EDIT: If you are unsure about reading this novel, I'd recommend giving it a go for at least the first hundred or two hundred chapters. Yes I did drop this novel, but it was a very close thing (as explained below), and there are many parts which I disliked which other people may not find a problem with.
Basically, I'm saying to give the novel a try if you were considering it, especially for the first 100-200 chapters, since most of the problems I have with the novel don't even come up until the late 100s and other people may not find those as problems.
I'm just gonna start off my saying that I have very mixed feelings about this novel. There are parts that I like and parts that I don't like, and in my view, the parts I don't like outweigh those that I do like, which is why I dropped this novel.
Parts that I like:
1. The translation - Invader is a great translator, his grammar is top-notch and he always releases on time. He also releases bonus chapters fairly often, which is always a plus.
2. The premise of the story - It's a pretty generic sword cultivation story, just the way I like them. The MC is a boy who was trash because he "couldn't cultivate," but then he realizes that he is actually a genius cultivator and was only suppressed by a special one of a kind dantian. It's pretty generic, but it's written fairly decent and I enjoyed the novel at first.
3. His secondary profession (because all good MC's need to have some side profession that they are a godly talent at) is pretty well developed without basing the entire novel around it. It has a good mix of main cultivation/side job cultivation.
4. The fight scenes aren't too dragged out, yes they are somewhat long but they never got to the point where I was skimming through them because I couldn't stand it anymore.
The parts that I don't like:
1. The plot - At first the plot seems decent. However, once you reach a certain point, its just rinse and repeat, and its a somewhat annoying plot too. Imagine a generix CN plot, but the genericness squared. He goes to a new area. Insert random young master/famous guy/apprentice or student of a famous guy. Oh wow, the random guy is very arrogant and has angered the MC. MC: *Hold my drink* *Kills randm guy*
Random guy's teacher/dad/friend (you get the idea): "NO WAY OMG YOU DIDN'T JUST KILL (Character x). I NEED TO KILL YOU NOW"
*20 chapters later*
"wow the MC is too strong, lets go look for some stronger guy to back us up so we can kill him"
*repeat x10*
2. This also kinda goes with the point before, but the way that the random character antagonizes the MC is very forced and pretty ridiculous at times. For example, there is a certain point (I won't say where) where he pretty much decides to kill two people from his side profession Association who he had never seen before, since they questioned whether he was his master's student (and it wasn't like they were trying to obstruct him, they were legitimately asking since his master had never announced that he took the MC as his student, and the MC had no proof that he was the guy's student). In these circumstances, it would be pretty normal to question whether MC was really the guy's disciple would it not? In fact, it would be kind of worrying if they didn't, since his teacher was one of the best at the side profession in that region, so letting some random guy who no one has never seen before or heard of act as his student would be kind of weird. That's fully logical right? Not to the MC. He decides to kill them for offending him. Literally at the front door of the side job organization. In front of an elder of the association. Go figure. Keep in mind, this is all literally the day after that he decided to piss off and kill one of the personal guards of a prince of the country that he was in.
Basically, TLDR the plot is very repetitive and forced to the point where it's honestly painful to read.
Overall, although the story has it's good points, how repetitive the plot is and how forced it is was just too much for me to read. If you have no issue with repetitive plots/forced events, I'd honestly recommend the book, as its other aspects are pretty good (take this with a grain of salt though, since I usually have no issue with repetitive plots, but even I couldn't take just how repetitive this one was).
EDIT: If you are unsure about reading this novel, I'd recommend giving it a go for at least the first hundred or two hundred chapters. Yes I did drop this novel, but it was a very close thing (as explained below), and there are many parts which I disliked which other people may not find a problem with.
Basically, I'm saying to give the novel a try if you were considering it, especially for the first 100-200 chapters, since most of the problems I have with the novel don't even come up until the late 100s and other people may not find those as problems.
I'm just gonna start off my saying that I have very mixed feelings about this novel. There are parts that I like and parts that I don't like, and in my view, the parts I don't like outweigh those that I do like, which is why I dropped this novel.
Parts that I like:
1. The translation - Invader is a great translator, his grammar is top-notch and he always releases on time. He also releases bonus chapters fairly often, which is always a plus.
2. The premise of the story - It's a pretty generic sword cultivation story, just the way I like them. The MC is a boy who was trash because he "couldn't cultivate," but then he realizes that he is actually a genius cultivator and was only suppressed by a special one of a kind dantian. It's pretty generic, but it's written fairly decent and I enjoyed the novel at first.
3. His secondary profession (because all good MC's need to have some side profession that they are a godly talent at) is pretty well developed without basing the entire novel around it. It has a good mix of main cultivation/side job cultivation.
4. The fight scenes aren't too dragged out, yes they are somewhat long but they never got to the point where I was skimming through them because I couldn't stand it anymore.
The parts that I don't like:
1. The plot - At first the plot seems decent. However, once you reach a certain point, its just rinse and repeat, and its a somewhat annoying plot too. Imagine a generix CN plot, but the genericness squared. He goes to a new area. Insert random young master/famous guy/apprentice or student of a famous guy. Oh wow, the random guy is very arrogant and has angered the MC. MC: *Hold my drink* *Kills randm guy*
Random guy's teacher/dad/friend (you get the idea): "NO WAY OMG YOU DIDN'T JUST KILL (Character x). I NEED TO KILL YOU NOW"
*20 chapters later*
"wow the MC is too strong, lets go look for some stronger guy to back us up so we can kill him"
*repeat x10*
2. This also kinda goes with the point before, but the way that the random character antagonizes the MC is very forced and pretty ridiculous at times. For example, there is a certain point (I won't say where) where he pretty much decides to kill two people from his side profession Association who he had never seen before, since they questioned whether he was his master's student (and it wasn't like they were trying to obstruct him, they were legitimately asking since his master had never announced that he took the MC as his student, and the MC had no proof that he was the guy's student). In these circumstances, it would be pretty normal to question whether MC was really the guy's disciple would it not? In fact, it would be kind of worrying if they didn't, since his teacher was one of the best at the side profession in that region, so letting some random guy who no one has never seen before or heard of act as his student would be kind of weird. That's fully logical right? Not to the MC. He decides to kill them for offending him. Literally at the front door of the side job organization. In front of an elder of the association. Go figure. Keep in mind, this is all literally the day after that he decided to piss off and kill one of the personal guards of a prince of the country that he was in.
Basically, TLDR the plot is very repetitive and forced to the point where it's honestly painful to read.
Overall, although the story has it's good points, how repetitive the plot is and how forced it is was just too much for me to read. If you have no issue with repetitive plots/forced events, I'd honestly recommend the book, as its other aspects are pretty good (take this with a grain of salt though, since I usually have no issue with repetitive plots, but even I couldn't take just how repetitive this one was).
