Reverend Insanity

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Reverend Insanity (Chinese: 蛊真人; pinyin: Gǔ Zhēn Rén; also rendered in English as Daoist Gu and Gu Daoist Master) is a Chinese xianxia web novel written by Gu Zhen Ren (蛊真人), an author whose pen name is identical to the novel's title. It was serialized on the online platform Qidian from 2012 until its removal in 2019, and comprises 2,334 chapters across six volumes. The published text stops immediately before its final battle, and no ending has ever been written. In 2019 the novel was removed from Chinese platforms during a national campaign against online literature, and officials cited content promoting what they described as unhealthy values of violence, cruelty, and extreme individualism. The novel follows Fang Yuan (方源), a transmigrator from modern Earth who has already lived five hundred years in the story's world when it opens. Facing destruction at the hands of an alliance of "righteous path" forces, he activates the time-reversing Spring Autumn Cicada (春秋蝉) and wakes in his fifteen...

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