Way of the Devil

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Demons, devils, ghosts and monsters

Plunge the weak mortals in horrors;

Arms of gods and blades of devils,

Shroud the world in untold evils.

Lu Sheng was an ordinary civil servant in the modern world. After waking from a drunken stupor one day, he found himself trapped in a dangerous world where demons, ghosts and supernatural monsters terrorize the land.

In this world, ordinary mortals live in dark fear and helplessness, without any means to fight against the supernatural.

As Lu Sheng struggles desperately for survival, he stumbles upon a game mod he had designed for a mobile phone app in his previous life. It unexpectedly becomes his special ability, which enables him to instantly level up any skill he learns, albeit at a cost.

Thus, Lu Sheng begins his journey, striving for power beyond the reach of a mortal as he treads the way…of the Devil…

Associated Names
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Cực Đạo Thiên Ma
Extreme Dao Heavenly Demon
ยอดวิถีแห่งปีศาจ
极道天魔
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koushik-ksv
koushik-ksv rated it
October 5, 2018
Status: c36
A good novel, but not my cup of tea. So, dropped it early. This is different from regular novels. The pace is slow. It has a horror element in it. The MC is still fumbling in cultivation. Don't know how many chapters it's going to take until he steps on the path of cultivation. He gets a cheat which he has to pay a price everytime he uses it.

Overall a a good novel, if you can bear the slow pace.
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Gsichtselfmeter
Gsichtselfmeter rated it
April 4, 2018
Status: c195
This novel basically is Fist of the North Star meets Detective Konan: You've got an ultra-violent MC and a world full of ghosts (and worse). What happens is a beautiful mix mu*der and martial-arts.

The only thing that bothered me was that the author has troubles closing his story threads. Many of the characters and happenings seem important and get described in great detail but then disappear very soon. But after reading some more and getting more familiar with the authors style of writing i've come to instead like this "feature":... more>> I cant foresee who will die and what is going to happen. <<less
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scribbledoutname
scribbledoutname rated it
October 20, 2017
Status: c78
2 spooky 4 me.

WotD is basically a very creepy xuanhuan-themed horror story. The MC finds himself in one of the xuanhuan genre's "stock" set-ups -- he's transmigrated into a cultivator's world and discovers a cheat system -- but he quickly finds out that this world is actually a dark and creepy place full of demons and ghosts that are incredibly hard to deal with.

The story is mostly enjoyable, but suffers from slow-ass pacing syndrome. That's why the ratings are so polarized -- some people are OK with it, because the... more>> story does something fresh by technically being a horror story, while others (who, like me, were hoping for endless action) were somewhat disappointed by the way some things are handled:

  1. The author takes a lot of time to describe things that don't necessarily need to be described but build atmosphere.
  2. The action is also spread out between long bouts of slow-ass cultivation, which can make some parts of the story feel REALLY drawn out. Usually, xuanhuan MCs regularly alternate between cultivation and deadly combat, but here there are long periods where the MC cultivates and doesn't encounter anything worth mentioning.
These combined often make it feel like there's very little progress or payoff for a large amount of time.

Even so, the story is interesting and it does a good job of creating this sense of hopelessness / eeriness that this world's people feel from all the creepy sh*t looming over their heads. While martial artists / cultivators can slaughter ordinary people, they too are helpless in the face of many of these beings. The MC's cheat makes him capable of standing up to things -- but not invincible -- so I'm interested in seeing where this story is going.

Still, I'm not sure I'll keep reading once I've caught up. I imagine the slow pacing will make it torture to read as each chapter isn't going to be jam-packed with action / progress like in series like, say, Dragon-Marked War God or Martial God Asura.

TL;DR: Decent xuanhuan horror story. You may find it a bit too slow paced. <<less
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lelmyleague
lelmyleague
April 8, 2023
Status: c481
I dropped this novel in chapter 481. Why?

Well, the quality of the novel started to drop after around chapter 200. It wasn't really a noticeable decline but once the MC started to transmigrate to other worlds, which is around chapter 400, that's when the quality started to really drop. The reason why the MC transmigrates to other worlds is to find his other self in this other world and assimilate with it to make his main body stronger. That's pretty much how the MC and other cultivators in his power... more>> level get stronger. Now that we get that out of the way the question still remains. How did the quality drop and how bad is it?

The world that the MC transmigrates into is irrelevant. We get a basic introduction to the mc's other life's situation and the MC must complete the karma of his other self to fully assimilate the power back into his main body. Throughout the time the MC is in this other world, we get no character development, no worldbuilding, and nothing important. The only thing you get is the MC power leveling and beating up people or fulfilling his other self's karma, which is usually just beating up other people. You could literally skip to the end of each transmigration and you wouldn't miss a thing. You wouldn't have to go back to that chapter you skipped or anything like that. It really just shows how useless it is. It's pretty much filler. That's how bad it is. And I recommend you just skip the parts where he transmigrates because it's just a waste of time reading all that for the MC to just go back to his main world and for the other world to be abandoned and never mentioned again. There are no memorable or important characters in the mc's transmigrations. Once the MC is done assimilating his other self into his main body then everything that happened in the transmigrations becomes useless and is abandoned.

Overall, before chapter 300 it was a 7.5/10. After chapter 300+, it became a 6/10. <<less
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Antrone
Antrone
September 26, 2021
Status: c360
Terrible story that repeats itself over and over again. The MC goes through te exact same motion every time he moves to a new area (because of course he started in the weakest city in the weakest county in the weakest country in the weakest... etc). He lowers his cultivation joins a new sect, hides his talent, becomes the strongest in the area, becomes the new sects sect master, attracts bigger enemies, beats them, discovers an even higher level of strength that everybody everywhere suddenly has then moves to a... more>> new area over and over again. It's very boring after the third time doing the exact same things. Even worse is that the original hook was that the MC was just a mortal with a system who had to work hard for his power instead of being born with a bloodline and this stayed that way for about 2-3 hundred chapters before suddenly he has a bloodline and all his previous cultivation if worthless and now he needs to train it and be just like everybody else. <<less
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Arcadial
Arcadial rated it
April 21, 2021
Status: --
The first 50 chapters were fine, I was excited as it was a martial arts novel without harem. However, its like the author forgot what he originally wrote and turned the main character into just another piece of sh*t in a novel full of them. He goes from someone who struggled against the evils of the world to just another version of them.
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deniya
deniya
December 5, 2020
Status: c173
Quite fun, the fights bring satisfaction (the part about MC going berserk and splitting apart enemies with bare hands/blade and all those funny monologues' interruptions with overpowering). There's some spooky-suspence moments as well, so horror is okay.

The idea about noble families sacrificing lots of people (city-scale) for benefits feels somewhat doubtful due to the scale of that (how are humans there still not extinct?). And even while there's all that going around and lots of other spooky stuff etc etc, most people don't know about ghosts (even the daughter of... more>> a sect leader while at the same moment lots of sect members around the world know about the ghosts and their own powerlessness against those). The author seems to be playing the "unknown" card part to bring in more horror, but it just doesn't really fit well.

And so far I've understood that the MC is really going to look like a devil in his battle form (the usual Diablo from Blizz game). <<less
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GinMagi
GinMagi
October 5, 2019
Status: c841
Chinese author couldn't resist and chose to create an evil Japanese character. Other than that, it is more enjoyable than other Chinese novels as the protagonist is not being chased in every chapter.
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