In the seventeenth year of the Republic of China, warlords fought in a melee, the mountains and rivers were broken, and the world was full of withered bones.
Eight-year-old Chen Goucheng witnessed the whole village being slaughtered and his parents died tragically before his eyes. He hid in a dry well for three days and survived with a breath of energy, becoming the only survivor in the village.
After four years of wandering, he fled with his aunt, thinking that he would finally find a place to live. However, a huge flood made him lose his only relative again, and he became a helpless soul in the flood.
At the moment when he let go of his hand and decided to die, a wisp of flute sound broke through the wind and rain, and Taoist Xuanzhen came walking on the water and fished him out of the boundless darkness.
In the Xuanzhen Temple, he lost his nickname and was given the name "Chen Wang" - what he looked for was a glimmer of light in troubled times, and what he looked for was the eternal hope in a desperate situation.
He followed his master to practice Tuna, draw talismans and practice. From a child who could only tremble at the bottom of a well, he grew into a Taoist disciple who could distinguish yin and yang and hold talismans. But he didn't know that this encounter was never a coincidence.
The most evil demon who was sealed by the founder of the Xuanzhen Sect three hundred years ago is about to break the seal and be born. The wars, natural disasters, and dead souls in troubled times are all accumulating power for it, and the world will soon turn into purgatory. And he, this young man who crawled out from the dead and survived in a desperate situation, was actually the only one who could find the "source of pure Yang Qi" that could kill the evil spirits.
When the master took him down the mountain gate and returned to his homeland, the path ahead was filled with countless evil spirits, a bottomless abyss of troubled times, and the fateful end of three hundred years of reincarnation.
Everyone in the world says that in troubled times there is no justice and ghosts and gods avoid the world.
But Chen Wang insists on standing still holding the talisman, using his mortal body to defy destiny and holding a lamp in the darkness!
