Rise. Rising. Risen.

The story starts out really interesting, just like the description says it is. A man on the top of the universe, dealing with a unique problem.

The story hints at some political intrigue and plotting, and a vaster world with Ruins of past cultivation eras to be discovered.

The MC has an interesting romantic interest and shows a strong drive to better himself.

Then he fucking dies and gets reincarnated into a Fourth Prince on a weak world. Like every other cultivation story in the world.

I think it would have been far more interesting if it had stuck with the original plot for the long haul. It was unique, and showed a side of Cultivation stories rarely seen. 

Oh well....

This is probably the most true to form English xianxia I've read that doesn't have  awful grammar.  The characters described in the early chapters are compelling and have a personality, but it's just a smoke screen for the entirely milquetoast sociopath protagonist we get after reincarnation. After the usual milquetoast torture of the protagonist to justify him becoming both even more of a sociopath than he already was and give him a pretext to not care about anyone around him, we hit the milquetoast filler chapters you can mostly skim through as nothing happens while he levels up from 0.1 to 0.2 on a powerscale that stretches to infinity. 11 or so chapters are spent on the character not developing in any meaningful way, but rather throwing out words like meridians and spirit stones and Qi without ever actually stating anything of substance. At some point during this process he decides to dual wield pole arms. 

If you'd have told me this was just an exceptionally well localized CN Webnovel, I'd buy that. I'll keep reading it, because I have incredibly low standards when it comes to Xianxia and this story exceeds them easily, but unless you have similar Xianxia standards, you might not get as much out of it. 

It's interesting the fact that he showed so much of his past at the start - novels of this kind usually only give a summary of what he did before or just make some flashbacks or comments in the following chapters.

I really enjoyed the style, even more so the last chapters though I hope he gives soon some hints in what the MC is thinking or intends to do because I'm really really curious - if it was on purpose he did a good job.

The story a can be classified within the classic xianxia type but it is good, and in my opinion well thought out and with a few peculiarities of his own.

The MC was too smart and hardworking since when he was a kid, I think he should have had a few bad years or at least a few months after his failed awakening, and maybe the behaviour of millions or billions of years old people is a bit too immature, but who knows, maybe at that age you just get like that.

The chapters are a bit short, though it could be because I enjoy them :) I didn't do a word count.

Not bad, but the pacing is slow for the sake of it, there is no progression and the narrative is political focused, so there is a lot of description about how smart the MC is, how conceited some "villain" is.
still interesting enough if you want to read something, but not good enough to recommend.

Excellent back story, a good example of the reincarnation genre written well

Pretty enjoyable all in all.

Paragraphs are structured well and grammer is good, with few issues to be found.

The characters (other than the main) are interesting, but dont get a massive amount of screentime. This is understandable considering the mc's situation so not really much of an issue.

Dialogue is well done and the mc's thoughts are clear and concise.

There is not much story yet, but what iv seen so far has been pretty good.

If you want a good wuxia, read this.

But wait so that you can binge, the chapters are short...

Nothing more to be said it's a great example of its genre and I'm really looking forward to more