As always, if anyone would be willing to translate this story, that'd be amazing! I recently even went to the hell that is Lnmtl to try and see if I could stomach it, I found myself completely unable to, so again I sincerely hope some translator that's okay with qidian terms would pick it up. I can easily say that if the quality of the first 150 chapters continue for the whole story that it'd be my number 1 chinese novel. Anyway sorry about the silent hope of mine, and to anyone that read this, please have a very nice day.
LOTCG has 5215 chapters, each one 3x the length of normal chapters. And there is currently a sequel being written by the author. There is no way a translator will pick this up. Anyway, Stark3 who wrote this review: https://www.novelupdates.com/series/legend-of-the-cultivation-god/#comment-56361 Completed the novel, he gives some important spoilers here: https://forum.novelupdates.com/thre...red-by-desolate-era.49958/page-2#post-3504964
It's good right? I realky enjoy Zhang Xiaohua as a main character, he's much more interresting than the vast majority of Xianxia main characters, I also really like that the story has a very diverse cast, all of whom seem to be given care and importance by the author.
But reading the sequel without the prequel, especiallg when you've already started the prequel, and you love it very much, without knowing if it'll be ever translated, just feels wrong.
You can try the MTL of the novel. LNMTL runs on Systran and incorporates term glossary, so if Google Translate give 50% understandable translation, Systrans boosts it to 80-85%. Last TLed of the novel was ch. 159, so try reading chapters from ch. 150-159 again before getting started with MTL at chapter 160. https://lnmtl.com/chapter/legend-of-the-cultivation-god-chapter-160 The grammar would be worse than anything you've read, but the flow of the story is the same and there are terms for names, places, techniques and everything else so that it is at least readable.
I've tried to suffer through MTL 6 times, but I'ma bit of a perfectionist, and reading it in that quality, destroys the fun of it for me :/
If you want a site with better MTL than LNMTL, then you can go to ComradeMao.com There's hundreds of novels and people regularly make terms and improve the reading quality.
Systrans has its own engine as MTL translation engine. ComradeMao uses Google Translate's translation engine. However, both are MTL. They can't ever measure up to good English translations by hardworking translators. If you are planning to read MTL, be prepared. It is going to be the worst grammar that you've ever read +1, the sentence structure is garbled so you have to make sense of words by yourself and half of the time you have to re-read sentences since they don't make sense at first read. If you WANT to get started with MTL though, I'd recommend switching from good translations to worse MTL-assisted ones. Qidian has plenty of those. To start with, I'd rec this one novel: Daoist Master of Qing Xuan It has a good chill start in the mortal world, MC is pretty no-kill kinda guy and it has Daoism and such - the flavour is similar to LOTCG's TLed chapters. It also has terrible editing though, and that's why I am recommending it to you. https://www.novelupdates.com/series/daoist-master-of-qing-xuan/
Thanks for the suggestion, but the problem is that what I desire to read is LoTCG, not similar stories /:
Well... If you want to read LOTCG in full flavour, I can't recommend anything apart from learning Chinese to read the original work. MTL is the second best alternative, and LNMTL has the best version AFAIK. If you want to ease reading difficulties, you can only try getting used to terrible grammar (that's why I recced that story, reading it would make MTL easier on your eyes.) Or you could hire a Chinese translator to TL it, but that would take a ridiculous amount of money. LOTCG has LONG chapters and a LONG amount of chapters. Only a Saudi oil-money tycoon could shell out those mad bucks.
Phew reading the start of the story again is tough this time, as my own grandmother died not even a month ago.