[No Cliches, No System, No Brain-Dead Characters, Strong Worldbuilding, Plot-Driven, Slightly Uncanny]
Gods stand everywhere, while demons and monsters run rampant!
The Divine Tree Palace lies in a desolate land, everyone at Heavenly Treasure Mountain is greedy, those who do good are struck by misfortune, and the Chifeng Stronghold is rife with mutations...
Are the beings that bestow such mighty powers really gods?
The supernatural grow ever more twisted, and the world ever more insane. Is this the price of their gifts?
Until one day, Han Ruyi stood in the void, gazing at the chaotic, distorted, evil, and uncanny scene before him:
An evil spirit curled in the void like a dead fetus, its rotting umbilical cord connected to the earth as it ravenously sucked in energy;
A filthy bat hung upside down from a desolate star, surrounded by a haze of blood, its body rotting;
A greasy mound of flesh crouched atop a giant bronze cauldron, greedily inhaling the smoke within as the world revered it...
So it turned out:
There were no gods in this world to begin with. But when enough people believe, some things become gods!