All I really did was kill five or six of the village's rogues and no one knew I was the one that did it because there were no witnesses.

In addition, if the deal with the chief is announced outside, the fact that he is rich will be revealed to the public. The countless vagabonds of Murim will come in search of the chief continuously and ask if he has more silver deposits. So, he will not chase me nor will he report it to the government office. However, I cannot feel relieved yet, since he can hire a high-class martial artist and hunt me down.

But this is also a possibility. Most of the outstanding First-class martial artists with high self-esteem are so proud of themselves that they will never accept a request for monetary gains even if he asks for it. It may cost as much as the silver bullion I took, just to hire a master who is beyond my level of skills. In other words, there is no need to be afraid of the aftermath from the village chief right now.

• • MC is cool-headed and realistic thinking. When the son of the village head, who has bullied him for years, tells him to clean cow dung, he does it without any complaints (even though he hates doing it). Later on, when 2 bandits show up and rob him, he doesn't try to fight back but gives them all his money and luggage and just walks away, even though it means he has to starve for the rest of his journey, because he doesn't want to risk injury fighting with the bandits: "The regular bandits in Green Forest are systematically promoted to martial arts, so they may be stronger than me from the previous life. I do not know what it would be like if I fought with my life on the line, but it is better to obey their words. Now, I am so disadvantaged because I have no weapons. If I had at least a knife, I would not endure such a humiliating choice."

• • No wasted words (e.g training scenes, cultivation scenes etc). MC says he has to spend 2 months to melt his internal energy, so the author spends all of 3 sentences describing the last scene where he's melting his internal energy. I really like this. If only the author of novels such as Immortal Executioner could learn a thing or two from this author! A year's worth of training is described in a single sentence: "One year passed by quickly.". That's right, when nothing interesting is happening, the author just skips it. Why can't all webnovels be like this?

• • The MC is not so lucky in his 2nd life that he can afford to act rashly and not be killed. In fact, he does get killed in his 2nd life, precisely because he acted rashly and robbed the village chief, even justifying to himself later on that he would be safe (see quote above) . Luckily, he still had the book with him. To me, this shows that a fool is still a fool even if he has lived for 60 years, only the experience of life and death can bring true wisdom. This event immediately brings this novel to 5 stars in my opinion, because it shows the MC is not perfect and still makes serious mistakes even in his 2nd life. Just because he has lived a past life doesn't make him omniscient, there are lots of very important things that he doesn't know, that could and did kill him again.

• The plotting is actually 'planned' to a good degree. There are some issues at times with execution/forcing- but mostly it's better than most.
• Dual plotline 'real world/VR world' story development. Barely.
• Many story events are interesting.
• The world cannon is basically 'armchair game design', and is pretty detailed and somewhat interesting- though it would be unbalanced nonsense if actually implemented.

• Characters are all shallow plot-puppets, and mostly are just to validate/revere/fear the MC.
• So many girls to second-fiddle/revere/crush on him it's laughable. I guess it's good they're all skilled/competent & we'll focus on it that way, yes?
• The MC is an idiot
  • MC does dumb things
  • MC ignores 'friends'/takes advantage of 'allies'
  • MC thinks to develop own guild often AFTER other guilds have taken the lead in some area. Not sure why this is for a 'time travel' story, but whatever.
  • MC is so focused on grinding, bad sh*t happens to his guild while he is out ALL THE TIME, and seemingly no one can do anything except wait/repeatedly die till he gets back to save the day.
• The timeline accelerates for some reason, which doesn't help the story in any way. This is also contrary to the normal idea of 'MMO game development takes time'- but the author thinks all 'expansions' were 'in there' from the beginning, just waiting to be 'triggered' by some random player (so they can be immediately applied to the whole world 'ready or not').
• This is one of those 'Author forgets some of the items/powers the MC has in order to keep the challenge up' stories- so expect 'he can use (such and such item/summon/NPC) to not happen quite frequently.
• As a LitRPG you should expect stats and such similar boilerplate nonsense, but this one somehow makes it tedious to read them, probably because of the above point.
• Very verbose. Lots of exposition.
• The passage of time in this story seems off in lots of ways, and the MC gets 'this must be immediately handled'-type developments all the time, which he 'I'll get to that' and 'my own pace' does other crap, just to finish everything perfectly (due to some random bonus) anyway. It's one way how not to do drama,

• Nothing really. Mixing future VR & a murim (hidden martial arts masters) world I guess?