Starflow River

Desolate Era #31

by Wo Chi Xi Hong Shi, 我吃西红柿, RWX (Translator)

Fate had never been kind to Ji Ning. Wracked by illnesses and infirm his entire life on Earth, Ning knew early on that he would die as a teenager. What he didn’t know was that there really was such a thing as life after death, and that the universe was a far larger place than he thought.

A lucky twist of fate (one of the few in Ning’s life) meant that Ning was reborn into a world of Immortals and monsters, of Ki Refiners and powerful Fiendgods, a world where Dynasties lasted for millions of years. A world which is both greater…and yet also smaller…than he ever could imagine. He would have the opportunity to join them, and in this life, Ning swore to himself, he would never let himself be weak again!

The Era he was born into was a Desolate one, but Ning would make it his era.

Genres: Fantasy, Light Novel

ebook

About the author

Associated Names:
* Wo Chi Xi Hong Shi
* I Eat Tomatoes (English)
* 我吃西红柿 (Chinese)
* หว่อชือซีหงสื้อ (Thai)

Reviews

[D · Rating 4 out of 5]

- Quote: “I’ll stare at people until they die! What a wonderful life that would be.”
- Thoughts: Ning and his bbf on their way back home, also the settings of a free for all everyone wants to win battle to the death are in place.
Too much retrofitted rules.
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These are my personal opinions, you may discord, my final rating of the book is not necessarily linked to this system and may diverge from it.
Book Storyline
- Originality: 4/5 stars
- Development: 4/5 stars
- Enjoyment: 4/5 stars
- Writing stile: 3/5 stars
- Funnyness: 0/5 stars
- Epicness: 3/5 stars
- Scaryness: 1/5 stars
- Smartness: 2/5 stars
- Addictiveness: 4/5 stars
- Plot twists: 2/5 stars
- Pace: 4/5 stars
- Storyline planning: 2/5 stars
- Holes: 5/5 negative
- Self contained (Y/N): ×
- Cliffhanger (Y/N): ✓
- Adult (Y/N): ×
- Mystery (Y/N): ×
- Treasure Hunting (Y/N): ✓
- Violence level: Not too much
- Tech level: irrelevant
- Religion level: Fictional Daoism
- Main genre: Xianxia
- Subgenre: Wuxia, Shounen
- Point of view: Main character story
- Best of it: it's very addictive, there are some good stuff in it
- Worst of it: the author constantly retrofit the rules, this is getting under my skin by now.
- Aftertaste: Cheese Pastel
World
- Originality: 5/5 stars
- Variety: 5/5 stars
- Consistency: 2/5 stars
- Impact on the story: 4/5 stars
- Maps: -/5 stars
- Real world (Y/N): ×
- Fantasy based on real world (Y/N): ×
- Journey (Y/N): ✓
Characters
- Consistency: 3/5 stars
- Connection: 2/5 stars
- Dialogs: 4/5 Stars
- Interactions: 4/5 Stars
- Underworld Crew (✓/×): ×
- Training (✓/×): ✓
- Romance: he likes to travel with his bff, and keeps the beautiful retainer he has locked in his pocket.
Setting
Not as good as the last one, but still good enough setting as they travel back home
- Setting overall score: 5/5 Stars
- Tension: 2/5 Stars
- Atmosphere: 2/5 Stars
- Non-human races (Y/N): ✓
- Monsters (Y/N): ✓
Rules
- Rulebreaker (Y/N): ✓✓✓✓✓
- Type of Rule: Xianxia, the author sets his own rules, so he can break then.
Xianxia
- Battle phase: 4/5 stars
- Skill innovation:2/5 stars
- Treasure hunting phase: 3/5 stars
- Cultivation phase: 1/5 stars
Series Storyline
- Impact of this book in storyline: 3/5 stars
- Storyline planning: 3/5 negative stars
- Can be read as a standalone (✓/×): ×

[Danny Moody · Rating 5 out of 5]

This submission was relatively short and felt like a prologue for the next arc. I’m still waiting for the next big bad to provide conflict till the end of the series but I don’t think we are there yet. I’m also getting the impression that cultivation itself is the conflict.