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Cultivating Common Sense In A Xianxia World by JohnPLoveRaft

Cultivating Common Sense In A Xianxia World
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There are no Sects. There are no Elders. There are no Systems. There are no Cheats.

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There are no Sects. There are no Elders. There are no Systems. There are no Cheats.

I've read three hundred cultivation novels. I know exactly how this is supposed to go — find a cave, discover an ancient manual, join a sect, climb the ranks, avoid dangerous jade beauties, and punch a god.

None of that exists here.

Sects haven't been built yet.

I wasn't lucky enough to be given a snarky System to track my progression.

I wasn't given a golden finger to bypass my lack of talent.

I instead, was transmigrated into a fifteen-year-old farmer's body in a world where cultivation is unregulated and nobody has figured out how to master it, let alone teach it.

I'm in a world full of warlords conscripting farmers into meat grinders and cultivators operating like weapons of mass destruction.

Yea, this isn't the transmigration I was hoping for. I need to throw all the tropes I've read out of the window, because I am in a predicament that no one else has ever been in before.

But on the bright side, I can now introduce some Common Sense into this world.

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What to expect:

◈ Rational, strategic male MC — no power fantasies, no plot armor, every advantage earned

◈ Pre-sect xianxia worldbuilding — cultivation exists, institutions don't, the MC builds them from scratch

◈ Kingdom building , clan building , sect founding — village to settlement to sect progression

◈ Progression fantasy with real costs — every gain is paid for, every system is tested

◈ Cozy village life meets warring states tension

◈ 2,000-3,000 word chapters

◈ Daily updates, three-chapter bonus drops on milestone days

◈ This is a long-form serial — settle in Collapse
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    Prince of Death
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    I don't know why there's so much hatred towards this novel. It's one of the best novels I've read so far. I loved it so much, I want all 3000 chapters! 23
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      Endless3299
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      Obvious troll is obvious.
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    Duplozauri
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    Przestaję czytać tę nowelę – wiele wcześniejszych wydarzeń po prostu irytuje głupotą głównego bohatera. Poza tym w tekście jest bardzo dużo pustych i niepotrzebnych opisów oraz wyliczeń, co nasuwa myśl, że w głównej mierze został on stworzony przez sztuczną inteligencję.
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    EmperoRead
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    The emperor decree: valiant men of heaven and heroes of the world, March on.
    No power can defeat the gathering of men.
    No barrier can hinder the emperor word.

    The darkness dares to show its face, how laughable.
    Men march on!! Traverse the poison fog and bring me it's head.
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    xenokrates
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    This clearly uses ai and not even in a good way. Great idea garbage execution
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    MTL Ancestor
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    I am genuinely surprised that this novel is number 1 on the rising stars on Royal road, their standards are absurdly low.
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      Error404
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      They just delete any reply that talk bad about novels, they have created so many rule when commenting that it's hard to find a way to criticized the novel without comment getting deleted.
      You can't talk about author or his previous work
      Can't talk about update schedule
      Can't talk about novel itself as this would be spoiler
      Can't put everything on spoiler cause spoiler should only contain 1/3rd of original comment.
      You can't write things in spoiler related to plot, or what happened in arcs.
      You can't write anything that discouraged author from writing a novel.
      Can't talk about things that are not related to novel.


      Even if you write a perfect comment criticizing the novel they would still find some random thing to remove it.
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        MTL Ancestor
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        Damn, didn't know things were that serious.

        I mean this novel is clearly A.I. assisted yet it gets to walk free without an A.I. assisted tag.

        This is not the only one. But what can we do.
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      xenokrates
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      In royal road there is lot of author communities where they artificially inflate the ratings by review swapping. Now with advancement of ai, the enshitification will become worse
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        MTL Ancestor
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        I believe that the fact that authors are being forced to do this, that this is the trend of the world, is a problem with the foundation of the site.
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    Dark Flame
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    Hey are there any Taiwanese or Chinese readers here? I just want to know if novels written by authors outside of China such as those that are successful in RR or WN are translated and read by Chinese and Taiwanese readers or not? If our preferences that encourage rationality or a certain style in writing are successful in influencing Chinese readers, then Chinese authors will look to the web novel market and provide novels that are more suited to our preferences, just like these cultivation novels written by western authors.
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      MTL Ancestor
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      I am not chinese but I prefer cultivation novels, you seem to be mistaken about who reads such novels.
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        Dark Flame
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        I think LOTM and RI prove that mainstream readers' preferences are to focus on the rationality and intelligence of the MC in a novel.
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          MTL Ancestor
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          Before continuing conversation, to prevent meaningless debate, let's see if I haven't gotten anything wrong.

          Your original comment said that you wanted to know if Chinese or Taiwanese people read western novels.

          You wanted to know that because you hoped that the Western style of writing, which you believe encourages/follows rationality, gets more famous there so Eastern authors start making novels more in preference to a western audience.

          You also imply that the same happened in the opposite direction, and these cultivation novels are more suited to eastern audience.

          Is that what you were trying to convey?
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            Dark Flame
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            I just hope that novels that emphasize rationality can become mainstream in China so that it encourages authors to write novels according to market demand considering that RI and LOTM are popular not only in the west but in China as well, I'm from SEA by the way

            You also imply that the same happened in the opposite direction, and these cultivation novels are more suited to eastern audience.
            Why are you throwing a strawman here and saying as if I'm forcing my preferences on Eastern readers? I'm from the East too, and I detect dishonesty in the argument here smh
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              MTL Ancestor
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              Brother it was yes or no question, which needed to be followed by explaining in simple terms what you meant.

              You seem to be mistaken what a straw doll argument is, it's not when somebody takes a step back and asks what you meant exactly, it's when somebody forcefeeds words like
              Why are you throwing a strawman here and saying as if I'm forcing my preferences on Eastern readers?I'm from the East too, and I detect dishonesty in the argument here smh
              Into somebody elses mouth and then bashes that imaginary opponent.

              Your original wording was a bit confusing and without a point due to which I felt a disconnect with your reply, so to not mistakingly argue needlessly, I asked for clarification.
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    Zoro57
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    Cultivating Common Sense In A Xianxia World


    Common sense & Xianxia World don't go hand in hand nuclear_lol

    A Xianxia World often illustrates -:
    1. Arrogant Young masters bolno
    2. Mysterious old beggar who is actually the strongest6
    3. Heaven defying protagonist hokage
    4. Brainless jade beauties reyna
    5. Sect elders with erectile dysfunction 15social
    6. Cuck Senior brothers j0j01 ur_gay
    7. A super duper ultra cultivation method that MC found on roadside positive cool_sbob
    8. Protagonist fighting 11major realms above his own walking_mg

    And much more..... uneasily01 wait_hmmm
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      traveler
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      brother go read The Mirror Legacy i started reading it 3 days ago and am at chapter 120.

      all charcters have their own persona and a working brain not the random dude with 2 braincells fighting for 3rd place.

      ngl reading it felt like my first read of Reverend Insanity, i thought my tongue became numb after reading peak novels but this one made me taste the flavours i missed so much
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        Bloodbath
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        bro you already past chapter 500??

        on a side Lich for hire is an incredible novel and mtl is fully translated
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          traveler
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          yes i am at chapter 537 as of right now boast

          i will try lich on hire after thanks for the recomendation wish
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    Abcisj
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    • 2.5
    2.5
    In a nutshell - the novel has a great a premise which is destroyed by the shitty ai used in writing . Glaring plot holes and inconsistencies exist in every plot point . Neither the mc nor the writing has any emotion . Actions are told not shown .
    All in all not great premise destroyed by shitty ai
    4/10 not recommended
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      Some_Guy
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      Shame, i was going to poison test this. Thanks for the warning.
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    Sage_Tersembunyi
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    Perutku sakit membaca sinopsisnya cheerful
    Sungguh gula manis yang lebih parah adalah penulisnya orang inggris troll3
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    azurecloud
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    Ch. 15
    This novel has the dream of being great, but its not. Its another self aggrantizing English original, that knows only how to tell not show. And what it tells about 3 times every chapter explicitly is: "Look how realistic and different I am compared to typical novels! Did you forget its an warring states era with no sects?"

    It is actually less realistic then typical Chiniese fast food murder hobo trash novel. Main theme is organisation building. And the crippled MC (he can't talk, needs to use his brother's mouth) acts as a leader of the village like in a SIMS game. The actual dialogue and interaction aren't shown, only brief summaries of what happened succesfully are presented. No one has conflicts, no one snitches, no one is lazy or afraid, everyone is ambitious to cultivate in this medieval village. Moreover all the villagers talk like emancipated college students devoted to the feminism revolution and enamored by self development psychology books. Ridiculous.

    Rating: 4.5/10 for it has some glimpses of what it could have been.
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      domestic.dove
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      knew it anything by RR or a xianxia story by a western author is 9/10 utter shit
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        azurecloud
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        true. didnt bother to mention it
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