Tales of Demons and Gods

Tales of Demons and Gods #1

by Mad Snail, Thyaeria (Translator)

Chapters 1-100

Killed by a Sage Emperor and reborn as his 13 year old self, Nie Li was given a second chance at life. A second chance to change everything, save his loved ones and his beloved city. He shall once again battle with the Sage Emperor to avenge his death. With the vast knowledge he accumulated in his previous life, he shall have a new starting point. Although he started as the weakest, without a doubt, he will climb the steps towards the strongest.

Cultivating the strongest cultivation technique, wielding the strongest demon spirits, he shall reach the pinnacle of Martial Arts. Enmities of the past will be settled in this new lifetime.

“Since I’m back, then in this lifetime, I shall become the King of Gods that dominates everything. Let everything else tremble beneath my feet!”

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Light Novel, Comics, Manhwa, Fiction, China

15 pages, ebook

Reviews

[Ammar Mak · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has opened a new path for me, which is the Chinese novel. Unfortunately, I got addicted to this path, no Idea how can get my self out of this world.......

[Fredrick · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a fun read about an overpowered kid. It's a generic overpowered underdog story where he proves everyone wrong. It starts to go downhill after chapter 300 ish.

[Jackie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tales of Demons and Gods, by Mad Snail (real name not provided) is a book about Nie Lie, who was a very powerful demon spiritualist in his past life. He was killed by a Sage Emperor, who we do not have much information on yet, but he was reborn as his 13-year old self due to a relic called the temporal Demon Spirit Book. Nie Lie was reborn with all his memories still secure. With his second life, Nie Lie attempts to save the last human city, called Glory City, which was destroyed in his previous life. Personally, I really enjoyed this book. I’m always interested in adventure and action books, not usually too interested in zero to hero books, but this one was a special exception. Nie Lie is weak physically and spiritually, but he uses the knowledge he had in his previous life to become the strongest again. I really like this idea, using knowledge to gain power instead of most action mangas, which are usually “only train to get strong.” The introduction of characters is decent, they reveal small bits of information about each character, and slowly develops into more when Nie Lie interacts with them, usually being 1 character at a time. To me, it seems that everything done in the story impacts something else, which I enjoy. The only downside of the book for me is the lack of action. Occasionally, there is action, but since Nie Lie is weak right now, he avoids battle with very strong enemies, and the fights he is in are usually short. One example is a fight with Nie Lie and Shen Yue, who was angry that Nie Lie was teaching something to Shen Yue’s fiance, Yi Ziyun I’m hoping it improves in future books.
Overall, I really enjoyed this book, the plot is interesting, the introduction of the characters is above-average, the pacing is fit for me personally, but I wish there was more action than right now. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys adventure, action, and magic books. This is a light novel and also a manga.

[Sheriff · Rating 5 out of 5]

The first XianXia I ever read, the one that started it all for me..

It was a great read, but near the end the author started speeding things up, whilst also slowing down releases, because he was bored/"done" with the series.. So I wouldn't recommend starting it if one was afraid of rushed/unfinished endings..

[Mohamed Auguste · Rating 5 out of 5]

Honestly, this is like the Naruto, Bleach or One Piece of Chinese Wuxia novels. As a new reader of the genre this should be your first read if not one of the first, you will love it!

(note the writer seems to be lazy and at one point you will want to travel to china and give him a slap for dragging the releases out.)

[Iman Eyitayo · Rating 3 out of 5]

plutôt sympa niveau intrigue, univers et addictivité, par contre assez mysogyne...

[Grendaycita Segovia · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5

Capítulo (100).

[Pablo García · Rating 3 out of 5]

The author explains, re-explains and then comments on the explanations, so all of these circular logic fallacies get tiring real fast. The author makes a typical mistake: in a Fantasy-other-world-magical-martial-system thinks that there is a Justice system, or that proof needs to be iron-clad, as if there were courts, a judicial system or impartial judges. The thing is most of these authors create a medieval/royal/empire organization and these systems have always been tyrannical/totalitarian dictatorships where what the noble/king/emperor in charge says goes, whether it makes sense or not, whether it is fair or not, whether the author wants it or not. So, there is no proof to be found, no case to be won, if an antagonist is rebellious in any way, they are just killed off, no rhyme or reason needed, ever. So, all those authors, that require proof, like if they were public attorneys investigating a crime, organized crime or trying to win a case, are illogical in a tyrannical/totalitarian dictatorship that lacks the ingredients of a Republic: separation of powers, a judiciary system and basic human rights for everyone.
So, the Sacred family has ties with the Dark Guild, you kill them all, take away their wealth, lands and problem over, no proof, no trials no controversy or "fake drama" needed ever.
I don't like the fact that the author provides for commoners and people that the main character met at school, before, months before, his own family. It seems that the author does not value or prioritize family over other people. Main character, Nie Li, spends million on "strangers and future conquests" almost a year before he starts to worry about his sister, his parents or his family clan. There is no real loyalty to his clan family. There is no loyalty of the City Lord family, the author seems to lack loyalty to the people that traditionally are the "most loyal"...
My comments are about the entire "web novel/light novel series". I think over all it needs a lot of work, on the translation, on the excessive explanations and edits with the nonsensical arguments, circular logic, etc...

[Dan Mx · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have never read a light novel that's being adapted to a manwha, or a manga in that matter. I have read many mangas, web comics, and western comics, but never something like this, and it was surprisingly good, now, this novel is not well written, and its not because its translated, but because this feels more like the story a manga artist writes to base its comics and drawings upon, this in not meant to be written in the most descriptive way, its just the base like in which the artists bases his drawings, and at first I thought it would bother me because it had A LOT of recurring phrases, and sometimes in combat there where many "ROARS" and "BOOMS", but it didn't bother me as much and I still enjoyed it. I even thought that if the characters had more easy to read and remember names, like Japanese mangas, was a bit less heavy on Chinese and or Korea's culture references, and it was released in japan, as a manga, this would 100% rival Naruto (which there are many similarities with at the start, but changes into its own). I could not recommend this enough, if you like shonnen manga and are looking to read a mangwha or a similarly light novel (since its been adapted to a webcomic), this is for you. It has both action, adventure, funny moments, and a bit of romance.

The only thing that I wish the author put more attention towards, are Nie Lie's friends and family, they dont get that much of a spot light, or in some cases any use really, they are like "We are brothers!", "yeah lets be brothers!" and then their characters are never used again or are irrelevant, it gets better toward the most recent chapters (almost 500) but he still doesnt use those characters enough, and some are there the whole journey and are truly non-essential and replaceable in the story, nor do you truly care for them, and this criticism is not just for the light novel, but its really shows up in the web comic as well.

[Shashank Agam · Rating 3 out of 5]

TDG a book based on cultivation of spirit and power leveling system with decent character development and decent MC named Nie Li.

Story development is somewhat captivating and will allow your interest grow, MC is having great knowledge of his past life which he uses to grow at abnormal speed while facing challenges.

The Author sticks to David Vs Goliath plot which is the most common story base of every story related to action/power/magic based storyline.

At character 432 and onwards the story development starts deteriorating at abnormal rate, the plot become fast paced and looks like author is not putting any interest in continuation of Tales of Demons and God.

Update are released at every month with just 1 chapter of less than 1000 words(5min reading worth of material), and this has been the trend for last 2 years so my advice is start at your own risk. This kind of authors makes you hate their work for eternity, starting of good and then taking God of snail like pace and in the end cover up the story with worthless ending.

[Hikaoru · Rating 5 out of 5]

100 chapters per volume? That is so unfair. But then with an average of 10 pages per chapter, I shouldn't really complain.

I seldom read manhua so I think I kinda like the whole epic storyline. How long did Nie Li lived anyway before he died? He did say that he hasn't tasted his mum's cooking for about 100+ years so.... I'm not sure what's the lifespan of the humans here.

What's the end goal anyway? Continue making everyone stronger until they're finally under attack perhaps? If this is a do-over, he might have a chance. You know how when you read books where the protagonist is always tortured and can't seem to catch a break? Well, here, Nie Li succeed in everything. Dunno whether I should be annoyed or grateful.

[Connor D · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book Tales of Demons and Gods was made by the author Mad Snail. Tales of Demons and Gods is an amazing, thrilling, action packed story that i think everyone should read if they need something to read. Tales of Demons and Gods is a story about a man called Nie Li who was a powerful demon spiritualist who died in a “fight against the sage emperor and 6 deity beats”(6) and was then miraculously reincarnated into his 13 year old self. But with this second chance at a better live he is going to make some changes to save all of his loved ones and city from death and destruction. So he plans on stopping all the bad things that happened in his past life because he was too weak to stop that from happening before.

[Curious Reader · Rating 2 out of 5]

I would admit that it's an interesting story at first, but I'm frustrated by the slow speed the plot progresses, and repetitive process of getting significantly stronger and collecting powerful allies very easily and trivially using the future knowledge, while experiencing almost no losses.

Also, bullied by an enemy that's unaware of his full strength, only to realize he's the weak one has been used far too many times to stay interesting. It definitely requires more conflicts.

[Metrolone · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have no idea how I liked this book considering its genre, but I really, sincerely do. It's been awhile though that I've stopped since I'm waiting for more of the translations to catch-up, but I can't wait to leave the glowing review it deserves (hopefully I don't eat my words, that is).

[Jan-petter · Rating 5 out of 5]

The rating given is not a correct portrayal of the individual book's rating but as a general rating of the series as a whole.

[Dana Chabrier · Rating 5 out of 5]

Up-to-date, and I loved it! I love Nie Li the most.

[OrchidWai · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is so good I dun wanna stop reading

[Saurav Adhikari · Rating 3 out of 5]

BEST BOOK

[Ny Khun · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like it

[Khiem · Rating 4 out of 5]

i love this novel
guys, you can read manhua here: https://manganojutsu.com/manga/tales-...

[Yeoh Seong · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome... please write more

[Sara Andersson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the whole series and can't wait
until the next one comes out. I have also read the web novel and it's the same there. 😅

[The Doll · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really think the issue was this wasn't the kind of thing i typically I read, I am sure it has been very well received for a reason but kinda fell flat for me.

[Sid · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good, for a Chinese web novel.

[Evan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good

[Thomas · Rating 5 out of 5]

it was worth reading it was interesting and a good read

[Pinar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Çizgi roman sevmem, ama tesadüfen bulaştığım Manga serisinden sonra yine tesadüfen başladığım bu seriye vuruldum resmen. Evet biraz yavaş ilerliyor, ama ben tuttum.

[Bhuvan Chaithanya · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decent manhwa, lengthy dialogues

[Yurri · Rating 3 out of 5]

wasted potential, on hiatus but latest chapters was definitely not subtle on being rushed

[Karim E · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wall of text haven, but really good power system it seems