Journey of the Fate Destroying Emperor

No. In Chinese mythology/Confucianism, 36 is the number of heaven, 72 is the number of earth, and 108 is the number of mankind. Sun Wukong was offered the chance to learn the Art of the Heavenly Ladle, which numbers 36 transformations, but chose the Art of the Earthly Multitude. This ties into his name "The Great Sage, Heaven's Equal." He was offered the chance to learn heavenly techniques but decided to learn earthly techniques and equal heaven on his own. In the dao de Ching it is said that man follows earth, earth respects heaven, heaven follows the great dao, and the dao is the source of all things. He decided to make the earth equal to heaven.

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."

-William Shakespeare

This is one of my best if not the best cultivation novel that I've read. Enjoyable all through and keeps you at the edge of your seat. I really love it when his schemes come to fruition and everything just falls into place. All in all a great novel.

best cultivation novel. strong background, overpowered MC , strong female character, higher level immortal world , strong ancestors . you must read this.

4 to 4.5 star ⭐

1. MC isn't weak n poor like other cultivation novel so it was nice to see him not struggling for resources cliche troupe nd since he's 2nd gen chaebol of Cultivation world so we didn't come across Young master face slapping ( Thank God)

2. Many have mixed feelings about first nd 2nd arc bt personally I liked Pagoda Arc evn tho Author kinds fkd up afterwards.

3. Writing is below avg for the first 80-100 chs so you've to fight through it( Pls don't drop it)

4. Romance is pretty well done tbh if we compare it to other CN( cult. novel)

5. Side characters aren't one dimensional so story just doesn't revolve arnd MC

This is one of the best cultivation novels you could hope to find and here a few reasons why:

1) the greatest strenght of the novel in my opinion is that the other cultivators are not stu*id, which is very hard to find nowadays. Normally in almost all the novels out there there are plenty of cultivators who are thousands and tens of thousands of years old but still are stu*id, easily taunted and emotionally unstable, or have the intelligence of a normal person and are thus not very bright (which SHOULDN'T BE POSSIBLE logically considering how long they've lived and the fact that cultivation improves cognitive abilities), young masters who are thousands of years old but still are arrogant, think in a simplicistic and superficial way, narrow minded, sometimes downright stu*id and their factions even more so because they let them be. Think of "i'm the fated villain" for example, it's funny but the way changge leads by the nose old cultivators like he's the only one who actually has a brain gets old pretty quickly, it's not really stimulating. In this novel, however, ALMOST ALL the old cultivators are intelligent, cunning and shrewd. They weren't necessarily like that when they were young, but the sheer amount of years they've lived and their accumulation of experiences has eventually molded them into something more mature and better, so they are very difficult to deal with. There are also characters (important ones even) introduced who are naive and not very bright at the beginning of the story but become increasingly intelligent and cunning in later chapters because of the reasons I pointed out before. Mc is extremely intelligent of course but he's not the only one, and he constantly battles with opponents who are actually able to put up a fight with him on the brain level, proving to be quite threatening at times, which is incredibly stimulating to read. There aren't phenomena of characters' iq lowering just because they're around the mc or to make the mc shine and appear cool.

2)this is a bit of a rant of mine, but it's also kind of logical in some way: the avarage mc has a lucky starting cheat which is most of the times in the form of super martial arts that enables him to have a strong fundation that eventually allows him to fight opponents who are entire major realms higher than him, but this begs a question: why is he the only one? Sometimes we get a couple characters who are stronger than the avarage cultivator at their level, but very very few times are able to defeat someone a whole major realm above, much less someone two realms higher, and even if they can it only applies in the earlier stages of cultivation, whereas when they reach very high realms it's basically impossible for them, but the mc still does, so: is it that the mc is the only cultivator in the multiverse who has the only martial arts in the multiverse and has the only powerful martial drive and spirit in the multiverse that allow that? Surely there must have been other powerful cultivators who stood at the top of the universe and created martial arts just as powerful as the ones practiced by the mc that allow the same feats, it would be more strange if it weren't so. Surely there must be top sects in the universe that have such powerful heritages? Surely these sects must have a young master who has learned these tecniques since the very beginning of his path and thus leading to him having a supremely powerful fundation (even more than the mc, considering his starting point is on avarage terribly low and he has only one or maybe two top tecniques from his lucky encounter and poor resources), and is able to contend with people even 2 major realms higher? Even if not 2 major levels, we should get at least one even at later realms right?!?! I don't know the others but to me this point is very valid and logical. Anyway the point is that this is precisely what happens in this story: the mc is the young master of a top sect which has incredibile tecniques that allow him to have this kind of battle prowesss but the point is that he's not the only one, there are plenty of other characters who have learned top tecniques because they are from top lineages and are thus able to contend with avarage cultivators 2 or even 3realms higher at least, and it STILL applies to high levels. They're not exactly common but there are nonetheless

3) the mc has many good qualities, but more than wang wei having them because he is the mc, it's more on the lines that only someone as good as him can be the mc. Each end every achievement of his feels entirely deserved, he works hard to stand where he actually is. He has the backing of a titanic superpower but doesn't become complacent or overconfident. Although he is very strong and has a lot of pride and confidence in himself he still is cautius about what and who he messes with. He doesn't rely on the abstract cocept of luck to overcome his adversities, there are no sudden power ups or enlightenment in the middle of the battle that come from his supposedly majestic and unyelding attitude that allow him to turn the tides to his favor, he pushes through by maximizing what he already has and making the best use out of it. Although it appears he is perfect, he has his setbacks, he suffers losses at times (one in particular which is downright devastating), but is intelligent and mature enough to learn from his mistakes and better himself, we don't EVER see him falling for the same trap twice. He is not a valiant hero, he is a selfish cultivator who is capable of almost everithing to achieve power although he has a bottomline somewhat. He is also quite a chill guy, very easygoing and carefree, relationships between members of the sect and other superpowers are not stiff because he simply doesn't need to be polite and show a curteus and forced smile, very straightforward, and the same applies to how other characters behave ofc. It's not that he shines because the other characters are avarage, rather it's that even though side characters are brilliant in their own way he always manages to stand out and it doesn't feel forced. Also, Mc doesn't just blindly cultivate powerful tecniques created by others, he actively moves towards the most optimal and efficient path to power. Most of the times the opness of the mcs is entirely due to their super tecniques, which weren't created by them, unfortunately, and the only thing they can offer the reader is their heroic personality and the strenght of their will, but wang wei, instead, thanks to his boundless creativity creates powerful martial arts since the very beginning of his journey, and said martial arts contribute to his prowess in a substancial way to the point that he wouldn't be nearly as powerful as he is if he only relied on tecniques created by others (but then again, there are plenty of characters who are able to fight cross-realm because of their backing and tecniques, so wang wei wouldn't deserve to be the mc if he was like them).

4) one of the reason mc is disgustingly op, and also the other greatest strenght of the novel, is the cultivation system. A cultivator here can actively forge his own path the power. For example, by standard after the qi gathering there is always fundation building, after fundation building there's always core formation and so on, it's like it's etched in the very fundamental laws of the reality that if you want to take the path to power, unless you cultivate the body, this is the only way you can go up the ladder. But here there is no set path. If one feels like he doesn't want to reach golden core and insted use the energy of the fundation building to strenghten in some particular and systematic way his body or soul, he can do it, and by doing so he has created an alternative realm. Of course it's not so simple, as creating your own cultivation system requires an ungodly amount of talent, but still, the fact that it's doable is so thrilling. One of the most entertaining things is watching the mc as he constantly optimizes the cultivation system of his world for himself, realizing its fullest potential, thus becoming even more op. There's also a lot of theory behind each and every realm, the stages aren't only something that exist for the sake of existing, it explains precisely what one must do for the transition, the changes it brings and what the requirements are. I'm saying this because, in my experience, sometimes the theory behind stages is not described well, limited to some lacuster explaination and recycled bs chinese ideoms and more focused on the abilities that come with the stage rather than the process of achieving it itself

5)The relationship between female lead and Mc is very well thought. She is easily one of the single most impactful characters of the story, she even has the qualities to be the mc of another novel in my opinion, she isn't added just for the sake of romance. She has the same qualities of the mc, being powerful, beautiful, extremely talented (and that's not because of some powerful bull**it "constitution" like what usually happens like  "oh fl has incredibly rare ice phoenix void primordial phisique ,or something like that, she will surely reach the top realm", NO, her talent is the real deal, much similar to wang wei's) mentally strong (incredibly), prideful, intelligent, easygoing. She doesn't need mc to stand up for her and be protected, thus slowing him down, she never once plays the role of the damsel in distress and instead is a reliable help for mc. Many complain there's no depth to their relationship and the way they actually get engaged might feel rushed, which is true in a sense but also not, the only thing I can say is to be patient and wait until much later chapters

6) The plot may not be incredible if we compare it to the good novels out there but by cultivation novel standard it's 10/10. Worldbuilding is amazing, most of the times the events unfolding in the world are not as simple as they seem, always some undercurrent force or organization plotting something and cooking schemes behind the scenes, even if you have a pretty solid guess about the reason behind certain events you later find out that even that was merely a misdirection and there are even more hidden machinations (one of the perks of having intelligent cultivators). The situation is not black and white, with the villain being clearly categorized on the black side and mc and the ones suffering bc of the villain on the white, most of the times things are grey

7) The fights at the beginning might be a bit boring but later with the daos and laws they become so much better. The way cultivators use their dao to fight is simply amazing, and there's no questioning it. Most cultivation systems in novels can be categorized for a very large part in what in this novel is classified as an "energy based system", where cultivators simply employ their energy to make attacks, the discovery of the dao comes much later at higher stages, but even then it's not nearly as well done as here. For example Fire dao isn't as simple as having a strong flame, ice dao isn't as simple as having the most powerful freezing power, sword dao isn't as simple as having the most powerful cutting/slashing power, every dao has the potential to affect material and abstract concepts, fire dao can eventually burn the very concept of distance and thus be employed as an evasion tecnique, or burn the very past of someone thus killing him, or burn the very memories of a person from others' mind and so erasing their existence, burn their fate ecc... , sword dao can also cut the concept of distance and be employed in an evasion tecnique, cut the time/fate of someone as a killing tecnique, it has the same results by different means. All of these feats can also be executed relatively early in the cultivation journey, making the fights extremely dynamic. The utilization of every single dao is boundless, can be employed in very different tecniques, the only limit is the creativity of cultivator, many times I was left pleasently speechless by the ingenius ways characters use their dao.

I know I made a lot of comparitions to the avarage cultivation novel and may sound biased or overly hyped about this one, but I think it's important to point that it's very very different from what one usually finds in a lot of non conventional ways, which are the reason why JotFDE is so good.

 IMPORTANT!!

I know that the first 200-250 chapters are difficult, especially the first 100. Even in these early chapters you can feel that author has a lot of interesting and amazing ideas but the way he puts them down is lacking, like there's something off. On my first read (and now still) I couldn't help but think "Wtf is this guy on about" when i read certain nonsensical parts, also his grammar is not the best but it all becomes more polished with time, starting from around ch150 these imperfections become fewer and fewer and after ch400 I dare say these problems are almost resolved, and after that it's pure gold.

Like people have mentioned already, the start is a bit much. I felt it was all over the place with different names, the cultivation system, etc. From how I remember it at least, it felt like we were thrown into things. I felt like the pace went by quick, and the MC went through things and learned things that we only found out about later on.

But as I kept on reading and reading, I got captivated and solely read this, looking forward to each chapter. There are lots of names and powers which are hard to grasp, but they all become relevant in some way at some point.

I like how each character has a belief that they are ‘the one,’ despite not being able to match the competition at the time. Everyone has their own methods, and it genuinely feels like a cultivation world. There’s no single path to the peak.

I’ve read a decent amount of cultivation novels, but I was really impressed by how the author wasn’t afraid to involve powerhouses early on! And I don’t mean frog in a well powerhouses, but beings who have lived for epochs, scheming, planning, and knowing very well how the world works.

The idea of the future and the past being intertwined, and the laws that govern the world, are interesting. The novel does a good job of exposing the world’s foundations and mysteries while still leaving a wealth of things we don’t know about yet.

I was even more surprised that the author is actually African American, given the cultural detail and all. I appreciate the comments he leaves and his ability to call himself out on plot holes and retcons.

I don’t want to compare it to one of the popular novels, because I feel like it has its own unique style and rhythm. But I enjoy it and it’s worth the read!

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For perspective on my rating here are rating on SOME novels I've read:

Reverend Insanity: 5 stars - it has its flaws, but it was my first webnovel, and it changed my life. 

Shadow slave: 4-4.5 stars

Martial Unity: 4 stars

Kingdom's Bloodline: 4.5 stars

Lord of The Mysteries (incomplete for reasons ~800+ chaps): 4.5

Quite frankly i feel the praises Are over rated already over 100 chps into this

The fights feel rather plain.

No exciting comments

no breath taking techniques

Honestly expected something that wud get my blood pumping when i read the comments

Ini adalah novel kultivasi terbaik yang pernah saya baca, cerita dinovel ini sangat kompleks, berbagai plot dalam cerita ditulis dengan sangat baik.

The best cultivation journey story i have read on this site. The world building and power system are very different from standard novels and the way people apply and fight using the Dao is just peak fiction.

However while it is wholesome and good the dialogues can use a bi of work and the chapters are more often than not a bit bland even though it's content is good, they need a bit of spice in them and this story can then be compared to the top ones on this site

Lots of meaningless dialogue, very bland composition, sort of like the essays you would write in school. "Yes, she answered in a melodious tone." She said he said. Generally uninteresting dialogue and bad narration. In terms of the plot, I'm not a big fan of it. The first 100 chapters are definitely kinda boring. Tho after that I never found anything in the later chapters that stood out to me.

I don't think I need to say much about the good points of this novel, others have alr done so. I am just personally not a fan of this book, if you can persist through 100 chapters of lackluster plot, feel free to read this. Don't recommend