Shadows of the City: The Daoist Body Enters the Mortal World

Chen Xuan, the last disciple of the Celestial Masters’ Mansion on Mount Longhu, storms into the bustling city with a bag of Daoist techniques and a devil-may-care attitude. Born into a family of metaphysical practitioners, he was taken up the mountain by a mysterious old Daoist because of his frail constitution. When he returns, he can draw talismans, set up formations, exorcise evil, and vanquish demons. His silver tongue is even more formidable: he can talk the living into silence and the dead into faking their own deaths.

He only meant to scrape by and earn a degree at university, but trouble keeps finding him

Su Qingxue, the icy, aloof CEO of the Su Group, is driven to distraction by a sinister presence haunting her company. One talisman from Chen Xuan exposes her business rivals’ underhanded schemes, and the weakness hidden beneath her icy facade;

Lin Wan'er, a sultry top talent agent with half the entertainment industry’s resources in her hands, is pushed to the brink by an ancestral curse. Chen Xuan’s peachwood sword cleaves through the evil spirits and the carefree disguise she wears to play with people’s hearts;

Xia Xiaoyu, an innocent and naive junior student, accidentally discovers Chen Xuan’s secret and becomes the little “tail” he can’t shake. But through one crisis after another, she catches glimpses of the tenderness beneath his sharp tongue.

He uses Daoist arts to help them deal with bizarre workplace incidents and avert calamities that straddle the worlds of yin and yang, unaware that he has already been dragged into a far greater maelstrom. Zhang Wuji, a rogue cultivator, covets his Celestial Master inheritance; business tycoon Wang Shaojie repeatedly lays traps out of jealousy; and corrupt official Li Yunlong sees him as a thorn in his side.

When the neon lights of the city meet Daoist talismans, and workplace power games mix with battles between yin and yang, Chen Xuan protects those behind him with his left hand and forms a thunder spell with his right, grinning roguishly. “I don’t care if it’s an evil ghost or the darkness in someone’s heart. If you mess with someone under my protection