Season 2 Announcement
Yes, Season 2 of the live-action adaptation of A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality has indeed been confirmed—though an official announcement hasn’t yet been made, several credible sources strongly suggest it’s in development.What’s Confirmed So Far
The end of Season 1 clearly displays “第一季终” (“End of Season 1”) rather than “The End,” signaling the intention for a follow-up installment .
According to multiple reports, Yang Yang (the actor portraying Han Li) has reportedly signed on to complete the Ren Realm arc, which spans three planned seasons .
Additionally, the production team is actively preparing for Season 2 and aiming to retain the original cast (“原班人马”) .
What’s Still Unknown
No official press release has yet confirmed Season 2’s filming start date or premiere schedule.
Actor lineup and storyline details—beyond speculation about where the story will continue—have not been publicly announced .
In essence: Yes, Season 2 is both expected and reportedly in early preparation, with Yang Yang likely to reprise his role. However, the specifics—like a release date or new cast confirmations—are still pending from official channels.
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Very High Energy show, great direction and performance by Yang Yang.
It's different from the usual Xianxia romance plots, and that makes it refreshing. It's about a young man's journey to immortality. He battles his own impulses, as well as monsters and evil. I had watched the anime at YouTube, and this show is an excellent live version. Couldn't ask for better!!I only wish they hadn't cut out so many episodes. I heard it was 10. Someone in China--please petition the producers to release those episodes. Hope they start season 2 soon.
Animated is on Youtube, Dailymotion and Billibilli. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXDouB-6zMM
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Outstanding cultivation series
Can't wait for Season 2! Excellent story line, beautiful settings, and stirring OST. Yes, the CGI is a little low quality, but it's not a deal breaker. Yang Yang is perfect for this role and I loved Li Nai Wen as Li Hua Yuan, the Yellow Maple Valley grandmaster. The demon sect characters were a little cartoonish, but I didn't care since I was focused on Han Li's story. Highly recommend!Was this review helpful to you?
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A xianxia drama that is quite good!
I often dropped yangyang in his modern series but I persisted in watching this drama. It's so obvious I love watching xianxia( mythological dramas). It is more apt for him to play cultivator roles, imo.Cultivation is part of Chinese daoist mythology. In xianxia, they are everywhere. There is a long process in attaining immortality. Lowest in the rungs is having innate qi, then establishing your foundation, then forming your core and finally becoming divine-like. Benefits are longevity( one can go living to hundreds of years young), superpowers and becoming immortal( as long as you were not struck dead by another immortal)
Cultivators are like priests or monks in the ancient times. They have to renounce any worldly desires except for the pursuit of attaining immortality.
Hanli got into cultivation because it might bring money and food to his family. He got to see his younger sister married off and i presumed his parents died out because they were never mentioned after being accepted as an " intern-cultivator". He thought he had an innate talent because his shifu said so, not knowing that the latter wanted to use hanli's inner qi to regain his younger body. Shifu was only 36years young but looked like twice his actual age. Shifu was killed instead by hanli so he continued his journey to join any cultivation sect.
As a viewer it was quite a disappointment to see that hanli in fact has no " qi root" in his body. In short, he is like any mortal. (If he is an ordinary mortal, it will take him very long years just to level up. Then why could he fast track his cultivation skills if he possessed no "qi root"? I find this to be the one of the 2 flaws in the story.
I love watching the drama because it is a story with no love interest ( so far in season 1. There is another season 2 coming up. Dunno if they will inject a love interest to it).
We can see that 4 ladies were smitten with him. They are The daughter of his shifu( mo), 2 sect-sisters and 1 core cultivation master by the name of nangong wan. 2 were subtle with their feelings while the other 2 had openly declared their love towards him But he is unmoved because of his desire to reach the top in cultivation, besides being free spirited. He is not a person without feelings. He has a strong brotherhood feeling towards his neighbor friend who went with him to practise cultivation. He is kind to his sect mates and respectful towards his masters. But he did not allow " worldly love" into his life yet so he won't be distracted with his meditation, his herb gathering to make elixir and power pills and he can attain becoming a "core practitioner" faster. What i also admire hanli about is his flexibility not to go into a difficult situation if he knows he can't win it. Like he won't risk his life joining the battle if his opponent is a "core cultivator". He deals with anyone of the same level skills he has or lower than his.
Also in
daoism, not all things are in absolute black or white. Black and white are together just like evil and good. One does jot exist without the other, so we see in some dramas that good immortals can be devious and some bad immortals can be kind too. Since mythology is pure fiction, authors of mythology novels write their characters like they have human attributes( not far from Greek mythology,isn't it?)
This drama is packed with long minutes of " xianxia battles" taking up almost a whole episode. Lol. The cgi effect is ok( I am easily pleased). What i don't like is their sword-riding ( Cgi effect isn't that great for this). in chinese mythology, sword riding is part of a cultivator skill and it is NOT a borrowed concept from Harry Potter at all. The most powerful cultivators have their mythical beasts as carriages, FYI!
I love also 2 songs of this series, namely " a moment" and " Mayfly aspiration. It somehow,imo, likens hanli to a Mayfly ,a lowly insect and has a very short life span who wants to fly "higher"( attaining an almost impossible task?)
The 2nd flaw i found is ... where he got his skills when at the last episode his powers were ABSORBED by nangong wan. Maybe the manhua mustn't have touched on this topic but was not delved too much on the screen?( It was hinted that he should lose his powers 3x before he could reach the more powerful " core power").
So far this drama is quite entertaining. It has a good rewatch value.
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Disappointment
WARNING!!! - This review is scathing on a few levels - production, storyline, pace, and acting....Im a huge Yang Yang fan but Immortal Ascension was not one of his best efforts here's why, the focus was on Yang Yang and not the blending of all actors into the plots and subplots, YY's character was overused and glaringly obvious from the start. Other characters never got a chance to develop and kept the plots and subplots at a generic level - cos the camera was always on YY???- visually i liked it like all XanXia series - but this series lacked good storyline to back it up since the beginning shows why YY goes on an ascension training journey - even tho some good fighting scenes in the series, by ep 24 I was done with just seeing YY always on the cameras view....The pace also was soooooo slow and generic too...compared to Shadow Love with Ryan Cheng and Song Yi and The Wanted Detective , The Legend of Female General all kept you engrossed in the series because there was a grip hanging after each episode....(the signs of a good director and production team). So, in ending, IMMORTAL ASCENSION the series needs its own ascension journey to come up to the standards of the aforementioned hits....Shadow Love, The Wanted Deetective and The Legend of A Female General, and many many others to name here....
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Immortal Ascension session 1
This movie was very awesome 👌 and find it interesting but one problem they we have is I wanted to see the immortal Ascension session 2 and now more about this storyAbout the Main Actor
And Yang Yang also known in this movie as "Han Li" was a very sensitive when creating movie and I would like to watch more about is movies
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Came to watch Yang Yang - stayed for the cool magic battles
I've watched a lot of Yang Yang dramas this year: You are My Glory, Love O2O, Fireworks of My Heart, Who Rules the World - all which aired prior to 2024. So, I was pretty excited when Immortal Ascension (filmed over 2 years ago) finally got a release date.Things to love about this show include the detailed magical system that defines the life of all cultivators. This is especially exciting during the battle sequences where different techniques and artifacts are used. Another high point is Yang Yang's performance - one of his best - as Han Li convincingly matures from a powerless human boy to a powerful cultivator. (I still laugh at the constant description of Han Li as being plain and unassuming. It is Yang Yang after all! But he imbues the essence of Han Li well.) Yang Yang's background in dance is also on full display through the intense fight choreography.
What could have been better is the weaving story that randomly brings the myriads of characters in and out of the picture. This includes the beautiful cultivator, Nangong Wan (Gina Jin), whose reluctant fascination with Han Li becomes a frustrating plot point. Even though Han Li achieves his main goal, the ending feels somewhat anticlimactic - however it does set up Season 2. (Yang Yang may be signed for 3 seasons, but who knows when the next one will actually be filmed.)
A big bright spot of The Immortal Ascension is the incredible soundtrack featuring the powerful opening song, Mortal Heart by Reno Wang, and the emotional Mayfly's Will sung by Shi Yan.
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A journey to immortality
I started to watch this drama due yanyan previous work such as who rules the world, hoping the drama would have the same vibe.Watching few episodes and waiting for new episodes to come out. I try to watch the previous on YouTube, and finding out there is a 3d animation called " A mortal journey ". As right there are 156 episodes. One big mistake I did, it was watching the 3d animation before finish the drama.
It seems most of the budget was invented for the firts half of the drama and later on the quality went down.
Overall is good wuxia drama. I really recommend the 3d animation " A mortal journey " which is free on YouTube and for those want to know the rest of the story.
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Not An Easy Plot To Follow
I truly have enjoyed this drama. I am having a hard time following what is going on. The plot jumps all over the place with no clear leads into the next scene. I will rewatch and maybe grasp the story. The war is the hardest to keep up with. The individual cleansing of evil when the disciples come together to kill evil, is easy to follow. There are just so many holes in this drama that I can't even fill them in with my imagination. The drama definitely doesn't get too detailed, but if I'm left scratching my head, then there is not enough details. I just love watching YangYang to be honest. I love that he is not stoned faced throughout, but actually smiles and endears my heart to the characters he cares about. The one love scene was shocking and unexpected. Then ...nothing more between the two since then. I don't get it, but like I said, there is so much I don't get the reason for. I hope everyone else understands the plot better than me.Was this review helpful to you?
Shows to watch for motivation.
I know it’s a story, but these shows awaken the zeal that’s been lying dormant within. That fire—once dulled by repeated failures—suddenly reignites. They remind us that hard work pays off, and that we should never leave success to fate or luck alone.We need more shows like this, ones that spark positive energy in people’s minds. These days, too many feel weighed down by disappointment, blaming others or society for not recognizing their efforts. But recognition isn’t everything. Whether others see it or not, we must keep working, striving, and believing.
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Must watch!
I've been too lazy to watch long series in the last few years, but had to watch this. The oh-so-gorgeous and talented Yang Yang in a cultivation story? Sign me up!Watching the drama is like watching a cultivation novel come to life. I actually really enjoy watching Han Li gp through the steps as he cultivates. Now, when reading cultivation novels, I can truly imagine the scene in my mind.
Yang Yang's depiction of Han Li is very nuanced. He definitely portrays the struggles of the lead character well. Just a slight look at the eyes and expression conveys his struggles and doubts.
The story itself is captivating. I normally skip through parts when watching a drama but was so entranced so far that I have not skipped through any of the 8 episodes so far.
The cinematography is gorgeous. It really gives the feel of an other worldly place where cultivation is a way of life.
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This was a project I had been waiting for from Yang Yang. I kind of missed seeing him over the last few years and was wondering why he hadn’t come out with anything new. I read somewhere that he felt like no one missed him, so he wasn’t active. Honestly, thanks to Yang Yang, I was reintroduced to C-dramas—and I’ve been in love ever since.I was super excited when I saw the trailer for Immortal Ascension and found out it was airing this year. I thought I’d have time to watch the series, but sadly, that hasn't been the case. I'm going to share what I love about it first, and then explain why I’m putting it on hold for now.
First off, I love that he’s trying a new kind of role. I’m so used to seeing him as the powerful character who always wins. In this series, it’s the exact opposite—he uses all the tricks he knows just to survive. He suffers a lot and overcomes many challenges to get to where he is, and it’s refreshing to see that kind of growth.
I had to look up who directed this series because from episode one, I couldn’t help but think of Ever Night. Turns out the familiar scenery and storyline weren’t a coincidence—this was directed by the same person. No wonder the landscape and overall feel seemed so familiar.
So far, the series is moving at a slower pace than I expected. I know the story is far from over, but I was anticipating a different direction and pacing. Because of that, I’ve decided to put it on hold. This has nothing to do with Yang Yang’s amazing performance—I just wish I had read the synopsis beforehand. This is a cultivation-based xianxia drama, and I usually find those hard to binge-watch because of all the intricate details.
I’m putting this on hold, but I hope to come back to it one day.
Rating: 7/10
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