Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain: From the Start, I Could Only Fake a Smile

Longhu Mountain, a top-rated tourist attraction that conceals the roots of the Daoist tradition. Twenty-year-old Zhang Bufan is the youngest Celestial Master in purple robes, yet he doesn't know a single spell. Adopted as a child by the old Celestial Master, he was taught only academic subjects and became fluent in multiple languages and skilled in all kinds of arts. When the old Celestial Master passed away, he left ten red-robed Daoist masters to protect Zhang Bufan, but none dared to teach him magic, because the Celestial Master stands at the pinnacle of the Daoist tradition. His daily life is absurd: tourists chase him for photos, and when he can no longer keep up his fake smile, he has to run off with his robe flying. He also has to manage the crowds over a walkie-talkie. When visitors make wishes for lottery numbers or to pass their exams, he can only laugh it off. At ceremonies, he misreads the scriptures and steps on people's feet, leaving his red-robed uncles to smooth things over. On his twenty-first birthday, he breaks down in the Hall of the Three Pure Ones and punches the floor. The blood from his fist triggers a hidden mystery. Purple lightning tears through the roof, revealing an ancient chest. Four beams of golden light enter his brow, awakening secret texts including The Three-One Dao Evolution Scripture and The Great Dao's Heavenly Laws. From then on, he stages a comeback: he refuses to accept a foreigner's offer of discipleship and uses talismans to deal with a provocateur; exposes a scam exploiting the name of “pseudo-Daoist culture”; and takes his uncles down the mountain to break a small town's nightmare and a dragon-trapping formation in Changbai Mountain. When the Land of Cherry Blossoms plots to steal the nation's fortune and summon a typhoon in retaliation, he lays out a nationwide formation and sends the typhoon back where it came from. He makes a name for himself in one battle and draws the attention of the “Institute of Folk Culture.” From everyday antics at the scenic area to confronting supernatural forces from abroad, Zhang Bufan trains while getting into hilarious scrapes, and protects the Daoist tradition and the nation's fortune as a Celestial Master, in a story full of comedy and fiery action.