arc 1: beginner village:

a village with a dumb ass rules, they need to reach a certain level of strength for strength to be useful or else strength is worthless, yet they try to cultivate worthless people that don't reach the standard instead of trying to find a suitable talents to cultivate to be at least relevant help for the tribe.

they don't even try to check the talent of children in the tribe, the children have to prove themselves to be talented which so dumb even for primates.

also, needless hierarchy based on strength that doesn't even reach the standard (basically it is like ranking the people who got F on a course based on their grade).

finally, the chief lets his grandson develop a deep seated hatred for the tribe and he doesn't even try to properly mitigate this shit, and he has nothing to do except watch his grandson train..

extra, su jie is so shitty and dump, he sees the MC cooks super good and instead of taking him as a chef with a little bit of training on the side to extend his lifespan enough to serve as su jie's chef for longer time. He just is interested and leave it to fate to decide if he meets him again (instead of helping the guy and benefiting from him, he decides to leave him be as he thinks he has no talent). Especially when it is mentioned that no cooking heritage exist in this world.

arc2: selection arc.

ok did I say before that the village had dumb rules? The kingdom mostly have the same dumb rules if not dumber.

first, the guy from the jin long wei teach them a useless skill (the author mentions it is profound) but in the end it doesn't appear again in the whole story just like shitty skill it is.

they base their first selection on how good the body is at absorbing energy (which somewhat smart) but the overall selection depends on power. They don't care if a prince of a big tribe, with infinitely many times as much resources as a whole small tribe, is slightly stronger than a beggar of a small tribe, with no resources whatsoever. The prince clearly is stronger and as such he is a better candidate.

second, they compare scions from big family clans with strong cultivation inheritance to tribal people with that train with a fragmented standard technique that is available for everyone. Which is to say, a dump way for trying to train an army.

finally, they allow the competition in an "army" so much that it might even cripple some of the soldiers which is a dumb move.

arc3: tai ah divine city

first, it is a place nurture future geniuses yet the people treat it as a training place (the special thing about it are the abundance of resources and ability to buy cultivation techniques) with no comprehensive understanding of the trainees or even a good training program, tutelage or any sort of management.

with the excuse of competition they just provided a special currency and let loose all the student to try to train however they like with not so much a guidance (except the foolish test at the start and the other foolish test at the end of first year).

they have duels that can cripple people, with the excuse of life and death battle experience, which is basically just a way to kill and cripple future geniuses with the excuse of competition.

they have wilderness to do experiential training and gather resources for the city but they fail to manage the trainees and end up with needless casualties because of grudges and people moving around the rules and people biting more than they can chew. (I get the independence part but they should have a way to conserve their geniuses)

overall, the city is a good training place with a the super dump idea of competition breeds strength and kill the weak to nurture the strong, which is worse than the animals logic if I must say.

note: no wonder tai ah divine kingdom is considered a backwater kingdom of barbarians.

arc 4: tai ah divine city destruction

first note: this arc is more like a transition arc. However, gotta like the majesty of the "Shen Tu". The most majestic scene is their airships arrival.

First is the inter tournament. Basically, the tournament was a proxy war between the two kingdoms and the first depiction of the enemy kingdom is that they are villains with the snake guy and his lackeys.

I think they put no kill rule but the way they just cripple people instead of killing them is just absurd and dump.

second is the evacuation. This part has nothing to speak of.

maybe the part where they treat yi yun specially kind of feels out of place but whatever.

finally is the capture and rescue part, this part is of the story is very nice with no flaws to speak of (if I remember correctly).

Note: this part was mostly action which I think is the strong point of the author and the part which makes this whole novel have good overall rating.

arc5: into tian yuan world

first, instead of questioning how yi yun got this strong and having doubts about if his talent really is the below average talent that he assessed in his first meeting. He keeps thinking he is a below average talent that he wouldn't really amount to much in desolate heaven technique instead of trying to train him a bit to see what he can do (since he already surprised him once).

second, the lin family is pressured by the shentu family just because the shentu have a medicine the might be able to cure xingtong and make her peerless. First of all, the family never cared about xingtong and they are enemies with the shentu clan (at least not friendly with them). So, how do they trust that the shentu will not lie to them or how do they trust that xingtong will not abandon her family especially when they have sold her to the shentu.

Finally, they were fine all these years without ever thinking that xingtong might be cured so why do they find it as a very beneficial to the family and are willing to put down their enmity for no concrete evidence when they are stable enough not to even need the so called benefit.

arc6: great empress mystic realm

first, we see again the dumb criteria for successor selection, current power vs current age. They disregard the origin heritage and training time of the individual which is clearly very very dumb.

second, we see better criteria in he god advent tower which concerns the speed of cultivation given the same choices.

third, we see how dump the item spirit is when she lets the yin specter enter the god advent tower. So much for an uncountable years of existence.

overall, a very good arc.

arc7: martial alliance

This arc is well written that nothing really dumb comes to mind.

note: a little bit skeptical of how all the people just got tricked by the alliance. Also, the alliance head really is a rare smart guy in this story

arc8: demon disciple

again we see the dumb criteria from choosing a successor. Power vs age. No consideration to origin heritage or training time. Good job pure yang sword palace owner.

the whole arc is good though, I fail to remember and dump parts.

arc9: into empyrean heaven

First, good job leaving the best heritage out there to go to a shitty empyrean heaven just get destroyed in the middle of the road.

Second, way to let your disciples compete to the point of grudge again. (In the lou family)

Third, again with the criteria of power = talent.

Fourth, way to compare a 5000ish crimson firmament to a 20ish or 30ish purple spirit (instead of waiting for her to grow).

Fifth, they won't play favorites even though yi yun clearly showed his atrociously overwhelming superiority even though logically they should nurture him to benefit not let him fend for himself. (They still look down on him because he is a human).

Finally, they think of backing as a good thing while in fact nurturing a guy without backing is much better because there are no other parties interest.

overall, a dumb guy leaving the best heritage for shit

overall, a dumb society that think power is everything even though they are trying to nurture the talented.

arc10: primordial empyrean heaven

first, they let a candidate they want to nurture doing something completely fruitless (they thought it was fruitless)

second, they didn't even try to ask how yi yun was able to understand from something inconceivable.

third, I shouldn't said this in he last arc but they let a guy with completely no known background into their secret tests and sh*t with no contract or any way to prove that he won't betray them.

overall, they did some smart moves when they let ye yun continue his training indefinitely when he proved that he is capable. Which is one the smartest moves in this story.

arc11: azure wood realm

Again, fictitious rain lord doesn't really try to enforce any kind of management for potential candidates and lets them fend for themselves.

Second, he even let his student in name do the test which is greatly in their favor not to let anyone pass.

Third, he actually watches his old sect trying to begrudgingly cripple yi yun which he thinks is a suitable candidate while he does nothing just because of a word or two.

Fourth, after accepting a student he immediately put him through enormous danger by taking him to azure wood world.

Fifth, instead of trying to keep yi yun away from the danger in azure wood world (even though he knows that to enemy sects of yi yun are there) he leaves him alone.

overall, a lot of dumb stuff happen in this arc like holy hell, did you lose your brain after living million+ years?

arc12: pure yang empyrean heaven

too lazy to try to remember so I will update at a later time