Knowing that they’ll get together, I simply hate it. Her family f*cked with the MC from the very beginning, tried to kill him. They stop him from going to school even though his scores are exceptional. MC goes through hell, he suffers a lot mentally, knowing he’s going to die soon and he keeps getting targeted for no reasons. The girl has an easy life, she trains, read book, goes to play mahjong (-_-“)

That girl isn’t worth the sand left by MC’s foot!

MC and heroine are hinted to be in love for 1000+ chapters. During the midstory, they have talks about marriage engagement as well as how heroine family will oppose. Yet, in the end, they do not marry because MC doesn't want to "drink" and heroine doesn't want to have "kid".

After all foreshadowing of this relationship, they abruptly stopped it at the end of the novel due to reason (per author's interview) that he "already have a lot of novels with good ending".

The chinese reader will propably recognise the setting. It is in principle an alternative (through pretty similar) take on this pretty interesting part of chinese history. There are phantastical elements, some changes, the perspective is special, many plots are added etc.. But I actually found it weakens the story. It is like you take Joan of Arc and make her have superpowers and the other side have superpowers, and you tell it from the perspective of some guy you add, but you leave the important events close to the same, interpret them in your own way of thinking.

1. The first real fight: The first real fight took astonishing 75 pages on my kinde which translates to a little bit more then 10 long chapters. The whole thing took way to long and it had way to much unnecessary information that could be totally ignored and thous in theory don't have a place in that novel and because that is not enough the MC did not really participated he only shouted to his friends what to do, which doesn't make any sense and clearly shows that the author has no idea that a fight is always fast paced regardless of the skill of the character.
2. Visiting an old friend: So a few chapters after that fight the MC and his group want to visit a friend in a diffrent school, so far so good but NOOO! One of mc's follower get caught up in a completly ridicioulus discussion to save some face which again has no real purpuse in the story and can be seen as a filler. Nothing important happends for the next few chapters. Then they meet the friend for a 1!!! Chapter only to go out again and get caught up again while walking out. To leave the school it took MC and his friends 5 Chapters!!

280 CHAPTERS! THAT'S WHEN MC (who is unconscious!) MEETS HIS FIANCE! HOLY sh*t YOU BETTER HAVE AN OVERABUNDANCE OF FLUFF FROM HERE ON OR THAT ROMANCE TAG IS USELESS!

Edit:

Style Score: -100/5

Story Score: 4/5

Character Score: 3/5

Read up to 273. The spoiler contains events and where looooooong battle arcs happen. The following Spoiler is an FYI, but more like a warning where the flow of the story is complete and utter sh*t because there's a sense of danger going on where the MC and co could die, but is taking like 50 chapters long.

It's slow as shiiiiieeeet with a whole heck of filler. The author continually delays events, just like all other CN writers and I HATE them for having such a useless writing culture.

Short battles are honestly okay. The problem is, these battles tend to be a one-stomp-show which is showing the splendor of MC and Co.s' OPness.

Now the problem is the main battles. The big fights where the MC has to prove himself.

Words are incessantly rewritten and it's continually hammering the point that "Oh, it's impossible for the MC to win!" And then BAM MC f*cking wins! People are shock! "How the hell did he win!? That was impossible! Isn't he only at Purification/Ethereal Opening/etc/etc/etc."

The only really great thing about this are the characters. Unlike most CN where villains are idiotic, this one currently doesn't have that problem.

Well, background characters are utter dickheads, but side characters are okay.

MC's side kick are pretty great. MC himself isn't anyone stellar that would make me scream like a fangirl just from how cool he is, but he's an alright bloke.

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Anyone who said the MC is indifferent is a moron and doesn't know what he's talking about.

The MC is on a plot-related count down due to his sickness. Because of that, he doesn't want to spend his enery in getting angry and would rather get sh*t done, like continue reading more books and finding a cure for his illness. HOWEVER, this doesn't mean he doesn't get angry. In fact, because he got ticked off at the very beginning is why we have a convoluted plot in the first place.

The MC also believes himself to be "in the right", which he actually is. Because of that, he often times ignores people's warnings or threats. Simply because if he bowed to their will, he feels it wouldn't be "fair". Also, since he thinks he's already gonna die by 20, bowing down to others when you're in the right sounds pretty retarded.

Now when people are saying the plot is SLOW, they are not joking. Currently, I'm on like 50 something chapter where sh*t is going to go down, dragging in the royalty and ambassadors into the whole mess. I started skimming because I wanted to find out what happened and what MC is going to do, and holy shit, it took 20+ chapters for that.

If you want an action-packed, moderately paced romance, I don't recommend this. I think the novel itself is great, but the slow pace is an aquired taste. However, the novel does paint a better, clearer, and more complete picture of the scene and cast, very much atypical to most XiaXiang novel which is just a "who has the bigger dick" contest like TDG or ATG or whatever CAN crap that's popular nowadays. (Seriously, who LIKES reading cultivation training!? I'm never gonna use that and it sure as HELL isn't entertaining to read.)

Ze Tian Ji is the best LN I have read, bar none. The authors of novels like WQDK, BTTH are not real writers, they are just posing as one. Even the author of Release The Witch fails to reach the level of a real writer. The author of Ze Tian Ji, however, is a real writer.

PROS:
The writing is masterful.
The characterizations are great.
The battles are suspenseful and well written.
The MC doesn't have a cheat item. He doesn't have crazy cultivating talent. His meridians are damaged. His specialty is not his comprehension, nor his battle prowess. His specialty is his character. He follows the dao of his heart.
The MC isn't a mass murdering retard. Upto now (Chapter c396) he has only killed 5-6 people, and that too because if he didn't, MC would have died himself.
His opponents are not retards either. They are pretty smart and use their heads. They have their own motivations!

CONS:
It is not a (I your father/No, I your grandfather) type of novel, sorry.

she's not away from the capital just for (?) training, because the crane found her in a bar (lol)

When the crane gave CCS face, is the most epic part in the story I think lol. I love the rivalry with Gou Hanshi (and his acknowledgement, which is a roundabout way to make others see how amazing CCS is and I LOVE IT), and the sometimes frustrating interaction with Tang 36. Or when the wolf boy apparently is doing things for a very humane reason, and then when we get deeper to his philosophy. Or when the princess stood by his side.

All the positive things said about this novel is accurate. The flow, prose, foreshadowing, plot is very enjoyable and poetic. This piece of cloth is woven with the choicest words, deliberate characters in a plot that builds up serenely and explodes with intense action much like what would actually transpire in the real world.
That being said, this novel suffers with many drawbacks which kills its latent potency to the point that the fan will feel like crying.
Whats so bad about this novel? THE PLOT. Its written nicely, but like with many xianxia novels, the author seems to have lost interest in bringing this masterpiece together in a gratifying way. The characters have such unique personalities, such realism but the author does nothing with them.
The cultivation system, political intrigue, world building, starts off with such pomp but unfortunately fails to deliver even to half of the hype, like a dinner at the Trump tower. I am actually being generous here.\

The romance, which could have been the best among any xianxia out there fades slowly into mediocrity as the author seems to have lost interest.
All in all. Look out for this author's work, this is how a genius writes, but be aware that he loses interest pretty fast.
Most of my disappointment comes from seeing a masterpiece fall into mediocrity of wuxia style political drama. Other than that this is a above average overall read. Go for it if you want to detox from all the cocaine and a political drama interests you.