During the Republican era, a legend spread through the martial world about the Compass Curse, a malevolent force summoned through secret feng shui arts that could curse tomb raiders to die without descendants and never be reincarnated. The protagonist, Lin Chuan, was born into a family of feng shui masters and inherited the ancestral Celestial Dipper Compass. But after an accident draws him into a century-old curse, he uncovers a long-buried secret from the martial world.