Who Dares to Become an Immortal?

"Soul, return. Come back, soul. Return, and life shall follow."

A soul-summoning spell lets Xu Xiang'an return to life in another body, transmigrating to Taiyin Mountain as the son of a mad drunkard.

Seventy-two powerful monsters rule this place. Calling themselves gods, they lord over the people, accepting their offerings of incense while enslaving them like livestock. Every New Year, they demand boys and girls as sacrifices; at year's end, they demand gold, silver, and other valuables. The people live in misery.

Bearing a Ninefold Pagoda and carrying the Daoist scriptures in his mind, Xu Xiang'an had planned to keep his head down and grow stronger. Instead, he is repeatedly targeted: first by a weasel demanding that he grant it a divine title, then by gods hunting him down.

He draws talismans, destroys temples, and slays gods, stirring up Taiyin Mountain with nothing but a mortal body.

Then he discovers, to his shock, that someone has altered this world's Daoist scriptures, and he is the only one who knows the orthodox Daoist teachings.