but again that just doesnt make sense. why write the story in that way then? why have levels at all? if you are gonna ignore them in the first place. imagine if we spend 500pages of a book that has 600 pages about the laws of physics and then we spend 590 chapters ignoring all of those laws physics. that is the ridiculousness i am poiting towards, and i know "its a manhua dude, it doesnt have to make sense" or "its just fiction, read it to be entertained" those are usually my arguments. but as a lifetime mmorpg player, this manhua is heavily inspired by them. hell in those mmorpg's, you can as a level 50 go and beat something that is like lvl 10.000 but those are fixed level npc's with a pattern that you can learn that isnt happening here. its just that my monkey brain cant get past that little hurdle you know what i am saying?

that is fantastic news man good to see. yeah it was good. how was your holidays? besides the eye scare.

no, i was flirting with 2 girls at a bar. it was all going smoothly untill their friend arrived and she threw a monkeys paw into the mix and i stupidly tried to grab the monkeys paw and well lets just say my chances for threesome were 90% but for the 4some went to 0%.

donny i got a doozy for you. its a manhua called "it starts with trillions of nether currency" my god is it so fking good. the writing is 9/10 for a manhua with such a crappy title. it delivers a prime t-bone steak cooked to perfection. the only issue is the translations is garbage, so i had to look for hours upon hours for good translations. to my surprise, the translators that use mtl and ruin alot of manhua's, dragontea.ink actually pulled through and delivered A+ translations. i went in with expectations of "i'll give it a shot for 10 chapters and then drop if it is too garbage". my god am i glad i gave this a shot. its too damn good and i am surprised not that many people talk about this one.

uhmm... ??? are you okay man? need a hug or someone to talk to? how are you doing? is everything alright? dont be angry at the world, we have limited time on this planet. so let us enjoy ourselves be entertained and entertain others in return. https://i.postimg.cc/4yS39wzX/i.gif

yeah fair enough. also to be fair, he did help people get off of the planet and also helped his fellow countrymen with techniques etc. but he did hoard 99% of the knowleadge and items. like i dont think its inherently wrong to go for individual strength, but he should have at least given some of the legacies to other people. like dont let their techniques die out because of your own greed. but again this is just a manhua. that level of planning and setting up and investing in other characters doesnt happen often. usually its "you look at the girl i had a crush on but i cant get with? imma crush you" "you dare kill my son/father/brother/nephew/grandson... etc, imma kill you" "you court death" rinse and repeat. so i honestly dont expect much from them. but there are a rare few manhua that i actually like who dont fall into this category and are really good. like: "it all starts with trillions of nether currency" read it on dragontea.ink its really fun and he actually helps others while he gets alot of power himself. its almost like a direct response to manhua's like 10.000 years into the future.

spiral? wtf have you been reading lol? i was referring to some weird shots where they do long ass vertical or horizontal panels, where you see a massive battlefield or a gigantic map of an alien space ship like in One Punch Man, where no matter where you begin or end all of it is just insane. but i guess that also does fit the 5%.

rule of thumb when you read webtoons/manhua's is you go from top left to top right, then bottom left to bottom right. unlike with usual manhwa's where you go top to bottom. manga's are always top right, bottom right, top left and bottom left in that sequence. unless they have a weird large panel like this: https://i.postimg.cc/sX0Pfbwq/i.png that can be very confusing indeed. i numbered them in which order to read btw, this logical order follows 95% of all manga. hope it made some sense to you for future reading.

there are a few things i agree with you. but there are also other things i dont agree with you on.
1st. the party members who join and leave. if it makes sense in the story for them to join/leave then there is no issues with it. in this case them joining and leaving made sense storywise. so your argument on that is kind of weak like soaked paper.
2nd. mc does indeed change throughout the story but you make it seem like he is an asshole who doesnt have any reason for his changes. that is false, the mc adapts to his situation. the characters grow on him and he makes desicions based on not only the future but also his feelings for them. but for the most part his character and his desicions stay on course.

i also wanna ask you. are we not allowed to change? because we were crying as babies and sucking our mothers tits for food and going "waaa waaa" does that mean we have to keep doing that ages 6. or 18 or 25 or 40 or 65 or 80. untill we die do we have to keep doing those exact same things throughout our entire lives or are we allowed to change depending on our circumstances? because, we as species change throughtout our entire lives. hell some people even change on a daily or even hourly basis. because of circumstances like someone giving you important information or showing their true character and moving you. change is good. mc is adapting on the go, but he is nowhere near extreme like you make him out to be. his goal is clear from day1 survive and beat the game. in order to do so he has to have teammates, so he needs to train them but they arent npc's they have complex feelings and motives. they change so mc has to change to adapt to his enviorment.

again what do you want from a story? do you want to be entertained by fiction or do you want a story that just has robots? because from your comment i can gather that you'd rather be entertained by ai slop, rather than an entertaining story about fictional characters.

holy shit dude... https://i.postimg.cc/nr6630rs/i.png i hope it gets better soon for you. eye injuries suck ass man. one of my ex's had an issue with her eyes too. she was nearly blind in her left eye. i remember going to the hospital with her a few times. she got like 4 surgeries in the span of 2 years. man, now i feel bad because i havent spoken with her in a few years. i should give her a call...

yeah the monster kid is pretty good. but like i said it isnt the top one. you 10000% need to check out "my simulated path to immortality" it has crazy potential. i'd dare say its on the level of "top tier providence: secretly cultivate for a thousand years" its that good. the writing is at least top tier. the mc's cunning is just so good. the others are alright to read, nothing too crazy but definitely better than most manhua. there is also another manhua i am reading rn that has potential but too few chapters rn to judge in one way or another.

i wanted to share some laughs with the lads, if you know, you know. https://www.tiktok.com/@unsubscribepodcastclips/video/7382003433747893550

yooo, happy holidays man. santa is here with ton of new recommendations.

1st: "Others level up, I cultivate—emerging only at Great Ascension" i rate this a solid 9/10 manhua. its funny, it has serious moments, it has wtf moments and it has oh-shit moments. you might enjoy some of the girls.

2nd: "Infinite Evolution Starting from Zero" a decent 7/10 manhua. this is kind of like the system from infinite leveling:murim, perform action alot of times gain xp/skill, but set in a manhua world with superpowered & android humans. a fun silly read.

3rd: "Martial Evolution: Start by Awakening the King of Monsters" this is really good one 8/10 manhua. although the art takes getting used to, like dont look at mc's shoes... the story however is fun. if you love the godzilla/kaiju movies like myself. you will like this story.

4th: "My Simulated Path To Immortality" 9.5/10 manhua, if i had the choice i would like to read this story for a year nonstop. it's really gritty and graphic. the old man is also extremely smart. you will love him alot compared to many mc's you see.

5th: "God-level Assassin, I’m the Shadow" this is what china's take on VRMMORPG mangas and manhwas is. although not too crazy their take on taking your gaming abilities and being able to use them in reality is kinda fun. 6/10 manhua, its not great but just alright.

lmk what you think of them.

you pretty much hit the nail on the head. chinese arent insentivised to look for us western audiance, which is why when you read modern manhua's its always china vs the world.

koreans are actively trying to branch to outside audiance. they are only going about it in a wrong way.

japan is the odd one, they have figured the formula out but somehow they are trying to reinvent the wheel and making it worse. but they are lucky because of the fact that westerners liked their weird ideas. also the fact that japan has great trade relations with the western world. it was easier for them to sell abroad and they are insentivised to appeal to the western audiance aswell as their local audiance. example: animes that are being consumed by the west and anime adaptations being extremely popular and getting on hands experience with the creators. like One piece and Oda having direct contact and a say in what goes on.

meanwhile korea is slowly stepping into the anime scene, although there a few korean manhwa that have had anime adoptations but alot of them failed. only 10 or so of them succeeded. but thanks to works like Solo Leveling hard carrying i am optimistic that Korean Manhwa's will take a big leap and follow in Japans footsteps in Anime in the next 5 years. this is so good for their authors too. they will earn alot of money from the anime's and will be motivated to write better and more stories, this will also have more new writers join ther ranks. so i am actually looking forward to it as an avid reader.

meanwhile china is doing their own thing on this front. because they have the "China vs the world" mindset. they cant get any japanese animation studio to make animes for them so they decided to develop their own studios. we call them Donghua's, infact Tales of demons and gods is one the very first Donghua's from china. unfortunately they used 3D animation and AI in their creation so it sucks balls for now. but maybe in the future if they can improve AI enough and go back to 2D they might see popularity too. so we can only HOPE. https://i.postimg.cc/xCTJ5qJ4/i.jpg

no, i am not talking about illegal websites. i mean the actual physical manhua in the form of books. although most authors know about the western audiance. most of them dont know how popular their works are in the illegal circles like ours. if they could make money from us too. then they would be set for life.

a little backstory for you:
mad snail, the author of this story. signed a shitty contract with a company. in the beginning this story was selling alright, but then it gained alot of tracktion. mad snail was making pennies on the dollar. while the company was raking in 10s of thousands from this story. so mad snail slowed down the progress of the story to a crawl. in 2019 he only wrote 1 chapter per month. in 2020-2021 if you got a new chapter in a month that was special. he didnt wanna abonden the story because it was passive income. but he also didnt wanna finish the story because the company wasnt willing to pay him what he wanted. so they re-negotiated a deal. in late 2023 i believe he started to write chapters again. but from what everyone who read the novel has said. he was rushing to end the story as soon as possible. so he could get back to his other work "star god martial technique" which finished early 2025. but as you have seen. he didnt just get money for the novel, the manhua and the anime also generate alot of revenue for the company and for mad snail. so they have basically dragged their feet to a crawl so the readers will keep spending money on this story.

that i didnt ask sorry. but i'd assume its boyi since they own the intellectual rights to it.

i talked with a friend and he mentioned that myriad people(ATTP) and invincible at the start, were hiring. he works in a studio in china. its nothing official yet. but there is hope yet. but if we want to keep it real between us. it might not be a good thing.

fair enough, welcome back. enjoy your quality reading time.

damn bro, you read my msg and responded 2 years later. i kinda respect that lol. but what happened to you?

well, i am only a guide, whether you wish to follow my advice is up to you. we can only strive to improve ourselves by only going through the fire of pain. the positive thing is, now that you have read this manga, you can skip all the other 40 or so manga that share the same concept because they are pretty much a carbon copy off of eachother with different skins. https://i.postimg.cc/sgrYtrWr/i.png i shall go back to reading and enjoying my shitty and brainrot xianxia/wuxia manhuas enjoy your weekend.