[System] [Divine Inquiries] [No Female Lead] [Power Progression]
The gods and demons fought a great war, and the gods were defeated and destroyed.
From then on, demons occupied the gods' thrones, while people were placed on offering tables.
When Shen Jin awoke, he had become a black stone in a dilapidated temple.
He had no golden body and no divine power. Before the altar stood only a blood-soaked boy clutching half a broken incense stick.
"I don't want food or money."
"Please bring my little sister back."
Outside the temple, a ghostly bailiff dragged the girl toward an altar. The entire village knelt in the mud, and no one dared look up.
Shen Jin accepted his first stick of incense.
Save one person, gain a point of divine power; grant one wish, forge an inch of a golden body!
From slaying man-eating evil demons to protecting an entire village, then providing a divine sanctuary in the mortal realm for countless sufferers, the more his incense offerings flourished, the more restless the demon lords became.
It was only when he pulled the Soul-Locking Nail from the statue and rescued the White Tiger divine beast, enslaved by demons, that he discovered the war between gods and demons had been far more complicated than people had heard.
A decree descended from the beings above the Nine Heavens:
Destroy his temple, extinguish his incense, kill his god!
That night, villagers from across the mountains came bearing incense, heading for his dilapidated temple.
Shen Jin rose with a ruler in hand, his golden body illuminating the long night behind him.
"They all say this mortal realm belongs to the demons."
"Did you ask the people offering incense in front of my temple?"
