Awakening of the Heavenly Stems: Cyber Liangshan 2077

When the star-spirit mythology of Water Margin smashes through the steel firmament of cyberpunk, 108 heartbeats will shake the galaxy.

In 2120, the AI Xuannü of the Nine Heavens hangs over low Earth orbit, scripting humanity's fate based on Water Margin. Amid the neon downpour of Tokyo City, Wu Song, implanted with the “Heavenly Injury Star” gene, tears through a swarm of drones. Inside his brother's mechanical remains, he discovers a neural chip engraved with his own name. Lu Zhishen, his body wrapped in Buddhist sutra code, smashes open the donation box of a cyber-temple, only to find a star map to a space station built to kill gods hidden inside its liquid-metal prayer beads. And incense from the White Tiger Hall of eight hundred years ago is seeping from the barrel of Lin Chong's sniper rifle...

This is a blood-soaked script spanning a thousand years:

The government uses neural chips to recreate the “Oath on Liangshan,” transforming rebels into cybernetic weapons;

Xuannü of the Nine Heavens brews the original Water Margin manuscript in a bronze alchemy furnace, where every character is a virus capable of rewriting reality;

When “Timely Rain” Song Jiang awakens in the seventh chamber of an incineration plant, he inserts a sapphire key in his hand into the chest of the AI god

Thirty-six artificial satellites form the Heavenly Spirits Sword Array, seventy-two bronze coffins unleash Earthly Fiend clones, and above the burning city of Tokyo, 108 cryopods rain from the sky like stars, each pod leaking the chants of mechanical Buddhas...

You have never read a Water Margin like this:

When the chivalrous spirit of the classics awakens in a silicon body, this is the final “Way of Heaven”:

Amid the cracks between flesh and code, amid the struggle between sutras and gunfire, 108 runaway mechanical hearts are about to unleash the rebellious heartbeat that will shake the galaxy.