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The 800-Year-Old Taoist Has to Go Down the Mountain After His Temple Was Demolished

share time: 2025-11-22 00:35:14

Lin Xuan, an 800-year-old Taoist ancestor, was forced to leave his Qingxu Temple—guarded for a century—when it was suddenly demolished. Clutching half a copy of *The Taixuan Sutra*, the socially awkward elder struggled even with mobile payments, yet accidentally stumbled into the urban Taoist circle. There, he encountered fake psychics swindling elderly people's pensions, evil cultivators using ghost-rearing sorcery to harm celebrities, and even a wealthy family begging him to break a “bloodlight curse.” From being mocked as a “rustic Taoist” by hooligans to defeating malevolent邪修 (evil cultivators) with a flip of his hand, and eventually being revered as a “living ancestor” by the Taoist Association, Lin Xuan complained, “Modern ‘magic tools’ (phones) are harder to use than talismans,” while turning the city upside down with his millennium-old Taoism. But no one noticed the green jade pendant in his sleeve, quietly guiding him to find his junior brother who had been missing for 300 years—and behind that, lay the truth about the temple's destruction decades ago...

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