Xiao Wu transmigrated into a female-oriented novel as a cannon fodder character of the same name. She relies on her eccentric antics to stay alive, gets tested with a supreme fire spiritual root at the disciple-recruitment grand ceremony, and enters the poorest yet fiercely protective Wuji Sect under Fan Chichi. She is gifted an ancient ring containing a portable spatial realm, inside which reside the divine Chongming bird and Grand Master's remnant soul Chu He. She resolves to slack off and write books to get rich, goes on training trials with her senior brother to tame a Thunder Cloud Leopard, and goes undercover in the Black Tiger Gang disguised as a man to help the five sects annihilate evil cultivators. After returning to the sect, she is abducted into the ghost world, enslaved under a curse cast by the female ghost Su Li, and secretly investigates to discover that the ghost world intends to capture maidens with supreme spiritual roots as array cores to reshape the supreme ruler of the ghost world, falling right into an even greater conspiracy.