There are a lot of loose threads. Despite the numerous extras to stand as an epilogue, this story tried to do so much, but ultimately couldn't tie it up well.

This also affected the pacing a lot. Things felt like everything was going so fast, but at the same time, feeling like it was a never ending read, with all the tangents it tried to do.

But I was honestly willing to look past that and even give this a 5 star, until the author decided to shoe horn an angsty ambiguous secondary character at the later half of the book. I might be reading too much into this, but the way things were translated was super ambiguous, and it was never made clear if said supporting character was gonna be part of a basic loving adoptive father-son dynamic, or it was going the romantic relationship route.

Soured things for me. Had to skim most of his scenes. I was honestly gonna knock down the rating to a two or one if anything did actually happen between this randomass shoehorned secondary character and MC's bro. It felt pretty sequel-bait-ey.

the system is pretty useless until almost the end of the book when the main character wants to return. However, the main character squandered himself as a salted fish throughout most of the novel till mid- end when he finally got serious. So the MC is basically not OP which is okay, but also not so knowledgeable about both the book or the memories of the so-called "original body". In the end you find out he is the original soul for this body anyway; which was a great surprising twist. Quite enjoyable. However; this being a system novel was more of a meh until the important "plot point of the book" so don't get your hopes up in this being one of those system transmigration novels.

the MC got to return back to the modern world to say goodbye to his siblings. Later, his siblings also transmigrated into the cultivation world too!

turns out the MC was originally from this world. God knows who was in his body when he was in the other world though. And also, long ago when his mother was searching for a cure for his illnesses, the mother saved the 10 year old ML who has just left the Hidden Dragon Valley and they were actually destinies to be with each other hoho

the MC is the og MC that was sent away due to a disease and until there, I kinda still accepted it but I dont think they ever said who was inhibiting his body during the time he was away tho. I think the story could've been better if they just didn't use the system plot at all and just say that the MC got transported into a novel bcs I find it hard to understand/believe that it's a real world and not a book one when the system tries to make the plot follow the original plot like in the book, by sending in fixes to get it of the 'bugs'. to me, it now sounds like it's an 'imaginery' world where the system gets to play 'god' and yet I'm supposed to believe it's a 'real' book.

welps, the more I write and think the more I'm like '???'.

anyway that's the only 'gripe' I have w it HAHAHA.

oh there was a part where MC was trying to find his way back but went to the past and the future. bruh that part made me sad, I don't rly like it when stories explore parallel timelines bcs I'm sad for those that didn't have the 'anomalies' aka MC. basically trauma from orv HAHAHAHA.