Honestly not sure why this has such high ratings unless majority of readers are new to cultivation novels. Thus far (200+) it's basically brain dead ****** plot, ****** characters, ****** writing like MGA. It's probably pretty decent if you're new to cultivation novels, but when you've read enough when you know the author is being excessively wordy for word count, the same old offending the current top expert, getting beat and coming back later to win, etc, it's a bit tiresome. Some critical flaws in this is that the author doesn't seem to have an understanding of human psych/interaction and the cultivation levels are ambiguous and makes no sense. Example would be when 3rd chu prince mentions MC is the 3rd lvl weaponsmith and bribes him in exchange to not interfere with his family matters... You want this third prince who is favored by the king for his ruthless genius, but he isn't smart enough to realize that MC literally throws himself to danger to save his father/clan multiple times yet thinks he could somehow be coerced to back off? Or that in the same scene, MC agrees to a duel of taking 3 strikes by current rival top expert, in exchange for asking that his father be treated well... instead of trying to ask whether his father can be released from prison? (No matter what there's no harm in asking in this situation). There's an incredible amount of off character interactions. All in all, it's good enough to keep reading if you're bored, but it's certainly not deserving of a 4.5.
