Legend of Numbers

Legend of Numbers is a long web novel by Shangxian Menghun. It constructs a highly data-driven future world: the advance of dataization gives rise to surging high energy and high technology, and humanity, following desire and conquest, pushes outward beyond its home planet, establishing regimes and dividing spheres of influence across the starry sky, and from this unfolds countless conflicts. The protagonist, Su Chen, is a youth. His most important means in combat is a skill called the "numerical equation": data and power are condensed into equations in the void, and the equations form nets, gather into fists, or become sword energy, with attack and defense decided in a single thought. From the fragments visible in available material, when Su Chen confronts the opponent Meng Yong he lays a net woven of numerical equations in the air, the net gathering into a fist that hammers at the enemy; the opponent likewise condenses data into several more solid fist forms for heavy blows, and the two contend with the power of data. Within such a system the youths repeatedly temper their control of data power through actual combat, gradually moving from unknown figures toward a higher stage. The work fuses hot-blooded battle in the manner of iron horses and golden halberds with grand starry imagination in the manner of a sinking galaxy, offering both sharp duels like cold steel meeting and a fantasy feel built from data, energy, and technology. The title Legend of Numbers points to the book's central image: numbers are not merely a calculating tool but a power that can be cultivated and contested, and the legend written around this power forms the backbone of the whole work.