Although it is aggravating but at least okay, the manhua is different. The beginning of the manhua is very similar, it goes towards a different direction but still follows the same concept.

The MC was reborn in a another world and still contained his memories, so he was smart and a well-designed character from the beginning. He wasn't good with social life and ended up being close to a girl who becomes a major factor to his strength, if not, his life and story.

The MC's father fell in love with a women who becomes targeted by a strong empire that wanted to obtain her to become stronger. The MC coincidentally follows the same path as his father.

The MC is a superior genius in the clan-type called the "Tang Sect". It's a sect that is specialized in hidden weapons as well as poison. The MC commits su*cide as he leaves his last creation and legacy to the sect, as he is to be punished for breaking the sect rules. After his "death", he is reborn into another world and still contains his memories and techniques from his "previous life". This becomes an enormous factor to his strength. The MC never was good with communication but is acknowledged as he gains friends, and teachers.

A) MC is supposedly hidden weapon/poison master. Fails at poison until ~100+ chapters in. Author remedies this by asspulling a cultivation/herb treasure trove for MC to loot. Miraculously the title duolo (Dugu) protecting the cultivation/herb treasure trove is a complete moron & can't recognize most of the herbs there.... yet somehow another title duolo can recognize several of the herbs several chapters later just by the effects they had without even seeing the plants themselves. Wat. (To be fair the other duolo is from Spirit Hall which has more resources but the sheer ignorance of Dugu doesn't make much sense except to give MC a reason to loot the herbs without Dugu mu*dering him on the spot.)

B) MC's stated multiple time to be ruthless in preventing potential future problems, the Tang Sect motto: "pull out weeds by the roots"....in practice almost never does this. In fact he almost does the complete opposite by almost killing the door guard of his first academy. (s*upid moron didn't have the strength to pull them roots at the time), luckily Grandmaster stops him. The closest he's come to actually following the Tang Sect motto with Blue Sunshine sect doesn't count, he s*upidly talked about the missing leader IN FRONT OF A TOURNAMENT AUDIENCE.

C) Tang San & love interest make a duo team..... Everyone and their mother already knows their name & faces. Yet Grandmaster decides to force them to compete in 7 vs 7 team battles slap a mask on them, & even uses the school's name for their competition name yet suddenly nobody knows who they are even though they kept the same tournament name & are using the same abilities... Anyone with half a brain should be able to figure out the identities of all 7 just on those pieces of info alone.

D) MC had been told to only use his second spirit when his life is in danger. Proceeds to show it off in a crowded tournament setting. Likewise his hidden weapons are displayed constantly to his enemies. I don't think the author understands what the "hidden" part of hidden weapons is suppose to mean. Hell 180+ chapters in & Oscar is the only one to properly use hidden weapons (since his targets all die.)

E) Hidden weapons don't need copywrite protection since it takes a minimum of 10 years of training to assemble.... Orangutan Blacksmith proceeds to flawlessly disassemble and reassemble a hidden weapon "10x faster than Tang San" on first try. Tang San should've been going crazy at this revelation but he doesn't bat an eye.

A) Xian Wu's sudden clumsiness.

Xian Wu's true nature can be detected by Title Duolo level characters yet isn't detected by the various Title Duolo's that kept appearing early on (such as Tang San's father, Dugu, Bone/Sword who kept on eye on Rongrong, Chrysanthemum Duolo, somehow all of them missed Xian Wu even though she had no anti-detection cover until Tang San gives her the love flower & Chrysanthemum even held the flower yet didn't detect her. Of course Xian Wu clumsily drops the aura covering love flower at worst time allowing Spirit Pontiff to immediately detect her as a spirit beast. This makes no sense since she's a close combat/agility Spirit master.... Why the hell would she even fumble for no reason like that?

B) Spirit Pontiff's tactical ret*rdation:

Supposedly the Spirit Pontiff rose to power with her cunning/overwhelming power to win over the others in Spirit Hall. Yet she's a complete moron. Instead of holding the entire MC team captive for harboring a spirit beast she inexplicably lets them go. Supposedly this was just to keep Grandmaster safe but that doesn't mean she couldn't just take them all for interogation & let Grandmaster go later. She also sends the Tang San assassination squad with orders to not release spirit rings for some ridiculous reason which gets several hundred spirit masters killed. Later on she also has 7k+ spirit masters die because of her tactical ret*rdation which she's happy about....

C) Grandmaster's tactical ret*rdation:

Stated above, has team cover up even though anyone with half a brain can already figure out who they are. Has supernatural ability to see the physical state of others & extremely broad treatment/combat knowledge (evidenced in training regiment of MC's team somehow new MC's physical limits even though MC practices a completely unique Tang Sect cultivation tech, also in the recuperative medication used, & knowledge of things that even Title Duolo's aren't sure about) yet keeps leaving MC to face mortal danger constantly (especially during tournament arc where he has two assassination attempts on his life.....)

D) Tang San:....... This is going to be way too long listing all the problems with his character. Basically everything but the biggest is his inability to follow simple principles/orders given to him by his Tang Sect/Father/common sense. This alone leads to most of the problems Tang San faces (and even the actual death of Xian Wu & near death of himself which ironically could've been avoided if he simply followed the Tang Sect way).

Strengths:

* The world building was great, at least initially. The concept of spirit rings and spirit masters and hunting monsters for spirit rings was new and cool.

* The writing and fights were good initially.

* It is not a (I your father/No, I your grandfather) type of crap-shoot which novels like Emperor's Domination are.

* MC is not a mass mu*dering psychotic nut case.

Weakness

* Plotting is very weak.

* The whole novel devolves into MC worship, it almost feels like the author's is taking every chance to put his MC on a pedestal and worshiping it.

* The writing becomes bland and boring later on.

* The MC is so OP, he has already defeated the main Villain TWICE, and there are still 40 more chapters to go! There is zero interest left in reading the novel now, so why will I read the rest of 40 chapters?

The MC's initial weaknesses were a lack of direct damage and lack of elemental (primarily fire and ice) resistance. That makes sense as a grass/plant type. He asks his teacher, should I dedicate my next rings to patching up these weaknesses? Grandmaster says no, that if he does that, he would be sacrificing the opportunity to improve his strengths. So what do you know, before he even needs to fight the fire and ice schools, he comes across 2 one of a kind herbs that strengthen his body, make him immune to fire, ice, and most poisons, and improve his spirit power. He doesn't have to give up anything and gets everything he needs. His spirit starts as the weakest blade of grass but evolves after leveling up enough into a top tier spirit. I love Magikarp power characters, but doing it this way sucks. What is even the point of setting up rules that the MC doesn't need to follow?

Check out all this BS:

1. Early on in his enrollment test at Shrek, when he throws everything at the testing teacher. And fares unreasonably well. What for? This wasn't a life or death fight, he was just throwing a temper tantrum bc his gf got hurt.
2. When he tries to absorb the spider, it is well beyond his max capacity, and instead of being harmed, he gets a priceless spirit bone.
3. He shows his hammer in the school tournament arc even though he's been repeatedly instructed only to do so if his life was in danger. This puts a target on his and his friends' backs yet he's never blamed for this, nor does he suffer consequences.
4. He trains in Slaughter city and should emerge leaking mu*derous intent everywhere, but this is easily resolved by going to an aunt that was never mentioned before to learn social skills, all of which happens off-screen.
5. Even the pinnacle sacrifice of the story, that he would give up everything to resurrect Xiao Wu, is cheapened by how temporary it weakens him and that it just gives him the opportunity to upgrade his weakest rings.
   
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Debunking this novel's Hype/Myths

#1 Transmigration: This thing about trans migrations serves no other purpose than to add a s*upid tag about a genre that is getting attention recently, on most novels it serves no purpose, and the MC quickly forget about it, most of the time fall into incoherence of personality due to the Genre the Author want to create, EX: and Transmigrated Adult, turned into a boy-scout kid that see no evil, do no evil and is embarrassed of opposite s*x. On this Novel, IT MEANS NOTHING!

#2 Friendship: Haaa! The Author's Trap, people who read this novel loves the interaction of MC's friends, but in a Xianxia where novels need word count, is dangerous. On this case, MC runs around with 3 friends, and on top of that everyone has a girl, when they start talking about random things that the author per se, should be narrating, you will spend chapter of banters over and over. at start could be refreshing and funny, but same thing repeats over and over. There will be a time you will enjoy more the MC traveling alone.

#3 Romance: Heh Same as friendship, another world count tool, the romanced I set early on giving the MC and his 3 friends a couple, and on top of it they all travel alone, so you wont see any mystery or any other thing, people could claim that is romance development, but that is world count, since they never are open to another LI options. Once MC decides he will marry the bunny girl and will stay forever and ever with her, Author decides to show other LIs, THAT IS BULLSHIT! for a MC who has the mentality of a 8Y/O Kid it won't work, since it was Sealed that he wont look any other female EVER! Multiple Love Partners seems to no exist on this universe, (i never get author why they want to depict other world with same Moral rule-set as earth, so much for transmigration...) When MC and his friends and the girls are together the Banter stats it's get annoying as hell, same refreshing at start, but boring and repetitive later (Transition from Tsundere to Lover). ps: I HATE Xiao wu... Fite me!

#4 Plot: is there any? this seems like a MC's Carousel to Undeserving Greatness, The other guys become irrelevant later on, and Author just drag them around for world count purposes, enemies are brain dead, specially the MC's Main Rival which is a girl and Falls for him. The she left him out and make bets and $#^*@%^*@%^* (@%@ Ridiculous! After 300 chapters, you just want all this to be over. The Author made the mistake to show early on the novel the strongest Cultivator on the novel "Tittle Duo Luo" Lv 90-95 (Max was supposed to be 99)

By the time is Chapter 280 MC is stronger than all of those Characters you thought were cool, since only the MC improve it's power, his friends are just fan-service to keep the Word Count Farm Running, it is not like Saitn Seiya where each of the Bronze Saint defeat a Strong enemy, here they are useless! like the rest of strong character you knew since the beginning, is the reason why other ppl say on their review that this Novel is a self m*sturbation of the Author with its MC. So on this Novel, Besides MC, His friend, and the Asspull Late Game Antagonist, No one else increase His/her Level.

#5 Enemies: Move along Nothing to see here! As stated before, All enemies are shown with their power even the strongest ones, since the beginning, so Author had no other choice than to ass-pull a Deus EX Villain (the girl who falls for MC) and makes her a lv 100 just... from nowhere! with some excuse as "I saw you back there when you were weak and do nothing because I had my pride"

#6 Ending: it was ok.. same as Naruto... Bleach..... a Novel for Kids, Teens, etc.... As an 40 Y/o man I have my complains.

Resume:

This one is a good read, Skimming in strongly suggested after halfway the chapters, There are other Sequels but my review is 100% for this book.

The Manhua is a lot better.

Misery love is the causes of all trouble of the story

Tang San's spirit power is awakened at age 6. He attends Nuoding primary academy and meets his female best friend, Xiao Wu. They graduate 6 years later and attend Shrek Academy at age 12. During the 2 years at Shrek Academy, the Shrek Seven Devils become friends, train like crazy, and battle continuously in riveting spirit arena battles. After the last arena battle/graduation, Xiao Wu and Tang San are rescued and the Shrek Seven Devils continue their paths of cultivation largely separate for the next 5 years. During this time, Tang San cultivates for 2 years to learn the hammer, fights for 2 years in Slaughter City, and studies for 1 year at Moon Pavilion. Xiao Wu is hurt, Tang San roams the continent for a while and founds the Tang Sect. As adults, the Shrek Seven Devils reassemble, and cultivate for 4 years at Sea God Island, while the evil Spirit Hall begins its conquest of the continent. 2 years later, Tang San becomes the Sea God, and his friends are all top ranked spirit masters. His enemies become Gods and there is a war. It's a happy ending.

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I didn't like the introduction of divinity. For most of the story, everyone is trying to level up as spirit masters (there are 99 levels). Then out of the blue, there are Gods (a weird mix of Asura, Rakshasa, Sea, Angel, and more), the story shifts to a race for divinity, and anyone under level 100 is an ant waiting to be squished. When Tang San was level 40, it was a big deal, but somehow by the end, level 89 spirit masters are slaughtered like nothing.

With the introduction of Gods, the battles became super duper long, wordy and overwrought. The moves become even more complicated and they're flying all over the place like it's nothing. After many boring chapters I had to skip most of the Godly battles to try and finish the novel.

The whole plotline with Bibi Dong, Hu Lie Na, Qian Ren Xue (and their becoming Gods) felt overdone and unecessary. Bibi Dong is crazy because her love life was ruined. Her disciple, Hu Lie Na, and her daughter, Qian Ren Xue both (!!) have unrequited love for Tang San because he's a decent man, and that messes up their battles with him. They weren't good villains. The number of times Tang San left them alive was annoying.

After having to skip through so many chapters of boring Godly battles, the happily ever after is only 1 quick chapter? After so many chapters of sacrificing-everything-for-love and listening to the young couples tease each other, I would have liked at least another chapter for their weddings and happily ever after (without having to read a sequel).

Some readers didn't like the females in the Shrek Seven Devils. I quite liked them. Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhu Qing, and Ning Rongrong cultivated and went through life-and-death battles with their beloved/team over many years. I think there's so, so much emphasis on cultivating and battling that there simply isn't room for any complicated courting/romance in this story.

The spirit beast ages were too exaggerated and unreal. The humans live to be around 100 years old, but they're slaughtering 10, 000, 100, 000, 1, 000, 000 year old spirit beasts all over the story to level up, when even the author says it's super hard for spirit beasts to cultivate and live that long.