Zhang Xuan is a young Taoist priest from the modern world's Age of Declining Dharma. He has read the entire Taoist canon, yet can barely lift a chicken. One day, he wakes up having transmigrated to the Great World of Xuanhuang, where demons run rampant and human lives are worthless. From the start, he inherits a dilapidated Taoist temple with a leaky roof: Qingyun Temple.
Starving and on the verge of death, he discovers the terrible truth: the spiritual energy of this world is chaotic and violent, nourishing countless terrifying demons, while the legendary immortals and gods have long since vanished!
Just as all hope seems lost, a turning point arrives!
The Huangting Scripture, basic talismans, and internal alchemy, all useless in the modern world, somehow unleash genuine magical power here! And even better, after he kills demons, a System called [Demon Nemesis] activates!
Kill demons, and grow stronger!
With merit points in hand, he can exchange them for pure spiritual energy, lost Taoist arts, divine weapons, miraculous pills, and more! He can upgrade his temple and deduce cultivation arts. There's nothing it can't do!
And so, the nearly bankrupt Qingyun Temple gets a new abbot, a true “grind king”:
Ghosts haunting the village below? One talisman keeps everyone safe!
Mountain spirits and monsters causing trouble? A palm thunderbolt turns them all to ash!
Starting with fixing the roof, Zhang Xuan quietly builds up his strength while steadily farming “merit.”
When a century-old tree demon besieges the crumbling temple, when an evil cultivator sacrifices living beings, when an ancient demon awakens from its slumber...
The world finally realizes that the unassuming Qingyun Temple on Blackwind Mountain has long since become a forbidden zone for demons! And that young abbot who always says, “I know a little, that's all,” now wields a peachwood sword and steps through the Big Dipper, with countless bolts of lightning blazing behind him to illuminate this dark age overrun by monsters and evil spirits!
I would like to ask the author. This is the first time I have heard that mahogany swords can rust. What a big pitfall.