Li Muwan dies, some time after 300 chapters or so. Wang Lin's quest to revive her is basically the overarching plot of this novel.

at the start anyway. Gotta say his morals go screwed up we got past the 70s.

'you killed my talented great great grandson even though he was going against the town rules enforced by his own family, so I'll just go and massacre your family.'

In the beginning his life is with his parents as he studies to become an official. Unlike usual clans with infighting still generally look to promote themselves while not harming the overall strength of the clan/family. In here there is animosity in his own family. To the point it could be said there is hatred. Literally MC is thought to have tried to kill himself, and evidence supports that. Not what really happened but just that alone shows mentality of MC before he became a cultivator. Say what you will about su*cide, but people are terrified of death, while su*cide is usually in a set tolerance with mitigation of dark emotions that offset the fear of death. Do you think those people don't fear death anymore? His will itself has already been shown before that event. These two plot points set up the very foundation of this novel and MC personality.

Final notes that should always be brought up in this genre is setting. Setting doesn't give a sh*t about you, author isn't coming to you to ask if this is a good idea or not. While an author will want a reader to enjoy their book. In reality person writing the book isn't you. In a sense if one wants to read fantasy they have to for a lack of betters words, f*ck off. It is fantasy, meaning this isn't the real world. Large selection of stories do take place on a parallel earth, some even with a modern setting. This is not one of them, majority of thoughts and opinions at this point are flawed. Look at reviews across NU and you will find reviews that criticize a story by outright stating things that make little if no sense if you read the comment as part of the story itself.

This is ultimately my way of saying, fantasy is in the very name not our world. So before we can comment on why a person acts or their ideology, I simply ask, look at the setting. Tired of seeing comments basically saying the novel sucks because people don't wash their hands in the years of bc.

Another key thing I have seen before is about relationships. Cultivation stories are difficult in this manner. Large number of people like cultivation novels and love side characters. Problem is, cultivation isn't a wuxia story. This isn't something that happens in the span of a hundred years. Cultivation stories happen in span of thousands to tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years expanding across lands that are often larger than landmass of earth combined and entire solar systems. While its fantasy, the setting is still realistic in ancient setting. Lifespan in cultivation stories is still fairly accurate depending on the setting. Add into the fact that cultivation is almost always about 1%'s. Those with talent to cultivate are only 1% of population, of those the number is still only 1% can break through to next level.

Because lifespan expands this balloons the numbers to appear this might not be the case if one doesn't think about it. Now combine that with the fact MC is forced out of the very country he was born in. Combine the two facts and side characters are extremely tricky. In this novel it is realistic and it is addressed in the novel but very subtly.

I love that it is up to you to interpret what happened to an extent

The final war was basically inner realm vs outer realm. And inner realm people who join outer realm's force are somehow supposed to be scum. MC of course supports the inner realm, I don't get why. Nobody supported him and the people in power always opposed Wang Lin.

that the world he lived at was just a worthless cave world of a bigger world.