Returning from the Immortal World

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A supreme expert in the Immortal World had died, and a strand of his soul returned to its original body on Earth. Tang Xiu discovered with amazement that ten thousand years passed in the Immortal World, yet only a single year passed on Earth.

Ruthlessly betrayed by his lover and trusted friends, Tang Xiu found that his soul went back to his previous body on Earth, and, despite he spent 10,000 years in the Immortal World, just a year has passed on Earth and many things have changed. Having an unsurpassed knowledge, Tang Xiu will protect his loved ones and go back to the Immortal World to take his revenge.

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Xian Jie Gui Lai
仙界归来
仙界歸來
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Celes
Celes rated it
February 20, 2021
Status: Completed
I forgot to make a review about this good novel years ago. I re-read this novel 3 times already. 1 of my favorites.

The MC is Tang Xiu and reincarnated. I know that there is people here don't like MC being OP but take note that the world he is currently reincarnated had a low cultivation so naturally as a reincarnated person with more than 10, 000+ years span had the advantages in this low cultivation world.

-MC's clan in the new world is very capable and has tons of influence (they... more>> are not goody good clan who is afraid of bloodshed, they can scheme, they also got a solid background as clan)

-MC's harem is 16 if im not mistaken because his mother register all his women as a wife in the family registry (including Han Qinwu/Xue Qingcheng, which is I didn't like, why? She was 1 of the culprit why the MC died and before the end of the story she was accepted as a wife... again.. and yes she got a reason why she did that but still you get my point right?)

-However, I cant deny that there is some negative for MC's personality and development. Sometimes he act like a kid and make mistake (its understandable afterall I do act like a kid and make a dumb mistake but the MC is immortal. MC's personality and hobbit should supposed to mask him entirely because of his 10, 000+ life span back in the immortal world.

-As an immortal, giving a safe haven for his clan members is a must yet he didn't take over the EARTH. This is where I got disappointed. He should takeover the whole earth before going back to his original world so his remaining forces and clan members can control this world for him, yet he didn't! 1 of his dumb mistake is trusting a wrong person (and yeah that person is not AFFILIATED to him. he can kill him anytime and replace his influence but didn't do so what dumb decision he made) Remember, he got betrayed already by his WIFE, and his best friends why make another dumb mistake again.

-Ending is rush.

I rate this novel 5/5

I still like this novel despite MC making a dumb decision (I understand, even immortals make a dumb decision time to time) even he didn't completely took over the earth.

To summarize

I recommended this novel. If you like a decisive, cunning MC. MC's clan has its own power. and a harem. Its worth of time. <<less
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Zeikfried
Zeikfried rated it
February 8, 2018
Status: c150
I hear everyone else tr*shing the second half of this story, so I thought, "Okay I'll read the first half and stop when it becomes un-enjoyable." I got to chapter 150-ish before I started groaning. I mean the premise was alright, moving the Xianxia setting onto modern Earth and the story lived up to it for the first bits. But even then you can see the traces of what other reviewers have said: The author doesn't actually care about the characters.

There is no overarching theme to tie any of this... more>> together. The author just wants to play around with the cliche Chinese webnovel trope of "face-smacking." <<less
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Jekon
Jekon rated it
December 27, 2017
Status: --
I cannot say that it is not a good read but the MC is a complete d*ck & a Jerk I mean dude you got betrayed by the woman you love and now you decided not to love again what a complete dumbass dude is supposed to be a immortal who has lived for thousands of years and this is the first betrayal you encountered but still she was the woman you loved okay okay and now because of that you can't love again STFU

But I continued reading... more>> any way and the plot keeps going left all the time bro 500 chapters in and I still don't know all the cultivation realms or the fact this dude is seen rarely cultivation sigh good start but now just reading it just beacuse

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promet
promet rated it
August 30, 2017
Status: c1260
So, this is one of the really few novels I've managed to read mtl of over 1000 chapters.
Spoiler

Actually, there's not much to be said about this novel--it's average. But, it's a good kind of average.

Generally, this novel doesn't go to extreme lengths. It doesn't copy the worst tropes of CN novels (for example, those conflicts to the last drop of blood... of the mobs), but neither does it shine brilliantly with anything. Keimichi described a lot of stuff well so I won't write about that. I'll only mention that the twist with harem past 1000 chapters was absolutely amazing and hilarious, haha.

There is one GIANT plus for the author--the quality is consistent. Normally, you'd expect a good novel to start going downhill after a few hundred chapters--that's what happened with ATG, MGA, TDG, WDQK, and after 900 or so chapters, even to my personal favorite, CCG. The drop may not be obvious, but it is there and doesn't stop.

BUT, in this novel, the author actually was able to keep the quality THE SAME throughout the whole 1100 chapters! I didn't feel it drop at all! So while it's an average novel, it was a good solace for whenever I was down because I couldn't find a good novel to read, and I could always count on it to help me kill some time without annoying me by a sudden crappy drop in quality. It's a pity that the quality didn't increase, but it's already a giant step forward from all those super-long novels which end up becoming crappy at some point--sometimes after 100 chapters, sometimes after 200, sometimes after 500.

Long story short, I don't recommend it if you want a really good novel, but I really recommend it if you can't find one... and like novels such as this (tags, summary and other reviews--like Keimichi's--say enough about what kind of novel it is).

I'm grading it 4 instead of 3 or 3.5 for two reasons: consistent quality and the fact that the author seems to have intended at least a small part of it as a satire aimed at other CN webnovels.

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Red fellow
Red fellow rated it
April 20, 2022
Status: Completed
TL;DR: It's ok; not offensively bad, but nowhere near good. I wouldn't recommend it.

As others have mentioned, the novel starts strong but gets worse as it continues. The whole premise of the story is that the MC wants revenge on those that f*cked with him in the immortal world, yet the author keeps him in the 'mortal' world for nearly 90% of the novel. During that period, the same tropes repeat time and time again making it so that interesting developments relevant to the overall plot happen briefly every hundred... more>> chapters or so. By god, is it so slow... Following that, the author's liberal use of time skips picks up the pacing dramatically, hence why the novel can wrap up its story in the remaining 10%. The pacing goes from too slow to far too fast. Most of those who the MC takes to the immortal world with him are hardly mentioned, and the time skips come unceasingly. Every time that MC gets stronger, the old characters become less and less important and are just forgotten.

The fights in this novel are a bit of a joke, though that's an issue with most wuxia: "They exchanged hundreds of blows in the time it takes to blink, " and then "They increase their cultivation to the maximum to deliver a blow that will only leave one of them the victor, " etc... Even the fights with the main antagonists are the same.

Some other things:

The MC is supposed to be 10, 000 years old, yet he often doesn't act like it
MC frequently acts hypocritically/contrary to his personality
A fair amount of Chinese nationalism (Make of it what you will)
A fair amount of Japanese racism and sexism (If you've read around, you'll know this isn't unique in the wuxia genre)
Plot holes
Many forgettable characters
Many forgotten characters

Spoiler

I'm not joking around with those percentages either; of the 1434 chapters of this novel, MC arrives in the immortal world in chapter 1282. The MC defeats his most hated enemies around chapters 1405-1408, and he ascends to the god realm in 1419. The great war of the god realm gets wrapped up in 16 chapters. There is no epilogue.

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Other reviews have mentioned many things that I haven't so go read them, but I'm putting way too much effort into this so I'll end it here. <<less
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Mavsynchroid
Mavsynchroid rated it
March 29, 2022
Status: --
Honestly, I just couldn't stick with it. I'm all for the trope of the reverse time travel, where the MC comes from ancient times or a cultivation world to the modern world. However, this is EXTREMELY hard to do correctly. Most make the same mistake this novel does, and that is.... GASP! As it turns out, there's plenty of cultivation in the modern world too! This is a huge mistake in these novels. It just turns into a generic cultivation novel. I understand there really wouldn't be any enemies if... more>> not for this, but it makes things so boring. I'd love to find a novel in which they somehow get this right, but so far I haven't come across anything. <<less
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Afm
Afm rated it
October 15, 2021
Status: Completed
The story plot quite ok.. BUT I gave this novel LOW RATING BECAUSE OF 'HIS WOMEN'!!

SERIIIIOOUSLYYY THEY ALL LIKE ANNOYING BTCHS!! ESPECIALY THAT HAN WOMAN!! WISH SHE JUST DIE!!

Also... toward the ending.. the author seems on deadblock out of ideas, so he just Scrap All Junk & tr*sh, put into those few ending chapters!!
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lihkintheplant
lihkintheplant rated it
June 13, 2021
Status: c1434
Good "junk food read." The MC faces basically no setbacks, the side characters are memorable, lots of face slapping, and the novel was pretty well written.

There are other reviews talking about the plot, and I agree with most of them. There was a ton of potential, but the Author decided to spend most (85%) of the story on earth with 15% in the immortal world, and 5% in the god realm. It was an alright ending, but felt rushed as hell. Also, there was some forced sci fi, but the... more>> story didn't really explore/need it.

The romance was good, the harem members had dimension and it wasn't overbearing into the story, good job on the author for balancing the story and the romance.

All in all, it's a satisfactory read if you just want to waste some time, which I think is what most people are looking for in a web novel, but it's nothing genre-breaking. <<less
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saubi1234
saubi1234 rated it
March 24, 2021
Status: Completed
I don't understand people who give low ratings. This is definitely the best modern cultivation novel. I've never found anything better than this. That MC character is really cool as a former supreme expert. The plot is obviously very good, not much slap in the face plot. Cultivators on that earth were also mysterious. Cultivator clans, they were hidden from the world. The top families in the capital, they had no cultivators. They only had martial grandmasters with reasonable strength, who still died under firearms. What I like the most... more>> are stories in the Immortal world. It's not wordy. Short but solid and high quality. And of course, the romance in this novel is very good. You will be satisfied because every woman who plays a role in the story and loves MC ends up marrying MC and having children. <<less
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NoTimeToRead
NoTimeToRead
September 7, 2020
Status: Completed
This Novel has Good at start and has a potential but failed the ending is rush to the max. If you want to read it don't read when he Ascend to the Immortal realm. You know the feeling when you read it the pacing slow at start but when he ascend the facing is faster the light itself where all the build up character forgotten.

But there's many good aspect in this novel and bad as well but it's fun to read I don't recommend this to read when you want... more>> to binged read it but if you don't have anything to read, I say try this one there's a lot of funny moment here in there. <<less
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shoboricozaur
shoboricozaur
June 8, 2020
Status: c1104
I enjoyed how the MC was growing in strength throughout the novel, but I truly disliked how patriotic or nationalist (not sure what the correct term is) it got. It kept on emphasizing how China is so great and how despicable all the other countries are. If it weren't for these bad points, the novel would've been worth 3 stars. For me 3 stars would be a "meh" kind of novel, staying just to see how the plot will develop, but can't get into it completely. There are characters which... more>> are quite important to the MC, but they barely make an appearance at this point in the story.

I'm sorry, but 2 stars from me. <<less
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Iamtheend
Iamtheend rated it
April 15, 2020
Status: c670
I would say, this novel started to get boring the more the story progressed. There are some good moments of action and laughter but they are very few. The more I read, the more boring it got. I wouldn't call it a tr*sh novel, rather it could easily be put in a category of basic Chinese harem troupe.

The premise for the story was good and it was actually likable for first 100 chapters, atleast to me. I was able to guess that the female lead killed the MC for some... more>> predictable reason after she was introduced again on earth and the story was getting too predictable.

The MC is likable. He is clever and acts calm indicating his ten thousand years of experience but sometimes he would act dumb, panicky and angry. This shows both the sides of his soul, one who is an old man from immortal world and one an ordinary teenager from the mortal world and the current MC is mixture of both the souls into one with old man acting as the dominant out of the two.

The harem acts like a regular Chinese harem with most of them having same characteristics and little development. So pretty much tolerable.

One of the most annoying thing is repetition of the plot and the plot takes a hell lot of time to move forward. I am almost half way into it and would rather complete the novel rather than dropping. <<less
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IAMallEars
IAMallEars
December 8, 2019
Status: --
The error this novel for me is the dialogue that change after chapter 74 " your xxx yes? " It's not that way he speak, it's like they change scripts for me I don't know if the translator change midway or the Author that changes style there's flaw but the Author make a reasonable excuse like the technique he use he's arrogant but not to extreme, he's from immortal world after all. :) If you read every words then you will know it's good but if you skip a few... more>> words then you will miss something if you review this novel even if it is a light read ? <<less
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Neigh
Neigh rated it
November 6, 2019
Status: Completed
Well First of I give the Novel 3 Stars, BUT only till he Returns to the Immortal World.

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Till there 3 Stars, maybe even 4 Stars is the Novel worth, but after the Return in the Immortal World did this Novel go down to 1 Star for me. I only read the Maschine Translation but pretty much all Characters that did go with him into the Immortal World wasn´t mentioned again and only treated like Air. The Novel Focused alone on the MC and a bit on his Enemys, all Characters are at best Side-Characters.

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I give 3 Stars cause I Only read the Maschine Translation. <<less
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Xabar
Xabar rated it
October 16, 2019
Status: Completed
First of all, my point of view is very subjective and relies entirely on my emotions.

I can understand why others say it's no good, but still I enjoyed reading it. It wasn't boring for me to read dozens of chapters a day, sometimes it made me excited, sometimes feeling heartwarming. After reading to the last chapter I feel satisfied with the story as a whole and I think it could be considered a good light read.

Also, I don't understand why is here 'Racism' tag. There is a little prejudice against... more>> Japanese and foreigners as whole but it's very far from reaching the level of 'racism'. If you want to know what racism is just read 'God and Demon World' and you'll understand that here is just on the level 'it must be the work of Russian hackers'. <<less
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cosmicimmortal
cosmicimmortal rated it
December 29, 2018
Status: c758
This novel is actually quite interesting as it covers many different aspects. There's eastern fantasy with its cultivation, there's western fantasy with vampires and werewolves and it's also a modern day story with the MC creating his own business. The translation is good and the story makes sense. If I were to say something bad it would be there slight repetitive nature of the rich idiot's that like to go against the MC and also the romance. It's harem. And the MC is the densest when it come to love,... more>> it's pretty annoying.

All in all its an good book the characters are worked out well and there's a clear plot. <<less
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Foxnine
Foxnine rated it
April 3, 2018
Status: c371
Pretty decent novel, nothing too special. Can be bland most of the time but can be interesting at other times. If your bored and have nothing to do this is a good novel for you.
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Lt.butterfly
Lt.butterfly rated it
November 7, 2017
Status: c8
honestly this series is so far good but I’m like 10 chapters in but for someone who is ten thousand years old he hasn’t realized if your just that strong no one will mess with you. Also if just about now one knows about the immortal world why would your mom who you might be just a little to attached to be in danger by knowin about it. And why would she believe you, why is it your mom that’s your inner demon for ten thousand years that’s mommas boy... more>> to the extreme. If not for these aspects s this series would get a 5 but nope these are just bugging me so bad. <<less
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TheLewdOtaku
TheLewdOtaku rated it
September 28, 2022
Status: c12
This is pretty bad stuff man, the writing is inconsistent, and the character is constantly acting in ways that are contradictory to what the author tries to tell you, and it's a very dull read with a plethora of redundant explanations for like the entire first set of chapters it is beyond me how any could ever enjoy this series.

I am just not a fan at all.
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kieleich
kieleich rated it
January 18, 2022
Status: c33
This novel keeps promising more, yet does not deliver.

There's the immortal world, somehow connected to earth, so magical herbs and beasts appear on earth, which MC uses for his cultivation. Yet he spends 99% of his time with earthly matters, creating businesses that make him no money or less money than he makes simply by beating people up.

Then he gets most of his wealth from his family, and from his disciple, not through his own efforts. He has tons of subordinates (forces built up by his disciple not his own... more>> effort) and happily commands them around yet spends zero time to get to know them or their abilities; also doesn't bother to use his own abilities most of the time. So you see MC walking around and shitting on everybody, which makes for a very flat, and boring story that never progresses anywhere worth continueing to read it. <<less
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