My main interest in this trilogy is primarily to do with the wuxia element. I grew up watching these types of tv series though I've not watch many in the last couple of decades so it was more of a walk through memory lane. While it's not the same story or characters, this novel is full of the 'same' (ie. identical) characters and it was tropes after tropes after tropes that you find in this type of story. So while it was a comfortable and entertaining read, it was also a tad disappointing that there wasn't anything new or any unexpected twist. I still plan on continuing with the rest of the series though as this one sort of end in a bit of cliffhanger.