Youngster Long Chen, who is disabled and unable to cultivate, is frequently singled out and ostracized by his fellow noble heirs. He awakens from a particularly brutal beating to find that a Pill Sovereign's soul had in some way joined with his own, giving him some new memories. The enigmatic Nine Star Hegemon Body Art, a cultivation method that even he can practice, but whose secrets and origin elude him, is contained within those memories. As he finally starts to cultivate, he relies on his sharpened instincts to discover that the Phoenix Cry Empire is the scene of a vast conspiracy involving his father, other members of the imperial family, and even the Emperor.
He must rely on his newfound abilities to unravel the mysteries around him.