In the current era, people are either normal or have “special abilities.” Matters related to the latter are under the jurisdiction of the “National Administration for the Prevention and Control of Anomalies and Special Species.” Emperor Qizheng Sheng Lingyuan awakened three thousand years after his death in the fire of the scarlet lake of Chiyuan. Xuan Ji, recently transferred to the department of the Administration for Anomaly Control finds himself forced to clean up the mess created by a resurgent tyrant. The two seemed connected by their past, but unbeknownst to them, a great conspiracy is unfolding before their old acquaintances, threatening to upset the entire balance of the world.