- #1
A supreme master coming back to return a fallen sect/clan to it's prime is arguably my favorite trope in martial art novels (probably why most of my reviews center around stories with similar concepts). This is one of the novels that approaches this trope fantastically.Despite the overall story being exactly what I look for, I'm ≈250 chapters in and on the verge of dropping. The authors the definition of beating a dead horse when it comes to humor. The jokes that started out funny are now the bane of the story, still taking up huge chunk of dialogue EVERY chapter this far into the novel making reading extremely tedious. Like yes we get it, everyone thinks the MC is crazy you don't have to dedicate parts of every chapter repeating the exact same dialogue involving the exact same characters. The chapters are long but a 1/3 of it is filled with deadpan humor that you could cut and immediately improve the reading experience. E.g. I've just read for the third chapter in a row jokes about force feeding hay to captured bandits. There was no need to dedicate so much dialogue on crap that's moving the story at a snails pace.Leaving the authors love for repetition aside, a part of the story that is a huge missed opportunity so far IMO are the adults of the sect. Instead of getting involved in make or break sect related missions, they leave everything to the kids and hope for the best. If at least one elder would travel with the kids, if nothing else it would add more weight to a lot of the negotiation scenes happening throughout. But instead we have multiple instances of world leaders negotiating billion dollar deals with a 15 year old.Overall, the plot starts out strong but I found it quite difficult to read a lot through one sitting (and this is coming from someone who'd usually read 100 chapters of most novels in one sitting). Still, if you can look past the repeated dialogue/jokes I'd defo recommend this.