Slay the Gods: Starting by Rescuing the Nine-Tailed Fox

His captain died in battle. The woman he loved perished. To protect the souls of an entire city, the old City God was stripped of his divine name and scattered into oblivion. In a world where gods treated mortals as streams of traffic to be harvested and incense offerings as batteries, humanity could only cling to life like ants, hidden beneath a veil of forgotten memories.

Jiang Tianyi thought that if he simply gave up and did nothing, he could escape the cold, merciless fate he had suffered in his previous life. But the fox-clan girl by his side was torn apart in the storm. His comrades, ready to die protecting him, pressed their farewell letters into his hands. And the nine-tailed fox who had lied to him time and again, yet always took a blade for him at the most dangerous moments, had her heart pierced right before his eyes.

“You forced me to do this.” As Jiang Tianyi stared at the merciful yet hypocritical faces of the gods filling the sky, the eighth chain inside him snapped with a roar. The heavens wept blood, and all creation fell silent. A black talisman sealed the spiritual veins of the Nine Provinces, and he tore the broken Spirit-Smiting Whip free by sheer force. That day, a rain of blood fell over Haizhou City. The ancient gods of the East, the apostles of the West, and the countless ghosts roaming the night were all reduced to ash beneath that young man’s lightning!