Scripted series · Tencent Video
炼气练了三千年
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How 炼气练了三千年 actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
炼气练了三千年 reads strongest on Serialized, Cliffhanger Intensity and Tension.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The story
What it's about
Bai Qiuran, a cultivator stuck at the Qi Refining stage for three thousand years despite possessing overwhelming hidden power, leaves seclusion to seek a way to break his bottleneck. As he battles powerful enemies and draws the attention of an ancient immortal who wants his body, he must defy fate and find a path to true ascension.
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