Unlike a great simulation type novel like Longevity Simulation, this novel is not even second rate.

The benefits of a simulation type novel is the protagonist being able to slowly explore this potentially extremely dangerous world with essentially no talent. He has no ability to cultivate, no connections, and people in power will kill him if he doesn't stay in line. To say the least, this person's outlook in life is quite bleak and the only way to remedy is through simulation and becoming more smart and cunning after each reset.

This... more>> novel absolutely kills this aspect of simulation. Because in other novels like again, Longevity Simulation, you actually read through the protagonist's point of view and life in all of their unique regressions and timelines, thus establishing characters, worldbuilding, and understanding the main character a lot better. This is a matter of hundreds of chapters. This novel merely gives a brief summary of simulations and the protagonist doesn't actually live them out technically, thus making me wonder why simulation is a theme in this novel to begin with.

Second, it's too easy. The MC's system is way too OP. He can gain talents, inherent cultivation levels, and basically simulation infinitely towards becoming strong. There's no life or death threats, no terrible living circumstances, no actual life experience he goes through. He kind of just cheats, inherits talents and skills, and never does anything himself.

Third: the group chat is very shallow. It's very surface level and there's a level of a life or death situation in the beginning of the group chat, but once the MC becomes super OP, even that becomes a bit surface level. If you want to develop a chat group of different worlds, you should implement a changing POV and flesh out all of the characters living in their worlds. There's only like 3-5 actual characters that talk in the chat group anyways. It just feels like completely missed potential and lack of ability to write on the author's part.

If the author deigns to give the MC such an OP simulation ability, he should have put the MC in way worse and dire straits, and probably make him spawn in a helpless world with no cultivation powers. With only his quick wit, simulation prowess, he has to go through group missions that even people with cultivation levels would die in. That would make for a fun novel to read since the MC is essentially powerless in front of powerful enemies, but he has to cooperate with group members with all their hidden agendas in order to survive group missions. Again, this requires actual writing ability so I doubt that the author could do this.

The consistent MTL-level translation quality and absolutely sub-par writing ability makes this a dropped and frankly terrible novel. <<less

I can't continue reading it anymore, it starts quite good, interesting premise, but as the chapters goes by the simulation starts getting like the author using them to skip many good scenes, also they feel more like those audio books where the voice have no fluctuation in their voice as it's friggin flat tone.

Could be better but author choose to play it overly safe and ruins it instead.

I enjoyed reading this novel.

It's a combination of chat group and a life simulator, but it's not brainless.

The novel has some mystery, and MC has to solve them, so you don't get the boring style of always MC being challenged by authors lack of imagination.

... more>> MC uses his life simulator to uncover some secrets, and they are all connected to the same origin, so you don't feel that the author just randomly came up with more powerful enemies to suppress MC.

You know from the start that MC is not invincible and that there are powerful guys up there, and through the life simulator, MC uncovers how those powerful guys came to be, and he's trying to achieve a challenging task of going to the top with his limited talent. He's very dependent on the life simulator.

The problem with this novel is that some things are redundant and other things not getting explored as much.

The chat group itself doesn't have much of a presence. The members were interesting at the start but later on everyone is just there with no presence.

There's a reason for everything happening and the logic behind the chat group and the golden fingers, but the novel always feels like it never really entered its growth phase, it all feels like the start.

All the big bosses and antagonists were explained vaguely but never were explored further. It just feels like a missed opportunity to make something better.

Nevertheless, I enjoyed reading this novel, and feel it has a lot of potential, but I doubt this novel will ever get out of the zone of having potential, it will probably never actually deliver on such potential. <<less

(Note: this story has 100s of chapters translated so far.)

An okay-ish read combining the two concepts of "Life Simulation" and "Group Chat".

The life simulation is the type where he doesn't actually experience the simulation and instead gets a sort of report of what happened. These are often quite long and can be repetitive.

The group chat part is interesting because its a group of transmigrators which I haven't seen before and because its existence itself provokes interest. It's not greatly implemented though with very little in the way of... more>> conversation between members - though this may change later.

The story reads as a standard cultivation novel with life simulator interspersed with bits where the transmigrators have to work together.

Unfortunately, the main character, due to his ability, has faced very little actual struggle so far. The ability is sufficiently limited in various ways that struggle could be introduced though.

The main character is very strong but the author seems to be taking steps to allow the other transmigrators to be useful too.

There was, when I read it, a vibe of sexism to the story which was disappointing. Fortunately, this was not that blatant (from what I remember) and there are still strong female characters so it may be that this feel will go away as the story progresses.

Dropped at 118 due to dislike of plot direction and excessive filler.

tldr;

Overall, I think it gets bogged down by the life simulations too much and that the main character is unlikable but it's an okay read to pass the time. Personally, I wouldn't read it again.

(Also, worth noting that the translator has split the original chapters so it can be tricky to remember where you are.) <<less