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.
What do you guys find ridiculous about cultivation novels?
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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.
Reinesse Even worse, when the attacks become so overexaggerated that even the simplest of sword swings unleashes a Ray of Light 100 millions miles wide and travels 100x the speed of light And the 5'5" MC dodges it with a simple sidestep!
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.
ThrustThunder Yes. Or how everyone emphasizes the importance of building a good foundation but then differentiates "potential" by how fast one makes breakthroughs...usually supported by medicines.
hyowhari Lol, it's not literally calling him father or ancestor. It's an insult kind of thing. Like, "If you want to live, then call me Father!"
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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.
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... 
Right about everything.
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.
ngl, the mcs are pretty imba, plis nerf
Situation 1
Idiot:"How dare you stand in my way?!"
You: "Wtf? The way is so big why do you want to go on a straight line?"
Idiot: "This lord can do whatever he wants!"
You: "Retarded, Totally unreasonable, Prolonging word coun— forget I wrote that."
Ridiculous.
Situation 2
Mc: Got bullied for being trash + Found a treasure = Genius only found in 10000 years.
And with a childhood girl—friend that would become one of his wife.
Woebegone One of my favorite episodes of Samurai Jack used this troupe in a way that both makes sense and none at all:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CPhwT3ujIc