/lit/ - Literature

I have read like 40-50 different 1000 chapter xianxia novels, used to read like 4 hours a day during school. I think Coiling Dragon is a good entry novel. A Will Eternal, and I Will Seal the Heavens are both very good. Anything by Er Gen probably is.

Why aren't you reading the masterpieces that are the wedding of technological development (web novels) and the blooming of the Chinese into their proper place on the world stage?

>>19994222
You dare assume my foundation is unstable?

>>19915559
There's Thousand Li of course which is written by an actual Chinaman who adds footnotes sometime which explain the origin of some Chinese proverbs/quotes or context-related things which I find is neat.
I like Soulship which involves a guy who has to protect a girl who is also a ship from inside her ship body, growing stronger and clearing out more of the ship. He goes elsewhere as well so it isn't all ship but it's the only cultivation where the MC can temporarily ascend and become stronger, somehow out of all the shit I've come across
soulship 5 fucking when

Can you make 'Collections' on your Kindle through file explorer, like making new folders, instead of having to do it through the Kindle itself, and adding books manually that way?

Martial World has been such a level of advancement above IET novels. I wonder how long the author keeps up the tempo.

Can we consider Malazan a xianxia already?

Chapter 16: The Third Layer Space of the Jiang Lan Realm

At the moment when the Cosmos was formed, Qin Yu already knew that he was able to use the most basic portion of the ‘temporal law.’ If he were to forcefully try to use temporal law that surpassed the limit that which this Cosmos could bear, then it might only lead to the cave-in of the entire Cosmos.
“This New Cosmos is still in its developmental stage. Currently, all I can use is ‘Time Acceleration.’ Furthermore, I can only accelerate time to around two thousand times.” Regarding this, Qin Yu was still very satisfied.
After all, even the third layer space of the Jiang Lan Realm was only able to speed up time by a thousand times.
Furthermore, Qin Yu was able clearly sense that the limit of his Time Acceleration was increasing as the New Cosmos continued to expand. He believed that should the New Cosmos reach a certain level, a Time Acceleration by the millions would also be possible.
Qin Yu also knew that the ‘Time Acceleration’ was merely the first stage of the temporal law.
When the Universal World shattered and formed the new Cosmos, the general understanding of the temporal law had entered Qin Yu’s mind.
The temporal law was separated into three levels.

I recently jumped into a rabbit hole involving someone who has vanished from the internet since ~2008. You're in for a long ride, Bakkerfags

>>19502897
If it is your first of its kind then you'll love it. It maintains a decent rollercoaster but eventually rides off into Sandersnore land. The best entry was Ghostwater and Bloodline was an insult.

Does China have any notable wizards (cultivators) like the West has Gandalf and Raistlin?

I just started book 12 of Stellar Transformation and it's picked up heavily since the Immortals descended upon the Mortal Realm and Qin Yu eventually went to Space(TM). Are any of IET's later works good? I read Coiling and Desolate already.
A shame the few self-pub 'progression' novels I read are updated infrequently, and Cradle has been complacent trash for several books.

>>19169015
Cultivators are Asian wizards.

>>19148688
come to the light side

No wonder xianxia exists for the slant-eyed. With blacks in western countries, you gotta learn to rap or play basketball or something to escape your impoverished upbringing but chinks have to escape their ENTIRE country and what better way than to transcend reality, becoming the strongest thing to exist where nobody can tell you what to do?

>>19083096
Xiaxia cultivation novels. Think crouching tiger hidden dragon, but with more genocide and explosions.

>my slappy ham when reading the Index LN and Accelerator being the model xianxia protag

He arrived at the epicenter, hovering within the infinite expanse and gazing down into the swirling energies where existed the thread. Torrential forces allowed the thread to thrive and its taint to pollute this universe with its unnatural miasma of despair and hunger.

>"Formidable. Very formidable...", he muttered under his breath. "But this is merely a minor matter."

>Energy began to coalesce around the figure! Time seemed to rust and corrode, unable to move. The sword arts of the robed man-shaped figure manifested a frightening shadow behind, awe-inspiring with a touch of righteous malice. These powers formed a visual pure-white aura and began to swirl, faster and faster in response to the thumping of his heart. No, the beating of his soul!

>"In my younger days, I fought off a spawn of your kind. I was inexperienced and it only cost my right arm. It taught me that I never did need an arm to control the sword; I AM the sword!"

>His eyes flashed with a sickening gaze, his killing intent rushing out like a shockwave! The thread groaned, locked in place unable to move, thrashing and screeching as a pig in a pen. In the time it took to brew a pot of tea, the thread was paralyzed in place.

>The cosmic energies revolving around the man shifted outward and began to merge into the shape of a sword. This large sword began to grow longer, wider, until it was 100, 200, 400, 700, 8000m long!!

>At this point, the thread was so desperate that it attempted to self-destruct butt it had lost control of its nascent soul!

>Imprisoned screams bounced off the thread's inner walls. In one last attempt to apprehend the sword artist's mental den, the thread fired a cognitive cannon armed with the nightmares of what-ifs and marinated within the ichor of its poisonous stagnation...

>Only to be rebuffed by the man's impenetrable foundation!

>"No more!", he cried. He shook his head, clearing unbound black hair and allowing pale amber eyes to look outward for the first time.

Embrace webnovels and leave the cuckoldry of Bakker behind.

Grow up. The Chinese make better literature these days than the garbage that is hailed in the west today. Imagine thinking the west is great at literature when Tolkien's legacy is turned into a discussion about transgenderism in his books.

first for xianxia

>>18356737
xianxia, when it focuses on inner growth and reaching ascension rather than physical strength and dominance

Webnovels will inherit the world.

>>18106577
>>18106518
No, China is where the soul of creativity is today.

Why was Bloodline such a disappointment?