Might be over, or they might be skipping a day. Limited free reading is kind of sporadic like that, if it's over, It'll probably be gone for a few months now.
Xaio_Long
- Sep 30, 2022
- Joined Feb 16, 2018
My personal experience after reading tens of thousands of chapters is this.
Realms generally matter and have a set structure that is common throughout the genre.
1) Body Improving Stage - This is when the character first draws in energy into the meridian system(like veins but for Qi) and uses it to widen them to increase the amount of Qi their meridians can hold, or to fundamental improve their body and cleanse out "impurities"(i.e. strengthing bones, washing tendons, toughening skin, etc)
2) Qi Condensation Stage - This is when they open up some kind of space inside their body(usually a the dantian which is just below the navel), which is basically a large storehouse of Qi. At this stage Qi is usually in a gaseous form, and the cultivators can utilize it to use talismans, or buff up weapons, and enhance their bodies. Sometimes they can use special abilities, but often time they aren't able to project power away from their bodies in this realm.
3) Liquid Qi Stage - Basically it's like the previous stage, but the Qi is denser, more powerful, and plenty and they can start using techniques that can project their qi over short distance or have some elemental property.
4) Core Qi Stage - Same as before, just that the Qi has now become a solid core in their dantian. At this stage they often start being able to do crap like fly and use crazy long range powerful attacks.
5) Sea Stage/Inner World - Usually this requires a cultivator to crack their Core which result in it releasing a whole shitload of Qi and greatly expanding how much their dantian can hold. They basically spend a few realms just enlarging this Qi sea until it turns into an entire internal world.
6) Domain/Laws/insights/Intents/Dao - This is kind of more hazy, because it's not unusual for these to show up at any of the previous 4 stages, but the point is that after the whole Qi Sea/Inner world, they usually just continue to accumulate more Qi and the power scaling begins shifting towards how much you understand about certain elemental laws, or your ability to form a domain(A domain being a certain area around you that you have control based on your own dao) that you can control.
This is just the most generic and distilled representation, there are many different types of cultivation levels you can add on, insert, or straight up substitute for.
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Tomoyuki You can't really compare webnovel.com books to japanese light novels, those are professionally edited, and translated, as well as come with artwork. On top of that, many light novels are based on webnovels that were and are currently still free to read. Such as Mushoku Tensei, Shield Hero, Arifureta, etc.
That being said, webnovel, and translators are free to charge whatever they feel comfortable with.
WhenButterFlies Yeah, there used to be a few books every few days that you could read and now there are none. You used to be able to buy discount and reading passes with points but now you can only buy fast passes. Every few months they cut the free options a bit more until eventually there won't be a free option.
My guess is that they aren't making much money, or at least not as much as they'd like.
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KoraL People who would spend hundreds a month on these novels are not the people who would spend 14+ hours farming up 10k points. Those are the kind of people who only read for free. So, it's doubtful that they would lose much. Not only that, but it becomes even less likely for people who can store up 10k points to continually do so.
I think the issue isn't the adds anyway, I think the issue is the bonus points they give for reading.
Also the fast passes are trash and over priced.
Edit: Just realized you were talking about discount passes. Yes, discount passes would definitely cost them.
KoraL I doubt they were losing much, given that those vouchers only ever had between 20~60 sold. Where as the fast passes were sold out every day. It's easy to say it only cost 10k points, or 20k points, until you realize how many hours it would take to actually build up those points.
It takes 10,000 points to get the 3-day pass, that's 5,000 Ads, each of them 5 seconds long. That's 416 minutes, or 7 hours of watching Ads. Although on the plus side it you would get about 1200 extra points from the reading bonus during that period too.
burntpotato I wouldn't be surprised if the did, and the only way to stop them from expiring would be to get a subscription. They seem determined to have the worst possible relationship with readers that they can possibly have.
No advanced notice, or explanation for removing the limited free reading, though they still advertise it as a feature of the app. Now they suddenly tossed 80% of their vouchers after people put in a bunch of effort to gather points, without any kind of warning or explanation again.
The probably weren't making them money, so they got rid of them like they do for everything.
Gourmet_DAO They should tell people, and stop advertising it as part of their phone app.
Gourmet_DAO You used to be able to read all chapters from 3 books for 24 hours, but it seems to have gone. They still haven't told us whats happening.
HaydenSwift Seems like it's gone for good.
- In Free reading
Yeah it seems that may be the case, but if so, they could at least say that they are discontinuing it and stop advertising it on their website as a feature on their phone app.
- In Free reading
Yeah it's been almost a week and the three free novels everyday are still not showing up, it'd be nice if they would make their intentions clear.