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First review ;) This novel is addicting, its story is simple, yet engaging.The translation is phenomenal and I can tell they really put in the work, whether that be through their enticing usage of grammar, their perfect spelling, or even just the insane amount of uploads the translator provides. All-round, everything is perfect.Even if this is an edited MTL, it's perhaps one of the best I've ever read and I generally wish the translator the best, so thank you for your continued efforts in entertaining the masses. Thank you NAN404!! Story wise, the protagonist feels genuine and although overly kind to the future ML, the romance is slooooow, yet, done incredibly well, and for once, I feel that I wouldn't mind sinking in a 300 chapters before seeing romance.Maybe this is due to the lack of ambiguity between the ML and MC, but this story feels like a genuine friends to lovers novel, where we first get to enjoy the story from the perspective of two friends. Unlike most novels that have a slow burn, we aren't left wanting more romance, we're instead wishing to see how the friendship develops, unlike a lot of other stories where it seems one character just flips a switch and becomes h**ny for the other, I feel that I could generally see the two slowly falling for each other, as such, the story from this perspective is much more believable.The cultivation system is well done, albeit I expect some cliche scaling when they leave the region they're currently in, that is inevitable. I do like how the protagonist is less talented than the ML, although I do have my concerns with how they will develop this, as we all know the protag will come out on top due to his golden finger. I just hope it's subtle and not some random technique that suddenly made him OP.My only complaint is that the author spends a ludicrous amount of time describing random ranks and qualities of random things e.g iron. Like will I ever need to remember the different processes behind the different qualities of iron again?I would say this novel isn't really targeted towards veteran cultivation enthusiasts, nonetheless, I would prefer to have a absurd amount of useless details as opposed to having nothing, this way I can read what interests me to see how the author modified the basic cultivation structure in their own way. Anyway as a final note, I believe you should mark my words, if this novel manages to get 150+ chapters translated, I think this novel will become one of the best cultivation BL's to be translated for a good while. :0:)