I cannot afford this website...
If we lived in a perfect world, we would all just stop buying their stones and they would be forced to find another business model. But because people keep buying spirit stones, everyone is getting swindled by this system. The quality of the translations here does not warrant such a cost, especially the quality of the stories. As someone above already stated, its cheaper to buy physical books and they are usually of a higher quality both in storytelling and language.
The best thing you can do is just suck it up and read less. If everyone does that, then we might see some changes. But never bend and buy stones, thats the last thing you would want to do. When you buy stones, you are not only harming yourself, but also others.
Buying extra chapters only increases the amount of money you will pay in the future, because the stones will run out and you would want to read, so you wouldn't wait for weeks for a new chapter, you will just pay more to keep reading. That's why if you care about reading, you shouldn't buy stones.
If all you want is a short burst of extra chapters and then weeks of no chapters, then this system is for you. Otherwise, its a rip off. And the people of lower IQ fall into this trap and buy chapters, then they are forced to pay more because they can't wait due to their lower intelligence. Deferred gratification is something people of above average intelligence understand, and Qidian is exploiting young people and people of lower intelligence to buy in to this rollercoster of spirit stones. You can't stop paying, or you can't read!!!
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there is a solution
just ignore advanced chapters
free chapters will be there like usual, or not?
I pay way more for advanced chapters on patreon than the cost of advanced chapters via spirit stones
It's funny how people think that we are complaining because we have to pay for novels, we are complaining because we have to pay too much.
When 100 chapters here costs more than complete books of the best selling authors, there is a problem with the systems, and no, the answer is not to stop reading here and go buy those books, or wait for those chapters to become free, I like this kind of novels, and would love to pay a fair price for them and support the TL, but not with this daylight robbery.
The feeling when u have 50 locked chapters and 0 ss is fucking terrible. I mean doesn't the website already make money from us watching adds for them? They also make money from us buying SS, and they get free advertising whenever we refer a friend. On all scemes they are making money. Why does it have to be so damn expensive just to read a few chapters.
I cannot afford this post 
Saint SHUT UP YOU'LL GIVE THEM IDEAS, 12 SPIRITSTONES FOR COMMENT!
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Honestly tho, this is retarded, how much does an actual novel cost to purchase? The amount you'd pay for a novel on here using spiritstones is ridiculous. The current system will limit the popularity of this site with the way it's going. It's understandable having the newest chapters cost spiritstones to read early but 20 chapters is ridiculous.
Henceforth this little one has created several accounts just for premium series alone. This little one suggests you do the same if you wish to keep reading.
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EccentricFieryCarp Is that even legal? Do they allow that in their TOS or condition?
Millman97 My mistake, I meant the bonus SS that come with your purchase.
Chaosrune Creat your own site. I'll be the first to sign up 
Tugster i do that all the time actually and i accumulated more than a thousand ss but because of the mass release in Library of Heaven's Path and The Strongest System they were reduced in.....3!
ShouldBeStudying you have a point. Authors need profits and here in Qidian they translate them for free...oppss not for free because we dl this app or visit their site so they ought to give us a free chapter but the TL team and qidian (maybe) needs to give the author some royalties for the copyright (not sure). So basically, buying some ss is needed so they can be paid for translating the novel and its free for some of us.
On the brighter side this is really true, but on the dark side, the people that are complaining ( these words stabbed me) just love the novels that they're are reading to the point of being unreasonable, in short they just fucking love the novel so why fucking lock them? MY SS ARE GONE YOU ASS!---this is an example of an outburst for someone who wants to read but the ss is a goner.
LIght_Novel_San Chapters are still released for free at 1/day. People are just unhappy about the speed.
CKtalon What will happened to 1 chapter per day when the novel is completely translated ?
UnknownDaoist It will continue I suppose.
LIght_Novel_San :o At least, you got over those nasty cliffhangers...