I like the idea and find it refreshing but the execution left much to be desired. Leaving aside grammar and such, there’s a huge problem of info-dumping/world padding of useless stuff that would put slide of life to shame and horrible pacing. At chapter 200, we are not even a week into the novel. And most of it doesn’t even bring anything substantial to the plot. Also, there’s a lot of inconsistency in the world building. Specially the timeline of various stuff. The MC said he’s 23 but a couple of chapters later, his senior of 2 years has been inquisitor for 15 years. Other time his team member saved treasures for multiples years to afford something. That’s just pure math but it goes deeper with the timeline established related to cultivation. With the life expectancy described, they shouldn’t be able to be at the palace stage at their age. Also, the Order only existed for about 500 years but they have a buttload of soul realm expert from who knows where when 50000 years old clan had 3 in their total history. Finally, the cultivation system and art related to it is very shallow right now and not explored very much or in a meaningful way despite a lot of mention about art but its always about grade and not detailed. Same thing about the Dao, always mentioned on a surface level without any dept. A lot of potential, but wasted as it is now.
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LIKEOther frustrating things with a lot of inconsistency are the battle when cultivator are supposed to think really fast but it takes 10 seconds for a conversation or an attack charge time that are ridiculous. What’s the worse is related to distance and the size of the world and related to time. For the first case in the novel it took the inquisitor less than an hour to reach the sect but takes months/years for other to travel. When Yang Qing travels it almost seems like he went to most of the region on the continent and can reach anywhere in a matter of hours but then supposedly it’s super massive and when he announced the verdict of the impromptu outer disciple sect case it reached 500 000km which is only the "surrounding". It was said there’s hundreds of thousand of rank 4-5 org and thousands of rank 3 and higher with corresponding territory. Finally it’s the number of member of there order that doesn’t seems to make any sense. Let’s not even talk about their unreasonable progress and resource requirement, how many people would it takes to cover the continent but they are only elites. He travelled for his evaluations and there was 3 branches for a couple of rank 3 organisations, how many would you need to cover even a small part of the continent and that’s not even considering rank 2 and rank 1. Then it was said there was the requirement to be judge, special inquisitor, prison, and spy are only for those with golden and purple core but the number who have reached that is ridiculously low. Then the promotion ceremony that involves 1/10 of rank 5 org and some of the above rank which should occurs a lot of time with the size of the continent for important even but then it’s only used twice a year. The number of people travelling is ridiculous not counting travel time for each ceremony. For example, just Yang Qing judge friends, they are 5 and most went from outer core court to outer palace. That’s 15-20 promotions ceremony and they are around 23 and some. Just them alone are taking the supposed semi-annual quota for a couple of years. I could continue rambling about things that doesn’t make any sense but yeah I am skimping through the chapters to follow the general story and interesting bits, but it’s small pieces of gold here and there in a mountain of dirt.