So he has a female companion who fell in love with him. She then confessed to him however he refused her and said we can only be friends. Then she died protecting him. An expert I believe two entire realms and a few stages above him had killed her. This expert chased the two of them across the galaxy and finally caught them and killed her. So after this, Jian Chen went literally mad. He stopped running after he escaped and waited for that expert, despite knowing he was going to be killed 100%, or his secrets exposed which is far worse than death since everyone related to him will also die. Despite all this it is said he wanted to die after she sacrificed herself for him. Forgetting his entire family and friends. But that’s all okay his reckless and stupid and despite 2500 chapters passing he had not changed.

Soon he finds out that someone killed that expert who killed his friend. He is still mad so he finds out which faction he belongs to. Why? Because he wants to bathe them in blood for something only one rogue elder did. Despite knowing that they knew nothing of his actions he decided to destroy that dead old mans sect. On his way there he finds a small girl begging for him to buy her map. He buys it and not only that he gives her treasures for no reason other than she is a beautiful girl who is begging. Now this girl happens to get kidnapped in front of him by the richest young master in the city. The girl doesn’t want to go so Jian Chen being the “merciful kind” guy he is saved her and takes care of this young master.

Now all I wanted to show is his hypocrisy. The old man died he had no where to direct his rage so he goes for his children and disciples. A random girl passes by he risks his life to save her because he doesn’t want innocents being ruined. Wtf is this hypocrisy tho? Is it that females are more worthy to be spared then men? The spectrum of innocence depends on the s*x of the person? This character is foolish tbh and hasn’t learnt his lessons.

The Huang Lu chick or whatever her name is I forgot it. He accidentally saw her naked and she wants to kill him or take his eyes out. That's okay and normal for girls in these type of novels. Then she can't kill him due to incompetence so she orders her old protectors to kill him. They who are from the older generation use their full force to attack him pretty much sentencing him to death then and there. In their minds this man is dead and If he is alive he will be a crippled and will soon be eaten by monster beasts since they are out in the wilderness. Anyways he survives because his MC but he received huge damage and near death. Fast forward a few years. He finds her during a tournament and she randomly attacks him and injures him, mind you this is without warning. So she attacked after she realised it was him. He then being the beta male he is says I thought we were done with that matter. Then they proceed to fight while he merely defends himself against this woman, even though he is strong enough to fight her properly. So now she realises she can't handle him properly which angers her so she uses her ultimate attack. This leads to her enemies who were searching for her to find her. Mind you her clan and her enemies have a blood feud so MC shouldn't be getting involved. The woman who tried to kill him multiple times realises she most likely will die here so she goes "hey scoundrel we will write off our differences if you help me kill them. Now instead of taking the opportunity to kill her or injure her when her enemies arrived (despite them pretty much saving him because it was possible to lose to her) he decided to save her life. Let's get this straight she is a beauty, she tried to kill him personally multiple times, she ordered his death, She begs him for help in a rude manner. What does a proud genius do? Of course he forgets the blood debts with her and saves her life. All because she has a ***** and ti**. Then later on they travel together while she is still a b***h and not once says thanks. Even when he asks her for help she says who are you to order me around. Then he gets angry then they continue to travel together. He somehow falls in love with her despite not once saying he has a good impression of her except her beauty. Lmao what a sick joke. This is the number one thing I hate from this novel.

After The prince sent an assassin to kill MC. What did MC do? He let the prince go, since MC doesn't want to have a conflict against the prince country. I call that BULLSH*T! MC just destroyed 5 freaking Kingdoms! And he was afraid with one kingdom. The hell was the author thinking, He could have just given the prince a beating before letting him go! To much! I have enough with this whimsical author!

To hell with MC disappointing the princess who waited for him for years just for MC to annul there marriage! The reason? MC is afraid since he has to many enemies! Still afraid after he can destroy kingdoms! And has the backing of a major Empire not to mention the two saint ruler who is MC's friend!
And how can I forgot to mention MC is beyond OP already! Still afraid? Seriously! Go jump on a cliff or something! After you killed lots of lots of people! Still afraid? Its not MC fault its the author way of writing!

Now the MC is rather generic in reincarnation standards. He's reincarnated, so he's obviously smarter than usual, but he has no qualms about showing how smart he is. He shows off his language and walking skills early and luckily gets no repercussions. Everyone is joyful about the genius.

And then there is where the author goes all confusing on the plot. For some inexplicable reason, the author decided to make the MC a trash character. The MC is viewed as a cripple and the respect he has in his household plummets. Not an uncommon theme. What is uncommon is for the author to turn around and make the MC normal/genius after only a couple chapters. He then proceeds to skip the MC's childhood completely and then move on to the school arc. Very lacklustre.

At the school, even though everyone is at least 16+, everyone seems to act like the standard 12-year-old bully. Nothing about the characters makes me assume they have maturity unless they get into a fight, the fight being instigated because of some childish Xianxia-like attitude of disrespect for strangers you look down upon.

the MC has his cultivation destroyed and becomes a mage

All characters including the MC are shallow and one dimensional beyond belief, the Author chooses 1 to 3 traits for them and considers this amount of work as a job done for the rest of the novel, there is no depth or complexity to absolutely anyone in these 1000 + chapters that I have read.

The Main Character is the almost painful generic ''I do not care who I offend for the sake of righteousness'' type.

But he is not really righteous.

His motivations and thought process is completely undeveloped, he has no wants or needs or personality traits, he is just a vessel to move the story from location A to location B when its needed and often he does things that make absolutely no sense whatsoever. (Like going to kill someone in enemy territory publically while he knows he is being watched by and chased by 3 supreme beings that want to kill him, without any means of fighting or escaping them or any plan to do so)

All the supporting cast have less care put into them than NPC's in a lackluster B grade game.

The concerned mother is never anything more than that, every line of dialogue and action could be summarized into *Mother shows concern*

Same with the father showing pride, best friend showing support and the young lord of a big clan showing arrogance.

They never step out of these rolls or is it ever fleshed out why they are in those rolls and what motivates them to do so.

Thus almost all the dialogue in this novel is superfluous and borderline brain numbing.

The Story of this novel is just bad to the point its frustrating, the author obviously only thinks maybe 50 to 100 chapters ahead and very often writes himself into a corner where he needs to either completely retcon the story or do a massive unsatisfying asspull

This could be seen in the writer completely re-imagining the power levels of the setting midway trough because he realized that the scale of the land does not match the growth of the character, completely retconing how Ruler/King Arnaments are used, Writing in clans, kingdoms and entire continents

Characters doing the most inexplicable sh*t because the Author realized that his plot just stopped developing if something did not occur, and he has to do it like that because everyone including the MC have no personality so all their actions are reactive as opposed to active.

And all of that lazyness to deliver you a story so generic and lackluster that there is not really even a level of intrigue where you are curious what happens next or do you feel any compulsion to uncover some mysterious detail of the past.

This Author has read a few xuanhuan, liked ideas in them and just shoved them into his own novel, which is sometimes a recipe for success but in this instance it resulted in an even bigger disaster than microwaving a small baby kitten.

Has the Demonic beast race and then also has the Sea race, does not really explain the difference between them just has you accept that they are fundamentally different.

So remember kids if you see a dragon kill it for its monster core, but if you see a sea dragon and try to do the same you are a ****ing idiot.

Puts in fast travel gates and communication jades and formations out of convenience in a world where there is not treasure making technology whatsover LOL.

Same with spells and soul marks and similar things, you do not see these things existing or being taught until l the moment they are needed to advance the plot

Also blood oath in a cultivation system that so far has not established the Dao philosophy that is supposed to bind people to such things.

the examples are endless and they all stem from lazy writing.

The author developed a very crude and basic cultivation system which is fine.

Reverend Insanity a fantastic novel also has a crude cultivation system, but from it it sees it as a limitation where the author puts in work and imagination to create interesting solutions to these problems.

Here the author just shoves it in because he needs the MC to suddenly know when something happens or teleport there, or ensure someones loyalty etc.. And he uses stuff he knows people recognise from other novels so he does not need to explain or develop it himself

Examples of this just keep happening again and again

1. MC has a fondness of the name of "Jian Chen" instead of his name actual name - Changyang Xiangtian. So when he arrives to support his homeland - Gensun Kingdom along with help from Qinhuang Kingdom no one is sure who he is or why the help has arrived from a superior kingdom.
2. When Heavenly Eagle Kingdom comes around to ask, the Gensun Kingdom King is also not sure as he is not aware of the name "Jian Chen".
3. So the Heavenly Eagle prince asks for Gensun Kingdon princess' hand in marriage.
4. Now when the king is made aware that "Jian Chen" and "Changyang Xiangtian" are the same person, he leaves the Heavenly Eagle people hanging and runs away to Lore City to meet MC. You have to wonder why couldn't he just say - Sorry just found out my daughter is already engaged to "Qinhuang Imperial Protector"? Mind you he doesn't shy away from using this identity later.
5. Jian Chen arrives along with king to the Imperial capital and has a confrontation with the Heavenly Eagle prince. He too conveniently forgets to mention that he is the Imperial Protector.
6. Jian Chen gets attacked by some guys and fend them off. He still keeps mum about the whole Imperial Protector thing.
7. Based on the confrontation Heavenly Eagle king sends some "seniors" to capture the king and Changyang Xiangtian. During this confrontation again no one tells them that "Changyang Xiangtian" is the Imperial protector.
8. Jian Chen is infuriated. No, its not at him being stupid for not trying and suppressing Heavenly Eagle people but because they attacked him.
9. He gets a team of soldiers and attacks Heavenly Eagle Kingdom when shock! Horror! Its revealed he is the Imperial Protector.
10. This leads to him offending the Sect of Dragon and Tiger "Saint Ruler"
There is another unnecessary waste of pages within the above series of events:

Changyang Xiangtian makes it home and his father and mother are happy that he is a Heavenly Saint. They want to publicize this fact but he stops them because it will shock people that is so young and someone might try to kill him. But later when he starts going around attacking other Heavenly Saints who know his identity of - Changyang Xiangtian and can easily find that he reached Heavenly Saint at age 21.

Disclaimer: these are all purely speculations based on the authors current writing patterns... they may not be exact but I'd be willing to bet with anyone! [prophesy started: MARCH 31]

1. Guardian Sect: 80-120 chapters [will be in the background for another 10-20 chapters or so before even getting to the nitty gritty]

2. Tiger: 100-200 chapters [will be in the background for another 20 or 30-60 chapters...]

3. Saint’s tomb #2: 30-40 chapters ~ will probably lead into another chase-me arc