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This is a pretty good romance story set in a cultivation world with some light system elements. Normally system and cultivation tags being together on a novel is enough to scare me away from reading, but I always try to give things a fair shake. Especially if that thing is a yuri story.It's actually pretty decently done and the cultivation aspect is well laid out without constant excessive explanations about the realms and tiers of each level. It's still a bit easier to understand if you already know about a bit of cultivation novels before reading this one, but it tends to 'show' more than 'tell', and it does so over time instead of dumping a mountain of paragraphs constantly explaining everything. It's still a bit bogged down with cliches, but the writer works with them well enough.The system is almost irrelevant up to the point that I've read, acting more like a 'Deus Ex Machina' shop for anything she needs to handle any given situation. For example...Spoiler
She uses her saved up points to buy some kind of cannon and ammo to kill a dragon in a secret realm where they can't use spiritual energy
[collapse]Rizatus talked about it getting violent towards the end and I definitely believe that based on what's already happened in the story. There's already been a bit of graphic violence and a bit of body horror in the story that happened in chapter 31. If the later chapters are even close to chapter 31 then I expect things could get pretty ugly. With a cultivation novel I kinda expect it though. Sometimes cultivation novels talk about being 'ruled by the strong' but then they simply resolve things in a way that's a little too PG-13. This one hasn't shied away from what the ugliness of 'the strong' might look like.The romance has been really cute, I can't tell if Song Weizhi understands that she's being flirtatious with Song Zhixia or if she's just dense and follows her instinct with how she acts. She cuddles, snuggles, rubs noses, and is just all around touchy feely from very early on. And it just gets spicier from there.It's a good story, I'm really enjoying it.