I've read a fair number of novels set in Old China, but I don't have any Chinese language so I can't judge the translation. And I've seen a few movies using some of the martial arts described here, so I can visualize. That may make me the ideal reader.

You HAVE to relax your filters. You have to see a character gliding across snow or flying up a tree and just think "hm, an expert," just as the characters here do.

You have to be comfortable with Han Ying also being Pin Cheng a hundred pages later, and with him being part of group A, which hates group B except when group C is around, but that's only because Co Chao is actually Ping Pong's long-thought-dead father and Chia Pett is actually a girl pretending to be a boy pretending to be a girl. After a while you just have to say "whee!" and enjoy the ride.

There are endless combinations of people defeating or outsmarting individuals or groups who are actually stronger. We meet literally dozens of one-man armies, and we meet Genghis Khan.

It's a fun ride. I'll read #2.