In the Daoguang era of the late Qing dynasty, the Hanging Dragon Vein collapses, and evil spirits run rampant across the land.
Qinyang, a Maoshan disciple, is ordered by his master to descend the mountain, seek the dragon veins, and stabilize them. But along the way, he encounters one bizarre case after another: corpses rising as fiends in an entire village, ghost soldiers borrowing a road to steal souls, Japanese invaders sacrificing the living and slaughtering a city...
The source of these strange events points to a shocking conspiracy that has been lying in wait for years: someone intends to sever China's dragon veins and devour the fortune of the Nine Provinces!
Taoist priests, lamas, spirit mediums, wandering martial artists: scattered cultivators of the righteous path pursue the truth step by step, fighting from beyond the passes all the way to the Eastern Sea, only to discover that the mastermind has long since laid a deadly trap.
There is no way back, and every road home is sealed.
This battle is not for fame or glory, but for the vast land and its people, and so the dragon's lifeblood will never fade.