The story picks up from the final scene of the TV series finale, focusing on **a new crisis amid the undercurrents swirling around the Gongmen**. Yun Que and Young Master Xue, characters who “died” in the original series, have both been revived through special secret techniques. Meanwhile, the three identities of the ultimate antagonist, Ming Wuji, the widowed woman of the Gongmen in the original series, are gradually revealed. She is both the Wufeng assassin “Wuming” and a survivor of the “Longevity Experiment” from a century ago. She has manipulated conflicts throughout the martial world solely to restart the forbidden art of immortality.
