The Daily Life of the Immortal King 4

仙王的日常生活第四季 (Xian Wang de Richang Shenghuo 4)

8.6(3)

OtakuDen

7.5(22,708)

MAL Score

Ranked #2282

Popularity #3114

Adventure
Comedy
Fantasy
School

Episodes: 12
Duration: 18 min per ep
Aired: Dec 17, 2023 to Feb 25, 2024
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Cultivators chase a glimpse of the true Heaven by exhausting every resource to master the Three Thousand Ways of Heaven. Among these paths is “High Level Swordsmanship,” a coveted route that sends modern swordsman Yi Jianchuan and his younger brother—the feared Evil Sword God, Chen Nanxuan—down separate roads in their search.

While the wider world scrambles to preserve the heavenly order, Wang Ling’s attention is fixed on a simpler question: which path to follow today so he can keep his everyday life as calm as possible.

Otaku Consensus

The Daily Life of the Immortal King 4 is received as a confident continuation rather than a reinvention, with its 7.48 MAL average and 75/100 AniList score reflecting steady approval from viewers already invested in Wang Ling’s deadpan chaos. Xuan Ku’s dual role as original-story creator and director gives the season a noticeably consistent comic rhythm, especially in how the swordsmanship material is folded into the series’ school-parody framework. The recurring criticism is accessibility: the season leans on franchise familiarity and cultivation in-jokes, so newcomers may find the stakes and terminology less inviting than the gag timing.

Why You Should Watch

Watch Season 4 if you want overpowered-protagonist comedy that treats cosmic power like an inconvenience rather than a victory lap. It scratches a similar itch to The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. for deadpan restraint and Mob Psycho 100 for the mismatch between supernatural scale and everyday priorities, but its texture is distinctly xianxia: cultivation systems, sword routes, heavenly laws, and school-life absurdity collide in short, fast-moving bursts. The appeal is not suspense over whether Wang Ling can win; it is how long the show can keep finding new social, academic, and metaphysical ways to make restraint funnier than flexing. At 12 episodes, it is also a clean seasonal dose for viewers who want franchise continuity without a bloated arc.

Key Characters

W
Wang Ling
Fans come to Wang Ling for the joke embedded in his restraint: he is most entertaining when his biggest battle is keeping apocalyptic power from disrupting an ordinary school day.
Y
Yi Jianchuan
Yi Jianchuan gives the season a sharper swordplay angle, functioning as the modern swordsman through whom the series engages more directly with cultivation prestige and martial ambition.
C
Chen Nanxuan
Chen Nanxuan, identified as the feared Evil Sword God, adds a darker counterweight to the season’s comic surface without pulling the show away from its parody instincts.

What Makes It Stand Out

1
The season’s most defining structural choice is its emphasis on the named “High Level Swordsmanship” path, letting the franchise lean harder into swordplay while still filtering the material through school-comedy timing.
2
Liyu Culture handles the 12-episode season, keeping the production in a compact format that favors quick escalation and punchline-driven scenes over long tournament-style buildup.
3
AniList’s top tags place Cultivation and Parody at an identical 79%, which accurately captures the season’s niche: it is not just a cultivation story with jokes, but a show that uses cultivation logic as the joke engine.
4
The fourth season aired from December 17, 2023 to February 25, 2024, giving it a late-year-to-winter run that positioned it outside the usual Japanese broadcast-anime rhythm many MAL users track.
5
Its audience metrics show a committed but not mass-market following: 22,708 MAL votes, a #2282 MAL rank, and #3114 popularity, with AniList listing 485 favourites.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: Xuan Ku is credited both for the original story and as director, a production detail that helps explain the season’s tight alignment between source-material tone and screen pacing.
Fun fact 2: The anime’s original Chinese title is Xian Wang de Richang Shenghuo 4, marking it as part of the Chinese donghua ecosystem rather than a Japanese TV-anime production.
Fun fact 3: AniList gives the season 60% tags for Super Power, Magic, and Swordplay, showing how evenly the fourth season balances modern power fantasy with martial-cultivation iconography.
Fun fact 4: Lower-weight AniList tags such as Demons and Gambling appear at 20%, indicating those elements are present but secondary to the school, parody, and cultivation identity of the season.
Fun fact 5: The season finished with 12 episodes, matching the modern short-season format common to streaming-friendly anime and donghua releases.