Way too repetitive. From the 70 chapters I've read, the same shtick happens for around 65 of them. MC goes somewhere, his lackeys start praising their glorious king, and his enemies which are all basically mortals, fail to realise the obvious, the mc is bigger than the empire, and continuously undermine him even though he IS the sole reason their entire empire still has some drivel of respect to their name. They also fail to realise all of the strongest warriors in their empire that arn't dead are also his lackeys. It's a shame each chapter is so boring, as the novel's plot is actually quite good, the mc clearly has a destination to arrive to, a clear path of progression (mc cultivation hacks bs), a clear enemy as well, yet he's stuck in a quagmire. Besides introducing the main villainous sect for the later story, and how he deals with some of their minions, the mc is static in his bottom-tier empire which hasn't even heard of cultivation. Like come on, the progression is slower than a snail, reading each chapter felt like being stuck in an infinite time loop where the mc thinks about advancing the plot, then decides to instead go on a mini quest where he gets disrespected by literal lvl 5 thugs, slaps their face, slaps the bosses face, higher ups/emperor blows a bunch of hot air, and throughout mc gets fawned on by his crew, who he clearly has to leave behind soon.
Besides the glaring repetition and dead-slow progression of the story, the overall world and characters don't get developed well even after 70 chapters. We know there are empires of which presumably there are 9 tiers, the mc is in a declining 9th tier empire, and he's been there for 70 chapters doing shit all, he has literally accomplished nothing besides advancing his cultivation by basically using an auto-clicker (drawing talismans on mortal paper).
There are a lot of side-characters but you don't really care about anyone, they either think the mc has the answer to all the universes problem's or they despise him irrationally even though he could delete them instantaneously.
The cultivation system itself is also extremely bland, the author writes off martial arts as mortal cultivation, but somehow we know more about the martial arts progression line than the actual spiritual cultivation side of it. And even then the description of both methods are near indistinguishable. The spiritual cultivation path needs you to form spiritual veins, where as the martial path helps you form some qi core.
The author fails to provide further info we only know what the next stage is called, no reason why its called that, in fact we don't even know if qi core stage martial artists form some core or not, we are literally only given names and no further info of the stages or cultivation in general, and any possible reasons WHY one is better/worse, or how one of them actually works. They literally just want us to just agree with anything said and hope you don't ask any obvious questions such as why cant you dual-cultivate, why does one suck even though they sound the literal same, etc. In fact the different between qi and spiritual energy isn't even explained...
Its a real shame, the novel had some potential in the first 10 chapters as you can see from the deluge of positive reviews, and the translation was good, it's embarrassing how much the writing seems like its designed to pad out the content.
Way too repetitive. From the 70 chapters I've read, the same shtick happens for around 65 of them. MC goes somewhere, his lackeys start praising their glorious king, and his enemies which are all basically mortals, fail to realise the obvious, the mc is bigger than the empire, and continuously undermine him even though he IS the sole reason their entire empire still has some drivel of respect to their name. They also fail to realise all of the strongest warriors in their empire that arn't dead are also his lackeys. It's a shame each chapter is so boring, as the novel's plot is actually quite good, the mc clearly has a destination to arrive to, a clear path of progression (mc cultivation hacks bs), a clear enemy as well, yet he's stuck in a quagmire. Besides introducing the main villainous sect for the later story, and how he deals with some of their minions, the mc is static in his bottom-tier empire which hasn't even heard of cultivation. Like come on, the progression is slower than a snail, reading each chapter felt like being stuck in an infinite time loop where the mc thinks about advancing the plot, then decides to instead go on a mini quest where he gets disrespected by literal lvl 5 thugs, slaps their face, slaps the bosses face, higher ups/emperor blows a bunch of hot air, and throughout mc gets fawned on by his crew, who he clearly has to leave behind soon.
Besides the glaring repetition and dead-slow progression of the story, the overall world and characters don't get developed well even after 70 chapters. We know there are empires of which presumably there are 9 tiers, the mc is in a declining 9th tier empire, and he's been there for 70 chapters doing shit all, he has literally accomplished nothing besides advancing his cultivation by basically using an auto-clicker (drawing talismans on mortal paper).
There are a lot of side-characters but you don't really care about anyone, they either think the mc has the answer to all the universes problem's or they despise him irrationally even though he could delete them instantaneously.
The cultivation system itself is also extremely bland, the author writes off martial arts as mortal cultivation, but somehow we know more about the martial arts progression line than the actual spiritual cultivation side of it. And even then the description of both methods are near indistinguishable. The spiritual cultivation path needs you to form spiritual veins, where as the martial path helps you form some qi core.
The author fails to provide further info we only know what the next stage is called, no reason why its called that, in fact we don't even know if qi core stage martial artists form some core or not, we are literally only given names and no further info of the stages or cultivation in general, and any possible reasons WHY one is better/worse, or how one of them actually works. They literally just want us to just agree with anything said and hope you don't ask any obvious questions such as why cant you dual-cultivate, why does one suck even though they sound the literal same, etc. In fact the different between qi and spiritual energy isn't even explained...
Its a real shame, the novel had some potential in the first 10 chapters as you can see from the deluge of positive reviews, and the translation was good, it's embarrassing how much the writing seems like its designed to pad out the content.
