Question Why the overblown stats in Chinese novels?

It's a pretty a recurring theme in Chinese novels.

MC levels up, becomes powerful enough to fly at 20 billion miles an hour.
Or he can resist a hit of 50 million degrees. But the antagonist can resist 60 millions degrees, oh no.

I get that big numbers look cooler, but surely authors should know that we can't picture that kind of speed or heat, right?
Wouldn't saying something like 1000 or 2000 degrees be enough? At least anyone can picture that, it's around the temperature to melt steel, they can imagine it.
And 600mph, for example, would work better too. It's around the speed of a plane, which we can imagine.
The MC would seem weaker, but if every character is balanced like him, it won't make a difference, and at least we'll have an idea of what's going on.

I feel like this is sacrificing the immersion to boost the impressiveness of the situation, to make everything look bigger. But then again, every other chapter is here to make things look bigger, so why kill the immersion for it?

 

Probably going for MC is so strong to the point we cant comprehend?

 

So they can have trillions of word count and keep you reading for chaos cycles.

To be honest it's not that unrealistic, look at all the bits we use now compared to decades ago. We're nearing petabytes?

 

Not really, What's the top speed of superman or the flash?

 

so that they can write the number 100.000.000.000 and have typed 12 character for nothing and gain money with usless stats.....

 

I think it is for VS threads that are popular here and there...

 

I think it's mostly for the wow factor but another issue is that with such long novels you have to make the character keep getting stronger right? And if the gap between each realm is as huge as "the difference between sky and earth" as they like to say, then the power inflation becomes ridiculous after a while. If they start off breaking rocks, then iron, then steel, then admantium, from there? Just keep getting bigger until they break mountains, continents, planets, stars, and then galaxies.

How the world even manages to exist when there are such destructive forces just casually walking around is a mystery.

 

For the sake of bitch slaps and punch to the face regardless of gender~

 

Yeah, they're ridiculous, but nothing in the billions.
When flash goes past Mach 3, he goes through time, so there is basically a limit to how fast he can go, plus that's his only power technically, he can't also revive the dead and turn them into his army.
As for Superman, well, yeah, that's what I'm talking about, but he exists for the sake of being the most powerful, he has no enemies as powerful as him. There is one superman, not a quadrillion Superman fighting each other.
Plus he's a very difficult character to write for precisely because of this. Many Superman stories are boring for this exact reason, and that's well known. DC is constantly doing their best to nerf him, add weaknesses to him. It's not a trope you want to push yourself into.
Everyone prefers Batman anyway.

 

Yeah, but only to end up offering a worse reading experience because of it. It's a rookie mistake but it's ridiculously wide-spread.

 

Kek. I laughed so hard. This is how i felt when reading Emperor Domination. And one of the reason i put it on hold. Invisible Dragon is better, at least i can picture the scene.
Imagine an enemies tossing a planet like a marble to mc. Mc will tossing a sun and the enemies still survive lol . And slaughtering a trillion armies in instant.

 

you need to watch deathbattles. the flash and superman can move many times the speed of light. mach 3 is nothing for the flash anymore

 

this actually bothers me too. Theoretically worlds like these are impossible to exist unless the universe or at least that galaxy was made by magic or something

 

Because they don't want a character that strong. They want a character that can shatter planets and such. Basically gods fighting out in the universe. The reader not being able to directly comprehend the numbers is less important than the sense of gods fighting.

There's magic in most of them. They get stronger by comprehending the magical laws of the universe.

 

Yeah, stangely, despite the huge numbers, invisible dragon is still the best. It's all about the craft, you know.

 

Well, that's alright as long as the world stays coherent with itself. Just that humongous numbers are useless. It's like trying to read your score on Giga wing.
But maybe it really is for VS threads.

 

You haven't seen the Marvel or DC multiverse's power scaling. I doubt even end game CN MCs can compare to some of them... Like, holy shit.

 

Can't argue with that. Invisible dragon are 100000000time grater then normal.

 

it is bothering me personally. Like, going at those speeds or having those temperatures, stuff should break into molecular dust or disintegrate. I think it is for dramatic effects and I try to just brush past it, but it is still bothering me.

 

Meh, I don't really like comic books really, especially the ones that go overboard. When you go overboard, you either do a bad but coherent story or an okay and incoherent story. Like when batman got the throne of knowledge and asked the stupidest question of them all and then just forgot about it.