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Animation looked good and Plot started with interesting premise, but not much progress is made after 26 episodes with just one sect competition event. Story progress was very basic with unresolved small tensions and no world building beyond the sect. Characters look promising but again not much character development either except a few developing friendships without much emotions and bonding so far. Cultivation levels and powers/sword skills are not clearly explained and MC's upper hand over others with higher cultivation is not much explained either. MC doesn't use much knowledge from his past lives either or maybe he does but it's not explained.
Whole season is ... lacking in fight scenes even when they happen they are very dissappointing, Sword techniques all look the same, just have different random names to sound cool. I am hoping next season will improve on these things, but so far not really watch worthy.
Is a 4/5 rating but giving 6 for good animation quality and future potential.

Writing a review for all seasons combined (130/176 of this season). A few Spoilers ahead.
Story started with promise of a smart but not OP MC who would solve the problems with his wits and careful planning. But with time, all his plans became unfruitful and he gets lucky in most situations. Nowhere has he used half of his brains to defeat his enemies and progress his plans.
All his careful plans which took seasons to setup were mostly left ignored like main plot of taking revenge on Emperor Wu and it became story of him facing death multiple times (like literally dying) and then getting lucky ... plot armour power ups instead of dying. And all this time he never learnt any lesson and kept repeating same mistakes like fighting much powerful enemies without any planning, letting his secrets leaked, leaving his enemies alive after defeating them, etc.
As if this wasn't bad enough, the episodes are full of fillers with no contributions to plot and MC showing off his brains for no reason at wrong places. Fights are short lived with no brains involved there as well. Cultivation progress is also random, he stayed at same level for 4 season, then broke 5 levels within 10 episodes, like wtf?
And after ascending why does he need to hide his identity as Ye Qingyun? better go back to his old identity. It looks like a completely different story after ascending.
All in all a below average cultivation donghua which you can watch if you have nothing else to watch and need something to pass time.

Season one was pretty basic, but season 2 is pretty great.
Good enough story, good characters, amazing fight scenes. Just a few small loopholes in direction, else this is a probably best donghua to watch if you like leveling up kind of world.

Things I like:
- Good characters and complex relationships between them
- A lot of different and unique powers and leveling ups
- Amazing fight scenes and animation
- No MC fooling around with multiple women, even though he can
- Addicting storyline, fast pace and a lot of fights keeps you hooked all the time

... ***** A few spoilers below *****
A few things I don't like are (very specific things) :
- Tang San and Xiao Wu's weird relation dynamic of sister + lover, maybe it is badly translated in subs but it is definitely weird.
- Repeated animation sequences, like when using a power
- Random soul power usages, sometimes they run out of soul power after 2 skill usage, sometimes they can go on for days like when Tang san fights 7 ocean island elders in 1 day
- People sometimes forget they have different skills/powers. Like Tang-san has healing power but never heals his friends. He has boundless eye, still uses Blue silver domain to check for surroundings. Etc.
- Sacrifice for lover concept is overused
- Emotions are shown less, maybe a con of 3D animation
- Plot armour is used a lot, Tang San get saved on verge of death literally tens of times