“What you think is transmigration is nothing more than a quantum-state self-rescue experiment.”
When Ye Chen, a modern graduate student in quantum physics, is near death after a car accident, the Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio in his hand turns out to be an “operating log for the Myriad Worlds.” His soul transmigrates into the body of a good-for-nothing young master with a shattered dantian, only for him to discover:
The fortune-stealing System is actually an AI developed by his future self, and its true purpose is to stop the Myriad Worlds from collapsing due to the “observer effect”2;
He uses scientific ingenuity to outwit cultivators: blasting spirit mines with nitroglycerin, cracking sword formations with relativity, and bidding on divine weapons with the Fibonacci sequence, only to be branded an “extraterritorial demon” by the Heavenly Dao;
Cthulhu-esque mutations: With every chosen one whose fortune he steals, the curse on his dantian changes further. As tentacles emerge from his blood vessels, he hears the strange beasts of the Classic of Mountains and Seas singing a Cthulhu dirge4.
When the reincarnated empress he loves turns out to be a silicone-skinned demon, his lame old servant becomes nanotech armor, and Dugu Qiubai puffs on an e-cigarette and says, “The end of the sword path is code,” Ye Chen finally understands:
“The so-called Myriad Worlds are nothing more than scrap paper for me to escape reality. Now, it’s time to erase this despairing quantum entanglement with my own hands.”
