So the romance in this series is very slow burning, its two cultivators who don't understand love and very slowly come together and discover their love for each other. The thing I love about this romance is simply how the author developed their relationship, there was no major "They are together now" type moment when they fell in love, it was just a very gradual realization of their feelings. Especially towards the end of this series their relationship was the only reason why was able to motivate myself to keep reading

So to start with this section I'm going to put his review simply that way people know what I'm talking about without looking through all the comments, the review was 1 star, 450 chapters read.

"Most average book ever. Nothing really happens and nothing is explained. There is no world building, no meaningful cahracter interactions and literally there is no plot. Also random disciples tr*sh talking behind Mc's back. Like, yeah he cannot do that, he is tr*sh.

MC comes out of training some random guys attack him for s*upidest of reasons. They are mostly claim traitors. I am surprised why not all of his clan is filled with traitors. The so called conspiracy is never explored nor are the world structure and the factions.

There was some dragon clan mentioned just to introduce the wife character. The relationship is so slow progression if you even call it that, you hardly notice is.

In summary, this is a book about nothing. No plot, no world building, no friends. Only some small interaction between MC and his engaged over 100s of chapters.

Even clinche cultivation tr*sh like martial god Asura is better cause at least there is a plot."

So first of all everything is explained, its just all explained at the end. The main characters cheat system came from the ancient emperor along with the reason why he was able to get strong so quickly. While there are plot holes with that like how the items appear, where are the stored, ect. this explanation is a lot better than what most cultivation novels do... Then, there is plot but again this is a very slow burning thread... it slowly introduces every single faction while steadily setting up the mc's relationship with his wife and building up the plot towards the end. Then he mentions traitors, but this is first of all wrong, They are spy's. This is a major difference since they are entering with the intention from the start rather than deciding upon it later, and again everything is explained towards the end. They are so many spy's because kunlun contains massive opportunities which every other clan needs, I'm going to avoid going into detail since its not relevant to my point. Then the dragon clan does have a point, luckily this is the last one so I can stop retorting everything is explained at the end. Overall your entire review just tells me your in the complete wrong genre, your looking for a typical cultivation novel and the summary of this one for some reason didn't tell you that this not that kind of novel. While I know I probably do this myself sometimes it really annoys me when people write a review like yours tr*shing on a novel making it more likely for other people to skip over it when your main grip with the novel is that its not your style.

So to start I just want to say the girl form chapter 310ish onward who's gag is to be killed right as she appears I felt was just horrible to the story. The 8th prince didn't feel like someone who would beat up a person for talking to him, and yet it kept happening with the shitty justification of "she feels like she is asking for it" which I just felt like was an unnecessary part of the book that I assume was suppose to be funny which I just disliked.

Other than that the ending was just honestly a major letdown. Everything after he became a dao immortal I just did not like, I think the author wanted to wrap up the series and started rushing it but going from a very slow burn to a sudden sprit just destroyed the flow of the series. The entire arc of him being a mortal to comprehend the mortal dao I just found to be very annoying to read though, it just felt very wrong to have the cheerful character get depressed then happy then depressed again. It also feels like it violates the main characters promise of protecting her smile. In exchange for his cultivation he let her suffer, This just felt very wrong and destroyed a major part of what made me enjoy their relationship. The entire final battle for him becoming the sage I just started skimming because it felt like everything I liked about this book went to shit. First of all the author just casually threw in the 4th mountain's poison dao immortal with no introduction (although at this point I was skimming so there might be something there) I really hated how the egg just casually became a dao immortal in a time of need, just overall there were a lot of things that I just felt ruined the entire story. I'm only removing one star for the ending since I liked how the rest of the book was executed but I really do hate it when authors rush the ending and just end up ruining an otherwise great series.

Everyone is revived after the world ending cataclysm. It was never really all that central to the story and the entire cultivation plotline only served as filler for the romance between Jiang Lan and Xiao Yu and the comedy with the wholecast of characters

"According to his master.

The Witchcloud Gathering seemed safe. But with so many people gathered together, would it truly be safe?

Jiang Lan didn’t believe him.

As long as it was a form of training, as long as there was competition, there would usually be some accidents.

He would definitely encounter it if he really went.

It wouldn’t be a problem if he didn’t go out."

His main reason to stay is that "something will definetly happen to him, even under the protection of immortals". You might also notice the style of writing. How could someone write like this? Almost. A. New. Frickin. Sentence. For. Every. Single. Word.

Now, for a slow-paced novel, the style of writing is incredibly important. I just could not take this, even if we ignore the sentences. And I read Winter's Tale from Mark Helprin almost every winter, and that is the epitome of a slow book. In this novel, there is nothing in the writing that gives any meaning to the "slow-paced" part. It could be written in way fewer chapters, as nothing really important happens most of the time.

Now, I would have no problem with the MC being a coward if it was acknowledged by the author, but he seems to think that his charachter is just stoic and cool. It is also funny that he want the MC to be the underdog but also be superior to others, so he regurarly speaks about the "fake" cultivation of the MC like it was the real situation. Thing like "he could be said to have cought up with his seniors, as they all are in the golden core realm, but the difference in talent will show itself as the disparity grows at the higher level" (the MC has common talent). This whole monologe is said when the MC is already a realm higher than his "seniors", pretty close to the next. Mind you, his "seniors" will take at least a hundred years to break through the golden core realm. And this kinda s*upid sh*t is everywhere.