Beware of Chicken: A Xianxia Cultivation Novel

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The story is told partly in first person but often moves to other points of view, even within the same chapter. Why first person, then? The answer, I think, is the wish fulfillment aspect of it, which is done quite badly here in general: The protagonist reincarnates from our world into a fantasy world, but it seems the author didn't put much thought into why. He reincarnates into an existing person and gains all of his memories, so this isn't a plot device to have a clueless protagonist who has to learn about the world alongside the reader. He also doesn't seem to have any specific motivations or regrets from his past life, which are another popular reason to use an Isekai premise (redoing one's life, avoiding past mistakes). Add to that the unfitting first-person partial narration, and the fact that everyone seem to immediately idolize this guy's character even though he's just an average guy with superpowers, and what you get is a wish-fulfillment fantasy that's badly executed on all fronts. Seriously, the majority of every character's inner monologue is about how amazing the protagonist is. It goes on for the entire book. Gou Ren shrugged. “I can afford it. I got my cut of the cash for the harvest. It's shitloads of money… more than I kind of know what to do with.” It expected pain. The ripping tearing sensation. Like a beaten dog, it cringed and cowered, trying to escape from the agony that was sure to come. Yet it could not move. All it could do was endure.

And so I thought… Well, there are some things I wanna remember properly and you could teach me how to get some good recordings?” The project had come about after Yun Ren asked how the sword, which had no physical eyes, could see things coming. A slow, simple, fulfilling life in a place where nothing exciting or out of the ordinary ever happens…right? I'm having a really hard time describing this, even in my head. It's an isekai story, though only barely. We learn early that the protagonist is from our world, but few details beyond that he's familiar with Xianxia stories and feels like he is in one. Which allows him to hang a giant nope sign on the future he's currently on and find somewhere to live quietly on his own farm.A note about Xianxia: I admit I have no idea what this word/genre actually means beyond that it's a type of Chinese adventure story. Contextually, it means something with noble heroes battling for supremacy in deadly duals against man and beast alike, all searching to be the best and bloodiest. But I can't vouch for it that I understand it beyond the internal clues of this story. I'm not sure if it would have been more engaging if I knew more of the genre or not. It slumbered, under the blanket of cold. It slumbered in peace for the first time it could remember. The night terrors were kept at bay by the Chunky one, and the Connected One. No grasping hands, and consuming maws bothered its sleep. Xianghua and her brother were already up, it seemed. Xianghua was carrying a steaming pot of tea ready to serve, clearly meant for them. Both were talking, but Xianghua looked up and tapped her brother, who brightened at the sight of them. Jin Rou (Originally known as Jin Rou, his name is reversed part way through Volume 1 to obfuscate his trail from potential enemies from the Cloudy Sword Sect.) Yun Ren’s eyes widened. “You’re looking to buy one?” His brother had been a little interested before, but outright asking Yun Ren for one?

It recoiled. It was vindicated in its distrust. The other dared to offer them tainted energy, the energy that hurt it! It fled from the other, and rejected it's touch. It fled deep, and dispersed, ready for another bout of pain. Ten cycles became twenty. Twenty became thirty. And the wound...started to stop hurting. Its last piece of what could only charitably called “self” pulled itself out of the diffuse chaos, and mire of grinding pain. It reached blindly for the light, grasping eagerly, desperately for the one that was healing it's wounds.Yun Ren had taken to sparring a bit with Tigu, after the whole debacle at the Dueling Peaks. The girl was actually a fairly good teacher— and then Xiulan, Bi De, and Jin had all joined in. Overall, I found this book OK. If you are into slice of life, with a lot of focus on romance then I would certainly give this book a go. Their connection was saturated with all the pitiful dregs of power they had in that area. Some leaked, it was inevitable, but they needed it now. To give their all, for each other.

At first, there was bare existence. A mass of conflicting feelings and instinctual reactions. Thought, without thought. Feeling without feeling. The world's setting was very interesting. I wanted to figure out more and more about how the world functions and is made, which you get decent glimpses into throughout the book.While he works on the farm by planting rice and building himself a small house, he meets the locals in the nearby town as well as people and animals coming out of the nearby forest. He wants a quiet life, but things don't go quite that way. He gently leaned a shining white sword against a log and placed a cup of tea before it. The sword was, even to his inexperienced eyes, a masterpiece. The inscription on the blade read Summer’s Sky. Elder Xian taught me how to make this one,” Yun Ren said to the blade as he flexed his Qi, warming up the misty feeling in his gut until it felt like the sun’s rays. The sword rattled in approval.

Both of those elements are crammed into this book in abundance to the point where I was reading this story with a massive smile on my face from the beginning of the book right through to the end. This book offers the familiar wonders of the Xianxia / Cultivation magic system, but takes it down a less traditional path, as the protagonist chooses a different life path than other cultivation novel protagonists. This opens this magic system up to a whole new setting giving the story countless opportunities to take this magic system to new places and it certainly does so here.litRPG (which this novel is not, and I have yet to try properly, that's what the KU free trial is for) The preparations for the sleep continued. The other continued to seek them out, and offer tainted energy. It ignored it while prodding at the trees that were supposed to produce sugar. They were supposed to be sweeter than this! the trees upon it were good and evident, so they listened, and prepared with it.