A Record Of A Mortal's Journey To Immortality - Novel Updates

MC has a low talent and finds OP item to compensate. MC is claimed to be a genius (in terms of his cunning not in terms of his cultivation ability) but is actually rather s*upid at times. Everyone is obsessed with face, young masters cause trouble, robbers and rapists everywhere (although with a heavier focus on the robbers and few rapists, fewer as time progresses)

MC is somehow an expert in predicting the actions of other people despite the fact he was a random peasant child when he was recruited into a sect, and spent most of his formative years meditating alone in a cave (and most of his life, by age 200 he spent maybe 20 years outside of secluded meditation). He is obsessed with hiding his strength and being low key, but actually has good IC reasons for doing so in the form of his first master plotting against him and hiding his abilities being the key to his survival.

c441 update:

The fight scenes start out interesting but quickly become horribly bland and also quite s*upid, with author having nonsensical timing for things. MC attacked on his turn, then its the enemy turn, the enemy orders his disciples to surround the MC and trap him in a formation... and then they do it, because its their turn I guess so the MC doesn't use the fact that as someone who is a whole realm higher and someone who specialized in speed he should be able to easily avoid getting surrounded by them; sometimes the MC shoots attacks faster than anyone can escape, other times everyone casually sidesteps his attacks because reasons.

MC forsakes all human relationship to literally spends the vast majority of his life in a cave cultivating, he only leaves his cave when he runs out of resources, and he makes sure to push away all attempts by others to connect with him, whether romantically or just friendships. And whenever he exits the cave to acquire more resources it becomes a disaster where literally everyone but the MC dies. The MC survives thanks to plot armor, and then uses the newly gained treasure to go back into seclusion cultivation.

I know this sounds terrible, but it is much better than it sounds. So I give it 3 out of 5 starts and am still reading it

c992 update:

For hundreds of chapters now, every time MC is fighting a strong enemy, some lolrandumb thing will happen to stop the fight just as the MC is finally starting to win. Like "a devil that was imprisoned for a million years was suddenly released by completely unrelated people and thus the fight was broken up" or "extremely rare mists sweep in and teleport the party to another dimension" or "a plot of 500 years comes to fruition seconds before the MC kills this powerful enemy a million miles from current location, thus breaking up the 4 containment wards in the 4 zones of great danger and replacing them with random teleportation wards instead, MC being in one of them he is then randomly teleported away seconds before finishing off said enemy" or "the MC and the enemy delivered such a powerful strike that it could shatter space, coincidentally there was a wandering demiplane that just passed by that breaks opens and sucks them in" or "a plot of 200 years between peak cultivators for this realm of existence comes to fruition and they fight each other, coincidentally sweeping towards the MC's location". And so on and so forth.

None of those random things happen when MC closes up to cultivate for hundreds of years, or is fighting scrubs, or losing a battle and needs to run. They only ever happen when MC is fighting a final boss type character in a battle that lasts several pages, and only when MC is starting to win. Seriously, the author has a problem. This is very annoying.

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