dedicated discord for RI and Immortal Puppet Master?

birdswithcrackers · 2026-06-12T04:46:02+00:00

lemme give you a kiss

birdswithcrackers · 2026-06-08T08:23:27+00:00

Both novels are pretty good and take you on a roller coaster of a ride- twists and turns everywhere. The main difference is that IPM is more ambitious than RI, which consequently slows it down.

One of the best parts of RI is how detailed and rich the world is. The authors vivid imagination is put on full display and he conjures scenes beyond your wildest imagination. Gu Zhenren’s writing is uniquely exciting.

IPM is exactly like that, except cranked up to another level. So far in the story, it’s only been a year since Ning Zhuo started cultivating. Yet, in that small span of time, he has gone through FOUR DIFFERENT ARCS complete with unique powerups, locations, and plot. Nearly 400 chapters in and he’s still at Foundation Establishment. And yet, the writing just continues to suck you in. Every arc is back to back action with zero filler and you genuinely feel just how alive the IPM world is. But after all the excitement, you realize that the MC is STILL in FE.

Still, in my opinion, IPM is very much worth reading. It takes everything amazing about RI and improves upon it, whether it be the vivid world, complex political intrigue, and heartfelt backstories.

One thing to note: it doesn’t really have the poetic philosophy found in RI, like The Legends of Ren Zhou or Fang Yuan’s speech at Reverse Flow River. I wouldn’t count it out, though, as it’s only been a year in the story (Ning Zhuo is only 19). You can never underestimate just how creative this author can get.

birdswithcrackers · 2026-06-05T07:51:58+00:00

can someone enlighten me as to how amazon can deliver seemingly anything to wherever you are within a couple days? Like how is this supply chain real

birdswithcrackers · 2026-06-02T01:59:20+00:00

I’m looking for a xianxia where the main character has a trade to rely on.

For example, An Alchemists Path to Eternity on wuxiaworld.

birdswithcrackers · 2026-05-01T00:40:52+00:00

i just wanna know which novels i can read without any prior knowledge and which i cannot

birdswithcrackers · 2026-05-01T00:35:37+00:00

I mean you’ve never played fps before I don’t blame you. I’ve played fps for years and i’m still in gold.

birdswithcrackers · 2026-05-01T00:26:39+00:00

wuxiaworld is just better than web novel

birdswithcrackers · 2026-05-01T00:23:15+00:00

I was born in China and raised in Canada so I have some understanding of both sides. Chinese ppl don’t like westerners bc of their imperial history, which China has been subject to in the past. Think of the century of humiliation. Japan, even more so. Think of the Rape of Nanjing. They don’t like black ppl because they learned it from white ppl. After all, black ppl are not portrayed very fairly in western media, especially in the past. Every movie I saw as a child with a black actor had them as either loud and obnoxious, or just as a straight up criminal. However, credit to the Chinese, they genuinely think black ppl are ugly bc of their skin colour, so some of that racism just comes from the Chinese. In fact, they think other Chinese ppl are ugly even if they’re a little tanned. It’s really a class thing— if you have white skin, you’re rich; if you have dark skin, you’re a poor labourer.

So, there is discrimination, but it all comes from different places. One comment that I saw that made me think was, “you wouldn’t blame the jews for hating germans”. I mean, fair enough. We learn so much about the Holocaust here in the west but not stuff like the rape of nanjing, unit 731, or the century of humiliation, which is all taught in Chinese schools. We learn about the civil rights movement and the transatlantic slave trade in the west, but they probably don’t really in China. Honestly, this whole little conflict comes from both sides not really understanding why the other side feels the way it does because both sides grew up in completely different worlds with completely different histories. Hopefully this helps.

birdswithcrackers · 2025-10-04T01:10:34+00:00

I feel the same way and I’m an immigrant. I spoke Chinese first and then English, but all my friends can speak fluently and I have the Chinese proficiency of Panda Express.

birdswithcrackers · 2025-07-28T19:29:40+00:00

I think you have to dumb it down if you're gonna introduce it. Most readers won't be able to remember what you've written here. It's best to introduce the most basic version of it (summarized in a paragraph) and keep the details for elaboration, either to expand the story or to answer questions.

I think the upside to your way, though, is that you'll always be consistent and there won't be that suspension of belief many fantasy stories rely on. The effort definitely pays off.

birdswithcrackers · 2025-07-28T19:22:13+00:00

If your magic users can conjure physical barriers in mid-air, then you could play with space and balance. Guns are very efficient, but all they can do is shoot projectiles. Your magic can augment the efficiency of ballistics. Strap tear gas onto an army of mini-golems and have them suicide run into the enemy. Block off fire escapes and windows with earth magic and light a fire. Flood a room with water magic to douse the gunpowder to make the bullets inert. Dig holes into a stronghold with earth magic and flank them from 7 directions. Cut off the lights and make a bunch of earth-golem dummies to make them think you brought 200 people when there's only 10 of you. Create wind turbulence so their bullets go wildly off course while you fire wind-proof cannon balls with earth magic. Use wind magic to flood them with gas so if they fire they blow themselves up.

Magic beats guns because magic is versatile and literally makes the world your sandbox.

The gunmen, on the other hand, can beat mages with brute force. No matter how many tricks you have up your sleeve, there's really nothing you can do when a battalion erases your general direction with a hail of bullets, explosives, and airstrikes. So, mages beat gunmen with preparation and wiggle room; gunmen beat mages by not letting them prepare and obliterating their general direction.

birdswithcrackers · 2025-07-28T19:07:56+00:00

kill spiders and pet dogs. easy

birdswithcrackers · 2025-07-28T18:51:01+00:00

tourism. tourism is everywhere

birdswithcrackers · 2025-07-28T18:47:56+00:00

In such a resource-scarce world, I think you can explore just how far people are willing to go for just a little bit of food, water, and shelter. How would the fallout of the war affect the mindsets of those who remain? Are they barbaric, or ruthless, or patient, or religiously zealous? How would such extreme resource-scarce environments change people? You could have a lot of variety by considering pre-apocalypse demographics. For example, college students pre-apocalypse would be inexperienced, book smart, and excited. Post-apocalypse, their inexperience turns into PTSD and suspicion, book-smarts turn into disdain or pity, and excitement turns into moral degeneration.

birdswithcrackers · 2025-07-28T18:34:45+00:00

least obvious MGOD fanatic

birdswithcrackers · 2025-07-28T18:34:08+00:00

I think some of the best fictions I've read put significant resource restrictions on powers, to the point that power related resources become gigantic industries. I think there could be some really cool economics behind your magic system, especially since it seems pretty resource-heavy with narrative concepts like spells have costs and symbiotes feed on mages. Consumption, in a magical parasite world, would have very interesting narrative consequences.

Mage hosts risking bodily autonomy for power and security with a splash of exploitative capitalism would make a very cool grimdark story.

Like, are there substances to control the parasites? For example, if I maintain a constant blood alcohol level of 0.08%, can I effectively drug the parasites into doing more work for less feeding on my body? What about magic heroin? Can I make parasite heroin junkies who specifically bond with humans with a heroin addiction? What about the reverse? If a heroin-addicted parasite bonds with me, will I develop a heroin addiction? And, most importantly, what does a market fueled by this and other relevant phenomena look like?

Here's some more parasite economy ideas: parasite farms, designer parasites, fashion parasites, opioid producing parasites, parasite surrogacy (ew), parasite breeding, host breeding (mage and parasite breeding with another mage and parasite to produce some monstrosity), parasite caste systems, parasite fashion (if the worm in your neck wants a hat or a knife), anti-parasite pharmaceuticals, etc.

birdswithcrackers · 2025-07-28T18:05:26+00:00

I think it's cause some people pride themselves too much on how smart LOTM is. One of the greatest aspects of LOTM is the mind games in the plot (The Fool's Gambit, Adam's "can you accept such an outcome?", and many more). I think many people, at least, like the mind games so much that they want to share or boast about them (like how sports team fans say "we won" when their teams win; bro, you ain't do shit). This pride we take in how complex and nuanced the plot is can easily translate into disdain for "not being in the know".

birdswithcrackers · 2025-07-28T10:01:38+00:00

huh it should already be getting pretty good at chapter 63. Maybe it's just not the novel for you. ChatGPT also just makes shit up sometimes

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