The cult is a religious faction and the dude trying to take over is a scumbag who does not care for the religion at all. The religion may endure him taking over - if he really does - but it will be on a decline forever more.

A couple of creeps.
Good thing it is completed and I just have to keep reading to see them die. 246 chapters in total.

Without someone sitting next to me - or perhaps in voice chat - telling me how to pronounce it and correcting my attempts, I won't actually have a clue on how to properly do that.

As a bilingual person, the go-to thing isn't to ever pronounce things perfectly. The go-to thing is to pronounce things "good enough." If there is a letter or phoneme in the new language that doesn't exist in your first language, then you'll have to learn it. Until you learn it, you'd use a phoneme that kinda sounds like this.
Think of Japanese to English -> the letter "L" does not exist so they use "R" instead. "Vermillion?" More like "Vermirrion."
Think of Arabic to English -> the letter "P" does not exist so they use "B" instead. "Pancake?" More like "Bancake."

So here I am, person who knows English looking at Chinese stuff -> no such phoneme exists as "j" and "sh" combined -> so... More like "Joe Fan" and more like "Ling Feng."
(see image attached in starting comment)

Are any of them correct? Nope. Does it matter? Kinda, but you know what matters more and is far worse? Looking at "Zhou" and only saying or thinking "name" instead of even attempting to read it.

Previously when we saw Chapter 60 stuff - around the time the new girl beat floor 18 -> there was some direct fingers pointed at "WHAT IS MR. MAIN CHARACTER DOING!?"

If the tower hates the fact that he's about to BREAK it in some way, then it shouldn't have forcefully made him get stuck on floor 60. The man is stuck, waiting, bored, and trying to skip ahead.

Also, why doesn't he get more decorations and have a more comfy home of sorts? Look at Jungah and how comfy she looks. Meanwhile his home looks like a creepy scientist's lab.

Points are practically free for him to get - if I recall correctly -> as he can just run through floor 60, get a ton of points -> then go home.

Well... I don't think he WANTS to be the next sect leader.

Well, he was tortured for a week, as bait for those... fish mosquito thingies.

I have a Wuxiaworld account and earlier this year, I fully unlocked the entire novel for this manhwa. I did the thing where I got the daily free chapter every day and spent the daily currency (which has been changed out for a new currency) until I unlocked all 643 chapters. Seeing how one chapter of the manhwa covers a bit more than one chapter of the novel - almost 2 chapters sometimes -> I'd give an educated guess that this manhwa will end around chapter 400.

I started reading the novel starting form chapter 1. Alternating between the novel and the manhwa; I immediately noticed that the novel goes into a LOT of more details for all sorts of things. For example: Mr. Main Character kills the Nine-Tailed Cinder Fox -> in the manhwa, he drops and faints right there. In the novel, he stumbles over to the corpse, cuts it open, takes the liver out, EATS IT RAW -> washes his mouth out with some clean water -> makes sure he got the core in his inventory -> and then finally collapses. Why? He got +5 stats for ingesting its liver.

Little details that, honestly, make reading this a lot more enjoyable. The manhwa is almost a "cliffs notes" version of some events, which isn't bad.
Also, this is the official art of that selfie Skaya took a few chapters ago.
https://i.postimg.cc/QxsM5J7Y/i.png

I'm waiting for them to drop the reasons behind him choosing to be in a wheelchair. There's something there and they've pointed out that it exists, but not what it is.

Also, if your wife wants shoulder rubs, give her shoulder rubs. Why do you need a reason?

Someone is gonna be like "wait, didn't he... ya know, die?"
https://i.postimg.cc/tTjvBwDx/i.png

"Rules for thee, not for me."
Zhou Fan: "Oh oh oh! My turn! *ahem* Rules for thee, not for me! NOW DIE!"

Three out of how many wives he got?

... it's been updating too slowly so I forgot how many wives he has. I know its more than 3.

Everyone must learn to deal with failure. How you respond to the fact that you got outplayed or fell into a trap and lost a battle - or equivalent -> is an important part of your strength. Yes, "strength" is accurate as getting swooped up in your emotions is a weakness. Being able to maintain your position as a good leader needs you to make coolheaded decisions.

This guy is old, creepy, and a bad leader.

Here's a thought: would it be creepy if his intentions to bang her were communicated clearly as he took her in as a disciple? Like "I will raise you as my disciple and I will eventually bed you as time marches on" is part of their agreement? and she agreed to it?

My answer: YES!
It's still freakin' creepy. Like dude, you're an accomplished person, go get married or something.

https://i.postimg.cc/s28s8nxT/i.png

Well... healthy competition with a rival of sorts is fine. A motivation to help you strive to get stronger is a plus. She isn't trying to kill Mr. Main Character out of some misguided spite, at least I don't think she is, so good luck to her.

Arrogant little brat. Being weak isn't the problem but being lost in your own little world would harm the cult.

Old man is a coward. Instead of rushing him, he went for a soul attack under the assumption that he couldn't defend against it.

Should've taken the bows, old man.

To answer any old, current and new questions of "how did this go unnoticed by other sects?" -> They never went to this location, so they never discovered it. If they actually did send people who discovered it, then those people probably didn't return alive to report their findings.