After being betrayed by his brother and girlfriend, modern young man Mu Yang somehow finds himself at Jing'an Temple. An earthquake strikes, and amid the chaos his soul crosses over into the cultivation world, where he becomes the Buddhist Son Xuandao. While on a demon-slaying mission, he rescues Yunmeng, who is being hunted, and discovers that she is the reincarnation of the lover he failed to guide to enlightenment a hundred years ago. When a tragedy befalls the Yun family and drives Yunmeng into demonic cultivation, Xuandao struggles between keeping the precepts and saving the woman he loves. In the end, he chooses the path of “I will not become a Buddha until Hell is empty”…
