On the first day after transmigrating into the body of a Taoist priest on Mount Lao, Yun Yi realizes one thing: the Old Lord must be hard of hearing.
Otherwise, how could he explain this? All Yun Yi wants is to leave the priesthood, go down the mountain, marry a wife, and live a normal life. Instead, he somehow ends up surrounded by a bunch of people even more troublesome than he is.
A weasel that walks upright and smokes a pipe claims it has followed him for eight hundred years. Two bumbling thieves who dug through a vegetable cellar while robbing a tomb refuse to leave. After failing to challenge the fortune-telling fraud at the shop below the mountain, the con artist immediately applies for a job. Even a leopard from the mountains gets lured downhill by grilled squid and becomes an unofficial security guard at the temple.
The peaceful retreat he was promised somehow turns into a zoo.
Every day, Yun Yi opens his eyes to deal with a chatterbox myna spreading gossip around the temple, calm a burly man who’s afraid of ghosts, listen to a fox spirit go on about limited-edition cosmetics from the Qingdao Brewery, and find time to help villagers with their problems: tracking down chickens, mediating conflicts between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law, and scaring unfilial sons.
The System says that once he has accumulated enough good karma, he can leave the priesthood.
Yun Yi believes it.
So he’s forced to get to work. He racks up plenty of good karma, one task after another, but there are more and more people around him, and his heart grows softer by the day.
This is the story of an office drone who just wants to lie flat, but gets pushed along by a bunch of adorable, idiotic animals and the mountains and seas around him.
Did he eventually leave the priesthood?
The Old Lord says: Guess.
