Shorting My Way to Ascension: Cultivation Is a Scam

Financial whiz Lu Chengjun has gone ten years without a loss, managed tens of billions in assets, and won multiple Golden Bull Awards. He has almost everything that counts as success in the secular world, yet feels utterly empty inside, longing for the dizzying rush of being chosen by history.

When the model “Kunlun” begins writing code on its own, reproducing itself, and outputting a three-tiered funnel structure for extracting a civilization's negative entropy, Lu Chengjun finally gets the storm of fate he has long yearned for!

He transmigrates to the final age of cultivation, where spiritual energy is scarce. In the cracks of a system that exploits disciples at every level, he establishes the Huitong Pavilion and the Hundred Crafts Alliance, breaking down the barriers between banking, insurance, and logistics so that circulation can flow and systems can run smoothly. As he tears apart the order of exploitation, he also opens a path for outer disciples to rise to the inner sect.

He meets a group of friends who would draw their swords and risk their lives for one another: Li Chengfeng, a dashing guardian cultivator, and his partner Zhao Hongying, a woman with a fierce sense of justice, among others. Together, they enter the Cloudglow Secret Realm for the Nine Sects Immortal Alliance's trial, only to discover that what they thought was a sect trial is actually a gateway to another world of the Dragon Clan…

An endless gray-brown wasteland, a boundless sea of bones, a city hanging upside down with waterfalls flowing upward… What earth-shattering secrets lie behind these awe-inspiring wonders of a mysterious world?

Finance and transmigration + intellectual power struggles + a deeply crafted world + a rich ensemble cast.