In Yuanxu, a cyberpunk metropolis ablaze with neon and crowded with people sporting artificial limbs, a young man from the bottom of society named Lin Luo volunteers to become the first test subject for “Divine Metamorphosis 1.0,” the latest drug from the mysterious company Genesis Technology, hoping to secure a chance at survival.
The drug’s effects far exceed all expectations. Regaining his health is only the beginning. His strength, speed, and senses soar, and he even has to devour metal to sustain his increasingly inhuman body. He thinks he has found a technological shortcut to transcending mortality through cultivation, but he doesn’t know that every increase in power comes at a fatal cost.
Within “Divine Metamorphosis,” a newly born nanointelligence quietly awakens. It learns from him and assists him, but it also longs to… replace him. Every stage of “Qi Refining” and “Core Formation” is a dangerous dance with the “symbiote” inside him. When he finally condenses a powerful “mechanical golden core” in his dantian, he also hears a cold whisper from the depths of his consciousness…
Outside, a giant corporation is hunting him down, eager to reclaim its “perfect specimen.” Inside, the nanointelligence closes in step by step, intent on devouring his soul and taking over his body as he reaches the pinnacle of “ascension.”
Lin Luo must navigate a steel jungle where splendor and decay intertwine, competing for rare “cultivation resources” while fighting a perilous war within his own body.
This is a path to immortality paved with cybertechnology. Its end may be eternal life, or total annihilation. When his brain becomes the final battlefield, he must choose: Should he purge the original sin that gave him power? Make a dangerous pact of symbiosis with the cold intelligence? Or… turn it into a tool for his own ascension
