In the thick darkness, beads of fine sweat appeared on Lin Mo's forehead. The deep mining cave reverberated with the hum of the spirit stone mining machine, and the bouncing hash values on the display turned his pupils a ghostly green.

This was his third month guarding the Ethereum mining vein. The spirit stone crystals embedded in the rock wall flickered like the breath of some ancient giant beast. Suddenly, the mining machine emitted a sharp alarm, and the computing power curve shook wildly on the screen.

"Abnormal fork detected in block six hundred thirty-seven!" A cry of alarm came from behind him, belonging to his junior sister Su Li. The black iron hairpin she had woven into her black hair glowed blue, a magical tool containing a light node wallet.

Lin Mo formed a hand seal to evoke his consciousness, which slipped along the optical cable into the data torrent. In the virtual space composed of countless hexadecimal runes, he saw thirty-six scarlet chains tearing apart the block structure. Each chain bore the same totem—a bronze compass encircling quantum cloud patterns.

"The quantum restrictions of the Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion..." Lin Mo's primordial spirit swayed in the data storm. Those chains were modifying the transaction records, and the originally transparent ledger was shrouded in blood mist. He bit his tongue, and his essence transformed into nine keys injected into the mining machine, as the ancient SHA-256 algorithm surged through his veins.

The spirit stones on the rock wall suddenly erupted with blinding light. In Su Li's gradually widening pupils, Lin Mo's physical body began to digitize, with dense Merkel tree patterns appearing on the surface of his skin. The ancient mechanical roar echoed from deep within the mining cave, as a stone tablet engraved with elliptical curve cryptography burst forth from the ground.

"Genesis block..." Lin Mo trembled as he touched the inscription. When his fingertip made contact with the BIP-39 mnemonic inscription, the entire mining vein suddenly shook violently. Twelve bronze mining golems emerged from the void, their chests embedded with GPUs spitting out lightning.

Su Li's jade tablet suddenly flashed wildly, projecting a hologram into the air. The blood-soaked elder of the Bitcoin Sword Sect stood amidst the collapse of the computing power pool behind him. "The Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion has activated quantum hegemony... all proof of work... are..."

Before the words fell, three chains entwined with quantum sparks pierced through the projection. Lin Mo looked at his gradually transparent hands, and the block countdown on the mining machine's display was accelerating. In the last thirty seconds, he remembered his master's prophecy written into the blockchain with a burning primordial spirit before passing away—when quantum clouds obscure the starry sky, those who master zero-knowledge proofs will be reborn in the lightning network.

Suddenly, the smart contract on the stone tablet was automatically triggered. In Lin Mo's pupils, thousands of golden contractual chains intertwined to form a vast decentralized network, and he saw Satoshi Nakamoto's phantom smiling while playing with flowers amidst the Byzantine generals' problem...