Legend of Exorcism Vol 1 by Fei Tian Ye Xiang


Hongjun grew up in the Taihang Mountains the carefree adopted child of King Chong Ming along with his friend Zhao Zilong a carp yao that failed to cultivate into a human. Hongjun assumed his life would go on like this forever until one day Chong Ming informed him that Hongjun has a mission in the Divine Realm; he must head to Chang'an to join the Department of Exorcism and defeat the Yao King who will be brought back into the world soon. Not wanting to leave but not wanting to upset his adopted father Hongjun heads off the mountain to Chang'an where he will be joined by four other men to stop that yao threatening Chang'an. Unfortunately for them it appears that there were far more yao in Chang'an than they had ever imagined and they seem to be right next to the Emperor's side. 

Hongjun must be protected at all costs. That's it, that's review.



Kidding, obviously but omg he was so absolutely adorably naive throughout the book that the thought of him getting hurt is not okay. The rest of the characters were amazing as well Li Jingloomg especially but Hongjun was simply too freaking cute!

The pacing, world building, and everything else here was excellent as well but what I really *loved* about this is that unlike my other favorite danmeis Legend of Exorcism doesn't focus on the horrible things one of the MCs did (in a past life or otherwise) so we have a straight forward battle between the exorcists and the yao. It was incredibly nice to not have a ton of trauma dumping! Now, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with trauma dumping, it's just nice that wasn't the focus in this one. This unfortunately will probably change later on when everyone finds out about Hongjun's secret but for the moment it was genuinely just a fun adventure that reminded me of Saiyuki Reload. 

Also, I have to mention Zhao Zilong, he is a tiny version of the fish guys on Slayers, and I *loved* that!

Highly recommend this one it would be a great place to start if you've never read a danmei and for those that have a refreshingly upbeat change from some of the emotionally heavier series!

And yeah I did totally purposefully use the cover of the special edition on purpose because if you can I highly recommend grabbing it!

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