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wetdryvac's review against another edition
5.0
Not my favorite writing style, but I enjoy the world a lot.
forsonny's review against another edition
3.0
The issue with this book is that it is no longer the same book that you started reading. The 1st set of books was a cultivation series about a guy who is trying to become stronger so that he can achieve his goal. This book is simply the author trying to transform the story from a cultivation story and to some kind of lit RPG story. For this book to matter everything that happened beforehand doesn't matter. nothing has any meaning.
What the author should have done is had it so that the characters were in this Kal-world for a few 100 years then spit back out into the real world and then the rest of the book would be about their story of how they are trying to rebuild society. Then you could have had it where the world had forgotten how to cultivate even further and now everyone could focus on teaching and rebuilding the world of cultivation while continuing to actually cultivate. Now the author has locked himself into this made up world where he can't progress the actual story because it makes no sense to have cultivation when you can't get any higher of a cultivation than the actual dungeon.
Then the author's gonna run into an issue that because this whole world is created by Kal that there is no way to create a bad guy that isn't already there in the dungeon. Then you run into an issue where you can't create any good bad conflict because everything is made by Kal so Kal has ultimate control over anything that can happen in that world so why would there ever be any main bad guys.
So what the author has done essentially is locked the character development into a set parameter. Remove the initial cultivation inspiration that the original books were based off of and now he's trying to rebuild into a whole different leveling system that was not there to even begin with.
What the author should have done is had it so that the characters were in this Kal-world for a few 100 years then spit back out into the real world and then the rest of the book would be about their story of how they are trying to rebuild society. Then you could have had it where the world had forgotten how to cultivate even further and now everyone could focus on teaching and rebuilding the world of cultivation while continuing to actually cultivate. Now the author has locked himself into this made up world where he can't progress the actual story because it makes no sense to have cultivation when you can't get any higher of a cultivation than the actual dungeon.
Then the author's gonna run into an issue that because this whole world is created by Kal that there is no way to create a bad guy that isn't already there in the dungeon. Then you run into an issue where you can't create any good bad conflict because everything is made by Kal so Kal has ultimate control over anything that can happen in that world so why would there ever be any main bad guys.
So what the author has done essentially is locked the character development into a set parameter. Remove the initial cultivation inspiration that the original books were based off of and now he's trying to rebuild into a whole different leveling system that was not there to even begin with.
thinde's review against another edition
2.0
DNF 23%
Nearly a quarter of the way through and there is no evidence of a plot. This is mostly a deep dive into the minutia of world-building and the theory of its cultivation system. Save it for the appendix Dennis.
The rest is just a training montage. No stakes = no fear.
I realized I didn't want to pick it up to continue reading, despite my investment of time in this series. That's pretty damning.
Nearly a quarter of the way through and there is no evidence of a plot. This is mostly a deep dive into the minutia of world-building and the theory of its cultivation system. Save it for the appendix Dennis.
The rest is just a training montage. No stakes = no fear.
I realized I didn't want to pick it up to continue reading, despite my investment of time in this series. That's pretty damning.
vailynst's review against another edition
3.0
Notes:
Lots of cool aspects mixed with chunky progression. It comes across as "still in brainstorming progress" vs fully developed story arc for the series.
Lots of cool aspects mixed with chunky progression. It comes across as "still in brainstorming progress" vs fully developed story arc for the series.
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