book waschapters and at least overpages! It took almost four weeks for me to finish but it was worth it! I loved that the characters progressed throughout the book both in their abilities and in their relationship.
The author also did a really great job describing the world and how to cultivate and everything that goes into advancing, Ling Xiao was extremely more powerful than everyone else almost all of the time which didn't really lend a sense of risk to anything that was going on but their adventures and banter were the main selling point anyway.
Summary: You Xiaomo dies in an accident on Earth and wakes up in the body of a person with the same name but in a different world where he's a brand new mage disciple and has to figure out how to cultivate to get stronger.
Along the way he meets Ling Xiao and lots of bullying, adventures and love ensues,
It's not perfectly written, But hey, it's goddamned entertaining, This is actually my second round of reading it, I enjoy the chemistry between the leads, The love interest is perfectly imperfect, He is smart and ridiculously OP as hell, and on top of that, he is such a cunning fellow and a total bad guy, He is no saint, and he taught his wouldbewife well on how to be badass like him,
The MC started off being pretty naive and a good boy, but that didn't last long with his bad boy love interest strong influence, At least, he is much wiser now, and it's refreshing to us readers that the MC ain't perfect and boringly upright all the time, I had so much fun watching this naughty and cheeky pair going around wreaking havoc at their enemies expense, How satisfying. Besides that, there are tons of comedic moments surrounding their antics, especially with the silliness of the uke,
Since the seme is such a bad boy, he has the MC under his thumb and around his fingers/, The MC is powerless against his seme's wittiness and dominance, and soon he got used to being dissed by him at every chance, There aren't much of loveydovey scenes although smuts are at a satisfactory level, Yet, you will feel their closeness and intimacy by the way they interacted with each other, I welcome this type of affection in the romance between a The Legendary Master’s Wife's central couple, Cos, it's fun, interesting and in a way, realistic,
Another thing I liked about the story is the fun of watching the MC and his hubby levelling up with each quest and encounters they had along their cultivation journey.
Although the seme is already pretty OP from the start, it wasn't so for the uke, He had to work himself up to the peak of cultivation,
I first read this book back in May last year, I didn't get around to review it until now, I might have forgotten to do so back then, Aha, things like this happen from time to time,
ed on September,Read the Chinese RAWS via TTS Omg, this was a roller coaster ride! It had EVERYTHING! Adventure, hilarity, romance, erotica, gore, fantasy, you name it, and the genre is most likely found in the story sans nonfiction lol.
Props to author for for closing all potential loopholes, Highly recommend for anyone who wants to read an entertaining story about a guy who transmigrates from our world to a “middle realm” and becomes the ultimate mage and becomes the “wife” of the man who becomes the Almighty practitioner.
I really enjoyed this story, It was a very fun read, Even though it was long I was never bored and was always looking forward to seeing where the story would go next, I liked the dynamic between Lin Xiao and You XiaoMo, I enjoyed seeing how they changed, along with their relationship over the course of the story,
The ending was a bit abrupt, it ended in an awkward place, It didn't feel like things were wrapped up all the way, This applies to the ending of the extra chapters as well,
Also, I felt that there were several little story threads that were introduced and then not resolved, you're just left to guess how it might have been tied up.
The ones that bothered me the most pertained to Lin Xiao, Like, how did he end up getting replaced by Ling Xiao And what was Lin Xiao's ambition Ling Xiao said he would help him achieve it but then he never mentioned it again.
I assume he wanted to become sect leader, I cannot give a complete review because I only got aboutchapters into it, I do not dislike it because it is long but because of the main couple,
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The main relationship is super toxic and manipulative eventually leading to the rpe of the mc, Danmei often do this rape when they contain an intimate relationship and i HATE it, I read this because I had read this did not contain an abusive relationship but they werewrong the ml completely manipulates the mc who I may add looks quite young/feminine in the manga/fanart sorry i dont remember the age of the mc but he looks super young to me.
This novel completely glorifies a toxic relationship and imo fetishizes gay men,
TW done
This is really unfortunate because I loved the magical setting, storyline and plot of this novel besides the romance, If not for that ruining it I would have completed this novel, Mar
Webnovel DNF CSkimming
, Transmigrator is now in the body of a pillmaking apprentice in a magic sect, He's got a cando work ethic and an extraplanar space with magic water to help him on his quest to be a successful mage, Too bad he almost immediately finds himself in the crosshairs of a clearly inhuman doppleganger who's replaced his senior martial sibling,
. Okay so technically, this could have been a three star story, Kinda. Maybe. I do like alchemylike stories, and I'm not opposed to weak to strong narratives and those are normally enough to carry me through a considerable number of other weird tropes.
Also, Ling Xiao is a malicious asshole and I have deep and abiding soft spot for those, But I could ALREADY tell at chapterthat this book was going to rely a LOT on repetitive plot points, Also, it was clearly setting itself up for an m/m relationship both toxic which is not a dealbreaker and aggressively gendered which is,
. I know there may be an argument to be made about how the ukeseme/shougong system means gendered m/m relationships are a natural offshoot of the BL genre, but I've read enough of the things to disagree with that.
Stories like sitelinkMo Dao Zu Shi, sitelinkThe Husky and His White Cat Shizun, and sitelinkSha Po Lang all manage to conform to the shou/gong system while making both characters in a relationship fully realized characters with their own strengths and weaknesses.
And I didn't even like Sha Po Lang,
. The Legendary Master's Wife, on the other hand, leans really hard into the "wife" bit, This was particularly evident in all the skimming I did, This is not a healthy romantic relationship, and not even in a fun way, This is just a way to be misogynistic without actually being misogynistic, Although I suspect there was plenty of garden variety misogyny around too, Everything is a sausage fest,
. It wasn't actually all that bad, The MC's internal screaming at being singled out by the asshole was fun, The asshole himself was fun, And like mentioned before, I do like the alchemy bits, But the skimming told me it was gonna keep going the same way forodd pages, Which yikes. No thank you.
. It's sad really. I've seen this recced so many times that I was hoping to like it, Ah well. This story is generally focused more on the cultivation then the romance but the romance is still there, As someone who doesnt mind either thats okay, The major problem when reading this is that its so repetitive with an overuse of cannon fodder characters, Every arch goes: get to academy, become over powered at academy, find elusive treasure, and move on, Almost every single battle is with someone the MC is weaker then and if not hes weaker then ML, Every single female character except two and we meet A LOT of female characters are genuinely portrayed as obsessed with either ML, MC or some other male character and are either killed or eventually forgotten about, they have no substance.
And even the main characters struggle with that let alone the side characters, The villains have two motives, theyre either jealous and possibly want something MC has or they fell in love with ML and went down that shit hole, ML is condescending, annoying, asshole and has an almost abusive relationship with MC, masked as love but thats not out of the ordinary in this genre,
Despite all this I still give it three and not less because the world building is amazing, the story can be very intriguing, no giant plot holes were left on this complex story, it had its genuinely funny moments and i enjoyed reading this story overall.
Not every single chapter was a hit, as there wereof them but I still read it, Reading other reviews some people think its amazing and have re read it countless times and others think its absolutely horrible, I would probably never re read it as its obscenely long, but its definitely not a bad story for its genre, Rating:/I will reread this novel into my golden years,
This journey was one I wanted to be on until the end, The exaggeration, the golden finger, the naivety, the face slapping,
This is not a serious novel all round, its adventurous, comedic and cute, Irrespective of other opinions, my own is that I loved the MC and ML and their entire gang of people, The battles they fought, the rise to riches and having all the super cool tools and dimensions really made me enjoy this,
I think you get novels that forthrightly support the rise of the MCs and you get some that portray the struggles of the MC, This is not the latter type and I loved that about it, I stayed absorbed as soon as MC found his new path and I was only happier and happier as I journeyed to the end,
My biggest wish was to have theHeaded Serpent Beasts son and himself more present in this novel, but otherwise, every other indulgent plot point and character of mine, was greatly satisfied.
Wow where to begin! I completed this novel as part of a group read with a wonderful set of readers and it was just fantastic! I truly enjoyed this novel from beginning to the end.
I loved how the MC grew into his powerful self through hard work and perserverance, All the people that always underestimated along the way, had to choke on it! I really love the transition! All the different arcs flowed in nicely! All the main points were not left out! I really enjoyed how this was a do or die world! There were so many funny parts! I really didn't feel the chapters at all, on the contrary it just flew by! I liked the way he named his beasts lol how he took care of them! There are just so many many things I loved about this novel.
The ML was OP for sure! I liked that he also had to work hard as well and also got hurt in the process, I loved the MC's and ML's relationship, because it progress over time, You can see the love and the care they had for one another, We got to experience both the MC's and ML's background and it was refreshing! The world building was insanely well made!!!!!!!! The extra was a great way to end this novel and as it takes us back to the MC's family and his past, usually that is never revisited once the character transmigrate.
There is just so much I can possibly talk about, but Exiled Rebels Scanlations did such a great job at translating such a truly amazing novel and I'm really happy I was able to enjoy such an exquisite novel!!! Thank you for your hardwork and translation!!! After an explosion, You XiaoMo finds that he is now a probationary disciple of the TianXin sect.
However, he is one with dubious potential, so just when he starts to adapt to his new circumstances, he receives a piece of bad news, If he is unable to produce the required result after half a year to become an official disciple of the TianXin sect, he would be driven out of the sect.
While You XiaoMo is going all out to make medicines and earn money, he runs into Ling Xiao, To his horror, he later discovers that Ling Xiao is really someone cloaked in human skin, Wow this book was a whole journey, Serious kudos to the translators both Sri and Exiled Rebels for picking up and translating allchapters!! It couldn't have been easy,
This is mostly a cultivation story following the main character as he powers up that happens to have some romance thrown in, The story can be split up into a couple arcs, and the scope of the world gets bigger and bigger with each arc, It was interesting to see how things that are considered rare in the first world become much more common in other worlds,
Warning: Spoilers Ahead
I did enjoy the world building, There are multiple realms in this world that are divided into low, medium, and high level realms, The story starts out on a midlevel realm called Long Xiao Continent, where our protanist, You Xiaomo, is transmigrated into the body of a disciple joining the Tian Xin Sect.
There, he meets Ling Xiao, a demon beast who killed and impersonated another sect disciple, and their relationship gets closer as YXM is the only one who knows LX's secret.
Eventually they leave the sect after nonresolvable disagreements happen between them and the sect leader and also YXM's master, and they go to another school called Dao Xin Academy, where YXM trains how to fight offensively using his soul.
There they get attacked by some people from the Blood Vermillion Clan, who is actually from a higher realm called Tong Tian Continent, who are after a priceless dimension artifact left to YXM by his father.
They don't get him but instead kidnap another fellow student, and so YXM and LX travel to Tong Tian Continent to rescue their friend, and a bunch of stuff happens there too.
While all of this is happening, both YXM and LX are leveling up like crazy, especially YXM, who is like a genius among geniuses in terms of how fast his soul advances.
He already has very high innate abilities, as his soul is at transcendant levelwhich is a legendary level, and he progresses much quicker than all of his peers,
Thanks to LX, YXM manages to collect quite a collection of contracted demon beasts as well, I loved how each beast had their own personality and how bad YXM was at naming them XD
There were so many bad guys in this series I started losing track.
YXM and LX definitely don't have it easy with so many enemies after them, especially in the Tong Tian Continent, First there's the Vermillion Blood Clan and You Zhentian as the clan leader who's after YXM's inherited dimension, and then there's the Tong Tian Emperor who tried to use YXM as sacrifice to become the Almighty, and finally there's the whole Black Spider organization and their leader, Ling Shaoyi.
I feel like each of these groups / enemies could've been the main conflict by themselves, but the author decided to throw all of them into the story together, so it was a lot to keep track of.
It was interesting to see how everything was divided into tiers, There areregular tiers for mages,
plus two legendary tiers levelandfor special mages, Practioners have their own tiers as well, and same for magic herbs, cauldrons, demon beasts, even the spirit eye that was introduced near the end, . . I can tell the author really likes classification :D
Here's a short scene from the story that I enjoyed, pertaining to YXM's interactions with his demon beasts:
"Wei, do you have any interest in joining with my family's master and great leader"
Under the guarded eyes of the seventailed demon fox, Sheqiu issues an invitation all of a sudden.
At this time, it's not only the seventailed demon fox that is in shock, even You XiaoMo turns around and looks at them in surprise,
After a moment of silence, the seventailed demon fox asks, "Why"
Why are you, a distinguished high level magic beast, willing to follow a very weak mage who isn't even capable of defending himself It doesn't understand.
Sheqiu is all smiles, "I can't explain it to you now, but I can promise you that you will definitely not regret it, "
After saying these words, the corner of his mouth suddenly twitches,
The drooping eyes of the seventailed demon fox widen in an instant as it tries to hold back an impulse to speak, before transmitting its voice, "Is what you said true"
Sheqiu nods, "I swear on my name as a ninewinged magic horn serpent that not one word is false.
"
"Alright, I agree!"
The seventailed demon fox accepts readily,
In You XiaoMo's eyes, they only exchanged three sentences, Two sentences from Sheqiu, one sentence from the seventailed demon fox, And then the seventailed demon fox suddenly accepts Sheqiu's invitation, Strange, simply bizarre to the extreme!
The most hateful thing is, they simply didn't discuss this with him, the master of the bond, deciding among themselves this matter of following along.
You XiaoMo objected resentfully, "Sheqiu, do you not think you should ask for my approval first"
Sheqiu looks at him with an apologetic expression that is not apologetic, "Sorry, I almost forgot about you.
So master, your opinion ne"
You XiaoMo grits his teeth, what 'almost forgot about you' Too hateful!
The seventailed demon fox walks up to You XiaoMo and lowers its noble head.
It asks humbly, "Please, you must accept me, It doesn't matter even if it's an ordinary bond, I'm willing. ".