Zhang Daoyi, a prodigy of the Celestial Masters’ Mansion, comes down the mountain hoping to do nothing but eat and wait for death, only to get entangled in the supernatural incidents of the Demon Capital
A campus spirit-writing session leaves black blood flowing? He draws a crying-face talisman and shoves it in the spirit’s face until it loses its nerve.
A faceless figure on the subway demands a life? He pulls out an old photograph from a hundred years ago and persuades it to rest in peace.
Even the little ghost stealing hair from the mirror gets forced to use a cloud album to save photos of its mother.
Things get even more complicated when he forms a “bizarre team”:
Policewoman Qin Bing calls him a fraud, yet always uses her own back to shield him from blades;
Hacker Lin Xiao can break into ancient tomb mechanisms, but often cries, “The Wi-Fi’s down, the formation isn’t working!”;
The rabbit spirit Xiao Bai chews on programming manuals, its fluffy ears always brushing against the hand he uses to draw talismans.
From eerie urban shadows to the Demon Capital’s upheavals, from the Nine Hells stirring to the return of a “great terror,” Zhang Daoyi complains about the “hassle,” but the thunder talismans in his hand protect the entire city.
After all, once he’s tasted the warmth of brown sugar cakes and seen his teammates stand back to back, he can no longer bring himself to walk away from the warmth and bustle of the mortal world.
