The Legend of Immortality

"The Legend of Shengxian" is a supernatural novel produced in the Qing Dynasty. The book narrates that Ji Xiaotang, a talented scholar from Guandong during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, went to Beijing to take the exam. He saw the treacherous minister Yan Song controlling the government and framed Zhongliang, which also frustrated his career. From then on, Ji Xiaotang saw through the world of mortals and abandoned Confucianism and Taoism. Later, he received enlightenment from the immortal Lu Dongbin and learned the magic of immortality. The twists and turns of the work express the people's hatred of the darkness of reality but their inability to change it, and their fantasy of using magical magic to punish evil and eradicate evil.