Three thousand kinds of Daoist magic cannot compare to a jar of vintage wine debt! Qingya Temple, presided over by Master Xuanxu and his disciples, looks like a blessed paradise for cultivating immortality, but in truth it is a notorious den of deadbeats across the Three Realms. From a failed attempt to refine Meng Po Soup that leaves an underworld guard with amnesia, to the founding patriarch pawning the Scroll of Forgotten Laughter for wine money while sealing a demon god, generations of temple masters have driven their creditors from the underworld up the wall with their "brilliant schemes": keeping accounts in limericks and paying off debts with soot face masks.
The quirky young bookkeeper Lin Xiaoman is tricked by a snow rat into this thousand-year debt crisis. Her beauty-obsessed senior sister Su Yuanyuan turns lightning spells into a hair-straightening treatment; her fastidious senior brother Chen Bugou uses dust-removal charms to dance in the square; and their master Xuanxu wears his Daoist robe inside out and moonlights as a bandit DJ. The whole lot are shameless slackers, yet they are constantly hunted by debt-collection poems carved into coffin lids. When Meng Po Soup face masks overturn the order of the Yellow Springs and the drunken ghost of the founding patriarch appears with a wine jar in hand, it turns out the demon god sealed away for three hundred years is actually the patriarch's junior brother, driven mad by a pawn ticket!
In this record of a cultivation world's bankruptcy, limericks are encrypted ledgers, peachwood swords can scan codes to pay off Huabei, and even the Demon Venerable collects interest with the patriarch's limited-edition underwear pawn ticket. Watch the four master and disciples negotiate with soot face masks and pay their debts with lightning-spell disco balls, surrounded by the square-dancing underworld guards, as they expose the cosmic truth that "selling Meng Po Soup beats cultivating immortality"!
