Dao Arts Academy: You Really Are Cultivating Immortality, Aren't You?

Zhang Yunfan transmigrates to a parallel world, inherits the title of Celestial Master of Mount Longhu from the start, and binds himself to a Taoist University System.

From the start, he establishes a Taoist university and enrolls five hundred students.

Required courses: Cultivating Essence and Refining Qi, Golden Light Demon-Slaying Arts, Five Thunder Orthodox Technique, One Hundred Mount Longhu Curses, Divine Sky Swordsmanship...

Electives: Daily Gold Ingots, Folding Paper Tigers, Meritorious Volunteer Work, Scattering Beans to Raise Soldiers, Caring for Immortal Herbs...

First lesson of the term: the Golden Light Spell for everyone.

Draped in a purple robe, Zhang Yunfan stands with his hands behind his back. “Repeat after me: The profound source of heaven and earth, the root of all qi; cultivate through countless eons, and my divine powers shall be proven...”

New students: “It’s not that we want to study this, but he really is teaching us the Five Thunder Orthodox Technique!”

“Dean, you said we were going to volunteer, so why did you bring us to work at a funeral home?”

“Students, that female ghost is sucking out people’s vital essence. Her crimes are heinous. You all retreat first, and let this Taoist priest deal with her!”

Four years later,

The Zombie King Jiang Chen awakens and has just pushed open his coffin lid.

The next second, he sees hundreds of yellow-robed Taoists gathered around his grave, each with a thunderbolt in their palm.

Jiang Chen: “Um... could you put the lid back on my coffin? Thanks!”

On a busy road, a yellow-robed Taoist rides a bicycle, holding a Divine Fire Talisman as he chases a zombie. The zombie flees overnight, hauling its coffin along.

At West Lake in Hangzhou, a female ghost goes boating, while a yellow-robed Taoist rides a surfboard, summoning heavenly thunder to descend and smite evil. Countless passersby gather to watch.

A reporter livestreams from the Taoist Academy website and can’t believe the enrollment slogan.

“Make gold ingots when you enroll, wear yellow robes when you graduate! Revive the Taoist faith, and ride your sword into the blue heavens!”

Countless netizens: “The Taoist Academy is just a front. This is obviously a cultivation academy!”

“Wait, you’re really cultivating immortality?”