Introduction to "Green Snake Tribulation Penglai Jin"
During the reign of King Zhao of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the flowing clouds on the top of Penglai Mountain were soaked in blood, and the green snake Liu Ruyan was about to pass through thunder and fire, turn into a dragon and ascend to immortality. She was originally the green snake guarding the Yuan of the Nine Nether Ponds of Kunlun. She traveled around the world in human form for five hundred years. At the Haojing Wine Shop, she met Su Li, Guiguzi's eldest disciple - a moon-white brocade robe, with eyebrows like swords and fingertips like jade when holding a wine cup. When he said, "We are not sure where we will be together," she wrapped a snake's tail around his ankle; when he said, "If there is an afterlife, I will prepare sweet-scented osmanthus wine for you." She then quietly embedded the snake scales into his heart, thinking that in exchange for his companionship, he would be together for many years to come.
But fate wants to tear this obsession to pieces. Su Li was expelled from the door by Gui Guzi for having an affair with a demon, and was even cursed by the Queen Mother of the West: If the Green Snake falls in love, the world will be struck by thunder and Penglai will be destroyed. On the day Liu Ruyan caught a glimpse of the secret at Jinghu Lake, Su Li was kneeling at the foot of the mountain, with dried wild chrysanthemums in her arms - her favorite flower in the past. His temples were stained with frost, and he was scolded as a "monster", but he still hugged the wild chrysanthemums tighter: "Ayan, if you wish, even if I am a wild dog in the mountains, I can guard half of your sweet-scented osmanthus cake."
Liu Ruyan gave up her immortal bones, shed her snake scales, and rushed down to Penglai with 500 years of cultivation. When she found Su Li in the ruined temple, he still held half a piece of candied osmanthus cake in his palm. He had been searching for her for three years. When thunder and fire were approaching, she wrapped her snake tail around his waist and blocked the thunder from the sky for him. He laughed at her for being "silly" and said, "I only want to be with you, even if it's just for a day." She cried that he was "crazy," but she didn't know that her snake scales were peeling off piece by piece, revealing her bloody body - that was the price of the Queen Mother of the West's curse, the immortal bones she broke for him.
In the end, thunder and fire burned down the temple, and Su Li's body was crushed under the scorch.
