(Slow-burn story, no female lead, System story)
After living for eighteen years, the protagonist glimpses some of the world’s truths and wants to make a difference. But fate seems to play a joke on him. In the end, he chooses his own path, and fate leads him to glory and success.
World background: After a hundred thousand years, humanity has become the ruler of a supercluster, but infighting has brought exploration to a standstill. In the twelve-thousandth year, information from an alien civilization shakes all of humanity: to secure their rule, the gods slaughtered the cultivators and left behind only the supernatural hierarchy from ranks one to twenty. But the innate treasure known as the Supernatural Ladder is trying to repair the path that was severed.
The message warns that although long-lived beings can cultivate their bodies to the limit, doing so takes far more than ten thousand years. The gods do not need believers, and piety will not earn their protection. Only seven of the strongest gods remain in the world. One god rules at a time, with a gap of seventy thousand years between transfers of divine authority.
Time setting: The story takes place on a small planet during the third millennium after humanity slew the gods.
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