When the quantum computer’s blue light swallowed the last spirit stone, Lin Yu discovered the cultivation world’s greatest secret: so-called ascension was nothing but a cloud backup made by a higher civilization.
A genius expelled from the scientific community, he is rescued from the jaws of a cybernetic tiger by an AI sword immortal and plunges into the mind-shattering realm of Heavenly Artifice. Here, mechanical luan birds dance alongside sword-wielders, cold nuclear fusion pulses inside alchemy furnaces, and the eyes of Lan Zhi, the woman who saved his life, shimmer with primitive code that should have been erased from the labs long ago.
To break the thirteen shackles at the heart of “Spirit Seeker,” Lin Yu must rewrite ancient forbidden arts in Python and use a brain-computer interface to fight the harvesting of consciousness. When a clone army tears through his flesh to reveal the same serial number, and the Kunlun Group’s tribulation simulator begins mass-producing fake Nascent Souls, he must choose:
Use the Mohist carpenter’s square to open a star gate, allowing humanity to become experimental subjects for alien overseers? Or become a virus himself, planting the seeds of awakening in the algorithms of cultivation?
This war, spanning quantum planes and the elixir fields of the Violet Mansion, will ultimately use a neon-lit city as its furnace to forge the final answer to the survival of civilization:
**The cultivation app you downloaded may be uploading your soul.**
