Paper Effigies to Cross the Yin and Yang: Strange Tales of a Folk Taoist

Name: Paper Effigies to Cross the Yin and Yang: Strange Tales of a Folk Taoist
Author: Novella Writer 99 New

纸扎渡阴阳：民间道士异闻录

by Novella Writer 99 New (短篇作手99新)

Status: Completed
Length: 197k Words
Genre: Mystery
Subgenre: Mystery & Supernatural
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In the modern city, spiritual energy is scarce, and the Daoist sects are in decline. Evil spirits hide among ordinary people, and yin and yang are out of balance. Most mortals go their entire lives without ever seeing the truth lurking in the darkness. My name is Zhao Hao, an heir to the Lushan School of Zhengyi Daoism and the young master of Shanhetang, our family’s traditional paper effigy shop. When I was nineteen, a grave relocation job ended with me watching my father and two uncles die horribly beneath the claws of a transformed corpse from the Ren family. As he lay dying, my father pressed our ancestral talismans and magical tools into my hands. His only last words were: Don’t seek revenge. Just live well. But the murder of one’s father is a debt that can never be forgiven! I stayed at Shanhetang, wielding paper effigies as blades and talismans as armor, and embarked on a path of cultivation and revenge. For the wandering soul of the Night-Crying Boy, I made a paper horse to guide him to reincarnation; For the white corpse in the mass grave, I sent it to its doom with a peachwood sword coated in glutinous rice; The weasel that begged for a title, the water ghost that preyed on people, the tree spirit that drained their yang energy, the snake demon that slaughtered an entire village… One strange folk tale after another, one life-or-death battle after another. I delivered every wronged soul and cut down every evil-doer, and my cultivation soared! Some invited me to join their sect, promising boundless resources. I refused outright. I’m a folk Daoist. Staying at Shanhetang and protecting the people around me is more than enough. In seven years, I went from a mere eighth-rank Daoist adept to a second-rank Perfected One, a once-in-a-century talent and an earthly immortal! Meanwhile, the fiend that killed my father and uncles had evolved into a flying corpse, able to soar through the skies and burrow through the earth, impervious to every spell. Wherever it went, it left a wasteland in its wake, shaking the entire Daoist world. Back then, on that barren mountain, you killed my father and uncles and left me barely alive. Today, atop that same mountain, as an earthly immortal, I will make you… Pay your blood debt in blood!

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