It was a translation of the classical Chinese Laoshan Taoist priest.
Laoshan Taoist was a story in the ancient Chinese novel Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. It told the story of a Taoist priest named Super Chen who cultivated in Laoshan and his love story with a female ghost. The following is the translation of Laoshan Taoist priest: Laoshan Taoist surnamed Chen Chao lives on the top of Laoshan Mountain. When he was young, he was able to practice Taoism. When he was twenty years old, he abandoned his home and went to the mountains to practice Taoism. At first, he sat quietly in the cave and then lived alone under the stone bridge for several years. Every stormy night, people appear riding clouds and fog to wander between the mountains. When people heard this, they were surprised and praised him as a god. A female ghost, about fourteen or fifteen years old, complained about the injustice of the world and went into the mountains to seek death. When he met Chen Chao, he stopped and made friends with him. Ban Chao told the ghost about her husband's crimes and asked Ban Chao to help her escape. "Everyone has his own destiny," said Ban Chao."Why force it?" The ghost was moved by his words and escaped. Ban Chao took pity on his encounter, left him food and lodging, and said goodbye to him. A few years later, the female ghost came to ask Ban Chao to avenge her husband. "It is better to practice than to take revenge," said Ban Chao. So he taught him Taoist skills and asked him to cultivate merit to change the evil of others. The female ghost was moved by his kindness and became a Tao fruit. According to the old story, people all say that he has the virtue of immortals.