During the Tiansheng period of the Northern Song Dynasty, Shen Zui, a city official, intercepted a human skin and blood certificate and was involved in a shocking conspiracy that spanned Buddhism, Taoism, the court and the Liao Dynasty. The bloody words "save me" on the blood certificate revealed the cruel truth about using the soul of a boy to refine the "God-killing Blade".
Shen Zui formed an alliance with Su Xiaoxiao, an orphan from Miao territory, and Xuan Ku, a monk who broke the rules and was both a Buddhist and a demon. During the investigation, he discovered that Ci Ku, the supervisor of the Daxiangguo Temple, used the empty ultimatum to smuggle boys and girls, and colluded with the Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao Kingdom to use the "upside down lotus pattern" as a code to activate the dragon veins of Youzhou with 100,000 children's souls. In order to regain the imperial power, the eldest princess Zhao Qingyi was forced to join forces with Shen Zui, but she fell into the trap of matricide because her mother, Queen Mother Liu, was actually a parasite of the Jiao cult.
As the investigation deepens, Shen Zui's "Drunken Eye" power gradually awakens, revealing that behind the bleeding ultimatum is the ultimate conspiracy of the Tongtian cult leader to revive through power struggles in the world. In the end, Shen Zui needs to make a choice between the "Tiandao Line" (sacrifice oneself to seal the leader) and the "market line" (give up salvation and return to the world), and the ending metaphor of the bronze giant tree and the wine-remaining gourd will reflect the eternal game of power and human nature.
