The AFK Farming Software: I Became Invincible Without Knowing It

Let me start with a brief synopsis since the one at the top is... bad.
Our main character, Qi Ming, wakes up in the body of a servant-disciple who is on the verge of getting kicked out of a powerful righteous sect. Because of that, the original owner of the body decided to become a spy for some demonic sect in exchange for pills that would increase his cultivation and let him stay in the sect. Then, enter MC, and the story goes from there with him trying to cut ties with the bad guys and climb his way up the power structure of the sect by using his golden finger to quickly increase his cultivation.

That out of the way, here's my review:
The first fifty chapters or so are... alright. The set-up I just described to you is fairly good and there is a decent amount of tension keeping the reader engaged as Qi Ming tries to navigate the sticky situation his predecessor left behind (he has to escape from the demonic sect people his predecessor was contacting, survive when they inevitably come and try to kill him, and also prepare for the sect assessment that will decide if he will be expelled or not). But once those initial threats are resolved the story takes a turn for the worse. MC stands out during the sect assessment, takes a powerful elder as his master, and finally gets assigned his cave abode.
And, honestly, this is the point where the story kind of ends? You see, after this there's nothing but a series of timeskips where we get a list of all the cool items, powers, spells, and cultivation levels MC has been accumulating while "afk". Like, literally, it will say "...and then 4 years passed and MC obtained the blah blah blah..." and that will be the chapter.
Honestly, I feel like the author sort of missed the point of an "afk system". In my mind, such a system would free the main character up to do things and go on adventures or whatever, but in this book the main character mainly just sits in his cave and lets time pass as he slowly gets stronger. And, honestly, when the main character just sits in a cave for years or decades on end to get stronger... isn't that just called cultivation? Why even have the conceit of an "afk system" if the MC is just going to do what every other cultivator has to do to get stronger?
So basically, the book follows the format of: The MC spends a long time in his cave cultivating, he becomes very strong, he goes out to do one or two things (usually because the sect orders him to), he settles his tasks overbearingly with his OP main character powers, and then he goes back to cultivate some more. At first it's a few years at a time, but later we are skipping over decades, then centuries, with a few words.
The author also keeps retconning and changing how the system works and how much MC needs to put in to keep it running. At the start it supposedly works like this: MC puts in some amount of spirit stones and his cultivation will increase at a rate of 10x normal without him doing anything, he can put in more spirit stones and increase the ratio up to a maximum amount. At the same time, he can simultaneously let a "game avatar" run a dungeon that the system generates which will drop items, cultivation techniques, and spirit stones. In the beginning, the dungeon runs aren't very profitable spirit stone-wise, enough to let him keep entering the dungeons and do a bit of cultivation, but not much more than that. Thanks to that, a big plot point in the early chapters in MCs struggle to get enough spirit stones to fund all the cultivation he wants to do, starting from begging his rich master and betting with his rich senior sister, and then moving on to him selling the items he gets from the system in his sect's market place, and then on to him using the system to master alchemy so he can create pills to sell at the market to steadily fund his cultivation (p.s. there author wrote zero scenes at the market, this all gets handled off-screen by one of MCs spirit pets). However, as MCs levels keep going up and the cost of running his system got higher and higher, the author finally realized that MC constantly selling hundreds of thousands or even millions or billions (in later chapters) of spirit stones worth of goods every single day at the local market is kind of unsustainable, so the "dungeon runs" started dropping enough spirit stones to fully fund his cultivation and also have a bunch left over, removing then need for MC to gather any resources and allowing him to fully rely on the system for everything.

In short, this is a bog standard OP MC cultivation novel but with like 90% of the "struggling to power up" scenes omitted, leaving only the scenes where the invincible MC wanders around trampling his foes. Also, the author does that annoying this where whenever the MC is doing something impressive a dozen randos will pop out of nowhere and be like "Oh my god, is MC really trying to do that?" "That's impossible!" "No one could ever succeed!", then MC will do it, and there will be another half a page of "Wow, how did he do that?" "MC is so strong." "Amazing!". This tactic does pad the lacking word count but I feel like the story would be fine without it.
I somewhat enjoyed reading it, but I also skimmed over A LOT of the big lists, and also over a lot of the scenes where MC spends a whole chapter comprehending one move that he'll use once and then never again, so take that how you will.

Sigh* wish we could build this lazy in the real world to have still get rich , have 999IQ and Charm 20 girls into a Heram IRL. sigh*  .    ( lol)

It is not great but still decent.
Although it is a copy and paste novel, it is still better than any of the trial novel for this week.........

Webnovel doesn't understand that it has become monotonous and boring. but these novels still keep coming, i reckon there is no quality control on webnovel

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It was fine at first but in the later chapters he starts to become more arrogant. Like telling people ‘in the future you can become my maid servant’ or just has anger problems. He’s lowkey turning into a young master.

This is a pretty bland story where all he needs is Spirit stones and he'll learn everything. It's not very good as a series tbh and it's not that good to read due to its monotonous tone.

I'm up to date on the raws. It's not great. MC get's a busted ability early on and author has no idea what to do with it. It theoretically has a drawback, but not really so he just gets OP system+ OP talent and facerolls everyone. The main antagonist is contradictory, because he's disproportionally dumb(Like, if he was as dumb as he's written there would be no way he had his cultivation base). Main heroine is an irrelevant plot device.

The biggest atrocity is the cultivation syatem. It heavily references Honghuang/Prehistoric, but doesn't explain, so if you didn't read source material you'll be confused af. Then author decides to give the borrowed concepts his own twist and power levels get absolutely incomprehensible.