The Five-Year-Old Celestial Master Is a Little Hungry

Deep in the mountains, five-year-old Xiao Man was kicked down the mountain by her master, an old Daoist priest.

Her master said, “First, you eat too much. I can’t afford to feed you. Second, your parents are waiting for you at the foot of the mountain. It’s time to go find them.”

So the little girl, who was strong enough to lift a mountain, could catch ghosts and treat illnesses, and could eat a whole roasted lamb, walked into the bustling modern city with a bundle bigger than she was on her back.

She didn’t understand traffic lights and thought cars were demons in iron shells. She had no idea what “money” was and charged only a meal for treating someone. She couldn’t use a phone, but had her own ways of finding her parents, like asking the old ghosts by the roadside or feeling someone’s bones.

To her, the strange things in the city that science couldn’t explain were no big deal.

It took one bowl of noodles for her to find her father. One call of “Auntie” was all it took for her to recognize her mother.

From then on, Haicheng had a little immortal who strode about with the wind at her back, ate from a basin, and treated ghost-catching as play. Her senior brothers were scattered across the world, each with an impressive background, but none of them knew the others existed.

See how this adorable five-year-old makes a glorious mess of the concrete jungle, while bringing warmth to every season.