A wandering monk finds a young boy crawling in the wheat fields of rural China next to the dead bodies of his missionary parents. He adopts the child as his own and trains him in the martial and healing arts. Now, thirty years later, Dax Chen is a man who's life revolves around the only skills he has, healing and fighting. But something is missing. The murder of Dax's parents still haunts him and the desire for revenge prevents him from becoming the man he must be. Dax joins the Wushu tournament, an underground battle between the best fighters in the world that has been raging for centuries.