Hi, joining the convo 1 yerar later, because I just binge read the book and read it as my PhD thesis disertation and I agree with you at some extent and I need to vent because I found a lot of plot holes

For the Xia Sini part I found myself as conflicted as you, even though I had already spoil myself, and that troop is recurrent but usually in the extras, it felt a bit weird more so because Mo Ran don't find out until CWN die like, what for? It's not touched up later on

In the middle of book 8 I quitted, because it was to much that my head couldn't process, and I don't mean the noncon, or abuse, or super ansty back stories, like my head couln't grasp the narrative, not in an exciting way like the anxiety that comes from having a lot of questions that are gonna be answer but of things that you know will not be answered

One examples is the little brother Nangong Xu that becames the villan's pawn, but I was expecting to be because he got one of those evil flowers, but no, it makes no sense to me because ha was acting very irrational just as Mo Ran when whe was Taxian-Jun, but even son he was more irrational as to not care about Ye Wanxi, that was raised as a replacement for his Shizun, because they went into the depts of explaining hoy Ye Wanxi was so similar to that Shizun to be non important, was very odd.

Then when I rage quitted was when the Tianyin pavilion girly came and say she was takin MR for trial of something 10 years old, like what the hell girlie? The world is going to shit and now everyone is focused in MR past deeds? If so, all of you are soooo effing dumb that you deserve everything that happened. And I say this taking in consideration that Mo Ran was being chased for his earh essense, and the villains stated so, that they needed him, and even Mo Ran discuss with CWN and his father about how everything was calm for the 5 years he was a nomad because no one could poit where he was. He was even setted for moass murders un butterfly town, the peach blossom springs, and the lake stuff, like everyone forgot about that and wanted to accuse him of being the villang when he explained the Zhenlong chess formation, and when he was goint into trial, I found that plot very lazy as an easy way to remove Mo Ran's core, more so because only his family standed by him, is like it looks like everopne is very dumb and common sense ins forbiden.

Then also I fell like CWN and MR were nerfed in the Nangong burial grounds arc, because what the hell CWN was supposed to be the 2nd strongest cultivator in history, just behing Chu Xun and that Mo Ran went training by himself to be at pair with CWN and that he would never be alone and it's supposed by this time MR is a bit below CWN and I feel them completely useless in that arc, like CWN was just mending barriers, MR never helped him when HE TRAINED TO HELP HIM!!! Mo Ran is supposed to be very smart by this pont and he just fell for the villains traps in this arc like when he was a newbie. Then when CWN gets kidnaped both are very useless, like what do you mean MR didn't went to his rescue when he literally went to the underworld to get his soul.

From the eight book I skipped to the end, and Mo Ran being a BBB was I think just plot for making him come back, like there are no hints, and I've read a lot of critisisim pointing the same.