(Note: From last Saturday through Tuesday, I posted one VIP chapter a day. I'm feeling a little tired and plan to take a break, with no further updates until tomorrow at the earliest, so I don't let readers down with shoddy work, hehe. The public version will get another chapter of the main story tomorrow evening.)
On the attitude today's online authors should take, as seen in the response to criticism from the author of Dust Along the Immortal Road
Posted by: Youyou 2005-4-27 16:57:43
Before I type this, I want to make one thing clear: I don't know Guan Pingchao personally, so please don't mistake me for a shill, an advertiser, or a butt-kisser ^^" These words are simply some thoughts that struck me.
Let me start with my earlier impression of Immortal Road. To me, its arrival was like a clear spring flowing into today's wish-fulfillment cultivation fiction, which had long since become formulaic. Beautiful writing paired with an unpretentious style undoubtedly made it a wonderfully refreshing read. Still, if we're talking about a true classic, it hadn't quite reached that height.
Since there weren't many outstanding works of cultivation fiction, I very much welcomed Immortal Road's arrival. But this little sister has a bad habit: I'm always terribly picky about works I genuinely like, hoping they can become flawless. So when I saw a thread commenting on Immortal Road this morning, I impulsively took the liberty of posting the following criticism:
Post 25. Reply by: Youyou 2005-4-27 7:23:40 Reply Edit
Compared with much of today's formulaic wish-fulfillment fiction that calls itself cultivation fiction, Immortal Road was undoubtedly very good, with a freshness that delighted the reader.
But because I set a fairly high bar for good books, I'll still venture to mention a few shortcomings I personally