[Female Daoist Healer] [Formally Trained Young Daoist] [Local Deities and Spirits] [Transmigration Across Eras] [Villainous Ghost Cultivator]
Xu Xu, a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner who has returned to her hometown, begins with a case involving a corpse abandoned in a village, gradually uncovering the many eerie mysteries buried in this mountain village for a century.
Feng Quan, a cultivator of the demonic path, is skilled in soul swapping, body possession, and refining baleful energy. He is bent on achieving immortality by taking over other people's bodies. For a hundred years, he has moved from one era to another, skillfully exploiting human greed to set traps and harm people.
Following the traces left by wronged souls across the ages, Xu Xu joins forces with people who possess special abilities to pursue Feng Quan through time.
Righteous cultivation focuses on suppressing baleful forces, exorcising evil, delivering departed souls, and resolving karmic entanglements. Feng Quan's sect uses sinister methods, cultivating dark forces through possession, devouring living souls, and refining human fat. The story focuses on recreating the texture of local folk traditions and portraying the many sides of human nature across different eras. At its heart are the strategic battles between good and evil, and the questions of fate and karma.
