Daoqing

Biodata

Background / History

Daoqing is Fuchenzi’s disciple and a government-certified celestial master. He and Daoming were praised for their exceptional talent after entering the Dao, although neither was considered among the bureau’s most outstanding disciples 19 43 46.

He first approaches Qu Nanzhu alongside Fuchenzi after the death of the fraud-exposing streamer Pang Du. Daoqing explains the circumstances of the death and praises Qu Nanzhu’s ability to discern so much through a livestream. Their recruitment attempt fails, but Qu Nanzhu subsequently sends them his contact information and offers assistance with cases beyond the bureau’s capabilities 19.

Appearance

• Bearing: Described alongside Daoming as refined, upright, and distinctly Daoist; viewers and prospective academy students remark on his handsome appearance 43 112.
• Sect clothing: Dark blue-green Daoist robes 43.
• Official uniform: A white Zhongshan-style suit embroidered with golden dragons, with gold-patterned decorations at the collar and cuffs 43.
• Ceremonial clothing: Wears ceremonial robes for the Blessing Dance in Y City 99.

Personality

Daoqing’s formal public bearing contrasts with his bashfulness around Qu Nanzhu. During their first meeting, he stammers, scratches his head, and retreats after an exasperated look from Fuchenzi. Before filming together, he worries that Qu Nanzhu will find him unintelligent and reprimand him on a national livestream 19 43 44.

He is patient with beginners but not endlessly unflappable. He reassures frightened guests and explains supernatural procedures, yet their wildly inaccurate face-reading answers visibly test his composure. He also has a playful side: during the villa’s ghost-catching task, he laughs so hard at the guests’ scrambling that his face aches afterward 46 47 48 97.

Daoqing becomes tearful when Qu Nanzhu disappears during the school collapse, then immediately follows a spectral guide when it offers hope of finding him. Daoming trusts his judgment, regarding him as the more rational of the two and unlikely to act rashly 54.

Abilities & Skills

Face-Reading

Daoqing can interpret personality and fate through facial features, including those preserved in photographs 46 97.

• Participates in Qu Nanzhu’s examination of the haunted villa’s former residents 46.
• Identifies laugh lines as signs of a cheerful disposition and smooth lines in the spouse palace as indicating a harmonious marriage 97.
• Distinguishes basic face-reading from Qi Observation, which is needed to perceive recent events and future fortunes 97.

Feng Shui and Formation Work

Daoqing understands auspicious formations, their corruption, and methods of cleansing accumulated yin energy 45 46 48.

• Examines the villa’s Twin Dragons Holding a Pearl Wealth-Gathering Formation with Daoming 45.
• After Qu Nanzhu explains its corruption, identifies burning the black soil with an utmost-yang substance at noon as the first corrective step 46.
• Explains that further repairs require replacing the soil, opening the mountain, and redirecting the water 46.
• Teaches guests the scripture needed for an eight-direction cleansing formation and helps activate it 48.
• Participates in the Blessing Dance performed across Y City 99.

Spiritual Sight and Ghost Handling

Daoqing can perceive spirits invisible to ordinary people and help manage their removal 47 55.

• Sees the phantom at the school cemetery when most of the accompanying guests cannot 55.
• Offers to open the guests’ Yin-Yang Eyes alongside Daoming, explaining that untrained people will see only blurry ghostly silhouettes; Daoming performs the opening shown in the villa sequence 47.
• Distributes non-injurious ghost-catching tools and explains that the bureau will send the captured, harmless ghosts to the Underworld 47.
• Is prohibited by bureau rules from laying hands on ordinary people, even during a confrontation over a ghost-containing stone 51.

Equipment / Items

• Protective jade talismans: Distributes bureau-produced talismans that prevent ghost energy from entering the wearer’s body. Each is valued at ten million and must be returned after filming 45.
• Yellow talisman: Supplies the talisman Qu Nanzhu uses to ignite the mugwort-covered slope. Daoqing initially brings a lighter, not expecting Qu Nanzhu to ignite it in midair 47.
• Braided mulberry silk: Helps distribute silk used to capture ghosts without injuring them 47.
• Willow switches: Instructs guests to obtain them for dealing with misbehaving ghosts 47.

Relationships

• Fuchenzi — Master. Accompanies him to recruit Qu Nanzhu and later follows his instruction to learn from Qu Nanzhu during filming 19 43 44.
• Daoming — Fellow celestial master and regular working partner. They investigate cases, protect guests, teach apprentices, and conduct public education together 45 48 52 97.
• Qu Nanzhu — Respected senior and source of instruction. Daoqing openly acknowledges his superior abilities, learns from his explanations, and helps locate him after the school collapse 19 44 46 54 55.
• Wen Youfang — Investigation Bureau director whom Daoqing accompanies and introduces during Qu Nanzhu’s hospital stay 56.
• General Lin — Arranges his meeting with Qu Nanzhu and identifies him as the distinguished person whose rescue earned Ji Pofu substantial merit 86.

Story Role / Major Arcs

First Season: Supernatural Investigations

• Public recognition of Qu Nanzhu: Daoqing and Daoming greet him as their senior on camera, overturning the celebrities’ and viewers’ expectation that the official masters will expose him as a fraud 43.
• Haunted villa: Leads one investigation team, brings up a family photograph recovered from the basement, and studies the connection between the residents’ fates and the corrupted feng shui. He subsequently helps protect the guests, organize ghost collection, and cleanse the villa 45 46 47 48.
• Village investigation: Works with Daoming to question villagers and search for clues. Their group discovers a household making blood offerings to a little ghost residing in a stone 50 51.
• Fraudster’s livestream confession: Calls the police after Little Eighteen alerts him. He and Daoming explain that sincere surrender and repentance can reduce karmic punishment, while attempting to buy an escape from responsibility cannot 51 52.
• School crisis: Helps investigate the voices heard by students. After Qu Nanzhu disappears during the collapse, Daoqing follows a phantom into the ruins, finds him in the cemetery, and checks his pulse to confirm he is alive 53 54 55.

Ji Pofu Investigation

• Attends the police station as the Celestial Master Bureau’s representative because the case involves harmful supernatural arts, and warns Ji Pofu to stop challenging the law 76.
• Takes Qu Nanzhu’s observation that Ji Pofu possesses merit seriously, leaving the investigation of his connections to the Investigation Bureau 77.
• Later introduces Qu Nanzhu to General Lin, connecting Ji Pofu’s merit to his earlier rescue of the general 86.

Public Education and Second Season

• Maintains a Weibo account sharing official notices, educational material, and everyday cultivation routines as the bureau becomes more publicly visible 93.
• Returns as a mentor for the show’s second season, guiding nine apprentices through a photograph-based face-reading exercise 96 97.
• Joins Qu Nanzhu, Daoming, and the apprentices in performing the Blessing Dance across Y City 99.
• Appears at the Celestial Master Academy’s entrance examination, where applicants recognize him 112.