Picked Up Celestial and Martial Dual Cultivation / Xian Wǔ Tóng Xiū (仙武同修)

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Was this comprehensive enough?

  1. Too much, I don't wanna read all that!

  2. Too little, need more info add an FAQ or something

  3. it's Just right... look out! There are three bears!

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  1. Omnifarious

    Omnifarious Re: member

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    Name: Celestial and Martial Dual Cultivation / Xian Wǔ Tóng Xiū (仙武同修)
    Author: Moon like Fire / Yuè Rú Huǒ (月如火)
    Raw Link: http://book.zongheng.com/book/367201.html
    Status: Complete at Chapter 2482 + 2 (author’s intro and author's post book afterthought)

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    Why It Should Get Picked Up:
    Erm… I read this last year, it was just a moderately entertaining action adventure story, with a gentle touch of romance, a slight hint of comedy, but no real moment that made me drop it and good enough for me to actually finished it.

    Have a few good points, the author did quite well building an interesting world that had its own myths and history. The MC's powers, even being transported to another world did not seem like random power-ups or by chance, but had its own reason, burden and an inherited legacy.

    Author enjoyed making a distinction between a sword wielder and a blade wielder. Where the sword is a weapon of heroes, The blade and blade users like the MC is something basic and singular in purpose.

    It did get a little trying by the end, but the 75% mark was definitely the high point.

    Over-all it was a really really, “ok” novel, but it did feel more “traditional” than most web novels. Felt simple, like a show you watch every night, and you'd tune in for a season finale but if you miss an episode it's not too big a deal, and could be something to do while you wait for what you actually like.

    Translation of official Description (need an editor):

    To master the highest class of celestial magic to prow the world audaciously. To shake the world with martial arts and defeat countless heroes! With a turn of his hand darken clouds and change the winds, cultivate both celestial powers and martial arts, who can surpass him!

    The shut-in Xiāo chen brought from Taobao (Chinese ebay) the 《Compendium of Daoist Cultivation》. With it he was transported to the Tiān Wǔ Continent, a place that value martial arts over all else. There he crafted dan and medicines, created talismans, set mystic arrays, forge magic items, and cultivated the Azure Dragon Battle Spirit thought to have been lost for a thousand years, with him, lies a magnificent hot blooded legend.

    Xiāo chen - 蕭晨
    Tiān Wǔ Continent - 天武 - Heavenly Martial
     
  2. Helix

    Helix Well-Known Member

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    ................................really? you sold the novel marvelously. great job! i'm sure this this amazingly "ok" novel will be picked up!
     
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  3. Someguy666

    Someguy666 MILF Sect Leader

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    About time MCs use something other than a Jian.
     
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  4. Omnifarious

    Omnifarious Re: member

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    :ROFLMAO: yeah, It is really ok, just ok and if it doesn't get picked up for not being AMAZING, *shrug* I don't really care :LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL:
     
  5. I Eat Monsanto

    I Eat Monsanto He who courts death

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    Wow everything I love in a MC wrapped into one, if I didn't misunderstand:

    1. Dual trains in magic AND martial arts
    2. Practices formations and the like (formations, alchemy, forging, etc.)
    3. Got romance
    4. Did I hear martial spirit? DRAGON martial spirit!?

    *Simon Cowell* "It's a yes from me"

    I hope it gets picked up

    Edit: aw poopstains it says battle spirit, is that the same as martial spirit?
     
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  6. EienMugetsuTensho

    EienMugetsuTensho [Avid Reader] [C#, C++, Python Programmer]

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    I also want to read this!
    Like OP's post to show support if you don't want to leave a post.
     
  7. Omnifarious

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    Yeah and the author plays with a lot of interesting ideas...

    I don't think this is a spoiler, tho it only gets revealed about 500 chapters in IIRC.

    The world exist is eras with dominating powers shifting back and forth.
    so for example, there is a Dentist era and the era ends, could be a number of reasons mysteriously or a cataclysmic event or some guy killing everyone because of a massive cavity, idk, after that maybe a Buddhist era will emerge where the most powerful people are Buddist and will use mantra etc and that would end, and maybe demons / dark arts will be the dominating power and it goes on endlessly.

    The interesting thing here is all this history of the eras that come before, some Temple or ruins that could be useless or useful tells of how things came to be. That was what I enjoyed most out of it
     
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    akki [Ani's C☕ffee-mate #3] [Shady Merchant]

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    It looks like the kinda thing I would read. Yup hope it gets picked up~
     
  9. Omnifarious

    Omnifarious Re: member

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    Yep... it's interchangeable I thought...
     
  10. I Eat Monsanto

    I Eat Monsanto He who courts death

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    Why isn't this story being translated (T¿T)
     
  11. Omnifarious

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    If I am not misunderstanding the annual ranking was 107 and the monthly ranking was 117

    It is good... but just not good enough. to make top 100 :LOL::LOL:
     
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  12. EienMugetsuTensho

    EienMugetsuTensho [Avid Reader] [C#, C++, Python Programmer]

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    Well, different cultures have different beliefs and values. In the west, it may be more popular and some other novels may do worse.
     
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    True, I think a few months ago I was reading a novel, that did terribly in the rankings. My phone was fried since and I have forgotten what the title is. But the author was someone that wrote stories that examined the genre of rebirth and transported to another world. The title was like, Why is Rebirth or what's with Rebirth or something.

    IIRC. the MC was hunted by people who claims to have lived their lives, died in the future and came back to live life again. According to these people, the MC was going to do something bad to them, that's why they want to kill him.

    It's quite an interesting take, I think it was only a hundred or a bit more chapters. but you can see why it would not make it high in the rankings it's unique and fresh but it is not what people are looking for when they pick up a CN.

    But yes I do find the top 100 don't tend to have a great deal of variety or simply more gratuitous in what the author put in them, which is fine, I guess...
     
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  14. I Eat Monsanto

    I Eat Monsanto He who courts death

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    I take it nobody wishes to translate this *sigh* wish I could read the raw
     
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    Hmm, DragonInWhite from Gravity tales here, I'll take a look and consider. I'll let you guys know in a couple of days if I pick it up.
     
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    Hey DragonInWhite here again, i read to about chap 30 so far and i am quite liking it so far. So, I will be picking it up. It will take some time for it to get onto the gravity site, but i will throw some unedited chaps up on the gravity forums first. Do me a favor, change this to picked up pls, so that it does not get picked up by other people while im getting the novel translated.

    Ps i will throw up a link for the forums when i throw the first chap up, should be within a week.
     
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    Wujigege *Christian*SIMP*Comedian

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    You could let the mods know @OverlyFriendly
     
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    OverlyFriendly I should do something about

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    Novelupdates page so I can add it to my "Haven't started yet" list?
     
  20. DragonInWhite

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    I made a start on the prologue, here's the link for some unedited chapters, while I wait for it to get onto the main site

    Apparently, I can't link cause I have not posted enough here, anyway just go to the gravity forums > Translated stories