Before Wu Zetian (played by Carina Lau) ascended the throne, she built a three-hundred-foot-high Tongtian Pagoda. Before the construction was completed, murders occurred successively: Jia Yi, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, and Xue Yong (played by Liu Jinshan), the minister of Dali Temple, set themselves on fire one after another. Supervisor Sha Tuo (played by Tony Leung Ka Fai) claims that these two people were punished by God for touching the spiritual talisman of the Heavenly Pillar. Pei Donglai (played by Deng Chao), the young minister of Dali Temple, and Shangguan Jing'er (played by Li Bingbing), Empress Wu's personal bodyguard, were ordered to investigate, but Lu Li, the national counselor, pointed out that the case needed Di Renjie (played by Andy Lau) to investigate...