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It's clear the author has no clue about the economy. 2 malnourished teens who have never fought before and only exercised for 3 days can somehow gain millions of coins and tens of skill books (each of which would sell for millions of coins) in a few real world hours at the start of the game and somehow the exchange rate is supposed to be 1 coin to 100 creds.
The author overdid the poverty porn. The world population has dwindled to 500 million and humanity can still afford to have gangs that kidnap and kill people. Electricity, water and internet are free but a family of 5 where 2 are engineers who work 20 hours a day cannot afford food. 200 creds can feed a person for a month, which comes out to 2-3 creds a meal. His family can't afford it while at the same time giving him 1 million creds for tuition. There's no scholarship, student loan, payment installments - the whole fee is paid at once. Humanity can afford to waste the talent of the vast majority of people. Don't know how they haven't gone extinct yet.
Why don't they take all their classes in VR then? Why not do all intellectual work in VR?
The cultivation system is dumb. You temper yourself by fighting a life and death battle with someone of similar strength and if you survive, you get a little bit stronger. That basically means you just keep flipping a coin and getting stronger while you keep getting heads and you die if you get tails once. There can't be so many strong people with this system as there are in the novel. Exponential decay doesn't work like that. The whole idea of tempering is completely dumb. Nothing aside from being a battle maniac matters, no schemes, traps, information gathering on your opponents, training specifically to fight a certain opponent. And what's this about people not able to find suitable opponents? Even if somebody doesn't want to temper themselves, they still have to defend themselves and fight back if you attack them. How does anyone even live with a cultivation system like this? Like they live for hundreds of years while going into each next battle completely blind with no knowledge of their opponent and no care of their own lives. If these people don't care about their own lives, why would they care about others' lives? What's stopping them from killing everyone they see? That's sure to bring more tempering experiences their way. What a dumb world!
A scholar at the peak of the world couldn't get a few test subject children?
Lol he doesn't even want to live anymore. Just wants to give up control of his body and go for the ride.
How naive! Every mage and organization would want to capture him to learn his secrets. His life and death would no longer be in his control.
He is not strong compared to the standard of the world. Pretty much anyone can kill his family and any mage can kill him. If his oddities are exposed, every mage and organization would want to capture him to learn his secrets. He has to hide his strength until he is strong enough to not care about exposing it. How is this difficult to understand?
Why are they so stuck up about age? Hasn't he already shown that he is really advanced for his age? Why not invest in him earlier?
How is he such an idiot?
Just kill them. What's so hard about it?
Although I can't fault the author too much, OG had pretty much backed himself in a corner. FY got too strong, he basically had no opponents. Familiar characters couldn't possibly keep up the speed of his cultivation so the only answer is to buff them unreasonably or introduce new characters. Both are needed in some sense. It would be unreasonable to expect familiar characters to catch up to him no matter how to buff them and new characters are needed to make up for the immortality arc and provide some challenge to FY. The most unreasonable thing I find is how everyone just unites at the same solution in no time with no disagreements.
The story just makes less and less sense. Mortal enemies immediately became the closest allies in front of something no one except one has any knowledge of. No doubt, no disagreements, no concessions, no conditions.
Why does he always want to work with his irreconcilable enemies? Let them suffer a little and throw concessions.
Nothing makes sense anymore. Anyone can become whatever they want in one sentence.
I had high hopes for this fanfic and read 100 chapters in a sitting but it has become completely absurd. FY has to go through countless tragedies and life-death cycles, and exploit every opportunity available in the world with his future knowledge to rise to a certain level but at any point, useless nobodies can be directly buffed to fight at his level by just throwing resources at them. He individually is richer than every other faction in the world and possesses methods surpassing everyone else but he still can't raise his clones or subordinates to his own level.