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I gave this a try because so many people told me that this book took the tropes from the xianxia genre and improved them, but I really struggled on my way to 100%. It's true that the protagonist isn't the type who just powers through everything and it was nice to see him succeed via trickery, but that's about all I can say nice about it. The main thing I dislike about such webnovels is the emotionally stunted protagonists who can barely interact with anyone like a human being. In a book that includes multiple traumatic events, the protagonist struggles to even get close to emotion or empathy. Basically every character is either a very minor role or thrown away until a character introduced at about the 80% mark. She'll obviously be more important, but since the author has shown so little ability to write lifelike characters, I'm not willing to give this series another 300 pages. Though not as bad as some episodic webnovels (it does have some overarching plot), it still suffers from the problem of just stumbling from one event to another. Each scenario or challenge matters for exactly one miniature arc, then it gets tossed aside without any weight. It's deeply unsatisfying experience from a plot perspective.