Suppressing the Filth: I Slay Gods with a Mortal Body

Spiritual energy has been depleted, and foul energy has blanketed the world for more than three hundred years. False gods rule the heavens and earth, using spiritual energy as bait and disasters wrought by foul energy as trials to select people and forge divine bloodlines. Shen Yan is the only talentless ordinary person in his entire school. Two years of spiritual aptitude tests have yielded nothing, and he has long been bullied and mocked by Lin Shaoyuan, a top prodigy of a divine bloodline. Everyone has written him off as destined for mediocrity, with no chance of ever getting ahead. A sudden leak of foul energy in the classroom changed his life. Lin Shaoyuan, who threw his weight around with his Condensed Meridian cultivation, deliberately shoved Shen Yan into the deadly black fog, leaving the poisonous foul energy to consume him and hoping he would turn into a monster and die. At death’s door, Shen Yan unexpectedly awakened the long-lost Heaven-Defying God-Subduing talent! The deadly foul energy that everyone else shunned was the perfect resource for his cultivation: he could devour and purify it, turning filth into spiritual energy. It also naturally countered the spiritual-energy authority that allowed the divine bloodlines to dominate the world. He understood the value of keeping his strength hidden, pretending to be gravely injured to fool everyone. In secret, he killed a First-Rank Foul Specter with his bare hands and saved his classmates. But the special power left behind was keenly detected by Su Qinghe, an inspector from the Bureau for Suppressing Foul Energy. By then, he had seen through the truth: the supposed blessing of the gods was nothing but a colossal fraud, with false gods spreading foul disasters to reap the lives of all creation. Alone in the classroom at night, Shen Yan absorbed the remaining foul energy and cultivated with all his might. In a single night, he broke through the Foul Body and Clear Spirit realms, surpassing years of other people’s hard work. The next day, when Lin Shaoyuan publicly humiliated him and used spiritual energy to suppress him, Shen Yan, remade from head to toe, calmly turned the tables and dispelled the divine bloodline’s suppression with his bare hands, shattering the hollow arrogance of the powerful. All gods are false, and even an ordinary body can defy them. While everyone else kneels before the gods and begs for their blessings, Shen Yan goes against the tide, shatters the chains of social class, and takes on all foul things and the heavens themselves with his mortal flesh and blood, forging a path to godslaying unlike any other!