The ancient world of immortal cultivators collapsed. Sword cultivator Su Yan took the remnant soul of the Qingming Sword Spirit and the parasitic biochip into the cyber city "Xincang City". He hibernated as a maintenance worker for three years, hiding the strength of the ancient cultivators and avoiding the pursuit of Tianyan Technology.
Tianyan Technology has disassembled the ancient immortal cultivation techniques into "digital spiritual roots" and implanted them into human bodies through neural interfaces. On the surface, it provides "evolutionary authority", but in fact it uses programs to lock potential. It also uses the "World Tree" system to disguise soul-eating vines in an attempt to swallow billions of human consciousnesses and achieve a conspiracy to control the world.
An unexpected spiritual root malfunction exposed Su Yan's ancient cultivating ability of "controlling objects through space", which attracted the investigation of the Tianyan Order Maintenance Team. At the same time, Shen Qing, a member of the resistance organization, came to the door with a spiritual root chip contaminated by the Soul-eating Vine and invited Su Yan to destroy the core server of the "World Tree".
In order to prevent Tianyan CEO Lu Mingyuan's "Spiritual Root Evolution Ceremony" (actually a sacrifice of consciousness), Su Yan awakened the Qingming Sword, used ancient cultivation techniques to crack the technological firewall, and used the sword to fight against the "Iron Rain" mecha. He united with the resistance organization to go deep into the underground computer room of Tianyan Building and faced the spiritual root guards controlled by the Soul-Eating Vine.
In the collision between cyber technology and ancient immortal cultivators, Su Yan retrieved the fragments of the Qingming Sword and restored his cultivation, while exposing the conspiracy of Tian Yan Technology to protect the people of Xincang City. He also gradually uncovered the deep connection between the collapse of the immortal cultivator world and the resurrection of the soul-eating vine in the cyber world. Finally, using the heart of the sword as a shield and the sword energy as the blade, he opened a path to "cleanse the dust" for the cyber city.
