After Cheng Ran moved to the city for work, he witnessed the young woman Xiao Ji being humiliated to death by her coworkers, then saw her return as a vengeful ghost. With his master’s help, he became a Taoist priest, helping the resentful souls of the dead get justice. He traveled from place to place, telling fortunes and reading feng shui, later battling foreign occult forces and taking on evil factions of all kinds. He established himself as the foremost master of the occult and became the head of the Taoist sect.