Ten Thousand Worlds

Ten Thousand Worlds is a cultivation donghua where the Main character Lin Feng awakens a powerful emperor level 7 sword spirit only to get betrayed by his fiance. He is stabbed in the back by his fiance and she absorbs his emperor level 7 sword spirit attacking the Lin family elders and crippling Lin Feng. In his near death experience, Lin Feng awakens inside a mysterious pendant that holds the graveyard of the gods and his goal is to consume all the gods within 20 years or he will perish and set them free in the process. His ability allows him to refine the godspowers and cultivate hundreds of times faster than normal cultivators. Lin Feng's path of revenge starts with awakening the double martial soul spirits Pheonix bloodline and sword spirit - it's impossible for a cultivator to have double martial soul spirits in the land of Ten Thousand Worlds. Story: 4/10 The story seems promising with this betrayal style introduction. However, it follows many other donghua's weaknesses in that literally the entire series Lin Feng fights small fry opponents from his family and other families and he is so merciful that it repetitively bites him in the back. He also repeatedly hides behind his grandfather, the head of the Lin Family in his city. This style of fighting small fry opponents and hiding gets recycled throughout the series making it very uninteresting. There is a lot of filler events in the series that by the time the story really takes place, it's already episode 42. Art & Sound: 5/10 Nothing really interesting in terms of acknowledgeable achievement for art or sound. There was a sense of suspenseful music in the fight against the Luo family elder at the Lin family tower around episode 39 but apart from that nothing much. The art is ok for a 3D CGI donghua it's not choreography-wise significant but it is more appetizing than Spirit Sword Sovereign S1 and S2. Character: 4/10 Ten Thousand Worlds doesn't value character development. The characters are empty, only serving the purpose to either fight against Lin Feng or join his side inevitably running away or being forgotten. The Luo family attacked Lin Feng in the mountains and Lin Feng somehow defeated them with his overpowered sword spirit but they literally were fine after a few scenes. That makes no sense, he squashed 8 cultivators and he mercifully lets them go after he runs into lava - Only for them to visit the Lin family in the future to fight and lost AGAIN. After the first time, surely Lin Feng would kill them to prevent retaliation but instead he just seals them inside his pendant and their grudge just gets worse. This style of back and forth fighting is a wasteful to develop characters especially with a short series like this it would have been better to stick to a smaller scale of world building and character establishment. Overall: 4/10 Ten Thousand Worlds had an appealing beginning but it wasted the potential by wasting screen time on useless characters. The revenge on Lin Feng's fiance is literally pushed to the side despite being the entire series existence. I expect this to have follow up seasons so it makes sense that Ten Thousand Worlds would have a wide story and characters but it doesn't manage it well in 5 hours worth of screen time.