For example, MC is really good at pill refining and sets up a shop to grow flowers and sell her pills. Then she auctions off "special pills" each month and I guess I'm either just not imaginative enough or trying to reason too hard with some of these pills. One of her pills gives people the ability to fly for a while. Then you see the MC record a promotional video showing off the effect of the pill by jumping off a building and flying, zipping, zooming around people/buildings/etc. and everyone loses it. She gives a brief warning about needing to have the mental strength to be able to use the pill and happily sells it. Maybe I'm just super pessimistic but my first thought was, people are going to die trying to fly like her. And then I thought, this is a great tool to use for doing bad things. Another pill lets people float around in the air like a feather (please refer to the previous two sentences). And another pill allows people to see in the dark and see spiritual bodies/ghosts. Ok, this one makes a little more sense knowing it's supposed to be a cultivation world but at the same time, there are lots of other countries and each country is fighting with each other so wouldn't this be something the militaries could be interested in? Maybe to replace things like night-vision goggles, etc.? Then the pill that made me start to think that maybe this story isn't for me is a pill that gives life to 2D objects. MC draws a stick figure and the stick figure gets up and moves/dances. At this point, it ain't a pill anymore, it's a potion that you can draw with. And how did people use this pill? The author literally wrote that someone drew a machine gun, put on a combat uniform and ran to a restaurant to rob and when the workers and police who came saw that it was a 2D weapon all they did was educate the offender and confiscated his "weapon". Then when the video gets posted online, it "made countless netizens laugh"..... maybe I'm the only one who thinks this is not funny and is actually weird and worrisome? The author uses the words "various magical and funny videos appeared" and people "used their imagination to act mischievously" as the excuse that everything was done in good humor even if people used this magic to make fun of/bully others.... Then her next pill literally... allows people to condense gas to form a solid object. Which she uses to create a staircase up the sky and into the clouds.... the author notes it's nearly a thousand meters high... the tallest building in the world is only 828 meters so people are just watching someone climb nearly 1000 meters and then jump back down to the ground. Ok. This is a cultivation novel. This is supposed to be a cultivation novel. Even if there's are lot of Earthly tones, it's supposed to be a cultivation novel. It kinda lost me at this point.

he gets amnesia

The first part of novel was spent building the relationship with ML 1.0 from friendship to courtship, we could see him slowly building his affection and feelings towards MC.

Then we had sudden amnesia/soul reshaping plot, and EVERYTHING that was built in the first half was erased for the sake of creating some 'dark history' for ML.

His final 2.0 version only appears in a last few dozens of chapters (of 178), and although it's obvious that some parts of 1.0 personality and his feelings toward MC were integrated into 2.0 version, and resurfaced with time, it still feels very abrupt.

Especially because in 177 (of 178) chapters of the story his romantic feelings toward MC are completely one-sided. The only thing that can be considered romantic is that although she's usually averse to other's physical closeness, she accepts it from ML. But she pushes him away every time he tries to cross the boundary of kissing, so it's unclear to what point she's fine accepting his feelings. Because all the while her thoughts are ANYTHING but romantic towards ML.

All the 'development' between pursuing and officially becoming a couple happens off-screen after they ascend. What happens between 'I'm not sure about romantic feelings, but I'll wait a hundred years for you to acsend together' and 'It's okay to be a couple, but let's skip the double cultivation part' is unknown, because it's literally last two chapters that are full of time-skips.

Even when it turned out He Rin was a former God, he was still weaker than her.

Cultivation - Mental strength

No angst really, some sad memories for characters but move the plot forward

'Villains' resolved easily in the sense that it's not spread out endlessly

Some character development with side characters - just wish to know more on some characters..., especially with the ML assistant and the sister, it seemed there was not a lot of mention after he

, but at the same time not really, its sufficient, don't think this makes or breaks the novel

Cultivation slowly brought back

Some history with ML

Minor romance towards the last few chapters

There are many other factors to this novel that make it great, just read it!