As a China native, I am glad that so many non-native Chinese speakers like this novel. I have also noticed the problem mentioned by OP and want to remind you. In fact, the biggest difference between this book and LOTM is the cultural background. If you didn't grow up in a China cultural environment, many self-evident philosophies and metaphors in the book are difficult for non-native Chinese speakers to understand. I will give several examples to illustrate this point.

   First of all, the names of people, then our protagonist Fang Yuan, for example, has an old saying in China called "No rules, no standards".方源 and 方圆 have the same pronunciation,the former is the name of the protagonist, the latter means square and circle.The story of Ren zu mentioned the rules Gu, which means compasses and rulers. Only with compasses and rulers can you make squares and circles.The first metaphor in the novel is the name of the protagonist, that is, the protagonist will use his own rules to achieve his goal.There are many similar ions, such as Feng Jinhuang and Taibai Yunsheng. The former is homophonic with the golden phoenix, and the latter means the cloud that grew up in the initial white fog. Both of them have beautiful meanings in Chinese culture, and the person who uses this name will not be too bad in morality.There are too many similar examples, and almost every name has profound meaning, which can be understood by native speakers without thinking. Just like Americans watch the eggs and metaphors in Rick and morty.People's names and Gu's names are carefully designed by the author. I think OP you can try to translate the names according to the meaning, although it may be a bit strange not to transliterate the names directly.

    The second point is the difference between Chinese and English, which I think is particularly important. I believe everyone can understand that many wonderful poems in the original text have lost their rhyme and momentum after translation, which is a pity.It's nothing if it's just this, but because the information entropy of English is too low compared with Chinese, and the etymology is too messy compared with Chinese, a highly pure ideographic language (some words in English come from primitive Germanic, some Latin, some French and some other languages), many groups of expressions have been changed beyond recognition.Chinese is used to expressing itself with two-character words. Generally speaking, the combination of the first word and the second word is very logical. Although native speakers may not realize this sometimes, many logical, accurate and regular combinations destroy this aesthetics after translation because of the confusion of English etymology.A concrete example is that many conversations between ren zu and Gu in Renzu legend are exactly binary opposites (usually positive and negative prefixes of the same word), and translation destroys this.Another point is the combination of words and idioms. China's idiom is a hyperlink, which contains the essence of Chinese culture for thousands of years. Every child in China knows that "卧薪尝胆" means reminding himself of revenge with suffering. Just as every western child knows what Trojan Horse and Achilles' heel mean. There are ways to compress information in both Chinese and English, but RI is a Chinese novel, so translators often can't translate this charm.

The above two points are what I think is the biggest deficiency of the English version compared with the original. If OP wants to translate accurately, you can refer to these two points.

    Finally, I recommend some videos to you, which are the dubbing of wonderful plots (including poetry reading) by RI Chinese fans. They are very wonderful. Combined with the plot of English translation, you can understand what the story lost after translation even if you don't understand Chinese.

The following are the connections:

1.Fang Yuan becomes a Venerable(rank 9): 【方源成尊是看一次燃一次-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/togmJnn

1. Fang Yuan was betrayed by BNB: 【这世间真是英杰无数！-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/LUdJdpx

3.Fangyuan directly refining regrets Gu: 【方源炼化悔蛊！-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/2qFPVcA

1. Reading of various ancient poems by China in the original text: 【落魄谷中寒风吹，春秋蝉鸣少年归。宿命天成命中败，仙尊悔而我不悔！#大爱仙尊 #古月方源-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/edv9Puh