Lightning Is the Only Way by Warmaisach

Guys head's up for future readers - especially those who are reading Warmaisach novels for 1st time
Warmaisach always make & show his novel MC stand out as most miserable one among all the novels MC. So for those who are used to reading novels were MC have relatively easy journey will have some hard time adjusting to such difference.

the only dao that is working in this world is the unbeatable dao once you lose your path is destroyed except if you are the mc cuz mc reasons.
story is good tho so far (ch 400)

There's a genuine issue with Gravis' ideology, that after thinking of, I cant get out of my head. In Gravis' mind, freedom is doing what you want, unrestrained of responsibilities, yet he also says freedom is choosing how much you want to be suppressed, yet that seems to only apply for HIM. When the sect master of the unrestrained sect didnt give him immortal stones to bankroll his advancement, he acted like it was a big deal and that the sect master would never be able to comprehend the law of freedom and not that it was just the exact thing that he does all time. Yeah sure the Sect Master wants to bankroll your advancement, but he wants to have his sect prosper more, and he doesnt want to gamble that on you. He has responsibilities, and although he can abandon these responsibilities, he doesnt want to.

Actual review and not a rant from me about the f#ckass readers so beware im going turbo woke.

The author is a f#cking bum. The MC comes to the conclusion that his "goals are more important than his morals" and just like, why? Its never stated why he just abandons his morals, he just does it, even though he doesn't like and has various ways to go about what he wants that may be harder, but dont contradict his morals. And in this novel, difficulty is also pretty important, the MC needs to temper his will in life or death matches. For example early on in the series, Gravis needs pills to better temper his body, and he comes to the conclusion he needs to act weaker to get more people to fight him to get spoils from them, and he is "fine" with this despite not liking it morally because... he tempered his will in life or death matches, even though that's a different type of willpower, which pisses me the f#ck off. He had several other options, and I'll list out a few here.

1. Making deals with stronger cultivators who also want to temper their wills that if he wins, they will give him a very large amount pills.

2. Buying pills, just normally, this option isnt very good but its certainly an option

3. Robbing a sect or guild in order to take their pills. This may be hard, but difficulty should be exactly what the MC is looking for, yet the author seems to ignore all forms of "life or death" risks that aren't simply a direct battle. If youre robbing a stronger cultivator's vault, then being caught is certain death, which should count as life or death tempering as long as not being caught is hard enough, yet it seems to not be counted. So basically, the MC went against his morals for a reason that makes no sense, despite having several other options that either dont go against his morals, or go against them less, and offer more benefits to boot. And also, going against your morals for power is a sign of weak will, not of strong will, granted it IS a different type of will from will auras, but its still a pretty big problem with the mentality that a will aura makes you more willing to do things youre uncomfortable with. A will aura should make you follow your morals more stringently, not less. Still a pretty good novel but this whole misunderstanding of different types of wills and random bullshit to make the MC go against his moral code drops the novel from a 9/10 for me to at best a 7.5

The comments on this novel piss me off so much, I read a chapter, check the comments, and it seems like every comment wants the MC to follow the most generic cookie cutter cultivation Mc. It ruins the reading experience to have such stupid f#cking commenters every chapter, decent novel though.