Above Myriads

万人之上 (Wan Ren Zhi Shang)

6.7(113)

MAL Score

Ranked #6435

Popularity #15089

Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Gag Humor
Martial Arts
Reincarnation
Super Power

Episodes: 14
Duration: 24 min per ep
Aired: Jun 9, 2026 to ?
Status: Currently Airing

Synopsis

Yi Feng finds himself transported to the mystical Immortal River Continent, where he faces the daunting challenge of life without spiritual roots. Relying solely on the "essential life skills" granted by a mysterious system, he navigates a world filled with powerful cultivators and hidden dangers. Unbeknownst to him, his seemingly modest abilities have raised him to a level of strength that many perceive as god-like, influencing the fate of those around him.

As Yi Feng stumbles through various predicaments, his journey unfolds in a tapestry of excitement and humor. Each encounter not only tests his resourcefulness but also opens new pathways for the inhabitants of the continent, leading to unexpected alliances and opportunities. With every challenge he meets, Yi Feng's impact on the Immortal River Continent grows, setting the stage for an adventure rich with discovery and transformation.

Otaku Consensus

Above Myriads is landing as a niche, mildly positive donghua rather than a breakout, with its 6.76 MAL score from only 107 votes suggesting early viewers are responding to the comic cultivation-power inversion more than to any prestige-production buzz. Min Zhu and Wei Wang’s direction appears most effective when it keeps the wuxia-isekai mechanics moving in brisk, predicament-driven beats, while the clearest weakness is visibility: the series has not yet built the vote volume, fandom footprint, or critical conversation that would elevate it beyond genre-curiosity status.

Why You Should Watch

Watch Above Myriads if you want an isekai cultivation fantasy that treats overpowered status as a running misunderstanding rather than a straight heroic ascent. It scratches some of the same itch as The Eminence in Shadow or Overlord, but filtered through a Chinese wuxia/cultivation framework instead of Japanese RPG fantasy rules. The appeal is not elaborate world-system bookkeeping; it is the gap between how Yi Feng sees his “life skills” and how a cultivation society interprets their effects. That makes it a strong pick for viewers who like power fantasy with social irony, sect-world escalation, and short-form momentum, but who do not want a grimdark revenge ladder or a romance-heavy xianxia melodrama.

Key Characters

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Yi Feng
Yi Feng stands out because the series frames him less as a standard cultivation prodigy and more as a comic disruption to a world that reads ordinary competence as divine-level power.

What Makes It Stand Out

1
Above Myriads is a Chinese donghua production from Guangzhou Liu Ling Yi, positioning it within the growing pipeline of web-fiction-style cultivation animation rather than the Japanese late-night TV anime model.
2
AniList classifies the series with Isekai, Wuxia, and Cultivation tags all at 60%, a useful signal that the show is built from overlapping genre traditions instead of sitting cleanly in only one category.
3
The production uses a two-tier directorial credit, with Min Zhu listed as Chief Director and Wei Wang as Director, indicating a supervised direction structure rather than a single-director credit.
4
Its announced run is 14 episodes and it began airing on June 9, 2026, making it a compact currently airing title rather than a long, open-ended cultivation serial.
5
The series currently has a small measurable international footprint: 19 AniList favourites and a MAL popularity rank of #15280, which makes it more of a deep-cut donghua discovery than a mainstream seasonal talking point.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: Above Myriads is based on work by original creator Lingbei Feng, whose credit anchors the anime to a source-material lineage rather than an anime-original production.
Fun fact 2: The Chinese title is Wan Ren Zhi Shang, while the English listing Above Myriads preserves the sense of a hierarchy-focused cultivation fantasy.
Fun fact 3: Despite being categorized under Action, Adventure, and Fantasy on MAL, the listing has no official MAL theme attached, while AniList users tag it strongly as Isekai, Wuxia, and Cultivation.
Fun fact 4: Its early MAL score of 6.76 is based on just 107 votes, so the current rating reflects a very small viewer sample compared with widely watched seasonal anime.