Since she was a child, Jinhua has been “neat and clean-cut, and does not eat meat or fish,” and is often busy twisting threads for a living. Time flies, the sun and the moon rotate, and in an instant, Jinhua is already a 17-year-old girl, but she just keeps on twisting threads as usual, and is unwilling to listen to others proposing marriage. This matter has caused her parents to worry about her. As Jinhua herself did not agree to the marriage proposal, the matchmaking failed many times. In the end, her parents had no choice but to force a marriage upon her.
On the day of her marriage, the Jin family on Jing'er Street began preparing to welcome guests early in the morning. Everyone, young and old, was busy bustling about, displaying the dowry, and everyone was overjoyed. The house was bustling with activity. Only Jinhua appeared to be as calm as usual, dressed as she always was. The family repeatedly urged her to get ready, but Jinhua always calmly told them to wait a little longer, as the auspicious hour had not yet arrived. After a while, they heard someone shouting outside the door, saying that the bridal sedan chair was about to arrive at the door. At that moment, Jinhua was seen holding a fire poker, twirling the thread she had twisted in her hands and throwing it into the air. She then followed the thread out the door and disappeared in an instant. The family and relatives were stunned and at a loss for words. After a flurry of shouting, the Jin family sent people to search for her.
Jin Hua's brother and several family members saw a piece of thread trailing on the ground, so they followed the thread, climbing mountains and crossing rivers, all the way to Qingshi Ridge, where they finally encountered Jin Hua. They saw Jin Hua sitting cross-legged on Qing Shi Ling, but they did not know that she was cultivating her spiritual energy and internal strength. They rushed up to her and shouted at the top of their voices, telling her to go home immediately. However, after shouting for a while, Jin Hua remained sitting there without moving. Her brother and family members were extremely worried and had no idea what to do. They were about to forcibly drag Jin Hua home. At that moment, Jinhua said to her brother, “I have become a nun and will cultivate immortality. This matter is set. Please go home and tell my parents. There is no need to force me.” When her brother heard that Jinhua wanted to become a nun, he was so angry that he could not help laughing. But there was no other way. After a while, he thought, “I'll make things difficult for Jinhua and force her to go home.” So he said to Jinhua, “If you can become an immortal, today you can stick the fire stick in the stone and make it grow leaves. We will not force you anymore, and you can go cultivate your immortality! If you don't have such ability, obediently go back with us, so that your parents don't have to worry about you all the time. After hearing this, Jinhua casually stuck the firewood stick into the green stone ridge. In no time, green buds appeared on the firewood stick, and it turned into a small pine tree with lush foliage. The miraculous change made the family members not know whether to admire and cheer for Jinhua or complain and take her back. In the end, when he left, his brother told his sister to take care of herself and gave her some comforting words, but he had to return home in a depressed mood. After he returned home and recounted what had happened, his parents were distressed to hear about their daughter and blamed their son for not bringing back Jinhua. Jinhua's brother went to Qingshi Ridge a second time, but he didn't see Jinhua's shadow again. Since then, people have called Qingshi Ridge “Shenshu Ridge”.
After resting at Greenstone Ridge, Jinhua set off again, walking along a large mountain ridge that led directly to the peak of Barbi. There was a cave on the rock of this peak, and she meditated in the cave. When Jinhua arrived here, she looked up at the sky, which was a vast expanse of blue; looking back at her home, she saw a sea of clouds at the foot of the mountain. Suddenly, she couldn't help but feel a pang in her heart, and tears fell to the ground, where they turned into a clear spring. Later generations called this spring the “Barbi Pool”. The water is so clear that you can see the bottom. People who worshiped the gods on the mountain would drink the water from the pool, which was said to keep them healthy.
On the eighth day of the fourth lunar month in the third year of the Yongle reign (1405), Jin Hua sat in meditation and attained enlightenment in the cave on Barbi Mountain. According to another legend, after Jinhua attained enlightenment, baqi (wild cereals) grew all over the mountain. In the past, when the local area suffered from drought and crops failed, the people came from all directions to harvest baqi. The local people passed on that baqi was bestowed by the immortal nun to feed the villagers during the famine. Since then, people have called this mountain “Baqi Mountain”.
In the fourth year of the Ming dynasty (1468), Jinhua Temples were built successively in Shenshu Ridge, Bayi Mountain, and Lanzhou Jing'er Street. People's faith in Jinhua was sincere. As time passed, local believers respectfully called Jinhua the Goddess, also known as Jinhua Xiangu. Every year, the Goddess had to return to her hometown in Jing'er Street. The sedan chair started from Bayi Mountain, passed through Shenshu Ridge for a rest, and then arrived in Lanzhou Jing'er Street. During this period, people burning incense and praying along the way do not disperse for several days. This kind of folk belief has been maintained for hundreds of years and is still continuing.
Now, the Jinhua Xiangu Temple at Shenshu Ridge has been rebuilt and restored. Like the temples of Jinhua Xiangu at Baimi Mountain and Lanzhou, every year on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month and the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, believers flock to worship, and incense is burning vigorously.
金花自小“垂髫端洁、不茹荤腥”，常勤于捻线为务。时光穿梭、日月轮转、瞬间金花已是17岁的姑娘了，但她只顾一如继往地捻线，却不愿听别人说媒提亲之事。此事，可让父母没有为她少操心。因金花本人不同意提亲，多次说媒未成，无奈父母便强给金花定了一门亲事。
出嫁那天，井儿街金家一清早就开始准备迎朋待客，忙里忙外，亮摆嫁妆，老老少少皆大欢喜，门庭好不热闹。而只有金花显得依然如常的平静、衣着如旧。家人曾多次催促叫她梳妆，可金花总是慢条斯理地对家人说，吉时还未到，再稍等一等。过一片刻，忽听门外传来有人在喊，说花轿快要到门口上了。就在这时，只见金花手持一根烧火棍，一手将自己捻好的线纥繨甩手抛到空中，随线纥挞出门而去，转眼不见了身影。家人和亲朋们见状皆惊得目瞪口呆，一时不知所措。一阵乱嚷后，金家遂派人分头寻找。
金花的哥和几个家人看见拖在地上的一条线，便顺着线头尾随紧迫，沿途翻山越岭，爬沟渡河，一直赶到青石岭，终于遇到金花。见金花盘膝端坐在青石岭上，他们确不知金花正在调养神炁，修炼内功，便近前急不可待的大喊大嚷叫金花立即动身回家，可是叫嚷了好一阵子，金花却静坐在那里文丝未动。她哥与家人们心焦如焚，无计奈何，准备要强拉金花回家。正在这时金花对哥言道：我已出家，修仙了道，此事已定，请回家禀告父母，不用再勉强了。哥听金花说她要出家，当时气得哭笑不得，却没有别的办法。又一想，刁难一下金花，强带她回家就是了。便对金花说：你若能修成神仙，今天将手中的火棍插到石头上长出叶子来，我们不再勉强你，你就修你的仙去吧!如果没有这样的能耐，乖乖地跟我们回去，免得父母常为你操心。金花闻听此言，便顺手把烧火棍插进青石岭，不多时火棍上发出绿芽，变成了一株小松树，叶茂成荫。神奇般地变化，使几个家人一时不知对金花该表示敬仰喝彩好，还是抱怨拉回好呢!无奈之下，哥临行时，叫金花妹妹保重身体，安慰了几句，只好怏怏而回。回到家里，把经过叙说之后，父母闻听心疼女儿过甚，又责怪儿子没有领回金花。金花的哥又二次赴青石岭，却再五金花的身影。从此以后，人们就把青石岭叫作“神树岭”。
金花在青石岭歇脚之后，又起程沿着一条大山梁走去，直通吧瞇山峰，此峰岩上有洞，便在洞里静修。金花至此，她抬头望天，万里碧空；回首看家，见山下烟云茫茫，突然不由得心头一酸，眼泪洒落在地上，泪滴处遂变成一眼清泉。后人把这眼泉叫吧瞇池，池水清澈见底，朝山敬神的人们取池水饮用，据说可保安康。
明永乐三年(公元1405年)四月初八日，金花在吧瞇山石洞坐化登真，仙迹在当地民间广为传颂。另据传说，自金花了道之后，此山上满山野长出吧瞇(野生谷类)，从前当地若遭旱灾庄稼欠收时，老百姓从四面八方来到这里收割吧瞇。当地百姓们相传吧瞇是仙姑赐给父老乡亲度年荒充饥的。从此以后，人们就称此山为“吧瞇山”。
明成化四年(公元1468年)，永靖神树岭、吧瞇山，兰州井儿街相继建造了金花祠，人们对金花的信仰至诚，随着时代的推移，当地信民尊称金花为娘娘，又称金花仙姑。仙姑每年要回井儿街转娘家，从吧瞇山起轿，途径神树岭歇息一站，然后来到兰州井儿街。期间，沿途焚香叩拜者数日不散。这种民间信奉活动保持了数百年仍在延续。
现在，神树岭金花仙姑庙重建恢复，与吧瞇山、兰州许多金花仙姑庙一样，每逢四月初八日，七月初七日，信徒朝拜云集，香火旺盛。