Wang Ling has spent his whole life being too strong for the room he is standing in. He is sixteen when The Daily Life of the Immortal King begins, and he has climbed to a new cultivation realm every two years since he was one year old. That is the joke the series runs on, and it is a good one: a boy with power far past his control who wants nothing more than an ordinary stretch of high school. The show premiered on bilibili on January 18, 2020, and it earns an 8.3 out of 10.
Trailer, via Netflix Anime.
A Cultivation Genius Who Wants to Be Left Alone
The premise is a straight inversion of the genre it sits in. Most cultivation stories are about hunger — the climb, the next realm, the next fight. Wang Ling has already finished climbing. What he wants is a low-key life, and the series gets its comedy from how thoroughly the world refuses to give him one.
That is the engine. A challenge pops up, then another, and his plans for a quiet school life drift further out of reach. The synopsis is blunt about it: Senior High School is his greatest battle yet. It is a familiar gag — the overpowered protagonist who would rather be normal — but the show commits to it, and the commitment is what carries the first season.
Sun Lulu voices Wang Ling, and the casting holds the center of the thing. Qian Chen plays Sun Rong, Yin Long handles the narrator, and the supporting roster runs Gu Jiangshan as Chen Chao, Titus Jin as Zhuo Yi, Guo Haoran as Wang Zukang and Shuai Guan as Tun Tianha. Creator Xuan Ku built the frame; the show runs on bilibili.
Where It Came From, and How Far It Goes
The series did not start as a series. It is a donghua built on a manhua, which is itself built on the novel by Kuxuan — the same title, published in Chinese by Qidian and in English by Webnovel. That novel began publishing in 2017. As of May 8, 2025, it runs 2,254 chapters, with 2,202 of them translated into English.
The adaptation has been running almost as long as the source. Five seasons, 63 episodes, first aired January 18, 2020, last aired February 22, 2026. The most recent season premiered December 14, 2025. A sixth season has been announced.
That is a long life for any animated series, and it says something about what the show found. It did not arrive as a one-off and fade. It kept going for six years of broadcast and picked up a renewal on the way out.
The Numbers Behind the Score
Key facts
- Score: 8.3/10 on TMDB, from 722 votes
- First aired: January 18, 2020
- Last aired: February 22, 2026
- Most recent season premiere: December 14, 2025
- Seasons: 5
- Episodes: 63
- Network: bilibili
- Creator: Xuan Ku
- Source novel first published: 2017
- Novel chapters: 2,254, with 2,202 translated to English as of May 8, 2025
- Genres: Animation, Comedy, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The score is the number that matters here, and it is worth being precise about what it is. It is a TMDB audience score drawn from 722 votes — a viewer figure, not a critics’ tally. 8.3 is high, and it is high on a modest sample.
What the show gets right, in order of how much it matters:
- The central joke, which is that invincibility is a burden rather than a prize.
- Wang Ling himself, who is written as a kid who wants a small life and cannot have one.
- The escalation, which keeps finding new ways to interrupt him.
- The supporting cast, which fills out the school rather than just decorating it.
- The premise’s patience — it does not rush to make him a hero.
What the Show Is Actually Good At
The best thing The Daily Life of the Immortal King does is refuse to treat power as a reward. Wang Ling has more of it than anyone around him, and it has cost him the one thing he asked for. That is a sharper idea than the premise first suggests, and the series knows it.
The comedy lands because the stakes stay small even when the fights do not. A boy who can flatten a room wants to get through a school day. The gap between those two facts is the whole show.
It also helps that the show has room to breathe. Five seasons and 63 episodes is enough space to build a world and let the side characters live in it. Chen Chao, Zhuo Yi, Wang Zukang and Tun Tianha are not set dressing; they are the reason the school feels like a place instead of a backdrop.
The weakness is the one the genre always has. A protagonist who cannot be beaten is a protagonist without tension, and the show has to work to keep the question alive. It mostly does, by making the problem social rather than martial. But there are stretches where the answer is obvious and the show knows it.
What 63 Episodes Buy You
8.3 out of 10 is the right number, and it is not a soft one. This is a series that took a well-worn idea — the strongest person in the room who wants out of the room — and found a tone that holds up across 63 episodes. It is funny without being weightless, and it is smart about the cost of being untouchable.
The audience score of 8.3 from 722 votes is a fair read on that. It is not a perfect show. It has the genre’s built-in problem, and it does not solve it so much as sidestep it. But it earns its length, and it earns the sixth season it has coming.
What separates this from the pile of overpowered-protagonist comedies is the source material underneath it. The novel by Kuxuan has run 2,254 chapters, and the donghua has adapted across five seasons without exhausting it. That backlog is the reason a sixth season is a promise the show can keep rather than a hope. Most series in this lane run out of road by season two. This one has 2,202 translated chapters and counting behind it, and that is the real asset.
The Daily Life of the Immortal King: 8.3/10
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