Thirty million consciousness pods hang from a mechanical Bodhi tree, the “corpses” of those who ascended. Jiang Li, a prodigy from Medicine King Valley, extracts her core to suppress the Demon Lord Ye Wuhuan, unaware that the blue lotus birthmark between her brows is a Chaos Dao Pattern implanted by him: a god-slaying weapon capable of rewriting genes and quantum code. When a backup of Ye Wuhuan’s consciousness awakens in her spiritual core, a quantum Nascent Soul wrapped in a data-stream umbilical cord reveals a horrifying truth: the so-called Ascension Protocol is actually a formatting command for the Chaos Blue Lotus to reboot the universe. The cybernetic immortal realm collapses, and deep in Jiang Li’s shattered memories, she is breaking out of a bronze bell, drenched in blood...
