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I'm dipping my feet into Chinese webnovels. What Chinese webnovels (wuxia, xianxia, xuanhuan) would you guys recommend?

I don't know much about them. I've only read a few chapters of one so far. I'm interested in authors who display strong individuality and have proficiency in depicting skillfully written characters.

>> No.21003996
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21003996

>>21003990
King of Gods

>> No.21004023

>>21003990
Don't. Someone suggested checking out The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation and now I'm hyperfixated. It's not even that good. I mean, it's not bad, but it's a webnovel, and the translation isn't that good. I read the first book and a half, and now I've been reading nothing but time-travel fix-its for a week.

>> No.21004037

>>21003996
whats it about, what are its themes and settings, and whys its art so shitty

>> No.21004044

>>21004023
i definitely see the appeal in webnovels. they are a tasty dopamine skinner box of experience and tropes.

>> No.21004061

>>21004037
>whats it about
cultivation xianxia story about a boy who dies, comes back and ascends the martial ladder

>themes and settings
lol

>why its art so shitty
Because it's a independently published book. You're not gonna find anything fancier unless you want western wuxia

>> No.21004078

>>21004044
yeah, but that's what fanfic are for.

>> No.21004107

>>21004061
tons of better novel art among the titles on webnovel.com

>>21004078
the fanfics probably suck. webnovels are Another World/isekai written by east asians who watched shitloads of cinema, read tvtropes, then went off the leash

>> No.21004111

>>21004107
https://www.webnovel.com/ranking/novel/bi_annual/power_rank?timeType=3&sourceType=2&signStatus=1
specifically

front page art sucks

>> No.21004113

>>21004107
I'm talking about fanfic in general, and time is but a paper moon is great

>> No.21004120

>>21004107
>tons of better novel art among the titles on webnovel.com
Is there though?

>> No.21004125

>>21004113
fanfics absolutely lowbrow. if i want a skinner box it has to be xianxia or better

when does Reverend Insanity get psychopathically good to the point CCP banned it

do any of these really utilize chinese or japanese myth in great detail? instead of just using myth as props like in Naruto

>> No.21004138

>>21004125
>do any of these really utilize chinese or japanese myth in great detail?
fanfic utilizes just about everything, if you're willing to look. also it's all gay.

>> No.21004190

>>21004138
id really like to see yamabushi explored in lit. there were so many different types and they were mysterious as a whole. im fine with light fantasy touches.