When a postdoctoral researcher with two PhDs falls into another world where you have to pass exams to cultivate immortality...
Li Wei is a study maniac and a former postdoctoral researcher on Earth with PhDs in theoretical physics and materials chemistry. One day, he transmigrates and becomes Li Ergou, a wood-chopping servant in a cultivation sect.
He thinks he'll have to start traditional cultivation by studying around the clock, but this world has a bizarre twist: breakthroughs don't come from lightning strikes. They come from exams!
The Qi Refining stage tests addition and subtraction within five. The Foundation Establishment stage requires students to memorize and write out "heaven, earth, people, sun, moon"... Looking at the Heavenly Dao exam questions that leave countless cultivators tearing out their hair, Li Wei falls into deep thought.
And so begins the cultivation world's dimensional beatdown:
While others achieve enlightenment to draw in qi, he optimizes spiritual energy pathways and builds a "high-speed rail meridian operating model."
While others rely on feel to refine pills, he introduces the controlled variable method, maxing out his pill success rate.
While others fly swords by instinct, he calculates aerodynamics, turning flying swords into supercars.
While others raise spirit beasts and leave it to fate, he synthesizes "happy pills for beasts." Divine beasts fight until their heads are bleeding over a single pill, then beg through tears to become his companions.
The Five Years of Cultivation, Three Years of Practice Exams he casually writes is revered as a supreme Daoist scripture.
The golden core he forms is a gleaming copy of the journal Science.
His ultimate tribulation is a final defense on the truth of the universe against the Heavenly Dao's central intelligence.
A saintess of the traditionalist school berates him: "This is heresy!"
Li Wei calmly pushes up his nonexistent glasses. "Senior Sister, have you optimized the drag coefficient of your flying sword?"
This is a hilarious tale of using scientific thinking to cultivate immortality, sweeping across the Three Realms with compulsory education, and rebuilding the laws of the world along the way. See how Li Wei uses nothing but a pen (and
