Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi
魔道祖师 (Mo Dao Zu Shi)
Mo Xiang Tong Xiu; translator: Suika; editor: Pengie; novel art: Jin Fang (covers), Marina Privalova (interiors); manhua: Mo Xiang Tong Xiu and Luo Di Cheng Qiu
Once feared and gladly mourned, demonic cultivator Wei Wuxian wakes years later in a stranger's body beside the stern Lan Wangji.
- Format
- novel + manhua
- Status
- novel completed (5 vols)
- Volumes
- Novel · 5 vols / Manhua · 13 vols
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Track record The animated series ran for three seasons from 2018 to 2021 and had 4.63 billion views on Tencent's platform by July 2022. The live-action version, The Untamed, aired in 2019 and had about 10 billion views on Tencent Video by December 2021. Source: Wikipedia 1, Wikipedia 2
Our take
The novel behind The Untamed. A mystery told across two timelines, with a troublemaking necromancer back from the dead and the upright cultivator who waited thirteen years for him. Start here if the drama brought you in.
Synopsis
Wei Wuxian was a gifted cultivator who turned to demonic arts during a war, and when he died, much of the world celebrated. Years later he is dragged back to life inside someone else's body. Old mysteries come back with him, and he has to work through them alongside Lan Wangji, a fellow cultivator tangled up in his past. The novel behind the live-action drama The Untamed.
Good to know before you buy
- Also adapted: Live-action: The Untamed (censored into a brotherhood story; source is BL). Donghua: Mo Dao Zu Shi. Manhua in English via Seven Seas.
- 2 more titles from Mo Xiang Tong Xiu on the shelf, listed below.
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