This Venerable Demon is Grossly Unqualified

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Elder Hu Xin, the Crimson Saint of the Pathless Night Sect, is missing. Not physically, his body is still there, walking about the sect like he owns the place. But behind his eyes, a stranger is panicking, because his transmigration experience came with no instructions, or any of Elder Hu's centuries of memories. He doesn't know how to work his own cultivation, let alone nurture someone else's.They say the best way to learn something is to teach it. Unfortunately, that's only true if the penalty for failing the test isn't death. Fellow elders, disciples, dogs of the orthodoxy, everyone has expectations about who Hu Xin is. And Hu Xin doesn't have any idea of what those expectations are, let alone how to satisfy them. And so, shielded by audacity and armed with bullshit, this newly venerable and grossly unqualified demon is making this shit up as he goes.This story is a multi-perspective Xiania story written by a westerner, with somewhat flatter/more abstract power scaling than a lot of the genre. Expect more intrigue and less violence, cultivation realms being less of absolute barriers than in many Xianxia, and fighting to be less about bigger numbers and more about people leveraging the unique advantages specific to their cultivation.Currently updates once a week on Sunday evenings.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2023
Author: Turniper

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.6/ 5.0
Followers: 3,357
Views: 810,717

Chapters(52 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

reteikerRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
What would you do if you suddenly wake up one morning in the body of a feared demonic sect master, with no knowledge of how or why this happened.
Our MC doesn't really know what he's doing, no knowledge from the previous sect master remains within his mind and his swordsmanship skills only remain because the previous inhabitant of the elders body trained & fought so ferociously the body's own muscle-memory remembers the peerless moves.
He knows he does not know anything. He also knows ignorance is a temporary condition with a simple cure; Learning.
Teaching is said to be the best way to learn things and he'll sure as the moon rising learn a whole lot teaching someone almost as clueless as himself. Thankfully he's a got an entire ancient demonic sect at his disposal and all the advantages that entails.
Assuming nobody finds out he's bluffing.
Blackbird0Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I love the premise: dropped into an elder cultivator's body and made to survive with zero hints or tips. No future knowledge, no cheats, no inexplicable talents. Basically, it's identity theft on a nuclear level, and the stakes are high! Elder Hu's new occupant is on his way to becoming a great conman - though maybe not a great cultivator seeing as he has yet to even figure out his own cultivation. Honestly it's more interesting this way. I look forward to where this will go!
Blorgh the muppetRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It gets better later on,
which is not to say its bad early on. these early chapter stand head and shoulders over most other stories but joy oh joy it gets even better as the story proceeds, the author hitting his stride if you will.
as for story points: i feel by now were all familiar with these concepts of reincarnation and starting off as an old monster in unfamiliar waters, this story seperates itself from common dreg through not paying lip service. Hes in a demonic sect, weakness is not tolerated. period. he cant fuck up his act.
There is no new disciple that quickly gets accepted, no obvious mistakes that can be brushed away as a cultivators quirk. He starts as an outsider in his sect, this doesnt give him the luxury of acting out, infact it puts more attention on him as a unique case. And our fresh protag needs to navigate still waters knowing fully well these waters run deep.(mind you our protag does both, but it has consequences and they come quickly)
also i keep making water references cause the story flows well. and cultivation here seems a much more spiritually and "self reflectory" than most other novels of this genre. Cultivation is a fascination, a mystery not a system to game.
the protag is likeable and sharp and the story is already setting itself up for success. it seems to me its already setting up the general gist of the story 50 chapters in advance and even this early you can slowly see it take it shape. not because the author has a plot in mind but because all outside characters and the protag himself make stupid but so so humane choices. There is never a charicature of life but just flawed people making flawed choices with flawed information. honestly i keep thinking im done with the review but then i come back to edit cause something else needs to be mentioned. so to summarize, this seems to be gold, and hard to summarize. gotta read it for yourself to form opinions about.
i like it a lot, slow updates tho understandable if you wanna wait till
Creampie EnthusiastRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is definitely a different experience than reading other cultivation novels. The simplest way i can put it is as if this novel is sort of a slice of life/journal of a cultivator. Of course that cultivator is also a transmigrator and the way we get to know his mind and thoughts is really immersive. Overall i think this is a very promising novel.
HeartysRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This novel's writing is amazing. The amount of care that went into crafting the worldbuilding is amazing. The setting and characters truly do come to life.
The story is, for the most, told in first person from the POV of Elder Hu Xin of the Pathless Night Sect--or the person who has inhabited his body.
I can see the author's own experiences reflected through the main character, giving him a rare-to-see depth when he speaks about his former life on earth. I envy a bit the author's ability to breathe life into his main character. It really feels like Hu Xin has lived a long and eventful life before being transported to the xianxia world. He also hasn't forgotten about his old world. A refreshing break from the usual "Reincarnated young man from earth" trope who doesn't know anything and has nothing to offer outside of power-ups.
The side characters are also quite memorable and act like I'd expect from a cultivation world.
Overall, one of the best novels I've read on RR.
ImtheBAITRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Binge read this over a few hours and cant help but rate it fantastic.
The characters have depth and life to them. The setting is believable in how things are run. Im really looking forward to seeing where this goes.
My only gripe is that there isnt more to read right now
JujubeanzRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
So far there is a lot to appreciate about the novel. Realistic characters with distinct personalities and motivations and a competent, realistic MC who has more layers than the cardboard cutouts we usually see in this genre. It is too early to call it great but it has done a good job of keeping me interested in seeing what’s next for these endearing people
Lazy king 123Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is amazing story I don’t even know what I could criticize, maybe only that the release rate will leave you hanging for quite some time?
to emphasize how good this story is I would even join a patreon if there was one … and I read a lot, so I do that only on the bare minimum.
LiarbytradeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Seriously, it's hard to find good xianxia that isn't obvious wish fulfillment, and TVDiG comfortably hits that spot. More to the point, the novel's protagonist is interesting, relatable and oftentimes amusing. The best part, though, hands down, is your ability to capture that sense of sage-like gravitas in his conversations and digressions. Even the fried rice speech. It shouldn't be so weighty, yet it clearly is.
My only complaint? Lack of consistency in your update rate. I don't know how long it takes you to put together a chapter, but I'd rather have one every other weekend, for sure, than to maybe get one each Sunday. Other people probably disagree. Still, as long as you keep posting, I'll keep checking my feed.
All in all, thanks for the story, fam. Keep it up.
Meridian PrimeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Alas, for all that I pride myself on my ability to read and critique, a lot of what separates good from great for me is feeling. Something can have impeccable grammar and an absolutely brilliant plot, carefully crafted characters... but if something is off about the feel of it all, the style, the vibes, well: it just doesn't work for me.
All this is to say that this story absolutely oozes style, class, pizazz, whatever you want to call it. After reading through a disappointing streak of well praised xianxias I almost didn't pick this one up, but I was hooked from the word go and remain so. It's shot up almost overnight in my brain to take a spot with Beware of Chicken as stories that aren't just the best I've found in their genre, but the reason I keep reading the genre at all. Because amidst the thousands of cookie cutter young masters and revenge stories, sometimes you find gems like this. Favourited, followed and Patreoned: I can't wait to see where you take this Turniper.