The Black Market

Just a good day for me.

From what has been released so far, the plot is pretty interesting. The first few chapters are horrendously rough, and almost made me stop reading immediately, but putting aside those chapters, the story is quite interesting. There are quite a few plot holes and inconsistencies that must be overlooked, but that's a given with any novel. Honestly, the novel reads like a edgy **** powertrip to me, but it might develop into something good in the future. I can't honestly recommend this novel as something to get heavily invested into, but it is something that you can read out of boredom, like the unhealthy foods that can be easily binged. I don't understand why it has such high ratings, and quite frankly, don't think it deserves such as the quality of both the writing and thr storytelling is not amazing. Hopefully, my honest review is not deleted to keep the ratings of the novel high. P.S. I do not mean to discourage or hate on the author or their work; I am only giving my honest opinion about the novel. I hope that the author can and will continue writing their story and improving along the way, but I also hope that the novel can have honest reviews to fairly represent itself while giving credit to novels that truly are high quality and deserving of their ratings.

I guess it was a timely moment in the story for the paywall to be implemented. The plot's been dragging for a while, and when there's FINALLY something new added to the cultivation aspect (I mean, seriously? What's the point of having A/B/C tiers, or even king/emperor/divine tiers anyway? There's NO F-ing difference! The leveling system here has basically been plain BS so far), it's just the cliche elemental magic trope added into the mix. Sigh. All those breakthroughs just to reach the so-called 'Saint' tier... but it didn't unveil a surprising cultivation development, only a mere introduction of elemental magic? Really? Oh yeah, sure we've been privy to what the next rank entails for quite a few chapters already but still, honest to goodness, that's what I would call a letdown. Plus, the MC only broke through NOW because he basically felt at peace for the first time in a year? What kind of lame reasoning is that? That shallow reasoning could've worked for less important bottlenecks, but the author didn't even bother fleshing out the plot and just thought that, 'Hey, he's been stuck in this level for a long time, oh god, oh no... what the hell, let's just allow the MC to break through for basically nothing but a slightly better reason than simply calling it random. Problem solved!' Good job. No deep reasoning. No plot twist. Not even a, 'Oh, wow!' moment. Nope. Just a plain dose of chill pill and he was good to go. Thanks for the story so far, but this is it for me. I hope you keep writing, so you can keep on improving. I know a writer with potential when I see one, and I'm sure you have what it takes to be great. But honestly, you're not even close to being there yet, let alone going premium. I wouldn't spend my coins on this, but that's just me. So good luck, all the best, and keep on writing!

Usually I hate stories with a system but this guy does it right. There's still a few confusing aspects but I assume he'll clear those up as the story progresses. Overall great story and world building.