Starting with Planting Grass

For a piece of trash like the protagonist to need the spiritual energy of an entire spiritual vein to advance from Qi Condensation to Foundation Establishment, and for a genius within a sect to need the sect to relinquish the spiritual energy of its main vein to advance from Qi Condensation to Foundation Establishment, I'm really curious how the powerful figures in sects cultivate.

The biggest problem I felt after reading the first few chapters was the collapse of the financial system. The fact that hundreds of thousands of spirit stones were being traded made it seem like spirit stones were very cheap. The fact that spirit plants were being traded for thousands of years also seemed ridiculous. High-age plants would definitely become less and less common with development, since it takes a minute to harvest something and thousands of years to grow it naturally.

This is really good! It's rare to find such an interesting novel. There's no story where the parents die at the beginning, or the protagonist is targeted from the start. There are no mindless conflicts or plot twists. The protagonist's cheat ability is very imaginative and doesn't just focus on increasing cultivation level. This is definitely going to be a huge hit.

The first thirty chapters were fine, but after they went to the City of Ten Thousand Flowers, you started shoving your pathetic personal opinions into the narrative. I don't deny the cutthroat competition in the cultivation world, and that good people might not always get their due, but your inexplicable, blatant insertion of these personal opinions is just irritating.

Having read books for decades, this is the first time I've seen a Qi Refining Realm with bottlenecks within a single level, and not just one! It's disgusting. They might as well have made it 12 levels of Qi Refining, or at least focused on building a foundation without rushing to level up. What were they thinking, putting three bottlenecks at level 9?

The premise is quite appealing, but it's rushed, the pacing is too fast, the potential for new realms is too high, and there are too few points of conflict. It seems the author ultimately abandoned the project.

Your performance isn't bad, it's just that your updates are terrible. You've already missed two updates, and there's no definite answer. This is really discouraging for readers.

The protagonist is only at the Qi Refining stage, yet he constantly boasts about how awesome he is (saying he helped his uncle achieve nine Great Origin Golden Cores, instantly becoming a supreme genius), and that he's already planning to join a higher-level cultivation sect after reaching Foundation Establishment (he previously mentioned becoming an elder of Medicine Mountain as his master, but…

I'm currently on chapter 68, and it feels like the protagonist's talent is being suppressed too much, practically nonexistent. One spell attribute is equivalent to three months' worth of effect for others, yet it took him a year to perfect just two. And these spell attributes have special effects, including unlimited energy and mana. And even with that, it took a year to max out just two.

This author is incredibly irresponsible! They disappeared without even a basic greeting? Are they already dead?