Defiance of the Fall 12

I feel like I'm being Punk'd.

Does anyone actually enjoy the endless infodumps of cultivation, “solidifying gains,” endowing his axe with the dao, unleashing his skills and domains, etc? I get that Zac has moved past simply swinging his axe really hard at stuff, but I find absolutely zero enjoyment from reading laborious descriptions of every single little cultivation thing that happens. If you removed all of the core forming and dao braiding and skill upgrading and solidifying gains from this book, there would be about 14 total pages of interesting stuff. Unfortunately, those parts are there, and they are an endless slog to get through. I can't imagine how listening to this in audio version would be. I suppose it would help put me to sleep if nothing else.

I feel like the author is just sniffing his own farts, reveling in the endless descriptions like he's some anime superhero growing in power with every obscure power description and cultivation session that no one but he cares about. Or maybe I'm just an outlier and people actually like this stuff. I'm nearing the point where I can't bear to pick up the next book, but I keep going because each one seems like it will be more exciting like the first few were. I thought entering the Perennial Vastness would be one huge adventure like Abyssal Shores, but it was absolutely horrible and I hated almost every word of it. Now I'm still hoping that the next book will involve more adventure with the Ultom thing, but if it turns into yet another cultivation-fest, I think that will be it.

Give me a full book of Ogras and Catheya and Iz and LITERALLY ANYONE THAT ISN'T ZAC. Except the author would ruin that too and make their stories nothing but endless cultivation too, so I guess don't ruin those characters for me.

Someone that has read the chapters ahead, please give me hope that it gets better! I can't take more books like this one, I just can't!

You know some authors visibly improve with every book they write? not this guy, he finds new ways to milk his already bloated series. Everything you've come to hate in this series got turned up a notch..

- Endless dao nonsense? Check
- Side characters that become irrelevant after this book? Check
- More bloated than ever before? Check

He fucked the undead chick and formed his core on the last page... there saved you 700 pages. Nothing else happens.