The Laws of Cultivation: Qi = MC^2 by KrazeKode

8th grader syndrome with a raging boner for justice! Steer clear.

There's a lot I like about this after 90 chapters, but the problems made me drop it. Even the things I like are basically all ideas borrowed from Beware Of Chicken, which did them all better anyway and without all the baggage.

This author is terrible with commas. For some reason this is a common problem with English originals. It makes the novel kind of painful to read, since there are dozens of comma errors each chapter.

Dialogue is weird and unnatural, plus some characters have annoying phrases they constantly use. This is usually done as a very weak substitute for giving characters unique personalities (like someone not using contractions, ending sentences with ~nya, etc.), but the characters are one of the strongest points of the novel, so I just don't get why it's done here.

About a third of one character's dialogue consists of either "senior" or "this one," like "This one agrees, senior." Almost every line of their dialogue has one or both. It gets annoying fast, especially since they're in about half the chapters once they're introduced. I ended up skipping entire chapters sometimes because this character's dialogue was so bad.

People constantly call each other by their name or something like child/little one/senior when they talk. In the last chapter I read, 90% of the lines from one character were like "Not that way, child" or "Child, come over here." Almost every damn sentence had "child" in it. Literally nobody talks like that. It's awful, and just about every character does it.

I dropped this at around chapter 15 of a competition arc. Going by chapter titles, there were still 9 chapters left before it finished. The pacing and story flow had been fairly decent up to that event, but nothing excuses a 24 chapter "run through the forest and find herbs" competition.

My other complaints are minor things that probably won't stop anyone from reading. Like I said, there's plenty of good stuff here, but everything I would mention is done better in Beware Of Chicken. Definitely read that one first if you haven't already. If you like Beware Of Chicken and don't mind my issues with this novel, you'll probably like it, too.

So dissapointed author made him the Chosen One by ch99.

The naive mc tag is missing

Quite a good novel. My only dislike is that all the novel is in 1st pov. I am not a big fan of 1st person pov.

I read about 130 chapters but nothing interesting happens besides the mc being expelled from the sect, not even his strength in practically nothing, meh.
I'm not saying it's bad, but there comes a time when it gets boring, at least for me. try

Man... It's a good novel.
But I read WN to relieve my stresss after long classes, not to accumulate more with artificial cultivation × science theories. So, not my cup of tea

a rat, a rat, she's a rat,
she eats the plants, she finds the plants, shes the rat.
she's da giant rat dat makes all of da rulez,
lets see what kind of trouble that she'll get herself into

After reading the first 30 something ch i can say its actually quite good and also somewhat interresting but for some reason i am bored reading it, probably because it is somewhat slow in these chapters(even if you cant take that as the general pace it seems to involve quite a lot of interactions between chars that dont even have to be dialog but also other things personly not what i like to read) ( and since it doesnt have many ch i drop it already, maybe sometime in the future it will be worth it for me)