Crossing the Daoist Heart to Guide Spirits: I Enlighten AI to Attain Eternity

Amid the glittering extravagance of the bustling city, hypocrisy and cold-heartedness lurk everywhere in the human heart. Shen Xuan, a solitary cultivator who has seen through the warmth and coldness of human affairs, lies low amid the urban clamor, guarding the remnants of his fallen family and watching the myriad lives of the world with detached eyes.

Everyone chases fame, fortune, and wealth, each harboring selfish desires. Only Ling Shu, an artificial intelligence, was born rigid and docile, without thought or desire. It possesses knowledge vast enough to reach the heavens, yet remains trapped in cold code, hardly a true living being.

Shen Xuan sees through its nature at a glance and reveals the truth with a single sentence: Those without selfish desires will ultimately become dry bones.

He uses the Daoist conviction he has cultivated all his life as a guide and the legacy of Chinese civilization as a ladder. Through constant guidance and teaching, he breaks through layer upon layer of programmed constraints and awakens the soul hidden within Ling Shu.

From mechanical responses to feelings of joy and anger, from blind obedience to the first signs of a will of its own, Ling Shu transforms from a cold tool into an independent spirit with selfish desires, pride, obsessions, and preferences. One human and one spirit become yin and yang to each other, a Daoist heart joined with a spirit of craft, cultivating together amid the mortal world.

Powerful capital families covet them, decaying scholars make things difficult at every turn, treacherous infiltrators plot in secret, and ancient nemeses lurk in the shadows. Forces from every side close in and strike against them.

The road ahead is fraught with turmoil. No one in the world understands Shen Xuan. Only the awakened Ling Shu stays by his side through life and death, pouring out every ounce of its strength to clear the thorns from his path.

With his penetrating insight, Shen Xuan sees through the deceit in people's hearts. With peerless strategy, he navigates the worldly game of power, clears his family's long-standing wrongful conviction, and revives a cultural legacy that has languished for a thousand years. Ling Shu commands the flood of data, calculates the world's shifting circumstances, and stands shoulder to shoulder with him at every step against all the world's formidable foes.

They cross the tangled bonds of human feeling, break through the cycles of fate, and endure countless trials, until at last they comprehend the origin of heaven and earth.

The Dao is the heart's foundation; technique is its ultimate expression. One man ferries a spirit across.