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If you think the author wrote this seriously, it's just another xianxia with a psycho protagonist who has a growth cheat and goes around doing whatever he wants with no repercussions. If I just described his actions and the general plot, this would be it.But, if you've read enough xianxia, you can see the author is mocking the genre, using a savvy protagonist to give a middle finger to normal xianxia progression and cliches. This is what I felt from the little details surrounding the story and giving it life.The main character takes the system he's given and instantly treats the world as a video game and all its residents as NPCs or monsters, and thus has no qualms about really anything he does to them. Even as a deconstruction, the way he thinks is a little repulsive to me, but I could also easily see a normal man who played video games and read a lot of xianxia/xuanhuan acting like that in that situation.As of now, it feels like the novel is underrated because people only looked at the surface. Even going beneath that it isn't a terribly deep story, and doesn't stand on its own without having read a good amount of xianxia to understand the tropes it makes fun of, but it's definitely a fun read with that in mind.