Lin Mo, a history PhD student, uses a rusty iron rod he bought for fifty yuan. It turns out to be a fragment of the Golden Cudgel.
By chance, he awakens with his blood the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, who has slept for a thousand years, as well as an interstellar locust capable of devouring the entire solar system: the Star Reaper.
To find a glimmer of hope for a world that has long been without gods, he and his only “shady friend,” the genius hacker Chen Hao, embark on an absurd quest to find the gods.
Amid gunfire and mythic wards, they work to restore the Five Elements’ power to the divine weapon known as the Golden Cudgel.
They kindle the faith of an entire civilization and, amid the prostrations of billions of ordinary people, bring their god back.
They thought this would be the final chapter of their salvation.
But the gods’ return turns out to be only the opening of another, far more brutal war for this world.
That single swing of his cudgel not only drove off the enemy, but also shattered Earth’s restraints.
As “spiritual energy” returns to the land and “gods and demons” begin to walk among ordinary people, former allies bare their fangs in a bid to control this power. Only then does everyone finally understand: more terrifying than the extraterrestrial “reapers” is humanity’s own ambition.
This time, can the Great Sage raise his Golden Cudgel against his own kind?
And Lin Mo, the spokesperson caught between “gods” and “mortals,” whom should he fight for?
