Ascending to Immortality, Step by Step

Bu Yi was born into the world of cultivation and tested as having a useless five-element spiritual root, then abandoned by her birth father.

She thinks the hand she's been dealt isn't so bad. She joins the Taixu Sect, purifies her spiritual root, and develops her skills in swordsmanship, body cultivation, formations, and talismans.

The Taixu Sect, dormant for a thousand years, comes alive again with her arrival.

Geniuses look down on Bu Yi, only to get beaten up every time they see her, until they start questioning their own lives.

Prodigies look down on Bu Yi, and she beats them up every time they cross paths.

Bu Yi's birth father has an illegitimate daughter, Chu Yue, who is extraordinarily talented and known as the Dandxia Fairy. A prodigy is devoted to protecting her.

The prodigy accompanies Chu Yue to the Taixu Sect, where Bu Yi beats him to a pulp.

Chu Yue: Why are you picking on me? We're sisters.

Bu Yi: Get lost. Don't get in the way of my becoming an immortal.