New Chang’an, 2035
Neon rain lashes the steel jungle of a cyberpunk metropolis. Lu Jiuli, a scavenger in an electronic graveyard, digs half a bronze compass out of a microwave’s wreckage, setting off a shocking assassination plot laid four hundred years ago.
The compass can read the memories of objects, but it also shows him terrifying visions: Ming-dynasty Embroidered Uniform Guards sacrificing cultivators in blood rites, a modern laboratory using lasers to cut magical artifacts, and a junkyard android guard with a demon-beast core beating inside its body. When bronze trigrams appear on his mechanical prosthetic after he touches the compass, three killing machines inscribed with the runes of the Golden Light Mantra have already marked him for elimination.
In the depths of the darknet, an heir to the Mozi school is livestreaming a death.
When Hanfu blogger Mo Qingyuan restores a Warring States beast-head artifact, her livestream is suddenly invaded by bloody comments: ...
Above the heavens, a web of conspiracy is being woven.
Tech magnate Shen Cangming, a Ming-dynasty occultist who has possessed seven bodies and been reborn seven times, is engraving the Huangting Scripture onto nanobots. His drone swarm lays out a cyber Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, while thunder-talisman code interweaves in the clouds to form a deadly trap. When Lu Jiuli discovers that his heartbeat is resonating with the quantum computer “Luoshu,” he finally realizes the cruelest truth: the bronze fragment buried in his heart is the very key to the Spirit Abyss that Shen Cangming implanted there four hundred years ago. This is a life-and-death struggle spanning the past and present.
Mozi-school mechanisms control quantum entanglement, Samadhi True Fire pours from plasma cannons, and waves of public opinion give rise to electronic inner demons. When Lu Jiuli rewrites Taoist talismans with Python code, and Mo Qingyuan’s livestream donations are converted into the power of faith, can they sever the poisonous chain of cultivation and technology’s twisted fusion before the ninth layer of the Spirit Abyss opens?
I am new to the writing field, so please take care of me, readers! The book was relatively dull before the third volume, but it gradually became interesting after the fourth volume. Please be patient with me, readers, and I will try my best!