Honeslty I like the concept but the mc's senior brother who is the sect leader flat out ruins the novel for me. Such an incredibly forced character. To say he's bad at pill refining is an understatement but the author has created him as a character who childishly and stubbornly refuses to accept that fact, and instead of actual effort/development, it becomes a meme that trashes the novel. The sheer obliviousness to his own failure makes it an absolute joke.
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LIKEI agree, the sect leader is annoying but having said that I'm glad it is not the mc who is the one who is bad at things (pill refening, naming things, etc). I hate it when the mc is used in such jokes but when the same stupid joke is applied to a side character I find it much less annoying. A side character can be ignored but an mc is much more difficult to ignore. Doesn't make the joke any less annoying