Reverend Insanity

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Humans are the spirit of all living beings, Gu* are the essence of heaven and earth.

With his three views* unrighteous, a demon is reborn.

Former days are but an old dream, an identical name is made anew.

The story of a time traveler who keeps on being reborn.

A unique world that nurtures, refines, and uses Gu.

Spring Autumn Cicada, Moonlight Gu, Liquor Worm, Great Qi Golden Light Worm, Slender Black Hair Gu, Hope Gu…

And a great demon of the world that acts as his heart pleases!

A story of a villain, Fang Yuan who was reborn 500 years into the past with the Spring Autumn Cicada he painstakingly refined. With his profound wisdom, battle and life experiences, he seeks to overcome his foes with skill and wit! Ruthless and amoral, he has no need to hold back as he pursues his ultimate goals. In a world of cruelty where one cultivates using Gu – magical creatures of the world – Fang Yuan must rise up above all with his own power.

Note :

Gu are legendary venomous insects, often used in black magic practices. They can take on the form of several insects, usually snakes, crickets, worms, etc.

Three views = one’s world view, values of worth and philosophy on life.

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Cổ Chân Nhân
Daoist Gu
Gu Daoist Master
Gu Zhen Ren
Master of Gu
RI
المبجل المجنون
เทพปีศาจหวนคืน (ไม่มีตอนจบ)
蛊真人
蠱真人
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HamSandFridge
HamSandFridge rated it
September 7, 2019
Status: c1159
definitely one of my favorite so far. Unlike some other novel where the main character get side track or either have unclear goal, fang yuan just want to have eternal life.

cicada cheat wasn't as op as a thought, compare to the new one -

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the heavenly court (the one that stand above all 10 sect of the central region) reveal to the 5 region that he have cicada gu and became a criminal, but of course the one that took his body during the fight with spectral soul venerable were one of the split soul of spectral soul venerable. So he did lose his cheat quite early imo, and his cheats which seem so op at first now became meh cuz there are many method to handle the cicada gu power. But of course, he was granted a new body (cheat), which he took from a rank 9 fetus gu. This gu was the effort of hundreds of thousands of year worth of planning for refine the gu with the plan of spectral soul venerable cuz he try to stand above other venerable. The plan obviously got destroyed by heaven will because the gu was so op, heaven will control the event in fang yuan first life and lead him to refine cicada to go back in time and change stuff. And his new cheat is op btw, fang yuan immortal aperture size include the 5 region and 9 heaven, contain all path of dao marks, and the dao marks does not conflict one another, so he can pretty much learn all path if he have time. And the draw back to this is that he have to face earth/heaven tribulation like every 2 months, and each tribulation is raised to the limit it can by heaven will to try and kill him, as a 6th rank immortal gu, he have to face level 7-8 beast everytime, sometime even worst type of tribulation. Everything he do is watched by heaven will, he have to consider his action carefully so he doesn't fell into the trap heaven will have set him.

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IMakeCopperMirrors
IMakeCopperMirrors rated it
September 3, 2019
Status: c1000
Rating: 8.5/10 (if just for the first 2 volumes then 9.5)

Edit: 9.5 because it slaps later on (just some middle arcs are a bit worse)

MC personality/ frame of mind is very well polished. The contrast between his focused, ruthless and relentless will and the normal everyday society familiar to us is simply brilliant. Sadly the author bites more than he can chew - after the MC leaves the initial world setting in the 'mortal' world, the author forgets simplicity and tries to portrey a massive complex... more>> world with complex history. The actual result is a world which is not well defined, where new characters are introduced every few chapters and disappear without becoming remarkable in the story. Although there are many character their personality is not explored and only have some general traits such as: smart/ very smart and cares about clan/only cares about himself etc. The author should have focused on fewer characters like in the first 2 volumes but follow them for longer more closely. Now the reading is tiring, long winded and feels like the details of what happens don't matter just the result. P.S. This explanation is not very clear ik but I hope you can get a sense of what I'm saying after reading the novel. <<less
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djinner
djinner rated it
June 20, 2019
Status: v1c635
I really want to like this and a large portion of it was good but the MC is simultaneously smart and an idiot. Not to mention that he acts like a completely spoiled brat. We see time and again why having someone, anyone to depend on would be beneficial but MC acts like a teenager going through puberty and rejects EVERYTHING. Thats not demonic, thats just s*upid.

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For example, the whole plot point where he is trying to kill Ma Hon yun who he knows has ultimate luck. Every attempt he makes is spoiled and everyone is telling him to take a smarter route but he still continues just because he wants to. For someone that lived for 500 years should he be more flexible? It's ridiculous, everything falls apart for him just because he acts like a spoiled brat.

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kuro106
kuro106 rated it
May 10, 2019
Status: v5c674
It started very well it was amazing but after the end of 3 Kings Arc it became shit, just awful you can read comments of Vol. 4 onwards and it's mostly hate.

MC at beginning had everything calculated, if someone would become a problem in the future he will rid of that person inmediatly, but no the f*ckin' took 700 chapters to kill a character that he could kill in the first 100, the author just asspull a way to solve his problems too much and I'm not talking about Cicada.

Want... more>> an advice? Read the first 3 Volumes and when you see him in his climax, drop it, drop it and beliee that was the ending, drop it and believe that he flew like Icarus. <<less
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zacolamp
zacolamp rated it
April 11, 2019
Status: c238
Based on my novel reading experience I can say that it is a lot on darker side. If you love some fighting, good, righteous kind of novel then it's not your cup of tea.

The concept of demonic cultivator in the novel is kind of vague, no clear idea who is righteous and who is demonic. You will find it very easily, characters are defined based on some ideology of author that only he and god knows. MC is a demonic cultivator but you will hardly find him demonic till he... more>> got ''blood skull gu''. He is being unjustly framed as if others did that no problem but if he did it he is demonic (for instance Bai Ning Bing killed members of alliance but he is not demonic but MC is. Others kill mortals on whim but if some mortals show hostility to MC and he kills them he is demonic, this is what happened in the case of Hunter family death[Elder son is a demonic cultivator, younger brother has huge ambition and more powerful than rank 1 peak Gu masters tries to kill MC, the family killed their daughter in law but they are innocent ]).

Another thing I think the author did wrong was the ''Tie clan'', the father and daughter duo come to Gu yue village to investigate but they did not like MC for just they felt he is way too perfect with his scheme. The father and daughter duo were the most Hypocrites after the Younger brother of MC (Fang Zheng) . They investigate only half the truth only try to link everything to MC, does any righteous faction will do it ? Rather than doing independent investigation they start with MC not others who might be involved in the death of Jia Shen (something : forgot that name of bastard, that tried to kill MC for benefit but died in the hand of MC and MC is bad because of that even after passing the investigation of Jia Fu). The father and daughter duo forgot that they got a big clan and their clan is not perfect but still pretend like both are most righteous in the world.

Now MC 's little kid brother: he is definitely a hypocrite who hates his big brother for everything. Servant girl wanted to become mistress of MC and live good life (before the aptitude test) but after the test she tried to get close to little brother due to his talent 'wow ' how much blind that kid bother of MC is. His uncle and aunt beat him, thrash him, give him nothing from the inheritance of his parents but his big brother will always help him but after aptitude test how he treated his brother but MC is bad and his little kid brother is good. Even the father and daughter duo of Tie clan can't find this hypocrite. MC advice him and his team to not fight Bai Ning Bing so MC is coward but they fought him and lost so many Gu master whose fault is that. MC is always portrayed bad By Fang Zheng (his brother) what ever he do.

Now the Author : He is one of a kind, too much of sadist. His writing is good at least better and little realistic than the other novel I read. No bullsh*t like pure luck, MC got his encounters due to prior knowledge and the past changed due to MC not like events happened just like the past Life of MC, some good changes and some bad too. Only thing he made wrong was trying to make MC bad forcefully termed him demonic even before he was one. Some events happened all of sudden like the first gu yue ancestor and the crane gu master event (why the F**k crane gu master waited 1000 year long to choose that time it never happened in the past life of MC so its like a plot hole just to keep the MC's kid brother in the story that's all)

At least Author should give MC little good nature other wise its waste in future to read, right now its still not too late that's why still reading but if this continues then need to skip it I guess (He should not have killed the whole clan of his to raise his talent I thought he would use the old ancestor to get A grade talent -- this doing made me term him as 'Demonic Cultivator'which is why its 3.5 / 5 on my scale[But how the hell the crane Immortal sect that wants Blood Skull Gu a righteous sect ?] that's why Author's concept is very vague and way too many plot holes till now) <<less
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jeb8
jeb8 rated it
March 25, 2019
Status: c600
Absolutely amazing novel. Character development. Plot is woven so well that I didn't even see it coming. Read it. You won't regret it.
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Lord Cryptic
Lord Cryptic rated it
March 18, 2019
Status: c70
Well I have just started reading so not much to review but I decided to write it because I found a very pleasant feature of this novel.

So basically even though this novel is anti-heroic and MC is ruthless and does not hesitate to kill, all the deaths I have seen till now does not make you feel emotional.

Even though the main clan treats other subordinate clans as s*aves there is no instance of r*pe, brutality on women etc.

The other thing that I found too good to be true is that... more>> there is nothing that's holding back MC as he has no one that he wants to protect so no blackmail plots against MC. Though it may sound like it does not make a difference but I like absence of romantic female characters, family members over those that are sloppily written and fullfil no purpose other than motivate MC and a means to find MC trouble by his enemies.

Overall Its a good read till now, easy to understand as translation is well done. <<less
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DarthBlood
DarthBlood
March 1, 2019
Status: v1c238
Everyone keeps mentioning how evil the MC is, but I don't think anyone offered any examples. Here is some minor plot details that I will keep as vague as possible. Take a look and decide if this is the kind of MC you are interested in reading more about.

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1. He needs meat to feed his Gu (basically this story's version of pokemon). He stumbles upon a hunter's trap and finds a boar. The hunter sees him and says "How dare you steal my meat?" MC kills the hunter with the excuse that "he angered me", a typical excuse that the arrogant young master type characters use in other novels. He drags the body to the hunter's home, tells the hunter's father living there that "I've killed your son for angering me. Give me a map of the surrounding area to appease my anger". After the old man does exactly as he wishes, the MC cuts off his head and kills the hunter's teenaged sister.

2. The MC and his team kill a powerful beast. A swarm of wolves approach. All but him and one of the female teammates flee. The MC immediately knocks out his teammate, cuts open the dead beast, and crawls inside like Luke Skywalker did to the tauntaun. He uses his teammate as a shield so that when the wolves start to feast on the dead beast, they end up eating her instead of finding him.

3. In the middle of a large battle, a 15 year old healer girl with cliche healer traits (she's pretty, sweet, caring) is separated from her clansmen. The MC saves her as she is about to eaten by wolves. She is about to thank him, but then he knocks her out and brings her to a secret cave. He wakes her up, then commands his s*ave bear to eat her, and the bear leaves nothing left of the girl but her brain and intestines. But the MC forces the bear to eat EVERYTHING, and then throws a poison Gu, a fire Gu, and some explosives into the bear's mouth and forces it to eat that as well. Then he kills it and does some secret ritual to create/refine some evil Gu. This one was pretty sick, the author goes into detail describing how the bear took chunks out of her chest, ate her breasts, etc.

4. The MC has kidnapped a village leader's young son and daughter and blackmails his way into a secret cave (not the same one as above), where he finds a Gu that requires two people to offer blood to refine and retrieve it. He forces the two children to strip and then kicks them into the furnace. The author describes them quite vividly screaming in pain as they burn, and as the kids try to crawl out of the furnace, the MC is described kicking them back into the flames 3-4 times before they melt from the heat.

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If you're looking for an anti-hero, this is not it. This is Orochimaru turned up to 11 on a scale of 1-10. He is the epitome of a villain. The kind of person that you usually want your xianxia hero to slaughter. I'm 200 chapters in, and I continue to read in the hopes that there is some actual character development where he loses some of his evil edge, but I doubt it's going to happen. <<less
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umair
umair rated it
February 28, 2019
Status: c145
Be aware this is a demonic novel with equally demonic protagonist. It may seem that the author is justifying his actions but in actuality he is just describing his thought process. Nothing in the text depicts a stalwart, upright or even closely a moral personality. The MC has one goal and one goal only, to become the strongest and oppress all others. Sins do not seem as sins to him, each and everyone is disposable and he does not tolerate even slight obstruction in his demonic path.

You can say that... more>> the MC has experienced a very tragic previous life, full of betrayals from close acquaintances resulting in his complete disregard towards social interactions or need of being considerate of others. Even in that life he had turned demonic but it was too little too late thus that backdrop sets up the stage for his renewed demonic life.

He will have no friends, no love interests as that is what is required for him to succeed. He will string pawns when required, forge double faced alliances and discard them within a moments' notice.

He will massacre mortals, immortals, beasts, children, beauties and masters; furthering his agenda has no price too little.

Overall this novel needs a certain level of mind to read, comprehend and enjoy. The MC is meant to be hated.

It is at all possible that the reader on the contrary will wish he dies a painful death or relish when he gets caught in almost impossible odds. But finally as he either masterfully with his 500 years of experience outwits his opponents or simply disposes them off in the most perfect criminal ways, the reader may end up with a strange frustration or simply glee at his approach. Only to notice this strange state afterwards and question own morality.

That is the beauty of this novel which is both hard to experience and accept. <<less
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alpoo
alpoo rated it
August 17, 2018
Status: c445
By far the most well written and well made Xianhuan noveI have read. The main character is also by far my favorite. If you liked Leylin from WMW you will like Fang Yuan. He is in my opinion more diabolical than Leylin, which is a very hard thing to do.
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Konstantin
Konstantin rated it
June 1, 2018
Status: v4c200
First two volumes of this novel are awesome, but later it goes downhill. As one of comments already mentioned volume 4 is boring. All good points already were mentioned in other reviews. And here are main downsides which made me to temporarily drop the novel (maybe I'll read it again when it would be completed, because it is definitely unique read) :

  1. There is no romance (he could at least f*ck some girls..), no friendship and even no enmity. MC basically treats all people in same way (using them in one way or other). At the start it could be interesting, but later it becomes boring. Also MC don't have any desires other than to become immortal, for example he is as*xual (and there is no sex-scenes even when they could actually make sense).
  2. Author sucks at mathematics to the point of creating glaring plot holes, specially when talking about immortals. You'll understand what I'm talking about at second half of 3 volume and it is even more obvious in 4 volume.
  3. More than half of the novel (starting from 4 volume) is about highest stages of cultivation, i.e. MC already have power not very far away from top tier masters half-way through the novel and then he will gain his power very slowly.
  4. There are no flashbacks about past life of MC until (what I know from spoilers) volume 5. I think what we should have at least few chapters about how MC lived in his past life, specially in first volume it could be very interesting. I wanted to see contrast between how MC was "nice guy" in his past life and was shooed away by his clan to how he become cruel but successful in his new one. Up until now his past life was almost completely irrelevant to the story emotion-wise, it was just information about the future and some of his cultivation experiences.
Overall I could rate it at 6.8/10, but from what other people said best part is 5 volume so I plan to continue reading it later.
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Kailour
Kailour rated it
April 21, 2018
Status: --
Honestly I should probably vote this one lower, but the Gu in the story are interesting so eh.

First off, the main character is evil. Not the fun kind of evil either, but the sociopath type. He is portrayed as an intelligent character, but despite trying to come off as intelligent he makes some incredibly questionable decisions and some insane leaps in logic that do not actually make sense whatsoever. A lot of his nonsense is blamed on his "future knowledge", but a majority of this is not in any way... more>> believable. A non spoilery example: Lets say today you dropped a coin on the ground, it landed on heads, you picked up the coin and put it back into your pocket, would you remember what the coin landed on or even whether or not you dropped it 50 years from now? No? Apparently MC can.

Secondly, other than the MC everything else is fairly well done. There are a few stereotypical "I can't believe they are actually this s*upid" types in the story that love to stir up issues. The best part of the novel, in my opinion, is the Gu. I won't go into detail on what they are or what they do as that varies quite a lot, they are interesting however, so if everything else I mentioned turns you away from the novel, at least know it has something that might keep you interested. Though the MC 100% ruined any enjoyment I could have out of this. <<less
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hilfdas
hilfdas rated it
April 4, 2018
Status: c215
First time writing review, here it goes. MC is straight up evil but calculative and know his priorities. Other characters too are logical (act according to their suppose personalities).

Very enjoyable read.
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GingerMessiah
GingerMessiah rated it
March 25, 2018
Status: c1911
An intelligent evil character.

A unique cultivation world.

A remarkable usage of rebirth/time reversal.


Dreamworld makes the story side track a lot.

Fate/Heaven is a very annoying antagonist.

Rebirth/time reversal might put off readers (repeating things that has happend), but author limits this as much as possible.
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Leafron
Leafron rated it
March 12, 2018
Status: --
I only want to say that, this novel is good, yes. But what pisses me off is how the author is unable to finish writing one part before jumping into the perspective of another person.

How else do I want to review this novel? Lets just say that the author is just writing about the same ol' few characters. The MC's rivals would always fight with the MC, but the MC will NEVER succeed in killing them. Resulting in the MC being on the run from the schemes of his rivals;... more>> being chase about by many factions. Then, the MC would power up and some how encounter the rivals again, only to have the whole thing repeat on a loop. It's annoying, but that's how this novel is. <<less
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AutumnSnowz
AutumnSnowz rated it
January 28, 2018
Status: c60
The novel has a decent storyline that is quite enjoyable. The MC stay true to his character but that's the reason I'm dropping this novel. The MC would basically be the evil person in any other novel but since he the MC in this one it works out for him. The novel isn't bad it's just not my cup of tea. I prefer my MC to be good or at least have a heart for his family or friends which this MC doesn't. There are two type of people who... more>> would talk to the MC. Someone he can use for his own benifit or someone he kills and I guess the third one would be both. <<less
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Hitexh
Hitexh rated it
January 16, 2018
Status: c250
C150

The philoshopy of Anti hero is really thick in this novel. The sub plot of ren zu every several chapters is really interesting to be reference in the story flow. Making this gu cultivation is one of a kind. The cultivation is very slow, but dont mind it, cause the story is good.

There is no comedy or romance here, but I have been hooked with how MC schemeing alone and always prevail. Im looking forward for more!

... more>> C250

there is might be an unexpected romance here, and its very interesting how serious both of them without realizing how close they are. Sometime this is become comedic too. <<less
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Enryu022
Enryu022 rated it
June 29, 2017
Status: c129
I got into this novel because some said this novel has not your typical evil protagonist, but I think they meant it has not your typical xiaxia side characters, but protagonist is definitely your typical evil protagonist that justify killing innocents with "humans also slaughter pigs, nature was never fair" kinda excuse, and paragraphs and paragraphs of author trying hard justify his actions. But aside that, this is a very good novel, it has a great world building, great side characters and good plot.
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porkbuns
porkbuns rated it
June 20, 2017
Status: c26
Not much to go on yet since there's only 29 chapters translated, but so far, it's a pretty interesting story if you enjoy reading about antihero protagonists. There doesn't seems to be a main plot or goal so far.

The power system seems to revolve around collecting and feeding Gu (not sure if they're actually insects or just powers that are represented in the shape of insects) ; it's pretty much catching, collecting and raising insects to grow stronger.

Plot:

    • The MC seems to be a transmigrator that ends up going down the demonic path of cultivation during his 1st run through in the new world, due to his mediocre cultivation talents (gets the typical abuse from the starting village/family/clan). He kills a bunch of people in order to create a super powerful Gu with time traveling powers. He ends up getting killed by all the people that he wronged in the past, and ends up traveling back to the past along with the super strong time traveling Gu (though it ends up in a weakened state currently) and the knowledge of the future.
    • I assume the overarching goal of the MC is just to becoming the strongest, without being killed this time :P
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AvERaGeNP
AvERaGeNP rated it
April 1, 2017
Status: c1700
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First let me get this straight. People who dropped Warlock of the magus world because of MC being too unemotional or simply evil should drop this novel since the MC of this novel will redefine what being evil, unemotional and calculating is really like. No, he will no change. If you like unwavering, logical and staying true to their character from start to the end MC then this novel is for you.

Alright here we go,
It seems most of the major character introduced have plot armor. Author is too scared to let go of these characters. The name of the novel should changed to "Pitiful Insanity" since this word is used a lot like really really a lot lol. There is also really a lot of monologue and philosophy. I could make do with the philosophy but monologue? I can make do with that too but sometimes there are useless monologue taking several chapter which I had to skip everything because it gets really boring. MC isn't overpowered, he fails a lot of time. The cheat of 500 of years is used a lot of time for convenience of plot but soon that too becomes obsolete as he meets many enemiees who have lived a lot more than just 500 years. Also people who are hoping for even a shred of romance should stop expecting anything since there aren't any of that here but it seems he did have someone in his past 500 year life which gets mentioned briefly. All n all I will give this novel 5 as I came for cold and calculating MC and I got cold and calculating MC and the plot? That's great too. World is built nicely and characters are fleshed out properly. Its a great novel.

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