There's some worldbuilding problems that disrupted my suspension of disbelief. The biggest one was that, even though it's repeatedly stated throughout the novel that cultivators can live hundreds or even thousands of years... the world-building elements really don't reflect the kind of changes that that kind of longevity would have on their fictional society. An example of this kind of worldbuilding hole is MC's dad. Supposedly, before he became the head of the Fu family, there was a whole list, going up to the 100s of potential heirs, and all of them had to duke it out, but when he became head, he changed a whole lot about the Fu family so that they're not so cutthroat, and only the head's children can be heir. Mind you, this change happens in only 17/18 years, because when the MC was 0 yrs old, his dad was not the head yet, but by the time he's 17, everything's changed. It seems kind of funky that the traditions family that's likely centuries/millennia old can be changed just like that. And it's not that his personal power is so great either, cause if it was, he wouldn't need to distance himself from his son in order to protect him.

Another huge issue, is that, also within 17/18 years, the demon cultivators managed to seed their agents all throughout Yunze, which..... seems too preposterous, considering that again, cultivators are supposed to be able to live for centuries, meaning one could assume that the turnover for positions of authority is rather long. There's no way they could've gotten so many plants into high places that quickly and not raised all the eyebrows. (They only started sending spies after the blood pool incident with the Yue lady, which only happened when the MC was around 0/1 years old, and by the time he's 17//18, their plants have gotten all the way to the top).

And quite a few people who shouldn't have had the cultivation necessary to ascend (or just straight up died) somehow end up as immortals in the upper realm at the end. wat even....

The plot seems intriguing and neat in the first half, when they're trying to find out the mystery/conspiracy of the demon cultivators. But then, once they mix in all the mystery/conspiracy stuff regarding how the righteous cultivators were trying to create new spirit veins using human lives, all the "who's in on which conspiracy" gets way too messy, and the plotlines mesh into a confusing soup that I can't make heads or tails of.

The ending is also very deus ex machina, which, ymmv.

Personally I don't like this dynamic where one of the characters is constantly groveling before an unmoving ice statue and licking its feet. And where one person in the relationship is far far more invested in it than the other. But then again, ymmv. They do 'get together' in the end, though the MC is still walking on eggshells around the ML and it's not a comfortable feeling you get from reading it. And. in the epilogue after their 3000 year separation, it just seems like the distance between them has stretched so much as to be insurmountable. The ML's feelings towards MC weren't all that strong before they were separated, and by the end, the ML seems to have already... idk "seen through the vanity of the material world" (看破红尘) and makes the "romance" in the epilogue even more... bleh.

In Husky, Wanning did all those things because of love, he was misunderstood by Mo Ran because he thought he was a selfish, unfeeling person who doesn't give a damn about others but he found out that he's just a cold tsunii and really deserves love and Mo Ran even questions would he even be worthy of his shizun? Does he even deserve him, despite all he suffered for him?😭 While in Carved Jade, Fu Changling went back when he was Seventeen, and surprise - Qin Yan, our ML, the one who endured the punishment that was supposed to be for him, the one who loved him despite all, who betrayed his friends, his family, killed his teacher, and pursued the demonic path, all because of his mistakes that he couldn't face to, and died because of love, really makes my eyes sting and srsly stories like this is what makes a really good novel

although it didn't help that he is still stealing glances at Qin Yan💙💙

tl;dr

misunderstood each other but falling in love => gong killed shou => reborn => meet again => falling love again => big villain showed => big villain told why he did this all => gong tried to reason with big villain => both gong and big villain 'ascend' (aka unalive) => shou left behind => shou spread kindness => gong picked up shou to 'ascend' (aka unalive)

don't fault me, it's just super short summary. also I think I'm gonna boycott 'ascend to heaven together' and 'reincarnated together' endings