I Graduated from Peking University and Became a Taoist Priest

Cheng Yang, a Peking University physics graduate, received a yellowed letter from his advisor.

It said: Deep in the mountains west of the capital, an old Taoist priest has been waiting for you for sixty years.

He went. In a ruined temple, the first thing the mad Taoist said was, “You’re here.”

On his first night, he saw a real ghost: a twenty-three-year-old girl standing beside his bed. The field-strength meter went wild, its display reading 5.21 gauss, ten times the normal level.

The old Taoist said, “You can leave whenever you like. But if you stay, you’ll be the seventy-third-generation heir to Baiyun Temple.”

He stayed.

From then on, he used a field-strength meter to measure ghosts, a spectrum analyzer to break talismans, and thermal imaging to find monsters. A physics whiz meets Taoist rituals. Every overwhelming victory brings him closer to understanding the truth of this world.

He has laid vengeful spirits to rest, battled through blood-and-evil formations, listened to fox demons recite sutras, faced the capital’s great barrier, witnessed corpse-driving in western Hunan, and unraveled mysteries in ancient tombs…

He has seen the darkest evil in human hearts, and the deepest kindness in ghosts.

But the words he can’t forget are what the old Taoist said just before they parted:

“When your mother passed away, she kept looking at you.”

The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao.

My name is Cheng Yang. I’m a Taoist priest.

Explaining Taoist arts with physics, and banishing monsters and demons with science.