Prologue

Prologue: The Death of a Hacker, the Birth of a God

The neon skyline of Neo-Tokyo pulsed with artificial life, a city built on circuits and deception. Rain drizzled from the smog-filled sky, streaking down the massive holographic billboards that displayed the faces of corporate overlords, their eyes cold and all-seeing.

In the shadows of an abandoned alley, Erevan Kane ran for his life.

His breath came in sharp gasps, his cybernetic implants flickering from overuse. The Genesis Corporation, the most powerful tech conglomerate on Earth, had marked him for death. His crime? Cracking the Quantum Veil, a classified AI project that held the secret to digital immortality.

A single second. That's all he needed. Just one more second to bypass their firewall, to rip open the vault of forbidden knowledge.

But he never got the chance.

A sniper's bullet tore through his skull. System error. Life functions failing. Neural core shutting down.

Erevan's vision blurred. The world collapsed into darkness.

And then… he woke up.

Somewhere beyond time and space…

The sky was no longer neon but a swirling void of cosmic data streams, flowing like rivers of molten gold. Floating palaces made of spirit-infused metal hovered in the distance, held aloft by an invisible force. Towering figures, half-human, half-machine, meditated on massive quantum pillars, their bodies radiating an aura of pure energy.

Erevan wasn't in Neo-Tokyo anymore.

A voice, ancient and artificial, resonated in his mind.

"Welcome to Eterna Nexus, lost soul. You have been chosen as a vessel for the Quantum Dao. Adapt… or be deleted."

His body was no longer flesh. His arms shimmered with nanite threads, his veins pulsed with living energy circuits, and his mind… his mind was no longer bound by human limits.

A screen flashed before his eyes.

[Quantum Dao System Activated.]

Initializing host…

Scanning potential…

Calculating… ERROR. ERROR. Host is rewriting system permissions…

WARNING! UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS DETECTED.

Erevan smirked. He was a hacker. Breaking rules was what he did best.

As knowledge of cyber-cultivation techniques, Qi algorithms, and forbidden Dao constructs flooded into his mind, he realized one thing:

He hadn't just escaped death.

He had ascended.

And this world… this new reality… was his to rewrite.

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