The story returns to the year Duan Wuche massacred Shuangchong City. Acting on orders to hunt down Huo Yexiang of the Mirrorwater Hall of the Xuanji Sect, Duan Wuche enters the city. There, Mu Heng takes in a homeless boy named Yuchi Meng.
But one incident follows another. When the young daughter of the city lord, who was already betrothed to the leader of the Jiuren Gang, goes missing, suspicion finally falls on Duan Wuche and Mu Heng. The Jiuren Gang comes demanding the girl, then attacks Shuangchong City. It is all part of a vast conspiracy...
How will the city lord protect his people? How will the many mysteries be unraveled? What fate awaits each of them?
Little do they know, this is only the tip of the iceberg in an even greater scheme devised by someone else...
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