King of Myriad Immortals

King of Myriad Immortals is a xianxia cultivation web novel by Wang Pao, first serialized under contract on Chuangshi Chinese Network and now completed. It runs over 700 chapters and roughly 2.6 million characters. The protagonist, Ji Mo, is a successful urban professional in modern society who happens upon a pocket watch unearthed from a thousand-year-old tomb that can control time. His life is upended, and he is transported to a cultivation dynasty, where he becomes a "dissolute, benighted ruler" whose courtiers hold the real power. The situation he inherits is beset inside and out: below him powerful ministers dominate and treacherous officials wreck the state; above him the Empress Dowager rules from behind the curtain and the Daoist sect suppresses him; within the palace are a virtuous empress and a willful noble consort; beyond the borders hostile neighbors encircle and demons and monsters run rampant. Using the near-cheat ability to rewind time, Ji Mo repeatedly tests and retries his way through one crisis after another, turning the tables against the odds. Starting as a puppet emperor mocked as a fool, he gradually reclaims governance, wins people's hearts, recruits able men and gifted eccentrics, and fuses dynastic power with cultivation might, expanding his domain amid the contests of immortal sects, demons, and neighboring states. The appeal lies in its twin threads of "emperor plus cultivation": on one side the court intrigue and the tug-of-war between ruler and ministers, on the other the rise through cultivation realms, magical treasures, divine powers, and battle experience. The tone is light and humorous, with chapter titles and set pieces often winking with irony. The book closes with Ji Mo's transformation from puppet fool into a sovereign of immortals and mortals alike, hailed as the "King of Myriad Immortals"—a quintessential long-form transmigration and leveling-up cultivation novel.