The Daoist Sect of Another World

The Daoist Sect of Another World is a long xianxia web novel by Qingfeng Xiaodaotong, first serialized on Qidian on November 26, 2020, and completed on April 7, 2022. The full text is about 1.5808 million characters, categorized as xianxia · mythological cultivation. The protagonist, Li Ping'an, was originally an ordinary landlord in the modern world. He accidentally transmigrates to the Four Directions Realm, bringing with him a "Daoist Promotion System" and a bonus "Three Pure Ones Temple." After three months of system guidance, he learns basic tasks such as chanting scriptures, wearing Daoist robes, and offering incense, and with the Peiyuan Pills and qi-refining techniques rewarded by the system, he becomes a martial arts expert. To spread the Dao, he descends the mountain on his own, takes wild boar tusks to Anqing City to sell, and there meets the scholar Bai Yuchen, explaining concepts such as "Daoist sect" and "lay practitioner" to people of another world for the first time, formally beginning his path of propagating the Dao. He then takes disciples and transmits teachings, expands the temple, appoints local deities, establishes a Daoist court, adapts stories such as Investiture of the Gods and The Legend of the Shu Mountain Swordsmen for the other world, and either fights or makes peace with forces such as the Beast Taming Sect, the Holy Hall, the Academy, the imperial court, and various holy lands, gradually drawing a world where gods, ghosts, and cultivators coexist into the Daoist system. The overall style is light and humorous, blending traditional mythological elements from Investiture of the Gods, Journey to the West, and the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors with system-style cultivation settings. It is a representative work in which the author continues the xianxia mythological genre after The Great Entertainer of Journey to the West.