A bloody man charges into the Mystic Metropolis Abbey with a secret treasure map that’s been missing for years, a map that purportedly leads to a secret martial arts manual called Return to the Origin, said to contain the world’s greatest martial arts. Whoever possesses the manual will be number one in the martial world.
And so a storm is brewing as masters from all the Nine Major Martial Arts Schools—Wudang, Shaolin, Mount Hua, Kunlun, Emei, Mount Snow, Diancang, Kongtong, and Qingcheng—convene in northern Hunan, looking to track down the treasure map that leads to the Return to the Origin manual.
Yang Menghuan, young disciple of Kunlun master One Yang, is tasked with escorting his junior sectsister Shen Xialin to Kunlun so she will be safe from the danger approaching. But the major martial arts schools, as well as the increasingly powerful Heavenly Dragon Gang, want them as a hostage, to force One Yang to hand over the treasure map…