I have never gone through something so fast in my life, read 70 chapters in the span of just a few hours, staying up til 5am cause i couldn't stop reading! Disregarding all other factors, this is probably the most enjoyable manhua/manga/webtoon I have ever read.

This story is basically identical to Rebirth of the Thief Who Roamed The World but he has gotten better at hiding his bad habits. For Mad Snail, expect endless ass pulls, endless plot holes, endless plot threads that go no where, endless people pointlessly praising the MC, endless contradictions and endlessly cringey romance and social interactions where even the love interest is just another puppet there to praise the MC for doing things that shouldn't even be praised. He also likes to endlessly repeat the same Chinese idioms but I didn't notice it as much here but I don't know if that's due to the translator leaving them out or because Mad Snail finally learned something.

I could review his older story and you'd have a hard time knowing I wasn't reviewing TDG. MC dies and is reborn into the past with future knowledge. Future knowledge continues to be useful even when it shouldn't. Side characters are completely one dimensional and regardless of whether they are ally or foe, they exist just to prop up and praise the MC. MC asspulls super powers whenever they are needed and frequently forgets they ever existed. World building only serves to create contradictions and plot holes as the story progresses and plot threads with no resolution continue to breed endlessly. All social interactions of the MC make him seem like a sociopath and everyone just feeds into his psychosis. His relationship with his underage future wiafu is super cringey and pedo and he treats her like his personal possession, since they are fated to be together. Friends are just tools to show off his magnanimity and how much stronger he is, while enemies just exist to praise him and be seemingly impossible hurdles that he easily steps on. After going to the past, he immediately starts finding the magical McGuffin (chapters or pages, pick your story) that will make him instantly super powered to the point that no one can contest him, until they can and he just asspulls new super powers. Often, said McGuffin is forgotten about, until suddenly it's important again and fully assembling it is a task that will suddenly become important only at the very end, when MC needs to officially become a God to fight the Last Big Bad. I haven't read the ending of TDG but I'm sure he gets stupidly injured near the end and has to enter some kind of recovery montage where he rapidly gains power again and finally gets the final chapter/page of his McGuffin and becomes God like he did in the Thief story.

Honestly, Rebirth of the Thief Who Roamed The World was probably the better read because it had an almost so-bad-its-good train wreck going. However, the MC really deserved to meet the same fate that sent him to the past to begin with, so the ending was exceedingly lackluster. It's obvious Mad Snail tried to hide his bad habits better with TDG but it just resulted in an even more bland and generic story. Also, he still ended up revealing his fetishes, even if he was slightly less blatant about it.

Edit: I forgot to mention but I have not read the novel for TDG and have no idea how accurate my predictions are and no idea if they qualify as actual spoilers, since they are a guess based off of reading Thief. I probably should mention I dropped Thief after chapter 925 because I read a spoiler summary about the asspull of him getting shot by a sniper (in spite of being able to dodge sniper bullets) and still survived. I would have been able to give mild praise to Mad Snail for the ending if he had let Nei Li, I mean Nei Yan, die from the sniper shot but he couldn't give the MC a fitting end and asspulled a magical recovery. I didn't bother to read the spoiler summary for the final chapters, so I don't know if he really became God or whatever but it's the prediction I made somewhere around the time he started collecting chapters and felt was written in stone a few hundred chapters later when an actual quest to become a god was introduced on top of him becoming Pope or whatever after finishing the book. It's possible Mad Snail had completely forgotten about the quest like so many others. Honestly, he doesn't need the official title of God because he already had broke OP powers long before then.

... Last updated on January 20th, 2020, 5:52am

It's a good story, so it's nice to see a colored adaption.

I like the art. Contrary to the below comments, the only time when I really compared the art to Naruto was with the classroom in the first chapter. The artist also seems to make the story a more humorous.

My only complaint is that it gets wordy sometimes. It is adapted from a novel after all.

Trust me folks.....this awesome Manwha is nothing like Naruto....not even a single bit.....since 13 years back till date I have been following Naruto......and I was looking for something to replace Naruto....and I found this manwha and that Manga called as Kingdom...

I realize that the art style is similar, but please take my word for it (or read the light novel). It really is nothing like Naruto. The main character is shrewd and calculating, he never acts rashly without planning before hand either. The drawing style portrays him as far more childish then he his. His character is a bit closer to Itachi if I had to compare him with a character from Naruto. The image I have from the novel has him coming off with a far colder and more reserved attitude.

That being said, the manhua is currently (chapter 3) a word for word adaption of the light novel. I hope they stay with that. I really do not want to see something like what happened with Kuangshen or Douluo Dalu, where there are vast differences and watered down plot for younger readers.

... Last updated on August 18th, 2015, 10:39am

People keep saying this is rip off Naruto.
1.) The story is not even remotely close to Naruto.
2.) The Character does not even look like Naruto.

Maybe because of "Color Hair"? Orange?

A guy even saying girl copy hinata..Hinata doesnt even have Purple Hair

I don't know what all the fools are doing in this review section, throwing names and insulting eachother, comparing it to this or that... Let's just write a proper review for what it is instead.

So, this was actually my gateway into chinese novels and thus actually the novel world itself. At the time, I was all about japanese manga and japanese anime, I had never humored the thought of reading novels nor had I humored the thought of enjoying "delicacies" from other countries.

When I first got to this manga, it was just so damn fresh, it blew me away, I loved everything about it and I couldn't get enough. I had never seen anything like it. Thus I, desperate for more after reading the measly two dozen or so manhua chapters that were translated at the time, found my way towards the novel! Wow. After that, I spent day after day reading it until I was done and craving more enjoyment, I started a lengthy crusade, I mean, journey, to pillage all the novels on the internet! Ah, good times. By the way, go for the novel instead! Or rather, try another chinese xuanhuan or xianxia novel, because this shit has an author that is slower than a sedated sloth, we're talking about posting 1 chapter a year or something and then a very, very slow rate when he comes back(at which point the story isn't the same anymore because he obviously changed and forgot things about the story after being absent for so damn long!). Anyway, so, satisfy it to say that I was spellbound.

This doesn't mean that this is actually a super awesome novel. Look at my score. 6/10. That thing includes at least 1 point of nostalgic value and gratitude for introducing me to something so awesome.

No, this is actually a pretty damn generic and super cliché chinese novel. It has nothing that special to offer and it could even be called simple and subpar in many ways. However, what it does offer is a mild way to get used to the idea of chinese novels(or manga). It's pretty easy to swallow for people, there's no outrageous stuff going on here. The mc is just an OP as f*ck sage of 1000+ years acting like a teenager and dominating everything, always showing off how damn good he is. Things that you find in other chinese novels might be much more outrageous and hard to accept for newcomers, such as rape, murdering millions, extreme torture, brutality, horror, tragedy, pussy hunting, killing for petty reasons, revenge and hilarious moments where the obnoxious people you despise finally gets screwed over and killed, crippled or tortured, or why not all at the same time. Stuff like that is quite common. It's far, far more gruesome than japanese stuff, and I love that about it, it's a nice change of pace. Someone annoys you? looks at you the wrong way? Eyes your girl? Has shiny stuff that you feel you would be much more deserving of? Well, they'd better wash their necks because mr. forgive-no-slight is coming to get them, no more forgiving and acting like a doormat. I mean, after reading about that stuff a lot, you start wanting more extreme stuff, no longer the kinda gray-good guy but instead the crazy, insane bastards that does everything for their own profit, that type of mc(one example of many, "reverend insanity" where the mc kills an innocent girl, feeds her to a bear bit by bit in great detail, including bones which he forces the bear to eat, then kills the bear and refines it into a pill to advance in level, where he sacrifices his entire home village to level up, eats brains that tastes like ice cream of a still alive monkeys twitching in horror and pain, burns innocent twins alive in a fire to get a skill, chops a messenger up and sends him home in a box amongst many other things). Would you find that in japanese novels? Nah, not easily at least. By the way, avoid stuff like "reverend insanity" until you're well tempered... It's not meant for newbies that haven't strengthened their stomachs and acceptance ranges.

Well, in this particular manga(and novel), you'd get a guy that is a pretty nice guy compared to most mcs out there. He kinda wants to help those around him as he journeys to become stronger. He does kill, but it's never a big deal(unlike many other chinese mcs that seems to have an experience counter where they level up if they kill enough, wahahaha). He tends to have good reasons to do so as well. There's no torture that I can remember or anything else, overall it's a nice introduction to start with, for the absolute newcomer, I don't doubt it would be a 9/10 or 10/10. If you want another introduction that people usually start with, it's coiling dragon amongst others. I never liked that one since I tried reading it after already going through many novels, but if I had started out with it, I bet I would've loved it.

... Last updated on October 23rd, 2018, 4:15pm

If you're looking for nice fighting shounen read, this one does the job. I did not get a masterpiece feeling from this one (yet). There's still potential. However it kept me entertained through all the chapters. The art is decent as well.

... Last updated on July 19th, 2019, 12:31pm

So what if it is similar in art to Naruto? Big whoop. This Manhua reminded me of Doupo Cangqiong, Shen Yin Wang Zuo, Douluo Dalu, Zui Wu Dao and Re: Monster.

WHY?

Because they have all have an underdog main character who gets treated like s**t. No only do they over come their limitations, they also gain great and loyal friends. It also doesn't hurt that they become OP in the process. I have high expectations for this manhua and i will continue to read it. I am not so petty as to judge the content because of the similar designs used in the art. I like to think of it as the artist complementing Masashi Kishimoto famous work, Naruto

... Last updated on November 11th, 2015, 10:39pm

i gave the other works of the same author (Rebirth of The Thief) a perfect rating because it is perfectly matches with my interest. this series however, used too much fantasy/magic settings so i give it a 9. the drawing and the plotline itself reminded me of Naruto, but this one is better. Because the "naruto" in here is actually the genius one (thanks to the previous knowledge of hardwork) and the "sasuke" in here is the moron one (because he is talented yet conceited, but relying on other people (his clan) instead - just like what sasuke would have done if his clan wasnt massacred in the first place). If the present Hokage-Naruto were sent back to his Genin academy time and there is no tailed beast inside his body, then this series is what you will get. The main character in this isnt overpowered from the very start, or stealing energy from some godly creature that was "given" to him since birth. the main character is very weak and very poor, but he changed his destiny thanks to his knowledge and patience. i recommend that you read the novel version first then the manhua, because the manhua isnt very detailed and lacking in various bits and pieces. and then you can appreciate how beautiful Xiao Ning'er really is! xD

... Last updated on March 9th, 2017, 8:41am