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I personally think the latter is better, it was made by a venerable, after all.

I personally used to think that this song fit him pretty well, but after fully reading the novel and seeing that he isn't sad in any way or sees himself as a tragedy, I've started seeing this song as more likely to fit him better.

this one is also a top pick ngl.

I personally feel that the shadow slave world feels very small, it's stated that the dream realm is atleast 5X to 6X larger than earth at the bare minimum, it's worldbuilding and even sense of scale is nothing compared to RI, LOTM, WTC are entire worlds ahead of SS, I would even go as far as to say the 3 I listed are far closer to perfection than SS is to them.

Credit where credit is due, SS is really good at dropping hints about what will happen later on.

The fight scenes end up bieng a bunch of word salad that isn't interesting, although I feel this is because the author is forced to stretch them too long due to the webnovel format, (and being bad at prose)

One of the biggest faults in felt was that nothing changed drastically after 3RD NM, it was a downright pathetic mid series shakeup.

And the fact that [SPOILERS]⬇️

kai is able to outrun a cursed ranked creature, which is VERY powerful even among cursed rank creatures, without getting affected by it's will at all. (I always knew will was just a plot convenience thing where the author could say "X won because X will is stronger than Y will.* but after this, even if a cursed titan or unholy devil shows up, they won't have any aura.

And for a dark fantasy webnovel, it's pretty clear not one of the main cast will die, the author said in a post early on in the release of the story that he didn't want SS to be a type of story where the major characters die, but it still irks me a bit.

Lastly, the power system's execution is the most pathetic one i have seen in a webnovel, but i feel that 90% of it's problem is because of the bloat, filler and word padding.

This webnovel woul have 70% of it's criticisms gone or reduced if it was not so filler filled. Even RTOC is better than this in terms of filler.

If it remains a rank 6 aperture unless refined to rank 7, then we know that the max amount of dao marks a rank 6 can get from the calamities and tribulations of a rank 6 is 9250 dao marks.

We also know that no matter how enraged heaven's will is, it can't raise the might of a rank 6 calamity or tribulation to be higher than a rank 7 calamity or tribulation.

So if the time speed of 2nd aperture gu is set to to be 365X via some method like years pass like days, and the normal aperture speed remained 30X, then the 2nd aperture is slightly over 10 times faster than main aperture, you would get 9250 dao marks every 10 months or so. If you reach rank 7 and then set the 2nd aperture to 365X speed, and first aperture to 1X or 12X speed, in 33 Years you would have 3,05,250 dao marks, pseudo venerable level power! Newly ascended rank 8 immortals have only 40 thousand dao marks, 46,250 dao marks can be achieved in 5 Years! (If you cultivate the same path in both apertures, you can easily reach rank 8 with like this, and even pseudo venerable, many rank 8 can live upto a thousand years, if you live a thousand years this way you can have 1,11,00,000 dao marks! (Absurd).

Killer moves for active acceleration (e.g., Years Pass Like Months or Years Pass Like Days, from Hei Fan's inheritance) modify the tributary to speed up internal time. These are discussed around Chapter 1130 ("Usage of Hei Fan’s Gu"). Their effectiveness is amplified by the user's time path dao marks (a time path Gu Immortal like Hei Fan gets much stronger results).

So if you cultivate time path in 2nd aperture, the time speed would gradually ramp up even higher.

Recources and variant human slaves for selling can be grown at rapid speeds in such a way,

Seeing how the difference between rank 9 SIF and rank 10 SIF is only that dao marks conflict can be switched on and off at will in precise situations (making the user have both extreme defense via dao marks conflicting when needed extreme healing speed via not conflicting when needed.)

And not Needing to consume immortal apertures of your rank periodically... I think it's mainly about removing some drawback/ limitation of the rank 9 version and giving some moderate boost in power.

Same with how rank 9 version of a heaven path gu (fate gu) controls only certainty, but rank 10 version (destiny gu) controls both certainty and uncertainty, basically making you have complete control over the gu world. Same effect, just in higher quality