When faith becomes food for the gods, humanity can only grovel beneath their thrones. Jiang Yan, a fisherman’s son from a coastal village, swallows a forbidden poison during the Sea God’s festival. From then on, his poison can corrode divinity and slaughter gods. To protect his home, he turns poison into a blade and declares war on the entire theocratic world. But when the gods have fallen, he discovers that the true enemy may be the poison within him, yearning to become a god.
