Very early in the story, but seems like a classic xianxia novel (in the best possible way). The protagonist's sect also appears to not be filled w/ opportunistic psychopaths, which is pretty rare when it comes to these types of novels. The first couple chapters are a little rough/confusing, but it picks up and the translation seems pretty good! Only time will tell how good it well be, but 5 stars for now!

This novel is ok, but dropping it after reading 37 chapters because it hits on all of my pet peeves about a cultivation novel - cultivation drop and characters acting illogical and inconsistent. The cultivation drop happened early and usually I would just power through but the novel made it abundantly clear that it will happen more in the future. For the illogical and inconsistent part, let me give some examples:

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  • The sect the MC joined in known for it's righteousness and benevolence, the author made a point about this. In the sect selection scene, we also see that the sects doesn't hesitate to discard talented individuals with low morals. Yet the sect selection part only consist of two test - a march up the mountain test and a spirit root test. Surely if you hold morality to such a high standard, you would have it as a part of test? The sect's test seemed inadequate to screen for moral individuals. Indeed, couple of chapters in you have a scene where the sect master killed a high cultivation disciples because he committed a heinous crime. So the sect just threw away like decades of nurturing this disciple because their screening process was shit.
  • When the MC's cultivation dropped, he said to himself and was confirmed that there's nothing wrong with his body and he could just re-cultivate with little difficulty. But he then immediately self-exiled himself to the outer sects because "people didn't think he deserved to be in the inner sect with his low cultivation". Surely he could just stay and re-cultivate even faster because of his talent?

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Honestly, the premise of the novel is not bad but I hate it.

This is an interesting cultivation story and has some unique aspects but isn't really far enough along yet for me to describe it as anything more than "talented MC with a big destiny starts his cultivation journey with a mysterious treasure", which is a pretty cliche setting. Still, I enjoy it and would recommend giving it a shot if the translator hadn't just stopped. Still, what is out is fun to read.