Jiang Chen, an extremely talented and pure inner disciple of the Qingyun Sect, is engaged to his childhood sweetheart Su Waner. On the eve of the sect competition, because of the discovery of clues to the secret realm of an ancient fairy palace, he was framed by his most trusted senior brother Lin Xuan, the respected saint Chu Yunfan and the law enforcement elder Zhao Wuji. They slandered Jiang Chen for colluding with the devil, stealing the sect's treasure, and forging evidence. Jiang Chen's cultivation was abolished, his spiritual veins were severed, and he was thrown into the sect's death row - the Netherworld Sea of Blood, where he would never be restored.
