For ten years, the heavens have collapsed and the Yellow Springs have fractured. Evil ghosts run rampant among the living, and thousands of miles of land have been reduced to scorched earth.
Ten years ago, Lin Ye’s parents burned up their divine souls using the City God’s legacy to stop a tide of ghosts from destroying Nanjiang City. They left him only a battered bronze seal engraved with the words “City God” and his blind younger sister, Lin Xiaoman.
Ten years later, the gates of the Yellow Springs open once more. The ghost tide smashes through the city walls, every member of the Public Security Bureau falls in battle, and the entire city becomes a slaughterhouse for evil ghosts.
The convenience store’s rolling shutter crashes apart. Ghostly saliva drips to the ground as his sister clutches his clothes, trembling. With nowhere left to retreat, Lin Ye lets his blood seep into the bronze seal. Driven by an overwhelming resolve to “protect one person and guard one city,” he awakens the ancient City God divine path left behind by the Human Emperor.
From that moment on, humanity has a god who commands yin and yang.
With the seal as his authority, he determines the fate of an entire city. With his words as law, he sentences countless ghosts to destruction. Wherever his golden light falls, all evil dissipates. Amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, he kindles the first light of hope for humanity in despair.
He only wanted to keep his sister safe and live out their days in peace. But everywhere he looked, people were wailing, evil ghosts were slaughtering the living, and monsters were wreaking havoc across the Central Plains. The gods of the Nine Heavens treated billions of people as livestock to be raised for food, using the collapse of the heavens as a scheme to harvest them for ten thousand years.
So he rallied the people to forge a divine foundation, built City God temples and established laws among humanity, commanded armies of yin soldiers, reclaimed fallen lands, quelled the chaos of the Yellow Springs, and suppressed the disasters caused by monsters from the mountains and seas. Step by step, he rose from City God of Nanjiang to ruler of all humanity.
When the divine thunder of the Nine Heavens struck down, the gods sought to erase this anomaly who had broken their rules. Lin Ye raised the City God seal and shattered the clouds, his voice resounding throughout the Myriad Worlds.
I am the City God of humanity. I uphold the order of the human realm alone. I bow to no god of the Nine Heavens!
