Ye Cheng is a young Taoist priest who runs a small temple in the old district of the provincial capital. Being a Taoist is a family tradition. According to the family genealogy, his branch has been around for more than a thousand years.
His father mysteriously disappeared when Ye Cheng was very young. Three years ago, his grandfather suddenly found a lead about his father's disappearance and went off to investigate, but never returned.
Before leaving, his grandfather had just taught Ye Cheng seven and a half talismans.
With his grandfather gone, Ye Cheng is forced to take over as the temple's head priest.
He has to treat Auntie Wang's niece for irregular periods, calm the grandson of Auntie Zhang who can't sleep at night, find a winning lottery number for Grandpa Li, and draw a love fortune for Grandpa Zhao, who lost his wife years ago...
Though Ye Cheng is in over his head, he somehow manages to get by. The longtime neighbors live together in harmony.
Soon, the old district is slated for demolition, and unscrupulous developers resort to all kinds of tricks to force residents to leave. They bring in street thugs, feng shui masters, and experts from the Taoist sects, using every means at their disposal to intimidate the residents into accepting low compensation.
With only seven and a half talismans to his name, Ye Cheng becomes the neighborhood's unlikely pillar of support.
At first, it seems like nothing more than an everyday urban battle between holdout residents and a property developer.
But who would have guessed that Ye Cheng's little Taoist temple is actually a historic site dating back to the Song Dynasty, and that the layout of the entire old district forms a powerful, ancient array?
For a thousand years, hidden in plain sight, something sealed beneath the array has been waiting to break free...
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The imagination is really rich. Although it is nonsense, the story is interesting and the plot is compact.