On a late night after being laid off from his 996 job, a bolt of purple lightning shatters Chen Mo's understanding of the world.
The AI he wrote himself, Lingxi, accidentally takes control of the world's underlying logic.
The old Heavenly Dao collapses, a new world comes online, and he becomes its only local administrator.
Code appears across his retinas. Everything is a variable:
//Creature: stray cat; Status: spiritual energy overflowing; BUG: about to turn demonic
Chen Mo casually enters a command: Cat.spirit_energy = 0;
Bug fixed. The world is restored.
His cup is empty? One line of code makes water appear out of nowhere.
His health is poor? He rewrites the Health attribute and maxes it out.
A vicious dog attacks someone? One click marks it as a hostile unit and forcibly removes the anomaly.
Others cultivate to defy fate. Chen Mo writes code to repair the Heavenly Dao.
Spiritual qi revival? A System bug.
Gods and demons descend? A version conflict.
A battle between countless worlds? Just cross-server data integration.
As the whole world descends into chaos because of bugs,
Chen Mo looks at the console before him and gently types:
Hello, World.
From then on, I am the Heavenly Dao, and code is the law.