Astral Sutra

Ye XingHe was born and raised into the Azure Feather family, which has its base in Blue Carp Town. He was originally chosen as the representative to go to the Heavenly Star Academy in order to further improve his cultivation instead of his supposed cousin. At the academy, Ye Xinghe demonstrates extraordinary potential and is taken in by Vice Principal Xu. During a training exercise in the forest, Ye Xinghe and his group are attacked. Due to a series of unfortunate circumstances, Ye Xinghe is expelled from the academy and he returns to his village. He is berated by his clan, but Ye Xinghe changes theirminds by healing and protecting them from the Dark Moon Family. He is eventually joined by Xia Yuning, and the couple embark on numerous adventures. During his adventures, Ye Xinghe meets a mysterious lady named Shang'Guan Xuan, and under her guidance, he is able to achieve a very high cultivation level. (source: smgt fandom) Story: 5/10 Star Martial God Technique adaptation is hard to follow and very vague. The series skips a lot of details that were in the novel and manhua such as subcategories of Star Martial power - Ye Xinghe's Star power is healing but there is also haste and many others but the series skips these particular details probably for story consistency. This makes the story bland and dissimilar to other cultivation series - it lacks motivation since we are just listening about the world from random side characters. Art & Sound: 4/10 & 5/10 The CGI art and character design of this series is basically just replication of Ruo Hong Culture's other projects. We see that Ye Xinhe's cousin Ye Xingyun is surprisingly a replication of the MC in Wonderland of Ten Thousands with different hairs and clothing. Furthermore, the background/setting when Xia Yuning is sleeping on the rock when getting chased by assassins with Ye Xinghe - is the reused waterfall background from Wonderland of Ten Thousands where Ye Xingyun cultivates with the brother of Ye Xueyan. I've come to a realization that these are where studios cut costs to compromise for low budget adaptations. The VA / BGM sound was fairly decent, nothing out of the ordinary. Character: 4/10 Since the series rushes through the worldbuilding and character establishment by skimping on details we are left with characters that are empty - a very common prospect among low budget cultivation series made by Ruo Hong Culture. I personally enjoyed the manhua because you could visibly feel exhaustion in the characters facial expression (in the camping arc) The students and teachers weren't excessively arrogant like in the donghua where they intentionally judged the situation of Ye Xinghe being the killer after seeing bodies. I guess they just set this up so it makes sense to kick Ye Xinghe out of the Star Academy but it's cheap character progression. Enjoyment / Overall: 5/10 If you want senseless zero to hero overpowered main character beating his opponents, this is a donghua to watch but if you want a meaningful zero to hero overpowered main character story Soul Land or Mortal's Journey is better. For what it's worth, Star Martial God Technique was entertaining for the latter half of the series.