Divine Dao Talisman Summons

Divine Dao Talisman Summons is a classical xianxia and incense-offering deity-path web novel by Xueman Linzhong, serialized on Qidian from December 28, 2014 to its completion on September 10, 2015. The book runs about 1.22 million Chinese characters and has never been published in print. The story is set in a world where the human way rules in three-hundred-year cycles and dragon qi suppresses the realm: the Great Yu dynasty has stood for five hundred years, resentment has piled up, the Qingyang Dao is about to rise, and a great calamity looms. Modern young man Liu Yi dies suddenly and becomes a yin ghost, possessing the blue-faced, fanged idol in a ruined shrine on Fenglai Mountain, carrying with him the wondrous book Six Paths Heavenly Scripture that he won in a lucky draw in a readers' group while alive. When a hunter and his son take shelter in the shrine and make offerings, a wisp of incense votive power is converted into divine power by the scripture, and he first realizes the connection between incense and divine office—beginning his deity-path journey from the position of Earth God of Fenglai Mountain. He subdues vengeful ghosts, befriends the great hero Shentu Qi, maneuvers among the Earth God, City God, and Ganchi Ghost King factions, explores ancient tomb spirit veins, and steadily expands his authority amid the dynasty's twilight and the human world's struggle for the dragon, resolved to perfect the divine way and return yin and yang each to its proper place. Grounded in incense faith, the book lays out a promotion path from Earth God to City God, terrestrial deity, and emperor lord, intertwining the divine way with human-way hegemony—a representative work of the divine-path fortune genre.