Review Detail of Spelloyal in Genius Mage in a Cultivation World

The beginning was good, but when characters from the MC's past started to appear the story became confusing, it seems that I skipped book 1 and started directly in the book 2 because many characters from the MC's past appear quickly and without much explanation about them. The MC doesn't really feel like a mage, he just seems like a cultivator focused on spells rather than weapons and that point spoiled the novel for me. The author had a great idea but failed to execute.