Where Can I Read Reverend Insanity Online?

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Finished reading the manhua but craving the original webnovel chapters? Where’s the best translation site for Reverend Insanity, and does any platform have the complete series with consistent updates?

Julie Rostollan Cowgill · Answer

When the official translations of Chinese novels stopped being published, most people turned to reading the Chinese originals on Webnovel or to reading fan translations on websites such as Wuxiaworld. I read The Reverend And His Plaything after searching for a morally gray protagonist like the one in The Ethics of Sex (The Reverend is a cynical priest manipulating a sex-obsessed devotee). It’s a very short story that explores a very specific kind of psychological tension: that of the Reverend and his Plaything. The dynamics of power and influence between the two men are the only plot there is.

Mila · Answer

I spent a whole rainy weekend binge reading Reverend Insanity. Fang Yuan’s schemes are just so compelling. If you’re looking for a way to read Reverend Insanity online, Webnovel is probably your best bet as long as you’re okay with throwing some coins their way. Alternatively, you could check out some of the smaller Reverend Insanity websites like FreeWebNovel. From what I understand, the translation starts to suffer around Volume 5 or so, but it’s really engaging enough that you can keep reading even when the translation isn’t great. That twist involving a bear still sends shivers down my spine. Just be sure to avoid spoilers for this one, as it’s really at its best when you can go in completely blind.

Ella · Answer

Just wanted to share with everyone Reverend Insanity. I read this last year while browsing novel updates and it was absolutely amazing. The main character is this very cold and ruthless person but at the same time very down to earth and your able to really understand where he is coming from. For me he is one of the best cultivation MC’s out there.

For online reading I usually refer to Webnovel or NovelFull for the fairly solid translations, and updates that are slowly but steadily added. Wuxiaworld's forum also has a bunch of the novel translated by fans in poorer machine translations, so you can also look there for alternative versions. Note though that this novel is extremely complex, and does not always translate perfectly. That ending controversy of this novel is still rent-free in my head though.

Owen · Answer

A Twitter repost of Reverend Insanity memes sent me down the rabbit hole, and I ended up reading it through NovelFull (worst interface ever, but it has all 2334 chapters). Now I know that the middle section is kind of a slog, but Fang Yuan’s ‘the ends justify the means’ is just so compelling. Someone please translate his sequel properly...

Isaac · Answer

Webnovel is probably the most reliable place to read this novel right now (despite their paywall though). The other sites like BoxNovel and ReadLightNovel mirror the chapters on Webnovel but with loads of ads. Honestly though, this novel is so much more than just a cultivation novel. It explores the cost of immortality in a really deeply philosophical way. The ending of the novel has spawned a whole rabbit hole of fan theories that still have me reeling.

Henry · Answer

Reverend Insanity in good quality is one of those things that are comparable to searching for rare herbs in a xianxia world. Very stressful and extremely rewarding in the end. When the official translation on Webnovel got deleted, I switched to aggregator sites like LightNovelPub. Yes, the writing gets worse and worse in the later arcs, but that’s largely due to the fact that it’s been Machine Translated. But the pure audacity of the stuff is just so worth reading it anyway. For future reference, join the subreddit for this novel – some of its fans have already cleaned up the EPUBs.

Abby Lo Buban · Answer

Someone who handles licensing for Seven Seas or J-Novel Club (for example) would likely polish up the translation, and put out nice physical omnibus volumes of the series. It would be right on the shelves next to other darker series like Attack on Titan or Solo Leveling. In other words, there is demand for this series. It would sell well. But as it stands now, the content is just too opposed to the typical mainstream publication to ever get picked up. So instead, it sits in this underground world of digital-only, unpublished work that is passed around from person to person, like 19th century samizdat. That it manages to survive at all and be as popular as it is in this environment is a testament to the real power of the story. And at the same time, it is also a loss to literature as a whole. A work this significant should be able to be read by people, and then discussed and analyzed in the open.

Haydee Pol · Answer

I have to admit, I enjoy the search for current sources as much as I enjoy reading the novels themselves. The act of tracking down links that don’t work, searching for information on obscure online forums, can be as enjoyable as finally finding the correct up-to-date source and reading the first chapter of a novel. It builds anticipation and a sense of triumph. Fang Yuan may be able to outwit his many enemies but I have to outwit the system in order to read the latest translations of his story. The end result is well worth the trouble. Many of Wuxia novels have only a relatively small but dedicated group of fans for the simple reason that they require a lot of effort to read. The initial barrier to entry acts as a filter for those who are truly determined to read the latest novels.

Allertse Selliugra · Answer

It's been years since I've had to look up how to read light novels online. I remember it taking me all weekend a few years ago to find a readable version. People always recommend aggregators, but then you have to wonder which one to use and if the chapters are in order. The only aggregator that I managed to find with a somewhat decent mobile interface a couple of years ago was ReadLightNovel. Unfortunately, I've forgotten the name of the site. The process of closing ads on a page and checking the chapter list for each site was extremely time-consuming and led me to appreciate the web novels that are licensed properly for apps to read. Most of the fan-translated content online is precarious and I'd hate for the sites to change their domains again, but it's too much work to keep track of them and provide a direct link to a particular novel.

Atapana Ie'u Simona · Answer

It is rather fascinating how the novel’s unavailability has contributed to its mythos. While people are usually discussing the plot of a novel, with publication of the novel comes the discussion of the difficulties in finding the plot of a novel that has not been published. The novel is considered to be a hard-to-obtain, even forbidden, text that is brutally honest and that does not seek to gain acceptance by the mainstream readership. This text is the property of a select readership, and obtaining a copy of the novel is almost a challenge, a rite of passage for the reader. While I agree that the novel should be read by a wider audience, it is also incredibly frustrating for those who are casual readers of fiction. The novel is by and large read by the most dedicated, and often the most desperate, of fans. The very barriers to reading the novel are meant to be overcome by Fang Yuan-like figures.

Mila Gerald · Answer

Could it even matter? I got about halfway through on this pretty untrustworthy website. What I read was deeply, densely philosophical, but, alas, the experience was so pockmarked with ads and nonsensical page breaks that, in the end, it just wasn’t worth it for me. I’ve heard that there are PDFs floating around, distributed on Discord servers dedicated to things like villain protagonists or rational fiction. If you’re interested, you could try searching for Discord invites for subreddits related to said topics — often these tiny, specialized communities have compiled lists of banned or hard to find novels and stories, which are presented as sort of forbidden texts. But the barriers to entry here are considerable, and it’s unfortunate, because I imagine there are many amazing works of fiction struggling to get the word out through these flakey channels.

Jenalyn.bayot @yahoo.com · Answer

Banned novels often have lives after they’re been purged from bookshelves and libraries. And Reverend Insanity has an especially tenacious afterlife. Its fans function as archivists for the book. In online discussion forums devoted to reading, such as SpaceBattles.com and QuestionableQuesting.com, there are extensive sections for creative writing. Here fans can post their own stories. In the Rational fic and villain protagonists sections there are even links to more stable sources for the novel. To locate Reverend Insanity through a web search you’re better off searching through the web of human knowledge than by relying on search engines. The knowledge about Reverend Insanity is largely held by fans of the novel.

Jonathan A. Francisco · Answer

If you’re having trouble finding the novel, it’s because the novel’s core philosophy of completely amoral, purely competitive pursuit of success violates China’s censorship laws. My novel was originally removed from China’s leading webnovel site, Qidian, in Chinese, after only a short time due to its “inappropriateness”. And, in English, the official full-length translation was removed midway through the story due to similar complaints about “inappropriateness”. Now, the novel has filled a vacuum and become a piece of fandom history that fans are committed to making sure that others can read. Most of the versions of the novel are scattered about online in PDF, EPUB, etc. form, often posted by readers for other readers. Thus, finding a high quality, stable host for the work is difficult because any such host would almost immediately be subject to takedown notices from a variety of complainants.

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