Writing quality: excellent. There are few mistakes, and I think a lot of those can be chalked up to Webnovel’s slipshod backend. Update stability: unstable. The author is writing two novels concurrently, both of which I follow, and both of which are suffering on this point. I think they were just too impatient and didn’t build up any stockpile at all, so they’re releasing chapters as they’re written. Story development: slow. I normally don’t review novels this early (as of the time I’m writing this, there are only 23 chapters available), but I really like the premise. Both of the author’s novels are really good, and - a rarity on Webnovel, where authors mostly copy and paste from each other in a neverending train of trend-following - best of all, they’re original. That said, the story is somewhat aimless right now and proceeding as if it’s in a three-way race with a glacier and a snail in a salt maze. In other words, it’s slow. However, I do expect it’ll pick up Soon(tm). Character design: inspired. While they aren’t perfect, or even great, by any means, the characters are at least unique. The author does an excellent job of making the main character feel weak and underpowered, forced to get by on his wits alone when thrown into a situation where virtually anyone he meets could accidentally kill him by frowning in his general direction. That alone is a breath of fresh air in a stale market that’s oversaturated by flavor-of-the-month overpowered Mary Sue MCs. In fact, most MCs on Webnovel are closer to the people Mary Sue wants to be when she grows up. World background: unexplored. The author hasn’t been focusing on any kind of worldbuilding so far outside of introducing two antagonistic factions. Other than that, and some very basic cultivation information (essentially just the name of the cultivation realms themselves), we know nothing about the world at large as of yet. Overall: I really enjoy what I’ve seen so far and hope that the author can pick up the pace, both in terms of story development and release rate. Those are the only two areas that it’s currently lacking in, but as far as story is concerned, you have to understand that the author has only written 23 chapters so far.
