Part 2:
I was absolutely infuriated reading the MC just being dumbfounded when dealing with situations he could easily have avoided if he'd actually been more attentive of his surroundings (like for god's sake, you're a cultivator, how can you not even notice someone peeking at you from outside your freaking door). Besides, there had been so many situations that could have made him progress his character and mature him mentally if he had gone through them on his own, but no, the author just had to have him use his cheat code (Ling Xi) as a mental crutch. Some people would say that these kinds of situations are fine, since they would help mature him mentally but they never did (at least up until the 300s).
Besides that, the world building in the first 300 chapters is a little below average but I've read worse, so it passes. The plot is pretty much non-existent at the start since, for the majority of the first 300 chapters, the MC really has no real goal for getting stronger really.
