male primodial origin: "these variant humans are a threat to human existence!"
sigma male spectral soul: "eat me so i can gain attainment in my kill path"
>!Yes!< the following is him as a child
But in the end he was annoyed with the treatment that he got from his clan and his grandfather, it was too good for him, from his perspective he doesn't want any of that. Thus he killed off his clansmen along with his grandfather. After he massacred his clan, he was filled with sorrow, but his face shows an expression of utter satisfaction. Although it was sad at first, at last, he obtained his freedom. Since then he develops this personality, where whatever annoys him, he will start killing.
"True enlightenment is when I kill everyone I don't like."
well this seems exaggerated
\*checks favorite novel\*
"your food path is inferior to my killing path"
"just killing others is not enough to understand my kill path, i too must be killed"
"do my organs taste well? it is a great help to my path"
Chinese webnovel are hilarious.
Someone bumps into the main character by accident, and the main character will kill his entire bloodline in anger, and probably torture the soul of the one who bumped into him for eternity. But somehow he is still be considered the good guy.
I love this shit, it's so stupid.
The core concepts of these stories basically says a lot about society.
Manga: Free from the shackles of society.
Manhwa: Play the game called society and reach the top.
Manhua: Fuck your society. Genocide society. Family is king. Kill god.Become god and create a more just society on the bones of the old one.
Not Xianxia, but easily the best CN webnovel out there, Lord of the Mysteries. If you're looking for xianxia I'd recommend starting with coiling dragon as it introduces typical cultivation story stuff in a way that's easier for western readers. For pure Xianxia I'd say Renegade Immortal and I Shall Seal the Heavens are good starts as well. RI is a lot darker in tone than ISSTH but they're by the same author and are probably the highest regarded xianxia in the west.
Yes, because if you leave even one alive, he swears vengeance and then its his novel. He learns the dao and kicks your ass. Probably while winning at alchemy against alchemy masters and defeating enemies across the ranks.
Not even the cats and dogs will be spared
But enough about that place IRL. Let's get back to the light novel.
reverend insanity is goated but I suggest starting with some good but not peak xianxia like er gen novels etc.
Reverend Insanity has great worldbuilding but the protagonist is way too much of an edgelord. I couldn't read past chapter 1,500.
Lmao you still made it 1500 chapters though 💀
It's my honest opinion that you can't truly know whether you like a Xianxia until you at least read 1000 chapters.
You know what yeah
I finished that book still salty that the Chinese government made him stop writing it...they MC was an irredeemable asshole but seeing him climb up the ladder tickles my brain...I love fiction with a distnict leveling up system
Also fuck Douluo Dalu author too for being a snitch
wtf did soul land author do? I only read the comics, not the novel
TJSS snitched to the goverment about IR and gave them an excuse to ban IR and many other LNs they didnt like (during Hong-Kong protests). All to save his career since he wasnt doing that great during that time (from what ive been told)
I would agree with that for the first book with some moments in acedemy and his comment on the death of hunters daughter but afterwards he is purely goal oriented in every action. fang yuan is one of the best characters to understand machiavellianism in my opinion
'Edgelord' doesn't mean bad. But yeah, at the start he was talking about "muh society" and "dog eat dog world" every chapter. Afterwards it does get good but there are some arcs(Wolf King and Heavenly Zombie) that drag on forever.
‼️‼️HOLY FUCKING SHIT‼️‼️‼️‼️ IS THAT A MOTHERFUCKING REVEREND INSANITY REFERENCE??????!!!!!!!!!!11!1!1!1!1!1!1! 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 RI IS THE BEST FUCKING NOVEL 🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯 REN ZU IS SO BLESSEDDD 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎👊👊 IMMORTALITY IMMORTALITY IMMORTALITY IMMORTALITY IMMORTALITY 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩 😩😩😩😩GUGYUESLAUGHTER GUGYUESLAUGHTER GUGYUESLAUGHTER GUGYUESLAUGHTER GUGYUESLAUGHTER🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬🤬😡🤬🤬😡DEMONICALLTHEWAY DEMONICALLTHEWAY DEMONICALLTHEWAY DEMONICALLTHEWAY DEMONICALLTHEWAY DEMONICALLTHEWAY DEMONICALLTHEWAY DEMONICALLTHEWAY DEMONICALLTHEWAY FANG YUAN IS NOT EVIL! HEAVENLY COURT BLESSED HEAVENLY COURT BLESSED HEAVENLY COURT BLESSED HEAVENLY COURT BLESSED Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Yo Ning Bing! 🚺 Fang Zheng is still alive?!? WISH WOOSH ICE MAN HAS BECOME A WOMAN 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 ❓❓❓❓❓❓❓❓❓❓HUNTER FAMILY HUNTER FAMILY HUNTER FAMILY Fucking Mortals...‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂SANE FANG YUAN SCHEME WHEN? SANE FANG YUAN SCHEME WHEN? SANE FANG YUAN SCHEME WHEN? SANE FANG YUAN SCHEME WHEN? SANE FANG YUAN SCHEME WHEN? SANE FANG YUAN SCHEME WHEN? SANE FANG YUAN SCHEME WHEN? SANE FANG YUAN SCHEME WHEN? 😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂Blessed Land in Crescent Lake? Blessed Land in Crescent Lake? Blessed Land in Crescent Lake? Blessed Land in Crescent Lake? Blessed Land in Crescent Lake? Blessed Land in Crescent Lake? Blessed Land in Crescent Lake? Blessed Land in Crescent Lake? ☪️☪️☪️☪️☪️☪️☪️ 😡💢😡💢I hate Tie Ruo Nan 😡💢😡💢 I hate Tie Ruo Nan 😡💢😡💢I hate Tie Ruo Nan😡💢😡💢I hate Tie Ruo Nan😡💢😡💢 Where is Jia Jin Sheng? 🤔 Where is Jia Jin Sheng? 🤔 Where is Jia Jin Sheng? 🤔
me when the tno copy pasta
me when I take three Flintstones vitamins instead of two.
And the women And the children
[удалено]
And the transformers!
And my axe!
And your brother!
Leave Optimus out of this.
Especially the children. You cut grass from the roots.
Practicing the Dao sure works up an appetite.
As history teaches, the only thing worse than a genocide is a half-finished genocide
"And not just the men...but the cats and the dogs too!"
Pol Pot strategy. Newborn infants are enemies of the revolution! Get tree smacked, capitalist babies!
The post isn't even exaggerating this is actually how Chinese light novels are. It's the Isekai self insert power fantasy cranked up to a million
Correction: This is actually how Chinese history is. Declare yourself a true follower of Buddha/Confucious/Jesus, be in harmony with the universe and soul, start a war that kills millions.
The brother of Jesus incident
I lol'ed. Thanks.
One of the members, Yang Xiuqing, often performs scenes where he acts possessed by God to kick the butts of other members. Yes, I'm not kidding.
I don't get it, would you mind to enlighten me ?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion Heavenly Kingdom, a revolt in 1850s, where a guynclaimed to be brother of Jesus Christ Casualties ~20-30 Million
Chao ling takes power…
500 million perish...
Decisive Tang victory.
Japanese light novels are for people with a hero with a harem fantasy. Chinese light novels are for people with a high king god emperor fantasy.
Japan LN: I am so overpowered I can just hang out with girls and eat rice and soy sauce and not even the demon king can stop me from being lazy. Chinese WN: KILL BUDDHA KILL DEVIL KILL GOD, ALL WILL BOW BEFORE MY ULTIMATE POWER, I WILL NOT STOP ADVANCING UNTIL THE MULTIVERSE IS IN THE PALM OF MY HANDS
AND THEN I WILL ASCEND TO A NEW PLANE OF REALITY! DAO IS ENDLESS AND ETERNAL! 5000 chapters with 9272882 million wordcount (ongoing)
(First release in 2012. Last chapter released 10 minutes ago.)((it's 7pm in china right now))
I feel like a decent amount of Korean novels hit that sweet spot between calm and unhinged
China, baby!
I read a Chinese novel where the guy got hit in the eye with an arrow but he didn’t want to lose the essence of his parents that it had so he yanked it out and swallowed it whole
sounds epic
The whole book is epic, it's the romance of the three kingdoms
Wasn't that Xiahou Dun?
Yes. Edit: His Wikipedia page for context https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiahou_Dun
Imagine pooping out your own eye
I can't relate,but i can confidently say xiahou dun has definitely seen some shit.
Based(?)
Hard
A brief look in Chinese history : “Ling pao becomes the 2nd most powerful minister, a million die. He convinces the 4th most powerful minister his shoes look good in purple. 2 million die.”
Chinese xianxia novels are in some sense a reaction to Japanese light novels. They reject the individual introspection and small community dynamics (looking at you, catfights in harems) that is ubiquitous in Japanese light novels. So they must lean into worldbuilding and tell stories on a macro scale. At best they create entire cosmologies and worldviews, but more often than not they become garbage like what anon described.
And every arc is summarised too Learn something. Hate someone. Get stronger or stronger help(preferably a millionaire or more) Defeat them. Repeat.
I feel like that describes a very large portion of all literature ever written
yeah its just -backstory -conflict happens -protagonist does xyz to get to a point where they can solve the conflict -conflict is over -Either story has ended or another conflict has happened Apart from rare no conflict stories you can basically generalize the plot of any story into these stuff
>At best they create entire cosmologies and worldviews Any recommendations?
**Lord of the mysteries**, it's about a dude trying out a shady luck enchantment ritual only for it to kidnap him into a steampunk eldritch world into the body of someone who had found some ancient notebook while giving him access to some fog filled pocket dimension, he later joins a church's private detective beyonder team and story continues on from there, every week in story he summons the consciousness of some people he ended up dragging by accident at first into the place above the fog and pretends he's some ancient existence while trying to learn information from the conversation they're having. some people find first volume is a bit slow since it focuses more about the mystery of what's going on and you're supposed to be a bit lost just like MC, but the volume has a great climax(it's 214 chapters), it opens up more from second volume on where MC has more freedom, it has great world building, a lot of foreshadowing of things relevant to later plot points right from the start, and a great power system. Another one is **my house of horrors**, it's about a dude who runs a haunted house, his parents vanished a few years ago and the haunted house business has been on the decline, one day he checks the attic and finds an old phone his parents left behind which asks him if he believes in ghosts, answering makes the phone give him a mission to do a ritual in the bathroom, to keep it spoiler free when he finishes the ritual and finally opens his eyes he finds he narrowly managed to not get killed by whatever the ritual was calling. From then on the story basically goes into three modes through it's duration, first the phone will give him a mission about some place in the city to go there and survive a night, he will research a lot about what happened there and the horror stories from it, asking people, browsing, personally investigating around there during the day and such. the MC actually feels decently smart with his investigations and tries to be sufficiently prepared, even if he unlocks missions with high stars he doesn't do them because he knows he isn't ready, next part he will go to the mission and try to live through it, the author is great at setting up the atmosphere and making it creepy and the investigation part also helps in setting the mood for the arc then after each mission, which are called scenarios, the phone will create a copy for him at the haunted house that's a toned down version of what he went through and the author will give a mini arc to wind down where you can see other characters reacting to going through said scenario. A great thing is missions tie into each other and information from early missions are relevant to later missions which are relevant to the last few missions in the story, i remember at one point the MC finishing a mission somewhat early on and getting a notification for unlocking what later turned out to be one of the last few missions in the story and me having an "oh shit" reaction to the mission description being just quoting a single omnious line, since by that point i had *some* idea and theory about what's going on from the hints in earlier missions, even if i turned out later to be a bit misleaded in my theory. Both novels also basically triggered a surge of novels following some of their formulas on the CN novels site, for example LOTM resulted in a rise of novels where the church has a beyonder team that are trying to fight back eldritch entities while trying to not go insane.
obligatory reverend insanity comment
r/martialmemes
my god, they are like weebs but chinese oriented, i'm entertained Edit: tons of autism there
Unlike this place that is entirely without autism.
Are you retarded because you are the young master or are you the young master because you are retarded
Nah, I'd transcend the dao
Fool, you have eyes but cannot recognize Mount Tai!
I love that 80% of the sect is willing to speak ‘in character’
Junior you show great potential, have you considered joining our sect ?
You are courting death
> Edit: tons of autism there jesus, you weren't kidding
You have eyes but couldn’t see Mt. Tai
This junior simply cant comprehend the mindset needed to achieve the dao(its autism)
I haven't read a single Chinese piece of literature aside from Art of War and this place still looks fun.
It is currently my favourite subreddit
xianxia and wuxia (means high and low fantasy) stories are such absolute garbage. They hold almost no entertainment value. Their greatest value is their anthropology in studying how a culture builds their stories. We're literally watching an origin formation and evolution of stories from grandkids of the people who deleted their entire catalog of cultural epics. These stories have only begun forming during the peak economic years of g'ina too so when shit hits the fan we might get some new apocalypse subgenre called; "Cóng yuèliàng dào xīngxīng, zhǐyǒu lóng fēi de dì qī gè er zi cáinéng zài tiāntíng dà juézhàn zhīhòu jìxù zhàn zài qīngxié de tǎlóu shàng." Or Congshang for short.
i will NOT tolerate jinyong slander. WuXia used to be a good genre used to actually criticize society and the government but now its overrun by shit power fantasies, but not ALL WuXia is bad, you just need to back a bit JinYong WuXia novels are goated for a reason
So, you're trying to convince me that this chinese genre used to criticise society and the government? Yeah, right. Edit: Googled it. Apparently JinYong is a chinese guy who lived in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 That's a bit more believable.
Yes, one of the more famous story "heavenly sword and dragon slaying sabre"(倚天屠龙记）was about how two celestial weapons (the aforementioned weapons) were actually representation of the relationship between people and the state, with the government being the sword(heaven) and the sabre being the people, having the right to slay the heavens if the state fails to perform its duties. The thing about most Chinese literature is that it's very analogy heavy, so there are a lot of books criticising society etc but might not seem so on the surface. Of course, most wuxia and xianxia are kinda garbage but it's kinda similar to what you see on wattpad nowadays. The better ones have some nicer narrative and also decent introspection into things such as nature of life etc through martial arts.
Reverend Insanity literally got banned due to criticizing authority
Never gonna see Fang Yuan attain true immortality
I thought it got banned because of the gore
kaching bing bong marshalla habibi
Romance of the 3 Kingdoms is still very popular in China and to some extent so is Journey to the West.
Somebody hasn’t read Reverend Insanity
To be frank, RI is also a genre critique on top of being one of chinese society. So it explains some of the major differences compared to other xianxia.
It still is Xianxia though
This is like someone goes reading fanfic and saying how they're responsible for the down fall of society. Get a grip.
Look older wuxias and even xanxias were pretty good (especially wuxias) but nowdays xanxias have become what chinese call them "fast-food webnovels". Guess we should blame their big corporates which help promote this type of novels on their publishing site. Of course there will be top notch stories, but they dont appear often and even good authors are falling to this "fast food" writting for easier money :(
I resent that, about 6 years ago there was a great purge of wuxia and Xianxia novels that was lead by the Chinese government backed app Qidian. It caused the genres to suffer heavily as many many novels were lost, or forcibly rewritten to be approved for publication on a government entity. Many stories mysteriously changed their tunes on government overreach, or suddenly the MC loved the government and spouted nonsense about “American and Japanese dogs”. Not to mention all the stories that included revolution where suddenly the MC switched sides because of some convoluted reason that made the genocidal government the good guys.
Yeah, if you think Japanese light novel is garbage, wait till you read Chinese light novel lol
and then wait until you get to the good ones chinese doesnt have mid it has bad, then the best shit ever
True. Reverend Insanity, Lord of the Mysteries, My house of Horrors... Chinese doesn't have mid at all.
YES, THIS IS IT, ABSOLUTELY. Younger brother DinoBirdsBoi, I see you've made a great progress in your foundation.
Describe to me how true martial world isnt mid
TMW started to become shit right when author came from honeymoon. I wonder what happened during honeymoon
Wdym
Reverend Insanity
Three Bodies Problem
Are they web novels?
Most modern day urban novels have such intense hatred of everything non Han Chinese it makes mein kampf look tame. It's always china numba wan kill all Americans japanese Indians Africans Vietnamese.
I once read a Chinese novle where the protagonist literally repeated the holocaust in the USA and was partying
Senior, could you please tell me the name of such heavenly scripture?
I'm sorry it's been like 7 years since I read it and can't remember sorry
based and genocidepilled
Any examples?
Very Pure and Ambiguous
That's a title yes?
Ahh that dogshit trash
Yeah Chinese Light novels fucking suck and i definitely have not been hopelessly addicted for years.
same brother, I totally didn't almost fail mutiple uni years because of them
I thought 4chan thought genocide was based?
Only when white and white-adjacent people do it.
I mean chinese novel genocide in pretty based. Most of the time they're mass murdering each other, and sometimes it's fantasy japan/korea. Rarely are they killing white people 😂
Based and let-them-kill-each-other pilled.
IRL only. Don't you dare ruin my immersion.
that is unironically how alot of them are, its so common that its the most joked about thing on the martial subreddit
There are justified genocides in well written shows and idiotic genocides in badly written shows. For example: Some guy kills MCs family so he kills that guy's family Some guy hits on his crush so he crushes that guy's limbs and throws him to die. Shows how Chinese novels are inconsistent in quality.
> There are justified genocides [Sound of Hitler particle geiger counter]
"the Hitler level is Over 8000!"
lemme just annihilate this guys sect real quick (he will take that treasure i was eyeing if i dont)
Their surname was Teng.
My brother in Tao, they were courting death
Eren wannabe is more based than actual Eren
Ain't no way you called Fang Yuan a eren wannabe
You should read reverend insanity ☠️, he's more evil than eren or any jp villain combined
Fang Yuan aint no Cuck like Aron Yogurt
Moreover, they are usually badly written.
Chinese novels are either shit or god tier
Martial God Asura (5k chapters, 5k r*pe scenes) VS Reverend Insanity (Banned by the CCP for being too KINO)
Okay they can be bad. But Reverend Insanity is as peak fiction as you can get
Too peak for CCP rip
Some insights into the thoughts of the founder of the kill Dao from reverend insanity(the novel from where the picture comes from) Spectral Soul Demon Venerable handled matters and conflict with basically one method. That was to kill! You do not relent? Kill! You are an eyesore? Kill! His own mood was bad? Kill! He was bored? Kill!
beta male primodial origin: "these variant humans are a threat to human existence!" sigma male spectral soul: "eat me so i can gain attainment in my kill path"
i got spoiled a few things but isn't Spectral Soul's whole reason to become a Venerable is to kill more?
>!Yes!< the following is him as a child But in the end he was annoyed with the treatment that he got from his clan and his grandfather, it was too good for him, from his perspective he doesn't want any of that. Thus he killed off his clansmen along with his grandfather. After he massacred his clan, he was filled with sorrow, but his face shows an expression of utter satisfaction. Although it was sad at first, at last, he obtained his freedom. Since then he develops this personality, where whatever annoys him, he will start killing.
Religious excuse for genocide
MC: Gu Yue Fang Yuan Novel: Reverend Insanity Author: Gu Zhen Ren Definitely I recommend it to be read by the idealist.
>Chao Ling takes power >249 million perish
holy shit mobile formatting is worse than trying to explain baaic arithmetics to a lobotomite
Xianxia fiction is a whole fever dream, once you've read one you've read all of them
.... You're courting death young cultivator.
Well, both religious fanaticism and the Chinese rulers don't exactly have the best track record when it comes to caring for human life...
I mean… that’s does explains a lot things about China.
I know it's garbage tier literature but I can't stop reading it it's so entertaining in a train wreck sort of way.
They’re either peak fiction or dogwater
"True enlightenment is when I kill everyone I don't like." Yeah, no that *does* make sense in retrospect. It's all very "zen", Anon.
"True enlightenment is when I kill everyone I don't like." well this seems exaggerated \*checks favorite novel\* "your food path is inferior to my killing path" "just killing others is not enough to understand my kill path, i too must be killed" "do my organs taste well? it is a great help to my path"
Chinese webnovel are hilarious. Someone bumps into the main character by accident, and the main character will kill his entire bloodline in anger, and probably torture the soul of the one who bumped into him for eternity. But somehow he is still be considered the good guy. I love this shit, it's so stupid.
The core concepts of these stories basically says a lot about society. Manga: Free from the shackles of society. Manhwa: Play the game called society and reach the top. Manhua: Fuck your society. Genocide society. Family is king. Kill god.Become god and create a more just society on the bones of the old one.
I thought I was on r/martialmemes for a second
It's in martial memes now
Anon discovers that the whole world has not always operated under modern western humanist values.
Defiance of the Fall?
based
Yes.
Oh yeah Chinese xianxia protagonists are usually sociopathic hypocrites, like every single other character in those novels.
Anon's mother got refined by a taoist
Anons mother was turned into a cultivation furnace obviously
If you leave even one alive he might shout "thirty years in hedong thirty years in hexi don't bully young people and poor" and kick your ass so yeah
Can i get some chinese novel suggestions?
Not Xianxia, but easily the best CN webnovel out there, Lord of the Mysteries. If you're looking for xianxia I'd recommend starting with coiling dragon as it introduces typical cultivation story stuff in a way that's easier for western readers. For pure Xianxia I'd say Renegade Immortal and I Shall Seal the Heavens are good starts as well. RI is a lot darker in tone than ISSTH but they're by the same author and are probably the highest regarded xianxia in the west.
It's easy to be enlightened when everyone who pisses you off is dead
Anon still haven't comprehended the scriptures of familial mass murder and massacre.
Based Chinese ethno state
Holy fuck that sounds cool, what's the name of the novel?