Immortal King

Immortal King is a fantasy cultivation web novel by Yuewen author Lonely Reading Nanhua. It was serialized on Qidian from February 14, 2014, to July 2015, totaling about 3.21 million characters across 1,074 chapters. The protagonist, Zhu Yu, is a top student on Earth who is paralyzed by illness; at the end of his life, while contemplating the Pangu Diagram in a museum, he wakes as if from a dream to find himself transported to another world, his body restored to health. In this world, every modern university department has been replaced by a cultivation hall: the School of Mechanical Engineering has become the Puppet Hall, the School of Pharmacy the Alchemy Hall, the School of Agricultural Technology the Spirit Food Hall, the School of Civil Engineering the Body Refining Hall, the School of Business Administration bears the sign of the Beast Taming Hall, the School of Theoretical Physics the Divine Sword Hall, and the School of Forensic Medicine the Fierce Ghost Hall. Zhu Yu starts as a low-ranking disciple of the Talisman Hall at the South Sea Cultivation Academy. Armed with a top student's thinking, learning ability, and the fortuitous Pangu Diagram he carries, he advances along two paths at once, qi cultivation and ancient god-and-demon body refining, climbing step by step from the lowest rank and breaking through layers of conflict among academies and sects, human cultivators and demonic paths, the mortal world and the immortal realm. Built on a hybrid setting of modern campus and cultivation world, the book blends transmigration, academy growth, mystical duels, and hot-blooded rivalry, telling how a modern scholar makes his way upward in a bizarre cultivation world through intellect and resilience.