After awakening a massive snake that had been asleep for a hundred years, a small village turns to human sacrifice to ward off the creature.
A tomb-raider from the Eastern Han Dynasty is frozen in time, and wakes up thousands of years later in 1930 after his crypt is blown open with dynamite. While he navigates this new world and searches for his missing wife, a cowardly governor and a stoic figure of state attempt to learn the secret of his apparent immortality.