The Rootless One, Rejected by the Five Elements

The essence of cultivation is actually connecting to an ancient high-dimensional local area network. Spiritual roots are the broadband, techniques are the code, and so-called 'ascension' is merely the forced harvesting of mature data packets by the mainframe. Modern scholar Shen Xingheng, carrying a bronze fragment, accidentally falls into the highest talent selection exam of the cultivation world. Here, the Five Elements Mirror used to test talent cracks because of him, and the artifact that reveals true forms crashes due to him. In this immortal world that classifies people into hierarchies and strict rules, he becomes the only system bug—'No registered origin, cannot be archived.' He is demoted to the lowest sweeping menial, but using modern engineering logic, he discovers that this 'Heavenly Orderly' cultivation network has long been implanted with a fatal virus backdoor. The lofty gods are becoming puppets, and the mortal masses are used as system fuel. Facing pursuit from countless gods and buddhas, the powerless Shen Xingheng calmly pulls out insulators, short-circuit arrays, and the laws of physics. 'Your spells are indeed strong, but sorry, I am an insulator.' Since the Five Elements reject me, I will unplug the network cable of the Heavenly Dao and restore balance to heaven and earth.