During the reign of Zhezong of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Western Regions were turbulent.
Yun Zhan, an abandoned disciple of the Xingxiu sect, has a bloody feud and is hunted by the entire Western Region martial arts. In a desperate situation, he meets Li Suyi, a talented girl from the south of the Yangtze River who traveled west alone to find her missing father, and Xuan Nan, a Shaolin disciple who was ordered to go west to meet the Buddha's bones.
The fate of the three people is intertwined because of the legendary "Kunlun Ruins". Kunlun Ruins is the eye of the dragon vein in the Central Plains, affecting the fate of the world, attracting the covetousness of Xixia, Liao Kingdom, Tubo and various martial arts forces. Yun Zhan's life experience as a "ruin keeper", the ancient secrets in Li Suyi's father's letters, and the Buddhist compassion upheld by Xuan Nan are all intertwined into a soul-stirring epic in this catastrophe sweeping the Western Regions.
They fled in the lonely smoke of the desert, broke through outside the Yumen Pass, went deep into the Devil's City, explored the Dunhuang secret caves, and finally reached the ruins of Kunlun. Faced with the interests of family and country, personal grievances and fateful reincarnation, how will the three of them make choices? The ultimate test concerning all the people in the world has just begun...