His writing style is so immersive that readers will go crazy together with the protagonist. A lot of readers couldn't continue reading and need to take a break because their detoriating mentality. Including me. And it generally believed by readers that the author must be a mental patient at some points too. This is not a book for the faint heart or the weak stomach. You might feel fine for 100-200 chapters, but it might not be the case later.

Cthulhu is still considered a niche theme in chinese webnovel market (which is dominated by xianxia). It has been popularized thanks to Squid. After Lord of Mystery, there were a lot of books which were inspired to use Cthulhu theme too, however there weren't always successful ofc, and this book is one of the successful one.

However don't be mistaken, don't compare the two books. They took the approach differently. However if I must to say it, ofc Lord of the Mystery is still the best.

Excusable at first because of his mental illness and bad experience. However if you noticed every details of his interaction with his followers and some of his thoughts about others, you might began to think that even if he didn't have illness, he might be still very much unlikeable anyway.

What make me curious is who said that Li Huowang is evil?? It's very weird to read this book expecting him to be like Fang Yuan (Reverend Insanity) . He's cruel to others and cruel to himself. He was very self-centered and self-serving, however he would still help those in need and felt disguted towards evilness. He still retain some humanity and some sense as someone from modern era (which is one of the main reason why he's different from other people around him). He also can have emotional connection towards another human being. Although writer isn't very good at writing that.

Should we blame author or Li Huowang? The supposed heroine is a very traditional "virtuous wife" who even will help him take off his shoes and shocks. She could fight and not a pushover. However it's still uncomfortable to read that scenes for me who is a modern woman with more modern mindset. Do some guys really like this type? That make me uncomfortable.

It's not the worse of it, there's really bumpy road where author had a rough time continuing the story with the heroine after a major event. Basically, he probably gave up and just let her exists without presence.

It's HE btw

The protagonist delusions are based on a cultivation like world where he and a group of young and disabled people were kidnaped and forced to submit to a crazed daoist cultivatior. By being useful they can scape the fate of being used as raw materials to refine the monster cultivation pills. The main character dances between both worlds and by being subjected to the dread and horror of his delusions and the warmth of his family starts to question what is real and what is fake.

At the start this concept was fresh and kind of interesting but it was recycled to the point of exhaustion by the author. Every dozen chapters or so the main character will have a mental breakdown and identity crisis, if it's not him it will be someone close to him. It got to my nerves the lack of answers and progress regarding his status as a metally ill person/strayed one on the cultivation world.

The suporting characters are lackluster and boring, both his childhood sweetheart and his girl on the cultuivation world are pretty much the same. The cultivation world girl is so bland that the author had to change her personality in a single chapter to make her work again with the main character (I bet the chinese readers were hating a lot to make him do something like this lol).

Also the main character doesn't get a break, he is always clueless about the world he is in, people use his naivety and lack of knowledge to backstab and make use of him through 360 chapters straight. He is always in pain, being it physically or mentally. It is frustrating to read but at the same time I'm curious to see what answers the author will cook to pay off all the bullshit.