Synopsis
The end of all worlds approach.
The Demon King Order harvests lives from all manners of living beings.
Within this darkness full of despair, a single person bypassed Space-time and returned to before the world collapsed, determined to change the fate of the past.
But as time went by, he gradually found that the Apocalypse isn’t quite as simple as he thought…
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Translator: La0o9
Link to the WAO glossary page for possible confusing terminologies, a short character list and overall minor spoilers (I recommend not to check the page out until you reach the latest chapter):
https://otakutl.blogspot.com/2020/02/wao-glossary.html
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Write a reviewHello everyone, I'm the current and original translator of WAO before it was moved to Webnovel. I'm writing this review first and foremost to tell my old readers that this novel is indeed still being translated by me and my old team, willingly, and not stolen from anywhere. So please don't be upset about that. For new readers, I'd like to put out a short list of the pros and cons of this novel for anyone who might want to enjoy it. Pros: -Most supporting characters do get more screen time after their original appearance with ample character development. -The high notes and low notes of the novel aren't heaven and earth apart like a few other novels. -The story is perfect for both binge reading and daily reads, it has things to offer for both styles of readers. -The MC is clever, really clever, and the author shows it rather than tell it. Cons: -This is a harem novel with very loose romantic plots, romance is pretty much the most minor point of interest for every character at all times. -The story has been said to feel very exhausting to read, as the action goes on non-stop. But the pacing gets better over time. -There are quite a few non-main-story chapters, but if you're binge reading that shouldn't matter. -The world building can be better, but the author overall does a good job of sticking to familiar locations without overwhelming you with too many at once. I'm happy to be able to work on this novel, and I hope everyone will be able to enjoy it as much as I did.
This is already translated in English and there are 690+ translated chapters . The novel's name is WORLD APOCALYPSE ONLINE. SO FOR MORE CHAPTER SEARCH ON GOOGLE.
This one of the reviews for this novel on novel updates """ This novel is the definition of "Exhausting", the plot and the MCs challenges can be described as a constant rain of feces that starts at chapter 1 and doesn't stop at any moment, the MC its always running out of time and there's never time to breathe and understand what just happened, but it sure it was epic, it was the most amazing even unbelievable that has ever been happened in history until 5 minutes from now when something even more amazing happens. There's never time sit down and talk of something its not related to a world ending calamity, something about cultivation or a peerless beauty that's overwhelmingly powerful/in danger that's completely in love with the MC, all these world ending calamities are always present and they just keep piling on and on, every problem solved is replaced with another 2 or 3, im surprised the MC isn't out of breath at every scene seeing he's constantly putting out fires or on the way to put out a fire, this isn't a story summary but its a good example of my experience with the novel "THIS GUY WILL TOTALLY KICK HIS A$S!!!" No he won't, he dies and the next power scrub is going to kick his ass Oh wait, no, the world is ending again, gotta make time for that But just now another peerless beauty is in danger, he needs to run there RIGHT NOW! Sh*t, the world clans are after his as$, he has to think of something on the way D*mn, on the way to meet his rival AND save the world AND the girl AND fend off the cabal that controls the world government HE WAS ATTACKED BY A 100 BILLION DEMONS AND PEOPLE ARE GOING CRAZY! ZOMBIES EVERYWHERE! CTHULHU CAME OUT OF HIDING AND ITS ROAMING THE OCEANS! THE AI MIGHT GO ROGUE! THE NEIGHBOUR COUNTRY'S RELIGION SET A BOUNTY ON HIS HEAD! AN UBER GOD FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION WANTS HIM TO SAVE HIM FROM ANOTHER EVEN MORE POWERFUL GIGA UBER GOD! AND THE SYSTEM THAT'S BEEN HELPING HIM SET A NEW QUEST THAT HE HAS CLEAR IN 5 MINUTES OR EVERYONE THAT HAS EVER EXISTED WILL F*CKING DIE! Oh, never mind, he solved everything OH NO! 500 TRILLION OTHER WORLD ENDING PROBLEMS CAME UP JUST NOW" At some point I got tired and stopped caring, its tiring to see all this problems with so little catharsis """
This is harem.unacceptable!..........................................................................................................................................
I'm just going to drop a review from novel updates by someone One of those standard xuanhuans poorly disguised as something else, in this case as Sci-fi, and full of plot/worldbuilding holes because of it. The premise is overly convoluted, bear with me: MC is from a tech world with Mechas and interstelar spaceships. There was a VR game that took ppl to a cultivation world being invaded by demons, but it's not a game but another reality. After the cultivation world is destroyed it was the MC world's turn. Still following? It's not over yet. Anyways, ppl in the Mecha world logged into the cultivation world with a system to help in the battle agaisnt demons. In the end they lost, but the MC got back in time with a War God System which is basically a cheat, because... bah, who knows.... 'god did it', probably. For some reason, only he can access the 'game' right now even though it wasn't 'launched' and go to and from these two realities every day. So, Cultivator vs Mechas vs Demons while the time traveler MC pings between realities every few days. Ok, a little too much at the beginning but sounds cool. There's also Professionalist (another word for cultivators) in the Mecha world, but let's ignore that for now. Eventually you'll see technology sucks and Mechas are being destroyed by a bow and arrow or a bone spear, all because 'cultivation energy'. Guns don't exist and don't work just because, missiles also don't exist even when intergalatic travel already does and in summary, the author doesn't know sh*t about modern warfare or technology, nor he developed his own fantasy version properly. I was raging when a few chapter after a Mecha, with the greatest technology available, a more than 1 ton hunk of hardened steel, was cleaved in half by a bone spear, but the MC get's a thin golden armor that takes several hits of demons without breaking. Why? Because 'cultivation energy'. Nitpicking or bad worldbuilding, I'll let you decide. But know that the author doesn't bother to create a special alloy or element that would explain why thick plates of steel are tofu and the thin golden armor is virtually indestructible. He just says 'because cultivators'. In the end, it's all about the MC in the cultivator world eating pills, killing stuff and leveling up. Kill a monster and gain xp/soul points, get that super cool manual to be strong, go to sect competitions, sword enlighment (even though there's a system) etc. Then he comes to his reality with all his cool powers and slap faces, save people and collect beauties. Yes, there are plenty of cocky young masters showing hate for no reason only to be bit*h slapped and come back with family reinforcements. As for the Professionalists in the Mecha world, they are more powerful than Mechas and aircrafts as well, why? Not explained either, except that they are 'noob cultivators' that don't understand 'energy' and while some ppl are born with it, most aren't. This doesn't deserve the current high ratings at all. I'd give this a 3 instead of 1 otherwise, since even though is generic with awful worldbuilding and power systems, the pacing is good and there's always something happening at all times. The Author manages to create good ******* and characters but usually blows it up with the plot/worldbuilding holes. I liked most of the female character so far as well, except for the first Su something that is bland, but insteresting female characters in these kind of novels was a good surprise, even though they all love the MC for plot reasons. Anyways, I wrote this for those who, like me, got into this novel thinking it would be an original idea. It's not. This is generic cultivation overpowering technology and demons. The cultivators powers are vast and reality bending, to the point that it becomes anything the author wants at that particular time. There is no proper 'power system' even though cultivation power is used to solve most problems, which broke the novel apart for me. That and the usual young masters, harem, plot armor cliches, of course. Let me just add that the reason I mention Mechas so much is because the Author spent the first dozen chapters foreshadowing it: The MC was a god level engineer that would revolutionze the current tech of the world, going to a Mecha related school, working at a Mecha factory, etc. He even built a super Mecha for love interest #1 and gained infinite money because of it. Then suddenly the Author must've thought "I can't write about Mechas... f*ck it, they all tr*sh now. Any move with 'energy' can blow them up!" and it became all about cultivation. There was too much preparation for suddenly not mentioning them at all.
Reveal SpoilerThis novel is already translated with 700 chapters, no need for qidian to pick up this novel and abandon it like other novel. It is really annoying that they keep poaching popular novel then abandoning it
If someone wants an actual short review that has nothing to do with Qidian ****ery here you go. This novel is fantastic. It’s easily in the top 3 of webnovels I have ever read. It’s setting is greatly fleshed out and interesting. Unlike other authors who refuse to fully imagine what the future would look like or those who just leave it as “basically nothing changed except haha realistic VR”, this novel goes all out in its setting. Set in the far future, humans have gone very far, but not unimaginably far (a 'problem' most people have with ScFi). They successfully survived the singularity (though its not mentioned as such) as the super intelligent AI created is on humanity’s side. This is not just a plot point to justify a few events, but she (spoiler) is a real, major character who has character development. The countries of the past have (realistically) either evolved or disappeared and are replaced by new ones. A point to note is while there are people with super natural powers on earth at the beginning of the story, they are not cultivators. The people on earth have powers they were born with that they advanced, not powers that anyone can obtain through hard work. Cultivation is something introduced to humanity from the other world 'game', bolstering humanities combat powers. The MC is from the future, which many readers dislike, but it actually feels like it in this novel. The MC is a genius Engineer who helped humanity evolve there technology to battle against their enemies. He is also an expert in the other world that humanity enters. Now you may think this is very annoying, as he sounds like a protagonist who can do anything. The thing is, he can not. His knowledge of the future only really helps him 3 whole times before future events change too much for them to be of any use. His status as a genius on earth is quickly realized, but future events move forward too fast and prevent him from taking much advantage of his future knowledge, as he is basically forced to carry humanity through events that they were originally supposed to have time to prepare for. This means he is always working very hard and is often barely able to win most battles (he actually struggles). His position as a previous life expert isn't very helpful in the other world either, after a while, as though it does help him be recognized as talented, the many events playing out happen when he is too weak to handle them using his own power (as its a cultivation world), forcing him to plan and scheme. This is a harem novel but the MC isn't an idiot. You can think of him as someone like the MC of tales of demons and gods, but way less dense. He loves the main heroine a lot and proactively tries (and succeeds) in dating her, but he still cares greatly about other the other females around him, his master in the other world and the princess of one of earths major nations. The only real complaint that could be had is that this novel had basically no SoL, he is always doing something and events happen one after another. There is obviously bridges between them, but he doesn't really have points where is relaxing, as he has to manage to worlds and not just one. I would personally prefer for the MC to have some down time where he just sorta hangs out with his friends (who actually exist and are rather important) and girlfriend(s). If you have any questions about the novel feel free to ask as I have read up to chapter 500 on the other site.
Before you decide this is a **** novel, lemme tell you this. You are an idiot. The low ratings this novel has because before, this novel was being translated by a TL who tls it for free. When he have us news that WAO will be taken by qidian, he readers got mad and gave this novel low scores in hopes qidian won't pick it up. Now that they did, they fcked up the novel. They should have: - cleared the reviews on this page. - gave it the same cover, the new cover is crap - they first 60ish chapters are from qidian which has **** quality, they didn't upload the 60ish chapter from the TL we all read from. Anyways, if u wanna know about the read quality of this novel, lemme tell you this. It's much better than Lord of Mysteries. Don't believe me? Just try the first 200. Other novels drop in quality after 500+ chapters yet, this novels quality increases every freaking chapter. The plot is so huge, that in the raws which is 1900+ ongoing, I asked those who read the raws and they said they r going crazy from waiting. They said that the novel gets legendary good, and even in 1900+ they don't think the novel is gonna end anytime soon. They said the quality of this novel increases drastically.
Currently Reading Chapter 1284. In chapter 1275+ Gu Qingshan need to prevent the outbreak of Apocalypse in Myriad Beasts Cave and Abbys Great Cave. In order to do so he gather his other self from parallel world. Our Gu Qingshan, the strongest: Dragon Slaughterer of Remote Ancient Age, the enemy of God of Chaos, Underworld Ghost King, Holder of Heaven and Earth, Allies of Eternal Abyss, Conviction’s Demon King and Little Angel, The Men with the Best Kissing Skills, Experienced Performances Artist, The Cat King, Six Worlds Mountain God, Void War God (2/5 in progress to kill other Space Beasts) All Parallel World/Alternate Universe version of Gu Qingshan: 1. Asura King Gu Kingshan: Chaos Gods, Lord of Chaos War, Asura King, Proxy, Lone Wolf of Death, Slaughter God, The Celebrated Savior, Inner World Heroic Spirit Shelter, His partner or wife (gf) is Zhi Luo (Asura Queen) but she died when saving Asura King and reincarnated in River of Forgetfullnesss with no memory of Gu Qingshan so he decided to be the Asura King and recover her memory. In his world Laura the Bramble Queen is controlled by Trieste, so our Gu Qingshan told him (Asura King Gu Qingshan) to save parallel world Laura because she is so poor. 2. Salted Fish Gu Qingshan: Salted Fish Order, his mission is to be a salted fish (lazy bum), When he completed the mission he will facing Apocalypse Illusion that he surely die from so death mean nothing to him, Incarnation of Element Absorbing Dragon. Basically he can absorbed all element in air and convert it to salted fish (litteraly) and eat it to gain elemental power, of course he can't eat to much. 3. Myriad World Sword Saint Gu Qingshan: Myriad World Sword Saint, have one disciple called Hai Lan who have mystical power of phonology, World Apocalypse Online: Demon King's Order, his swordmanship level is same as our Gu Qingshan, has a child? 4. Baby Sitter Gu Qingshan: has four wife (Su Xu'er, Anna, Ning Yuechen, Lin) where all of his wife are busy to play card, he is frustrated for so long so he agreed to save our Gu Qingshan Myriad Beasts and Abbys Great Cave (this cave connected to other parallel world). 5. Blue Grass Palace Gu Qingshan: his master, senior brother and junior sister know about the existence of parallel world; his master Bai Hua Fairy decided to join the team to save our Gu Qingshan Myriad Beasts Cave and Abbys Great Grave. Our Gu Qingshan went from one universe to another universe to meet his other self to save his universe. Until he arrived at 29th parallel world where this world Gu Qingshan already dead inside a tomb 😂 but Bai Hua Fairy from 5th universe know the this world Gu Qingshan is not dead but hiding from world. 29. Destiny Maker Gu Qingshan: this world Gu Qungshan abandoned Order and Chaos camp in return he gained the Fruit of Destiny Traces power (RAW), basically what he write, as long as it meets several conditions required by destiny, it will definitely be realized. Our world Gu Qingshan want him to write "The rescuers Gu Qingshan from Parallel World successfully prevented numerous outbreaks of Apocaly**e in Myriad Beasts Cave and Abyss Great Grave". In return the Book of Destiny said that he need to gather 75 Gu Qingshan from another parallel world. So our Gu Qingshan continue to gather other Gu Qingshan until he reached 39th parallel world where Iron Fist Barry (Ba Li) and Space Master Kitty (Xiao Miao or Little Cat) decide to join the quest to prevent the outbreak of Apocalypse. Ye Feili want to join too but alas he is late. In the 45th world, Ye Feili and Zhang Yinghao want to join the team. Gu Qingshan agreed with them. In the 51th world, Lin join the team. In the end all 74 Gu Qingshan went to Asura King world where he fought a war against Trieste to save Laura. When Trieste summoned Soul Whistler to fight Asura King Gu Qingshan, all 74 Gu Qingshan arrived at the battlefield... In the end Soul Whistler afraid and stop the war. Poor Soul Whistler 🥺.
Reveal SpoilerALERT! Beta Mc and stupid MC! DO NOT READ THIS LEVEL IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO FEEL ANGER BECAUSE OF AN MC WITH BRAIN OF DINOSAUR. ALERT! Beta Mc and stupid MC! DO NOT READ THIS LEVEL IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO FEEL ANGER BECAUSE OF AN MC WITH BRAIN OF DINOSAUR. ALERT! Beta Mc and stupid MC! DO NOT READ THIS LEVEL IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO FEEL ANGER BECAUSE OF AN MC WITH BRAIN OF DINOSAUR.
I know this novel is below average but can you guys stop saying that Qidian stole someone's work. They didn't stole it they bought the copyright licence to translate it in English. Man some anime fans are stupidest beings alive. Lmao, the amount of toxicity Qidian has to face just for bringing out official translation.
Honestly, author just **** up this novel. So many messed up profesionist. I mean cultivator why dont stick to path of cultivator, MC just turned into card wtf was that. And honestly mchine gun? Boxer? How can they fucking strong, and what kind of reain they did to become strong? Spirit enery? Mana?. Oh btw MC habe War God system right? Why dont depend on it to become god?
Only read a few beginning chapters, but the novel looks like trash power trip to me. I generally enjoy returnee novels, but I will not be reading this one. The MC is a top-level fighter/strategist before return, leading operations planning for the whole nation AND being the one to slay the final high-tier Demon Lord. So, he was already pretty strong, if not among strongest humans. After he returns, knowledge of the future should be enough already to make an interesting story in his hands, but NO! the author decides to drop addition OP skills on him, and also gives him extra time to cultivate, a full year before previous game start. It will make a boring power-tripping MC, I think. The Reality world is a crazy mix of mecha-future and wuxia magic nonsense, with crazy asian clans, young masters and other usual annoying crap. Which only diverts attention from Game world into unnecessary face-slapping/romance drama. I could've swallowed making MC too OP, but that extra wuxia idiocy is just too much.
The other title of this story would be "World's Apocalypse Online". If you want an MC that is a genius that can do anything then this is for you. He can do archery, sword play, cooking, research, etc etc. The difference in this Webnovel translation to the one found in other sites is the terms and names used in the novel. One example would be the Tianma = Heavenly Demon and Ning Yue Xi = Ning Yue Chan. This novel is quite good, the story is thrilling and you can also notice that this is a harem except our MC here is just too concentrated on saving both the cultivation world and earth
Reveal SpoilerI'm caught up at around chap 1460 I just wanna say cus I see a bunch of haters this is literally the best story I have ever read the Mcs is top 3 Mcs imo he's unbelievable clever and you will never be able to predict what is gonna happen like you can in other books this novel is anything but generic and if you don't read it it's your L
ALERT! Beta Mc and stupid MC! DO NOT READ THIS LEVEL IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO FEEL ANGER BECAUSE OF AN MC WITH BRAIN OF DINOSAUR. ALERT! Beta Mc and stupid MC! DO NOT READ THIS LEVEL IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO FEEL ANGER BECAUSE OF AN MC WITH BRAIN OF DINOSAUR. ALERT! Beta Mc and stupid MC! DO NOT READ THIS LEVEL IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO FEEL ANGER BECAUSE OF AN MC WITH BRAIN OF DINOSAUR. ALERT! Beta Mc and stupid MC! DO NOT READ THIS LEVEL IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO FEEL ANGER BECAUSE OF AN MC WITH BRAIN OF DINOSAUR. ALERT! Beta Mc and stupid MC! DO NOT READ THIS LEVEL IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO FEEL ANGER BECAUSE OF AN MC WITH BRAIN OF DINOSAUR. ALERT! Beta Mc and stupid MC! DO NOT READ THIS LEVEL IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO FEEL ANGER BECAUSE OF AN MC WITH BRAIN OF DINOSAUR. ALERT! Beta Mc and stupid MC! DO NOT READ THIS LEVEL IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO FEEL ANGER BECAUSE OF AN MC WITH BRAIN OF DINOSAUR. ALERT! Beta Mc and stupid MC! DO NOT READ THIS LEVEL IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO FEEL ANGER BECAUSE OF AN MC WITH BRAIN OF DINOSAUR. ALERT! Beta Mc and stupid MC! DO NOT READ THIS LEVEL IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO FEEL ANGER BECAUSE OF AN MC WITH BRAIN OF DINOSAUR. ALERT! Beta Mc and stupid MC! DO NOT READ THIS LEVEL IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO FEEL ANGER BECAUSE OF AN MC WITH BRAIN OF DINOSAUR.
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