So, i actually hate harem stories... to me, they feels demeaning woman existence. Not in here! The plot its well played, the way mc feels four each of his girls feels real and not being forcefully developed. In overall, the story its elaborate. Even the small trivial info mentioned at the beginning of the story can develop to be a very important thing.
The mc is very clear set on his target too, even if he appears top be taking it easy
Love the way how

Shows that the mc can be flawed, unlike coiling dragon
I have read to 5th volume if the raw and I must say that the story development us amazing...and the reunion scene is flawlessly executed
Big minus its that the antagonists all have similar to exact same characteristic....

... Last updated on November 7th, 2015, 10:32pm

MIGHT BE LONG? SORRY
Pros:
-The MC(smart, cunning, arrogant, romantic, strong willpower, kind and at the same time cruel, knows how to pay his debts., caring, and much more)
+Fast-learner
+Having experienced alot in his two previous lives, he has gained considerable knowledge and experience and knows how to make use of these in interactions with other people, judging their personality(especially sensitive against hostiles because of his 2nd life), and has considerable knowledge about medicine and making full use of his abilities(example where he was doing acupuncture on his wife and he could control his ability to it's best even if it's low-level at that time because of his 'constitution')
+Arrogant for a reason.
*He never goes in and acts arrogant unless he is confident that he would come out as the winner in the end or that he has someone to back him up(some strong guy, the crowd/audience). The only time he failed is when he was banished from his clan at the beginning because he thought that his wife's master would come to help him but she didn't.
+Most of his actions are thought through.
*You should pay attention to everything he does. How he acts and moves his body. The words he says. Because each and every one of these has a role in all of his little plays with his enemies.
*He pays attention to all your words and actions and uses them against you later on.
+He knows how to treat and get his ladies. Every woman (except for maybe ling'er and little aunt) in his harem went through a process of a thing called "courting" which rarely exists in the vocabulary of other harem novels. Even his first wife and little fairy(woman he somewhat 'raped' to give her new special profound veins) didn't have feelings of a lover for him at first and he had to work for it or needed time to come out. They don't blindly fall in love with him just because he's the MC. Women usually fall for him because he gives his all to protect his friends or someone he vowed to protect. For example, he protected little fairy when she became crippled and didn't even let a single scratch on her while he was full of bruises and covered in blood. He never gave up, even giving her a reason to live again, and that made little fairy(Chu Yuechan) have feelings for him which she didn't notice at that time. Who wouldn't love that kind of man.
*He plants the seeds of romance(In different ways lol) in his target's heart and waits for them to bud.
+He knows how to pay his debts
*Be good to him and he'll be good to you 100x
*Be bad to him and he'll pay you back 100x
*Make him owe you a small favor and he'll pay it back with something great.
*Aim to damage his face and he'll cripple you. (He doesn't like getting his face scratched…AT ALL)
*He is someone who is better to be friends with and avoid being one of his enemies.
+Throughout the story, he gets looked down a lot and he always finds a way to shut them up. Especially the audience during tournaments. He doesn't particularly hold a strong grudge for these kinds of things and just likes making them shocked and making them hope they didn't taunt too much.
+He has a very strong will to live.
*He has very high tolerance to pain and can survive through things a lot of "masters" would cry in. He's been chased by masters for his treasure and been through life and death several times. He's been through the thorough destruction of his vein to obtain new veins. He's been through two trials which have low survivability. He's been half-dead and stuck in a seal with a demon but came back healthy and raring to go. He's been trapped in a space where his body was being destroyed and he kept his technique up for healing. Repeating the cycle of destruction and repairing of his body, which must hurt like ****!.
+Cares about his friends and family.
*He knows how to treat friends and family.
*A single hair on any of his family member is worth enough to destroy even a clan. DO NOT TOUCH THEM IN A WAY THAT HARMS THEM.
*He gets very worried about his friends and family members when he doesn't know their current status. He does whatever he can to find them unless he's in a situation where he currently can't go looking for them.
-Decent world-building
+It's interesting I guess. Above average? All xianxia/wuxia novel's worlds are basically similar anyway.
-Other characters are done well.
+Each and every character are made well and you can differentiate each and every personality. Until the MC gets very strong and they all start to be in awe toward him. Sometimes they lose their character.

Cons:
-The MC
+Sometimes goes too far. (People who aren't used to brutal stuff may not like him)
-Audience/Crowd/Other people
+Sometimes they are too dumb. They look down too much on the MC just because of his level, forgetting what he has done so far.
*For example, he just took down one of the guys who looked down on him in a competition. Crowd goes wow or omg and be in awe or fear. Then suddenly a stronger guy than the previous challenger comes out and the audience looks down on the MC again.
-Antagonist?Enemy?
+Sometimes they're too dumb or too arrogant to take seriously. There's never a real antagonist?
+Only very few people can be considered real enemies and most of the people on their side are pulling his/her foot.
+Each and everyone he fights are usually the same or similar to each other.
-People of this universe judges others too much based on their power levels. But I guess that's why it's a place where it is said that only the strong has the right to say.


Though I would have given it a 10/10 because I like it ALOT, I couldn't because the cons section isn't blank :C. Unless he actually faces true enemies, then I'll keep it at 8 for now. Let's just hope his master's father is perfect for the role.

... Last updated on December 10th, 2015, 11:50pm

I highly recommended to anyone who looking for something to read, and if you have read similar novels.
I really enjoy the characters development, and where the plot is heading.

If you like beta Japanese MC's, then this is not for you. I still can not believe some people are offended by the MC's brutal ways. This is a fantasy world, set in a dog-eat-dog world. Look at the history of the Ming Dynasty, Spanish Inquisitions, The Crusaders, history is filled with violent eras, and a lot of Chinese light novels are somewhat set in similar times, with a mix of fantasy. Getting that out of the way.

One of the main reasons I am losing interest in this novel is the way the author halts suspense with an introduction of a new harem member. The plot is going well, and the suspense builds up, but out of nowhere, a new girl is introduced. As others have mentioned, the LV has become repetitive, and after 490 chapters, same enemies with different names. I know his home nation is the weakest in the continent, but the power levels of other nations is ridiculous. As of right now, there are 10 cultivation realms, with 9 levels each. The MC is late teens, early 20's, but he is considered a genius in his nation, and that is through plot armors. Every time he goes to a new nation, there are others that are as young or younger, but more powerful than the MC, and it keeps going like that every time a new area is introduced. Going by the author's logic, some 5 year-old in a different nation has reach the top cultivation of the MC's home nation.

The fantasy is entertaining if you excuse the following:
1. Long paragraphs of beautification of females every time they are mentioned in the story.
2. Unimportant facts are over descriptive, ie bullshit writing.
3. 99% of the characters beside the MC have zero IQ.
4. Everything is solved through raw power. No smart play, strategy, and etc. Just brute.

Besides these faults, the story is entertaining for an action series. Luckily the writing is very simple. If you skip 70% of the bullshit writing and just read the dialogues, the story is fun. I wish the translator had another version where they just omit the bullshit writing...I don't need another 3 paragraphs reminding me of how beautiful that girl is or another 5 paragraphs reminding me what this skill can do, not do, could do, should do, would do for the fucking 10th time.

... Last updated on October 11th, 2015, 6:10pm

Killing intent is one of the coolest ability a Main Character can wield, without it, MC is boring, or will become a spineless guy who only uses talk no jutsu to stall some time. Now to acquire this ability, one must kill several hundreds and thousands of people, the more people you kill, the purer your killing intent is, it is not an innate ability that you are born with it. Now the ~

revealed at chapter 355


... Last updated on February 1st, 2016, 2:50pm

i know some might look at the +1 review and think twice as to starting this but i found that it was only misleading its actually quite good. main thing i like was that the main lead was not meant to be a model of righteousness but a flawed person with unique skills. the most important thing we find pretty early on is that in the novel "treasures" that usually are(in other novels) overkill and become too strong cheats are played down. i found that it took more emphasis on the individual skills , which while not completely new its not as widely used as artifacts that make a character too strong and fights pointless.

... Last updated on April 21st, 2015, 8:45pm

lol i like how everyone talks about sex but in this novel first sex scene is like in chapter around 70 or 100.

Yeah he loves them girls but has hardly sex with them in first place. After 750 chapters he had sex with literally 3 women. And one of them once, one barely few times maybe dozen (all mostly off screen) and with one a lot. And none of them were really hookers or just some write fillers. The one he loves the most is his first and for about 500 chapters from some point he often remembers her.

750 chapters people. That is like 2 weeks of reading day and night.

As for love interests MC behaves like any male from that world. Men have many wives and concubines. It is based on older our world where getting new wive or concubine was like going to shop. Europe stopped with it earlier for common people but lords and kings did this well above 15 century. Arabs didn't stop it. As for asians idk but they had this fairly recently.

As for novel itself.. It started like any other this type of novel and after around 30-40 chapters it created its own thing and it is really really really good. Especially past 100 chapters where it reads more like A Song of Fire and Ice than your typical this type of novel.

Usually i am very picky about what i like and i can safely say that this is one of best things i have read. Only thing i would love for author to stop is to explain same things 100+ times. I can't even think how many times Sky Poison Crystal (or whatever) proprieties were recalled. Thankfully around chapter 400 he probably noticed it himself and it decreased.

The good:

1) MC is not pathetic (rare for harem)
2) MC is ruthless but not unjust, if you were to give him a motto it would be "an eye for an eye", and he's extremely intelligent
3) Fantasy world is well put together and interesting
4) The harem females are not retarded. They each have distinct personalities and it is definitely not the cliche harem.

The bad:

1) Combat is kind of stupid. Every foe is the same
2) Author seemed to take a page from like bleach. The MC just happens to unlock powers as he needs them. He defeats people that he should never be able to defeat. Hoping he has a challenge in the current arc

Definitely my favorite series at the moment. It also gets translated very quickly, 5-10 chapters a week, so it makes it that much more enjoyable.

... Last updated on October 27th, 2015, 12:56am

So the MC is fun because he is, for once, actually cunning enough to be somewhat realistically successful with his Thug Lyfe.

His interactions with 'elite' / hard-to-get women are also fun, in that they are far more realistic than the vast majority of LNs out there. The author seems to have a pretty good handle on how to flirt and tease women in a seductive way (a real player).

So although we still get a harem, the women are actually much more realistic and the steps involved in hooking each one are far more intricate, so it is quite a bit better than the usual LN 'romance'. (ex: no need for the plot to give the MC an aphrodisiac that 'forces' him to rape his virgin women - in this case, the MC is actually able to progress his romantic relationships without such pathetic plot devices...)

But even then, the MC is more of a pick-up artist than anything else, so it's not like the romance feels like much more than just trying to get laid with a series of super hot women. But still, trying to get laid with somewhat realistic (personality-wise) chicks is better than fantasizing about totally artificial yandere/BDSM/loli/childhood-friend archetypes impossibly getting attracted to some clueless but plot-armored protagonist...

Sometimes though, the MC's revenge plans can be so elaborate that they are cringe-inducing for the reader - it is just too much, and at a certain point I suppose it just starts to feel too disproportionate.

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Anyhow, I enjoyed the series for a while, but I'm getting a bit tired of the lack of higher goals for the MC. He basically is just trying to get laid and get stronger, while screwing over the other thugs in his environment (100% thug world).

But seeing how this anti-hero of the series proudly doesn't give a crap about anyone but himself (and his babes + hangers-on), it has been fun to watch a new translating team pop up with the motto "we don't give a f**k", which seems very appropriate given how the novels basically teach the readers to emulate exactly that kind of behavior. At the very least, I do not see how the original translator(s) can complain about any of this, since they seem to adore it when the MC does it...

LOL.

... Last updated on September 26th, 2015, 2:00pm