“Even if this universe is truly nothing more than a brutal bloody shadowy forest, we Cultivators will burn all that we have just to give off a single weak flickering spark in the darkness!

“倘若这宇宙，真是一片残酷血腥的黑暗森林，我们修真者，也会燃烧自己的生命，绽放出微弱的火花！”

“No matter how weak each spark is, how short-lived, how small… As long as the sparks flow unabated, then one day one of those sparks will light some tinder, and that tinder shall light some fallen branches, and those branches shall set ablaze each and every last tree of the forest!

“哪怕这火花再微弱，再短暂，再渺小，可是只要我们源源不断，前赴后继，终有一日，火花会点燃杂草，杂草会燎到灌木，灌木会蔓延大树！”

“In the end, even the smallest sparks will eventually set the shadowy forest ablaze, and illuminate the whole world!”

Eonsin

 

I have been reading CL since the start of Coiling Dragon about 4-5 years ago. After many many novels, I can confidently say that Forty Millenniums of Cultivation is one of the best if not the best. Most if not 90% of these Chinese novels are very badly written or just copy and paste with 2D main protagonists and 1D antagonists and side characters. Very few novels have 3D protagonists and even fewer have 3D antagonists and side characters. FMC has some flaws but many positive aspects. FMC has characters development, world building, plot, twisting plots, overarching plot, philosophy. I actually learned a few things from this novel that can be applicable to real life. Give it a try

4-5年前我读的是盘龙，现在一直在看修真四万年。看了很多修真小说的我可以自信的说，修真四万年属于最顶端的读物。90%的中国小说写的很糟糕，或者大部分是二次元同人，老梗。很少有现代主角。这本书也有缺陷，但很多方面都很积极。它的人物发展、世界观、情节、转折、大纲、哲学都很不错。让我学到很多有用的现代知识。 尝试下看看吧

Arcwindz 

 

I haven't finish this novel yet since the translation hasn't caught up. Usually I go the MTL route, but I find this novel to be very hard to follow with MTL.

First and foremost, this novel got the BEST world building I've ever seen from tens of Xianxia novels I've read. The number one before was I Have A Mansion In Post Apo World and it mostly has to do with the fact that it has current Earth as its background.

kowtoww 

 

I really didn't think I would be seeing another 5 star (just my opinion, of course) novel after reading Nine Star Hegemon Body Art, but, yes, here is another golden nugget. Blending futuristic sci-fi and ancient cultivation together has to be a headache, but this author pulls it off very nicely.

没想到看了《九星霸体决》之后，我会发现另一部五星小说，是的，这是一个宝藏。科幻和修真结合是一件头疼的事，但作者很巧妙的做到了这点。

总的来说，这是我读的最好的科幻小说之一
 

tanasinn 

 

This is one of the rare few novels where it gets better as it goes on. . It's definitely one of the novels I look forward to reading with very little filler (if you don't include worldbuilding as that).

为数不多的几部之一，随着情节的发展，故事越来越好。这绝对是我期待小说之一，几乎没有废话。