Back when I first read this, only the first Seven Seas volume had come out in the US. I thought I could just dip my toe in, get the gist, no harm done. I’d only read one other xianxia at that point and it was by the same author, so I’d just read others in the meantime to have more points of comparison by the time I got around to evaluating MDZS as a whole.
Well, jokes on me, because I read the fan translation, then another fan translation, then forgot to ever stop watching The Untamed, and by the time we had all five volumes in print I could speak no more rationally or coherently about it