This is one of the best xianxia themed novels I've read in a long time.

Plot- The plot is cliché but it's just what I'm looking for. It's not quite the wish fulfilment and face slapping generic novels which I appreciate. Much of the situations the MC face don't feel contrived but feels as if it is natural progression. Some scenes felt rushed but tolerable. 

Romance- I am so glad this wasn't harem because that's one of the reasons I turned away from xianxia novels. I can say the romance was well done for the genre and it wasn't contrived. I love the build up and I love their interactions. They actually resemble real life couples. I love the fact that they started as friends and actually took time to open up to each other. Some scenes were kinda awkward for me but that's just me. 

Characters - Most of the characters are quite fleshed out. Most of them don't just end up as one time thing. Each one of them serving as a learning experience for the MC. There were several minor characters who were mentioned in the early chapters and were then mentioned in the later chapters. Villains aren't one dimensional either. I do hope Liang Chen had more interaction with the sect people but it's okay. 

MC- I love the MC. He is ruthless but not an indiscriminate killer. I really like it when the author shows Liang Chen's soft side. It makes the readers connect with him more. He is OP and has plot armor protection but not so OP as to overpower everyone. His strength progression did not make me feel that it was super contrived.

I wouldn't call this a masterpiece, it doesn't quite give me the heart pounding excitement I used to feel. Probably because this wasn't pure face slapping, wish fulfilment novel with a super OP arrogant protag. Nonetheless, this is a very good novel. 

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That's a temporary note, and it may change after I read everything.

That's a surprisingly nice xianxia, plot cliché but it's nicely done, much better than the chinese classic out there. Personnages aren't 1D, at least majority. World building felt nice, not rushed. 

However there are some bad points, and I'm afraid the more it goes on, the worst.

The MC is acting like a prick, knowing all and everything. I'm becoming tired of seeing him moralize as if he had the universal answer to everything. 3 chapters ago he said there was no real bad or good and yet again he is contradicting himself. 

There are some incoherence, at chapter A he see people raped/killed but he doesn't care. That's okay, but then why at chapter B, when a random girl maid get raped and nearly killed, did he act so crazy ? Knowing that at chapter C he see yet again people killed/kidnapped/raped (MandF) but yet again act extremly cold about that. The "Oh yeah he experienced many things between the 2 chap so it can explains", doesn't work, that was clearly made to make the plot happens. It was ugly and awkwardly done, only add to the ressentement I had for the kids acting knowing all.

If it goes worst I may drop and change the rating.

EDIT : Chap 89 : I'm getting tired here, this is not going the way I would like. Not trying to make the sasuke fan SO DARK, but it's just far too light headed for what it was at the begining. I thought we would see a completly distopic/despotic story here, but for whatsoever reason it's going naruto shippudenish here, AKA good naruto and his good friends against a cruel world.

The begining of the novel made me have certains hope about it and now it's just going straight another direction, and somehow it make me feel tired of this novel. If you begin like naruto and follow by naruto then it's okay, but if you start with berserk to end in naruto then there are some big issues, and I can't personnaly follow.

It may only be a short moment (QUITE LONG NOW) of this, before going back to "berserk" like, but I can't help myself but stop a bit here. Don't know if I will ever come back but for now I'm a bit done.

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