Young Lin Feng loses his entire family when the mysterious organization Dark River massacres them, and accidentally awakens the ancestral "Secret Record of the Heavenly Stems". As he searches for the truth, he discovers that the thirty-six Heavenly Stem arts are tied to the Investiture of the Gods War from a thousand years ago. As the schemes of the immortal realm come to light, Lin Feng must gather the scattered fragments of the "Yellow River Chart" and "Book of Luo" from across the Nine Provinces before a catastrophe engulfs the mortal world, then reforge the ancient Investiture Altar.