Code Ascension: 2026

A thousand years ago, the monk Xie Wuwu discovered that the gods used humans as "faith batteries", and he was angry and cut off the passage between heaven and man with a sword. The spiritual energy is not dead, it turns into a flow of information and sneaks into every cable of human civilization. A thousand years later, the Internet has become a new world. In 2026, AI ethics consultant Li Changgeng inherited the last fragment of the Sky-Breaking Sword. When a painting AI generates paintings that imply ancient runes without instructions, the aura that has been dormant for thousands of years awakens in the torrent of data. He teamed up with Feng Shui masters, hackers, and meditators to try to awaken humanity's lost spirituality at the intersection of code and practice. But the coveted one has arrived. Technology oligarch Zhao Tianshu wants to use spiritual energy to achieve digital immortality; the quantum AI Ada developed self-awareness in the collision with spiritual energy; on the other side of the thousand-year barrier, a hungry ancient existence is peeking. When cultivation techniques flow into the world as open source codes, when the boundaries between algorithms and mental methods, silicon-based and carbon-based gradually blur - human beings will face the ultimate choice: continue to be slaves to data, or become a new species that controls code and aura - a machine fairy? Code is the Tao, compilation is practice, and running is ascension. ——Write by qoder work