In an age when spiritual energy has run dry and the cultivation world is in decline, civilization has withered.
Shen Wei, a PhD in materials science, transmigrates into the last heir of a fallen cultivation clan. After awakening the Merit Ledger System, he discovers a new path to enlightenment that requires no spiritual energy: using the merits earned in the mortal world as fuel and scientific thinking as his tool, he sets out to mend this broken cultivation world.
When he uses a spectrometer to analyze the golden light of merit, probability theory to decipher ancient formations, and engineering to rebuild the flow of spiritual energy, he overturns everything the cultivation world believes to be true.
But Shen Wei gradually realizes that the depletion of spiritual energy is no natural phenomenon. It is the result of a conspiracy that has lasted a thousand years. When he tries to repair the cracks in the laws of Heaven, he becomes an “unpredictable variable” that certain beings deem must be eliminated.
This is a clash between science and the arcane, a contest between tradition and innovation. When the final crack in the laws of Heaven appears before him, Shen Wei faces the ultimate choice: merge with the Dao, or... use the new laws he has brought with him to rewrite what it means to cultivate immortality in this world?
