hyowhari that they get to meet/get something that will help them for a lifetime. Like they have a respective Senior White to pray on, or just be plain lucky/unFORTUNATE like ShuHang.
Something like a lucky trigger for the character development, which I think is funny. IRL no one is that lucky anyway, we just have to find the right motivation.
What do you guys find ridiculous about cultivation novels?
Yuyumamoru Try Cultivation Chat Group, easygoing cultivation novel with a lil good luck and bad luck combined, and the comedy
i dont have many comment on this, well its always either bad writing or just the lazy author you decide it
first rule, the worst possible condition ever possible when the mc was born
second rule, theres always sky beyond the sky and mc is just a frog at the bottom of the well dreaming to reach the highest sky
third rule, 10.1/10 luck stat. this is the shitty one. mc find inheritances lying around, 'somehow' strong people help you when mc in a pinch, etc etc
fourth rule, Auction
every generic cultivation novel out there is just a copy paste of one work to another with new name and new settings, you cant deny this
of course theres some good one like ccg but its just that rare
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Pill shit defying heaven!!!! this plot is the most boring shit to me. sadly, many novels abide by this pill shit rules.
pill can be and do almost everything under heaven such as cure diseases, dope cultivation, use as weapons, grow severed limbs and etc.
another is MC is the walking wikipedia (mostly reincarnate plot). dear authors ever heard of butterfly effect theory?
Arrogant bastards, the whole world fills with arrogant people. these bastards view others as insects but become losers eventually.
Auction shit, like someone said, MC either can make money himself to but many things in auction or buy cheap looking shit but the truth is it s godly artifact with heaven defy cheat ability.
Hildegarde Inheritances: When introduced they are talked up as having been created by the 10th reincarnation of Buddha, able to ascend even the most trash of MC's to the Heavens in a single bound. All knowing and all encompassing, they have the solution to every problem the MC could ever face so that they will never have to struggle or think for themselves ever again.
That is until the Author needs to create some tension in the story again. Then all of a sudden the same treasure that was always 10 steps ahead of anything the Protagonist ever faced turns out to only be at the 3rd level of cultivation out of 100, and new EVEN STRONGER treasures are needed in order for the Hero to continue his path against the Heavens. (Which immediately falls into his lap at the start of the next arc. Gotta keep the Plot Armor rolling lest the Writer have to come up with some original ideas!)
SkyScar Pills! How can something created BY the Heavens DEFY the Heavens?!
Using something natural like Ginseng roots to create the unnatural result of defying the Universal Laws never made any sense to me.
It would be like having a video game character able to rewrite his own code and escape the game just because he ate enough 1-up mushrooms!
ThrustThunder Ahem, Mario reference?
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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.
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?
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
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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.