To ascend is the ultimate dream of every cultivator—a way to transcend the cycle of life and death, to break free from the chains of fate. But what if "ascension" was nothing more than a login attempt to a corrupted divine system, riddled with bugs, rejections, and memory wipes?

  Li Qingya, code TX-1086, has failed 37 times. Each failure a forced reboot. Each so-called reincarnation, a data purge. But this time… something went wrong. And that means something finally went right.

  This is a world of daoist immortals and flying swords, yes—but beneath the surface lies a network of forgotten protocols, recursive algorithms, and divine machine logic. Gods are server clusters. Merit is harvested computational power. Belief? Just a tax on your mind. Rebirth? System garbage collection. Ascension? An exploit waiting to happen.

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  The truth lies beyond the cultivation manuals and celestial myths. It hides in a shattered fragment of a data shell, in a forbidden recursion glyph, in a forgotten line of pre-apocalypse code.

  He is not a chosen hero. Not a savior.

  He's just a failed login attempt… that’s finally waking up.

  Ascension failed? Fine. This time, I’m rebooting the system from the inside.