My Temple Is So Poor, I’m Going to Become the Abbot

[Mythic Cultivation]+ [Absurd Comedy]+ [Scheming Young Taoist]+ [Lighthearted Misunderstandings]+ [Taoist & Monk]

Zhang Xiaobei inherits the mountain's temple, a “three-nothing” Taoist sanctuary with fewer pilgrims than priests. He's so poor he can barely scrape by. Then he sees a prominent Buddhist abbot step out of a Rolls-Royce on TV with a beautiful demoness. “I've achieved enlightenment. The Buddha saves those with a connection to him, and I'm clearly connected to money!”

Just as he's about to replace the Three Pure Ones statues with a statue of the Buddha, the [Strongest Abbot Merit System] awakens!

“Ding! As a future abbot, how can you go without rules and precepts? Newbie quest: Read and memorize the Heart Sutra one hundred times. Reward: [Introduction to Taoist Alchemy]!”

Zhang Xiaobei is dumbfounded. “Wait, System, something's not right! I wanted to be a dashing monk, but you're making me cultivate the Taoist immortals' path?”

“Ding! Host detected to have excessive worldly desires. Additional quest: Go to the plaza below the mountain and bless one thousand believers by touching their heads. Failure to complete the quest will result in the ‘Buddha's Light Shining Everywhere’ electrotherapy package!”

Zhang Xiaobei: “Not even a dog would do this... For the sports car... I mean, to seek the true scriptures, I, a Taoist... no, a monk, will give it my all today!”

And so, history's most “virtuous-looking” abbot was born.