Me, a Master of the Mystical Arts, Recruited by the State?

[Play the pig to eat the tiger + Metaphysics + Satisfying read + Strong female lead + Modern cultivation] To make ends meet, Shi Ning teamed up with her adoptive father as a pair of fake fortune-tellers, making plenty of money with their amateur skills. The Liu family in City A had recently been plagued by a string of bizarre incidents, so they offered the pair a hefty sum to come exorcise the ghosts. Her adoptive father thought they had found another sucker and figured he could slap up a few talismans and perform a couple of rituals to collect the money. Who could have guessed that the place would be crawling with sinister ghost energy, haunted by a ghostly maze at night, and filled with the laughter of babies from nowhere? He was so terrified that he kept having nightmares. "Sweetheart, this house really is haunted. Let's get out of here, quick!" He turned around to find his sweet, adorable daughter holding a little ghost in her hand. The ghost struggled desperately, but couldn't escape. Her adoptive father was stunned. "Wait, you can really do this?!" * Everyone had always assumed the new transfer student, a little girl, was a delinquent who loved sleeping in and skipping class. Until one day, the sky changed color, and countless demons poured out of their lairs. In the next instant, several swords flew across the sky. Standing at the front of the crowd was that very delinquent girl. Everyone beat their chests and stamped their feet. "I knew the country had to be keeping something from me!" [You can be lousy, but you can't be clueless.] [Demons have descended, and my classmate turns out to be a cultivation powerhouse?] [I'm begging you, government Dad, teach me how to cultivate too! I want to fly on a sword!]