The Great Demonic Immortal

The Great Demonic Immortal is an Eastern fantasy web novel by Mr. Lü Jia. Serialized on Zongheng Chinese from 2018 and completed in 2022, it runs about 550 chapters and over two million characters. The protagonist, Lü Liang, is the notorious ringleader of the children in Siji Village, Qingluo Town: twelve years old, dark-skinned, forever brawling and causing trouble, and living alone with his father, Lü Liren, the village schoolteacher. He knows nothing about his mother's origins, and whenever his father hears the word "cultivation," a look of unspeakable pain and anger crosses his face. One day, outside the abandoned Laojun Temple in the hills behind the village, a small monkey leads Lü Liang to a ripple-patterned stone carved with the character "Wu." Sucked into the "Xumi Divine Realm," he chances upon the Five Elements Pearl and the Xuanyuan Manual, and is drawn into a vast world where six races—gods, humans, demons, monsters, spirits, and ghosts—stand side by side. The immortal path suspects him of demonic corruption, while the demon clan doubts his loyalty; caught between the two, he must prove himself step by step and embarks on the path of dual cultivation in both immortal and demonic arts. The novel follows Lü Liang's growth as its main thread, linking events such as his entry into the Sword Talisman Immortal Palace, the Martial Arts Tournament, the Pangu Great World, the Ancient Covenant, and the War of Gods and Demons. Through Lü Liang's choices between the pursuit of power and human bonds, it repeatedly asks whether becoming a demon depends not on race but on the human heart. The ending falls in the chapter "The Human World," answering the protagonist's conviction: "Better to stand atop the heavens and be worshipped by all beings than to retreat with you to the mountains and watch the small bridge over the flowing stream."