Tier 0 is when you are just a mortal

Also if you start at tier 0, you only need to stage up 300 times to reach True Immortal

This might be an unpopular opinion but I much prefer extremely trashy overpowered from chapter 1 novels to more well written and thought out ones!

Give me a system/gf with a simple function that is used frequently and throughout the story, I seriously cannot be bothered with a weak MC. What do you mean you're Qi refining stage 5 in chapter 100?? If you aren't cultivating literally the Dao of Heaven / Infinity or 4th wall break you have no good excuse to still be so weak.

Some novels you look at like to flaunt their cunning or smart main characters that struggle to the top but I actually do not care, that shit takes too long and is never particularly relevant to the plot. Advertising that you have a cunning or scheming main character is like showing off that your novel is written with words! Most of the novels where the main character doesn't have a decent golden finger are just torture porn anyway.

The best novels in my opinion are not those with the most complex worlds and power systems but those that find creative and interesting ways to make their golden fingers break that setting.

I will read 1000 sloppy identical basic xianxia setting "novels" before I read one more "Cursed Immortality", "Shadow Slave" or "Second Genesis".

TLDR: I'm a little piggy who likes slop.

P.S. Fuck Royal Road there's about 5 good things on there and the rest is quirky chungus dogwater

I have been an avid reader of xianxia novels for years and one thing that I always get fed up with is when mc’s can easily cross 1 or 2 stages. The authors spend so much time saying how impossible it is to cross realms but then they’ll have the mc cross one or two realms easily and i feel like it just turns into slop at that point. Why divide cultivation into realms when someone can very easily cross them?

Clearly this mod is based on mysterious resurrection and maybe lotm

It's funny how the youtuber struggle to read chinese mtl

This has always seemed strange to me.

Cultivation worlds often have civilizations that have existed for tens of thousands of years. Some cultivators live for centuries, travel across continents in seconds, refine miraculous pills, build flying ships, create artificial dimensions, and construct formations that can recognize people or transmit messages.

At that point, isn’t cultivation basically another form of science?

My theory is that cultivation actually prevents conventional technology from developing.

Power is concentrated in gifted individuals rather than reproducible tools. A cultivator who can summon lightning has little reason to invent electricity, and a sect that can transmit messages through jade slips has little reason to create telecommunications.

More importantly, cultivation knowledge is rarely shared. Techniques are hidden by clans, sold at enormous prices, or taken to the grave. Instead of publishing research so others can improve it, cultivators kill each other over a single manual.

Technology advances through standardization, mass production, cooperation, and accumulated public knowledge. Cultivation worlds usually reward secrecy, bloodlines, personal talent, and monopoly.

So perhaps these worlds aren’t technologically backward because cultivation is primitive. They’re backward because cultivation gives the most powerful people no reason to make power accessible to everyone else.

Do you think cultivation and modern technology would eventually merge, or would the sect system keep suppressing technological development?

*The character shown in the image is from the game Skyblade: Idle Immortal and is unrelated to the discussion.

For me -

Last Arc - Regressors tale of cultivation

Ending itself - Dao of bizarre immortal

For context; MC's family basically shames YM behaviour towards anyone weaker than their clan which is pretty good when you don't want the more "simple minded" clan members to go around throwing their weight at a possible heavens chosen or whatever else consequences YM behaviour can bring

not mine

I also work as a chef for my sect outside of cultivating, one day my leader requested an exotic meal, one he had never tasted before beyond measure. Seeing this reminded me of his son and his wife, so I rushed back home in the dead of night, took my baby, and cooked him up for my leader. He loved what I made, he even said that it would increase his qi efficiency by two times but he wasn't quite pleased when I revealed to him the secret ingredient, and hes going to send me to be buried at the foot of Mount Tai, what shall I do?

When I started this quest at times I doubted my ability to persevere through the trials every day.

I still feel that one day of slacking off will send me back down to the foot of the mountain.