2024-12-07 - Reading List
Weekly Reading list for 12-07-2024
神魂觉醒：无限深渊种青莲 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
(Divine Soul Awakening: Planting Turquoise Lotus in the endless Abyss)
no harem, no system, modern cultivation, Abyss, Progression
MC Awoke in the Divine Soul Land world where everyone can be awakened with a Divine Soul to travel to Abyss Worlds and power up. He awoke with a seed for Turquoise Lotus, which is considered Grand Dao Level (Highest). The seed will spawn into a Turquoise Lotus which can be planted into the Abyss fragments and drain all of its essence and destroy the world. So while others are trying to survive the Abyss worlds, He is sucking it dry. It is a pretty average over powered progression novel. MC will level up fast, conquer more worlds, and change maps whenever he gets too strong for the current one. make for good mindless reading. Can get boring for folks who likes some depth to a novel.
华娱及时雨，她们逼我做顶流 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
(Best Samaritan for Chinese Entertainment, The women forced me to be top Idol)
Chinese Entertainment, harem galore, system, smart MC.
MC reborn back to 2013 as an aspiring actor in the TangRen Entertainment Company. He retains only knowledges related to the entertainment industry, and has a system that grants hints of opportunities to help other people that can also help him advance. He unlocks the grants by acting memorable roles in movies/TV. The good part is that the system just gives a time, location, and maybe an object to bring, it is up to the MC to figure out what the actual event could be, and how best to proceed with it. Best enjoyed by folks who enjoyed Chinese culture (movie/TV) starting at 2013 or so. The first event is MC providing sanitary pads to needed actress to gain Second Male lead in the TV series XuanYuan Sword. so if you don't know much about it, it would be much less enjoyable.
御兽飞升 (Commanding Beast to Ascend) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Beast Taming, no harem, no system, smart MC
This is by the same author as 不科学御兽 (Unscientific Beast Taming), which I think was a fairly popular web novel in 2022 ?.
MC has an Immortal attribute Body, kinda like TangShen in Journey to the West. His flesh and blood are like super food to the Beasts and Monsters as it'll help them advance their bloodlines and refine their body. He joins the Beast Taming Sect as it allows the Host to be boosted by the Beast. So MC can use his blood to boost the beast, which in turn will boost his level. As one of the weakness of the immortal attribute Body is that it cultivates very slowly. His first beast is a squirrel that loves to hoard and dreams of owning a Dimensional Sack to hold all its stuff.
Fun reading so far.
噬龙修仙 (Devouring Dragon to Cultivate) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Modern cultivation, no harem, no system, power progression
the latest novel from one of my favorite authors. I've read most of his novels. They are not the best, but good enough to read. Mostly about a single person's advance to most powerful through some kind of advantage. This one is no exception. MC took over the body of a 12 year old who was reforged with the body and soul of a slain young Chaos dragon. So he has a dragon heart who can devour Spirit Materials to gain and improve different elemental spirit essences so the MC can cultivate faster. The dragon heart also offers built-in storage dimension and the ability to draw in any nearby spirit materials or artifacts without a trace. Of course then MC uses it to steal/take high level spirit artifacts from the bad guys and level up. This book is more slow paced than his previous novels, and the first 100 chapters are kind of slow going, I'll continue on to see it picks up the pace as the MC gains more power. Read if you like power progression novels.
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