A wave of mutations sweeps through the cities, and people begin awakening supernatural abilities.
The young Wang Jinci awakens the rare contract ability Spirit Binding and Commanding Generals. By binding the lingering consciousness of powerful ability users who died in battle and forming spirit contracts with them, he can fight using the dead's power.
But this immense strength comes at a steep cost: heavy mental strain and the erosion of his mind by the lingering obsessions of countless dead.
Supernatural factions watch one another warily, while danger lurks beneath the cover of night.
With spirit contracts in hand, he holds fast to his true self amid the conflict and carves out a path of his own.