The protagonist, Wei Yuan, was adopted as a child by Daoist Master Yun Chen. He grew up at a Taoist temple, practicing movement techniques, talisman-making, scriptures, and magic arts. A teacher at a school down the mountain saw Wei Yuan's extraordinary talent and how quickly he learned, so he secretly taught him and helped him prepare for the college entrance exam. Wei Yuan was admitted to Xijing University, and it was only when the head of admissions personally came to the temple with his acceptance letter that his master found out.
With the start of term approaching, his master had no choice but to make Wei Yuan enter seclusion for a year to master the method of Qi Refining. By then, Wei Yuan had been away from school for a whole year. To his surprise, a murder occurred as soon as he arrived on campus. A woman had been killed by a refined ghost fetus. Wei Yuan casually destroyed the ghost fetus, which had decades of cultivation, unaware that it was a Kuman Thong refined by a Thai master.
Wei Yuan is drawn into a battle of Taoist magic between China and foreign powers. One mysterious organization after another emerges: the Civilian Special Incident Investigation and Research Center, the Sun Wheel Cult, the Altar of the God-Slayers, the Hand of God, and more. Wei Yuan's origins also gradually come to light amid the turmoil. As it turns out, the upheaval back then happened because...
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