Our hero’s journey is to rescue his adopted children who have been abducted. This scenario evokes a sense of urgency that’s a good one to drive the story. Except that it doesn’t. Our hero stops to learn cultivation and, by the time he does, his children are already grown. That’s a huge mismatch between motivation and the timeline of the story and I feel sad for the children who have had to grow up in the hands of the bad men.
The author should have either speeded up growth of the hero or provided him with some other motivation that better matched the time he needed to be prepared.
I read the sequel to this book, but probably won’t buy the third.