I

Despite being one of the greatest web novels of all time, Reverend Insanity unfortunately doesn't translate well into other mediums. RI's prose tongue-tied with monologues and cumbersome, Togashi-esque dialogue, creates a tedious translation into manhua. The author did their best, but RI was ill-suited for this.

The web novel is extremely stuffy with monologues and explanations and attempting to smoothly translate this over into a pictorial, static medium is difficult. The dialogue and artwork struggle to occupy the same space, resulting in crowded paneling. It's readable, but with mediocre management. The author transitions to a webcomic stylization at chapter 65, which creates noticeably better visual flow. However, this sacrifices dialogue, which creates a different chaos. In some instances, the author's forced to insert addendum dedicated to important information that was cut out because of what I've explained. Additionally, censorship plagues throughout. RI is extremely graphic at times, and this adaptation is almost satiric in that regard. Overall, this adaptation somewhat captures the story and characters to a limited extent. It's an awkward experience that leaves much to be desired.

II

Despite its limited grasp of the original source, I did still enjoy this a bit for adapting one of my favorite arcs. RI's conflicts are largely strategic and psychological, rather than just contests of brute strength. This appeal shines greatly in the mortal cultivation arcs because of mortal weakness, where strategic ingenuity constantly shine throughout. Of course, the immortal arcs are largely strategic. However, I find the first few arcs especially entertaining as Fang Yuan's forced to live within societies while scheming. Fang Yuan constantly one-upping his clansmen and bending the rules makes for an enjoyable, lighthearted start.

This first arc is relatively traditional to the xuanhuan genre and regressor subgenre. A protagonist using his knowledge of the future to his advantage, figuratively and literally slapping faces, deus ex machina, mythological legend lore, etc. The later arcs rapidly establish RI as an anomaly in its themes and plot structure, though. This unfortunately leaves this manhua as a poor representation of what RI is. The series strays from many genre tropes, such as the cycle of ascending to higher realms or lazy cheat systems, and constantly writes in diverse, unique arcs. The geopolitical writing is amazing once the immortal arcs begin, though I find immortals less entertaining than mortals. The power system is by far the most interesting I've seen, possibly across all mediums. Of course, the most interesting aspect of RI is Fang Yuan. His extremely pragmatic nature creates unpredictable events and reinforces the great themes. His monologues often paint RI as a poetic, philosophical work. Although, his lengthy explanations become tiresome after a while. Regardless, this adaptation barely touches on these aspects. If I had read it before the web-novel, I would've certainly been interested enough to read the latter, though. Sadly, the manhua was axed before it even reaches the first arc's conclusion, where the story truly starts to pick up and better depicts Fang Yuan's character and resolve.

III

The original web novel is about 2.4k chapters in length and still unfinished. Discussing everything encompassing all of this material here isn't feasible, so all I can do is suggest you to read it rather than this adaptation.