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Made-Up Martial Arts, Have You Really Mastered Them, Disciple?
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603 Chapters (Complete)
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Li Xuan had transmigrated to another world, with no abilities, no perks, and could only temporarily survive in a small mountain village. However, one day, someone mistook him for a reclusive master of martial arts and insisted on becoming his disciple.

As an honest person, Li Xuan didn’t want to deceive anyone and firmly refused. However, the other person offered so much that he had no choice but to make up a set of martial arts techniques to bluff his way through. Surprisingly, the disciple actually succeeded in practicing them!

…

Staring at his disciple, whose muscles and bones resonated like thunder, and whose qi and blood surged like a raging river, Li Xuan was dumbfounded, “I just made that all up! How come you succeeded in practicing it? What kind of monster are you?”

At this moment, the Golden Finger appeared, “Your disciple’s practice of the techniques you made up is still at beginner level, but you, the master, must have already mastered them to perfection. Your strength is a hundred times greater than those in this world!”

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I Fabricated the Techniques, but my disciple really mastered them?
瞎编功法，徒儿你真练成了？
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08/20/24 Noice Translations c34
08/18/24 Splendour Translations c33
08/18/24 Noice Translations c33
08/14/24 Noice Translations c32
06/04/24 Splendour Translations c31
05/29/24 Splendour Translations c30
05/26/24 Splendour Translations c29
05/20/24 Splendour Translations c28
05/17/24 Splendour Translations c27
05/10/24 Noice Translations c26
05/08/24 Noice Translations c25
05/05/24 Noice Translations c24
05/03/24 Noice Translations c23
05/01/24 Noice Translations c22
04/29/24 Noice Translations c21
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Review
8 Reviews


CrawfishKing
CrawfishKing
Oct 18, 2023
Status: c6
I have a soft spot for misunderstanding comedies, so this is the kind of thing I like. I gave it 4 stars for now as it is still in the beginning and while it has the potential for being gold, not much has actually happened yet. Will revisit it and adjust my rating once more chapters are out.

The translation work is solid, and includes footnotes for people new to the genre which is always a big plus from me as it shows the translator/author really cares about having people understand... more>> the context. <<less
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onlycrimson123
onlycrimson1
Feb 15, 2024
Status: c334
TL;DR: Good concept that is slowly becoming more stale.

Important note, this is NOT a misunderstanding novel. The first ~25 chapters are misunderstandings, and past that it is totally action/adventure. Pretty good action/adventure though. The master's invincible image is also preserved throughout.

(Edit at the end.)

... more>> Chapter 189 Review:

The earlier chapters of this novel were really engaging, and I would certainly recommend checking them out. But, as the plot progresses, the author doesn't seem to know where he wants to go with this. I'm not just blindly saying this either, the author himself has left notes saying he doesn't know how to progress lol.

Because of this, there are often stretches of a few chapters where there is very little interesting things happening. And now, where I am in the novel, the main character and his disciples have virtually conquered the martial world, but there are still like 150 chapters out. The only place I can see it going from here is "heavens above heavens", a concept that I hate, as it arbitrarily drags out the plot.

I suppose another downside is that there doesn't feel like there is any progress. Sure, Xu Yan used to not be able to kill Great Grandmasters and now he can. But those are just words, without any substance. We don't get any sense of scale for his actual improvement in strength, there's no quantification of it. We just have to trust, "This powerup that we have been building towards for 50 chapters was so totally worth it!"

This is even more prevalent with the main character. He has only made a move like 3 times and every time he goes "Oof had to use my full strength to barely obliterate that guy with one attack." Like, the story should SHOW that not TELL it. You feel me?

Anyway, I still had a rather good time reading this novel, and I might continue to do so. Its a pretty nice read in the beginning, so I'd recommend that too.

Also, this novel is released on mtlnation. Com with a rather phenomenal MTL translation. I don't personally read mtl ever, but this was palatable. That is where I found the 189 chapters I read.

Chapter 334 Review:

I continued reading and I feel even more strongly that the novel deserves 4 stars. In the past 150 chapters, some things got worse, some things got better, and some stayed the same.

Starting with the positive, the novel has been more engaging. There have been many more extremely pleasant scenes to read and the author has been better at building up to events, leading to more anticipation. That is what truly drew me back in to read another 150 chapters, and I don't regret the time spent.

Also, a couple of my major critiques before have been dealt with. The "heavens beyond heavens" concept that I dreaded did come true, but it was handled in a great manner. This is that trope done right. There was no point where I felt the cast was pathetically weak and the new "heaven" was more to introduce further plot and characters. Chef's kiss, well done.

The author has also been doing better at "showing" instead of "telling" in regards to the power system. The descriptions of realms and abilities draw me in more than before. Scenes are more badass than just "he punched harder than before" like it felt earlier. The realms also seem to have a lot of unique potential that I am rather excited to see play out. The cultivation system is much more advanced than just Qi Refining, Foundation Building, etc and actually has unseen realms and abilities.

Now, onto the negatives.

First of all, the translation quality has been steadily declining over the entirety of the book. It was originally better than the average human translator but it has slowly progressed to the point where I sometimes just don't even get what is happening. This is extremely prevalent with the names of places and sects in this book. Every sect has multiple names, a direct translation, a phonetic translation, and a different direct translation. These are used interchangeably, forcing me to rely on context clues to even know what sect is doing what. It is even worse with places as, in the spirit domain, there are 18 provinces that are all ___zhou. Such as Chenzhou, Yuzhou, Luozhou, etc. I straight up do not know where stuff is happening like ever. However, this is not "unreadable" still. The scenes that are extremely appealing and need to be translated well, like the main character making a move, are translated very well and are still enjoyable to read.

Next, the novel has become more and more side character-centric. We often have dozens of chapters in a row following the main character's disciples and then a brief interlude of the main character doing nothing, then back to the disciples. This might be alright, but they aren't even doing interesting things! The author seems to have pacing problems, with way too many chapters focused on very unentertaining things to read. Such as conflicts with inconsequential weaklings. I often don't even enjoy reading scenes focusing on the side characters, but that seems to be the vast majority of the novel.

Finally, and back to a point I made previously, the author does not know where he wants to take this novel in general. This leads to a slew of problems, including the pacing mentioned previously. There are also some stretches where it seems to be entirely filler. As if I could skip entire arcs without missing anything important. It makes the novel feel like a slog to get through at points.

Despite all of this, I still had a rather good time reading this novel. I will likely continue reading as it updates as well, regardless of the issues. I'd recommend this novel if you can deal with subpar translation. <<less
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sgrey
sgrey
Aug 30, 2024
Status: Completed
To summarize, this novel is sort of a mesh between "Library of Heaven's Path" and "I Stayed At Home For A Century, When I Emerged I Was Invincible". I usually like these kinds of novels and this one fits right in my preferences, so I would say overall that I like it a lot. The big differences between this novel and the other two is that in this novel there are no quests being given out by the system and no system per se and there is no automatic generation... more>> of martial arts.

The author clearly has a long term plan and vision, at least for a few hundred chapters. The world building and the storytelling parts are done very well. The world is clearly described and it is easy to figure out the scale and layout of the world from the text. Elements and mysteries that are introduced at the very start pay off hundreds of chapters later and these are not some bs things that could be anything the author wishes them to be later on. It is clear that the author planned it well in advance. The flow of the story is well done most of the time and although the pace might seem slow, it is actually not. The story switched to the point of view from multiple people, but it isn't the annoying kind and each pov lasts several chapters and we follow MCs multiple disciples all the time.

The story itself is more or less common type of story you see in these novels. Offended young masters, offended big sects, OP disciples and super OP MC, all that jazz. But I didn't find it boring and instead liked it. It's not annoying and done well. Most of the time disciples go around doing things while MC himself never really does anything. It's not like can't, he just doesn't. For reasons. Well, he quickly becomes so OP that he can solve any conflict or issue immediately and so he cosplays the reclusive tired of life master who just spends the time while leisurely drinking tea and reading. Occasionally the disciples would get themselves into a big mess and then MC would swoop in, do something crazy OP and go back to reading and drinking tea. The first time this happens is around 180 chapters, then it happens around once per 100 chapters or so. There is no consistency with this and as the story progress and MC gets more and more OP he shows off a bit more, but in little ways while occasionally showing off world-shattering power.

One of the aspects I wish was improved is exactly that MC should do a bit more. There are many instances in the novel that could be improved a lot by just MC doing more things or getting out and traveling a bit while researching stuff. Another issue I have with the novel is the lack of power depths. The author made each disciple do one unique martial art, but they are very unbalanced. The first disciple can do almost anything and is good at everything, while the second one is basically just The Hulk - physically strong with strong body. Although every disciple has unique powers, other than the first disciple no one else is developed well.

For example the first disciple has dragon power while others have nothing like that. The second one could have cultivated some kind of qilin claw or breath or shoot heat rays, but he doesn't. The third one could have done some kind of phoenix super vitality and rebirth thing with fire, but also just doesn't. The third is good at making alchemy, so it would make sense for her to use some kind of fire martial art as well and disintegrate people with fire, or use poison pills or acid pills to disintegrate enemies. But no, she is just good at alchemy and soul techniques and such. She is basically not that good at fighting and mostly stays at home cooking medicine and treating people. She could've been made secretly strong and we went comedy route, develop a shovel martial arts and bury people in various ways with it and other stuff. But no, she is actually mostly boring and her only quirk is that she developed a taste for dissecting people. She developed to be more of mysterious special kind with obscure powers.

Other than that, the world is large and interesting. The enemies are actually legit can pose a threat to the disciples because they are hidden and scheming and are very numerous and have been planning things for a long time. It's not just s*upid power vs more power type of crap that you often see in these novels. There are hidden organization and scheming and a lot of mystery. I like this part quite a lot. What I don't really like is that the enemy is often made worse because everyone around is ret*rded. Yes, enemy is scheming and strong, and then we are shown that the guys who are manipulated are just idiots and this makes the enemy look worse. But the next big enemy seems to be better so far and more threatening.

Overall I would say that this novel is a good read and I would recommend it. <<less
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vixcturi
vixcturi
Apr 28, 2025
Status: Completed
I have mixed feelings on this. On one hand, I enjoyed the premise of the story on offer. On the other hand however, Li Xuan had zero chemistry with any of his disciples.

The MC, Li Xuan was only ever interested in himself. The whole thematic of the story fell apart because Li Xuan looked and viewed his disciples more as cultivation resources than as people.

In essence, what you end up realising is that Li Xuan looked at his disciples as more of a means to an end. He was selfish... more>> and self-serving. This was what led to the feeling of "disconnection" between him, the story and other characters.

At times, it was comedic. At times, I did enjoy the classic "power up" moments you find in cultivation novels. I would not read this again though. This story lacks "soul". It's rather lifeless.

My biggest gripe is this. There is a saying that goes a little like this... "Teacher for one day, father forever.". How can you be a master, when you don't even care about the people under your wing?! As a master, it's your duty to lead your disciples to the door, and to guide and educate them.

If I ever got transmigrated into a cultivation novel, I best never have a "master" like Li Xuan! <<less
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Psy0
Psy0
May 28, 2024
Status: c172
The story starts out interesting and funny but becomes increasingly redundant and stale after chapter 150.

The emphasis of this novel is similar to basically every Chinese Xianxia or Wuxia transmigration novel out there: Welfare.

The "Gold Finger" that all transmigrator gets is their form of Welfare. Any novel without a welfare system basically gets buried. So this welfare system allows our MC to suddenly become super powerful and copy abilities when his students gains enlightenment or powers from his made up martial arts, based on Chinese mythology and fantasies. The MC... more>> himself doesn't do anything except sit in his chair all 170 chapters. It's his students we are reading about and how amazing the MC is. On a more personal level, there is face slapping from arrogant and brain dead antagonists, psychopathic MCs who "believe in peace", and glorified banditries.

On a bigger level there is the idea that colonialism and expansionism (ie Invasion of other countries) is justified as long as one is stronger militarily. Why is this even in a martial arts novel is beyond me but the author had to squeeze it in. It shows the originally under-developed lands where the MC originated from trying to expand and "annex" the surrounding neighbors by falsely claiming they are the true inheritors of heaven and earth. Does this remind anyone of a certain country that's threatening their neighboring island country with invasion?

I had to drop this novel as the political stuff keeps getting added. However, the novel is a great read if you can ignore the political propaganda. I had to subtract 1 star because of propaganda though the author tried very hard to weave it into the story. <<less
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MrCents_04
MrCents_04
Apr 03, 2024
Status: --
Im laughing too hard in this series.

I recommend this all readers who actually love a 'misunderstanding' comedy.

I dont recommend this on OP seeking readers because you will get bored on the MC, but you will definitely enjoy the MC's disciple legacy.

Read it for your life.
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N01
N01
Dec 19, 2023
Status: --
So I was bored and scrolling to novelupdates until this one caught my attention. It made me realized how I missed the 'Teacher screwing up their students but they're too godd*mn of a genius that they ended up screwing the world instead' kinda trope.

In a typical xianxia fashion, we have an MC who has a realist mindset wherein he thought he just somehow transmigrated to plain old ancient China in another world where martial arts are even more outdated than his imagination until reality came crashing into their face.

MC is... more>> webnovel writer and there's this naive young master with chuunibyu, somehow this two people that SHOULD NEVER met managed to make MC's fictional narrative nonsense into reality.

I applaud MC's ability to made up nonsense of the spot and I actually like this more bcuz unlike other xianxia transmigration with golden finger,
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this MC has to think more to create a mysterious yet realistic cultivation technique (and as a writer he is, its goddamn poetic thats it basically leave it to others imagination. Luckily, his disciples has a lot those.). While other MCs get their technique directly from a system, MC felt like his doing a research paper, I like how he goes thinking like 'I should made it go like this to make it sound OP, and this should connect to the next level that goes more and more OP' and everyone goes like 'THIS IS TRUE MARTIAL DAO EVERYTHING ELSE IS JUST CHEAP GOODS!'. Lol

And then his golden finger just give him feedback whether he succeeded or not from his disciples' comprehensive ability and reflect it back to MC with 100x multiplier.

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As for his disciples and sect development, every disciple of his has a unique character introduction that I haven't read and encounter in such a while.
Spoiler

As the story goes, their personality became a bit bland but their unique thought processes shows when they interact with outsiders. They REALLY love robbing everyone in plain sight, they goes like 'You owe a pill so you have to compensate me with your whole wealth, your entire organization, s*avery, and the entirety of your life!'. Lmao

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reviewtimeyes
reviewtimeye
Nov 12, 2024
Status: Completed
Just finished reading the raws, and I gotta say, this story really fleshed out well in the end. It's a little open ended and definitely heavily inspired by Top Tier Providence, but it develops characters well, gives them all a breath of personality and makes you really like them. It follows a lot of common tropes, but executes them well. Highly recommend, very good for this sub-genre of xuanhuan
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