[Decisive and Ruthless + Genius Protagonist + Master of Mayhem + Cyberpunk]
On the day he is set to undergo spiritual-root modification, Lu Zhao obtains half of a bloodstained jade shard.
In this world, conglomerates use blockchain to lock down spiritual roots, the Firmament Group sells all kinds of cybernetic implants, and Medicine King Biotech turns tribulation lightning into premium microtransaction packages.
As his rich classmate swaps in a Green Firmament Sword Bone worth three million, a blood-red alert suddenly flashes across Lu Zhao's retina:
“Innate Dao Body detected. Supreme System activated.”
The Basic Qi Refining Art, which he'd painstakingly cultivated for three years, is instantly perfected to its highest level.
He can see the flaws through which spiritual energy leaks from cybernetic cultivators.
As he withstands a nuclear-fusion flying sword with his bare body, a mechanical Dao Ancestor roars from the clouds:
“Impossible! How can there be living ancient cultivators in the Age of Dharma Decline?”
Only after Lu Zhao crushes the ninth golden core belonging to a conglomerate does he discover the cruelest truth:
So-called cybernetic ascension is nothing more than refining the poor into spiritual-energy batteries.
Those mechanical sages in the clouds above
are secretly cultivating the Original Dao Scripture he threw into the trash.
“Welcome to the world of cultivation.”
“I'll slay the gods with my ant's life and tear apart the cybernetic Heavenly Dao with my mortal flesh!”
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