The Hardships of a Rogue Cultivator

I just browsed the book club's comments and all I can say is how lucky I am that I didn't read them and read the whole thing in one go, otherwise I would have definitely missed out on such a great book. I've read no less than a hundred books this year, but only this one has kept me reading from beginning to end.

A grown man is thoroughly enjoying reading on a women's channel.

I thought the early parts were well-written, but towards the end, when she was almost at the Nascent Soul stage, she suddenly joined an intelligence-selling organization—the kind you can't leave once you join, and you have to explain what you're supposed to do. Isn't the point of cultivation to gain freedom? Instead, she becomes powerful and sells herself out, even as a low-level henchman.

What I find most unbearable is that since obtaining the Strange Flame, the female protagonist seems to have never used any other fire-based spells besides it. She even uses talismans to start a fire. I completely understand and support not easily revealing the Strange Flame, but the female protagonist has a fire spiritual root and fire spiritual power within her body.

Actually, the author's writing style is quite good, so why am I criticizing him? He could have finished writing it in two or three chapters, but he insisted on dragging it out to five or six chapters. I won't say anything if it's because he has good writing skills, but have you ever seen someone still in the Foundation Establishment stage after writing five or six hundred chapters?

This book is getting more and more exciting as you read it; it shouldn't be so unpopular. Why is it like this? It can't be because there's no male lead, right? Many cultivation novels without male leads are quite popular... I feel the quality isn't that much different.

The first few dozen chapters, "Investiture of the Gods," vividly depicted the perilous and scheming world of cultivation, where even the closest friends could betray each other for personal gain! It wasn't a saintly, overly kind character! But then, the tone shifted? After Quan Ling's death, the female lead's saintly heart, meddlesome nature, and self-righteousness suddenly surfaced!

This painting is definitely not by He Yanxin; believe me. (Sweating profusely) The mark... Should be on the right eye, right? (Uneasy) It seems I drew it too heroically. I also want to draw Senior Xu and Quan Ling later. I think it would be better to draw the female lead first before drawing the other characters...!

So far, what I think is the best thing about this book is its grand scale and strong sense of logic. Reading the author's descriptions, it feels like such a magnificent and fantastical world truly exists, especially the different languages ​​and creatures in different worlds, and even how original species mutate when they arrive in other worlds—this setting is incredibly plausible.

The first 200 chapters are good, but it gets a bit off after that. The female lead becomes overly saintly; she's stingy herself, but incredibly generous to unfamiliar cultivators, giving away pills and everything else for free. Moreover, her own cultivation level is extremely low, yet she tries to kill a Core Formation stage enemy, without any foolproof methods like using others or setting traps; she just tries to kill him all by herself, which is truly overestimating her abilities.