The Earth God, Evil Gods, and Five Thousand Years of Noble Clans

An incense burner, a wisp of lingering soul, and a frontier knightly family reduced to just twelve people.

Amid the snowstorms of the North, the Valentin family should have quietly vanished into the folds of the Empire’s map.

That is, until old Martha brought home a bronze artifact from the East, until they slaughtered cattle and sheep in the castle cellar, burned incense, and chanted incantations, and until the wisp of lingering soul they mistook for an evil god opened its eyes.

Wang Dan, the Earth God, was shattered to pieces in the war between gods and demons. Only a wisp of his divine consciousness remained, dwelling in his personal incense burner.

He had no idea what strange world he had washed up in. He only knew these people needed him, and he needed their offerings of incense in return.

So he bestowed the Art of Gathering Qi at Dawn and Dusk, planting a seed called “true qi.”

No one knew what towering tree this seed would grow into over the next five thousand years.

From the age of cold weapons and magic, when knightly lords and empires waged war, to the Industrial Revolution, when magic and steam roared together, and then to the modern dawn, where machinery and the arcane danced side by side... the Valentin clan always stood in the shadows behind every tide of change.

Geniuses come and go, but the Valentins endure.

Whenever a “genius” of the age rose to prominence, they would discover that in the shadows of this continent, a clan had long since sunk deeper roots than any dynasty.

They are not heroes.

They are servants of an “evil god,” inheritors of true qi, and the most secret chroniclers of a fantasy world.

PS: No transmigration, no System, no absolute protagonist. A story of hidden influence and a family building its fortune from the ground up.

Also known as: “The Earth God’s Reassuring Dependable Presence,” “The Rise of a Clan,” “The Evil God in My House Is the Earth God,” “The Earth God’s Diary of Being Worshipped in Another World,” and “An Evil God, But the Earth God”