A kid with no talent for cultivation picks up a girl he finds in corpses and decides she matters more than power. That choice, made in blood and hunger, becomes the entire weight of the story. Everything beautiful in this show exists because he refuses to let her become another body in the massacre that took his family.

Ning Que finds himself in a world that looks like the Tang Dynasty, hoping for wealth and high standing. Instead, the land turns out to be a perilous place ruled by cultivation, and he has no gift for it. At four years old he saw his whole family slaughtered, and he was then pursued across thousands of miles. While fleeing, he picks up a black umbrella amid the bodies and finds the baby Sangsang. In the depths of despair he finds a will to keep living. Refusing to yield to fate, he takes the umbrella and Sangsang and strikes back. This ONA blends action, drama and fantasy.