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Overall: It's not bad, but not a priority when it comes to being a selection to be read. If you are here to be given a well developed world to explore, this novel isn't it. If you change your perspective and allow it to be more about a light-hearted banter of following a teen, then it's not too bad.The pace of the story is always moving from training to battle, to progression back to training, without rest and that hampers world building and any connections a reader would make. The author lacks ways to make battle scenes more impactful due to how low the foundation of which characters/villains are being introduced and climbed pass by the MC. The dialogue and banter between MC and the Beasts, and the MC (Tianming) himself is fun to read and continue the adventures with, but the overall lack of details really makes it harder to focus on why the battles matter if they are just going through the motions of battling.ReviewWorld Building: 6/10 Not too bad of a world building. Doesn't explain much of a broader concept in the beginning so opened for more expansion as the story progresses. Get's the job done. There are some elements of the 'bigger cultivation universe' that has been addressed and how MC relates to the broader world other than the Beasts and how some things are unraveling isn't bad.Dialogue: 7.5/10 I feel it's the slapstick interaction between Tianming and his beasts that drives the story moving. Most of the time, it's the banter between Tianming and his humor that gives him some character other than battle driving plot.Pace of the Story (Personal opinion) : 4.5/10 The pace of this story is always in motion and the author isn't stopping it and it always seems like the MC needs to be doing something; either battling or training because time is always so short. Spending some time exploring the world building, catching up with some dialogue and have us readers emotionally connect with of the introduced characters would be nice change of pace. Problems is that the author doesn't allow time for characters to build, and we only see that one dimension of introduced people.There is no big plot twist, anything out of the ordinary when it comes to keeping the reader engaged other than trying to prepare you for the next up-coming battles.Battle Sequence: 2.5/10 Now for the fact that this novel is battle-driving pace, it's already off to a rough start when characters/villains aren't as well introduced, and the author has one the most worse ways to drive a battle sequence when it comes to this novel. It's always battle scenes like "Tianming uses Attack Move A! Villain used Defense Move B in return. Tianming uses Attack Move B and does this which the Villain is unable to fight back. Tianming then cleans up the fight and triumphs." in such format which dulls the impact of which the villain's point of the story.How is the battle-scenes? Pretty bad. Spoiler
The battles got bad to the point where the word count of the battle chapter went down 30% compared to other regular chapters. A commenter wrote: This fight was... embarrassing. Can no one give Tianming a proper fight? I like how quick the battles are compared to other novels, but I'm starting to feel that they are a bit... too easy.
[collapse]In the end, the battle scenes are just not explained well enough just almost like a pokemon battle level of damage calculations and visual aspects.General Others: 3/10 Too many characters are being introduced that is hard to keep up because there are so many sects and elders to remember.
