It's a parody like that of OnePunchMan, but obviously not as good as it.
People who like to see MC suffer and get bullied without being able to turn the tables immediately but rather had to wait for 100 chapters of nonsense levelup only to encounter an ancestor more powerful troupe will dislike this as all there is to it is that MC is straightforward, if you are a demon, he will eat you raw (only 5 bites, not much) then kill you, if you are human then he will just kill you if you are in the wrong.
People label this as brainless immediately without actually spending time, and I don't blame them because if you don't like certain type of story you don't like them, there is nothing to argue about it. Same with me, while I like overpowered protagonist from the start troupe, MC's personality also has to match. And here it does. All he wants is to become strong by eating demons. No distractions like females leading him astray with love & romance, he isn't a lecherous pervert who lusts of going to brothels like that one novel where the MC also has the ability to eat demons to gain power. He is simple and that's what makes it great.
It's comedy face slap novel thats not cringe.
Its okay. I agree with others that this is interesting, but has become stale after about 100 chapters. MC's bias towards martial arts feels more propaganda than logical, his main world storyline is unnecessary as it does not contribute to anything but increasing word count.
It really couldn't hold my curiosity. Mainly because the initial story arc is flashback, when MC was still weak, while I am more interested in the MC who was already strong. That disconnect made me lose most of the interest. Then there is the issue with the power structure which felt convoluted. Combined with the first reason it's enough to drop a star. Another was deducted because of translation where the prose is in the form of essay rather than story narration, it's a pet peeve of mine as I do not like sentences structured in novel like "He gets down the car", I like it when it's narration prose "He got down the car".
I fail to realise how this is still marked as on going when last updated chapter was from 2 years ago.
The novels solid aside from few obvious traps of opmc misunderstanding troupe.
Objectively it's better than other novel with growth type MC, but.. some of the glaring downsides are hard to ignore.
Pros:
1. Relatively stable environment for early growth of MC, it did not push him into mindless conflict right at the start like many novels tend to do these days.
2. The world is well thought out and other characters have a bit of brain even though they show up for 1-2 chapters only. Example, the warrior guy from Liu family who even though following his clan elder's orders, he isn't overtly submissive to the weak elder just because he is of seniority.
Cons:
1. MC has a cheat with his skellies being able to be used as untiring hard labourers already, then he gets a blessing from the professional statue for being sincere? (To this day nobody actually sincerely bowed down to the statue? Are you kidding me?) Then he gets the comprehension skill due to bodhi leaf *accidentally*, this is in addition to all the record breaking rewards issued by the system.
2. Author inserted martial arts way too early in MC. He is a farmer, so instead of thinking of ways to optimize the profession and earn more money in the early stages which can be used to buy the resources that can increase his strength later on, he focuses on learning martial arts and wants to go kill monsters.
3. As many other readers pointed out MC's monologues are ok in the beginning but repeated use of same thing makes it utterly cringe later on.
Initially it was good, but at around chapters 100, I find that the way MC operates changed drastically. Till then MC was cautious and even when he had people help him without expecting anything in return he used caution and kept them at distance and only after months of observation he let them in on portion of his secrets (aka Jiayi).
Then after ch. 100, he enters the secret realm and encounters an artificial intelligence which says he is the strongest person and qualified to become their master and he believes it without much thought. That's not in line with his personality trait shown till now.
Apart from this, rest are mostly good.
Edit: After catching up to the latest chapter release I am gonna increase my rating by 1 more star. Although I stand by with my previous judgement, I quite like the cautious opmc troupe without any sort of parody mixed in.
Ch .40:
So far it's alright, would have gone for 4 star but due to heavy bias shown by the author towards the western countries I decided to deduct one star more, so 3/5. Most people would drop out at this point in the story due to the same reason. I am saying this as a fellow easterner that the way author tries to showcase west vs east is really a cheap tactic but it's not one we haven't seen in these type of novels.
Ch. 52:
Lost another star, MC showcased his abilities and gave evidence of the prediction to the eastern govt. but only resorted to give 4 day advanced notice to other western govt. what do you expect them to do? It was rigged from the beginning and MC had the gall to state easterners are worth saving because they showed him potential in evacuation and rescue attempts. BS.
Will update my review if my views on the novel changes afterwards.
It's a comedy troupe but that's it. Nit even good comedy but rather the cheap and vulgar variety. Not my cup of tea.
If you just like to read funny dialogue without any sort of depth into the plot you are gonna like this novel.