Seed of Origin: The Rise of the Gray Citizens

This is an age in which psychic energy and machinery coexist. Humanity has abandoned the ancient pursuit of bodily cultivation, instead combining cold metal, precision data streams, and mysterious psychic energy. Mechanical ascension has become the only path to power and eternity. Towering mechanical megacities, consciousnesses traveling through torrents of data, and cybernetic bodies armed to the teeth make up this cold yet dazzling world.

Lin Mu was born in a slum beneath the shadow of a mechanical megacity. The System classified him as an underclass citizen with “extremely low psychic affinity and mediocre mechanical adaptability.” At the fateful Awakening Ceremony, he was mercilessly branded with the lowest rank, seemingly doomed to struggle for survival at the bottom of the city.

But no one knew that deep within him, rather than the exhaustion and mediocrity detected by the System, a “Seed of Origin” from an unknown dimension was quietly taking root. This seed could devour psychic energy and analyze data, while also perfectly fusing ancient cultivation methods with cutting-edge mechanical technology to forge an unprecedented path of “cyber cultivation.”

Facing a world of discrimination and oppression, Lin Mu concealed his strengths and pretended to be a harmless nobody from the slums. In forgotten corners, he quietly absorbed psychic residue and data scraps discarded by the city’s systems. While everyone believed he would grow old in the darkness, he had already forged within himself a mechanical spirit core beyond the understanding of his age, and mastered the secrets of commanding torrents of data and storms of psychic energy.