In the Yunmeng Realm, Jiang Yu marries Feng Zhao, the Eastern Wastelands' female emperor, and gains an ancient inheritance.
Yet someone attacks the Yunmeng Realm and lays siege to the Eastern Wastelands' female emperor.
Feng Zhao detonates the ancient divine artifact, the Eastern Phoenix Bell, to seal her own body. She then shatters her soul and sends Jiang Yu out of certain doom.
After leaving the Yunmeng Realm,
Jiang Yu is revealed to be the son of Jiang Chun, the greatest sword saint in the Nine Provinces. He is sent to study at the Jixia Academy, a top-tier immortal institution where a hundred schools of thought contend.
At the academy, he encounters the strange serial murders in Xiju Town, a case seemingly connected to an ancient unsolved mystery.
An old matchmaker returns home alone after attending a wedding banquet at midnight...
A little girl goes to play at a friend's house and never makes it home...
A hunter goes out at night, only to return and find that his wife has met with disaster...
The killer neatly lays their ten severed fingers in front of their homes...
