Qin Yan, a top archaeology student, opens his eyes in the world of Mr. Vampire, reborn as an abandoned infant left to cry in the Ren Family Town funeral home. Uncle Nine of Maoshan takes him in and makes him his first disciple.
While other senior disciples toil at drawing talismans and chanting incantations, Qin Yan discovers a book called The Essentials of Puppetry deep in Uncle Nine's bookcase. It unexpectedly activates the Divine Puppeteer System: kill zombies to gain experience and silver dollars; reach enough experience to advance in cultivation, and once he has the money, he can materialize puppets on the spot!
There's Dali, an iron-armored puppet with immense strength that can smash a white zombie's head with one punch; thread-thin medical puppet insects that slip under the skin to set bones and heal wounds; and a battle-soul puppet that specializes in spiritual beings, sweeping away wandering ghosts with a single oil-paper umbrella. He even gets a pair of basic yin-yang eyes for free...
From then on, while others drive corpses, he slaughters zombies; while others draw talismans, he sends out puppets.
Qiusheng and Wencai are still scratching their heads over how to draw qi into their bodies, while Qin Yan has already reached the tenth level of the Human Master realm and advanced to Earth Master. Taoist Priest Simei hangs around the funeral home for free food, while Qin Yan kicks out his uncle's “client” and pockets another two hundred silver dollars' worth of experience.
Zombies hard to handle? Wandering ghosts everywhere?
Qin Yan weighs his money bag and grins brightly. “They're all just experience packs for me.”
Watch this eight-year-old Taoist child, leading an iron puppet and carrying an umbrella through the rain, bring the Maoshan tradition of puppet mastery crashing back to life in the Republic-era world of zombies!
