My name is Chen Mo. I’m an ordinary high school student, but I’m plagued by strange nightmares and a bizarre condition called “dreamwalking with an axe,” which has made me a freak in everyone’s eyes. Hoping to find some peace, I check myself into a psychiatric hospital, where I unexpectedly meet an uncle who claims to be Erlang Shen. He tells me a world-shaking secret: my mother is the Third Holy Mother of Mount Hua, and I am Chenxiang, the legendary figure who split open a mountain to save his mother, reborn. I am the final trump card and wild card hidden among humanity after the gods of Heaven fell into the cycle of reincarnation.
Meanwhile, the city’s guardians, the “Nightwatchers,” label me a high-risk individual and keep me under close surveillance, while the otherworldly monster known as the “Ghost-Faced King” sees me as a tempting snack. Then my uncle, Yang Jian, cleaves open the seal within me with an axe. The divine ruins of the supreme artifact, the Lotus Lantern, awaken with a roar, the Mountain-Splitting Axe and Demon-Slaying Sword both choose me as their master, and my dormant bloodline finally surges to life.
But the real crisis has only just begun to emerge. An even more cunning and sinister “Nanda Snake Demon” has infiltrated the school, and its target is none other than my only relative I care about, my cousin Lin Qiye. As the serpent’s shadow falls over the classroom and someone dear to me is caught in a deadly trap, I silently take up the axe that once split open Peach Mountain and give the Nightwatchers, braced for the worst, a calm smile. “Don’t worry. I’m just a student...”
“Who occasionally slays a god.” In this age of hidden deities and rampant demons, watch as a forgotten legend returns to the human world, making the gods tremble and all demons bow.
Give yourself some encouragement