Chai Song, a modern outdoor travel blogger, is filming at the summit of Mount Lintong when he encounters an ancient Vermilion Phoenix. He unexpectedly transmigrates to the first year of the Renshou era of the Sui dynasty, inhabiting the body of a boy at Pangu Temple who shares his name.
With five years of martial arts training inherited from the boy's original owner and an extraordinary gift from the Vermilion Phoenix, Chai Song's modern thinking meets ancient martial arts. His cooking skills, knowledge of physics, and strategies from the future can all become deadly weapons.
At Pangu Temple, he studies under Master Fahui. He is the half-brother of Chai Shao, and he happens upon Li Yuan's family while they are fleeing danger, helping Chai Shao and Li Xiuning find love. He also names the infant son of Lady Dou: Li Xuanba.
Yuwen Huaji and Yang Guang fear the folk songs about the Li family. The court is rife with murderous intrigue, while rebel kings plot in the shadows.
To save a small town's plague-stricken residents and the heroine, Shan Lingxi, Chai Song sets out on a journey in search of the Medicine King, Sun Simiao.
At an inn, he crosses paths with the down-and-out Qin Shubao.
He lives through Wu Zetian's rise to the throne, the Kaiyuan prosperity, a friendship with Li Bai, the An Lushan Rebellion, the Huang Chao Rebellion, and more...
Armed with the Vermilion Phoenix's gift, Chai Song masters martial arts and can foresee the course of events. He helps the Li family bring an end to the chaos.
The Vermilion Phoenix rises from the flames, and a young hero bursts onto the scene. With a modern perspective, he stirs three hundred years of upheaval across the Sui and Tang dynasties and helps forge a legendary age of prosperity!
