1) Almost no one (99%) of the 'bank' customers honor their contracts. This makes no sense at all. As a shop that apparently almost sold everything and had contracts for everything, they all believe that the shop can't kill them when they breach their contracts? Is everyone an idiot or what?

2) Things can be solved in 1 chapter are dragged over 10 or so.

3) 'Enemies' are idiots here. They see the MC/subordinates kill someone in 'X realm' while they're in the same realm, yet they believe they're much stronger and can fight or even win. Okay?

Many problems with the novel, and it's no where near Trafford's trading club. In TTC, the MC started as strong with his shop help, meanwhile in this novel the MC does have the shop help but he cultivates and enters higher realms for more contracts to connect. It's like your average Xianxia powerup mode novels.

first off, on the technical side this story has a lot of spelling and editorial errors. at some points the grammar is straight up MTL with little to no editing. there are times when you read sentences like "Li Xaindao told Li Xaindao to leave." if only happened once I wouldn't bother but it happens so many times in these 500 chapters I lost count. sometimes it can get fairly confusing when the author changes pov and has two people the reader isn't familiar with talking and you have no idea who is saying what because the both have the same name.

now, onto the story content.

the MC's cultivation happens overnight and most of the time his training has been off screen. after the first trip into the time room his cultivation is smooth and taking cheats doesn't seem to harm his foundation at all, so he cheats a lot. he does put in effort, but mostly we see him fly through levels or even skip them entirely, depending on the authors whim.

speaking of levels, the cultivation system is really vague, especially at the start. since the MC pretty much skipped straight to Saint, the levels under it weren't clearly defined (or I missed it). and speaking of either an editing mistake or mistake on the authors part, at one point the MC skips over Human Celestial stage and claims to have gone straight to Legendary. there are many chapters about people being at the Legendary stage. another hundred or so chapters, and there's a Legend stage, which comes after Boundless. then several chapters further the author writes out the current stages and there is no Legendary stage... however they were too lazy to go back and change it in the already written chapters. stuff like this happens quite a bit.

the MC has wildly inconsistent personality swings. sometimes he's a nice guy who treasures his subordinates, and sometimes he's a Machiavellian mastermind who toys with his s*aves and causes trouble just to see what they'll do. it gets much worse the further along the story goes, though he does always have their back in a tight situation.

lastly, this MC is deeply misogynistic and homophobic and the author's humor seems completely based around humiliating one of the MC's "s*aves" and derogatory comments about women (even his compliments are condescending). and when that particular s*ave "overcomes his sissy nature" he's still a boot licking joke character who can never catch up. the two traits are so bad that by c 200 I actively disliked the MC, which dropped the rating by 1 star. when the romance scenes started I couldn't even read them without feeling disgusted at the condescension of both the MC and the writer, so I started skipping them completely.

MC sends subordinates to claim contracts.

Subordinate gets into trouble with one of the former customers.

MC shows up and kills them.

MC uses the collected material to increase his cultivation.

MC unlocks new world.

Repeat.

There is this character that wants to merge with a God Race power that he found, but there is a problem that it's a female God Race and he doesn't want to change gender. Ok, valid, I can understand that. But he doesn't need to rant for so long about how awful it would be to be female and say things like "I don't want to pee while squatting!" That's kind of insulting towards women... just say you don't want to change your gender and stop at that.

Then, when the MC alters the power some so that the guy can merge with it but stay male, it only sort of works. He is still physically male, but takes on some female characteristics. Like an effeminate voice, and... putting on make-up without noticing? (Ah, yes, females definitely frequently accidentally put on make-up without noticing. How else would you know they are A Female.)

Basically he starts acting like a drag queen/transvestite and the others make fun of him for it. Pretty low and prejudiced attempt at humor really. This isn't a huge aspect of the novel, but it's something that bothered me and didn't seem necessary.