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Well I read ahead on another site until chapter ~520. This story just starts going downhill after chapter 330 and you can quite literally feel the writing style change after a certain arc. After chapter 330, a lot of foreshadowings crafted in the first 300 chapters were just dropped. The MC also just stops really using his cheat and you forget it’s even there. A lot of spoilers incoming, random plot holes. The Chen Aristocratic family is said to be great because it once had a longevity / immortal, but no longer has one. They only have a peak realm (the ancestor), and supposedly this makes them second to only the three immortal lands. We’re given the feeling that longevity immortals are exceedingly rare but and this premise sounds nice and all, but it turns out later that the three immortal lands have hundreds of longevity immortals and thousands of peak realms. The Embers organization is made out to be this all encompassing villain organization but they are never mentioned again and become completely irrelevant. The Immortal Dynasty they are trying to reincarnate also become completely irrelevant. We never find out about their plans because they quickly become trivial. Later on, the author reveals that the Chen family actually has an overseas branch with hundreds of peak realms and a couple longevity immortals. The foreshadowing about Chen Daoyans reason for being unable to break through to Peak is never resolved. Once the MC breaks into the nirvana realm, the story quickly turns into mush. He aims to merge his 9 true selfs into a chaotic body, but eventually gives up and becomes an immortal another way. Once he becomes an immortal the cheat is never mentioned again, and protagonists of desiny are also never mentioned again. Honestly, the whole premise for this book becomes irrelevant quickly.

Plot starts out good, very intense and mysterious and definitely draws you in. I thought this book had a lot of potential. SPOILER DOWN BELOW Then the plot kind of melts into this parody of American capitalism. Corruption at the highest level, and then the MC just starts bribing everyone once he is rich. Capitalistic corruption as a world building background is pretty novel, but it gets overdone pretty quickly. The MC just bribes the National Guard, CIA, FBI everytime he faces a problem. There’s no subtle buildup of soft power, he just pays them a sum of money and all the problems go away. Also the author is racist against Indians and this trope comes out after like the first 3 arcs. I would have loved to see more scheming and logical power building, but this is quite brainless. The side characters also feel pretty 1D. They’re all pretty much trigger happy Americans that are corrupt for money or American girls that like the MC for his money. The only redeeming quality of this story is that it builds a sense of urgency pretty well and the MC is always in danger. But if you take a step back and think about it, both the side characters and the MC are pretty dumb and the plot has all sorts of logical holes.