Taoist Priests from Maoshan: Notes on the Mountain Tour at the End of the Dharma Period

Zhang Qingyuan, a young Taoist priest, was sent to Maoshan to practice cultivation since he was a child. He thought he would inherit his master's legacy step by step. However, one day because of his "unclear character and shaky Taoist foundation", the master who changed his temperament sternly expelled him from the mountain and ordered him to "no more." How can we break through the mortal world? How can we save ghosts if we don't see all ghosts?" Zhang Qingyuan, who had no possessions and only carried a few simple magical tools and the meager incense money he had saved, was forced to step into the city and countryside that were both familiar and unfamiliar to him. He soon discovered that the evil spirits in the world under the mountain were far more strange and dangerous than what was recorded in the scriptures, and the darkness of the human heart was even worse than that of ghosts. From the prosperous towns on the eastern coast to the remote ancient villages in the northwest, a series of unbelievable, eerie and supernatural events happened one after another. Zhang Qingyuan had to use Maoshan Taoism to struggle to survive on the verge of life and death in a modern society where science and superstition coexist, peeling off silk and cocoons to explore the grievances and human treachery behind ghost things. At the same time, he gradually realized that there seemed to be a deeper and more terrifying truth hidden behind the master's forcible drive to drive him down the mountain...