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Sage Monarch
Yang Qi is a skilled fighter, but also has the reputation of being hedonistic and impulsive. To impress a girl, he does something monumentally stupid, and ends up crippled, unable to practice martial arts or energy cultivation. Furthermore, his actions put his clan in danger of being exterminated. To top it all off, he gets struck by lightning. However, as it turns out, being struck by lightning isn't such a bad thing after all....
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December 14, 2021
This "book" is the equivalent in size to a 20-30 book series, (nearly 13,000 pages by my calculations). It's repetitive and morally challenged but I still enjoyed the read. Past a certain point, I felt like I had to finish. After all, I'd already sunk days of time into reading it.
This serialized "light novel" is weighed down by the need to recap at the start of each chapter, however, it's easy to skim the first few paragraphs to get to the meat of the new chapter. Despite how complicated the world-building is, like in most Xianxia settings, there is a pattern to things that make it easy to digest. Yang Qi's journey of self-cultivation follows an upward spiral. Each loop is similar to the last, just at a higher level. Some of the consistent notes were; seeing him use the selfishness of others to lead them into traps, turning attacks into tribulations that made him stronger, and constantly hiding his strength to tempt bullies into over-reaching.
The author treats Yang Qi as if he is a moral paragon - only killing evil beings, only attacking in defense, etc. unfortunately there too many examples of him killing and enslaving innocents, for this stance to be believed. At one point he sends his underling out to an adjacent system of worlds with the instruction to bring them under his empire - willingly or under the very real threat of death. That's clearly a type of fascist empire-building. Not good.
The other weird element is the total lack of romantic or sexual emotions in the protagonist. I can only assume the author wasn't comfortable writing about it. Yang Xi apparently defeated the heart-devil of sexual desire. What? Is he going to defeat the heart-devil of tasty food next?
I also didn't like when things just happened to occur at the perfect moment for Yang Qi to witness/over-hear them. It's the equivalent of a movie character turning on the TV just as the news-caster presents the key fact that allows a mystery to be solved. It happened again and again. In fact, EVERY time he decided to spy on someone, they chose that exact moment to discuss the core of their plans with a confederate. Just a bit cheesy for me.
Despite all the flaws, this is a decent and consistent read. It's impressive in scale and there was comfort in knowing I could blow a couple of hours on it whenever I was bored. If you like light-novels like "I Shall Seal the Heavens" then you'll probably enjoy this.
This serialized "light novel" is weighed down by the need to recap at the start of each chapter, however, it's easy to skim the first few paragraphs to get to the meat of the new chapter. Despite how complicated the world-building is, like in most Xianxia settings, there is a pattern to things that make it easy to digest. Yang Qi's journey of self-cultivation follows an upward spiral. Each loop is similar to the last, just at a higher level. Some of the consistent notes were; seeing him use the selfishness of others to lead them into traps, turning attacks into tribulations that made him stronger, and constantly hiding his strength to tempt bullies into over-reaching.
The author treats Yang Qi as if he is a moral paragon - only killing evil beings, only attacking in defense, etc. unfortunately there too many examples of him killing and enslaving innocents, for this stance to be believed. At one point he sends his underling out to an adjacent system of worlds with the instruction to bring them under his empire - willingly or under the very real threat of death. That's clearly a type of fascist empire-building. Not good.
The other weird element is the total lack of romantic or sexual emotions in the protagonist. I can only assume the author wasn't comfortable writing about it. Yang Xi apparently defeated the heart-devil of sexual desire. What? Is he going to defeat the heart-devil of tasty food next?
I also didn't like when things just happened to occur at the perfect moment for Yang Qi to witness/over-hear them. It's the equivalent of a movie character turning on the TV just as the news-caster presents the key fact that allows a mystery to be solved. It happened again and again. In fact, EVERY time he decided to spy on someone, they chose that exact moment to discuss the core of their plans with a confederate. Just a bit cheesy for me.
Despite all the flaws, this is a decent and consistent read. It's impressive in scale and there was comfort in knowing I could blow a couple of hours on it whenever I was bored. If you like light-novels like "I Shall Seal the Heavens" then you'll probably enjoy this.
June 2, 2023
One of the worst Xuanhuan, cultivation novels I have read.
This is the review for all the 1601 chapters comprising multiple volumes/books. Please note that this is a Chinese wen novel translated into English, I admit the translation is one of the better jobs done in the genre.
I am a fan of cultivation novels having Xuanhuan themes, read a ton of them and can safely say this is among the most mediocre of them, didn't have any originality, new concepts, intense fight sequences, laughs and such. The plot was repetitive every few hundred chapters where the MC will join an organization and like a parasite will suck them dry and move on to a bigger one.
On the positive, it didn't suffer from romance or harem, not many chapter were spent on pill formation or auctions or just face slapping.
The only reason I finished the series was as its a lite read and mostly without content where chapters can just be skimmed over.
This is the review for all the 1601 chapters comprising multiple volumes/books. Please note that this is a Chinese wen novel translated into English, I admit the translation is one of the better jobs done in the genre.
I am a fan of cultivation novels having Xuanhuan themes, read a ton of them and can safely say this is among the most mediocre of them, didn't have any originality, new concepts, intense fight sequences, laughs and such. The plot was repetitive every few hundred chapters where the MC will join an organization and like a parasite will suck them dry and move on to a bigger one.
On the positive, it didn't suffer from romance or harem, not many chapter were spent on pill formation or auctions or just face slapping.
The only reason I finished the series was as its a lite read and mostly without content where chapters can just be skimmed over.
June 16, 2025
The starting was really interesting but the ending disappointed me a bit. It could have been a bit more elaborated which I think has been missed from this novel. Conclusively, it was a nice novel, saw a lot of backstabbing, plot twists. This novel taught me that transcending is not about an individual being going alone to the other shore of paramita rather it's about transcending the people who you are with, your community.
June 17, 2021
entertaining story, disappointing ending
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January 12, 2023
Very drastic ending.
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