Now for cultivation, the cultivation doesn't ever really happen. In the beginning he had a cultivation technique and direction, but then he decides to just give it all up. There is no consistent techniques and parts of his power and cultivation get left out and totally forgotten all the time. They are just there to make someone exclaim that he is awesome, but then he never uses it. So many interesting elements just cast aside. He spends the whole novel running from one important quest to another and never stops and cultivates. Meanwhile, his friends and harem spend the whole novel developing and cultivating, so that anytime he returns. usually after several faithful encounters, he finds that he is either at equivalent cultivation or lower. Don't even get me started on time skips. Every time the MC goes to a different zone, time works differently, usually to his detriment. The MC will be gone a year to find out that 10, 000 years have passed, meaning that the whole world has long since left him behind. I know what you are thinking, as an MC he should be totally bad a$$ and just be able to mow down people with similar or higher cultivation like its no big deal... well he can't and doesn't, especially towards the end of the novel.

Now for fighting, the MC can and does kick some a$$ in the beginning of the novel, but then he just kind of gives up. There are very few fights, they usually are over very quickly, and they fall into two categories: either weaker than him, so he just instakills them, usually with sneak attacks, or stronger than him so the chase begins. Towards the end he even starts ganging up on people... If you want a bad a$$ MC with awesome fights, then this isn't your novel.

Alchemy. Well the MC is an alchemist, an amazing alchemist, at least in the beginning. For thousands of chapters they harp on the fact that he always uses all the ingredients, so that he can refine better quality and quantity with each batch. Towards the end they get rid of this whole concept, pills are only one per batch. It even gets to the point where he refines something to refine pills for him... Then there is the constant alchemy competitions. Is he an amazing alchemist? Sure. Does he win every contest that he enters? Of course. Do the judges always try to make him lose, making the competition unfair? You better believe it. Is the MC a morally upright individual who uses his own skill to win anyway? No. In the beginning it was all him, then he starts cheating by having people help him in the competitions, but he never once ponders about this fact or if he should cheat. So wait, the novel called the world defying dan god has an MC who cheats during alchemy competitions? Good thing this isn't a novel where alchemy plays a very center role.... oh wait that's right it's kinda the only consistent thing in the entire story, well that and all the people who he befriends being women, with very few exceptions. Women who spends hundreds of chapters with him, then he drops them off at harem village, so that he has empty party slots in case he meets any hotties... Don't worry about never seeing them again, they usually get a mention when he drops the next batch off at harem town. Also, as an amazing alchemist he has to be rich right? Especially when he constantly invents better pills for cultivation, but no our MC is always tragically poor, because he uses up tons of money and he can never sell his pills. Partly because no MC ever understands economics, but mainly because every area he goes to, the alchemists are either screwing the population or some big power is controlling the alchemists.

Then there is the ending... well not really even an ending. It is as bad as if the author was told to wrap it up in two chapters, but he had already written both of them, so he tacked on a couple sentences at the end... There was no epilogue, just we win roll credits. I could be wrong considering the last chapter I found was chapter 3820 on babel novel and novel updates says that there are 3862 chapters.

Overall, it was a decent read, but it went downhill fast towards the end of the novel, so if you have a lot of time and nothing to read, then give this a shot. Just realize that it is very s;ow paced and you will. most likely have to read it mtl. The key to mtl reading is don't think, feel lol.

One of the reasons the story kept me interested was the future "war" of the Three Realms. The MC seemed to be getting stronger to protect his Realm. However, the great war was anything but, which was underwhelming. The MC has techniques and a weapon that is extra deadly to demons. So, MC was able to quickly slaughtered many demons. As long as MC does no ascend to a higher Realm, he could kill most demons. Actually, the MC needs to become stronger to fight against humans. The humans are a bigger threat to MC than the devils and demons, so why the extreme animosity towards most demons? Besides, the only way devils and demons are able to cause humans problems is with the assistance of humans themselves.

The MC does not need to attend most pill concocting tournaments. He rarely gains much from winning the tournaments, besides offending strong powers. Most of the important ingredients he gains come from many, and I mean many fortuitous encounters. The MC has two knowledgeable pill masters (excluding the dragon) inside his ring, with a cheat technique that allows him to grow any rare herb/flower faster than normal.

The MC has offended so many sects now, that it is hard to keep count. Yet, he is unable to eradicate any threat and his enemies continue to accumulate. Also, no matter how many strong cultivators MC kills, they continue to antagonize MC and never stop spawning. I understand each superpower has many strong cultivators, but so many of their elders are killed by MC, there has to be rival sects waiting on them as well to attack. Somehow, it seems most sects have had a good relationship, instead of a check and balance one.

I could continue, but it will take longer to explain, so I will stop.