The Heavenly Court uses the “Celestial Matrix” System to rebuild the Mythic Age as a modern capitalist society. The Jade Emperor becomes the world’s richest man and CEO of Lingxiao Group; Erlang Shen runs the Heavenly Realm Security Group; and the Matchmaker controls the multinational dating platform “Red Thread App.” The Heavenly Court draws energy from the “karma” generated by modern people working 996 schedules, while capitalists use “merit chips” implanted in their bodies to collect and convert that energy. The Daoist hacker group “Fangcun Mountain,” led by Patriarch Bodhi, secretly cracks the Celestial Matrix System, while Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva’s “Endless Hell Alliance” spreads the awareness of awakening through underground Buddhist temples.
