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How to say it.. While reading, you feel like you enjoy reading this novel, but it also feels somewhat boring and predictable, even though it's not bad. At around chapter 500 and 600 I was considering to put it on hold and read some new novel, it felt as if there was nothing outstanding or groundbreaking, plus there are too many tournaments in the plot that aren't really that great. Then the ancestal dragon court arc happens starting at around 650 chapter and plot intensifies like on steroids. It blows my mind... my heart starts pounding crazily, my blood starts pumping and body breaks out in sweat. GREAT! Author finally delivered something incredible, and I wasn't mentally prepared. It was worth reading the previous chapters even if for just this one arc. I will continue reading it and see if author can surprise me again. Cheers

Also, it's nice that they picked up the novel again. I remember I enjoyed it when they put it in the trial read for the first time.

This novel has inflated rating - the author has a big fanbase. I used to enjoy his novels back when the new chapters appeared on spcnet forum, as we barely had any novels translated. I've checked out 1181 novels so far. I enjoy various novels, but they need to have this something that makes me continue reading. This novel lacks it, it's just the same iet over and over. Even the author of "Mortal Journey to Immortality" which we used to read like a decade or more ago could do much better with his newer novel "Big Dream Master". As for other authors nowadays, "I Hijacked a Timeline" or even "Immortality: My cultivation Has No Bottleneck" is much more enganging even if it's not even focused on fights.

Museum of Deadly Beasts. Picks up after initial dozen of average-ish chapters.

I am a little more than halfway through the novel. It's one of the rare novels where MC travels to future during the story. It started to pick up after first 100 "normal" chapters, got boring after 600. It got interesting at like 900+ again, but then came a weird plot moment. I am thoroughly confused. The future route seems to be finished so early, MC's "cheat" shatters, that would be OK, but then he is not brought back to the point before pulled to the future, but with a sudden 100 year time skip. And that's where the plot feels weird and confusing. All of sudden devil reincarnations are thrown out of the window, what MC promised (look for someone) is not mentioned, his longevity is not mentioned and we get that illogical competition. Uhh. A mood killer. I'd love to get an explanation but can't find spoiler reviews.

You can kill time with other good novels like "I Hijacked Timeline" or "Immortality: my cultivation has no bottleneck" or a lil more overwhelming "Big Dream Master (The lord of void and seal)"

Yeah, less popular novels used to have chapters unlocked. I was reading novels before they put up this Qidian site. Nowadays I am mostly reading MTL, since they even hide new releases in app and other sites don't copy the chapters behind paywall.

Thanks a lot:) I will continue with MTL. It's "Big Dream Master" to be exact.

It's bland and average. Barely 10 chapters in... There's a somewhat similar, but higher quality novel named "Immortality: My cultivation Has No Bottleneck" which, despite the strong focus on story and characters and barely any fights in the first 100 chapters, made me keep wanting more, until I finished it whole recently. It was much more interesting than this.

If you enjoyed it, there's a similar novel "Immortality: My cultivation Has No Bottleneck", which I just finished yesterday. I'll dig into Taoist Lord since it sounds similar from synopsis.

Finished the novel. Well, in the last couple dozens of chapters MC was no longer as cautious and hiding, trying not to mess with others. Zizai sect purses great freedom and arrogance, and so, he became the main manipulator behind the scenes, generating conflicts and chaos for his benefit and even deliberately sending provocations to the main antagonist in the second stage of Tianjao road. It's mostly the cheat that allowed him to do so many things, because much stronger people couldn't see through him nor detect his traces. Anyway, I enjoyed the novel, it has some truths mixed in, especially in the first half of the novel which I think the author wrote better than the later chapters with many battles and fights. The ending... when I think more it's actually meaningful that the corners of our MC "Ancestor" Liang's mouth turned up and his laughter resounded :) As I understand it the whole story is an allegory for his hospital state. At the beginning they need to stall for time and stabilize his life force, only then they can do blood transfusion, but the challenge is to still find a matching blood or be applied to some program for operation. So, in other words, at the start he is cautious, hiding, avoiding cause and effect and just trying to survive, his life can be easily shattered like a glass, because in real life he is also POWERLESS while being transported, lying unconscious in hospital bed. Later he participates in Tianjao road which is he is among many people who got the opportunity to get blood transfusion or something. And at the end of Tianjao road, the sacrophagus space, there is the blood of humans and demons mixed in, which means he is getting blood transfusion. Then he asks to be sealed there and after 10000 years he resolves the crisis of humanity and attains immortality or rather his life is no longer in danger and he wakes up, back from the dead. There are of course many other things that can be connected this way, like the collapsed lands of 9 sects or finding his protective master, or rather a hospital specialist that arrived at last to begin the operation, so the situation is no longer as uncertain, but the situation still has unpredictable factors which is told in the way of his ability of predictions that change at times, And the way MC gets stronger and uses one of the abilities to feel that someone is not so much stronger than himself means he recovers his vitality or strength. I wrote a bit chaotically, but yeah, something like this.

It was a pleasant surprise and an enjoyable read from a different perspective than usual. We follow the story and are shown that "everything passes away". Why involve yourself when all these people will someday die of old age? Why create cause and effect and get yourself in troubles, when you can be at peace doing whatever you want? Author said he wrote in this way due to his experiences in life. For me it wasn't boring, I was put in a quite unique mood, The second half of the novel loses its charm. One reason are the three abilities they get at 30,000, 60,000 and 90,000 years and the soul control technique. The second one - MC has some strength now and while cultivators don't live as long as he does, they still live in thousands of years unlike the mortals at the beginning, so it's more stale. Third reason - the author makes MC get involved himself too much, which made the story events be pushed or manipulated by MC, unlike the independent flow in the first half. There was a sudden event out of the blue in the last quarter of the novel that made MC be more free and daring, so he also no longer passively watches how events unfold but actively takes part in the events just like a protagonist does, generating more karma, even if he still plots from the shadows. So there is more action, but story development perspective is less unique. What is interesting though is that the second half of the story takes place pretty much only in one big city and beast marsh connected to it. The city even changed the owner a couple of times and the action still takes place in this city, as if MC was rooted there to the end of the days. I haven't finished it yet, I am at chapter 246 out of 287.

Fantasy Simulator had peak moment with that plot twist around chapter 200, though it had some good lines in the last 100 chapters, where e.g. MC showed gods why people under their rule are so stagnant and no new powerhouses can be born. The very ending of Fantasy Simulator feels rushed - MC recreates the past to find the "Earth" destroyer, but then he watches how "Earth" he transmigrated to came to be (it was a dead world and his presence/cheat turned it to Earth to recreate environment for him) still hasn't found a clue where his cheat comes from which meant it's beyond the limit of the dimension. That's when he realises there is a gap to another stronger dimension, so he jumps in and that's it. Then we just get side stories of how he returns to previous worlds to bring his friends, disciples back with him - manipulating time to the past where he just "died" because due to the timeflow some of them were long dead.

Check out "I Hijacked a Timeline". MC opens up sacrifice lines which can be called simulations and with that he travels to the future as well. Of course there are spoilers explaining that but that's how it looks like to a reader at the beginning. It was so good that I have eaten RAWs to the very end, it doesn't lose out to many "best" novels.

Sure, I will once I finish reading Constellation Door. I can also recommend reading I Hijacked a Timeline, had a blast it's was my #1 in 2023 and one of the top novels out of the 1100 I have read in the past years, goes real deep.

This novel sounds like Fantasy Simulator or Astral Apostle, but doubt it's better than I Hijacked a Timeline.

Give us the previous trial read back .............................................................................................................

Yeah it's terrible. Can't even open the titles in new separate tabs... the previous UI was much much better.

Problem with GPT is, you either need a whole non-paywalled RAW content of the book, or just paste mtl gibberish and hope GPT redages it up to your taste.