In the year 217 of the New Calendar, the world of cultivation has been completely monopolized by the Tianshu Group through "Aura Digitalization". Traditional cultivation has been reduced to a consumption behavior of purchasing "computing power packs". The so-called "ascension" is nothing more than a scam in which consciousness is uploaded to the top-level server "Heaven" to become an immortal AI. Lin Du, a low-level data scavenger, was born with "incomplete spiritual roots" but was judged to be a useless person. Only he can sense the remaining emotions and memory fragments in the data flow with his rare "empathic computing power". While scavenging, he accidentally picked up a piece of encrypted memory data, which attracted the group's chief security officer Xie Wuwang to pursue him. Xie Wuwang appears to be a ruthless "sword bearer", but in fact he is the last ancient cultivator of the old era. He has a primitive Taoist heart that is regarded as a "virus" sealed in his body. Every time he uses the true method, his life is consumed.
The two were forced to be bound together as hunters and prey, and during their escape, they discovered that the "incomplete spiritual roots" were actually unformatted and complete humanity. They shuttled through criminal modules such as emotional exchanges and memory auctions, and while solving cases, they uncovered the truth about "Heaven" layer by layer. When Feisheng's lie was exposed, Xie Wuwang used Taoist heart as a guide, and Lin Du used empathy as a bridge to launch an empathy revolution at the consciousness level, allowing the cold data to regain its warmth. In the wasteland, they rebuilt the world of cultivation as "human beings", used pain and love to fight against the alienation of capital, and completed the epic transformation from individual redemption to collective awakening.
Purpose: In the era of technological monopoly and capital alienation, use empathy to fight against formatting, use human nature to deconstruct the ascension scam, adhere to the value and warmth of "people", and rebuild the spiritual home of people.