From the start, Gu Sijun woke up to find himself Heaven's top book-balancer and a fox drowning in debt.
The fox had been a dog for years. His underhanded tactics, thick skin, and grudges were renowned as Heaven's three great evils. From the statues of the Celestial Emperor to the stone beasts on shop signs, there wasn't a single one he hadn't kicked. The divine officials went out of their way to avoid him. They weren't afraid of his powers, but of the knife hidden behind his smile.
Because he didn't like the food at the Immortal Gathering, he refused to discuss it and jumped straight off Heaven, turning himself into a legend.
Of course, the day he jumped, Heaven's account books also vanished out of thin air by the dozen. To this day, not a single divine official has explained where the 8,880,000 merits went.
That was all seven hundred years ago.
Seven hundred years later, he'd lost all his powers, someone had taken his immortal title, his temples had been torn down, and his only “believer” was a mortal escort who'd forcibly summoned him back with a life-shortening spell.
It wasn't just the divine officials he'd cheated and kicked. Any little Taoist priest on the roadside came after him for repayment, insisting he owed them a karmic debt with an outrageous interest rate.
Luckily, Gu Sijun's best skill was pretending to be senile.
Fox immortal? What fox immortal?
In his glory days, he was the revered Patriarch of Wind and Rain. In his downfall, he was a wild fox who had to steal roast chicken to eat.
In the end, he couldn't keep up the act. Gu Sijun had no choice but to hunt ghosts and slay demons for merit while matching wits with the Taoist priest who followed him around in a different disguise every day. It was a case of the retired fox immortal finding a new job.
But wait. How could a fox and a Taoist priest end up together?!
So who's going to top whom?
Theme: Picking on a little fox?
