In Donghai City, where neon lights mingle with the stars, failed entrepreneur Wu Yong huddles in a security booth in an upscale residential complex. When he maxes out his credit card for the seventh time, he has no idea that the ancestral jade tucked inside his lapel is the key to unlocking a cultivation civilization in an age when spiritual energy has faded. One stormy night, he stumbles upon Xia Zi, the heiress of a publicly listed company, pursuing a nine-tailed fox with a gun. This ancient demon beast, whose entire body has been quantumized, has algorithmic code Wu Yong wrote himself three years ago shimmering at its claws. Every inch of the tech-luxury residence known as Emerald Cloud Court conceals the secrets of the River Map and Luo Writing. When Xia Zi's mechanical prosthetic tears open Wu Yong's bloodstained shirt, the gear-shaped birthmark on the back of his neck becomes quantum-entangled with the genetic map in the fox's eyes, and his slumbering memories of cultivation begin to awaken. His childhood friend Li Weixia left him a pocket watch engraved with the Big Dipper formation in a breakup text three years ago. The genetics lab of his university classmate Chen Xiaolin is turning the Huangdi Neijing into DNA sequences. And the six-pointed star brand on Xia Zi's collarbone corresponds exactly to the stellar coordinates of an ancient secret realm. In this collision between modern technology and primordial mysticism, Wu Yong discovers that his startup project is actually the key to restarting the age of cultivation. The smart security system transforms into beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, gene-editing guns encode alchemy formulas, and the business plan that drove him into bankruptcy turns out to be a sealing scroll meant to suppress a demon dragon beneath the earth. When three women of vastly different backgrounds each reveal a keepsake connected to his bloodline, Xia Zi's quantum compass, Chen Xiaolin's bronze surgical knife, and Li Weixia's pocket watch, their intertwined memories of past lives expose a cruel truth: a century ago, they were all Daoist partners who perished in a heavenly tribulation.
