The Last Daoist: A Cyber Daoist

The story takes place in the year 2077. It is an era of highly advanced technology, entrenched social classes, and fierce clashes between traditional beliefs and futuristic technology.

* **High Tech, Low Living Standards**: The megacity of Newjing glitters with neon as streams of hovercars weave between skyscrapers. Beneath the splendor, however, lies an enormous wealth gap. The elite enjoy the convenience and longevity offered by cybernetic enhancements and genetic optimization, while the masses struggle in polluted, resource-starved lower districts, surviving on cheap nutrient paste and virtual entertainment.

* **Corporate Empires**: The concept of the nation is gradually being supplanted by multinational megacorporations. Among them, the Kunlun Group is the most powerful tech giant in the world. Its business spans every field, from genetic engineering and artificial intelligence to aerospace and the metaverse, and it controls nearly every aspect of people’s daily lives.

* **Cyberspace and Reality**: Cybernetic enhancements and neural interfaces have become commonplace. Through brain-computer interfaces, people can seamlessly connect to the global network or even upload their consciousness to the metaverse, Taixu Realm, in pursuit of digital “immortality.” The boundary between reality and virtuality grows ever more blurred.