The Taoist Priest Descends the Mountain: I Sell My Temple and Become a Young Master

Name: The Taoist Priest Descends the Mountain: I Sell My Temple and Become a Young Master
Author: Eighteen Angry Men

道士下山：卖掉道观做少爷

by Eighteen Angry Men (十八怒汉)

Status: Completed
Length: 332k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: Urban Cultivation
Updated: 3mo ago
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Synopsis

“I am Wang Shiye, a Taoist!”

“King of the Taoists, you say? What an arrogant introduction!”

His master was dead, and his sect's fortunes had run out. Wang Shiye sold the temple and took the Four-Eared Temple's ritual implements down the mountain.

He may not be the King of the Taoists, but this young Taoist in his early twenties, though no good at magical duels, could tell fortunes and read the flow of qi and divine trigrams like no one else. He could even use divination like GPS.

Unfortunately, a doctor can't treat himself. No matter how skilled Wang Shiye was at fortune-telling, he couldn't divine his own background, which was why he knew nothing about being the heir to a wealthy family.

The rabid dog attacking people in the street, the fox spirit draining people's vital energy, the corpse demon controlling the dead, the pale crane controlling the living, the general's vengeful spirit steeped in a thousand years of resentment... None of these monsters and spirits had anything to do with his identity as a young master, yet Wang Shiye kept running into them.

Born a young master, destined to be a Taoist, Wang Shiye still had to make a living livestreaming his services, even with a rich father. As he dealt with all sorts of monsters and spirits, he also had to settle the karmic debts he had incurred and protect the Four-Eared Temple's coveted legacy.

Busy, busy. It's good to stay busy... But Wang Shiye didn't know that someone had arranged all of this. This young Taoist was himself one of the things people coveted in the Four-Eared Temple's legacy...

(Warning: This story contains some Taoist terminology and quotations from ancient texts. It may take a little extra effort to read, but not much.)

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