A Story

Zhao Cheng's brain had connected to the network. Three seconds later, he obtained the highest authority over the entire online world and became its supreme ruler.

And not just within the network. Even in the real world of the simulation, he could burn out anyone's brain.

The instant Zhao Cheng obtained supreme authority, the four Opening Heaven and Establishing the Way beings immediately sensed it and tried to seize the authority back.

The so-called supreme authority Zhao Cheng possessed was actually an additional layer superimposed upon the authority they already controlled.

For the moment, Zhao Cheng ignored the four of them. With a single thread running, he directly tossed all four into solitary confinement.

Afterward, Zhao Cheng downloaded the recorded history of this world directly from the network and sorted through it.

In the 180s, the Final War erupted. The Human Emperor won a narrow victory, and the three major corporations retreated to the far side of the world. Most corporate people were swept along with them. The Human Emperor established the Human Path Federation, and a long war of attrition began.

In the 220s, the Opening Heaven and Establishing the Way beings of the three major corporations further lost themselves, their humanity utterly extinguished. Believing the body to be an obstacle to life's evolution, they slaughtered all their employees, canned their brains, and sought to create an unprecedented virtual world, refining the false into reality.

In the 240s, another twenty years of war passed. The front lines stretched ever farther, and the day it would end remained distant beyond sight...

This day was undoubtedly the darkest hour for the four Opening Heaven and Establishing the Way beings. For no apparent reason, they had been suppressed in the very domain they excelled at most. This was no longer a