Ordinary people know only that the streets of twenty-first-century Shudu are bustling with traffic. They have no idea that the gods are dead and demons have returned.
Ye Qing, grandson of the first commander-in-chief of Great Xia’s demon-slayers, spends every day in a “living hell,” with Qin Ge, the general’s daughter, breathing down his neck and making him score 680 on his exams. The straight blade in his schoolbag, named Weiyang, has never been used to slay gods. It cuts down the otherworldly fiends who wear the skins of gods and covet Great Xia’s destiny.
In math class, he uses parabolas to calculate the perfect angle for slaying demons. In chemistry, he uses magnesium powder to make flash grenades. In English class, he trades secret messages in Old English with his beautiful teacher in black stockings.
He rides a “shared bicycle” worth a million yuan to school, but wears top-of-the-line tactical boots when he goes demon hunting.
All he wants is to keep a low profile and be an ordinary high school student. But the old man in his family left him with these words: “If slaying demons instead of gods was my mistake, then you’ll have to take over.”
When the sleeping “divine corpse” awakens because of him, when Qin Lan’s pointer becomes a baton, and when Su Xiaomo of the Su family becomes his partner, Ye Qing realizes that this is more than just the college entrance exam. It is a vigil spanning two thousand years.
From the Bone Tempering realm to the sixteenth realm, Human Sovereign, he will take up his blade and wipe out the demons of the eight directions, protecting the warmth and everyday life of Great Xia in an age when the gods descend.
