Qin Yuan is the most lowly outer disciple of the Qingyun Sect. Falsely accused of stealing the sect’s most precious treasure, he kneels on the execution platform, awaiting the destruction of his spiritual root. At the moment the sentence is to be carried out, his left eye suddenly awakens. He can see the “cracks” in the world: the glowing communication jade slip hidden in the sect leader’s sleeve, the sun flickering once every three seconds, and text above cultivators’ heads that looks like data.
He sees things he was never meant to see.
This world is fake. Cultivation, ascension, and the Heavenly Dao are nothing but a selection process that has lasted for billions of years. There are seven layers of worlds and seven trials. Only those who keep questioning and breaking through can reach the truth. And the truth is this: the real world is collapsing, and Qin Yuan is the last Awakened One sent to the lower realm.
The first six all failed. Qin Yuan is the only hope.
But when he finally reaches the last layer and faces the “Creator” who made this world, the Creator tells him, “You are nothing but experimental data.”
Qin Yuan replies, “Then what about our pain and love? Are those data too?”
The Creator falls silent. For the first time in billions of years, he has no answer.
