In a city transformed by spiritual qi revival, cultivating immortality requires a QR-code verification.
Lin Feng's college life is torn apart by a blood-red pop-up:
"Destiny: Zhulong. Threat level: C. Eliminate immediately!"
When he uses smartphone code to tamper with the exam-hall surveillance footage, memories of the ancestral shrine burning flood his mind.
His grandfather's spine turns into a chain, forcing a ball of golden flame into his chest:
"The Lin family's Night Watchers pass the torch from generation to generation... Wait until the blood moon of Guixu rises!"
Only then does he realize that the Nine-Turn Nuo Scripture, championed by the Cultivation Management Bureau, is poison,
that ascending to the Immortal Realm is a lie concealing a slaughterhouse,
and that the golden core floating in Professor Gao's thermos is his father's, not yet cold.
The "Ember Protocol" in his bloodline suddenly activates:
Ignite cyber talismans with the ancestral flame and form sword formations with swarms of drones!
Use destiny algorithms to rewrite the laws of Heaven and plant a passionfire virus in an Immortal Venerable's primordial spirit!
Awaken an ancient artifact spirit in the forbidden section of the library, only for her first words to be a question that cuts to the heart:
"The Dao Alliance has harvested countless worlds for seven thousand years. What makes you think humanity can win?"
As the Cultivation Management Bureau's hovercraft blasts apart the classroom building,
Lin Feng looks up through the rain of fire, molten gold streaming from his pupils:
"Because my name is Lin, and because seventy-two beacon fires still burn in the tombs of the Night Watchers!"
