Ngl, this story has pretty immersive writing style and the world building is captivating. This story would've been perfect if the author toned down the misogyny and qi cultivation progression fantasy crap.

Seriously, why is every woman described in terms of their physical "assets" and then promptly dismissed in derogatory ways? You can't argue it's because of the male MC's personality affecting the narration because the misogynistic attitude extends to 3rd voice narrative POV's outside the male MC's. Sure, the male MC (so far) has not shown any outward creepy intentions... more>> towards female characters in this series, but there seems to be hidden resentment towards the female population? Within the male MC's POV, the female characters are suspicious of him and throw themselves at his feet, and then the male MC proceeds to trample on their basic dignity and blaming them for being distrusting/scheming when he never bothered to try and extend a reasonable olive branch. He even mocks a female character for her suspicions that he harbors ulterior motives towards her after she is disfigured during combat. He also mocks the concept of sisterhood by leaving two women to die outside to see if either is left behind by the other. WTF? Another prominent female side character that was cold and calculating towards him ends up mildly insane and pregnant due to se*ual violence after she decided to part ways with him, only becoming more normal after returning to his care. There are even jokes about how a female child under male MC's care might end up marrying him. Sure he refused this but why even joke about this, author? Gross.

I wonder if something is wrong with the author psychologically. Pretty disappointed because I really enjoyed the supernatural post-apocalyptic world setting and the author's horror genre writing style. <<less