Ghost-Catching Celestial Master

Ghost-Catching Heavenly Master is an urban supernatural suspense novel by the web author Qi Ba Jiu, serialized on the Shuqi Fiction platform. It ran for approximately 2,012 chapters and over 4.4 million Chinese characters, concluding in October 2019. The protagonist, Long Jingyu, is a young Daoist who has followed the Maoshan priest Chen Jiu since childhood and bears the "Azure Dragon Seal." This mark is both a gift and a shackle: before his twenty-first birthday he must find and merge with a dragon soul, surviving the so-called "Dragon Transformation Trial," or his life will be forfeit. To that end he leaves the familiar sect, enrolls at a medical university in the south, and lives as a student while secretly pursuing the dragon soul's whereabouts. The story begins with an incident at a hotel near campus—Long Jingyu encounters a woman possessed by a ghost intent on draining his yang energy, subdues her with a yellow talisman, and ends up at odds with the police. From there, eerie rumors at the medical school, reanimated corpses and zombies, haunted houses and tombs of every description, and open rivalry among the various mystical sects follow in succession. Fighting ghosts and subduing evil alongside his companions, he gradually perceives a larger design behind it all: a conflict involving the order of the three realms and, ultimately, a final showdown with the demon god Chiyou. Blending the Daoist talisman and spell system, sect warfare, and everyday city life, the novel advances its main plot through episodic supernatural incidents, with brisk pacing and ample catharsis—one of the more representative male-oriented supernatural serials on the Shuqi platform.