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There's some nice things about this story. It's a fairly standard litrpg xianxia novel, with lots, and lots, and lots of grinding, the world building is extremely, extremely thorough, and the main character is a decent person for once, hooray!But, the negatives are there too. For one, it's pretty damn wordy, and the language is very expository and matter-of-fact with lots of unimportant info dumps here and there that really drag the pace down. Sadly, most of its wordiness is placed in explaining x random plant/beast or the reward system of y organization/sect/family (you could probably just take this book and turn in straight into an mmorpg) or a detailed description of battle between unimportant npc z and random enemy, instead of focusing more on developing the relationship between mc/ML (or even focusing more on the ml), which makes even their friendship feel really weird and shallow. Mc's near absolute trust in ML seems preettyyy unfounded, especially after ML pretty much just bystands while MC nearly gets killed. It's pretty bonkers to place so much trust in someone who can look coldly from the side while Spoiler
you get some holes poked in you by nasty backstabbers and nearly get mauled by wild apes. I really doubt ML would intervene even if MC really died
[collapse]. So of course, characterization in general is pretty meh. MC trusts ML cause author says so.Basically just read this as if you were vicariously playing an mmo thru the perspective of the MC and skip thru the extraneous cutscenes.