Reverend Insanity

THERE ARE NO WORDS. This journey has been everything. I, even, when I chose a novel name for myself, the first name was Yuan!! I really pray it could be completed one day while I'm still alive. Amen

Absolute peak. Read the first 200 chapters (though it may sound like a lot) and you'll know what I mean. Of course it gets interesting a lot earlier than that but once you finish volume 1 you'll get totally hooked.

This is a masterpiece. While it is a cultivation novel, it will ruin other cultivation novels for you when you read it. The power system, despite being incredibly simple and divided into 9 ranks only, is expanded and diversified by the presence of Gu. The expanded range of abilities later in immortal gu masters just makes it even better. It's amazing overall. The construction and worldbuilding of the world is also amazing. To go to Fang Yuan: he's brilliant. He's ruthless, callous, shameless, and completely immoral, but he's also terrifyingly intelligent and cautious. All this comes together to form a main character who is captivating, never knowing what scheme he will come up with next and what insane thing he will do in his quest. And through this story, it's never forgotten what his quest is: immortality, or death trying. Fang Yuan is almost a complete character from the beginning, but the relative lack of character growth or change is not a detriment to the story as that character growth is instead found in side characters like Fang Zheng or Feng Jin Huang, and never feels out of place nor confusing. Referring to the story as a whole: absolutely insane. Widely, it's a criticism and parody of the typical cultivation novel's tropes and stereotypes. It's also a story about perseverance, gruesome and grotesque murder, the true nature of humanity and the human self, and a man's journey to immortality. In fact, I could probably write an essay on the shockingly deep philosophical content in this novel, but it's better that one reads and understands it for themselves. Even when it's not weirdly philosophical or strangely moving, the story is amazing. At my peak reading speed, I was reading over 100 chapters per day. That is how good this is. It's not for everyone - you can probably tell whether or not you can stomach it by the end of book 1 - but if you can, you'll stick with it. Of course, if you've made it to the end of book 1, you'll also stay because of the endings of each of the books. They are, without question, Peak Fiction. Not one of the five book endings is any lower than a 10/10, and there are ones that I would rate somewhere around 50/10 or higher. It's that good. Reverend Insanity is, without question, the best cultivation novel I've ever read. It is also, without question, consistently a (at least decently) well translated novel. This shouldn't be your first Xianxia novel. It is, by large part, something that is made better by understanding common Xianxia tropes and systems. But when you get here, be ready. You'll be hooked.

Best XianXia ever BUT not a peak novel imho, its fine till 1000ish chapters, slows down from time to time, GZR repeats some known informations a lot to reach the word limit like ok he has 500 years of exp we already know that at 1500+ ch bro? he repeats things a lot. Has its peak moments like refining FIT, stealing sovereign fetus gu, refining perseverance gu, limitless dv's revival but other than these its just a decent novel. I love FY, his efforts, his perseverence, his way of making things to reach his main goal, eternal life, and all but... If i were to give one example of the most annoying things to me is him being able to outsmart/outplan SCIV after she gets revived, like she is a f*cking SUPREME GRANDMASTER WISDOM PATH VENERABLE bro. Heavenly Secret Gu can deduce anything without any clues but a wisdom path venerable cant make an immortal move that works like this or has even a fracture of its power? No, its just like a shounen novel to me with extra dark steps. Still one of my favourites tho. Peak moments are just too peak. Would recommend. Can get dislike bombed to hell but its ok im just expressing my thoughts about this "peak". And GZR's math path attainment is on f*cking negatives.

It's very good, but such a dark story is not for everyone... especially the Chinese - they banned the book. 

The story won't ever be completed 💀

This will for ever be the best novel that I have ever read. No question about it. I strive to be like lord Fang Yuan one day but I know I am but a mortal

The regret that it is still banned .... f*ck psychopathic thoughts and s*it... harem s*it and other stuff are wayyyy worse.... Its been almost 3 years that i have been waiting for it to appear again :(.... 

THIS is by far the greatest novel that I have ever read. Definitely definition of peak. Greatest interpretation of anti-hero. THIS is how you write a Villain. 10/10! PEAK!

Fang Yuan, the ruthless anti-hero, stops at nothing to pursue eternal life, making for a gripping, unpredictable journey. The world-building is deep, the power system is unique, and the philosophical themes hit hard. If you want a protagonist who plays by no one's rules but his own, this is the novel for you

Today on 5/20/2025 I have completed Reverend Insanity after almost 4 months and it was a journey. 

Honestly was much better than expected, it had a perfect main character, amazing side cast, interesting power system, phenomenal plot, arcs, etc.

While it definitely has bad things as well there's not many such as plot armour, dumb developments, characters not being well written and pacing.

Overall I would give Reverend Insanity a 9.2/10 amazing but not perfect, it definitely could've been better but it's unfortunate that it was banned before we could see.