A burned-out office worker, Lin Xiao, dies from overwork and wakes up cultivating immortality beneath the sea in Atlantis.
Here, cultivators use spiritual-energy fluids to power flying shuttles, and priests of the Sea God Temple are like mad scientists.
Armed with the argumentative spirit of a modern-day internet nitpicker, Lin Xiao tears the theories of cultivation to shreds:
“Your so-called law of conservation of spiritual power is pseudoscience!”
After publicly face-slapping the Sea God’s son, he unexpectedly gains the mark of an ancient Old God.
He plans to keep a low profile and rise to the top, but gets dragged into the academy tournament, where he stuns everyone by using game theory to solve a trial maze.
The High Priest of the Sea God Temple secretly sets a plan to destroy the world in motion, forcing Lin Xiao to lead a team of lazy teammates into battle:
“Listen up! Take your positions according to my fluid dynamics formation!”
On the eve of Atlantis’s sinking, he raises his fish-themed staff and points it at the sky:
“Who says modern people can’t handle ancient cultivation?”
