EDIT2: Nope 4stars because s*upid woman wan'er appears way too many times.

EDIT: It gets way way better!!! I was actually bored a few times in the beginning, but at some point the story reeeally picked up and got super interesting!!! Adding 1 star to my rating for 5 stars!

Honestly I think he's too ruthless. It's one thing to get back at people who harmed you, or even people that may cause you trouble in the future, but random innocents?

This is why I can never be a cultivator I guess.

The romance is terrible, and honestly my least favourite part of this story. I like that MC has a strong bottom line for something, but it makes no sense to me that this would be it. Literally him & wan'er's relationship wasn't that long or that groundbreaking, and he barely felt anything for her while alive. It was after she was gone and he was all alone that he realized he wanted companionship. Yet this obsession was exaggerated to some crazy level where he was almost willing to betray all his teachers, benefactors, friends, and kill them himself???? I love the story after the first few hundred chapters, but near the end this woman comes back soooo many times that I'm really sick and tired of her. It's ridiculous. I like that through romance it emphasizes how lonely and desolate being a cultivator can be, but why does the romance have to be so subpar??? There's nothing special about her at all, it's just that she happened to come into his life at the right time, and most of the story is just him obsessing over her after she's dead.

But also I think this author just sucks at writing romance in general. The latter women that leaves marks in his life are also kinda strange. It's almost like someone helps you pick up your eraser and because of that you are willing to die for him, staying devoted for years and suffering pain worse than death.

I do appreciate how much the story emphasizes the difficulty of everything and utter disparity in cultivation strengths. Most of the time it feels like MC is on the brink of death, one wrong move and he's a goner. So many coincidences together were required for him to grow strong; the fate of countless untold others could be imagined. Even when he's in OP slaughter mode, we can still see his weaknesses very clearly.

MC's growth progress is very logical, well-thought, riddled with life-and-death encounters, and frankly very entertaining to read. Author also doesn't make MC succeed always; he's failed many many times, and up against people way stronger than the sky above his head many many times. Author is also very decisive; amazing treasures can be tossed and broken when necessary, no one (other than MC) necessarily needs to stay alive.

Worldbuilding was also fantastic, and the plot is woven quite well. I won't say it's perfect, but also it's 2000+ chapters so "quite well" should be good enough. Near the end there's a pretty big plot twist, and although interesting it wasn't by any means perfect. In fact, I felt it was very unfortunate.