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Reincarnation of the Strongest Sword God #1
Starting Over
Chapter 1-49
In this MMORPG style, video gaming light novel where the game has become equally relevant to events in the real world, Shi Feng has been given a second chance. This time, he will not be controlled by others. In his previous incarnation, he became the Level 200 Sword King, but he will rise to a higher peak in this life.
With reincarnation comes knowledge of what most deem unknowable: Methods to earn money! Dungeon conquering strategies! Legendary Quests! Equipment drop locations! Undiscovered battle techniques! Secrets of which even the Beta Testers are unaware... He knows them all...
Massive wars, life advancement, entering Godhood, sword skill reaching its peak; this is merely the beginning of the legend surrounding Shi Feng becoming the Sword God. Follow his trials through this and many more books to come!
In this MMORPG style, video gaming light novel where the game has become equally relevant to events in the real world, Shi Feng has been given a second chance. This time, he will not be controlled by others. In his previous incarnation, he became the Level 200 Sword King, but he will rise to a higher peak in this life.
With reincarnation comes knowledge of what most deem unknowable: Methods to earn money! Dungeon conquering strategies! Legendary Quests! Equipment drop locations! Undiscovered battle techniques! Secrets of which even the Beta Testers are unaware... He knows them all...
Massive wars, life advancement, entering Godhood, sword skill reaching its peak; this is merely the beginning of the legend surrounding Shi Feng becoming the Sword God. Follow his trials through this and many more books to come!
351 pages, ebook
Published January 23, 2018
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December 21, 2019
Best Worst story ever.
Seriously, This has got to be my favorite guilty pleasure book ever. It lacks so much polish or forethought it should be horrible, but it's like a never ending genius level source of fun ideas and entertainment. I've read through it twice trying to comprehend why I like it so much. I just do. The bones of something great.
That all of course, is in reference to the written work itself.
Translation by Lucky Old Cat is fantastic. Top marks.
Seriously, This has got to be my favorite guilty pleasure book ever. It lacks so much polish or forethought it should be horrible, but it's like a never ending genius level source of fun ideas and entertainment. I've read through it twice trying to comprehend why I like it so much. I just do. The bones of something great.
That all of course, is in reference to the written work itself.
Translation by Lucky Old Cat is fantastic. Top marks.
March 21, 2018
Book 1
I haven't read a lot of the other litrpg or be books coming out of other countries. Mostly I stick to the Russian or American authors.
I found this book interesting enough to grab the second book.
As for things I disliked, the feeling someone's killing intent and their eyes going red with rage, I find both to be as silly as getting a nose bleed because you see a female.
However I think I can recommend this book. After all different cultures deal with subjects in different ways.
It would be small minded and mean spirited of me not to recommend this book just because I find some of those ways to be silly.
Again I say I recommend this book. I'm off to read book two.
Congratulations to the folks that did a decent job on translating this book to English.
I haven't read a lot of the other litrpg or be books coming out of other countries. Mostly I stick to the Russian or American authors.
I found this book interesting enough to grab the second book.
As for things I disliked, the feeling someone's killing intent and their eyes going red with rage, I find both to be as silly as getting a nose bleed because you see a female.
However I think I can recommend this book. After all different cultures deal with subjects in different ways.
It would be small minded and mean spirited of me not to recommend this book just because I find some of those ways to be silly.
Again I say I recommend this book. I'm off to read book two.
Congratulations to the folks that did a decent job on translating this book to English.
October 10, 2021
Book one
I'm almost positive that they tried to translate this by using Google translate. Unfortunately it did a horrible job and this book is almost unreadable.
Don't waste your time unless you enjoy headaches.
0/10
I'm almost positive that they tried to translate this by using Google translate. Unfortunately it did a horrible job and this book is almost unreadable.
Don't waste your time unless you enjoy headaches.
0/10
May 8, 2020
While this book is well written it has to be one of the worst thought out stories ever written.
1. A game world where playing it gives you Dragon Ball Z martial arts abilities.
2. You have every chapter filled with the exact same dialog over and over for thousands of chapters.
3. Have a world 3 times as large as earth, have nearly all of the story about the same few towns.
4. Have a game where the difference in power levels is just ludicrous. Not just your MC has a lot of advanced knowledge and get great gear difference. I mean one section of the story has one character controlling 500,000 super powerful monsters twice to hundreds of times as powerful as an average player. Why would this be a thing? This is flat out game breaking level of stupid, in a world where "everyone regards the game world as a second world for humanity". Yeah I would pass on such a hellhole.
4. Why does everyone always have the ability to fight against someone with 10 years of prior knowledge about the game world even when there could never be such a thing unless these people are literally buying an easy button. Again I would pass on living in such a hellhole.
5. I find it weird there are no relationships anywhere in this story. I do not mean just the Main Characters I mean at all. I cannot think of a game that was ever like that, I have even played Tetris with my wife.
6. Lastly where is the great game story line? The entire story is really just PvP, and griefing. Not just boring but actively antagonistic toward non time traveling OP murder machines.
1. A game world where playing it gives you Dragon Ball Z martial arts abilities.
2. You have every chapter filled with the exact same dialog over and over for thousands of chapters.
3. Have a world 3 times as large as earth, have nearly all of the story about the same few towns.
4. Have a game where the difference in power levels is just ludicrous. Not just your MC has a lot of advanced knowledge and get great gear difference. I mean one section of the story has one character controlling 500,000 super powerful monsters twice to hundreds of times as powerful as an average player. Why would this be a thing? This is flat out game breaking level of stupid, in a world where "everyone regards the game world as a second world for humanity". Yeah I would pass on such a hellhole.
4. Why does everyone always have the ability to fight against someone with 10 years of prior knowledge about the game world even when there could never be such a thing unless these people are literally buying an easy button. Again I would pass on living in such a hellhole.
5. I find it weird there are no relationships anywhere in this story. I do not mean just the Main Characters I mean at all. I cannot think of a game that was ever like that, I have even played Tetris with my wife.
6. Lastly where is the great game story line? The entire story is really just PvP, and griefing. Not just boring but actively antagonistic toward non time traveling OP murder machines.
June 16, 2021
Medicare lirRPG with reincarnation as a cheat sheet, fun and easy read but does not have any originality or a great story.
LitRPG, short for Literary Role Playing Game, is a literary genre combining the conventions of computer RPGs with science-fiction and fantasy novels.
Review is for all the 2918 chapters.
Decent read for passing time, it is not the first time I read such a plotline, so no originality, but I do enjoy the genre (MMORPG/ reincarnation). It a lite and entertaining read but overall mediocre to other similar works. The book had potential with its world-building and some cool long-term plotlines but all of them were answered in the last chapter in a rushed job, instead we have repetitive play through which is cliché and do not add to the story.
LitRPG, short for Literary Role Playing Game, is a literary genre combining the conventions of computer RPGs with science-fiction and fantasy novels.
Review is for all the 2918 chapters.
Decent read for passing time, it is not the first time I read such a plotline, so no originality, but I do enjoy the genre (MMORPG/ reincarnation). It a lite and entertaining read but overall mediocre to other similar works. The book had potential with its world-building and some cool long-term plotlines but all of them were answered in the last chapter in a rushed job, instead we have repetitive play through which is cliché and do not add to the story.
July 25, 2024
must read!!!
October 11, 2025
a sunk cost fallacy finish. Horrid ending, but a sufficient amount of hype moments and aura
April 15, 2018
Interesting
It's a good read. The cultural differences and sayings sometimes take a second to conceptualize, but the story is a solid one. Very constant use of honorific and achievements, almost too much. But that's just the way.
It's a good read. The cultural differences and sayings sometimes take a second to conceptualize, but the story is a solid one. Very constant use of honorific and achievements, almost too much. But that's just the way.
January 30, 2018
Great book
I enjoyed it so much I was 2 hours late for work. Please give me more books as I'm already going through withdrawal.
I enjoyed it so much I was 2 hours late for work. Please give me more books as I'm already going through withdrawal.
March 16, 2018
Wow
What a fun book to read. The author has a way of keeping you wanting more. I look forward to what is in store for book two.
What a fun book to read. The author has a way of keeping you wanting more. I look forward to what is in store for book two.
October 3, 2018
Great book
It is truly a shame that I took so long before reading this book! A wonderful addition to the LitRPG genre, great characters, great action, solid story!
It is truly a shame that I took so long before reading this book! A wonderful addition to the LitRPG genre, great characters, great action, solid story!
September 3, 2020
Its a fantastic book to read at your free time
November 13, 2022
[This is a serial. These comments refer to the content as far as I have read, which is 220 chapters into the sequel/continuation, which would be about book #64 if these collected volumes went that far.]
Important note for prospective readers who, like me, started reading specifically because this story was marked as "complete": it's true that it does reach an ending of sorts, abruptly and unsatisfyingly concluding with many dangling threads left unresolved, but the author immediately started a sequel series featuring the same protagonist after a timeskip. For all intents and purposes the original serial is still ongoing.
In any case, it's a reincarnation LitRPG about Shi Feng, who mysteriously wakes up one morning a decade in the past and re-lives it with the advantage of his amazingly good memory. The setting is a far-future Earth where entertainment is dominated by virtual reality MMORPGs; most of the series is a fantasy LitRPG taking place inside one of these, though later on there is increasing blurring of in-game and out-of-game elements (e.g. cultivation inside the game affects the outside world and vice versa).
The series endlessly follows the same loop: Shi Feng stirs up some kind of trouble, then pulls a mysterious trump card out of his ass to win the day, e.g. randomly finding a new technique or artefact or the blueprint for a fantasy tank. There are a lot of arrogant enemies who get curbstomped, only to swear revenge, come back with their own new trump card, then get curbstomped again by the latest overpowered technique/artifact/spell/whatever.
I genuinely cannot overstate how frequent and how ridiculous this is. Every time the last trump card is beaten, the author invents some new axis on which for Shi Feng to be better: it starts with equipment and basic statistics, OK, but then there are combat techniques, realms of refinement, realms of truth, mental strength, mana techniques, mana bodies, mental strength...
There is no characterization to speak of and it very clearly wasn't plotted in advance, because instead of Chekhov's gun it's more like the inverse, where we'll see a few chapters dedicated to Shi Feng cleverly using all of his resources to buy shops in locations that will be valuable later, or some other bet based on foreknowledge, but very rarely does this neon "FORESHADOWING HERE ->" sign indicate genuine future impact. More commonly the subject will literally never be mentioned again.
When these things do come back, it's often more like Chekhov's junk drawer, where 1000 chapters later it becomes useful for one chapter that Shi Feng picked up a boat. The conclusion of the Evil God arc in particular is an anticlimactic afterthought that occurs long, long after the villain in question has been repeatedly superseded by new threats.
For all that this sounds like I hated it, it's addictively fun in an embarrassing guilty pleasure kind of way: an endless loop of bullying jerks not realizing that they're poking a bear.
Important note for prospective readers who, like me, started reading specifically because this story was marked as "complete": it's true that it does reach an ending of sorts, abruptly and unsatisfyingly concluding with many dangling threads left unresolved, but the author immediately started a sequel series featuring the same protagonist after a timeskip. For all intents and purposes the original serial is still ongoing.
In any case, it's a reincarnation LitRPG about Shi Feng, who mysteriously wakes up one morning a decade in the past and re-lives it with the advantage of his amazingly good memory. The setting is a far-future Earth where entertainment is dominated by virtual reality MMORPGs; most of the series is a fantasy LitRPG taking place inside one of these, though later on there is increasing blurring of in-game and out-of-game elements (e.g. cultivation inside the game affects the outside world and vice versa).
The series endlessly follows the same loop: Shi Feng stirs up some kind of trouble, then pulls a mysterious trump card out of his ass to win the day, e.g. randomly finding a new technique or artefact or the blueprint for a fantasy tank. There are a lot of arrogant enemies who get curbstomped, only to swear revenge, come back with their own new trump card, then get curbstomped again by the latest overpowered technique/artifact/spell/whatever.
I genuinely cannot overstate how frequent and how ridiculous this is. Every time the last trump card is beaten, the author invents some new axis on which for Shi Feng to be better: it starts with equipment and basic statistics, OK, but then there are combat techniques, realms of refinement, realms of truth, mental strength, mana techniques, mana bodies, mental strength...
There is no characterization to speak of and it very clearly wasn't plotted in advance, because instead of Chekhov's gun it's more like the inverse, where we'll see a few chapters dedicated to Shi Feng cleverly using all of his resources to buy shops in locations that will be valuable later, or some other bet based on foreknowledge, but very rarely does this neon "FORESHADOWING HERE ->" sign indicate genuine future impact. More commonly the subject will literally never be mentioned again.
When these things do come back, it's often more like Chekhov's junk drawer, where 1000 chapters later it becomes useful for one chapter that Shi Feng picked up a boat. The conclusion of the Evil God arc in particular is an anticlimactic afterthought that occurs long, long after the villain in question has been repeatedly superseded by new threats.
For all that this sounds like I hated it, it's addictively fun in an embarrassing guilty pleasure kind of way: an endless loop of bullying jerks not realizing that they're poking a bear.
January 14, 2024
Best book ever.
The writing is horrible, but I have a program that removes or replace certain words and phrases from word documents that makes the read bearable. Guy does martial arts in real life and it translate into epic combat prowess in the virtual game. One new game update after another, because he knows what's coming before everyone else due to travelling 10 years into the past; he capitalizes on everything over and over and over and over again chapter after chapter for 4000 chapters while his teammates and guild stares at him from the sidelines like dolls, and the bad guys pump out epic one liners like it's the only thing they're capable of.
Now what makes this the best book ever? First, the green arrow icon for players from warcraft, the death penalty from tibia, the buffs from aion, the iframes from blade and soul, and the sieges from guild wars; 15 years of content and updates from every game imaginable goes into this series and it's nostalgic to read. And second, the author never changes, after 10 years writing this series, this Asian child still hasn't grown up. The fights are the same, the one liners are the same, and the new ideas just keep coming. I must be a glutton for punish, because it's pretty bad, but I'm still readin, people laugh at me, but I'm still readin.
The writing is horrible, but I have a program that removes or replace certain words and phrases from word documents that makes the read bearable. Guy does martial arts in real life and it translate into epic combat prowess in the virtual game. One new game update after another, because he knows what's coming before everyone else due to travelling 10 years into the past; he capitalizes on everything over and over and over and over again chapter after chapter for 4000 chapters while his teammates and guild stares at him from the sidelines like dolls, and the bad guys pump out epic one liners like it's the only thing they're capable of.
Now what makes this the best book ever? First, the green arrow icon for players from warcraft, the death penalty from tibia, the buffs from aion, the iframes from blade and soul, and the sieges from guild wars; 15 years of content and updates from every game imaginable goes into this series and it's nostalgic to read. And second, the author never changes, after 10 years writing this series, this Asian child still hasn't grown up. The fights are the same, the one liners are the same, and the new ideas just keep coming. I must be a glutton for punish, because it's pretty bad, but I'm still readin, people laugh at me, but I'm still readin.
May 25, 2025
Reincarnation of the Strongest Sword God is a Chinese light novel about a reincarnation of a person who was a top-tier expert in the virtual reality game named "God's domain". Shi Feng, main character of the novel, was betrayed by the guild that he raised while being its leader for ten years, and after being reincarnated Shi Feng's new goal is to use his advantage of knowing the future to create his own guild that will roam new world of the virtual reality.
The setting of the novel is typical to the books about the virtual reality, which is future around 22th century. The humanity of that era also became obsessed with the martial arts, so the novel also focuses on the martial arts and some other practices (we can see that the influence of Chinese martial arts, xianxia genre and qi cultivation also affect that work).
I would say that this novel is the solid mid-high among ranobes, the main character acts to his age and even though some characters especially his enemies might act pretty stupid, but overall its still a good novel that is able to keep reader's interest throughout the hundreds and thousands of chapters.
The setting of the novel is typical to the books about the virtual reality, which is future around 22th century. The humanity of that era also became obsessed with the martial arts, so the novel also focuses on the martial arts and some other practices (we can see that the influence of Chinese martial arts, xianxia genre and qi cultivation also affect that work).
I would say that this novel is the solid mid-high among ranobes, the main character acts to his age and even though some characters especially his enemies might act pretty stupid, but overall its still a good novel that is able to keep reader's interest throughout the hundreds and thousands of chapters.
September 28, 2023
As a still on-going novel, RSSG is the book I spend the most time on. I've been on it for years and with ( As of the date I write this review ) 3611 Chapters, I have a lot to say about it...
First and formost, The Author has a creepy tendency to forget key items in the first reincarnation like the "book of the dead" or "Abyss book" i don't really know anymore.
Second I got addicted... why am I reading I don't know, every chapter goes like it's a routine... It got sooo long it became part of my life, every morning I get my coffee and my RSSG chapter.
what I think about it ? It's a VERY complex world ( fandom is longer than my life ) and you need to indetify to this genre or you won't like it at all.
so it's either you like it VERY much or not AT ALL.
First and formost, The Author has a creepy tendency to forget key items in the first reincarnation like the "book of the dead" or "Abyss book" i don't really know anymore.
Second I got addicted... why am I reading I don't know, every chapter goes like it's a routine... It got sooo long it became part of my life, every morning I get my coffee and my RSSG chapter.
what I think about it ? It's a VERY complex world ( fandom is longer than my life ) and you need to indetify to this genre or you won't like it at all.
so it's either you like it VERY much or not AT ALL.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 8, 2018
It is only getting started.
The story follows a man who put his heart and sole into and organization for ten years and makeing it what it is today to inly be thrown away. However, after drowning his sorrows in alcohol, he wakes the next morning in the body and time of his ten year younger self before it all began. Now he will use all his knowledge for his own benefit and rise to hights he never dreamed of. It was great start. This is second time reading these chapter . I glad the finally published an ebook version it is so much better and easier to read.
The story follows a man who put his heart and sole into and organization for ten years and makeing it what it is today to inly be thrown away. However, after drowning his sorrows in alcohol, he wakes the next morning in the body and time of his ten year younger self before it all began. Now he will use all his knowledge for his own benefit and rise to hights he never dreamed of. It was great start. This is second time reading these chapter . I glad the finally published an ebook version it is so much better and easier to read.
February 9, 2018
Fun Read with good premise
I truly enjoyed this book. While this genre is becoming flooded with stories with some old backgrounds, I found the premise of this one really intriguing. Who has lived a life without some regrets? I know lots of things that I wish I could go back and change. This book has two storylines going on, one in the game, and even better one in real life. Waiting for the next installment!
I truly enjoyed this book. While this genre is becoming flooded with stories with some old backgrounds, I found the premise of this one really intriguing. Who has lived a life without some regrets? I know lots of things that I wish I could go back and change. This book has two storylines going on, one in the game, and even better one in real life. Waiting for the next installment!
February 25, 2018
Standard plot but we'll translated
Common reincarnated and goes back in time to dominate a virtual reality game trope, but we'll translated. I don't how accurately it hews to the original but the result is quite readable. I'd say on par with the better translations you can find. As anyone who read a few translations a bad one can turn a great story into agony to read. This is a case where either the writing quality is either maintained or maybe slightly improved?
Common reincarnated and goes back in time to dominate a virtual reality game trope, but we'll translated. I don't how accurately it hews to the original but the result is quite readable. I'd say on par with the better translations you can find. As anyone who read a few translations a bad one can turn a great story into agony to read. This is a case where either the writing quality is either maintained or maybe slightly improved?
May 23, 2021
An interesting webnovel that was finished somewhat recently with around 2900 chapters. What is there to say about this story... It's like mental masturb****n. Basically, you have a Shi Feng that reincarnated and is playing a game, only this time he has knowledge of the good stuff. Plot Armor galore, lots of action, 2D enemies, face slapping, etc. even with all of these factors working against it, the story was surprisingly done well enough to keep me engaged for the journey.
March 10, 2018
Excellent
In this time i am fed up with the litrpg stories and more into wuxia style.
I have been pretty disappointed az the start, because it showed that it is just another litrpg (should have expected) but it is more like both of them and for that i am extremely gratefull and could fully enjoy it
In this time i am fed up with the litrpg stories and more into wuxia style.
I have been pretty disappointed az the start, because it showed that it is just another litrpg (should have expected) but it is more like both of them and for that i am extremely gratefull and could fully enjoy it
March 22, 2018
Strong start to a series
This is a better litrpg then many out currently, but the literal translation brings it down slightly. while most is a good read, some parts have issues flowing in English . It's not a deal breaker and if you like stories with a completely op main character this is a good book for you
This is a better litrpg then many out currently, but the literal translation brings it down slightly. while most is a good read, some parts have issues flowing in English . It's not a deal breaker and if you like stories with a completely op main character this is a good book for you
August 2, 2020
Some pretty heavy-handed sexism late into the book
The book started out fairly well, very obviously written in a different language we're not all of the idioms transfer over perfectly.
That being said starting at the 3/4 Mark and go until near the end we're a lot of incredibly sexist views by the author.
The book started out fairly well, very obviously written in a different language we're not all of the idioms transfer over perfectly.
That being said starting at the 3/4 Mark and go until near the end we're a lot of incredibly sexist views by the author.
August 16, 2020
Good story
First when you read translation of books you have to be prepared to think a little differently from western norm. Some words just mean a lot more than a direct translation to English.
Loved the story and world building will be reading further into the series.
Though I do have to read a few lines more than once to understand the intended meaning.
First when you read translation of books you have to be prepared to think a little differently from western norm. Some words just mean a lot more than a direct translation to English.
Loved the story and world building will be reading further into the series.
Though I do have to read a few lines more than once to understand the intended meaning.
June 23, 2024
Do not even start reading this webnovel. The entire plot is an endless cycle: someone wants him gone --> he defeats them --> everyone forgets that they got defeated by him --> they want to kill him again. I gave it a chance, I read more than 950 chapters however only this cycle is present in the plot, very little actual story progresson.
January 25, 2018
Interesting story line
Not bad, an interesting story line, sort of near future "ish". A little over wordy like most xianxia stories, but not so bad, and the editing was actually pretty good. Don't know if I lik the MC though, but I will get the next installment.
Not bad, an interesting story line, sort of near future "ish". A little over wordy like most xianxia stories, but not so bad, and the editing was actually pretty good. Don't know if I lik the MC though, but I will get the next installment.
March 14, 2018
It's really interesting and it can be impressive.
It's can be something very good and the foundation is set. The translation is difficult and choppy, but if you can ignore that it would be a pleasure to read.
It's can be something very good and the foundation is set. The translation is difficult and choppy, but if you can ignore that it would be a pleasure to read.
September 19, 2018
Great story, funky translation
I enjoyed the story, which is your basic LitRPG. Three translation remix ha me of a 70's Kung-Fu movie, which I am actually enjoying. The recommendation I saw to read the sample first is a good one, to make sure the translation doesn't putt you off.
I enjoyed the story, which is your basic LitRPG. Three translation remix ha me of a 70's Kung-Fu movie, which I am actually enjoying. The recommendation I saw to read the sample first is a good one, to make sure the translation doesn't putt you off.
January 18, 2019
Fun Read
This book was definitely an interesting and fun read. If you want to pick the book apart I am sure issues could be found, but I am merely reading to enjoy the overall story and fun ride. Looking forward to book number two.
This book was definitely an interesting and fun read. If you want to pick the book apart I am sure issues could be found, but I am merely reading to enjoy the overall story and fun ride. Looking forward to book number two.
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