The second prince of the Daming Empire, Ji Tianchang, is investigating a series of mysterious disappearances involving young women when he stumbles upon a battle between cultivators. He is just an ordinary man who knows a little martial arts, yet he steps forward to face these powerful cultivators. How can an ant like him turn the tables and defeat an elephant of a cultivator?
Unsettling news arrives from the south of the empire. The children of the mountains in the Black Order's Hundred Thousand Mountains seem to be preparing for a great war. To find medicine for a friend he has only just met, Tianchang decides to travel to the war-clouded south. An exciting adventure begins, with cultivators on Soulbreath Mountain, legendary ferocious beasts, the girls of the Black Order...
Along the way, he discovers that a terrifying change is taking place within his body, but he has no idea whether it is for better or worse...
Theme: Humanity can go further only by standing together