Read up-to chapter 400 in mtl. My vague understanding of the story so far. There might be a few wrong bits since I read it in mtl.

• • The synopsis is a big bait.

• • The MC Qin Mu is not a villain.

• • The plot is all over the place.

• • The elders in the village are not all villains
    
    Spoiler

    grandma is a heaven-defying beauty which caused her master to fall-in-love to her which then made her to kill him in their wedding night, everyone who sees her real appearance or even hears her voice greatly affects their spirits. That is why she is wearing a skin and looking like a grandma

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• • MC became a sect leader of one of the great holy lands because of the grandma

• • MC became emperor candidate because village chief, even though there is someone more fit than the MC for that.

• • MC's fights are boring.

• • The only interesting thing is the MC's mysterious past.

• • MC acts smart and cunning most of the time and dumb during a few important moments.

• • The great lie of the village chief about MC having an "Overlord Body" because he doesn't want the other elderly to feel bad about MC being ordinary became very annoying in the series (it makes smart characters look dumb for believing it even though it's plain-clear that it is a lie)

• • There is one point in the story wherein it is hinted to the MC that his "Overlord Body" is a lie were presented and yet after the MC thought about it (he even came to the point to realize that the village chief lied) he still insisted that he is overlord body (so smart? yeah right...)
    just to boost his self-confidence.

• • There is no clear plot, few fighting scenes.

• • If MC is considered a villain in the story then majority of the shameless MC's in various novels are pure bad-guys.

• • Plain side characters, only the elderly in the village are interesting.

• • Spoiler

    His harem is because his blind grandpa forced him to marry the princess and his rival (in the sect leader position) because his grandpa is afraid of him dying outside the village

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• • The only thing that will probably hook you up to continue reading this is the MC's mysterious past, and whether or not he will become a villain.

If you're searching to read something really interesting go search for another novel.

P.S.

I will update this in the future

*update: chapter 400+

Some good parts here and there, but overall rather disappointing. It has the appearance of cleverness but not the substance. Here are some of my complaints:

1. 1. The MC never seems to make any bad decisions despite being an actual kid. Humans learn by making mistakes and having them corrected, nobody is perfect. But in this novel, much everything the MC does gets approval from the village elders. There is not a single scene where he makes a serious mistake, let alone be corrected by someone else. If the MC doesn't make mistakes and learn from them, how does he improve? We get this boring invincible MC who never makes mistakes, never loses a fight, and always one-ups other people (even world-class experts).

1. 1. MC is a bit too dense to realize that the people living in disabled elderly village are the world's peak experts. Throughout the story he should have witnessed enough incidents to notice that, but often in the story it is written as if he does not. This is supposed to be a joke, I guess, but it is really inconsistent with the "MC is a genius without even trying" theme.

1. 1. Too many predictable ass-kicking scenes where the village elders completely destroy their outclassed enemies. What really is the point of these? One is enough. We don't need to be reminded over and over that they're the strongest. It gets boring if you already know the outcome of fights before they start.

1. 1. MC is perfect and can see through everything effortlessly. Example: without any medical experience, he becomes a genius doctor who can treat an incurable poison the first time he sees it. Everything comes effortlessly to him. I can't feel any character development - MC is already perfect so what's there to develop? Everything he does is perfect, everything he says is always right, he never makes mistakes.

1. 1. Let's talk about that scene in chapter 123 where he cures the Thousand Opportunity Poison by using 1023 maids in more detail. That entire scene was so handwavy it was ridiculous. If the author didn't want to describe it properly he shouldn't have mentioned it at all. It was just like those scenes in Star Trek where the problem is some made-up nonsense and someone comes up with some made-up nonsense solution and saves the day. If you want to show that the MC is clever, you have to actually make him do something clever, not just make up some unintelligible handwavy vagueness and have all the other characters tell the reader how clever the MC is. That's not how it works. Consider Strassen's matrix multiplication algorithm. For a long time nobody believed matrix multiplication could be done faster than O (n^3). Then Strassen came up with this faster algorithm and it completely blew people's minds at the time. If you haven't seen it before, it is still mind blowing to see it for the first time - it makes you think "how the hell did he come up with this". There are plenty of other examples from other fields, e.g Cantor's theorem, Cook's theorem, Noether's theorem etc. To show that a character is clever, you don't have to come up with something original, just something that makes sense and is genuinely cool. It doesn't have to be mind-blowing like Cantor's theorem either. Even something as ancient as the man-in-the-middle attack is still cool if it's written well. What I don't like is vague garbage like how the MC cured that poison. I had hoped it was going to be an interesting puzzle (https://puzzling. Stackexchange. Com/questions/3321/poisoned-bottle-of-wine) but it turned out to be some vague nonsense instead.

The author aims too high for his ability and ends up failing completely. Had he stuck to the tried-and-true formula followed by God of Slaughter and Great Demon King at least the flaws would not be so glaring.

At best I can rate this 3 stars.