The story had a rough start at first with the world building as too many different lifetimes were being fleshed out at the same time, but now as of 71 I feel the story has truly hit it's stride. Author was a little over the top with MC after leaving the academy on the mission with the Cheesy Cringe speech and actions. However now the interactions between characters are moving along with a normal feel and if they stay this way, the story will shape up to be really good. The one fear I have is MC gets stronger with Dual Cultivation, but I don't feel any desire in the MC to get stronger with the best way possible. I hope that changes and he is able to progress with the Harem in a smooth consistent way... I have seen a few Dual Cultivation novels where MC starts DC path to get stronger then for some reason or another finds ways not to do it or can't do it, or makes excuses why he didn't.. But so far the story is really enjoyable and is in a good spot right now.
Its a good concept, but its too simple. It has none of the expected complicated political structure in the palace. Characters are all quite flat, and the world is mostly unexplained. At least they told us the cultivations levels.
I'm pretty sure this novel is at least partially inspired by A Hangman's Diary: The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg especially the start of the novel though obviously this is a mystical setting and not a real diary of an executioner. It's like a combination of that and a somewhat interesting twist of a sign-in novel except instead of signing in he executes demons to get rewards. Unsure where it will go beyond the executions. Overall, it seems fairly decent. I think it could have been better if instead of a sign in type system he just gave the MC a cultivation technique that relied on slaughter to cultivate and if you get to a certain level you can leave and join a sect or something. That'd be at least a little more interesting than falling victim to some of the same problems that many sign-in novels have such as getting x number of years of cultivation as a reward. Still it is at least a better concept than most sign-in novels at least at this point.
After the performance has ended, Dylan stood up beside Luna, took her hand and they bowed down before the crowd. It was strangely quiet as the crowd were unresponsive and frozen.
Some without a body and some without a head not to mention this time around all the Blue Ants were not only larger but more plump than the usual groups before.
Lin Xu raised his head to look at the girl in half a meter in front of him. She was roughly the same size as him, eyes with a lovely shade of green that put his dull brown eyes to shame. Her blonde hair reached all the way to her waist. Her features were gentle, her smile even more so as it directed at him.
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