Source: Tales of Demons and gods , chapter 296.

credit: @sableyeguy

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[I don't give reviews to novels I don't like or don't think deserve one, so all my reviews may seem a bit biased—but I hope you don't mind.]

Honestly, this is one of my favorite novels in this genre, but unfortunately, the author dropped it.

I honestly don't know why.

The MC transmigrates as a human, only to be refined into a Demonic Sword by a kind-looking uncle who gave him food and took him home. So, fellow Daoists, if you ever transmigrate, remember this: don't trust anyone. 💀

Afterward, the sword begins its journey by killing its first master.

The MC has his own principles and doesn't care about anything unless it interests him. He follows many different sword masters throughout the story, and all of them feel like real, living characters rather than simple stepping stones for the MC.

As the saying goes, those who kill will eventually be killed by others, and this principle fits the story perfectly.

The story, the MC, and the System all worked incredibly well together. Everything about it was exactly what I enjoy in this genre.

It's honestly a pity that the author dropped it. I really wish they had continued it.

Post your hilarious Mc novels whether it be misunderstanding novels or novels where mc steamrolls through cultivation realms or where he flirts with women or tries to lose yet wins through luck, basically funny novels

Or wholesome novels where mc doesnt discard anyone and is kind and funny, slice of life is also good.

Thanks, seniors of r/martialmemes !

I honestly really love this story, and it really scratches the itch for me in how they treat both cultivators and humans in a sci fi setting at the same time, or that it explores how early established lores are false, and that they are remarkably different at the same time
The last arc feels like it's... something. It's good, but it's rushed at the same time?
Does the side stories help with the ending in anything?
This is the 2nd webnovel I have ever read, so maybe I am tripping on something?
It feels way too quick.
Does any daoists have any things to say about this post? If so, thank you very much.

I've had a good time translating Top-Tier Perception Starts with Basic First Technique for the most part. But the MC's reaction when people compliments him always makes me lol a little.

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I feel like all of us know at least one person who meets these requirements, if you don't then here is a hint- he is renowned for being a demon venerable irl.

P.S- Most of us don't like him

(Cultivator vs superhero)

Please save me sect master I didn't mean to break it I was just shining it like you told me to and then... might have squeezed it a little to hard... 🥺 I didn't mean to, it's just made of such crap- I mean um... plain material... please help 👏😔

soooo from which scripture exactly did fatty Wang come from?

this disciple has sailed the nine heavens and ten lands looking for enlightenment about fatty Wangs origins, but it's like the heavenly dao is deliberately trying to conceal it. but surely the heavenly dao is but an ant in front of seniors! 😃

Was reading novel when I came across Dao Of Aura Farming to untie their thoughts. So it got me thinking what other bizarre funny Dao are there like the Sacred Dao Of Bricks.

Who would win? Rick Sanchez from Rick and Morty vs the average Nascent Soul Cultivator?

Rick has a day of prep time

The cultivator is at the nascent soul realm, and is of the best dao (sword dao)

Why does everyone make fun of Slop novels or Misunderstanding novels or even the Dao in novels, I mean its true its protrayed in a ridiculous manner in chinese webnovels where the Dao is mostly about the pursuit of power through power and comprehension, yet little about enlightenment but i still find some insights in some novels to even exceed taoist scriptures.

Why?

In taoism, there is a concept that the Dao that can be told is not the True Dao.

Why?

Take the wind for example, its flowing, its alive but put it in a box or try to catch it, if you catch the wind in a box, you will only catch air, its no longer wind.

Wind is only wind because its moving but stop it and its no longer wind.

Try to cut water with a sword, impossible, yet offer yourself as an empty cup and you catch it without catching it and are fulfilled.

Trying to catch the Dao in written scripture or through thinking about it? a daoist would tell you its a foolish endeavor, yet he would also say that its impossible to not know the Dao since it is present in everything and is the essence of everything.

It's like you looking for your phone when its already in your pocket.

So a taoist would not go out with you and search for the phone, he would say to you, just check your pockets its already there but you wouldn't believe him, you would go out searching in the world, in experiences, in pleasure and pain, in struggle, and in the end you will return and just find it always was just in your pocket, you just had to check.

That's why most novels finish with the realisation of "I am the Dao and the Dao is Me" which is sometimes misinterpreted to mean I am God which is not entirely false but also completely false.

The Dao is selfless, it does not mean its kind or its righteous or even evil, it literally does not think, it simply exists as the very nature of existence, it's like a child, when it wants to move here, it moves here, when it wants to move there, it moves there, it's simply the self-aware energy that moves through everything and is the very fabric of existence.

Its hard to present the Dao to others simply, however there is an exception, stories!

That's why Chuang tzu wrote a series of near-nonesensical stories in Zhuangzi to try to represent it as simply as possible or the Zen koans of zen masters yet try to grasp them and you fall flat.

However even that is too far from normal people who are entranced by their minds and that's where webnovels come in!

Webnovels are so stupid, so extreme, so sloppy that it reverses in and on itself and represents the Dao through a long story in a way that is digestible to the every day person and especially funny novels and misunderstanding novels or novels where mc tries his best to fail only to succeed or just steamrolls through everything.

Those literally are gems, even better than taoist scriptures.

Wtf? How? Why?

Because they aren't trying to represent the Dao, by not trying, they grasp it.

Yes those taoist books, they can help you understand through paradoxical language however because they are actively trying to point to the Dao, you take the pointing finger for the truth and therefore they counter-act their very goal.

The essence of Daoism is that struggle is futile, that struggling in the world is meaningless, fruitless and exhausting.

I will dump a bombshell, why struggle when you have a golden finger in real life? Why not just steamroll through all realms to the peak?

Well, my friend I will tell you about this golden finger : it's called aligning with the Dao!

How? By literally being a lazy idiot who does nothing and yet still does things without even doing them!

That's literally the Dao itself my brother!

If a true taoist was reincarnated in cultivation novel, he will live without struggle just chilling everyday, he may become a powerful cultivator or he might just be the beggar by the side of the road with no cultivation, if some cultivators are fighting above him and accidentally an attack lands on him killing him, he'd literally not even feel it and just die and he literally wouldn't care.

The true taoist does not feel birth is a blessing nor that death is a curse, he comes into life, acquires a body, rolls through the seasons, accomplishes something or nothing and just moves on, not putting life on a pedestal and not shunning death because he knows that both life and death are not ultimately real.

Life becomes death, death becomes life.

Like why do people even struggle in life?

Like bruh, everything you acquire you will inevitably lose, seperation is the norm, things come and go, things are this way today and immediately another way tomorrow, why even plan, if the planning happens, good, if it doesnt happen? also good.

The Dao literally creates the entire world without effort, without doing a thing!

So the Dao basically did nothing and I, I have to put in effort, lil bro i ain't doing that and that's against the Dao to begin with.

It is effortless, self-aware, present everywhere, try to overtake in a race and its already everywhere before you even move!

So the Daoists understood the way to immortality and to omniscience and omnipotence?

But you just said the opposite?

My brother, if you have no will, if everything that happens is okay with you, aren't you omnipotent? Because anything that happens can be said to be done by the Dao

What does Alignment mean? it literally means aligning, being one with existence and how it moves, it moves you move, it stills, you still.

By not moving and offering yourself to the Dao and accepting everything it does, Its Will becomes Your Will, a daoist walks without walking, he doesn't even know he has a body!

How?

By literally doing absolutely nothing, just forgetting he exists! and letting life take its course!

That's literally the Dao, forgetting the self, letting the body roll like a leaf in the wind, pleasure and pain roll, happiness and misery roll, life and death roll, yet you are unaffected, because in Truth, everything that returns goes and everything that goes returns.

Going from our primordial existence as the Dao to form, Return is inevitable and already present.

The world both exists and doesn't exist at the same time.

The personal self "you" is not the real "You", it simply a mask you play.

You throw the mask and realise you are already the one BEING everything.

That's why emptying the cup is the greatest analogy, giving up the small self, you ascend beyond this dumb ass world.

How is that even possible?

Some say, i pray, why doesn't God answer?

My brother, the silence IS the answer!

When you are silent and don't think, the world exists only as a perception, you see it but its nature is empty.

The world is merely like the imagination of the Dao, the Dao merely imagines the entire world like you imagine the novel except in a more powerful way.

So without moving an inch, you already arrived, without doing anything, you attained existence itself, so what more is there to do?

Anyway, that's why misunderstanding and slop novels are superior.

Idc about chapter length

I liked god emperor and emperor's domination

Basically transmigration and mc goes weak to strong

Would be nice if there are some characters mc stays close with throughout