Soft Palms, Shattered Steel

Once the most feared Demonic Sect Master in the martial world, Zong Qiyuan died a tyrant. Reborn millennia later in the Neo-Pangu Concord, he vows to change his ways and live with unwavering kindness. But this futuristic society is ruled by genetic modifications, and his new body is deemed a 'Somatic Defect.' During a televised assembly, Qiyuan is publicly humiliated, stripped of his citizen rights, and secretly injected with a tracker that will dissolve his DNA in exactly three hundred days - a hidden death sentence handed to all outcasts. Driven by a cold, calculating desire to dismantle this corrupt regime while protecting the downtrodden, Qiyuan enters the Star Network's virtual mecha arenas. When a corrupt noble fires a heavy plasma cannon at his junk-tier mecha, Qiyuan doesn't dodge. Instead, he applies his forbidden internal Qi to his rusted machine, executing a flawless Tai Chi movement to deflect the scorching plasma bare-handed, shocking the entire galaxy. With a ticking clock in his veins and an oppressive government hunting him, can a reformed demon use primitive martial arts to bring down an interstellar empire without losing his newfound soul?