Jiang Chen travels through the barren and troubled times, becoming a despised scoundrel whose family faces severe food shortages, making it hard to survive the winter. He unexpectedly awakens the turtle shell divination technique to bring good fortune and avoid disaster, relying on omens to hunt beasts in the mountains and gather herbs in exchange for food and money. He also masters the martial art Thunder Fist, completely improving his family's life. Facing the repeated schemes of the landlord Chen Fengtian and the scoundrel Zhang Sanpo who plot against his family's farmland, Jiang Chen eliminates Zhang Sanpo by the hand of the wolf king. Along the way, he meets the gentle and fallen noble daughter Shen Yan, and the two gradually fall in love, while also helping a theater troupe rescue a trapped woman. In the end, Jiang Chen single-handedly slays the old wolf king that injured people, winning the respect of the entire village through his strength, and his father-in-law Shen Lang puts aside class prejudices to accept Jiang Chen.