Yunjian, a Taoist priest from Great Wei, transmigrates into the body of a blind, insignificant modern-day character and gets kidnapped from the start.
Yunjian stays calm. She can't pluck a leaf and use it as a blade, but she can use anything as a medium to set up the Qimen Dunjia formation.
Just as she's about to take revenge, a cat demon stops her. "If you kill someone, space-time will reject you. Besides, you don't look like a good person. The cops will arrest you."
Huh? Are you sure? That sounds pretty unreliable.
The cat glances at this bedraggled biped. The police arrest bad people, and she doesn't look like a good person, so I'm right.
Yunjian gives the kidnappers a thorough beating. Since she can't kill them, she'll use them to lure out an even bigger fish.
She thinks that once the threat to her life is dealt with, everything will go smoothly. But then she learns that even a hero can be defeated by a lack of money.
All she has is five copper coins and the painting of Mount Buzhou she just got. The plants inside are only illusions because there's no spiritual energy, so they can't even be used for food.
The little Taoist and her useless cat are starving and desperately need to wash up.
So Yunjian returns to her old line of work: being a hero (conning) who acts with justice (swindling) and helps people (cheating them).
To the old village chief's atheist grandson: "You're going to suffer a bloody disaster."
The grandson: "I don't believe you."
She meets a little girl troubled by a guqin spirit. "Stop pushing your kid so hard. The ghost in that zither is exhausted from tutoring her."
The girl's parents: "Fraud!"
She stops an influencer livestreaming casually by the road and warns her: "Watch where you're going. If you film something you shouldn't, you'll be dead."
The influencer and her viewers: "Has someone gone crazy trying to get famous these days?"
But soon, they all eat their words.
The village chief's grandson comes respectfully to ask how to deal with a honey trap.
The little girl's parents treat Yunjian like an honored guest and say they'll ease the burden on their daughter and the zither spirit from now on.
The influencer and her viewers flood the chat: "Master, can you tell my fortune? How's my wealth looking?!"
More and more demon claw marks appear on Mount Buzhou, marking where they have formed contracts.
She simply opens a worry-relieving general store to help demons find new jobs.
A dragon girl makes rain to help university students with their water sports class. A hair-growing spell from a demon brings hope to young people going bald... Demons of all kinds put their abilities to use in every human industry.
Yunjian's shop expands into a nationwide chain.
Yunjian's business is booming, and the demon family working in her shop is full of energy too. After several days of overtime, a silver-haired man wearing an apron shows up at her door with a wounded expression.
The mountain god, who has taken up cooking, sees his wife brushing him off because she's focused on her career. Furious, he returns to the dilapidated temple where they first met and grabs the now-sentient Thousand-Petal Lotus.
She loves me. She doesn't love me. She loves me...
The Thousand-Petal Lotus is on the verge of a breakdown. "Mountain God, don't you have a heart-binding spell with her? Can't you feel it?!"
Content warnings:
1. The female lead is a chuunibyou girl. The story is a series of short episodes, each demon with their own story.
2. The romance is a small part of the story.
3. Urban supernatural mysteries. Demons live hidden among humans, and there is an official organization, but the female lead is the strongest.
4. The author is writing this for herself and letting loose in a chaotic fantasy. All the metaphysical details are made up, and the information comes from Baidu.
(Copy saved on 2022.10.15)
Theme: The gods you believe in will protect you.
