It is fun but it is a bit gamey. I have 3 problems with this that I want to share:

1. MC power has s*upid restriction ... more>>

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His extraction powers should be able to extract from the same species “unlimited” number of times but whats this limit to only 4 monsters crap? Does sunjin woo power limit his summons to only 1 per species? His power is the rarest but all it does is basically just stat boost, sure he can make flames and sh*t but do you think these novels do anything creative with the powers? Hell no. One guy can use electricity you’d think with other’s help they would create some shock trap or tank to kill monsters and they DIDNT. He also can’t extract traits with lower grade of same type? Surely visual enhancement E can at least upgrade Visual enhancement C by like 0.01% but nope this infinite extraction with 1 in 5 billion chance can’t do it. He also never tried extract wood from trees, mineral and ore from rocks, etc

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2. Propaganda. For no reason. Why??? Can’t I just read some stories without some forced propaganda down my throat? Speaking from an asian over here.

3. Limited (?) applications of power. Everyone just have levels and works like some generic leveling game. I guess this cant be avoid but other global transition stories have unit gimmicks which was entertaining due to the management and having loyal subject. This one? Nope. MC ins incredibly strong which is cool but theres no point if this is gonna work how it is right now. MC meets monster A - level 2, beats it, gets reward. Then guess what? Monster B -level 4 and repeat. Thats basically this kind of story.

I call this fast novel. Its like fast food. If you enjoy it, good for you. I’d advice you to stay away if you agree with my points <<less

I don't usually write reviews, but I felt it was needed here.

This novel is bad, like really bad, but not the usual kind of bad, let me explain.

Let's start with the TL;DR:

• • Insane chinese propaganda that easily crosses the line of racism, even the narrator that is impartial most of the novel is discriminating against non-chinese

• • The "powers" of each character are barely if ever exploited, it's even worse for the MC

• • The world is bland and solely revolve around the MC

• • The rules of the world are arbitrary at best, completely s*upid and unbalanced at worst

• • The narration is repetitive and unimaginative

• • The translation is MTL level

Of these points, the first one is by far what bother me the most, i've seen my fair share of novel containing chinese propaganda, it's bothersome but most of the time it's light enough that I can just ignore it, usually they do so by saying how great chinese people are, here the author do the opposite.

Here is a bit of context, at the beginning the MC appear in a different world along with 999 other people, forming a village. There are thousands of villages scattered around the world, and each village is composed of a single ethnicity, meaning the mc's village is 100% chinese. The villages end up competing with each other for ressources. At some point the MC describe each group and give a negative trait about everyone such as:

Lighthouse country (Americans) are all shrewd and greedy, Sakura country (japanese) are all hypocrites and traitorous, the indians (don't remember the name given) are all disgusting and like to play in cow dung, the dragon kingdom (china) have weak bodies but also the highest IQ per capita (wtf?).

The author also place china as a common enemy of everyone else, every other countries hates china and the chinese are "the ones rising against injustice". Toward chapter 200 it get so bad that the MC already decided to integrate every other chinese people to his village and litterally ens*ave everyone else, and the universe validate him by giving him s*ave contracts.

Very early on, I stopped reading normally ans started hate reading to see how far it would go (that's why I read until ch700+), let's say that the MC decided that they weren't even fit as s*aves and decides to kill any foreigners (from earth, not from this world) that he met.

Other point slightly related, no one in this novel has their own personality, their personality is their ethnicity, there will never be kind americans, or shrewd or greedy chinese, even the MC and sidekicks are this way.

With this rampling out of my system, here are the other points in a quicker way:

The powers are completely anecdotal, the MC collect a whole bunch of talent because of his primary talent, endless extraction (i'll talk about that one after) and often it goes like this:

MC get new power -> this increase his stats -> proceed to never use this power ever.

Even for the few powers he uses, he never try to get creative with it. Each character has it's battle power rated in number of stars, and seemingly the talents are only used to make a big number grow bigger.

The main power of the MC "endless extraction" and his biggest reliance follow a set of arbitrary and nonsensical rules, the first time he uses it it's on a rusty sword to "extract" the rust and changing it into a good sword. It's not how rust works but whatever, then he uses it on a human corpse and manage to get the corpse talent, alright, then he uses it on a beast corpse, end extract some of it's stats, then learn he can only extract the same kind of beast 3 times in total, why doesn't this apply to humans too? The author realizes that this rule is weird and at some point it become irrelevant and forgotten.

The "world" the MC appear in is not a world filled with humans living in it, but a world filled with NPCs and encampement to raid. At the beginning it's not so visible but as soon as they leave the novice area, there is no city with people living life, there is no commoners plowing the land, there is only cursed force that exist solely to give quest to the contestants, and the guardian and mysterious forces exist solely to be enemies.

For the rules of the world it's a bit too broad to really explain, but let's say that pitting the level 1 contestants against level 50 guardian forces feels like coughing baby versus thermonuclear warhead, and yet everyone says that the rules are biased in favor of the contestants just because they can grow slightly faster.

On this note, everything falls way too perfectly into places, the MC need a ressource, he will inevitably get is next chapter if not in the same, the MC get a power boost, he will instantly have the perfect enemy to test his new powers, it feels like the MC is not on an adventure, but on a rollercoaster ride that goes way too fast and will inevitably lead to the desired destination.

In fact it falls so perfectly into places that the author constantly need to adjust the enemy strength because the MC get too powerful, example:

MC power is 100k, enemy power is 700k, 5 chapters later the MC power is 600k and we learn that the enemy has an ancestor with a power of 1500k, 5 chapters later the MC power is 1200k and we learn that the ancestor actually just made a breakthrough and now his strength is 3000k, 5 chapters later MC power is 2500k and we learn that the ancestors has a special skill to increase it's strength to 4500k...

I am not joking this exact scenario happend and it happen all the time because this is the only narrative trope used in the novel:

MC get a quest to kill a guy, training montage with adventures, then kill the guy and repeat.

In conclusion, it is very interesting as a study material for chinese propaganda and bad narrative design.

I agree with all the points below.

But after a while there are no longer any racism in the novel cuz all the ppl from Earth are either dead or s*aves fortunately cuz it was annoying to read half chapters every 10 chapter about how the Longgbi (Chinese) have weak bodies and superior IQ, the lighthouse ppl (USA) are greedy and just want to plunder everything, etc. There is still "racism" but at this level ... more>>

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it is just the higher level universes looking down on the lower ones so it is not that exteme and insulting as in the beginning

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The more we advnace the less we see the randoms talking about useless things but there are stilll useless chatter which can be directly skipped cuz it is always just "wow MC is two realms lower he must be a noob he can't get any resources from this challenge", "omg he is just realm 9 how can he kill a realm 12 in a single blow he must be cheating", "hmph how could that littel thief get 1st place surely he cheated"

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btw I still can't figure out how can you cheat when everything is literally supervised by the Heavenly Dao and there is like 1 or 2 dao from the 3000 that can help you conceal that you "cheated" but not for long and one of them is literally the hardest to learn and only 1 ppl learnt it in his universe

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The translation is staight MTL quality and very monotonous a lot of things' names just remain chinese but written with the letters of the English ABC.

There is literally no character development, and no characters have personality traits outside of being greedy, arrogant, loyal, bootlicking etc. So pretty bland.

Even with all these flaws I still like this novel cuz I jut like the see continous improvements witohout stopping and this novel does just that in the latter chapters the speed of improvent is even more crazy when at the beginning.

So for those who like to see big numbers, crazy fights where MC only fights those who are 2-3 realms higher than him but still killing them easily, and where the MC literally never loses a single time I recommend this novel

(Other novels like this but without blatant racism: Global Lord: 100% Drop rate; I’m Actually a Cultivation Bigshot; Complete Martial Arts Attributes; Unparalleled After Ten Consecutive Draws; Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse; Top Tier Providence, Secretly Cultivate for a Thousand Years) <<less