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Xianxia Encompassing the World! (Xianxia Rec Discussion and Idea thread)

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Marlin said:
Can you recommend some stories where a bi-harem(? is that even the word?) consisting of multiple men and women has been done with the end goal being a harem with all participants?
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I don't think I can recommend them most of the time, and it is pretty rare in xianxia.
But looking at harem anime there's a somewhat significant portion that have a male harem member who, well, doesn't appear very masculine.
Not exactly the same thing as this if I remember right, but yeah.
End goal being a harem with all participants also excludes a big portion because a lot of the time "harem" is really just a word for "many people competing and all but one getting crushed in the end."
 
CircleTheSkies said:
Also... came across "The Second Coming of Gluttony". And... so far not too bad. It not an unfamiliar start - Korean guy gets shot into a game-interfaced-alien-world, with a side of foresight - but the character (at least so far) is a bit more interesting. He's a gambling addict, and gets a fairly well-done realization that he's slipping into bad habits and tries to fix his weak will and gambling addiction. I haven't gotten to him even leaving the "Neutral Zone" yet, but so far it's been a decent read.

I'll see where it goes though.
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It's a good novel, not quite xianxia though. The entire tutorial prior to the Neutral Zone though is hilariously nothing at all like the rest of the novel, just a really weird prologue. Mm, power system goes through levels that are more like major class changes as opposed to the constant incremental levels of a LitRPG so I guess you could say it's a tiny bit like the cultivation stages of a xianxia, but that's still a bit of stretch. A webtoon started for it a few months back, though I'm not sure if they're even at the Neutral Zone yet?
 
SCDarkSoul said:
It's a good novel, not quite xianxia though. The entire tutorial prior to the Neutral Zone though is hilariously nothing at all like the rest of the novel, just a really weird prologue. Mm, power system goes through levels that are more like major class changes as opposed to the constant incremental levels of a LitRPG so I guess you could say it's a tiny bit like the cultivation stages of a xianxia, but that's still a bit of stretch. A webtoon started for it a few months back, though I'm not sure if they're even at the Neutral Zone yet?
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Yeah, it's more a korean game-type webnovel, but it's generally in a similar space. Plus, in the background of the Parasite Queen I'm feeling a very xianxia-feel vibe.

I'm... hmmm, about 2/3 of the way through the chapters I think have been translated, and it's still a reasonably good read. It's got some recognizable tropes, including stuff it doesn't actually need, but I kind of like his early struggles with his background and trying to mend long-burned bridges.

I agree - Paradise itself does feel like a disconnect from the Neutral Zone though - and the Neutral Zone and prelim was pretty long and thorough (to be fair, it felt like that was needed to grow him as a character).
 
Is there a story where the regular guy who becomes a Cultivator/Reicarnated/Luck MC has a normal family and friends shares or teaches his new found knowledge with said family and friends?

Seriously, I don't know how many I have read where the MC has a sister or parents, often one of them very sick so he uses his Cultivator Medicine to heal them, but after that the family falls into the background and becomes irrelevant.

If you had the chance to gain long life and good health why the hell not teach it to your parents?
 
Vlad said:
If you had the chance to gain long life and good health why the hell not teach it to your parents?
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Because my parents and I don't love each other.

But more seriously it's because it's easy to write a charterer with fewer relationships and less charterers in the story.
Family is particularly tricky because they rarely tie directly into the heroes journey.
They aren't normally allies and companions but attachments and problems.
 
Zedalb said:
Because my parents and I don't love each other.

But more seriously it's because it's easy to write a charterer with fewer relationships and less charterers in the story.
Family is particularly tricky because they rarely tie directly into the heroes journey.
They aren't normally allies and companions but attachments and problems.
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I would understand if the MC hated his family and didn't want anything to do with them, but most stories they are just ignored until maybe when the story needs them to be under threat to motivate the MC.

This is not good progression of cause and effect to ignore such a integral part in the MC's life as his family.
 
Vlad said:
Is there a story where the regular guy who becomes a Cultivator/Reicarnated/Luck MC has a normal family and friends shares or teaches his new found knowledge with said family and friends?

Seriously, I don't know how many I have read where the MC has a sister or parents, often one of them very sick so he uses his Cultivator Medicine to heal them, but after that the family falls into the background and becomes irrelevant.

If you had the chance to gain long life and good health why the hell not teach it to your parents?
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Eh. In Cultivation Chat Group he thinks of his parents and visits them semi-regularly. He doesn't get his parents started on cultivation until near the end of the novel though. At the beginning it's because he was just starting himself and didn't have enough resources to share, later on its because he's slingshotting from disaster to disaster with countless bigshots hanging over his head. He did find time in the middle to give them medicines to extend their lifespans and improve their bodies though. That story's time progression is very weird though as it's set in modern times. Longass time in terms of how many chapters in the novel, not really that long in-universe from beginning to end.
 
SCDarkSoul said:
Eh. In Cultivation Chat Group he thinks of his parents and visits them semi-regularly. He doesn't get his parents started on cultivation until near the end of the novel though. At the beginning it's because he was just starting himself and didn't have enough resources to share, later on its because he's slingshotting from disaster to disaster with countless bigshots hanging over his head. He did find time in the middle to give them medicines to extend their lifespans and improve their bodies though. That story's time progression is very weird though as it's set in modern times. Longass time in terms of how many chapters in the novel, not really that long in-universe from beginning to end.
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I read the visual novel , how much more content is between the end of the visual novel and the original novel.
 
Vlad said:
I read the visual novel , how much more content is between the end of the visual novel and the original novel.
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Quite a lot. Shuhang's cultivates high enough to become a real big shot in his own right, reaching the higher cultivation stages.
Not super sure how much got explained where, and how far exactly the webcomic is at, but in CCG's cultivation system there are nine standard levels that regular cultivation methods can take you through. Above that is the semi-unofficial but widely recognized tenth level which is reached by achieving some form immortality, usually by taking a specific field or concept to its very peak, surpassing anybody else in that area. Above even that there are a few random esoteric ways to be even more powerful, such as becoming lord of a dimension/world. Usually though, what everybody sees as the peak is becoming the Heavenly Way, i.e. basically capital G God.
Shuhang goes all the way to the tenth level, even swapping around multiple immortality methods because he's a little shit like that. One month one realm is his average cultivation speed. Then he steps forward into becoming the Heavenly Way. And then he goes further and transcends the Heavenly Way.
 
Oh, I recently started Street Cultivation 2! The first was awesome. The writing's still quite solid in the second, though there's not the same level of 'the protagonist is pushed against the wall by multiple rough situations' at the point I'm at.
 
It's a pity that Arrogant Young Master hasn't updated in a while. I honestly liked Master of Untold Daos unlike some people here, but it got real boring quickly after he ascended to the Immortal stage and moved to the upper realms.
 
Started a new novel called Building the Ultimate Fantasy. Interested in the concept, not sure if I like the MC that much.

System novel where it pushes the MC to help the entire world evolve. World starts as a Low Martial Arts World or something like that, mostly wuxia with the top figures scratching a bit of xianxia, and the system helps him to begin introducing spirit qi and cultivation to the world. MC is reincarnated into a (originally crippled) young master.

Not sure how well it will handle the balance between the MC building up his own forces, and fulfilling the system's goal of upgrading the entire world, as some of the aspects of the system outside his total control power up people who aren't necessarily on his side as well. While the MC isn't exactly dumb, he also doesn't always seem to be the sharpest tool in the shed either.

Also a warning that the MC is one of the extremely ruthless types. While the sight of the first death made him a little queasy, he quickly got over it and started having people executed left and right when they cross him.
 
You might want to consider reading Pocket Hunting Dimension, aka Xuanhuan-in-Space with HFY in all the good ways
Lu Ze transmigrated to the interstellar era two thousand years later.

The previous owner of this body had lovey-dovey parents and a cute little sister. Although his cultivation talent was ordinary, his life was fulfilling. It could be said to be a dream start. Lu Ze was very happy.

However, as soon as he slept, he came to a strange dimension.

He almost got taken out trying to fight an one meter tall huge white rabbit. After making the arduous kill, Lu Ze found that things didn't seem to be so simple.

After killing prey in this dimension, he could get little orbs that could be used for cultivation.

This was going to make him an eternal jungler.

But he seemed to be able to hope for domination of the cosmos and invincibility?
Spoilers for me after reading the raws (at ch. 1000+ now): The kind of assholes you see in xianxia humanity doesn't exist. As in, when other characters learn of just how prodigal the MC's progression is, they got envious for a little while, before using it as motivation to improve themselves instead of going full asshole mode. And maybe try introducing their younger daughters / sisters / yadda yadda yadda for marriage, but that's secondary.

Yes, this includes other races allied with humanity. Of course, the MC / leaders of the human race had to do some deception stuff, but considering just how bullshit his ability (read: cheat) is, nobody will blame them for that.
 
Is that like a more lighthearted Forty Millenniums of Cultivation? Plus a cheat system, minus the Immortal Cultivators.
 
Honestly, I can't reconcile the plethora of AYMs in some xianxia with any worldbuilding that hidden experts exist. It's one thing to boss around members of the sect if your grandfather is the founder or whatever, sure. You should be reasonably familiar with the capabilities of the people, how far you can go, who you can and cannot touch.
But then they take their attitude out of the sect of whatever local region their backing's in charge of, and then somehow expect to be treated the same, despite not actually having researched everyone around them and not knowing what kind of backing or personal power they might have. Do they just assume literally everyone around them will proclaim it to the skies if they have even a modicum of strength or backing?
And at the same time, the world should be having countless wars between major factions simply by dint of swaggering around and antagonizing everyone on a whim, because apparently everyone not friends with the MC in the younger generation is like this, except the faceless mooks who have neither strength nor backing.
(also, that thing where the AYM's like "you're not allowed to resist when I kill you" without even giving a plausible reason to not resist, like knowing who the other party's family is and having capability to wipe them out, wtf)
So I dropped a couple xianxia recently for being too much like that.
 
Genesys said:
(also, that thing where the AYM's like "you're not allowed to resist when I kill you" without even giving a plausible reason to not resist, like knowing who the other party's family is and having capability to wipe them out, wtf)
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The worst is when they're actually retaliated against. Like, "How dare you not stick your neck out and obediently let your head be chopped off. What is this actually resisting my murder attempt about? The sheer audacity!"
 
kinglugia said:
You might want to consider reading Pocket Hunting Dimension, aka Xuanhuan-in-Space with HFY in all the good ways
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Currently on Chapter 19. The translation is... about what one might expect from a translation, and some of the plot twists are a bit random/odd, but other than that, I'm enjoying it. Thanks for the rec.
 
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Vlad said:
Is there a story where the regular guy who becomes a Cultivator/Reicarnated/Luck MC has a normal family and friends shares or teaches his new found knowledge with said family and friends?

Seriously, I don't know how many I have read where the MC has a sister or parents, often one of them very sick so he uses his Cultivator Medicine to heal them, but after that the family falls into the background and becomes irrelevant.

If you had the chance to gain long life and good health why the hell not teach it to your parents?
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Well there is World of Cultivation, which may lack the family element (at least for a large part of it) but otherwise differs from most works in the genre in that the MC tends to teach his techniques to others and that a lot of the central characters remain relevant and connected through more or less the whole story.

And if the friends/family stayed by the MC's side then authors couldn't recycle the same plot/character archetypes every few hundred chapters but instead would have to actually do some actual character development which in my experience they tend to be incapable off. (Though to be fair I am unsure I would do better with the release schedules they seem to have).
 
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