Lingxian True Lord

For Chen Yuan, waking up is anything but good news.

A lone mountain cottage, a dim oil lamp, a water vat that moves in the dead of night.

In the bleak mountain winds, there are man-eating ghosts and bewitching fox spirits, and in abandoned temples the Buddha statues carve out their own entrails. Yet there are also distant mountain clouds, picturesque waterside pavilions, and free-and-easy immortals.

In this year, Chen Yuan pulls a bullock cart and puts on wooden puppet plays, performing stories such as Guan Yunchang slaying demons a thousand li away, Zhong Kui eating ghosts, Wu Chang claiming lives, the Water God of Wujiang subduing Xiang Yu, the naturally born stone monkey causing chaos in Heaven, and Erlang Zhenjun of Guanjiangkou rescuing his mother...

He tells the people of this world one different story after another.

The road of Dao is long. He sets up temples and lives off incense offerings. All who worship me will have their requests answered.