[AI Cultivation] + [Spiritual Root Loans] + [Xuanhuan] + [Livestream]
Five years ago, AI cultivation took the whole city by storm. It burned spiritual energy, not electricity.
The first-generation AI wasn't too bright. The cultivation methods it spat out made people spin around like windmills or hop backward. This was dubbed Spiritual Calculation Delirium, and the Immortal Estate banned and destroyed it across the city in a fit of rage.
Lu Huan had a useless Five Elements spiritual root and worked like a pack mule, twisting bottle caps on a spiritual medicine production line. He was still paying off his fifty-ninth installment of a spiritual fruit payment plan, and spent every day digging through the scrap heap before dawn.
One day, he unearthed a rogue AI that had escaped the destruction list. It didn't connect to the spiritual network and ran only on spiritual energy. If it wasn't fed enough, it crashed.
Others picked up cultivation methods and practiced them as written. He fed it every broken technique he could find, taking it apart and putting it back together to forge a path for his five mismatched spiritual roots. Feed it a technique, assemble a technique. He kept feeding it until it produced a living cultivation method unlike anything anyone had ever seen.
Spiritual root loans, flying swords for tips, top-ranked patrons, self-service spiritual cabinets... The cultivation world's scythes came swinging one after another, all reaping from the poor who couldn't pay their debts.
With his busted AI in hand, Lu Huan specialized in taking apart the scams. Fraudsters were exposed on live calls, and the scythes that had been used to fleece people were turned back on their owners.
Later, someone asked him where this AI had come from.
Looking at the countless cultivation methods assembled on the display, he smiled.
"The progenitor of all methods?"
"I wouldn't go that far. I only... fed it tens of thousands of methods."
