The Celestial Master Battles the Ghost Gods

In the mid-to-late Qing dynasty, on the eve of the Opium War, all of China was mired in ignorance and darkness. After the Jiaqing Emperor suppressed the White Lotus Rebellion, he launched a sweeping ban on folk religions. Buddhists, Daoists, White Lotus adherents, lamas, and others were all implicated. Grand temples and Daoist shrines, once crowded with worshippers, were torn down one after another. For a time, neither Buddhism nor Daoism could flourish, and the monsters and evil spirits of the underworld emerged to wreak havoc…