What i find ridiculous about cultivation novels is cultivation novels.

Once you've read one, you've read them all. Why? Because they all follow the same tropes. Yes, there are exceptions, but 95% of them are not exceptions.

Few if any authors of cultivation WNs have sat there and told themselves "Yanno what? I am NOT going to make the MC a useless crippled who eventually finds some worldshaking treasure in his backyard that for some reason no one else has managed to find despite it being in such an obvious place - that suddenly turns him into a not-so-useless MC that everyone will still continue to call a crippled piece of garbage or "Lucky" for half of the 1000+ chapters i plan on writing. And i will not make everyone an asshole so that when the MC insults someones dog, their owners fathers grandfather's great uncle's great elder's great great ancestor's supreme lord father will get angry and suddenly decide to perform genocide on his entire bloodline. (extreme much?) Neither will i make sure to include 1 tsundere female, 1 meek female, 1 sweet female, 1 bitchy antagonistic female, most of which are romantically interested in the MC simply for the MC breathing gods-given air.

Everything about cultivation WNs is ridiculous. Actually, this can be said about most other WNs lol.

Woebegone Excellent question. Just what constitutes reincarnation. It is only recently (relatively speaking) that authors have begun differentiating between reincarnation and transmigration. For the purposes of distinction, my complaint is with transmigration stories. That said, there are still those that use the term "reincarnation" for soul transmigration. I have no clue how old the stories are as I never check thhat when I find them, just that I've seen several over the past few years.

    Woebegone Excellent question. Just what constitutes reincarnation. It is only recently (relatively speaking) that authors have begun differentiating between reincarnation and transmigration. For the purposes of distinction, my complaint is with transmigration stories. That said, there are still those that use the term "reincarnation" for soul transmigration. I have no clue how old the stories are as I never check thhat when I find them, just that I've seen several over the past few years.

        Maekellen sorry for the double post. System told me it had encountereda problem in posting.

            Regarding on the matter of conveniency in cultivation auctions, I'm afraid to say that it isn't even safe to just go to them. You buy something, You pay, Then someone will steal it. Why buy if you can get the item you want for free? Of course, it's risky but villains in cultivation novels always die right?

              Woebegone Worse yet is when the MC is the one that kills another for the item they bought.

                  How the whole story revolves around cultivation. Yes, I know, cultivation makes you stronger, but there's more to life than this. Studying, eating healthy food and exercising, makes us stronger and smarter, but do our lives revolve around such things? No!

                  MC seems to never feel the need for good food, friends — real friends, not people the MC meets, talks to for 10 chapters and then they are never seen again — and most important, sex.

                  Seriously, it seems only villains care for the last one and of course, as they're vilains, they all need to be sexual predators, taking whoever they want with no consequences.

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                  Tomoyuki actually they used them for scouting at first and didnt even think of weapons and the early ones on planes were the metal spikes, which the would drop out of the plane.

                      TinyRustyPanda Yeah, that's right. Sorry for not mentioning that. Reconnaissance was definitely the first role for planes.

                          KillerHemboy Its because you did not discover my novel "The Next Defender" its different too

                              So does anyone else feel bad about the plants? They are easily the most prosecuted race.

                              There's always that arc where a flower blooms, and all the sects flock wit the MC to try and get it. They soon start a blood-war, killing many people for that simple thing. I always thought it must suck to be that cannon fodder that dies for something you won't even receive, but then I realized, wait, the thing that suffers the most is that flower here. It's not necessarily that the fodder dies, but the flower, oh yes, that's definitely dead—rooted of the earth, ground into mush to make some medicine.

                              It's even worse when you realize that some plants can gain sentience. Imagine you are basically a living piece of fragant wagyu steak living in a world filled with wolves. Leveling up 500 years unmoving in the ground, just to act as food for 30 seconds.

                              Damn, let the poor plant live.

                              You should read "Charm Of soul pets". It Is one of my favorite cultivation novels. It has a mechanic similar to pokemon, but, with cultivation too. Actually, It looks more like pokemon for "mature people", since It has a Lot Of violence in the battles, where both the creatures and the trainers get killed. My favorite part about this novel is the facto that It breaks alot of these cultivation novels clichés.

                                [unknown] read it as others trying to kill the MC for what he bought. Both are common though.

                                  Maekellen Huh? But I didn't say anything about MC or whatever, I only mentioned that war is one of the primary driving forces behind technological advancement.

                                      There's a lot I could say, but I actually don't mind clichés if they're done in a clever way or with a different approach that makes it somewhat refreshing. So the biggest peeve I have for cultivation novels is how they speak. Oh big brother! And blah blah, it's really annoying at some part. If the action, world, and relationships are good, then the speaking is what 'ruins' it for me, merely because it's annoying visualizing people speaking this way....

                                        Tomoyuki ahhh...sorry. Really wish there was an indicator to which post was being replied to instead of just which poster. Or better yet, attached replies to the original post.

                                        I was just summarizing and agreeing with your post while pointing out it goes back further than Da Vinci et al. Warfare as the primary innovator for the advancement of technology has been the case since the development of the first civilization.

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