After failing the college entrance exam, Wu Zhou travels away from home to clear his head. By chance, he enters an ancient village with a history of a thousand years. After experiencing a series of supernatural events there, he seeks to uncover the secrets of another world. He takes an old man as his master and becomes the heir to a thousand-year-old Confucian sect, setting out on an unconventional path.
The moment he stepped into that ancient village, he became the one summoned to fulfill a wager that had endured for a thousand years. As he solves one mystery after another and defeats powerful beings from the supernatural world, he discovers that his entire life has been planned by someone else. The path he has taken was laid out for him, and another person holds his fate in their hands. And the person who has been watching him all along is...
