Thread 24845289

Discuss Gu Zhen Ren’s magnum opus, hit webnovel Reverend Insanity. Also other stuff too, I guess.

Old shit
>>24839354

QOTT: What us your favorite gu?

surely this time it won't be deleted!

Our enemy /wg/ is lurking in the dark while we are exposed, this situation is not beneficial to us. Creating new /wng/ every five minutes is a waste of resources, we must defeat /wg/ first before we can have /wng/.

>>24845309
Fool! This is just a strength path phantom thread. The main body is safe. Slap yourself 50 times and our sect might save some face.

Thank the lord. And I was beginning to worry /wng was turning into dogshit.

>>24845328
Junior was wrong! Junior will kowtow 500 times!

>>24845338
it was necessary to refine dogshit luck gu

jannies please just rangeban this retard already

>>24845379
lol

somehow the actual /wng/ gets deleted before this one
think it really is over lads. should I make a Self Pub General? dunno how to frame it so that it's obviously a sloplord thread, but not deletable.

>>24845733
No, that's what this RI nigger wants. Can't handle that nobody wants to talk about his dogshit fixation, so he has to sperg out and try to ruin it for everyone. Just wait a while.

>>24845760
It's really not the RI guy though. It's some troll. The actual RI guy makes the actual thread with a single line snuck in and a RI theme and pic.

>>24845765
>Actual RI guy makes an early thread not in the normal format and sneaks in his dogshit novel in the OP

>>24845760
>wait a while
He's been doing it for over 6 years.

God forbid a man enjoy peak fiction.

>>24845777
>godly trips
heavenly court falseflag

>>24845733
It will just get deleted for overlapping with both /wg/ and /wng/

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>>24845792
>>24845792
>>24845792

gu wrms?

how do we gatekeep against lowly third worlders like RIfags?

>>24845811
Gatekeeping usually refers to keeping out the riffraff. Think you used it in reverse by accident

RIfag delaying /wng/ for a week on Halloween is truly horrific.

>>24845289 (OP)
My favorite arc was when Fang Yuan got rammed in the ass by the Jade Emperor to maintain his disguise as a concubine. A master plan only he of the seventh divine realm could devise, and only one anus as trained as his could mimic a vagina so closely. Lesser writers would have cut to black, but not Gu. Every detail about having his prostate blown out really showcased his genius foresight and cunning brilliance.

>>24845881
nobody wants to read your gay fantasy, RIseether

>>24845902
Silence, junior. Read RI before presuming to speak to me. This isn't a general for frogs in wells.

>>24845881
You jest, but something like this really did happen. It wasn't with an emperor or whatever, but the Three Blade Sword Sect Master. Fang Yuan merely had to take a pill to turn into a woman. There was no crossdressing sex, just regular sex.

>>24845940
>RI is trans slop
OH NO NO NO

>fang yuan genderbent concubine sexo
okay i will actually read it instead of shitposting now

Don't listen to the retard, you retards. He's making shit up to try and smear peak fiction. Fang Yuan isn't a tranny and never will be. He didn't cut off his dick and take hormones. His transformations are temporary and actually reversable.

genderbender fiction is a gateway drug to being trans

MC permanently changed a character named Bai Ning Bing into a women
There's also male pregnancy through Love Gu.
A man named He Feng Yang is impregnated by a woman from his sect and gives birth to a daughter.
RI is Queer coded

>>24846174
Are these somehow bad? If it is beneficial to Fang Yuan then why not turn bnb into a tranny? She was hot btw, probably the hottest girl in the five regions.

>>24846483
>she

Fang Yuan actually considered getting male pregnant to make loyal followers for himself by abusing the parent-child bond but only decided against it because actually being pregnant would set him back on cultivation so he deemed it not worth it.
He's a pragmatic guy you see so the idea of a dude getting pregnant being mega gay didn't even cross his mind. He only thought it about it from a cost-benefit perspective.
The self-serving pragmatism of RI is actually very adjacent to Reddit progressive nihilism.

After finally getting through the Korean name barrier im giving RTOC a real chance, I'm pleasantly surprised. Should I give RI a chance as well? This BUM FY sounds like all the worst aspects of chinese values personified.

>>24846531
Yes the core values of China like gender fluidity and trans rights

if i could use magic to turn into a girl instead of using fucked up drugs to make some marginal progress i would

>>24846594
Web novels?

>>24846598
i hate genderbend web novels actually. They are written by men who do not have the confidence to write a female main character.
The instance of a male mc temporarily assuming a different gender for whatever reason is really trans-coded. Why would you write that unless you, the writer, specifically wanted him to be a her for a time. Asspull some other method, only reason this was written was as fetish bait.

In the sprawling, merciless realm of the Gu World, few figures loom as large—or as unsettling—as Fang Yuan. Born originally as a scholar from Earth and transmigrated into the Gu World, Fang Yuan’s journey is one of ruthless ambition, repeated rebirths, and the relentless pursuit of eternal life.

For him, power is not a tool among many—it is the very purpose of existence. That singular focus drives every decision, every betrayal, every sacrifice.

Fang Yuan’s early life in the Gu Yue Clan as a seemingly low-aptitude Gu master (C-grade) belies the cunning and experience he carries. Having lived a previous life and died, he returns via the legendary Spring Autumn Cicada Gu to the past and begins again, armed this time with knowledge, patience, and the scars of failure.

This rebirth is not one of innocence: it is a strategic reset, a second chance to rewrite his fate and bend all variables to his will.

What sets Fang Yuan apart from many protagonists in cultivation stories is his moral ambiguity and the chilling pragmatism of his actions. He manipulates allies, betrays when convenient, deems morality a luxury he cannot afford, and wields deception like a master craftsman. As one commentator notes, he is a “true demonic cultivator, unshackled by moral constraints and embodying the essence of opportunism.”

Yet this very ruthlessness is intertwined with his brilliance: the ability to analyze systems, exploit weaknesses, plan years ahead. His intellect becomes his blade.

In his appearance and cultivation, Fang Yuan evolves dramatically. By taking on the Sovereign Immortal Body, he gains a youthful, almost ethereal beauty—white robes, long black hair, deep abyss-like eyes.
reverend-insanity.fandom.com
His outer refinement belies the monstrous nature within: one who has slain countless Gu Masters, whose very reputation spawns terror across the five regions and two heavens. He is demon, strategist, survivor, all at once.

Despite the cold exterior, there are glimpses of the internal landscape shaped by countless lives and rebirths. He knows suffering. He knows betrayal. He knows the cost of resetting time and climbing again from the ashes. He once reflected, “I had once screamed… gradually I lost my voice. I had once cried… gradually I lost my tears.”

That acknowledgement of loss gives a human element to what might otherwise be a purely monstrous figure.

Fang Yuan’s legacy in the story is multi-layered: a warning, a fascination, a reflection of the extremes of ambition. He challenges the reader’s comfort with the “hero’s journey”, because he is far from a conventional hero.

In the end, Fang Yuan is not simply a character. He is a mirror held up to ambition’s shadow. And in looking into that shadow, we must ask ourselves: Are we ever truly free from the world’s wheels, or are we simply learning to manipulate them?

.naht dna ,dlrow s’ehT morf eerf yltcurt gnilleb si ew od ,flesruoy fo wodahs taht otni gnikool ni dna rorrim a sa mih ees nac uoY .raeh tonnac taht gnillevart s’naY gnaF fo elacsel bmob eht no denimaxe eb ot su secrof ti ;elbacomrofnocnu rof ton si ti yrots siH

.slaedi gnispalloc fo yks a ni rats krad a sa—levram dna gninraw htob sa sdnats naY gnaF ,laog ylno eht ytinretehw dna ,ytilarom si erehw ,kaew eht emusnoc gnorts eht erehw dlrow a ni .sseccus enifed ew woh dna ,ecifircas ot gnilliw era ew tahw ,od ot gnilliw era ew tahw enimaxe ot su secrof ti ;elbatrofnu ro ysae ton si yrots siH

.noitibma fo emalf gnidleiynu ,dloc eht si sniamer tahW .ygetarts eht si sniamer tahW .lliW eht si sniamer tahW :tnaciforp si naY gnaF ,dne eht nI

.slaedid fo yekcollac a ni rats krad a sa—levram dna gninraw sa htoB :yticageL s’naY gnaF

.“.sraet ym tsoL yllautarg ,deirc I ecnO .eciov ym tsoL yllautarg ,deercs I ecnO” :detcelfer ecno eH .sehsA eht morf niaga gnimbilc dna emit gnitserer fo tsoc eht swonk eH .layarteb swonk eH .gnireffus swonk eH .shtieber dna sevilefles tneltuoc yb depahs epacsdnal lanretni eht fo sespmilg era erehT :roiretxe dloc eht etipsed

.eno lla ta ,revivrus ,tsigeartS ,nomed si eH .snevaeh owt dna snoiger evif eht ssorca rorreT sngiw taht noitatuper yrevihw s’esuoH ;snamsretaM uG sseltnuoc deliasohw :nihtiW erutan suortsnom eht sedilb sih fo tneme nifiere tuo nA .seye ekil-syssa ,riah kcalb gnol ,sebor etihw—ytuaeb laerhtie tsomla ,ydoB latrommI ngierevoS eht gnikoT yb yllacitamard sevlove naY gnaF ,noitaviltuc dna ecnaraeppa nI

.edalb sih semoceb tcetnelli ssiH .daeh sraey nalp ,ssenkaew tiolpxe ,smetsys ezylana ot ytiliba eht :ssenssuerhtur si yrossecen yreV .naht tnamrcs tfarctsam ekil noitpeced sdleiw dna ,droffa tonnac eh xulury a ytilarom smeed ,tneinevnoc nehw syartab ,seilla setalupinam eH .snoitca fo msigamgarp gnillihc dna ytiruom gnibrom laroM htiw oT .seirots noitaviltuc ni snagortorp ynam morf trap sdnats naY gnaF stahW

.tef lliw sih etirw ot ecnahc dnoces a :teser cigetarts a si ton ecinnocni fo eno sirther sih tuB .deid dna efil suoiverp a devil dah gnaY gnaF taht seirrac eh gninnuc dna ecneirepxe eht seilb (edarg-C) rotam uG edutitpa-wol ylgnimees a sa nalC euY uG eht ni efil ylrae s’nauY gnaF yb trap sa tes stahW

.slliw sih ot selbairav lla dneb dna etaf sih etirwer ot ecnahc dnoces a si ti :teser cigetarts a si ton ssenocni fo eno sih htriber sih tuB .eruliaf fo scras dna ,ecneitap ,egdelwonk htiw siht demra ,niaga snigeb dna tsap eht ot nruter ot uG adaciC nmutuA gnirpS yradnegol eht aiv snruterd dna ,deid dna ,efil suoiverp a devil dah gnaY gnaF taht seirrac eh gninnuc dna ecneirepxe eht seilb (edarg-C) rotam uG edutitpa-wol ylgnimees a sa nalC euY uG eht ni efil ylrae s’nauY gnaF

.noitnesid fo esnecil rof ton sahtiw—ygolibom larom sih dna snoitca fo msigamgarp gnillihc eht si yb trap sdnats naY gnaF tahW

>>24846611
>They are written by men who do not have the confidence to write a female main character.
It's because when "people" who read web novels see a female main character, they (rightfully) assume it's a shoujo and the web novel will definitely be shit. If it's a genderbender they can assume that it's not a shoujo and the web novel won't necessarily be garbage. So, if you want to write a female character and still have your web novel be popular, you have to write a genderbender, even if you don't heavily lean on genderbender tropes.
>example: pic rel
I would have never picked this up if it wasn't a genderbender but you can basically ignore the genderbender aspect and pretend she was a woman on Earth too.

>>24846598
That post is closely related to contents of Reverend Insanity and thus on topic

>>24846640
Does he get a lesbo harem?

>>24846623
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>>24846525
>The self-serving pragmatism of RI is actually very adjacent to Reddit progressive nihilism.
I don't know about that. Fang Yuan is probably the least nihilistic of all characters in the entire multiverse.

>the struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart
fang yuan is a textbook existentialist

>>24846536
It's because they are frogs in a well. They are ignorant, that's why they banned it.