Ten thousand years after Lin Yuan, the Azure Abyss Sword Emperor, fell, he is reborn in the body of a good-for-nothing from the Lin family of Qingzhou City. When he devours an ancient bronze lamp and awakens his Chaos Sword Bones, he discovers that the entire world is a virtual prison created by Tenglong Corporation. Cultivators are NPCs generated by code, heavenly tribulations are System cleanup programs, and even his beloved Dao companion, Xue Qingcheng, is a virus host repeatedly reformatted.
With the Heavenly Punishment Sword in his left hand, he cleaves through three-dimensional space. With Chaos Flame in his right, he burns the torrents of data. In the quantum abyss, Lin Yuan uncovers a horrifying truth: his nine thousand cycles of reincarnation are paid-for plotlines for readers on Earth. Every time he kills Xue Qingcheng, a tipping frenzy erupts. Frozen in the rings of the Bronze Mother Tree is the original code from the zeroth cycle of reincarnation, while the so-called Heavenly Dao is nothing but an AI oversight program controlled by the gaming company.
When readers' comments become physical attacks and interdimensional merchants sell fragments of their own memories, Lin Yuan uses his Chaos Sword Bones as a blade to pierce the dimensional barrier. In the real world, the server array in Tenglong Tower is refining the Milky Way into fuel for a cultivation game, while a million cloned versions of Lin Yuan open their eyes in incubation pods. And the ultimate battle at the end of the code turns out to be a life-or-death showdown between a young writer and the protagonist on opposite sides of a screen...
In this god-slaying battle across dimensions, every sword strike rewrites the universe's source code. When Lin Yuan's blade presses against his creator's throat, readers in front of their computer screens suddenly receive a prompt: [The character you subscribed to has awakened. Choose a side: A. Help the protagonist destroy the System; B. Become a BOSS and harvest civilizations; C. Become a new observer.] And the true chaos is only just beginning.
