Xiangliu, sealed away by Yu the Great during his flood-control efforts, awoke in the reign of Shaokang, and the nine sacred cauldrons that guarded the realm wept blood all at once. The cowherd Si Wenming unexpectedly inherited the bloodline of Wuxian and discovered he was a surviving member of the Xia royal house. To stop the demon god from destroying the world, he set out to find the ancient divine artifacts. He befriended the remnant soul of Yinglong inside a talking bronze cauldron, won the favor of the nine-tailed fox spirit in the Kingdom of Qingqiu, and awakened the sleeping Yoqiang god in the depths of Guixu. When the Gonggong clan shattered the rebuilt ladder of Jianmu, he had to make a choice: use the power of the nine cauldrons to restore the Xia dynasty, or free Chiyou's primordial spirit, imprisoned beneath Leize?
