In troubled times, evil spirits are everywhere. The Japanese army used trickery to control resentful souls and set up soul-trapping arrays, hoping to wreak havoc on the people with four soul-nurturing urns. An ordinary young man, Shen Yan, unexpectedly awakened to the mark of guardianship, and together with his comrades, he used his body to defeat evil, and shouldered a thousand-year mission in the flames of war, suppressing evil with righteousness, and guarding his homeland with flesh and blood.