Zetsway

It IS for their own good. As an analogy, in World of Warcraft you can level up to max level without killing a single monster or you could level up through battlegrounds. If, at max level, with the same gear, the same class, and no previous knowledge of the game, the player who leveled up trough player vs player will win a duel 100% of the time. It's the same concept here.

I think I would rather save the baby with my child's talent and then use every resource available to increase my child's talent back up, since it seems that's a thing in this world. It's not like his parents planned to die before they had the chance to get some elixirs for the MC.

Would you rather let a baby die? The MC could still live a very good mortal life, but the FMC would have died at birth.

What's with this realistic familial love and unity? Where's the braindead backstabbing and hate? How is the MC going to start his revenge arc if everyone is decent?

It's not! If you have the painting in front of you, you can replicate it.

Out of love? I also call my dad old man jokingly sometimes. It's not like he doesn't call me the equivalent to 'brat' even tho I'm an adult.

I mean, a System is similar to being born into money with heavenly talent.

There are some decent incentives to read this. The world is fairly consistent and the power level's feel fine for a xianxia. Sadly, this story lacks characters with brain. The main point in this novel is that the MC has a Spirit Root that transcends the measurement of their machine so everyone thinks that he has no Spirit Root. But it was specifically stated that without spirit root you couldn't cultivate. Everyone seems to ignore every and any achievement the MC makes. Literally. For example. - The MC levels up from 0 to Foundation establishment 3'rd level in like a month or so (that's like 12 level ups) while most patriarchs in his town are 1'st level Foundation establishment at like 40 to 50 yo. Yet no one comments how he is a genius and such, he's still seen as a waste for some reason. - When the sect arc starts, the MC is yet again seen as a waste with no Spirit Root and his cultivation of 3'rd level FE is seen as overdrawing his potential(which is so stupid, if reaching that level was so easy, why didn't every single normal human with no spirit roots overdraw their potential to be stronger then clan Patriarchs?). Even after doing things like comprehending impossible moves, showing sword powers bigger then the strongest in the sect and wining the whole damn sect tournament arc, he's still seen as worthless. They don't even try to measure his Spirit Root again, just taking the words of that idiot elder at face value. -Another thing is how he literally raises the level of his wives Spirit Root, something seen as impossible, ofc, yet no one bats an eye after the initial face slap. No one asks him how in the world does he posses such magical pills. Or this that if he can do that, maybe he hides his spirit root or something. No, it's just there for 1 face slap then never mentioned again...

yeah, but that woman is has no relation with the heroine. She is just a step-mother, at best.

Didn't the MC see his root's color? Is he the only one who can see his own root's color?