The story is about Nie Li, a 200+ year old demon spiritualist reborn into the past. The demon spiritualists are basically a cheaper version of Jinchūriki from Naruto: You can purchase spirit to merge with your 'soul realm'. Pretty much all named characters in the story have one beast in them. The author turns Jinchūriki into something trite and uninteresting.
The main goal of the protagonist is to save his city, but his main activity is actually using his amassed knowledge from the future to force others (from children to elders) to do what he wants. Then it became full blown pedo fetish around chapter 92, when he looked at a thirteen year old Ziyun's naked body
Ye Ziyun realised something and screamed.
“Nie Li, turnaround!” Ye Ziyun’s face flushed red as she stomped her feet.
“What’s wrong?” Nie Li blinked, taking a few more glances. This isn’t something he can see all the time, if he were to turn around, then it would have been wasted.
“Nie Li, how can you be like this. I……” Ye Ziyun was angry. She hastily retrieved a cloth from her interspatial ring to cover up.
and also exposed himself to the child
“How about this, I’ll let you look at me back!” Nie Li said, as he starts to undress.
and subsequently broke into her room to jerk off to her bathwater
Nie Li quickly undressed himself and jumped into the wooden tub. He said in satisfaction, “This is so comfortable!”
“Urghhhhhhh!” Ye Ziyun is simply going crazy. The moment Nie Li comes, he treats this place as though it’s his own. She just finished bathing in the wooden tub and hasn’t even had the time to pour the water away, how could Nie Li just jump in like that?
jk but you may wonder why a 200+ year old sage is acting like a deranged monkey, the answer is that the author might be a sexually frustrated pedo and this is his fantasy. Also now you know who bought Belle Delphine's bathwater, people like the fans of this novel.
So while sexually harassing the 13 year old girl, he was caught and beaten by her father Ye Zong. And ** he got away with it by boasting he'll be able to mercilessly step on the father of the girl he's harassing, if he's given one year to train **. I kid you not 🙂))
“What? You want to try?” Nie Li had both his hands on his hips. Since he has already gone all out, he pointed at Ye Zong and scolded, “Give me a year's time and I will definitely step on you mercilessly under my feet!”
However, Ye Zong did not kill him, probably because the Alchemist Association side said something. Since that’s the case, Nie Li has nothing to fear. No need wait for too long, Nie Li will thoroughly subdue Ye Zong, and make him send his daughter over with his own hands.
Thinking about it here, Nie Li had a hint of faint smile on his face.
So Nie Li is a 200+ year old sage with vast knowledge enjoys abusing/humiliating good natured folks of the city he wants to protect (from children to elders to city lord like Ye Zong, those who sacrificed themselves and made him who he is now). He especially likes to go around sexually harassing children, particularly, looking at thirteen year old girls naked body and feel them up (chapter 91-96). One of them was a lover in his past life, this is his excuse, I kid you not. I can understand the 10/10 ratings from pedophiles at this point.
Ignoring the pedo fetish of the author, this novel also has all the trademark traits of third rate self indulgent fantasy:
- Follows the identical rebirth, power up formula in many similar stories (down to the detail of which character receives power up as a result of being on the Nie Li's good side)
- Everything happens in the story no matter how harsh or perilous always magically benefits Nie Li, there is nothing resembles actual tension. For example, this is what happens after he got beaten by the father of the 13 year old he sexually harrassed:
Although Nie Li was heavily wounded by Ye Zong, causing Nie Li’s soul realm to have cracks. But, because of this, he had signs of breakthrough and progress. He continuously practised. Soul force was revolving around him. After soul forming, Nie Li’s cultivation had another obvious breakthrough
- All characters are one dimensional and can be summarized with half sentence.
- Everyone who has any sort of conflict with him is the bad guy and thus made to look as pitiful as possible or "vomit blood".
- Every female in the Harem has super powers and is automatically put on pedestal.
- The main character knows all the convenient knowledge that let him win in any situation.
There are also evidence that this is written by someone with mental age of 10:
- "Several experts were currently discussing by transferring of their voices to one another", this is a real quote, chapter 102. Many similar examples.
- "The power of the [Heavenly God] cultivating technique can only be seen at a later part of his cultivation." repeating over, and over, every time this technique was mentioned.
- The amount of inconsistencies, plot holes, errors with numbers etc. are simply appalling.
