The Immortal Matchmaker

The Immortal Matchmaker is a xianxia cultivation-civilization web novel by Chen Fengxiao. It began serialization on Qidian on March 24, 2016, and concluded in November 2017, with a main text of roughly 3.32 million characters across 1,075 chapters. The protagonist, Li Yongsheng, was originally a denizen of the immortal realm. To find his dual-cultivation partner, Fairy Yongxin, who has been reincarnated in the Xuanqing plane, he actively seeks the post of Observing Wind Envoy and descends to observe the cultivation world. The Observing Wind Envoy is an office through which the immortal realm inspects the conditions of the people and learns the true state of affairs, but activating the "Retrospect" immortal art and traversing the plane passage drains much of his immortal power. He has no choice but to rebuild his root and bone, descending as a child of seven or eight with extremely low cultivation. Along the way he accidentally collides with a soul fragment from the Earth plane, and the two sets of memories merge; he retains both the mission of an immortal Observing Wind Envoy and the worldly experience of another Li Yongsheng. After falling into the Xuanqing world, Li Yongsheng lives as an impoverished student working his way through school. Relying on his familiarity with human affairs, he thrives in the cultivation academy, gradually establishing a foothold and accumulating strength amid academy disputes, Daoist palace maneuvering, and court intrigue while searching for his reincarnated immortal partner. The work uses the shell of cultivation to write about worldly affairs and power games; the protagonist is calculating and decisive, and many readers summarize it as "an officialdom novel dressed in xianxia clothing."