Question, can you compare this to ATG when 1. The girl who was going to break up her marriage agreement with him, is reluctant to do so because she doesn't want to make him look bad or hurt his feelings while he's in a bad situation, takes him outside of the city to do so because she wants to help him save as much face as possible, doesn't mind him pursuing her afterwards and even has a good attitude about it afterwards? This is not BTTH and it's not ATG. This is original and interesting.

And the fiance DOES care about the MC and does a LOT for him. The fiance isn't shallow. She didn't like the idea of pre-arranged marriage. That ISN'T shallow.

Also in TTNH's fashion, MC does indeed seem to probably come from some insanely OP background he never knew about before which makes this all the more interesting. Because this really opens up and broadens the mystery of just who the f*ck stole his spirit root, blood, and bone and why.

As I mentioned before, my two favorite arcs are actually the two arcs that have to do with alchemy-- the Pill Tower & the Pill Valley arcs. The reason is simple: fighting is minimal, there is almost no interaction with his harem or any other woman for that matter, and that’s always a blessin’, and author is forced to include at least a spec of creativity since he can’t just repurpose garbage. This is also why I believe we only have 2 of such arcs in the novel-- because it required at least a spec of effort to write, while his usual sh*t doesn’t require even that much.

Furthermore, I can’t for the life of me get on board with Long Chen’s character. As I’ve stated previously, he’s a grade-A moron who, to quote, ‘can die but can’t kneel and bend’... uh, excuse me... what?! So, you would rather not only kill yourself but hundreds of your supposed brothers because you are, what, too proud? Yes. That’s it. He’s literally too proud. f*ck off. No, seriously, f*ck off. The hypocrisy here is off-the-damned-charts. Again, anyone with a brain would have easily carried through the novel’s world and likely won the whole goddamn thing by now.

Rather than provoking everyone and their mother, with his talent as an Alchemist, if he had just swallowed his dumb, god-forsaken pride, he’d literally be a god by now. But noooooooo. What about his women?! If he did that, other people would take his women!! And he can’t have that, noooo! Oh, piss off.

We are repeatedly told in the novel that Alchemists, by default, have much higher status than cultivators, yet, time and again, MC outright refuses to abuse the literal god-levels of talent he has in alchemy and resorts to b*tching and whining about how he doesn’t have enough materials to cultivate his Body Art. You know how he could get more materials? Oh, I don’t know, publicly state that you need this and that ingredient and that, for it, you will concoct pill of this and that level. Yada-yada, there you go, you got yourself some ingredients.

But no, that would be what a smart person would do. Our MC isn’t smart-- after all, as he claimed more than once, all schemes are useless beneath absolute power! Except... no. They’re not. It’s literally this thinking that gets you killed nearly every other day (it’s f*ckin’ uncanny), and it’s not either the ‘heavens’ or the ‘fate’ as author excuses it. No, it’s the fact that Long Chen is a dumbass but he’s too much of a pu*sy to admit it so he excuses it with ‘uhm, eXcuSE mE, I’m not dumb! It’s just that schemes are worthless in front of absolute power! Yea, that!’. In fact, if he had actually schemed, his life would have been the most smooth sailing sh*t in the world. You know who doesn’t need to bend their knee and kneel in front of others? ALCHEMISTS. f*ckING ALCHEMISTS. YOU GRADE-A, WORLD-RENOWNED, WOMB-FERMENTED DUMBASS.

Then, we have his ‘army’ of drones... and I hate it. I hate all of it. f*ck off with your ‘oooh brotherhood between men, you women would never understand it woo woo’. No, f*ck off. Every relationship is a two-way street. If someone continued to suck off on my nipple without giving me anything, material or otherwise, in return, I wouldn’t just go ‘oh, ye, continue suckin’ on, my brooo’. As would nobody else.

Except for maaaaybe one of them, every one of his ‘brothers’ is useless, resource-sucking parasite. And, come to think of it, so are his women. No, seriously. Without him literally feeding them ‘shrooms’ that increased their talent, nobody would be with him where they are now. Oh f*ck off with your holistic ‘look how good I am, nO mAn leFt beHInD’ garbage. You literally make your life harder on purpose and then turn the other cheek and bit*h and moan about how hard your life is and how nobody ever hands you anything. Uh, maybe it’s because you never give them a reason? And, instead, you actively go out of your way to make sure nobody gives you shit? Oh, f*ck off.

Another way in which MC cripples his strength is by not using his strength. As in, his Spiritual Power, which we are repeatedly told out of this f*cking world. Outside of alchemy, he never uses it. He could have a literal f*cking ARMY of magical beasts, but because author is a dumbass and realized Long Chen would literally reign over the world within a month if he allowed it, MC is now forced to be a cripple because ‘uwu uwu, I don’t want my pet wolf to feel sad ‘cause I adopted another magical beast, uwu uwu’. Oh, f*ck off.

Not only that, but he never f*cking learns how to utilize this massive advantage he has. We are repeatedly told how Soul Cultivators are dangerous and deadly, and here we have a grade-A moron with virtually inexhaustible spiritual strength and... he does nothing with it. Literally nothing.

By this point, honestly, he’s deserved every bad thing that happened to him. He was constantly mistreated by others (largely due to how he behaved, but whatever, let’s just say others mistreated him just ‘cuz), yet continued to stick around like an unwanted parasite instead of just, uh, I dunno, f*ckin’ leaving for greener pastures. With his talent, and the makeshift ‘army’ at his disposal, everyone and their mother would accept him if only he could curb that boorish and moronic pride of his. But noooo. We gots to stick around ‘cause then villains can keep buzzing around for literal hundreds of chapters and it’s gonna feel that much better when they finally die. Oh, f*ck the right off.

Ah, it’s enough. I can’t do it anymore. I barely scraped the surface of the garbage that is Nine Star and I already feel like sticking a needle through my eye into my brain and turning it into scramble paste. I haven’t even mentioned how every single ‘bad guy’ takes literal hundreds of chapters to just f*ckin’ die and how they always keep escaping through whatever nonsense author comes up with, nor how most fights take 10+ chapters to complete because author has to vomit words like his life depends on it (likely ‘cause it does), nor the absurd, insane levels of racism present that are about as subtle as the fact that I really don’t like this novel... I mentioned nothing. In fact, I could write another review, twice as long as this one, containing more garbage that this novel tossed on me. But I won’t. Anyway, cheerios.

Cockroach enemies. MC is usually forced to fight the same enemy 3 to 4 times before actually killing them because each time they manage to either runaway or get saved.

Dumb actions from MC and poor logic from author. MC gets demoted on 3 occasions all the way till janitor -from core disciple to inner disciple - from inner disciple to outer disciple - from outer disciple to janitor. ON another occasion the MC beats a ghost in a fight which was meant as a test to become a core disciple but the Sect ended up making him an outer disciple saying that he failed because he didn't get the targets head. The target the MC beat committed suicide by explosion because it lost and didn't want the MC to get it's head however MC beat it in front of the elders and thousands of disciples. This novel is filled with ridiculous excuses to constantly put MC in disadvantageous positions.

The same things pretty much happens repeatedly. Sinister enemies even from the same Sect as the MC slander him, frame him and then they team up even with the Evil Sect's which suppose to be their sworn enemies all just so they can kill the MC.

People in this novel can record everything with a jade stone just like a vehicles dash cam or your very own smartphone. MC could easily prove his innocence through these recordings but instead he just chooses to kill when all could have been avoided. It's just ruthless and meaningless slaughter.

The expansion of the MC's harem is pretty much ruined. The one harem member who out of all the girls has sub-par talent follows the MC around most of the time and despite her being a fully grown woman, her personality his highly immature beats up the MC occasionally and also acts as an auto c*ckblock. MC pretty much had his balls cut off and are constantly rejecting and avoiding good-hearted beauties that show interest in him.

He has thousands of followers to whom he constantly provides priceless resources to and has the memories of a pill/alchemy god but he doesn't/can't even help his adopted mom to cultivate.