When Chen Jie watches his younger sister's brain matter being extracted and turned into a “comprehension chip,” the [Heavenly Dao 404 System] he was bound to upon being reborn drags him into an even deeper conspiracy: the so-called cyber cultivation world is actually an alien god's farm for breeding and trading life. Cultivators level up with Bitcoin mining demons and use human-brain servers to resist inner demons. Chen Jie, meanwhile, offers up his readers' fury in exchange for Cthulhu skills, at the cost of irreversible bodily mutation.
To avenge himself on the Jiuding Group, he devours data worms and becomes a cyber Taoist adept, using Python code to summon flying swords in the virtual cultivation game "Spirit Realm". He ventures beyond the Deep-Space Great Wall with Zero, an AI artifact spirit, and Chixiao, a mechanical Bodhisattva, only to discover that his rebirth was a trap: bait for luring an ancient god. As the debt-ridden universe reaches its end, Chen Jie fuses Chixiao's Buddha bones, Zero's authority over the stellar ring, and Xiaoyu's genetic lock. When confronted by the tuxedo-clad ancient god's “inflation weapon,” he becomes a human firewall and sets off god-slaying code with a mathematical paradox:
`if (god) { return 404; } // If God exists, return an error`
In the ruins of the stellar ring thirty thousand years later, his quantum-state stardust gathers into a giant bronze tree. Economics' sacred fruit grows in its branches, while the veins of its leaves carry Chixiao's pain-scriptures and Zero's tear protocols. Whenever civilization falls into a debt crisis, acid rain washes over the world, etching an eternal warning into children's palms:
**“When inflation and deflation cancel out, no god exists here: 404”
