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Chapter 181: The Duel (Patreon)

Published:
2025-02-16 21:04:00
Imported:
2026-06

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Tom C

“I shook my head, amused at my own genre-blindness. I had to stop seeing protagonist flags everywhere. The cultivation world was vast, and these kinds of backgrounds were more common than the novels would have you believe” Not just that. Constantly putting story-labels on things and assuming they will fall into pre-prescribed patterns is a sure-fire way of ending up dead. Life is way more chaotic than that. Plus it is the approach that crazy puppet maker antagonist guy has. So KY would do well to move past it imo! Except he then carries on with the approach talking to Azure. *sigh* I kinda want him to be on the receiving end of some sort of genre-breaking incident and get his shit kicked in so he learns the lesson, just because he relies on this stuff too much. TFTC!

Big Lumpy Beetle
>>164944156

I mean, its more like genre savyness than blindness... Wouldn't genre blindness be not seeing those things?

musashi
>>164944156

You want logic from English... now? :) To say someone is blind to X is simple and clear. But to say someone is love-blind (for example) would depend on the context. Are they blind to love itself? Or are they blind to the effects of love? Or are they blind to all other things because of love? Or something else? To say someone is genre-blind in this context sounds like they are unable to see reality because they keep trying to fit reality into a box of predefined and predetermined behaviors. That is, they are blind because of the knowledge of genre. My 2 cents.

musashi

Great chapter. I've mentioned it before but one of the things I despise about cultivation novels is how they have a bad case of seagull behavior. Fly in, destroy everything, shake head sadly, fly out. It's as bad as some sci-fi where the earthies discover an abandoned city of a highly advanced civ and somehow, with great effort, do everything just right to destroy every bit of it by the end of the book. tftc

Phantom knight who can’t think of a better nicknam

I’m really hoping he doesn’t ignore what he just said there in the end there’s dismissive of things with common sense but that right there is not normal especially considering his age

Tom C
>>164944156

Yeah tbh I think KY is genre savvy, but he is at risk of becoming blind to anything else - as it is dangerously easy to just fit things into the tropes and formats he knows. That ease could be his undoing I reckon!