The Smith's Dao

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Heaven defying powers, a harem of waifu's? Henry doesn't have any of that. stuck in a world of cultivators and magic, he needs to make his living as a blacksmith. Hopefully, he can keep his head down and simply make shovels without attracting the attention of arrogant young masters or corrupt officials. Then again, what fun is life if everything goes exactly as you hope?

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Status: Hiatus
Year: 2022
Author: BanditZeff

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Rating: 4.4/ 5.0
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The OxRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It is almost too soon to accurately judge this fiction, it really hits my sweet spot however, and I wish to encourage fictions I like to read to get more eyeballs on them. Purely for the selfish reason that then the author receives a dopamine hit of validation and takes fewer bathroom breaks and/or forgets about real life. Stay in that dark room BanditZeff!
I like the Xianxia setting. I have wasted far to many fleeting hours of my mortal days reading machine translated Chinese Xianxia webnovels. Qi and Dantians and Meridians, building your Foundation, then building your Golden Core/Jindan, exploring Secret realms, pill refining, spiritual roots, etc, I like that stuff. I'm not so crazy about your typical Xianxia MC. There appears to be a big market in China for Xianxia stories where a protagonist is a sociopathic murderhobo while simultaneously collecting enough concubines in his harem to run the entire Boston Marathon. To each their own but that is not a character I find relatable.
You know who IS relatable? Henry from this story.
He doesn't transmigrate into a stranger 's body with all their memories like a standard Xianxia MC, he is dropped butt-naked into a wilderness in the ass-crack of nowhere! Then he wanders around in the buff for months being tased by deer with lightning antlers! When he finally finds a town, the smelly, hairy, and naked Henry is mistaken for a demon ape! That's funny right there.
All the early indications are that the author is writing Henry to be a low-key, down to earth, friendly neighborhood type of character. He does have some mysterious cheats. He is stronger than a normal man , more heat resistant , and he can drink spirit wine that should kill a mortal without ill effects. Henry is something special, but not a normal cultivator. Something about his transmigration has given his body strengths that are as yet undefined, but unique to Henry. There is lots of interesting places BanditZeff can go with Henry's uniqueness.
Henry is a
greestRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Excellent quality and narative, genuinely humble, likable protagonist. Good variety of quality side charcters and supporting cast. A thoroughly enjoyable read.
Not sure what kind of waffle to add to expand this to the required fifty words but it's one of the better Isekai out there highly recommened even if for the moment it's a little short. Excellent work in progress, eagerly looking forward to more.
Bruce cRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
There are a number of genre bending novels on RR, and this is another. The MC is unknowingly dropped into a new world with no transition and no "system" to help him out.
He encounters and befriends a number of other interesting characters and bubbles his way into an unlikely apprenticeship that he excels in a idiot savant fashion. He creates many things without truly understanding how he did it or how rare/high-level they turn out. His interactions with others again highlight his idiot savant nature as he is completely outside their understanding, yet somehow he improves their lives in completely odd fashions.
The story itself has a number of plot lines driven by the various powers that be and those escaping such a life. The MC himself appears to be an unexplainable monkey wrench in almost all of them without knowing, yet somehow making everyone around him better, more balanced people.
The spelling and grammar are fine. The only jarring aspect is the changing viewpoints are not always delineated clearly which sometimes taksthe reader out of the story flow.
The stoyline itself flows at a decent pace - slightly faster than a slice of life, but slower than the frantic nature of those murder hobos only interested in getting stronger.
ABigSitterRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
This story has potential.
First chapter is a bit off with its pacing but the plot is quite interesting.
Grammar and spelling are fine. Although the discriptions are a tad lacking.
I personally enjoy blacksmithing stories very much. hope this improves as it goes on.
I really hope this does not become one of those misunderstanding Xianxia.
OctaRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
The novel is good, has a smooth flow to it, and we can read it in one seat. But the lack of goals, curiosity, drive, inquiries, BALLS... sheesh... The MC really makes me mad. Hahaha.
Sometimes we read a novel where one of the side characters is some Big Strong Guy who is really dumb, usually with some mental disability, and everyone can get him to do things (break something or beat someone), all it needs is to offer him a lollipop, some ice cream or praise him.
This Big Guy is the MC in this novel, but with no health problems. He's already a full-grown man but has no curiosity at all. He knows about isekai, cultivation troupe, and magic powers, but when someone gifts him and explains that it is a thousand-year-old elixir, he just throws it into the fire saying "if it is thousand years old, then it must be expired... I'm not drinking this."
It may be funny if it occurs out of the blue when we aren't expecting it. But by chapter 25, the MC has done something similar every other chapter.
I'll keep reading it cause is difficult to find good Xianxia on this site, but I hope the MC improves his mental capacity and stop acting like a 6yo kid lost in New York. We expect different things from an adult MC than from a child MC.
forgotten_hexRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
Strangely enough, the story seems to have little to do with the MC and the MC seems to be nearly completely uninterested in the fact that he's landed in a cultivation-slash-magical world.
He also seems to be completely uninterested in the fact that he is producing high quality artifacts in comparison to his 'master.'
Frankly, it's a frustrating read.
Cynical JayRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
That isn't some existential question, it's a genuine question, because if you go by word count multiple people in this story get more attention than the MC.
This story needs the "Multiple Lead Character" tag because every chapter you get maybe a paragraph of the MC Henry, before being forcefully shoved into the POV of a character you don't care about in a shallow attempt at world building.
As it is this story is an unfocused mess, basically little more than a Chinese misunderstanding novel with far to many POVs.