Soul Hunter : Taikoubou's Mission (Vol. 1)

They're sending a boy... to do a man's job. The ancient Chinese Yin Dynasty is rotting from the inside out, infested with demon immortals. Zhou, the emperor of China, is bewitched by the evil Dakki: he neglects the empire and its people to indulge her whims. Genshitenson, one of the Taoist Immortals, decides to restore order by sealing away forever the souls of Dakki and 364 other demons in Houshin Mountain - Project Soul Hunt. Now all that remains is to find someone to carry it out. Why risk the life of a perfectly good immortal if you can send a good-for-nothing instead? Taikoubou skips his lessons and naps while he's meditating, if he doesn't happen to make it back, so much the better. Armed with nothing but a magical rod and a hit list, Taikoubou is dragged off by the spiritual beast Sibuxiang. When your job is killing demon immortals, on-the-job training can be extremely rough! Will Taikoubou get his act together in time to save his skin? Or will he and Sibu get vaporized on his first day on the job?