Supernatural suspense + Daoist cultivation + coming-of-age adventure
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My name is Chen Xuansheng. I'm the 108th-generation disciple of the Maoshan Sect, and the last one.
With a spiritual power score of nine, I can't even draw a complete exorcism talisman. For eighteen years, I've held the top spot as “Maoshan's most useless Daoist.” My master sighs and shakes his head, my fellow disciples have all left to return to secular life, and the entire mountain is home to just the two of us, depending on each other.
Then, on a rainy night, my master collapsed in the Ancestral Hall, covered in blood. Before he died, he shoved the sect leader's token, the Three Mao Jade Pendant, into my hand. With his final breath, he wrote a message in blood on the ground: “Xuansheng, run!”
I scrambled down Maoshan, thinking I had escaped disaster. Little did I know that from the moment I accepted the pendant, my fate had been caught in a vast web stretching back three thousand years.
By the River of Weak Waters, a red-clad water ghost placed a death contract on me, giving me seven days to live. In an ancient tomb in the barren mountains, a Chu general from three thousand years ago became a flying jiangshi, just one step away from turning into an immortal corpse. In a remote mountain village, the successor of a mysterious occultist watched from the shadows. A game that had been waiting for dozens of generations had finally begun...
And the secret hidden inside the Three Mao Jade Pendant was far more shocking than I could have imagined:
“The mark on your soul is at least eighteen hundred years old.”
“You are the reincarnation of the Three Mao Perfected Lords.”
From a good-for-nothing with a spiritual power score of nine to the last person carrying on a thousand-year-old Daoist tradition. Along the way, I've seen the deepest darkness and the brightest light, endured the most painful farewells, and found the truest bonds.
As the nine gates of Youdu slowly open, as a three-thousand-year-old conspiracy comes to light, and as I finally stand before that gate...
I did not disgrace Maoshan.
