The downhill slide for me started not long after the MC leaves the small village to take the county exam.

Keep in mind, the MC appears to be an orphan with no families to worry about. There is no time limit that he has to fight against. There is no real reason for the MC to keep putting himself in danger just to find the person that stole his heavenly veins (or whatever its called). Even if the MC finds that person, he is powerless to do anything about it.

He gets a kind of training system called gate to heaven which rewards him cultivation techniques and treasures. There is also a really OP woman sealed inside. She lends him her help a few times. After many chapters, the gate to heaven doesn't get mentioned anymore.

As in many stories, his mother is the member of a quite powerful family at a very far place. Like, he had to cross around 4 to 5 realms to reach her place. I didn't even reach the part where he goes to his mother's clan. He didn't meet his mother till now.

The first major arc involves his journey to the empire and reaching his father's clan. He is initially an orphan who is raised by an old man at a mine prison. He sets out to learn the secrets of his family and why his spiritual vein was robbed. He has two tools which the old man gives through which he gets the gate to heaven.

He goes to one world after another after this shocking everyone. He gets apprenticed to a mysterious person. A really powerful character, he didn't meet him till now though.

As I said, there are some mysteries which are constantly introduced which keep the story interesting.

the fact that when a child appears everyone talks about her beauty

He destroys every record from his life-time enemy while being much younger and people take that as NOTHING, btw his ENEMY IS THE NUMBER ONE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. How the f* you make someone look weaker after something like that?

The MC can be walking in the street that he will stumble upon one ret*rd young master that thought that his hair was too black and tried to humilate for no reason and the handful of times the MC try to backdown it goes nonwhere, so the MC is always buttheading with people alot stronger than him with open face. Or the MC kick the ass of any random dude and just so happen he had powerful backing/clan/granpa that will escalate the situation into a blood feud for no reason.

The plot itself is very railroad, the MC seen to make no decision for himself he just follow whatever someone else lay out for him. In fact go the empire to seek revenge is idiotic as it was clear that his enemies that crippled him would be there and would supress him the moment they discover he is alive.

Meanwhile, after he leave the blood camp he gain very little in remaing in the country beside a laundry list of youngmaster trying to kill him, when is clear there wasn't time limit to go there. So we have to wait the next event to pop up.

The writing also suffer from popcorn crowd to pad for lenght as it goes to the useless opinions of the bystanders about the events that just happened or they agreeing with the villain remarks or awed by MC awesomeness.

I get annoyed with the MC some times he show glimpse of intelligence, others he is seen just as idiotic as the youngmasters causing confusion for no reason. Some times the MC is

I also find the plot with the 6 year old fairy (at the start) and the deus exmachina turtle palace (mid point of the first arc) giving him treasures for no reason, poorly implemented. The same goes for why his master and everyone else would be pouposely mysterious as nothing that was revelead until now couldn't be something already know to him from chapter 1.

But worse is around ch 970 when MC kills off a servant after torturing him to get info of a treasure with the explanation that if he is left alive, this will become a hidden danger for future.

unfortunately his grandfather and brother leave the town so they can enroll the younger brother into a Sword Cultivation Sect but get ambushed on the way, the grandfather who doesn't share the mother clan bloodline loses his life and the brother loses his arm etc.

Pros and Cons (Depends on the person reading)

1. MC gets more and more arrogant as the story progresses.

2. A lot of arrogant young masters..... (when I say a lot I mean a lot).

3. At around chapter 1800.. the MC is just too strong... all battles with people in his same realm feel like a formality.

4. MC does not hide his identity.... and this is something I liked.

5. He becomes famous and even gets the nickname 'Lin Demon God'.... but sadly around chapter 1700 he starts being low key because I guess the author got tired of writung the same things repetitively.