A Review of Tanhua's Writing Characteristics and Why Chronicles of the Cultivating God Never Became a Huge Hit ("Heavenly Dao Xiao Hua")

I was not a die-hard supporter of Tanhua. I first read Tanhua's Chronicles of the Cultivating God around the end of 2015, on another website. After the fastest updates and First Grade, I fell deeply in love with it. For someone who was not such a veteran fan of Chronicles of the Cultivating God, eleven in the morning and seven in the evening were the happiest, yet most painful, times of every day: happy because I could read Tanhua's newly updated chapters; painful because the chapters were too short, always leaving me wanting more.

As my love for Chronicles of the Cultivating God deepened, I came to understand its situation on Qidian: only when subscriptions exceeded 1,000 could the Immortal Realm and Primordial God Realm arcs of Chronicles of the Cultivating God continue. For the sake of this little fondness of mine, I could not wait to register an account on Qidian, and Chronicles of the Cultivating God was the only novel by Tanhua I subscribed to. Of course, that was beside the point. If I said too much, others might think I was kissing up. Below, I will talk about the distinctive features and shortcomings of Tanhua's novels. Please feel free to correct me.

Tanhua's novels could actually be summed up in five words: new, upright, difficult, vast, and pits.

First, new: Tanhua's perspective, plot, writing, imagination, and everything else differed from other novels. Reading them made one's eyes and ears feel refreshed.

Second, upright: Tanhua's novels carried profound humanistic concern. All kinds of Tanhua-style chicken soup were plain to see between the lines.

Third, difficult: cultivation was difficult, becoming a god was difficult, and maintaining an ordinary heart was difficult. Xiao Hua, in the unnamed mainland of his hometown—which was actually the Divine Continent Ruins—cultivated all the way