I love the system, not surprising at all.
The system is like an old grandfather or a memory of past life useful! The difference is that we can evolve the system throughout history and make it important or not to each chapter, unlike the god's theme, the old Taoist grandpa (which is usually a spirit) or the memory of past life.

I write 6 story and at least 3 have system, the other is a divine item that has several Taoist grandpas, one is a story about the organization of Taoist grandpa and another is a young Taoist grandpa.

I like to write systems, they are really fun, you can create a system with poisonous language, a very protective system or a system that evolves into something cute.

Dude, I can not write a simple story with just a cultivation system!
I even find it absurd when the MC leaves the family and goes out for cultivation for 500 years!

If I were the romantic pair of a cultivator or best friend of a cultivator:

Me: 500 years? My Good friend until one day!
#partiu adventure in another world!
Cultivator: Are not you going to wait for me?
Me: Are you crazy? 500 years? I have more things to do!
Cultivator: But this is normal!
Me: Normal my ass! If a friend of mine stops talking to me for a year, I renegotiate the intimate friendship, for a normal friendship!
Cultivator: This is unfair, after all I have to concentrate to find out the meaning of this cultivation technique!
Me: 500 years? Dude, give up being an immortal cultivator, you are a very insane dump! Goku did not even take 50 years to conquer the gods of the universe, you take 500 years to understand a technique ?! Fuck you, do not look for me anymore, I'll already be dominating another planet! (ù.ú)

    Take_the_Moon Wait...does that mean you are also a cultivator or perhaps an immortal? After all, they are asking you to wait 500 years, therefore they either have a necrophilia fetish or know something I don't.

        SnoozySloth lynerparel

        My problem with writing a system is that I write with MMORPGs in mind. So the systems have to actually work if transferred into a game. That means all my systems actually have an Excel sheet to back them up, calculating all values: Attack Damage, Attack Penetration, Potential Critical, Armor Protection, Innate Resistances, Health Regeneration, Ability Cool-downs, Weapon Grades etc. etc. That's why I've decided my next system novel is going to be hand waved rules.

        Note that most MMORPG novels including popular ones, actually have systems which fail as MMORPGs. For example, Advent of the Archmage and Night Ranger (both of which I enjoy), plus Sword Art Online, have MMORPG concepts like getting over powered unique abilities for players who are the first to complete a Raid or Instance. That doesn't work in real MMORPGs due to game balancing between players. Instead first completion rewards would be Hall of Fame bragging rights and maybe rare items, cosmetic additions or tokens which are available to paying players. A company that created over powered unique skills for a single player would simply be shooting themselves in the foot. Especially if they have competitive PvP.

        Perhaps the best MMORPG system I've seen is Log Horizon. The abilities actually run like they would work in an MMORPG. When new potentially game breaking abilities do appear, they are explained as going beyond the original MMORPG system. Hmm... that gives me an idea. :)

              [unknown] When new potentially game breaking abilities do appear,

              Nerf them. A good reason to make MC less powerful. That is a cheat actually for MMORPG to put the MC on low tides. Yes next chapter MC will get another game breaking cheat again.

              LawCol I think how not to summon a demon lord did a good job of this as well, the light novel version not the anime version.

                  Barbarossa Try to read The Strongest System (the link which lerrech gave you), Ultimate Scheming System, or History Number 1 Founder.

                      Rextraos
                      I'm Goku! Hahahahaha!
                      Clearly, I'm a fucking god!

                      My point is: It's absurd the guy to stay 500 years! It has a part of Colling Ring Dragon, which I am shocked, the guy spends 500 years to enter the concept of gravity ... Dude, I spend one day to understand the concept of gravity .... the guy for 500 years of eyes closed thinking about it .... and he is considered a genius! I know the comparison is ridiculous because it was at least over 1000 years for scientists to discover and summarize the concept of gravity, okay that concept was made before Christ and all. Not to mention that our reality thinkers are much cooler than these MCs, after all, it was with an apple that the concept of gravity was discovered ... like the guy took a nap and an apple fell on his head and he woke up already thinking about the concept of gravity .... The MC took 500 years to discover the concept of gravity .....

                      OBS: I love Colling Rings Dragon, I just do not understand this time spent meaninglessly!

                      There is the time that you lose track of time when you read these stories that spend 500 years in a single thought.

                      I've read stories that MC adopts a child and stays with it for a year, then spends more than ten years traveling to cultivation, returns home and the child still recognizes him as a parent ... Type MC did nothing like father, he just said that I adopted the child and saw her 4 times that year .... I can not understand this martial cultivation business!

                      Systems are the best!
                      Example:
                      Me: I can not understand the concept of gravity! What do I do?
                      Martial Hero: Think for 500 years and you can do it!
                      System: Host wants to learn the concept of gravity? I have 3000 books that talk about the concept of gravity, 1500 lower level, 1000 mid-level and 500 higher level, which host would you like to read?
                      Me: I love you system!
                      Martial Hero: tears

                      Xoxo

                          Take_the_Moon
                          To be fair. Linley didn't have someone to teach him the theory of gravity. Also, he had to understand it on a deep level. Sure, we all understand the basic idea of it. But do you know the formula for how much force is applied by gravity based on an objects mass? Now picture learning that by just having gravity pushed intensely against you for 500 years. Your only method to learn the theory and formula of gravity comes from feeling it with your own body. I don't think I could do it lol.

                              SnoozySloth
                              Friend, is this serious? So how did anyone who discovered gravity think everything through an apple that fell on his head during a nap?

                              Not to mention, to understand gravity for your body for 500 years .... I think there is a reason why humans are not immortal, I believe that soul is immortal but not the body. Humans are not immortal not to waste time in long reflections, as our mortal lives are short we have to take as much time as possible to discover the world around us.

                              As I said I love Colling Ring Dragons, I really love it, my first novel I read that was completed, although my love will ever be Tales of Demon and Gods. But I still do not understand the loss of time on this, alias I think 500 years everyone would rather understand gravity my friend, if it was 50 years or 100 years, I'd even be quiet about it.

                              Anyway, for me, the romance with the system is the best, that of cultivation, has to have reincarnation or some knowledge of something, not to spend 500 years reflecting on a technique.

                              Xoxo

                                  Take_the_Moon
                                  I'll respectfully disagree =p. Gravity wasn't truly understand until 1687 by Newton (Basically the biggest genius to ever live in human history in my opinion =p). I think you're significantly oversimplifying what is in reality a very difficult concept. Gravity is not just more mass means more pressure. It's a law that explains the movement of the stars and planets. How all objects attract each other. And even Newton had some predecessors shoulders to stand on such as Galileo.

                                  Linley had to discover gravity completely on his own. No help. No predecessors to explain the work for him. I'd imagine the existence of planes instead of planets would further complicate the issue. Plus other laws interfere with our understanding of gravity. Such as why everything just doesn't come together if everything is attracted to each other?

                                  I consider myself more knowledgeable than most people (my own bias) but I can't claim to truly understand the law of gravity. All I know is that objects attract each other the heavier they are. I don't know any of the fine details.

                                  Even today the scientific community doesn't truly fully understood gravity. There are aspects of space-time that complicate it. It's also a big mystery in quantum mechanics (Which I honestly understand almost nothing about! I'm IT, not science! Lol) https://www.space.com/32147-why-is-gravity-so-hard-to-understand.html

                                  So, I can understand not liking large time jumps like that, though I personally enjoy them. But I think it's very reasonable for a genius to take 500 years to understand the complete law of gravity. Especially given the circumstances he did so in.

                                      SnoozySloth
                                      I understand what you mean.

                                      I will not lie, you convinced me a little bit.

                                        However, I still do not like the process "wait 500 years for me to be a fantastic hero". I am using 500 years of Colling Ring of Dragon as an example, but there are other novels that the guy adopts a child or formed a family and simply says: "I'm going to travel to get stronger, I'll be back from here 20 years ago ..."

                                      I want to turn my cell phone or laptop, the question that is in my mind is: "So that you adopted a child or formed a family ?!"

                                      Do you understand what I mean?
                                        Any day of this I'm going to write a parody about a hero of this type and that will have consequences with these "long trips of cultivation"!

                                      Xoxo

                                          Take_the_Moon
                                          Haha, that I understand completely. In contrast to Coiling Dragon, the author's other work Desolate Era was really bad for this. I didn't mind the time-skips (which made 500 years look briefer than a second) but it was like wow... so that persons still alive. Oh, that one too? Wow, also that one. Everybody just living for Trillions upon Trillions of years and not much changing in the meantime.

                                              SnoozySloth
                                              Yes! It's just so crazy thing!
                                              Hahaha
                                              Me: Are you look young my dear? What cream did you use?
                                              Hero: ù.ú
                                              Me: 500 years or 50 years you look so same form! Hey, the XXXX still live?
                                              Hero: ;-;

                                                  Take_the_Moon That's expecting too much from the protagonist from the primitive/ancient world.

                                                  I can't blame protagonists of cultivation worlds for taking so long to understand the laws.

                                                  There is the reason why cultivation worlds do not make progress and become an advanced society. That is withholding the knowledge, let's take an example and compare it with the real world-

                                                  In the real world, when someone makes a groundbreaking breakthrough in some subject/law, they usually share it with others, then some other genius takes that knowledge as a base then build up upon it, finally advancing it even further. this process goes on and on and makes the knowledge more advanced, accurate and more widespread.

                                                  In cultivation worlds, knowledge is locked, if someone makes some breakthrough, they hide or restrict it to limited people. Those limited group of people may or may not make progress on that knowledge and even if they make progress, they don't share it with others and that goes even for protagonists. In that kind of place, the world will never make any progress.

                                                  The reason we advanced because each generation created/understood/found the knowledge and shared it with the next generation to use it as a base.

                                                  So it's normal for a guy to spend 500 years to understand the concept of gravity, I mean he doesn't know where to start, what gravity is and how it works ( even Newton got it wrong, there is no gravitational pull, its the space that pushing us down to earth).

                                                      Demon_Star

                                                      I know that too.
                                                      One more reason to want to punch my computer screen or play the phone, even have authors who show the "heroes" who think this way "If I find out something, I will not divulge it to anyone, so I'll be the strongest!" That kind of crappy thinking.

                                                      Long live the modern society! I do not know who are the fools who dream of transmigrating or reincarnating in an ancient or primitive society!

                                                      If God blesses me he will give me a reincarnation in the futuristic world! Preferably not dystopic!

                                                      It is not that I do not understand the martial cultivator of ancient china or whatever the time, I even mentioned: "I know it is an absurd comparison, compare us that we studied gravity everything having been chewed by the predecessors" >>> put something like that in the my post

                                                      In the end Colling Dragon Rings is still one of the best cultivator novels of the ancient china, or whatever time I know, because the time used I know it is necessary. I just quoted him, as you can see in the course of my dialogue with a brother here, because every time he wanted to study something or concentrate it would take 500 years or more! So I took this novel as an example, but only for the amount of time a martial grower can spend on martial cultivation.

                                                      My biggest problem with the Martial Cultivation genre is because I am BR or Latina as you want to call .... So family and friends are very important! So for me it is impossible even in a fantasy world to imagine a person staying 500 years in meditation and ignore all the rest, kind most growers ignore their family, wife, children, grandchildren, friends, relatives ....

                                                      I can not imagine this and people continue the relationship, as if 500 years or more in meditation were nothing!

                                                      Again, I am only using "500 years" as an example, nothing against Colling Dragon Rings, it is only given to explain my point.

                                                      Not to mention the MCs who arrange harem and son, then 20 years or more, returning with another woman to the harem and more children!

                                                      So that the person gets married, and after will travel to cultivate for more than 20 years or more than 100 years? So Stay single!

                                                      Do you understood me?

                                                          Take_the_Moon I understand, especially when people grow old their attachment towards family also grows. For cultivators who have very long life, the attachment should be even stronger, I mean who wants to live alone for eternity, unless they take the path of Buddha, shedding emotions and worldly possessions to gain the enlightenment.

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