In the super city "New Kowloon" in 2242, mankind's dream of eternal life rests on cold mechanical prosthetics and consciousness uploading. The "Tianli Group" that controls everything is secretly promoting the "Digital Way of Heaven" plan, attempting to write the ultimate laws of the universe in code. However, at the bottom of this steel forest, the ancient "qi" is quietly reviving.
The protagonist "Zero", a top prosthetic hacker wandering in the data dark web, in order to find clues about his missing sister, accidentally came into contact with a piece of "living data" that cannot be explained by any code - it is made of pure "qi". His pursuit led him to Su Yunmeng, a "Pulse Master" who lived in seclusion in a forgotten corner of the city - the last descendant of the ancient practice.
One is a digital ghost who believes that everything can be coded, and the other is the last monk who adheres to the Tao and nature. When the cold neural interface connects to the warm meridians, and when the logical firewall encounters the invisible and insubstantial protective energy, they are forced to join forces to fight against the terrifying future that attempts to completely format the soul and the world. At the intersection of technology and metaphysics, they will redefine "existence" and uncover the world's deepest secrets: Is human evolution heading towards the eternity of code, or the ascension of the soul?
