Fellow Cultivators, I Really Don't Need Your Gratitude

The year Xu Xian fails the imperial examinations, he encounters an ape demon on his way home, stumbles upon a golden elixir and a White Lotus scroll, and thus embarks on the path of cultivation. He swears to break free from his doomed fate—becoming a monk, losing his wife, and scattering his family. From the Yang-reinforcing Dragon Steed Thunder Phase Fist to the Thunder Marsh Ancestral Dragon Star-Suppressing Art, from the Sun True Fire that banishes ghosts to the Great Solar Crimson Flame that reduces all to ash, he refines his essence, energy, and spirit to forge Samadhi True Fire, and nurtures the five vital energies within to achieve the Five Energies Converging to the Origin. Yet Xu Xian is genuinely puzzled—he was only training casually, so how did he end up an immortal? At Lanruo Temple, he joins forces with Yan Chixia to slay the Tree Demon Grandmother, drive off the Black Mountain Old Demon, and return Nie Xiaoqian's bones to her homeland. He wipes out the heretical Incense Sect, escorts Jin Niang across a thousand miles, and earns a peerless reputation for righteousness and sincerity. He spends his fortune to help Chang'e's reincarnated self escape calamity, sends Liu Yanchang into the cycle of reincarnation, and frees Yang Chan from her fated bondage. Then, like a dream of Nanke or Zhuang Zhou's butterfly, he finally awakens to his true self—only to find his courtyard overflowing with fairy maidens and fox spirits, all eager to repay their debts of gratitude. Frowning deeply, Xu Xian can only say: Fellow cultivators, please stop—my wife will not allow it!