This is a pretty decent story thus far.  The story feels like a combination of one of the Chinese horror death game novels, where people get pulled into a horror situation and have to survive increasingly difficult situations, and a cultivation story. 

It's a little rough around the edges, but nothing to serious. Some of the pov transitions feel a little awkward in their timings, but it feels kind the author is getting better at them.

The only other minor complaint I'd have is that while the events seem like they are happening over the course of like several months, from how it's written, it feels like a there is a new event each day and that to get to like chapter 130ish, maybe 2 weeks had passed. Mind you, this isn't a 'needs improvement' complaint, just that for me it makes it harder to keep track of what's happening where and when. 

Still, on the whole, I hope this story gets more attention, though I do understand that this story is very niche due to the particular arrangement of elements it has.

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A really good novel! I wasn't expecting much but the setting is novel (hehe) with interesting characters and A LOT of foreshadowing. I like the pace and the story feels fleshed out, I don't know why this hasn't gotten more attention, probably because it's relatively new? But yeah definitely recommended :)

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The premise and execution so far are interesting, the pace is a little too fast for my tastes and the story could be touched up a little. But it is on the better end of the story spectrum in comparison to most stories. Hopefully the author improves as times goes by and creates something amazing.

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this has been really good so far im surprised how little views this has

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It's a novel that deserves to be read, the overall quality is far above most of the stories that you can find here. The story is complex and well written. There are some gore descriptions but the protagonists act reasonably, trying to save those who can be saved, also the  bad guys that aren't completely corrupted, without becoming deranged avengers.

However you must be prepared to accept some peculiarities of the author's style that I found sometime annoying. The author, in my opinion, is too fond of  parallel narration, there is a frequent switch of POV between many characters. The result is a story very "visual" with a choral narrative, more like a film script than like a normal web novel. Unfortunately that style is sometime tiresome to read, especially in the last chapters, where the pov switch frequently to secondary characters while the reader is eager to follow the main story to its conclusion.

Another consequence of the author's choices is that we haven't a real protagonist to connect with emotionally for the first 300 chapters. The MC start like a sort of "Deus ex machina" that operate in background and of which the reader knows practically nothing. In fact the protagonists for the first two third of the story are the two disciples, then the MC return in the forefront and the disciples story become less relevant.  I think that was possible to give to the protagonist some background story without spoiling the final mysteries.

The author could reply to my criticism that I'm spoiled by the bad writing and  by the trivial structure of the usual  webnovels, and maybe he's right, but since this is leisure reading I think that I am entitled to some lazy habits :-)

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This was a fun series. It had its ups and downs, but more ups than down. It didn't fall into the pit many xianxia type stories do of endless power scaling and ever higher stakes yet still having much the same plot lines, just with bigger numbers and flashier moves. 

The horror elements were pretty interesting, and certainly played up quite a few times-more for the POV chapters for the younger main characters with a lower power level, but even Jianmen and company encountered some pretty near cosmic horror level stuff in places. 

There were no explicit romance scenes, all the mature stuff was gore and horror related. Many, many a gruesome death and crime scene with supernatural killers and monsters in this series

A downside to the story, or maybe just a quirk of the author's writing style, is frequent parallel plots, often having plot A go for a while, then hitting a cliffhanger and switching to plot B with the B team characters doing stuff. At some points I think there were like 4-5 simultaneous going on at the same time, with perspective shifts being very frequent -

At least there were a fair number of plot points and foreshadowing things that ended up being relevant later on, such as (major spoilers)

Other mildly annoying recurring side character

But still, it was a fun ride. I had something else to add about the ending and an ending spoiler, but this review thing is really buggering up a lot and not letting me actually put it in a spoiler, so I guess it'll just have to go unsaid. Oh well-I found the ending pretty satisfactory 

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