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.

                        Maekellen On the Website if you hover over the person quoting/being quoted it gives you a snipit of what the person said.
                        It's very handy for just the situation you're talking about! 👻

                            Hyowha True. Translators do it directly for word meaning rather than adhere to what the new language culture would be familiar with/translate the jargon.

                            However, I should’ve been more specific and say that those writing their own cultivation stories also write like this unnecessarily when it’s not an original Chinese story.

                              Another really annoying thing ins Cult novels is how lazy authors get a waifu to the MC. Either is a fated meeting that yet is identical to one of the 100 thousands damsels he saves, or my most disliked trope: find a martial legacy, but is dual cult, so when he finds it, ofc the other one is a beautiful, etc etc female, and they are forced to have s*x or die horribly, and from that point they are a couple. I find it honestly sad. It happens in martial peak, wu dong quiang and so many others. I mean, wtf author san! you make MC find and befriend hundreds of "word class beauties" (sic!) yet to get laid he has to be forced in a do or die situation?!

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                              MAINID1 This thread should really on top to tell qidian stop translatin new cliche annoying cultivation story but start to focus on quality one.

                              Their focus are on hot-blooded ambitious juveniles and romance-addicted youths, so naturally they keep on translating these new short-term good novels to gain profit from them, then keeping the best for last for maximum benefits.
                              Or not...

                                  How there's ALWAYS some peerless fairy who is cold to everyone, but falls in love with the MC after he displays his powers.

                                  Chemistry between the two? She is beautiful and he is the MC, what more could you want?

                                  I know this thread is for the bad things in cultivation novels, but I must take this chance to recommend a great cultivation novel series.

                                  The Cradle series by Will Wight.

                                  Seriously, pick it up if you can, there's so much good things that I dont know where to begin.

                                  MC doesn't go from weak to OP in a single chapter, which makes his improvement all the morr satisfying.

                                  But that doesn't mean he is useless, thanks to his perseverance, wits, and yes, cheating.

                                  Honour actually means something here, so no using family and friends as a pure plot device to threathen MC.

                                  There is a female lead and she doesn't falls in love with MC at first meeting. Nor second or third. These things take time, even more so if they are in a hostile place, fearing for their life.

                                  There's so much more than that to this series, and thats why I recommend it.

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