A sect elder got his eyes on a kid who is incredibly talented. Once in several generations kind of prodigy. If the elder could bring that kid back to his sect and have him as a disciple, that would be great. The kid would easily become a pillar of the sect in a few decades. He'd probably quickly become far more powerful than even the elder who brought him in.

There's only one problem, this kid acknowledges a wandering cultivator as his master and is very loyal to him. So what is the elder going to do? Try to coax the kid and his master with benefits? Try to understand them and get some background information? Nope! Let's just kill the child's master right in front of him and kidnap him by force.

Am I the only one who realize how moronic that is? Your plan is to kill his master and then groom him to become more powerful than you. If your plan succeeds, at best, you are going to get killed by your own disciple a few decades from now. At worst, said disciple isn't gonna stop at you and also destroy your entire sect.

Thankfully for that elder, his plan failed, because as far as he knows, the kid's master was both incredibly more powerful than him but also merciful and let him go with a light punishment. So what do we do now? Count our blessings that this incredibly powerful master let us go with our lives after we tried to kill him and kidnap his disciple? Cut our losses? Nope! Let's get our revenge and show him the might of our sect. Could we possibly gain anything from doing so? Nah, but we're gonna do it anyway.

Right after this elder, we get the 'mu*derous psychopath' antagonist. Dude asks a question to someone of high rank and with background. The guy doesn't know the answer. Thus he says "then there is no point of keeping you alive" and he just mu*ders the guy for no other reason. There was also no point in killing the guy other than making enemies.

That mu*derous psychopath isn't depicted as particularly unreasonable for a cultivator.

and this situation is much worse in the HSSB, as in that the MC similarly forgets that he has been reborn twice, totally ditching the potential of his knowledge, whereas it's a bit better with this story as the MC in this used his seemingly ridiculous knowledge that someone with bright future or the main character tier potential can be accepted as a disciple and save the precious time of the mission because, before a certain point in the story, failure means death

basically whenever there is a big matter not only the MC's party don't lose anything they even became the only people who profit from the whole ordeal

Some girl named Luo, the true youngest disciple, making the first disciple losing his title as the youngest. I don't really like her character, she's just... there, and completely unnecessary aside for being the bridge to another reincarnated individual that Lin Feng missed, an "MC material" guy if I must say. But that's okay, because Lin Feng actually got four out of five, "I found myself four, but I missed you in the end, " Lin Feng once thought. I was desperately hoping the girl to NOT being the direct disciple, I'm okay if she's going to be a disciple to LF's disciple. She has nothing to offer except for her innate body constitution, Pure Yin Body.

No pure determination, fire prodigy, the Medicine Expert (Which LF admitted had far surpassed himself if only he's in the same level) Xiao Yan, the eldest. Not like the lucky charm, gentleman, and the teaching expert, Zhu Yi. Not the determined (Even more than XY), intelligent, savage Wang Lin, the third. Not the insanely talented and strong with full point in "Talent/Body Root" Shi Tianhao. But they're the "MC materials", so that's okay if you're not like them.

Now going to the non-MC, there's Yang Qing who proved to be the most down-to-earth one, he also controlled the king of all Primordial Water, see? He's very brilliant with a balanced Yin and Yang, XY already covered the Primordial Flames' area, it's good to have some water also.

Yue Hongyan is the first girl. I love her character, battle-hardened, determined, savage, cold to others except for her master and fellow disciples, she's a main girl that I'd love to read. A battle genius because she's honed in the battlefield.

Then there's the Formation genius, We have an alchemist genius which suppressed the grandmasters in the matter of several years (Yeah, spoiler), we have a literate gentleman which is just too good in his literature, we have a determined guy who comprehended the concept of life and death, we need some defense. What could be better for that aside for a Formation Genius? He's very useful to be in the direct line of defense

And after all those dazzling stars, I just couldn't see where this Luo Girl fitted. Whereas the others are S and A+ characters. She's just there as... a B+ character with dazzling innate talent? She only pushed to A-grade character because she's under Lin Feng, most of the time, I even forgot she was there if it wasn't because the Author kept trying to have a fluffy relief and praised her senselessly.

The students under Xiao Yan, because they're all laid back and very relatable, like Liu Xiafeng and his laziness despite being one of the respected role models to the earlier second generation students. Tang Jun, the true direct disciple of Xiao yan which only appear far away into the story, has a great affinity to Fire. He and Xiao Yan are practically like Xiao Yan to Lin Feng, relaxed and like to joke around.

And then, there's Tang Jun's student, which also appeared far away into the story, a genius alchemist which Xiao Yan took as his Medicine Boy. The boy knew practically everything about XY's habit in concocting pill, when XY pulled a shocking move to beat back all those grandpas in alchemy he was the only one who didn't look surprised (except for LF and few fellow disciples) that Xiao Yan purposefully downgrading his pills to create a demon pill tribulation, which if done right, will improve the pill's grade to the very top. But VERY risky and dangerous.