The Ancient Strengthening Technique

I read this book on the Lightnovel World website, and I had just remembered that I'd forgotten to drop a review on it, so here I am. This book was pretty bad. Actually, it's really bad. Contstructurally, it had no overarching plotline whatsoever; the mc, in a world of cultivation, kept on getting stronger throughout the majority of the book for no good reason whatsoever. He had a reason for getting stonger at the start of the book, but within a couple hundred chapters, that reason was fullfilled. Normally, main characters -- even when losing their original drive to become stronger -- would still insist on becoming stronger just so that they could protect their loved ones from a looming evil that threatens to embroil the entire world in the flames of war... That doesn't hapen in this book unfortunately. This is what I meant by the book having no plotline whatsoever; there's literally no reason for the continued existence of the book past the first couple hundred chapters. It exists just for the sake of existing. So I'm sure your question now is: what does take place in this book for the rest of the 2000 chapters or so? Well, it only consists of the mc going to a place with stronger opponents, flirting with chicks, offending arrogant young masters (who think with their genitals) because he has beatiful women as wives, beating them up (not even killing them, because the mc doesn't like killing people), beating up their uncles and ancestors, only for this entire ordeal to end with the mc destroying the entire clan, then it's rinse, cycle, repeat. That's it; that's the entire 'plot' of this book. It's real garbage. Also, the world building is awful in this book as well. It would take ages if I wanted to explain why, so I'll just make it succint: there is only one world and it's small, so the author kind of crams in all the cultivation levels within this book into this small world and since there's no real barrier between regions that would prevent, let's say, a person at the ninth cultivation realm to set up shop in a 'first cultivation realm starting village' area, the author often takes advantage of that fact to cheaply introduce newer and stronger forces in places the mc's already been to and surpassed a few hundred chapters prior. But because the mc was weak at the time, he hadn't noticed these forces. It's just very annoying and gives off a feeling that the mc isn't advancing whatsoever. He's always stuck within this 'box' and can never step out of it; you'll have to read this book for you to understand what I actually mean. Also, I've read over a hundred similar novels, and this mc is probably my least favourite out of all of them. Not because he's a horny b*stard with over 30 wives. No, it's because the author thought it would be a good idea to have his mc have a crippling inferiority complex trait. No matter how many beatiful women he has by his side at any given moment, if he's courting a new woman, the author would immediately bust out the "I don't feel like I'm deserving of having your love" statement, which would extend an otherwise simple love affair into a one hundred chapter-long pointless drama. It's honestly disgusting how overused this plot device is throughout the book, especially since the mc has a time chamber plot device where's he's spent hundreds of years in. You'd think that a centuries old old-man wouldn't have the emotional maturity of a child. Maddening stuff. Also, the mc is a disgusting rapist b*stard. He once threatened a woman into having s*x with him. That's like the most lowly thing I've ever seen a main character do, and I almost threw up. Worst mc ever. Oh, that reminds me of the last thing I wanted to mention about this book: its plotholes. Honestly, rather than talking about how many plotholes it had, it would be easier to talk about the plot holes it didn't have. There were just so many things in the book, such as the time chamber plot device that he got at the beginning, whose origins went unanswered. The book just ended abrubtly without the mc even reaching the peak of the world in power. Again, maddening! The characters in the book were as lifeless and one dimensional as they could possibly be, and the fighting scenes in this book were god-awful. It felt like I was reading a book about Yu-Gi-Oh, or something, where the mc throws skills and debuff effects at people instead of reading a book that has dynamic fights with description-full scenes. It also didn't help that, although the mc got an 'ancient inheritance' at the beginning of the book that allows him to cultivate in a different path than other people, he's actually much weaker than people who are at the same level as him... Honestly, the only reason why I ever continued reading the book till the end was because of the occasional ecchi stuff (sue me). So yeah, don't read this book if you fancy your sanity.

It was your average novel. Though the MC did not reach the highest realm known or speculated in the world. Filled with too many woman which was a pain in the a*s. But if you got time to kill give it a read. The translation was solid.

At first I thought I'd stumbled upon another good tittle and it would keep me engrossed for a while. Unfortunately I remembered that I read this book all the way through about two years ago.... All I can say is that it's a solid tittle for 4. With an ok main character , but some of his wives are too much of a piss off. If you have the time and inclination, enjoy the read