With Tie Shan carrying the twenty-one-ton star-iron totem on his shoulder like an ordinary timber log, the two men returned to the central platform of the Nine Springs round hall.
Lin Tao approached the white green jade stone stand at the center of the star-white-gold deck.
The royal execution decree had been stopped, the mortal lineages masked, and the old family soul-hoard purged. But Lin Tao was an engineer who understood that winning a battle against a defective system meant nothing if you left the master office privileges intact for the next tyrant to seize.
He stepped up to the test end-post, seating his star-white-gold land-mapper metal pen back into the six-sided receptor socket.
In distributed systems governance, Lin Tao analyzed, his left eye flashing with cascades of office assembly code, if you don’t explicitly revoke root privileges, the system defaults to legacy ownership upon the next reboot. To guarantee that the sky court can never issue another purge decree, I must execute a permanent permission revocation across Ring-0.
Lin Tao began by targeting the master royal credential: ROOT_USER: JADE_CONSISTORY.
With three clean, deliberate instructions, he cut the coded certificates that granted the Emperor of Heaven write-access to the Nine Springs Core. He then navigated to the system’s global permission matrix, altering the registry’s running mode from IMPERIAL_PROPRIETARY to PUBLIC_COMMONS.
