I'll start with the quick one, he can almost immediately go back in time now sometimes. He helps himself defeat a really powerful enemy despite not knowing it was himself until he goes back in time 10 chapters earlier. I HATE this, it feels so unsatisfying and just way too op. The author tries to cope about how the past world rejects him and he can't use his full power but its still so s*upid and op. There's also more setups for what I guarantee I won't like. Anyone with half a brain cell can tell from early on a lot of plot points, maybe even from the first book are going to be set into motion by himself using his time powers. I just hate it, but maybe I'm weird. Whatever, that's hardly the biggest complaint I have with the past 300 chapters. Almost forgot the super annoying point that he has to burn his time dao runes every time he uses this s*upid time journey which severely gimps his power level in the present. I never want to read about a fight where he can't use his full power bc the author keeps ruining it.

These next two complaints are about the ret*rded situations he ends up in bc the author either forces him to be dumb or reckless. Then the ridiculous lengths and coincidences the author has to go to drag him out of them. (I want to puke thinking about how time powers and himself doing things in the past/future might actually set up his ways out at times.)

The first one he gets teleported away to a totally different realm which is a bit silly but the author did this plenty in the first book so I wont complain much. Long story short his cultivation has been stuck and now the world is making his baleful qi so bad that he might turn into a rat immortal/grey world person. He's given a couple options on how to deal with this: option A, an almost sure fire way to get out of this world and go back to his with the Uber powerful organization he's a member of where he can solve his issues there by himself or finding somebody else to help. Option B, go to a super secret special area in the capital city that's guarded by very powerful forces that hate anybody from his world, to use a s*upid pool that will help him break through and cleanse himself (repeated plotline like the first book) Of course he chooses the s*upid pool with infinite risk and no guarantee of success. The author almost catches himself later when he's about to enter the secret area. He has a line that makes me think he realizes how s*upid his choice is and he has to make up an excuse for why this was actually necessary all the sudden. "uh, that baleful qi is actually worse than I thought so I'm forced to try this option even though I didn't mention this earlier when I could have left safely." Old Han Li would have never been this reckless and s*upid, he wasn't anywhere close to a dead end and he just chooses this terrible option. He's explored maybe 2% of the immortal world and already came to the conclusion this is the best option to advance.

I'll skim the details but he gets captured and now we need the coincidences and forced plot points to dig him out. Of course Weeping Soul from the first book happens to be there when he's captured and comes to save his group. Now he goes to the pool and there just so happens to be a dao ancestor fox from his world who just so happens to have a clan member in Han Li's group. Of course they somehow managed to escape. This whole 20-30ish chapters was so ridiculous to read and just further cemented my opinion that the author really fell off for this book. It also wasn't any fun to read, it just felt goofy and I couldn't wait for it to be over. Go figure the dao ancestor fox only cares about his clan member and takes him away. Not to worry though, another member of the group has a huge background and just so happened to master an artifact so his dao ancestor father could teleport him and Han Li away to another totally different world. (lol)

In this second example I actually don't mind or disagree with his decision to enter a really dangerous realm that's almost guaranteed to spell trouble. He has to enter this place to save Violet Spirit who just got thrown in a couple years before him. (I'll ignore how Daoist Xie just happens to have his plot related to this place and in the massive demon world Violet Spirit just happens to end up in there too lol) Although entering this place is s*upid, I get it and don't really fault him. He's always cared about the people he really loves. So, what's so bad about this next part? He falls for one of the dumbest schemes I've seen. He hardly has any resistance to it and basically walks into the trap. This and the last example really shows how far his character has fallen. Old Han Li would never throw himself into dangerous situations for a slim chance at gains or if he had to he wouldn't fall for a trap a 5 year old could see through. He was always cautious and calculating, and even when sh*t hit the fan he'd find some way to figure it out. I skipped most of the details but his way of getting out of this one is also filled with so many coincidences and a nice "I'm the main character, my willpower will actually let me gain something from misfortune moment!" It's just so silly. Him getting captured this second time actually leads to a cool arc where he's a gladiator. I think this would have been fun to read if I could get past the author making him so dumb to where he hops right into a trap. If some super op character came in and forced him I wouldn't even mind this arc, why ruin his brain for no reason though?

That's enough whinging from me, I'll just say this is obviously my opinion and how I look at things. If you want to see the polar opposite go read this on WuxiaWorld where 99% of people are "just vibin" as the kids say and enjoying the ride. For me though, its insulting how dumb the author makes Han Li and the time powers and goofy ways he gets out of things just become more and more ridiculous. Much much worse than the 1st book.

As long as I didn't miss out on something in the mtl, Han Li is somebody from a past life who cultivated the time dao and ended up clashing with the time daolord and losing. He somehow manages to send himself back in time and recultivates the reincarnation law becoming the head of the Samsara Temple. Somehow he does all that, but Han Li who is also him gets sent to another time and we follow everything he does with the books. He has no memory of this past life and is somehow the same person. The weirdest part is that Nanong Wang is both of their lover (s) but the current one doesn't have memory of her past life until the Samsara master reawakens her memories. I'm getting tired of typing but reading this part was WEIRD lol, she has to choose between one of them even though they're both the same person but also not the same person??? Finally, the time bottle that Han Li's had from the beginning isn't explained well and just feels like a magic mcguffin for anytime the author needs something crazy to happen for Han Li to win. The bottle spirit knows so much but never explains anything and never shows up unless its time to bail Han Li out. I hate it, but I get there not being any mystery if the author explained things earlier. Finally some more weirdness with time. Han Li goes back in time to save somebody and he ends up setting his whole story in motion by kicking the bottle to himself at the start of the story, so predictable. Also, there's another Han Li that ascends at the end of the book or maybe it truly is his friend from the start Li Feiyu. Or it's his other reincarnation that mastered samsara and reincarnated again? I couldn't tell through the shitty mtl. It makes more sense if its his friend but it seemed like another him was still in the world, very weird and I hate time for how f*cky it makes the plot.