The story starts out with the Battle of the Supernatural Powers, a tournament to decide who will be the next god of The Celestial World (rendered as God Candidates in the Animax version and Kami (天界人) in the Japanese version).
Each candidate (100 in total) is required to choose a junior high school student to act as their fighter. The student is given a unique power and told to eliminate as many enemies as possible. The winning God Candidate will become The New God of Heaven and the winning student will receive the Blank Zai (or talent), a talent that can be anything they choose.
While this leads many students to thoughts of greed and selfishness, Kosuke Ueki decides to take it upon himself to win this tournament to keep that power away from those that would abuse such a gift.
火野國中1C的植木耕助，在小學6年級的冬天，從現時是他班主任的小林老師那裏，得到一種不可思議的能力，他可以把他自覺是垃圾的東西變成樹木，限定條件是只限手掌能覆蓋的垃圾。
植木的同班同學森愛，因留意到植木的超能力而跟踪植木，豈料途中被一群不良少年騷擾，幸得植木出手替她解圍。然而此時，小林老師竟然出現，指植木會遭受“用能力傷人的懲罸”。翌日，植木受女生歡迎的“才”（才能）消失了。（由于小林也有出手，所以这惩罚產生某種程度的偏差，所以植木仍能和鈴子及瑪莉琳等人結為朋友。）
植木被卷入的那場戰争，其實是一場由100名候選神為争奪神寶座而進行的戰鬥，這百名候選神各自挑選一名中學生，并賦予其一種能力應戰，最後勝出者所代表的候選神，即會成為下任的神。至于勝出的中學生則能够將“空白之才”（擁有者能擁有任何一種想要的才能）據為己有。
除了植木的“將垃圾變成樹”的能力之外，還有許多擁有能力的敵人及對手出現，植木為了不讓“空白之才”落入邪惡之人的手中，决定貫徹自己的正義，守護“空白之才”。
Initially, fights in the tournament consist of a battle between two power users - one wins by knocking the other opponent out.
When a knock-out is obtained, the loser will lose their power and the winner will gain a talent Zai (才), which is a talent of some sort (e.g. "talent of running," "talent of studying," and so on). A power user who has lost a fight is disqualified and their power is labeled "retired."
The rules for the combatants of the tournament revolve around the talents:
Power users are not allowed to use their powers against non-power users, or they lose one talent for each hit.
If the power user loses all of his/her talents, then he/she will disappear.
Every time a power user knocks out another power user, he/she will gain another talent, senseless or not.
If, for any reason, both contestants become unconscious at the same time, the round is a draw: no talents will be gained, and no powers are lost. The contestants must be knocked out within 5 seconds of each other, or the last contestant wins.
There are also rules which apply to the Celestial World Candidates, also known as God Candidates. The punishment for breaking them is that the candidate is sent to Hell.
Candidates are not allowed to interfere with their power user's fight. This means that they are not allowed to provide their power users with more supplies to use their power (this may only apply to during a fight), or even save them from dying.
Candidates are only allowed to grant a power to one individual. However, it is possible for two candidates to give a power each to one person; if found out, though, it will lead to a disqualification of both candidates.
Candidates cannot harm any non-power users, the same rule apply on power users.
Near the end of the tournament, power users are allowed to form groups of five for "battle royale"-style fighting. Knock-outs during this stage do not result in losing powers. Each team is given a penalty if it loses, such as having all of the members die or losing their hair in addition to losing their powers.
To decide who receives the Blank Talent among the winning team, a device is used to measure the growth in power that each participant has shown from the beginning to the end of the tournament. To decide who is to become King of the Celestial World, the winning team votes which of the candidates should be given that honor.
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