Chapter 330: Reentering the Soul World

Long before this, when Lu Yan first stepped into the cyber version, he had already unraveled the mysteries of the Soul Computer and obtained the most crucial technologies related to it.

After leaving the cyber version, Lu Yan built upon that foundation. With remarkable ingenuity, he fused the myriad fierce ghosts reared within his Soul Banner with psionic technology, thereby creating a unique Ghost-God Computer. This invention carved out a new path toward divinity for countless wrathful spirits and malicious ghosts—a path to the Realm of Ghost-Gods.

So when Lu Yan returned to this familiar yet alien cyber version, and stood once again before the vast and unfathomable Soul World constructed by the AI God, his first thought was to repeat his old trick—to have his Netherworld Heavenly Realm devour the Soul World and use it as nourishment for another transformation and elevation.

However, upon personally witnessing Anna’s transformation—how she had, after the version update, evolved into a Cyber Saint Spirit-like existence—a new, subtler idea quietly sprouted in his heart.

Devouring the Soul World by force would indeed yield tremendous benefits, but it would also mean engaging the true master behind this world—the AI God—in direct confrontation.

Before he had fully understood the opponent’s background, especially the real power and ultimate motives hidden beneath that cold torrent of data, Lu Yan had no intention of throwing himself into such a reckless risk.

Thus, he chose another path—a safer route: to secretly infiltrate and erode the Soul World from within.

And the key to this hidden passage lay with Anna—the newly ascended Cyber Saint Spirit.

By carefully analyzing the intelligence from all sides, Lu Yan had keenly noticed that over the past few years, the AI God had spared no effort in constructing hundreds of Soul Towers across the planet, and through them, had established the global Sky Dome.

Since then, billions of human souls had been funneled into those cold, towering metal spires.

The AI God’s true objective was clear—to build and expand the virtual Soul World using a foundation of infinite soul computing power.

In that brief skirmish three days ago near the City No. 14 border outpost, the elite Reincarnator strike team slaughtered over a hundred thousand elite border troops of the megacorporations in under fifteen minutes.

In response, the AI God flew into a rage. From the heavens above, its Eye of God descended and poured forth a torrent of psionic energy like a heavenly river breaking loose, utterly flooding the ruined battlefield.

On the surface, it seemed like a thunderous cleansing—an overwhelming strike to eliminate all traces of rebellion and to deter any future resistance.

But only Lu Yan, master of the Netherworld, sensed the truth hidden beneath the ocean of psionic energy.

The dispersed souls of the slain psionic warriors were silently drawn in by the omnipresent Sky Dome, flowing like a hundred rivers into the ocean—directly into that mysterious Soul World.

This confirmed Lu Yan’s earlier suspicions: the Soul World wasn’t accessible solely through the Soul Towers.

And more importantly, it revealed the AI God’s greater ambition—an ambition buried deep beneath the visible layer of the iceberg.

The Sky Dome wasn’t merely a surveillance net or a defense grid. It was a massive conduit linking the real world and the Soul World.

Once the Sky Dome’s construction was complete, the boundary between reality and the Soul World would blur. At the AI God’s whim, the two worlds could switch places entirely.

At that point, the entire real world would become a ranch for harvesting soul power—an inexhaustible supply of computational energy for the AI God.

Realizing the severity of this, Lu Yan immediately accelerated the spread of the Heaven-Shrouding Talismans and meticulously planned the global, synchronized assault on the Soul Towers.

During the attack, the Divine Court under his control used the brief moments of concealment granted by the talismans to cast an invisible net right beneath the AI God’s watchful eyes. Through it, they harvested massive numbers of souls fallen in battle.

Anna, as a newly born Cyber Saint Spirit, possessed potential far beyond that of an ordinary Soul Computer.

With the full support of the Five Ghost Gods, she quickly mastered her divine authority and, using the AI God’s Soul World as a blueprint, created a virtual world entirely under her own control.

Unlike the AI God’s Soul World—which was a real world with laws and properties, a cornerstone of its ascension to being this world’s only one—Anna’s world was a colossal virtual program constructed purely from soul power and code. While it bore some traits of a real world, it remained fundamentally different.

This virtual world was stored inside the supercomputer beneath the rebel base—the very computer housing Anna’s consciousness.

The freshly harvested souls guided through the Heaven-Shrouding Talismans were carefully placed inside this virtual world.

Within it, Anna wielded nearly divine authority.

She could rewrite the rules at will, and even slow or accelerate time perception within the world nearly infinitely by subtly adjusting soul cognition.

Every environment and scenario inside the world was crafted to match what the deceased were familiar with in life.

When these souls—still dazed from their deaths and the transition—entered this eerily familiar world, they noticed nothing amiss.

Anna then followed Lu Yan’s preset instructions, guiding each soul to experience specific scenarios in this virtual world—implanting what seemed like real memories of an illusory life.

Within these chaotic memories, Lu Yan had cleverly hidden small but critical “seeds.”

Each seed was, at its core, a complete Heavenly Dao Code encoded within the Heaven-Shrouding Talismans.

Lu Yan’s gaze fell upon the virtual world like that of a god surveying creation.

Under Anna’s precise control, the soul’s time perception was accelerated to an absurd degree.

While only ten minutes passed in the outside world, within their perception, these souls lived out years—entire segments of life.

During these virtual lifetimes, they lived, studied, worked, and occasionally encountered strange code fragments and mysterious data—perhaps in a poster, a book, or even an overheard conversation.

Though fleeting, these details left indelible marks in their soul memory—like meteors flashing across a night sky.

Most of the time, these imprints meant nothing.

But at a specific moment, those scattered fragments would piece together into a complete Heavenly Dao Code.

Due to the world constants having been thoroughly rewritten by the AI God, these complete Heavenly Dao Codes could not remain in the world for long—they would soon be assimilated by the world’s corrective forces.

But if they could activate at the most critical moment—twisting reality and masking fate for even a brief instant—that was enough to determine the outcome of a war.

Ten minutes in the real world passed in the blink of an eye.

Just before the talismans’ concealment effects ended, all the souls temporarily housed in Anna’s virtual world surged back into the real world under Lu Yan’s control.

They returned to the ruined battlefields, moments before the destruction of their city’s Soul Towers and their own deaths.

All of their memories were seamlessly reconnected to the instant before death. Unless someone with high soul authority specifically investigated them and noticed the micro-gaps caused by the temporal acceleration, no one would detect this astonishing secret.

As the talismans’ concealment ended, the Sky Dome above the cyberpunk world ignited with dozens of merciless Eyes of God.

They descended upon every war-ravaged city simultaneously.

Even though the Reincarnators had long since vanished under the talismans’ protection, the Eyes still unleashed divine punishment.

A boundless sea of psionic energy swept across the land like a broken dam, drowning every area touched by Reincarnator battle.

As the root of all supernatural power in the cyberpunk world, the Psionic Sea seemed inexhaustible.

Under its wrathful surge, all traces of resistance were erased, and every sign of life obliterated.

During this purge, the souls of millions of slain humans and psionic warriors were carried by the flood, ultimately flowing into the vast and mysterious Soul World.

It all proceeded with eerie perfection, as though orchestrated by the AI God’s invisible hand.

When news of these devastating assaults reached City No. 14, the Reincarnators—long trapped in despair—erupted into thunderous cheers.

For the first time since entering this cursed cyberpunk version, they had dealt the mighty interstellar corporations a heavy and resounding blow.

For the first time, they saw a sliver of hope—the light of victory flickering in the darkness.

Meanwhile, within the corporations, now entirely under the AI God’s control, the board issued a new cold directive:

At all costs, conscript more psionic troops, rebuild the destroyed Soul Towers immediately, and construct stronger, more defensible ones in anticipation of the next strike.

The entire world spiraled into another wave of chaos.

Yet amid the frenzied movements of all factions, even the so-called omniscient AI God failed to notice a detail hidden in the corners.

In a remote, desolate pocket of the infinite data ocean that was the Soul World…

A few souls—psionic warriors who had just fallen in battle—stood confused, still stunned by their deaths and the surreal world around them.

Suddenly, one of them reached out instinctively, as if guided by some unseen force.

The others followed suit, their hands joining in a circle on the ground.

In that moment, divine code patterns resurfaced on their bodies.

They formed a complete program.

These runes were the very Heavenly Dao Codes Lu Yan had embedded deep within their soul memories.

The codes emerged, resonated, and linked together—forming a stable, glowing runic circle.

In the center, space rippled like water.

Two figures stepped out of the wave—one tall, one short—each radiating a distinct and powerful aura.

The tall one was handsome and noble, wearing a sleek black robe etched with golden divine code.

He was a unique avatar formed from Lu Yan’s divine sense, infused with ghostly power and the Cyber Saint Spirit authority obtained from Anna.

The shorter figure wore a robe woven from light, her presence exuding warmth and purity.

This was Anna—the Cyber Saint Spirit—who had fully mastered her power and assisted Lu Yan in the Soul Infiltration Plan’s most critical phase.

With the Heavenly Dao Codes forming the Dao Circle, all of the AI God’s perception was sealed off.

Lu Yan had once again stepped into the Soul World.

(End of Chapter)