Immortal of the Ages
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Immortal of the Ages

77%
61 Reviews
Author:
Feng Qingyang
Translator:
JustLivingJL
As Yun Xiao's soul soared into the heavens after his death, he made a startling discovery—the vast world in which he had lived for sixteen years astonishingly resembled a colossal tomb! Beneath it lay an ancient bronze coffin, vast as the boundless seas, radiating an overwhelming miasma. Every piece of land was but a handful of dirt atop this enormous coffin. The billions of living souls unknowingly thrived and multiplied within this graveyard soil.
Inside the massive casket rested the body of an Immortal. His eyes were as deep as the underworld, his mouth reminiscent of the Yellow Springs, his hair flowed like a majestic dragon, and his body spanned across a million mountain ranges. Which celestial deity from ancient times could be resting here for eternity?
Refusing to let himself fade away, Yun Xiao's soul entered the body of the Immortal. With the world's Divine Pillar as his sword and the vast continents as his seals, he and the coffin embark on a journey through the Immortal path, seeking enlightenment and challenging the heavens!
JL: The novel might start out as your bog-standard revenge-plot, reincarnation story. But the execution is solid, and there's plenty of satisfying face-slapping moments throughout. But what makes it really interesting is that the author eventually starts subverting expectations in really interesting ways. So, if you're a long time reader of the community, and want to try something familiar with a refreshing twist, give this story a shot!
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Thanatonium
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9 months ago
Not recommended
Review at 174 chapters, a bit of spoilers moreso on overall concept rather than any specific plot points.

The story is an unashamedly a power fantasy. If you want to watch an MC jump around with only plot armor and nothing else, then this is probably a great novel for you. The MC will just charge forward to kill everything he doesn't like and power up at the same time.

We all know that most novels of this nature are just some sort of power fantasy that we can guess the ending is a god mc with his harem. There's nothing wrong with that. The entire story is in the journey, but this one is horrifically bland and stale. There aren't any particular redeeming points to this novel.

I think at my point in the story, it's maybe been like a month in total (in the story's time), if even that much time has passed. The same MC vs the world has already repeated twice and is in the process a third time with frankly not much actual variation aside from a change in names, places, and level. The first place got tore up in like 3 days, the second maybe a week? I don't think it been a week at the third place yet, but I've already lost interest. You get the female interest for the arc, a couple of supporters of the MC, and the rest of the world disliking him until they progressively want him dead at all cost but by then the MC is too strong. After that brief introduction, queue the MC getting a few power spikes until now he overpowers everyone else in the world, until we move on to the next area where the process repeats. Seeing it twice was enough, and midway through the third time I'm no longer interested. I'm pretty sure it might have foreshadowed repeating that process a fourth time, but I certainly won't stick around for it.

It's formulaic in a bad way. It doesn't help that the plot is paper thin and there's not much suspense to speak of. There's a little bit of build up, but it's underwhelming for the story and it's hard to be invested in any of the characters. It doesn't particularly have any interesting aspects that help distinguish it from other novels. It's just a bland power fantasy moving at a fast rate to recycle the same story beats it used with minor variation in the details. If you want to watch a story parade the MC in plot armor and nothing else, I think this is what you get. There isn't much allure to the world, and the process of the MC powering up is very boring. At least when I read other litrpg's, they put some effort into making a world and characters to distinguish themselves from other works. I feel like the author tried to cut down as much of the plot, characters and story in order to streamline the process of the MC going somewhere and finding some enemies to kill and power up. There just isn't any fluff or spice in the story to make it more substantial, no particularly interesting plot points or schemes.

I feel like if I asked ChatGPT to give me a bare bones cultivation power fantasy with tidbits of face slapping, this is what it would spit out.

Keishacrwright
VIP
a year ago
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Edited
Recommended
I’m loving this novel! It starts off fast and keeps the pace going. The world building is still being developed but so far, this world of sword souls and sword hearts is fascinating. There are demons and powerful bad guys that you’ll love to hate. There is plenty of fighting but it’s not over the top. Of course there are conspiracies and revenge plots galore to unravel. The main character is likable and simple in that if you are good to him, you can trust him with your back. However, if you cross him, just wash your neck and wait because not even his death will keep him from destroying you. The translation is awesome and the translator is very active in the comments. Plus, JL, the translator, is hilarious. I recommend this novel. Happy reading ✌🏾

Update: Slight spoilers ahead

I just finished the first arc and my love for this novel has only grown. The best part of this novel is how the author cleaned up all of the loose ends in the revenge arc. No kidding, he got all of them! No having to return from a higher realm, years later to slap to death a tiny flea and the bad guys stay dead!!! No cockroach’s that keep managing to escape and just refuse to die. The comic relief, two naughty characters that are parts of a coffin (you’ll just have to read the novel to unpack that image 😉), make the most of perfectly placed one liners. So far, I can’t recommend this novel enough. It’s so fun and the fan base keeps things lively in the comments and on Discord. JL, the translator, is still very active in the comments and always willing to discuss the novel with readers in Discord. I don’t usually write double reviews but after this arc finished, I just had to share my thoughts. Happy reading ✌🏾

Vernumm
a year ago
Recommended
Writing this review after 50 chapters I have got to say that this novel gives me really positive vibes. Even though it starts with the same old betrayal by the childhood sweetheart this novel wastes no time to get you interested.

First of all, The protagonist is a young man and not an old monster reincarnated with their memories which for me is a really good thing. Even though overwhelming amount of Chinese Authors write their MCs as reincarnated Experts with their memories of previous lives intact and even though the concept is really intriguing, almost all of them can't really get it right. Real exceptions where such written characters actually fit their status and behave appropriately befitting of themselves are extremely rare, one of such being First Immortal of the Sword which has done a truly great job so far.

Continuing, Origin story of the Creator Immortal and his unique powers are quite intriguing and I personally love a Main Charachter who can continuously strengthen themselves via devouring other's talents and making them his own even though that description is not quite right for this novel. A big plus point for me is that his Sword Soul is high-grade from the beginning and I don't need to read up to 1000 chapters for our boy's talent to shine.

Next, plus point for me was the warmth of the Sword Pavillion despite its dire straits and the infuriating situation of the sect. I got some Wu Dong Qian Kun nostalgic vibes even though the situations are quite different but the bonds and comraderie forged seem quite genuine and it succeeded in emitting genuine emotions from me.

One other super big thing for me was interaction with the presumed Fmc so far. Almost all Chinese novels are horrible at this and I am sure many of us have been frustrated by puppet like emotionless frosty beauties who can't have their fingers touched by men or have no blemish like dolls with zero depth to them as well. Chasing to kill the protagonist like madwomen after forced, super fake situation which led them to spend a steamy night together? Fortunately, in this novel the first female interaction was done quite well and the girl did not go all psycho on us lol so that is a MAJOR win for me.

Other than this, we do have typical demonic beasts as mascots following the protagonist on their journey and while I find most of them annoying with no real role other than to eat MC's treasures and cause trouble for him to force the protagonist into conflicts, in this novel they are actually quite funny and really useful for a change.

All the specific details aside, the novel is action packed and filled with satisfying face-slapping and youthful passion which is one of Author, Feng Qingyang's strong suits. Having read one of his novels, Beastmaster of the Ages, though it has its Many flaws I think he is one of the authors who has tremendous potential and I hope it blooms with this particular work.

Last but not least, big shout out to Translator JL who has done a really excellent job so far.

As someone who has been reading cultivation novels for more than a few years I rarely start a novel with so few chapters but his introduction really piqued my interest. Excited to continue on this journey with you while hoping this novel gets better and better.

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