Yun Lie, the exceptionally gifted direct disciple of the patriarch of the Beikunlun Sect, goes down the mountain to train after forming a Golden Core. On his way home three years later, he is ambushed and left for dead. With his life hanging by a thread, he shatters his Golden Core and hides among the rubble, where he is rescued by the orphan Cheng Sheng. Thus begin the many entanglements between them.