future position as a sect/mafia leader/boss.

I kept on reading after c69 and it turns out that the story doesn't fall off that hard. I'm reading c215 right now and the story is still pretty well-woven. I'm not seeing any fall off in consistency of storytelling here. The characterization is still decent and story itself is a good mix of action and intrigue - in particular the revelation that all Noble blood is based off of the Divine Weapons. Let's see how it plays out. 4 stars for now.

I can't f*cking believe the MC just up and killed a sect member for literally NO REASON other than her uncle not allowing the MC to have the lands which were originally assigned to her. This MC is one greedy motherf*cker! As soon as he doesn't get what he wants, he starts killing everyone in his way even though they've done nothing wrong!

This was completely out of character for him and has never happened before. Even the MC in Great Demon King was not this rash! This is like something straight out of a shitty 3rd rate xianxia tr*sh.

I'm downgrading this novel to 3 stars because of it.

Firstly, ignore the 1 star ratings. This novel deserves no less than 4 stars. From the first 10 chapters alone, judging from how well the setting has been thought out, the level and depth of characterization, the realism and the knack for tension-building that the author has displayed, it's obvious that unless the author messes up really badly later on, this is a 5 star novel.

Now, finally a MC with some common sense!

"All the young masters were infatuated beyond reason, resulting in a massive melee, which resulted in quite a number of injured and even quite a few killed, " fatso said as he clicked his tongue.

"Even so, those who were seriously injured and handicapped remain devoted to this woman. But she's already forgotten them in the blink of an eye!"

Lu Sheng narrowed his eyes, a shiver in his heart. He had heard of these incidents, but never imagined that this woman was the cause of them all. For them to pine for her even after they were handicapped... this was not something that could be explained by her beauty.

In that moment, he labeled Duan Muwan as extremely dangerous in his mind. For her to be able to twist so many people around her little finger, she either had extremely high EQ or employed some unusual methods. It was best to stay as far away as possible from such characters.

This is clearly a MC who takes things seriously, does not underestimate others, and prefers staying away from unknown risk than going towards it.

The fact that the world is dangerous provides the main motivation for the MC to get stronger. Throughout the first 10 chapters, the dangerousness of the world has been demonstrated through "showing" rather than "telling". For example, the death of the entire Xu family for no apparent reason, the burning down of the restaurant, ghostly hallucinations that the MC experienced before the restaurant burned down. Everything comes together to build increasing tension, like each wave being followed by a bigger wave.

The way in which the MC regarded his first kill is worthy of note. In most run of the mill xianxia novels, the author would usually spend a few words justifying the killing, and most likely a few more sentences describing how awed the onlookers are by how amazing the MC's skills are. However, in this novel, the MC feels turmoil at killing for the first time, and immediately reflects on the consequences of his killing, namely that he exposed his martial arts skills, which he intended to keep hidden. This scenario was unavoidable, however, since his guards were incompetent and he would have been killed if he had not used his martial arts to defend himself. It is telling that his first thoughts after the killing were

'The good thing is, the Black Tiger Saber Technique moves are unique and distinctive. With a bit of investigation, they'll be able to clearly trace them back to Uncle Zhao. That's not such a big deal, but I've got to be careful in the future... '

All in all, a fantastically well thought out novel. The characters are not only realistic and thoughtful, but also the plot is exciting and the tension is expertly built throughout. I will update this review as I read more chapters.

family - protect

Ghosts - food

Martial artist - food

Monster - food

Super special weapon/treasure - food

Somebodyelse - I can eat him now, later or I can sold him to others

Another Ghosts - food

Hidden super bloodline - tr*sh

God - food

Devils - food

Ghosts/zombies - food

Matter - food

Antimatter - food

More ghosts - food

(yes he like eating, and yes he very much like ghosts as breakfast)

In later chapters around 220, the MC uses his pathetic sects devil cultivation technique to create or forcefully extract the nobleman genes present in all of humanity, which for him was able to burn a piece of paper at the peak of his cultivation (pretty pathetic bloodline). But this doesn't matters to him, his new goal is to surpass the Devil blades with his body alone because he doesn't believe in borrowed strength for which he would need to carry out blood sacrifices on innocent people.

In ch95 or something, MC's brother disappears and is found later as a decomposing corpse filled with maggots causing MC's step mother to blame him (he was to blame) and spouting bad sh*t in madness, what does Lu Sheng do?.....l He bit*h slapped his mother!! seriously.... that's some bad-ass

like, in the beginning, he trained and became a huge oily lump of muscle with no hair, then he turned into a huge fat monster with horns and a tail, became a giant creature with three faces and knife-like teeth and generally has become all kinds of abominations.

A huge spoiler but his 2nd love interest (after like several hundred chapters after 1st died) was a giant 2 headed dragon goddess (she had the ability to ahapeshift to human shape) and there was a scene of their passionate exchange of feelings in their true forms, like the main character who looked like an eldritch horror bit chunks of flesh out of the dragon being with his saber-like teeth and vice versa...

You get that the aesthetics here are kinda fun.

The premise of the story is quite good due to the existence of superior species and their treatment to the flowers and cattle known as humans, the despair felt by the race in general is quite satisfying, even our main character seems to deviate from the strongest humans and the more the story drags on the greater the changes to his character, hell he goes all testosterone bull and wild berserker on us a lot

The MC starts off as a reincarnated weakling in a world that's more than what initially meets the eye. He also doesn't start off really young as he's nearly 20, which is an older start for a CN. After realizing the worlds peril, he starts to get strong pretty quickly and has a pretty big transformation, physically. I likened him to Toguro from Yu Yu Hakusho, as I consider his body VERY similar to him. As a negative review mentioned, he becomes totally bald and gets increasingly muscular, but don't let that deter you (honestly, it made me more hype haha) as it doesn't last forever... Well, imagine all those other CNs where once you get strong enough, you can change your body. That's what happens, but that incredibly muscular form is more of his "true" form when it comes to combat... So, like Toguro haha.

His personality takes a bit of a hit as well. A genre tag is "horror", so you can expect the things he'll see and witness. He's not really evil, but the title "Way of the Devil" says a lot, personality wise AND physically. A lot of things end up being done mostly for his own benefit, as he can't afford to act otherwise.

To put it into perspective, around 250-300, the protag suddenly jumps from a snake realm prowess to a divine weapon masters prowess.... Did the author just give up and decide the protag was leveling up too slowly?