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I read this right after Longevity Simulation and oh boy was it a downgrade! While both novels focus on cultivation with regression, Longevity simulation is more about coldly analyzing all the information gained with each regression to gain benefits, while this novel is more about creating connections. This novel is all about not forgetting the loss of comrades from each regression, cherishing each connection formed despite time unraveling, and having an unyielding spirit against all odds as they are always stacked against you. Seo, the MC desperately tries to prevent disaster happening to his coworkers. This is a good theme and all, but the problem is that the writing sucks.First off: the cultivation. Holy shit. This surely isn't the first xianxia novel I ever read. Why the hell are you introducing imaginary cultivation concepts that copy off of every other cultivation novel? Is it fun to read walls of text about qi building stage and the concepts revolving around ascending each stage? It's like I'm reading a wiki article. And of course, it's all imaginary BS. The author is just trying to increase word count per chapter. Cultivation concepts get repeated OVER and OVER again. It's regurgitated information. Hell no I don't care about star constellation and energy, and I sure as hell don't need all 28 constellations listed out by name only for it to never actually matter. The thing is that most of these cultivation concepts don't matter. And when they do matter, like Qi, intent, yin and yang, it's poorly explained. Everything is overly explained, but not concisely nor clearly. Information regarding intent, each martial stage, and cultivation concepts are always repeated, but not in a great way. The problem is that some of this information carries the novel.This carries out to the fights. The fights in this novel are a joke. They're so poorly depicted. It's just psuedo cultivator or martial intent concepts that carry the fight. There's no real battles that are detailed at all. It's just Seo throwing out his martial intent and killing them, or dodging based on "intent." The swordsmanship depicted in this novel just repetitively repeats the same few stances, and all the fights just become the main character throwing out a few of his stances and killing the enemy. There's no actual detail of the fight other than the stances used and the intent used. It's crazy.Finally, and the reason I dropped this novel is the post core formation stage. All the sudden, Seo is transported to a higher realm and he becomes crazy OP. He effortlessly increases his cultivation prowess and crosses major realms as flavor text. He's able to battle two major realms above his actual cultivation rank and the novel barely explains why. It's just more pseudo cultivator concepts and apparently Seo is so talented and smart that they culminate to him being able to steamroll anybody.The reason these regression novels are fun is because it's an untalented person trying to become stronger with each regression. Seo, I sh*t you not just goes from core formation to Nascent Soul off screen. Really? I cannot stand this novel.