2024-11-09 - Reading List

weekly reading list for 2024-11-09

2024-11-09 -  Reading List

This is what I'm reading the week of 2024-11-09. I only included the ones I've added to my bookshelf to continuous reading.

You can see previous reading list Here: www.chaosdrifter.cc
or if you prefer Reddit, Part 1 2023 and Part 2 2023

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I'm native Chinese speaker so I read the raw from Qidian. you can try finding the English translation on novelupdate or try places like app.omniread.com where they use Advanced LLM models to do MTL that should be more understandable and consistent than google translate.
or you can use chatgpt/llama/claude with the chrome plugin immersive translate (just sign up and get your own API key)

 魔王大人深不可测 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
(The Demon King is Unfathomable)
Fourth Apocalypse style, no harem. fantasy.
MC is a young Demon King just out of the academy. He is assign to an underground base at the heart of the surface human world. His mission: To Spread fear. He has a system that helps him to recruit players from earth to work for him.

 系统:你找错人了 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
(System, you got the wrong guy !)
xianxia, no harem, scheming.
MC has a system, but the system is actually for another version of him that has the best of lucks like the destined one while MC has the worst of lucks. Thankfully MC receives the rewards from the system that was supposedly given to the other version. He also gains a lot of insight into future events due to system operating in a different time scale than him. So the system's current remark about the MC is actually about things in the future. This is very much in the same style of the author's last novel where there are a lot of twists and turns and unexpected reversals. It can get complicated and nothing can be what it seems. It kind of gotten repetitive at the end, but could be a good read for someone who is into that kind of stuff.

 
悠闲仙旅 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
(Leisure Cultivation)
Science + Cultivation, xianxia, no harem, scheming, no system, dual transgression.
MC is in a xianxia world and a lot of science principles still applied. So MC is using his scientific
knowledge to help him cultivate. Doing things like making gun power from spirit infused elements that makes it much more powerful. Enhancing his "Intent" (like a magnetic wave) with antennas, doing dual cultivation with a Doll....(this one is one of the more unique take on dual cultivation). There is another transgressor who is the female MC in the novel that is this xianxia world, they do interact, but the focus is mainly on the MC.

 
植物大战修仙界 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
(Plant Vs Cultivation Realm)
PVZ, cultivation, no harem.
MC is in a xianxia world with low inner talent, but he has access to PVZ shops in his mind where he can get sunflowers which when planted in a spirit field would give him sunshine(purified spirit) than can help him cultivate faster. Later on he can get more PVZ items like the potato bomb, pea shooter, etc etc. and they can be upgraded to be more powerful. a fun read if you are a PVZ fan.

 大帝世家穷养我?可我悟性逆天啊 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
(Grand Emperor parents try to low-key raise me as a poor boy, but I've got ultimate Comprehension)
MC's family is a long line of Grand Emperors. But his parents build an entire fake village and pretended to be a lowly farming family so the MC won't grow up spoiled and arrogant. But the MC has super talent that made him able to master anything his teachers taught him very very quickly. His teachers are actually Master gurus in their own area, but pretended to be just lowly teachers. Even then they ran out of stuff to teach him quickly due to his talent.
This is yet another low-key cultivation novel where the MC doesn't know how strong he is.
so far it is ok, waiting to see new updates and for MC to start realizing his power.

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