The Elysium Across Deep SpaceThe Stars Beyond • 深空彼岸

shitty novel, its so boring. the rating was 3.8, thought of giving it a try. Man, i wasted my time.

is this the book where all those "Wang Xuan" lines inserted in other novels come from? something about a fish mocking him?

Read till chapter 92. I was bored so i thought i would give it a try.

For me its a 6/10

There are no cliques but there is nothing noteworthy. The entire power structure is not really explained. The power lvls are not explained either so fights are hard to bring context into. The plot lines are using elements that are not even introduced or used as an introduction but more of a way close them off without any afterthought.

For example. He gets an assassination attempt on him and he wonders who is the mastermind.Then it is someone big!

The romance... The novel literally starts with a romeo/Juliet type scenario. Where a rich family does not want their daughter to associate with the mc. So the MC breaks of his relationship with the daughter before the novel starts and all his problems begin from there and romance has not been really mentioned besides using it as a way to cause issues.

The author actually encourages you to not read. Lets create a MC that stops dating his gf because he can't handle the pressure of her family. Then to make it better lets make the power-system really abstract and then use a few chapters to explain that his path to power is useless because even the people that went far into his path can still be killed by a single bullet. (Not true, probably but still great idea to start a novel with this premise)

World building... A lot of characters introduced but no meaning. For example wow big family... rich... powerful... Oke rich how... oke powerful how? There is 0 context for any character. Same for power lvl's. Yes hes really strong. Oh MC becomes really strong... So who is stronger... hmmm... oh mc just one shot 10 guys of the same lvl and then struggles with someone else that just got introduced and killed in the same chapter !?! What am i even reading.

Plot-holes are also fun to read. Everyone comes from a rich family that studies at the academy and then he is worried about the desk that got destroyed by assassins... Or that the new faction has a population of more then a million and the old faction has a population of mc and an elder with 2-3 side characters that watch.

The first 12 in a half chapters are something you can skip if you want. They are a quite boring and it is all about "woe is us" (life sucks) and the dissolution of a college that focused on ancient cultivation. The fist 12 chapters really make you want to just drop the LN if they don't turn around this negative story fast. But there is a change that happens at the end of chapter 13 that puts a positive direction to the LN. You won't really miss out on to much by just skipping to the 13th chapter.

20 chapters in and nothing has made me want to continue reading, also something about the way the novel is written/translated is so boring

This is good novel.I recommend you should also try this

Honestly it’s been really good so far, there’s no romance yet so for the people put off by the harem tag thinking this is another one of those Pokémon gotta catch them all type, dive in without fear. I don’t know about the future but I doubt it will go down that route since the MC hasn’t shown to be lusty at all. He’s dedicated to martial arts. This isn’t one of those fast cultivation novels where the MC pops pills and speed runs through the realms. In fact so far there isn’t even any concrete realm division. The way to judge his strength is through the body technique he is practicing, like stage 1 to stage 13. But we do know that there is a realm called grandmaster, just not the specifics of how they judge if you are a grandmaster. For those worried that the cultivation is painfully slow, it isn’t since he can enter this special realm filled with special substance, also a few minutes in reality feel like several years in the realm, so the MC can practice the technique in that realm for years, and the special substance transfers that progress to his real life body. At least that’s how I understand it. Of course he can’t enter that special realm anytime he wants, he needs to enter a special state where he can sense that realm, and thereby enter it. Later he finds items filled with the special substance in the real world which can help him enter that realm.

I wouldn't call everything with harem as trash, some novels like shrouded seascape has taken care of it pretty well without affecting the novels flow.

Harem>>>trash

That harem tag …