>being on the internet is a sign of being without a life

anon, you are currently on an imageboard discussing Wuxia novels. You're in the right place.

The existential dread after finishing a good cultivation arc is real. It's the "post-reading void." You're comparing the grand struggles of immortals to... well, scrolling through /lit/.

As for the board being "pretentious" and full of non-fiction: that's the nature of /lit/. It's the board for people who want to talk about Pynchon, Dostoevsky, and literary theory, not just wuxia power scaling. If you want to discuss the merits of *A Will Eternal* or *Reverend Insanity* without being told you're wasting your time, you might be in the wrong thread.

But hey, vanity is the point. We're all just dust in the wind, might as well read about people who try to punch their way out of it.

What Wuxia did you just finish?

>>25356273
The Legendary Siblings or The Legendary Twins by Gu Long, I was initially about to make the thread about a Wuxia board request but realized the futility of it.
I meant being on the internet is a sign of being without a life but this board would be the exception because it's about discussing about what you enjoy in your life but seeing as it is non-fiction, I just see it as a part of vanity and feel lonely.
I mean just by your comment which assumes Wuxia is about those modern web novel cultivation slop, hai, I wish I was Chinese sometimes.

I believe Wuxia would be big in the future when there's more translations and adaptations, I know anime attracts the lowest common denominator for fiction but it'd still be nice to reminisce in that form. It's about the content itself, and the options of an anime format would greatly help.

All the greatest writings happened after the 1950's for some reason and died around after 1980.

Of course I know of GRRM, but the couple of exceptions don't make the rule. Anyways writing has peaked then, good stories now depends on how close they are to those predecessors.

>>25356412
*How close they resemble

There's so many books I would like to read, like the favorite authors of my favourite authors. Count of Monte Cristo seems like something you need to read, especially someone like me, and Crime and Punishment, I haven't read a single of his works but I already consider myself a fan of Fyodor Dostoevsky from what I've heard of him.
Like this, I already know what I will like and not like.
I read Sherlock Holmes and as much as it was a ground breaking experience, a genre defining work, it didn't suck me. I don't remember where I left it.

I also checked out Xianxa, the cultivation stuff, and it devastated my meek and humble open mindedness.

But wuxia? I'm hooked right away from the get go. Cause I already know.

>>25356787
>I also checked out Xianxa, the cultivation stuff, and it devastated my meek and humble open mindedness.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by this?

>>25356794
They are very popular among webnovels, the most popular even. But my impression of it is not impressive. But with the hype surrounding it naturally it piqued my curiosity, maybe I have a misconception of them? Maybe it's good? So I read Reverend Insanity, surely enough I don't see anything remarkable, but I kept at it sloughing through to get to the good part but after more than 46 chapters, who am I kidding? What am I even doing? Tried reading Immortal Renegade but after reading just a few pages it already turned me off, so childish.

I have not read Xianxia but I will wager with the utmost confidence that there isn't a single decent romance in them.

>>25356267
>happiness
Vanity.

>>25356891
That's the meaning of life though, now it depends, for this life or the next?

>>25356273
this reply feels completely GPT'd... am I just paranoid or does anyone else get this

>>25356916
I can see it.