Soul Land - Ch. 264.5 - Invincible Genius (Part 2)

[Wyrm]

@Palk94
Thanks for the explanation. The novel seems much more consistent at least.
At least, I understand that this whole thing is a filler that should have no real importance in the story afterwards.

This arc here seemed to start as described in the novel (time limit, increased pressure, the MC's team going on the last day), but apparently decided that wasn't visually impressive enough and started adding illusions, which could be described as a visual representation of the pressure. They were a nice way to represent the increasing spiritual pressure of the stairs. It fits a manhua better than just having the characters describing it. As they say in movie industry: "show, don't tell". It was getting a bit too long though.
But now, we apparently have an actual legendary individual in a locked dimension (or something like that) and that makes the whole story confusing.
They should have stuck to the novel on that one, shorter if a bit bland. I'm not against some creativity involved in moving from one support to another, and the illusions were ok. But this one is breaking the internal consistency of the stairs as explained so far.

 

[Palk94]

@Wyrm
Yeah, this arc started really good. The best part was the trial selection, when they have to reach the pillar across the water and touch it, to see what color and number of trials they have to surpass. That part is pretty good, for those that read the novel. And this first trial too, started in a good way. But now it went totally wrong. Even those parts about helping each other, for example the double support taboo etc., it's almost all filler. Or at least, I don't remember it here inside this first trial. Even the "you need to overcome your ghost", like the white tiger there on the stairs. Tons of filler. And ok, this part in the novel was not so visually impressive, but there will be other parts really impressive. For example the second trial, with the demon white sharks in the water that stop them to go away from the base of the stairs, and they need to pass through them and their queen, the 100000 years old Demon Great White Shark (who is a beautiful lady, when she takes human form to fight against them and to help them in the training, until the end of the time-limit for that second trial).