Hey, guys! So, I've been looking for new novels to read and I recently came across Plundering the Heavens. I've been putting it off due to the top rated reviews all complaining about overused pinyin, and I honestly didn't see it as much of a problem when I read it. I was surprised to see that such a good novel with great translation quality had such a low power ranking and negative top reviews (despite the decent rating). I'm curious if you guys have any hidden gems that people might've missed because of similar reasons. Would really appreciate it if you could recommend me some!
Hidden Gems
The reason why I ignore that is because of the title. It's kind of a rip-off of ISSTH.
Dominating Sword Immortal for sure. It's a really good cultivation story, but it got bad reviews due to the translation stability.
bachingchung Haha didn't notice how alike the titles were. Don't let that put you off though. It's pretty good.
bachingchung You are missing out. It's one of the most entertaining novels on QI!
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Mickey I'm curious if you guys have any hidden gems that people might've missed because of similar reasons.
Nightfall - Mao Ni - One of the few TransN novels worth reading. (RtW, of course, being another with Meh's help)
https://www.webnovel.com/book/8324018606000005/Nightfall
The Path Toward Heaven - Mao Ni - Very enjoyable. Different.
https://www.webnovel.com/book/8799158806001005/The-Path-Toward-Heaven
The Sacred Ruins - Chen Dong - Translation started out rough but a new TL came along and it improved immensely
https://www.webnovel.com/book/6831980302001405/The-Sacred-Ruins
Strongest System , Ultimate Scheming System, Overpowered System, The 7 Realms, Throne of Magical Arcana, Tempest of the Stellar , How can you call me cheater? , MMORPG : Martial Gamer, Transcending The Nine Heavens, Lin Journey <-- Recommended!
This are all the Hiddem gems novels! specially Lin Journey <---- Original
checkm8 I found a lot of good novels, but I dropped them due to the unstable release dates. It's a pity, most of those novels were my jam.
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bachingchung I found a lot of good novels, but I dropped them due to the unstable release dates. It's a pity, most of those novels were my jam.
I understand consistency was one thing that hurt Plundering the Heavens for several months. (TL had a baby!) That's been resolved since January or so (not the baby but the consistency!) and it's back to a reliable 5ch/wk.
The TL team also revised the first 25 chapters and reposted them back in February.
checkm8 i'm not gonna try that one just yet. Seems like it still have too few chapters. I'm not gonna cliffhung myself to death
Bro I'm going to shamelessly promote my novel...
It is titled "The 7 Realms". Hope you'll give it a read.....
(I'm sorry I did not add a link.... I'm currently using the webnovel app)
Cheers.
I wouldn't say there are 'hidden' gems on this site considering there aren't that many to browse through in the first place. But my favorites right now are Super gene and Shadow hack. These are far from hidden but good none the less. If you want some good novels not from this site id say, "Returning of the immortal world". Pretty good story about a immortal that was betrayed by his lover and ends up reincarnating into a modern earth world and his climb back to power.
PeacockStudios i just started shadow hack. I'm not sure about super gene though. There were lot of complaints about the translation.
For me hidden gems are Pursuing Immortality and Trafford's Trading Club. Mind you, they're very different from most novels recommended here and definitely are not part of the most popular genres.
PeacockStudios I suppose hidden gems isn't too appropriate haha. I'm thinking more of novels I might've overlooked due to inaccurate reviews or bad reviews aiming at problems with the translation that the translators/editors have already addressed. Shadow Hack's always been one of the top on the ranking list and I see a lot of people saying it doesn't really deserve its spot, how is it?
Wolverine_King The Sacred Ruins is amazing.
SuperManGay haven't read any of those aside from Throne of Magical Arcana and Transcending the Nine Heavens. Those are a lot of recommendations, thank you!
Pillar in the sky (nice prose)
Death sutra (next level)
Tales of herding gods (different vibe, funny)
King of gods (cliche but consistent and enjoyable, less cringy than Er Gen)
ShouldBeStudying I like Er Gen's ATTE. Compared to his other novels, it's really light read.
bachingchung i like the comedy. I think it is very good. But ATTE has he same problems as ISSTH and evn worse: very short chapters full of filler and DBZ screams and roars for the smallest thing. And barely something happens. Also Bai Xiachun has a bad mentality for cultivation. He is so afaraid that if not for plot armor he would just stay wherever he is and miss all opprtunities. And annoyngly Er Gen makes it that he always get incredibly lucky and obtains the best for everything, which is clear that by himself he doesnt deserve.
So overall the story is not better than ISSTH
ShouldBeStudying it's a no brainer that issth is better, but there are a lot of arcs with heavy mood setting. I find those arcs hard to binge read coz' it's too sad and vicious. I still prefer an entertaining light read to cheer me up after a tiring day.
bachingchung man the war arcs are the worst of issth
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bachingchung Highly Recommend Super Gene, It suites my taste, don't know bout you guys but I think it's def worth reading.
ShouldBeStudying yeah. 200 consecutive chapters of wars. And er gen placed it on the last chapters. Couldn't finish it.
bachingchung for me the worst i remember was the way back from the barbarian wasteland on home planet
ShouldBeStudying yeah. The death march arc was tormmenting, followed by the violet sea. 150 years for just another tattoo.
bachingchung ik right? His cultivatiom speed was so damm fast. I think he was just 300 years by then and then waists 150 just to form a fifth of the requirements for nascent soul formation.
And then when everybody sees he is not dead they are still so schocked by his cultivation speed. How would they be if he didnt waist so much time and went through life and death moments to form a nascent soul by then...
I really enjoy
https://www.webnovel.com/book/7979375206002305/Experimental-Log-of-the-Crazy-Lich
Good humor and nice action scenes one of the few chinese novels that made me lol.
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flecx Good humor and nice action scenes one of the few chinese novels that made me lol.
You should try:
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/virtual-world-peerless-white-emperor/
I'm always laughing when reading it.
Plundering the Heavens is another one that's always good for some laughs
bachingchung don’t pay attention to that. It’s mostly people complaining about the drop from 3 chaps/day to 2. The story is one of the best and what I spend my power stones on.
I highly recommend The library of path heaven
UnderTaker26 i'll look it up after shadow hack