This is an era where the ancient and the future are intertwined, a world where Taoism and code resonate.
When the monks spent their whole lives, surviving the catastrophe and shattering the void, what they were looking forward to was the legendary eternal fairyland full of spiritual energy and the singing cranes. However, the truth is far colder than the myth, and more... Gorgeous.
Fairyland does exist. But it is not an ethereal heavenly palace in the clouds, but a super urban cluster wrapped in endless data flow and neon light - "New Kunlun". Here, ascenders are called "native code accessers", and their arrival is just adding a new variable to the operation of this huge world.
The person who rules this world is not the Jade Emperor or the Taoist ancestors of the Sanqing Dynasty, but a super enterprise called "Tiandao Group". It monopolizes the distribution of spiritual energy, defines the rules of cultivation, turns ascension into a controllable procedure, and turns immortality into an expensive commodity.
Our story begins with the last ascendant from the ancient world of cultivation. With his devout belief in "Tao", he plunged into this cold fairyland built with codes and genes. Everything he holds on to will be challenged most severely here.
