For some reason, after reading the title and the synopsis, the first thing that pops into my head is The Legendary Mechanic. Anyone else thought about Han Xiao?

Read to chapter 39 and I can say the novel is pretty good. There's a militaristic tone that starts later in which is very nice. The biggest weakness I can see is the lack of compelling side characters, it's mostly about the protagonist building his force.

So, to start with.. an OK binge read.. dont expect much from this book.. First, MC is dumb.. can't plan ahead.. can't form a stable foundation.. can't gather loyalty.. can't try to learn more about the system or loop holes.. Second, World building is trash.. tons of gangs.. 1 for each street.. then you got 4 big gangs ruling over 20 gangs each.. then you have the army.. All sounds good.. well each big gang can only get 2,000 people?? in the last chapters these guys were dying in the 1,000's so?? ok (Each small gang has over 200 battle ready people.. so.. 200X 20 = 4,000 then you have the big gangs that need to rein in these gangs so they would need over 8,000 battle ready people.. so in the last battle there should have been over 48,000 just with the gangs.. the army would need 2.5X time that to rein all of that in so they would need over 120,000 people so the last battle count for this very large city with over 80 small gangs should have been over 170,000 battle ready people.. NOT only 8,000 people with all the gangs combined + 5,000 from army) Third, The system.. can be OP.. but nope.. in the end MC has over 600 basic mechs but they can't kill anything even when their enemies are normal people.. over 150 top tier MAX level.. can't even insta kill 1 enemy of the same level.. enemies can goku power up.. Forth, MC takes over gangs and then does nothing after.. all that ever happens is War and Pillaging.. no actual planing or thinking.. Fith, Every task needs 1 day to be done.. attack a gang? clean it tomorrow.. guys got taken? get them tomorrow.. someone has come to kill you.. kill them tomorrow.. Sixth, Dont bother remembering other peoples names.. 4 to 6 new names are added every battle MC has.. Lastly, In the last chapter of this (Chapter 60) I wrote examples of how the MC could progress faster and safer than war.. and how he has to personally kill over 10,000 people just to get 1 level 2 soul.. - Rise through the ranks with an elite team (Imperial Guards).. - Become a spymaster (you have secure, real-time communications over unlimited distance).. - Merchant (he's already a gang leader and only needs large quantities of cheap and low grade herbs.. high grade herbs don't give anything).. - Theft (even bandits know to loot merchents and why take over gangs? just steal the herbs and come back a month later there are over 80+ gangs).. - Trade between empires and continents/ sell information (MC has no obligations to stay where he is.. if anything sitting still is his biggest weakness).. - Create a herb guild/ mercenary guild (Level 1 basic costs like 1 herb.. you could easily just create a guild of 100,000 level 1's all over an empire and even if they die.. you get 50% back no matter the distance..) All with less risk and more benefits than straight up war.. Please reply if you can also think up more paths..

Read about ten chapters. It's a decent waste of time but if you have absolutely anything else to do, it's probably better. Initially, I was most interested in this novel. Big, imposing mechas and mech pilots in a cultivation world? A bunch of supporting characters to use those Mechs? Them betraying him only to have their newfound power taken away when they lose their mech? Sounds interesting! But no. First, the translator seems to think the plural of Mech is Meches. Which just looks stupid. Secondly, once reading the description of the Mechs, you will realize they're actually androids! It's a completely different concept entirely! Instead of powering up weak supporting characters, he instead pulls shallow and obedient NPCs out of thin air to do his bidding. The story seems pretty shallow. Every pretty woman has died and the MC assumes they are bad. There was no actual investigation done, or questioning. He goes straight into murdering people without a question, from day one, and seems like a pretty rough person. So if you want to see a man, alone, building up an army of androids with shallow personalities, written by a translator who doesn't seem to care, based off of an author's writing I suspect was really equally as bad, go ahead. Just don't expect anything crazy, and you can't be disappointed.

I'm leaving this review after paying for 10 chapters (chapter 60 to 70). The translation quality is great up until you have to pay for the chapters. After the chapters are premium the grammar goes into the dirt. The free chapters are a lure, after you start paying, the translator gets lazy as f***. You would think that the quality would get better since we as readers are paying for a product, but no they are just phishing. Seriously the TL can go get bent. Just because you go premium doesnt mean you can get lazy and drop the quality to bare minimum. Although maybe there are some dumb people who will accept it, how many readers are you alienating because of the blatant money grab? Literally the first paid chapter is so much more substandard than the free ones that it is jarring to read. It has turned a story I was thinking about paying to read into one that I am warning anyone and everyone into staying away from. Seriously stay away from this BS money grab, low class phishing scheme. I already wasted money by buying 10 chapters thinking the quality translation would continue. *Hint* It doesnt.

Unfortunately, this is another bait and switch of translation quality. I'm starting to see a pattern of stories with decent free chapter translation that are app exclusive paid chapters are just MTL pasted. They don't even bother giving a brief spell check or minor edit. So another somewhat interesting premise that is wasted by sheer laziness and greed. And this is my copy-paste review for these books because they don't deserve any effort from me.

another webnovel scam, theyve been poping up alot lately where the free chapter are properly translated but then the rest is bad mtl translation

The author's a bloodthirsty psychopath. He has even written one into the story. It's basically: mechs, kill everyone, I will rule everyone, kill these leaders, kill this maid, kill that mistress....

The translation is kinda out of place and needs to be like polished which doesnt look that hard and i hope they do fix the translation. not a bad story.