The Flosser Taoist is a supernatural suspense novel by the web novelist Yisuo Yanyu. Serialized on Baidu Novels starting November 13, 2018, it is now complete, running about 126 chapters and over 600,000 characters. The story begins in the most ordinary old building in the city: a beautiful woman moves in next door to the protagonist, and after what seems like a romantic encounter, she transforms into a vengeful ghost and drags the unprepared protagonist into a series of bizarre events. By a twist of fate, he joins a Taoist sect. Starting from "taking a master" and "sending off souls," he goes on to experience harrowing episodes such as walking through the underworld, parting at the Three-Life Stone, consuming yin substances, and returning to the world of the living, and is thereby drawn into his master's old grudges. The book is broadly divided into two volumes. Volume One, "Up the Mountain to Become a Taoist," follows the protagonist as he enters the Taoist path, accompanies his master in handling strange affairs in southern Yunnan, and ventures deep into a haunted tomb in the Qinling Mountains, encountering perilous situations such as the Seven Demons Bearing the Coffin, hordes of demons dancing wildly, and vengeful spirits breaking formations. Volume Two, "Southern Shamans and Kunlun," has him and companions such as Zhao Xiaoruo pursuing secret treasures including the Shaman Xian elixir of immortality and the Five-Color Stone, tracing clues from the southwestern borderlands all the way to even older legends. The book draws heavily on Taoist culture, folk tales, and supernatural lore; exorcism and demon suppression, ghost catching and monster subduing, qimen dunjia divination, and running affairs across the yin and yang realms all take turns on stage, interspersed with mysteries such as the Qingqiu enigma and ancient beasts. Overall, episodic supernatural incidents are threaded into a main storyline, with tight pacing and suspense building layer by layer, making it a typical urban Taoist arts adventure web novel.
如果你偏爱“都市里撞见不干净的东西，然后一路拜师学艺、打怪升级”的路子，这本算是把老梗玩得相当熟练的一本。它的开篇很抓人：一个普通上班族式的男主角，因为隔壁女邻居的离奇遭遇被迫入道，从“我到底做错了什么”的懵懂，到慢慢学会请神送魂、设阵镇煞，成长线清晰，代入感强。作者一蓑烟雨在氛围营造上很用心，走阴府、压身入魄、锁魂这些桥段写得阴气十足，却又常有插科打诨调节节奏，读起来不至于太过压抑。更难得的是，书里没有把道术写成空泛的口诀，而是围绕“何为道”“师父的旧仇”这些线索，把主角的师门恩怨一点点抖开，让单元故事最终收束到一条主线上。滇南诡事、秦岭诡墓、七煞拱棺、百鬼出洞等段落的场景感和画面感都不错，喜欢盗墓探险与民间志怪的读者会找到熟悉的味道。作为一部已完结的作品，六十余万字的篇幅不算冗长，通勤、睡前追读都很合适。
Yi Suo Yan Yu is a Chinese author mainly engaged in web novel writing, with only limited public information available. According to the library records, the author has two works to date: the representative titles Imperial Favor: Hard to Escape His Grace and The Taoist Scholar Who Topped the Examinations. Judging from the common categories, the writing mainly involves female-oriented novels, ancient romance and modern romance, and extends into premium fiction and suspense and mystery. The titles suggest both emotional entanglements in ancient courts and a suspenseful atmosphere featuring supernatural and detective elements, showing the author's tendency to balance romance narrative with mystery plotting. Since the dates of birth and death, nationality and writing career have not been clearly recorded, this introduction is based only on the available works and category information, without adding any unconfirmed personal details.
