In Neo-Xi’an, Qi is sold by the watt—and I just stole mine.
Born in the slums beneath flickering holograms, Lin Wei is a nobody—until a botched energy theft awakens his forbidden gift: his body turns electricity into Qi. Now, with cybernetic enforcers hunting him and underground sects offering shady deals, he must master the art of wire-fu cultivation before his own power fries him alive.
But the megacorps didn’t rise by playing fair. To survive, Lin will need:
A hacker nun with a vendetta
A jailbroken cultivation chip burning through his sanity
And enough stolen Spirit-Volt to black out a city block
Warning: Contains illegal Daoist techniques, corporate espionage, and one very angry neon dragon.