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So, the author tried to meld Korean cultivation/murim/wulin settings (like Peerless Dad for example) with Chinese cultivation settings.In doing so he portrayed a divide between the two, wherein the Chinese setting is pretty much always indescribably evil and the Korean one is more grounded.The MC time travels, slowly getting stronger in "martial arts" (really just cultivation of a different sort), but is always weaker than actual cultivators, and he refuses to actually cultivate because of either the afore mentioned indescribable evil or because he's too attached to his progress so far.The cultivation and techniques get boring fast, because they're incredibly long winded, and the same is true of the fights. The world building is complex in some ways, overly simplistic in others, and overall lacks charm in the sense that it doesn't really draw you into the world at all.The regression feels underutilized, as he just lives his lives one after the other, and achieves very little besides some incremental progress in strength. Overall it gets stale real quick. The translation and prose is good, but the fights are way too long and the author is too obsessed with expounding on his cultivation system, which gets old real quick.