"Flower-Plucking Records": Cultivating the Dao Is Not Cultivating the Body, but the Heart-A Review of Immortal Road

The author's personal advertisement and information about updates to the public edition were appended at the end.

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Subject: A Few Words from Me on "Dust Along the Immortal Road"

Posted from: Two Sides to Every Story bbs (fri jun 24 23:40:45 2005), this site (lqqm.)

-For everyone who liked this book, or had yet to find a reason to like it.

I had wanted to write something here for a long time. Having finished my exam today, I finally had some time to say a few words.

First, I thought quite highly of this book. Why?

From Huang Yi onward, fantasy novels had excelled through their plots. Some novels even attracted readers purely through the caliber of their wish fulfillment. The former could still draw readers into their worlds; the latter could be boiled down to the simple formula of killing monsters, leveling up, and having beautiful women throw themselves into the hero's arms. On first encounter, it might seem passable; on the second, it was bland and tasteless; on the third, it was like chewing wax.

The reason was that these authors generally had rather weak writing skills. More precisely, their accumulated cultural grounding could not shoulder the weight of a substantial book. Yet among them, Immortal Road was an exception.

Want to know what made it different? Within the book itself were "words" as lovely as jade; I would not elaborate here.

Next, a few words about the author.

Before reading the book, I heard that the author was from the University of Science and Technology of China, which gave me a favorable impression of the book.

After reading the book, I heard that the author was from the University of Science and Technology of China, which gave me an even better