Teaching Immortality in a Martial World, Why Have All My Disciples Become Emperors?

Xu Yuan accidentally transmigrates to a world where martial strength reigns supreme, and gets by through trickery and deceit.

On a rainy day, he uses the principle behind a “lightning rod” to draw down a bolt of heavenly lightning and burn down a century-old tree in Qingniu Village. Everyone hails him as an immortal, and he enjoys the villagers’ offerings.

He thinks his good life will go on forever, but then Lin Yan, the eldest son of the richest family in Qingshan City, becomes obsessed with seeking immortality. After hearing of Xu Yuan’s reputation as an immortal, he comes to Qingniu Village to apprentice himself to him. He even makes it clear that he has already beaten more than ten con men who claimed to be immortals to death.

Xu Yuan means to refuse, but Lin Yan’s apprenticeship gifts are generous. He figures he can take the gifts, fob him off with a cultivation technique from a web novel he read before transmigrating, then find an excuse to send him away.

But who could have expected Lin Yan to actually master the technique?

The instant Lin Yan succeeds, a voice rings out in Xu Yuan’s mind, shocking him to the core.

[Your disciple Lin Yan has successfully cultivated the Qi Condensation Art, formed one spirit meridian, and broken through to the first layer of Qi Condensation. Your cultivation has advanced to complete Qi Condensation (thirteen layers formed).]

Gradually, Xu Yuan discovers that even techniques he makes up out of thin air can be cultivated by his foolish disciples. And the more disciples he has, the greater the rewards he receives.

So Xu Yuan takes on disciples far and wide, determined to build the number one immortal sect in the martial world.

Years later, a group of true cultivators look at Xu Yuan, surrounded by countless Great Emperors, and ask the question that weighs on their souls: “You’re teaching cultivation in a martial world. Are you trying to leave the rest of us with no way to live?”