Outside of Time [Webnovel]Beyond the Timescape • 光阴之外

Why is so much text missing?

I must say that this novel fell short in many ways where it shouldn't have. The plot felt like an experiment with a character design that seems popular among readers and which Er Gen tried to put his own spin on. This resulted in a story lacking suspense, filled with plot holes, and characterised by fundamental flaws in the design of its characters, as well as other issues. The world setting is captivating and surreal, did take hints from Lord of the Mysteries but it was special in its own way, and I just wish if he further expanded on it instead of wasting with everything else.

To avoid spoiling the novel too much, I will only mention that Er Gen chose to create a Lylin-like character who is cold, emotionless, but calculative and intelligent. However, this character's development was handled poorly. The author relied on one plot device after another to give the main character a "good" heart. For example, early in the story, he is lifted up by a loving grandpa, a kind medicine teacher, and someone that introduces him to the clan, followed by a revenge plot, which then simmers down once he joins a clan.

Once the protagonist becomes part of the clan, Er Gen almost completely abandons everything he used in the beginning and decides to start fresh with a new personality. This new personality is much colder, less approachable, and it feels like a whole different person from the original one we were introduced to earlier. The issue here is that these two arcs created two different characters, and we are supposed to treat them as one. And I will not even get started about the author tried to introduce a boat-like cultivation system only for it to be discarded as well and only used for "fast travel" to put it simply.

This inconsistency continues throughout the story, with critical instances such as a fight over a plate being made ever so important in the beginning only to be explained off later as an unimportant treasure chest. Or the characters he met in the beginning being all but recalled once every 30 chapters, but otherwise remain forgotten. Many other instances like this one keep appearing, from the cheat the protagonist had at the beginning forming consciousness to other aspects of his development.

In summary, this book feels like a mess, with inconsistent character development and plot devices that do not hold up. After reading almost 270 chapters, I must admit that unlike every other novel Er Gen has released, this will be the only one I leave unfinished. I am mildly disappointed to say the least.

10/10

Damn, this Christmas theme is looking real slick... Brings back old memories, now its so much tougher to find good novels when compared to last year

Has the current arc finished?

#panic# missing chapter 915

its like reading 3 different kind of novel in one book

In death blade translation only 250+ chapters are translated
But WN somehow translated 850+ chapters when original have 700+ till now

Search Beyond the Timescape

Reading webnovels for so long has also corrupted me.
I couldn't recognise how inferior the webnovel translation was compared to Deathblade's. Many terms that have been left as it is in the webnovel translation have been translated properly by Deathblade. He's on a league of his own.
Luckily I found his version before getting too far into this improved mtl one.