Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

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I love this author. All his cultivation books are well thought out and have such cool and unique concepts to cultivation. Cultivation novels usually have an element of repetition, but not here. He refreshes us with new paths of cultivation and adds unique elements to make it more refreshing.

50 plus chap and the author is still torturing the mc, one of the most boring novels so far. I'm skipping some and see if it changes, but so far, it's trash

250 chapters in Have to say the novel is unique for the a cultivation novel and that the author has put a good amount of thought into the plot for the story. The first 50 chapters are good but at the same time rough they serve a important part to the story but reading the perspective of a mc thats just getting abused the whole time did for me get a bit annoying and felt like it was going on for to long. after that for around 100 chapters story was pretty good and can say I enjoyed what I read, But as I started closer to around the 200 chapter mark I started disliking things with the plot more and more having to do with the mc. Mc cultivation progress is moving at a snails pace, he keeps getting stronger with being able to cross more realms to fight others but his actual cultivation grade hardly changes. He starts training in multiple area's before really ever mastering what he was already working on specially when he decideds to train in very unconventional paths like duel weilding spears, halberts and glaives. Took the mc hundreds of years to fully accept his relationship with his first wife. He acts coldly to someone that tells him they have been waiting for him for hundreds of millions of years and that you are there life partner. But yet he sits in the wrong seat in hall and suddenly decides he needs to take responsibility for a girl just a chapter earlier he was deciding on to take revenge on there clan or not like tf? Also author if you see this you should add a introduction chapter or in the summary of the novel explaining cultivation ranks I still don't know them. Saw comments about you saying just go to a wiki of rise rising and risen to see the stages in order but I couldn't find anything going over cultivation ranks,there was hardly any information posted on the wiki.

I have read upto chapter 265. I can honestly say i got tired of keeping track of his cultivation issues. MC has 4 bloodlines, three kinds of power system, uses multiple type of weapons (which also needs individual cultivation for each). That in itself is already a handful but, you are still trying to make him do other kinds of cultivation. while still keeping his power realms the same even though he can fight people with levels way above him. To top it all off you introduced the MC as someone very smart like being able to figure out peoples motives, playing with people or finding out clues to lost and forgotten realms/ruins from folklore. BUT he keeps making mistakes that are common sense. his accumulated age is more than a thousand years Sir author, I can tell you have thought alot about this novel given how detailed it is and how you try to explain everything. But its getting too toxic.

In my opinion, like all of this authors works, the MC is tortured to oblivion. Progression is fine if there was ever a point, and normally the point is to achieve victory or a good climax otherwise known as "Face Slapping". But this is just borderline plain masochism. There is no pleasure in reading this novel so far. Just livid darkness. Sometimes, painful and frustrating events are tolerable to read in novels like this if the conclusion of an arc is satisfying enough. But as with this authors other books so far, this one is the same. It fails so miserably to give you that moment of victory. TLDR: A depressing waste of time.

I'm disappointed. I Read until Chapter 165 but become so bored of the story developed... There were few Dialogue and so slowwww🙄 I like the story lbut this is not my Cup of tea. . . . ? ... .. . .. .F. .. D. D D. D. .d. D

I cannot recommend this novel to anyone. At first, while reading it, it seems like a very high quality work. Most of this is just due to the style of writing. The actual events that play out aren't bad for the first half of the series, but they aren't as good as the writing style would lead you to believe. Nonetheless, the first half of the story is entertaining. If you can get through certain bouts where the author nerfs or tortures the MC. Some people praise the character development, but if you've read any other story with decent character development, you'd realize it's only being praised because it's there at all. A lot of the character development is just random and abrupt shifts in personality. There are many other flaws with the first half, like how the author feels the need to constantly bait the audience with stuff nobody likes, like NTR. NTR doesn't happen (so far), but the way the author writes things hints at it, then makes you worry for hundreds of chapters until you get an answer. The biggest issue is that the author has no idea how to manage a readers emotions through their work. By their own words, they seem to be constantly trying their hardest to frustrate their readers, but that's really the only emotion he seems capable of making the readers feel. These issues are all amplified by the second half of the story and more. Ryu goes from a dude with talented and cool abilities to a talentless blob that continuously gets crippled. Every time he makes any improvements, the author is there to remind you that his improvements are pathetic and pointless. It's kind of hard to appreciate abilities when the author constant reminds you they suck. He even almost loses to a guy an entire cultivation realm below him. Who on Earth wants to watch an MC punch BELOW their weight? It's not like the guy had some cheat, either. If anything, we actually found out he was nerfed severely. At this point, he's spent more time crippled than not. It feels like a lackluster attempt to stretch out the story. The same storyline just keeps repeating over and over and over. He gets a power-up, he realizes that power-up actually sucks, the power-up gets useless, then he gets crippled. Rinse and repeat. The order may change, but it's always a push and pull of him getting a power-up, the power-up being degraded and demeaned by the author for several chapters of explanations, and him getting crippled, is always there. It makes every action he takes feel useless. It makes every event frustrating. I'm only 1500 or so chapters in, but these past 500+ chapters have been unbearable. Even if it turns into a masterpiece for the rest of the story, it wouldn't be worth it. Don't read this novel unless you're a masochist who likes torture, embarrassment, and being pathetic. Also, if you enjoy poor writing in general.

story is good and all but the fact that the MC has to f**** every girl that takes a liking to him is kinda a turn off for me and not just a one night stand but he has to make them his wives?? IDK it's kinda too much for a guy who says all he says about his real wife

*Spoiler* Pathetic. I just want to vent, at first I enjoyed the story real good and thankful that I found this work. But now the story development became all about making the Ryu(MC) suffer. He suffered all kinds of pain, whether it's psychological, physical, emotional etc. and now the very reason he even committed suicide, that reason where his hope came from, why he gambled his life while not knowing if he'll be qualified with that Sky God Inheritance in his first life and several more who knows how many else he got. His effort was all for a naught because for the sake of story and characters development, nerfed–he became a cultivation cripple and as a bonus his edge on prized bone structure which boasted godly cultivation speed was thrashed to slow down. In the end, I'll never drop reading, maybe I was just fed up after binge reading his continuous suffering. Aside from that, I'll recommend you to read this and following his suffering too.

Intricacy is nice for a few chapters but taking the entire free period to impress an idea is too much. Huge potential for story acceleration but I just can't, with a clear mind, gamble on this tortoise speed storyline.

This work is yet another amazing novel of Awe's and it shows. This novel is as exciting and enticing as his other novels, maybe even more so. The writing is fluid, easy to understand and extremely vivid, each scene or fight is very well defined and it's pace is not too fast, nor too slow. The story development is arguably slow, but there is no moment in which you will be bored with just fillers. The character design is good, the author perfectly describes the feeling and emotional state the MC goes through, making it easy to relate. As for the other characters, they are also well defined, each with it's own personality and motivations. As for the world development and background, Awe didn't spent a lot of time on it, and it unfortunately shows, but to be frank the world building doesn't have to be excellent.

The “challenges” of the MC are a bit forced and the authors writing style info dumps loads of paragraphs that if you skip them, will mostly not affect your reading of the story.

this is just trash, i kept feeling frustrated.