Lin Yuan traveled through time.
What? The life-saving pill was replaced with a piece of candy by someone?
I only want a peaceful life, so why are you forcing me!
No martial arts technique? I'll let Jiu Zhang deduce it!
No old master by my side? I'll catch one myself!
Finally, after swallowing the opponent's ancestor in one go, Lin Yuan sighed: "No one can force me anymore."
Trash. I started reading with the thought that the novel wouldn’t rely on the generic Chinese tropes like humiliation, arrogant young masters, background mobs who won’t stop yapping for a third of the chapter in almost every chapter, and hypocritical two-faced mofos. The MC, once the genius of the village and praised by everyone, gets his dantian destroyed by people from a rival village. Instead of showing any sympathy, his fellow villagers treat him with disdain and even talk badly about him behind his back. Everyone turns out to be a hypocrite except for the village chief and one little boy. The village chief wants to use a healing pill to help the MC, but everyone else gets greedy and acts like they have a say in it. Mind you, the healing pill belongs to the village chief and no one else, so who are they to tell him what to do with it? Then the hunting captain steals the pill for his son and replaces it with a defective one. The novel is already showing signs of horrible writing with shallow characters. You’re either good or evil, nothing in between. It throws in all the worst Chinese tropes within just 20 chapters. Then there’s the MC’s golden finger. It helps him master skills faster and even deduce better versions of those skills, but it requires pills or something similar to work. While that sounds simple, the way the author writes it is completely uninteresting. Overall, I’m dropping this novel at around 20-something chapters. I don’t see it getting any better, but I’d be happy to be proven wrong.