This is an amazing novel. But why the low rating? Generally because of how almost half the novel is disappointing. Basically as the title says, the abysmal parts of the novel is during the beginning volumes as well as the ending volumes. Bad start, poor end. The rest of the novel, is perfect.
The beginning few volumes deals with character development and maturity in terms of emotional and attitude. I have almost no qualms with that except that it turns out to be a few dull arcs. Honestly, its like watching a movie about a boy going through middleschool and highschool. Terribly boring. Furthermore, whats the point of the "maturing and growing up" aspect when in later parts of the novel, the MC regress back to his emo, immature side when bumping into various hurdles in life of a cultivator? Very contradicting and an entire waste of the 6 volumes of "growing up".
Now the mid-portion of the novel is excellent. Plot really begins to build up and the MC actually starts to do something or take action. The happenings are in short exciting, engaging and intriguing. Really solid and well written 10-12 volumes here. These mid arcs are where the true essence of the story is in.
Then comes the final few volumes or 1/3 of the novel that most readers dread. All i can say is, the author probably got writers block, ran out of ideas, got sick of writing and wanted to end the story. Absolutely atrocious. Its like kinda how a published series got axed and the author casually throws in a couple of volumes for the sake of milking a few last ditch sales and then conclude it at all means. Absolutely ZERO fucks given in later arcs. Moreover the ending leaves readers dumbfounded, in a bad way. Theres no intricate plot within a plot, early plot hints end up being abandoned/ignored while many plot holes get plugged with bogus explanations, really no effort to link the various arcs and plots. Things also get repetitive and sluggish as the author does a lot of time/plot skips, the story itself is almost non existent and amateurish. The author is clueless. Its aggravating and very irresponsible. This is also where the character power level progression just turns absurdly stupid. What i'm furious about is that 4/5 of the novel focuses on the MC while he is in beginner-mid ranks of cultivation while only less than 1/5 of the story is reserved for when the MC progress to the high ranks and peak ranks. Yes, its documented he spend thousands of years for the higher ranks but in terms of content/plot & no. of volumes, there is almost no intention for "end game content", he just instantly skips ranks and level up to god mode and the story ends abruptly. During the ending few arcs, readers had to laboriously endure climbing up the hill and at the end of the journey they end up at a cliff where the only option is to jump down and suicide.
So there you have it. It is a good novel but the slow, monotonous start plus the badly written later potions just kills the novel. I'd still recommend it, at least for the middle arcs. Also do not pay much attention to the earlier reviews and the novel ratings. I can assure you, more than half of these reviewers and readers did NOT finish the novels. They have absolutely no idea what they are doing and are just rating based on an alpha/beta product. I literally face palm a few times reading these earlier reviews.
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