Lu Xiaohou, a fifteen-year-old boy from Western Hunan, is at the first layer of Qi Refining, relying entirely on web novel imagination to cultivate immortality. He treats pokeweed as ginseng and gnaws on it, swallows golden toads alive, refines a "body-quenching pill" using Liuwei Dihuang Wan plus castor beans, jumps off cliffs and encounters other miraculous adventures, and lifts iron bars to invite heavenly thunder to strike himself. Dying sixteen times in a single month, every time his soul and body report to the Hall of Yama right on schedule, his route even more familiar than that of an on-duty underworld courier. From fury to numbness, King Yama is finally left with only a single remark: "Xiaobai, take him away, take him away, seeing him gives me a headache." Yet King Yama does not know that every time this kid dies, the seal on his body that even the Three Pure Ones dread loosens by a fraction. The Heavenly Court dispatches the Six Ding and Six Jia deities day and night to provide a safety net, and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva personally descends the mountain to fish people out.