Guiding the Gods

Li Yuan was a ginseng spirit. After ten thousand years of hardship, she finally ascended to immortality!

But the heavens were full of talented people, as numerous as fish swimming upstream. She was just one insignificant nobody, and all she could do each day was dust the immortals' things.

One day, an immortal asked if she wanted a place among the ranks of the gods.

As it happened, the Heavenly Emperor's son, the Crown Prince, had recently descended to the mortal realm to undergo a trial. He needed to experience all eight worldly sufferings before he could return to the immortal realm.

Li Yuan's task was to descend to the mortal world and bring tribulations upon the Heavenly Emperor's son, so he could return to the heavens sooner.

Once she completed the mission, she too could join the ranks of the immortals.

Li Yuan nodded as hard as she could, promising to complete this arduous task.

The Crown Prince descended to the mortal realm and became an ordinary disciple of the Xuantian Sect. Because he was ordinary, he was constantly bullied, and he had never known warmth since childhood.

When Li Yuan found Xie Shu, the young man was being attacked by a group. Without a second thought, Li Yuan chased them off.

Meeting his grateful gaze, she kicked him without a word and snatched the treasure from his arms. "A useless person is still useless. Who do you think you are?"

The moment the young man's eyes darkened, Li Yuan knew she had succeeded. She was going to show the Crown Prince just how cruel people could be.

Who could have guessed that the Crown Prince's fate was so unusual that the sect leader would take an interest in him and choose him as a personal disciple?

So when a demonic beast chased them, she shoved him toward it without hesitation.

When demonic cultivators surrounded them, she once again abandoned Xie Shu and ran for her life alone.

Then the Demon Lord discovered that she was a ginseng spirit and tried to take her away to make medicinal liquor. Xie Shu resolutely stepped in front of her and took the full force of the devastating blow.

Li Yuan was utterly shaken, but when she met the man's restrained gaze, she quietly drew a dagger and stabbed him in the heart once more.

He asked, "Why?"

Li Yuan said, "I hate you."

Li Yuan was summoned back to the immortal realm. She felt that she had earned great merit. For the sake of the Heavenly Emperor's son's cultivation, she had done every despicable thing imaginable in the mortal world. How wicked of her.

On the day she was to join the ranks of the immortals, she was all smiles, until she spotted the Heavenly Crown Prince in the great hall.

Li Yuan kept smiling, nearly fainting.

His gaze was as deep as an abyss as he looked at the rigid ginseng spirit. "You hate me?"

Theme: Stay true to yourself.