Humanity is treated as livestock outside of the Great Wilderness. They are bred in small villages to be offered as food to guests. There are traitors within the great clans. People know they're there, but everyone is aware of how screwed they are once the fuse goes off. There are multiple races around them waiting for the cracks to grow. Each civilization has their own politics so it's not black and white. Humans are just at the bottom in the story.

HE GOES TO THE f*ckING SUN AND MOON.

This is really going with the theme of "Humans have lost all their powers after [secret apocalypse] happened, and now the main character, Zhong Yue, will try to reverse what happened". Everything he does is about trying to uplift humanity, and as such there are going to be significant themes of loyalty/brotherhood/etc.

Zhong Yue is an incredibly talented cultivator who constantly does his utmost to pave his own way to go further than anyone ever before, and everything he does not only feel earned, but we also get a lot of examples of other incredibly, incredibly talented cultivators. Some rivals, and some friendly.

So the first thing I noticed, that Made me think WTF, was how the humans are struggling to survive in the world. So they formed this big community, but they are only allowed to use that community's soul technique thing, which means the MC has to hide his technique. which makes no sense to me. Why would you care about something so basic as a qu gathering technique when your struggling to survive anyway?

theres other instances of stuff that makes no sense, but I'm too lazy to go through them all.

So now to the reason I don't think I can continue this LN.

Ok so there's this girl who you meet early in the LN, and a couple chp after you meet her she gets possessed by this ancient demon. (She's basically sacrificed by her clan) and her and the MC were close. At first I thought this was new and interesting and was kinda excited to see how it would play out, but all my hopes led to nothing but disappointment... So the MC can't say anything to anyone because the girls clan is super powerful which made sense because he was only a weakling so I didn't mind too much. But the chapters I'm on now the MC just had a major battle with the demon so not only does she know that he knows who she is the clan behind her is gonna know that he knows now, but because the MC is so strong the humans are suspicious of him while that just think the girls abnormal strength is how it should be because of her clan. It just makes no sense how the humans can't tell who she is. She literally showed her spider soul thing during the fight. Not to mention how the demons are known to be able to turn into humans so you would think they would have a way to tell if she's real or not, but nope she just walks around with no problems while everyone suspicious of the MC. While he tells NO ONE. It's like they already know that you know of there treachery why would you keep hiding it? Lost a couple brain cells.

(basically he saved her when she was going to enter the sect and he got injured because of that, she remembers it and they interacted a lot after that, she's basically MC's only friend while she got a great background) the author don't want you to regret it too much when she dies : you understand MC grief but you aren't too attached to her so it's okay.

The translator of the novel is right - the novel suddenly gets much better around Chapter 50. Unfortunately, the quality takes a nosedive after chapter 200. I won't say it is as bad as WQDK/ ATG/ BTTH, but it is close.

Good:

The plot of the novel revolves around humanity's struggle for survival as underdogs - always a plus in my opinion! Its only later you find out how much of underdogs they are. The fights are fun, and the MC doesn't always get an easy win. Best of all, there is a mystery - who is the traitor of the Swords Gate? The needle of suspicion falls first on this person, and then on another...

The Bad:

The novel has its share of cliche elements: The fearless hero, the dumb young master, the MC massacring his opponents from other races, MC suddenly acting brashly and killing people, MC getting all the good stuff, all the cultivation hotties having hots for the MC, and so on.

MC kind of stumbles upon an ancient side cultivation pathway that only a few across the universe know about. He knows more about this pathway than others, however, he gathers all the geniuses across the universe (including those who know about the pathway as well as his enemies) and shares everything he knows with them and they then share what they know with him. Even though his enemies and everyone else is getting more out of this, he is getting the little info he didn't know about the pathway and is confident in himself that even if his enemies get stronger, since he started with more knowledge about the pathway, that he will be able to proceed faster and become stronger than everyone else.