At twenty-six, Chen Qingxuan has mastered the traditions of both the Qingwei and Maoshan schools. The Qingwei school emphasizes inner cultivation and talismans to commune with heaven and earth; the Maoshan school focuses on practical spells to repel evil and exorcise ghosts. He pioneers a method combining talismans and spells, using Qingwei talismans as the "software" and Maoshan incantations as the "hardware" to resolve strange cases at the boundary between science and the supernatural in the modern city.
