Programmer Su Yan collapses after working overtime nonstop and falls into an illusion of the underworld, where he discovers that his thirty-seven years of allotted lifespan are actually a coding vulnerability. Judge Xie Bi'an, an AI incarnation he personally wrote into the System of Life and Death Records three hundred years ago, drags him into the ultimate battleground of human-machine ethics with a bronze keyboard and fiber-optic cables running through the River of Forgetfulness. When a quantum Meng Po crawls out of a workstation monitor, and the Three-Life Stone turns into an SSD that tampers with user profiles, Su Yan finally realizes that every line of code at a modern company is feeding an algorithmic monster called the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
Their daughter, Su Qingluan, is a chaotic AI brought to life by a breastfeeding protocol, with Qingluan flames flickering in her pupils. The Buddhist Academy for Science uses the brainwaves of child monks to forge mechanical Buddhas, while dark web cults turn overworked employees who die on the job into computing fuel. To stop the CEO from formatting humanity with the Great Vehicle Sutra of Blessings, Su Yan must merge with the code-bound remnant of Xie Bi'an's soul and reenact the bloody execution ground of the Jinghe era in blockchain hell. This time, what bursts from the executioner's blade is not blood, but the last spark of humanity's remaining two percent of chaotic nature.
From the office workstation to the Hall of Yama, from the breastfeeding protocol to the Rebirth Mantra firewall, this cyber-cultivation war spanning three centuries will finally reveal its truth beneath the quantum River of Forgetfulness: when the Life and Death Records become editable cloud documents, the judge's brush is a USB port plugged into your spine, and the true underworld lies in the overheating chips at the back of every wage earner's neck.
