Lin Yan, a young Taoist at Qingxuan Temple on Mount Zhongnan, is ordered by his master to descend the mountain and solve a string of strange cases in a remote village. Instead, he is swept into a secret Taoist scheme that has endured for a thousand years.
In the winter of the Bingwu year, heavy snow seals off the mountains, and a series of bizarre murders strikes Yunqi Village. Every victim has strangled themselves, blood seeping from all seven orifices. The only clue left at each scene is half of a sinister soul-locking talisman. Lin Yan takes the talisman and investigates, slaying evil cultivators and breaking yin arrays. But on his way back, he sees the temple gates engulfed in flames, and his sect in peril.
Deep inside a forbidden area, long-buried secrets are revealed one by one: he is no ordinary orphan, but a spirit child born of the pure qi of Heaven and Earth, destined to suppress the Nine Hells. His junior sister, Su Wanwan, is a guardian saintess who has stood by his side for generations, using lotus qi to protect the Tao. Shen Qinghan, the white-clad sword cultivator from Mount Longhu who suddenly appears, is the keeper of secrets appointed by an alliance of three sects.
The spirit child is the core, the saintess the guide, and the keeper of secrets the blade.
Together, the three face the remnants of the Yin Talisman Sect, who have returned to wreak havoc. Soul-binding evil arrays, spirits roaming by night, a red-clad figure claiming lives, ancient injustices in a forgotten town... Behind every strange case lies a plot by the wicked path to seize the spirit child and break the seal.
The echoes of Qingxuan's Taoist chants have not faded, and the evil that haunts the human world has yet to be vanquished.
Watch as this young Taoist wields sword and talisman, defending a thousand-year-old seal and protecting the peace of the world with the strength of his Taoist spirit.
