Yan Zhixian, an inheritor of the folk art of corpse-driving, takes on a job escorting the dead back to their hometowns. Along the way, he encounters a supernatural creature blocking the road and demanding a title. The high-speed chase that follows unexpectedly attracts the attention of higher authorities. Using his ancestral techniques to subdue ghosts and keep corpses at rest, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a special operations team after an initial confrontation. With his mind full of commission calculations and market rates, Yan Zhixian possesses genuine skills capable of resolving all kinds of supernatural crises. After signing a contract with the bureau, he continues running his corpse-escorting business while joining the investigation into a massive ghost-refining formation secretly arranged by an evil cultivator behind the scenes.