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In the era of “New Shenzhou,” ancient cultivation sects are crumbling— crushed beneath the iron grip of high-tech Cyber-Sects.

Ling Chen, a disciple of the fading Shi Yun Sect, watches helplessly as his fellow disciples and father are slaughtered, humiliated and destroyed by the very powers that now dominate the world.

On the brink of death, his dormant cultivation technique, the mysterious “Hidden Merit (不显功),” awakens— and draws the attention of a divine ancestor: the Primordial God of Time himself.

Chosen as the perfect vessel, Ling Chen is reborn, reforged with divine purpose— no longer the same boy who fell.

Now, with one foot in ancient cultivation and the other in cybernetic destiny, he sets out to carve a path of blood and retribution, to bring balance back to a world where spiritual roots and machines collide.

The old world didn’t die—it’s about to reboot. And Ling Chen? He’s the fatal update.

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