My name is Li Ming. I became a Taoist priest halfway through life, and I thought that once I had mastered the Taoist arts, I’d enjoy a carefree life with no worries about money. But all sorts of problems I’d never imagined kept cropping up, and I realized this line of work wasn’t as easy as it seemed.
In the twenty-first century, people think ghosts and monsters are superstition, but I deal with them every day: zombies, vengeful spirits, onmyoji, practitioners of black magic, parasitic worms, and more.
Slowly, I began to feel trapped in a vicious cycle, as if the world weren’t nearly as bright and beautiful as it appeared...