How far I've read it: 3 volumes, or 4 according to webnovel.com but they split the first volume. About 1,400,000 words of the as-of-yet over 3,200,000 word that are available.
Reverend Insanity is a xianxia story that have a unique if bonker magic system, set in seemingly typical setting but a bit weird and bonker deeper on. It stars a transmigrator, except it's been 500 years since he transmigrated. MC is an evil cultivator, and had just slaughtered people to attain time-travel power, but he is chased by his enemies, and in his last moment activated the untested time-travel power.
He travelled into his childhood, and equipped with all sorts of knowledge and secrets, plus cunning and evil tendencies, he sets out his journey. The story is mostly him exploiting secret knowledge and exploiting people, i.e. MC outplays all, kinda wish-fulfillment-y, until the end of a volume, where the stakes are real and the MC had to truly brain-awesome his way through shits.
The magic system is a xianxia cultivation, i.e. there are concrete power levels, progress require resources, etc. The unique thing here is that the magic you do is "Gu", which are mystical bug that cultivator can subdues, allowing them to do magic things like shooting fireball, generating currency, and commanding an army like real-life RTS. They are obtained through catching them in the wild, buying them on an auction, provided by the clan, through treasure hunting, or by combining lower-level Gu into higher-level Gu.
Was it a good read? It's an enjoyable read, not great but okay. I can't exactly root for MC since he has evil ideologies and do terrible things, but I quite like the unique magic system. I was introduced to it under the premise that the magic system is unique and the setting is chinese astrological bullshits, and I think I enjoyed it more because of that, but I can't quite promise the latter part of it, since it won't come up until quite later, and it's not really played up that much. Anyway, give it a read if you're interested I suppose, but I won't force you to read it or something.
Oh also it's a chinese translation, so some people finds it a bit awkward to read, although I myself barely noticed, and compared to some other chinese translations I say this is pretty smooth.
Link to it on webnovel.com, on boxnovel.com.
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