-Meets a cute loli, first thing he does is considers whether she's more valuable to him alive or dead -Slaughters his fiancee (whom he got close in the first place for benefits) without bathing an eye to then plunder her clans resources for the sake of profits.

Now lets discuss why I only rated Reverend Insanity/Master Of Gu/Daoist Gu 3 stars despite my high praise. Like most other novels the MC has almost no personality, this issue is also addressed briefly, where our MC even says he himself feels like he lost his humanity. Fang Yuan pursues the impossible dream, as he describes, of Eternal Life. Where and which he claims things such as fame, lust, kinship, wealth and so on are just a means. That sounds really cool and all but what will you do once you achieve it? What's the point of Eternal Life if you can't enjoy it? For me this is the biggest plot hole so far and has yet to be addressed and is probably the reason as to why the author named this novel Reverend Insanity.

Another unavoidable outcome is the novel starts to degrade heavily, especially during the Zombie Arc (I almost quit reading during this phase). Due to the nature of being a Gu Immortal they are all extraordinary people, because of this, scheming starts to slowly become redundant, which is unavoidable I understand, seeing as there are far too many possibilities that exist and would only end up becoming another Berserk. People start becoming very 2D, characters such as Bai Ning Bing and Hei Lou Lan, the two mindless physiques, end up becoming mindless s*aves, especially Bye Dingaling, honestly so sick of this dude with nothing to his name except his special physique and being a s*ave for the right people acting so arrogant for. You'd think he'd feel humbled by someone like Fang Yuan who worked his way up from nothing to become, very possibly, the next venerable. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if Bye Dingaling could theoretically become a river lord.

Another thing that was passable at first but started to feel forced was the setbacks, I understand it was Heaven's will and luck path but there's only so much a man can take, the setbacks felt very forced and many times felt like the enemies had plot armour. I'm glad the author realized this and started to wrap it up by creating Heaven's will and luck path, because it was just not a pleasant experiences having the author constantly preaching and comforting me.

Continuing from earlier, Fang Yuan, like most novels' MC, this guy is a robot. I understand that all the character development was done 500 years earlier but seriously one of the things I enjoy most are the little snippets of his life experiences before reincarnation. I pray to the door of life and death every night to bring Fang Yuan's personality back. I theorize that the reason for this is because of the Spring & Autumn Cicada is only rank 6 and can only bring Fang Yuan's will, i.e. His purpose, back in time. Though personally speaking Fang Yuan's character was quite an inspiration to me and to some degree I believe everyone should strive to be like him. This concludes my rambling hope you enjoyed.

When all sh*ts going wrong for him. When he is marked for death by literally the entire world. When he suffers defeats more often than victory. And when you learn his past, his unrequited love, and what he has gone through in his previous life, you really can't help but to root for this guy. His tenacity and perseverance doesn't came for no reason or some BS cliches (protecting/revenging clan/family bla bla), but towards his selfish pursuit of eternal life. No things or any others can sway his mind.

later he turns to rank A at the end of volume 1

I really thought Bai Ning Ning would die for the third time! Yes, he died twice. First is in MC's first life then the second time when he sacrificed himself for the MC to live. I thought he will die the third time when the MC asked him to die again.

But this is almost opposite of the above paragraph as MC only changes himself and maintain it as a secret without bullshitting.

The main character has the opposite of plot armor the entire book. He is incredibly unlucky constantly, and that is initially explained by saying it is the side effect of Spring Autumn Cicada. However, he now has "amazing" luck apparently, even using an "extremely powerful" luck immortal gu to raise his luck. It makes no difference. If you want to see a main character that succeeds, this is not the book for you. He fails at everything. It is to the point that if I see a good thing get introduced I know that the main character will not be getting it.

However, there was one single exception to this. That was the Sovereign Immortal Fetus Gu. This gu allows him to reshape his aperture, gain enormous potential, and make up for every other missed opportunity he has seen. The novel built up to this single Gu for over a thousand chapters.

Now, onto the situation.

So, the main character wants to gain strength quickly so his enemies don’t overpower him. He is worried that they will grow stronger than him if he gives them enough time. This is already baseless, as he has dozens of times the potential of them and simply letting time pass would allow him to get astronomically stronger than them.

The main character decides f*ck that, he wants to rank up to rank 7. The reason given is that he will get more potent immortal essence and be able to do prolonged battles more easily.

First of all, he easily did a battle lasting more than a week straight without putting him in a bad situation. That is the most extended a battle has ever been in this novel by far. Like by multiple times. So there is literally no reason for him to even worry about that.

Secondly, and more importantly, he can completely make up the difference in immortal essence through money. Immortal essence stones = immortal essence. He stated numerous, numerous times at this point in the novel that he was extremely wealthy and was getting wealthier by the minute. There is literally no reason for him to want to get to rank 7 as he has zero need for it. The only increase in battle strength gained would be the more potent immortal essence but he doesn’t need it.

But, whatever. Doesn’t matter. Main character wants to get to rank 7, then whatever. Right? Wrong.

The main character has 3 options at this point.

Give up on s*upidly attempting to raise his “strength” by getting to rank 7 as it literally doesn’t raise his strength. Instead, speed up the immortal aperture’s time flow and raise the heavenly eagle to rank 8. He has 720 years of lifespan gu as well, so he could easily bond with it for like 50 years and have it be super loyal. The time in the outside world would be minimal. He would gain a ton of immediate combat strength and still preserve his continuing advantage through his natural potential in this method. Though frankly, he doesn't even need to do this. Just by living he will be progressing at a faster pace than them.

Get to rank 7 by progressing the speed of time in his immortal aperture. This would allow him to face numerous calamities and tribulations in a row, rapidly gain strength, and become rank 7 in like a single day. Additionally, this rank 7 wouldn’t just be shallow and provide only better immortal essence. He would be the best among the best rank 7s. An overlord who can fight head-to-head with rank 8s. There's no need to even stop there. He can continue progressing through rank 7, then rank 8, he could literally become rank 9 in like a week if he wanted to. The only concern that might be had is “he isn’t strong enough to undergo all of these tribulations.” You are correct that he cannot immediately face off against a myriad tribulation. But by the time he gets to a myriad tribulation, he would be able to! By progressing through tribulations he can gain strength immensely quickly because of the potency of heaven’s attacks. He could easily sweep the hardest myriad tribulation that could possibly be thrown at him. f*ck, he could probably fight rank 9s with his rank 8 body, a feat that no one has ever done before. All in ONE WEEK. Or...

He can consume other people’s immortal apertures. This will rapidly help him progress to rank 7 realm. It will just take, idk, a month. This will also make him skip all of his calamities and tribulations so no worries there! Oh, wait. Now that he is skipping all of his calamities and tribulations, by the time he gets to rank 7 realm he will have ZERO gain in strength. The only gain will be from having more immortal essence, which, again, means NOTHING since it can be replenished with money, which he has an abundance of. It also completely f*cks up his future because the gains that he missed now will never be able to be regained. The author tried to say some bullsh*t like “he gains more dao marks from immortal apertures that he devours.” No, he f*cking doesn't. That's only comparative to other people. In his own situation, a single devoured aperture gives him about 7000 dao marks and progresses him past 4 tribulations. This is lowballing it because I'm not counting heavenly tribulations btw. So, in those 4 tribulations, he would gain approximately 10000 each time. Yeah, you heard that right. He becomes weaker, it takes longer, it's more difficult to accomplish, it ruins his future potential, it gives him a lower immediate effect, etc, etc, etc. This is literally the worst possible decision he could have ever made. This is probably the most impactful decision in the entire story at this point. It completely f*cks up the gains he got from the past 1000 chapters and ruins his future gains as well.

The worst thing is that the author clearly has gotten too far. He realized that his main character was too good and was getting too strong so he made the main character ret*rded and made his strength obsolete. Most of the time I would say whatever, like the main character will get strong later anyways. But we were building to this for one THOUSAND chapters. I spent weeks reading the accumulation until this point all to have it thrown away on a f*cking whim. It is so s*upid and aggravating I am actually considering dropping the novel here.

This is only the first part of the situation. Second of all, the main character has a constant pestering enemy. One that shouldn't exist in the first place, shouldn't exist now, and shouldn't exist in the future but still persists. I'll explain.

The enemy shouldn't exist in the first place because his escape from Southern Border was based upon his usage of Fang Yuan's Fixed Immortal Travel. That should NOT be how using lent gu works. Throughout the novel, dozens of times the author repeats how gu is not easily stolen. How the owner can destroy it with a single thought. Now, suddenly, 1000 chapters in the author changes his mind. For some reason, he can take Fang Yuan's gu and use it. Whatever.

But this enemy won't f*cking go away. The main character interacts with him so much, proclaiming that he wants him dead a dozen times. Then the main character goes over and finds him and the enemy runs away. Main character can't chase for whatever s*upid reason the author cooks up, and this scene will repeat again in 20 chapters.

This wouldn't be AS frustrating if it actually made sense. If it was just a smart enemy facing Fang Yuan, then whatever. But it isn't. This enemy is CLAD in plot armor. So much plot armor you would never believe it. The author straight up forgets the plot when working around the plot armor of this guy. Like, for example, the characters would be fighting in the sky, above an ocean, and one of the enemy's lackeys pulls the earth from the ground and defends against the main character. They are in the SKY above an OCEAN. Even if he can do that, which he shouldn't be able to, how can he do it so quickly that it surpasses the speed Fang Yuan attacked? Did he pull the earth up with light speed?

Then the main character fights them and instead of like going around the wall or targeting one point in the wall or using a strong move to break through the wall, he slowly chips away at the way, layer by layer. He doesn't poke a hole in it, he starts destroying the whole wall. Why??

Then, predictably, the enemy gets away again after some more boring terrible unrealistic plot-armory fight scenes. It reads horribly, seeing how the author straight up doesn't care about the rules of his novel anymore. He just makes stuff up and it suddenly works because it is the enemy doing it. The novel feels increasingly shallow with this total disregard for reality. To see this from my perspective, imagine watching a horror movie where the characters are constantly breaking the fourth wall. It totally ruins the immersion and the world that has been built. Every conflict that does happen will feel fake.

Also, this isn't even the worst part of the novel atp for me. It is the insane amount of background characters and how much the author focuses on them. In the past maybe 20 chapters only about 2 have been about the main character. The other chapters have been following background characters completely unrelated to the plot. Like people who have zero influence on the story. The entire 18 chapters dedicated to them could be summed up in a single sentence and it would have the same impact on the story.

All I want is to be able to trudge through this part of the book where this enemy is being annoying and get back to the realism but it is taking hundreds and hundreds of chapters because of this. It is to the point where I feel like I'm going to catch up to chapter 2300 whatever and this guy will still be around. I am so sick of it.