After the ancient divine war, the heaven collapsed and the gods fell. As the world enters the age of science and technology, miracles are annihilated and faith is cut off. However, the gods are not really dead - their remnant souls are dormant in the darkness of the city, lingering on in mortal bodies. And the "God-killer" Shen Jin is the only one who can sense and kill the soul. He possesses the ancient forbidden technique "Ember Eye", which can burn the soul of a god, but he doesn't know that there is an even older god sleeping within his body. Shen Jin was originally an ordinary restorer of cultural relics, but due to an accidental awakening of the remnant soul of Nezha, who had been sleeping for thousands of years, he was forced to be involved in the secret war between gods and humans. He got acquainted with the reincarnation of Yang Jian who shouldered the destiny but refused to become a god, the Jade Emperor Cannian who was trying to rebuild the heaven, and Sun Wukong who had long fallen into the fireworks of the world... The gods have their own positions: some desire to regain control of the destiny, some are willing to be ordinary, and some want to use human technology to reshape divine power. As the God-killing operation deepened, Shen Jin gradually discovered that the so-called "God-killing" was actually reincarnation. Every time a god is killed, its godhead quietly merges into his own body. The closer he gets to the truth, the closer he gets to the edge of becoming a god. And the final enemy is actually the "original god" who is about to awaken in his body - an existence that once destroyed the heaven with his own hands.
"What I want to kill is never God—it's me who longs to be God."
