Chapter One: Returned to Three Months Before the Descent of the Deities!

[Level One Alert: The Six-Winged Seraph Michael has appeared over the Pacific Ocean, issuing humanity a final ultimatum. All citizens are ordered to immediately return to underground shelters!]
[Level One Alert: The Infernal Lord Amy has arrived in the Western Pacific, leading the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The End has come!]
[Frontline Military Report! The Xia Nation has dispatched the Godslayer Squad to cooperate with the last Guardian Deity of Xia—Asura God Lin Fan—to resist the Four Horsemen. We believe, as before, we will safely overcome this crisis.]
[Frontline Military Report! Zeus, King of the Gods, has appeared. The Americas' Record Keepers organization has been wiped out; all three chief recorders are dead.]
[Frontline Military Report! Guardian Lin Fan is fighting the Horsemen to the death, refusing to retreat, but mortal strength has its limits. He has fallen to an ambush by the God of Time. The Death Knight is now invading…]
[Attention everyone, this is the Supreme Command Center of Xia. I am Zhang Maoyuan, Head of State. This will be the final communiqué.
As Blue Star’s last hope, our 1.6 billion people united, defeating the Sea God, the Storm God, the Sky God, the Winter God… Mortals have overcome gods.
But, in the end, mortals are still mortals.
Zeus, Lord of Thunder, Infernal Lord Amy and the Four Horsemen, together with Michael and the Angelic Legion, have formed an alliance. This combined force is now only ten kilometers from the Supreme Command Center.
It is with regret that we announce: at this moment, the last hope of humanity is extinguished.
Please, step out of your shelters, take one last look at this beautiful world, and embrace your loved ones and friends.
From today on, this land left to us by our ancestors is no longer ours.
It will become the divine realm of some god.
From this moment, there will be no more humanity—only worshippers.
For your own survival, do not resist, do not feel anger. Kneel in reverence before the gods and demons, willingly become their devotees and apostles. From now on, abandon all feelings, all family ties, and become their tools.
Please, let go of millennia of brilliant history and culture, abandon art, abandon poetry, forsake love and hate, cast aside family and romance. Do not resist. Offer up your souls. Serve and extol the gods.
Become the personal property of these exalted beings.
Only in this way can you survive, even if you are no longer yourselves.
We’re sorry. We did everything we could.
Finally, thank you for your dedication and perseverance throughout these years.
And, for the last time, Happy New Year.]
From this day, in the annals of this world, the human species is utterly extinct.
Glorious history, great art, and technology that could challenge the gods are gone—leaving only soulless worshippers, chanting praise in the name of the divine.
Blue Star has become a vassal plane of the Divine Realm.
The clock of humanity stopped at Year 0015 of the New Era, with the first chime of the New Year.
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“Gods, lofty and untouchable?!”

“Today, I’ll slay a god!”
Lin Fan suddenly leapt up from his desk, his face twisted in a snarl as he roared.
“Lin Fan, what are you doing?” A middle-aged teacher stood at the podium, glaring at him with a stony face.
Lin Fan froze, bewildered, glancing around.
Instinctively, his hand went to his waist.
But all he found was an empty space—and a packet of spicy snacks.
“Where’s my blade?” Lin Fan stared blankly at the packet in his hand.
Where was his Asura Blade, the one that had drunk the blood of countless gods?
His sudden outburst sent the whole class into peals of laughter, but Lin Fan seemed oblivious.
He looked out the window. A cool breeze drifted in, but the sun shone bright and clear.
“The sky isn’t red?”
“There’s no rift leading to the Divine Realm?”
“This isn’t a world caught in a time loop?”
In the classroom, Lin Fan stared at those familiar yet distant faces, stunned.
The digital clock on the wall ticked forward.
2025, November 11, 4:52 p.m.
His second year of high school!
“I’m back?”
Gazing at his classmates, Lin Fan’s eyes filled with tears.
“No… no, I was ambushed by the God of Time… This must be another of his tricks… No, it’s real… My godhood, my divine palace, everything’s gone…”
Feeling his own feeble, powerless body, Lin Fan’s expression shifted several times—then he burst out laughing.
He was certain.
This was not a trick of the God of Time!
He had truly returned!
Three months before the gods’ descent!
“Lin Fan, are you performing a skit?” The teacher frowned. “Good timing, answer this question: What is the cause of rising sea levels and global warming in recent years?”

Lin Fan exhaled.
“Because the gods are descending.”
“This world has attracted a new host of gods.”
The classroom erupted in laughter again.
“Hahaha, Lin Fan, what nonsense are you spouting?”
“What kind of dream did you have? Wake up, class is in session!”
The teacher looked utterly confused. “You…”
Lin Fan ignored his classmates. He gazed deeply at his sturdy desk-mate, eyes rimmed with red, and smiled, “Old Wu, it’s so good to see you again.”
With that, Lin Fan turned and strode out of the classroom, heedless of the teacher’s calls.
He stood at the school gates, taking in the familiar scene. Slowly, he crouched, grabbed a handful of earth, and took a deep breath.
“This time, I will save Xia.”
“Be they gods or devils, even if that old Zeus himself arrives, he’ll never set foot in Xia!”
The youth stood, fists clenched, staring at the sky.
His eyes turned cold and indifferent.
“Lofty and untouchable?”
“Heh, given a second life—even the gods, I’ll kill them for you to see!”
“If you dare, come! I’ll be here, waiting.”
His gaze seemed to pierce the void, through space and time, toward beings beyond description.
But then—
Lin Fan bowed his head.
If he recalled correctly, in three months, the gods would descend.
From that day, humanity would enter a new era—the final era.
“Three months… it’s so little time.”
“If I’m right, the first to descend were two third-tier Sea Gods under Poseidon.”