I think that you may have missed a big part of this game. There is a type of Chinese web novels loosely based on Taoism. This are hard to get into with often bad writing. Most of them think you have read a hundred of them. Most of their MC are insane, disconnected from humanity, and treat women like trophies (in the story these are not flaws). They go on forever with not foresight because the web novel thing. Some of them are really good, but it's hard to find them, Also, they probably don't have an ending or good pacing for someone reading a backlog.
You know and are warned.