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Name: Great Dao Commander
Chinese Title: 大道争锋 Dàdào zhēngfēng
Author: 误道者: Wù dào zhě à
Raw Link: http://www.qidian.com/Book/2226569.aspx
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Why It Should Get Picked Up:
In so many stories the MC flip flops between being low key at the wrong time, and high key at the wrong time. The author calls it genius but it is clearly stupidity and self harming.
Great Dao Commander is different. MC is showing off to create fame for himself to achieve great rewards, authority, and protection from the sect; he actually resorts to cheating and trickery in order to boost his fame, create a false reputation as a genius, and win treasures from competitions (saying that he must snatch fortune).
Yes it makes him enemies (and some allies), but he has to acquire those rare resources somehow and he was going to make enemies anyways, and he is fully aware of the fact and simply views it as a race forward, can he advance faster than his enemies expect. Because if he doesn't do that, then he will simply get stuck and die of old age (or the enemies he made in the past).
Besides that, it is a lot more interesting to read a story where MC has multiple enemies and multiple allies that he has to balance, survive, and thrive between. There is a measure of politics involved and they are presented in a fun manner.
He is hiding a few things, but not because of any "must be low key without logic even when self harming" nonsense. They are either trump cards or things that were gotten through illicit means (such as murdering a young master and looting his stuff). And by hiding I mean actually hiding them, not revealing them on the first competition and then making a stupid excuse, but really letting not a single person alive know the truth and only taking them out when his life is in great danger and he intends to kill all witnesses.
MC here is very proactive, he makes plans and goes out to execute them instead of just cultivating in a cave until the villain of the week draws him out. While sometimes enemies still come to him first and force changes to his plans, but he doesn't just go with a flow but rather comes up with a new plan to fit the new situation and turn their plots on their head. But usually he is the one who initiates things.
