The Immortal Official's Mandate

The Immortal Official's Mandate is a classical xianxia epic by Pei Buliao, a top author at China Literature, following I Can't Possibly Be a Sword God and Please, Young Master, Slay the Demon. Serialized on Qidian from April 18, 2024, and completed on April 27, 2025, it runs about 1.7 million characters and over six hundred chapters. It won the 2024 China Literature IP Ceremony's "Most Anticipated Adaptation IP" award and has entered development for film, animation, and game adaptations. The story is set in the fictional Yin Dynasty: for a thousand years the dynasty has enshrined immortals and gods, with dragon-tiger ministers standing tall in court and gallant heroes surging across the jianghu; across the Nine Provinces, gods, ghosts, demons, and monsters hang in the heavens, and the Three Teachings' mysterious sects descend as "immortal officials" to keep order in the human realm—beneath the prosperous surface, undercurrents run deep as the sea. Protagonist Liang Yue was a modern student who had just finished the college entrance exam; after transmigrating, he becomes a junior guard in the Longyuan Imperial Guard of Longyuan City, the divine capital. He and his straightforward companion Pang Chun, having accidentally injured a superior, are assigned extra night patrols; following abnormal burn marks in a neighborhood arson case and rumors of a "lantern monster" manifesting, they uncover a man-made setup, drawing them into layers of mystery spanning the streets, the court, and the mysterious sects. Thereafter, relying on exceptional observation and cool reasoning, he solves case after case, joins the Yunzhi Temple to cultivate, befriends constable Ling Yuanbao of the Ministry of Justice, Wen Yifan of the Supreme Immortal Physique, and others, and rises from a lowly clerk to a roving officer of the Demon-Slaying Bureau, growing through power struggles, sect rivalries, and border wars. The book uses "episodic case-solving" as its skeleton and dynastic intrigue as its long thread; its reasoning logic is solid, never using magic to force a case closed, and its playful classical-light-comedy tone traces a small man's climb up the ranks of the immortal-official world to a growth arc that ultimately shakes the human realm.