by Warm Winter Soil
In a world built on cultivation, everyone believes the path to ascension leads to immortality. They are wrong. The world is a simulation. Cultivation techniques are algorithms. Heavenly Tribulation is a cleanup protocol. Ascension is the final extraction—your soul erased, your power recycled. But one person breaks the system. When the testing stone scans him, it doesn’t show a spiritual root. It shows glitches. When Heaven tries to erase him, the system returns its first-ever error: [ERROR: Target cannot be parsed.] Born from the fusion of a fallen warlord, a cosmic AI shard, and a fragment of an alien hive queen, Ye Wusuan is not a cultivator. He is an anomaly—an unclassified lifeform the system cannot calculate. To survive, he splits himself into three avatars: - Ye Qing — cold, precise, a living supercomputer walking among geniuses. - Ye Sha — ruthless, violent, the warlord’s will sharpened into a blade. - Ye Yuan — instinctive, alien, driven by hunger and evolution. Three identities. Three lives. One mind. As the world’s “Heaven” begins to update itself to eliminate him, Ye Wusuan uncovers the truth behind ascension, the hidden data layer known as the Divine Realm, and the ancient war that created him. Every loophole he exploits is patched. Every victory forces Heaven to evolve. Every step forward brings him closer to the question that has haunted him across lifetimes: “If I had lived differently… would they still have betrayed me?” To find the answer, he will dismantle the system that controls this universe— and walk into the rift beyond it.
