Honestly, this has gotten pretty bad...
Not only is this arc insanely boring and insignificant to pretty much anything be it world building, character building or even damn entertainment, the mc constantly preferring to be "low key" and constantly get underestimated for no reason as far as I can remember. I would be fine with high standing people doing that, but some shitty disciples come and do shit like stealing, trash talking, threatening to kill rape etc and a lot of the time Infront of him is just 2 much at this point.
At first I was like it's probably just a cocky disciple or has a big backing w/e bs, but every single time, without fail characters are introduced to do this over, and over, and over again... Its beyond ridiculous and just silly at this point, very unenjoyable.
What I'm getting at is
Art is good
Writing is beyond terrible