Love the new novel so far and glad to see you're back and writing new content. This novel is already gives me an dark, edge-of-the-seat, and epic vibe. Looking forward to seeing how this story unfolds!

This novel should be renamed to the Rise of the Plot Holes. I finally dropped this novel at chapter 1480 after I couldn't handle how retarded the novel had become. There are so many inconsistencies, forgotten items, skills, and characters, conveniently abandoned elements that it makes you wonder if the author did much planning at all before he started writing this novel. Two good points before I go off: - The writing quality was generally decent but it reaallly suffered from a lack of editing. Early on (and some random few chapters sprinkled throughout the novel), there are countless instances of Random capitalization Of words in Some sentences. The other one that does NOT improve is that the author uses the wrong name for people tons of times throughout the novel. Thankfully it's always easy to infer what the correct name should be from the context but it's pretty annoying and there are probably ~100 instances of this. - The witty banter was actually quite good. I rarely laugh from novels, but "listening" to some of the characters when they were being shameless and are insulting others (like the Snake Monarch) was an absolute joy and actually had me laughing out loud. And now for some of the MANY issues that come to mind: ************* Spoilers Below (skip to bottom if you don't want to read) ***************** 1) His godly beast (little snow) that hatched from the egg he receives from the ring in the first dozen chapters? Stays asleep in his ring and isn't relevant until around chapter 1450. 2) His first bloodline trial takes him to some world where he meets some three-eyed beings. Another 800 chapters later, a couple of them exit that world and enter his mortal world. After the MC saves them from a prison, they and that world are never mentioned again. 3) His second bloodline trial earns him a "super powerful" soul cultivation ability that was also used by Tian Shen. Never used or mentioned again. 4) His first tamed beast has some interesting memories where it's been exiled from its world. Despite going to the beast world in the future, he never helps out his beast with getting revenge despite claiming that he would do so. 5) The MC (i.e author) makes a rather self-aware joke in the novel that "he has the bad luck of always getting into fights that continually escalate while others don't experience this." Maybe this was the author's tongue-in-cheek way of addressing complaints in the comments, but it was rather annoying considering this is also never actually addressed in the novel. No matter what action he takes, no matter where he goes, there generally isn't stretch of more than 10 chapters where he isn't randomly provoked and starting a new feud. 6) None of his friends or family have ANY impact on the story (besides Xun) other than being a weakness that enemies exploit. They spend the entire novel inside the MC's ring/inner world and do nothing but train or f*ck and that's it (although I do like that unlike other novels, the MC does actually consider people targetting him and always makes an effort to keep them safe by generally never leaving them out in the real world though). A huge part of the beginning was his meeting with Mingyu, the princess from Esteria Empire. She has DUAL special physiques and one of them allows her to literally see the future. Besides the two tragic visions she has related to the MC when they first meet, she has no purpose or value to the MC besides being another one of his wives that he dual cultivates with. 7) Heavenly oaths are completely underused. It's basically an inviolable statement that requires you to tell the truth and yet there is no system in place that people use to verify intent or identity. It's used like twice in the entire novel. There would basically be no betrayals and you'd be able to root out all spies in an instant but again, never considered. 8) The author bit off more than he can chew and starts giving up on the novel maybe around 2/3rds of the way into it. The cultivation realms are as follows: Mortal: body refining, spirit establishment, golden core, earth, sky, heavenly, saint Immortal: earthly saint, sky saint, heavenly saint, immortal, divine king, divine emperor, divine saint emperor Heavenly: warrior, knight, general, emperor When the MC breaks through to the mortal saint realm, the author just says f*ck it and makes the MC break through 6 major realms in a row all the way to immortal divine king. His cultivation speed is basically non-sensical from this point on and you can tell the author simply wants to end this novel. The mortal world arc is ~1000 chapters long and is the bulk of the novel where he tries somewhat to create a story with some intruiging elements and planning. This completely changes and the immortal one is maybe around 300 chapters. The heaven arc so far is also around 200 chapters. Every mini arc after ~chapter 900 is rushed and often illogical, and it feels like the rest of the book is being fast forwarded without many of the crucial details being fleshed out. 9) Fights get more and more meaningless as the power level of the MC grows. After the mortal sky realm, what used to be intricate and well executed is literally the exact same formula of *MC uses illusion to trick the enemy into standing still or attacking wrong thing while teleporting behind them and beheading them*. There is no nuance or anything interesting at all. Enemies basically just punch each other or swing their more and more powerful weapons and basically it comes down to who is physically stronger or whose weapon breaks first. The flipside is that some enemies will just have inexplicably powerful abilities like locking down space with the stomp of their feet and no explanation is given either (i.e. snow phoenix princess). 10) Laws? A completely abandoned element of this book. It's introduced early on and he grasps space, darkness, illusion and destiny. The first three are admittedly the main 'weapons' in his arsenal throughout the ~1500 chapters I've read, while there are no more than a dozen enemies that have ever used laws and the fight ends right away. The only time an interesting law was mentioned was in the Tricion Empire competition, where . He also learned the heavenly laws of thunder during his immortal breakthrough, but it's never used. He spends basically no time actively improving them and his abilities are basically a hand wave. Sometimes he can do some miraculous things with them, other times he can't and no explanation is given. 11) Apparently the MC was a literal god when he entered the Mortal Heavenly realm and created his inner worlds. He creates one of his inner worlds to be inhabited by his family and friends and he creates REAL people, including towns, villages, sects, kings, all kinds of food/resources, cultivation techniques etc without ANY explanation. The whole background of this novel is that two ancient origin beings spent millennia to create and perfect life, but clearly they should've just asked the MC because he did it effortlessly without explanation. It's also never mentioned that he can't take these people out of his world but they have their own thoughts and emotions and are interacted with normally by everyone he puts into the world (including himself). 12) Endless coincidences where, despite the 1000s of mortal worlds and the immortal world, the MC will conveniently keep meeting people that are crucial to the plotline through sheer random luck, or conversely, his enemies will conveniently encounter things that can screw him over by finding the tiniest needle in the largest haystack. It's the main way this novel progresses. Every time the MC arrives somewhere, there will be some world shaking event that is about to happen like some secret domain opening up or someone that found some other secret tomb. Conveniently, the other party will have spent years, or even millenia, researching to find the origins of this place and the MC will just happen to arrive at the right moment when they solve it. 13) The MC basically has no concrete goal. It's tangentially mentioned that he wants to escape the fate of being controlled by Tian Shen but he has no plan for how to do so. He randomly goes from place to place because of grapevine news of competitions or treasures or because he wants to arbitrarily help someone like his snake monarch (who conveniently is found by the MC in a mortal world which the snake had no way of going to btw). 14) His knowledge of alchemy and formations is basically never used more than a couple of times, and only then to do some really minor things like making a poison pill or adjusting the formation on his illusion mask. 15) Speaking of his illusion mask, it was his earliest treasure besides the ring and is basically a godly item that is unexplained as to how it was placed so close to him. 16) Ji Shan falls in love with a girl with a special luck based physique after accidentally killing her and then resurrecting her with a healing pill. A whole backstory is built up for her and she seems like she'd have an important role to play. Turns out she randomly dies a dozen chapters later when they try to capture Ji Shan and the entire purpose of her existence was simply to make Ji Shan sad again. 17) MC meets another guy with a special physique and they become friends when he is leaving the continent for the first time. Turns out he is the disciple of one of the two lackeys of the immortal queen sent to kill him but he is never mentioned again besides a cameo of him and his master (lackey #1) who are on a boat. 18) Lang Ming (the guy that enslaved him from the Dark Soul Sect) had a mysterious father who he was working for and tasked the MC to fetch a coffin necklace from the Divine Heaven sect. Not that long after that arc is over and he leaves the continent, neither the necklace or the father is mentioned again. 19) At the end of the Divine Heaven Sect exploration (around chapter 400), he gets a pair of gloves that are supposedly the greatest treasure of the sect. These gloves, despite being always worn by the MC up until I stopped reading at chapter ~1500, have zero purpose. The MC commented that they have no ability and do nothing. Also, he was told that he had to help out the descendants from the Divine Heaven Sect that had survived the calamity and started a new sect somewhere else. This promise is never fulfilled or mentioned again through out the novel. 20) The biggest plot hole by far IMO is his ability to mind read. He gets this ability maybe halfway through the novel and it just states that he can use this to read the minds of anyone that isn't much stronger than him. Now with this, you'd think that it would be impossible for him to be screwed over when he meets suspicious characters around his strength face to face right? Wrong. He will rarely use this ability when needed (except for a few instances) nad instead uses it when it isn't crucial or where it shouldn't be possible (because the opponent is significantly stronger than him). No explanations given at all. The MC should basically be swimming in any environment but this is basically a trump card that the author miraculously remembers to pull out of his ass once in a while. There are so many scenarios he gets screwed over like with Mingyu's brother who was trying to frame him as well as the girl who claimed she'd been raped. He could've read their mind since they were significantly weaker but nah, the author decided to conveniently forget about how OP it was here and made sure events progressed in some illogical manner so that it could fulfil Mingyu's tragic vision and the death of her entire family and destruction of the empire. 21) Xun planned to betray him from the very start and he figures this out by also reading her mind. Despite this, in his 3rd bloodline trial, she teaches him some technique to transfer his soul into a second body that he leaves in that sealed world and also transfers the anger emotion from his Heart Demon. It's basically alluded to multiple times during the trial that Xun was about to betray him and the whole clone and soul transference thing was supposedly very sketchy but he goes ahead with it anyway and no explanation is given as to why and what her plans were in the first place. After he leaves his angry psychotic clone in this world that he spent so much effort trying to make nice for his foster mother to takeover, he conveniently forgets it ever existed and it goes on a rampage making the lives of most people in that world miserable. 22) Related to (21), when the MC tries to kill the Immortal Queen in the immortal world, she sees him coming and runs away. Of all the thousands of mortal worlds, she conveniently enters the SEALED world from the 3rd bloodline trial (which no one was supposed to be able to enter), and the moment she arrives, it's by teleporting in front of the MC's angry evil clone. To get revenge, she convinces the clone to scheme with her to screw over the MC and they end up going back to the immortal world (forgetting everything that was set up in the sealed world) and she brings him to a "miraculous" inheritance ground (that no one including the Saint Emperor knew about), that despite existing for millions of years, conveniently only had a few months left before it would be destroyed. The inheritance ground slows down time by a huge factor which allows the clone to catch up to the cultivation of the MC's main body. After leaving the inheritance ground, the queen also conveniently has a special soul spell that lets the clone sync memories with the main body. Of course, this connection is also conveniently one-way so the main body only experiences a headache while the clone gets everything. 23) The two lackey's of Immortal Queen were supposedly waiting for something like a million years (it's first mentioned that it's only a thousand but 600 chapters later, it's mentioned that it's actually been a million) and their souls were pulled from Earth into this world so that they could stop a prophecy where the MC would kill her. Ignoring the fact that they're from Earth (which the MC has been trying to get to and, despite being stronger than the Immortal Queen, still has no idea how to do so), their literal task is to simply kill the MC. The author keeps trying to intentionally mystify and convolute the story by having the lackeys state that the MC needs to fulfil some destiny first and that he isn't on track to do so initially. Instead of killing him, they keep f*cking up his life to try and make him lose control so that he either he gets stronger quicker or so they can supposedly interfere with him without "losing the protection of destiny" whatever tf that means, since it's also never explained either. In the end, they resort to actively trying to kill him and fail. The MC picks up the book of destiny from lackey #2 (which can literally see parts of the future and contained a ton of information about him) but the MC never looks at it and forgets about it entirely after this event. It's never mentioned again. ********** End of spoilers ************** I'm honestly so exhausted from vomiting out all these points that I don't even care about spending more time remembering the rest. The points above could certainly be structured better, but to sum it up; this novel is worth 2.5 at most, mainly due to the utter lack of effort towards keeping the details straight. It's riddled with plot holes and abandoned/forgotten/ignored elements, and the novel only is driven forward through plot armor, countless coincidences, deus ex machina scenarios, new concepts and places pulled out of the authors ass, and an endless stream of arrogant and provacative enemies who attack the MC for no reason. With the amount of times he gets into a death feud, it makes you wonder how anyone in any of the worlds are even alive. Don't bother reading this if you're looking for a well thought out novel because you'll be disappointed. I chugged along for ~1500 chapters so that I could tell you that you don't have to.

I love the premise and general world building, but this is probably one of the laziest works of writing I've ever seen. Every action related scene feels like I'm reading a summary of what actually happened. The first fight that the MC ever goes through is basically just: "The MC fought with the bigger kid" "He was getting tired so he decided to end it" "He executed a feint. It worked. He walked back" And this theme continues on throughout the rest of the story until I dropped it 22 chapters in. Things happen out of the blue with little lead up, resulting in some of the most robotic/bland content and stupidly inconsistent pacing. There are also grammatical errors riddled throughout the chapters I've read that make the writing somewhat jarring and breaks what little immersion there is. I honestly cannot recommend this novel and it definitely does not live up to its 4.4 star rating.

For those asking about why the translations have stopped, a quick google search yielded this comment in one of the threads: "The translater got covid and also completely burn out due to fail in university as he spend too much time translation versatile mage, it's three years "

Not sure how to edit but I meant various side characters

Man oh man was this a trip... I'm not even sure where to start. It was such an incredible journey following our MC and the various side trips from his brutal beginnings to the really well wrapped up ending (that didn't drag on or end abruptly). While the start is pretty cliche to most wuxia novels, the character development, feelings, and overall story certainly were not. From the highs to the lows, I shed quite a few tears in the many strong moments this novel had, and I often found myself stopping and introspecting about some of the incredible quotes that are dropped and how they might relate to me in real life, even re-evaluating some facets of it. Makes me really wonder more about the author with regards to the pieces of wisdom throughout, as well as question his sanity for coming up with so many creative insults (although I do wish there was a wee bit less of this, as the humor breaks some of the moments for me, but perhaps that solidifies Lino's character for us). I think l've read around 40ish "light" novels in this genre, and this is definitely one of the few at the peak. I really think that most of you readers out there won't regret reading this.