Before you go on a three paragraph rant about how I'm an uncultured swine who can't understand this "complex" fast-paced novel please be patient with me, or don't, either way, it doesn't make a difference. This novel is a pretty much-overdone cliche of the vicious cycle of "revenge" with a sprinkle of poor writing. Put down your torches let me elaborate. Pitchfork down? ok so essentially, the basic introduction of the plot is the overdone checklist of cliches, a beautiful unrivaled girl who no other can rival? check. Betrayal of a said beautiful girl or literally anyone close to him? check. What's this he's also trash but somehow the reason he's trash is cuz of a thing no one else has and now he's gonna prove the haters wrong? check. Merit is to be made that cliches were created because they work and blah blah blah, please shut up the only reasons cliches work is because it panders towards a certain demographic and said demographics are also the types to forgive this godawful terrible blight on storytelling. The concept is the only thing supporting this work, like for Allah's sake the characters are so god damn one dimensional, not a single one person has a fucking personality, not a one, and no calling someone trash over and over again or being slapped in the face does not count as them having a personality. That my friend is just a face slap, gosh i think the author of this work only creates characters to face slap and boy, do they get face slapped quite a fair bit. TLDR; Cliche Tropes overused, a boring world(like seriously all i know about this world is that a lot of sects exist and that they have an epic gladiator arena) and poor character development. I would rather read those CEO novels instead as they are forced to actually make the readers engage and care for their characters.

This story is about a MC who is talented with the sword but is not able to cultivate which leads to him being labeled as trash (similar to BTTH). The MC overcomes this obstacle and obtains a heavenly cultivation method which allows him to raise his cultivation in a short time and in a sense, is reborned (this is not a transmigration story, which is refreshing). This story is fast paced. The plot goes from betrayal to cultivation breakthrough and power up very fast. The fight scenes are also short, often ending in one sword move. So far, there is a little bit of face slapping, otherwise, the plot seems to point to a bloody revenge early storyline.

Translation quality is good and it would be a fairly good novel if it wasn't for the fact that the plot has been reused more times than is actually countable. The characters are basically brain-dead and each obstacle is as easy to overcome as the last.

I saw many negative reviews by people who haven’t even tried the novel yet. I don’t know the reason for giving biased review without even reading the novel. I think the plot till now is pretty well thought out. So far the translation is good, story progresses at a steady pace without making reading uncomfortable. Comparing it to the few other cultivation novels it might not be the best as of now but I expect it to well above average. I must say I enjoyed the initial 100 chapter release. With 27 chapter per week it is worth a read.

I'll try to keep this as spoiler free as possible by talking in generalities. I've read quite a few chapters at this point, and I'll probably keep reading the novel in the future mostly because I like protagonists with swords. You might be wondering why I've rated it so low if I'm going to keep reading it though. So, let's talk about the cons of this story. To say it is cliche is an understatement. Cliche 1: Fallen clans. Those once great clans that the MC relies on the heritage of to overcome. Yup, there is not one but two of them in this story. Both the mother and the father are from once powerful existences though the father's clan is much more so. Cliche 2: Mysterious object. The story starts with one in the MC's body that causes him issues, but it ultimately rewards him with OP abilities. Cliche 3: The fallen genius. The MC is an unparalleled genius until they find he can't cultivate properly due to cliche 2, but don't worry that cliche also fixes this problem. Cliche 4: Betrayal of a loved one. Oh, it's not enough that he is a fallen genius from two once great clans. He needs a manipulative love interest who betrays him to really top it off. Cliche 5: OP friends. The MC will constantly randomly bump into and makes friends with people who have secretly amazing backgrounds. Get assigned to a place to live. All the other members have crazy backgrounds. Run into someone who is being chased? That person has an even crazier background. Cliche 6: The arrogant MC. Really, no matter how arrogant you think MC are you are probably underestimating this MC's arrogance. He has powerful friends to protect him, and he won't use their protection because he thinks that highly of himself. He will openly declare war on anyone regardless of how much more powerful that group or organization is and manage to hide from them just long enough to become strong enough to take his revenge. And he really can't lay low at all. His arrogance won't let him. Perhaps the only character more arrogant than the MC is the MC's father. Cliche 7: The area of death. Because you need an area the spells death of anyone who enters except for the MC who turns it into a chance to get stronger. It also conveniently lets him escape from getting killed. Cliche 8: Foolish enemies. His enemies will constantly send people at roughly his level or a little higher to kill him so he has a chance of escape. They never really go all out and there always seems to be a bigger organization behind them pulling the strings. And you've probably guessed it already, but these enemies are the most two dimensional of characters because who needs depth of character or interesting motivation when cliched characterizations will do. They'll be dead soon enough anyway right? Honestly, I could go on, but you probably get the idea. It's not a very well written story. There is nothing particularly new or interesting about the cultivation method or the world building. It is a generic cultivation setting. The characters (MC included) are very two dimensional. They are really paper thin in design, and there is nothing unique or interesting about their characterizations. This is a glorified wish fulfillment type of story that brings nothing new to the table.

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Bruh. Literally the author goddamn throws it straight at you no description at all just straight up throws a scene immediately at the first chapter. We all know that the mc will be talented but this though. I was expecting a sword path novel like Dominating Sword Immortal but thats just wishful thinking I guess. The rival is a 16 year old thats already past the Qi Condensation Realm and she's as strong as maybe Mid Reality Condensation or whatever the **** that 2nd realm is from DSI. Total horse **** as we'd know that the first places are always some backwater villages or some **** and not the capital so this is way too overbounds and also the pavilions and **** aint even ranked dude just described wtf this **** sucks dick bro

This novel is a potato if you threw it into a bunch of other potato novels you would not know which novel was which. What do we do to potatos we smash eat then **** them out. At least its better than corn level i dont even remember to review them i just assume people read them for no other reason than casually eating popcorn becuase your bored out of your mind or dont want to try and make a hole in a wall with your head.

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