In 2187, in the Demon City.
This is an age of cybernetic ascension. Everyone is racing to connect to data-based spiritual energy through chips, abandoning their mortal flesh.
I, Shen Yuan, am a worthless scrap worker at the very bottom of the Root Domain, a “defective” who can’t get cybernetic implants. I’m at the very bottom of society’s pecking order.
They see me as garbage from a bygone era, never realizing that the city’s oldest antivirus program has quietly awakened in my dantian: the [Heart-Cleansing Art].
When the plutocrats build towering walls with their wealth, I use talismans as source code to hack into their core databases.
When the Purification Bureau uses cybernetic implants to crush dissent, I use sacred words as commands to wield cyber-flying swords and sever their chains.
While everyone else is lost in the power technology provides, I refine, step by step, the legendary Golden Core amid the flood of data.
They say Cultivation is feudal superstition, a virus infecting civilization.
Little do they know that I’ll use this virus-infected body to fight my way through this neon wasteland and become the one true immortal of the cyber era!
