Training Through The Game

So far, probably the best trial read among the lot. I know, not really saying much - but if you have to add a novel to the list, might as well be this one. It's actually not all that bad - the MC's cheat is that he's the only one who has access to a shop, but the prices are at market rate (even though that's impossible with prices fluctuating from place to place and depending on scarcity, but this is a webnovel, so just go with it) and he has to purchase points with real money or gold from in the game. He can purchase things to move his cultivation forward, but he needs to take risks to get the money he needs, so it actually works out. I like the character - he seems interesting in that he's not your usual Xianxia murderhobo. Some things are contrived - like him completely blanking and not paying attention when the young mistress of the house he's working for starts speaking, meaning he missed important information. Similarly, he doesn't realize he's already been targeted by the mastermind he found information on (since the person who attacked him could well have been doing so to silence witnesses), so his reasoning for not ratting him out completely fell apart and he doesn't even know it. Not bad, is what I'm saying. I'd actually be willing to follow this when it comes out of trial read - which is something I can't say for every other option in the trial read. If this wasn't webnovel, I'd rate it as 3.5-4 star, but given webnovel's inflated ratings, 5 stars seems fine.

People are just making baseless assumptions on this novel based on the synopsis, I'll clear up some things and give my opinion. I accidently wrote a lot while writing this but please bear with the review I think I wrote down a lot of important things that are missing in a lot of other reviews. "The game": The game's identity is extremely mysterious, he does eventually meet up with other players but it seems like most people dont actually understand it entirely themselves and its even stated that other players cant even be trusted (it can also be assumed that its extremely underground and we aren't even clear about the identities of the other human players), considering how desperate every player is to get stronger we can assume everyone gets stronger from the game, even up till chapter 40 he never actually had any instance of him getting strength from the game except for when he lifted groceries, 99% of his time is dedicated to playing the game and sleeping. MC's Store: He may be the only person with a store but he doesn't even start to use it until about chapter 35 because he thinks that its a waste to spend money in a random game, and when he does its because he realized he can convert in-game currency into store currency to buy certain items (pills, certain techniques, etc) but its not entirely overpowered because he actually has to farm an extensive amount to actually get the items he needs, but it doesn't sideline the story because hes actually able to progress the story while farming for the currency in the ways available to him. "Is it just a faceslapping novel" Nah, you kinda get the vibe at the start just cause of his "talent" in cultivation but its just because hes a player and its clear that he isn't actually that talented it was just in comparison to brand new rando mortals, it steers away from the faceslapping a decent amount and focuses a lot more on the world-building, and even emphasizes constantly how weak the mc is, hes basically unable to defeat anyone above 2 minor realms above him and all of the people that actually conspire anything are 1 major realm so he has to constantly cultivate, while trying to understand the game world better, while trying to uncover deeper conspiracies that he normally shouldn't be interacting with, with his cultivation level, all at the same time trying to survive on a day to day. I think that this is one of the few trial reads that are of absolute top quality, comparable to "Top Tier Providence, Secretly Cultivate for a Thousand Years" and "Cultivation! My Augmented Statuses Have Unlimited Duration" (Which are both amazing cultivation novels if you haven't seen them before), its just that people have recently gotten a pre-conceived notion that all trial reads are just random trash (cuz to be fair most of them are) but rating this one randomly 1-3 star like I see a lot of people doing is the kinda thing thats actually sabotaging this website and making it so we continually get such lower quality editor's picks consistently. It would be a shame to let this novel be left so under-rated so I thought to leave my review to set everything completely straight.

Finished the entire story. The story isnt bad until the half way point. Idk if the story got cancelled, or if it was just rushed. The ending was not good either. It just gets ridiculous at the end. 3 out of 5.