Three years had passed since Zhou Zishu left the Window of Heavens. The poison of the "Nails of Seven Apertures for Three Autumns" had absorbed itself completely into his body, numbing all of his five senses and weakening his physique. In these few years of brief freedom, Zhou Zishu had wandered the world to his heart's content. Knowing that his end was near, all that was left for him to do was find a place to die. But when he did discover a place where he wished to breathe his last, Zhou Zishu was caught off-guard by the appearance of a mysterious nine-tailed fox named Wen Kexing. The fox told him: "I've been searching for you for so long..."