Protagonist: Confident, does not shy away from killing and can calmly analyze situation to fight with equal or dominating force. Also does not g.a.f when it comes to stomping n00bs then goes all humble when needed.

Harem:

Fighting-related stuffs: MC is lucky enough, and he gains new powers relatively fast (using time skips while he's in training/meditating). He only have one big trump card (though he improved it once in a while as the story progress).

World-building, environment etc: Well thought out, perspective related to zone/area changes as the story progress and as the MC travels more often toward bigger and bigger zones.

Progress goes like 3 years every 300 chapters for the first 900 chapters, then after that there were too many timeskips to accurately keep track of the progress. Pacing also follows the time skips: Slow and calm (relatively speaking to the later 741 chapters) then quickly builds up into giant conflicts between giant factions into the ending.

... Last updated on March 20th, 2015, 12:35pm

I finished 200 chapters in one day but I still can't get enough!

This novel is awesome. The characters in this novel are likable and well fleshed out. MC is a sly guy who knows how to use his brain (Also not a bloodthirsty mofo like the guy in MGA). The story is compelling and well written. The translation is also excellent, no issues with grammar or terms. The unique Dou Zhe, Dou Shi, Da Dou Shi, etc terms of power classification was a bit confusing at first, but over time I found I liked it more and more. It has a certain amount of gravitas that standard numerical levels or master/grandmaster terms simply did not have.

What can I say? In all areas, this is pretty much what a perfect xianxia novel should be. I can find no faults with it other than there's not enough of it!

Alongside ATG and CD, this has quickly become one of my favourite works. If you're fans of either of those two novels, definitely try this out.

... Last updated on January 26th, 2016, 7:18pm

I'm starting to get mad at this LN
why must you make reader always left hanging!
the feeling of reading a sentence and you can't find the period but you can't continue reading
its tormenting

Don't read it if u don't have the patience to wait for the next chapter
Read it and you well now the feeling of flipping your table after you finish reading a chapter!

To bad I am not good at translation (NO I had no idea where to start)

But the odd thing the manga is way updated its like 10-20 chapters above the novel

So if you don't have the patience to wait for the novel

Just read the manga (the drawing is painfully FUN lol )

The Manga has just finish the 3 years duel (who wins? secret lol) - Chapter 77

And the novel was stil half the manga I think (Since 1 manga chapter = 2-5 novel chapter not sure)

The manga is different from the novel there are some things that only happen in the manga but is not present in the novel
In which you can continue reading the manga without ruining the story in the novel
Still its some major spoiler since the manga still follow the main plot of the novel (I think.Probably)

But it is such a waste for the novel since it only update chapters once or twice a week or even a month compare to the manga that has been updating 1 chapter daily or sometimes more

Update:07/27/15
SCHOOL CHAPTER IS COMMING! Yahooo! GO TO MANWA NOW!

... Last updated on July 26th, 2015, 7:14pm

Great great great work! I love it. It really is a shame the Manhua is so far ahead of the Novel. The LN is so much more detailed but is translated much slower than the Manhua.

Still, very good work and one of my favourites which initially got me into reading Wuxia Novels.

So far I've read up to chapter 310 near the duel the chapters in the hometown were good accept i don't know why i just don't like Xiao Xun after she left the story it became so much better for me one might say the the story became better because there more action and more interesting which are pluses but the main thing is there is no xun for me and i dread the chapter she returns which is soon :[ . Traveling is good but not amazing the old guy with Yan i very like not the level Doehring but that might change. I'll say i have not read wuxia I've read Xianxia but not wuxia so i am gonna think this is Xianxia, the techniques are good and a lot importance in this. Alchemy i don't really know if there is something to compare it to so but i'll say it's interesting but not really amazing so far ho knows it might get better in the future. Well those are my thoughts if you bother'd to read if so thank you.

... Last updated on March 18th, 2015, 8:47am

So Now that I have finally completed the novel is better to give an over rating and thought process on the novel in its entirety. I will say first that if you have not read any other Chinese martial arts novels or not many then you may be able to enjoy this novel. But if you have read a lot of other Chinese martial arts novels then this one just becomes a cliché. There are a lot of common threads in this novel that are similar to other novels that just makes it sort of typical. The main lead is not taken seriously and is looked down on by everyone then, gets a super strong teacher that no one else knows about and teaches him so that he can become strong. The romance in the novel is basically trash but it is harem so you can't expect to much. Most fight scenes always end up with him coming in at the last minute and saving whoever right before they die. There is also a lot of filler words in each chapter that kind of makes it drag a little. Also the author makes everyone around the main character seem kind of incompetent and that nothing can get accomplished unless it is by the main character. Also no one seems to be able to figure anything out unless it is spelled out to them. Also there were a couple of loose ends that weren't tied up as the story end sooooo.. who knows what happened with that and maybe the author talks about it in later stories. But I didn't really want to make this a negative review but these were just some things that were bothering me as I read the story but, ultimately I finished the story. So like I said if you haven't read a lot of xianxia novels you may be able to get past these things and enjoy the story more but as far as other readers who have read many xianxia novels this one just falls short

... Last updated on February 5th, 2018, 1:25pm

BTTH is my first cultivation LN that I read. While not the best, it kind of contain most of stuff you will find in a cultivation novel in general. Very fitting for anyone who is interested in the genre to start up. It has pretty linear plot and few twists, and quite flowing story, lovely characters, cheeky MC , and common intrigues you'd find in these kind of novels. It doesn't have dark theme or anything extreme. If you find this acceptable, you may like other better cultivation novels. I feel lucky to get to know this first, so it was rather easy for me to start other cultivation novels.

very good work

I'm not sure what happened. I used to love this novel, I would of rate it as one of my favs in 2016. But after ch280 ish, the translation and writing style took a big dive. The sentences becomes all obtuse and unnatural. Did they switch translators? Switch editors? I'm not sure.

After that point there's been a 1000% increase of the use of words like bitter, dull, flashed, threw their gaze, all just repetitively shoehorned into the sentences. +Superfluous hyper-literal sentences tacked on for no reason, etc. It was very jarring and annoying. Tried to stick with it longer for 200chs.... but it was frankly a pain to read. So I dropped the novel.

It was an enjoyable read at the beginning though for what's worth.

The threatening to that was common in the initial chapters has reduced about chapter 500. But, with about to disappear from the story for a while, I guess I'll stop. I had been skipping lots of chapters of fighting - and even of the alchemy, which I usually like reading. So, time to stop.