Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: I Get the Record of Demon-Slaying from the Start

Zhang Qinghe, a modern-day Daoist priest, unexpectedly transmigrated to the Daqian Strange Tales world, where monsters ran rampant and society had collapsed. He possessed the body of a fifteen-year-old novice at Qingxuan Temple on Qingyun Mountain, a dull-witted boy who had spent three years unable to draw qi into his body. The original owner had died after being invaded by baleful yin energy, allowing Zhang Qinghe to return to life in his body. The ancient book of his previous life, Record of Subduing Demons and Exorcising Evil, awakened with him, becoming his only trump card for surviving in the chaotic world.

The book could record every monster and evil spirit in the world. By earning merit through slaying or exorcising them, he could earn merit points to deduce cultivation techniques, improve his spells, break through cultivation realms, and defy fate. With the deep Daoist knowledge he had cultivated in his previous life and his heaven-defying golden finger, Zhang Qinghe finally escaped his good-for-nothing aptitude.

Wild spirits and ghosts, murderous creatures in the water, sinister heretical Daoists, and all manner of ghosts roamed a world in chaos. Armed with the ancient book and versed in Daoist arts, Zhang Qinghe made Qingxuan Temple his base. Relying on talismans and magical artifacts, he comprehended the Dao through merit, slaying demons and cleansing evil along the way. In this perilous Strange Tales world, he forged a path to immortality of his own.