On Floating Cloud Mountain, inside the Heart-Trapping Formation.
Li Zizai went through one trial after another:
When he encountered a wealthy merchant whose life hung by a thread, he harbored no evil intentions. Instead, he called a physician to treat the merchant before discussing payment. Nor did he open his lion's maw and demand an exorbitant sum: he asked for only two hundred taels of silver, one hundred for himself and one hundred for charity.
When a friend fell on hard times, he offered a helping hand, giving away half his accumulated gold and silver. When a friend prospered, he felt envious and a little sour inside, but offered sincere congratulations rather than making snide remarks or secretly slandering him.
When Li Daniu's business failed and he went bankrupt, becoming penniless and taking his family back to the countryside in disgrace to farm, Li Zizai was unhappy, his lips pouting enough to hang an oil flask from. Yet he neither blamed his father nor turned his nose up at plain food. He soon adapted, put his feelings in order, and followed his family into the fields to work without complaint.
When Li Daniu expanded his business into the Commandery City and even became an imperial merchant, Li Zizai did not grow wild with success either. He continued behaving as he always had.
He performed well in every trial.
He was neither an indiscriminate do-gooder nor a villain.
Though he had shortcomings, it was already impressive for a child to manage this much. Looking past the situations to their essence revealed the quality of his character.
He had passed the Heart-Trapping Formation's own tests and soon encountered the trials set by the Daoists.
On a river, Xuanxu, disguised as a river Divine, asked, "Child, did you drop a gold neck