In Treading the Immortal Path, there's a saintly senior sister whom everyone despises.
The cultivation world is ruled by the law of the jungle, but she is like a torrent of mud, preaching, "Choose love, not hate." Even after being insulted, mocked, and betrayed again and again, she still chooses to forgive.
Xi Youlan writes three thousand characters of complaints every day, hoping the author will hurry up and kill off that garbage saintly heroine.
The day after she finally convinces the author, she unexpectedly transmigrates into the book.
When she walks down from the Desire-Cutting Platform, the cultivation world gains a hapless senior sister named Xi Youlan.
Her junior sister conspires with outsiders to steal her magic treasure. She doesn't blame her.
Her junior brother makes a mistake and frames her for it. She doesn't get mad.
Her master repeatedly believes slander and punishes her. She doesn't get upset.
Don't ask. The answer is always forgiveness!
And yet...
Far below the distant Desire-Cutting Platform, a wisp of demonic thought is so furious on her behalf that it turns into a pufferfish, cursing and grumbling every day.
"Screw you, Ye Lingyue! Did you steal my magic treasure because you can't afford a coffin?"
"Xiang Mingchen, you son of a bitch! Wash your neck and wait for me. If I don't chop you into pieces, my name isn't..."
"Wen Qingshu, you heartless master, don't think you can get away either. I've already beaten the demonic thought under the Desire-Cutting Platform into submission. You're first on my list when I get out!"
Years later, the Desire-Cutting Platform explodes.
The demonic thought bursts out, carrying an overwhelming grudge, to find her useless original self.
Among the flowers of the Medicine Valley, a cool and serene female cultivator lifts her eyes. She looks like a goddess shaped by the demonic thought's own taste.
"Damn it..."
The demonic thought clutches her chest and thinks: Oh no, my lust is in here too!
At some point, an organization supporting independent cultivators appears in the cultivation world.
It offers spirit-stone stipends to young cultivators, cultivation manuals to adults, and affordable spirit herbs, medicines, magic treasures, and robes.
They say, "As long as you enjoy helping others and walk the path to immortality with a clear conscience, we're friends."
Xi Youlan nervously keeps her guard up: There's no way I'm letting my wife be friends with people like that! If they share the same interests, what place will I have at home?!
Until one day, the demonic thought is besieged by a crowd of cultivators.
The leader of the Fuxin Tower arrives with friends and family to help. As the two sides face off, the cool and serene female cultivator gives a slight nod. "Fellow cultivators, I've come to take my Dao companion home."
Xi Youlan: I hold the world in my heart, but she alone is my selfish desire.
Xi Youlan: My evil desires are boundless, but she is my good thought.
Theme: Respect yourself, love yourself, and stand on your own.