A Different Tale of Modern Cultivation

When science becomes the foundation of cultivation, everyone's techniques are the same, spells are open to all, and physiques can be changed, can you reach the end of the path of cultivation from the same starting point as everyone else?

Ten thousand years after the Immortal Realm was severed from the world, humanity enters a new era of psychic technology and interstellar expansion. The young Bai Zimo has astonishing comprehension, yet his cultivation remains stalled. He possesses a bronze pocket watch that can glimpse fragments of time and a chaotic dantian. At Donghai High School, he is the first to discover a demonic-energy rift growing underground, but the school's bureaucrats cover it up and mishandle the situation, ultimately unleashing a catastrophe that only ends when a Deity Transformation cultivator descends.

This event leads him to Jinhua University, the supreme academy suspended among the clouds. An immortal serves as its headmaster, and great figures from the lower three realms teach there. The traditional "cultivation of character" faction and the technology-driven "efficiency" faction clash fiercely, while prodigies from great clans, gifted students from humble backgrounds, and heirs to great fortunes gather on campus. The shadow of the demonic-energy rifts, strange disturbances at the edge of the star domains, and the mystery surrounding Bai Zimo's own origins all foretell turbulent undercurrents beneath the peaceful campus.

Beginning with the life-and-death trial of the "Maze of Myriad Forms," Bai Zimo will rely on his innate comprehension and his time-space pocket watch to forge his own path through clashes of ideology, power struggles, and one crisis after another. Step by step, he will uncover the "Plan to Temper the World," laid by the Immortal Venerable Qiyuan for ten thousand years, and face the ultimate trials of demonic-world infiltration, civilization's deep-rooted ills, and the survival of the star sea.

This is an awakening and struggle within a grand age of civilization, the epic beginning of a tiny variable setting the gears of fate in motion.

[Slow burn, no mindless power fantasy, one female lead]