Infinite Save: I Cultivate Immortality Through Reincarnation无限读档：我轮回证道长生

A good but irritating work.

Am i the only one who prefers some words be fully translated to English instead, like names of sects, cities/places (depends), techniques or art, for example in this novel Qingchan peak could be Azure beast peak, Kongshan sect could be void mountain sect. of course names of characters should and must not be translated.

May include spoilers.
I’ve read about 300 chapters. And here’s the paradox: the first ~200 I genuinely devoured in one go. The reason is simple — the author plays the mystery effect really well: based on the clues the MC has “right now,” it’s basically impossible to figure out the conspiracy until he gets the final missing piece. On top of that, the conspiracies in the first arc feel nested: like the first connects to the second, the second to the third… but you can’t be sure until those missing “linking pieces” finally drop at the end of the arc.

And it’s honestly a blast to read.

About the MC

The MC isn’t a “genius messiah,” and he isn’t a “complete psycho” either. He’s just… normal. And considering how many cringe MCs I’ve seen, “normal” here is, surprisingly, a compliment.

The first arc

The plot of the first arc is solid — sometimes genuinely interesting. The intrigue holds, and you want to keep reading.

And then comes the thing I hate: fatalism.

I personally rank it like this (because fatalism isn’t all the same):

1) No fatalism

Nothing is predetermined; everyone decides for themselves. Strong characters can plan and “predict” based on logic/data, but that’s not fate-magic — it’s deduction.

2) Heavenly secrets + deduction

You can peek into “trends,” catch glimpses of a likely future / someone’s possible fate, and build long-term plans through calculations. This is still tolerable — even cool — if it’s done smartly.

3) Karma

Not “did good = +luck,” but something more concrete: the Dao of cause and effect.
Here you can do “sowing and harvesting” across millennia: say you leave a cultivation technique in a cave → thousands of years later someone builds a path from it → becomes your “harvest,” or repays that karmic debt.
Karma creates a massive web of dependencies. Sometimes it allows glimpses into the past/future, and in harsher versions it even enables weird “kill by the tail of a connection” stuff through someone else.
This already overloads the brain, but it can be interesting — as long as the author doesn’t turn it into mush.

4) Fate

At this point you can turn living beings into puppets if the author wants “everything is predetermined.” But more often it’s a vector: go with the flow = buffs, go against it = debuffs.
Like “purple imperial qi” → someone is “meant” to become a great emperor, or a “rising demonic star” → meant to shake the world. It doesn’t mean they can’t die, and it doesn’t mean they’re good/evil — it just means it’s easier for them to roll along those rails.

5) Time

Specifically when time travel can change the present. If you mix that with fate/karma/calculations, you get chaos, because causality breaks and it becomes hard to understand what’s even happening.

6) Parallel universes

For me this is basically “authorial arbitrariness”: explanations become meaningless, defense is impossible, everything happens because “it has to.”

So. In this book, it’s at the time level — and karma and fate are fused into one, in the most rigid version.

And the weirdest part: sometimes it doesn’t work like “there’s a cause → there will be an effect,” but like “there’s an effect → so a cause will appear.”
For example: if a sect must be destroyed, then the sect master will “out of sheer curiosity” decide to peer into heavenly secrets and plant the cause so the sect gets destroyed. It’s like the world retroactively forces the foundations to make the outcome fit.

And I could still live with that… if not for the MC’s special feature.

“Saves” as a leash

The MC returns to checkpoints: he’ll keep looping back to a crossroads until he chooses the “right path.”
But “right” doesn’t mean “he chose it and understood it” — it means right in fate’s opinion, which is basically the only right path.

And that gives me this feeling: the MC isn’t a hero — he’s a hired worker who’ll be killed and reset until he does what fate “needs.”
Not “I overcame it,” but “I got trained like a dog.”

The progression is weird too

The growth rate isn’t exactly slow — it’s more like: “I can… but why?”
The MC grows only as much as needed to do “fate’s job.” Sure, he’ll die a hundred times — so what? The task gets done.

Around chapter ~300 he’s roughly level 5, enemies are level 10, and the power scaling is such that at level 8 you can “kill with a thought” everyone below 8; at 9 it’s even harsher; at 10 you can already “look at karma” (lol). It creates this feeling that the world is presented as ultra-deadly, but the MC’s growth is like “minimum viable progression according to the spec.”

The moment that killed it for me

The MC looks into a little mirror from the greatest sect in the world — a sect that, for unknown reasons, was wiped out 60,000 years ago — and he gets thrown 60,000 years into the past. And he becomes the cause of that sect’s fall, because in the present “the effect already existed,” but “there was no cause”… and the cause only “appeared” 60,000 years later.

After that, my reading hype just turned into heavy apathy. Because it feels like causality here doesn’t work like “the world lives,” but like “the world is being forced to match an ending that’s already written.”

Final impression

If you like metaphysical “karma–fate–time” stuff where everything is intertwined and the MC is just a cog in a huge mechanism — you might enjoy it.

If you’re like me and you want the MC’s choices to actually mean something, rather than “die until you guess what fate wants” — then after the first arc it can start to feel genuinely unpleasant.

The first arc is genuinely good, and I totally get why I flew through 200 chapters.
But what it turns into after that… for me personally, it’s almost a guaranteed drop in interest.

Started of pretty interresting with questionable Potential but eventuelly imo got pretty good, atleast the chapters past 500 or so were good overall imo around 7-8/10 or so
(Be warned it is deviating from the standard formula quite a bit in alot of ways and isnt in others, so while i would recommend this to most to try its not just a cool(even if unorignal) twist, so be prepared to be disapointed)

I love you people who recommend good books

The time loop mechanic is a bit deceptive here. It's more accurate to say MC has been given a test and each time he dies, an evaluation is made of his answers. He then restarts and is given the test again, with the correct answers marked and incorrect ones left for him to do over.

The answers marked do not contribute to his future evaluations, nor is a rubric given for the weight of each answer. However, he gets an idea of the answers to some of the questions by looping and he is also given study aids in order to help him pass in the way of cultivation methods, tools and increasing cultivation.

If he dies while having all the correct answers, he is then given another test in the form of another life.

If he fails too often, he might just get an indefinite detention.

Gah

This COULD have been the next longevity simulation. Unfortunately the system is an utter mess. The reset point changes on the whims of the author without any rhyme or reason, its so random it essentially ruins having a reset ability at all since the whole point of a time loop is being able to do things without consequence to gather info, here MC cant act crazy if he doesnt know where the next reset will start according author. The next bs is the reset randomly awarding the cultivation techniques as a mcguffin.

Other MCs farming aura while this Mc farms

The MC is purposefully turned into a dumb f#ck otherwise if there was a smart MC then the story wouldn't have any thrill or mystery.