The Outcast: Rebooting Maoshan, a Hot-Blooded Anime for the Elderly

[Invincible + Passionate + Seniority Beyond Measure + Fiercely Protective + Ruthless and Decisive]

When a Taoist priest who had slept for a thousand years opened his eyes, the world had changed beyond recognition.

Wang Zhe awoke from seclusion to a world transformed. Maoshan's main hall had collapsed and burned, its legacy in ruins, leaving only broken walls. Awakening alongside him were his sixth junior brother, Wang Chao, with a poisoned severed arm and undiminished bloodlust, and his seventh junior brother, Liao Dahai, whose spirit was damaged and who was obsessed with ancient texts. Before the brothers could recover from a thousand years of shock, the Gu tide of the Medicine Immortal Society, Quanzhen's greed, and the White Lotus Sect's evil formations had already closed in around Maoshan like a bone-deep curse. They won a bloody battle at terrible cost, but an even greater crisis lay buried beneath the ruins.

What they must revive is not a sect, but a “Dao” that the world has long forgotten. Facing a modern world of extraordinary people, where spiritual energy is thin and the rules are different, they must negotiate with the company known as “Anywhere Door,” which maintains the balance. They recruit new disciples with very different ideals, including Lu Linglong, heiress of the Lu family, and Feng Shayan of the World Society, seeking a way to unite ancient methods with supernatural abilities. Yet their enemies have never left the shadows. Gu Venerable Situ Wang longs to forge an immortal Gu using an ancient body; the White Lotus Saintess Lian Jing seeks to defile the Daoist tradition with her faith; and Quanzhen's Hundred Faces waits to seize everything amid the chaos.

This is a vow kept across a thousand years, an epic of revival where ancient methods intertwine with the modern world. Watch three “living fossils” wield thunderous force, exquisite insight, and schemes worthy of ghosts and gods as they face enemies on all sides and crises within and without. For Maoshan, and for every ancient belief that still survives, they will kindle a lamp to light the way forward. The mountain gate may fall, but the Daoist legacy endures. The times may change, but our Dao lives on.