Story started out interesting and detailed. Later, I felt the quality of the novel and character development dropped. It’s one thing if a MC were to acknowledge himself as straight-up ruthless or have a good reason for being so, but the MC acts like a hypocrite... I noticed lots of discrepancies between the MC’s supposedly good karma/intentions/nature and his recent illogical/pointless/horrible actions. For example, the MC proclaims not wanting to steal from other innocent cultivators like a bandit. Shortly after, his group decides to use a couple dozen innocent cultivators as fodder against a supposedly “strong” spider monster; his group even deliberately blocks the exit, murders the innocents (for whatever justified reason that my logical brain is unable to fathom) as the innocents attempt to escape, or simply watch the innocents die to the spider while they beg the MC to let them go. The MC even avoids culpability in the matter by blaming the spider while somehow having the nerve to act justified and righteous. Soon, I started cringing and feeling a little disgusted when trying to read chapters. Things just don’t add up or flow.