Jian Chen, the publicly recognized number one expert of the Jianghu. His skill with the sword went beyond perfection and was undefeatable in battle, After a battle with the exceptional expert Dugu Qiubai who had gone missing over a hundred years ago, Jian Chen succumbed to his injuries and died.
After death, Jian Chen’s spirit was transmigrated into a completely foreign world. Following an extremely fast growth, his enemies piled up one after another before becoming gravely injured once more.
On the gates of death, his spirit had mutated, and from that moment henceforth, he would tread on a completely different path of the art of the sword to become the sword god of his generation.
Same with the villains they're all young masters that can't take a single grievance and will always take revenge, after they are killed there comes the father and then the whole clan, after that comes their ancestors that the whole world thought are dead but are secretly cultivating in some places for breakthrough to another level.
Its as you said after reading RI very few novels seen interesting to complete or follow up
The only one i found remotely tolerable was martial world
Was a good read for me.. although I did finish it quickly and few months back so can't remember too much.. just dive in and maybe you like , maybe you don't