No Hope of Immortality: I Became a True God by Pretending to Be One

In ancient times, the gods and Buddhas of the heavens treated all creation as straw dogs. They gathered the faith of the people, yet regarded them as weeds. Led by the Immortal Lord of the age, humans, immortals, and demons stormed the heavenly court beyond the heavens and wiped out the gods and Buddhas. From then on, the continent spread the Dao through countless arts, yet no one knew what a god was. Gu Chuan had no spiritual roots, no connections, and no magic treasures. On the day his powers awakened, the Heavenly Dao kicked him off the list of candidates for the cultivation world. Unwilling to accept that, he went to visit a major cultivation sect and broaden his horizons, only to discover that he was the horizon everyone else had come to see. Years later, in the Demon Realm's imperial palace, a Demon Emperor came rushing in, flustered. “Disaster, Your Majesty! A little Taoist priest next door in the cultivation world is performing some sort of exorcism, and he’s stolen the Empress!” “What! Go fetch my magic treasure!” “Please, Your Majesty, no! He’s become a god!!!”