Chen Jiuxuan was a funeral director who watched life and death with cold detachment. Then, in a single night, he was haunted by Xuanchengzi, a Taoist priest who had been dead for seventy years. The mad old Taoist survives by sucking away Chen's yang energy. He calls him worthless, yet at night he has shielded him from deadly supernatural forces nine times. When the orphan Lin Xiaoman draws the Taoist temple where Xuanchengzi lived, and Scarface Lao Wu, the head of a black-market gang, begins slaughtering the living to harvest their souls, Chen Jiuxuan finally realizes that Xuanchengzi's death was a meticulously planned sacrifice. Now, between the living and the dead, who is the true offering?
