The uncompiled source instructions of the Grand Dao flowed through Lin Tao’s mind like an endless river of molten glass.
With the star-white-gold needle anchored into the main test bus, Lin Tao engaged the disassembly subroutine of his transmigrated SRE mind. In his last life on Earth, he had reverse-engineered legacy telecommunication mainframes, decompiling cryptic machine binaries that had run continuously without documentation since the nineteen-seventies.
This world-size running system was no different. It was simply older, larger, and far more decayed.
The Precursor stonework—chosen as Archon Engine v.9.4.1—was written in a dense, highly optimized runic assembly language. Every basic operation was anchored to deepest heat-powered states: heat exchange, gravity squeezing, magnetic power-coil, and atom-deep crystal-forming.
In software archaeology, Lin Tao analyzed, his pupils dilating as the disassembled logic mapped into his brain cortex, when you strip away the ritual comments and superstitious annotations added by later ages of ignorant maintainers, the underlying stonework always reveals its original design.
The original design of this world was breathtakingly utilitarian.
The continent was not a cradle of spiritual enlightenment designed to foster immortal gods. It was a massive breakdown-harvesting bioreactor. The sky spiritual energy—what fighters called “Heaven and Earth Qi”—was simply a catalytic carrier fluid used to refine heavy elements and regulate world-size surface heat levels.
