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The novel is good and the translation is good. However considering one illogical point I decided to give 4 stars:After harvesting plants the protagonist just sells them/their fruits and buys more seeds. However it would make much more sense to use the seeds contained in some fruits to plant the plants again. It is as if every plant he buys has been bred to not produce any seeds. It would make some sense for ones bought from the market, but it makes zero sense for plants found in the wilderness.Either the author is too s*upid to think of this or this cultivation world will face an apocalyptic disaster with most spiritual plants dying out in a couple years. Edit: Okay, so there is a explanation for the fertility problem: Many plants are formed by spiritual energy and can't really reproduce normally. As such great amounts of research are needed to create an artificial reproduction method. It does make some sense, but not completely.After this issue is resolved another issue begins to crop up in chapter 500+: The protagonist has shown his talent in growing plants and handling beasts in the sect he has joined and is known as the best in his field. However, the sect decides to send him to a guard mission in times of danger and this is just s*upid.As logistics personnel he is of great use to the sect, but his strength as a cultivator is a hundredth as useful. Has a donkey smashed the brains of the higher-ups or why would they make such a decision? Although he gets the easiest mission possible it isn't thanks to those in the top position in the sect, but some in higher position who know of his value. And even then he would have likely died on this mission weren't it for his hidden strength.Rating changed from 4 (around chapter 100) to 3.5 (around chapter 500) Edit 2: Additionally the novel itself is slow-paced, which is fine, but it is also full of fillers. To increase the word count the author uses every opportunity to tell us which plants the MC cultivates, which weapons he has and which effect they have. Without exaggeration the author has told the reader about some plants and weapons dozens of times by now and mentions the effect of many plants and weapons more than a dozen times. And often when he introduces something new he tells the effect of it, summarizes it and mentions it a couple of times in the next few chapters.Another thing worth mentioning is the fact the protagonist is a hyprocrite. To achieve his goals and grow his plants no means are too low to him, he even refines the souls of others to use them as fertilizer, yet he pretends to himself to be a righteous person and views evil cultivators with contempt and views them as enemies. Someone who purchases resentful souls, the souls of infants who were killed and the souls of pure people is as evil as possible. If you are evil then don't pretend you are not.The protagonist is a devil in human skin. Like most chinese novel protagonists in power fantasies.Considering these additional issues I decided to lower my rating from 3.5 to 3.
