风急天高，草长野旷。大唐贞观年间，魏博藩镇的大将聂锋之女聂隐娘和表兄田季安两小无猜，谁曾想在她十岁那年竟被一名道姑掳去。隐娘作为对方的弟子，在隔绝人烟的深山苦学武艺。转眼三年过去，此时隐娘身轻如风，她以迅猛的速度蹿至封顶，轻轻一甩，那剑便精准地刺穿翱翔长空之上的鹰隼。然面对嗷嗷待哺的雏鸟，她似乎仍未斩断恻隐之心。转眼又过去两年，在朗月普照的竹林中，师徒用布蒙上双眼，拔剑展开对决。这是隐娘的出师试炼，却也是一段漫长而痛苦之路的开始……

The roaring winds stirs up the high clouds and the weeds flourish in the wild. Zhen Guan's Reign of Tang Dynasty. 10-year-old general's daughter Nie Yinniang, who has been promised to his cousin Tian Ji’an, is abducted by a nun who initiates her into the martial arts in isolated mountains. Three years pass by, Nie Yinniang has been transformed into a master. However, her long-repressed humanity now get in her way of becoming an exceptional assassin. Another two years slips away, Nie Yinniang and her nun master have a sword fight in the moonlit bamboo forest with the eyes of both blindfolded. This is a test that could bring an end to the apprenticeship of Nie Yinniang, while it may also mark the threshold of another long and bitter journey of hers…