once he ascends for the first time, it's as if the author poured cold water over the fire which is the entire novel

for example, just in this last chapter one of the potential enemies made a threat against MC's family! But instead of thinking of how to deal with him quietly, MC just makes his influential enemy, who did not take him seriously before, aware that
1-he's not afraid
2-might retaliate
and INSULTS him OPENLY
thus creating MUCH more danger for himself AND his family, compared to JUST SHUTTING HIS DUMB MOUTH but the author, again, thinks that arrogance is superiority and FORCES unnecessary tension, because he can't imagine better ways to write tension

Book 5, Chapter 9

Even when some senior Transcendents created his own spear techniques, it was entirely due to his own experiences and his own path. Should one read these senior Transcendent’s techniques when they were young and malleable, they would be easily pulled by the allure into taking an easy road.

The path of any Transcendent must be taken step by step in a firm manner, experiencing everything by themselves! Only after condensing their own ‘True Meaning’ with a firm foundation should they refer to other senior Transcendents’ spear techniques or sword techniques, or such weaponry techniques. This would ensure their own resolution was not shaken.

No spear manuals bro. Xue Ying's heart is too fragile for learning them.

From v6-v14, the Grand Xia World Arc (own name) begins. Like a typical xianxia, events like increasing cultivation, getting better techniques and weapons from ancient ruins and marriage take place. IET makes his world and numbers bigger and bigger. Comparable to the current war against the Seamless Gate, this is basically a war against the Sorcerer's Palace and Demonic Faction.

Not everything is the same though.
On a whole, the world seems deeper and vaster without adding 10+ powerlevels like generic xianxia.

From v14-v25, the Divine World Arc begins. The scale gets bigger and battles get even more awesome. The main point returns to MC's cultivation. He takes the strongest cultivator in the Divine Realm as his master and quickly rises through cultivation realms. There is a memorable arrogant young master (because IET hates this trope and inserts too few of them). There are areas like the Dark Abyss filled with mysterious legacies of ascended masters and corpses of those who tried to take them and failed. Oh, and there is an invasion arc too, but the invaders are few in number, so no large scale battles.

The most amazing thing about Lord Xue Ying comes to play in this arc. Cultivation Systems. No, not cultivation manuals, ENTIRE CULTIVATION SYSTEMS. Say for example Desolate Era. There are two major cultivation systems: Immortal Ki Refining and Fiendgod Body Refining. In LXY, there are countless cultivation systems like this. Some of them are incomplete, some are complete and training in more than a few is wasting time. But for any xianxia fan, its absolutely mindblowing and the signature of LXY for me.

v26c32 - The last volume (I have read). This is the Void World Arc, for lack of better names.

After a brief time roaming the void, it switches to a sect arc. The MC is a core disciple on arrival, and he is set to become an Elder in a short while. IET doesn't f*ck around, no outer, inner, core, true disciple progression and meaningless arcs of making word count... straight to the meat of the matter.

She's a beauty who is an opportunist at a very young age. Probably influenced by her family situation or beliefs. MC used to like her but never tries too pursue her, guess being the way she is is set in stone and MC ain't alpha enough to take/get what he wants. She also keeps her prospects open keeping close to another guy who isn't the MC. Pointless references about how she regrets deep down about not ending up with the MC after he becomes strong/famous.

MC works his ass off while spoiling the younger brother pretty much giving him a silver spoon.

Is a super beauty with much higher status and better looks than the first love interest

Throughout ALL volumes he always has a clone somewhere safe where enemies cannot reach him, he's always completely safe so there is no fear of danger or risk of his life through the entire novel. All that would happen at most is that he gets a huge setback that can take him some time to recover from but he will never be at the risk of truly perishing.

It even gets to the point where he has over 10, 000 clones that he even deliberately sends to dangerous locations to get information and then gets them killed so that he can absorb the information on all other clones. It's ridiculous just how safe he is throughout the entirety of the story.

Even at the end when he has reached his peak it's said that those at the peak only has 10% strength in their clones and that their main body only has the strength, well plot armor decided that he is the only one in the cosmos that can switch his power of the main bodies to another clone he has hidden somewhere else, so even if his main body dies he can just transfer the power to another clone so even if someone were to manage to kill his most powerful clone he can just make a new one.

I Eat Tomates has basically spent this novel as if Dongbo Xueying is his newborn baby and wrapped him in 20 feet of bubble plastic in fear that he is going to get himself hurt, and it gets super frustrating the futher you read. I basically started speed skimming the last 5 volumes because I had enough of it and just wanted to get to the end.

Moreover, the opponent's family doesn't even take action against the MC, so his words don't create additional problems.