[No tired tropes + no System + slow burn]
Wang Yunhao is a poor guy who has had nothing but bad luck for 21 years.
His parents were absent throughout his youth, yet they never told him why.
As Wang Yunhao nears graduation, he watches the campus goddess he has secretly loved for three years get publicly asked out by the rich kid who bullies him. And somehow, he even has to deliver the bouquet to his rival himself.
He makes simple plans for his already miserable life:
In a year and a half, he will keep muddling through college, then find some job that pays the bills, find some woman willing to have him, and live out an ordinary life.
But when Zhao Jitong, his best buddy and roommate of three years, arrives in a black helicopter that lights up the night sky above the sports field, the legendary life meant for Wang Yunhao is only just beginning...
The Investiture of the Gods war from three thousand years ago really happened...
Superpowered people with divine genes are secretly searching all over the world for the scattered fragments of the Investiture of the Gods...
“Enemies” who seek to overthrow humanity’s rightful order lurk in the darkness, watching with long blades in hand...
Wang Yunhao thought he had figured out the truth of the world, but he had never imagined that immortals from another plane might be the greatest obstacle to humanity’s freedom and progress...
A little girl, harboring three thousand years of hatred, plans to use Wang Yunhao to tear a hole in the sky...
With the age of the Investiture of the Gods returning to the world, will it be a blessing or a disaster for humanity?
Are the lofty immortals objects of people’s faith, or the true culprits who toy with the world?
An evildoer may not truly be evil, and immortals are not necessarily the good people everyone praises.
Whether to investiture the gods or slay them comes down to a single thought...