When scientific thinking collides with the mythic Primordial World, will it be an overwhelming technological advantage or a contest over the Great Dao?
Physicist Lin Mo carries the scientific spark of Earth's civilization as his soul transmigrates into the Primordial World, arriving amid the bloody aftermath of the Dragon-Han Tribulation.
Here, a Golden Immortal can move mountains and fill seas with a single thought, a great demon can swallow the sun and moon with a breath, the Wu race's bloodline can shake the earth, and the laws of the Heavenly Dao reign supreme. The frail human race, meanwhile, is nothing but ants and prey in the eyes of the mighty.
Faced with dire straits, Lin Mo chooses a path without precedent: wielding “science” as his blade and making “the investigation of things” his Dao.
He does not cultivate the primordial spirit or worship the Sages. He believes only in observation, experimentation, and logical deduction.
He carves physical formulas into talismans and uses chemical equations to power alchemy furnaces.
He weaves nets to trap immortals using the principles of electromagnetism and simulates the divine might of Mount Buzhou with gravitational models.
He establishes the “School of the Investigation of Things,” treating all the Primordial World's techniques as objective laws that can be analyzed, applied, and optimized.
And so the Primordial World begins to change beyond recognition:
When the demon army lays siege, they are met with powerful electromagnetic interference fields generated by superconducting coils and precisely calculated barrages of acid projectiles.
When the Wu race's blood sacrifice rouses the ancestral leyline, the School of the Investigation of Things counters with localized distortions of gravity, forcibly changing the rules of the battlefield.
When orthodox Xuanmen disciples question these “tricks and gadgets,” Lin Mo debates the location of “principle” with Laozi's first disciple, using models of the Zhou Tian star cycles.
When a calamity descends and Heaven and Earth collapse, leaving the Sages helpless, he produces a “planetary-scale environmental transformation and Heaven-repair plan.” Using the Primordial World as an experimental ground, he activates an array of engines and reshapes the cosmos.
Yet as his exploration of the world's true nature grows ever deeper, Lin Mo touches
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