In a future where quantum technology intertwines with ancient civilizations, an earth-shattering conspiracy spanning millennia lies hidden within the data deluge. After his father undergoes a mysterious lung transplant, young Lin Shen is unwittingly drawn into a crisis threatening the survival of human consciousness. When a “Chimei” plug-in combining the spirit-summoning art of the Songs of Chu with alien technology appears on the darknet black market, and bronze mechanisms connecting yin and yang emerge deep within the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, he must join forces with A Li, a girl with a mechanical eye; Bai Ze, a cloned warrior; and Mo, an heir to the Mohist legacy, to embark on a quest to solve civilization’s predicament.
They confront a mad scientist in Cyber-Dunhuang who plans to sacrifice modern humanity to the Yin-Shang civilization, rescue mechanical angels with altered memories in a steampunk world, and unravel the Star Pavilion’s conspiracy to harvest emotional energy with its “Mandate of Heaven algorithm” in a martial arts realm. Every dimensional transmigration probes the very nature of civilization; every fight to the death rewrites a script of fate controlled by observers. A Li’s shattered fragments of consciousness conceal secrets on a cosmic scale, Bai Ze’s fellow clones have been reduced to killing machines, and Mo’s ideal of “universal love and opposition to aggression” becomes the last spark of hope against fate.
As the Heaven-Mending Stone and the energy of chaos awaken, the group gradually uncovers the truth: the supposed alien threat is nothing but a colossal lie fabricated by the higher-dimensional observers of the Star Pavilion to harvest consciousness energy. From Yin-Shang sacrificial rites to future technology, all civilizations struggle in a web of fate woven by the Pavilion. When the fate-defying program is launched and the laws of the universe are rewritten, Lin Shen and the others sacrifice their very existence to restore the hope of civilizations growing freely. However, the dimensional sea runs deep
