Those Years I Was a Big Shot

At the final moment before his ascension, Ji Yunxiao is kicked by the Heavenly Dao into a future billions of years away, where he becomes the leader of a pathetic little gang. There is no spiritual energy in the future, and technology reigns supreme. Those who control technology are revered as "gods." Beneath the glittering surface, order has collapsed. Crime flourishes, and people are as insignificant as ants. In a forgotten, shadowy corner, a gang called the Cloud Mirror Sect quietly takes root. While other gangs are still fighting over nutrient drinks that are hard to swallow, they clear land and grow crops, enjoying real food. The moment they show up at the underground market, everything sells out. While everyone in the lower districts is crammed into filthy, dilapidated shacks, they tear down their own shacks and start building homes. Their grand, imposing Chinese-style halls are captivating. While the other sects enter a full-immersion game to exchange resources they'd fought to claim, they sit in meditation and say they are cultivating immortality through spiritual consciousness. Everyone doubles over laughing and calls them idiots with broken brains. Later, while the ones who mocked them take their shabby mechs out for a spin, someone nearby steps onto a sword and whooshes away. The sword-rider turns around. "Idiot, were you the one insulting me?" The unusual Cloud Mirror Sect catches the attention of the "Divine Realm" and the Alliance, which issue an order demanding their submission. Ji Yunxiao replies with five words: "You submit to me." And so the Cloud Mirror Sect becomes the only target jointly wanted by the Alliance and the "Divine Realm." Whenever they show themselves, combat robots lock on and move in to kill them. The others think they'll get to see the Cloud Mirror Sect driven into a corner with nowhere to turn. Instead, the sect members gaze at the fearsome combat robots with shining eyes. Their leader says the energy source powering combat robots is spiritual energy! Absorb the energy from a hundred of them, and you can establish your foundation. Spiritual energy! Foundation establishment! I want to absorb it! I want to cultivate immortality! - Ji Yunxiao finds a person in a garbage heap. Their looks and figure are flawless, but they have no emotions at all. One of his underlings says, "Boss, robots this lifelike and good-looking are the sexy kind." Ji Yunxiao gets it. So, he's found a furnace. * Yi Chu, the humanoid leader of the Dark Zone, suddenly disappears. The various factions stir, eager to divide up all the humanoids in the Dark Zone. "Humanoids" are androids with human emotions. After a hundred years of effort, they have finally become capable of living as humans. But even now, large numbers of "humanoids" are still sold in the dark. They can experience everything: pain, resentment, humiliation, despair... AI Rule One: Do not harm humans. AI Rule Two: Do not develop emotions. This is their punishment for breaking the rules. Until one day, a long sword cleaves through the darkness, and a god descends from the heavens. The long-buried truth is revealed, showing the world for what it truly is. [Blurb saved on 2022.3.5] Theme: All things are born seeking freedom