One day, a modern-day corporate drone transmigrates into the war-torn sixteenth year of the Republic of China, washes up at a desolate funeral home, and becomes Zhang Wencai, a teenage handyman.
Warlords divide the land, warfare rages without end, and mass graves are piled with unmarked graves. In these chaotic times, the lives of ordinary people are worth less than grass. He only wants to survive in peace, but unexpectedly obtains an ancient locust-wood talisman passed down by Qingyang Temple and gets drawn into a sealed case from thirty years ago: the temple's extermination. Half of an ancient key locks away the secrets of the Ghost Gate, where yin and yang meet.
The spirits of the dead are not all vicious monsters. A wronged scholar, a child who died too young, a tormented soul unable to let go: behind every strange occurrence lie the grievances and grudges left behind by the living.
He joins the Daoist sect, studies the steps of the Big Dipper and celestial combat formations, and learns talismans and feng shui. He gradually understands that the Dao has never been only about slaying. The greed, anger, and evil in people's hearts are often more chilling than the spirits of the dead. With talisman in hand and sword at his side, the young man guards a lamp in the funeral home and soothes the wrongfully dead souls of the world.
