Almost every character in this story has an IQ lower than a toddler. Calling them "retarded" would be an insult to actual mentally challenged people.
The MC reaches half-step Bone Refinement, a level no one else in his area has achieved. He begins his conquest by annihilating a sub-force of a top faction, killing its leader with one strike and the faction leader with two. So far, this makes sense—no one knew his strength.
Then, he declares he’ll unite the region under his family and orders all forces to gather in two days. At this point, any rational person would recognize that he’s unbeatable and ruthless. The logical move? Show up and at least listen, if not submit.
But no—these people have the intelligence of a walnut. Instead of attending, they mock him, calling him delusional, ignoring that he just wiped out two major factions.
Some third-rate forces attend, angering MC. He goes to the weakest remaining top force, offering surrender. They refuse—fully knowing he can one-shot their strongest expert. Predictably, he starts killing them, and only then do they beg for mercy. To make his point clear (since the first massacre wasn’t enough), he exterminates the Qin family.
Surely now people will realize he means business? Nope. The last top force has an IQ in the negatives. Their leader believes they can win by uniting the area’s forces—despite MC being able to one-shot nearly everyone. People aren’t zombies; they fear death. Yet many still attend this idiot’s open gathering to discuss how to fight MC. This isn’t just shooting yourself in the foot; it’s putting the barrel in your mouth and pulling the trigger.
And guess what? MC shows up, one-shots the leader, and forces the rest to destroy his organization.
I was so disappointed. Many could’ve falsely surrendered. I even thought the last leader had backup—but no, just another moron. Either the author has negative IQ, or he thinks his readers do.
I'm completely fed up with the "little sister" trope in novels. Too often, these characters add nothing of value to the story while draining resources while adding nothing to the story. What frustrates me the most is when they are forcefully elevated to the protagonist's level through sheer luck or contrived plot devices—without putting in any real effort.
I don’t mind when the main character supports his relatives; that's natural. But when the sister exists purely to leech off opportunities, constantly awakening powerful abilities while the protagonist gets the bare minimum, it becomes unbearable. I didn’t drop this novel early on despite noticing this issue, but after 100 chapters of her repeatedly gaining absurd power-ups while contributing nothing, I just couldn't take it anymore. It completely ruins the reading experience
This novel feels more like fan fiction than a well-developed story, with writing that matches that level. The main character is bland, spending most of the time thinking about actions rather than taking them. A clear example is Nezha’s weapons—introduced early on but still not created—while the protagonist has already made another spirit card, despite Nezha supposedly having only two pieces of equipment. This pacing makes the novel feel tedious to read.
The world-building is also weak, relying on generic races like demons and undead. Additionally, the fact that only the main character can create summoning cards is baffling. In a real-world equivalent, this would be like someone inventing a quantum computer or an Arc Reactor in their basement—something that would dominate headlines and shake industries. Yet, in this story, the reaction is disappointingly underwhelming, summed up as a casual "Oh, that’s cool" before moving on. This lack of meaningful world reaction makes the setting feel artificial, as if it's populated by NPCs with limited dialogue rather than real characters.
This novel offers a fresh take on immortality cheat. central theme is immortality as both a blessing and a curse. On the plus side, the novel has a solid direction and execution of the idea. The MC isn’t stale or indifferent to all things from the get-go, which allows for meaningful development rather MC being a indifferent observer. it was engaging till his second wife died then the pace suddenly slowed down and MC started to bitch about being poor or having low talent compared to his second wife and babbling shit about the 'Tao' right and left.
below is my rant about the novel :
However, the novel is weighed down by excessive monologues filled with info dumps. These info dumps become frustrating when Even the info give is repeated every few chapter just telling us the same thing just different format. The MC also falls into a predictable pattern: he’s impressed by a genius, laments his own lack of talent, eventually surpasses them, and then repeats the same behavior at a higher level. Despite witnessing countless characters rise and fall, he never seems to learn the lesson of not comparing himself to others, especially given his immortality. Additionally, his constant complaints about being poor every couple of chapters become annoying and repetitive.
this seriously hurt the reading experience as 90% of the novel is dependent and carried by the MC other that there is nothing note worthy there, character are often one dimensional or even no dimensions where they are just mention in passing and author will stick the phrase 'everyone has there own story' and expect this will give the character some depth.
in the beginning i liked the MC who was caution and strategic and who knew how enjoy life oppose to 50% of CN MC's who are virgin even after 10 million years. But at the same time some of decision he make are very confusing like not accepting any disciples which just doesn't make any sense when you have a wife which is much closer bond than a student.
Read till ch124, this novel appears to be a cake but in reality, it's shit disguised as cake. Even the best aspects of the novels are mediocre.
story:
I would say this is the only aspect of the novel that not trash tier, but its not much better as the story goes on every cat and dog is now a genius and with a mysterious background who quickly cultivate to high levels of cultivation realms in just 30-100 years of time frame which would take normal people thousands of years to reach. I just can't cringing over character acting mysteries but information they have is like most common knowledge out there its just MC is too dumb, its similar to asking a person what he eating but he just smile and say "It's better for you not know" even the that person is just eating a McDonalds burger.
characters:
all of them are one dimensional character even the character with more screen time are not explored or they have some 'mysterious' background and mc is not qualified to know about that yet. aside from that they don't have much personality aside from acting in the role that given to them.
let's talk about the main character, if i had to describe him in three word- retarded, cowardly and dumb. there is really nothing to like about the MC but to be fair people in this world have a IQ same a child, best example of this can seem very early when MC meet this 'bai' women who is high level cultivator, she predicts what question MC would ask her which are like the most common question any cultivator would ask in MC place even the author is hying her up like this was an feat of intelligence.
world-building:
the world structure is bit interesting, it gave me similar vide to er gen novel but 10x worst. the worst thing for me was the cultivation system, to explain in simple world if reverend insanity has system with depth to it like the sea and top tier providence more shallow like pond then this is a cardboard cut out of water pretending to be a pool. realms don mean much her they are just world and number.
I found this novel frustratingly slow. After a thousand chapters, the main character is still stuck in the Golden Core stage, while other stories progress much faster, often reaching God Transformation. The comments suggest that not much interesting happens for hundreds of chapters, which makes it hard to stay engaged. I dropped it after 100 chapters when I realized the pace wasn't going to pick up. Definitely not worth my time.
not for me, as it starts middle of season 1 Rhaenyra is in Dragonstone pregnant at the start of the novel there is some time before aegon is crowned king and war begins
I will give short summary because there is none, so the MC's father was person from modern world standard fanfic protagonist who possess guy in this universe, that guy was from a dragonlord family, who avoided the doom by being in volantis but the only dragon rider at time declared himself the emperor of Valyria and took his army and dragon into ruins of valyria and never returned this before mc father time. MC father does fairly well for his situation without a golden finger (cheat) make some inventions uplifts the family and marries a Targaryen princess (MC's mother) nicknames the whore princess for her blood of course. the novel starts with MC's father dying and mc beginning him journey to sea of smoke to uncover some treasures and knowledge probably I didn't read pass that but from prophecy and clues, the plot will be mc sell his property here and goes to Westeros to get the iron throne I guess maybe support Rhaenyra.
average but readable. my main problem with the novel is artificial problems created by author for MC. if assume that this this universe is similar to our universe at least at scale and time how the fuck all problems are arising suddenly after MC is born, 13.8 billion years went by but creator didn't wake up but suddenly he going wake up in 100 years that mc has been around and if we compare this universe to our own then the universe has trillion and trillions years to go still and it probably won't even be half way though it to the destruction of universe so suddenly in just this hundred ever thing went shit some gods are killed who were around millions of years but got killed, what point having long lifespans if the plot fuck it up. its same with many novels where before mc comes the world has been normal for millions of years but suddenly there is demon invasion, immortal are coming down to mortal realm, et events happening.
another thing is the evil god are just super boring and just uninteresting overall. rather than God they are more like some beasts who have power there is no sense of mysteries or anything
it's an okay novel if you nothing else to read. this could have been a good or great novel, but it just remains at mid. i will start from his cheats which have potential but ultimately became quite irrelevant, so he has three main cheats
1. Immortality
2. read memories of the dead
3. holy body (ultimate talent)
all three of them are good individually when used in a story but combined they make the story worst, first immortality becomes super irrelevant paired with holy body as mc breakthrough quickly his natural lifespan is so long he doesn't even need it and with his talent he can easily switch to a normal practice and have same result he had while sacrificing lifespan, it is also easy for him to get a good technique with his memory reading cheat. memory reading not useless as immortality but still irrelevant as author doesn't really explore it just there to explain how mc can know all skills instantly.
this could have been lot more interesting if he did not have super talent as the full advantage of immortality would be used make breakthrough really feeling like they are earned while also giving other character to grow in mean while
another thing that annoyed me is that MC is impotent virgin it's that or author doesn't know the difference between lust and love every time MC see a women, he becomes gay and give the reason that they would die and he immortal so he won't even touch a women body until he becomes the strongest which just bizzar as you don't have love someone to fuck them but my guy has not touched women for more than 20 years, ironically every other character wants to fuck their sister in law or mother in law or friends wife even the martial saints want a piece of some ass.
another minor cheat he has is world containing groud which provides every resource he need for his cultivation that aside for some reason he has cultivated some demon subordinates in it but they totally useless and make more trouble than their worth, then mc goes genosiding some sects to avenge them which is annoying.
the premise was good, but it did not meet expectation. so, first glaring problem it's too damn slow after the initial chapters it just went into filler like the character would give his reaction of his disbelief about the god of knowledge and how incredible he is. Now it's like 30 ch and he still only has 2 believers.
another problem with novel is that MC has no problems which is a big problem, any time he encounters a problem it solved on its own there no thinking involved here no need to struggle, or anything just sit on your ass all problems are solved by the plot itself. it falls into the same situation as your average system novel if replace the mc with anyone else the story won't change much as the system just handfeeds the mc, here instead of system we just blame his mysterious past, it's like digging plot holes and saying will fill them up afterwards. it was not that bad if he was just filling some small holes like his followers can't share their knowledge and why can't they share it Oh that how the world works here end of discussion, but went over my bullshit tolerance level when he can give his followers divine power of other gods which author just say his kingdom of heaven is special and his mysterious past as he don't remember it, at this point make him the overgod AO why not. maybe he might explain other gods with things like the power was alwas there mortal just don't know how to use it but what about goddess of magic the magic web is her own body if follow dnd inspiration or at least she defiantly authority over it.
my last disappointment with this is the setting. is a copy of DND but worst as everyone is a priest now, want to learn magic pray to magic goddess and get magic if so then why are you calling yourself wizard(wizards are essentially people who study how to use the weave it has noting to do with worshiping mystra so mystra allow everyone to use it even if you don't believe in her) here there is no learning process you just pray and Luckly you might able to use it.