Programmer's Journey to Immortality: from Entry to Burial

In 2026, Wu Yun was laid off. He is that kind of "outdated" programmer - when his peers are using AI to generate code, he is still writing the bottom layer by hand, reverse-engineering, and debugging line by line. The reason given by the company for his resignation was: "There is no problem with his technical ability, but the company's direction is to give priority to AI." Returning to the rental house, I carried 8 years of GitHub submission records, an orange cat named Bug, and a monthly mortgage of 4,800. Then the bug started staring out the window and growling. Then there was unexplainable static in the air. Then he saw something that others could not see in the "Record of Nourishing Qi and Preserving the Gods" left by his great-grandfather - the meridian diagram is not metaphysics, but a data flow; the cultivation formula is not a spell, but a process control; the so-called "Tiandao" is just a set of legacy systems that have not been reverse-engineered. Others rely on spiritual roots to achieve immortality, while he relies on code review to achieve immortality. Others rely on epiphany to achieve breakthroughs, while others rely on system reconstruction to achieve breakthroughs. Others rely on carrying it hard, but he relies on - "There is something wrong with the triggering logic of this calamity, let me debug it." Waste spiritual roots? Fine. The efficiency is low and the optimization algorithm is low, the spiritual energy is thin and the concentration peak is looked for, and the skills are bloated and the code is cleaned up. In this era of spiritual revival, while traditional immortal cultivators are still groping based on intuition and talent, Wu Yun has turned immortal cultivation into an engineering discipline. When the immortal cultivating families noticed this "wasted spiritual root", they thought they were evaluating a prey. They don't know - in this person's mind, the entire system of cultivating immortals has been broken down into modules, the architecture diagram has been drawn, and a reconstruction plan is under construction.