A Republican-Era Taoist Journey: The Jiangshi in the Ancient Tomb

Lin Xuanqing grew up at Uncle Jiu’s mortuary. Born with a Daoist constitution, he was taken on as Uncle Jiu’s last disciple and taught talisman techniques and peachwood swordsmanship. When villages nearby were plagued by zombie attacks, Uncle Jiu took Lin Xuanqing down the mountain to investigate. They discovered that White Zombies and Purple Zombies were behind the attacks, created when corpses left unburied amid the chaos of war were tainted by Yin energy.

In his first real battle, Lin Xuanqing quickly mastered the use of talismans thanks to his innate constitution. Working with his peachwood sword, he killed several low-level zombies and unexpectedly absorbed “Merit for Protecting the People,” causing his cultivation speed to skyrocket.