Plain but also annoying. The story is in a rush with nowhere to go except for a checklist of cliches. Details you would want to hear about the setting and MC's past are glossed over. The martial arts is either not well thought out or not well explained, like the author couldnt make their mind up about doing a cultivation novel or a wuxia novel so instead we get an unholy and unexplained mish-mash of both. The system is really not very interesting, plain but also annoying. Maybe the book gets better eventually, but I can't get past this early slog.