The Undefeatable Swordsman

[crymsong]

@reanseih I don't doubt it, it's just that everything you see on novelupdates is straight up wish-fulfillment. I enjoyed it when I picked my first ones up like BTTH and ISSTH but the more I read the more the stories all seemed to blend and become repetitive. I think even the ones I enjoy aren't that good. The ones highly rated on that hub for eastern novels are just chalk full of the xianxia cliches. The arrogant young masters and the greedy bipolar mc who gets every treasure in the world. I may give your suggestions a try just to try and see what kind of potential they can have.

 

[reanseih]

@crymsong I don't doubt your words either... It's sad what the genre has degraded into. But yes, do try the Jinyong series if you ever have the chance. They aren't manhwas or light novels, but they should all be translated. In fact, you might find it in your local library. Literature classics, that series.

 

[MangaGojira]

Damn, I miss ISSTH, time to re-read. I've never found a better cultivation novel, including the author's other works.

 

[Atmosk]

@mangaGojira ive heard good things about renegade immortal

 

[Multiversal]

time to re-read

 

[shikimora]

Ppl say renegade imortal is kinda like this. Can’t see it tho

 

[julioray]

Dialogue is weird, the characters personalities are a bit unstable. But, besides that, its a decebt read.

 

[Phoneu1]

I kept reading this, because of the grandfather

 

[IanAR0]

Man this story used to be so great and full of potential but after a while it kept degrading from a 8.5/10 to a 6/10 it's bad most of the time and decent at it's peak moments around ch. 38 and beyond. Though I do gave a good recommendation I'd you like murmin martial arts and is still going strong after 70+ chapters. It's called "Legend of the Northen Blade" it's called the whole package. You can find it leviatan scans website because the one on mangadex has only one chapter.

 

[Christopher]

I'm sorry, I can't follow why this is rated so highly... This screams of the typical wuxia plot where the MC is an arrogant nobody but stumbles on huge power that he barely needs to train meanwhile always resorting to violence to solve problems that he is wholly responsible for creating.

 

[Solipsist]

Wholesome murim ftw. These are what I like about this genre.

@crymsong you have it wrong there lol. It's just a badly represented genre, it's not supposed filled to be ruthless bipolar chars. Have you heard of the Jinyong series? Novel. Granddaddy of the genre. Originally murim stuff are supposed to be a lot more honourable...

Looks like Jin yong is an author. Ya recommend... ALL of his books?

 

[maisonaustyn]

Everytime I find something good. It's eventually being ruined by Riohan

 

[maisonaustyn]

I like it but this has my least favorite Wuxia troupe.

Literally everyone is freaking out or attacking each other over every little thing. All the martial artists abuse their abilities and mistreat everyone. Society just wouldn't be able to function and no one would be willing to serve them. I've read Wuxia that do it right and now I struggle to read ones that do it wrong.

It kind of ruins the world building tbh. The basic way to fix this issue is to show the organizations actively protecting the shops or people. Showing that Murim is disconnected from the normal world is another common way. GOSU does this very well. Another good way to handle it is to basically have a union for all the workers and if any normal citucizen is hurt. Then the union retaliates or bars service. A Wuxia story that handles this in a more comical way is Return of the Mad Demon

Edut: Something of a side note. I really appreciate how real the parents relationship is. It reminds me of my own parents relationship. She was also very sick and my dad dedicated everything to her. You don't need to be perfectly compatible. You just need to care about and respect one another

 

[IbnKamazuki]

Story start strong but quickly fall flat.
Power scaling is wonky
Name hard to follow
Overall pretty meh
Dropping at chapter 130

 

[AzraelZero]

Can't believe I read 200+ chapters of this just to realize the story was getting repetitive

 

[4stjack]

The quality of writing in this story dropped so very far. It was decent for a while but it got consistently worse and now it's barely readable. It's a serious, but also unfortunately common problem among stories in this genre.

 

[Kiiskinen]

This is up there with Gosu season 2 as some of the most obnoxious shit I've forced myself through. Almost every single bad thing that happens in the story is a direct result of some character's previous idiotic/illogical actions, that are never explained or even mentioned again. Villains are always left alone to plot their revenge time and time and time again. People are mowed down by the dozen in almost every chapter to a point of complete meaninglessness. All villains just go around raping (I swear the author has some weird rape fetish) and robbing and murdering others for literally no other reason than to highlight their evilness. 95% of the panels are dedicated to endless, exhausting fights that drag on and on and on, until either a finishing move pulled out of someone's ass or one of the fighters decides to let the other one escape, so we can get a part 2 of the fight down the line.

It's like juvenile misery porn, but to a point where it's just tedious and exhausting to read, because there are no highs or any time given to readers to just catch a breath from the endless fights, wars, raping, murdering etc. It's such a shame, because a lot of effort was clearly put into the visuals and a lot of the story elements. But all the good things and all the potential is buried in this endless swamp of tediousness. And it's so irritating, because it would be so easy to make this great, if it just had a competent editor in charge pushing back on some of the horrible choices made by the author.