In the ninth year of Yongjia, a severe drought strikes beyond the border, leaving the people struggling to survive. Ruizhu, the reincarnation of a nine-tailed fox immortal, is born into the mortal world and taken in by a wicked couple, Zhao Dazhuang and his wife. A year later, realizing that Ruizhu will bring them no reward money, the couple decides to trade her to Old Sun to be eaten as human flesh. At this critical moment, the kindhearted peasant woman Shen Yunniang saves Ruizhu with a basket of taro and takes her in as her own daughter.