Alright, this post is just for fun!

The questions in the title: comment what you guys think is the funniest about stories with a cultivation setting.

I don't mean stuff like bad antagonists (arrogant seniors, weird masters, condescending sects etc.), or the 'there's always a realm higher than this realm' cliche, or one dimensional harem females. Those are things attributed to bad writing.

I mean purely as a setting. Imagine you yourself get reincarnated in a cult story. What would you find funny or ridiculous?

For example, I find it funny that grandfather and father are terms not only reserved for family members. If there's someone stronger than you, even if he is younger, you may have to call him your father or ancestor, which makes for pretty weird family situations I think.
What about y'all?

    I mean, I can’t help but feel that it’s ridiculous, that almost every single time that our MC begins his journey in the most shitty, powerless place you could propably find, there will always be some kind of artifact or inheritance around it, that is soo much stronger than all the people around it.

    Like common, how the hell did it even get there? Is there a popular trend goind on, of old seniors, that enjoy going to the end of the world, leaving their inheritance there just to make it harder for everyone around them, that I didn’t know about?

    hyowhari when the powers and attack are like invisible and you only need to use a simple motion to activate it or even plainly use your eyes. imagine if both of them are like that, won't they look like they are playing rock, paper, scissors? plus when they try to not get hit, the characters would bend a round doing whatever ways they could do to evade while the attacks are simply invisible. then people watching are like oooh amazing, the attacks are so strong and profound as they basically stare into nothing.

        hyowhari How the Family/Sect/School the MC reincarnates to is the bottom of the barrel, at the lowest cultivation level, in the backwoods of the weakest village, in the weakest County, in the weakest Country, in the weakest Continent, on the weakest Planet, of the Weakest Universe, of the weakest Multi-Verse, of the weakest Realm ect. ect. and even the most basic wild magical animal can kill their entire clan, yet despite everyone knowing this all the level 1 gangsters act like they're God's gift to cultivation.
        The Author knows he's eventually going to power creep the F~ck out of his story so pretending like these weak scrubs have Any valid claim to act Haughty at their level is just eyerollingly cringey to read every time the phrase "YOU DARE TO ACT ARROGANT IN FRONT OF THIS DADDY!" is written un-ironically.

          Yeah the different planes certainly... also... how they are mostly male mc’s... and polygamous... but only the males. I feel weird that no matter how amazing or strong a woman is in those novels she has to be pure and love one man her whole life... xD

          hyowhari The fact that ONLY the protagonists can coome up with new ideas and methods. Everyone else just follows their predecessors and assume they were right as the methods are time-tested. This is the biggest reason for protagonists in cultivation novels to go from weaklings to OP...and its just lazy.

            The things I find ridiculous in cultivation novels: a) either just by reincarnating or sheer luck, the MC gets an insane artifact/talent that basically does all the job. You could swap the MC with a sack of potatoes and the story would not change. The MC is just a proxy for the artifact.
            2) despite MC kicks asses publicly, grows strong at an unbeliavable rate etc, everyone keeps calling him trash, and no one kills him before he gets too strong, despite author says times and times again that stronger cultivators kill promising ones in the bud to avoid competition. Seems that when MC is involved everyone gets distracted.
            3)in all cultivation novels, even if the MC says something trivial, everyone looks at him like he is a sage or smth eg:
            "I'll return everything I have received, good or bad, threefold". Ok, so basically he is just saying that he is ready to get rvenge/help his friend, and some minor char that hears it will say: "So young yet so profound! He truly understands the dao." Basically author makes everyone re*tarded so his MC shines.

              Legion20 "despite author says times and times again that stronger cultivators kill promising ones in the bud to avoid competition."
              Oh My God THIS.
              Just the attitude of Cultivators killing each other like suicidal lemmings every time they meet up is ridiculous.
              Everywhere the MC goes, even the simplest of confrontations results in entire Sects worth of people coming out of the woodworks to try and kill each other with the justification of "We mustn't let anyone who offends the second cousin of our Janitor live!", or "He has a shiney magical treasure that, even though we have hundreds of them back home, we must send wave after wave of our brethren to their pointless deaths to obtain That One, and then cry foul when we lose".
              If a World where "The Strong kill the Weak to maintain their Personal Power" was portrayed accurately there would be one World God cultivator sitting on a pile of every cultivation tool in the known universe and anyone else who awakened their inner power would be immediately murdered by him sending a lightning bolt up their butts moments later.

                  MC: Offends someone, Then kills them.
                  "You dare kill my brother?!" Gets killed by MC
                  "You killed my kin, so I will use my clan to kill you too." Gets triumphed by MC
                  "My ancestor! Please spare our pitiful lives!" Then brutally eradicated by the MC
                  So basically, Most of the problem are made by the MC himself. I found that ridiculous.

                    Woebegone no the probs are made by lazy authors with lazy scripts that repeat over and over the same trope, so every time MC goes to gorcery store:
                    "Give me that pepsi, trash!"
                    MC: "the fridge is full, pick your own."
                    "You are courting death!" Etc, until a whole family dies for a pepsi...

                        Somehow the same World setting that allowed normal people to cultivate to levels where Newtonian Physics no longer applies also requires you to use flowers and roots as cultivation resources to do it.
                        How eating a ginseng and sitting in a cave can let your body evolve the ability to punch black holes I'll never be able to figure out.

                        Legion20 Even worse then that is when they use "Resource Scarcity" as the reason for the confrontation.
                        Makes you wonder how they were able to train several thousand people to the Realm where food is no longer needed for the human body to survive, while also not having enough resources available that every can of Pepsi is worth fighting to the death over.

                          The hidden upper cultivation realms. Like at the beginning, the maximum is level 9 and then the MC discovers he was a frog in a well, and th levels are up to 12. He strives to surpasses odds to become level 12. Again he discovers he's too weak after moving to another continent. He finds that one can go up to level 20. And so on and so forth... 😧😧😧😧😧😧😧

                          Level 1: Offend people on purpose, go through hardship, meet a potential lover, help the less fortunate, triumph as the underdog.
                          Level 2: Offend people on purpose, go through hardship, meet a potential lover, help the less fortunate, triumph as the underdog, learn something about bloodline.
                          Level 3: Offend people on purpose, go through hardship, meet a potential lover, help the less fortunate, triumph as the underdog, learn something about bloodline, learn you are special.
                          Level 4: Offend people on purpose, go through hardship, meet a potential lover, triumph as the underdog, learn something about bloodline, learn you are special, find special treasure.
                          Level 5: Offend people on purpose, go through hardship, meet a potential lover, triumph as the underdog, learn something about bloodline, learn you are special, find special treasure, enter cultivation for long periods of time.
                          Level 6: ............
                          Level 7: ...................

                          Some cultivation novels are like watching a replay of the same movie, but a little 2 minutes more of an extended version of the movie each time you watch.

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