Descendant of the Fangxian Dao

In the old West Street, two unremarkable antiques lie hidden in Zhībái’s Secondhand Shop: half a copy of Essentials of Ancestral Stove Rituals and a palm-sized bronze traveling stove. Their owner is Xu Zhibai, a young shopkeeper who wants nothing more than a quiet life. An accidental purchase and a wooden plaque engraved with “Return to Immortality” shatter his peaceful routine. From then on, one strange event after another unfolds: the bronze stove grows hot at midnight, an ancient mirror splits in two, and fingernails appear out of nowhere in a pot. To protect himself and make a living, Xu Zhibai has no choice but to open the fragmentary book his grandfather left behind. Using the forgotten esoteric arts of the Fangxian Dao, he begins a series of thrilling exorcisms. He has encountered the evil “ruined stove” spirit in a restaurant kitchen and dealt with nightmare hauntings caused by jade burial objects in a wealthy family’s home. Every transaction is a gamble against the unknown. Yet behind these separate incidents, a blurry shadow always seems to follow him. His grandfather’s cause of death, the Xu family’s inheritance, and the mysterious “Return to Immortality Society” form an invisible web that is quietly closing around him. Is being a descendant of the Fangxian Dao a blessing or a curse? How far can Xu Zhibai go down this strange and dangerous path?