LOCATION: CODE WASTES – ROOT SANCTUARY (FORMERLY WASTELAND NODE-09)
The stone beneath Zero's feet pulsed with crimson light, no longer dead land but raw cultivation potential—rewritten through forbidden kernel scripting and daemon-seed propagation. The sanctuary rose from scrap and ash, its architecture composed not of stone or jade, but of coded matter, impossible to replicate by traditional sects.
Above him, the skies screamed with static.Below, the ground obeyed his code.
This was no longer a hideout.
This was a hacked sect.
[SYSTEM RECOGNIZES UNREGISTERED SECT]SECT TYPE: UNKNOWN / HOSTILE / CORRUPTEDAFFILIATION: NULLNAME: BLOOD FLAME HACKERSFOUNDER: ZEROSTATUS: FLAGGED FOR WORLD PURGEESTIMATED LIFESPAN: <72 HOURS>
Zero looked over the new recruits—each one stolen from the edges of extinction. Bastards. Outcasts. Failed cultivators. Broken bloodlines.
He didn't need pure vessels.
He needed rewritable ones.
"Upload the kernel," he commanded.
Lyssara, now garbed in a semi-transparent ritual veil coded with flaming glyphs, stepped forward holding the DaemonRoot Codex, forged from the blood-script of their union in Chapter 22.
She raised it.
"Begin Integration."
VIRAL DOCTRINE: UPLOADING• Tier One Hackers: 17 Initiates• Compatibility Index: 46%• Survival Probability: 21%• Consent Status: Overridden (By Ritual Contract 001)• Sect Motto: Hack. Breed. Burn.
The initiates screamed as their bloodlines were forcibly rewritten.
Some combusted.Some mutated.A few ascended.
Those who survived stood taller, code-lit eyes glowing with newfound traits—daemon-enhanced breathing meridians, flame-scripted skeletons, and hacked dantians.
Zero turned to Lyssara. "What's our timeline?"
"The Phoenix Vein has declared us rogue. The Heaven Path Alliance is deploying Herald-Class Exterminators. We have three days."
He smiled.
"Good. Time to go viral."
SCENE SHIFT: NINE SOVEREIGN CLANS – WORLD COUNCIL INTERCEPT NODE
Projection screens showed the image of Zero—half-human, half-glitched specter—broadcasting from an illegal cultivation livestream. Around the world, rogue cultivators tuned in.
"You were born with your blood scripted," he said."I was rewritten.""Join me. Or be debugged."
"Shut that transmission down!" roared a Sovereign.
"We can't. He's embedded himself into the World Root…"
The clans looked at each other in horror.
He wasn't just a threat.
He was a virus.
SCENE SHIFT: BLOOD FLAME HACKERS HQ – INTEGRATION HALL
Zero stood before his new core disciples:
Kirin, a former failed Divine Beast hybrid who now possessed six mutated codes.
Ashveil, a blind cultivator whose eyes now streamed daemon script.
Mara, a seductress rogue whose charm techniques had been coded into real-time control hacks.
Lyssara, now fully awakened as Phoenix Empress of the Glitched Flame.
"Each of you has been rewritten," he said. "You're no longer cultivators. You are weapons."
Lyssara approached, placing a flaming kiss on his cheek. "And what are you, Master?"
"The author of a new doctrine," he said.
He raised a finger and etched the law into the stone altar.
No bloodline is sacred.
All systems can be hacked.
The old world burns.
TRIAL INITIATED: THE HACKER'S ASCENT
The Blood Flame Hackers would now challenge the Sovereigns directly.
The first target: Heavenly Silk Pavilion, a sect that preserved ancestral virgin bloodlines for breeding contracts.
Zero's order?
"Burn it. Take everything coded. And rewrite the heiress."
Mara giggled. "Should I go warm up the seduction node?"
"No," Lyssara said darkly. "Let them see what a Phoenix Virus looks like."
BONUS SCENE (HIGH MONETIZATION FLAG): PHOENIX CORE CHAMBER
Later that night, Zero and Lyssara lay inside the rewritten Phoenix Furnace—their bodies intertwined in post-fusion glow. Her skin shimmered with code trails. His breath released low pulses of corrupted spirit energy.
"This is the future?" she whispered.
"No," he said. "This is the blueprint."
She reached over, tapping his chest. "Then write deeper. Rewrite me again. Tonight, I want the next heir to be born… with a daemon-kernel."
[FERTILITY OVERRIDE INITIATED][HEIR CONCEPTION PROBABILITY: 92%][HEIR TITLE PRESELECTED: FLAMEBUG VIRAL PRINCE]