A Modern Man in a Cultivating World

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Description

Quan's life on Earth is ripped from him for violating rules he didn't know existed. Reborn on a world full of cultivation, and none of the Modern technologies he's used to, he must find his own way. Does he accept the new world f)or the wonders it has, or try to uncover why civilization is stuck in an unending iron age and try to restart the gears of advancement?

[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]

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Status: Hiatus
Year: 2021
Author: Jsar

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Rating: 4.3/ 5.0
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Community Reviews(10)

DreydfaerRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
As the story is now, its a no-brainer to recommend to any xianxia lover. The first chapter is slightly oddly set up, mainly in the conversation between our MC and the intervening deity; some minor tweaks and editing on this part would likely lead to many more people reading the story.
I'm enjoying how we deal with mainly rational actors in this story rather than the typical tropey antagonism that many xianxia novels have. If the author can keep up this sort of writing up, I imagine the conflicts encountered throughout this long journey will be intriguing and meaningful.
I very much hope this story continues on beyond Writathon, as it would be a shame for a story with such potential to stop short.
bASERoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I've just finished chapter 11 and thoroughly enjoying this story. There may be some work required to touch up the first couple of chapters, but the author has brought the story to life through the next several chapters. There are bits that feel familiar to existing storylines, but overall his story is unique. Looking forward to the next chapters.
DDclashRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Overall a good story. Mc seems to be gathering his brain cells together at last. The first chapters he basically acts like some old 'master' from other cultivation novels. Like the one who knows all, but seems to be unable to do even the most basic shit. And then finds shit that is better than what he used to reach the pinnacle with...
kaoRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I found this gem while doing advance searches. Nice. Nice. If you like mixing modern man thinking vs cultivator world, you may like this one. Author is new at writing, but very passable. Liking the pace an style so far. First couple of chapters seem rushed, but that's just to get to the meat of the story.
Thankfully no arrogant young masters yet. Or weirdly enough, super greedy and evil fellow sect members.
That was another change of pace from overly greedy spazzy fellow sect members. We don't get that with this story so far. You read about righteous sects and demonic sects, luckily our MC wound up in a 'good' sect. About the same as how Clark Kent wound up with a good farmer couple as opposed to Homelander being raised in a lab...
Overall it's got the tropes, blended with some reasonable thinking.
my ONLY complaint? Why ARE the tech levels so primitive in cultivator worlds? You would think super wisdom leads to super ways to make life easier? or is there a deeper conspiracy....time will tell....read on folks!
OrphicleRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
7 chapters in, the story is intriguing and written well. There is no broken plot armour. The realistic mc is driven by logic. Other characters have depth to make them seem real and not just cardboard cutouts to entertain the mc. There is a drive to grow stronger throughout besides to "get bitches and money".
xXSB101XxRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
For a story that has such a generic name, and no artpiece, the story is actually surprisingly ok.
So far the only real issue I noticed was the brief summary of his rebirth, and how there was basically zero real description of him growing up with his family, making them feel very lackluster and emotionless.
Beyond that though, the story and character personalities are mostly ok so far. No typical edge personalities that you see with the main character, or side characters that usually come from this genre.
I'll likely watch to see if this continues updating.
JordiskRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
This is not the best Cultivation novel I have seen, nor the best Insert. However, it is above average in both those categories.
As xXSB101Xx's review said, the characterization of his family was lacking and the childhood arc was rushed. The only charactization we get is that his father is a blacksmith, and does the "mortal" work for the local sect.
After getting to the sect, things do pick up a bit. His new blacksmithing master is mostly a blank slate; we know he has a dry wit, teaches by having his students try for themselves, and is the brother of Quan's other master.
His other master has a better charactization so far. She is the person we have seen the most interaction with, and appears to genuinely care about Quan as a student. Despite Quan's jokes there are no hints to anything more.
The only "cheats" so far seen are the God-Given cultivation method, which is incomplete at best, and his knowledge of basic calculus, which could be learned in high school.
UraniumSpoonRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
After reading the other Reviews, I started at Chapter 3. I tend to dislike the "I'm a child" sections anyway.
I have no outstanding questions from the first two chapters, and feel that the story kicks off at a good pace and does a great job of showing rather than telling, and spreading information through the first few chapters I read.
I'm enjoying the story so far!
some total kretinRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
Dropped in the fourth chapter...
TL;DR: As a first attempt at writing it's readable but it has a lot of problems. It needs to fix at least some of them to be any good. It also needs to focus on something and not shyly speed through everything as if it's afraid of commitment. For a plot to have impact it must be fleshed out. This is barely a scaffolding.
It's barely decent and doesn't allow me to immerse myself.
The whole thing lacks impact, as everything that's happening is happening without preamble and nothing is explored deeper.
Everything is skin deep and immediately adequately explained without going to the nitty gritty or just exploration of what's happening.
It's like you're reading a pretty shallow montage.
The reincarnation could have been much more powerful if only the god did not just act as competent IT guy telling you where you made your mistake and what precisely happened in three paragraphs or less.
And then he gave him an OP technique which is not explained at all with shallow and pretty clear expectations.
All this followed by half a chapter skipping several years during which "he got better and learned to cultivate".
Then the scene at the temple.
The scene at the temple could have been better if it was fleshed out and the family dynamic was explored a bit before that. If it was a culmination of happenings instead of just disinterested Sunday afternoon during which the MC killed someone for the first time.
Right now it's more of "my name is inygo montoya and you killed my father so I'll fly into berserk rage" out of nowhere twenty seconds after the scene started. More information is given on why he was late than on who he's fighting.
It's really really flat.
And the reason is extra flat is amongst a lot of other things because his father is mentioned twice before in two sentences and the relationship is explored as much as his relashionship with the florist next door (who isn't in the story and I just made him up).
Another niggle is that the whole s
luda305Royal Road
★★ 2.0
This is a very rough piece of writing, even by Royal Road standards. That said, I disagree with the reviewers who hate on the story through the temple fight (ch. 3); I actually think that was handled adequately. It's what comes after that is inexplicable.
The protagonist is very much a blank slate with almost no personality. Not only does this make him rather boring, but it almost makes it difficult to understand his choices and how the plot progresses. Why does he choose to go to the sect? Why does he choose to also pick up a fighting path? Why did he hold back core formation for years and not go to the sect earlier? On the one hand, it makes him seem like an idiot with little agency, something which is joked about in text, but not satisfying to a reader. On the other hand, even when asked what his motivations are, he goes on a philosophical diatribe about higher powers using him, which isn't even answering the personal motivation question. And on the third hand, it just reeks of him being a poorly thought out character where the author shaped the universe around the character and the plot, rather than the other way around.
A few other problems. Everyone speaks in formal or very formal registers, which is off-putting. The maturity that comes from the past life is handled inconsistently. Impossible deductions get made. It's not clear why the sect wants him. He is randomly arrogant about something about his past life which he has no basis to apply here. He's a bit of an ostrich when it comes to world events.