Lin Yu has lived an ordinary life for twenty years. All that time, everyone under heaven has believed wholeheartedly in the existence of gods, while Lin Yu has always scoffed at the very idea. She has never believed in gods. Until the winter of the nineteenth year of the Yu calendar. With the Moon God Festival approaching, the powerful and privileged arrange a living sacrifice in its honor. Lin Yu loses her family and everything she has, is reduced to a sacrificial offering, and locked inside a cage to await her death. She is supposed to die. But Lin Yu does not believe in fate. So on the eve of the Moon God Festival, she raises her blade, kills every last one of them, and escapes with her life. The gods hold dominion. Human sacrifice runs rampant. High officials and nobles wield unchecked power while the common people suffer, and the mortal realm is plunged into misery. Gazing upon a world drenched in blood, Lin Yu finally sees it for what it is. This age must end. And every last one of them will die by her hand. Not long afterward, a new divine maiden arrives at Fengtian Tower. Before others, she is weak and helpless, compassionate toward all living beings, and devout in her reverence for the gods. Behind their backs, she kills without hesitation; if a god stands in her way, she kills the god too, never once showing mercy. She does not believe in divinity. She destroys sacred artifacts, burns temples, slays ghosts, and kills gods; nothing is forbidden to her. As far as Lin Yu is concerned, ascending to the heavens sounds rather boring. Dragging those honey-tongued, viper-hearted gods down from their pedestals one by one? Now that sounds interesting.