Truthful Transmigration

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Schedule: 1 Chapter each of Tuesday/Friday John Miller was a fairly normal young man, working hard to support a family that had run into many financial difficulties. Unfortunately, his unexpected death ends his difficult but mundane life. He is quite surprised to find himself waking up alive… but nothimself. Fortkran Tenebach is… or was… the young master of a cultivation clan in another world. John barely even knows anything about cultivation- even in the theory of something vaguely like it- but he has to make his way with the memories of his new body. His new family isn’t as close as his old one was… but he can’t help but want to be honest with them. He is quite certain that they notice his sudden change in personality among other things, and confesses what happened in a move that ultimately he expects to be fatal. Quite surprisingly, his family instead breathes a collective sigh of relief that the old Fortkran is dead. This leaves John to take over his duties… including cultivation, though he has to start from the beginning and isn’t sure he won’t make some massive mistake.

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Status: Ongoing
Year: 2021
Author: Halosty

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.2/ 5.0
Followers: 1,385
Views: 2,247,090

What readers say about Truthful Transmigration

“TL;DR: Another excellent tale so far. If you've made it to the reviews, you should just go ahead and read it now. Style: Halosty sticks with the 3rd person style that is both well done, and appears to be typical of his tales. Very little filler text, eve…”
gej302Royal Road5.0 / 5
“A rip roaring yarn - if you enjoy cultivation tales - then this is the story for you. Those familiar with the author will recognise their particular talent for writing compelling storylines and likeable characters who manage to navigate supernatural powers…”
BadgerButlerRoyal Road5.0 / 5

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Community Reviews(10)

gej302Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
TL;DR: Another excellent tale so far. If you've made it to the reviews, you should just go ahead and read it now.
Style: Halosty sticks with the 3rd person style that is both well done, and appears to be typical of his tales. Very little filler text, even given the tendency of these kinds of novels to have more florid passages and dialogue.
Grammar: Clean, edited, with few mistakes or bobbles here and there. Excellent quality.
Character: The intriguing byplay of the MC's memories and those of the young master makes for a truly fun and lively character. His desire to be a good member of the family, but retain control of his own path as far as possible makes for some tension and yet also makes it more believable than if he just fell in line with everything just the way it used to be.
Story: Nice to see the story start with the obnoxious young master already out of the picture, kinda. Unfortunately, our hero gets to deal with some of the messes left behind. That twist was a fanstastic place to start. The story is crisp and well handled, but it's not running off at a breakneck speed into massive power. Nice ride, more sunday drive than pure adrenaline thrill-ride. Action is present, but it's not the sole purpose of the tale. Very enjoyable!
BadgerButlerRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
A rip roaring yarn - if you enjoy cultivation tales - then this is the story for you.
Those familiar with the author will recognise their particular talent for writing compelling storylines and likeable characters who manage to navigate supernatural powers with an element of humane dignity.
My only critique is that it's so immersive that I've accidentally completed the currently available chapters. I advise restraint - if you can manage it- to prolong the pleasure
WarLadleRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I've been a fan of the author for quite a while, and while I understand some of the disappointment from the other reviews, I think a large part of the disconnect is in expectations.
Many Royalroad stories, and many popular stories in general are very action focused. Something is always going on, the charaters never seem to catch a break and everything is super intense and important all the time. Or oppositely, slice-of-life, where seemingly every detail and emotion is broken down in near real time. Halosty's stories take a longer view on story telling.
The thing Halosty does best, their personal touch, is to take something otherworldly, incredible and make it feel somewhat mundane. Now, I understand that 'mundane' isn't exactly an exclusively positive descriptor, but hear me out.
Halosty's stories all begin with a pitch, a high level concept. In this case, a transmigrator being truthful with his transmigration. From there, Halosty writes the world, and the character's actions within it, in a semi-slice of lice kind of way, almost detached. The otherworldly becomes normal, the incredible becomes the everyday. It creates a sense of peace, of normalcy. The character's do what they do for their own reasons, going about their days, working slowly towards their goals.
Halosty doesn't often skip to the 'good bits', but instead they let the story get comfortable with a sedate pace, before something throws a curveball at the situation, things get exciting, then they calm down again. It's a fascinating way to write, and a fascinating style to read. In the end, it truly starts to feel like the story takes place in its own reality, and we're just along for the ride, which, like our own reality, is frequently calm and steady, with periods of intense activity every so often.
Don't come looking for an indepth character study, not one in such close focus as something like Beware of Chicken. Neither should you expect something constantly intense, consisting of near constant conflict
ValentineNRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
First off, there's the negative reviews, here's my take on it.
Truthful transmigration, is about an individual that tries to only use the truth. No tricks, no lies, subterfuge, shamelessness or other crappy stuff that basically define the xianxia genre.
Second, there's the whole cultivation angle. If you're also reading Elder Cultivator, you'll see a similar pattern. The characters are following the path they feel suits them best. In regular xianxia, the paths are well defined, and very rigid structures. Here, they can be trailblazers.
Third, this is a book by Halosty. If looking at his other book Necromancer, is any sign, then I can expect to actually read the end of this story and actually enjoy it, unlike many others on this site.
PS. He also has another book, Unspoken words of Magic, ~200 chapters on his website. I recommend you try that as well.
WysteriaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Solid story, with a well-crafted main character. He's pretty isolated and I'd like to see more of side characters, but the side characters I have seen I like. Good premise and worldbuilding so far, too. I especially like the totem system and the way the magic system has been described. I kinda want him to name his first totem.
Azarothvis01Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Love the story (ch185). Thank you for not making some psycho cultivator who just uses and abandons people.
The fic gives a more grounded mc, who is still ambitious, but not sone evil thing that gets reincarnated only to do what ever he wants.
I am not yet at half way through, but I am still engaged.
bdf2Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Never in this story does the MC through action or inaction create misunderstandings, leave akward problems unaddressed for later, lie to cover embarassment, or plant the seeds for future mistrust.
While there is plenty of combat, the measured and mature approach the MC takes in exploring the world and interacting with the people around him makes the story feel half slice-of-life which I feel isn't for everyone.
The cultivation/power system is interesting, but left open-ended enough to allow brain to triumph over brawn. How one uses ther abilities being just as important as the raw umph behind them.
If there is one critique I would make it would be that I wish there was more character dialog and conversations to deliver information, rather than asides or internal monologues. Though it is impressive how much depth characters have even when we only see small bits of interaction.
If you're like me and feel like pulling your hair out seeing otherwise smart characters making dumb decisions for the sake of setting up conflict with the villain of the week, then I emplore you to read this story for yourself and take the negative reviews with a grain of salt.
Ethernet StoryhunterRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
The author has some depth in the side characters but they still feel cookie cutter.
The mc is likeable but as of yet has had few difficultys. He is naive and a bit lost and full of himself.
The world building is currently barebones but he is supposed to leave town now so hopefully the world will open up.
This is not an op protagonist. While his cultivation might end up with power. Getting there could take a while.
Teen age young master political games are a part of this.
Worth the read. If you like cultivater novels and are with out new content. Yeah. Otherwise only so so.
It's 4 because from what you can tell of the characters they are likable.
I would encourage the author to write from other character perspectives. Not nessarry publish but this would help the characters feel less flat.
ElvenDenRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
I didn't see anything new in this story, which is not too surprising for the genre, but damn, how boring this fiction is written. Boring, but not bad, just okay. In general, this work is like chewing gum to stifle hunger: it is well suited to wait for the next chapter of what you really love to be released while reading it.
BrGastlRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
This is a Xianxia which doesn't strife to perfection the main focus is entertainment. Equally for writer and reader. At least I'd call it that way when I look how many Timeskips we receive.
Espacially in the first 100 chapters those timeskips are sometimes a bit confusing or a hard cut. The story doesn't want to be overly realistic or intelligently written with tricks from the MC and whatnot keeping them alive. Meaning we jump into an interesting plotline of the story and then jump to the next one. This makes the novel very versatile in its opponents. And considering how big the universe is it also keep always the things alive. Its not one of those Xianxias after which the MC conquerored the starting sect he just has to battle himself into immortality. It feels mor elike the MCs live a life and we get snippets from it.
Its in a way charming that it feel like a SOL Xianxia with fightibg as its mainfocus. Which sounds and is contradictionary, but is a decent enough description.
Though that also comes with its disadvantages. For example the storys jumps alot and you just have to go with it. Its a bit of a jack-in-the-box not necessarily the modt ebtertaining thing when you can't truly try playing detective what the author laid as hints for future plots. Also permanent fighting and timeskips result in you being distached from the Cast. If an arranged marriage or an alliance happens you just accept it even if it might feel that its not the most fitting. Overall the style of this novel is very basic. Equally keeping things interesting as hindering the novel to become more than a bit of fun on the roadside.
The grammatic is not always ideal and sometimes you even find mistakes in older chaoter, but it is mostly fine.
The characters are interesting. In a way that they feel realistic un thei behavior and seem to have thought and reasons, though if you imagine them truly three dimensional... Well as I said its fighting based novel with plot arcs as ebtertainment. They don't f