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魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī] #11
Основатель Тёмного Пути. Маньхуа. Том 11
Тринадцать лет спустя Вэй Усянь вновь оказывается на Могильных холмах, в месте, ставшим началом его конца. Здесь он обрёл силу, дорогих людей и новую цель — и здесь же всё потерял, погибнув от рук собственных мертвецов. Но в этот раз Вэй Усянь не один. Мир уже не сможет обвинить Старейшину Илина в том, чего он не совершал. Все доказательства собраны, все ниточки подвязаны — пора заклинателям узнать, кто на самом деле стоит за смертью Чифэн-цзуня и другими тяжкими преступлениями.
232 pages, Hardcover
First published June 20, 2024
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October 5, 2025
How lucky are we to get this story as a novel, manhua, manga, donghua, and live action 🥰. The manhua is a little choppy as others have pointed out and feels like it’s missing something but I still adore it. At this point I just think of it as a beautiful art book of one of my favorite stories. Also, four pages of WY and LZ “nuzzling” 🥰
October 1, 2025
i love the way the juniors adore wwx, he's their mama
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May 23, 2025
Screaming, crying, throwing up! Rereading MDZS will always be the death of me.
Yiling Laozu's vulnerability in front of Hanguang-Jun and their conversation about that nice road to go by will always strike me. He’s not choosing the demonic path because he wants to, but because it’s the only way left for him to protect the people who rely on him. No one has ever given him a clear, righteous path where he can protect others without being judged or condemned. It’s heartbreaking because you can tell he’s not trying to be defiant—he’s just trying to hold onto his humanity in a world that won’t let him. Because all in all, there is no such road.
Also, the Wen remnants they so wanted to purge, has once again resurrected for a moment just to save them, the same people who wants them eliminated. It's so sad! I'm not crying, you are!
Yiling Laozu's vulnerability in front of Hanguang-Jun and their conversation about that nice road to go by will always strike me. He’s not choosing the demonic path because he wants to, but because it’s the only way left for him to protect the people who rely on him. No one has ever given him a clear, righteous path where he can protect others without being judged or condemned. It’s heartbreaking because you can tell he’s not trying to be defiant—he’s just trying to hold onto his humanity in a world that won’t let him. Because all in all, there is no such road.
Also, the Wen remnants they so wanted to purge, has once again resurrected for a moment just to save them, the same people who wants them eliminated. It's so sad! I'm not crying, you are!
May 4, 2026
★★★★★
VOL 11 of Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation is literally chaos, drama, and emotions all in one 😭🔥
Wei Wuxian just standing there destroying everyone with facts?? ICONIC. And Lan Zhan silently supporting him the whole time—pls that’s husband behavior fr. The confrontations were SO satisfying, watching the truth slowly come out had me livinggg.
Also the juniors?? Ride-or-die energy, I love them sm 🫶
Only complaint: it ended way too fast. I was NOT ready to leave this volume 💔✨
VOL 11 of Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation is literally chaos, drama, and emotions all in one 😭🔥
Wei Wuxian just standing there destroying everyone with facts?? ICONIC. And Lan Zhan silently supporting him the whole time—pls that’s husband behavior fr. The confrontations were SO satisfying, watching the truth slowly come out had me livinggg.
Also the juniors?? Ride-or-die energy, I love them sm 🫶
Only complaint: it ended way too fast. I was NOT ready to leave this volume 💔✨
November 15, 2025
“Why can’t the world give me a broad, easy road? One that allows me to protect the ones I care about without needing to cultivate a demonic path?”
It’s always hit or miss when a manhua adapts a novel, and while this one rushes through some beats and cuts a few corners, it’s better than most. The pacing can get choppy, but the core emotional threads hold up. The art still does a good job capturing the mood, and the character expressions land where they need to. There’s a clear effort to keep the story intact even when the structure starts to buckle under the pressure of fitting everything in.
This volume leans heavily into emotional fallout, moral lines, and complex loyalties. You can feel the story starting to reach a boiling point, with the tension between characters bubbling just under the surface. Wei Wuxian’s inner turmoil gets plenty of space, and his dynamic with Lan Wangji continues to be the quiet anchor in the middle of the chaos. There’s a lot going on here—old ghosts, blurred lines, the kind of loyalty that hurts more than it heals—but the moments of warmth and unexpected humor help keep it from drowning in its own drama.
Even with the pacing issues, there’s real weight behind the choices characters make. You can tell the creative team respects the source material even if the adaptation can’t always keep up with it. It’s not flawless, but it’s engaging, emotional, and still very much worth the read.
Date Read: 2025.11.15
It’s always hit or miss when a manhua adapts a novel, and while this one rushes through some beats and cuts a few corners, it’s better than most. The pacing can get choppy, but the core emotional threads hold up. The art still does a good job capturing the mood, and the character expressions land where they need to. There’s a clear effort to keep the story intact even when the structure starts to buckle under the pressure of fitting everything in.
This volume leans heavily into emotional fallout, moral lines, and complex loyalties. You can feel the story starting to reach a boiling point, with the tension between characters bubbling just under the surface. Wei Wuxian’s inner turmoil gets plenty of space, and his dynamic with Lan Wangji continues to be the quiet anchor in the middle of the chaos. There’s a lot going on here—old ghosts, blurred lines, the kind of loyalty that hurts more than it heals—but the moments of warmth and unexpected humor help keep it from drowning in its own drama.
Even with the pacing issues, there’s real weight behind the choices characters make. You can tell the creative team respects the source material even if the adaptation can’t always keep up with it. It’s not flawless, but it’s engaging, emotional, and still very much worth the read.
Date Read: 2025.11.15
June 12, 2026
god original timeline wangxian make me so emotional 😣 future timeline makes up for it but also i forgot how horrendously depressing the end of the past arc was wangxian are truly god’s strongest soldiers
November 10, 2025
love my emotional support gays
February 6, 2025
Ch. 202
"We don't walk the same path." 🥹
"We don't walk the same path." 🥹
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June 22, 2026A side quest, in the past (I think 🤔), the point of it was unclear. There really should be a timeline more clearly stated, this series is difficult to follow without it
November 9, 2024
4.5🩵
Soy lagrimas con el pasado, las muertes de los familiares de WY😭 siempre me va a doler mi bebé no merece, todos putos los odio, no tenian miedo, lo único que tenian era envidia por ser poderoso pinches perres mierdes
LZ y WY los amo, me encanta como LZ ya no se le despega a WY🤧🩵 y siempre lo esta cuidando y defendiendo 🩵mis papis
Soy lagrimas con el pasado, las muertes de los familiares de WY😭 siempre me va a doler mi bebé no merece, todos putos los odio, no tenian miedo, lo único que tenian era envidia por ser poderoso pinches perres mierdes
LZ y WY los amo, me encanta como LZ ya no se le despega a WY🤧🩵 y siempre lo esta cuidando y defendiendo 🩵mis papis
April 20, 2026
Este es el vokúmen con ka parte más triste del pasado y también donde todos se dan cuenta que Wei Wuxian no es el culpable de todo en el presente.
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December 14, 2025
La historia pasa tan rápido a diferencia de la novela, pero igual me encanta demasiado ver las ilustraciones.
Esta es una de mis partes tristes porque aparece la confesión y muerte de los Wen 🤧
Esta es una de mis partes tristes porque aparece la confesión y muerte de los Wen 🤧
October 11, 2025
Ay, tengo la impresión de que no lo he disfrutado todo lo que podría porque me da la sensación de que el manhua ha rusheado toda esta parte de la trama. Escenas que son preciosas e incluso capítulos enteros están resumidos en una página escasa e, incluso, algunos saltos/elipsis son confusos o demasiado bruscos. Entiendo que el formato cambia y que hay que contar la historia, pero eso, no me ha dejado del todo satisfecho.
June 27, 2026
I am now caught up to what the library has. I think there are just two more volumes but they didn't have them yet. I sincerely hope this ends more like the anime and less like the novel because I truly disliked the way the novel ended (pacing & how romance vs plot tangled with each other)
August 20, 2026
This volume covers the aftermath of the Yiling Patriarch arc until the Bloodbath at Nightless City, followed by the conclusion of the Second Siege of the Burial Mounds.
I think I have said this before, but the thought wouldn't leave me as I read this volume in particular — the Yi City arc of MDZS is one of the most heartbreaking arcs of all time, every time I read it, it wrenches my heart anew, but thinking of the Yi City Arc as the most heartbreaking arc makes me forget how heartbreaking the end of the Yiling Patriarch arc is. Arguably, this one might actually be the worse one; every time I get to Wen Qing's last scene and she says those words — instant tears. This time it was really surprising because I wasn't feeling particularly emotional up till that point, but the moment I read those words, I instantly choked up. The words themselves are so simple, so impersonal; she isn't delivering a soliloquy on everything Wei Wuxian has done for her, but the simplicity of those words seems to make them even more devastating, an effect that has not lost its potency through the varied adaptations of this story.
There are two scenes that are not adapted into this volume. Firstly, we never get the scene where Jiang Yanli asks Wei Wuxian to decide her future son's courtesy name, which is sad because it means that a reader doesn't have the necessary context to understand why Wen Ning is referring to Jin Ling as Jin Rulan. Secondly, we never get the scene where Wei Wuxian visits Golden Carp Tower three days after Jin Zixuan's death; again, this is made worse because it robs the reader of understanding what Jiang Yanli is talking about when she says that WWX left so quickly the last time he came to visit her in what are to become her final moments.
I really like these two scenes, so I would have loved to see them make their way into the manhua adaptation, but I feel like the bigger fault of this adaptation is removing those scenes but not the follow-up ones, which makes the absence of these scenes even more glaring. I can imagine the latter scenes being especially confusing for somebody who is using the manhua as their entry point into this story, and that's not the sign of a good adaptation.
I'm in the final stretch of this series, and it's hard not to get sad because this will most likely be the end of my journey with MDZS, especially in terms of new content being released for the series. This journey began in 2020, and I'm still here seven years later, which by itself is a testament to my sheer love for this story and its characters. But as the manhua ends, this will definitely be the first of hopefully many goodbyes that I share with this series. An era is coming to an end.
I think I have said this before, but the thought wouldn't leave me as I read this volume in particular — the Yi City arc of MDZS is one of the most heartbreaking arcs of all time, every time I read it, it wrenches my heart anew, but thinking of the Yi City Arc as the most heartbreaking arc makes me forget how heartbreaking the end of the Yiling Patriarch arc is. Arguably, this one might actually be the worse one; every time I get to Wen Qing's last scene and she says those words — instant tears. This time it was really surprising because I wasn't feeling particularly emotional up till that point, but the moment I read those words, I instantly choked up. The words themselves are so simple, so impersonal; she isn't delivering a soliloquy on everything Wei Wuxian has done for her, but the simplicity of those words seems to make them even more devastating, an effect that has not lost its potency through the varied adaptations of this story.
There are two scenes that are not adapted into this volume. Firstly, we never get the scene where Jiang Yanli asks Wei Wuxian to decide her future son's courtesy name, which is sad because it means that a reader doesn't have the necessary context to understand why Wen Ning is referring to Jin Ling as Jin Rulan. Secondly, we never get the scene where Wei Wuxian visits Golden Carp Tower three days after Jin Zixuan's death; again, this is made worse because it robs the reader of understanding what Jiang Yanli is talking about when she says that WWX left so quickly the last time he came to visit her in what are to become her final moments.
I really like these two scenes, so I would have loved to see them make their way into the manhua adaptation, but I feel like the bigger fault of this adaptation is removing those scenes but not the follow-up ones, which makes the absence of these scenes even more glaring. I can imagine the latter scenes being especially confusing for somebody who is using the manhua as their entry point into this story, and that's not the sign of a good adaptation.
I'm in the final stretch of this series, and it's hard not to get sad because this will most likely be the end of my journey with MDZS, especially in terms of new content being released for the series. This journey began in 2020, and I'm still here seven years later, which by itself is a testament to my sheer love for this story and its characters. But as the manhua ends, this will definitely be the first of hopefully many goodbyes that I share with this series. An era is coming to an end.
November 2, 2025
Definitivamente me voy a tener que leer los libros si me siguen dando información a goteo.
Me quedo con que Yanli hasta su último momento de vida creía que su hermano cultivacional Wuxian y con Jiang Cheng, los tres deberían haber cerrado filas para alejarse de todos.
Maravilloso la parte en que disfrutan antes de la boda y merecido el destrozo de la cuidad por todo lo que les hicieron.
Lan Zhang como siempre maravilloso.
En esta entrega nos muestran una perspectiva de la historia en que siempre dejan de malo a Wei Wuxian, pero todos se confabulan en hacerle daño y modificar la narrativa, es por eso que a la generación más joven les cuesta entender y a pesar de escuchar historias terribles de Wei Wuxian, al estar cerca de él se relacionan de manera amigable, cosa que les complica cuando llegan los más adultos. Es una pena por Jin Ling ya que la tiene mas compleja que todos los demás, es básicamente su tío pero el responsable de la muerte de sus padres.
Me quedo con que Yanli hasta su último momento de vida creía que su hermano cultivacional Wuxian y con Jiang Cheng, los tres deberían haber cerrado filas para alejarse de todos.
Maravilloso la parte en que disfrutan antes de la boda y merecido el destrozo de la cuidad por todo lo que les hicieron.
Lan Zhang como siempre maravilloso.
En esta entrega nos muestran una perspectiva de la historia en que siempre dejan de malo a Wei Wuxian, pero todos se confabulan en hacerle daño y modificar la narrativa, es por eso que a la generación más joven les cuesta entender y a pesar de escuchar historias terribles de Wei Wuxian, al estar cerca de él se relacionan de manera amigable, cosa que les complica cuando llegan los más adultos. Es una pena por Jin Ling ya que la tiene mas compleja que todos los demás, es básicamente su tío pero el responsable de la muerte de sus padres.
September 21, 2025
Ya con las novelas terminadas, esto me encanta ☺️
Wei Wuxian queriendo seguir fingiendo estar inconsciente para ir recostado en Lan Wangji owww ❤️
Ya espero con ansias el siguiente sabiendo lo que se viene
Wei Wuxian queriendo seguir fingiendo estar inconsciente para ir recostado en Lan Wangji owww ❤️
Ya espero con ansias el siguiente sabiendo lo que se viene
February 14, 2026
The death of Jin Sixuan by the hands of Wen Ning was the true beginning of Wei Wuxian’s downfall (and imminent loss of control) and it still haunts me up to this day. But finally! The truth about the filthy, good-for-nothing leech—the real evil spawn, Jin Guangyao is exposed! It’s about damned time already. I’m just a bit sad that there’s only two volumes left! What am I going to do with my life now? By the way, the last volume will come out next month! I can’t wait that long!! I want to see how it ends now (even if I have already read it in the novel!)
July 27, 2025
DIOS MÍO DE MI CORAZÓN!!!
Pasó demasiadas cosas en este volumen, vimos lo que le ocurrió en su primera vida a Wei Wuxian y como terminó todo, y en el presente de como algunos secretos empezaron a salir a la luz, encajando las piezas del rompecabezaaaaaas.
¡Qué tremendo volumen! Lo disfruté demasiado.
Los momentos de Wei Wuxian y Lan Wangji son mil vidas para mi alma ❤️✨️
Pasó demasiadas cosas en este volumen, vimos lo que le ocurrió en su primera vida a Wei Wuxian y como terminó todo, y en el presente de como algunos secretos empezaron a salir a la luz, encajando las piezas del rompecabezaaaaaas.
¡Qué tremendo volumen! Lo disfruté demasiado.
Los momentos de Wei Wuxian y Lan Wangji son mil vidas para mi alma ❤️✨️
January 2, 2026
Anyone that hasn’t read the novel or watched any of the adaptations is going to be very confused by this volume. I’ve read and watched everything, but even I was thrown off by how this one was laid out.
April 4, 2025
I love the yiling patriach so much. He is so dark and majestic istfg! But why is the cultivation world so fckn annoying and backstabberish?
But I love how the juniors protect wwx
But I love how the juniors protect wwx
January 6, 2026
Chapters 201-220: The juniors are so cute, but I honestly need a full character list to remind me who is who
March 11, 2026
goddddd this volume had sooo much great discussion on grief, redemption, forgiveness, and liability. jin ling they could never make me hate you
August 13, 2026
Cómo un tomo puede pasar por múltiples emociones, aunque este es uno de los que tiene más escenas tristes..
La conmovedora escena del re encuentro de los hermanos, a nuestra hermosa Yanli (en su traje de boda) y los tres hermanos tienen su último momento de hermandad.
De ahí en más todo se viene cuesta abajo, la muerte del pavo real, de los hermanos Wen, Yanli... Cómo puede pasar tanto y tan pocas páginas?
Luego la escena de la cueva... Hasta donde puede llegar a ser de cruel el ser humano? Uno de los cultivadores dijo que habían arrojado los cuerpos en las fosas... Lo sorprendente es ver aquellas pobres almas asesinadas de manera tan cruel, levantarse y proteger a sus niños (Wifi y rabanito)... Y dejar del lado el odio q podían sentir por sus verdugos?
Y para la recta final, nuestros enamorados en brazos del otro...
La conmovedora escena del re encuentro de los hermanos, a nuestra hermosa Yanli (en su traje de boda) y los tres hermanos tienen su último momento de hermandad.
De ahí en más todo se viene cuesta abajo, la muerte del pavo real, de los hermanos Wen, Yanli... Cómo puede pasar tanto y tan pocas páginas?
Luego la escena de la cueva... Hasta donde puede llegar a ser de cruel el ser humano? Uno de los cultivadores dijo que habían arrojado los cuerpos en las fosas... Lo sorprendente es ver aquellas pobres almas asesinadas de manera tan cruel, levantarse y proteger a sus niños (Wifi y rabanito)... Y dejar del lado el odio q podían sentir por sus verdugos?
Y para la recta final, nuestros enamorados en brazos del otro...
December 29, 2025
Este volumen ha tenido escenas muy variadas, como es normal con MDZS, ha empezado más triste(muerte de Jin Zixuan, Jiang Yanli, Wen Qing) y la escena en la que Jin Ling salía llorando me rompió el corazón.... Jin Ling nunca falla en ponerme triste. También se ha visto la revelación del parentesco entre Jin Guanyao y su esposa/hermana. Es verdad que es un personaje con muchas malas acciones pero ver cómo todos lo empiezan a odiar de un momento a otro nunca me dejará de sorprender. Al menos Lan Zhan y Wei Wuxian han tenido algún que otro momento romántico... WEI WUXIAN TOMÓ LA CINTA DE LAN ZHAN. Y más tarde dijo "tendría que haber seguido haciéndome el desmayado. Así habría permanecido en sus brazos el resto del viaje". TREMENDO. Me encantan
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May 9, 2026
Seguimos con los tomos 10 y 11 de esta saga, que es una locura de saltos entre el pasado y el presente y con muchísimos personajes.
Estos dos tomos me han gustado mucho, ya que en la parte del pasado esta vez han contado la historial del General Fantasma, que es mi personaje favorito aunque sea un secundario.
Estos dos tomos me han gustado mucho, ya que en la parte del pasado esta vez han contado la historial del General Fantasma, que es mi personaje favorito aunque sea un secundario.
June 29, 2025
Вот что не нравится - это то, что непонятно, когда идет флешбэк, а когда линия в настоящем, тем более что вспоминают и то же самое место и тех же самых участников. Это, наверное, примерно как в новелле с именами - тоже путаешься всегда.
December 12, 2025
Finally passed the parts that are all heartbreaking. Now we are at the park where hypocrisy is at least on the side of justice this time. There's a lot of irony with mob mentality in the selfish nature of humans. Makes me feel really bad for the people who suffer...
December 31, 2025
No entiendo por qué razón en este volumen parece que empezaron a correr para contar algunos de los puntos más importantes de la trama del libro. Se quedan detalles importantes por fuera o literalmente se los saltan, algo que no me ha parecido que suceda en los volúmenes anteriores.
March 19, 2026
I love this series. Hard to believe that it's coming to an end. WangXian has become my weakness. I adore their story in every form I've encountered so far. I have two volumes left, and will be reading them within the week.
I will give a bigger review once I am done with the series.
I will give a bigger review once I am done with the series.
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