The Madman's Ascension

A gifted young man is sent into the mortal world to gain experience by his disreputable master. Amid the tumult of worldly life, he steadies his heart. Though honest and kind by nature, he falls in with a band of no-good friends, leaving behind one hilarious misadventure after another as he pursues the long road to the Heavenly Way...

The gods and Buddhas have lived for billions of years, the demons for trillions, yet even they have to call me Big Brother!

"What have I achieved? Well, I have tens of thousands of patents in Heaven, I opened a matchmaking agency in the Buddhist realm, a plastic surgery clinic in the Immortal-and-Demon realm, and I run a little business in the Demon Realm! The Underworld?" Du Feng took a deep drag on the cigar between his fingers. "The Ten Kings of Hell would love me to go there and stimulate local industry, boost the local economy, but the place is too remote. It doesn't have much potential..."

There are no true immortals in the mortal world; cultivators descend among ordinary folk.

Ask what I fight for, and my sword points to the heavens.

The Great Way divides into yin and yang; the Five Elements reveal their power.

Count the kings and ministers: who can rival my wild spirit?