In general, this story isn't one I recommend. I followed all the way up to a 1000+ chapters before I completely gave up on it.
For the first few hundred chapters, it was pretty fresh and interesting. There were cooking, talismans etc, and talismans were cool because there aren't really novels revolving around it. But it becomes an afterthought incredibly quickly as the story moves on. This is when the novel truly goes downhill, as from forgotten plot devices (like magical treasures that were introduced for a specific purpose but never used), to horrible character development (which I shall not even bother talking about), to the most boring & drawn out repetition of any series which I have ever read. Like this repetition here is more painful that that of Emperor's Domination... Every single time the MC advances to a new realm, he would be the absolute weakest, and either he is on the run from being hunted or he gets bullied and chased down by everybody. The story is written in a way simply make the MC's life absolutely miserable, before introducing some bs elements to save his life at the last second. And throughout the novel CX doesn't get more intelligent, which could be largely due to the author's inability to write well, as the only thing he does is fight and kill without any ability to properly think for himself. Your talismans and cool elements are thrown out of the window, in the favor of plain sword moves that "integrate the concept of talismans", which honestly is just stupid and wastes the whole concept of talismans. Like their only purpose is to make your sword more powerful??
Long story short, interesting premise and certain parts intrigued me at the start, but as the story moved on, it got way too repetitive and was painful to read due to the author's inability to write anything other than tropes and deus ex machinas.
In general, this story isn't one I recommend. I followed all the way up to a 1000+ chapters before I completely gave up on it.
For the first few hundred chapters, it was pretty fresh and interesting. There were cooking, talismans etc, and talismans were cool because there aren't really novels revolving around it. But it becomes an afterthought incredibly quickly as the story moves on. This is when the novel truly goes downhill, as from forgotten plot devices (like magical treasures that were introduced for a specific purpose but never used), to horrible character development (which I shall not even bother talking about), to the most boring & drawn out repetition of any series which I have ever read. Like this repetition here is more painful that that of Emperor's Domination... Every single time the MC advances to a new realm, he would be the absolute weakest, and either he is on the run from being hunted or he gets bullied and chased down by everybody. The story is written in a way simply make the MC's life absolutely miserable, before introducing some bs elements to save his life at the last second. And throughout the novel CX doesn't get more intelligent, which could be largely due to the author's inability to write well, as the only thing he does is fight and kill without any ability to properly think for himself. Your talismans and cool elements are thrown out of the window, in the favor of plain sword moves that "integrate the concept of talismans", which honestly is just stupid and wastes the whole concept of talismans. Like their only purpose is to make your sword more powerful??
Long story short, interesting premise and certain parts intrigued me at the start, but as the story moved on, it got way too repetitive and was painful to read due to the author's inability to write anything other than tropes and deus ex machinas.
