Outside of Time [Webnovel]Beyond the Timescape • 光阴之外

Does anyone know where to read mtl?

Any news update about what happened?

It was kinda good but I got bored reading war arc while world building is kinda unique but not that it stand out like mushoku tensei,


Edgy MC is my man gripe of this novel

The novel is not bad, and if you ignore the absurd number of plot holes, illogical moments, devaluation of information and character characteristics, and the fact that the author himself forgets what he wrote earlier. If you ignore all this, the novel is quite readable. Although I admit, I am really disappointed with such plot holes and errors, from such an experienced author... An author who has written a lot of good works.

P.S. Another point I don't like. This is not a mistake in the plot or a mistake of the author, it is just a matter of taste, my personal opinion. I don’t like everything about the growth of our MC’s personality, the further you go, the more kind he becomes, and also spending a lot of time on things that are useless to him. And all these actions are simply incredibly opposite to the MC character who was in the first 200 chapters.
To be honest, I liked the cold MC much more, who considers only a few people to be his family or friends, and in everything else considers personal interest and his own benefits. Later he began to play the hero of humanity, and so on. I don't like such things.
Although at this stage of the plot 1161, it is quite a good read.

Why is so much text missing?

I must say that this novel fell short in many ways where it shouldn't have. The plot felt like an experiment with a character design that seems popular among readers and which Er Gen tried to put his own spin on. This resulted in a story lacking suspense, filled with plot holes, and characterised by fundamental flaws in the design of its characters, as well as other issues. The world setting is captivating and surreal, did take hints from Lord of the Mysteries but it was special in its own way, and I just wish if he further expanded on it instead of wasting with everything else.

To avoid spoiling the novel too much, I will only mention that Er Gen chose to create a Lylin-like character who is cold, emotionless, but calculative and intelligent. However, this character's development was handled poorly. The author relied on one plot device after another to give the main character a "good" heart. For example, early in the story, he is lifted up by a loving grandpa, a kind medicine teacher, and someone that introduces him to the clan, followed by a revenge plot, which then simmers down once he joins a clan.

Once the protagonist becomes part of the clan, Er Gen almost completely abandons everything he used in the beginning and decides to start fresh with a new personality. This new personality is much colder, less approachable, and it feels like a whole different person from the original one we were introduced to earlier. The issue here is that these two arcs created two different characters, and we are supposed to treat them as one. And I will not even get started about the author tried to introduce a boat-like cultivation system only for it to be discarded as well and only used for "fast travel" to put it simply.

This inconsistency continues throughout the story, with critical instances such as a fight over a plate being made ever so important in the beginning only to be explained off later as an unimportant treasure chest. Or the characters he met in the beginning being all but recalled once every 30 chapters, but otherwise remain forgotten. Many other instances like this one keep appearing, from the cheat the protagonist had at the beginning forming consciousness to other aspects of his development.

In summary, this book feels like a mess, with inconsistent character development and plot devices that do not hold up. After reading almost 270 chapters, I must admit that unlike every other novel Er Gen has released, this will be the only one I leave unfinished. I am mildly disappointed to say the least.

It's Dark, bizzar, sometimes too funny, sometimes too bitter...... It's unlike any other cultivation novel you've ever read........

Damn, this Christmas theme is looking real slick... Brings back old memories, now its so much tougher to find good novels when compared to last year

Has the current arc finished?