Shuhang is a rare MC who has the proper balance of "good guy" and "willing to kill or threaten to protect family and friends", none of that causing conflicts just for the hell of it. There's a massive amount of side characters, most of which are pretty funny, and fairly sensible. Even the mob characters aren't complete idiots.

Also, despite having massive plot armor in the form of heaven-defying luck, cheats galore, and OP friends and allies, the story never gets stale. Shuhang's antics are just too much fun, and while new developments could end up feeling random and disjointed, they're interesting instead.

apart from his, so far, non-existing or almost non-existing libido, but its somewhat offset by other characters noticing it once or twice while disbelieving it; if the author themselves didn't show that they realize it, it'd be worse, and this way at least I can accept it somewhat; also, there's a dao companion tag here, so maybe it'll change somewhat? MC still doesn't have one right now though, but I can rather easily guess who it'll be due to some hints

as well as smart and balanced (not some psycho mu*derer many readers dislike) ; other characters are often unique and difficult to forget (aside from a handful of them) and even antagonists are well-made. The way the author avoids some tropes and makes fun of them is simply godlike. He/she also has many refreshing ideas. I also want to emphasize that side characters are quite well-made and not contrived, and that includes the female characters which are often f*cked up in such novels (the female lead isn't perhaps as well made as Nightingale/Veronica seems to be, based on what is now TL'ed of Release that Witch that is, but she isn't too far behind; though I have to mention that I'm basing my appraisal of these two characters on whether they feel real and not theory)

Well, damn. I was wrong, it seems that the author was simply trolling the readers with those hints, and the actual female lead turned out to be someone else entirely, lol. Although the romance is still considerably better than the likes of IET or True Martial World, in the end its the usual I-have-no-f*cking-idea-how-to-write-about-having-a-girlfriend-so-it's-time-to-separate-the-MC-and-his-lover crap... Well, it turned out this way in the last chapter, and looking at the index, there was some mention of dat gurl in a title of a chapter sth like 100 chapters later, plus there's a hint that it may not be that bad. Well, romance is the only thing I found lacking so far, though.

Apart from that, let me add that the author has a brilliant ability to use events from tens or even hundreds of chapters ago to create funny situations, and I can't recall even a single character which is still alive and has been forgotten. This author really does well at avoiding much crap most authors give us.

Certain scenes I didn't really like and understand. One of the mob character cooked the dog because it bit him. The part where the MC brutally beat up some dude who gave away his info and broke his teeth. Dude, we're in a modern society chill. This is within the first 50 ch coupled with the slow pacing...

the sage tribulation

Senior White sending Shuhang into space