Martial arts flourish in the Great Yan Dynasty, where the court and the martial world are deeply intertwined. The young Wen Liang possesses an unusual soul sense. Returning to his hometown from Luoxing Town, all he wants is to live peacefully and care for his adoptive parents. During an ambush, he risks the foundations of his martial arts to save Li Qinghe, suffering a hidden injury to his meridians that is almost impossible to heal.
Trouble follows trouble in Qinghe. The Li family moves to settle scores with its enemies, only to be attacked and wiped out on the very same day. On that day, when the Li family is drenched in blood, Wen Liang's adoptive parents are also brutally murdered. In the wake of this upheaval, he discovers that his adoptive parents were not his biological family. With a blood feud weighing on him, he joins the newly established Jingwu Bureau of the dynasty. Using his official position to move among various factions, he is drawn into one martial-world conflict after another.
Through life-and-death trials, he awakens a special martial constitution. While investigating his enemies, he unexpectedly learns of the family his birth parents belonged to. He steadily builds his strength and gathers a force of his own, advancing through bloodshed until he reaches the pinnacle of martial arts. Only at the very end does he realize that, from the moment his soul sense awakened and he returned to Luoxing Town, everything he experienced had been part of a carefully laid scheme from beginning to end.