In the future city "Sky City" controlled by the giant enterprise "Tiandao Group", spiritual practice is no longer a vague legend, but has been quantified into a resource called "data aura", which is distributed through the "spiritual network" covering the entire city. Citizens are implanted with neural interfaces and purchase the "Taofa Agreement" peddled by companies in exchange for power and status. This is an era of digital cultivation that is orderly, yet cold and ruthless.
Ling Chen, a spirit-courier who lives in the "sinkage area" at the bottom of the city, shuttles through the jungle of neon and steel every day, running for a living. An unexpected delivery mission brought him into contact with an ancient data lattice that was strictly taboo. When the contents of this crystal lattice poured into his spiritual world, a truth that had been deliberately erased by the Tiandao Group was slowly revealed - an "ancient method" of practice that directly draws on the original power of heaven and earth without the need for spiritual nets.
This primitive and wild power made Ling Chen a "heretic" and a "virus" in the eyes of the Tiandao Group, attracting endless pursuits. During his escape, he met the last guardian of the "ancient method", a mysterious woman named Mo Xuanji who lived in seclusion in the data dead zone.
When the cold technological hegemony clashes with the lost ancient inheritance, when the fate of a low-level person is connected with the free will of the entire city, Ling Chen must make a choice: Should he continue to be a speck of dust in the torrent of data, or break free from the shackles of the spiritual network and become a true seeker above it? A storm that will subvert the entire world of cyber cultivation is quietly brewing from the darkest corner of Sky City.
