He cut open the wall to heaven allowing humans to gain immortality and go past the previous peak of his past life

1) The love interest - Cons: The female lead is described as being very beautiful in classic "jade-like" terms, She just happens to have a yin body which caused her to be weak and ill until Jiang Chen showed up to cure her. Initially she was a very innocent and naive young girl, which could be a bit annoying at points.

Pros: The MC is very devoted towards this girl, and is both unwilling to let anyone else insult her, and also completely uninterested in any other women (as far as I have read). The girl has good talent, and could be considered roughly on par with Jiang Chen in terms of strength. Her personality also changes slightly as she becomes more familiar with the cruel reality of the world, though it isn't all that developed yet, but she's nice enough. I'm hopeful that she'll have a certain level of importance even as the story goes on. The female lead and the MC meet in a cliche way, but it's tolerable (I hate it when the meeting is annoying, like the MC sees a girl bathing and the girl proceeds to furiously try to trample the MC, for instance).

2) The power-ups - Cons: Jiang Chen tends to power up very quickly, and the majority of his overwhelming strength is due to the advantages given to him because of his powerful technique. The system of cultivation is a pretty typical level system, without any really unique points, and there isn't any focus on laws or philosophical descriptions or anything like that.

Pros: Although he does brute force his way through lots of things, and his power-ups are pretty quick, there is at least some logic behind most of his rise in power. Besides that, his level jumping abilities are about equally due to his knowledge from his previous life as his superior cultivation technique, so while it's primarily brute strength there is some intelligence involved.

3) The reincarnation - Cons: He has tons of knowledge, so whenever a problem pops up or something seems impossible for others, he can easily accomplish things using his past life knowledge.

Pros: The reincarnation part is actually done pretty well, unlike in many other novels. First, he reincarnates into the future and on a different continent, so no worries about him going back into his own past and conveniently knowing literally everything that happens. Another upside is that in this case him being reincarnated actually matters in this story, instead of being just a convenient way to get things started (PMG *cough*). However, the best part for me is that Jiang Chen actually seems to have learned something from his previous life, and strives to correct some of his previous mistakes in this life. For example, in his previous life he went at everything alone, but this time he ensures that he has friends and allies to help support him, recognizing that he can't do everything by himself.

4) Antagonists - Cons: The antagonists are kind of like what you'd expect. Many spoiled young masters and arrogant brats who incessantly harass the MC for relatively minor reasons.

Pros: Later on in the story an antagonist appears whose talent and destiny are fairly close to the MC's, and he apparently remains a relevant villain for much of the story, so if you're sick of antagonists being constantly defeated and forgotten, there's that. As for the cannon fodder types of antagonists, plenty exist, but for the most part their destruction isn't too delayed and is sufficiently interesting to keep me from minding too much.

5) Side Characters - Cons: We don't get too much development for the side characters, and many of them just end up either respecting or hating the MC.

Pros: Jiang Chen's love interest isn't too bad. Jiang Chen's best friend, Big Yellow, is also a pretty hilarious character whose talent is about on par with the MC (he can level jump and everything), and Big Yellow goes with the MC on most of his adventures after he enters the picture, instead of almost immediately fading into obscurity like many other "best friend" characters.

6) Main Character's Personality - Like a lot of MCs in these types of novels, Jiang Chen isn't quite good or evil. He goes far to help his friends, and doesn't hesitate to exterminate his enemies. Jiang Chen has a bit of arrogance too, which is attributed mainly towards his current talent and the mindset he developed in his previous life. That being said, I think it's an acceptable level of arrogance. He is a pretty ruthless guy, and he kills a lot of people, but I've yet to see him straight up mu*der an entire sect (there is a case where he kills all of the main members of a sect/clan, but he spares those who aren't a threat, like the servants and such, so I didn't think it was that bad).

7) Translation/Writing - The translation is pretty good. I think the earlier chapters were in need of some editing, but once some more editors/proof-readers join it gets better as you go on and the translation speed is pretty good. As for the writing, like many of these novels there is some repetition and wordiness, and there are some flaws in fights scenes and explanations as a result of this. I've seen much worse though, so I wouldn't go so far as to say it's worth dropping because of that.

MC almost gets assassinated and goes back to the sect he's at to find the culprit. Some things happen, and the MC ends up hanging up several people--outer disciple bullies, sect elders, and inner disciples--on poles and gets a bunch of people to beat them to death with pikes in the center of the courtyard. Keep in mind, he's just a small outer core disciple himself.

The sect leader sends him on a difficult mission, as a fake punishment for killing some fellow disciples that plotted against him, while really it is a way to let him get stronger, but does nothing about the elders and disciples still plotting against him. Before leaving on the mission he leaves his girl under the care of a friendly elder and tells him to watch out for the people plotting against him. Predictably while he is out on his mission the people plotting against him send assassins to make his mission even more deadly and go try to attack/r*pe MC's girl. Ultimately the girl is wounded because the elder that was supposed to protect her went to cultivate. MC comes back, kills a few more plotters and complains to the elder for failing to protect his girl and to the sect leader for sending him on a mission but not looking after his people. So clearly the MC is pissed, and even says he is going to leave the sect, but he doesn't, instead he warns the sect leader about the evil elder, and how he is likely working for a rival sect, and the sect leader says the elder is loyal to the sect and the evil things he has done are due to personal grudge, which is still f*cked up, but apparently is ok in the sect leaders eyes. Anyways MC doesn't leave the sect with his girl, instead he leaves her under the care of the same friendly elder and goes on an adventure.

After Jiang Chen transends to the Saint Realm (or something), it's acknowledge everything is supposed to be stronger and more powerful in the realm. So I would expect that since at least everyone is at freaking human immortal realm they should have stronger ability. Since you know, FUKING passing on abilities. But it just felt like there is nothing more powerful, just more concentrated. Like instead of setting a new bar that Jiang Chen has never experience, the entire world is mulitply by 10 so everything is stronger. And it just so happens that Jiang Chen will also be that much stronger.