The Ancient God begins its story with Ye Chen, cast down from the divine realm to the human realm. Ye Chen doesn't return from the heavens as a savior with clean hands—he lives among humans for centuries, gathering armies around him, controlling hundreds of lands, and turning his own name into a weapon his enemies fear to utter. But this established order begins to crumble as the Northern Kingdom marches its troops to its southern borders, and the power of the gods becomes increasingly evident in the human realm.