The Peerless Immortal Master

The Peerless Immortal Master is a long modern-cultivation novel by Yantiannan, a top author on Yuewen Group's Qidian platform. It began serialization on Qidian in 2016 and concluded in February 2021 with Chapter 1661, “Grand Finale,” running about 6.03 million characters; its Qidian rating and reader reputation on platforms such as Shuqi rank among the top of its genre. The story begins with an ordinary city youth, Pang Xiaonan. His family is unremarkable: he has a father who needs dialysis care, a simple-minded younger brother, and a mother who vanished long ago. One night he runs into some street thugs and steps forward to protect a classmate; on the verge of death, the ancestral jade horn on his chest suddenly lights up, awakening his “Yin-Yang Empathy.” A cultivator of dark arts (known as “Mr. Huang”) attempts to seize his body, but the ancestral object counters him, foiling the nine-lives demon's scheme and instead benefiting the youth. From then on, by day he is an ordinary student struggling to make a living on campus; by night he uses his empathy to sense qi, identify medicinal properties, and break curses, laying his foundation with body-tempering fists and foundation-building soup. He successively helps his father through the ordeal of hemodialysis, frees the Jin mother and daughter from dark arts, and follows the thread to uncover old affairs of the Tiannan Lin family, traveling from Qingyun Town out into the broader lower cultivation world. The author blends medicine, talismans, gu poison, and family feuds together with brisk pacing, telling the story of an ordinary person who uses his skills to protect those around him and hold fast to his original heart.