This novel covers a reincarnated fellow that used to be friends with the Hero of a classic Demons vs Humans world.  After his death he reincarnates on Earth with all his memories and grows up being a loner and training his body up until he turns 18 and can play NeoRealm.  He's a strong fellow that makes good use of his experience from his past life and whilst his character isn't totally fleshed out yet, he's fairly interesting. The game world is incredibly well thought out by the author and clearly his D&D experience really comes through here.  It's amazing to see the detail he puts into it whilst not making the detail overwhelming to the point of insignificance. My only gripe with the novel so far is the lack of depth to the characters.  I don't have any feelings involved in any of them and they don't really have fleshed out personalities yet.  I'm hoping to see this pan out more as the story progresses. And you better believe that I will be here to see the story progress.  I recommend this story to anyone that likes Games element novels.

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Good world building and concepts but bad execution.

While not fully original anymore, the main concept of a reincarnated cultivator playing a vrmmo that has basically taken over the world is pretty interesting. Especially with the scale of the worlds that are being described. 

However the actual execution when writing a character exploring this world and its system is pretty bad. An MC that constantly talks about looking for challenging fights who then consistently sneak attacks and easily defeats monsters described as challening with seemingly no challenge at all. Needing tons of xp but ignoring other more easily killed monsters cause they are too easy to fight. Traveling days or weeks on end through areas described as monster infested without fighting any monsters. Level caps on info being available when it would easily be spread by word of mouth instead with no detriment to gameplay as using that knowledge itself is level locked. Greatly overestimating traveling times between places when taking into account normal walking times aided by skills and stats. A road that actively slows people down by affecting their stamina, despite the affect in such a case most people would just walk along side it to avoid it but still have level ground. The MC suddenly buying and using some daggers for seemingly no reason after over a hundred chapters of actively being an unarmed fighter. Overall a lot of self contradictory things and a really bad pace that doesn't add anything to the story and instead just makes boring parts last forever. Could honestly cut out half of it with little rewriting and lose nothing important.

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