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A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality #1
The Seven Mysteries Sect
A poor and ordinary boy from a village joins a minor sect in Jiang Hu and becomes an Unofficial Disciple by chance. How will Han Li, a commoner by birth, establish a foothold for himself in in his sect? With his mediocre aptitude, how will he successfully traverse the path of cultivation and become an immortal? This is a story of an ordinary mortal who, against all odds, clashes with devilish demons and the ancient celestials in order to find his own path to immortality.
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January 19, 2019
I've read many Wuxia and Xianxia stories by now. This one is still my favorite. The main character is a guy of low talent, but very good brain in his decisions. He is not the good hero who saves people no matter what the situation is, however he is not even evil either, and if he can help someone without any consequence for himself he would do it. Although the World System is similar to many other stories, in this case I appreciate it more, because it is explained the way the protagonist understands it, rather than a dump of information. I also like that the world building is quite independent from the point of the story. For example, in other stories the main characters always meet people at their own level of strength, with the complete absence of the stronger ones until they also become stronger. In this novel instead the fearsome people are already present from the beginning, but Han Li is smart enough to always avoid any confrontation with the enemies stronger than himself. Of course the story is not perfect, but good enough to fill my time.
October 7, 2021
Got to chapter 750/1500 after what I believe to be 36 hours of reading (iOS update threw me for a loop, and I can’t tell which hours were logged for which books anymore)
This started as 4 star ‘I really liked it’ xianxia, with a mc that had interesting interactions with side characters, wasn’t OP, and had great fights. Like many others, it devolved into 2 star ‘okay’ xianxia, as battles became longer and side characters all faded away, turning it into a dry story of fighting randos and getting loot. The fights are still phenomenal though.
Characters: 2/5 then 1/5
The main character never had much depth anyway, and neither did anyone else. Still, the characters were decent just because the main character did interact with other people a lot for the first 500 chapters, which meant that even though they weren’t that interesting as people, they still felt alive. However, after chapter 700 this quickly went downhill. Suddenly the main character got into a habit of meeting old friends/acquaintances and then giving them cultivation materials and then abandoning them to their own devices forever. Since interactions with regular side characters were what made the characters tolerable in the story, once the main character stopped interacting with old, well known people, the characters were all boring.
World: 2/5 okay
It’s decent. It’s the normal cultivation stuff, with a world with different regions that are huge and take hundreds of years to fly across. Ancient teleportation formations will take you from place to place, so the main character can wind up in new exciting places and the author can better make content. So many hours in and the main character is still putzing around in the exact same small countries. Disappointingly narrow given how much of the world we have been introduced to.
Story: started as 4 stars then became 1 star
First off, the fight scenes: the fight scenes are some of the best I’ve ever seen. In this world power is closely tied to what treasures you have, so every battle contains descriptions of all the treasures and abilities both sides are using. It’s far more satisfying than the usual listing off of abilities which is very vague in comparison. In this way the main character’s power can also increase organically, as he picks up other people’s treasures etc. Too many other books fall into the trap of making the main character’s powers very nuanced and giving him lots of trump cards while everyone else seems too basic in their use of powers. Not here.
However, as the book progresses battles become longer and longer. In addition, each battle starts to matter less and less, since the reasonings for getting into the battle devolve into basically fighting over treasures or opportunities constantly. This saps enjoyment.
That leads into the next topic which is the story in general. Because the main character no longer interacts with regular side characters that are interesting, suddenly everything he does is literally just tied to increasing his cultivation or finding treasures and opportunities. It’s so meaningless. It’s like reading about somebody doing a desk job. I would rather just be getting my desk job done instead of reading this.
If you really like fight scenes, come here. If you want a good start and you’re willing to quit, you can try this out as well. If you want a story that’s consistently decent all the way through, this is not it
This started as 4 star ‘I really liked it’ xianxia, with a mc that had interesting interactions with side characters, wasn’t OP, and had great fights. Like many others, it devolved into 2 star ‘okay’ xianxia, as battles became longer and side characters all faded away, turning it into a dry story of fighting randos and getting loot. The fights are still phenomenal though.
Characters: 2/5 then 1/5
The main character never had much depth anyway, and neither did anyone else. Still, the characters were decent just because the main character did interact with other people a lot for the first 500 chapters, which meant that even though they weren’t that interesting as people, they still felt alive. However, after chapter 700 this quickly went downhill. Suddenly the main character got into a habit of meeting old friends/acquaintances and then giving them cultivation materials and then abandoning them to their own devices forever. Since interactions with regular side characters were what made the characters tolerable in the story, once the main character stopped interacting with old, well known people, the characters were all boring.
World: 2/5 okay
It’s decent. It’s the normal cultivation stuff, with a world with different regions that are huge and take hundreds of years to fly across. Ancient teleportation formations will take you from place to place, so the main character can wind up in new exciting places and the author can better make content. So many hours in and the main character is still putzing around in the exact same small countries. Disappointingly narrow given how much of the world we have been introduced to.
Story: started as 4 stars then became 1 star
First off, the fight scenes: the fight scenes are some of the best I’ve ever seen. In this world power is closely tied to what treasures you have, so every battle contains descriptions of all the treasures and abilities both sides are using. It’s far more satisfying than the usual listing off of abilities which is very vague in comparison. In this way the main character’s power can also increase organically, as he picks up other people’s treasures etc. Too many other books fall into the trap of making the main character’s powers very nuanced and giving him lots of trump cards while everyone else seems too basic in their use of powers. Not here.
However, as the book progresses battles become longer and longer. In addition, each battle starts to matter less and less, since the reasonings for getting into the battle devolve into basically fighting over treasures or opportunities constantly. This saps enjoyment.
That leads into the next topic which is the story in general. Because the main character no longer interacts with regular side characters that are interesting, suddenly everything he does is literally just tied to increasing his cultivation or finding treasures and opportunities. It’s so meaningless. It’s like reading about somebody doing a desk job. I would rather just be getting my desk job done instead of reading this.
If you really like fight scenes, come here. If you want a good start and you’re willing to quit, you can try this out as well. If you want a story that’s consistently decent all the way through, this is not it
December 23, 2024
It’s a cultivation novel with the familiar storyline of the MC traveling into different lands to find resources to increase his strength and skills. The unique features about this book is the imaginative scenarios shown in the early arcs.
The author added interesting secondary characters in these early scenarios that show them with depth. Unfortunately, these characters are left behind as the MC transports to new realms. The secondary characters become one dimensional in each new chapter when the author starts replacing them with new ones in every single chapter. No need to go into any depth when the person is irrelevant by the end of the chapter.
It starts to feel like fight club too early in the book when the author makes the MC too reliant on fighting new enemies every one or two chapters and gets their storage bags filled with cultivation resources. It got a bit shallow around the 1000th chapter. I stopped around chapter 1600.
The author added interesting secondary characters in these early scenarios that show them with depth. Unfortunately, these characters are left behind as the MC transports to new realms. The secondary characters become one dimensional in each new chapter when the author starts replacing them with new ones in every single chapter. No need to go into any depth when the person is irrelevant by the end of the chapter.
It starts to feel like fight club too early in the book when the author makes the MC too reliant on fighting new enemies every one or two chapters and gets their storage bags filled with cultivation resources. It got a bit shallow around the 1000th chapter. I stopped around chapter 1600.
August 1, 2024
The book started great. I loved the MC because he was neutral in most situations, neither a good guy nor a bad guy. I also loved that he didn't involve himself too much in other people's business. He was also cautious which saved him a lot of the time. But when he arrived in the Spirit realm, I started getting bored. Mostly because he started involving himself in other people's business a lot. And I also don't like the overuse of most words and phrases. "Expressionlessly" and "coldy" is so damn overused. Along with a lot of responses to questions when characters are conversing. And the phrase "after spending the time it took to finish a cup of tea/ a meal"
I skipped and skimmed a lot of chapters in the spirit realm because most of them were boring fights that lasted for 3 chapters or so.
Another thing I don't like is that most of the time things aren't properly explained, like the Spirit beings and such or how they differ from demons, and who accends to the elder realm and why.
And places, even now I have no idea whether the premodial world is a different realm or where it is from the spirit realm. There's just a lot that is not explained properly and the reader ends up drawing their own conclusions.
There's also a lot of fade to black scenes and characters, they will introduce a scene in another place or characters then the scene will end up being discarded without proper explanation of what happened.
Then there's some where the characters will hold a meeting and leave but said meeting will not be explained what they talked about, or MC will whisper something to someone and we will not be told what he said, and ingredients or treasures not named during exchanges or pill and treasure refining...
I could go on and on, honestly, I sropped reading around chapter 1812
I skipped and skimmed a lot of chapters in the spirit realm because most of them were boring fights that lasted for 3 chapters or so.
Another thing I don't like is that most of the time things aren't properly explained, like the Spirit beings and such or how they differ from demons, and who accends to the elder realm and why.
And places, even now I have no idea whether the premodial world is a different realm or where it is from the spirit realm. There's just a lot that is not explained properly and the reader ends up drawing their own conclusions.
There's also a lot of fade to black scenes and characters, they will introduce a scene in another place or characters then the scene will end up being discarded without proper explanation of what happened.
Then there's some where the characters will hold a meeting and leave but said meeting will not be explained what they talked about, or MC will whisper something to someone and we will not be told what he said, and ingredients or treasures not named during exchanges or pill and treasure refining...
I could go on and on, honestly, I sropped reading around chapter 1812
July 5, 2021
This was a fairly slow but interesting read. The main character is a little flat but their goals are explicit and understandable. They lack the usual pre-destined greatness of a typical xianxia protagonist, though of course they get the required cheat item/ability fairly quickly. The plot had very few unexpected twists and turns but refreshingly the characters themselves explicitly acknowledged the constraints they were under. The lower power level made it feel fresh and while it escalated a fair bit towards the climax of the novel the main character still having to make use of "mortal trickery" added well to the tension. In many ways the antagonist carried the book.
July 19, 2022
An interesting start to the series. So far, the protagonist seems a bit cunning and looks like neither a saint nor a devil. The initial conflicts and the growth of Han Li were believable and fun to read. Let's see how this series grows.
September 29, 2022
classic webnovel.The story was designed very wonderfully,and many webnovel after this book had been affected .As tordays view,some aspect was old ,lack of creative ideas ,but this book was finished teen years ago.
March 31, 2019
Iamverysmart mc in a generic story.
-Dropped ch 60
-Dropped ch 60
February 13, 2021
Wonderfully written. A classic.
January 12, 2023
Great journey
May 8, 2024
Chapter 2160: Completion of the Formation (Libro 10)
December 8, 2020
Gonna write a general review of what I've read so far instead of a specific part review but I will mention that I did enjoy this introduction.
I like this. It's the one xiaxia series I've read where the protagonist doesn't have some special trait that elevates them above everyone else of the same cultivation level. Instead they have to use cunning, an accumulated wealth of weapons or their own ingenuity to succeed.
The plot does tend to skip around a bit, introducing characters mysteries and plot elements and then just leaving them behind as the protagonist moves along on his journey but even though some of this is clearly down to a lack of author planning it still nicely works to create a story where the world doesn't just revolve around our hero. And some of these dropped threads do get returned to later on.
I like this. It's the one xiaxia series I've read where the protagonist doesn't have some special trait that elevates them above everyone else of the same cultivation level. Instead they have to use cunning, an accumulated wealth of weapons or their own ingenuity to succeed.
The plot does tend to skip around a bit, introducing characters mysteries and plot elements and then just leaving them behind as the protagonist moves along on his journey but even though some of this is clearly down to a lack of author planning it still nicely works to create a story where the world doesn't just revolve around our hero. And some of these dropped threads do get returned to later on.
July 27, 2025
The main issues with this novel is the lack of clarity about the development of cultivation within the sect and outside of it. This lack of clarity leads to a lack of understanding where anyone stands in regard to the protagonist and the world itself. It was not until the end of the book that I realised all my misconceptions.
Apart from that the protagonist becomes more dislikeable as the book progresses.
Apart from that the protagonist becomes more dislikeable as the book progresses.
gave-up-on
September 19, 2018I read 55 chapters of this novel, the story is dull and the progression of it was slow and uninteresting, which made me to drop it halfway.
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