Li Ergou, a Celestial Master of the Tongtian Temple.
After summoning gods and borrowing their power to trade lives with someone, he opened his eyes in the 1980s at Panjiayuan, as the young master of an antique shop so poor it had nothing but an empty storefront.
His cultivation had been slashed to a mere two qian. His whole stock was counterfeit, and his pockets were cleaner than his face.
Fortunately, his Heavenly Eye was intact, his three yang flames still burned bright, and the treasures in his bag were all there: a dead man's lantern, a Judge's brush, and a four-foot Tang saber.
The tyrant of Panjiayuan shows up with dozens of men to smash his shop? Pay the door fee first: fifty a hit, same price for everyone.
A descendant of the Mojin Xiaowei is selling cassette tapes at Qianmen? What a talent! Come work with Daoist here, and I'll recharge your Mojin talisman.
A big zongzi is fierce? In Daoist's eyes, it's cultivation that can walk, and money that can breathe.
Raid tombs, subdue corpses, earn merit, make up for his fate's deficiency, and turn the burial goods scattered everywhere into cash along the way.
So what if he's cursed with the Five Evils and Three Deficiencies? So what if any money he gets vanishes? He'll grab it first and worry about the rest later.
Daoist will pick up the bargains at Panjiayuan, and open the tombs underground. Whoever gets in the way can lie down in one themselves.
Digging Graves How did you get involved with merit? Even if the corpse transforms into someone else's own tomb, if you don't dig up someone else's tomb, they can't come out to harm others. Do you think it's meritorious to go and kill someone??
It's well written and I'm happy to show it to my buddies. A Taoist priest with good ethics can indeed get twice the result with half the effort when robbing tombs. 🍉🍉
Is it you? Li Ergou, Zhao Li's boss?