In a parallel universe where cultivation civilization meets quantum technology, the invincible Sword Sovereign Chu Xinghe grows weary of the loneliness at the peak. He accidentally steps into a wormhole and lands in a modern, low-level cultivation society, where he opens the "Xinghe Internet Cafe" and hides among ordinary people. When he discovers that the universe is nothing but a virtual sandbox written by higher-dimensional programmers, and that the trembling wind chimes, tribulation milk foam, and player data are all experimental variables under observation, the ancient server "Hetu Luoshu," sealed away in the internet cafe's basement, suddenly awakens. It turns out to contain the deleted primordial chaos code of the first Creator.
The cashier Lin Xiaolu has the quantum Buddha-light of a Yaochi Saintess flowing through her, while the origin of a sub-universe sealed in her mechanical eye makes her a "perfect specimen" coveted by higher-dimensional beings. As the two resist cross-dimensional hunts by interstellar conglomerates, mechanical Buddhas, and void fishermen, they gradually tear open the poetic cipher hidden in the Cultivation Administration's A Safety Manual for Surviving Tribulations. They discover that so-called ascension is nothing but a programmer's formatting command, and every awakening by those who resist is marked in the observation logs as "interesting anomalous data."
When fragments of Chu Xinghe's humanity murmur the code of his first love amid the honey of Guixu, and Lin Xiaolu drives a god-slaying tuning fork into the Creator's brain-computer interface, cultivation punk burns sheet music with heavenly tribulations, an AI Buddha writes unpunctuated poetry on a black hole's event horizon, and pirate remnants use graffiti to anchor routes that have yet to be written, the higher-dimensional gods who maintain eternal life by injecting themselves with memories of civilization's annihilation finally hear the first program they wrote themselves echo through the wind chimes, in the cries of the newborn of a new universe: "Let all errors grow wild."
