The work tells the story of Shi Feihuo, a modern-day person, who travels to a martial arts world. After obtaining The Book of Nine Annihilations, he gains the ability to be resurrected from the dead and struggles to survive amid the power struggles in Changping City. The core plot revolves around his cultivation of the true essence of the "Death-to-Life" martial arts, his resistance against the monopoly of the Six Major Sects and the pursuit of the Blood Shadow Pavilion, and his establishment of the Realm King Boxing Gym to break the oppression of resource monopolies. In the end, he dies together with a Heavenly Yuan martial artist but is resurrected once again. Through events such as the village chief’s deception and Wan Daofeng’s frame-up, the novel depicts the survival predicament of low-level martial artists, shapes the images of complex supporting characters like Huang Wei and Fei Yanzhi, and runs through the martial arts phenomenon setting of "Heaven rains blood, ghosts weep at night."