Lin Jin, the genius young master of the Lin family in Qingyang City, was tragically backstabbed three years ago, leaving his spiritual veins withered and reducing him to a cripple overnight. Zhao Xuan, the young master of the Zhao family, coveted his innate heavenly-grade spiritual veins, cruelly gouged out his Dantian, and joined forces with Lin Jin's fiancée, Su Qingxue, to annihilate over three hundred members of the Lin family. They threw the dying Lin Jin into a blood-red coffin, intending to hold their grand wedding three days later and make him a ghost inside the coffin. In this desperate plight, the ancestral black coffin, the Heaven-Suppressing Pagoda, awakened, and the remnant soul of the Empress in Red inside the pagoda appeared, imparting the world-forbidden cultivation technique, the Nine Tribulations Swallowing Heaven Technique. Possessing a unique devouring power, Lin Jin can swallow spiritual power, weapon malevolence, demonic beast blood essence, and even the nine-day heavenly tribulations, but every time he breaks through a realm, he must endure fatal retributive tribulations.