During the Republic of China era, Sun, a hunter in Hujia Village, died a miserable death in the mountains due to excessive fox hunting. His wife went mad soon after, shouting all day long that offending the fox immortal would surely bring retribution. The protagonist Zhang Huaiyuan and his second uncle, fearing the fox immortal, swore never to touch foxes again. However, the greedy second aunt, tempted by the astronomical reward of ten thousand silver dollars from fur merchant Manager Liu, forced Zhang Ercheng and his nephew Zhang Huaiyuan to go into the mountains to capture the spiritual white fox rumored to reside in the Fox Immortal Temple.