I am Qi Yuan, a Transmigrator and the Eldest Senior Brother of Qise Peak.
I have a game jade slip that connects me to all the heavens.
My eyes can see hidden information.
[This is an ordinary blade of grass, but three days ago, Sect Leader Kumu and the Empress of Dashang had a romantic affair here.]
[Her name is Ruan Yixi. On the surface, she is your beautiful master, but she might actually be your wife.]
[This is the world's Heavenly Dao, the best spiritual material for establishing a foundation in the Dao of Heaven.]
[This is a lifeless planet. Perhaps it can be refined into your Golden Core.]
Thus, my path of cultivation began to take a peculiar turn.
"The Dao of Heaven? Isn't this the best spiritual material for establishing a foundation?"
"There are so many desolate planets; let's refine them into Golden Cores!"
Using the Dao of Heaven to establish my foundation and refining stars into my Golden Core.
My name is Qi Yuan, the Origin of All Things!
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I am Jiang Lingsu.
With an unspeakable purpose, I joined Qise Peak. My eldest senior brother has a problem with his head.
He doesn't practice properly, shows no interest in cultivation, and is obsessed with simulation games.
Eldest Senior Brother says, "Games are cultivation; games can also create worlds."
One day, an extra sun appeared in the sky.
I asked Eldest Senior Brother what it was.
Eldest Senior Brother said, "That is my Golden Core!"
(This is a translation)
I won't give a rating to this story since my main reason for stopping reading it is mostly personal preference, but I’ll point out a few things:
First, you need to keep in mind that the protagonist is completely unhinged—delusional and lacking any sense of social awareness. He constantly says things that only make sense to him or that he probably shouldn’t be saying at all.
Second, this story relies heavily on misunderstandings, using the protagonist's madness as a tool to create comedic confusion around his actions.
Personally, I found the way the author implemented this more frustrating than funny, but that’s just my own taste.
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Other than some small problems switching back and forth between name translations (Qise Peak vs Seven Light Peak for example) this is a interesting take in well trodden territory. Typical Xianxia setting with a transmigrated protagonist, but the protagonist is very atypical. Qi Yuan is sneaky and boastful, crazy and calculating, all at once. No one really believes he is strong as he says he is, and his unique cultivation method makes his sense of power scaling... off. Minor spoiler
he essentially cultivates in something like a simulation (I say like because its clear these "simulations" have a connection to reality). A small portion of his "simulated" cultivation affects his true body, so he has experienced battles at much higher levels than his true power.
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The story initially interested me and the writing was readable for the first 30 or so chapters. Unfortunately, the quality drastically decreases as you continue reading and switches to “from the heart” slop writing that seems to plague this website. What I mean by this is the author appears to have been replaced by a non-English native speaker who only writes the bare minimum of a sentence so the reader can get the gist of what they mean then tell you how characters are feeling instead of showing. Things like: “[This character] didn’t like that” or “It was extremely frightening” as a type of commentary after describing something. Character and location names seem to switch for no reason as well as the decision to introduce characters that are inverses of other characters names to make it worse. Such as the MC being named Qi Yuan and talking to Yuan Qi.
Everything becomes very one note as things become repeated over and over and characters never change. There must have been 5 or 6 chapters about the same group of people who were jealous the MC was chosen by something and they would use it better after which they tell themselves they shouldn’t take it from him because they are righteous or something. After 60 chapters I started skimming through chapters because I was still interested in the plot but not the writing until that eventually ran out as well. What really hammered home my decision to stop reading was a comment written by someone who also appeared to be a non-native English writer who used the same grammatically incorrect style to say that others weren’t understanding the points the writer was making. When in reality the writing was just not good.
Tl:dr The writing quality gets worse as the story goes on until you feel you’re reading a story written by google translate which quite honestly might be the case.
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When reading this novel expect a main character that does not think normally.
Typical of novels with a mental patient as the main character, the misunderstandings are plentiful but in this one, they aren't the main driving force of the story.
The main driving force of the story rather lies in the different epic excursions he does while traveling into the different games.
Or worlds as you realize later in the story.
*** Additional Information ***
Raw: 金丹是恒星,你管这叫修仙? (My Golden Core is a Star, do you call this cultivating?)
Author: 走地鹤 (Walking Crane)
Traduction quality: Better than standard MTL
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So, when you have an normal unhinged guy, give him first life on earth. And then trow him into cultivation verse.
It's won't be that different from the usual gig. But... This isn't your normal run of the mill mad guy in planting field.
This is an Internet troll guy that have the power to validate his madness about his power and other rambling on stuff. Which is true, and most people think he is mad. Cuz he capable of a feat beyond his power level...
and technically he is on newgame plus each time he finish his dive from game into nearby plane of existence/wolrd/etc.
And
And he is hilarious, while boasting on regularly stuff, but tried to be humble on mundane stuff
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The translation needs a bit of polish, especially with not being consistent with place names.
However the MC is erratic & crazy enough that even that annoyance seems like it's following the chaotic theme.
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I've given this a five star review. This novel, although not perfectly translated (or even written at some parts) is more then readable, with only some minor mistakes here and there. Now why then the 5 stars? Because I absolutely adore Qi Yuan (the MC) his style of witty humour really speaks to me, the just so slightly over the topness of it all adds so much to it. It feels like a labour of love, a truly great, definetly comedic, novel. Which can still have its moments in which other things than the comedy shine through.
If you're a fan of novels such as A Will Eternal (Er Gen), or cultivation novels with a comedic undertone. I think you'll adore this one, give it a try.
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There is a very similar story that has a better power system but it cannot compare to the MC and storyline this one offers.
The only downside is the translation inconsistency.
But overall, it is very fun to read.
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