The Top Scorer Was Exiled, So I Became a Demonic Daoist and Destroyed Nations in This Chaotic Age

Name: The Top Scorer Was Exiled, So I Became a Demonic Daoist and Destroyed Nations in This Chaotic Age
Author: Leisudeng Little Truck

状元被流放，那我做乱世妖道灭国

by Leisudeng Little Truck (雷速登小卡车)

Status: Completed
Length: 506k Words
Genre: Eastern Fantasy
Subgenre: Fantasy High-Concept
Updated: 2y ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

[Cultivation]+ [No heroine]+ [Investiture of the Gods System]+ [top scholar]+ [slaying demons and vanquishing evil]+ [satisfying read]

Synopsis: Wu Daoxuan transmigrates to another world, into the Tang Dynasty. Hoping to change his lot in life, he studies hard for eighteen years and finally comes first in the imperial examinations.

But in the throne hall, Emperor Xuanzong appoints him the Three Purities Demon-Quelling Perfected Lord, placing him in charge of the world’s demons, ghosts, and monsters, and forbidding him from ever serving at court.

Just as Wu Daoxuan thinks his prospects are hopeless, the Investiture of the Gods System awakens, granting him the three books of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity. As long as he captures ghosts and exterminates demons, he can earn treasures of Cultivation.

From then on, Wu Daoxuan roams the world with a golden sword and jade brush in hand. The world loses a top scholar, but gains an immortal of the Three Purities who slays demons and vanquishes evil.

Ghost King of the Three Realms: “Damn it, you little Xuanzong! You’ve ruined me! Would it kill you to make him a corrupt official?”

Great Sage of the Demon Clan: “With the Three Purities Perfected Lord around, our demon clan will never set foot in the human world!”

Gods and Buddhas across the heavens: “The Three Purities Perfected Lord has severed the connection between Heaven and Earth. The immortal path flourishes in the human world, and from now on, gods and humans shall remain apart.”

Emperors of the human world: “Without the Three Purities Perfected Lord’s approval, our thrones aren’t secure. Promote him! Give him every possible title. We must make sure he acknowledges us.”

And yet, across the myriad heavens and worlds and throughout the Three Realms, Wu Daoxuan stands at the summit and looks back on the road he has traveled.

How many beautiful women have withered to bones, how many heroes have grown old and gray, while he alone remains forever young.

“Beauty fades, seas turn to mulberry fields, and ten thousand years pass like an empty dream… Only the Way of Heaven endures, unchanged…”

Other names

I Placed First in the Imperial Exams, and You Want Me to Catch Ghosts? Fine, I Will高中状元，你让我抓鬼？行，我抓Alternate title on Fanqie

Stats

224Chapters

5.1kReads · 30 days

1.8MReads · all time

350Shelves

7.7Score

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Giving myself five stars isn't too much to ask, is it? 😳 I want to emphasize that I revised the plot starting from Chapter 34. The reasons are threefold: First, Emperor Xuanzong, as a major antagonist and important supporting character in the early stages, appeared somewhat idiotic in my writing.
46 likes2y ago
Hurry up and let the protagonist have a showdown with Emperor Xuanzong, so Xuanzong knows who the real king is! 😂
39 likes2y ago
From a light novel perspective, it's not bad. The foreshadowing is rather subtle. Don't forget to resolve the foreshadowing after the ascension. The main issue is the typos; I should probably check that again. 😏
34 likes2y ago
That's good. It would be even better if the combat power tiers were more detailed. Don't get me wrong, what I mean is that there are too many levels, it looks really confusing. There are five realms in the human realm, and fourteen realms each for the protagonist, demons, ghosts, and gods, totaling more than sixty realms. Each realm, excluding humans, corresponds to another realm.
34 likes2y ago
Hello author, I have copied your book and published it on other platforms. The feedback from readers has been very good, and the revenue is good. Recently, there have been a lot of readers urging me to update more. I hope you can update more chapters so as not to affect my revenue. Please understand.
23 likes2y ago
Not bad, not bad, but the realms aren't divided.
22 likes2y ago
It looks beautiful, but my sister-in-law must have had a hard time. 🤦🤦
20 likes2y ago
Are there any similar books? They're quite good.
20 likes2y ago
The pacing is a bit too fast; a slower pace would be better, with each chapter treated more like a travelogue. Right now, the pace is like grinding through levels, failing to develop the relationships between characters or provide opportunities for minor characters to develop their own schemes and plot twists. It's currently a 7 out of 10 for interesting, but with improvement, it deserves a 9 out of 10 as a great work.
17 likes2y ago
Four stars is the most I can give. I wasn't satisfied with the first day, so I don't have many demands. Four or six updates a day would be ideal.
15 likes2y ago