Unintended ImmortalityThe Unintentional Path to Immortality

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Unintended Immortality is a calm and slow paced journey through China by the talking cat Lady Calico and her pet Daoist priest Song You. While there is an overarching plot that develops, the general framing device is that the Daoist needs to come down from the mountain for at least 20 years, and just see where that takes him, and that first takes him to rescuing an unsanctioned cat god and agreeing to reform it as a good Daoist. After that, the novel is mostly a slice-of-life, with Song You and Lady Calico just existing, walking, bantering, seeing the sights, and cultivating meditatively. Occasionally there are some wondrous spectacles involving gods, demons, and daoist magic, but it's not the focus. So don't read if that's a deal breaker for you. But do read if you love cats. The author is clearly a great observer of cats and that really shines through with the descriptions of Lady Calico's mannerisms and her laser focus on getting Song You to eat rats.

As far as the translation itself is concerned, trust that the translator wctan did a good job and has an excellent command of the English language. The novel at times is very poetic, and this is preserved in an understandable way, which I assume was very tough.

The novel also has some parts where it tries to be subtle, with small hints of foreshadowing in lots of chapters. If you're not paying attention you could miss them like I did where there were things practically spelled out in the first chapter that I didn't understand until dozens of chapters later... Possibly because I glossed over it, but from other novels on this site I've been trained that anything important will be spelled out much more directly and to not read too much into word choices since they might not realize every connotation of a word they used. Not so in this translation. If wctan used a word with subtle connotations, wctan meant all of them.

On a meta level, the way this novel is written and paced has made me wonder if it is meant to indirectly guide the reader in understanding the Dao and Daoist philosophy. I haven't found any other novels on here that have made me think that I was cultivating just by reading the novel. Bravo to the author Golden Jasmine Flower and wctan for that, too, as I think that shows how carefully this was written and how carefully it was translated.

a masterpiece in its genre!especially how the main character taught and mentored his cat(lady calico)many should follow his example.
5/5

(up to chapter 169 review only.)
This novel is amazing, the characters are really well done. the dialogue between Lady Calico and Song You is especially well. Aside from the dialogue, the world building is decent. You Learn as the MC, Song You, learns as well. There is some good history aswell, but its not the main focus of the novel, so it doesn't feel like the world is being built as the story goes.

The biggest thing some will want to know is, how are the fights? to be honest, there isn't many really. The characters who are important realize their mistakes and accept punishment, or the power difference between Song You and them is so big that it ends quickly. And IMO, that's fine, action isnt the focus of this story, and its still really nice seeing our usually tame MC just completely overwhelm them. ( He is also incredibly talented in spells, like a spell that takes regular people ten years, he claims it took him 3 days to master. but its not like an op mc typa of talent, its barely brought up.)

The Story is slow for the most part, its usually just seeing the MC and his companions (usually only Lady Calico, but sometimes someone else, like Heroine Wu.) walking and seeing what they want to see on a whim. MC hears the capital is nice? He walks there. A rumor of an immortal on Mount Yuding? he walks there. and every time I love it.

TLDR; a slow series about a daoist doing daoist things. 5/5.

Will you add ai translation for every novels

This novel is good but our mc cup his fist to everyone ,for example mouse,cat,horse ,ant idk but the translator or author way of writing is good but I dont like it this novel is not a novel where arrogant young master will try to kill the mc
This novel is repetive like cat eating ,cat drinking,cat learning ,it will repeat till end

#panic# is it possible to run the mtl chapters through GPT like with the latest novels added to the site?