The World of Yuanxu

In 2035, Earth's environmental collapse plunges it into the “End Times.” The genius programmer Lin Xiaoman accidentally cracks a mysterious code hidden in a family heirloom USB drive, awakens the ancient Fuxi inheritance known as the “Eye of Void Insight,” and is swept into a war among the Three Realms, spanning reality, mythology, and the metaverse. In the virtual world known as “Origin Ruins,” Lin Xiaoman forms a special task force with Su Jiu'er, a nine-tailed fox auctioneer; Meng Jiang, an architect of Origin Ruins and the reincarnation of Meng Po; and Bai Susu, a medical AI descended from the White Snake. They race across a digitized Road to the Underworld in a bronze chariot powered by an Yinglong engine, fighting their way from the cybernetic Southern Heavenly Gate to a mechanical Bridge of Helplessness. They reenact the Investiture of the Gods amid quantum entanglement, from the mechanical Mount Buzhou to the antimatter Guanghan Palace. Armed with nano-weapons from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, they battle the Shiva Protocol. As string theory collides with the Book of Changes, they uncover a brocade prophecy from Shu hidden in the twins' genes: every wedding in every cycle of reincarnation is, in truth, a creation ritual capable of rewriting the universe's heat death.