Cang's Ramblings

Chapter 189 188. Comments on "Huang Ting Dao Master"

Today I would like to recommend to you a work about cultivating immortality through games.

"The Taoist Master Huangting", author: the demon monk Hua Wuque, level 5 author.

Category: Games-Games in Another World.

【Introduction】

Lu Qingfeng, a young man from Earth, died in a car accident. He then traveled to the world of immortal heroes and obtained a login ring for the large-scale real-life online game "Honghuang" developed by the Earth Federation two thousand years later...

【Golden Ten Chapters】

Chapter 1, Lu Qingfeng. This chapter is 7267 words long and truly abominable. The protagonist, Lu Qingfeng, is a time traveler who, after sixteen years, remains unable to cultivate. His younger brother is about to join the Guizhen Sect as a handyman, and he's unlikely to survive. His younger sister, still young, is already coveted. He faces a dire predicament, at a loss for what to do.

Chapter 2, "Honghuang." The system arrives, granting the protagonist access to the game "Honghuang," bringing his stats to life. His technique is the "Huangting Sutra," inherited from Daoist ancestor Hongjun, and is incredibly powerful.

Chapter 3: Exploration. The protagonist enters the game world. Faced with this new and surprising world, he chooses to level up by taking drugs. He stumbles upon the ability to deduce skills. After careful consideration, he accumulates some experience points and begins to deduce, only to fail. He lacks experience points.

Chapter 4: Cultivation is difficult. The path to cultivation is not as simple as the protagonist imagined, and his progress is slow. He cultivates during the day while working and in the game at night, but he is running out of elixirs.

Chapter 5: Death. In real life, the protagonist takes his sister out to gather herbs, seeking a meal. When he enters the game, he discovers his character has starved to death, and time has flowed a hundred times faster. He chooses to return to the city to revive and start over.

Chapter 6, Two Months. In reality, the protagonist is injured by a ferocious beast, which the protagonist then kills. The protagonist cultivates diligently, unknowingly spending six years in the game.

Chapter 7: Reentering "Honghuang." The protagonist chooses to refine medicine and deduce mental skills. He discovers that these skills are extremely powerful, several times more destructive than ordinary skills.

Chapter 8, Market. The protagonist arrives at the in-game market and sees various players setting up stalls, a vibrant atmosphere of life. While shopping, he ponders how to improve his alchemy skills.

Chapter 9: Three years and four months. The protagonist relies on elixirs to continuously improve his mind and skills, and finally cultivates himself into a master in theory.

Chapter 10, "White Jade Secret." His stats were significantly improved once again, and his various mental skills and levels were brought to near-peak levels, even his alchemy skills reaching perfection. At this time, his in-game friends sent him a martial arts manual to learn. While the protagonist argued nonsensically, he actually treasured a heart of gratitude deep within.

【Brief Comment】

This book appeared at the top of the monthly ticket list in the game category many times in 2019, and many people have introduced this book.

I had noticed it at the time, but considering that the book was not yet finished and there were many books to catch up on, I didn't read it carefully.

Now, the book is finished, but based on readers' comments and the author's own words, it seems to have a poor ending.

Today I will also talk about my experience of reading this book. First of all, the routine of this book is very interesting.

The protagonist, Lu Qingfeng, is a time traveler who has traveled to a world where everyone cultivates immortality. However, the three siblings are all mediocre in talent. The second brother is slightly better, but is accepted into a second-rate sect and becomes a handyman, where he suffers endless torture.

The protagonist traveled through time for sixteen years and finally obtained the game finger left behind by the game company, which allowed him to enter the game "Honghuang" without using his real body. This game is actually the protagonist's cheat code.

The time flow rate between the game and reality is 100:1. The skills, abilities, and items learned in the game can be brought into reality, thereby improving the protagonist's realm and abilities, helping him rescue his second brother, kill enemies, and open up his life.

The protagonist continues to learn and improve himself in the game, and uses death and multiple rebirths to gain top-level skills through life-long gaming experiences and become a Taoist master.

This is the biggest highlight of this book.

In typical immortal cultivation novels, cheat codes or systems can help the protagonist navigate danger and fortune. This book's formula is unusual, relying on constantly enhancing items, integrating techniques, and increasing levels in the game, while simultaneously maintaining a cowardly existence in real life until strength is strong enough to defeat the enemy. Because of the different speeds of time, the in-game timeline flows rapidly, and the journey from one life to the next is truly fascinating.

Secondly, the setting of this book is very complete.

Although it borrows the world structure of "The Buddha is the Tao" and intersperses the skills and level settings of many well-known immortal cultivation novels, this book still has its own unique perspective and adds a lot of commendable highlights.

Including the three good-for-nothing siblings, the protagonist's clingy sister, the abominable second-rate sect, the protagonist who doesn't fight monsters to level up but instead spends all his time refining medicine and drawing talismans, hiding in the novice village without going out, and even accidentally starving to death, etc. This book is not like the protagonist of a typical game novel, who just gets the qualification to play the game and starts to stir up trouble in the game, making it known to the world.

The protagonist's personality is cautious, quiet as a virgin, agile as a rabbit, and solid as a rock, which is similar to the currently popular "My Senior Brother is Too Steady".

However, this book does not follow the route of funny cultivation of immortals. Although it is very popular, it is not a huge hit!
Finally, the quality of this book is quite good.

There are no major flaws in the writing style, and the word count is also good. The various settings and plot conflicts are also relatively reasonable. Although I am a novice, I am not stupid at all.

There is one aspect that is easy to criticize. Every time the protagonist kills someone, he is portrayed as being extremely helpless, yet the blows are always fatal.

While being meticulous, he did not destroy the enemy's body, leaving behind many clues, allowing the enemy to continue chasing him.

Perhaps it is also to make the protagonist's escape a little more difficult.

【to sum up】

Overall, this book is worth reading and it’s not a big deal!
As for his new book "Starting from Tao Fruit", it seems to follow the same approach.

I wonder if anyone who has seen this could come out and explain it.

Writing is not easy, so cherish every moment!

I’m Cang Yiwei, and I’m here to promote “Cang’s Ramblings”!
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【Cang's Ramblings】

This book is pretty good, but the character attribute panel that appears in every chapter in the early stages doesn't make the reading experience very good.

The protagonist has a strong sense of responsibility and cares a lot about family.

He doted on his sister, a talented girl who cultivated very quickly.

His younger brother, who had only managed to get in by chance, was doing the lowest chores and was not treated as a human being at all.

All signs indicate that the protagonist is plotting how to rescue his second brother and take away his third sister.

Three brothers and sisters in the family are constantly practicing for their respective dreams.

Man proposes, God disposes, so the protagonist found out the escape route.

Anyone who stands in the way will be killed without mercy!

(End of this chapter)