>>11444
Such is life in /flg/
>>11448
NTA
Think shounen/ya/folk mythology but far far far more chinese and focused on powerwankery. It's difficult to express how chinese autism it has going on. There will always be a set number of power levels, all of which have their own ultra-chuuni names, and the resources involved are such that tens of thousands of peasants will be required to supply their monastaries and such. It has an air of 'billions must die' to it.
I've never seen anything about people turning into monsters in the stuff I've seen (admittedly very very limited), but going from one discrete power level to another is always described as extremely treacherous with grave consequences if you fuck up, so it fits reasonably well within that framework.
Chinese stuff hate-hate-hates protagonists like that, so I'd be surprised to see anything quite like my spin on it, outside of a vague off-handed mention. That character I made is based off of Julia from The Magicians, so it comes from a perspective of western fascination with plucky fuckups (I'm also a transformation/monster fag)
>>11456
The state of chinese translation is reprehensible, so you have to make do with secondhand works that use the genre's tropes (and then western knockoffs that borrow them from those secondhand works...). You can get most of the underlying feeling from books with actual translations like water margin, and journey to the west, but not the hyper-specific tropes.
>>11449
I'm shocked there are four of them. I'm not super into cultivation per se, but I really like the scale and autism of the chinese worldview, so it's a good window into that.
>>11446
I'm the wrestling for dominance type of shefag, so you'll have to earn your place first.