"Reverend Insanity is the Peak of Humanity: This scripture right here encapsulates the spirit of Humanity, it's the literal peak writing any human being has ever written and I even suspect it was written by God" review by YangChen0
While some very sexist commentaries about women having long hair but short insight, that they need a lover and a family while the man needs a rival could indicate God's authorship, and the commonsense notion that he doesn't exist probably cost him all of his copywrite revenues, I find it difficult to believe that things came to work for a low-paying, almost tyrannical serialized novel publisher like Webnovel.
That aside, the novel makes a much more interesting reading than the bible. One thing that utterly baffled me is how the author, a born Chinese, can be so bad at numbers:
- In one occasion (ch. 25) a group of students was practicing moon blade shooting and things went as follow
"After three rounds, only nine moon blades hit on the grass puppets.The academy elder shook his head a little, feeling slightly displeased. This hit rate was too low, the key is that among these five only two managed to successfully throw out two moon blades."
So, we have 5 students, 15 shots, out of which 9 hit target. But later it says that the teacher is displeased because out of the 5 students, only 2 managed to successfully shoot the moon blade, twice. So 4 in fifteen, less than half the amount he said a minute ago.
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-On another occasion (chp. 160-161) he says that his former classmates that he used to rob, about 60 of them since he became prominent in that village, had celebrated a party at the end of which they gifted him with 100 primeval stones each, amassing the astounding number of 15 000 primeval stones! See the problem?
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Is worth noting that the primeval stones are a subject of controversy. Sometimes they are worth more than gold and a single one can sustain a family of three for a month. Sometimes the rent is twenty times that, some low-level Gus is worth a thousand times that...
As a "cultivation resource" sometimes replenishes about 2.5% each, and sometimes Fang Yuan needs over five hundred just to fill 11% (on a lower cultivation level, which should be cheaper)
As the chapters progress the worth of primeval stones gets more and more insignificant, and since they're a solid currency they become very unpractical to use. Imagine having to toss a thousand duck egg-shaped to some bright light, one by one.
Or imagine a transaction for 30 000 units each weighing around 300 grams. TEN TONS OF SOLID STONE! So much for discretion! Or the metric units. A "small room" that's "only" 666 ½ m², or a "wide" cave passage three meters high and two meters wide.
Or how the guy spends 12 hours walking 1.5 kilometers. I know what you're thinking: "This damn William rambling about details that not a soul cares, how's the story, how're the characters!"
Well, to put it simply, the story is super slow thanks to the author giving a lot of this irrelevant details that don't even add up and babbling pseudo-Buddist bullshit to justify things like the main character kidnapping a kind-hearted little girl, tying her to a rock in a cave, tore her clothes and send some "enslaved" bear to eat her alive, all this described very vividly, and then pour gas inside the bear and burn him to death from the inside, all that so he could advance in his cultivation.
1500 words of "all lives are equal, a girl isn't more than a bear"! Oh yeah? Then why did you specifically have to choose a virgin girl? Why not the mother, isn't she equal? Why did you subject them both to such a gory death? because you're "unlucky" and suffered that somehow makes you more deserving?
Not to mention that Fang Yuan is a crybaby. Unlucky? He's the luckiest guy I've ever seen, and I read about the holy mage that's resurrected by the ancient, forbidden grimoire that just happen to be there. He rob the other students blind, more talented, and committed to the clan of the resources the clan gave them at the gates of the school and no one said anything.
He found a power inheritance from a highly skilled Gu master by pure chance and that alone gave him five rare, high-ranked Gu that was conveniently preserved in a rare pod that kept them from dying, he successfully refined the reincarnation Gu that somehow followed him back in time and relies on it to refine Gu he would otherwise be unable to tame and to cheat a lie detector that would have let him exposed, not to mention that his memories are a jack of all trades and not only max out his combat proficiency but also enables him to extort other people with secrets that he should know of, or at least not remember, and of course the other characters change alliance on time for him to get the best rewards.
Seems pretty lucky to me. As for the various antagonists, and all characters in general, they're as flat as a board. They have one defining trait, and everything they believe, and every decision they made is following that trait, like greed, anger, pride, etc. The author is like that Dungeon Master that thought of all the cool things he wants to put into his world, and he's going to make you listen regardless of what the rest of us want. The book bores us with that half-baked Greek-ish mythology featuring the "Human Ancestor" to try and make some poor excuse of a background to this collapsed building of a plot, hastily put together and patched up with cliché anarchist duct tape. 2/10
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