I ended up reading its entirety and enjoying heavily the direction and care the author took for most of the book; however, it is quite a pity that it ended up with a latter third and ending of a story that was just as disappointing as Coiling Dragon.

I would almost rate this a 3 for the poor ending and attention to detail, but considering this as a whole, I'd give it a 3.5 if the UI would let me. I gave it a 4 in respect to what it could have been.

This is best summed up after the ending where the author claims that he was disatisfied with the final book (aka last third of the series), how he left too many plot holes, and that he sucks at writing cultivation...

Though I'm glad that it was a positive learning experience for him, and a mostly enjoyable read for me, it is still a shame how the story changed and how so much potential ended up to naught.

The characters stopped being fleshed out while the author kept on adding more to the scope of the series. This resulted in characters, even those that are considered to be main characters, end up being cardboard cutouts to be mentioned and ignored, whilst many interactions are added and never continued upon. The ending was rushed to the point where the author just wrote, 'book ends'.

I'll summarize in a few words here at the beginning: generic wuxia with superior quality.

The MC is presented as a person with no talent who must cultivate little by little.

The power system is developing well, and, suddenly, the entire rhythm is broken.

The story's developments start to get ridiculous after the protagonist is abandoned by the sect.

He wants to escape from that Jie who was being attacked by YaoMo and is blocked and requires payments to pass. At this point in the story, the protagonist, instead of thinking of thousands of ways to just pay off some of the lingshi, decides to set up a f*cking city and an army to kill the sect that had a cultivator infinitely stronger than him.

The tropes of this story develop ridiculously and for s*upid reasons.

When the protagonist kills the boss of this Jie, he flees across the river with this new army and arrives at another Jie.

The first thing he does is start another war with a sect because of this army that were former s*aves of that sect.

He destroys the sect again and uses a teleportation formation. Someone interferes with the formation and he enters an ancient battlefield with this army.

These are the best chapters of the book, he spends it cultivating his yao arts and the story doesn't turn around because of s*upid things.

As the story progresses, he flees the battlefield and receives an incomparable item of ancient inheritance.

He manages to escape this camp to hunt for an item to cure his wife. He arrives at another infinitely stronger Jie and the first thing he does is destroy another sect for s*upid reasons.

He establishes Turtle Island and stays for a while. He goes to look for the item to cure his wife and suddenly a calamity begins that restarts the war of yaomo vs xiuzhe.

This continues until the end. The cultivation system is completely scrapped.

The protagonist spends hundreds of chapters without advancing and suddenly jumps to the yuanying level (jumps 2 levels at once).

The yaos arts are scrapped and the xiu arts are scrapped after he realizes the miraculous Shen power.

This leaves a taste of sh*t in the mouth of whoever reads it. The protagonist never finishes exploring anything.

The only thing that exists are the thousands of battles between armies of secondary characters.

The story unfolded from that s*upid decision to set up an army and then it became a bit forced

Totally rushed and meaningless.

If you read this like 10 chapters a day, the pace should be pleasant. But beyond that, it's terrible.

This is a common evil of the Wuxia genre. Thousands of useless things are presented to get in the way of the objective. It wouldn't be bad if it happened once or twice, but it happens all the time.

Wuxia is an inferior reading genre in itself, even though this novel has the seinen subgenre, its quality suffered.

It's well written, I'm not going to lie, but the potential would be greater with 200 more chapters of cultivation and some downtime/development (As happened at the beginning of the story).

Furthermore, you will never have a feeling of dominance. Regardless of how much power the protagonist obtains, all transformations and inheritances, he never exercises dominance. He is always chased like an abused dog because the moment he makes an advance the author creates a higher level character to chase him.

2.5/5. After the first 200 chapters this becomes generic wuxia.

It doesn't deserve this 4.3 rating, it's on the same level as stellars transformations.

There are several other better novels.