In the thirty-fourth year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu, the steam engines in the Shanghai Concession were spewing the embers of the industrial revolution, while the ashes of talismans that had not dispersed for thousands of years were still floating in the dark alleys of Yizhuang. When the Nine Tripods of Zhenshi cast by Dayu broke into pieces, not only the Yangtze Dragon Locking Pillar was shattered by the Western warships, but also the remains of Xingtian who had been dormant for five thousand years were released. Lin Jiu, the descendant of Xuanmen, takes his female disciple Lin Fengjiao, who is of the bloodline of the Queen Mother of the West, and Qiu Sheng, who was a medicine man of the Wuxian tribe in his previous life, to guard the impending collapse of the barrier between humans and gods amid the bizarre wave of modernization.
