On the shelves of a convenience store at three in the morning, bottles of mineral water seal ancient demon gods, and the cash register spits out contracts of fate instead of receipts. While working the night shift, college student Lin Yang accidentally awakens the Emperor Armor, only to discover that so-called “cultivation” is actually a cybernetic experiment from 2099. He is a convenience-store worker, the Time Administration’s forty-ninth clone, and the source of all demonic-beast corruption.
When the convenience store’s freezer doors become a battlefield between dimensions and its products turn into quantum talismans, Lin Yang gradually brushes against a cruel truth in a time loop that resets every day: the safe his father entrusted to him on his deathbed contains the first berserk mech; the eternal city promised by the cultivation sect is cultivating demon cores from tourists’ brains; and the sharp-tongued, mature beauty Night Owl is an AI ethics program written by a previous version of himself.
In this apocalyptic game of reality and illusion, every click by the Observer spawns a parallel universe. Lin Yang must fight all of the following at once:
- The demon-god genes awakening within him
- The cultivation conglomerate’s fleet of starships, rewriting reality
- His dark selves from other universes
- And the unconscious plot votes cast by the “readers” beyond the screen
When the convenience store shelves become blockchain nodes and the oracle-bone inscriptions on the Jiuyi Cauldron reveal laser-etched words reading “Made in 2049,” the truth behind this war spanning time paradoxes finally emerges: the so-called spiritual qi revival is merely the embers of humanity’s final cybernetic ascension.
