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Friday Fun Thread for September 12, 2025

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What are the best completed cultivation novels in your mind? I started reverend insanity off the rec of @self_made_human but wasn’t feeling the evil MC vibe.

I’ve read coiling dragon, I shall seal the heavens, cradle, and mother of learning and liked em all. Tried out Warlock of magus world but it’s a little too silly for me so far.

Any thoughts?

Path of Ascension for space cultivation. It's not finished, but there are a few arcs that make for good stopping points.

Elder Cultivator has a kind old man as the main cultivator. Story eventually starts to drag, but I got like 1000 chapters out of it before I dropped it.

In racking my brain for other cultivation stories I've read and coming up blank. I'd say learning how to quit a story is a useful skill if you are gonna start reading cultivation stories. And not just quitting books you immediately didn't like, but quitting a story you've enjoyed for 800 chapters, but the last two hundred haven't been good and the trend is in the wrong direction.

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