The Statsguy's Mag 24 Cultivation Chat Group

Views : 76.17million

Rating : 9.3(3180)

Chapters : 2380

Status : ongoing

Word count : 6.66million

Author : Legend of the Paladin

author level : great

No of works : 5

Disscussion : 70053

Year started : 2015

Translated works :

Genres : Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Martial Arts, School Life, Slice of Life, Xianxia

Tags : Adapted to Manhua, Appearance Changes, Beautiful Female Lead, Body Tempering, Calm Protagonist, Caring Protagonist, Chat Rooms, Clever Protagonist, Cultivation, Determined Protagonist, Divination, Friendship, Ghosts, Handsome Male Lead, Heavenly Tribulation, Honest Protagonist, Immortals, Male Protagonist, Misunderstandings, Modern Day, Multiple Realms, Pill Concocting, Weak to Strong

Popularity : one of the most popular novel in China.

Last edited : 6/dec/2018

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Website : qidian international

Views : 29million

Rating : 4.5(935)

Chapters : 665

Rank : 18

Status : ongoing

Schedule : 7ch/week but translating at 9ch/week

Translator : G.o.dbrandy

Editor :

Popularity : Very popular novel here

Last edited : 6/dec/2018

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Synopsis :

One day, Song Shuhang was suddenly added to a chat group with many seniors that suffered from chuuni disease. The people inside the group would call each other 'Fellow Daoist' and had all different kinds of t.i.tles: Palace Master, Cave Lord, True Monarch, Immortal Master, etc. Even the pet of the founder of the group that had run away from home was called 'monster dog'. They would talk all day about pill refining, exploring ancient ruins, or share their experience on techniques.

However, after lurking inside the group for a while, he discovered that not all was what it seemed...

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POSITIVE REVIEW :

Having read ahead a bit, I'll have to say that this is a really good story, and I'm finding it hard to put down. It really has everything you'd want in a series; comedy, action, tractor racing, s.p.a.ce travel.

Comedy is perhaps the major theme throughout, almost always funny, and frequently laugh-out-loud hilarious. A lot of the humor is tsukkomi style, and well written, so if that's your thing you should check it out.

Action exists, but it is often rather spa.r.s.e, and half the time the MC doesn't have anything important to add to the scene. That style might drag out a bit sometimes, but for the most part the writing makes up for it, and also the added realism with a low level cultivator in often fairly high powered battles - because most low leveled cultivators don't get to leave their sects.

But speaking of levels, we get to the only significant criticism I have: pacing. I don't mean the pacing of the writing (which is phenomenal) and plot progression, but rather the in-story timing. The MC does in a few months what takes other cultivators years. It's all justified in story, but that somehow doesn't quite jive with a setting where powerful cultivators spend centuries in seclusion to level up. But I can see where the author is coming from, since it's a modern setting you don't want to go speculating too far into the future, or you'll need to come up with political and technological development for the next centuries. Also, the effect is strongly compensated for by the fact that the story is in no way rushed. A few months in the story takes hundreds of chapters to cover, which almost makes the MCs advancement speed seem slow to the reader.

An important part of the plot progression speed is cheats, a vital part of any xianxia style novel. The MC does frequently luck out and get stuff he wouldn't realistically have obtained otherwise, but here I find it handled better than in most novels of the genre. The results of the cheats are often very small, and for the most part the MC doesn't get anything that's unheard of, just stuff that's good. It's also balanced out by the fact that the MC also frequently suffers bouts of equally terrible luck (though often as comedic relief), and when he does get something really good it's balanced out by drawbacks.

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For example, somewhere after chapter 500 the MC gets his cheatiest ability yet, which is essentially the LN staple Appraisal skill. Way OP, right? Except every time he appraises something he suffers a corresponding injury, a small cut for appraising mundane bandages, thousands of wounds all over his body plus internal injuries for appraising a cultivator a few levels above him. The ability also frequently triggers spontaneously at inappropriate moments.

Another significant balancing factor is karma, which is a very real and very central part of the setting. What is sown will bear fruit, both in terms of actions and relationships, which forms a very different social dynamic from what you'd see in your average murderhobo xianxia. Most characters are very polite to each other, and our MC gets a lot of respect for the work he does and his achievements. There are bad eggs, of course, from ghost cultivators to sea urchin warriors and devils from outer s.p.a.ce, but all that is also well reasoned within the setting. It all results in a funny and fairly relaxed read. It's not a story about the MC being the OPest of OP, but of him gradually progressing in a positive environment, with amusing and heartwarming characters.

Edit @ch1106: This was and remains one of my favourite series ever, and in my opinion one of the funniest and certainly the freshest cultivation story out there.

Most of my previous review still stands, with one notable change. The MCs cheats do gradually grow more OP. However, they remain incredibly entertaining.

In any way, this is very clearly not a conflict focused story. Fights happen infrequently, and are usually quickly and humorously resolved. Take this more as a slice of life story.

There is an overarching plot gradually developing, though where it's headed is anyone's guess. There's a bunch of candidates for main villain, but they can be hard to tell apart from the comic relief. In fact, most things in this story develop very gradually, such as character development and romance.

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As for romance, the MC has at least proven he is not totally dense, but the situation remains "complicated". I have good hopes that we'll actually get somewhere within another 1000 chapters.

Other than this, there is a gradually growing cast of interesting characters that still remains involved. A few do fall by the wayside, but only minor characters.

By Bagelson(NU)

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CRITICAL REVIEW :

I dont usually write a review but I just have to write one because this novel is too overrated. I dont even know how a lot of people liked this

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It has a slow and boring start where the only thing worth remembering is that he got added to a strange chat group, became a cultivator and thats it everything else feels like filler where the author just tries to be funny and adds a bit of fight which is so boring I want to skip them. The side characters are just there to try to be funny and makes more problem to the MC. The plot is so dumb I have to skip most of them and I still under understand what was happening even if I skip 2-3 chapters and yes its not repet.i.tive but its not interesting either, its just keeps getting more boring as I read this novel. The tags are also misleading like the clever protagonist and the fast cultivation cause let me tell you the MC is not a clever at all he makes a lot of dumb mistakes that I got so frustrated reading it and the cultivation speed is slower than a f*ckin turtle im already at chapter 266 and the MC is still at first stage and 266 chapters might not seem that much but that is just so slow that the tag shouldnt be there. I dont advise reading unless you like stories where 90% of the content are like fillers.

- By Arvincarl(NU)

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My thoughts : I do recommend this book for everyone who likes to read light hearted comedy novel.

In my library : Yes