Core settings:
World view: In 2347 AD, the earth experienced a catastrophic "spiritual resurgence", and the "spiritual rift" opened in the earth's crust. Ancient spiritual bodies merged with future technology, giving birth to the "Psychic Era". The city is suspended in the sky, while the underground is reduced to a "ghost realm" - a hotbed of dead souls, spirit beasts and forbidden spiritualism. Psychics become the dominant class and can contract "souls" to control elements and reshape matter. However, each time they channel the spirit, they will consume "fate points", and if their lives are exhausted, their souls will disappear.
Protagonist: Ling Zhao, 19 years old, an orphan from the "Grey Zone" at the bottom. On the surface, he is a data cleaner for the psychic company "Apocalypse Group", but in fact he has a rare golden finger - [Spirit Recycling System]: it can swallow the remnant souls and spiritual weapon fragments of dead psychics and convert them into "spiritual energy points", which can infinitely upgrade one's own soul without losing life. This ability comes from the black chip left by his mother, which was implanted in his brain and never removed.
Core conflict: Tianqi Group secretly develops "artificial bonded spirits" in an attempt to monopolize the power of psychics, and Ling Zhao's system comes from the sealed "first-generation bonded spirit matrix". He must rise before being discovered, uncover the truth about his mother's death, and fight against the pursuit from the "Soul Palace" and the "Black Market Psychic Alliance".
Ability system: Psychics are divided into nine levels, and each level requires a contract with a stronger soul. Due to the special system, Ling Zhao can cross-level challenges, but each upgrade requires swallowing "spiritual remains" (remains or spiritual weapons of dead psychics), and system upgrades require unlocking new permissions, such as "soul copying", "life destiny stealing", etc.
