[Hardcore technical cultivation] + [high-IQ protagonist] + [single heroine] + [trope subversion] + [philosophical cultivation] [A thought-provoking read]
Chen Mo, an algorithm architect who worked himself to death, becomes a descender of the [Pure White Sequence].
While three hundred descenders fight over red authorities like [Supernatural Powers] and [Slaughter], he deliberately chooses the most obscure blue [Information Authority].
From then on, the whole universe of cultivation turns upside down.
Faced with a supernatural power capable of destroying heaven and earth, he pushes up his glasses.
“Hold on. The spiritual energy algorithm for this move has an infinite loop. I'll add a try-catch exception handler.”
Boom! The power backfires, and the mighty expert spits blood and collapses on the spot.
An ancient seal that has blocked the way for ten thousand years? He casually taps out some code in the void.
“This encryption is ancient. Brute force can crack it, and reverse-engineering SHA-256 only takes three steps.”
He points out the flaws in the Immortal Emperor's cultivation technique: “The Chaos Heavenly Dao Scripture has an O(n³) complexity. I've rebuilt it with dynamic programming. Behold the Chaos Heavenly Dao Algorithm, beta version.”
The Immortal Emperor scans it with his divine sense, his Dao heart trembling, then asks in front of everyone:
“...Could this algorithm be open source?”
In an instant, the entire cultivation world is caught in a rat race:
Alchemical masters rush to convert pill refining into container deployment;
Sword cultivators stop competing over sword intent and stay up all night solving coding problems to compete for jobs in distributed sword formations. The Immortal Emperors stay up late vying to buy access to the latest test build of the Heavenly Dao.
While the other descenders are still fighting for their lives and selling their treasures for data points,
Chen Mo quietly updates Introduction to Cultivation Algorithms: From Beginner to Expert, Immortal Emperor-Tested Edition.
