He, Jiang Qianren, awakens from a cultivation pod. The countdown before him is locked at 72 hours: genetic collapse imminent!
The cybernetic right arm implanted by a corporate conglomerate goes out of control for the first time in the Ninth Restricted Zone. It devours discarded armor and awakens the memory of the Sword Bone that pierced a cultivation elder’s dantian three years ago!
To stay alive, he hunts cybernetic ghosts. But when he devours a mutated AI streamer, he uncovers the Kunlun Exchange Agreement, signed by cultivation clans and corporate conglomerates: a shocking plot to turn ordinary people into batteries that power extended lifespans!
While taking shelter from a tide of corpses in a nightclub, he encounters the mysterious Luo Xingyao. The immortal-life chip at her neck glows blue, and her biological frequency is an exact match for that of his younger sister, who died in a car accident three years ago!
As rebel corporate troops close in, the Sword Bone runs wild. It animates the remains of the Wall Street bull into a flesh-and-blood mech that tramples a legion of shikigami. A projection in the eye sockets of a corpse puppet reveals a holographic image of the slum massacre from five years ago!
To break the Nine Nether possession technique, he pierces Luo Xingyao’s mechanical heart with an electromagnetic chain and reads the key. But as he cracks the immortal-life chip, he hears twenty years of Yin-Yang Bureau experiment records: eight hundred mothers were transformed into mechanical puppets and willingly sealed inside the Heavenly Origin Furnace!
At last, he breaks into the core of the Ninth Restricted Zone. Amid the blood rain, a mechanical statue of Guanyin shatters. Three thousand cultivation pods bear his mother’s codename, and the truth pieced together from the Heavenly Dao inscriptions is suffocating: this restricted zone is a god-slaying prison that Jiang Qianren himself forged over nine reincarnations!
And the password for the final immortal-life chip can only be reset through a quantum annihilation that will kill both Luo Xingyao and the Sword Bone...
Cyber cultivation, thrilling suspense, and a fight for survival!
How will he break the rules of the world and reset his fate?
