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An intriguing idea, marred by horrible execution: a young bastard of a Lord (leader of multiple martial clans), who endured injustice in his youth gains an OP advantage early on (AI nanites) and sets use it to realize his ambitions and revenge. Sounds good, right? Wrong!

First of all, roughly 98% of the content is centered around martial arts. I mean, fictional martial arts. Things like "Sword Force of the Heavenly Demon," "Supreme Sword Sky of the Heavenly Sword," "24 Heavenly Demon Swords," "Sword Art of the Demon God." One of these is made up by me, but all of them are completely identical from a ... narrative standpoint (and butchered by translation). Of course, they require a different number of years of training or cultivation or whatever. But seriously, the sole motivation of the characters is to unlock the N+1 technique of the chosen hard-to-spell martial style. And they do. They train hard. They gain insights into unimaginably godly powers so they can train more and gain more insights. Oh, how awesomely powerful they are!

But... why?

Is there anything else in this world besides constant training and martial growth? Well, yes. Revenge. And that's it. There is no life where these awesome powers could be applied. The world consists only of martial clans who either fight with the main character or submit to him. The MC doesn't even have friends; he has only subordinates. His life is spent training, fighting, studying, negotiating, and teaching his underlings. Well, I wouldn't have judged if it were real life, but it's supposed to be entertaining for us, isn't it?

And the "original" sci-fi aspect? Well, it's not real sci-fi; it's "technobabble." It shows when the author clumsily tries to marry it with acupuncture-based medicine, qi channels, ghosts, etc. Frankly, instead of "nano machine," they should've used something more standard and relevant, like an inner demon or something. And it fades into the background once the MC becomes sufficiently powerful on his own.

Now, there are things that are genuinely good: art, violence, overwhelming power, the concept of the nano tech in the xianxia setting (early on). But they are not sufficient to compensate for the absence of anything besides the bland and repetitive martial progression and one-sided elimination of "enemies" for the sake of revenge.