Initially interesting, cultivation style story in a kind of but not really Earth. Opening scenes are fine, although the world history is immensely confusing & inconsistent and the author somehow manages to make it 40+ chapters into the story without ever once explaining how the cultivation levels relate to one another. I am dropping it after a little into MC's first real adventure, where he goes into some ancient tomb. MC finds a spirit pond from ancient times that is a once in a lifetime find... he then trains inside the pond for a few hours, makes great progress, and then he leaves. He has no pressing concerns to drive him away (there is a guardian beast he's hiding from, but it has slept for thousands of years and he has already eluded it & has no reason to believe it will return). In other words - he has the perfect opportunity to get stronger right in front of him, makes up an excuse by saying "I can't stay here much longer" (citation needed) and then leaves, even though he could sit there and make a dozen more breakthroughs effortlessly with essentially 100% safety. He has no time constraints either. The *only* reason I could think for why this happens is because the author is lazy and wanted to continue drip feeding the plot by holding back MC's cultivation level - there is literally no other explanation. And that is extremely fucking obnoxious IMO. It's a story about weak-to-strong cultivation, where the MC's main objective is to get stronger, finds the perfect opportunity to do so... and just walks away from it because the author decided "that's enough now, I can't write another 50 chapters of nothing if I make him breakthrough like any rational thinking sentient being would in this situation." Immediately following that act of phenomenal retardation, MC leaves the pond and goes outside, where he finds his primary enemy lying unconscious beside the river, completely defenseless and injured. MC then says he can't kill him because it could get this girl he likes in trouble. Well that's great and all except that it is profoundly obvious that there is in fact no conceivable way in which getting rid of this guy could get her in trouble, as she is elsewhere and everyone knows that, and him being killed has nothing to do with her, whereas this enemies continued existence is a guaranteed certainty to cause her trouble in future. MC even acknowledges that in future he will be an issue... then he walks off! All I can say is I recommend the story if you like stories where you follow the adventures of a complete imbecile. This is a bit of a rage rant review, but really. I read 40 chapters just to realize the MC and/or author had the brains of a fossilized dino turd, and seemed to expect their readers to be at the same level.
