Chapters

    • Chapter 107: The AI God’s Control

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      by Diswa According to the original plan, after Klein received the scroll-reader, he would immediately go to the board member backing him. Then, the board would convene to discuss strategies to counter the AI God. However, that plan failed before it even began. Klein did find Director Prang, but he was met not with support, but death—his head cleanly severed by the very man he sought out. As one of the most powerful figures in HuanYu Corporation, Director Prang should, by nature, be diametrically opposed…
    • Chapter 106: Uprising in the Upper City

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      by Diswa City 14 — the border between the Upper City and the Middle City. Towering walls divided the Upper and Middle Districts. Heavily armed patrol units stood guard at the perimeter, their presence commanding. Residents from the Middle City occasionally glanced up at the imposing walls, eyes filled with envy. And beyond those walls… were two completely different worlds. If the Middle City already resembled a metropolis of the future, then the Upper City was a full-blown work of science…
    • Chapter 105: Soul Ascension

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      by Diswa “So… that sudden logout wasn’t some kind of safety mechanism—it was just their scheduled break for deep sleep?” Lu Yan was dumbfounded. If the average soul were capable of handling twenty-four hours of continuous work, the AI God probably wouldn’t even allow them those two hours of rest. Moreover, Lu Yan noticed something else—those two hours of deep sleep weren’t nearly enough to restore the wear and tear on a soul, even with the nutritional supplements administered via the rest…
    • Chapter 104: Heaven and Earth Are Ruthless, Treating All Things as Mere Dogs

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      by Diswa Lu Yan was utterly shaken by the truth before him. No one would have imagined that the true reason behind the AI God's relentless exploitation of souls was to create an entire Soul World. If he hadn’t seen the ongoing repairs and flaws with his own eyes, he would’ve believed this world to be entirely real. “Even if It has nearly full control over everything in the Cyber Version, when traced back to Its origins in reality, It’s still just a soul-computing machine. No matter how much it…
    • Chapter 103: Genesis!

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      by Diswa After clearly realizing that the Paradise Compute Center was the key to this tax disaster, Lu Yan began pondering how to gain access to it. According to the intel he had gathered, everything inside the Paradise Compute Center was governed by the central AI. All soul-powered laborers were confined within the Spiral Tower. These computational laborers were required to perform at least twenty-two hours of soul-intensive work each day. During this time, their physical needs were sustained through…
    • Chapter 102: Soul Lending

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      by Diswa Mike walked along the streets of the Lower District. What was once a bustling commercial street was now nothing but a ghost town. The neon signs on both sides of the road had long since gone dark, and the storefronts were filled with discarded junk and debris. Mike remembered clearly—just two months ago, even the cheapest shop on this street cost at least 8,000 credit points per month in rent. But as the conflict between the Upper and Lower Districts escalated, business on the street gradually…
    • Chapter 101: Target—Paradise Compute Center

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      by Diswa The events unfolding within the underground caves had shaken the elites of the Central and Upper Districts. Previously, there had been instances of resistance from various underground gangs, but those were brushed off. The higher-ups understood that gangsters were unruly by nature—some resistance was to be expected. What they hadn’t anticipated was that this time, it wasn’t just the gang-affiliated spirit energy users who rose up. The majority of the rebellion consisted of impoverished,…
    • Chapter 100: Do Corporate Lords Even Bleed?

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      by Diswa In Cave No. 96, two hundred law enforcement officers clad in exoskeleton armor and armed with energy weapons had taken full control of the area, sealing off every surrounding mining tunnel. At the cave’s center, several officials from the City Tax Bureau stood with terminals in hand, verifying the tax status of every single resident. “Name: Brian.Account Balance: 369 credit points.After deducting thirty years of pre-collected Energy Tax, you owe the City Tax Bureau 143,631 credit points.As per…
    • Chapter 99: It’s Time to Strike Hard!

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      by Diswa The discrepancy between the prompt on the version update interface and the events within the Cyber Version could stem from two possible causes. The first possibility was that something had gone wrong with the version update interface itself. But in Lu Yan’s opinion, that was almost impossible. The version update interface was capable of linking countless versions together. How could it possibly suffer a bug because of a single Cyber Version? The second possibility, however, felt far more…
    • Chapter 98: Thirty Years? Three Hundred Years!

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      by Diswa After killing Scott, Lu Yan left District 33 of the underground. Having obtained the Heavenly Dao Code from He Dongsheng, Lu Yan originally wanted to ask him more about Zhao Huowang—perhaps even whether he remembered anything about the Qingwu Sect. Unfortunately, time had been tight back then, and Lu Yan didn’t have a chance to ask. Later, Scott’s father intercepted them halfway through, forcing He Dongsheng to flee early. Now that the trouble was resolved, Lu Yan was eager to find He…
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