Return of the War God

Description

After being sealed away for 1,000 years, the War God Duan Yuxian has come back to a world that has forgotten him and his malevolent past. As he wanders aimlessly through the central plains ruled by the martial world, he comes across a dying little girl named Xiaomei and revives her out of pity. Although they try to live in peace as a family, the factions of the martial world refuse to let them be. Now, Duan Yuxian has no other choice but to remind them that the War God has truly returned.

Original Webtoon:
Daum, KakaoPage

Official Translations:
English, S.Chinese, Japanese, Thai

Type

Manhwa

Related Series

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Associated Names

A hadak ura visszatér

Chronicles of a Returner

Chronicles of the Martial God

Chronicles of the Martial God's Return

Chroniken der Rückkehr des martialischen Gottes

Crónicas del dios marcial

Crónicas del regreso del dios marcial

Crónicas del retorno del dios marcial

Crônicas do retorno do deus marcial

Dios marcial

Dövüş sanatları tanrısının dönüşü

Ký sự về sự trở lại của thần chiến

Le retour du dieu martial

Record of Return

Record of the Heavenly Demon's Comeback

Возвращение бессмертного

Возвращение еретика

بازگشت خدای هنرهای رزمی

ตำนานเทพยุทธ์หวนปฐพี

武神回归录

武神帰還録

무신귀환록

Groups Scanlating

Latest Release(s)

c.134 by Asura 6 days ago

c.132-133 by Asura 2 weeks ago

c.131 by Asura 2 weeks ago

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Status in Country of Origin

133 Chapters (Ongoing)

S1: 45 Chapters (01-45)
S2: 40 Chapters (46-85)
S3: 42 Chapters (86-130)
S4: 3 Chapters (131~?)

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User Rating

Average: 7.5 / 10.0 (143 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.29 / 10.0

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Last Updated

October 7th, 2025 6:39pm PDT - 2 weeks ago

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Genre

Action Comedy Fantasy Martial Arts Shounen Slice of Life
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Author(s)

Myosu [Add]

Artist(s)

Rough [Add]

Year

2022

Original Publisher

Daum

DNC Webtoon

Kakao

Serialized In (magazine)

Kakaopage (Kakao)

Kakao Webtoon (Daum)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Tapas

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #372

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Monthly Pos #837

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3 Month Pos #1629

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6 Month Pos #2061

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Year Pos #1894

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List Stats

On 1043 reading lists

On 170 wish lists

On 14 completed lists

On 31 unfinished lists

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Very episodic family/acition series

by MatrixM
1 year ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

Reviewed @ch94
This is a good series for what it is. I feel like the genre itself is an impediment to it being better.
Basically it's a blend of slice-of-life with episodic action arcs which are often quickly resolved. The MC is incredibly OP but it does a fair job of having other characters do the fighting.
In a way it's kinda like Beware of Chicken but more episodic in its short arcs.

The first half, of the story so far, leans much more heavily towards the family slice-of-life part with that balance tilting to some degree (though still family focused) later on.
The best parts are when the daughter is on screen. She's adorable and full of love, and her family in turn is full of love towards her. Unfortunately as the cast grows and villains keep coming her screen-time feels like it decreases to some degree.

I did feel that season 2 is where things lose focus a little, which is ironic as that's also where the series-long arc is introduced. But it does make me go from judging this as a 8.5/10 found-family easy going to around a 8/10 such story that incorporates more action stuff.
I'm tempted to go a bit lower, because I don't like episodic stories very much. But I'm making allowances for my personal bias.

A superior Korean wuxia/xianxia father-daughter story is The Baengri Clan's Unwanted Granddaughter (which I'd rate the manhwa a 9, novel a 9.5)

... Last updated 1 year ago

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Slice of life Martial Series

by cnd
1 year ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

This series is carried by slice of life interactions and cute art, the martial world, regression, and political undercurrents of sects all take a back seat to that. There is some traditional themes where the MC trains up the side characters around him and intervenes in JiangHu as a whim, but it really feels like the B-plot since he's ridiculously powerful to the point of not having stakes.

That said, I still gave it a perfect rating for what it's trying to do specifically: if you're looking for a cute father-(adoptive) daughter tale set in a Wuxia environment and nice art with the slice of life interactions hard carrying the series with just enough martial arts to keep the plot going then give this a try, you'll know if you like it after the first dozen or so chapters, if you're looking for a more traditional regressor weak-to-strong series with a twist or two, this won't be it.

... Last updated 1 year ago

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It's okay, cute father daughter scenes

by Y_Sasuke
1 year ago

Rating: 7.3 / 10.0

Otherwise, not bad or great. Passes the time.

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I like the concept of time travel this way as oppose to "returning to the past"

by TwoLargePizzas
3 years ago

Rating: N/A

MC is OP from the start and isn't some noob who needs to "grind" all the way back up struggling to take down third rate enemies.

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No purpose

by Joese
3 years ago

Rating: 2.0 / 10.0

It's the typical, "tailored" comercial series. It tries to suit the tastes on people that are leaving demographics. It ends up being a mishmash of (Corean) shonen and shoujo tropes, tied together with some comedy and generic MCs.

The synopsis would be a stereotypical shounen cast with randomly watered down attitude/interactions, the backstories of abandoned puppies (even villains) and the most repetitive shoujo comedy ever (litetaly not only on comedy I don't know how Corean shoujo fans withstand such repetition in each chapter).

It's just not for me, the intentionality of every scene is way too palpable, it just tries to gather as many readers as posible jiving a slight twist to the tropes they're used to. If there was a clear plot they're advancing to, I might enjoy, but given there isn't and the MC is an outrageous hypocrite, I'll drop it.

... Last updated 3 years ago

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Pretty good start

by tiankioo
3 years ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

Not bad so far, it's decently funny despite a very shallow plot and close to no world-building. It's still early on but I don't expect that to change. The setting doesn't allow for much to develop since MC is already established as the strongest in existence.

Edit as of chp. 40: If you've read the later chapters of 'Reborn as a Scholar' you'll see quite a few similarities here. Like other stories where the author made the MC way too strong, it tends to sideline the MC in favor of weak side characters instead. The main draw, interactions between Somi and the MC are much fewer than you would expect after reading the synopsis and first few chapters. Currently, it's just been rehashing lame fights with bandits in order to develop the worst side characters in the manhwa so I've decided to stop reading. Hopefully, the author will realize that no one wants yet another generic manhwa with OP MC training his weak comedic relief sidekicks that no one cares about and focuses more on the daughter with OP father aspect that brought me here.

... Last updated 3 years ago

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