Twenty-two-year-old ecology graduate student Jiang Ye enters the Qinling Mountains to conduct research for his thesis, but accidentally activates his ancestral jade pendant and becomes the mountain god’s proxy. He also saves a young Qilin named Baize. From then on, he is drawn into a struggle between nature and greed. Faced with the plundering of a multinational conglomerate, can Jiang Ye protect the spirit realm and balance nature with civilization?