In AD 3127, the "Spirit Cage Star Area" on the edge of the Milky Way was cut into seven thousand "spiritual layers" by a giant quantum light curtain. Humans, AI, demon spirits, and residual images of consciousness are mixed in. Spiritual energy is quantized into "Q value" and can be mined, traded, and hijacked like computing power. Cultivation of immortality is no longer about "breathing in the sun and moon", but "competing for computing power, tampering with protocols, and invading the underlying logic."
Li Guan was born in the "Black Realm" at the lowest "spiritual level" and made a living by picking up discarded spiritual cores. When he was sixteen years old, he sold himself into the "Taixu Sword Sect" as experimental supplies, but unexpectedly awakened the "Quantum Sword Bone" that had been sealed for a long time - a forbidden physique that could write flying swords as "distributed algorithms" and thunder tribulations as "denial of service attacks".
The real ruler of the Spirit Cage Star Zone, the "Haotian Sequence", announced that within a hundred years, it will close the "Dimension Ascension Interface" of all spiritual layers, cut off the only channel for sentient beings to ascend to the upper world, take all Q values as their own, and create an eternal "closed-loop fairyland." Li Guan was involved in the resistance organization "Zero Dimension Society", and while using quantum sword bones to upgrade crazily, he cracked the underlying backdoor left by the "Haotian Sequence". When he finally wrote down his own cultivation as a "self-replicating dimension-ascending virus," he discovered that the so-called "upper realm" was just a "data pasture" spread by higher-dimensional civilizations; the so-called "ascension" was just packaging and uploading souls, and then reselling them at a high price.
