"Agricultural student Chu Lingqi took a tumble in a field and transmigrated into a ginseng fruit at Wuzhuang Temple, the very one Sun Wukong knocked off the tree with his staff!
Just as he was about to end up in the monkey's mouth, he activated the [Gene-Editing System]:
'Ding! DNA of the Great Sage Equal to Heaven detected. Analyze it?'
From then on, the whole cultivation world went completely off the rails:
The Buddhist sect uses rice laced with poison to wreak havoc among mortals? Hybrid rice slaps them in the face!
Nezha suffers a backlash from karma? Fire up CRISPR and cut the red thread of his karmic debt!
The Jade Emperor denounces science as heresy? One nuclear-fusion Golden Core blasts the Hall of Numinous Treasure to pieces!
Years later, Chu Lingqi stands atop a quantum lotus platform, with an army of a hundred thousand mechanized heavenly soldiers arrayed behind him.
"If you cultivate immortality without developing productivity, you deserve to get beaten by Brother Monkey!"