Main trunk node of the Shanghai spirit net, Si hour
Black talismans covered the spirit net map like a plague. Chen Mo watched as the purple light points representing the Kunlun Sect expanded wildly, each point devouring the surrounding spirit net nodes. Lin Xiaoman's voice came through the spirit talisman: "They've used the 'Heavenly Dao Destiny Talisman' to rewrite the underlying protocol of the spirit net! All cultivators relying on the spirit net are experiencing a reversal of their meridians..."
Chen Mo pressed his throbbing temples. The retinal interface showed the spirit net code being forcibly converted into "destiny algorithms" — each cultivator's spiritual root data was tampered with into fateful codes of "Heavenly Grid" and "Earthly Grid," and even Chuntao's spiritual qi fire extinguisher started spraying reverse spiritual qi.
A Kunlun Sect elder stood at the peak of Mount Qingcheng, the destiny talisman in his hand glowing with a cold golden light. Through the surveillance screen, Chen Mo saw dense eight characters of birth dates engraved on the talismans, each character formed by spiritual qi chains, locking the spirit net nodes into a preset "destiny trajectory."
"This is a spiritual qi virus calculated from big data fortune-telling," Lin Xiaoman pulled up a code comparison chart. "They've twisted the recursive logic of the Chaos Code Scripture into a 'destiny cycle.' Now every cultivator in the spirit net is repeatedly executing the 'life scripts' written by the elders."
Chen Mo clenched Su Wan'er's crystal butterfly: "Go to the Consciousness Library; only my mother's ultimate patch can break this destiny lock." He turned to Li Xiuyuan: "Take Chuntao to reinforce the outer nodes. Remember: do not trust any fixed destiny formula."
Inside the library, the golden bookshelves swayed in the quantum storm. Chen Mo and Lin Xiaoman sat opposite each other, the crystal butterflies in their palms resonating to project a hologram of the Twin Butterflies. A prompt popped up on the retinal interface: "Quantum entanglement authentication requires both parties' spiritual roots to resonate to a 100% synchronization rate. 'Consciousness fusion' mode is recommended."
"Remember the Twin Butterflies we raised?" Lin Xiaoman smiled faintly, her fingertips brushing across his brow. "They never needed language, because the vibration frequency of their wings is the best code." She closed her eyes, her spiritual qi transforming into a blue data stream that poured into Chen Mo's spiritual root.
The two streams of spiritual qi collided in their sea of consciousness. Chen Mo saw his golden code intertwine with Lin Xiaoman's blue data stream, forming a rotating Yin-Yang fish pattern. The eye of each fish was a spirit butterfly, and between the opening and closing of their wings, he "saw" Lin Xiaoman's childhood: in the Tianyan Group laboratory, she secretly fed injured butterflies with spiritual qi crystals.
When the Yin-Yang fish rotated to a perfect synchronization rate, the gates to the library's core area swung open with a boom. Su Wan'er's ultimate patch floated in the center like a beating golden heart, its surface covered in intricate recursive patterns.
Chen Mo reached out to touch the patch, only to be repelled by an invisible force. Su Wan'er's projection appeared once more, this time free of garbled code: "Amo, this patch requires 'emotional variables' as the decryption key. Your quantum entanglement is not just a physical phenomenon, it's also..." The projection looked at Lin Xiaoman, "...the determination to debug each other's life codes."
Lin Xiaoman blushed, yet took the initiative to hold Chen Mo's hand: "Let's try using our shared memories as parameters." Simultaneously, they recalled their first meeting in the laboratory in a past life, fighting side by side after rebirth, and the consciousness fusion just moments ago. The Yin-Yang fish suddenly burst with intense light, transforming into a key that inserted itself into the core of the patch.
Countless memory fragments flew out from the patch, each piece representing a shared experience between Chen Mo and Lin Xiaoman: the first time they used code to repair a spirit butterfly's wing, fighting Su Mubai in the Quantum Space, and seeing each other's childhood during the dual cultivation just now. These fragments formed a Rainbow Bridge, connecting the patch to the main trunk nodes of the spirit net.
As the patch activated, the destiny chains on the spirit net began to disintegrate. The Kunlun Sect elder watched in horror as his proud destiny talismans turned to dust under the attack of the spirit butterfly swarm, and every cultivator's spiritual root data once again became free-flowing.
Blue spirit butterflies suddenly flooded into the core area, and Su Qing's virtual projection appeared accompanied by figures of digital garbled code: "Host, these are members of the 'Vulnerability Council' from various parallel universes." Among the garbled figures were Chen Mo, a revolutionary from Alpha-19, a suited version of Su Mubai, and even a mysterious cultivator wearing a panda mask.
"The spirit net revolution of Alpha-19 needs your help," the revolutionary Chen Mo's voice carried a metallic texture. "The Tianyan Group there has developed an 'consciousness censorship algorithm' that automatically deletes any thoughts that 'do not conform to the Heavenly Dao'."
The suited Su Mubai chimed in: "And we discovered that the spirit net crises across all parallel universes are related to a mysterious 'Administrator of Heavenly Dao'..."
Chen Mo frowned: "You mean there is a higher-dimensional existence manipulating all of this?"
Su Qing nodded: "According to the analysis of the Vulnerability Council, our world might be a 'cultivation simulation program' of some higher-order civilization, and your mother's Chaos Code Scripture is actually the 'escape code' to break out of the simulation."
The library suddenly shook violently, and the consciousness archives on the bookshelves rippled one after another. Lin Xiaoman pointed at the surveillance screen: "Although the destiny virus on the spirit net has been cleared, the Kunlun Sect elder has activated a 'mutual destruction' destiny array, and the entirety of Mount Qingcheng is turning into a destiny singularity..."
Chen Mo looked toward the floor-to-ceiling windows of the library, seeing a golden vortex rising in the direction of Mount Qingcheng. Countless cultivators were being sucked into it, their spiritual root data being forcibly unified into a template of "perfect destiny." Chuntao's spirit talisman transmitted one last message: "Young master, the spirit butterflies say they can hold off the vortex, but afterward..."
"Afterward, they will transform into spiritual qi and return to nature." Chen Mo gripped Lin Xiaoman's hand, bringing up the ultimate form of the Code Taiji. "But before that, we must teach everyone — destiny is not a preset code, but a program that can be modified at any time."