Song Immortal

After Jin Gou murdered his family, the mountain village boy Li Hong took his cousin Li Xiong deep into the mountains to seek refuge at Qing Shi Temple. There, he signed a life-or-death contract with Daoist Ling Shi and became a lowly servant at the temple. One day, he heard voices inside a room and went to eavesdrop. Ling Shi caught him and took him inside to look, but there was nobody there. Li Hong thought he had seen a ghost.

Later, many children arrived, and eventually an attractive little girl was sent by the old Daoist into the haunted room. During a mountain-climbing test, Li Hong traded food for information from Zhao Xuan and learned that Daoist Ling Shi was actually a cultivator. Li Hong and the others escaped danger several times along the climb. At the final cliff, Li Hong knocked Zhao Xuan off the precipice to save Li Xiong, and they passed the first test.

The second test was to enter the haunted room. Once inside, Li Hong encountered an unnamed expert, then met Daoist Ling Shi, who took him to the sect's forbidden grounds to test his natural attributes. Not a single cultivation method suited him, so in the end they gave him the Six Spirits Xianyi Art, a technique no one had practiced for three thousand years. Li Hong managed to open the scroll. Since the technique had exceptionally strict requirements, he risked his life to practice it, and Daoist Ling Shi took him to a secret chamber to cultivate. Somehow, Li Hong achieved inner vision, then entered the Lihuo Grand Formation. He had no idea how, but the life-saving Lihuo Pearl melted into his body. He met a sentient fire dragon and, with its help, made it out of the formation. At last, he completed the initiation ceremony alongside Li Xiong, Zhao Xuan, and the girl...