Renegade Immortal (Xian Ni) is a Chinese webnovel created by Ergen (same author of A Will Eternal) that has also been adapted to a Chinese manhua. Now we have the Donghua with the same name.

Tie Zhu is a very smart boy with loving parents. Although he and his parents are shunned by the rest of their relatives, his parents have always held high hopes that he will one day achieve greatness.

Luckly one family member, managed to get a place for the trial to join the Hengyue Sect of immortal cultivators, and give it to Tie Zhu. He fails the direct exam, but has the opportunite to take a secondary test, that consist in climbing the mountain that leads to the Sect. At a certain circunstance, Tie Zhu falls into a cave, where he finds the mysterious Heavenly Defying Pearl, that contains the soul of a ancient immortal.

Finanly, Tie Zhu manages to enter the Sect, but he is only a third rate student that no one cares about. With the help of the pearl and the ancient immortal he starts the path of cultivation and the beginning of many adventures.