This is a good novel and worth reading. MC is evil and shameless who will do anything to get stronger. He literally begs his enemy to spare his life and then licks their boots, only to stab them once they're defenseless. MC is a demonic blood cultivator in a righteous sect, so he has to hide his greatest strengths while in the sect, but he still manages to overpower and defeat the sect's chosen. The use of AI is also done well and MC uses it in a variety of different ways - from extrapolating further parts of broken cultivation techniques, to improving their efficiency and even letting the AI automatically absorb and circulate qi within his meridians. The computation power of the AI grows with MC's soul power. Things I didn't like: The cultivation levels are weird. The first 5 realms are all body refining and 300 chapters in, MC is in the 3rd rank, still refining his internal organs. The highest rank they know right now is the 8th realm which is only equivalent to Golden Core. Makes you wonder how long the series will be. Second, MC acts quite insightful most times, but also acts stupidly sometimes. There is an arc where MC gets a strong energy source that he could use to skip a whole realm, but he instead uses it to create a mecha armor and tries to kill the girl who helped him start his cultivation at the beginning for no reason. She then calls her master's phantom image and MC stupidly goes all out in trying to defeat the phantom knowing full well that he's no match and completely depletes the energy source. There's some unnecessarily convoluted chapters that even the author recommends skipping. There are also some chapters where strong man A fights strong man B that feel like filler and can be skipped. Overall, it's a 3.5/5 but it can become a great novel depending on how author writes the later realms.

This was a good series but sadly, the author seems to have abandoned it.

This series had very good starting and middle parts, but the later part was much worse especially the last 100 chapters. I believe the author likely abandoned it and may have started a new series cause he didn't know how to write a proper ending for this one. Author did apologize for the rushed ending in the end note but its still a shame since its quite hard to find a decent kingdom building novel now. If you aren't satisfied by this one, I suggest trying My Explosion Rate is 100% which has a similar setting but becomes very different after the first few chapters.

Don't listen to people saying MCs a simp below. It doesn't feel that way and all of it due to the vast difference in their cultivation levels. Even tho MC ingratiates himself to the FMC, it is meant to be funny and she doesn't take it seriously either. In fact, their conversations are quite enjoyable and will probably be half the reason you'll keep reading the series. The other half will be because of some of the side-characters and because they're written quite well for a webnovel atleast.