When you have to pay Heavenly Dao taxes to undergo tribulation and pass a flight test to ride a flying sword, can mortals carve out their own path to the heavens between the vice grip of cultivation capital and the cyber Heavenly Dao?
When Lin Xiuzhu awakens a quantum sword spirit that has slept for a thousand years during a livestream, modern technology tears the cultivation world's fig leaf clean away.
By day, he's a conservator at the Cultural Relics Bureau, giving CT scans to bronze artifacts. By night, he's “Danqingzi,” a black-market streamer who uses a microwave to concoct pills. His left hand's spirit-seeing eye appraises treasures and analyzes ancient wards, while his right hand's Chaos Spirit-Leaking Body devours nuclear waste to cultivate. It takes a female sword immortal failing her tribulation and crashing through his balcony for him to realize that 5G base stations are reincarnated dragon veins, and that the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor holds the ultimate answer to the Age of Declining Dharma.
Cultivation capital uses publicly listed companies to harvest rare natural treasures, while the satellite flying swords of North American mechanized cultivators loom over the border. Meanwhile, binary code etched onto bronze artifacts points to a god-slaying scam spanning three thousand years.
