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>>20426426
>It's just one guy who repeats the shame shit about the bland MC over and over again.
Unironically suprises me, because compared to cardboard characters cultivation novels usually get Zac is pretty good, actually. He's just an average american guy who has to live in a cultivation multiverse, and fight day by day, everyday. He's not smart, but has talent for fighting and humility. He's nto some hero, but the author clearly doesn't want him to go murderhobo route, despite the character being known for being slaughter machine, a real monster for his power level.

As for the motivation, Zac has ALWAYS had one goal - family, his sister in particular, even if at some point he started caring for power itself (the story's self awarness of the genre is always a pleasant surprise, but the MC's internal monologue about long-living cultivators having to discover some serious motivation that makes them continue to cultivate through untold milions of years was particularly nice). Zac's motivation isn't GREAT, it's not some marvel of storytelling and honestly never seemed to aspire to be one, but it's SERVICABLE. For a story that pumps out six chapter a week it's enough, great even. The strength of DotF is its consistency, self-awarness, not taking itself too serious and damn good and broad cultivation world.

I previously said that I cannot frankly decide which is better, Cradle or Defiance of the Fall, and I still stand by that opinion. As far as Cultivation stories go, DotF mogs the opposition. It's on its 900 chapter right now and the recent arcs were more entertaining than ever, while other Cultivation stories like Ave Xia Rem Y do one good arc and then fall apart, not to even consider Chinese shitty novels that repeat the same arc over and over again with different names.