Shenwuji is a spin-off manhua

Manhua

Manhua are Chinese comics originally produced in China. Possibly due to their greater degree of artistic freedom of expression and closer international ties with Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan have been the places of publication of most manhua thus far, often including Chinese translations of...

 based on Fung Wan

Fung Wan

Fung Wan is a Hong Kong wuxia manhua series. It is the first manhua released by Ma Wing-shing in 1989 with the help of his assistant Siu Kit under his own company, Jonesky Publishing. The title translates to "Wind and Cloud"...

also by Ma Wing Shing

Ma Wing Shing

Ma Wing-shing is a manhua illustrator, writer and publisher. He is best known for creating the wuxia manhua series Fung Wan and Chinese Hero.-Biography:...

. It ran for 40 issues.

History

Shenwuji was first made known when a mini-comic was included with Fung Wan issue #400. It depicted a team of diggers discovering the Ultimate Superior Sword in the year 2047.

Part I

Bou Keng Wan and Nip Fung are reincarnated in the year 2047 as well as Hung Ba. Bou Keng Wan (now named Aor Teek(Metal)) and Nip Fung (who retains his ancestor's name) come into direct contact with Hung Ba's reincarnate. Aor Teek possess a strange art of Kung Fu that the antagonists want. On later issues, Aor Teek and Nip Fung are slowly pushed out of the storyline and it begins to focus on cyborgs and clones.

Part II

Introduces several important historical characters from the era of the Three Kingdoms, such as the tyrant Cao Cao (Bou Keng Wan's equivalent), the strategist Zhuge Liang (presumably Nip Fung's carnation), and the mighty Lu Bu. By this point of the story, the future reincarnations Aor Teek and Nip Fung are no longer relevant to the story, and were written out before the first issue of this second story arc.

Part III

Deals with a time skip hundreds of years into the future, where cyborgs and clones are the main attractions of the story.

Criticism

Ma Wing Shing

Ma Wing Shing

Ma Wing-shing is a manhua illustrator, writer and publisher. He is best known for creating the wuxia manhua series Fung Wan and Chinese Hero.-Biography:...

 was touting the series as "Wind and Cloud of the Future" and while they do appear so, it wasn't what the fans were expecting. They were even excluded from the final issue. Ma even admitted at one point that he was disappointed with how the story was going. Fans have criticized that the plot became too convoluted towards the end and therefore stopped reading. There has also been criticisms of uninteresting enemies and wasted potential. These may have all led to the series being finished after only 40 issues, while it's brother comic Fung Wan

Fung Wan

Fung Wan is a Hong Kong wuxia manhua series. It is the first manhua released by Ma Wing-shing in 1989 with the help of his assistant Siu Kit under his own company, Jonesky Publishing. The title translates to "Wind and Cloud"...

is currently on its 493rd issue.