Recommendations Cultivation novel with no bad cliché's?

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  1. mja

    mja Well-Known Member

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    Please recommend any novels with...

    No arrogant young masters
    No face slapping
    No spirit uncle
    No overpowered cheats

    ... if they exist
     
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    legend of the great sage and World of Cultivation !!! definitely the two xianxia novels i’ve read that stick out the most to me
     
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    Bobwillrule Supreme Ruler of Bobylon

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    All of the cultivation has at least ONE arrogant young master. It's always there, like air.
    Try Desolate Era, it has fewer arrogant young masters
     
  5. Alamand

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    Beware of Chicken over on royalroad sounds like what you might be looking for, though arrogant young masters do show up once or twice. And I guess the MC does kinda have a cheat, but he just wants to be a farmer so he doesn't really realize it.

    to give a brief summary: standard isekai xianxia start except this time it's a genre savvy canadian taking over the body, he immediately fucks off from the sect to go to the lowest level region to be a farmer. But it's not just slice of life, there's actually some really interesting plot threads and deconstruction of xianxia tropes that keeps things interesting.
     
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    perspherspley IZ*ONE

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    Very original cultivation novel, no cliches.
    祖宗在上
     
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    Definitely like great sage. It's a great novel with a harem that actually works somehow. The girls actually have some sort of features that makes them stand out instead of just the same thing with a slightly different personality. It starts out slow but definitely a good read.
     
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    HC I eat, read, die

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    Well ISSTH the whole thing reads like a gag,bout unfortunately it has face slapping cliches but it’s done ironically
     
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    I don't know about overpowered cheats, but 'Beware of Chicken' on RoyalRoad fits.