Incense Offerings Are Poisonous: I Become a God Through Civilization

In this age of dwindling magic, I will kindle civilization as a flame and build upon the foundation of contracts. From the ruins, I will raise a new Celestial Court where anyone can become a god, and gods and mortals rule together.

The old gods are dead, and the Heavenly Dao has collapsed. Lin Yan transmigrates into the body of a dying beggar in the Great Wilderness. When he wakes, the villagers are sacrificing a child to appease the “River God.”

What he sees is not devout faith, but a viscous, twisted fear, despair, and greed rising from every villager. These poisonous offerings of faith are the source of divine power in this world, and a deadly poison that corrupts divinity and makes the old gods fall.

In his previous life, Lin Yan was a Daoist priest on Zhongnan Mountain. Using his Daoist heart as a mirror, he sees that the divine path of this world has reached a dead end. Gods herd people through fear, while people worship gods with resentment. They poison each other and are doomed to an endless cycle of rebirth.

“This is not the true path!”

In this desperate situation, he discovers a wholly unprecedented new way.

He will not compete for the poisonous incense of faith or seize blood sacrifices. Instead, he will use the good in people's hearts as kindling and the contracts of civilization as flame to forge a new divine order!