This is a decent twist on the genre. Although the MC is a bit OP (most are after all) there is a good scaling in his gaining of new abilities and the reasons behind his emotional outbursts are reasonable if you follow the storyline.

    Beginning was okay, but it quickly became crap. The author's matching the story to the MC, so it's impossible to take it seriously. Read if bored.

    its not bad, there are worse stories. its all already been said so ill change it up abit :P

    its all about perspective. maybe you will like it after reading it and if not drop it like ppl are doing to the prem novels

      If you like overpowered main characters then it's okay. I think that the "cheat" that mc gets is too strong .. it just levels for him even whe he is sleeping.

        Chou_Osara
        Easy, the translator promised extra chapters if SH gets first place in power ranking, but even with that its odd that it gets so many votes, the novel is not even that good to be in the first 20, so most votes are suspicious

          NewCultivator I have read many novels OP char and no OP char. Shadow Hack is one you would read if you feel like reading shit. Most broken up and useless book I have ever seen, if you understand every other word by chapter 20 then you have world class intuition and reading skills.

            N0xiety i dropped the library novel after 1 chapter but i had doubts about my quick judgment. A random guy argued with me that I can't predict the future and pronounce myself without reading 50 chapters of SH ie when it gets good.

            So yeah thank you for returning my self-confidence. You can judge a novel pretty accurately after at most 3 chapters virtually everytime.

            Why does SH get so many upvotes? Maybe aconspiracy or many people like readin sh1t. I also read MGA that has degraded to literary retarded levels. Even if i try my best I wouldn't match the author in writing so sh1tty. That is great for the sole reason I have been reading this novel is my fascination with how facepalmingly worse it can become, surpassing all exprctations.

                probably b/c its in first. or maybe ppl actually like it and dump all their points into it.... but probably b/c its already in first :P

                ShouldBeStudying

                    N0xiety my #1 is Reverend Insanity for certain. #2 probably Record of a Mortal jorney to Immortality and on #3 either Nightranger or A will eternal or Death Sutra

                        I'm not a fan of the MC... No offense to the people who like him and the novel, he's kind of a, ummm... Hypocrite? Like, he doesn't take people who judge others by their looks seriously, yet he sorta does it too anyway??? And even if I am wrong, I feel like one of the other characters would make a better MC.

                        N0xiety i read library in heavens path for around 100 chapters.. and so many loopholes in the reasoning.. and how the OP mc always smack people with the same way. After that i never interested to read it anymore. And i review that novel with 1 star. Because its bugging me to see that novel always in top 3 popular or rangking stone.

                            Dawie Yeah same, it's literally the most repetitive, cliche filled and filler heavy chinese novel i have ever seen, yet somehow it's always at no.1 spot. There is not even a speck of logic in that novel, it's just the dumbest kind of entertainment you can get. I wonder if the community is filled with middle schoolers or something.....

                                uhm I like library, I wouldn't say it's my favourite ( far from it, in the scope of webnovels, but up in my top 5 if
                                I rank those of chinese origin only) but it has a "flow" that goes rather smooth.
                                How can I explain it... it's formulaic and I can predict 100% how it's going to be but I still read it because the face smacking is entertaining most of the time even if it's always the same recipe. It's fast paced.

                                I don't put much stock about the predictable plot because I have read so much stuff over the years that it's a very rare thing surprising me. I can predict what happens in Night Ranger just the same, I like these two webnovels in that they are consistent within their genre.

                                Shadow hack on the other hand. yelch. I found it much much worse on a lot of points.
                                Repetition of plain info dumps/expositions, that is the worst kind of padding ever because they don't advance the plot at all, they just pad the word count without adding any new information, rewriting the same information chapter after chapter after chapter.
                                Then there are glaring inconsistencies, for example in one chapter the MC gains millions of currency with little effort, then spend it all, ok so far so good, but if you do that you CAN'T have him be excited about thousands of currency the very next chapter! that would be equivalent to me finding a cent on the ground and be all "OH MI GOSH A CENT! I AM NOT POOR ANYMORE HUR DURR DESPITE HAVING SPENT 100000% THAT AMOUNT JUST HALF AN HOUR EARLIER"

                                So, yeah, I dropped shadow hack, I didn't drop library because it's at least enjoyable in the "it gets a grin out of me".

                                There is nuance, I don't skim library, I skim IRAS, comes down to style/preference I guess.

                                It's also a matter of the niche formulaic webnovels are for me, which is "lunch break tidbits" i.e. "it has to be entertaining and not require me to think too much", the better IPs have the honour of having the evenings, but they have a lot of competition for my little precious time ;)

                                  I drop reading it. It doesnt have logic in it. The MC attitude is annoyance and the story is a mess.

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