Luta
First I would like to tell my sad story. I read this novel called A Thought through Eternity( Er Gen) and got addicted to the feel so I want more. At the time I was only getting my novel recommendations from mangaupdates(and still do sometimes) and eventually I found, World of Cultivation ( Fang Xiang) and fell in love all over again with an entirely different feel but before I found that there was something in between....something I like to call the gag of all gags for all these xianxia novels. The ultimate reincarnation is that of a librarian. Library of Heavens Path has that overpowered in a minute Achilles heel. I read up to the start of the kids competition before he ofc beats that Lu guys butt. I read LOHP sporatically between novels it is that novel for me where you skip mass amounts of the chapter content to hear his long explanation of why he's right and other dude is wrong. Or maybe just waiting for that time which he panics cause he cannot activate the library to tell him what he needs to know (his excuses sometimes are gold and his solutions to things kill me). So basically for the ultra rich comedy that is built on a cliche that takes forever.
IMHO spirit sword mountain is guilty of bad comedy (I never laugh at their antics only when lady master f's up is anything ever funny to me). Though the story is very intriguing so it wins as a serious novel in my book and deserves to be looked at only when I'm in the mood for it not to mention I don't read the novel but the web comic cause that's how I started and I'm gonna finish it, in full color!!
Also the reason I mention those two novels start is because while looking for something like the other I found LOHP which led me to an even greater novel so I am forever grateful to its existence.
N0xiety
Lastly the Mao Ni problem....what can I say Ze Tian Ji literally annoys me to death because of a damn dragon. After the dragon incident, I couldn't find any traces of it like 200 chapters ahead and only mentioned the dragon during combat.... I'm like wtf!!! And rage quit on the novel. Yes the slowness of that story progression in my actual reading i never felt but then when i wanted to know something it became glaring clear something was wrong. I will go back to it when I cool down but its been almost a year and I still ain't cool. Also joy of life is my shiz though have not raged out yet because it's not even translated up to 150 yet so...