Good story! Fast, coherent, protagonist isn't a closet psycho, and a spin on cultivation. And kudos to breaking out of the MC humiliates adversary and then moves on, keeping Ryan as a character was a very fresh move. And Bayer not going out of his way to crush an insect, damne, that's realism!I'm really hoping you avoid the female cultivator cliches cold beauty that inevitably will need to be rescued in most fights.