What Do You Mean, I'm Covered in Evil God Passives?

[Decisive] [Unhinged Protagonist] [Rich] [No Female Lead] [No Romance] [Ghosts] [Everyone Is Evil] [Smart, Satisfying Story]

The supernatural revives and gods manifest. People survive by offering sacrifices to the gods in exchange for skills.

Only Gao Yan gets no answer from the gods, despite his mother forcing him as a child to kowtow until his head bleeds in the Gao family shrine, before a hall full of clay and gilded statues.

Those who receive no answer from the gods bear great sins from their past and present lives.

At eighteen, after taking psychiatric medication for ten years, Gao Yan is sent to Jiangnan's First Redemption Center. He becomes a condemned pawn who can be released only if he encounters a ghost and survives.

In Cell 14, a human face squeezes through the door.

Every prisoner in the room instantly loses control and lines up to smash their heads against the wall.

On the verge of a gruesome death, Gao Yan finally yields to the shrill voice that has tormented him in his mind for ten years:

"Please... I'll worship you. Let me... live..."

After a deathly silence, countless stern, savage, and deranged laughs overlap and explode in the depths of his mind like a thousand peals of thunder:

[We accept your offering.]

But these ancient evil gods lurking in his mind give him no active skills that can directly save his life. They only grant passive abilities and costs so deranged they seem made for madmen...

[God of Pain]: The more intense the pain you feel, the more savage your strength becomes! The price is that you will gradually become completely addicted to pain!

[God of Greed]: Kill the worshippers of other gods to steal their active skills! The price is that you will never be satisfied. Once you get something, you'll crave even more!

Who told you I only worship one evil god?

"What do you mean, you have a whole body full of evil-god passives?!"