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I honestly like the premise, the idea behind this novel I think was very innovative and had a lot of potential but it was just executed so poorly. What I expected from this novel is his system to make him stronger based on his disciples, so something like he can use a percentage of their strength dependent upon his bond with said disciple, but rather than that we get "Obtain a disciple with talent x" or "Get a disciple to x level" and the system is basically a secondary. Honestly overall the writing is just very poor quality, for example he eats a herb he found and instantly goes from lower to mid level... at least other bullsh*t cultivation novels have them meditate for a while. The book should have made it so he can only get stronger from his disciples and then focus on said disciples, build up likable disciples that readers want to see develop and grow, make our MC a master who puts his disciples first and tries to teach them to the best of his abilities... This kind of development I believe would be very popular, but this author just simply lacks the writing skills to create such a work.The concept of this novel should focus on the disciples yet they barely have any presence other than displaying how badass the MC is and everything is focused on the MC crushing his enemies. This gets rid of all uniqueness that this novel had, almost every cultivation novel has an op MC who crushes his enemies but in this novel it just destroys the premise and ruins the novel. If the author really wanted to have the MC be op and absolutely crush people then do it from the shadows, give readers a scene of his disciples, who should have character development, fighting an intense battle or something to add suspense but then at the end have a paragraph about the MC being happy they managed to win by themselves while surrounded with corpses of people his disciple couldn't beat. That's the part of this novel that just feels so disappointing compared to the average twist authors put on their story, the concept of this one gives so much potential for action, development, etc.. because if your a good author than you can use the disciples to create dramatic intensive close fights, you can use the master to be overpowered and crush opponents, the relationship developed between the master and disciple... it would be easy to create a setting where readers feel like they are watching the disciple character grow up, where we get happy at their success and development but this author doesn't care at all about the disciples, all that matters is the master being op...Overall I thought the book had a lot of potential but it was ruined by the author not caring about their twist and poor writing skills creating something worse than the stereotypical Chinese cultivation novel garbage.
