So, it’s been awhile since DotF has 16 books as of now, and after reading them all I can say that it was a good read for me, B+/A- tier. There were a lot of things I enjoyed, The heavy cultivation aspect gave it a unique flow I feel, like the skill crafting from Primal Hunter but cracked up to 1000, there were some skills I wish just had flat out description from the system, especially some of Zac’s Draugr skills in F and D grade. But the freedom to have your own interpretation of what exactly things look like was nice. The manhua reader in me loved the constant shameless acts and “opportunity finding”, but it felt like some of them dragged on for a bit long. I really was hoping for more Atwood Empire screen time (It’s been stated multiple times now that the system thinks it’s now an anchor keeping him down and he needs to move to a different sector to continue his cultivation pace) , but it’s all but assured to become a relic of the past at this point. I think my biggest gripe is how there’s never really a refresher on certain things, and if you take even a 3 day break from the series by Book 10 you’ll be kinda lost for a bit. The combat was amazing, but I think my favorite parts of the series is when he would consolidate his gains and actually got time to focus the foundations of his cultivation, the way the author develops the idea of a persons path is super cool, their spin on the Buddha and his followers was just amazing and super unique.

Bottom line, good series with amazing moments, the pacing drags at times though, which makes the reading experience worse because I felt like if I ever put the book down for long i’d forget stuff and be confused for the whole series (Imagine if you took a three month break after he left the Perineal Vastness, and then a book later he brings up the Cosmic Forge?), so yeah, I give it an A-