Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation

by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

Genres: Fantasy, Light Novels, Romance
Pages: 377
Series: Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (LN) #4
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Synopsis:

THE LONG WAY HOME

History stands poised to repeat itself as Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are besieged by walking corpses atop the Burial Mounds. It is here fate offers them a second chance to protect their loved ones and unmask the true instigator of this grisly onslaught. As shocking revelations shake the cultivation world to its very core, the unlikely couple becomes preoccupied with other matters–like an evening of drunken impulse that may push their budding relationship into bold new territory.

Volume four of MXTX’s Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation has a looot of fun stuff, like A-Yuan (and of course, discovering who he is now, and what he is to Wei Wuxian and Lang Wangji). The drunk scene is excruciating (please, Lan Zhan, noooo, don’t do that) but also kind of sweet, and we also get some development on Wei Wuxian’s side. He’s not going to be clueless all the way to the end! Woooo! The scene with him in the tree is adorable.

It is of course also painful as heck: Wei Wuxian giving up his Golden Core and Jiang Cheng repeatedly just trash-talking him not knowing what he’s done, and the whole bit with the survivors of the Wen family, and knowing that everyone will always blame Wei Wuxian no matter what he does… arrghhh. And, of course… Jiang Yanli…

I am losing track of what happens in which volume because it’s written as one continuous story without obvious breaking points, dodging forward and back between the present and the past, but I’m pretty much used to it at this point.

At this point I’m already reading fic, though, so you can see I’m solidly sold on the whole thing.

Rating: 4/5 (“really liked it”)